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ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — Patti Huszai had trouble keeping her eyes dry Thursday as drills whirred, saws whined and hammers smacked around the small house foundation behind her.
And no wonder. The woman who has raised two sons and gone to live with one of them after fleeing an abusive relationship just over a year ago was seeing her life change before her eyes — for the better. Later this year, provided the weather and building material availability cooperate, she’ll be settling in to her own Habitat for Humanity home at 608 Blevins St.
“This is a beginning of my whole new life,” Huszai said. “This has been a blessing that I can’t even describe anymore – this is God’s work at this time.”
Holston Habitat leaders, a major donor for the project, Huszai’s son and daughter-in-law, volunteer crews and her pastor all celebrated the groundbreaking of her new home, the 26th that will have been built by Habitat in Carter County.
“I filled out the applications for Habitat and learned I was approved last fall,” Huszai said.
Since then, she’s put in hours of “sweat equity” by helping at other Habitat builds around the Tri-Cities and working in the non-profit’s “ReStore” thrift outlets. Though she suffers from fibromyalgia and her income is limited to social security disability insurance, Holston Habitat’s parameters will leave her with an affordable house payment.
“It’s been like God’s blessing,” Huszai said of her life’s recent trajectory. “I’ve been going to church at Word Fellowship (in Gray) and my life has turned around in 12 months.”
As plumb lines were dropped and volunteer crews took advantage of the sunshine and dry weather, Huszai — who will live in the two-bedroom, one-bath home with her dog, Coal — said a new home and the people she’s met through Habitat represent one of the most rewarding parts of her life change.
“Married and divorced, and I’ve had so much taken from me,” she said. “I’ve raised two boys and I wanted a home to be able to live in for the rest of my life that no one can take from me.”
Habitat homeownership is not a handout. Participants pay an affordable mortgage payment and commit hours of “sweat equity” helping the organization in the build of their own house and at other tasks. Habitat’s board president, Jennifer Dixon, said Huszai came to the program last year with energy and eagerness.
“She was what Habitat is all about,” Dixon said. “Her circumstances didn’t provide for her to have a home outside of Habitat and what I knew was that she was exactly who we were looking for. She is exactly what we do all of this for.”
“All of this” included the work being done by Habitat “regulars” Mike Behal and Larry Johnson, both retired and living in Kingsport. Johnson takes lead on the electrical work and said it’s rewarding.
“It’s enjoyable to work with a bunch of guys, and it’s helpful to needy people and the community,” Johnson said.
Behal said his work on multiple builds has opened his eyes to the ministry’s ability to change people’s lives. He recently completed work on a home in Johnson City that a single mother and her four sons moved into.
“Just seeing the impact that an affordable, safe, energy-efficient house has on a family like that — it’s life-changing for them,” Behal said. “We get to know the families because we’re out here a lot and we stay in touch with them afterwards. But just seeing that impact on those families, it’s very gratifying.”
Behal is likely to see plenty of Huszai, who expects her granddaughter to be born a bit before the house is complete. Dixon joked that she would probably have her required number of hours done “by the end of the week.”
Huszai said working with the Habitat and becoming an active member at Word Fellowship have been life-changing for her.
“It’s a wonderful community of people to work with (Habitat) and Steve, you know if you don’t know how to do something you can ask him and he’ll come right over and show you,” Huszai said. “So if you do it wrong he just corrects it and shows you how to do it the correct way.”
She said Habitat’s “sweat equity” requirements are achievable for anyone.
“If it’s something you really want you can achieve it and I have. It’s got to be in your heart to want to do it and it’s in my heart.”
Holston Habitat has an adjacent lot to Huszai’s and hopes to complete another home there. Sam, Chris, Steve and Joe LaPorte sponsored Huszai’s build, donating $25,000 in memory of their uncle, Charles “Dude” LaPorte. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/habitat-homeowner-calls-groundbreaking-beginning-of-my-whole-new-life/ | 2022-07-14T23:19:40 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/habitat-homeowner-calls-groundbreaking-beginning-of-my-whole-new-life/ |
Polk County man dies in Oregon State Penitentiary
Dejania Oliver
Salem Statesman Journal
A Polk County man died Wednesday at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.
The Oregon Department of Corrections reported that Glen Arthur Richardson, 86, died while receiving hospice care.
Oregon State Police have been notified of the in-custody death.
Richardson entered the state penitentiary in 2008. He was set to be released as early as March 2023. Next of kin has been notified.
Dejania Oliver is the breaking news reporter for the Statesman Journal. Contact her at DAOliver@salem.gannett.com or follow on Twitter @DejaniaO. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/polk-county-man-dies-in-oregon-state-penitentiary/65374007007/ | 2022-07-14T23:22:34 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/polk-county-man-dies-in-oregon-state-penitentiary/65374007007/ |
The chair of neurosurgery at the University of Arizona was killed in a crash Wednesday afternoon on Tucson's south side, officials say.
Dr. Justin Schultz Cetas, 51, was riding a black 2021 BMW R18 motorcycle in a northbound lane of South Kino Parkway just after 1 p.m. when he collided with a tow truck, Tucson police said in a news release.
Cetas smashed into the side of a 2005 Ford F650 tow truck as it turned left out of a business driveway, police said.
Cetas, who was wearing a helmet, was taken to Banner University Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead, police said.
“On behalf of everyone at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson and Banner-University Medicine, we would like to express our most sincere sympathies to Dr. Cetas’ family and loved ones,” Michael M.I. Abecassis, the dean of the College of Medicine and Josuha Lee, the Physician Executive at Banner University Medicine Center said in a joint statement Thursday afternoon.
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“We are all deeply saddened by this sudden and tragic event that is so difficult to process, as we come together to grieve his passing. Dr. Cetas was an alumnus of the college and a talented neurosurgeon who dedicated his life to caring for others. He was also a skilled educator, respected researcher, trusted colleague and friend to many. He will be greatly missed.”
Cetas was named chair of neurosurgery in July 2021, according to the UArizona Health Sciences website. He was UA graduate who earned his doctorate in neuroscience and medical degree at the UA College of Medicine.
Cetas became an associate professor in 2016 and served as the department’s residency program director since 2017.
He returned to Tucson to lead the neurosurgery department from Oregon Health and Science University, where he was an associate professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery and chief of neurosurgery at the Veterans Affairs Portland Health Care System in Portland, Oregon.
Tuson police say the driver of the tow truck immediately stopped and cooperated with the investigation. The driver was not impaired at the time of the crash, police said.
Failing to yield while making a left turn has been determined to have been the major contributing factor in the crash, police said. No charges or citations have been issued. The investigation continues.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/prominent-tucson-surgeon-killed-in-crash/article_a4f9c580-0392-11ed-9987-efc5ca804ac2.html | 2022-07-14T23:24:37 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/prominent-tucson-surgeon-killed-in-crash/article_a4f9c580-0392-11ed-9987-efc5ca804ac2.html |
Kitt Peak National Observatory and the road leading up to it remain closed to the public, three weeks after a wildfire threatened the mountaintop collection of telescopes.
It could take several more weeks to restore power and resume science operations at the site. Observatory officials said they are still assessing the safety of the site and damage to the facilities from heat, smoke and secondary effects.
No telescope domes burned, but three support buildings — a dorm, a cabin and a small shed behind the observatory’s fire barn — were destroyed by the 29,482-acre Contreras Fire.
The blaze was sparked by lightning in the Baboquivari Mountains on June 11 and spread for just over two weeks, forcing the evacuation of Kitt Peak and the Tohono O’odham community of Pan Tak.
Fire crews contained the fire on June 24 with help from a monsoon rain storm.
Photos taken after the fire swept past the peak show patches of burned trees and brush within a few yards of some telescope domes.
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"We are very grateful to the firefighters who worked so hard to protect the telescopes on Kitt Peak," said Amanda Kocz, spokeswoman for the National Science Foundation’s Tucson-based National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, or NOIRLab for short, which operates the observatory.
Observatory officials said this week that only limited staff and contractors are being allowed up Kitt Peak due to missing guardrails and fire debris on Arizona highway 386 and the elevated risk of flash-flooding on the scorched mountain.
Power lines supplying the site were damaged by the fire and could take several weeks to repair, observatory officials said in a written statement Wednesday.
“Once potable water, food and basic amenities are available, the science teams will be invited back on site to start their work to return (Kitt Peak) to operations,” NOIRLab officials said.
The observatory, on the Tohono O’odham Nation about 55 miles southwest of Tucson, was established in 1958 and now hosts 22 optical telescopes and two radio telescopes, including several instruments owned and operated by the University of Arizona.
On its website, NOIRLab describes Kitt Peak as “the most diverse collection of astronomical observatories on Earth for nighttime optical and infrared astronomy.”
This was the largest fire by far to threaten the science facilities on Kitt Peak in the more than 60 years since they were built.
On June 27, 1970, lightning touched off several blazes that burned toward the peak, but the observatory was never evacuated. According to a Star report from the time, about 20 Kitt Peak staff members continued working on the mountain during the fire, and several telescopes remained in use despite the nearby smoke and flames.
In July 2007, firefighters set up defenses around Kitt Peak during the Alambre Fire, but that roughly 7,300-acre blaze never seriously jeopardized the observatory.
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Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@tucson.com or 573-4283. On Twitter: @RefriedBrean | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/wildfire-scare-to-keep-kitt-peak-scopes-closed-for-weeks/article_ad7ccf32-0391-11ed-a6aa-4b861895bd0f.html | 2022-07-14T23:24:43 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/wildfire-scare-to-keep-kitt-peak-scopes-closed-for-weeks/article_ad7ccf32-0391-11ed-a6aa-4b861895bd0f.html |
Tucson police are now investigating the death of a man in April as a homicide.
On April 27, police received a 911 call about an unresponsive man in the front yard of a condemned house in the 4000 block of South Belmar Avenue, south of East Ajo Way.
Officers found Ronald Bonillas, 55, dead at the scene.
Detectives investigated the death as suspicious. But it was classified as a homicide after the Office of the Medical Examiner found that Bonillas had signs of trauma, police said.
It is believed people in the area might have witnessed the homicide, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tipster line.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-police-april-death-was-homicide/article_cf4295da-03bd-11ed-988e-ef02b4a9d2c3.html | 2022-07-14T23:24:50 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/tucson-police-april-death-was-homicide/article_cf4295da-03bd-11ed-988e-ef02b4a9d2c3.html |
Military ordnance washes up on Assateague Island
Items washing up on Assateague Island is commonplace ... unless it is military ordnance.
The find drew the response of local officers, a bomb squad and the United States Air Force 436th Civil Engineer Squadron.
On Wednesday, July 13, the Worcester County Fire Marshal’s Office along with the Ocean City Fire Marshal’sOffice Bomb Squad and the engineering squadron's Emergency Ordnance Disposal team based out of Dover Air Force Base responded to Assateague Island National Seashore shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday for a suspected military ordnance that washed ashore.
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According to Maryland state park rangers, the "suspicious device" was determined to be ordnance which had been in the ocean for an unknown amount of time that needed to be rendered safe in a place.
"After clearing the beach of bystanders, the ordnance was rendered safe and the beach was reopened around 8 p.m.," the Worcester Fire Marshal said in a statement.
From 1944 to 1947, during World War II, the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Army Corps used the Maryland portion of Assateague Island as a bombing and strafing range, according to the fire marshal. Air crews would from Chincoteague and Manteo, North Carolina, would fire practice rounds from the air at ground targets.
If additional any suspicious devices washing up on local beaches, the public is urged to report the find to the local authorities for further investigation. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/07/14/assateague-island-national-seashore-md-military-ordnance/65373381007/ | 2022-07-14T23:28:22 | 0 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/07/14/assateague-island-national-seashore-md-military-ordnance/65373381007/ |
Trump-Hogan battle looms large over Maryland GOP governor primary
Former President Donald Trump and Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan aren’t waiting until 2024 to fight over the future of the Republican Party.
Approaching the final months of his second term, Hogan is encouraging GOP voters to rally behind gubernatorial candidate Kelly Schulz, who served as labor secretary and commerce secretary in his administration. Trump, however, is backing Dan Cox, a state legislator who has said President Joe Biden’s victory shouldn’t have been certified, called former Vice President Mike Pence a “traitor” and sought to impeach Hogan for his pandemic policies.
The dynamics have turned next week’s GOP primary for governor into a proxy battle between Trump and Hogan, who are offering vastly different visions of the party’s future as they eye presidential runs in 2024.
Hogan, who is prevented from seeking reelection because of term limits, is one of Trump’s most prominent GOP critics and has urged the party to move on from his divisive brand of politics. Trump, meanwhile, has spent much of his post-presidency lifting candidates who embrace his election lies.
“It’s difficult not to see this primary between Hogan-endorsed Kelly Schulz and Trump-endorsed Dan Cox in a broader context of national Republican politics," said Mileah Kromer, an associate professor of political science at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland.
Whoever emerges from the GOP primary will face steep hurdles in a state that represents one of the best opportunities this year for a Democrat to take back a governor’s mansion. Democrats outnumber Republicans 2-1 in the state, but Hogan was able to win two terms by pledging to cut taxes, emphasizing bipartisanship and not being afraid to challenge Trump.
A poll last month by the Sarah T. Hughes Center for Politics at Goucher, The Baltimore Banner and WYPR found Schulz and Cox in a close race, with Cox at 25% and Schulz at 22% — within the poll’s margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points. Forty-four percent of Republican voters were undecided.
Two other Republicans are also in the race: Robin Ficker, a former state lawmaker who was a well-known sports heckler, and Joe Werner, an attorney.
The winner will take on the candidate who prevails in a crowded Democratic race that includes former U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, bestselling author Wes Moore, Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot and former U.S. Education Secretary John King.
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The competing visions for the Republican Party were evident as GOP voters cast early ballots in the primary.
Republican Jeff Conley, 68, said he's disappointed with the party's current trajectory and voted for Schulz as a mark of his support for Hogan.
“I have been a Republican all my life, and the Trump people have hijacked the party, and I want it back,” Conley said. "Love Larry Hogan. I’d like to see him run and be president and bring a bunch of people with him who are reasonable and can get along."
Christine Cirone, 50, however, said she voted for Cox, citing his opposition to abortion as well as an unsuccessful lawsuit he filed over Hogan's COVID-19 policies. Trump's endorsement, she said, was also an important factor in her vote.
“He’s an America First patriot. That’s exactly why I voted for him," Cirone said at an early voting center in Annapolis.
Democrats have sought to meddle in the race to boost Cox's standing in the primary, a tactic the party has used in other states this midterm season in the hopes of facing an easier opponent in the general election.
The Democratic Governors Association paid more than $1 million to broadcast an ad that emphasizes Cox's conservative credentials, calling him “too close to Trump” and asserting that he will protect the Second Amendment “at all costs.”
“The math is easy," Schulz said at a news conference with Hogan last month in front of Maryland's Capitol to denounce the ad. “Spend a million now and save $5 million by not having to face me in the general election.”
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She said Republican voters were “savvy” enough to recognize that “the best candidate is somebody that can win in November.”
Cox described the news conference as evidence his opponent is worried.
“It’s proof, I think, that we’re winning,” Cox told reporters. “The people of Maryland want change.”
Hogan takes on Cox
Hogan has left open the possibility of running for the White House in 2024. He said last weekend on NBC's “Meet the Press” that he believes voters are tired of the extremes in both parties and that there's “growing demand for exactly what we've done in Maryland over the last eight years.”
Hogan has criticized Cox for organizing buses to Washington for the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters. Cox has said he didn't go to the Capitol and left before the rioting began.
In a tweet he later deleted, Cox called Pence a “traitor” for refusing to go along with Trump's demands not to certify the 2020 election, though he later expressed regret for using the word.
Trump has offered strong support for Cox while referring to Hogan and Schulz as RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only, a term of derision for those considered insufficiently loyal to the former president.
“More importantly, Dan will end Larry Hogan’s terrible RINO reign by defeating his ‘Never Trump’ successor, another low-energy RINO, Kelly Schulz,” Trump said in a statement Tuesday.
Hogan expressed doubts about whether this year's gubernatorial primary reflected a proxy battle between himself and the former president.
“It’s about two different candidates and two different philosophies,” Hogan said after casting a ballot for Schulz last week.
Hogan said Schulz was the only Republican candidate able to build on his accomplishments and keep a Democrat out of the governor's mansion.
“The other candidates in the Republican primary just have no chance whatsoever to run a competitive race," he said. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/07/14/donald-trump-larry-hogan-battle-looms-large-maryland-gop-governor-primary/65373340007/ | 2022-07-14T23:28:28 | 1 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/07/14/donald-trump-larry-hogan-battle-looms-large-maryland-gop-governor-primary/65373340007/ |
Hebron man convicted of first-degree murder of estranged wife
A Somerset County jury convicted James Robellard on Wednesday of the first degree murder of LaGina Robellard after a three-day trial.
Robellard was also convicted of the attempted first degree murder of Corey Glover, Sr. and other related charges. Sentencing was postponed to allow for a pre-sentence investigation.
On Oct. 17, 2020, Maryland State Police were dispatched to an address on Cornstack Road in Marion Station for a report of multiple gunshot victims. When they arrived, they discovered three people with gunshot wounds.
"LaGina Robellard died as a result of her gunshot wounds just inside the front entrance to the residence. Investigation revealed James Robellard had traveled from his home in Hebron that evening, shot his estranged wife eight times, reloaded a separate magazine in his gun and shot multiple times at Corey Glover, striking him twice," said a statement by the Somerset County state's attorney.
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After being shot once in the leg, Glover shot James Robellard in his abdomen with a shotgun before Glover was shot again by Robellard in the shoulder area, according to police. Glover retreated to his bathroom and locked himself inside until police and EMS arrived.
When police arrived, James Robellard was found lying on a couch inside the residence holding a pillow over his shotgun wound, and his handgun was found close to him.
State’s Attorney Wess Garner prosecuted the case with the assistance of Assistant State’s Attorney Megan Tawes.
"Garner commended Tawes and the Maryland State Police Homicide Unit, specifically Sgt. Scott Sears, for their exceptional work in the investigation and assistance in the prosecution of this case," said the Somerset County state's attorney in a statement. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/07/14/hebron-man-convicted-of-first-degree-murder-of-estranged-wife/65373686007/ | 2022-07-14T23:28:34 | 1 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/maryland/2022/07/14/hebron-man-convicted-of-first-degree-murder-of-estranged-wife/65373686007/ |
Pedestrian dies after hit by truck crossing Route 50 bridge in Ocean City: Police
A Bishopville man was killed after he was hit by a truck Wednesday night as he tried to cross the Route 50 bridge into Ocean City.
Maryland State Police said Daniel Joseph Hicken, 33, was struck by a 1997 Chevrolet truck at about 8:05 p.m. July 13 as he tried to cross the Harry W. Kelley Bridge from the west pedestrian walkway.
Hicken was taken by Delaware State Police helicopter to Christiana Hospital, where he later died of his injuries.
The driver of the truck, Anthony Capriotti Jr., 19, of Levittown, Pennsylvania, was not injured and remained on the scene.
All lanes of the Route 50 bridge were closed for four hours due to the crash.
Troopers from the Berlin Barrack responded to the scene along with investigators from the Maryland State Police Crash team. Assistance at the scene was also provided by police from the Ocean City Police Department, Worcester County Sheriff’s Office and Ocean City Fire and EMS. Personnel from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration assisted with road closures and detours.
Police said the crash remains under investigation. Police urge anyone who may have witnessed this crash to contact Berlin Barrack at 410-641-3101.
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LYNCHBURG, Va. – 4,000 beagles bred for scientific experiments are now in need of a home and the Lynchburg Humane Society wants to help.
The beagles are being removed from Envigo, a research facility in Cumberland, where they were deprived of care and food and used for experimentation. The company is now shutting down after dozens of animal welfare violations.
“It’s amazing knowing that there are 4,000 dogs that will actually get to spend their days feeling love and playing and having a family,” Lynchburg Humane Society’s Amber Cabell said.
The Lynchburg Humane Society is part of a massive unfolding rescue operation, and they’re teaming up with shelters across the country to take the beagles in.
The dogs will arrive soon and the shelter has set a goal of welcoming about 50 into the facility, but homes to get them into their new, loving homes quickly.
“We don’t really have a lot of wiggle room right now, which is why we’re hoping to get as many adopted and fostered out ahead of the beagles arriving as possible,” Cabell adds.
Shelters are full due to the number of kittens being housed in the facility.
The Lynchburg Humane Society will be hosting a half-off adoption special on July 16 weekend in hopes of making space, and are in need of fosters, volunteers and donations. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/lynchburg-humane-society-searching-to-rehome-4000-rescued-beagles/ | 2022-07-14T23:28:44 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/lynchburg-humane-society-searching-to-rehome-4000-rescued-beagles/ |
COVINGTON, Va. – The Alleghany County Commonwealth’s Attorney has released her conclusions based on the investigation following a shooting in Covington that left three dead back in March.
Ann Gardener, Commonwealth’s Attorney for Alleghany County, released a statement on Wednesday with more details on the investigation.
Officer Caleb Ogilvie, bystander Randy Paxton, and suspect Toney Poulston Jr. were all killed during the March 14 shooting, 10 News reported.
According to Gardener, these are the details of the tragic incident that occurred on March 14:
- 4:45 p.m. (approximate): The owner of Covington Farm and Fuel called 911 to report a man “high on drugs” and to have him removed from the property. The call was disconnected, and dispatchers called back. A woman answered, then dispatchers were able to speak with Randal Paxton, who said the man was his stepson, Toney Poulston, Jr., and Paxton said that he was armed with a gun.
- 4:47 p.m. (approximate): Officers Caleb Ogilvie and Justin Jefferson responded initially, and dispatchers had told them Poulston was armed. Corporal Jefferson asked dispatch to call the Alleghany County Sheriff’s Office for backup. Officer Ogilvie arrived from the south and Corporal Jefferson arrived from the north. After he arrived, Officer Ogilvie walked to the glass front door, when the owner opened the door and warned him that Poulston was armed.
- 4:48 p.m.:
- After Officer Ogilvie went inside, Poulston shot Paxton from behind, execution-style. The homicide was recorded on store surveillance as well as the officer’s bodycam. In the video, two women and a man were inside the store close by, and another was at the cash register. The video showed one customer running away, and another hiding inside the store. After Paxton fell to the ground, Officer Ogilvie radioed “shots fired” as the owner fled past him.
- Officer Ogilvie began to leave the store and run toward Corporal Jefferson, who was approaching the store. As both officers began to retreat, Poulston came out and began shooting at both of them. At this point in the video, two people fled on foot and a car could be seen driving away. Officer Ogilvie made it away from the door when he raised his weapon, but he fell to the ground after initial shots. Corporal Jefferson attempted to return fire while taking cover and radioing “officer down” to dispatch.
- The video showed that after firing multiple shots at the officers, Poulston went back into the store and ducked to take cover. Three people were still inside the store when Poulston returned, and they escaped through a back exit. Another civilian still hiding inside was able to call 911.
- After ten minutes:
- Poulston could be seen on video smoking cigarettes and drinking beer while pacing and peering out the windows. There were audile sirens, visible lights, and multiple law enforcement vehicles surrounding the store. A law enforcement officer outside could see Poulston looking out, and the officers were then made aware of the suspect’s identity.
- Responding law enforcement positioned themselves behind vehicles outside for cover – two sergeants took cover beside a black Ford with a woman inside covering her ears, a twelve-year-old girl who had seen Officer Oglivie being shot was crouched beside the deputies and was able to describe Poulston’s weapon to them. Corporal Jefferson and another corporal were positioned behind another vehicle, and a person was crouched beside them and recounted that he saw the white male run out of the store and shoot at the officer who had initially responded (Officer Oglivie). The person also said that he heard officers yelling commands for the man to come out with his hands in the air, which a deputy and others nearby confirmed. Another deputy was positioned near Corporal Jefferson while she gave bystanders commands due to concern for their safety. Major Casey Gibson was directing other officers to clear bystanders. Covington Police Detective Richard Baker arrived and took cover behind a vehicle as well.
- Poulston came out of the store “violent and fast” while pointing his handgun at officers and bystanders, then ran to the driver’s side door of a pick-up truck in the parking lot. He fired a shot at the crowd in his exit toward the truck. In response, the six responding officers returned fire. When Poulston fell to the ground, officers called a “ceasefire.” After the officers determined that Poulston was no longer a threat, the law enforcement cleared the area and requested an independent investigation by Virginia State Police, who secured the scene and moved forward with the investigation.
Gardener cited a law enacted by the Virginia General Assembly that states deadly force may be used by officers if, “The law enforcement officer reasonably believes that deadly force is immediately necessary to protect the law enforcement officer or another person, other than the subject of the use of deadly force, from the threat of serious bodily injury or death.”
In conclusion, Gardener said that the officers fired their weapons in reasonable apprehension of Poulston shooting and killing or wounding one or more of the people on the scene.
“Clearly, they reasonably perceived an imminent danger of death or serious bodily harm for themselves as well as others,” Gardener said.
Because of the circumstances, Gardener said the law overwhelmingly supports the conclusion that these officers were entitled to use deadly force, that the law enforcement officers’ responses were justifiable in defending themselves and others at the scene, and that no criminal charges will be brought against any of the six officers involved. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/officers-were-entitled-to-use-deadly-force-in-covington-farm-fuel-shooting-official-says/ | 2022-07-14T23:28:50 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/officers-were-entitled-to-use-deadly-force-in-covington-farm-fuel-shooting-official-says/ |
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – A vehicle fire has shut down all I-81 South lanes in Roanoke County, according to VDOT.
Authorities said the incident is at mile marker 135.
As of 6 p.m., traffic is backed up significantly.
Stick with 10 News as this breaking news story develops. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/vehicle-fire-shuts-down-all-i-81-southbound-lanes-in-roanoke-county/ | 2022-07-14T23:28:56 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/vehicle-fire-shuts-down-all-i-81-southbound-lanes-in-roanoke-county/ |
Nonprofits can sign up for Texoma Gives event
Area nonprofit organizations have until July 31 to sign up to be part of Texoma Gives, a one-day event to raise money for nonprofits in the region.
Sept. 8 will mark the seventh year for the event which, to date, has raised over $7.3 million for some 200 nonprofit organizations.
“Texoma Gives is the perfect way for local nonprofit organizations to raise money to continue their important work, without the time and expense associated with planning a traditional fundraising event,” said Leslie Schaffner, President of the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation.
Organizations interested in signing up for this year’s 16-hour event may visit www.texomagives.org. Participants must be classified as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. For more information contact the Wichita Falls Area Community Foundation at 940-766-0829. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/nonprofits-can-sign-up-for-texoma-gives-event/65372971007/ | 2022-07-14T23:32:35 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/nonprofits-can-sign-up-for-texoma-gives-event/65372971007/ |
Smith's Gardentown introduces new cart-away concrete service
Smith's Gardentown, located in Wichita Falls, held a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday, July 14, 2022 - announcing their new cart-away concrete service.
Smith's opened in 1949 with little demand for concrete. However, four years ago, the business added a stone yard because demand for short-load concrete had grown immensely among the contract worker community.
Now, a new cart-away concrete service has been introduced by the business.
"This makes it really easy for DIYers (do it yourself), contractors, landscape contractors... people who are putting in sidewalks, flowerbed edging, small patios, add-ons to driveways, or whatever it may be because they can get the exact amount of concrete they want and at the time they want" said Smith's Gardentown Vice President Michael Fiore.
The mixing trailers hold a yard, up to a yard and three-quarters, or as low as just a quarter of a yard, if the customer just needs a small batch.
This new service will be available seven days a week.
For more information visit the Smith's website at https://smithsgardentown.com/. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/smiths-gardentown-concrete-service/65373587007/ | 2022-07-14T23:32:41 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/smiths-gardentown-concrete-service/65373587007/ |
WFISD School Board to consider allowing home-schoolers in UIL activities
The Wichita Falls ISD School Board plans to vote Monday on whether to allow home-schooled students to take part in the district's UIL activities.
