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Amid a summer heat wave that has pushed temperatures in some Texas prisons without air conditioning to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, many inmates fear dying or falling gravely ill from the hot weather and believe actions taken by officials to mitigate the dangerous conditions continue to fall short, according to a new report.
The report comes as the head of the Texas prison system told lawmakers this week the oppressive working conditions caused by the lack of air conditioning in many of the state's units are likely contributing to difficulties officials are having in filling 7,000 prison job vacancies.
"Without air-conditioning or regulated temperatures, the system will continue to be under extreme stress and members of the (Texas Department of Criminal Justice) population will remain on the brink of potential health emergencies. This could kill them, but if it doesn't, it will certainly degrade their health over time," according to a report released this week by the Texas A&M University Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center and Texas Prisons Community Advocates, an advocacy group for inmates.
Advocates and others have been highly critical of the lack of air conditioning in the Texas prison system, which has 120,000 inmates. Only 30% of Texas prison units are fully air-conditioned.
In 2017, U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison in Houston said the nation's largest prison system was "deliberately indifferent" to heat risks and subjected inmates to "a substantial risk of serious injury or death."
Ellison's comments came as part of a settlement of a lawsuit filed by inmates at one unit.
Texas is one of at least thirteen states in the U.S. that doesn't have universal air conditioning in state prisons, according to the university's report.
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In the wake of the settlement, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, or TDCJ, formalized many of the heat mitigation policies it had been following, including providing water and ice, creating respite areas where inmates could go to cool down and allowing inmates to purchase cooling items such as fans or towels.
But the university report called the procedures in place "inefficient and ineffective" as they're not designed to offer system-wide relief but instead rely on overworked prison employees to offer help on an individual basis to inmates while also suffering through the heat themselves.
As part of the report, 309 Texas inmates were surveyed about their experiences.
"I fainted four times in my cell and no reports were filed and I received no medical attention," one inmate wrote.
Other inmates described seeing prisoners pass out from exhaustion as they worked outside in the heat and not being allowed to go to respite areas where they could cool down.
"This issue is only going to continue to worsen with increasing annual temperatures," Carlee Purdum, a Texas A&M research professor who helped write the report, told the Texas House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday.
Earlier in the meeting, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, said in the last 10 days, the average temperature inside the housing areas at non-air-conditioned prisons was 91.4 degrees Fahrenheit, with five units having average temperatures over 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
So far this year, six inmates and 11 employees have been treated for heat-related illnesses. There have been no heat-related deaths in Texas prisons since 2012, Collier said. There were 17 deaths from 2000 to 2012, with 10 of those deaths just in 2011, when Texas experienced a record heat wave.
But Collier told lawmakers the prison system has "a wide array of things we do to manage heat," including providing extra ice and water in housing areas and training staff to monitor temperatures and shut down activities when temperatures get too high.
Collier told lawmakers on Tuesday it would cost about $1.1 billion to install air conditioning in all of the state's prison units.
A bill that would have required TDCJ to install air conditioning failed to pass during last year's legislative session.
State Rep. Carl Sherman, D-DeSoto said air conditioning can be provided in Texas prisons "if we have the desire to do this."
"This is about being politically humane," Sherman said. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/deadly-heat-is-an-ongoing-concern-at-texas-prisons-report/3015841/ | 2022-07-16T15:09:27 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/deadly-heat-is-an-ongoing-concern-at-texas-prisons-report/3015841/ |
Guatemala repatriated its first victim Friday from the smuggling attempt that left 53 migrants from Mexico and Central America dead last month in San Antonio, Texas.
The body of 13-year-old Pascual Melvin Guachiac Sipac arrived around midday in Guatemala's capital. Twenty-one Guatemalans were among the migrants who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer June 27 in sweltering heat.
The boy's family was on hand to receive the casket at the capital's airport.
Guachiac Sipac was an Indigenous Quiche who spoke little Spanish, but he set out nonetheless with his cousin for the United States, both hoping to work and help their families. His cousin, Wilmer Tulul, died too and his body was expected to return to Guatemala Saturday.
They were from Tzucubal, a community of about 1,500 people in the mountains nearly 100 miles northwest of the capital, where most live by subsistence farming.
A fourth flight carrying the last of the incident's Mexican victims landed Friday. Mexico flew home 25 of its 26 victims this week in accordance with the families' wishes.
Six Hondurans made up the remainder of the victims. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/guatemala-returns-first-of-21-victims-from-failed-texas-smuggling-attempt/3016091/ | 2022-07-16T15:09:34 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/guatemala-returns-first-of-21-victims-from-failed-texas-smuggling-attempt/3016091/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A few weeks ago, Krispy Kreme announced the launch of doughnut-flavored soft-serve ice cream, but it was only limited to 10 test markets around the country. Now, it’s Wichita’s turn.
Making its official debut in Wichita, just in time for National Ice Cream Day on Sunday, July 17, is the original glazed soft-serve ice cream. This frozen treat is made with ingredients from Krispy Kreme’s secret original glazed doughnut recipe available in shakes, cones, and cups.
Original Glazed Soft Serve offerings include:
- Shakes: Original Glazed, Strawberry Iced Sprinkled, Chocolate Iced, Lemon Filled®, Cookies & KREME™, Birthday Batter, and Coffee & KREME™
- Cups and waffle cones: Original Glazed, Strawberry Iced Sprinkled and Chocolate Iced
- Toppings and Inclusions, including Original Glazed doughnut pieces
In addition, guests can head on to the Wichita location at 7777 E Central Ave. on National Ice Cream Day, purchase any original glazed soft service offering, and enjoy a second ice cream offering of equal or lesser value for free.
To learn more about Krispy Kreme’s new ice cream and shakes, click here. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/krispy-kreme-ice-cream-now-available-in-wichita-ahead-of-national-ice-cream-day/ | 2022-07-16T15:09:40 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/krispy-kreme-ice-cream-now-available-in-wichita-ahead-of-national-ice-cream-day/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — There was a special reunion in Decatur Township Friday that was nearly years in the making.
Firefighters at the Decatur Township Fire Department got a surprise visit from a young boy named Samuel. He was safely surrendered by his mother at the fire station's Safe Haven Baby Box in October 2020.
(NOTE: The video in the player above is from a previous story about a couple who adopted a surrendered baby.)
Friday, he came back to say hello to the team.
So far this year, six babies have been safely surrendered at boxes across the state, including three at Carmel Fire Station 45.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes are temperature-controlled and sound an alarm when an infant is placed inside, alerting firefighters. Once taken out of the box, the baby is checked by medics and taken to the hospital. Newborns who are surrendered in the boxes are usually adopted in about a month.
There are now 112 boxes installed nationwide, including 85 in Indiana. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/boy-surrendered-in-safe-haven-baby-box-in-2020-visits-firefighters-who-saved-him/531-c35a9c0a-2489-42c2-918d-97af78eb2357 | 2022-07-16T15:18:57 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/boy-surrendered-in-safe-haven-baby-box-in-2020-visits-firefighters-who-saved-him/531-c35a9c0a-2489-42c2-918d-97af78eb2357 |
On a Friday in June 2015, Blake Guererro officially ran out of luck.
Guerrero had started using drugs a few years before and ended up with a handful of offenses on his record while trying to support his habit. He first went to federal prison in 2010 at the age of 20, and that's when he says the cycle began. He'd get arrested, serve his time, get released and start using again.
Unbeknownst to him, the car he'd stolen on that June day belonged to a probation officer. Guerrero fled from police, bypassing two spike strips, before running out of gas on a reservation in Pinal County.
This time, he ended up serving a little more than two years in prison after being convicted of fleeing from law enforcement. Following his release, Guerrero moved to Tucson and spent nearly four years on probation, overseen by Pima County Adult Probation Services.
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Guerrero changed his luck while on probation, as an exemplary participant in the program. Last month, he was one of eight people honored for his perseverance during a ceremony that featured officials from Pima County's justice system and former NFL player and University of Arizona alum Vance Johnson.
With between 7,000 and 8,000 people under supervision of Pima County Adult Probation Services each year, the department's "Journey to Success" event was created several years ago to bring attention to the program's most successful participants.
Honorees are nominated by their probation officers, each of whom carry a caseload of 60 to 65 cases.
With public focus seeming to fall on the 15% of probationers who fail while under supervision, Chief Probation Officer David Sanders said he hopes the event can shine a light on some of the 85% of probationers who successfully complete the program.
Showcasing successes
In its third year, Journey to Success has seen 32 people honored. Only one was later charged with a subsequent crime.
This represents a 3% recidivism rate for honorees, much lower than the overall recidivism rate for probationers.
Of the 3,471 people who completed probation in Pima County in the 2018 fiscal year, 579 reoffended sometime between 2018 and 2021, according to data from the Arizona Judicial Branch.
That's a nearly 17% recidivism rate, higher than the statewide average of 13%.
Sanders said the Journey to Success event is the only one of its kind in the state and he's aware of only one similar program in the country, in Marin County, California.
Honorees receive a certificate and their photos and stories are posted in the lobby of one of the four offices of Pima County Adult Probation Services.
One of this year's honorees told his probation officer after seeing the wall of photos that his goal was to make it up there himself. While he missed the ceremony, his photo and story were already hanging on the wall among those of the other honorees.
In 2021, 84% of people who exited probation in Pima County completed their terms successfully, said Cara Singer, the probation department's division director of field services and the creator of Journey to Success.
"Journey to Success was established to recognize individuals who not only complete probation successfully, but to recognize individuals that have made huge strides in sustaining behavioral changes," Singer said during the event.
Sanders called success a relative term, saying that in his business, success is defined as someone who leaves the program without going to jail or prison.
"That doesn't mean they were perfect, by any means. That doesn't mean we were perfect, by any means. By definition, I think we're all imperfect," he said. "But some of these success cases traveled really bumpy roads on probation and still managed to be successful, because they did not go to jail and they did not go to prison."
Sanders said within the 85% of successful probationers, there are some people who do amazingly well, to the point that their probation officers couldn't help but take notice — and action, by nominating them for the award.
Pima County Superior Court Presiding Judge Jeffrey Bergin called the event one of his favorites of the year, saying that judges on the criminal bench spend most of their time talking to people who have found themselves in trouble.
"With fingers crossed, we hope that the program that's been put together is going to show people how to get back on the right track, how to be happy again, how to be productive in our society, but rarely do we get to know the end of the story," Bergin said. "They leave our courtroom, and that's the last we hear."
Journey to Success allows Bergin the opportunity to learn the outcomes of some of the hardest cases, he said, adding that some of the honorees have overcome insurmountable odds. Including Guerrero.
Hope for the future – and others
Guerrero said he had no idea when he was arrested that Friday in June that it was going to save his life. He said he got sober in prison and met God.
When he got out, he spent two years under federal probation and four years under state supervision, which he said was less than ideal.
"It was kind of rough. I got different probation officers checking on me, trying to see where I'm at," Guerrero said.
He called his Pima County probation officer, Martha Esquivel, tough but fair.
"She always worried about me. Every time I told her I was graduating or I was meeting with a staff member or I was getting privileges, she was always nervous," he said. "Kind of like, 'This is make or break. This is where you make it or you fail.'"
He said she kept him in line over the years, watching over Guerrero as he got involved with and eventually started working at Teen Challenge of Arizona, a Christian-based nonprofit that helps people address life-controlling problems in order to become productive members of society.
Guerrero said the support of Esquivel, his mother and his family helped carry him through his years of probation.
"I began to find that there was hope and there was a chance to change. I didn't have to be this number, this criminal, what my dad was. I could actually be successful and healthy," he said.
"When these people began to love on me and look past these walls, it just reminded me that I was more than just a drug addict."
Guerrero said after the event that while he still has a long journey ahead of him, he's proud of how far he's come.
"Knowing that I completed this gives me hope that I can do the next journey and get through the next task," he said. "Because this was huge."
Guerrero, who now helps operate a landscaping company, was surrounded by family and friends at the event as Esquivel presented him with his certificate.
"I love you, but I'm going to delete your number now," Esquivel told Guerrero with a laugh.
Contact Star reporter Caitlin Schmidt at 573-4191 or cschmidt@tucson.com. On Twitter: @caitlincschmidt | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lives-turned-around-pima-county-honors-outstanding-probationers/article_ac9a1d8c-f71a-11ec-b3b3-0f676fd1f53a.html | 2022-07-16T15:19:45 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lives-turned-around-pima-county-honors-outstanding-probationers/article_ac9a1d8c-f71a-11ec-b3b3-0f676fd1f53a.html |
The distracted legislators, rushing to conclude a long session, didn't seem to know exactly why they were considering a gift to the new sports-betting industry.
But the majority went ahead and did it anyway.
It was June 21, and the House Appropriations Committee was focused on passing budget bills, which is why I was watching. They also were considering a few stragglers like HB 2855. That bill capped the tax rate the state can charge on sports-betting profits at 10 percent.
"Why would we cap the amount of revenue that we could possibly generate from this in statute?" Rep. Kelli Butler asked. "Are we helping them with demand? They don’t seem to have a demand problem."
It was a good question. And no they don't have a demand problem — far from it.
After the Legislature legalized sports-betting last year, the industry boomed in the state, mostly through people using online betting apps.
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In March, the last month for which detailed state reports are available, bettors placed about $690 million worth of wagers with Arizona licensees. That gross revenue produced $1.9 million in "privilege fees" — the taxes that Arizona charges on sports betting.
In April the numbers were on a similar scale: $512 million dollars in wagers during the month, yielding about $1.6 million dollars in revenue for the state.
If the tax revenue sounds small from this new industry that itself was a gift to licensees, that's because it is. We didn't tax sports betting highly enough before this law passed. Now it will be hard for us ever to do that.
Granted the state is not charging its fee on the licensees' gross revenue. The companies subtract gambling winnings they've paid out, which constitute the majority of their revenue, as well as free bets that they give out as promotions. Then we tax the rest, what's known as their adjusted gross revenue.
It apparently was the Arizona Coyotes hockey that brought the proposal to the Legislature. Their sports-betting head, Andrew Diss, explained the idea this way at a February 22 hearing:
"We believe this will provide certainty and predictability when it comes to the sports betting operators to make investments in their business," said Diss, who came to Arizona from the Nevada industry. "To give you an idea of tax rates in surrounding states, Nevada is at 6.75 percent, Colorado is at 10 percent. There are currently two ballot questions that have qualified in California that are going to be at 10 percent.
"When you look at the landscape surrounding Arizona, 10 percent is that sweet spot that makes our businesses viable and able to grow.
Forgive me, but I don't see why we should care about the growth or viability of their business. This is not a business that creates anything, certainly not significant tax revenue. It's an "entertainment" business that, on aggregate, takes from Arizona bettors and gives them a little thrill in the process.
Still, I might be more sympathetic if they paid substantial taxes. This, tax revenue, was used to sell the legalization of sports betting.
But it's producing so little compared, for example, to marijuana. Also a vice that became legal in 2021, marijuana sales are being taxed highly: The local and state sales tax (in most places around 10 percent) plus a 16 percent excise tax.
In March and April, marijuana taxes were an order of magnitude bigger than sports-betting taxes, and then some. In March, marijuana produced about $23 million in revenue, and in April about $22 million, a lot more than the less than $2 million in taxes during the same months from sports betting.
What explains the disparate treatment of these legalized vices? Well, the first, marijuana, was passed through an initiative opposed by the state's power structure. Sports-betting was passed by the Legislature and benefited the power structure — namely the biggest professional sports teams and events in Phoenix.
The Arizona Cardinals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Phoenix Suns, Arizona Coyotes, Phoenix Mercury, TPC Scottsdale (home of the WM Phoenix Open golf tournament), Phoenix Speedway and Arizona Rattlers all received licenses and made agreements with sports-betting firms.
In fact, the rate-cap bill was just one of two bills the Coyotes floated this year. The other would have suspended the requirement that sports teams have a minimum 10,000-seat venue to retain their retail betting license. The Coyotes will temporarily be playing in a 5,000-seat Arizona State University arena.
The Arizona Indian Gaming Association opposed the idea, and it ultimately failed.
The Coyotes' Diss justified capping the tax rate on betting profits by noting that currently it is an administrative body, the Department of Gaming, that can change the fee structure, through its rulemaking process.
"We have a public policy concern, where we’re more comfortable with an elected body like the Legislature setting tax policy, rather than delegating that authority to the director of a single state agency," he told the Senate committee in February. "You guys are all accountable to the voters."