Some trustees see it as a possible way to help beef up the district's declining enrollment.
The new law co-authored by state Rep. James Frank of Wichita Falls went into effect Sept. 21, making it possible for home-schoolers — but not private-school students — to take part in UIL programs if a district approves it.
Last year, WFISD trustees voted 4-3 against allowing home-schooled kids' participation in activities such as football, softball, soccer, volleyball, band and academic-related activities for the 2020-2021 school year.
The same three trustees who supported the idea in that July 19, 2021, vote spoke in favor of it during a meeting Tuesday.
Place 1 Trustee Bob Payton agreed it could open the door to bring new families into the district, a possibility floated by Associate Superintendent Peter Griffiths during his presentation.
“Our community’s not a fast-growth community," Payton said. "I think easily there’s 1,500 to 2,000 K-12 homeschooled students in our community.”
More:Home-schoolers shut out of UIL activities in WFISD for 2020-2021 school year
Place 3 Trustee Mark Lukert said: “We’re not a fast-growth district, but we’re fast growth with home school and private school and all those.”
At-large Trustee Katherine McGregor and Lukert said they supported allowing home-schoolers' participation for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Griffiths told the School Board a non-enrolled student taking part in activities must participate in the school that is in the student's attendance zone.
He said home-schooled students' participation won't affect UIL alignment until 2024.
Last academic year, 21 out of 1,029 school systems in Texas approved varsity participation for home-schoolers as allowed by House Bill 547 or the "Tim Tebow Law," Griffiths told trustees. That is about 2 percent of Texas districts.
Griffiths said WFISD cut the budgets for athletics and fine arts travel and equipment for 2022-2023, and there are unknowns to consider, such as a possible hike in uniform and staffing costs, depending on participation.
"We don't know. There might be three kids. There might be 100 kids," he said.
One concern is that allowing participation in UIL activities for unenrolled students could ramp up the decline in enrollment, Griffiths said.
WFISD is grappling with an estimated enrollment drop of 800 students since the pandemic began in March 2020, a decline that led to a reduction in state funding for the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.
Griffiths said WFISD had 234 home-schooled high school students from August 2021 to April 2022.
Parents might move students to a surrounding school in reaction if a home-schooler takes the place of an enrolled child on a team or in a band, he said.
In addition, there is the inequity of no-pass, no-play rules for district students while home-schoolers only have to have a parental note saying they are passing, Griffiths said during his presentation.
But home-schoolers might decide to enroll in WFISD after taking part in UIL activities, and allowing their participation would help home-school families feel connected to the district while appealing to community interest, he said.
Griffiths said trustees have the option of voting on the allowing home-schoolers' participation or maintaining the status quo of not allowing their participation.
Last year, School Board President Mike Rucker, Place 4 Trustee Dale Harvey and Place 5 Trustee Tom Bursey voted against it.
Back then, Yeager said she was not saying no forever, but there were many unknowns at the time. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/wfisd-trustees-discuss-allowing-home-schoolers-into-uil-activities/65371726007/ | 2022-07-14T23:32:47 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/wfisd-trustees-discuss-allowing-home-schoolers-into-uil-activities/65371726007/ |
The Richmond Police Department in a statement said Officer Shwarlyn Arriola is charged with felony assault on a law enforcement officer and misdemeanor obstruction.
Chesterfield Sheriff Karl Leonard said the Richmond officer is accused of assaulting one of two off-duty deputies who were providing security in uniform during the birthday party that erupted in gunfire about 10:30 p.m. A juvenile male was found shot to death in the bathroom.
Before police arrived, the Chesterfield deputy who was assaulted responded to the area of the reported shooting to investigate, police said. The deputy encountered a person with a handgun, and the deputy shot and wounded that person. That person sustained non-life threatening injuries and later was charged with reckless handling of a firearm.
"I had two deputies that were working off-duty employment there at the time of the event,” Leonard said. “And [the assault on the deputy] all stems out of that.”
Leonard emphasized that Chesterfield police is investigating the incident.
Arriola was arrested Thursday and placed on leave without pay. He was hired on Dec. 7, 2020, the Richmond Police Department statement said.
Chesterfield police have arrested four juvenile males, ages 15 to 17, and charged them with second-degree murder in the death of the teen who was killed at the center, in the 6600 block of Ironbridge Parkway. Police said that teen was the intended target.
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Forest Hill Ave.
In October 1951, workers constructed a section of Forest Hill Avenue in South Richmond. The segment sits between Westover Hills Boulevard and Prince Arthur Road.
In February 1953, Richmond Department of Utilities workers used a 65-foot hook-and-ladder firetruck to install new lights on Broad Street after attempts to secure other ladder equipment from private companies had failed.
In May 1954, Scoop sniffed around the pet food aisle at a grocery store in Richmond’s West End. The store offered a large selection of pet foods, a relatively new concept for the era. The accompanying article said: “Gone, apparently, are the days that Fido took the scraps from the table and liked them.”
In September 1942, members of Richmond Hotels Inc. donated typewriters to the War Production Board and the Office of War Information in response to an appeal for businesses to let the government have any machines they could spare.
In August 1981, children enjoyed outdoor recreation at Camp Happyland in the Richardsville area of Culpeper County, not far from Fredericksburg. The Salvation Army started the camp in the late 1950s to improve children’s health through exercise and proper nutrition.
In March 1971, a crowd estimated at several hundred waited outside City Council chambers at City Hall in downtown Richmond. Residents of the recently annexed Broad Rock area were protesting the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s proposal for low-rent public housing in the area.
In March 1969, a sign went up to mark the site of Henrico County’s first permanent designated library, on Laburnum Avenue near New Market Road. On hand were (from left) Varina District Supervisor Edwin Ragsdale, library board trustee Mrs. F.M. Vaughan, library assistant Virginia Liles and county libraries director David Rowland. The library opened in December 1970.
In June 1969, a Trappist monk at the Holy Cross Abbey near Berryville in Clarke County began his daily meditation. The monks spent their days balancing quiet prayer, spiritual reading and manual labor.
In June 1956, the Rev. Lawrence V. Bradley Jr. of Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond and his secretary, Jean Bolton, got out the summertime heat beater: a simple cardboard fan. The pews were liberally stocked during the warm months because the church had no air conditioning.
In July 1959, the normally bustling downtown Richmond business district, including this stretch along Eighth and Main streets, was much quieter as motorists stayed home because of triple-digit heat.
In April 1966, Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. officials oversaw manufacturing at a new plant in Chesterfield County. The facility produced millions of bags for supermarket chains and other clients on the East Coast. At the time, about 265 employees worked in two local company plants; the old factory at 13th and Canal streets in Richmond was open for limited operation until it was sold.
In March 1969, a sign went up to mark the site of Henrico County’s first permanent designated library, on Laburnum Avenue near New Market Road. The branch opened in December 1970. Posing with the sign were (from left) Varina District Supervisor Edwin Ragsdale, library board trustee Mrs. F.M. Vaughan, library assistant Virginia Liles and county libraries director David Rowland.
In August 1982, David Tidwell of Croaker posed with his girlfriend’s dog, Blazing Amber of Cinder, at the humorous “Norge Dog Station” at Norge Grocery on U.S. Route 60 west of Williamsburg. The sign had been put up seven years earlier, and the spot became a popular photo opportunity for visitors.
In March 1987, in preparation for new carpeting, the Dumbarton branch library in Henrico County had to remove about 80,000 books from shelves. About 50 people handled the first phase overnight — but restocking the shelves awaited.
This 1957 photo shows Collegiate School in the 1600 block of Monument Avenue in Richmond. The Town School elementary building was on the left and the high school on the right. In 1960, the Town School and the Country Day School merged, operating on the campus off River and Mooreland roads in Henrico County. It remains the location today.
In November 1970, a Richmond officer rode his horse by the police bureau’s new stables, which were under construction. The facility near Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue included eight stalls, a scrub area, a horseshoeing area and a tack room. The bureau had been looking for an established home for its horses since the mid-1960s, when the Virginia National Guard moved from the Richmond Howitzers downtown armory, where the horses had been stabled for two decades.
In March 1971, a crowd estimated at several hundred waited outside City Council chambers at City Hall in downtown Richmond. Residents of the recently annexed Broad Rock area were protesting the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s proposal for low-rent public housing in the area.
In November 1948, Army Lt. Charles D. Smith Jr. administered the oath to the first set of postwar draftees processed at the Richmond induction station at First and Broad streets. Several of the men were immediately sent to Camp Pickett in Blackstone.
In December 1938, Richmond Glass Shop had a new home at 814 W. Broad St., site of the old Ashland Railway Station. The shop, run by brothers Frank R. and A.G. Bialkowski, had glass of many types, and offered bath and kitchen installation, storefront construction and paint products.
In March 1979, corrections officer Howard Alexander held the homemade rope used by convicted murderer Michael Irwin Cross to escape from the State Penitentiary, then located along Spring Street in downtown Richmond. Cross was captured two months later after attempting to free a fellow convict who was being treated at Medical College of Virginia Hospital.
In June 1986, “Mr. Newspaper” greeted a young girl and her mother at a Richmond-area mall. The RTD mascot often traveled around town promoting the newspaper.
In July 1951, Alonzo Moore, 74, walked down a street in Cape Charles on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and blew his horn, alerting locals to his sale of the fresh catch of the day.
In July 1960, the Schellenberg family of Highland Springs prepared to have a bomb shelter installed in their yard, one of Virginia’s first privately owned radiation fallout shelters. The enclosure was designed to accommodate up to six people during a nuclear attack. The horizontal steel tank (rear) was 7 feet in diameter and 16 feet long. Once installed, the only elements aboveground would be a domed entrance and air filter and exhaust pipes.
In June 1979, Terry Woo set bricks for a walkway as construction of Kanawha Plaza in downtown Richmond continued. The $4 million dollar city-financed plaza linked the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond building and the Virginia Electric and Power Co. building.
In June 1968, workers welded boilers at Old Dominion Iron and Steel Corp., located on Belle Isle under the Lee Bridge in Richmond. At the time, Old Dominion’s owner was interested in expanding operations, and the city was interested in using the island as part of a James River park. The company’s history on Belle Isle spanned from before the Civil War to the 1970s.
In November 1972, after the remnants of Hurricane Agnes had washed out a bridge, a barge carried vehicles and workers across the James River from Tredegar Street toward Belle Isle in Richmond. A day earlier, a welder for Old Dominion Iron and Steel Corp. drowned after a boat carrying him and others capsized on the same route.
This December 1973 photo shows the front counter in Roaring Twenties, a new restaurant and nightclub on state Route 10 in the Hopewell area. It was designed to resemble a 1920s speakeasy, with features including an antique cash register, a diving girl and even a dining table from Al Capone’s Florida home.
In October 1969, cadets at John Marshall High School in Richmond posed with their ribbon-bedecked sponsors after an awards ceremony. The school’s Corps of Cadets was established in 1915 — it was the first military training program in a public school in Virginia — and disbanded in 1971.
In May 1989, a transformer exploded under the sidewalk on the Fourth Street side of the Richmond Newspapers Inc. building downtown. The ensuing fireball charred two cars parked on the street and sent flames up the side of the building. No one was hurt in the nighttime explosion, and delivery of the next morning’s Richmond Times-Dispatch (which was printed in the building) was only slightly delayed.
In August 1972, motorists approaching construction on Interstate 64 south of Bryan Park in Richmond were greeted by a robot signalman waving a bright red flag. “Silent Sam,” as the decoy was nicknamed, was used by the state Department of Highways to slow drivers as they neared workmen building an I-195 interchange and bridge near the Acca rail yards.
A look back at photos from the Richmond Times-Dispatch archives.
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Forest Hill Ave.
In October 1951, workers constructed a section of Forest Hill Avenue in South Richmond. The segment sits between Westover Hills Boulevard and Prince Arthur Road.
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Ballet
In December 1990, a Richmond Ballet dancer stretched before rehearsal of “The Nutcracker.”
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street lights
In February 1953, Richmond Department of Utilities workers used a 65-foot hook-and-ladder firetruck to install new lights on Broad Street after attempts to secure other ladder equipment from private companies had failed.
Staff photo
Dog
In May 1954, Scoop sniffed around the pet food aisle at a grocery store in Richmond’s West End. The store offered a large selection of pet foods, a relatively new concept for the era. The accompanying article said: “Gone, apparently, are the days that Fido took the scraps from the table and liked them.”
Staff photo
typewriters
In September 1942, members of Richmond Hotels Inc. donated typewriters to the War Production Board and the Office of War Information in response to an appeal for businesses to let the government have any machines they could spare.
times-dispatch
Camp Happyland
In August 1981, children enjoyed outdoor recreation at Camp Happyland in the Richardsville area of Culpeper County, not far from Fredericksburg. The Salvation Army started the camp in the late 1950s to improve children’s health through exercise and proper nutrition.
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In March 1971, a crowd estimated at several hundred waited outside City Council chambers at City Hall in downtown Richmond. Residents of the recently annexed Broad Rock area were protesting the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s proposal for low-rent public housing in the area.
TIMES-DISPATCH
Henrico County Library
In March 1969, a sign went up to mark the site of Henrico County’s first permanent designated library, on Laburnum Avenue near New Market Road. On hand were (from left) Varina District Supervisor Edwin Ragsdale, library board trustee Mrs. F.M. Vaughan, library assistant Virginia Liles and county libraries director David Rowland. The library opened in December 1970.
times-dispatch
Monk
In June 1969, a Trappist monk at the Holy Cross Abbey near Berryville in Clarke County began his daily meditation. The monks spent their days balancing quiet prayer, spiritual reading and manual labor.
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Grove Avenue Church
In June 1956, the Rev. Lawrence V. Bradley Jr. of Grove Avenue Baptist Church in Richmond and his secretary, Jean Bolton, got out the summertime heat beater: a simple cardboard fan. The pews were liberally stocked during the warm months because the church had no air conditioning.
TIMES-DISPATCH
Richmond Streets
In July 1959, the normally bustling downtown Richmond business district, including this stretch along Eighth and Main streets, was much quieter as motorists stayed home because of triple-digit heat.
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Union Bag Camp
In April 1966, Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. officials oversaw manufacturing at a new plant in Chesterfield County. The facility produced millions of bags for supermarket chains and other clients on the East Coast. At the time, about 265 employees worked in two local company plants; the old factory at 13th and Canal streets in Richmond was open for limited operation until it was sold.
TIMES-DISPATCH
Henrico County Library
In March 1969, a sign went up to mark the site of Henrico County’s first permanent designated library, on Laburnum Avenue near New Market Road. The branch opened in December 1970. Posing with the sign were (from left) Varina District Supervisor Edwin Ragsdale, library board trustee Mrs. F.M. Vaughan, library assistant Virginia Liles and county libraries director David Rowland.
Staff photo
Dogs
In August 1982, David Tidwell of Croaker posed with his girlfriend’s dog, Blazing Amber of Cinder, at the humorous “Norge Dog Station” at Norge Grocery on U.S. Route 60 west of Williamsburg. The sign had been put up seven years earlier, and the spot became a popular photo opportunity for visitors.
times-dispatch
Henrico County Library
In March 1987, in preparation for new carpeting, the Dumbarton branch library in Henrico County had to remove about 80,000 books from shelves. About 50 people handled the first phase overnight — but restocking the shelves awaited.
times-dispatch
Collegiate
This 1957 photo shows Collegiate School in the 1600 block of Monument Avenue in Richmond. The Town School elementary building was on the left and the high school on the right. In 1960, the Town School and the Country Day School merged, operating on the campus off River and Mooreland roads in Henrico County. It remains the location today.
times-dispatch
police stables
In November 1970, a Richmond officer rode his horse by the police bureau’s new stables, which were under construction. The facility near Brook Road and Chamberlayne Avenue included eight stalls, a scrub area, a horseshoeing area and a tack room. The bureau had been looking for an established home for its horses since the mid-1960s, when the Virginia National Guard moved from the Richmond Howitzers downtown armory, where the horses had been stabled for two decades.
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City Council
In March 1971, a crowd estimated at several hundred waited outside City Council chambers at City Hall in downtown Richmond. Residents of the recently annexed Broad Rock area were protesting the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s proposal for low-rent public housing in the area.
Staff photo
draft
In November 1948, Army Lt. Charles D. Smith Jr. administered the oath to the first set of postwar draftees processed at the Richmond induction station at First and Broad streets. Several of the men were immediately sent to Camp Pickett in Blackstone.
times-dispatch
Richmond Glass Shop
In December 1938, Richmond Glass Shop had a new home at 814 W. Broad St., site of the old Ashland Railway Station. The shop, run by brothers Frank R. and A.G. Bialkowski, had glass of many types, and offered bath and kitchen installation, storefront construction and paint products.
times-dispatch
State Pen
In March 1979, corrections officer Howard Alexander held the homemade rope used by convicted murderer Michael Irwin Cross to escape from the State Penitentiary, then located along Spring Street in downtown Richmond. Cross was captured two months later after attempting to free a fellow convict who was being treated at Medical College of Virginia Hospital.
times-dispatch
Mr. Newspaper
In June 1986, “Mr. Newspaper” greeted a young girl and her mother at a Richmond-area mall. The RTD mascot often traveled around town promoting the newspaper.
times-dispatch
Cape Charles
In July 1951, Alonzo Moore, 74, walked down a street in Cape Charles on Virginia’s Eastern Shore and blew his horn, alerting locals to his sale of the fresh catch of the day.
TIMES-DISPATCH
Bomb Shelter
In July 1960, the Schellenberg family of Highland Springs prepared to have a bomb shelter installed in their yard, one of Virginia’s first privately owned radiation fallout shelters. The enclosure was designed to accommodate up to six people during a nuclear attack. The horizontal steel tank (rear) was 7 feet in diameter and 16 feet long. Once installed, the only elements aboveground would be a domed entrance and air filter and exhaust pipes.
times-dispatch
Kanawha Plaza
In June 1979, Terry Woo set bricks for a walkway as construction of Kanawha Plaza in downtown Richmond continued. The $4 million dollar city-financed plaza linked the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond building and the Virginia Electric and Power Co. building.
times-dispatch
Cape Charles
In July 1951, two women enjoyed the white sand beach of Cape Charles on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
times-dispatch
boilers
In June 1968, workers welded boilers at Old Dominion Iron and Steel Corp., located on Belle Isle under the Lee Bridge in Richmond. At the time, Old Dominion’s owner was interested in expanding operations, and the city was interested in using the island as part of a James River park. The company’s history on Belle Isle spanned from before the Civil War to the 1970s.
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Belle Isle
In November 1972, after the remnants of Hurricane Agnes had washed out a bridge, a barge carried vehicles and workers across the James River from Tredegar Street toward Belle Isle in Richmond. A day earlier, a welder for Old Dominion Iron and Steel Corp. drowned after a boat carrying him and others capsized on the same route.
Times-Dispatch
Roaring Twenties Roadhouse
This December 1973 photo shows the front counter in Roaring Twenties, a new restaurant and nightclub on state Route 10 in the Hopewell area. It was designed to resemble a 1920s speakeasy, with features including an antique cash register, a diving girl and even a dining table from Al Capone’s Florida home.
TIMES-DISPATCH
John Marshall Cadet Corps
In October 1969, cadets at John Marshall High School in Richmond posed with their ribbon-bedecked sponsors after an awards ceremony. The school’s Corps of Cadets was established in 1915 — it was the first military training program in a public school in Virginia — and disbanded in 1971.
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Newspaper fire
In May 1989, a transformer exploded under the sidewalk on the Fourth Street side of the Richmond Newspapers Inc. building downtown. The ensuing fireball charred two cars parked on the street and sent flames up the side of the building. No one was hurt in the nighttime explosion, and delivery of the next morning’s Richmond Times-Dispatch (which was printed in the building) was only slightly delayed.
Times-Dispatch
Silent Sam
In August 1972, motorists approaching construction on Interstate 64 south of Bryan Park in Richmond were greeted by a robot signalman waving a bright red flag. “Silent Sam,” as the decoy was nicknamed, was used by the state Department of Highways to slow drivers as they neared workmen building an I-195 interchange and bridge near the Acca rail yards. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/richmond-police-officer-assaulted-deputy-sheriff-says/article_11b51a96-776a-5ac5-a892-a99c1185f3fa.html | 2022-07-14T23:34:44 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/richmond-police-officer-assaulted-deputy-sheriff-says/article_11b51a96-776a-5ac5-a892-a99c1185f3fa.html |
A veteran Colonial Heights police commander who retired last year has returned to the force after being hired as the city’s new police chief.
William H. Anspach III, 52, was sworn in Monday. He will replace Jeff Faries, who held the job for 15 years before retiring March 31 amid an investigation of alleged “inappropriate behavior” while off duty.
Before retiring in July 2021, Anspach served 23 years with Colonial Heights police, working his way up from patrol officer to deputy chief.
“The city is very fortunate to be able to welcome William Anspach back in this capacity,” said City Manager Douglas Smith in a statement in announcing Anspach’s appointment. “Chief Anspach brings knowledge and vast experience to the city and department as chief of police.”
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Anspach earned a bachelor’s degree in community and public affairs from Virginia Commonwealth University and is a graduate of the Criminal Justice Command College and the FBI National Academy. He got his start in policing with Petersburg, where he served three years before joining Colonial Heights.
“I always told [city leaders] that the first police chief job that I would ever apply for would be the city of Colonial Heights,” Anspach said in a phone interview. “I graduated high school here; I have family here; this has been my home for pretty much my entire life. I love this community, and this community has embraced me.”
“Really, every opportunity for advancement and training has come from the city,” he added. “I have done every job in this agency.”
Anspach said he retired in July 2021 to “see if I could learn something new,” because he had reached a plateau in his career with the department as deputy chief. “There was really no room for advancement for me.”
But when the chief’s job opened up, “I always have had a feeling that I want to serve my community ... and I threw my hat in the ring.”
Police said the officer, who was not identified, has been employed by the department since June 2020.
The city, which advertised for the chief’s position after Faries retired, received applications from 28 candidates from Virginia and 10 other states, including North Carolina, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, New Hampshire, Alabama, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Alaska, Smith said in response to questions.
The candidates were narrowed to a selected group and interviewed by a panel that included Smith; Wayne Hoover, chief of Fire and EMS for Colonial Heights; and Sean Dunn, chief of police for Williamsburg.
Smith then interviewed a group of three finalists and selected Anspach for the job. He is being paid $135,400 annually.
Faries, Smith’s predecessor, announced his retirement amid an ongoing Virginia State Police investigation requested by Colonial Heights officials into what state police described in March as “allegations of inappropriate behavior and interactions in an off-duty capacity” by Faries.
Police have declined to elaborate on the specific nature of the allegations.
Faries was a well-liked and highly regarded fixture of the department who joined the force in 1989. Smith placed Faries on leave March 2 after the allegations surfaced.
Contacted Thursday, state police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said the investigation remains ongoing. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/veteran-colonial-heights-officer-returns-from-retirement-as-citys-new-police-chief/article_8e37340f-1eca-5f67-94cf-7ac50f6144bd.html | 2022-07-14T23:34:50 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/veteran-colonial-heights-officer-returns-from-retirement-as-citys-new-police-chief/article_8e37340f-1eca-5f67-94cf-7ac50f6144bd.html |
As Richmond Public School students boarded the Lit Limo Thursday morning, some asked for graphic novels and comic books, while others asked for books rooted in adventure or comedy.
The students also received a piece of Smarties candy and a pamphlet about coding. The Lit Limo - a library on wheels - visits Miles J. Jones Elementary every Thursday during the summer. Students participating in the summer school at the elementary school are able to receive free books all summer long to grow their own personal libraries.
“In school students are told what to read … but the love of reading really comes from having a choice of books. Part of the Lit Limo mission is to promote the love of reading,” Judy Deichman, the instructional specialist for library media in RPS, said in an interview.
“When they come on the bus they request books ... [and] when they start asking for a particular book that love is starting to be fostered. It is incredible to witness," Deichman said.
The Lit Limo program faced a setback a few weeks ago, when a newly renovated vehicle was destroyed June 29 in a two-alarm fire at a repairs and maintenance warehouse at 1903 Chamberlayne Ave., a facility the school division has leased for nearly 25 years. The new bus had cabinets, air conditioning and a wheelchair lift.
People are also reading…
Until a new bus can be designated for Lit Limo, the program's original bus is driving around the city for the summer and probably in the fall.
Lit Limo has books for students of all ages, ranging from baby books to books with chapters, for high school students. The library also features bilingual books and books solely in Spanish. Deichman is looking to stock the bus with as many bilingual books as possible.
Deichman pioneered the Lit Limo two summers ago in the early months of the pandemic. First meant to tackle learning loss for students during the summer, the bus quickly transitioned into being a five-day operation during the school year after RPS announced the 2020-2021 academic year would be virtual.
On Thursday, rising fourth and fifth graders from various RPS schools visited the mobile library during summer school at Miles Jones Elementary.
Books students chose included: “Becoming Muhammad Ali,” “Stick Cat, Cats in the City,” “A Single Shard,” and “Gabby Duran & the Unsittables: Alien Babysitting Adventures,” based on a Disney Channel TV show, “Gabby Duran & The Unsittables.”
One student chose classic “Beezus and Ramona,” part of the Ramona Quimby series, because her mom had read the book when she was around her age. A student who selected “Press Start Super Rabbit Boy Blast Off!” plans to read it to her younger sister. The small chapter book is part of the Press Start series.
After teaching various elementary grade levels at the former Clark Springs Elementary and Miles Jones Elementary, Tiana Addai-Mensah earned her reading specialist certification and became a library media specialist for five RPS preschool centers.
As she taught younger grades and especially moving into preschool, Addai-Mensah came to the stark realization that children do not understand how to read books with care.
So, she started teaching a lesson about caring for books. She would take a doll of a baby, and would drop it on the floor, throw it across a classroom, eat over it and more. The actions stunned her students. The point of the lesson was to showcase to students that while they know they can’t mishandle a baby, they also shouldn’t mishandle a book.
Addai-Mensah took her lesson a step further this month, as she independently published “A Book is Like a Baby,” a children’s book that asks questions like “Should you cut a baby with scissors?” paired with examples of mishandled books.
“It's an important thing. They need to know about book care … [because] they are going to deal with books for the rest of their lives,” Addai-Mensah said in an interview.
The goal of Lit Limo, Addai-Mensah said, is to help children build their own at-home libraries and have a love of books, “and then of course now we have a book to teach them about how to care for books.
“It is important for them to understand that literacy is important it’s going to play a factor in the life forever,” Addai-Mensah said. “So why not start them now? Getting books and taking care of books.”
When school reopens in August, Deichman will take over the reins driving the bus five days a week.
The program's books come from a mix of donations and grant funding. New and "gently loved" books are acceptable for donations. Those interested in donating can email Deichman at jdeichma@rvaschools.net. | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/rps-lit-limo-helps-students-foster-a-love-for-reading/article_60d56001-22fd-571d-aa71-140daf186e67.html | 2022-07-14T23:34:56 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/rps-lit-limo-helps-students-foster-a-love-for-reading/article_60d56001-22fd-571d-aa71-140daf186e67.html |
Baltimore Police arrested a 15-year-old boy Thursday in connection with the fatal Inner Harbor shooting last week in which a baseball bat-wielding man confronted a group of squeegee workers.
Police Commissioner Michael Harrison in a statement said the arrest is a sad reminder of the ease with which the local youth can get their hands on a gun.
“We all need to continue to work together to address the root causes of violence and to provide resources and alternatives to these young people,” Harrison said. “I hope that today’s arrest brings some closure and peace to the family, friends and loved ones of Timothy Reynolds.”