They're easier to buy off, too, I would add, with the money teams have to donate and the tickets they can give away.
If he really wants sports-betting tax rates to be accountable to voters, I would suggest we have a multiple-choice referendum. Voters could choose whether to impose a 5%, 10%, 15% or 20% rate on sports-betting profits. I could live with the voters deciding.
Instead, what happened was a Legislative majority, sympathetic to the power structure and liking the sound of capped taxes, passed the bill on one of the last days of the session. Then they rushed out the door.
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Some math lessons in Tucson Unified School District could be streamed onto classroom screens by teachers from a Chicago-based company because the district is struggling to find enough teachers here.
With the new school year less than three weeks away, TUSD is considering hiring the company as a temporary solution for its shortage of up to 24 math teachers at a dozen schools.
Certified teachers from the company, Elevate K-12, would provide live-streamed math instruction where needed during the 2022-2023 school year, said Flori Huitt, TUSD's assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction.
“We wanted to bring this just as a proactive, temporary solution for our district given the number of vacancies that is very daunting,” Huitt told the TUSD governing board at Tuesday’s meeting.
The contract, potentially for $780,000, would cost significantly less than the approximate $1.77 million it would cost the district to fill all 24 vacancies.
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However, the district would still have to hire additional classroom managers to be physically present with the students.
TUSD did not provide an estimate for how much it would cost to hire those managers, but spokeswoman Leslie Lenhart said the district would not incur additional costs from those positions.
"It would not cost the district more because our current vacancy savings would cover the cost of these positions," Lenhart said.
Board members have not yet taken action on the matter, as the district is still focusing on recruiting additional teachers. But Huitt said it was important to discuss in case the district needs to contract with Elevate K-12 in time for the first day of school on Aug. 4.
The district is facing its second year of vast teacher shortages, this time largely of certified math teachers, as well as of qualified substitute teachers who could step in as content experts for math classes, Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo said.
“What that’s going to cause is our students to be further behind," Huitt said, "especially if they have roving subs or different teachers that are not consistently there giving them the instruction that they need so that they can be successful."
In the previous school year, Trujillo said, the district turned to its existing teachers and asked them to surrender their planning hours to work additional class periods as schools struggled with vacancies and teacher absences midyear.
“It created a lot of burnout, a lot of employee anxiety and frustration as they were taken away from their primary duties and moved into, essentially, substitute roles, so we want to make sure we don’t replicate that mistake again,” Trujillo told the Arizona Daily Star.
"Online learning lite"
Elevate K-12 would be in charge of assigning certified math teachers to the requested TUSD classrooms.
According to an Elevate K-12 video shown at the TUSD meeting, the online teacher would be projected in a large display at the front of the classroom for all students to engage in the same daily lesson. The teacher, in turn, would view the students altogether in the classroom, rather than each student individually.
The video says Elevate teachers have access to different curriculums created by the company, which are aligned with both national and state standards, and are customizable to individual classes and teachers’ notes.
Lenhart said Elevate's curriculums align with Common Core and state-specific standards. In addition, she said, the company would work with the district to ensure the lessons also align with TUSD's math curriculum guidelines.
Like most distance learning models, the Elevate program offers students the opportunity to virtually raise their hands to ask questions or message the teacher privately to ask for help during class.
All Elevate teachers are certified in their respective grades and subjects, and have more than five years of teaching experience, according to information presented at the meeting.
“It’s kind of like online learning lite,” Trujillo told the Star. “It’s kind of like a halfway point where the students are physically in the classroom in desks, still having access to all the resources of the school.”
Huitt said Elevate offers the district the opportunity to both relieve teachers of the heavy workload to prevent burnout, and ensures that students always have a certified teacher to present the material.
“Even if we were to get teachers to cover periods, they may not have that specific mathematical content knowledge to be able to provide that instruction that is so particular for these secondary school years,” she said.
The district provided a list of 12 schools in the district that were facing teacher shortages, but administrators reiterated they're still in the process of interviewing potential hires for those positions.
The schools are Booth Fickett K-8 School; Pistor, Valencia, Doolen and Mansfeld middle schools; and Catalina, Cholla, Rincon, Sabino, Sahuaro, Santa Rita and Pueblo high schools.
Reactions to more virtual learning
Christina Berry, mother of an incoming sophomore student at Pueblo High School, one of the schools on the list of vacancies, said she understands why the district had to turn to this potential solution.
And, while she doesn't think it's a perfect alternative, she also doesn't worry too much about the changes affecting her child's education.
She said all her kids had a difficult time with distance learning during the beginning of the pandemic because it was easy for them to become distracted and disengaged, and ultimately lose motivation for their studies.
But, she believes the situation will be much different if it's only one online class on campus, where the students can still socialize in other classes throughout the day.
"If it's math only and it's that one period and they're going to be in a classroom supervised while a teacher is teaching them online, I think that's OK," Berry said.
"I would rather have that than have multiple substitute teachers rotating around different styles of teaching all in one semester. That can take a toll on the student," she added.
But Margaret Chaney, president of the Tucson Education Association, expressed concern for those students who typically don't learn well with online classes.
"My biggest concern is if my kid's not experiencing success online, do I have the option of pulling them out of there and placing them with a live teacher?" Chaney said of a possible scenario for students and parents.
Teacher costs are the same
The cost of an Elevate teacher wouldn’t be much different than the cost of an average salary for a TUSD teacher, she said.
The average salary for a full-time TUSD teacher, including benefits, is about $65,000. The yearly cost per teacher with Elevate would also be approximately $65,000, Huitt said.
To put that number in perspective, she said, it would cost the district about $780,000 to have Elevate teachers cover a total of 60 class periods each day for the duration of the 2022-2023 school year, with each class being 45-60 minutes long.
The district would be responsible for providing all the technical equipment to connect TUSD students to Elevate teachers, Huitt said.
She added that Elevate would also be responsible for replacing any of its absent teachers, rather than the schools and TUSD teachers scrambling to find a last-minute replacement.
"Nobody’s preferred solution"
But partnering with Elevate K-12 would still not relieve the district of the pressure to hire more personnel in time for the coming school year.
Trujillo said the district needs to hire at least 24 classroom managers — assuming they could work full school days — to manage the logistics of an Elevate classroom, such as ensuring students’ safety and that classwork is flowing smoothly.
Those classroom managers, he said, would most likely be teacher assistants hired specifically for that role to avoid pulling staff members from other school departments as the district did in the previous year.
Trujillo said TUSD had already advertised vacancies for teacher assistant positions that were budgeted in the original fiscal year 2023 budget proposal, prior to considering the Elevate K-12 partnership.
Noting the shortage of teaching assistants, Chaney said she is concerned the district would also struggle to fill those positions, and ultimately have to pull them out of other classrooms that need them.
Responding to a request from board member Ravi Shah, Trujillo said the district could look to assign some certified math teachers from Tucson Unified Virtual Academy to other high schools if the enrollment numbers allow for that flexibility.
Still, Chaney expressed doubt that this would be the solution to preventing teacher burnout throughout the district, noting that educators have been dealing with other big workloads aside from covering additional class periods.
"A lot of teachers left this past year because it was ridiculously overwhelming. The amount of work that was compounded on everybody's plate was just horrendous," she said, referring to teacher meetings, pressure over testing, collecting new data and dealing with behavioral issues inside the classroom.
"Administrators get to go back into their offices and retreat every now and then, but teachers are on all the time," Chaney said.
Trujillo said that "this is nobody's preferred solution," but facing so many vacancies just shy of the start of the new school year has pushed the district to think outside the box.
If the district is unable to hire the necessary math teachers in time, the TUSD governing board can be expected to take action on this measure by the end of July or early August, Lenhart said.
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In 1951, songwriter Irving Gordon penned a haunting folk ballad about the American Civil War titled, “Two Brothers.” It is featured at both Disneyland and Walt Disney World in the Abraham Lincoln attractions. The song tells of two brothers going off to war with one choosing to fight for the North while the other brother decides to fight for the South. It reflects the resulting sorrows of the conflict plus the deep division that occurred in families at that time.
In listening to the song, I found it quite intriguing that while depicting the somber consequence of that war, Gordon abruptly reverses the mood and ends every other stanza with the phrase, “All on a beautiful morning.” On the surface I found that to be totally incongruous with the whole tenor of the ballad, out of place and contradictory. It didn’t make sense to me.
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But then in giving it more thought I began to see what Gordon was possibly attempting to do. Mornings have always represented a new beginning, a new day bringing light out of darkness. By injecting the fact that the tragedies of the war were taking place on a beautiful morning, Gordon metaphorically created the idea that out of the darkness of that war a new and more vibrant beginning would take place; a new day would begin.
Today we are in a similar pattern with the darkness of the world’s ills dominating the news: from wars to humanitarian atrocities, with gun violence and climate change, crime and corruption and political erosion. Indeed there is enough of the depressing news to wring the spirit out of any soul. However, like Gordon’s song, there is constantly a beautiful morning that is hovering over us, dictating and moving our lives forward and away from the negativity that seems, at times, to be overwhelming.
This bright new morning comes in the form of the human kindness and the show of love that emanates from the work of people caring about other people. Volunteers stand as an excellent example, freely and selflessly giving of their time and talents in many fields, from hospitals to schools to charities and social service agencies plus many more, all done to better lift up the lives of everyone.
In addition, this show of love for our fellow human includes those many devoted professionals, often underpaid, who spend many hours dedicating themselves to the advancement and welfare of others. Teachers, nurses, first responders, social workers and people in similar positions are among our citizens often giving up their time and time with their families to work towards improving all lives. Then, there are those who sacrifice their lives — police and fire personnel and those in the military — to make us more secure. And people are active in the political arena and have joined clubs and organizations that raise funds for charitable purposes all for the sake of bettering society.
These are but a few examples of ordinary citizens of all ages and walks of life giving of themselves to make life more productive and rewarding for others. They are the many good-hearted people who don’t make the headlines. And this is all taking place because there is this overriding awareness in the human spirit that makes us realize that we, in many ways, are akin to one another, in the simple sense that we are all in this together. And this is that innate impetus that prompts us to get involved, to be a vital part of it all and to make it work because it has to work to foster survival. It all culminates in defeating those negative ills that rise up periodically in an attempt to destroy our trust and faith in one another.
There is hope, and it’s blossoming all on a beautiful morning.
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An assortment of bagpipers and drummers gathered in Wheeler Park Wednesday evening for a performance on the square.
The event, a tradition of the Jim Thomson U.S. School for Piping and Drumming, is also the same week as Flagstaff’s Celtic Festival.
Several bagpipers and drummers made a large circle around their conductor in the park, playing music in what is known as a massed band. They wore kilts and T-shirts, and played an assortment of songs as people gathered to watch.
Bruce and Marla Smith sat at the park with their children, Paul and Paige, on a break from their trip back to Fort Worth, Texas. They were headed home after a visit to California, heard the piping as they drove past and decided to stop.
This was the kids’ first time hearing bagpipe music, which Paul described as “cool.”
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After several songs, the musicians arranged themselves in the street and marched to Uptown Pubhouse to continue the celebration, playing as they went.
The performances continued once they reached Uptown, with students showing off what they’d learned this week through individual performances.
“This is what we like to call kitchen piping,” said school administrator Marianne Sullivan. “So people get to go up and do whatever they like to do, show off the different schools.”
The event is the culmination of the Jim Thomson U.S. School of Piping and Drumming hosted annually in Flagstaff for 21 years now. It runs for a week on Northern Arizona University’s campus, where students participate in group lessons, band practice and a variety of performances.
Another final concert was Thursday evening at Riordan Mansion.
Students can also choose to participate in classes on more specific topics, such as instrument maintenance, blowing steady and the many aspects involved in marching in a band. Several focused on piobaireachd, a name for the Great Highland Bagpipe’s classical music (also known as ceòl mór).
The school is dedicated to the memory of Jim Thomson, who ran it for its first several years.
“Without question there would be no school without Jim's hard work,” according to its website. “He ran the school for the students and to promote the music and traditions of the Great Highland Bagpipe and drumming.”
Students come from all over, Sullivan said, with a range of skill and age levels. Participants this year ranged from 8 to 80 years old and came from Ireland, Scotland, Canada and places across the U.S (as far as California, Texas and Louisiana).
Sullivan also played in the band that evening and is part of the City of Flagstaff’s Honor Guard. She has been playing bagpipes since the age of 10, as her parents were both born in Scotland.
Another piper, Jodie Marx, said this was her first time playing the bagpipes. She lives in Tucson and decided to start learning to play after sewing her own kilt by hand. At a friend’s suggestion, she found a paramedic who plays the pipes to be her instructor.
She played her first bagpipe notes two days before the concert, having spent a year practicing on the chanter, a recorder-like instrument that is the first step in learning to play.
“It's very different,” she said of playing the full instrument. “A chanter looks like a little recorder and then the pipes are a full set that takes a lot of air.”
She said she enjoyed the event and plans to keep coming back to the school.
The school is in partnership with the Northern Arizona Celtic Heritage Society, which is hosting Flagstaff’s Celtic Festival this weekend. Many students from the school stay to compete in the festival, both solo and band, which are judged by its instructors.
The Celtic Festival takes place at Fort Tuthill County Park and runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Events scheduled for the weekend include Irish dancers, lessons on various aspects of Celtic life (highlights include Scottish pandemics, the importance of bees, handfasting and Norse constellations), whiskey tastings, crafts and even more music.
Adult tickets for the festival cost $20 for one day, or $30 for two days, with discounted prices for children, military members and seniors. Tickets can be purchased at the gate.
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A Fort Worth Police Department detective has been arrested and stripped of his powers after the department says following a reported burglary he forced his way into a residence with a gun while off-duty.
FWPD Detective Bryan Lafaurie was off-duty on July 8 when he entered a Fort Worth residence with a gun to confront two teenagers who he suspected of stealing his property earlier in the day, FWPD said.
Fort Worth Police responded to the burglary call that day and immediately began an investigation. Lafaurie was placed on restricted duty and stripped of all police powers during the course of the ongoing criminal investigation.
On Tuesday, FWPD obtained an arrest warrant for burglary and Lafaurie ultimately surrendered at the Tarrant County Jail.
"The Fort Worth Police Department holds its officers to a high standard both on and off-duty, and does not tolerate criminal misconduct," the department said. "A thorough investigation into the circumstances of these allegations is being conducted."
Lafaurie's counsel, Robert Huseman with Varghese Summersett, issued a statement Thursday asking the public not to rush to judgment.
"Officer Lafaurie is a devoted father and a dedicated police corporal who has served his community for years. We look forward to the opportunity to present his side at the appropriate time," said Huseman in a statement.
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Lafaurie has been with the Fort Worth Police Department for eight years and was assigned to the Digital Forensics Unit at the time of his arrest, the department said.
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Opponents of a housing development near First Street and Pioneers Boulevard — across the street from Wilderness Park and a Native sweat lodge on private land — plan to take their arguments to court.
The owner of land known as the Fish Farm — surrounded by Wilderness Park and across the street from the proposed development — has filed an intent to appeal the actions by the City Council that paved the way for the development.
Kathleen Danker filed the intent to appeal zoning changes and annexations — including the roughly 2 acres of land she owns — approved by the council that allow the Manzitto Construction to build Wilderness Crossing.
Sam Manzitto Jr. plans to build 162 single-family homes, 134 town homes and 205 apartments on about 75 acres south of Pioneers Boulevard between First Street and U.S. 77 purchased from the Catholic Diocese.
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The land has been designated in the Lincoln-Lancaster County Comprehensive Plan for future urban residential development since 2002, but environmental advocates opposed the plan early on, raising concerns about flooding as well as the effect on wildlife and native habitat, including destruction of a sandstone ecosystem in the area.
Native advocates also raised concerns about the development’s effects on the city’s oldest and most-used sweat lodge located across the street on Danker’s land, known for years as the Fish Farm.
For several days, Native advocates expressed their opposition by setting up the Niskithe Prayer Camp on the site of the proposed development, marching to the Catholic Diocese and City Hall, and by delivering copies of an online petition to the developer, mayor’s office and diocese.
The notice of appeal filed in Lancaster County District Court is just that — no other appeal documents have been filed.
Ken Winston, the attorney representing Danker, said while Danker is the one listed as the person appealing the City Council actions, she supports other opponents.
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“(The sweat lodge) has operated there with her full support the whole time she’s been there,” said Winston, a longtime environmental advocate who is now policy director of Interfaith Power and Light, an advocacy group on climate change. “She’s in full support of the indigenous clients.”
The court could void the City Council’s action, Winston said, but there are other remedies that could occur, likely through negotiations between those involved. Creating an extended park area to provide a buffer to the sweat lodge and park is one possibility.
“We’d like to see something that would protect the interests of both Ms. Danker and the Native sweat lodge,” he said. “I guess there’s lots of possibilities.”
Erin Poor, who was among opponents who organized the prayer camp, said the appeal is on behalf of all opponents.
“We are pursuing all legal avenues to overturn the actions taken by the City Council on April 25,” she said. “And this is part of one of those avenues.”
Several longtime environmental and advocacy groups — the Wachiska Audubon Society, the Nebraska Sierra Club, Nebraskans for Peace and Nebraska Interfaith Power and Light — recently sent a letter to the mayor outlining their concerns about the approval process, including that city officials cherry-picked the Comprehensive Plan goals that supported the development, omitting those that might not.
The letter noted particular concerns with the short time frame and noted that one City Council member asked for suggestions on how to deal with similar situations in the future.
“It is a good question, if for no other reason than to avoid litigation over the disregard of explicit guidance in the Comprehensive Plan,” the letter says.
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – An Apopka firefighter who has been hospitalized for weeks due to a significant work-related injury has died.
Austin Duran, 25, was injured on the job on June 30 and taken to Orlando Regional Medical Center for his injuries, where he had multiple surgeries and was in the ICU.
In a GoFundMe update made on Saturday, Duran’s sister wrote, “Yesterday was a bad day for our family ... Austin fought this fight like a warrior, like a hero.”
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Apopka Fire Chief Sean Wylam told News 6 at the time Duran was working near a secondary garage and trying to move a sand trailer when he was hurt. The trailer is used for hazards like gas spills and liquid spills.
An update on GoFundMe before Saturday’s said, “Austin’s lungs are having a hard time healing themselves. He caught pneumonia and his lungs are very damaged still from the accident. He is highly sedated and expected to be on the ventilator longer than we initially thought.”
The Apopka community rallied around the firefighter, raising funds for his procedures and medical expenses. Porkie’s Original BBQ held a fundraiser on July 7.
“It just hit me. This guy needs some support, whether it’s financial or just the community’s support,” owner Steve White said. “I think it’s really the biggest thing that going to make him feel better while he’s there.”
During the fundraising event, Sean Wylam, Apopka’s fire chief, called the community “extended family.”
“That’s what makes Apopka different,” he said. “He’s got a ton of support, one of the most awesome things the reason why we’re here today is the community outpouring of support and love shown towards Austin and our entire department.”
Other Central Florida firefighters associations shared their condolences with the Apopka Firefighters Association on Saturday.
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BEAUMONT, Texas — Eleven animals are in the custody of Beaumont Animal Care Friday night, thanks to an anonymous Crime Stoppers tip.
Officers served a civil seizure warrant in the 5500 block of Shivers Drive.
That’s where they found five dogs and six cats living in a house that had no air conditioning. Beaumont Animal Care said temperatures were 90 to 100 degrees inside the home.
Along with this, the animals didn't have water access and were severely malnourished.
There will be a hearing on July 21, 2022, in Judge Ben Collins' court to decide if the animals will be returned.
The seizure came after an investigation opened earlier this week.
A dead puppy was found on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, inside a kennel in direct sunlight with no shade. Officers assisted Groves Animal Control at a home in the 3100 block of Taft Avenue in Groves shortly before 3:30 p.m.
It was 94 degrees in Groves on the day the puppy was found. A heat advisory was in effect, showing a heat index between 108 and 112 degrees at the time of the call.
The investigation is ongoing.
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SURPRISE, Ariz. — A 3-year-old girl has died after a drowning incident at a Surprise home on Tuesday.
First responders were called out to a home on 158th Avenue just before 2 p.m. for a reported drowning in a pool. That neighborhood is near Greenway and Reems roads.
The little girl was found in the backyard pool and was unresponsive. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The child's mother told police she and her child usually take a nap during the day.
That day, while the mother was asleep, the child accessed the backyard of the home, officials said. The family told police there are usually safeguards in place to prevent the child from accessing the backyard and pool but were not in place at the time.
An adult family member who had returned home found the child in the pool, officials said.
It is still unknown how long the child was in the pool before being discovered by the family member. Firefighters say the girl could have been in the water for up to three hours before she was found.
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Drowning Prevention Tips:
Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1-4 aside from birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three children die every day as a result of drowning. Here are some tips from the CDC on how to protect children around water:
Learn life-saving skills.
Everyone should know the basics of swimming (floating, moving through the water) and CPR.
Fence it off.
Install a four-sided isolation fence, with self–closing and self–latching gates, around backyard swimming pools. This can help keep children away from the area when they aren’t supposed to be swimming. Pool fences should be separate from the house and play area from the pool.
Life jackets are a must.
Make sure kids wear life jackets in and around natural bodies of water, such as lakes or the ocean, even if they know how to swim. Life jackets can be used in and around pools for weaker swimmers too.
Keep a close watch
When kids are in or near water (including bathtubs), closely supervise them at all times. Because drowning happens quickly and quietly, adults watching kids in or near water should avoid distracting activities like reading books, talking on the phone, or using alcohol and drugs.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas Army National Guard Soldier assigned to Operation Lone Star died in a non-mission related incident Thursday.
The name of the deceased is being withheld until 24 hours after the next of kin has been notified.
The cause of death is under investigation.
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- New York successfully implemented 988 as the new three-digit number to call or text to be connected to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday.
- The new national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline will officially launch on Saturday.
- Additionally, a chat feature will also be available through the website 988lifeline.org.
New York successfully implemented 988 as the new three-digit number to call or text to be connected to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced this week. The new national hotline launches Saturday.
According to Hochul, all of the state's 62 counties will be covered and ready for the launch of the new 988 Lifeline in order for anyone with a New York area code who is contacting 988 to be connected to one of New York's 988 crisis centers.
Calling the lifeline will provide a direct connection to accessible care and support for anyone experiencing a mental health or substance abuse-related crisis. Additionally, a chat feature will also be available through the website 988lifeline.org.
"Connecting people who are experiencing a mental health crisis or considering suicide to trained counselors can significantly help them through difficulties that seem insurmountable, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides hope and support to those who need it most," Hochul said in a statement. "By implementing 988, we are providing these individuals, as well as their families and friends, an easy-to-remember number that will give them access to the services they need."
The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline will assist callers in a myriad of ways, including:
- Connecting individuals experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis to a trained counselor who can immediately address their needs and connect them to ongoing care;
- Providing more cost-effective early intervention;
- Reducing use of law enforcement, public health, and other safety resources;
- Helping end stigma toward those seeking or accessing mental healthcare.
There are currently 13 operating 988 crisis contact centers in New York state and two in the development stage.
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"The 988 Lifeline will further strengthen New York's crisis response system by connecting individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis to trained counselors who can provide immediate assistance and access to services," New York State Office of Mental Health Commissioner Dr. Ann Sullivan said in a statement. "People can also contact 988 if they are worried about a loved one who may need crisis support. Governor Hochul has made implementation of 988 a top priority, and provided the resources needed to successfully launch the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline."
The Federal Communications Commission called for 988 to be the new number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, with the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act being signed into law in October 2020.
In total, between 2005 and 2020, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline received a total of 20,478,698 calls.
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A wayward dolphin has been swimming in a Connecticut river after making its way upstream from the Long Island Sound.
The dolphin was first spotted Thursday morning by fishermen along the Thames River. A video posted to Facebook shows the dolphin jumping around near the Norwich Marina, about 15 miles from the Sound. Eventually, the animal rescue team at Mystic Aquarium was notified. They have been monitoring the situation along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The ocean mammal was spotted in the same area again on Friday morning.
The dolphin appears to be small and may be a juvenile, said Alexandra Cojocaru, the aquarium's animal rescue technician.
It's possible it was looking for food or simply got turned around and separated from its pod, she said.
Cojocaru said it's unusual, but not unheard of, for a dolphin to make its way into the river, and she is hopeful it will eventually find its way back to Long Island Sound without needing to be rescued.
“If they remain in fresh water for extended periods of time, that could lead to issues with their skin and other things," she said. "So, it's definitely not ideal for them to be in fresh water for a long period of time." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/wayward-dolphin-spotted-swimming-in-river-in-connecticut/3776644/ | 2022-07-16T15:39:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/wayward-dolphin-spotted-swimming-in-river-in-connecticut/3776644/ |
Longtime Executive Vice President Jeff Tharp retired from Korellis in Hammond after 36 years.
Tharp started at the employee-owned roofing contractor, previously known as Korellis Roofing, in 1986. He began as a yard employee tasked with odd jobs and went on to hold a number of positions with the company, including roofer, estimator and superintendent. He eventually rose through the ranks to become a project manager and then executive vice president.
CEO Pete Korellis honored Tharp's contributions to the company by hanging a portrait of him in the front entrance next to the picture of Korellis' father, company founder George Korellis.
“This is right where my dad would want you to be," Korellis said. “Jeff was dedicated, driven and dependable and made a difference to many. He was like a brother to me and in all the years we worked together, we never argued — we may have disagreed, but we never let anything come between our friendship.”
Tharp now plans to spend more time with his family and his grandchildren. In his retirement, he also aspires to golf in all 50 states.
“It’s bittersweet, but this is what you work your whole life for, to retire and enjoy life,” Tharp said.
Korellis is a commercial and industrial contractor with 220 employees who own the company through an employee stock ownership plan. It bills itself as the largest roofing contractor in Northwest Indiana.
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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."
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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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.
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.
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/executive-vice-president-retires-from-korellis/article_18b729eb-bde2-58ad-97a1-c6595794ce20.html | 2022-07-16T15:50:32 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/executive-vice-president-retires-from-korellis/article_18b729eb-bde2-58ad-97a1-c6595794ce20.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Ah, wine. There is nothing more relaxing than a good glass of wine and some Netflix.
National Strawberry Rhubarb Wine Day is Saturday, July 16, and to celebrate the occasion, you deserve a glass yourself.
“This wine is made from a combination of delectable strawberries and tart rhubarb. The strawberry rhubarb plant is often used to make pies. The varieties of this plant are noted by the types of fruit they produce,” as NationalToday states on their website.
So, to help you with your wine day, here are the best places to get wine in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex according to GAYOT:
- The Alcove
- Cork
- CRÚ Food & Wine Bar
- Stoney’s Wine Lounge
- Times Ten Cellars
- Veritas Wine Room
- WhiteHall Exchange
- Winewood
For more suggestions visit GAYOT. | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-wine-in-north-texas-according-to-gayot/ | 2022-07-16T15:51:37 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-wine-in-north-texas-according-to-gayot/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Cherry, easily one of the best flavors out there. It goes well in everything: on ice cream, in Coke, and more.
National Cherry Day is Saturday, July 16, and in celebration of cherries, we thought we would check out one of the best cherry dishes: cherry pie. Here are the best places to get cherry pie in Dallas, according to Yelp:
- MeLisa The Pie Lady
- Emporium Pies
- Chances Pie & Coffee Shop
- 9 Rabbits Bakery
- Sugar and Spice Bakery
- Haute Sweets Patisserie
- Norma’s Cafe
- Cindy’s NY Deli & Restaurant
For more suggestions, visit Yelp. | https://cw33.com/news/local/where-to-get-the-best-cherry-pie-in-dallas-according-to-yelp/ | 2022-07-16T15:51:43 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/where-to-get-the-best-cherry-pie-in-dallas-according-to-yelp/ |
JIM THORPE, Pa. — Buried in a tomb at Jim Thorpe Memorial Park is the "greatest athlete in the world," Jim Thorpe.
For the first time in more than a century, he'll stand by himself on the Olympic podium.
The International Olympic Committee reinstated Jim Thorpe as the sole winner in the decathlon and pentathlon for the 1912 Stockholm Olympics.
"It makes us all feel great that somebody is finally getting the respect that they deserve, you know, after working so hard to be an athlete and getting his medals, so I feel really happy for him," said Barry Fong of New Jersey.
"I think it's great because he's an American hero," said Bob Wegner from New Jersey.
To gain perspective on a sports scandal that happened over 100 years ago, we went to the experts at the Mauch Chunk Museum and Cultural Center.
"He was good at every sport — basketball, baseball, football, track and field. He even had a 200 average in bowling," said Karliene Zach, the manager at the Mauch Chunk Museum.
Zach says Thorpe was stripped of his medals seven months after the games.
The International Olympic Committee found out Thorpe was paid to play minor league baseball three years before the Olympics, violating the rules at the time.
"It was totally strict," Zach said. "You were not allowed to be a professional athlete in the Olympics until the 1980s."
Zach says Thorpe wrote a letter to the Amateur Athletic Union saying he played because he loved the sport, not for money.
"We have a copy of the letter over here of what he said, and he apologized, but they took the medals," Zach said.
Twenty-nine years after Thorpe's death, in 1982, the IOC gave duplicate gold medals to his family, but his Olympic records were not reinstated.
The latest change comes after a petition advocated declaring Thorpe the outright winner in 1912.
Until now, the IOC had listed him as a co-champion in the official record book.
People who live in the borough named after him say the announcement is long overdue.
"We're really proud to have his name because he was so good at every sport he tried. I think he should be named the greatest athlete of the 20th century," said Zach.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/jim-thorpe-recognized-as-the-sole-winner-of-the-1912-stockholm-olympics-medals/523-09a64c63-5daf-4751-a7b3-2d7c35a0db52 | 2022-07-16T15:55:15 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/jim-thorpe-recognized-as-the-sole-winner-of-the-1912-stockholm-olympics-medals/523-09a64c63-5daf-4751-a7b3-2d7c35a0db52 |
ELYSBURG, Pa. — Lake Glory Campground near Catawissa is a popular spot to vacation. The campground is owned by Knoebels Amusement Resort and has more than 200 sites. It's usually filled with campers who spend time at the park.
"Several of those guests have mentioned to us in the past, 'I'd love to work for you but don't have anywhere to stay,'" said Knoebels spokesperson Stacy Yutko.
That's where Knoebels' newest hiring incentive, "Work 'n Kamp" comes from. It's exactly what it sounds like. There is a free campsite up for grabs if you work at Knoebels during August.
"You will need to work a minimum of 40 hours and have at least two people available at your campsite to work during that time."
Employees need their own camper.
"The Work 'n Kamp program participants will be able to utilize that shuttle service daily from the campground to the amusement park. The campsites will also include sewer, water, and electric hookups."
Yutko says that if the program is successful, it may expand for next season.
Knoebels is in a good position this year when it comes to hiring. It was even able to open more rides like Flying Turns.
"Our employment situation has definitely improved from last season. We are looking at several hundred additional team members than what we had last season," Yutko said.
Knoebels will continue hiring for the rest of the summer and in preparation for its fall season.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/work-n-kamp-program-at-knoebels-to-fill-job-openings-campground-amusement-resort-jobs-employees/523-6b7fa057-b372-46f8-8a71-1e3ae604e0f1 | 2022-07-16T15:55:21 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/work-n-kamp-program-at-knoebels-to-fill-job-openings-campground-amusement-resort-jobs-employees/523-6b7fa057-b372-46f8-8a71-1e3ae604e0f1 |
AUSTIN, Texas — The Austin Fire Department responded to a fire at a South Austin accounting business just after 1 a.m. on Saturday morning.
The fire took place at Ramirez Accounting on West Stassney Lane. It was safely put out and there weren’t any injuries reported.
AFD has not yet determined a cause.
No other information is available at this time.
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INDIANAPOLIS — There was a special reunion in Decatur Township Friday that was nearly years in the making.
Firefighters at the Decatur Township Fire Department got a surprise visit from a young boy named Samuel. He was safely surrendered by his mother at the fire station's Safe Haven Baby Box in October 2020.
(NOTE: The video in the player above is from a previous story about a couple who adopted a surrendered baby.)
Friday, he came back to say hello to the team.
So far this year, six babies have been safely surrendered at boxes across the state, including three at Carmel Fire Station 45.
Safe Haven Baby Boxes are temperature-controlled and sound an alarm when an infant is placed inside, alerting firefighters. Once taken out of the box, the baby is checked by medics and taken to the hospital. Newborns who are surrendered in the boxes are usually adopted in about a month.