A dashboard-camera video of the shooting last week obtained by the Baltimore Sun shows a squeegee worker shoot at 48-year-old Timothy Reynolds five times at the intersection of Light and Conway streets.
Reynolds drove through that intersection, parked on the other side of Light Street and emerged from his car with the bat, Harrison said previously. It is still not clear what happened to cause Reynolds to get out of his car.
When the video starts, Reynolds had already exited his car with a metal baseball bat, walked across Light Street and confronted the workers.
He can be seen walking away from the intersection, presumably back toward his car, as three squeegee workers follow him. They get near him but another car obstructs the view. Less than a second later, they turn to run as Reynolds starts chasing with the bat raised.
About the same time as he swings his bat toward one of the workers, another throws what appears to be a rock at his head from behind. The video shows the rock hitting Reynolds’s head and bouncing off.
Reynolds, still holding his bat, turns around when a third squeegee worker pulls a handgun and starts firing. The first shot appears to hit him somewhere in the side of his body and he starts falling. As the shooter starts to walk away, he shoots at Reynolds four more times. Reynolds was lying on the ground until first responders rendered aid. He died shortly after.
Under Maryland law, people defending themselves have a duty to retreat, meaning they are supposed to try to leave unless doing so is unsafe or impossible. It is also against state law for people under age 21 to possess a handgun.
Outside a three-story brick apartment building in Essex where the teen was arrested, two marked Baltimore Police cars were all that remained hours after the arrest. Family members of the teen could not be reached for comment, and no one answered the door at the apartment. It is unclear whether the teen has an attorney.
The squeegee workers are a political issue, and the imagery of the shooting, after a middle-aged White man chasing after a group of young Black men with a bat, has reignited a debate with racial undertones.
For decades, Baltimore leaders have explored ways to get young window washers away from busy and dangerous city intersections. Officials say city workers frequently contact the youths to offer other opportunities, even jobs that pay the same, in recognition of the draw of the quick dollar and the deep-rooted issues that leave some squeegee workers in need of an immediate payout.
Accusations of violence, property destruction and harassment, sometimes substantiated, are regularly used as evidence the city must do something about the squeegee workers. There have been 59 calls for “squeegee disturbances” at East Conway and Light over the past 18 months, according to Open Baltimore data. Calls about the window washers at that intersection spiked in June, when there were 13, more than double as many as the month with the next-most calls since January 2021.
The vast majority of interactions with squeegee workers are not violent, and most people working intersections as squeegee workers are teens and children trying to survive and are not a threat. Many of the workers need the money to provide for younger siblings or their own children.
“If these corners were filled with White kids who squeegee, the narrative would be different,” Baltimore City Council member Kristerfer Burnett said Monday.
— Baltimore Sun | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/teen-charged-with-murder-in-encounter-with-squeegee-workers/2022/07/14/9ace1bfe-0394-11ed-b005-46df9be530f3_story.html | 2022-07-14T23:39:29 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/teen-charged-with-murder-in-encounter-with-squeegee-workers/2022/07/14/9ace1bfe-0394-11ed-b005-46df9be530f3_story.html |
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Before Roe v. Wade, in 1971, when most abortions were still illegal, Florida successfully charged and convicted 23-year-old Shirley Wheeler with manslaughter.
“He started showing me colored pictures of a fetus and asked me how I could deny that was mine. He said, ‘Just pretend like I’m your father. Why did you do it?’” Wheeler told 60 Minutes at the time.
The crime? A Daytona Beach police lieutenant believed Wheeler had received an illegal abortion.
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“The circumstances of the girl coming into the hospital with a catheter still inserted, I started proceeding along and finally found the fetus in a funeral home being prepared for cremation,” a Daytona Beach police officer told 60 Minutes.
Public records related to this case have since been destroyed by local agencies in accordance with Florida’s record retention laws, but Wheeler’s case received so much attention, it was covered fastidiously by numerous media outlets.
According to news reports at the time, the state’s argument hung on a key question: how old was the fetus when Wheeler had the abortion?
“There’s a possibility if the child had been born, it would have survived as a human being,” the DBPD officer told 60 Minutes.
That position was later challenged by other experts according to news articles, but the case continued, and according to the New York Times, Wheeler became the first woman in the U.S. convicted of manslaughter for having an abortion.
“We had already had one, if not more, young ladies almost die from an illegal abortion,” said Horace Smith, an attorney in Daytona Beach who prosecuted Wheeler’s case in 1971 and still practices law today. “The reason why the police came to me is that they didn’t want this unknown individual killing people.”
Smith told News 6 he does not have an opinion about abortion, but he believed, according to the law in 1971, Wheeler had violated the manslaughter statute. Smith told News 6.
“My job as a prosecutor was to do justice, not to represent the state or to prosecute people just to get convictions but do the right thing. As indicated, this person who was performing these illegal abortion acts needed to be taken off the street before some young lady died,” Smith told News 6.
Originally, police wanted to know who performed the abortion. “Had she been willing to give up the name of the person who performed the abortion, they would not have prosecuted her,” said Nancy Stearns, a civil rights attorney who represented Wheeler during her appeal.
“She felt like, ‘This was the one person who helped me, I’m not going to give up his name.’ I just don’t know that I would have been that strong.”
Despite four days in jail, Wheeler did not reveal who performed the abortion.
“I guess some people think it is a question of morality, but would people rather have you to have a child that you can’t raise or take care of?” Wheeler told 60 Minutes.
Lack of resources wasn’t the only reason Wheeler sought an abortion. According to numerous outlets, Wheeler had given birth before.
But the pregnancy had been difficult, and after the birth of her son, Wheeler told reporters that she developed enough long-term medical problems that doctors told her another pregnancy might kill her.
That did not stop prosecution, and Wheeler was sentenced to 2 years of probation. The judge also ordered Wheeler to marry her live-in boyfriend or leave the state of Florida.
Wheeler’s case was only vacated after the Florida Supreme Court ruled the state’s abortion law was too vague.
Listen to more in-depth details about Shirley Wheeler’s case, via Slate Media, here.
More than 50 years later, today, Florida’s law permitting abortions up to 15 weeks is currently up for appeal. So could a woman face the same charges today that Shirley Wheeler once faced?
“You’d have to see whether the state satisfied the elements that are required to prove that crime,” said Steven Kramer, a legal analyst for News 6. “That does not mean it is not going to happen, and it does not mean that it could happen, but I think it’s a lot less likely.”
Less likely in part because of another historical Florida Supreme Court decision.
In 1994, a St. Petersburg woman shot herself in the womb in an attempt to end her pregnancy.
She was charged with manslaughter and the case made it all the way up to the Florida Supreme Court.
In 1997, Florida’s justices ruled that women cannot be held criminally responsible for any behavior that might affect the health of their fetus, and the St. Petersburg case was thrown out.
While women might not be charged here in Florida, News 6 found it is happening in other states.
- 2022 – In Texas, a woman was charged with murder for self-aborting her fetus. She was held at a $500,000 bond, before the charges were abruptly dropped.
- 2021 – In Oklahoma, a 21-year-old woman was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to four years in prison when she miscarried at four months. Prosecutors argued she used illicit substances, despite zero evidence that the substance caused her miscarriage.
- 2019 – In California, a woman was charged with murder when she gave birth to a stillborn. Prosecutors argued the woman had allegedly used illicit substances while pregnant. The case was dropped after she spent 16 months in jail, awaiting trial.
- 2015 – A ProPublica and AL.com investigation revealed “476 new or expecting mothers” were prosecuted under Alabama’s chemical endangerment law, a 2006 statute that was originally meant to target at-home drug labs during the state’s methamphetamine crisis.
- 2012 – A Long Island woman was sentenced to nine years in prison for manslaughter, a charge which stemmed from a 2008 car accident. The woman was 34 weeks pregnant at the time of the crash. Her baby was delivered by emergency C-section, but died. The woman’s case was ultimately overturned in 2015 by New York’s highest court.
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If famous singer-songwriter James Taylor, whose summer American tour included a June 27 stop in Allentown, ever wants to name a future song after a feathered creature like his 1974 hit “Mockingbird,” he could consider “Lady Vernon.”
For that’s the name of the fledgling falcon Taylor and others, including Allentown resident Barbara Miller, helped rescue from Taylor’s truck that was parked outside PPL Center for the concert.
Lady Vernon, who was named by Miller, has recovered while resting at the Cricket Wildlife Center in District Township, Berks County, according to Melissa Descant. Descant’s familiy started the nonprofit facility not far from the Lehigh County border.
Miller, Descant and Fletcher Joestar,who is Taylor’s production coordinator, recounted in separate interviews the poor bird’s tale and rescue efforts that included a hand from the popular singer.
Taylor’s crew was preparing for the evening concert when they discovered the small bird hiding in their truck in the PPL Center parking garage. The crew had left the truck open in hopes the bird would leave, but they became concerned when it was not flying or attempting to exit the trailer. Jostar, in searching for a wildlife rescue organization, reached out to Wildlife In Need Emergency Response of Pennsylvania, an organization to which Miller volunteers.
Said Joestar: “It was really James who wanted to make sure this bird was going to be safe.” He asked Joestar to seek out a rescue organization, which brought Joestar and Taylor to Miller.
Miller, who had been handling another bird response in Chester County, arrived in Allentown about 90 minutes before the 8 p.m. show. Taylor and his crew had gathered outside the trailer waiting for Miller, who discovered the young female American kestrel inside the trailer.
Miller was able to corral the bird from her net into a box within seconds, noting it had suffered injuries.
The bird had been spotted earlier that day around Linden and Eighth streets; The Morning Call published a photo gallery of its downtown whereabouts.
Miller said it appeared to have been dazed, likely from striking a window or building. She believed it might have suffered blurred vision from a concussion but that it also appeared calm, even “friendly” and “curious” to those who encountered Lady Vernon.
“Maybe that encounter with humans made the kestrel hide in the truck, which enabled us to finally catch her,” Miller theorized. After catching Lady Vernon, Miller transported the bird to Cricket Wildlife.
First Call
Miller deflected any praise for the rescue, saying Taylor and Joestar were the heroes.
“James really inconvenienced himself in order to save the kestrel,” Miller said. “When they discovered the kestrel in the back of the truck, they had to stop everything they were doing ... in order not to disturb it.”
But Miller’s bird work also meant she had a chance to meet Taylor; they posed for a photograph with him holding her net. She described him as tall with kind eyes, and he had a knowledge about birds. Both smiling, they are seen side-by-side for the photo after rescuing Lady Vernon. Its species is the smallest falcon in North America, she said.
Taylor knew another fact about the bird. “He said, ‘Aren’t kestrals hovering hawks?’ Miller said, who said he was correct. She came up with the bird’s name because Vernon is the middle name of Taylor, the fabled musician whose music has spanned parts of seven decades.
Joestar, who described Taylor as being “well-versed in wildlife,” said the singer was pleased to receive photos from Miller showing Lady Vernon’s progress.
Descant said the bird will soon be set free, at first undergoing a “soft release,” which will enable it to return to the center for food, before it is finally let go.
Morning Call journalist Anthony Salamone can be reached at asalamone@mcall.com. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-james-taylor-bird-rescue-20220714-g2cf6duexndjroucjdalnhljwi-story.html | 2022-07-14T23:48:34 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-james-taylor-bird-rescue-20220714-g2cf6duexndjroucjdalnhljwi-story.html |
Blythe’s Athletics in Valparaiso scored national recognition.
The sportswear shop was named an All-Star Verified Independent Dealer by the National Sporting Goods Association. The NSGA's Verified Independent Dealer program aims to recognize top independent dealers in the sporting goods industry.
“Blythe’s Athletics has done a tremendous job of serving the sports community in northwest Indiana and the Chicago area since 1953,” said Matt Carlson, NSGA president and CEO. “Blythe’s success is a testament to truly being a family business that started with Mike’s parents.
Blythe's Athletics, at 2810 Calumet Ave. in Valparaiso, has has been in business for nearly 70 years. The family-owned business is run by Mike Blythe.
The store, which carries all manner of sporting goods, met a number of criteria, including employee experience, sales volume, industry knowledge expertise and years in operations.
The Downers Grove-based National Sporting Goods Association, which has been a voice and resource for sporting goods retailers around the country since 1929, vetted Blythe's by doing reference checks with manufacturers and customers for the distinction, which recognizes experience and high-quality customer service.
“NSGA constantly searches for ways to help independently owned retailers and dealers face the challenges of today’s business climate,” Carlson said. “The NSGA All-Star Verified Independent Dealer program helps a business such as Blythe’s Athletics differentiate itself from its competition.”
Blythe's will maintain the status for three years and get access to marketing materials and educational opportunities.
“Sharing the value of doing business with an NSGA All-Star Verified Independent Dealer is important,” Carlson said. “Athletic directors, coaches, school superintendents, league directors and other customers will benefit from understanding the value of working with an NSGA All-Star Verified Independent Dealer such as Blythe’s Athletics.”
The business was founded by Lester and Ethel Blythe as Griffith Sport Shop 69 years ago. They opened Blythe’s Big Boys Toys for boats and snowmobiles in the 1970s and then the current Valparaiso location in 1979.
The Valparaiso store initially had a gun and archery range but the Blythe's Team Sports gun store spun off as a separate store in 2003. Blythe's Athletics focuses on sportswear and sporting goods.
“We’re thrilled to be recognized for our expertise and customer service,” Blythe said. “Our family has cared about this community for nearly 70 years and we understand what an important part sports plays in our lives. We are committed to do our part in making sure these experiences are memorable for the athletes, coaches, parents, teams and schools.”
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
An "interstate signing assessment" will will include an inventory of airport signage along interstates 80/94 and 90, and along Cline Avenue, and a plan for new signs.
A doctor, nurse physician and two physicians assistants have joined Franciscan Health, the Mishawaka-based health care system with hospitals across Northwest Indiana.
USW leaders have been meeting in committees and reviewing what members want before they finalize the proposals they plan to bring to the bargaining table next week.
The Purdue University Northwest's Sinai Forum will be headlined by writer Elizabeth Gilbert, "Mythbusters" co-host Adam Savage and Gen. David H. Petraeus this year.
Gas now costs an average of $4.80 a gallon in Lake County, $4.87 a gallon in Porter County, and $4.64 per gallon in LaPorte County, according to GasBuddy.com. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/blythe-s-athletics-scores-national-recognition/article_61688657-94d1-5d39-a143-a245b565ccff.html | 2022-07-14T23:51:58 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/blythe-s-athletics-scores-national-recognition/article_61688657-94d1-5d39-a143-a245b565ccff.html |
Franciscan Health Dyer's Family Birth Center earned a perinatal level of care designation from the state of Indiana.
The Indiana Department of Health assigned a Perinatal Level of Care II certification to the hospital on U.S. 30. The designation recognizes the hospital for taking steps to offer specialty care for complex maternal and fetal conditions and complications.
Franciscan Health satisfied the Hoosier State's requirements for an Obstetric Level of Care II and Neonatal Level of Care II facility.
The designation means hospitals can care for high-risk maternal patients and provide specialty care to infants who are moderately ill or delivered as early as 32 weeks into the pregnancy. It requires the education of the entire hospital team and a high level of quality improvement.
Franciscan Health Dyer/Hammond/Munster President and CEO Patrick Maloney credited the designation to the hard work of the staff at the Family Birth Center. The facility opened there in November as Franciscan Health transitions services away from its longtime downtown Hammond hospital to suburban sites like Munster and Dyer.
The Family Birth Center in Dyer is now in the midst of a multiphase upgrade to ensure state-of-the-facilities to provide high-quality care to new mothers and babies. Franciscan Health is planning further renovations of the patient room and Level II NICU.
The Indiana Department of Health's certification lasts for three years. It will be posted on the premises and is part of a statewide effort to reduce infant mortality by empowering consumers with information about what hospital to go to for delivery.
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
An "interstate signing assessment" will will include an inventory of airport signage along interstates 80/94 and 90, and along Cline Avenue, and a plan for new signs.
A doctor, nurse physician and two physicians assistants have joined Franciscan Health, the Mishawaka-based health care system with hospitals across Northwest Indiana.
USW leaders have been meeting in committees and reviewing what members want before they finalize the proposals they plan to bring to the bargaining table next week.
The Purdue University Northwest's Sinai Forum will be headlined by writer Elizabeth Gilbert, "Mythbusters" co-host Adam Savage and Gen. David H. Petraeus this year.
Gas now costs an average of $4.80 a gallon in Lake County, $4.87 a gallon in Porter County, and $4.64 per gallon in LaPorte County, according to GasBuddy.com. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/franciscan-health-dyer-earns-perinatal-level-of-care-distinction/article_50163037-3a0c-50c8-bfa0-5f36f9506ad4.html | 2022-07-14T23:52:04 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/franciscan-health-dyer-earns-perinatal-level-of-care-distinction/article_50163037-3a0c-50c8-bfa0-5f36f9506ad4.html |
Franciscan Health’s Mobile Markets will provide nutritious meals to the public at its hospitals in Hammond and Crown Point.
The Franciscan Health Foundation and Food Bank of Northwest Indiana team up to bring the trucks filled with healthy food that can be picked up by residents and families in need as a way of combating food insecurity in the community.
A mobile market will take place at 3 p.m. July 19 in the hospital parking lot near the helicopter pad at Franciscan Health Crown Point at 1201 S. Main St. Another mobile market will take place at 3 p.m. July 27 at Franciscan Health Hammond at 5454 Hohman Ave.
The truck will be parked in the parking lot across the street from the hospital next to the Centier Bank branch on Hohman Avenue.
"Provided in partnership with Food Bank of Northwest Indiana, each mobile market truck offers participants a selection of free grains, fruits, vegetables and protein," Franciscan Health said in a press release. "Food will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis until supplies are gone. Recipients must show valid proof of Indiana residency."
Franciscan Health's Mobile Markets are drive-through only. The health care system asks people not to arrive before 2:30 p.m. on any of the pickup dates.
Anyone interested in donating to fight food insecurity in Northwest Indiana can call 219-661-3401 or visit FranciscanHealthFoundation.org.
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
An "interstate signing assessment" will will include an inventory of airport signage along interstates 80/94 and 90, and along Cline Avenue, and a plan for new signs.
A doctor, nurse physician and two physicians assistants have joined Franciscan Health, the Mishawaka-based health care system with hospitals across Northwest Indiana.
USW leaders have been meeting in committees and reviewing what members want before they finalize the proposals they plan to bring to the bargaining table next week.
The Purdue University Northwest's Sinai Forum will be headlined by writer Elizabeth Gilbert, "Mythbusters" co-host Adam Savage and Gen. David H. Petraeus this year.
Gas now costs an average of $4.80 a gallon in Lake County, $4.87 a gallon in Porter County, and $4.64 per gallon in LaPorte County, according to GasBuddy.com. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/franciscan-health-mobile-markets-to-distribute-free-food-to-the-community/article_8acbe55d-4a7c-596e-be5f-35391f758767.html | 2022-07-14T23:52:10 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/franciscan-health-mobile-markets-to-distribute-free-food-to-the-community/article_8acbe55d-4a7c-596e-be5f-35391f758767.html |
The Veterans Park Neighborhood Association filed a petition for Judicial Review on July 11, seeking a stay on Interfaith Sanctuary’s conditional use permit and to overturn the Boise City Council’s approval of the permit, according to court documents.
Interfaith Sanctuary currently takes in unsheltered individuals in its downtown facility and in a hotel. The shelter is looking to relocate, however, to the former Salvation Army site at 4306 W. State St.
The association also asked the court to uphold a previous Boise City Planning and Zoning Commission denial of the permit, declare the city council’s actions “unlawful,” allow the association to recover attorney’s fees and for any other relief “the Court may deem appropriate.”
“Petitioner (The neighborhood association) is an affected party alleging its members’ property would be adversely affected or harmed by the City’s action,” the petition said.
“Our lawyers will keep us informed but we will continue to move forward,” Interfaith Executive Director Jodi Peterson-Stigers said.
The document lists a couple who own property and then the owners of three businesses along West State Street. The petition said the couple, the owners, the businesses and the neighborhood association are “affected persons having bona fide interest in real property that would be adversely affected or harmed by the City’s action.”
The association also requested mediation. The petition said the Veterans Park Neighborhood Association “believes there is a likelihood that differences between the Petitioner and the Respondent and the Applicant can be resolved through mediation.”
However, the process thus far has been contentious and long.
Interfaith delayed a permit application for a new shelter after neighbors asked for more information. In April 2021, Interfaith bought the former Salvation Army distribution center and filed a conditional use permit.
In June 2021, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean asked Interfaith to pause its application. Several hearings took place in fall 2021 after the shelter submitted the conditional use permit.
Interfaith’s conditional use permit was denied by Boise’s Planning & Zoning Commission in January.
In April, the council overturned the Planning & Zoning Commission’s denial, allowing the homeless shelter a conditional use permit to open in the former Salvation Army site.
The shelter, which was approved on a 4-2 vote, came with 30 conditions of approval.
In June, the council voted again 4-2 to deny two requests for reconsideration filed by the Veteran’s Park Neighborhood Association and by an individual, Attorney Scott Rose.
A second court case was also filed to appeal the permit, according to BoiseDev. Rose wrote that a neighbor would be harmed by the project’s approval and the neighbor is concerned for the safety of Interfaith residents and people passing by or living near the shelter, BoiseDev reported. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/petition-for-judicial-review-filed-over-interfaith-sanctuary-move/article_4dff47d9-f22e-59d6-9860-ce32f36e3423.html | 2022-07-14T23:52:13 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/petition-for-judicial-review-filed-over-interfaith-sanctuary-move/article_4dff47d9-f22e-59d6-9860-ce32f36e3423.html |
Artist Nick Gloom is exhibiting his work at Green Door Books in Hobart this month.
The exhibition is on display at the bookstore at 325 Main St. in downtown Hobart through Aug. 4.
"This is kind of a weird one, as far as the exhibitions I’ve done go. Typically my work is created through trying to say something very specific about myself; and any collection of pieces, like this one, follows a theme only because I’m in a certain place in my life as I’m creating them," he said.
Gloom, who is also a musician, is known for his dark and whimsical aesthetic.
"At this point, I feel like the kind of folks who are going to come out to see an entire exhibit are already very keen on what I’m doing, so there was less pressure to be so emotive," he said. "Everything I do sort of lives in a certain world so this time around it was more about exploring that objectively. What does it look like to actually visit this place that we’ve all been getting these small, specific glimpses of? I suppose the theme would be travel. Trying to frame this incredibly personal but familiar place in a touristy, kind of voyeuristic way. Like a 'fans' exhibit. I hope that doesn’t seem pretentious."
Gloom's gothic fantasy artwork often features solitary woebegone figures. It explores emotions like depression and heartbreak.
"I usually start with feeling like I have something to say that other people can connect with. I’ll sketch out an idea based on that but once it gets to canvas it’s kind of a free for all," he said. "I try to keep the 'message' intact while letting whatever is going to happen happen. I’ve realized the looser I am and more stream-of-conscious I let myself be; the more people connect with it. So I’ve learned to roll with that."
Gloom creates drawings, prints, buttons, magnets, T-shirts and other images. His work depicts figures like ghosts, witches, bats and literary characters from "Les Miserable" and "Gulliver's Travels."
"However, I get really inspired by a lot of contemporary artists who can take something wild or imaginative and make it look very photorealistic," he said. "Like it lives here, even though our brains know better, and we believe it. I tend to stay in my own lane regarding the simplest way to get a feeling across. But it’s always in the back of my mind that the better job you do at creating something that feels physically real, as well as emotionally real, the more you can make those connections with the viewer."
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
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NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
An "interstate signing assessment" will will include an inventory of airport signage along interstates 80/94 and 90, and along Cline Avenue, and a plan for new signs.
A doctor, nurse physician and two physicians assistants have joined Franciscan Health, the Mishawaka-based health care system with hospitals across Northwest Indiana.
USW leaders have been meeting in committees and reviewing what members want before they finalize the proposals they plan to bring to the bargaining table next week.
The Purdue University Northwest's Sinai Forum will be headlined by writer Elizabeth Gilbert, "Mythbusters" co-host Adam Savage and Gen. David H. Petraeus this year.
Gas now costs an average of $4.80 a gallon in Lake County, $4.87 a gallon in Porter County, and $4.64 per gallon in LaPorte County, according to GasBuddy.com. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nick-gloom-exhibiting-art-at-green-door-books/article_04a579c2-667d-5e4a-9a74-fa61f31ff3ac.html | 2022-07-14T23:52:16 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nick-gloom-exhibiting-art-at-green-door-books/article_04a579c2-667d-5e4a-9a74-fa61f31ff3ac.html |
Franciscan Health is staging a Tickled Pink comedy show in Griffith to help promote breast cancer education.
The free event will take place from 6-9 p.m. Aug. 11 at Avenue 912, 202 W. Ridge Road in Griffith. Tickled Pink also includes free dinner and drink.
"Women will be able to share some laughs, dinner and vital breast education at Tickled Pink," Franciscan Health said in a news release. "The free event is presented by Franciscan Health Cancer Center."
Comedian Tracy DeGraaf, a mother and breast cancer survivor, will share her experience with the disease while entertaining the crowd with humor.
Her comedy show has won praise, including from Rebellious Magazine, which said she has "the presence of a motivational speaker and the uplifting message of a preacher" and "her everyday experiences resonate with fans who can be seen nodding along with punchline after punchline.”
Franciscan Health physicians will take part in a panel fielding questions from the public after DeGraaf's set. People also can avail themselves of free health screenings, chair massages and mammogram scheduling at the event.
Registration is required by July 30. To register, call 800-931-3322.
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
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Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Den Asian Bistro, Bankquet pop-up restaurant, Spenga Fitness Center, Encore Car Wash, Potato Express opening; Consider the Lilies closing
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Glorious Coffee and Teas, Jamba, craft brewery and Esca Kitchen open
Effort to curb CEO pay failed, IU study finds
A new study found an effort by Congress to curb CEO pay has failed.
Professors from Indiana University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and University of Texas examined a provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 that repealed an exemption allowing companies to deduct significant amounts of performance-based pay.
The legislation was supposed to shift the pay of top executives away from stock and performance bonuses "that can lead to a myopic emphasis on short-term results." The hope was to incentivize companies to implement cash-based fixed compensation instead.
But the study found the change in law ultimately had little effect. CEO compensation either stayed the same or grew.
"It's very politically amenable right now to say they're going to tax these corporations and these executives and it's going to reduce income inequality, but our research — and that of others — suggests that taxes are just not a big enough stick to change the structure or the magnitude of executive compensation," said Bridget Stomberg, associate professor of accounting and a Weimer Faculty Fellow at the IU Kelley School of Business. "We found no statistical effects, which is counter to what Congress intended. We looked very hard and see no evidence of a reduction in CEO pay."
The journal Contemporary Accounting Research published the article, entitled "Examining the Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on Executive Compensation." It was researched and written by Stomberg, University of Texas Associate Professor of Accounting Lisa De Simone and Booth Assistant Professor of Accounting Charles McClure. De Simone and McClure co-host the "Taxes for the Masses" podcast.
Their study looked at CEO pay before and after the tax policy change. It found no substantive differences in compensation mix, pay-performance sensitivity or total compensation.
Publicly traded companies were able to deduct up to $1 million in C-suite pay from their taxes since 1994, unless it was linked to company performance.
When Congress slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% in 2017, it got rid of that exemption. The study looked at CEO pay when the new tax rules took effect in 2017 and 2018 and then in 2019 and 2020.
"Even three full years after the law took effect, we didn't see any evidence of a reduction in CEO pay," she said.
The authors concluded tax regulation likely would not be effective at limiting executive compensation and reducing income inequality, a policy strategy pursued in cities like Portland and San Francisco.
"If Congress' fundamental assumption about the relative importance of taxes in the design of executive compensation is overstated, its ability to shift current compensation practices through changes in tax policy is also likely overstated," the authors said. "Our results and those from prior studies suggest increases in firms' cost of executive compensation do little to reduce its amount."