There are now 112 boxes installed nationwide, including 85 in Indiana. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/boy-surrendered-in-safe-haven-baby-box-in-2020-visits-firefighters-who-saved-him/531-c35a9c0a-2489-42c2-918d-97af78eb2357 | 2022-07-16T16:03:03 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/boy-surrendered-in-safe-haven-baby-box-in-2020-visits-firefighters-who-saved-him/531-c35a9c0a-2489-42c2-918d-97af78eb2357 |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla — Electric cars have become quite popular lately. And with gas prices and inflation, it seems like a great way to help the environment and save money in the long term.
But... what happens when the battery needs replacing? And what happens when the replacement battery costs more than the car itself?
For a St. Petersburg family, that is the exact position they found themselves in.
Avery Siwinski who is 17 years old was excited to get a car to drive herself to and from school. Her parents spent $11,000 on a used electric car for her. It's a Ford Focus Electric. The car is a 2014 model, with 60,000 miles.
"It was fine at first," Avery Siwinski said. "I loved it so much. It was small and quiet and cute. And all the sudden it stopped working."
Avery Siwinski had her car for six months before her dashboard started to light up with problematic symbols.
"In March, it started giving an alert," she said. "And then we took it to the shop and it stopped running."
In the midst of the car troubles, the family was dealing with tragedy. In June, Avery's father died following a stage four colon cancer diagnosis. Her grandfather, Ray Siwinski stepped in to try to get the car issues sorted.
"Turns out, this is a pretty common problem for this particular car," Ray Siwinski said.
The car has sat at Ford Auto Nation in Pinellas County for the last few months. Ray said he was able to get a quote on a replacement battery for the electric car.
"The Ford dealership had advised us that we could replace the battery," he said. "It would only cost $14,000."
$3,000 more than what the family bought the car for. And that quote didn't include installation and labor costs, Ray Siwinski said.
Ray shared that Auto Nation offered to buy the car off him, offering him $500 for it.
After weeks of research, Ray Siwinski said there aren't any other options to fix the car.
"Then we found out the batteries aren't even available," he said. "So it didn't matter. They could cost twice as much and we still couldn't get it."
It's an issue he says isn't specific to owners of the now discontinued Ford Focus Electric.
"If you're buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars," he said.
The Siwinski's message to you: do your research before buying electric. They warn, it may cost you far more than you realize.
10 Tampa Bay reached out to Ford Motor Company, asking what customers in this position are expected to do and if the electric car batteries are still being made available for Ford Focus Electric cars. We are awaiting their response. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/electric-car-battery-replacement-costs-more-than-car/67-46243c70-124b-43e9-9a6e-fca01dc40cc4 | 2022-07-16T16:03:09 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/electric-car-battery-replacement-costs-more-than-car/67-46243c70-124b-43e9-9a6e-fca01dc40cc4 |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Since the real estate market started going crazy, so many people have been sitting at home checking Zillow. Watching the value of their home go up, up, and up, and wondering if they should sell their place.
Before considering that, we need to know, how accurate is Zillow's estimate?
Zillow's website says they crunched the numbers to test their so-called 'Zestimates' in 2021. Back then, they estimated the prices of 3.6 million homes across North Carolina that were currently off the market but eventually sold.
Forty percent of the homes sold within 5% of the estimate.
That means if a home was estimated at $300,000, it sold between $285,000 and $315,000.
Sixty-four percent of the time, Zillow's estimates were within 10%.
So, that $300,000 went from $270,000 to $330,000.
And 83% of the time, the "Zestimates" were within 20%.
That range now becomes $240,000 to $360,000 -- for a $300,000 estimate. A much larger margin.
Zillow says it uses "state-of-the-art statistical and machine learning models that can examine hundreds of data points for each individual home."
Why a realtor says you shouldn't take Zillow's estimate at face value
"It is just a starting point for conversations. It is not something you should consider your home to be worth by any means," said realtor Ty Cannon with Berkshire Hathaway.
Cannon adds that there's one big problem with Zestimates: Homeowners can go in and change the data about their houses.
"If you're not exactly sure what the total square footage of your home is, and you think it's larger than what Zillow has it listed, you can go in there and manipulate that square footage. You could say, my home really has five bedrooms because that bonus room could be a bedroom. So you change that Zillow information input sheet. That's going to change the Zestimate of your home when theoretically, you would not be able to sell your home for five bedrooms because your permit is not for a five-bedroom home," Cannon said.
You might not do that, but your neighbors could. Their higher prices would raise your Zestimate too.
Bottom line -- if you really want to know what price would hit home with buyers, it's best to talk with a real estate agent. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/how-accurate-are-zillow-price-estimates/83-1b9692f7-5c97-45e5-9edc-b517e7a45f6d | 2022-07-16T16:03:15 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/how-accurate-are-zillow-price-estimates/83-1b9692f7-5c97-45e5-9edc-b517e7a45f6d |
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, an official with Mexico's navy confirmed Friday.
The source was not authorized to speak publicly and agreed to confirm the action only if not quoted by name. No further details about the capture were immediately available.
Caro Quintero walked free in 2013 after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. The brutal murder marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.
Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, had since returned to drug trafficking and unleashed bloody turf battles in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has maintained that he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence.
An appeals court overturned Caro Quintero's verdict, but the Supreme Court upheld the sentence. It was too late by then; Caro Quintero was spirited off in a waiting vehicle.
He was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $20 million reward for his capture through the State Department's Narcotics Rewards Program. He was added to the FBI's top 10 most wanted list in 2018.
Caro Quintero was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana to the United States in the late 1970s. He blamed Camarena for a raid on a marijuana plantation in 1984. In 1985, Camarena was kidnapped in Guadalajara, allegedly on orders from Caro Quintero. His tortured body was found a month later.
The DEA did not immediately comment.
Mike Vigil, the DEA's former chief of international operations, said Caro Quintero was believed to have been operating independently most recently, though there had been rumors he was back with the Sinaloa cartel.
Caro Quintero was from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, the same area as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the former Sinaloa cartel leader now serving a life sentence in the United States. He eventually became one of the "godfathers" of Mexican drug trafficking.
Caro Quintero's arrest was a surprise, considering López Obrador's stated disinterest in going after drug cartel leaders, Vigil said, but he added that the DEA would never stop looking for someone who killed an agent.
"We didn't see a lot of effort (to capture Caro Quintero) in the last several years, especially when (López Obrador) came in and immediately started to dismantle a lot of the infrastructure and the bilateral relationships between the U.S. and Mexico relative to drug trafficking," Vigil said.
After seeing Caro Quintero walk out of a Mexican prison once already, Vigil said he hopes the government won't risk a repeat — Guzman twice escaped from Mexican maximum security prisons — and would agree to a likely U.S. extradition request.
In Sonora, one of the state's hit hardest by Caro Quintero's efforts to reclaim his territory, there was a hope his arrest could help.
"I believe in Sonora, in general, there could be calm, and yes, relief for us, because I believe the disappearances will diminish," said Cecilia Duarte, an activist with a team of volunteer searchers in Sonora who look for the clandestine graves of the disappeared. Some activists have been threatened and even killed in Sonora amid Caro Quintero's turf wars with the sons of "El Chapo."
But, Duarte said, Caro Quintero "is only part (of the conflict), the conflict doesn't end."
'Long and ovedue'
Patrick O'Toole, Former U.S. Attorney and Federal Prosecutor, described Quintero's arrest as welcoming and long overdue in an interview with CBS 8.
"It's one good development. Drugs are terrible. I mean, they do terrible things and the money and violence behind it are perhaps the worst of all so I applaud the fact that he's been caught," said O'Toole.
O'Toole worked narcotics cases during his time in the District Attorney's office and remembers the brutal murder of agent Camarena.
"I can remember when his body was brought back, I can remember his son, young son at the time, who’s now a judge himself, being there so it was a very sad affair when his remains were brought back to United States," added O'Toole.
Vicente Calderon, Editor of the TijuanaPress.com, says Quintero's arrest is the biggest capture under Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's presidency who has been criticized for not taking a tougher stance against drug traffickers,
But Calderon said, his capture means more to the U.S. than it does to Mexico
“This arrest is most significant for the US than for Mexico. This is a symbolic operation for the DEA who has been looking for this suspect since 1985,” said Calderon.
Despite his arrest, O’Tool and Calderon think Quintero’s capture won’t do much to put a stop to drug trafficking and drug traffickers.
Quintero was taken into jail in Almoloya, State of Mexico.
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BLOOMINGTON — Design work is continuing for extensive road improvements to Illinois Route 9 through Bloomington, including the potential addition of bike lanes.
The improvements will be made from the intersection of Market Street and Martin Luther King Drive east to the intersection of East Empire Street and Carnahan Drive.
Brian Hogan, a project support engineer with Illinois Department of Transportation District 5, said there is no set schedule for construction, but once a preliminary design study is complete, they will start to look at funding options. It is likely that the project will be split into several contracts and spread out over several years, with a tentative start date in 2024.
Although IDOT has not provided cost estimates on the project, Hogan said adding bike lanes will not have a significant impact on the total cost: The additional costs to add bike lanes should be limited to a small amount of curb and gutter replacements and additional signage and pavement markings.
If parking lanes along the state route become bike lanes, 80% of the initial resurfacing cost will be paid for by the state, with the city’s responsibility dropping from 100% to just 20%. The ongoing maintenance of bike lanes will belong to the state, Hogan said.
“It’s important for the public to see the projects, and sometimes we don’t see or notice everything,” Hogan said. “It’s nice to get a fresh set of eyes on stuff and get a different perspective on a project and how it affects them.”
IDOT invited area residents to Bloomington Junior High School on Wednesday to learn more about the anticipated work along Route 9.
Project displays were available for viewing and IDOT representatives were there to explain the project, answer questions and record comments offered by residents.
“When people talk about the poor conditions of roads in Bloomington, and I don’t necessarily think they’re any worse than anywhere else, but a good chunk of that are state roads, and it’s nice to see that there is a timeline,” said Bloomington Ward 8 Alderman Jeff Crabill. “I think that’s a key for the community to have nicer roads to drive over.”
What work will be done?
Overall the work will consist of milling and overlaying pavement, removing and replacing curbs and gutters that are in poor condition, upgrading sidewalk ramps to current ADA standards, modernizing traffic signal equipment, and adding pedestrian and bicycle accommodations where feasible, according to state documents.
Widening or narrowing of the current pavement is not anticipated, but there may be some widening done at intersections or other isolated locations.
“I know some business owners have concerns with access, but we won’t totally cut their access off at any one time,” Hogan said. “Our contractors work really well with local businesses to try to keep at least one entrance open so we can get traffic in and out of the residence.”
The first segment to see work will be West Market Street from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive to North Hinshaw Avenue, where — for the most part — the roadway will stay the same, except for White Oak Road, which will be relocated to the east to allow room for railroad crossing gates across Route 9.
Current plans are asking for a median barrier to be installed on Route 9 to have some of the gate equipment built into it, but this will not allow motorists to make left turns onto or off of White Oak.
“If I’m behind the line that you’re supposed to stop at, trying to get out on to White Oak, I can’t see,” said Laura Taylor, 75. “All you see are all these signs and overgrown grass.”
Other changes to Route 9 include:
West Locust Street from Lee Street to Main Street will be returned to two-way traffic, allowing for state highway traffic to be taken off of Lee Street.
Westbound traffic on Empire Street will be directed by route signage to turn left at Center Street. Southbound traffic on Center Street will be directed to turn right at Locust Street to continue on Route 9.
Bike lanes will be added on Empire and Locust streets between Main Street and Towanda Avenue along the right hand side and in the direction of traffic. No parking will be allowed there, but it be allowed along the left hand side.
A new trail will be built along the north side of Empire Street from Towanda Avenue to Carnahan Drive.
A dual right turn lane will be built for northbound traffic on North Hershey Road at Empire Street.
Veterans Parkway plans yet to come
Hogan said there will be no improvements made yet at the intersection of Veterans Parkway, but the five intersections that run between Route 9 and Veterans will be included in a second project. A study has been conducted for this additional work, but there is no construction scheduled yet.
Based on the preliminary study from IDOT, the city will see approximately 12,850 feet of additional bike lanes and 7,540 feet of shared lanes as well as a loss of between 200 and 250 parking spaces associated with the bike lane expansion west of Towanda Avenue.
For the portion of road east of Towanda Avenue, a 10-foot-wide shared-use path was proposed along the north side of Empire Street from Towanda Avenue to Carnahan Drive, and will be located between Empire Street and Frontage Road.
Crabill said he shared concerns about the length of sidewalks on the west side that do not provide a way for pedestrians to safely cross Veterans Parkway. He also expressed concern about the addition of bike lanes without narrowing the streets they are on.
“When you look at strong towns, they talk a lot about road diets, and if you’ve got places where there’s a bike lane that’s in a 45 mph zone, that’s pretty dangerous,” Crabill said. “Even when it’s 30 mph like in downtown. If the lane hasn’t been lessened, people are still gonna want to drive 40 to 45 (mph), but if you narrow the lane down, people aren’t going to feel like they can drive as fast.”
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla — Electric cars have become quite popular lately. And with gas prices and inflation, it seems like a great way to help the environment and save money in the long term.
But... what happens when the battery needs replacing? And what happens when the replacement battery costs more than the car itself?
For a St. Petersburg family, that is the exact position they found themselves in.
Avery Siwinski who is 17 years old was excited to get a car to drive herself to and from school. Her parents spent $11,000 on a used electric car for her. It's a Ford Focus Electric. The car is a 2014 model, with 60,000 miles.
"It was fine at first," Avery Siwinski said. "I loved it so much. It was small and quiet and cute. And all the sudden it stopped working."
Avery Siwinski had her car for six months before her dashboard started to light up with problematic symbols.
"In March, it started giving an alert," she said. "And then we took it to the shop and it stopped running."
In the midst of the car troubles, the family was dealing with tragedy. In June, Avery's father died following a stage four colon cancer diagnosis. Her grandfather, Ray Siwinski stepped in to try to get the car issues sorted.
"Turns out, this is a pretty common problem for this particular car," Ray Siwinski said.
The car has sat at Ford Auto Nation in Pinellas County for the last few months. Ray said he was able to get a quote on a replacement battery for the electric car.
"The Ford dealership had advised us that we could replace the battery," he said. "It would only cost $14,000."
$3,000 more than what the family bought the car for. And that quote didn't include installation and labor costs, Ray Siwinski said.
Ray shared that Auto Nation offered to buy the car off him, offering him $500 for it.
After weeks of research, Ray Siwinski said there aren't any other options to fix the car.
"Then we found out the batteries aren't even available," he said. "So it didn't matter. They could cost twice as much and we still couldn't get it."
It's an issue he says isn't specific to owners of the now discontinued Ford Focus Electric.
"If you're buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars," he said.
The Siwinski's message to you: do your research before buying electric. They warn, it may cost you far more than you realize.
10 Tampa Bay reached out to Ford Motor Company, asking what customers in this position are expected to do and if the electric car batteries are still being made available for Ford Focus Electric cars. We are awaiting their response. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/electric-car-battery-replacement-costs-more-than-car/67-46243c70-124b-43e9-9a6e-fca01dc40cc4 | 2022-07-16T16:13:14 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/electric-car-battery-replacement-costs-more-than-car/67-46243c70-124b-43e9-9a6e-fca01dc40cc4 |
OB-GYN doctors across the country raise nearly $100k for Dr. Caitlin Bernard
INDIANAPOLIS -- Following the intense international spotlight on an Indianapolis obstetrician-gynecologist who provided abortion care to a 10-year-old child, physicians and supporters across the country have raised nearly $100,000 and counting to help her with security-related expenses.
Dr. Caitlin Bernard, an IU health physician, was thrust into a media circus after an IndyStar story sharing her experience treating the 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio went viral.
The story appeared in outlets across the world and became a talking point for President Joe Biden and a point of criticism for Fox News hosts. As guests on the network, the attorneys general of Ohio and Indiana questioned the validity of Bernard's account.
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An Ohio man has since been charged in the rape of the 10-year-old. Despite IU Health concluding that Bernard did not violate HIPAA statutes, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita has maintained his intention to investigate Bernard. An attorney for Bernard sent a cease-and-desist letter to Rokita Friday, citing the claims he made about her in a Fox News appearance.
Friday, several supporters launched fundraisers to help Bernard with legal and security fees in light of the intense scrutiny.
A team of OB-GYN providers from across the country launched a GoFundMe that, as of Saturday morning, has received $87,000 from about 1,500 donors. Another one started by a Georgetown University professor has collected $8,500.
"We are Ob/Gyn providers & abortion providers from across the country who want to thank our colleague, Dr. Caitlin Bernard, for doing a courageous thing and helping provide compassionate healthcare to a child in her time of need," reads the description of the fundraiser by the abortion providers. "Many of us have experienced this in our line of work, and the ability to rise to the call despite tragedy like this is truly commendable."
Also Friday, Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky announced it will provide Bernard with security services and assistance with legal fees.
"We stand in solidarity with Dr. Bernard and all providers who continue to deliver compassionate, essential care to patients, even in the face of attacks from anti-abortion extremists,"CEO Rebecca Gibron wrote in a statement.
Planned Parenthood shared an abortion provider fund, which the organization says is where donors can contribute financial support for Bernard.
Bernard tweeted her thanks Friday evening for the "outpouring of courageous support."
"It has been a difficult week, but my colleagues and I will continue to provide healthcare ethically, lovingly, and bravely each and every day," she wrote.
"And thank you to the journalists who have worked tirelessly and diligently to inform the public about this important story and the truth," she added. "I hope to be able to share my story soon."
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CEDAR FALLS — A reckless driver led Cedar Falls police on a high-speed chase late Friday evening after officers initially attempted to pull the vehicle over for a moving violation.
The 18-years-old passengers – Jersey Barfels, Jacquese Buford and Madisyn Whiteman – were eventually arrested but, as of 4:30 a.m. Saturday, the driver remained at large.
Police attempted to stop the driver at 11:53 p.m. before the ensuing chase through the areas of 21st, 22nd, College, Main and Walnut streets. The three passengers bailed out in the 100 block of West 22nd Street.
Because the vehicle occupants allegedly refused to comply with police orders, they were arrested and charged with "interference with official acts."
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WATERLOO — Hawkeye Community College is holding a series of Instant Enrollment Days for anyone interested in beginning college classes this fall. The first is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday in Hawkeye Center on the main campus, 1501 E. Orange Road.
During these events, interested individuals can take care of everything they need to start classes, from the admissions application through orientation and registration. All that is required to get started is a valid photo ID and a high school transcript or GED/HiSET scores and certificate.
Individuals who register for classes during an instant enrollment day are also entered into a drawing for one free class (up to three credits) at Hawkeye during the fall semester.
An additional Instant Enrollment Day is scheduled for Aug. 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Preregistration is encouraged, but not required. To sign up for an Instant Enrollment Day, visit hawkeyecollege.edu/instant. For more information about enrolling at Hawkeye Community College, call (319) 296-4000 or email admission@hawkeyecollege.edu. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/hawkeye-community-college-instant-enrollment-event-set-thursday/article_81c1b8eb-7be8-53e6-93cb-0810168a123a.html | 2022-07-16T16:13:49 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/hawkeye-community-college-instant-enrollment-event-set-thursday/article_81c1b8eb-7be8-53e6-93cb-0810168a123a.html |
When does school start in Arizona? Here's when Phoenix area students go back
It may be summertime, but soon enough Arizona K-12 students will be gearing up to go back to school for one more academic year.
Some districts resume classes next week already while most are on break until August. Here's a list of when every district in Maricopa County resumes classes so you can be ready:
Agua Fria Union High School District:
Aug. 8 is the first day of class for freshmen and Aug. 9 is the first day of class for all other students. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.aguafria.org/Page/8145.
Aguila Elementary School District:
Classes start Aug. 3.
Alhambra Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 9 Check the full academic calendar at https://www.alhambraesd.org/schoolcalendar.
Avondale Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.chooseaesd.org/Page/501.
Balsz Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.balsz.org/calendar#calendar1/20220714/month.
Buckeye Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://besd33.org/district-calendar/.
Buckeye Union High School District
Classes start Aug. 3 Check the full academic calendar at https://buhsd.ss12.sharpschool.com/calendar.
Cartwright Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.csd83.org/domain/246.
Cave Creek Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 1. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.ccusd93.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
Chandler Unified School District
Classes start July 20. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.cusd80.com/calendar.
Creighton Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8 Check the full academic calendar at https://www.creightonschools.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
Deer Valley Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.dvusd.org/calendars.
Dysart Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.dysart.org/mainsite/pages/dysart-schools/861/school-year-calendars.
East Valley Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 9. Check the full academic calendar at https://evhigh.org/calendar
Fountain Hills Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 9. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.fountainhillsschools.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=508797&type=d&pREC_ID=980088.
Fowler Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 1. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.fesd.org/Calendar.
Gila Bend Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 4. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.gbusd.org/page/calendar.
Gilbert Unified School District
Classes start July 26. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.gilbertschools.net/calendar#calendar1/20220814/month.
Glendale Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.guhsdaz.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220814/month.
Higley Unified School District
Classes start July 25. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.husd.org/calendar.
Isaac Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.isaacschools.org/documents/school-year-calendars/299489.
Kyrene Elementary School District
Classes start July 28. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.kyrene.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
Litchfield Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.lesd79.org/our-district/calendars
Littleton Elementary School District
Classes start July 27. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.littletonaz.org/Calendars.
Madison Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 9. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.madisonaz.org/calendar#calendar1/20220714/month.
Mesa Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 4. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.mpsaz.org/students/calendars.
Mobile Elementary School District
Classes started July 6. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.mobileesd.org/Calendar.
Morristown Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 9. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.morristowneld75.org/Calendar.
Murphy Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.msdaz.org/district-calendar.
Nadaburg Unified School District
Classes start Aug. 9. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.nadaburgsd.org/calendar.
Osborn Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.osbornnet.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
Palo Verde Elementary School District
Classes start Aug. 2. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.pvesd.org/calendar.
Paloma Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 2. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.palomaesd.org/page/calendar.
Paradise Valley Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 9. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.pvschools.net/calendar.
Pendergast Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.pesd92.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
Peoria Unified School District
Classes start on Aug. 10. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.peoriaunified.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
Phoenix Elementary School District
Classes for preschool students start Aug. 15 while classes for all other students start Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.phxschools.org/calendar#calendar1/20220714/month.
Phoenix Union High School District
Classes start on Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.pxu.org/calendar#calendar1/20220814/month.
Queen Creek Unified School District
Classes start July 27. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.qcusd.org/calendar.
Riverside Elementary School District
Classes start July 25. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.riversideelem.resdonline.org/Calendar.
Roosevelt Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 1. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.rsd66.org/calendar#calendar1/20220714/month.
Saddle Mountain Unified School District
Classes start on Aug. 4. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.smusd90.org/Calendar.
Scottsdale Unified School District
Classes start on Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.susd.org/calendar#calendar1/20220714/month.
Sentinel Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.sentinelesd.org/Calendar.
Tempe Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 1. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.tempeschools.org/about-us/calendar.
Tempe Union High School District
Classes start on Aug. 4. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.tempeunion.org/Page/162.
Tolleson Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.tollesonschools.com/cms/lib/AZ02213686/Centricity/Domain/8/2022-2023%20TESD%20Calendar%20.pdf.
Tolleson Union High School District
Classes for freshmen start on Aug. 1 and classes for all other students start Aug. 2. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.tuhsd.org/Calendar.
Union Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 1. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.unionesd.org/community/district_calendar.
Washington Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.wesdschools.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
WEST-MEC
Aviation and aesthetics programs start Aug. 1 while all other programs for high school students start Aug. 3. Check the full academic calendar at https://west-mec.edu/parent-resources/.
Wickenburg Unified School District
Classes start on Aug. 1. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.wickenburgschools.org/Page/2#calendar1/20220714/month.
Wilson Elementary School District
Classes start on Aug. 8. Check the full academic calendar at https://www.wsd.k12.az.us/Page/12#calendar8/20220714/month
Renata Cló is a reporter on The Arizona Republic's K-12 education team. You can reach her at rclo@arizonarepublic.com and follow her on Twitter @renataclo.
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One Way Sky, a young Indigenous band, hopes fans will help them get their Hollywood break
One Way Sky, an alternative Indigenous band, could open for some of the biggest musical acts on one of the most famous stages, the Hollywood Bowl.
To get there, the band needs votes.
Promoters of the concert event are letting fans choose the opening act. The winner will perform on the iconic stage and receive a price of $10,000. The voting ends July 21.
Formed in 2019 in Casa Blanca on the Gila River Indian Community, One Way Sky is made up of four members: Adrian D. Thomas, 22, Loma Manuel, 23, and David Romero, 23, all three citizens of the Gila River Indian Community, and Cody Bruguier, 23, a citizen of the Tohono O’odham Nation.
"Cody had seen an ad about this opportunity to perform at the Hollywood Bowl through social media,” said Thomas. “Despite knowing there would be a lot of competition nationwide, we decided to take the chance and enter the contest.”
The artist lineup for the 2022 will remain under wraps until August 1. Last year, the show featured Coldplay, Shawn Mendez, Doja Cat, The Black Eyed Peas and Kid Laroi.
One Way Sky got its start when Thomas, who plays guitar and is lead singer, met Bruguier, who is the drummer of the band, at Casa Grande Union High School. Thomas met Adrian Manuel, bass player, at Coolidge High School, and then met Romero, a guitarist, through the Akimel O’odham Pee Posh Youth Council.
Thomas said some of their top influences are Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus, Avenged Sevenfold, among others.
“We play alternative rock because it's the type of alternative rock, the type of music we naturally create, based on our different musical backgrounds,” said Thomas. “You’ll find we incorporate styles from different genres of music such as indie, heavy metal, jazz, country, chicken scratch (cumbia) and lofi”.
The band, Thomas said, receives tons of love and support from their tribes, along with their family and friends.
“Gila River is always supporting us by giving us opportunities to perform at community events,” he said. “They want to see us make our dreams come true and we don’t take any of it for granted. We are always thankful for the love we receive.”
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Lyrics are a group effort
The band usually collaborates to write lyrics. The process, Thomas said, typically starts off with the tone of the song.
“Whatever emotion the instrumental emits, that’s the emotion that we focus on, usually,” Thomas said. “One of us shares a lyric and we all work together to create a story that could paint a picture in the listener's head.”
The band currently has a four-song EP called “Soul Searcher,” which is streaming on all the major platforms. They have a new single called “Indian Route 15” that just dropped as well. Aside from their recorded music, they have written around 20 original songs.
They perform a lot around metro Phoenix and the Southwest. They also perform at a lot of Indigenous-led events, on and off the reservation. The band also performs out of state, most of the time in New Mexico, and has aspirations to tour nationwide soon.
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'Leave something great with this world'
“A big part of what we want to accomplish with our music is to bring good energy and lessons to the listener,” said Thomas. “We write lyrics focused on healing, self-empowerment, our indigenous communities, etc. Overall, we want to write honest lyrics that we believe anybody can relate to.”
One Way Sky can also be found weekly at the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass, Sunday through Thursday, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. They perform a variety of covers ranging from classic rock and country to hip hop and lofi. He said this opportunity gives them a chance to practice and perfect their sound.
“Our main inspiration is to leave something great with this world,” said Thomas. “Not only do we want to create some great music, we want our messages to reach the hearts of those who need it. We want to bring healing and good vibes. We aspire to tour the world and share our music. We want to represent our communities by being the best versions of ourselves.”
The band is on social media under One Way Sky, on Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook.
The voting to help the band land a spot at the Hollywood Bowl is at https://tinyurl.com/3pb5jj8t and remains open through July 21.
Arlyssa D. Becenti covers Indigenous affairs for The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Send ideas and tips to arlyssa.becenti@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter @ABecenti.
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Lift Up Las Cruces is city manager's first major anti-poverty push. Here's the first target neighborhood.
LAS CRUCES - City Manager Ifo Pili said the city's new approach to poverty is to fight it with a "sniper approach" rather than a "shotgun approach."
On July 30, Pili and his staff will invite community stakeholders, residents, business owners and nonprofit organizations to a public block party to launch Lift Up Las Cruces, the first anti-poverty initiative of its kind within the city. The block party is planned to be held on Ash Avenue, within the area served by the program.
The city's Fiscal Year 2023 budget includes an allocation of $278,000 out of the city's Telshor Facility Fund, a reserve fund meant to assist the city's low-income and sick residents, toward the Lift Up Las Cruces program. Pili said the city has also applied for federal funding to help finance it.
Lift Up Las Cruces will be the city manager’s first major program aimed at reducing poverty since he was hired by the city council almost two years ago. There have been smaller steps previously — the city manager moved the housing department under economic development and authorized a virtual seminar for city employees about poverty — but Lift Up promises to be the most comprehensive and public effort yet to tackle one of the city’s major crises.
Nearly one in four Las Crucens, about 23.6 percent according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates, live in poverty. Crime and homelessness, two problems often intertwined with poverty, have been more prominent in public discourse in the past few months than in the past three years, as some business owners and homeowners have complained about property crimes and the sometimes-aggressive behavior of some unhoused people.
Pili was hired with a dual mandate of economic development and poverty alleviation. One year into his tenure, he told the Sun-News he saw the two issues as inseparable. In that way, Pili said he was prioritizing economic development strategies that simultaneously addressed poverty — such as a focus on affordable housing, workforce development and the attraction of jobs that pay good wages.
Lift Up will first target one area of the city where there is concurrently high crime and poverty. The city partly came up with an area using the Distressed Communities Index, a project from the bipartisan Economic Innovation Group which examines economic conditions at the ZIP code level using seven socioeconomic data points.
“The goal is not to stay there though,” Pili said. “We're going to keep track of (the data), and then we're going to move and eventually the goal is to get to the entire city … But we're starting with the areas that need (help) the most.”
The area chosen is bound by North Solano Drive, East Madrid Avenue, Anita Drive, North Triviz Drive and Spruce Avenue, within the 88001 ZIP code, and includes winding residential roads on which sit rows of small, single-family, one-story homes. The area chosen also includes the Doña Ana Park Apartments, the Oñate Greens Mobile Home Park, St. Genevieve's Village Senior Apartments and Loma Heights Elementary School. Businesses line the area's Solano and Madrid borders.
Of the 1,428 households within the area, 48 percent made an income below the poverty line in the past year, and 69 percent of households made less than $39,000 a year. More than half of residents, 57 percent, identify as Black, Indigenous or people of color, according to data compiled by the city.
Pili said the city wants Lift Up Las Cruces to be as much of a community-driven effort as it is a city one. In that way, the city is planning to target its existing programs in the “footprint” served by Lift Up instead of, say, launching a bevy of new government programs. At the same time, it’s surveying addresses within the footprint to gauge what the area wants and needs most from the city.
“We're increasing access because we're bringing services to them versus people having to find services,” said Natalie Green, the city’s housing and neighborhood services manager.
Instead of new government programs, the city hopes to encourage community organizations and businesses to foster programs that address community needs.
“We want to identify projects that the city's going to do,” Pili said. “But I think, more importantly, we want the community to identify projects as well. So all the nonprofits, the faith-based community … We really want the businesses around there to get involved and really take ownership of the community.”
“We're not going in and saying we as a government know better for you,” Green said. “It's ‘What do you want us to do?’”
The city manager said the Lift Up program isn’t unique. A similar effort has seen success in Fort Worth, Texas, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
“You fix infrastructure, you focus on crime, you clean. It just becomes a better place to invest,” Pili said.
But the city manager said Lift Up's launch doesn't mean the city government will pull resources from other areas.
“We're responsible for the entire city, so we're not going to leave,” Pili said. “We're not going to pull resources from other areas to put here. We're just going to focus here.”
For instance, the city's Pavement Management Program — which uses software to determine which streets the public works department should prioritize for pavement maintenance to ensure the maximum efficiency of limited resources — does not factor in the poverty rate or crime rate of an area, Pili said. With Lift Up, Pili said there will be an "extra layer" which will be used to prioritize the footprint when deciding what streets will be improved and maintained.
The city will likely prioritize the area for the installation of new streetlights and litter removal. Pili said Parks and Recreation plans to host more programming at Apodaca Park, which sits just outside the footprint at its northwest corner.
“Whenever you fix something, it has a positive tendency in economic terms,” said Deputy Economic Development Director Francisco Pallares. “The safer it looks, the more investment tends to go into the community … It's usually kind of a positive cycle.”
While the city manager doesn't know how effective Lift Up will be, he believes it will be successful in some capacity in reducing poverty and crime.
"I believe we're going to see some improvement, even if it's anecdotal," Pili said. "The ultimate goal really is to move that dial, to move that index, in the positive direction."
Pili said the city will evaluate the impact of the program in one year's time to get a better sense of what realistic expectations it can set for poverty reduction. But Pallares said some data, such as crime, is tracked and available more frequently than other data, such as poverty, which can make success tough to evaluate in the short term.