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A doctor, nurse physician and two physicians assistants have joined Franciscan Health, the Mishawaka-based health care system with hospitals across Northwest Indiana.
USW leaders have been meeting in committees and reviewing what members want before they finalize the proposals they plan to bring to the bargaining table next week.
The Purdue University Northwest's Sinai Forum will be headlined by writer Elizabeth Gilbert, "Mythbusters" co-host Adam Savage and Gen. David H. Petraeus this year.
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NEW ALBANY, Ind. — A statewide Silver Alert has been declared for a missing New Albany man.
The New Albany Police Department is searching for 67-year-old Kevin Burton, who was last seen around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12 in New Albany.
Burton is described as a 5-foot, 4-inch, 105-pound white male with gray hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a white shirt, blue or brown shorts and black shoes.
He is believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
Anyone with information about Burton or his whereabouts is asked to contact the New Albany Police Department at 812-944-6411 or call 911.
Amber Alert vs. Silver Alert: What's the difference?
There are specific standards a person's disappearance must meet in order for police to declare an Amber Alert or a Silver Alert.
Amber Alerts are for children under the age of 18 who are believed to have been abducted and in danger. Police also need to have information about a suspect and their car to issue an Amber Alert.
Silver Alerts are for missing and endangered adults or children. They are much more common for missing people. It was not until last year when the standards for Silver Alerts were expanded to include children.
In both situations, these alerts must be issued by police.
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CAMDEN — A Linwood man who formerly owned an Ocean City pizzeria pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to pay more than $200,000 in taxes to the IRS, according to the Newark Field Office of the IRS.
Giuseppe Cannuscio, 74, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to evade taxes. He will be sentenced Nov. 16.
According to court documents, the fraud occurred between October 2013 and September 2018.
A former Ocean City pizza shop owner admitted he failed to pay the IRS $208,448 in taxes, th…
Cannuscio and his brother, Ernesto, were co-owners of Mario's Pizzeria & Restaurant in Ocean City, which accepted payment in either cash or credit card. Documents showed Cannuscio failed to deposit a portion of the cash receipts into the corporate bank account, Tomlins said. Cannuscio used a portion of the cash receipts to pay employees cash wages off the books.
He provided the accountant with the business bank account statements, knowing they did not contain the unreported cash receipts. Cannuscio did not tell his accountant about the cash receipts, nor did he tell the accountant about the cash payroll for his employees, Tammy Tomlins, acting special agent in charge of IRS Criminal Investigation’s Newark Field Office, said in a news release.
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Failing to tell the accountant about the unreported cash receipts caused the accountant to underreport the gross receipts on the corporate tax returns as well as improperly reporting the business income on his personal tax returns, Tomlins said.
In addition, Cannuscio evaded employment taxes by not informing the accountant about the cash wages. As a result, Cannuscio admitted he and his brother failed to pay about $208,448 in personal, corporate and payroll taxes.
Conspiracy to evade taxes carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a potential fine of up to $250,000.
Ernesto Cannuscio, 70, pleaded guilty to the same charge last month. He will be sentenced Oct. 25. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-ocean-city-pizzeria-owner-pleads-guilty-to-tax-evasion/article_847e00ae-03c5-11ed-a79f-277efb1bdfe6.html | 2022-07-14T23:54:43 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/former-ocean-city-pizzeria-owner-pleads-guilty-to-tax-evasion/article_847e00ae-03c5-11ed-a79f-277efb1bdfe6.html |
HIGH POINT — Authorities are asking for the public's help with identifying a man who robbed a Walmart on Wednesday night, according to a news release from High Point police.
Officers responded at 11:57 p.m. to the armed robbery at the store at 2628 S. Main Street. Managers told officers the suspect robbed an employee at gunpoint and stole money from a register.
Anyone who recognizes the individual pictured is asked to contact Crime Stoppers of High Point at 336-889-4000 via the P3 mobile app. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-seek-suspect-in-armed-robbery-at-high-point-walmart/article_185c6296-03c8-11ed-bd0a-f328597873f5.html | 2022-07-14T23:55:14 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-seek-suspect-in-armed-robbery-at-high-point-walmart/article_185c6296-03c8-11ed-bd0a-f328597873f5.html |
GREENSBORO — Shots were fired during a robbery at a local gas station on Thursday afternoon, according to a news release from Greensboro police.
Officers responded to the Fairway One Stop at 2001 Randleman Road at 2:55 p.m. Witnesses told police that two men wearing black masks over their faces robbed the store.
During the robbery, multiple rounds were fired into the ceiling of the business and the suspects then left with an undisclosed amount of cash, the release said. No injuries were reported and the investigation is continuing.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Greensboro/Guilford Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000. Citizens can also download the mobile P3tips app to submit a mobile tip, or go to P3tips.com to submit a web tip. All tips to Crime Stoppers are anonymous. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shots-fired-during-gas-station-robbery-in-greensboro-police-say/article_0ca5900e-03c2-11ed-9c5e-af87a9fd16f3.html | 2022-07-14T23:55:20 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/shots-fired-during-gas-station-robbery-in-greensboro-police-say/article_0ca5900e-03c2-11ed-9c5e-af87a9fd16f3.html |
SARASOTA, Fla. — After several weeks of intense training, a group of talented young actors is ready for the spotlight.
It's all thanks to the Stage of Discovery program run by Sarasota's West Coast Black Theatre Troupe. The program is aimed at turning young people's dreams of being on stage into reality.
"I want to do this," 15-year-old Isaiah Belt said. It's fun to me, I really love it here."
"Dancing is probably what I enjoy the most here but everything is really great," 15-year-old Alitash Tafesse said. "Being with my friends is great as well so they make it 10 times better."
Now in its seventh year, the program coaches kids as young as 10 and up to 18 in acting, singing, dancing, and improvisation as well as set and costume design. They spent five weeks rehearsing and helping with the production of their showcase summer musical titled "We Dream."
"I actually have three people that I told about this that are here now and they love it as well they're having a lot of fun," Belt said.
The writer and director for this year's production adaptation said many of the participants are from underserved communities and the program provides access and exposure to the world of theatre and production.
"I am amazed at how hard they are working and the fact that they are taking this time, after being in school and all that we're dealing with, and with how that has changed, and putting in the work. It's just wonderful to see," Writer and director Jim Weaver said.
"I wanted to make sure we had a net, and a program to give young people the opportunity to even learn the skills in order to achieve dreams in the performing arts," said Nate Jacobs. He is the founder of WBTT.
Jacobs has mentored many young minority actors in Sarasota for several years. He said making the program entirely free with meals provided helps remove any barriers to participation.
"This opportunity is full scale," Jacobs said. "They get to learn and they get to get on the stage and shine. It's about them."
"You're yourself in the show, you're not anybody else," Belt said. "You can just be yourself."
The teens will be performing "We Dream" at 7:30 p.m. this Saturday, July 16, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 17, at the West Coast Black Theatre Troupe's Donelly Theatre in Sarasota. Click here to see ticket information. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/sarasota-we-dream-musical/67-3d40893e-3401-449a-9cdd-ddaffa4936ad | 2022-07-14T23:56:30 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/sarasota-we-dream-musical/67-3d40893e-3401-449a-9cdd-ddaffa4936ad |
WALESKA, Ga. — A 10-year-old boy in Cherokee County is being called a hero after saving his entire family from a house fire early Thursday morning.
When Cherokee County firefighters arrived at the home on Silver Creek Drive just before 2 a.m., the top floor and front of the house were on fire.
Public Information Officer Tim Cavender said the family inside made it out just in time.
Cavender said the four members of the Knight family were asleep when the flames broke out. They were able to escape right before the roof collapsed -- all because of their 10-year-old son, Zezo.
"He heard a popping sound, he thought it was first fireworks and he got up and checked it out and saw that the house was on fire," said Cavender.
After quickly waking up his parents, Cavender said they grabbed his little brother and they all ran out. The family was on their way outside before the smoke detectors even went off.
The fire heavily damaged the home.
"I told Zezo, I said, 'you're a hero,' and he sort of laughed and said, 'no, I'm not,'" Cavender told 11Alive. "I said, 'yes you are, this stuff can be replaced, the lives cannot.'"
Cavender said this is a good reminder for all families to talk to their kids and have a fire plan in place. For tips, visit Cherokee County's website.
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UTICA, N.Y. – Originally slated to begin in the fall, demolition of the former Charlestown structure is now complete.
The building was destroyed by fire in August of 2020.
The structure is down, but the remnants still need to be removed. The timeline for removing the remains is not yet clear.
The EPA has also been monitoring air quality during the massive undertaking. | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/former-charlestown-mall-building-completely-demolished/article_2a40f9ec-03c1-11ed-956f-fbf27d431656.html | 2022-07-14T23:59:20 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/former-charlestown-mall-building-completely-demolished/article_2a40f9ec-03c1-11ed-956f-fbf27d431656.html |
Skydome, a building that was once a hangar for B-52 Bombers, is now the largest FAA designated indoor drone testing site in the country. Griffiss Institute President/CEO Heather Hage talked about how military, government, and private sector businesses can now take advantage of a space designed to advance technology in an ever growing drone based world.
"We have deep roots and absolutely unrivaled potential to be known as the premier global destination to design, build, test, and deploy safe and reliable automatous systems that are mission assured, and secure by design."
Almost $14 million have been invested in this site, but Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente expects to see a return on that investment.
"We have numerous companies here right now that are testing and doing so, and along with that comes jobs, and along with that comes also you know more attention to what can be done here and what can be developed here."
Unmanned Aerial Systems technology company NUAIR is already in the process of utilizing the space to advance drone technologies. NUAIR CEO Ken Stewart explains why technology advancements are at a critical stage in the development of drone capabilities.
"We have a system called ATM Air Traffic Management for manned aircraft, but we don’t have a system for unmanned aircraft, and so how do we integrate these aircraft into a piloted environment, and so what we’ve been working on is all the technologies, sensors, infrastructure and all that that has to be put in place to safely integrate that and integrate unmanned with manned aircraft."
The walls of Skydome are made with a foil and corrigated foam. They look pretty cool, but they also serve a purpose. AX Enterprize Co-Owner M.C. Chruscicki’s company was involved in designing Skydome, and talked about why the walls were constructed with drone communications in mind.
"Those signals, whether they be wifi or 5G will bounce off of that tin foil, which is emulating or simulating a building in a city, and then the blue is where the signal…it’s absorbing the signal, and you’re going to have those same types of characteristics in a city."
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UTICA, N.Y. -- No matter where they wound up, for many, at least part of their story began at the Utica YWCA. A new generation of memories is about to be made in the building, thanks to a veterans' organization buying and rehabbing it. The place where so many local people learned to swim as children is getting new life.
"The pool is gonna be a reality again and it will be open to the public year round," says Vincent Scalise, executive director of the Utica Center for Development.
Utica Center for Development bought the YWCA building, in Utica. Phase one of the rehab is the beloved pool. And by all accounts, no one wanted to see it more, or fundraised harder to make it happen, than the Reverend Dr. Mary Webster, for whom the new wellness center will be named. She learned to swim here. And, conquer her fear.
"So I was sitting at my kitchen table and a flyer came in from the YWCA. Casually, I opened it up and looked at it and they were offering a course on 'absolutely terrified'. I said 'that's me!'" said Rev. Webster. "Some of the best money I ever spen.t"
Generations will find help, a sanctuary, or just a place to go, here in the building. Phase one is the pool. Also in the building: a peer to peer program to support veterans' mental health and curb their high suicide rate. Daily open gym, and, a program to bring inner city youth to the Adirondacks. Wilson's Cops and Kids Youth Boxing Program is already there.
"Since they closed the Boys & Girls Club, our youth have nowhere to go and play and exercise their energies," said Webster.
The pool work should go out to bid next month. UCD's executive director hopes people will be swimming in it in a year. After that, eight family-sized units of affordable housing for veterans will be built.
"Right now, we have 30 units for veteran-only housing in Utica and we're constantly full. We constantly have a waiting list. It's needed," says Scalise.
The roughly $1 million for the pool rehab is through the city, from federal Prosperity funds, and, the State Homeless Housing Assistance program. UCD privately financed the purchase of the building.
'I'm just excited about what we're going to do and going to do and are doing in Utica," says Reverend Webster.
Scalise said, "Being a native Utican myself, I like to see our history being saved and not torn down so it's a great feeling, knowing that we're gonna get this building up and running again." | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/new-life-for-utica-ywca-building/article_b2f346c8-03bc-11ed-87f4-4b379784b6ab.html | 2022-07-14T23:59:32 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/new-life-for-utica-ywca-building/article_b2f346c8-03bc-11ed-87f4-4b379784b6ab.html |
Three little words mean the world to Karana Turner.
"I'm a homeowner," Lancaster resident Karana Turner said.
She bought her home in Lancaster four years ago. It was something she didn't think was possible.
"Just being a single parent and on a budget so it was kind of hard," Turner said.
But she got help through the Dallas County Home Loan Counseling Center with Dallas County Health and Human Services.
The Upfront Cost Assistance Program (UPCAP) provides an eight-hour home buying seminar for low-income, first-time home buyers.
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The free classes guide people step by step on everything needed to buy a home.
"The financing process,” Dallas County Health and Human Service Public Information Officer Christian Grisales said. “How to select a realtor? What's the role of the title company? How to finance a home? How to make a down payment?So, we are covering from a range of subjects that are going to help people purchase their first home."
Also, if you meet certain financial requirements, they can help you with the down payment.
"Let's say you don't have the money right now to qualify or to pay to make a down payment, we can help you with that down payment and it's free," Grisales said.
As long as you live in the house for at least five years you don't have to pay that back.
For Turner, the most beneficial part of the class was learning how to manage her money.
"Not knowing that I was really able to afford to own a home,” Turner said. “But through budgeting, I was aware that I could do it."
Now she's able to make her house a home.
"Do the things I like to do with decorating and remodeling,” Turner said. “Because it's my own I can do a lot of things I couldn't do before."
But more importantly, she's providing generational wealth for her family's future.
"That's a good feeling to have that I know if anything was to happen to me, my daughter has her a home and she's able to own her own home," Turner said.
To learn more about the Upfront Cost Assistance Program(UPCAP) click here.
You can call also call 214-819-6060 or email homeloancounselingcenter@dallascounty.org. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-county-program-helps-first-time-homebuyers-through-the-process-for-free/3014688/ | 2022-07-15T00:04:11 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-county-program-helps-first-time-homebuyers-through-the-process-for-free/3014688/ |
The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District has announced safety and security improvements ahead of the upcoming school year, following the school shooting that claimed 21 lives nearly two months ago.
The district announced several projects to upgrade door locks, add security cameras, fencing, and the addition of police and security officers.
Funding for the projects will come from a $1 million donation from the Las Vegas Raiders, according to a press release provided by UCISD.
The announcement comes days after video showing a portion of the active shooting situation was leaked, leading to renewed outrage over the police response during the massacre.
During a press conference in Houston on Thursday, Governor Greg Abbott was asked when the victim’s families can expect a full account of the police response during the shooting.
“It'll take a while and the reason is because it will require a conclusion of the investigation by the Texas Rangers, FBI, DOJ, DA, as well as by things that are learned by TX House and TX Senate investigations,” said Abbott. “There are a lot of investigations going on and then when you compare the notes from all these different investigations, you will see all the facts come together, and the families will continue to learn more about that, but they need to be able to know all this information.”
The father of at least one of the young victims tells NBC 5, that he is prepared to wait for those answers, but he demands accountability.
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“She was the light of my life,” said Alfred Garza III of his daughter Amerie Jo Garza. “She was a lot like me. She was quick-witted, she always like to laugh. She always liked to play pranks on me and scare me… We were never serious. When she was with daddy, ‘daddy time’ was playtime.”
Losing loved ones is something the 35-year-old has experienced a lot, including the death of his mother.
But this is different.
She was his only child.
There are good days and bad days, he said.
The bad days are a struggle, “Just accepting the fact that I’m never going to see her again. Just glancing at her pictures and like, 'Oh, she’s not here anymore. I’m not going to be able to hold her and kiss her and tell her I love her or text her.'”
The police response continues to draw criticism and outrage from experts and families alike.
This week, video showing a portion of the massacre was published by the Austin American Statesman and KVUE-TV before lawmakers could release it publicly on Sunday and before the victims’ families could watch it first.
The edited video is disturbing and confirms that while officers arrived within minutes of the first shots fired, they retreated and waited for over an hour before taking down the gunman, even as more shots were fired inside the classroom and more heavily armed officers arrived.
During the 77-minutes, several people called 911 begging for help, including Amerie.
Garza says he had a feeling the video would be leaked prematurely.
Asked what he made of what he saw in the video, Garza replied, “The public knows that they took too long. That’s a hands-down no-brainer. We don’t need a thorough investigation or video to prove to know they took too long. We already know that… [but] It’s very upsetting to know that somebody didn’t take the initiative to say, 'Hey, we need to do this right now. We have guns, we have vests, we have shields, we have all these tools, and those kids have nothing.' I don’t know what they could’ve done, but they could’ve done more. Bottom line.”
His biggest question now is who is going to be held accountable.
But he says he’s willing to be patient and wait for a full, detailed report understanding that this tragedy is unlike others.
“Supposedly, they’re going to get a medical team of doctors to examine the severity of the injuries to determine which kids could have been saved in a timely manner, so those things take time. I’m trying to be as patient as I can.”
Time, this grieving father believes, will bring answers and solace.
Asked what he misses most about his little girl, Garza said, “Just that touch. Just her presence, knowing that I’m not going to have her anymore. It’s hard. I miss that, being able to hug her and hold her and just tell her I love her.” | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/families-demand-answers-and-accountability-after-video-released-of-police-response-in-uvalde-school-shooting/3014752/ | 2022-07-15T00:04:17 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/families-demand-answers-and-accountability-after-video-released-of-police-response-in-uvalde-school-shooting/3014752/ |
DALLAS — A group of judges in Dallas County is taking time to honor a juror who helped save a man’s life in June.
Katherine Kreis showed up for jury duty at the Frank Crowley Courthouse on June 27. It was her first time receiving a jury summons in Dallas County. It proved to be a day Kreis would never forget.
“I was sitting in the waiting room, waiting to be called, and I happened to notice the gentleman next to me was shaking and threw his phone,” Kreis recalled.
A juror sitting nearby in the Central Jury Room was having a medical episode. Witnesses said someone shouted the man was having a seizure.
Judge Molly Francis was also sitting in the jury room. She’d also been called for jury duty that day. Judge Francis witnessed Kreis spring into action to render aid to the man.
“She turned to him. She started talking to him. He was clearly in distress. I watched the whole thing,” said Judge Francis.
What people witnessed in the Central Jury Room, that day, was more than Kreis springing into action. She is a veteran nurse who was working to help save another jurors life.
Kreis has been working as a nurse more than 20 years. She is also an assistant professor at UT-Arlington who trains student nurses. She’s seen and helped treat a wide range of medical issues over time.
Witnesses said other jurors jumped in to help get the man on the floor as he continued convulsing. Kreis kept him calm as bailiffs called 911.
A group of Dallas County felony and misdemeanor court judges took time to recognize Kreis on Thursday.
“We all wanted to do something for you. To show how special and how much we appreciate all you’ve done,” Judge Stephanie Huff told Kreis while presenting her with a plaque.
The judges also honored Kreis with a floral bouquet and other special gifts for her life-saving service.
“I feel it was a right place, right time, sort of thing,” Kreis shared.
The nurse has yet to meet the juror she helped that day. She learned the man’s improving and getting continued care.
“To everyone, keep that medication list with you. Keep it updated. Contact info for family and friends and emergency contact,” Kreis advised. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-county-nurse-honored-by-after-saving-mans-life-during-jury-duty/287-e4b016bc-dd68-4d8d-a065-e6ca4cf098fc | 2022-07-15T00:05:14 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dallas-county-nurse-honored-by-after-saving-mans-life-during-jury-duty/287-e4b016bc-dd68-4d8d-a065-e6ca4cf098fc |
DALLAS — Dallas police officers are on the beat to beat the heat.
“Make sure you guys drink water today OK."
As temperatures continue to remain in the triple digits, Dallas Police Department's neighborhood officers or NPOs are out checking on residents.
Recently, the South Central NPOs helped an elderly woman whose air conditioner was out.
"The heat factor is huge. There are so many people out here who are lacking resources and information, and our job as an NPO unit is to give them some resources that would assist them,” said Dallas Police Sgt. Mavin Tyler.
Within a day, the officers were able to find a brand new unit for the woman.
It's the second air conditioner they’ve delivered in the last couple of weeks.
"We had a senior citizen who, unfortunately, fell victim to a violent incident and his AC units were damaged,” said officer Torey Dugas with South Central Patrol.
So, that citizen got a new unit too.
"It was a great opportunity for us to be a blessing to someone,” Sgt. Tyler said. "We want to give you these. They have information on heat exhaustion."
The officers say they feel it’s also part of their jobs to educate the public about what resources are available to them and how to take care of themselves.
"In my opinion, and I’m pretty positive about this, heat does not have an age. I don’t care if you're 10, 25, or 50. It’s hot,” said Dugas.
The officers spent some time talking to a senior citizen’s group. Some of the people told WFAA their electric bills were up to $500 this month. The officers said they will try to get them some assistance.
"Seeing the smiles on their faces knowing a senior citizen is going to be cooled off on these really hot days, it makes me feel great,” said Dugas.
The officers say the air conditioners they get come from donations. They welcome anyone who wants to donate. If you would like to donate, contact Sgt. Tyler at 214-671-4532. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-dallas-police-helping-citizens-in-extreme-heat/287-5900bd44-425c-4a35-bb56-9cb6b3044a1a | 2022-07-15T00:05:20 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-dallas-police-helping-citizens-in-extreme-heat/287-5900bd44-425c-4a35-bb56-9cb6b3044a1a |
What may have seemed like a harmless prank by some kids had one woman ready to open fire, worried that she was the victim of a home invasion.
“It sounded like someone was trying to break into my house,” said “Cassy”, who has called San Carlos Park home all her life. She remembers how scared she was when she heard it, after 8:30 pm at night.
“It was two really loud knocks. It sounded like someone was literally with a battering ram trying to get in,” she said.
She quickly ran to grab her gun and waited, ready to use it if someone barged in, until she checked her camera and realized it was two boys pulling a prank.
“100 percent, I was prepared to shoot somebody,” she said.
Some residents hope children like these will learn the dangers of pranks like this.
“I have a 5 year old daughter. Its not appropriate and people do have guns, and they are scared enough to protect their homes these days,” said Stephanie Strojal, who lives nearby.
Thats why she now hopes that whoever those boys are, that their parents talk to them about how dangerous pranks like that are.
“I would just say, you guys need to sit down with your children, tell them whats right and whats wrong. Its a dangerous situation and it could have ended so much worse,” Strojal said. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/14/ding-dong-ditch-prank-in-san-carlos-park-nearly-goes-wrong/ | 2022-07-15T00:06:03 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/14/ding-dong-ditch-prank-in-san-carlos-park-nearly-goes-wrong/ |
SAN ANTONIO — Thursday was Shark Awareness Day, a day meant to highlight the vital role these animals play in keeping our oceans healthy. Considering that, SeaWorld wanted to give people a special look at these sometimes-misunderstood creatures.
"A lot of the times this is the first time that people are seeing sharks," said Janelle Baca, an Aquarium Supervisor for SeaWorld.
The tanks in Explorers Reef at Seaworld San Antonio are absolutely brimming with sharks lately.
"We have our Sand Tiger, Sand Bar, Zebra and Nurse Sharks," Baca said.
She said its important people understand the role sharks play in the ecosystem.
"Sharks play a vital role as the apex predator in our ocean environment,” she said. “They are responsible for maintaining a healthy ecosystem by taking out the weak, the sick, the dying, the injured animals of that environment."
SeaWorld invited a group of bloggers, influencers, and those of us in the traditional media to help spread the word about these creatures for shark awareness day.
"It was incredible, I mean, we learned so much about sharks, we saw them being fed,” said Kelly Corbitt. “We come here a lot, but we never ever experienced the shark encounter before."
Corbitt and Nick Carlos say they spend a lot of time at SeaWorld, though not always for the fish.
"We are the 'Quirky Coaster Couple' and we just go to theme parks. we like roller coasters," Carlos said.
This time they found themselves on a different thrill ride: watching sharks get fed and even getting to touch one.
"It looks like the shark would be smooth,” Corbitt said. “But no! it feels like sandpaper! It’s, I'm like... mind blown."
Baca said that as threatening as they might appear, these animals are not generally a threat to humans.
"We want to bring attention to sharks and let people know that they're not as terrorizing and menacing as you might think," she said.
SeaWorld does offer its shark tours to the public. Click here for more info. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/celebrating-shark-awareness-day-at-seaworld-san-antonio-shark-week-discovery-channel/273-046e0ae7-739b-4cc7-8ffd-aedd02dda1bd | 2022-07-15T00:07:12 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/celebrating-shark-awareness-day-at-seaworld-san-antonio-shark-week-discovery-channel/273-046e0ae7-739b-4cc7-8ffd-aedd02dda1bd |
TEXAS, USA — Hot and dry conditions have led to what farmers are calling a "strange" harvest this year in the Hill Country. They say there is good news and bad news when it comes to how the drought has affected the crops.
Some farmers say the lack of rain has impacted the quantity of fruit they yield per harvest. The Texas Heritage Vineyard outside of Fredericksburg has grown a lot since it started six years ago.
“We built this from scratch and we love showing people the fruits of our labor,” vineyard owner Susan Johnson says she’s learned a lot of lessons in 2022.
“It’s been a really strange year,” Johnson said.
“It’s been so hot and so dry that really everything is accelerated,” Johnson says the total crop yield is about 20 percent below last year.
“From a ton of grapes, we would hope to get about 70 cases of wine, so you can see what a 20 percent reduction in that would be,” Johnson says.
She says silver lining of the lower yield is the grapes on her vineyard are high quality.
While you can’t compare apples to oranges, or in this story, grapes to peaches, some similarities between the different types of farms are shared.
“They have great flavor, they’re delicious, I’m working on making a peach brandy for our distillery that’s going to be fantastic, but when we don’t have rain, you’re not going to get that full palm-sized peach,” Orchard Manager Dietz Fischer, who operates the distillery bearing his name in Fredericksburg, said.
The peach orchards have been a fixture in Fredericksburg since the 1920s, he says.
There are only so many adjustments they can make due to the variables that go into farming.
“The peaches are normally this big or so, you can see they’re just tiny, and that’s just due to no rain essentially,” Fischer said.
Fischer and other farmers say while their crop yields are down, they still want to reap what they’ve sown.
“It is certainly God’s will whether we have rains or freezes, and our hope is to mitigate any potential damage and learn the best we can,” Johnson said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/lower-quantity-but-high-quality-found-in-some-fredericksburg-farms-during-a-hot-dry-year-weather-farming/273-46c8b460-1b52-4f0c-9063-df4b29683dff | 2022-07-15T00:07:19 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/lower-quantity-but-high-quality-found-in-some-fredericksburg-farms-during-a-hot-dry-year-weather-farming/273-46c8b460-1b52-4f0c-9063-df4b29683dff |
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Your money is gone more quickly these days. A big chunk of change goes to your power bill. A cost that will likely be high for a while.
“It’s going to be a real problem and something we’re really going to have to work on as a state because there’s going to be a lot of people that just are not able to afford their power,” said Doug Lewin, an energy consultant with Stoic Energy. “Everybody’s kind of focus on the reliability crisis and understandably so. There’s another crisis happening at the same time and that’s a crisis of affordability.”
There are a lot of costs that change on your bill. Right now, they are all going up.
How much power you use is the biggest factor in driving of the cost of your bill. It is the “Energy Charge” on your bill. These scorching days mean air conditioners are on more for longer.