The city said organizations interested in getting involved in Lift Up Las Cruces should email liftup@las-cruces.org.
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Days after a gunman massacred 19 students and two teachers while police waited in the hallway at Robb Elementary School, Uvalde city officials tried to convince state officials to go along with a narrative painting the response as heroic for saving the lives of others.
Uvalde officials presented the proposed narrative to Col. Steven McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, and District Attorney Christina Mitchell Busbee at a meeting at Uvalde City Hall on June 2. Members of Gov. Greg Abbott’s staff were on hand, too.
The narrative, prepared by City Attorney Paul Parkey, would have blunted criticism — leveled by both McCraw and Abbott in separate news conference on May 27, three days after the shooting — about the delayed response of officers on the scene.
A surveillance video leaked this week to the news media shows police gathered in a hallway. They waited more than an hour to enter the classrooms to kill Salvador Ramos, 18, after the gunman apparently fired at the first few officers as they approached the classrooms.
Ramos continued shooting students and teachers while officers gathered in the hallway, apparently trying to decide what to do.
Parskey attended the June 2 meeting.
“My recollection is that the mayor was upset with the way that DPS had conducted the press conferences, and they had prepared that narrative and they were going to release it,” Busbee said in an interview with the San Antonio Express-News. “And then I objected to it because we did not know. The investigation had just begun so we did not know if that was a true assessment of what transpired. There was no way for us to tell or assess whether or not that narrative was accurate.”
Uvalde County Judge Bill Mitchell, County Attorney John Dotson, Uvalde Assistant City Manager Joe Cardenas, Abbott’s chief of staff, Luis Saenz, and DPS brass Victor Escalon and Freeman Martin also attended the meeting.
Ultimately, the narrative was not released to the public.
“I still don’t know whether that narrative is correct because we’re still (early) in investigation,” Busbee said. “If you are going to release something to the public that is further going to create confusion and may be misleading, you would have to walk it back.”
By then, state officials had already had to reverse course. A day after the shooting, Abbott claimed during a news conference in Uvalde that officers had responded heroically. But then investigators obtained the hallway surveillance video.
“At my directive, the scope of the investigation broadened,” said Busbee, who’d reviewed the video.
At a news conference May 27, Abbott said he was furious that he had been “misled.”
By June 2, Mayor Don McLaughlin Jr. had become increasingly irate over McCraw’s briefings with reporters and lawmakers. McCraw appeared to cast blame on local officers — in particular the on-scene commander, Uvalde school district police chief Pete Arredondo — for holding back instead of quickly confronting and shooting the killer.
The city on Saturday released the narrative, but declined to answer further questions.
Excerpts from the narrative:
“Within 5 minutes of receiving a report of an accident at approximately 11:30 a.m. on May 24, Patrol Officers Mendoza and Saucedo and their Patrol Sargent, Daniel Coronado, were on scene taking fire. They immediately pursued the suspect as he ran to Robb School.”
“Officers Pete Arredondo, Donald Page, Daniel Coronado and Adrian Gonzalez followed the sound of gun fire and entered the west end of Robb School while officers Javy Martinez and Eddie Canales entered the east end of Robb School, also following the sound of gunfire. There was zero hesitation on any of these officers’ part, they moved directly towards the gunfire. They proceeded down opposite ends of the hall to Room 112 where bullet holes indicated the shooter was located. They immediately approached the door and were fired upon by the suspect with an AR rifle approximately four times, with Eddie Canales taking shrapnel to his ear and Javi Martinez being grazed by a bullet to the head. With both officers bleeding, they took cover a few yards down the hall to avoid fire and called for backup. Officer Page got on the phone with Texas Ranger Ryan Kendall who asked what he needed and Page replied, “everything you’ve got.”
“Eddie and Javy went out for a little while to seek medical attention, Eddie Canales called the US Marshalls and asked for their assistance, and then both Eddie and Javy came back into Robb School. Eddie stationed himself with his AR at an angle to Room 112 and the other officers began clearing the classrooms of children and teachers. Not one teacher would leave until all their students were removed first, including one who had been shot in the abdomen. US Marshals arrived with the shields. NO ONE ELSE, not UPD, not UCISD, not Border Patrol, not DPS, not Homeland security and not any other agency had shields available. Bortac insisted that all the rooms be cleared, i.e. all the children and teachers be removed, PRIOR to use of the shields and the breach of Room 112. The total number of persons saved by the heroes that are local law enforcement and the other assisting agencies is over 500 per UCISD. 40 minutes were not wasted but each minute was used to save lives of children and teachers. But for UPD and UCISD being on scene IMMEDIATELY, that shooter would have had free range on the school. Absent the shields, every UPD officer was of the opinion that breaching the door was suicide and every Texas Ranger or DPS agent who took their statements agreed. Every officer in that hall way agreed that the shield was the only way to get in the room. Not a single officer present, including DPS troopers and Texas Rangers, believed they could save lives by approaching that door and being killed one by one.”
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Through a partnership with the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University and the Georgia Public Library Service, "She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers," now will be available at the Dougherty County Public Library's Northwest Branch, located at 2507 Dawson Road July 21-Aug. 21.
ALBANY – Through a partnership with the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University and the Georgia Public Library Service, "She Gathers Me: Networks Among Black Women Writers," now will be available at the Dougherty County Public Library's Northwest Branch, located at 2507 Dawson Road July 21-Aug. 21.
Originally on display at the Rose Library, the exhibit was curated by the Rose’s Instruction Archivist Gabrielle M. Dudley. "She Gathers Me" examines the connections found within intimate correspondences, personal projects, and speaking engagements and furthers understanding of the interconnectedness of black women writers beyond their published works. The exhibit features luminaries like Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Pearl Cleage, Tayari Jones and others.
“Through the exhibition, viewers will witness the ways that writers seek community with one another that may not always be apparent through published works,” Dudley said. “While close friendships can be seen throughout, viewers will also see how these women respectfully challenged and shaped each other’s ideas and perspectives.”
"She Gathers Me" is a colorful mosaic of six upright banners exploring the insights, experiences and relationships of the featured authors with each panel dedicated to a specific aspect of their community -- collective, sister writers, dialogue and remembrance -- so their works are never lost, exhibit officials say.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — Back-to-school season is especially costly this year, as inflation reached a 40-year high in June. Several national store chains are helping ease the burden with sales and discounts.
Kohl’s
Kohl’s is thanking educators and school staff with a 25% discount for a limited time. The chain said it’s the second year offering the discount in an effort to recognize them for their work and dedication.
But teachers who want to take advantage need to act quickly. The discount is available to use in-store through Sunday, July 17.
Educators and school staff will need to present a valid ID to redeem the 25% savings.
Michaels
Michaels offers teachers a 15% off entire purchase discount.
To qualify, teachers need to create a Michaels account, provide school information to become verified, and then follow the instructions to shop either online or in a store.
Target
Target also plans to offer discounts to teachers, school staff, and students.
The chain’s popular Teacher Prep Event begins Sunday, July 17 and will continue through Sept. 10. It gives teachers a 15% discount on school supplies.
All K-12 teachers, homeschool teachers, teachers working at daycare centers and early childhood learning centers, university or college professors and vocational/trade/technical schoolteachers with valid ID are eligible.
Target also plans to offer a one-time 20% discount for college students through Sept. 3. Some purchases are excluded. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/back-to-school-discounts-for-teachers-students-2/ | 2022-07-16T16:49:37 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/back-to-school-discounts-for-teachers-students-2/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – A passenger on a flight near Orlando captured on video Thursday’s SpaceX launch that sent supplies to the space station.
SpaceX launched the Dragon capsule atop its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center.
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The rocket carried a Dragon spacecraft full of science experiments, supplies and equipment for the ISS crew — more than 5,800 pounds of cargo. The spacecraft will be docking at the space station at 11:13 a.m. on Saturday.
In the video, you can see a bright orange light in the distance heading up toward the clouds.
As the rocket continues toward space, you can see it peek through the clouds while the video continues.
You can watch the full video in the media player above. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/16/video-airplane-passenger-on-flight-near-orlando-captures-spacex-launch/ | 2022-07-16T17:05:36 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/16/video-airplane-passenger-on-flight-near-orlando-captures-spacex-launch/ |
PHOENIX — Editor's note: The above video aired during a previous broadcast.
A three-year-old girl is at a local hospital in critical condition after being pulled from a pool in Phoenix, the city's fire department said.
Crews arrived at the scene after reports of a drowning and found family members performing CPR on the girl, firefighters said. The girl had started breathing on her own prior to being transported to the pediatric hospital.
Family members told investigators that the girl had been in the pool for a few seconds before she was pulled out.
The department did not share what time they were called to the scene or when the girl was pulled from the pool.
The scene has since been turned over to Phoenix Police Department investigators.
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The news comes less than a week after another 3-year-old girl died after drowning in a pool in Surprise. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital.
The child's mother told police she and her child usually take a nap during the day. That day, while the mother was asleep, the child accessed the backyard of the home, officials said.
FULL STORY: 3-year-old girl dies after being pulled from pool in Surprise. She accessed backyard during naptime
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Drowning Prevention Tips:
Drowning is the leading cause of death for children between ages 1-4 aside from birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three children die every day as a result of drowning. Here are some tips from the CDC on how to protect children around water:
Learn life-saving skills.
Everyone should know the basics of swimming (floating, moving through the water) and CPR.
Fence it off.
Install a four–sided isolation fence, with self–closing and self–latching gates, around backyard swimming pools. This can help keep children away from the area when they aren’t supposed to be swimming. Pool fences should be completely separate the house and play area from the pool.
Life jackets are a must.
Make sure kids wear life jackets in and around natural bodies of water, such as lakes or the ocean, even if they know how to swim. Life jackets can be used in and around pools for weaker swimmers too.
Keep a close watch
When kids are in or near water (including bathtubs), closely supervise them at all times. Because drowning happens quickly and quietly, adults watching kids in or near water should avoid distracting activities like reading books, talking on the phone, or using alcohol and drugs. | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/girl-pulled-from-pool-phoenix/75-f245b305-955e-4a48-8dd7-51d60da7824b | 2022-07-16T17:09:57 | 0 | https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/girl-pulled-from-pool-phoenix/75-f245b305-955e-4a48-8dd7-51d60da7824b |
Forest Hill Police are asking for the public's help finding a woman missing for nearly a week who they believe may be in imminent danger.
Police issued a CLEAR Alert for Kashima Wright who was last seen July 10 at about 10:30 p.m. in the 7300 block of Colonial Drive.
Wright is Black, 40-years-old and stands 5 feet 1 inch tall, and weighs about 200 pounds. She has black hair and black eyes and was last seen wearing a yellow shirt, black hoody, and black tights.
Law enforcement officials believe this person's disappearance poses a credible threat to her own health and safety. If you have any information regarding this endangered missing person, contact the Forest Hill Police Department at 817-531-5250.
Texas CLEAR alerts are for adults who may be in danger of bodily injury or death, or if the individual has been kidnapped or abducted.
TEXAS STATEWIDE ALERT PROGRAMS
There are seven kinds of alerts that can be issued for people in Texas. They are listed below with links to a page with more information.
- Amber Alert
- Active Shooter Alert (in development)
- Blue Alert
- Silver Alert
- CLEAR Alert
- Camo Alert
- Endangered Missing Person Alert | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/clear-alert-issued-for-missing-forest-hill-woman/3016156/ | 2022-07-16T17:15:18 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/clear-alert-issued-for-missing-forest-hill-woman/3016156/ |
A missing NICU nurse who friends say went for a walk Thursday evening and never came home has been found safe Saturday, Dallas police say.
Dallas Police launched a search Friday for 23-year-old Roxane Reza, who had reportedly been last seen at about 7:30 p.m. Thursday wearing workout clothes and sneakers.
Dallas Police tweeted late Saturday morning only that Reza had been located and was safe. Further details about her return have not yet been released by the police.
Check back and refresh this story for the latest update.
FRIENDS SEARCH FOR WOMAN MISSING AFTER GOING FOR A WALK
Dallas police launched a search Friday for 23-year-old Roxane Reza. According to police, Reza was last seen around 7:30 p.m. Thursday wearing workout clothes and sneakers in the 8200 block of Meadow Road.
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Friends then tracked her phone to a nearby trail but said they have no idea where she went from there.
“We’re very worried. We don’t know what it could be, but we think it’s bad because she didn’t show up for work,” said Reza’s roommate Molore Agunbiade.
Agunbiade joined other friends and Dallas police in searching the White Rock Lake area Friday afternoon.
She said Reza, a Baylor NICU nurse, had worked a shift earlier that day.
“I was told she even told her patients, ‘I’ll be back tomorrow,'” said Agunbiade.
According to friends, Reza called her mom as she headed out for her walk around 7:30 p.m. She then texted Agunbiade.
“She texted me and said she needed someone to talk to. I was asleep at that time. I woke up at 10:30, called her. She didn’t answer,” she said.
Reza texted another friend at about 9 p.m. about plans for Saturday, car shopping to replace the one she lost in a crash over the Fourth of July.
After learning Reza didn’t show up at work, Agunbiade used an app to track her phone to the SoPac Trail, between markers 124 and 125.
“This morning, that’s where it says that she was in real-time. It showed her little picture there,” she said.
But despite a three-hour search, friends couldn’t find Reza or her phone.
“We just want her to come home. She’s a very big part of our lives, and we just don’t know where she is,” said Agunbiade
Dallas Police have said they believe Reza may be in need of assistance.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/missing-dallas-nicu-nurse-found-safe-dallas-police/3015970/ | 2022-07-16T17:15:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/missing-dallas-nicu-nurse-found-safe-dallas-police/3015970/ |
It's a bittersweet farewell to an icon at NorthPark Center in Dallas. The Dallas mall's iconic Santa is ready to retire to the North Pole after 32 years of bringing joy to families who celebrate the Christmas season with a visit and a picture.
When he's not rocking the red suit, Santa's helper goes by Dr. Carl Anderson. Perhaps what made him so good at his seasonal job was that he's a child psychologist.
Anderson, who lives in Austin, has been coming to Dallas to sit in as Santa at NorthPark Center since 1989. He also helped raise funds for Children’s Health by hosting breakfast with Santa and during the pandemic, his Visits with Santa went virtual and included visiting patients at Children’s Health.
Anderson says he's grateful for the memories and special moments with his fans, some of whom have shared photos through the years as they brought their children to see him.
He told our partners at The Dallas Morning News, "I am so appreciative to have been a part of their holidays and their life - that they treasure our memories and experiences together as fondly as I do."
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Anderson was inducted into the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame in 2012, his entry as "Lone Star Santa" highlights that "he has been heralded by Los Angeles Magazine as the closest thing to Santa since Edmund Gwenn held Natalie Wood on his lap in Miracle on 34th Street."
Judging by the outpouring on social media, Anderson will be missed by many North Texans.
NorthPark is planning a new Santa experience for the 2022 holiday season. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/northpark-centers-iconic-santa-announces-retirement-after-three-decades/3016135/ | 2022-07-16T17:15:30 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/northpark-centers-iconic-santa-announces-retirement-after-three-decades/3016135/ |
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A warrant has gone out for the arrest of a former Lincoln caseworker who allegedly made false applications for emergency rental aid and took a cut of the money.
Laura L. Graham, 34, was charged Thursday with felony theft over $5,000 and attempted theft over $5,000, and a warrant went out for her arrest.
In an affidavit for Graham's arrest, Lincoln Police Officer Don Fosler said she had been employed as a Lincoln/Lancaster County Prevention Assistance Common Fund case manager with Family Services. As part of the job, Graham processed applications for the U.S. Department of Treasury's Emergency Rental Assistance Program, for those who couldn't pay rent or utilities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fosler said in late October he began his investigation after an employee with the Lincoln/Lancaster County Urban Development Department, which screens emergency rental assistance applications, asked Graham to get a utility bill for proof of residency on an application and discovered the LES bill she provided had been altered.
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Fosler said he conducted investigations into additional emergency rental assistance applications of concern that already had been processed, including one for $14,800 in April 2021 and other for $26,040 in June 2020.
He learned the woman listed as the tenant on the first application had never lived in Lincoln, though her daughter did and allegedly had made more than 100 calls to Graham in the same time period $14,800 in rental assistance had been approved to the woman's mother.
Graham's account received $6,825 shortly after the funds were deposited, Fosler said.
In the later application, he learned, the tenants' names had been fabricated and never lived at the Lincoln address. The landlord, Alyssa Rodriguez, was charged with theft in April.
Fosler said cell phone records show Rodriguez and Graham had more than 400 calls between their cell phones over the course of the year. He said bank records show Rodriguez transferred $4,500 to Graham after getting the funds.
In court records, Fosler described two other applications where Graham had allegedly entered false information. He said in one a Lincoln woman told him Graham had helped her legitimately receive mortgage assistance in 2021, then altered her application to say that two people were renting from her in an attempt to get more money, half of which she would keep.
The woman knew something was wrong and stopped trying to get rental assistance.
In the other, he said, Graham allegedly altered an LES bill to help an Omaha woman qualify for $8,850 in ERA money. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-woman-accused-of-emergency-rental-assistance-fraud/article_d1ee3074-38b5-5800-8552-367e34c3c920.html | 2022-07-16T17:23:02 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-woman-accused-of-emergency-rental-assistance-fraud/article_d1ee3074-38b5-5800-8552-367e34c3c920.html |
RUPERT — A jury trial for a Heyburn man accused of first-degree murder in the Jan. 2 death of Julio Lopez is set for Oct. 12.
The jury trial in Minidoka County District Court is set to begin at 9 a.m., according to court records.
Kalob Morrison is also charged with felony counts of destroying evidence, criminal conspiracy, failure to notify authorities of a death and three counts possession of weapon by a convicted felon.
Morrison’s brother, Klee Morrison, of Littleton, Arizona, will also be charged in connection with the death.
Minidoka County Prosecutor Lance Stevenson previously said Klee Morrison is currently being held on other federal charges.
During the magistrate preliminary hearing, a witness testified that Klee Morrison hit Lopez in the head with a metal ball and Kalob Morrison held Lopez down as he pleaded for his life.
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According to testimony Morrison had been arguing with Lopez at Morrison’s home and the Morrison brothers loaded Lopez’s body into Lopez’s vehicle and drove it into the desert before setting it on fire.
Lopez’s smoldering vehicle and burned body was later found that morning. Lopez had also been shot in the head.
Morrison pleaded not guilty to the charges. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/october-jury-trial-set-for-heyburn-man-accused-of-murder/article_e6a96370-0471-11ed-adb8-6703c09364a4.html | 2022-07-16T17:26:15 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/october-jury-trial-set-for-heyburn-man-accused-of-murder/article_e6a96370-0471-11ed-adb8-6703c09364a4.html |
MASON COUNTY, WV (WOWK)—”If anyone sees a 6-foot emu running around in Point Pleasant, let me know…”
Mason County resident Jimmy Workman took to Facebook on Friday night for help finding his emu “Birdy.”
Workman says that Birdy went missing on Friday morning after he somehow managed to get out of his run, and, since emus can run up to 30 miles per hour for long distances, there’s no telling where Birdy might turn up.
Workman told 13 News that his family has had Birdy for a little over a year and got the bird when he was a week or two old.
Anyone with information about Birdy’s whereabouts should call 304-812-3558. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/birdy-the-emu-on-the-loose-in-point-pleasant-west-virginia/ | 2022-07-16T17:26:36 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/birdy-the-emu-on-the-loose-in-point-pleasant-west-virginia/ |
CABELL COUNTY, WV (WOWK)—The Cabell County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying a person of interest.
They say that the person in the photos below may have been involved in an armed robbery that took place at Walmart on Nichols Drive in Barboursville on July 15.
They believe the suspect fled in a silver Ford Focus.
Anyone with information should call 304-634-4672. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/deputies-search-for-barboursville-armed-robbery-suspect/ | 2022-07-16T17:26:42 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/deputies-search-for-barboursville-armed-robbery-suspect/ |
ATLANTA — Atlanta Police said Saturday they were searching for a missing 84-year-old man for whom they have issued a Mattie's Call.
Police said Paul Dillard was last seen at 2105 Cascade Rd. on Thursday at 11:30 a.m., and at the time was driving a 2004 Ford F-150 silver pickup truck with tag number PTV4735.
He was reported missing by his wife sometime after that. He is described as 5-foot-6, weighing 170 pounds with gray hair and brown eyes, and was wearing a green plaid shirt with red stripes, blue jeans and white sneakers when he was last seen.
If anyone has seen him or knows where he may be, they are asked to call 911 or the Atlanta Police Adult Missing Persons Unit at 404-546-4235. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/missing-in-georgia/paul-dillard-missing-atlanta-84-year-old/85-6df473ab-3b65-4a97-bb85-135f25a8fca6 | 2022-07-16T17:29:54 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/missing-in-georgia/paul-dillard-missing-atlanta-84-year-old/85-6df473ab-3b65-4a97-bb85-135f25a8fca6 |
MERIDIAN — A new facility has opened up in Meridian to provide behavioral health treatment and services to children and teens with autism.
360 Behavioral Health first started in California over 20 years ago, it was one of the first autism therapy providers there, according to a press release. The company opened the doors of its Meridian autism treatment center to the public with a ribbon cutting on Wednesday, though it started the assessment and intake process with prospective clients in advance of the opening.
The center will provide Applied Behavior Analysis-based treatment, which is therapy based on the science of learning and behavior. According to Autism Speaks, ABA-based therapy focuses on teaching necessary skills and stopping dangerous behaviors rather than preventing harmless self-stimulatory behavior.
The press release from 360 Behavioral Health called it the “gold standard” in behavioral health treatment for autism.
“Everything we do is very individualized towards that child,” Director of Clinical Services Devin Berger said. “Because we are not looking to just shape them into what society’s standards are. We want them to be their own person as well, too.”
The center has a conference room for intake assessment, one larger “social room” where clients can work on socialization skills in a group setting with other clients and two operating clinic rooms where they will work on more one-on-one aspects of the therapy with clients.
The center has the capacity to expand to up to eight clinical rooms as it continues to grow in case numbers.
There are other treatment facilities in the Treasure Valley that offer similar services, but, according to Berger, many of the families trying to enroll their child are met with long wait lists that can stretch out to a year.
“The need for services is really high,” Berger said. “And so I think our services are going to make a really great impact on not only families but just helping the already established agencies that are facing a lot of waitlist.”
According to the press release, Idaho recently became the 47th state to require insurance coverage for the treatment and intervention for individuals with autism. So if a child is diagnosed with autism and has healthcare insurance through a health plan in Idaho, the insurance provider is mandated to help cover the costs for appropriate and necessary treatment – including services offered by 360 Behavioral Health.
However, the amount of treatment the insurance provider is willing to cover varies. Clinical recommendation for ABA-based therapy is 30-40 hours a week, but most families typically do 15 to 20 hours due to both insurance limitations as well as what families of clients are able to balance with the other day-to-day demands of life.
Berger said the center is aiming to allow parents to drop off their child for a few hours at a time. Berger said the hope is that by doing this they will be able to “alleviate some of that stress from them and give them back some time that they be may need for other activities as well.”
“The facility is important because we’re not just here to just provide ABA services. We are looking to give children the opportunity and tools to achieve their own individual goals,” Berger said. “So our service is not a lifetime service. It is a service that we are here to teach them what they need in order to succeed in their own individual lifestyle.”
According to Dr. Heather Hettinger, vice president of development and growth for the center, a day at the center will be split into three hour block sessions. She said by doing this they will be able to accommodate up to 75 clients a day.
The intake process for the center starts with an interview with the parents. The behavioral analysts then perform three to four observations of the client in natural settings like the home, school or other social settings. Goals for the treatment are determined from there.
“It can be kind of a rather long intensive process, but it’s definitely worth it,” Berger said.
Those interested in enrolling their children in the program can go online to 360behavioralhealth.com for more information. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/new-autism-treatment-center-opens-in-meridian/article_819c3739-ecf6-5d32-b361-406ae1f29594.html | 2022-07-16T17:36:56 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/new-autism-treatment-center-opens-in-meridian/article_819c3739-ecf6-5d32-b361-406ae1f29594.html |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Demand is surging for concealed carry permits in Maryland in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that Americans have a right to carry firearms in public for self-defense.
Maryland firearms dealers have told the Post that customers have been calling and visiting their shops in search of small, easily hidden hand guns.
Alex Rozental, the owner of AM Shooting in Damascus, said he’s sold out of 9mm semiautomatic handguns that are popular for concealed carry.
“I see all sorts of customers — construction workers, business owners — through all the backgrounds,” Rozental told the newspaper. He also said that his state-mandated training courses are booked through September.
Maryland’s Republican governor directed state police on July 5 to suspend the state’s “good and substantial reason” standard for permits to carry handguns. The threshold for that standard included showing a person’s life is in danger from threats or working in a job that could put them in contact with people who are dangerous.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June had struck down a similar law in New York, which Hogan said was “virtually indistinguishable” from the one in Maryland.
“It would be unconstitutional to continue enforcing this provision in state law,” Hogan said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/demand-surges-in-maryland-for-handguns-and-carry-permits/2022/07/16/1641ad8a-0527-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html | 2022-07-16T17:37:56 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/demand-surges-in-maryland-for-handguns-and-carry-permits/2022/07/16/1641ad8a-0527-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html |
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Lafayette police and firefighters are recognizing a 25-year-old man for his heroic actions in saving five kids from a burning home early Monday morning.
Around 12:30 a.m. on July 11, the Lafayette Police Department and Lafayette Fire Department got reports of a house fire in the 2200 block of Union Street, near North 26th Street.
The house was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, preventing crews from going inside after learning a 6-year-old could still be inside the home.
At 12:36 a.m., a man, who went in the home before firefighters arrived, jumped through a second-story window and landed on the ground with the 6-year-old who was trapped inside.
The man, later identified as 25-year-old Nicholas Bostic, of Lafayette, was seriously injured in the incident, suffering from severe smoke inhalation and a cut on his right arm. Bostic was flown to an Indianapolis hospital for treatment.
Police said the 6-year-old child was "miraculously mostly uninjured."
On Wednesday, Bostic spoke with police to share what happened prior to their arrival.
Bostic told police he was driving by the home when he saw it was on fire. Bostic said he stopped in the road, put his car in reverse, turned around and pulled into the driveway.
Knowing he had to act, Bostic said he ran around the back of the home and went inside, yelling to try to alert anyone that could be inside the burning home.
Bostic said nobody answered his call, possibly meaning everyone had already gotten out. Instead of taking that chance, Bostic said he went in and went up the stairs, where he found four kids, ranging in age from 1 to 18.
Bostic told police he helped the four kids escape from the burning home. Once they were outside, Bostic said he found out a 6-year-old could still be inside.
Without hesitation, Bostic said he ran back inside the burning home. After coming up empty during a search upstairs, he was about to exit the house through a window when he heard a child's cry coming from downstairs.
Bostic said he then wrapped his shirt around his mouth and nose before going through the smoke and fire. Bostic told police he couldn't see anything in front of him and said the heat from the fire made it seem as if he was walking into an oven.
Crawling on the ground, Bostic was able to locate the 6-year-old girl and took her upstairs. Then, Bostic said he broke a window by punching it with his hand to get out of the burning home.
Bostic said the child's leg got tangled in the string on the blinds as they were about to jump out of the window. Bostic told police he calmed himself down, untangled the string and jumped from the window — making sure he didn't land on the side where he was holding the child.
"Nicholas Bostic's heroic actions saved lives. His selflessness during this incident is inspiring, and he has impressed many with his courage, tenacity, and steadfast calmness in the face of such perilous danger," the Lafayette Police Department said in a statement.
Bostic will be honored Aug. 2 during "National Night Out" at the Lafayette Aviators baseball game.
Attendees can save $2 on tickets with the promo code FUND2022, and $4 of each ticket price will be donated to Bostic's GoFundMe page.
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Meet our Mid-Valley: Salem Star Valor Quilters makes beloved gifts for veterans
It started with a dream.
In 2003, Catherine Roberts, whose son was deployed in Iraq, dreamed one night of a soldier, sitting next to his bed, extremely distraught. Then an angel came along and covered him in a quilt.
Mary Williams, the founder of the Salem Star Valor Quilters of Oregon, told the story to a handful of people at the American Legion hall in Canby on Wednesday.
"He instantly started feeling at ease," Williams said.
It was because of Roberts' dream, she continued, that the national organization Quilts of Valor began.
The foundation's goal is to use quilts to comfort and help heal service members and veterans touched by war. It has gifted more than 300,000 quilts to date.
"It's our desire to make sure that our veterans are covered so that they know how much we appreciate them, how much we love them," Williams said. "We want you to feel the same thing that that soldier felt that day in the dream."
Williams started the local branch in 2018 after moving to Salem and realizing there wasn't one in the state capital. The chapter, which meets at William's store Will~n~Bee'z Quilt & Coffee Shoppe in Salem, has since grown to include 45 volunteers and has given about 220 quilts to date.
Williams said she's been sewing since she was about 6 years old. Growing up in a military family, moving from base to base, her mother made their clothes to save money. She said those who quilt always stitch in love.
That was evident with each of the unique quilts made and presented in Canby.
Alex Bello, for his service in the U.S. Marine Corps, received a quilt adorned in red, white and blue, the words "America the Beautiful" and "Liberty and Justice for All" stitched above and below the Liberty Bell. Seeing the quilt hanging off his shoulders, an attendee remarked it looked like a superhero cape. Another responded, "It is."
Danny Hatcher served in several places, including Vietnam, in the U.S. Air Force and has two Purple Hearts. He walked to the front of the room using a cane and stood as they placed a multi-colored, patchwork quilt around him.
Last was John G. Champ, Jr., a veteran of the U.S. Army and recipient of a Bronze Star Medal, who was given an arrow block quilt framed in dark blue. As the volunteers held it up for display, Williams leaned in toward Champ, smiling, and whispered, "Oh, I made that one."
Williams has several relatives currently in the military or retired — including her father, husband, son and three brothers — and said she believes it's important to honor those who serve because "we don't get to walk this earth, to walk in this country" without their sacrifices.
Individuals are often nominated to receive a quilt by family or friends, but sometimes Williams and other volunteers spot service people out in public and ask if they've received one. She said they prioritize those who served in World World II especially since these veterans are older and she wants to ensure they get one.
Even throughout the early days of the pandemic when many chapters across the country paused presentations, Williams said she continued to reach recipients however she could, even if it was standing on their front porch with a bagged quilt, wearing a COVID mask.
After wrapping each recipient with a quilt in Canby on Wednesday, Williams gave a hug, shook their hands and said, "On behalf of the Salem Star Valor Quilters, thank you for your service and welcome home."
How to get involved
Salem Star Valor Quilters is hosting an event this coming Veterans Day, Nov. 11, at the Salem Armory, located at 2310 17th St NE in Salem. They plan to present 100 quilts to veterans, including one to former Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who served in the Marines. Folks comfortable in crowds are encouraged to attend.
Those interested in joining the Salem Star Valor Quilters can email SalemStarValorQuilters@gmail.com for more information. They are always looking for donations and volunteers, Williams said. Volunteers do not have to have quilting experience and can help with making kits, events, fundraising and more.
The group meets on the second Monday of every month at 10:30 a.m. at Will~n~Bee'z Quilt & Coffee Shoppe at 1555 12th St SE in Salem. The store's phone number is 503-899-3210.
Contact Statesman Journal education reporter Natalie Pate at npate@statesmanjournal.com, 503-399-6745, Twitter @NataliePateGwin, or Facebook at Facebook.com/nataliepatejournalist. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/16/salem-star-valor-quilters-of-oregon-make-beloved-gifts-for-veterans/65365495007/ | 2022-07-16T17:43:17 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/16/salem-star-valor-quilters-of-oregon-make-beloved-gifts-for-veterans/65365495007/ |
DICKINSON, Texas — A man has died from his injuries after lighting fireworks in Galveston County, according to the Dickinson Police Department.
It happened after 10 p.m. Friday at a scene in the 3300 block of Timber Drive.
Police say they received a call of an injury sustained by fireworks.
When they arrived on the scene, police discovered a wounded man who was then transported to Houston Healthcare Clear Lake, where he was then pronounced deceased.
Police say the 41-year-old man died from abdominal wounds he sustained after being hit in the torso by a firework he lit.
Dickinson Police say the incident is still actively being investigated and plan on giving additional updates at a later time. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-dies-after-being-hit-by-fireworks/285-f9be30f5-85de-4b83-9f59-b2ee68a0e0fc | 2022-07-16T17:43:19 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/man-dies-after-being-hit-by-fireworks/285-f9be30f5-85de-4b83-9f59-b2ee68a0e0fc |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla — Electric cars have become quite popular lately. And with gas prices and inflation, it seems like a great way to help the environment and save money in the long term.