Next is a “Peak Capacity Charge,” which means you pay more for power June through September for every kilowatt hour you use over 600 kilowatt hours.
Then there is a “Fuel Adjustment Charge.” That is the cost of fuel. It is the second largest cost that makes your bill rise. This cost fluctuates monthly based on what CPS Energy pays for fuel. The fuel that runs power plants is natural gas and prices are rising.
“Natural gas transporters can keep increasing the price as the market demands more and more natural gas,” said Virginia Palacios of Commission Shift. “There is not an independent market monitor for the gas supply chain that is checking gas prices and making sure that gas prices are fair and there isn’t a cap on natural gas pricing in this state.”
Plus, CPS Energy customers also saw a rate increase in March. That adds 3.85% to your bill. It is an extra $5.10 a month for the average bill.
Bottom line, you are paying a lot more now and probably will until the intense heat ends.
Here is how to reduce your bill for free:
- Keep your thermostat at 78.
- Close blinds and shades.
- Turn off lights.
- Unplug unused electronics.
These actions come at a small cost, but will also help reduce your bill:
- Change your air filters monthly.
- Install a programmable thermostat.
- Add insulation to your attic.
Call CPS Energy customer service at 210-353-2222 if you are having trouble paying your bill. It can help you with assistance and payment plans.
“We know that bills are high due to a few factors, especially because we saw a record high in June and we’re seeing record high temperatures in July, over 100 degrees every day so far,” said Dana Sotoodeh from CPS Energy. “What we want people to know is that we have resources available to them. Since June of 2020, we’ve connected our customers with more than $60 million in assistance.”
You can also sign up for High Bill Alerts with CPS Energy by calling customer service.
“They basically will alert you when your electric or gas bill is 20% higher than it was at the same time the year previous,” Sotoodeh said.
Another option is to participate in the Budget Payment Plan.
“It essentially smooths out your monthly energy bill,” Sotoodeh said. “It takes the previous 13 months of your usage and it makes one set payment based on that. So summer is really a good time to do that because it averages your lows and your highs and gives you a steady payment.”
Plus, customers can attend any of several community fairs to get questions answered and find out about assistance options. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-reason-cps-power-bill-is-spiking-electricity-increase/273-c7089701-6045-4339-aa5b-2d36696c9624 | 2022-07-15T00:07:25 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-reason-cps-power-bill-is-spiking-electricity-increase/273-c7089701-6045-4339-aa5b-2d36696c9624 |
TACOMA, Wash. — A Tacoma police officer who was caught on video driving his squad car through a crowd at a street race will not face charges, the Pierce County Prosecuting Attorney announced.
Video shows the officer, identified as 58-year-old Khanh Phan, driving his patrol car through a crowd that was gathered around his vehicle in January of 2021. People were pounding on the windows of the vehicle, according to statements from the Tacoma Police Department (TPD).
Two people were taken to the hospital. Police said none of the injuries were believed to be life-threatening.
In her charging decision, Prosecuting Attorney Mary Robnett said the officer was "unlawfully restrained and attacked" by a "violent mob."
"We will not file charges against any of the involved officers, nor would we file charges against anyone, police officer or not, who had been similarly unlawfully restrained and attacked by a violent mob," Robnett's decision read.
The incident occurred after Tacoma police responded to reports of a large crowd gathered in the area of South Ninth Street and Pacific Avenue on the evening of Jan. 23, 2021.
Witness accounts and video posted on social media showed a group gathered for a street racing event.
When officers arrived, one spectator began waving his arms and shouting "block the cops," at which point a crowd surrounded the patrol car and began "beating on the windows, kicking the car, rocking the car and yelling profanities at the officer," according to the Pierce County Force Investigation Team (PCFIT).
Phan tried to back up his patrol vehicle but was unable to as the crowd moved behind him, according to the investigation. Phan saw and heard what appeared to be a glass bottle with liquid breaking against his left passenger side window. He recalled thinking the bottle was a Molotov cocktail that would ignite and cause his fuel tank to catch fire, according to the investigation.
Phan believed there was a small opening in front of his patrol car, so he drove forward slowly, knocking down several pedestrians. One man ended up under the vehicle and may have been struck or run over by Phan's rear tire, according to the investigation.
The squad cars of two other officers who responded to the scene were also hit and surrounded by pedestrians and other cars, according to the investigation. Phan and the two other officers "all expressed fear that they would be dragged from their cars and killed by the mob," the investigation read.
Phan's patrol car had "significant damage" to the driver's door and body damage to both sides of the vehicle.
PCFIT concluded Phan's actions were "reasonable and necessary to protect himself from death or injury and remove himself from imminent danger" and his "intentional use of force" was "justified under these circumstances."
PCFIT interviewed 20 witnesses to the incident, including four people who identified themselves as being struck by Phan's vehicle.
Two of them sought care at the hospital and were released with no scheduled follow-up care. One man's injuries included abrasions, leg and general pain, as well as a collapsed lung, according to the investigation. He was discharged after being held for observation. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/tacoma-police-officer-drove-car-through-crowd-street-racing/281-4b87fe45-f4ba-46d4-9186-5aa675465c99 | 2022-07-15T00:10:12 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/tacoma-police-officer-drove-car-through-crowd-street-racing/281-4b87fe45-f4ba-46d4-9186-5aa675465c99 |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — School safety is a topic that is top of mind for many families these days as tragic headlines continue to shock people across the country.
This week, the West Virginia Board of Education heard an update on efforts to protect kids.
“I think our primary vision I guess is to look more at prevention,” said Jonah Adkins, with the WVDE’s Office of Accountability.
The Department of Education works with the School Building Authority, the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies as needed to help keep students safe.
The WVDE has several programs in place to ensure students have a support system at school, to give schools tools to plan for a crisis and to provide mental health and social outreach. They also make sure schools submit a Crisis Response Plan every year.
“The school Crisis Reponse Plan that we monitor has been in place for some years now,” Adkins said. “They have to be submitted annually.”
Those response plans have to be turned in to the Department of Homeland Security by August 1.
Adkins said parents can help as well by staying connected with their student and getting involved at their child’s school.
“The main thing that we want everyone to understand is that everyone plays a role,” Adkins said. “Parents, grandparents, community members everyone plays a role in school safety and identifying potential threats.”
The WVDE provides resources to help schools develop their Crisis Response Plan and to prepare in other ways. You can read more on those resources here. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/board-gets-update-on-school-safety-efforts-in-west-virginia/ | 2022-07-15T00:10:20 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/board-gets-update-on-school-safety-efforts-in-west-virginia/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Military medals, once lost and forgotten, are now bringing joy to families of veterans.
“We were unaware that these things existed,” says Jerry Baldwin, son of U.S. Army World War II veteran Henry Baldwin. “Pleasantly surprised and appreciate the Treasury Department and all they’ve done to retrieve these and get them to their rightful owners.”
On Thursday, July 14, the State Treasurer’s Office returned war medals, that were previously abandoned in safety deposit boxes after their owners passed away.
“Fortunately, we’re able to return these decorations and medals to the families of the veterans who have earned them in the various different conflicts they have served in on behalf of the United States of America,” said State Treasurer Riley Moore.
Honoring 13 veterans from World War II to Vietnam, the ceremony, held at the West Virginia Culture Center, was the first of its kind.
“It is something that we’re very excited to be able to do and to continue to do this because this is the way the medals should be returned,” Moore said.
More said the ceremony was possible through recent changes in the state’s Unclaimed Property Act. That act protects individuals, who may have lost something of value, and Moore said it’s his job to return those items to the rightful owner.
“Previously, this was a very cumbersome process, but now with this new bill, we’re able to go in there and get those safety deposit boxes open once they’ve gone dormant. And then return those items back to the people of the state of West Virginia,” Moore said.
Families traveled from across the nation to attend the ceremony, and reclaim their loved ones’ lost memorabilia.
Jerry Baldwin said he traveled from South Carolina to attend the ceremony.
“It’s quite an honor for not only dad, but the other members of the service who are being remembered,” he said.
Now returned, these families can treasure the symbols of valor for years to come. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wv-state-treasury-returns-long-lost-war-medals/ | 2022-07-15T00:10:26 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wv-state-treasury-returns-long-lost-war-medals/ |
If all goes as planned, Nebraskans could be taking their first pull of a slot machine handle in just over two months.
The Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission on Thursday gave WarHorse Gaming and the Nebraska Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association the go-ahead to start work on a temporary casino at the Lincoln Race Course that will have up to 300 slot machines.
Lynne McNally, executive vice president of the horsemen's group, said work will include laying out and reconfiguring space in the existing simulcast wagering building and doing wiring for gaming equipment.
The two partners are currently operating under a provisional gaming license the commission issued to them last month, after they became the first entity to officially apply for a casino gaming license.
McNally said that if all goes as planned, the temporary casino will open Sept. 19 at Lincoln Race Course, which is located near U.S. 77 at West Denton Road.
WarHorse held a groundbreaking on Tuesday for its Lincoln casino resort, which has a projected price tag of $220 million and will include 1,200 gaming stations, a 196-room hotel, event space, spa and several restaurants.
The company also is planning a groundbreaking July 27 for its Omaha casino at Horsemen's Park.
McNally said those groundbreakings are purely ceremonial at this point because WarHorse can't start any work on its permanent casinos until it receives its gaming license, something that won't happen until next month at the earliest.
While WarHorse's Lincoln casino will be the first one to open on a temporary basis, it won't be the only one likely to open this year.
Fonner Park in Grand Island also is planning a temporary casino with about 200 slot machines that it hopes to open sometime in the fall.
Fonner Park CEO Chris Kotulak told the commission Thursday that work on a temporary casino will likely start shortly after the State Fair ends on Labor Day.
And it's possible that a third temporary casino could open this year.
Robert Livingston, senior vice president of development for Caesar’s Entertainment, told the commission that the company is looking at opening a temporary casino in Columbus, where its subsidiary, Harrah's, is partnering with Columbus Exposition and Racing on a $75 million casino development.
Livingston said the company hopes to have something open by the middle of November.
The temporary casino would be located in the ballroom of Agricultural Park, the location of the current horse racing track in Columbus.
Plans are very tentative at this point, with many details still to be worked out. For example, Livingston said Caesar's, which recently became the fourth entity to formally apply for a casino license, does not yet have a lease signed for the ballroom space.
Another detail still to be worked out is whether the partners can apply for a license for the temporary site at Ag Park and then transfer it to the new permanent casino site near the intersection of U.S. 81 and U.S. 30, the former site of the Columbus Event Center.
Livingston asked for clarification from commissioners on that issue, but they said they could not provide any guidance.
The two other existing horse racing tracks, in South Sioux City and Hastings, have both announced plans for casinos but have yet to submit applications.
WarHorse, which is developing the South Sioux City casino, has previously said it would concentrate on the Lincoln and Omaha casinos first.
Global Gaming Nebraska, a subsidiary of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, hopes to operate a casino in Hastings. It has not given any indication on when it plans to move forward.
The company did, however, inform the commission that it no longer plans to move forward with plans for new racetracks and casinos in North Platte and Gering.
The Legislature passed a bill this spring that puts a moratorium on any new operations until the Racing and Gaming Commission completes studies of the horse racing market, the casino gambling market and the socioeconomic impact of tracks and casinos. The deadline for those studies is Jan. 1, 2025.
Plans call for 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 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.
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 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 City Council on Monday gave a first round of approval to a $24 million plan to turn the Gold's Building in downtown Lincoln into a 110-room hotel. | https://journalstar.com/business/local/temporary-casino-in-lincoln-could-be-open-in-just-over-2-months/article_b5178d8d-bdcd-55c7-8e6e-c37b0cab93ea.html | 2022-07-15T00:18:59 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/business/local/temporary-casino-in-lincoln-could-be-open-in-just-over-2-months/article_b5178d8d-bdcd-55c7-8e6e-c37b0cab93ea.html |
CALDWELL, Idaho —
Multiple fire agencies responded to a second alarm structure fire on Ustick Road in Caldwell Thursday afternoon.
Caldwell Fire Chief Richard Frawley told KTVB the fire was challenging because of how old the structure is, with many layers of building materials and metal roofing.
The homeowner was not present when the fire occurred.
There were no injuries during the incident, however, Canyon County Paramedics worked to keep firefighters hydrated and cooled off due to the heat.
Caldwell, Nampa, Parma, and Middleton Fire departments responded to the incident.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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Juan Alvarado watched his three grandchildren chase one another, squealing with joy as they ran through the colorful splash pad at Elmendorf Lake Park.
Sitting in the shade of a blue-green fabric canopy, Alvarado reminisced about growing up about a mile away. He recalled where the pool used to be and his time spent at a baseball field where the gated, public pool now sits next to the water attraction.
Alvarado, 72, said he would walk to the public pool on summer mornings and swim with his friends.
“We would spend all day there,” he said as he looked at his grandchildren. They ran past a shaded, blue playground to observe the ducks clustered at the edge of Lake Elmendorf.
Across the splash pad, Maurcet Ruiz and his girlfriend, Ediny Salazar, both 22, sat at a metal picnic table. Looking to get out of the house but also beat the heat, they had ventured out Thursday with their children to take a turn at the pool themselves.
“It was hot at home, and the kids were frustrated,” Ruiz said. But here, “it’s pretty fresh.”
Any relief is welcome. A bit is on the way.
“It’ll be a couple of degrees cooler from where it’s been the first half of this week, when it’s been oppressively hot and dangerously hot,” said Andrew Quigley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in New Braunfels.
Quigley said temperatures Friday and Saturday are expected to reach the upper 90s, possibly 100 degrees, with some rain in store for Friday afternoon.
There’s at least a 20 percent chance of isolated showers for Friday forecast for portions of the Hill Country along the Interstate 10 corridor.
The weather service have been issuing daily advisories for Bexar and most of the surrounding counties. Thursday, meteorologists instead issued a bulletin saying, “Not Quite as Hot Friday.” They were not expecting to issue another advisory in the next couple of days, though temperatures will remain above the normal high of 94 degrees for July so far.
Monday set a record high for July 11, at 107 degrees. The previous high for that date was 104 degrees, set in 1917.
By Sunday, triple-digit temperatures are expected to return, and they’ll continue into the week, meteorologists said.
People should drink plenty of water, take frequent breaks in shade or air conditioning, check on elderly neighbors and family, and never leave kids or pets unattended in vehicles, meteorologists said.
According to the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District, from July 3 through Sunday, 44 people were treated for heat exhaustion, the most recorded in a single week this summer.
As rain was expected to visit the northern Hill Country on Thursday, nary a cloud was in sight at Elmendorf Lake Park as children ran and played in the water.
Despite the heat, Linda Almaraz, 61, felt it was time to get outside and brought her nieces and grandson for a swim at the pool, the makeover of which they discovered only recently.
“We’ll be out here for a while,” she said. “Whatever the day brings us.”
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Texas has seen more days with unhealthy levels of smog pollution this year than it has in a decade, state data shows, as vehicle and industrial emissions react with record high temperatures, spiking ozone concentrations.
Since the beginning of the year, Texas air monitors have recorded 43 days as of Tuesday when ozone concentrations were high enough somewhere in the state to be considered unhealthy by the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s double the number of unhealthy ozone days recorded by this time last year, and it’s the most in the period of January to mid-July since 2012, air monitoring data maintained by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality shows.
Ground-level ozone, a component of what’s known as smog, irritates and inflames the lungs, leaving them more susceptible to infections such as the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, and making it harder for people to breathe. Ozone can make lung diseases worse, prompt asthma attacks and cause or aggravate chronic bronchitis. The pollutant is especially concerning when combined with extreme heat, experts said.
“Extreme heat is often thought of in this country as an inconvenience rather than a life-threatening danger, but we know that when organ systems in the body are under stress from extreme heat, they’re extremely vulnerable to other assaults from air pollution,” said Vijay Limaye, an epidemiologist and senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy nonprofit.
State regulators have issued dozens of warnings this summer across the state advising people with asthma, older adults and others at risk of lung complications to stay indoors on days when smog levels are projected to be high. Those who do not have a preexisting condition should take caution as well, Limaye said, since ozone can contribute to the development of asthma and other lung conditions.
Heat makes the smog worse: On sunny, hot and stagnant days, sunlight and high temperatures accelerate reactions between volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides to form ozone. Climate change — which has increased average temperatures in Texas — has made those conditions even more common.
“We’re beginning to detect this climate change signature on ozone pollution in which we have higher summertime ozone levels because it’s hotter outside,” Limaye said.
More than 79 million Americans live in areas that do not meet national air quality health standards for smog, according to the EPA. In Texas, at least 12 million people live in a county that doesn’t meet the 2008 federal ozone standards, EPA data shows.
High levels of pollution can disproportionately harm Black and Latino children, researchers have found. One 2017 Rice University study showed that 13 percent of Black children in Houston have an asthma diagnosis compared with 7 percent of Hispanic children and 4 percent of white children and Asian children.
But while smog levels spike this summer, Texas politicians and regulatory agencies are fighting the federal government, hoping to block stricter regulations on the pollutant.
In March, the EPA proposed a rule that would require about two dozen states, including Texas, to cut ozone pollution from power plants and industrial sources such as natural gas pipelines and chemical manufacturers that contribute to ozone pollution in neighboring states — strengthening a regulation known as the “good neighbor” rule.
“This ‘good neighbor’ plan will better protect the health of Americans across the country,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said in a statement when the rule was proposed. “Air pollution doesn’t stop at the state line.”
Texas politicians and state agencies have urged the EPA to withdraw its proposal. At the end of June, Attorney General Ken Paxton argued in a comment on the EPA’s plan that the federal agency had overstepped its authority and that the EPA ignored how the regulations would affect electric grid reliability in Texas.
“The EPA takes on — however poorly — critical reliability issues and ignores the independent nature of the Texas electric grid,” Paxton wrote, stating that it was “inappropriate” for the EPA’s plan to require states to consider shifting electric generation to renewable or lower-emission sources of electricity as a strategy to reduce ozone.
The TCEQ, the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas have all opposed the federal government’s plan. The agencies argue that the requirements could force power plants to switch sources from natural gas or coal to renewable energy and that such changes are outside of the EPA’s authority and expertise.
The state wants the EPA to instead approve its plan for ozone, which concluded that Texas emissions were not significantly contributing to ozone pollution in neighboring states. The federal agency said earlier this year that it intends to reject Texas’ plan and analysis, finding that Texas emissions did significantly affect other states.
Environmental groups argue that the EPA’s good neighbor plan is necessary because Texas’ emissions are spilling over into neighboring states.
“Texas is a major contributor to not just air pollution in Texas but really all around the country,” said Neil Gormley, a senior attorney at the environmental nonprofit Earthjustice.
He added that he thought the EPA’s proposal appropriately balanced cutting pollution and maintaining electrical reliability because it allows states to choose from a variety of methods to reduce pollution.
The EPA also recently cracked down on the Houston and Dallas regions for violating national ozone standards, seeking to list the metro regions as “severe” violators of 2008 federal ozone pollution standards. A final determination is expected in October. The two major metro regions have struggled to meet federal thresholds in recent years after decades of progress.
The Houston region has had the most days with ozone levels considered unsafe so far this year, according to TCEQ data, followed by the Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin areas.
At the same time, the EPA also has announced that it is considering redesignating parts of the Permian Basin — the West Texas and New Mexico oil field that produces more than 5 million barrels of oil per day — as not meeting federal standards on ozone pollution. Doing so would require Texas to take steps to attain lower levels of ozone in the region.
The EPA began to consider the redesignation after the environmental nonprofit group WildEarth Guardians in 2021 petitioned the EPA to take action. At the end of June, Gov. Greg Abbott sent a letter to President Joe Biden, asking him to stop the EPA from proceeding with the plan.
“This action could result in draconian regulations imposed by the EPA that would directly attack America’s most prolific oil field,” Abbott wrote, arguing that regulations could further increase gasoline prices. He also warned that if Biden didn’t respond by late July, “Texas will take the action needed to protect the production of oil.”
Renae Eze, a spokesperson for Abbott, said in a statement that Biden has not yet responded to the letter from the governor and criticized the president for “feigning concern” about gasoline prices. Eze reiterated that Texas will take “any action necessary to protect (Texas) oil production,” but did not specify further what the governor would do.
In a statement, EPA spokesperson Shayla Powell said that if the agency moves forward, it will send a notification letter to the governor soliciting his input on the redesignation and potential boundaries for the area to be regulated.
Victor Flatt, an environmental law professor at the University of Houston Law Center, said he’s not surprised the EPA is considering designating the Permian Basin as a nonattainment area for ozone given the recorded measurements of other pollutants like methane.
“If they’ve got enough evidence to have to respond (to the WildEarth Guardians petition), my instinct would be that they’re going to do it,” he said.
He said Texas may choose to sue over the Permian Basin designation or the good neighbor ozone plan, which ultimately will slow reductions in smog.
“The EPA never gets to do its work because it’s always going to be challenged politically,” Flatt said. “Some states, like Texas, will sue the EPA no matter what. And it delays things.”
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BANGOR, Maine — Bangor Public Works has begun removing and upgrading the stairs next to the Kenduskeag Stream canal.
Public Works says the stairs were failing due to freezing and thawing, leaving them in poor condition this spring.
While they work on the project a portion of the Hammond Street sidewalk will be blocked off, but access between Hammond and State Streets will still be available on the other side of the canal.
According to Public Works, the steps are used frequently, so these new steps will provide a safer step for anyone who uses them.
“With the Charlie Howard Memorial right here a lot of people are coming down the steps to take a look at the memorial and pay their respects here and we want to make sure they have a safe way in and out of that area,” Aaron Huotari, the director of Bangor Public Works, said.
Bangor Public Works expects the new concrete steps to be finished within the next couple weeks. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/concrete-steps-near-charlie-howard-memorial-to-get-an-upgrade-in-downtown-bangor-community/97-53f3f26a-bfd0-4f23-ac50-bdf060742841 | 2022-07-15T00:23:40 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/concrete-steps-near-charlie-howard-memorial-to-get-an-upgrade-in-downtown-bangor-community/97-53f3f26a-bfd0-4f23-ac50-bdf060742841 |
PORTLAND, Maine — James Kennerly comes as close as one can to having a one-of-kind job without actually achieving that distinction. Instead, he has a two-of-a-kind job.
Kennerly is Portland’s municipal organist, and the only other city in the country with a municipal organ and organist is three thousand miles away in San Diego.
“We’re the two cities in the U.S. that have that combo,” Kennerly says. “Which is pretty awesome.”
On Saturday, July 16, Kennerly will sit down at the magnificent Kotzschmar organ at the Merrill Auditorium in Portland City Hall for a performance called “The Romantics” featuring work from the Romantic era of the 19th century.
“This is not about bringing your girlfriend breakfast in bed or twelve roses,” Kennerly says with his customary enthusiasm. “This is music that expresses the full range of human emotions—the sadness, the joy, the ecstasy, the kind of searching, wandering. It is just the most exciting time, I think, for music and especially for organ music.”
Want to find out more about the concert and the two-of-a-kind musician who’ll be playing? Watch our 207 interview below. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/get-ready-for-a-portland-concert-that-expresses-the-full-range-of-human-emotions-entertainment/97-e205ca95-fd33-4575-bf5e-45ae917e2911 | 2022-07-15T00:24:22 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/get-ready-for-a-portland-concert-that-expresses-the-full-range-of-human-emotions-entertainment/97-e205ca95-fd33-4575-bf5e-45ae917e2911 |
LYME, New Hampshire — Few people in this world have spent more time with bears than Ben Kilham, who has lived among American black bears for decades, devoting his life to researching bear intelligence and rehabilitation efforts.
Up in the hills of Lyme, New Hampshire close to the Vermont border, lies his sanctuary, Kilham Bear Center, for orphaned bears.
"We have in residence a young cub that was hit by a car," Kilham's wife, Deb Kilham, who helps run the center, pointed out as she walked NEWS CENTER Maine's Beth McEvoy through the center's cub barn filled with 33 cubs: the most the center has ever had by early July.
Cubs come to the center for a myriad of reasons, but almost all of them are human-related. Whether it's getting hit by a car, or mother bears being shot in people's yards for disturbing bird feeders or chicken coops, these bear cubs get a second chance through Kilham's work.
Bear cubs are born in January or February, but come to the center all year long. For most, it's because they lose their mother, and without her protection and know-how, cubs simply can't survive on their own.
"A lot of people are just absolutely fearful of bears and there's just no reason at all," Ben Kilham said.
Through his years of behavioral research as a wildlife biologist, he has written two books documenting that bears signal all their behaviors and are more afraid of humans than we are of them.
This is evident when 30 bear cubs scurry up a wooden beam in their pen when their door is opened.
"We control bears because they are so driven by food. Food to a bear is like money to a person," Ben Kilham said. "We wouldn't scatter hundred-dollar bills all over our lawn and expect nobody to pick them up. And that is what we are doing with food attractants and bears."
Here at the Kilham Bear Center, orphaned cubs get food, protection, and an education. Once thought to be a solitary animals, Kilham's decades-long research has shown bears are not only social by choice, but by necessity.
"They share our social behavior. They're able to make friends with strangers and cooperate with them," Ben Kilham said.
Bears even show other bears food sources, and once these cubs are released at 18 months, they will find other bears to interact with and learn the ropes of the wild from.
Ben Kilham's nephew, Ethan Kilham, is the cubs' primary caregiver while they are at the center. To the cubs who came in at a very young age, and who don't remember their own mothers, Ethan serves as a surrogate who leads the bears on walks in the woods.
"They are like any child. They are curious and they have an innocence where they are looking at the world through new eyes. It's always refreshing to go into the woods or walk with them because they are doing it with such pleasure and engagement that it's contagious," Ethan Kilham said.
Ethan takes incredible videos of his cubs and posts them on Instagram.
When the cubs are ready, they will graduate from the cub barn to an 11-acre enclosure rich with natural foods that sits on a hill above the center. Protected from danger and with supplemental food, the cubs grow until they are 18-months-old and ready to be released back into the wild.
On the day in early July when NEWS CENTER Maine's Beth McEvoy visited the center, staff and wildlife biologists from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Dept., along with members of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, were on hand to help with the release of what was supposed to be five bears.
It turns out, catching bears is a tricky business.
Crew members find bears in the enclosure on ATVs and shoot them with darts. While the anesthesia is taking hold, bears can travel far in the enclosure, forcing the crew to track them. Once they find the bears, they are taken to the center where a veterinarian is on hand to carefully watch their response to the drug. The sedation lasts for several hours, in which time the bears are transferred to cages on the back of trailers, and by the evening, they will be released into the wild.
"Bears signal everything they're going to do or are thinking about — they don't attack anybody or anything without a motive and reason," Ben Kilham explained.
Of the bears rehabilitated at the Kilham Center, some are taken in the first hunting season but the number that are killed is on-par with the wild population.
"We get bears in with our ear tags on them that are 10 years old that have had multiple litters of cubs. Some of them are very near the release area and some of them are 100 or 150 miles away," Ben Kilham explained.
Ben Kilham has helped save hundreds of bears over the years. He has written two books and been in several nature documentaries where he speaks about his 26-year-long relationship with one of his first cubs, Squirty.
Squirty was one of the first cubs that Kilham rehabilitated and she used to follow him around.
Every night at the same time, from spring until fall, Kilham still drives to his local study site and puts out a little food in order to observe bears. There, he still regularly sees Squirty, where he can change her collar without sedation simply by bribing her with a few cookies.
The Kilham Bear Center is not open to the public, but they do have an amazing Instagram page where you can find lots of videos of the cubs.
Grants and donations keep the center afloat. Kilham hopes his life's work will give people new insights into black bears and make them realize, in some ways, they're more like us than you'd think.
"[They are] the most important animal in understanding our past lives among us and we can learn a lot just by being around black bears — being able to be with them and understand them and not be fearful of them," Ben Kilham said. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/kilham-bear-center-rehabilitates-orphaned-bears-and-sets-them-free-in-new-england-maine/97-c9dcf4ea-d68c-4ed8-aacd-720e70044a11 | 2022-07-15T00:24:28 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/kilham-bear-center-rehabilitates-orphaned-bears-and-sets-them-free-in-new-england-maine/97-c9dcf4ea-d68c-4ed8-aacd-720e70044a11 |
BANGOR, Maine — For the month of July, the Challenger Learning Center in Bangor is accepting bottle donations at Damon’s Redemption.
"I live in Bangor and my kids grew up going to some of the programs that the Challenger Center has. We happened to have extra cans and bottles in the garage and I thought, 'I can donate my cans and give them a little bit of money,'" Peggy McKee said, one of many that stopped by to donate her bottles and cans.
Today, staff and volunteers from the Challenger Learning Center were at Damon's Redemption collecting and depositing bottles for those who were donating.
"We are your classic, small nonprofit. We are just a small team, but that serves a lot of students, as many as we can. So our community, whether it's businesses [or] individuals, have really stepped up to help donate," Kirsten Hibbard, the executive director at the Challenger Learning Center, said.
The event was called "Bottle Bonanza," and to get into the spirit of the event, folks from the Challenger Center decorated a self-serve machine with space-themed cutouts.
"I think it is incredibly important to support them, to get the word out that they exist," Judy Radigan, a Lewiston High School mathematics teacher who drove all the way to Bangor to volunteer her time at the bottle drive, said.
Though the "Bottle Bonanza" was only happening on Thursday, anyone wishing to make a donation can still brings bottles to Damon's Redemption to make a donation to the Challenger Learning Center until the end of July. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bottle-drive-helps-fund-kid-space-programs-community/97-bc3882d8-9b13-4f3f-bf58-54aa461681ae | 2022-07-15T00:24:34 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/bottle-drive-helps-fund-kid-space-programs-community/97-bc3882d8-9b13-4f3f-bf58-54aa461681ae |
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — The Old-Growth Forest Network (OGFN) inducted a new area on Thursday.
Beartown Woods Natural Area, located in Michaux State Park in Greene Township, Franklin County, was inducted into the network at 10 a.m. on July 14.
"Pennsylvania is leading the nation in the quantity of old-growth forests dedicated to the Network. With 23 now in the national old-growth network, Pennsylvania shows its commitment to the preservation of old-growth forest within its boundaries," said Brian Kane, the Mid-Atlantic Director of the Old-Growth Forest Network.
"The DCNR has shown remarkable support of the protection of these valuable national resources," said Kane.
The Beartown Woods Natural Area is 27 acres within the 85,500-acre Michaux State Forest and is a relic of northern hardware forest more typical of northern Pennsylvania and New England.
Species found in this forest include sugar maple, yellow birch, American beech, and eastern hemlock. The woods are located on the lands of the Susquehannock peoples, who inhabited the region near the Susquehanna River for several centuries.
The Michaux State Forest is named for international French botanist Andre Michaux, who studied the flora of North America from 1785-1796 and published his findings.
The OGFN strives to connect people with nature by creating a national network of protected, mature, publicly accessible, native forests. OGFN intends to preserve at least one forest in every county in the U.S. that can sustain a forest.
Founded in 2012 by Dr. Joan Maloof, the network currently has over 168 forests in the Network across 28 states. OGFN also recognizes exceptional forest advocates, educates about the extraordinary ecological benefits of old-growth forests, and speaks out regarding immediate threats to specific ancient forests.
Interested volunteers are welcome to contact OGFN here. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/beartown-woods-natural-area-franlkin-county-inducted-old-growth-forest-network/521-3efb8dec-68f7-40cb-83e5-04e7f221d303 | 2022-07-15T00:24:42 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/beartown-woods-natural-area-franlkin-county-inducted-old-growth-forest-network/521-3efb8dec-68f7-40cb-83e5-04e7f221d303 |
Shreveport man sentenced to 70 years for crossbow killing
A Shreveport man convicted in the 2020 crossbow killing in Broadmoor was sentenced in Caddo Parish District Court Thursday.
Daniel Ralph Haire, 26, will serve 70 years after being convicted in May for the February 29, death of Rodney Christopher Nordby, 33.
Nordby's body was found wrapped in a bed comforter at Milton James "Hookie" Cameron Memorial Park, at the end of Wallace Lake Road in south Caddo Parish. He had suffered a penetrating, fatal wound from a broad-head crossbow arrow.
A passerby found Nordby's body and called 911.
More:Louisiana man convicted in 2020 crossbow murder in Caddo Parish
Through the investigation, officers found bedding that matched evidence linking Haire to the killing in his home in the 100 block of Swedes Avenue. He was arrested following a traffic stop, and a crossbow and a rifle were found in the vehicle he was driving.
Haire was recorded stating that he invited Nordby to his home after an argument and shot him with a crossbow. He then admitted to wrapping the Nordby in a comforter, placing it in a trashcan.
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/shreveport-man-sentenced-70-years-crossbow-killing/10062681002/ | 2022-07-15T00:25:08 | 0 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/14/shreveport-man-sentenced-70-years-crossbow-killing/10062681002/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — A total of five counties in the Central Texas area are now at "high" risk of COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC lists Mason Gillespie, Blanco, Hays and Caldwell in the "high" risk category. Meanwhile, Travis and Williamson counties, along with others, remain in the "medium" risk level.
Blanco County was placed in the high-risk category last week and has not come down from it. Also last week, Fayette County was the last county in the KVUE viewing area that was in the "low" risk category. It was since upgraded to "medium."
The CDC COVID-19 Community Levels are updated weekly on Thursday according to virus metrics. Metrics including hospital admissions, hospital beds in use and the total number of new COVID-19 cases in an area are used to determine the level.
Here is what the CDC recommends at each Community Level:
Low
- Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines
- Get tested if you have symptoms
Medium
- If you are at high risk for severe illness, talk to your healthcare provider about whether you need to wear a mask and take other precautions
- Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines
- Get tested if you have symptoms
High
- Wear a mask indoors in public
- Stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines
- Get tested if you have symptoms
- Additional precautions may be needed for people at high risk for severe illness
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WAVERLY — There’s been one constant people have come to expect during Waverly Heritage Days.
The free annual event takes over Memorial Park and the fairgrounds for a weekend during the summer and has always brought great music.
The tunes have reached a certain level of familiarly and are representative of the 35th annual festival’s theme “The Beat Goes On” for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
“We typically have nine bands, and it just seemed like a good fit. We rarely lose anyone and it demonstrates that the beat continues to go on,” said Darwin Rittgers, co-chair of the Heritage Days committee.
The rock and roll band Vic Ferrari is in the midst of its retirement tour and has performed there 19 of the last 21 years.
“We’re privileged to have them here for a final time,” Rittgers said.
And the variety ensemble Boogie and the YoYoz along with the rock group Stackhouse have become regulars and will again make appearances.
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This year the festival will also welcome two newcomers, the University of Northern Iowa New Horizon’s Band and Meskwaki Brown Otter Singers.
“It’s the first time the Brown Otter Singers have come up here from Tama County, and they’ll be here in their native clothing, singing and doing a drum line routine,” Rittgers said. “They attend very few events, so this is extremely rare.”
Many attendees are appreciative of the wide array of music and food, the parades that each year attract hundreds, and the family-friendly activities in Overman Park.
A time to celebrate
To join the fun, most of which is this Friday and Saturday, type “515 Fifth Avenue Southwest, Waverly, Iowa 50677” into the GPS.
It’s likely a person will find something to keep them busy other than music.
The main festivities get underway at 4 p.m. Friday with the car show, inflatables, and food and craft vendors.
A total of 25 craft vendors will accompany 10 different food stands, about double what’s usually offered. There will be a range of offerings like traditional barbeque, walking tacos, Brazilian food, mini donuts, shaved ice and ice cream.
“There should be a greater variety,” said Rittgers, “a taste for everybody.”
He noted an “Art and Wine” event will attract those interested in sipping and painting at 5 p.m. Friday. The Bremer County Pork Producers also will be giving away 100 free burgers that evening.
After a soft opening, Waterloo’s latest attraction is up and running and ready to handle the crowds, owners say.
The “Show and Shine Car Show” has attracted some 80 to 90 vehicles this year, including some classic pickup trucks and motorcycles.
Later Friday at 7 p.m. is when the “Hall of Fame” worthy-community partners – Waverly Walmart, Rotary Club and the Municipal Airport – will be recognized.
The parade is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. Saturday. Anyone is allowed to walk, or bring a giant float, classic car or even a horse. No registration is required. Line up begins at 8:30 a.m.
The dozens of participants will meet at Waverly Sales Co. Barn (2212 Fifth Ave. Northwest), travel along Fifth Avenue Northwest and then head down Sixth Street Southwest to Memorial Park.
Prizes will be awarded by First National Bank.
Fireworks will be 12 hours later that same day, beginning around 10 p.m.
And of course, there’s so much in between.
“Heritage Days brings a certain camaraderie, and it’s become a destination festival for a majority of Iowa,” Rittgers said. “We draw people from so many places, which shows that we’ve come a long way since our first one when it was just one evening.”
He said the event attracts 15,000 people over the three days, from 65 Iowa counties and 11 states. And it continues to host more class and family reunions.
“It’s just a time to celebrate,” he said.
Although the event is approaching 40 years old, Rittgers highlighted some new and traditional activities to expect.
Hwy 218 Cornhole will host a professionally-run community bags tournament for anyone and everyone to sign up to participate at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Sunday morning, from 7 a.m. until noon, will be the Lions Club Pancake Breakfast at the Waverly Municipal Airport.
Coinciding will be the “fly-in” event where attendees will be able to see pilots land and take off in their small planes.
Rides also will be offered for a small fee.
More information about Waverly Heritage Days can be found online at waverlyheritagedays.com. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/a-time-to-celebrate-heritage-days-takes-over-waverly-this-weekend/article_0d641f0e-5d54-5f92-93f7-ef85b74854d9.html | 2022-07-15T00:36:16 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/a-time-to-celebrate-heritage-days-takes-over-waverly-this-weekend/article_0d641f0e-5d54-5f92-93f7-ef85b74854d9.html |
WATERLOO -- Agencies providing emergency food and shelter programs in Black Hawk County can apply for federal funds to assist their efforts.
The funding is provided through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program. The county has been awarded $42,409 through its annual program and $131,075 through the American Rescue Plan Act.
A local board will determine on Aug. 10 how the funds, appropriated by Congress, are to be distributed among emergency food and shelter program run by local service agencies in the area.
Eligible local service agencies must be private voluntary nonprofits or units of government eligible to receive federal funds; have an accounting system and practice non-discrimination; have demonstrated the capability to deliver emergency food or shelter programs; and have a voluntary board if they are a private voluntary organization.
Agencies interested in applying for EFSP funds should contact Sheri Alldredge, Iowa Northland Regional Council of Governments, at (319) 235-0311 for an application.
Cedar Falls Police, Cedar Falls Fire Rescue, and MercyOne Paramedics were called to the 2900 block of Apollo Street for the reported attack, and transported the person to a local hospital.
Before any vote is taken at the 5:30 p.m. meeting inside the Community Center, 528 Main St., Superintendent Andy Pattee and Tim Turnis with Invision Architecture will present a project update.
Five police cars were on the scene responding to a call from the 900 block of Martin Road, which ended up being for a 'non-life threatening cut to an extremity,' an official said. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/emergency-food-and-shelter-funding-applications-accepted/article_6f1ce7f5-8825-5343-8c94-08dfc0ca40ac.html | 2022-07-15T00:36:22 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/emergency-food-and-shelter-funding-applications-accepted/article_6f1ce7f5-8825-5343-8c94-08dfc0ca40ac.html |
BOISE — The Idaho Republican Party will consider 31 resolutions at its three-day convention, which started Thursday in Twin Falls, including one already adopted by Texas Republicans that President Joe Biden isn’t the legitimate leader of the country.
The Idaho resolution in the deeply conservative state that Donald Trump won with 64% of the vote in 2020 is nearly identical to the Texas resolution that was passed last month, stating: “We reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election; and we hold that acting president Joseph Robinette Biden was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
Both the Idaho and Texas resolutions contend that secretaries of state circumvented their state legislatures, even though both states have Republican secretaries of state.
Jim Jones, a former chief justice of the Idaho Supreme Court as well as a former Republican state attorney general, called the resolution rejecting the 2020 presidential election results “asinine,” noting multiple courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, rejected attempts to overturn the election.
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“(The Idaho Republican Party) has gotten so caught up in conspiracy theories, meaningless culture war issues, that they have quit being able to function as a meaningful political party,” Jones said. “We have got to get away from this authoritarian streak that has infected the Idaho Republican Party, as well as a good part of the nation, because it’s absolutely tearing our country apart.”
Idaho's resolution goes further than the Texas resolution in that it falsely states that audits found the vote count for the 2020 election to be fraudulent in Wisconsin and Arizona.
In Wisconsin, election fraud claims have been dismissed by courts or rejected by the state's bipartisan election commission.
In Arizona, where Republicans submitted a slate of fake electors, Trump supporters hired inexperienced consultants to run “a forensic audit” that was discredited. FBI agents looking into events surrounding Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss recently subpoenaed the Republican Arizona Senate president, who orchestrated a discredited review of the election.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, a Trump ally, even accused Idaho of allowing election fraud. But the Idaho secretary of state said a partial recount of ballots validated the accuracy of the 2020 results.
Jaclyn Kettler, a Boise State University political scientist, said revisiting the 2020 election by different state or local Republican party officials “seems to be an issue that is commanding a lot of attention still in the Republican party. It may continue to cast doubt on our elections and increase fears of voters that their votes are not being counted.”
Among the other proposed Idaho Republican Party resolutions this week is one calling for not recognizing “imaginary identities,” a resolution aimed at transgender people.
Multiple resolutions involve voting, several focusing on people not deemed sufficiently Republican voting in Republican primaries.
One resolution, titled “A Resolution to Protect Rural Representation,” calls for changing Idaho’s system for statewide elections into a national-style electoral college, a process that sometimes leads to candidates winning without receiving the most votes.
Trump, for example, in 2016 defeated Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton by winning more electoral college votes despite losing the popular vote by about 3 million votes. The proposed system for Idaho would tally electoral votes from counties. Such a change in Idaho would require changing the state’s constitution.
Another proposed resolution calls for privatizing Idaho Public Television, a long-time target of far-right Republicans.
The Idaho Republican Party will also elect officers during the gathering. First-term incumbent Chair Tom Luna, who served two terms as the state's schools chief, is being challenged by Republican Rep. Dorothy Moon. Moon ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary in May for secretary of state, contending the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent and Biden wasn't president.
Mainstream Idaho Republicans, who would be considered far-right in many states, have dominated the state for three decades. But they have become targets of far-right members of their own party and labeled as RINOs — Republican in name only.
The May primary was a mixed bag for the two groups, and the power struggle will likely continue at the convention.
In the primary, first-term incumbent Gov. Brad Little crushed Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, and most other statewide races went to more mainstream Idaho Republicans. But Raul Labrador, a favorite of the Tea Party during his eight years in the U.S. House, defeated five-term Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, well known for a strategy of simply calling balls and strikes that oftentimes irked his Republican colleagues when he gave them legal advice they didn't want to hear.
Several far-right lawmakers in the House lost their seats, but the Senate turned decidedly more conservative with mainstream losses that included the co-chairman of the legislature's powerful budget-setting committee.
Mychel Matthews is the managing editor at the Times-News. Contact Matthews at mmatthews@magicvalley.com or 208-735-3233. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/idaho-republicans-poised-to-reject-2020-election-results/article_52f71872-03cf-11ed-9351-3fdcda17f501.html | 2022-07-15T00:43:45 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/idaho-republicans-poised-to-reject-2020-election-results/article_52f71872-03cf-11ed-9351-3fdcda17f501.html |
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Iowa — Jeremy Goodale's attorneys are asking a judge to grant a change of venue for the teenager accused of killing Fairfield Spanish teacher Nohema Graber last November.
In a change of venue request, his attorneys claim he can't get a fair trial in Jefferson County. They wrote that's due to extensive media coverage and publicity.
To get the trial moved, the court must set a hearing and eventually grant Goodale's request.
Willard Miller, the second teenager accused in Graber's death, also asked the court for a change of venue. A judge granted that request in May. Miller's trial is now set to take place in Pottawattamie County.
Goodale and Miller are each facing a first-degree murder charge. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/jeremy-goodale-change-of-venue-murder-trial/524-fb0a4ebf-86ee-4b44-8917-77b2dc9f6931 | 2022-07-15T00:53:49 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/jeremy-goodale-change-of-venue-murder-trial/524-fb0a4ebf-86ee-4b44-8917-77b2dc9f6931 |
DES MOINES, Iowa — The suspect in the April 28 hit-and-run that killed a 14-year-old East High student changed her plea to guilty on July 14 to get a reduced charge.
38-year-old Terra Flipping was arrested the same day as the accident. According to court documents, Flipping pleaded not guilty on June 9, 2022.
Flipping will face a minimum sentence of probation and slightly over $1,000 fine. The maximum sentence is five years with a fine not exceeding $10,000.
"The news of the change in the guilty plea come during a day that I was really miss Ema. There is not a day that I don't think about that day. I am pleased that Terra changed her plea, like this, we as a family will not have to sit through the trail," Anna Campos, Ema's mother, told Local 5 via Facebook Messenger.
In response to the hit-and-run that killed Ema Cardenas, Des Moines City Council voted in June to allow school speed zones to include areas where kids are frequently present, such as stadiums and practice fields.
The next hearing for the case will be July 21 at 10:30 a.m. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/woman-pleads-guilty-for-hit-and-run-that-killed-ema-cardenas/524-b0ed18a4-57eb-4237-83da-3af4819e8008 | 2022-07-15T00:53:55 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/woman-pleads-guilty-for-hit-and-run-that-killed-ema-cardenas/524-b0ed18a4-57eb-4237-83da-3af4819e8008 |
Ann Rydalch goes by many titles: Legislator, Republican, historian, educator, journalist and grandmother, among many others. For Rydalch, two of the most important titles are mother and involved citizen.
“I (took an active role) even with my six kids,” Rydalch said. “I took them with me because I wanted them to serve and I wanted them to realize it’s important to serve.”
Rydalch, 86, is taking a less active role with the Idaho GOP Region 7 party after Sen. Doug Ricks was named the party’s chairman in June, but she has a long history of involvement with Idaho politics and service in eastern Idaho.
Perhaps the most notable moment of Rydalch’s political career began in 1983, when she was appointed to the Idaho Senate for then District 31. She would serve in the Senate until 1990 and then she was elected to the Idaho House of Representatives from 2002 to 2006.
Early on, it was people like Steve Symms and James McClure, both longtime state and national politicians in the House and Senate, who inspired Rydalch to get involved with the Republican Party, she said.
At the time of McClure’s and Symms’ early service, Rydalch said she hadn’t chosen a political party to identify with. After she looked at both the Democrat and Republican platforms and wanting to help the campaigns of people like McClure and Symms, she decided to register as a Republican.
In 1978, she was elected chairwoman for Region 7 of the Idaho GOP and served that role until 1981. Four decades later, she would once again serve that role from 2016 to 2022. She said she has great confidence in Ricks to lead Region 7 Republicans and was glad to see him elected.
Much of Rydalch’s political career was heavily focused on energy usage and supporting Idaho National Laboratory, having served as vice chairwoman of the Energy Committee in the National Conference of State Legislatures and leading the Energy, Natural Resource & Agriculture Policy Committee for the National Foundation for Women Legislators for seven years, among other leadership roles.
Recently, Rydalch has been critical of the divisiveness in Idaho’s Republican Party, mostly with county Republican committees.
“I think we have to be careful and not have any county Republican Party overshadow the state Republican platform,” Rydalch said. “Many individuals in counties are more (representative) of the John Birch Society or the Libertarian philosophy.”
But it wasn’t just the political scene that Rydalch was heavily involved with. She had a three-decade career working at INL, starting in 1979 as a procurement analyst and small/disadvantaged business specialist and retiring in 2010. She is currently the chairwoman of the Social Committee & Energy Resource Advocate for the INL Retired Employees.
Rydalch said she’s enjoyed her time serving as the president of the Bonneville County Heritage Association, a volunteer group that works to promote and preserve the history of the county. RoseMarie Doxey, a longtime friend of Rydalch and vice president of the heritage association, said she's been heavily inspired by Rydalch throughout her life.
Doxey said she first met Rydalch when Doxey was a student at Bonneville High School and Rydalch taught her shorthand. Rydalch taught business and implemented beginning and advanced broadcast journalism at the school from 1973 to 1976.
Doxey and Rydalch would both end up working at INL and the two helped organize events for the Bonneville County centennial in 2011. Rydalch asked Doxey to be on the board of the heritage association and Doxey said she can’t speak highly enough of Rydalch’s efforts to make her community a better place.
“The love for the state and the people of Idaho — I think that’s just a God-given talent that she has,” Doxey said.
In 2019, Rydalch was awarded Ammon Citizen of the Year, and she helped transition Eastern Idaho Technical College to College of Eastern Idaho after being appointed to Idaho Falls Mayor Rebecca Casper’s Community College Study Panel in 2015.
“(Rydalch) is a relentless force for the community and our region,” said Ammon Mayor Sean Coletti. “She cares deeply about the community and has always been involved in city, regional and county matters.”
Coletti said Rydalch often still contacts him to talk about issues in Ammon and he admires that she always wants to be a part of solutions. He said she’s been a great advocate for strong conservative principles in the state.
“She’s just a lifelong public servant,” Coletti said.
Rydalch said she’s pleased to see where Idaho is going with the growth that the state and many counties are experiencing.
“I look at the changes that our leaders are making and I think it’s a good thing,” Rydalch said. “Now is it always perfect? No, absolutely not. But change comes as needed from the constituents talking to their legislators … and that’s vital.”
Rydalch’s heavy involvement and willingness to be a part of the community is something people should learn from, Doxey said. She hopes people get involved for matters they feel strongly about and follow Rydalch’s example.
“Don’t just sit there. Volunteer, take action and do something,” Doxey said. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/a-lifelong-public-servant-looking-back-at-former-sen-ann-rydalch-s-career/article_3efc7b04-c885-5831-8ca3-12e8076c70e4.html | 2022-07-15T00:57:48 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/a-lifelong-public-servant-looking-back-at-former-sen-ann-rydalch-s-career/article_3efc7b04-c885-5831-8ca3-12e8076c70e4.html |
A file photo of the regional behavioral health community crisis center located in Pocatello. Dr. Martha Tanner had a large influence on the creation of crisis centers in Idaho and leaves behind a legacy of mental health advocacy after her death.
Eastern Idaho Public Health’s Martha Tanner Memorial Grant is now accepting applications, honoring the memory of the late doctor’s work in advocating for mental health resources in eastern Idaho.
Tanner died on Feb. 20, 2021, and the Region 7 Behavioral Health Board created a memorial grant of $1,000 to honor her legacy in the summer of 2021.
“As a regional board, we felt it was important to immortalize (Tanner’s) legacy of what’s changed in our community in part because of her efforts,” said Bonneville County Sheriff Samuel Hulse, who sits as the chairman of the Region 7 Behavioral Health Board.
Hulse said he initially met Tanner back when he was asked to serve as a law enforcement representative on the region's mental health board when he was a lieutenant at the Bonneville County Sherrif’s Office.
Tanner was a founding member of the Region 7 Crisis Intervention Team Steering Committee that brought the Memphis Model of First Responder crisis intervention team training to eastern Idaho in 2009, according to an Eastern Idaho Public Health news release.
She also introduced community crisis centers to the region by taking a group of people to observe the Crisis Center in Billings, Mont. Idaho would go on to create seven crisis centers in the state.
“These projects exist in Idaho to a large degree thanks to (Tanner and her husband John’s) efforts,” Hulse said.
Tanner was a member of the National Alliance on Mental Illness for many years as well as an accomplished infectious disease control physician who practiced medicine in eastern Idaho from 1979 until 2004, the Eastern Idaho Public Health news release said.
The grant is awarded yearly to an organization in Region 7 with a focus in the crisis intervention training and resources to assist in mental illness treatment and recovery.
The application deadline for the grant is Aug. 31 The grant recipient will be chosen during the September Region 7 Health Board meeting held virtually on Sept. 16. The Martha Tanner Memorial Grant application, with information on how to apply and submit, can be accessed at https://eiph.idaho.gov/RBHB/bhbboarddocs.html. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/application-period-open-for-martha-tanner-memorial-grant-awarded-for-mental-health-advocacy/article_fd9c88d6-cd55-5728-a3d0-b5e3edaacf07.html | 2022-07-15T00:57:54 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/application-period-open-for-martha-tanner-memorial-grant-awarded-for-mental-health-advocacy/article_fd9c88d6-cd55-5728-a3d0-b5e3edaacf07.html |
RADFORD, Va. – Ron Peterson Jr. is a best-selling author known for his true crime books, and one of them is about to hit the big screen.
Peterson’s book “Under the Trestle,” takes a deep dive into the Gina Renee Hall murder case, grabbing the attention of director Scott Mactavish soon after it came out.
“When I learned of the book, from my mom, who worked at Radford University, I read it right away, and then I purchased the rights from Rn, because it needed to be made into a movie,” said Mactavish.
Peterson was recently visiting Radford University to work on the upcoming documentary film based on his book, which recounts the death of Radford freshman Gina Renee Hall and the murder conviction of Virginia Tech football player Stephen Epperly.
“Under the Trestle, which covered a local case here: the 1980 disappearance of Radford University student Gina Hall and Virginia’s first no-body murder trial,” said Peterson.
Despite the crime happening more than 40 years ago, the story still resonates with many in the area.
“There were a lot of people that cared deeply about her, she was the kind of daughter, the kind of friend that anyone would like,” Peterson said. “And then also the killer, Stephen Epperly, a lot of people think that that guy was the devil, some of the stories that we’ve heard and that I’ve heard writing the book about him.
Peterson attended Radford University and the story hits home with Mactavish as well.
“I built my career in New York City. But I was born and raised in Pulaski. I was a freshman in high school when Gina Renee Hall was murdered by Stephen Epperly,” Mactavish said.
Now they’re teaming up to retell her story with the people who were closest to the case and the locations where it all took place, not just under the trestle. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/documentary-film-about-radford-students-murder-case-in-1980-is-in-the-works/ | 2022-07-15T01:00:01 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/14/documentary-film-about-radford-students-murder-case-in-1980-is-in-the-works/ |
GRUNDY, Va. – As the Buchanan County community reels from the devastation, surrounding nonprofits are gearing up to help.
Gleaning for the World is packing 2,500 pounds of dry dog food to deliver to a Walmart in Wytheville on Friday at 11 a.m.
God’s Pit Crew is packing a truck full of Gatorade, water, food and cleaning supplies to Twin Valley Elementary School.
Chris Chiles, God’s Pit Crew Immediate Disaster Response Coordinator, said they plan to send teams to work on restoration on Monday.
“Cut out all the drywall and all that stuff, we’re going to start on Monday,” Chiles said. “Right now, we are committed for a week and then we will see what’s the need after that.”
Chiles said if anyone wants to help they can donate money to pay for the gas to haul the supplies and resources. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/local-nonprofits-send-help-to-buchanan-county-after-floods/ | 2022-07-15T01:00:07 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/local-nonprofits-send-help-to-buchanan-county-after-floods/ |
MONETA, Va. – Hundreds of pirates will swarm Smith Mountain Lake for Pirate Days, but a new law is warning the visiting buccaneers to not bring water balloons.
Water balloons aren’t the treasure you want to leave behind as you could end up facing fines and punishment.
“I agree with the fact that we don’t want the trash in the lake,” Crazy Horse Marina Manager Chris Bechtler said. “It’s sad that we have to have a law telling people not to do that.”
The regulation says that individuals who release a balloon and are 16 and older will have to pay a penalty of $25 per balloon released. And If the person is under 16, the adult will be liable for the penalty.
The rule was put in place to keep debris out of natural resources and keep wildlife safe, a protection the manager of the marina, Chris Bechtler, takes seriously.
“When we started doing this about 11 years ago when we first got here to Crazy Horse,” said Bechtler. “My wife suggested the idea that we use the pump.”
P J Nagel, Capt. Party store owner, said they have discouraged water balloons as ammunition for years, but this is a new hurdle.
“This is the first year that it’s going to be enforced and we’ve been trying to do due diligence by telling everybody here at the marina,” Nagel said.
This year, Nagel said the store is selling Buccaneer Blasters.
“They’ll throw water a good 15 to 20 feet,” Nagel said.
But water cannons and squirt guns will also still do the trick. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/new-law-prevents-water-balloons-at-smith-mountain-lake-pirate-days/ | 2022-07-15T01:00:13 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/new-law-prevents-water-balloons-at-smith-mountain-lake-pirate-days/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Six parks in Roanoke City have received new equipment for its parks and playgrounds.
Early this year, Roanoke Parks and Recreation received $2.3 million to address a list of projects and improvements in the area’s parks.
Thanks to the funds, the department has made playground updates to West End, Raleigh Court, Garden City, River’s Edge, Staunton, and Washington. The project also included court resurfacing, paving projects, and more.
“Maintenance work on the greenways, some paving projects to make some of our sites accessible with ADA parking spaces,” said Katie Slusher, Planning and Development Coordinator for Roanoke City Parks and Recreation.
Four more parks will be getting new equipment and updates later on: Belmont Park, Fishburn Park, Strauss Park, and East Gate Park.
Roanoke Parks and Recreation received an additional $2 million for the current fiscal year that started on July 1. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/six-roanoke-parks-introduce-new-playgrounds-four-more-coming-soon/ | 2022-07-15T01:00:20 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/six-roanoke-parks-introduce-new-playgrounds-four-more-coming-soon/ |
LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – “Dreamer Won” — that’s what you’ll feel aboard this vessel of the same name when you’re cruising along the Harris Chain of Lakes with “Floatin’ on a Boat Charters.”
This Orlando boat service is making waves with its promise of food and fun on the water for family, friends and even pets.
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Floatin’ on a Boat Charters offers a variety of private, catered tours on its 42-foot, Coast Guard-certified pontoon boat, including scenic shoreline, catered boatin’ brunch, all-inclusive sunset, picnic on a boat, private sunset and sunset lovers’ cruises.
Prices for private tours range from $32 to $300 per person, depending on the package your party selects. The company also offers discounts for veterans and seniors, according to its website.
Floatin’ on a Boat Charters is senior, LGBTQ, children and pet friendly, offering experiences for every occasion from baby shower to birthday party, the company said.
The charter service picks up and drops off your party at Hurricane Dockside Grill, 3351 W Burleigh Blvd., in Tavares.
For more information on how to book a boat tour, click here.
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SHAMOKIN DAM, Pa. — A man is behind bars after leading police on a high-speed chase through Shamokin Dam.
Police say they tried to pull over Edward Ozga for a traffic violation Thursday morning when he took off.
Officers caught up with Ozga after he entered a dead end.
That's when police found a 10-month-old in the backseat.
Ozga's facing child endangerment and related offenses.
See news happening? Text our Newstip Hotline. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/northumberland-county/police-man-had-child-in-car-during-chase-edward-ozga-shamokin-dam/523-a6ed47b2-d26a-4cdc-b4d4-35a27ba68516 | 2022-07-15T01:23:39 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/northumberland-county/police-man-had-child-in-car-during-chase-edward-ozga-shamokin-dam/523-a6ed47b2-d26a-4cdc-b4d4-35a27ba68516 |
HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas — Harker Heights Police are warning residents about online hackers who send emails posing as law enforcement.
Recently a Harker Heights resident received an email from a fake Traffic Enforcement (traffic.enforcement@gov-services.com) accusing them of speeding, a citation with a link requesting funds to be paid.
The email also stated that if the citizen did not pay by a certain date points would be added to their license and a late penalty of 10% will be added to the original amount for each day late.
Police say that current statutes in Texas prohibit citations from video monitored speed enforcement devices.
If anyone else experiences this type of scam or has had a similar encounter, police are urging you to please contact the Harker Heights Police Department at 254-953-5440.
More on KCENtv.com: | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/harker-heights-police-warn-of-internet-scammers-posing-as-police/500-6b44ec44-deaa-4ded-81e1-d4886effc8f9 | 2022-07-15T01:26:51 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/harker-heights-police-warn-of-internet-scammers-posing-as-police/500-6b44ec44-deaa-4ded-81e1-d4886effc8f9 |
For two days, under a hot Texas sun, Fort Worth artist Juan Velazquez and his team transformed a wall in Uvalde into a colorful memorial.
"One of the kids had particularly caught my attention because she was an artist," Velazquez said. "An attack on one artist is an attack on all artists."
Velazquez and his team painted a mural of 10-year-old Alithia Ramirez, one of 21 people killed in the Uvalde school shooting.
"There's so many school shootings now that every time you hear one, I'm literally like just hoping it not my daughter's school," Velazquez said.
Velazquez is one of many artists donating time to do murals in Uvalde of all 21 victims.
"If all these artists from Texas are coming together, might as well have Fort Worth lead the way to do the first one and show our appreciation, and I guess, love, for that community," Velazquez said.
Velazquez said he wants his art to help to keep the focus on Uvalde and those who were lost,
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"Because a lot of time these stories, these people become a statistic...America forgets, 3-weeks later the next thing happens, nothing changes," Velazquez said.
The canvas is familiar. Two years ago, Velazquez collaborated on a mural of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen after she was murdered.
"The point of doing some of these things is to keep the stories alive so that people in charge actually do something, make some change," Velazquez said. "Because if we're going back to the same thing we're doing, that's not working."
Velazquez used Alithia Ramirez's own artwork in his mural of her.
"We put her artwork on her shirt," Velazquez said. "Even though she's not here to do a mural, there's a mural of her art now...as long as the mural is there, she will live." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/fort-worth-artist-among-those-honoring-uvalde-victims-through-murals/3014743/ | 2022-07-15T01:35:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/fort-worth-artist-among-those-honoring-uvalde-victims-through-murals/3014743/ |
The company that operates a shingle factory in West Dallas promised to close that plant after a meeting Wednesday night with company officials, neighborhood leaders and their Dallas City Council member.
Councilman Omar Narvaez Thursday said it was a very productive meeting with officials from GAF Materials Corporation.
“They’re ready and prepared to leave West Dallas. They understand the community is changing, it’s becoming much more residential. And they no longer fit after 80 years,” Narvaez said.
Employees at the West Dallas Factory on Singleton Boulevard could be asked to relocate to other GAF facilities in North Texas.
The roofing shingles produced there are in great demand in North Texas.
“There are things to consider that we need to work on, but I’m really surprised and happy that the company and the community sat down yesterday and had a really great conversation on what could look like, what could happen,” Narvaez said.
The company issued a statement Wednesday night through public relations firm, Allyn Media:
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“Tonight, GAF met with City leaders and West Dallas community group representatives to share a responsible and considered plan to pursue a legally-binding winding down of operations in West Dallas over the next 7 years.
GAF’s West Dallas facility employs more than 150 individuals working good-paying union and non-union jobs, and produces roofing material to protect the homes of millions of families in North Texas and across the country. Our plan allows for these individuals and families to be supported through this transition, while also allowing for the development of the West Dallas neighborhood to meet the future needs of the City and community.
For more than 80 years, GAF has been an important part of the growth and evolution of West Dallas. We look forward to continuing down this collaborative path with the City and the community to move our plan forward,” the statement said.
Neighbors have criticized the West Dallas plant for years over air quality issues.
The group Singleton United issued a report earlier this year that said among other things, the old West Dallas plant produces much higher emissions than a larger, newer GAF plant in Ellis County, which is surrounded by fewer homes.
Janie Cisneros with the group United emailed remarks to NBC 5 Thursday.
“I think it's great we have options and a starting point for future discussions. We are concerned. There is no specific timeline for the pollution to completely stop. Whether this is via amortization or a negotiated deal depends on GAF. We look forward to comparing the math for both timelines to move forward,” Cisneros said.
Amortization would allow the company to stay in business for a certain period of time to pay to cost of closing.
“In order to properly assess whether this proposal has a more favorable timeline for the health and safety of our neighborhood than that of amortization we need more information. We are relying on Councilman Narvaez to obtain more specific information from GAF regarding their exit plan. At the same time, we need his support in obtaining amortization timeline calculations. From our preliminary review of records, our math shows GAF should have been gone years ago,” Cisneros said.
Narvaez said negotiations will continue.
“The one that was decided is that GAF has agreed to wind down operation and leave West Dallas at some point,” he said. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/west-dallas-shingle-company-promises-to-close/3014851/ | 2022-07-15T01:35:49 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/west-dallas-shingle-company-promises-to-close/3014851/ |
MICHIGAN CITY — Police Chief Dion Campbell hopes to get a series of license-plate readers and gunshot detectors in the city to fill a big gap in Northwest Indiana.
Most other lakefront communities already have them, with the notable exception of Chesterton. “We’re the missing link,” Campbell said.
Gary has seen 146 cases cleared because of the system, said Erica Beauvoir, of Atlanta-based Flock Safety. Those cases involve stolen vehicles, missing persons and wanted individuals.
Campbell said pairing the cameras and gunshot detectors will be a boon to the city’s police department, which has to rush to calls of shots fired. The license-plate readers can quickly let police know about vehicles in the immediate vicinity of those gunshots.
“These types of details will help us solve crime in a greater manner than we have ever been able to do,” Campbell said. He’s hoping for a 25% reduction of crime in the city.
Michigan City police clear 15% of property crimes and 50% of violent crimes, Beauvoir said.
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Flock’s team made their pitch to the City Council recently.
The audio detectors now recognize gunshots, but engineers are working to get the system to recognize the sounds of breaking glass and people screaming as well, said Josh Thomas, Flock’s vice president of communications.
Unlike license plate readers on toll roads, which use optical character recognition to zero in on license plates, the Flock license plate readers offer a photo of the entire back of the vehicle, detecting bumper stickers and other distinguishing features to help police zero in on a specific vehicle, Thomas said.
“For us, this would be a force multiplier,” Campbell said. “I really think this is a no-brainer.”
Big companies like Meijer or Walmart might want to buy devices and link them to the city’s system, he said.
Before deploying the system, Campbell said the police department would hold a series of community conversations to get feedback from the public on issues like where to put the devices. Typically, the license-plate readers are used on major entrances and exits to a city.
Resident Kenneth Fly was concerned about where they would be placed. “Is this another form of being able to racially profile to a certain extent?” he asked. “They’ve got to be just as heavy in the white neighborhoods and suburbs, too.”
Campbell said it makes sense to deploy them in high-crime areas regardless of the racial mix. Residents in those area deserve good police protection just as much as anywhere else, he said.
“We are targeting the crime and crime only,” he said.
Councilman Bryant Dabney, D-1st, said this is better than license-plate readers that would have been mounted on vehicles. “That was a big deal that they would be mounted to the front of the car, driving through the neighborhoods almost like a tow truck service,” he said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/license-plate-readers-would-aid-in-fighting-crime-police-chief-says/article_4db5ddff-5102-53ef-ad01-373883d61252.html | 2022-07-15T01:36:21 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/license-plate-readers-would-aid-in-fighting-crime-police-chief-says/article_4db5ddff-5102-53ef-ad01-373883d61252.html |
COFFEE CITY, Texas — An AMBER Alert has been issued for an East Texas newborn who tested positive for narcotics.
According to the Coffee City Police Department, Child Protective Services recently was awarded custody of 10-day-old Ryder Williams.
Police say after that, the child's parents, Michelle Wolf and Ricky Williams, abducted the child. Law enforcement believes the child is in grave danger.
The Texas Department of Pubic Safety reports they were last seen at noon Monday, July 11, at the Smith County Courthouse, located at 100 N. Broadway Ave. The dup was driving a white truck. The make and model of the truck is unknown. The baby was wearing a sky blue onesie with blue sharks.
If you have any information on this case, please contact CPS at 903-203-7709 to speak with Kayla Mullins or call the CCPD at 903-516-2063 or 903-876-4946. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-for-east-texas-newborn/501-a6247337-8cd3-4f64-8236-51b1c542a99e | 2022-07-15T01:44:05 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-for-east-texas-newborn/501-a6247337-8cd3-4f64-8236-51b1c542a99e |
DALLAS — Stephen Harris spent more than four decades as a journalist with the Dallas Morning News as the assistant metro editor and general assignment editor.
He and his colleagues had to come up with daily story ideas to fill the "1-A" section of the paper.
But it's another idea he once had that is still making waves.
"This reminds me of 1980," Harris said from his front driveway on a recent 103-degree day.
Back in 1980, Stephen Harris and a colleague came up with an idea to make a T-shirt a couple of weeks into a historic -- and terrible -- heat wave.
"We decided let's have some fun and make a little money," Harris said.
Together, they brainstormed the concept and had someone draw up their idea to make their now-iconic "I survived the 1980 Texas Heat Wave" shirt.
It is a yellow shirt with a map of Texas outlined in red.
"I remember that t-shirt," said Steve Newman, who was a weather anchor with WFAA in 1980. "I wish I kept it!"
Newman remembers 1980 very well.
"You'd walk outside, and it was like an assault on your entire being," said Newman.
North Texas had sweated through 42 straight days over 100 degrees that summer, including a blistering 113-degree day that is still the highest-recorded temperature the region's ever seen.
That year also holds the record for the most days over 100 degrees -- a full 69 days.
Harris recalls selling the shirt for $5, and making it for $1. His colleague John Sharkey even drove up to SMU to sell the shirts to students one blistering day.
"We probably sold a few hundred, and made a couple thousand [dollars] each," said Harris.
In the midst of our own heat wave in 2022 different versions of that 1980 shirt are still being sold.
"We should have said, 'I suffered through the 1980 Texas Heat Wave," laughed Harris.
Stephen and a colleague took a message so timely, and made a shirt so timeless.
So how does Harris think the heat from 42 years ago compares to now?
"Check back in a couple weeks and I'll have an answer for that," he said. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/current-heat-wave-has-people-reminiscing-about-iconic-shirt/287-b7e51e70-7e78-43af-98e4-26ee2001d1ae | 2022-07-15T01:44:11 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/current-heat-wave-has-people-reminiscing-about-iconic-shirt/287-b7e51e70-7e78-43af-98e4-26ee2001d1ae |
DALLAS — That fact that Hershel "Woody" Williams received the honor to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol rotunda is remarkable in and of itself.
On Thursday, he became the first enlisted U.S. serviceman ever to be given that honor. But how it happened is its own remarkable story too.
Several years ago, a young girl in Dallas named Rabel McNutt mourned the passing of her godfather -- a man named Walt Ehlers and a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroism in the D-Day invasion of France.
To prepare her for what military funerals would be like, including the 21-gun salute that might startle a young child, Rabel's parents watched YouTube videos with her to show her what the event might include.
But it led Rabel to ask her parents a simple question: Would Walt Ehlers receive one of those big state funerals and lie in the Capitol rotunda, just like presidents and generals sometimes do?
"Are they going to do a big funeral in Washington D.C. for Uncle Ehlers and his friends," Bill McNutt remembers his daughter, then just an elementary student, asking.
"We feel great pride in the fact that here's a little girl who had a big idea," her Bill McNutt said.
Because her big idea became worldwar2salute.org, and was joined by other like-minded volunteers and business leaders from across the country with the mission "to convince the President of the United States to designate a state funeral for the last Medal of Honor recipient from World War II, as a final salute to the 16 million men and women of the greatest generation who served in our armed forces from 1941 to 1945."
Herschel "Woody" Williams, a Marine, a hero of the battle of Iwo Jima and the last living Medal of Honor recipient from WWII, was also Walt Ehlers' best friend.
Williams became a friend and mentor to young Rabel. And a few months back, thanked Rabel in a brief video.
"Hello Rabel! We appreciate all you do," he said. "And thanks for your idea of having this honor that maybe that I may receive," he said with a laugh. "Hopefully we get it approved."
And Rabel McNutt and her family were at the funeral in Washington, D.C. on Thursday to witness the honor finally coming true, for Woody Williams' family and for every other military family too.
"He was a humble man. Very kind," Rabel said. "It was really a true blessing getting to know him. And he taught me so many valuable things. And we want to thank them, thank everyone, for their sacrifice that they gave."
"I'm very proud of her," her mom Susana McNutt said. "She's a very persistent young lady. It was a very united movement to make this happen."
To the very end of his 98 years, Woody Williams dedicated his life to honoring WWII families. Gold Star Memorials across the country were his doing.
He was also a frequent collaborator with the organizers of the Dallas non-profit Carry the Load, which featured Williams in a recent documentary.
"And maybe encourage somebody to do something they never dreamed they would do for the benefit of others," he said of his motivation to continue honoring members of the U.S. military and their families.
Just like a young girl from Dallas did, not wanting any soldier and their sacrifice to ever fade away. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/wwii-medal-of-honor-recipient-funeral-help-of-young-girl-from-dallas/287-9672544b-de80-4b5d-9f53-e65072f70d91 | 2022-07-15T01:44:18 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/wwii-medal-of-honor-recipient-funeral-help-of-young-girl-from-dallas/287-9672544b-de80-4b5d-9f53-e65072f70d91 |
A new concert venue coming to downtown Richmond is in development, according to a team led by Virginia-based music company Red Light Ventures LLC.
The company is proposing a modern amphitheater overlooking the James River that would hold up to 7,500 fans with the potential to expand to 10,000 and host between 25 and 35 shows annually.
Concerts at the venue would be managed by Starr Hill Presents, the promotional wing of Red Light Management LLC.
Red Light’s founder, Coran Capshaw, is no stranger to projects of this size. Capshaw has had a hand in developing a 4,000-capacity venue in Charlottesville and the 6,800-capacity Ascend Amphitheater in Nashville, Tenn.
Capshaw had been in interested in developing in Richmond for some time, according to partner Bruce Hazelgrove, executive vice president and chief administrative officer at NewMarket Corp., a partner in this project.
Hazelgrove said Capshaw had looked at many places before checking out NewMarket’s portfolio of parcels.
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“The places they were looking I think it could have worked,” Hazelgrove said. “But when we started bouncing ideas around, one thing led to another, and now we’re here.”
The proposed site would be near two other NewMarket revitalization projects in Tredegar and Foundry Park. Hazelgrove said that over the company’s 135-year history, NewMarket has always been committed to bringing life back to the riverfront.
“Years ago, we brought Brown’s Island into the city park system, we gifted Tredegar Green to Venture Richmond,” he said. “The project that we’re talking about now, this amphitheater, it’s just one more step in fulfilling our vision for the riverfront, and it will be an amazing asset for the community.”
The amphitheater will encompass approximately four acres on the hillside along the Kanawha Canal. Portions of the historic site — including the brick Company Store building — will be preserved as Richmond-based 3North puts the finishing touches on the design.
The 3North design team also serves as the architect for the Tredegar restoration project. Company managing principal Jay Hugo said in a news release that 3North wants to carefully knit the design into the surrounding setting.
“It’s going to be a modern building that really does celebrate the energy and the momentum of the city, but it’s also going to be knitted into this historic context,” Hugo said. “So it’s going to be sympathetic to all these existing structures and very thoughtful about how it integrates with the site.”
The development is nearing its final stages as Capshaw’s team prepares to formally submit its proposal. The project is driven by private investments, but developers are still evaluating the cost of the build, a spokesperson said.
Initial plans call for Red Light Ventures to lease the four-acre plot from owner NewMarket Corp. The two companies would engage in a long-term lease agreement, but Red Light would be solely responsible for the cost of the development. | https://richmond.com/news/local/richmond-waterfront-amphitheater-nears-final-stage-of-development/article_4dd4d502-d794-5bc9-9309-0cc17e420388.html | 2022-07-15T01:44:38 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/richmond-waterfront-amphitheater-nears-final-stage-of-development/article_4dd4d502-d794-5bc9-9309-0cc17e420388.html |
Unvaccinated kids in Virginia who are exposed to COVID-19 no longer need to routinely quarantine away from school, day care or summer camp, Gov. Glenn Youngkin advised Thursday, marking a shift in guidance for the state.
The new procedure, which breaks with advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, addresses the empty classrooms that plagued school attendance during the height of the omicron variant.
Youngkin also announced that masks are no longer routinely recommended in schools, day cares and camps — indoors or outdoors — which also breaks with advice from the CDC.
The CDC recommends mask-wearing indoors in areas of high transmission, which currently include Richmond, Henrico and Chesterfield.
Though schools and day cares have different quarantine policies, the CDC recommends unvaccinated people stay home for five days following an exposure. Vaccinated individuals don’t have to quarantine.
Babies and toddlers at day care often had no other choice than to quarantine because vaccines weren’t available. But children 6 months and up are now eligible for shots, and quarantine policies motivated parents to vaccinate their children.
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Hospitalizations are on the rise in Virginia, and the BA.5 subvariant is now responsible for a majority of cases.
“As Virginians continue to return to the office and social settings, the pandemic is disrupting workplaces and family life when entire child care facilities, camps and classrooms shutter in response to as few as two cases,” Youngkin said in a statement. “Today marks a shift in my administration’s recommendations to optional quarantine for exposure to COVID-19 in child care and school settings as the severity of the disease decreases.”
The Virginia Department of Health recommends people who test positive to isolate for at least five days. If they are asymptomatic or symptoms are resolving and have been fever-free for 24 hours, they may return after day five. These people should continue to mask through day 10. People unwilling to mask should test themselves or stay home through day 10. | https://richmond.com/news/local/youngkin-quarantining-masks-no-longer-recommended-for-schools-day-cares-camps/article_9bc2f6ab-407b-5745-9ca3-b280aacfc6c2.html | 2022-07-15T01:44:45 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/youngkin-quarantining-masks-no-longer-recommended-for-schools-day-cares-camps/article_9bc2f6ab-407b-5745-9ca3-b280aacfc6c2.html |
ROGERS, Ark. — A Northwest Arkansas medical marijuana dispensary is now the largest in the state. The Source moved from its original location off Walton Boulevard in Bentonville to off West Walnut in Rogers.
They opened their doors at the new location Thursday, July 14, for the first time with a line out the door and wrapped a quarter of the way around the building.
“We’ve gone from 2,000 square feet to 21,000 square feet. We’ll be able to serve that many more patients, that much more efficiently and fundamentally that much better,” said Alec Long, the general manager.
The Source originally opened in August of 2019. Inside there are three pickup windows for online orders and eight registers. Long says there will soon be a small cultivation facility inside.
“I think this is going to be a destination for people, for patients to come to feel comfortable. Be able to have the transaction be somewhat legitimized and be comfortable with the environment they are in,” he said.
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) says since the beginning of this year about $135 million worth of medical marijuana has been purchased by the state’s almost 85,000 medical marijuana patients. ADH spokesman Scott Hardin says of 3,900 pounds sold in June, about 790 pounds of that was sold from the five locations in Northwest Arkansas.
“Ever since those dispensaries opened as a region, it’s really just dominated the state in sales,” he said.
Long says if recreational marijuana makes it on the ballot and becomes legal in Arkansas, they will be prepared.
“You don’t have to get ready when you stay ready and that’s why we were ahead of the curve and built this building, that was the anticipation,” said Long.
The Source is officially open for business in Rogers but its official grand opening will be on its three-year anniversary in August.
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Ravi, an endangered red panda cub born at the Greensboro Science Center on June 20, made his public debut Thursday. The 3½-week-old panda was moved to an incubator at the Shearer Animal Hospital where he is visible to visitors through a window. Ravi is the first successful red panda cub birth at the center. Born to Usha (female) and Tai (male), Ravi is being hand-reared by the center’s animal care team. “Pandas in both the wild and in human care unfortunately occasionally kill their cubs — something Usha has done in the past,” Jessica Hoffman, the center’s vice president of animal care and welfare, said in a news release. “This was a risk we did not want to take.” Visitors can watch him being fed, which occurs very quickly and generally happens at 11:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.
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BROWNS SUMMIT — A fiery car crash Saturday afternoon claimed three lives, including a Greensboro fireman.
At a stop in Greensboro today, Pastors for Peace will gather donations for their trip to Cuba and hold discussions about the impact of America's decades-long embargo with Cuba and other policies, which some feel have become outdated.
The event was postponed "due to unforeseen circumstances" and a new date has not been set.
An 80-year-old man was charged with misdemeanor death by vehicle and unsafe movement in the incident, the Highway Patrol said.
The trailer is on the upper parking deck on Fisher Avenue at First Presbyterian Church.
The accident occurred on West Market Street on June 1, according to a news release.
The county health department said in a news release that the person is isolating and close contacts have been notified.
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Records from the U.S. Small Business Administration show the private, nonprofit school received two loans for $743,059 each, one in May 2020 and another in February 2021. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/red-panda-cub-makes-public-debut-at-greensboro-science-center/article_2cb89490-0390-11ed-a1a9-2f5ade8023ef.html | 2022-07-15T01:48:27 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/red-panda-cub-makes-public-debut-at-greensboro-science-center/article_2cb89490-0390-11ed-a1a9-2f5ade8023ef.html |
CHEHALIS, Wash. — Bob Kabel graduated from USC, worked for decades as a civil engineer, and has five great-grandchildren, but what does the 100-year-old Chehalis resident consider his greatest accomplishment?
“Saving the world,” said Kabel, who was an Army engineer from 1942 to 1946.
Kabel helped liberate Europe during World War II, arriving on the beaches of Normandy two months after the Allied invasion.
For his 100th birthday on Thursday, members of the Cascade Warbirds flew over Kabel’s assisted living center in a four-airplane formation.
The volunteer organization, made up of mostly veterans, fly former military planes at airshows, and to honor of fellow veterans.
Kabel said it was an honor seeing the planes fly overhead, just for his birthday. He did not know any of the pilots and said he wasn’t sure if he deserved the honor.
“No more than anyone else,” said Kabel. ”There’s a whole lot of us. There aren’t many left, but there were a lot of us and they all deserve something. This is the best.” | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/flyover-war-veterans-100th-birthday/281-9b4a254f-96b1-437f-a9fd-e2bf380ca9e5 | 2022-07-15T01:50:39 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/flyover-war-veterans-100th-birthday/281-9b4a254f-96b1-437f-a9fd-e2bf380ca9e5 |
SEATTLE — The Seattle to Portland (STP) bike ride is back in person this weekend after years of virtual rides due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thousands are gearing up to take on the 200-mile journey. Among them is eight-year-old Janyaa Teli.
When Janyaa told her parents she wanted to participate in the event, they tried out twelve-mile, twenty-mile and thirty-mile bike rides to see if she was serious.
"We saw that she was very much dedicated," her mother Ankita Teli said.
Janyaa and her dad continued to practice riding, and going to bed early and getting up early to ride. Janyaa has skipped summer camp and even some friends' birthday parties to train so she can be ready for the STP.
Janyaa is also raising money for charity along the way. She is one of several dozen riders for the Asha for Education Seattle chapter, raising money to support schooling for children in India.
“It’s very important to our family to look out for other people and to be involved in the community," her parents said.
The STP is an annual ride hosted by The Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle. Spokesperson Paul Tolme said in the ride's 40-year history it's only been canceled three times.
“Twice during the pandemic and of course back when Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, so we are thrilled to be back on the bikes this weekend,” Tolme said.
The ride is 206 miles long and most riders complete the course over two days.
More than 6,000 riders are expected to depart from Husky stadium for the 43rd STP early Saturday, July 16. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/8-year-old-seattle-to-portland-bike-ride/281-00909e4c-06c1-46eb-b5bd-255daac9b93a | 2022-07-15T01:50:45 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/8-year-old-seattle-to-portland-bike-ride/281-00909e4c-06c1-46eb-b5bd-255daac9b93a |
LOGAN COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — A woman is dead following a single-vehicle crash on State Route 10 in Logan County on Thursday.
They say she was driving alone when she hit a concrete median and the vehicle started to roll over.
They are unsure what caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle.
This is a developing story. We will continue to update this story when more information becomes available. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/one-person-dead-following-crash-in-logan-county/ | 2022-07-15T01:54:37 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/one-person-dead-following-crash-in-logan-county/ |
BOISE, Idaho — The Veterans Park Neighborhood Association (VPNA) filed a petition against the City of Boise asking for a judicial review of Interfaith Sanctuary's approved Conditional Use Permit (CUP).
Interfaith plans to move their homeless shelter into the old Salvation Army building on West State Street.
"Every neighbor I have spoken to on this street - in this neighborhood - is opposed to it," nearby resident Brent Mathieu said. "It's complicated."
The permit states, "petitioner is alleging substantial harm to their real property interests." VPNA President Katy Decker confirmed this is a direct concern about how the homeless shelter will impact nearby property values.
"I think that we've made it clear we don't think this belongs in any residential community," Decker said.
The Boise City Council disagrees. The council voted 4-2 to approve the permit back in April. The CUP is needed for permission to use this space for a homeless shelter.
The city council vote overturned the City of Boise Planning and Zoning Commission that originally denied the Conditional Use Permit in January.
As it currently stands, Interfaith is approved to move to State Street.
"Right now, we continue to work on our approved application and move forward on designing a new shelter for our building," Interfaith Executive Director, Jodi Peterson-Stigers said.
Interfaith sold their current building to afford the old Salvation Army building. The Salvation Army property plans to provide 205 beds for people experiencing homelessness.
If the shelter cannot move to State Street, the future of the shelter is unclear.
"It would be a tragedy. We are always looking for plan B. Right now, because of where we are at with our approval for our application, we are really staying focused on getting the steps done to get into design review, to get our building permit, and to get construction underway. That is definitely where I am staying," Peterson-Stigers said. "Let's get this beautiful building built."
VPNA is unsure when they will hear back from the court system regarding their permit, according to Decker. She expects this process to take months.
Interfaith doesn't plan to move into the old Salvation Army building on West State Street until spring of 2023, according to Peterson-Stigers.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Oregon Court of Appeals has overturned the 2018 murder conviction of a Portland man after finding that prosecutors dismissed two men from the jury pool because they were Black.
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports the jury, which had no Black members, found Darian L. McWoods, a Black man, guilty of murder by abuse in the death of his 15-month-old daughter, Kamaya Flores, in Multnomah County Circuit Court.
In the ruling released Wednesday, Presiding Judge Josephine Mooney found that Multnomah County Senior Deputy District Attorney Amanda Nadell offered race-neutral reasons to strike both prospective jurors, but those arguments were only a “pretext.”
Mooney wrote that the state did not seek to strike similarly situated jurors who were not Black. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/murder-conviction-overturned-after-black-jurors-excluded/ | 2022-07-15T01:58:34 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/murder-conviction-overturned-after-black-jurors-excluded/ |
Fort Wayne officials have officially put out a request for private trash companies to submit proposals to take over the city’s bulk garbage pickup, which includes items too large to fit in bins or bags.
GFL Environmental USA took over the city’s trash and recycling hauling July 1. The GFL contract includes weekly pickup of one full trash cart and up to three additional bags, along with recycling collection every other week.
GFL was awarded the city’s contract after more than three years of poor service from Texas-based Red River Waste Solutions, which filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy protection in October and soon after entered into a contract with the city to transfer to a new provider.
Red River’s contract included unlimited garbage pickup weekly, which has been called “a relic of the past” by Tim Haffner, city corporation attorney. Unlimited trash isn’t feasible as drivers rely more on automation for safety and efficiency, he said.
The Solid Waste Department published an advertisement Thursday to request bids for a bulk trash contract. The public notice said the city is seeking a provider “that is capable of developing and operating a residential bulk collection program” for 83,400 homes in Fort Wayne.
To be considered, sealed proposals have to be submitted through the city’s online bidding partner QuestCDN by 2 p.m. July 28.
Before July 1, Indiana municipalities were required to accept the offer from the state’s definition of the “lowest responsible and responsive” bid. Now, the city is able to use the more intensive request-for-proposal process.
City officials advocated for the amendment to the state’s solid waste law. Fort Wayne City Council members have said they felt pressured to approve Red River’s bid in 2017 as it appeared to meet the state’s definition of the “lowest responsible and responsive” bid.
The Solid Waste Department is hosting an informational meeting for potential bidders at 10 a.m. July 22 in Room 220 at Citizens Square, 200 E. Berry St. The advertisement strongly encourages potential providers to attend and participate in the meeting.
Matt Gratz, city solid waste manager, said in a statement that bulk trash has been defined as furniture or non-Freon items.
“We are asking for proposals for weekly collection and monthly collection,” Gratz said. “The minimum is one item per week or per month. Contractors can increase that if they feel we should offer more.”
Lou Berardicurti, GFL’s area vice president, said in May that the trash hauler plans to submit a bid for bulk collection.
The Solid Waste Department initially proposed taking over local bulk trash service permanently but will not submit a proposal.
“City Council was adamant on not funding a city-run bulk program,” Gratz said.
The city is currently handling bulk collection until a provider is awarded the contract. Gratz said city crews are progressing on cleaning up areas where bulk items had piled up.
Currently, residents are allowed to set out one bulk item weekly on their scheduled trash collection day. The Solid Waste Department is expected to collect it within 48 hours.
GFL drivers report bulk trash items they see while collecting trash and recycling. Residents are encouraged to report bulk trash to 311 if it isn’t collected within two days. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-advertises-request-for-bulk-trash-proposals/article_f286b0ae-03c1-11ed-adbf-8783a71599d6.html | 2022-07-15T01:59:04 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-advertises-request-for-bulk-trash-proposals/article_f286b0ae-03c1-11ed-adbf-8783a71599d6.html |
The Allen County Board of Health is expected to vote on a new health commissioner Monday.
According to the agenda for the board’s meeting, the board’s executive hiring committee will report on the interview process and introduce its chosen candidate.
The committee will then request the board’s official appointment of the new health commissioner effective Tuesday.
Dr. Matthew Sutter announced his resignation as health commissioner in April, telling the board he would leave in July.
He said then he had previously and privately expressed that he planned to stay in the position until the COVID-19 health emergency phase subsided.
Sutter became the county’s first part-time health commissioner in June 2020 after Dr. Deborah McMahan retired. He has also been serving as chief medical officer for IU Health-Fort Wayne, which is also a part-time position, since December 2020. Sutter is also a practicing emergency physician with the Adams County Health Network.
Sutter’s salary as health commissioner was $51,900 last year, according to the Indiana Gateway for Governmental Units. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/health-board-to-vote-on-new-health-commissioner/article_ec83297e-03b9-11ed-8496-43f016ad90cc.html | 2022-07-15T01:59:10 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/health-board-to-vote-on-new-health-commissioner/article_ec83297e-03b9-11ed-8496-43f016ad90cc.html |
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Investigators are looking for an Allen County man who allegedly caused severe brain damage to a 3-month-old child.
Daniel Joseph Michael Baron, 31, of the 400 block of Lincoln Highway West in New Haven, is charged with two felonies, domestic battery with serious bodily injury to a person younger than 14 and neglect of a dependent resulting in serious injury.
Baron faces three to 16 years in prison on each count. Online court records list no bail amount.
The child’s injuries were so severe that after being taken to the Lutheran Hospital emergency room Nov. 15, he was sent the next day to Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis, according to court records. Doctors there listed the child in critical condition and put the infant into a medically induced coma because of injuries and seizures.
A medical report said the child had bleeding into the lining on the right side of his brain, bruising on the left side of his brain and bruising on the right side of his jaw. There was also a history of recurrent and poorly explained bruising on the child’s body and inflicted bruising on its legs, the report said.
The child also had a fractured rib on the left and severe bleeding and “significant subdural blood in the lumbar spine,” according to court documents.
Baron allegedly confessed to police Nov. 16 that he shook the infant. Before that, he gave other reasons for the injuries.
Baron originally told his wife – the child’s mother – that their 2-year-old had aggressively rocked the infant on a glider chair, the mother told police. She’d been at work Nov. 15, leaving Baron as the baby’s sole caretaker.
The child was healthy when the mother left. But when she returned home, he was sitting awkwardly in the chair, was hard to wake up and had two different sized pupils, she told police.
After the child was taken to the emergency room and police were called to the hospital, a case worker told officers that the story Baron told didn’t match the injuries.
The Indianapolis doctors diagnosed the child as having traumatic brain injury. A medical report stated the child was too young to have caused the injuries to itself, and the injuries were consistent with physical abuse.
When Baron allegedly told officers he shook the child, he said that he did it because the child had been crying for 30 minutes. According to court documents, he demonstrated for officers how he lifted the baby from under its arms and shook two or three times until its head snapped.
That happened about 2 or 3 p.m., and the mother returned home after 5 p.m., court documents said. Baron said he knew he should have called 911 but was afraid the children would be taken from him.
The doctor caring for the child in Indianapolis told police that immediate medical treatment would have helped minimize damage. The extent of brain damage and the type of neurological disorders for the child won’t be known for months, and it’s highly unlikely the child will ever fully recover, according to the doctor.
Court documents also show that a woman with the same name as Baron’s wife filed divorce papers against Daniel J. Baron Sr. on June 14.
The final hearing for the divorce is scheduled for Sept. 14.
As of Thursday afternoon, Baron was not in the Allen County Jail. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/new-haven-man-wanted-for-baby-shaking/article_0532e398-03b9-11ed-8622-17261f908744.html | 2022-07-15T01:59:23 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/new-haven-man-wanted-for-baby-shaking/article_0532e398-03b9-11ed-8622-17261f908744.html |
COFFEE CITY, Texas — Officials says the mother of an East Texas newborn at the center of a statewide AMBER Alert is turning herself and handing the child over to Child Protective Services.
According to the Coffee City Police Department, they have been informed Michelle Wolf, the mother of 10-day-old Ryder Williams, is on her way to surrender to authorities in Hunt County and turn the infant over to CPS, who was recently awarded custody of the child after he tested positive for narcotics. The child is unharmed.
Police say Michelle and the child's father, Ricky Williams, abducted the child and were last seen at noon Monday, July 11, at the Smith County Courthouse, located at 100 N. Broadway Ave.
Ricky has also been located and officials are in the process of taking him into custody.
Law enforcement tells CBS19, Ricky has a criminal history, but didn't elaborate on previous charges or convictions. He had recently been released from the Smith County Jail. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-for-east-texas-newborn/501-a6247337-8cd3-4f64-8236-51b1c542a99e | 2022-07-15T02:06:34 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/amber-alert-issued-for-east-texas-newborn/501-a6247337-8cd3-4f64-8236-51b1c542a99e |
Man sentenced to 1 year of probation for burning toilet paper in Coconino National Forest
The man arrested in connection to the Pipeline Fire was placed on a yearlong probation after he pleaded guilty Wednesday for starting a fire at the Coconino National Forest in June, according to court documents.
Matthew Riser, 57, told officials from the U.S. Forest Service he burned toilet paper and put it under a rock the day before the wildfire was reported. His camp was 80 yards from where the fire started, according to court documents.
According to court documents Riser had been camping there for two days and only saw the "no campfire" sign when he drove out. Officials said information on fire restrictions can be found on roads, ranger stations, local news media and the U.S. Forest Service website.
Riser was initially charged with three counts — one for possession of a controlled substance, in his case marijuana, one for building a fire when it was prohibited and one for using National Forest Service lands as a residence.
The first count was dismissed by the court on June 21. The third count was dismissed on Wednesday.
Court documents show Riser was detained but released from custody June 23. He was allowed to live at Working Alternatives, a re-entry center that offers transitional housing services to federal inmates.
On Wednesday, Riser pleaded guilty to the second count, building a prohibited fire, and was placed on probation for one year, documents show. The court determined he doesn’t have the ability to pay a fine and waived it.
Riser was banned from the Coconino, Kaibab, Prescott, Gila and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, except to travel through those areas in local, state or federal highways.
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Defense lawyer says Riser's sentence wasn't for starting a wildfire
Defense lawyer Daniel Kaiser told The Arizona Republic he wanted to emphasize that Riser was sentenced for burning toilet paper, not for starting the Pipeline Fire. He said it was it was coincidental to the wildfire.
"Regardless of what a lot of people think, he was never arrested or charged with any offenses that could be related to causing the Pipeline fire," he said.
Kaiser said Riser explained that when he burned the toilet paper, he made sure the fire was out and covered it with a "very large rock."
The cause of the Pipeline Fire remained undetermined as of Thursday, according to InciWeb, a website that tracks wildfires.
Kaiser told The Republic he personally believed the sentence was a little excessive.
"He really only burned a small amount of toilet paper. So this was nothing like having a campfire or burning an area. This was a very minor thing," Kaiser said.
The Republic couldn't reach the lawyer representing the government for comment in time for publication.
The Arizona Daily Sun reported Judge Camille Bibles said during Wednesday's hearing that she didn't want to downplay the significance of having any type of fire in the forest when they are restricted, especially during a drought.
Kaiser said the court believed Riser could get off the year-long probation early if he continues with the good behavior that he has shown in the past weeks.
Reach breaking news reporter Angela Cordoba Perez at Angela.CordobaPerez@Gannett.com or on Twitter @AngelaCordobaP.
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Woman who struck DPS trooper with SUV while helping suspect escape sentenced to 12 years
A woman accused of striking a DPS trooper with her vehicle last year and helping a fleeing suspect escape was sentenced to 12 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a class 2 felony.
Arizona Department of Public Safety Sgt. Christopher Rios pursued a man driving a silver Nissan Altima that sped past him, driving northbound on Interstate 17 around 2:45 a.m. March 6, 2021.
The Altima exited on Cactus Road but the driver lost control of the car, spun out and crashed into the center median. Court documents say Rios chased the suspect on foot when Salina Avila, who was 18 at the time, rammed into Rios from behind in a stolen white Chevrolet Tahoe before pulling up to the suspect and telling them, "Get in, get in!"
Fire crews on a nearby truck "observed Rios disappear under the Tahoe," documents say.
Rios saw the man enter the Tahoe and fired nine shots at the vehicle as it sped eastbound on Cactus Road before calling dispatch and going to a hospital for treatment, documents say.
On background: Trooper was running after suspect when woman ran over him, told suspect 'get in!'
Phoenix police officers were already investigating reports that a white Chevrolet Tahoe had been stolen shortly before the incident and eventually found it near 21st and Larkspur drives.
Phoenix police stopped the Tahoe and Avila got out of the car and collapsed with multiple gunshot wounds before being taken to a hospital, according to court documents. The man Avila picked up wasn't with her when officers arrived at the scene. It's unclear if police ever found the man.
Investigators pulled prints from the Altima and Tahoe and found they belonged to a 25-year-old man.
They later reviewed surveillance footage from the Glendale home where the Tahoe was stolen near 43rd Avenue and Cactus Road, which showed the Altima driving by the home several times before a man got out and broke into a Jeep Wrangler parked on the driveway and stealing a garage door remote.
The man and the Altima left for a short time, then returned and opened the garage door shortly before the Tahoe was seen quickly backing out with both vehicles fleeing the residence, documents say.
Avila was charged with two counts each of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and theft involving a means of transportation, though the other charges were dropped due to her guilty plea.
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Avila was also sentenced to one year in prison after pleading guilty second-degree burglary in a separate court case where she faced charges alongside a man named Roger Duarte for crimes that allegedly occurred on Feb. 3, 2021.
It was not immediately clear whether Duarte, who still faces charges of second-degree burglary and misconduct involving weapons, was or had any connection to the man Avila picked up March 6.
Court documents state Avila will serve the one-year sentence concurrently with the 12-year sentence, for which she has a 488-day presentence credit for time served in jail.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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Phoenix police release body camera footage of June west Phoenix shootout
The Phoenix Police Department released edited body camera footage Thursday of a police shootout that happened on June 30.
Previous Coverage:Investigation continues into police shootout that left suspect injured in west Phoenix
The video intersperses narration from department spokesman Sgt. Vincent Cole with portions of body camera footage. Cole explained that officers were responding to a call of a suspicious person in a Maryvale neighborhood, near 106th Drive and West Colter Street, when they encountered an armed man.
In the original 911 call, a woman says there’s a strange person in her neighborhood who appears to be “out of sorts,” walking around.
Video shows officers speaking with a man who was part of the call to police when a gunshot is heard in the distance. An officer immediately raises his gun and points it down the dark street, yelling “Show me your hands now! Show me your hands I’m gonna shoot you! I will shoot you — show me your hands!” Multiple shots are fired off in quick succession by the officer.
The man, later identified as Kristopher Johnson, 40, is difficult to see, and it’s unclear if he fired a gun.
Cole said officers warned the man to drop his weapon and when he didn’t comply, officers shot at him. A previous police statement said that officers opened fire after the man shot at them when they asked him to drop his gun.
After shooting, the officer calls the incident into dispatch and begins running down the street after Johnson. He describes Johnson’s outfit and says “he’s aiming a gun at us, he shot multiple times.”
At least two more officers can be seen also following Johnson down the street, approaching around a building instead of walking directly down the street. At one point, the officer who shot at Johnson takes cover behind a nearby car in what appears to be a response to distant gunfire. He tells dispatch over his radio that Johnson is still shooting and running northbound.
Since 2019, the Phoenix Police Department has produced videos with summaries of police shootings that include some body-camera footage, 911 calls and a narration of the events that led to the shooting.
Body camera footage from another angle and a different officer show the officer involved in the shooting immediately drawing his weapon when the first gunshot from Johnson is heard, and that officer walking down the street.
Later in the video, Cole said that the department received an emergency call from a nearby home while officers were following Johnson. In the 911 call, a woman can be heard saying there are shots being fired outside her home and that her husband is outside. She can be heard asking someone, presumably her husband returning, “Did you shoot?” The answer is unclear, but she tells the operator that her husband has been shot in the right leg.
Officers who responded to the woman’s call asked the man to step outside and took him into custody. He was later taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries when he was found to have a gunshot wound, Cole said. A search of the house found a handgun.
The officers involved have approximately three years of experience, Cole said, and are assigned to the Maryvale-Estrella Mountain Precinct. There is both an internal and a criminal investigation underway and the incident will be reviewed by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
"Conclusions about whether the actions of the officer are consistent with department policy and the law will not be made until all facts are known and the investigation is complete,” Cole said.
Reach criminal justice reporter Gloria Rebecca Gomez at grgomez@gannett.com or on Twitter @glorihuh.
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PHOENIX — Skating around Perry Park in Phoenix, it's clear Jessy Mendes is at home on a skateboard.
"I love it," Mendes said with a large smile on his face.
He takes the rails with ease and flips his board like it's practically an extension of himself.
Mendes has been skating for 15 years when his sister bought him his first skateboard.
"Ever since she bought me that in 2003 'til this day, I've been a skateboarder," he said.
But even after all the hours on his board, Mendes still isn't bothered by any falls. In fact, he usually laughs and smiles through them.
"I get back up and try again because what I do requires you to try again and keep going," Mendes said.
Mendes was born in Angola, a country in Central Africa. But the civil war led his parents to move the family to South Africa.
Mendes stayed there until 2015 when he had to go back to Angola.
"Due to economic problems back in Angola, my father couldn't keep pay for my fees to stay in South Africa," Mendes said. "I had to drop out of school (in) grade 10. After I dropped out of school, all I had was skateboarding."
The constant was his love for skateboarding, but in his country, something was still missing.
"There's no safe facilities for young people to skate," Mendes said. "That's when I decided to create Angola Skateboarding Union. Basically, a platform that gives skateboarders in Angola a voice, support, you know, love to grow the sport."
Mendes worked to get plans made, land secured, and construction is done on the first skate park in Angola. But the place became something much more.
"A place they call home, a safe space out of society where they can just come in, be united and just do what they love, which is skateboarding," Mendes said.
That skate park, built in 2018, holds special memories for Mendes too.
"It touches me a lot because I started that project from the beginning with my father, and in 2020 he passed away," Mendes said. "The last image I have of him is building that project."
Mendes continues to channel his passion to help kids in foster care there too. Helping them find an outlet, and better themselves through skateboarding.
"These are children who do not live in houses with moms and dads, these are kids who live on the streets," Mendes said.
All of that work earned Mendes the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders.
He's been at Arizona State University since early June learning and networking to bring his experience back to Angola, build up the sport and build more skate parks.
Mendes will soon be heading to San Francisco to learn and partner with the non-profit Hip Hop for Change, which empowers youth. Hoping to put art from the kids there onto skateboards for the kids he works with as part of Angola Skateboarding Union and bring them back.
Mendes is looking for sponsors to help him bring more skateboards, skate parks and a skate shop back home to Angola too.
So far, Mendes said a local skateboarding company, SkateForty8 will be donating 48 skateboards to Angola.
"When the skateboards break, kids have to use like plywood to like screw the skateboards together," Mendes said.
Mendes believes it's the young people that can create change.
"I believe in people in the community," Mendes said. "Working directly with the people, struggling with the people. Those are the people I believe in and those are the people I know who will change Africa."
It's a passion Mendes clearly has and wants to share with the world.
“If you love something, and you really passionate about it, you shouldn't let anyone tell you, you can't do it. But instead, you should find ways to make it happen for yourself," Mendes said.
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PHOENIX — It's just before 7 a.m. and a crew with bright colored shirts are loading up a wagon at Cortez Park near 35th and Dunlap avenues filled with hats, sunscreen, maps and cold ice water.
Their goal: get these supplies to as many people as they can.
It's no surprise July brings high temps to the Valley, but the heat is also leading to a rise in concern. The latest data from the Maricopa County Department of Health shows the area is on track to set a new record for heat-related deaths.
As of this week, there have been 17 confirmed heat-related deaths this week and 126 more under investigation, which is more than this point last year.
And it's a problem the city is trying to tackle with a hands-on approach.
The crew with the early start time is one of Phoenix's heat relief teams, made up of city staff and volunteers. They do two shifts per day about three days a week, one in the morning and one in the afternoon when it’s hottest.
"I’ve been out here when it’s 115-116 degrees," said Maria Morales, a repeat volunteer from APS. "It's just so important, right? To help people that need the help."
Their work extends beyond parks, like going to trailheads on the weekend to talk with hikers. But it’s the homeless population that’s most vulnerable to heat injury and illness.
Most people they’re meeting at Cortez Park are unsheltered and unaware that there’s a cooling station right down the road at Cholla Library.
"I’ve seen folks new to homelessness - particularly seniors," said David Hondula, who helms the city's new Office of Heat Response and Mitigation.
Hondula, who was out with the morning crew at Cortez Park, said a lot of his efforts have been focused on outreach. He said some people, especially those new to homelessness, aren't aware of what resources are currently out there.
That's where the boots-on-the-grounds approach comes into play.
He said that the water and other supplies they hand out can be the first step to other types of assistance. The heat relief crews typically include someone from PHX C.A.R.E.S. who can help connect people to housing or treatment resources.
"Those kinds of solutions and being able to help in that way can make a difference over the long term," Hondula said. "Getting someone a cold bottle of water is great at the moment and could be a lifesaver, but the real solution to heat and homelessness is housing."
The city is offering free rides to cooling stations, thanks to a grant from APS. The new service is available to anyone and residents can get a free ride to a cooling station by calling 211.
To see how you can volunteer for a heat relief team, click here.
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RICHMOND, Va. – After the line of storms that moved through our area on Tuesday, many were left without power, some even without homes due to flooding.
While not all disasters can be prevented, homeowners can do what they can to prepare their homes for the rest of summer’s storms.
The Farm Bureau said that according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there are an estimated 100,000 thunderstorms that occur in the U.S. each year.
Some thunderstorms, like the ones that hit our region on Tuesday, come with torrential downpours, strong winds, flooding, and even hail, all of which have the potential for billions in damages, according to the agency.
“Between late April and June 2022, over 1,300 storm-related claims have been reported in Virginia,” said Laurie Gannon, vice president of claims for Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. “Whether it’s small, localized pop-up thunderstorms or significant storm bands with tornadic winds, the late spring, and early summer have been busy for our department.”
So, the insurance agency offered direction to a thunderstorm preparation guide to prepare for the worst, as much as possible, that is.
The guide said there are many things to watch out for during storms, but you can do these things to prepare:
- Install a lightning surge protector to save electrical equipment from power surges,
- Remove overhanging branches near your home and remove dead, dying, or diseased trees to lessen the chance of tree damage,
- Have your roof inspected to ensure it is in a secure and safe condition,
- Install protective screens around outdoor equipment like heating, ventilating, and air conditioning units to help reduce costly hail damage.
- Clean gutters and downspouts to lessen the risk of water damage, and make sure downspouts wash water away from the house’s foundation.
- Inspect and caulk any cracks or gaps around windows, doors, electrical boxes, vents, pipes, and exterior walls to prevent water from getting in,
- Check your garage doors for a wind pressure rating sticker, and if you don’t have one, you should have it inspected. Installing a brace for the garage door may be recommended, or you could buy a new garage door.
- Move and secure outdoor items so they don’t fly away in the wind.
For more tips on how to prepare your home for all types of weather, go to the Disaster Safety website. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/are-you-prepared-for-end-of-summer-storms/ | 2022-07-15T02:31:12 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/are-you-prepared-for-end-of-summer-storms/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – As if they haven’t gone through enough already, Buchanan County flooding victims are now susceptible to scammers coming to their area according to the BBB.
On Thursday, the Better Business Bureau serving Western VA released a statement warning Buchanan County flooding victims about people looking to take advantage of those who need help following Tuesday’s storms.
These people are called “storm chasers,” the BBB said, and they’re known for taking disaster victims’ money and doing poor quality work, or simply never returning after payment is acquired.
The BBB said you can follow these steps to lessen the risk of being scammed following a natural disaster:
- Visit BBB.org for reliable information and lists of BBB Accredited Businesses by industry and business reviews you can trust on local companies.
- Check to see that your contractor is properly licensed by the Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation’s Board for Contractors.
- Verify that the contractors must obtain a permit by contacting your local Township or Municipality.
- Get everything in writing. Statements and agreements that are clearly written, detailed, and broken down into separate line items are a good sign that the contractor has prepared an accurate estimate.
- Don’t pay in full and agree to terms on a payment schedule, but never pay in full for the job upfront. Never make final payment or sign a final release until you are satisfied with the work done.
And if you want to lend a helping hand or donate to victims, the BBB said you can follow these steps to do so securely:
- Research the organization on Give.org for reliable information on the charity and lists of charities that meet the 20 BBB Standards for Charity.
- Be cautious when giving online, and you should always go directly to the charity’s Web site.
- Be wary of claims that 100 percent of donations will assist relief victims.
- Find out if the charity has an on-the-ground presence in the impacted areas because unless the charity already has staff in the affected areas, it may be difficult to bring in new aid workers to help quickly. See if the charity’s Web site clearly describes what it can do to address the immediate needs of those affected.
- In-kind drives for food and clothing may not be the quickest way to help those in need unless the organization has the staff and infrastructure to distribute such aid properly. Ask the charity about its transportation and distribution plans.
To find out how you can help the Buchanan County Community, read this article. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/buchanan-county-flooding-victims-beware-of-storm-chasers-bbb-warns/ | 2022-07-15T02:31:19 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/15/buchanan-county-flooding-victims-beware-of-storm-chasers-bbb-warns/ |
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