But... what happens when the battery needs replacing? And what happens when the replacement battery costs more than the car itself?
For a St. Petersburg family, that is the exact position they found themselves in.
Avery Siwinski who is 17 years old was excited to get a car to drive herself to and from school. Her parents spent $11,000 on a used electric car for her. It's a Ford Focus Electric. The car is a 2014 model, with 60,000 miles.
"It was fine at first," Avery Siwinski said. "I loved it so much. It was small and quiet and cute. And all the sudden it stopped working."
Avery Siwinski had her car for six months before her dashboard started to light up with problematic symbols.
"In March, it started giving an alert," she said. "And then we took it to the shop and it stopped running."
In the midst of the car troubles, the family was dealing with tragedy. In June, Avery's father died following a stage four colon cancer diagnosis. Her grandfather, Ray Siwinski stepped in to try to get the car issues sorted.
"Turns out, this is a pretty common problem for this particular car," Ray Siwinski said.
The car has sat at Ford Auto Nation in Pinellas County for the last few months. Ray said he was able to get a quote on a replacement battery for the electric car.
"The Ford dealership had advised us that we could replace the battery," he said. "It would only cost $14,000."
$3,000 more than what the family bought the car for. And that quote didn't include installation and labor costs, Ray Siwinski said.
Ray shared that Auto Nation offered to buy the car off him, offering him $500 for it.
After weeks of research, Ray Siwinski said there aren't any other options to fix the car.
"Then we found out the batteries aren't even available," he said. "So it didn't matter. They could cost twice as much and we still couldn't get it."
It's an issue he says isn't specific to owners of the now discontinued Ford Focus Electric.
"If you're buying a new one, you have to realize there is no second-hand market right now because the manufacturers are not supporting the cars," he said.
The Siwinski's message to you: do your research before buying electric. They warn, it may cost you far more than you realize.
10 Tampa Bay reached out to Ford Motor Company, asking what customers in this position are expected to do and if the electric car batteries are still being made available for Ford Focus Electric cars. We are awaiting their response. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/electric-car-battery-replacement-costs-more-than-car/67-46243c70-124b-43e9-9a6e-fca01dc40cc4 | 2022-07-16T17:44:38 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/electric-car-battery-replacement-costs-more-than-car/67-46243c70-124b-43e9-9a6e-fca01dc40cc4 |
A customer so enraged with bank staff at a Chase location in Manhattan that he slashed a private security guard when he was asked to leave has been arrested, two senior NYPD officials with knowledge of the case said Saturday.
The guard, who was slashed in the neck Friday at the Upper East Side branch on 86th Street around 9 a.m., was taken to a hospital in grave condition but may recover, authorities said. He's since received stitches and stabilized, officials said.
According to the preliminary investigation, the attacker first showed up at the bank before it opened and demanded to be let inside. It wasn't clear exactly when that happened, but the security guard was there and told him to come back when it opened at 9 a.m., officials and sources say.
The man allegedly became irate when he saw people -- staff he mistook for customers -- being allowed inside the bank as he had to wait outside, the law enforcement officials said.
He left and came back when it opened to meet with bank staff, officials say. It wasn't clear if he spoke to a teller or someone with member services, but officials say the man was told that what he wanted to do could not be done at that branch and he should call a 1-800 number instead for further assistance.
That's when the man allegedly started to flip out, the law enforcement sources say, and the manager told him to leave. The security guard was escorting him from the facility when he was attacked, they added.
Footage posted to the Citizen app showed a heavy law enforcement response at the scene. Multiple responders were seen working on the victim as they wheeled his stretcher into the ambulance. The victim was said to be in surgery late Friday morning.
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Jorge Santiago was arrested just after midnight Saturday for attempted murder and weapons charges, according to the two senior police officials. He had two knives in his possession at the time, but investigators say each will need to be analyzed before they can determine if one was used in the attack on the guard.
Attorney information for Santiago was not immediately known Saturday morning.
Chase Bank said in a statement that its thoughts were with the wounded guard and his family. The bank also said it was cooperating with the NYPD in the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/chase-bank-slasher-who-left-manhattan-security-guard-clinging-to-life-arrested-cops/3777433/ | 2022-07-16T17:47:10 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/chase-bank-slasher-who-left-manhattan-security-guard-clinging-to-life-arrested-cops/3777433/ |
A tornado touched town in a New York county late Wednesday, as isolated-yet-intense thunderstorms slammed pockets of the state with flooding rains and intense winds, the National Weather Service revealed Saturday.
The storms left tens of thousands of customers in Ulster County without power and prompted a state of emergency order from Gov. Kathy Hochul until Friday morning. At least 12,000 were without power the next morning.
The NWS confirmed an EF-1 tornado with 90 mph peak winds, striking two miles west of Kingston just before 9 p.m. Storm surveyors blamed the tornado for uprooting and snapping trees, displacing a car canopy and ripping shingles from the sides of homes.
The tornado, they said, touched down between Davis Street and Hillside Drive near Route 29.
The severe storms spared the city and targeted northern parts of the tri-state, dumping buckets of hail in Ulster County that piled up quickly — almost looking like mounds of snow. There were a number of felled trees across Dutchess and Ulster counties, with the city of Kingston appearing to have faced the brunt of the harsh weather.
“With severe thunderstorms last night causing extensive damage, including tree limbs down, roadways blocked, and power outages, I am declaring a State of Emergency in Ulster County,” Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan said Thursday.
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The state of emergency limited vehicular traffic on Ulster County roads, especially in Kingston, Hurley, Marbletown, Esopus and Ulster to essential service and emergency vehicles until 8 a.m. on Friday.
Ulster County Executive Patrick Ryan said that residents of one town some were still reeling from a major ice storm back in February.
"With the financial pressure everybody’s feeling right now, to have this on-top is just a lot, so we are doing everything we can to try to help," Ryan said. He added that at least 90 percent of customers who lost power are expected to have electricity back by late Thursday night, while others will have to wait for poles and power lines to be restored.
In addition to the hail, the rain was reportedly so torrential at moments, that visibility was near zero as the storms passed. Several streets were left flooded at least temporarily after dealing with the deluge of rain. Powerful wind gusts also rocked the area, with gusts as strong as 51 mph reported in Rhinebeck.
One man drove his recently purchased new pickup truck home from work late Wednesday night, only for it to get crushed by a fallen tree shortly after he got home.
After pleasant, albeit hotter than average, weather for the rest of the week, the next chance for showers and storms for much of the region returns Sunday night into Monday, and could even last into Tuesday. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/snapped-trees-buckets-of-hail-weather-service-confirms-ny-county-tornado/3777448/ | 2022-07-16T17:47:23 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/snapped-trees-buckets-of-hail-weather-service-confirms-ny-county-tornado/3777448/ |
MIDLAND, Texas — The George W. Bush Childhood Home will be holding a Third Thursday Reading Event on July 21.
July's event will also double as the home's Birthday Bash.
From 3 to 6 p.m., children will hear the month's featured book be read to them and be able to enjoy goodies.
"How to make a Cherry Pie and See the USA" is the featured book. All children who attend will receive a free copy.
Attendees will also be able to eat historical cake, cherry pie and ice cream.
There will also be free tours and a bounce house.
While the event is free you must reserve your spot. You can RSVP by calling 432-685-1112 or by emailing gwbhome@bushchildhoodhome.org. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/george-w-bush-childhood-home-birthday-bash-reading-event/513-d32a4cca-7090-4103-acae-76e71dfb9a34 | 2022-07-16T17:49:17 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/george-w-bush-childhood-home-birthday-bash-reading-event/513-d32a4cca-7090-4103-acae-76e71dfb9a34 |
MIDLAND, Texas — The Museum of the Southwest has come up with a new way to ensure each visitor gets a personalized experience with each work of art.
New Holo Sonics Directional Audio Speakers have been installed.
These speakers will allow anyone who approaches a work of art to be in a "cone of sound". Those inside will hear a narrative about the art, artist or period.
Those who are not in the cone of sound will be unable to listen.
"Everybody can hear this audio, learn more about the art in their own little experience. It's kind of like the old school experience of going to a museum and wearing headphones, except no more headphones. The sound is right there in your ears but not in anybody else's," said Matthew Ward, Museum Curator.
Ward believes keeping the museum up to date with technology will allow people to have a deeper connection with art and learn more while having fun. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/museum-of-the-southwest-installs-new-directional-speakers/513-a8f72357-32f8-4ea9-804a-928d12305c72 | 2022-07-16T17:49:23 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/museum-of-the-southwest-installs-new-directional-speakers/513-a8f72357-32f8-4ea9-804a-928d12305c72 |
ODESSA, Texas — Music City Mall will be holding its Back to School Bash on July 30 from 2 to 6 p.m.
The event will be split into four sections across the mall.
On the carousel stage, there will be a performance from the cast of "Spongebob the Musical", a dance performance by Independent Dance Company and Kids Karaoke.
At the JCPenney Court there will be Balloons by Harlin and giveaways and prizes.
Anyone who brings a school supply to donate to ECISD is entered for a chance to win a grand prize.
In the Dillard's Court there will be face painting, live characters and a photo booth.
Finally at the Regal Theater Hall there will be jumpers for the children to enjoy.
Odessa police and fire departments will also be on hand for meet-and-greets.
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ODESSA, Texas — The parking lot of Ratliff Stadium was turned into a driver training course for the Odessa Police Department Friday.
Eight recruits were tackling the driver safety section of their training.
The Friday section was a condenses version of everything the cadets had worked on over the week and contains everything they will have to do as patrol officers.
Driving instructors say this is why safety is their number one priority.
"I think in all it's a good experience to avoid any accidents in the city, when it comes to high speed chases we may have to encounter so it's all in all perfect training exercise," said OPD recruit Nathan Sanchez.
Earlier in the week, students had to complete the course within four minutes and 20 seconds in order to move on to the next part of the training.
OPD tells us so far everyone in the class has qualified. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/odessa-police-cadets-driver-training/513-b84badab-78cb-4f2e-8761-24095c438f58 | 2022-07-16T17:49:36 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/odessa-police-cadets-driver-training/513-b84badab-78cb-4f2e-8761-24095c438f58 |
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller penned an editorial Friday expressing his support for expanding the "compassionate use" of cannabis products in Texas.
Miller started out by saying that, in the past, Texas policy on cannabis has not been driven by facts but, rather, fear.
"As I look back, I believe that cannabis prohibition came from a place of fear, not from medical science or the analysis of social harm," Miller wrote. "Sadly, the roots of this came from a history of racism, classism and a large central government with an authoritarian desire to control others. It is as anti-American in its origins as could be imaginable."
He continued, calling for the state to enter "a new chapter and a new attitude about the use of cannabis" and its potential medical benefits.
Texas lawmakers approved back in 2015 a medical marijuana program intended for people with epilepsy. Since then, the list of people who can use it for medical purposes has expanded. Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill to do just that in June 2021.
A law expanding the use of medical marijuana in 2019 added those with terminal cancer, autism, multiple sclerosis and others to the list of legal users. Then, in 2021, an additional law further expanded the use to all forms of cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder.
That law, which went into effect last September, also doubled the amount of THC allowed in marijuana products from 0.5% to 1%.
Miller wrote that his goal next year is to expand access to medical marijuana in Texas "so that every Texan with a medical need has access to these medicines."
"I will urge our state legislature and our Governor to make that a top priority in the upcoming legislative session," he wrote. "It is time for all of us, including the Governor, members of the Texas Legislature and others to come together and set aside our political differences to have an honest conversation about cannabis: where we have been, where we are going and what role government should properly play."
Miller highlighted other states, including conservative ones, that have legalized medical marijuana and others that have legalized marijuana sales to all adults.
Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas currently allow the use of medical marijuana, but not recreational use. New Mexico is currently the only state bordering Texas that has legalized the sale of recreational marijuana. That New Mexico law went into effect on April 1.
"We owe it to our fellow Texans, especially those who are suffering, to lead or just get out of the way if we cannot formulate effective cannabis policy for Texas," Miller wrote.
Read the full editorial on the Texas Department of Agriculture's website.
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MIDLAND, Texas — The Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center will be hosting "Cinema Under the Stars".
This free event will be on July 31 and will show "Hotel Transylvania" and "The Hunger Games".
The first film will start at 4:30 p.m. and the second will start at 7:30 p.m.on July 10.
Free popcorn will be provided and drinks can be purchased at the concessions stand.
There will also be food trucks in the parking lot from 3:30 to 8 p.m.
While the event is free, the Wagner Noël requires you to reserve your tickets ahead of time. You can do so by clicking or tapping here. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/wagner-noel-cinema-under-the-stars/513-0b2a7e3d-8c50-4ef7-ac77-8e537c211938 | 2022-07-16T17:49:48 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/wagner-noel-cinema-under-the-stars/513-0b2a7e3d-8c50-4ef7-ac77-8e537c211938 |
Note: District 6 includes Guilford County and part of Forsyth County; District 10 includes all of Yadkin, Surry, Stokes, Rockingham, Lincoln, most of Catawba and Iredell and part of Forsyth counties; District 13 includes all of Davie, Davidson, Rowan, Randolph, Alamance, Caswell, Person and parts of Chatham and Lee and a small section of Iredell counties. These boundaries will change with the new Congress after the 2022 election.
WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted recently.
Along with the week's roll call votes, the House also passed the Quantum Computing Cybersecurity Preparedness Act (H.R. 7535), to encourage the migration of federal government information technology systems to quantum-resistant cryptography.
U.S. House
Caribbean ties: The House has passed a resolution stating the need to strengthen U.S. economic partnerships with Caribbean countries. The vote on Tuesday, July 12, was 351-64.
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Yeas: U.S. Rep. Kathy Manning, D-Greensboro, 6th District; U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-Denver, 10th District
Nays: U.S. Rep. Ted Budd, R-Advance, 13th District
Federal worker benefits: The House has passed the First Responder Fair Return for Employees on Their Initial Retirement Earned Act. The bill would keep federal government workers classified as first responders for the purposes of receiving retirement benefits if those workers are disabled on the job and then move to non-first responder jobs within the federal government. The vote on Tuesday, July 12, was unanimous with 417 yeas.
Yeas: Manning, McHenry, Budd
Cybersecurity training: The House has passed the National Computer Forensics Institute Reauthorization Act. The bill would reauthorize, through 2032, the U.S. Secret Service's National Computer Forensics Institute, which trains state and local law enforcement agencies in addressing cybersecurity and electronic crime. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 410-16.
Not voting: McHenry
Nays: Budd
Yeas: Manning
Fentanyl exposures: The House has passed the Prevent Exposure to Narcotics and Toxics Act to require the Customs and Border Protection agency to distribute containment devices to its workers to prevent their exposure to fentanyl. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was unanimous with 429 yeas.
Yeas: Manning, McHenry, Budd
Active shooter alerts: The House has passed the Active Shooter Alert Act. The bill would establish an Active Shooter Alert Communications Network at the Justice Department, and have the network make plans for sending alerts about active shooters by working with local and state governments. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 260-169.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Veterans and toxins: The House has passed the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act, to increase medical benefits and treatments for military veterans who were exposed to toxins in Iraq and Afghanistan. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 342-88.
Yeas: Manning, McHenry, Budd
Military commissions: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Defense Department to publish on the internet the proceedings of military commissions. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 218-207.
Not voting: McHenry
Nays: Budd
Yeas: Manning
Contractor labor practices: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would bar the Defense Department from awarding contracts to employers found to have recently engaged in unfair labor practices. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 221-207.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Military labor standards: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would give preferential treatment to potential Defense Department contractors who meet certain labor relations standards. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 220-209.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Military contracting: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would give preferential treatment to potential Defense Department construction contractors with a majority of their employees living near the planned construction project. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 220-207.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Military harassment claims: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the military to complete its reviews of harassment and discrimination complaints within six months. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 219-209.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Military harm to civilians: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would authorize up to $5 million of annual spending on programs to mitigate civilian harm from military actions. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 215-212.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Nuclear tests: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would end limits on funding for the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Organization. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 216-209.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
D.C. National Guard: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would give the mayor of Washington, D.C., authority over the District's National Guard equal to authority the governors of the 50 states have over their National Guards. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 218-209.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
White supremacy: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Department, and Defense Department to oppose white supremacist and neo-Nazi activity by agency employees. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 218-208.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Domestic terrorism: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Department to send Congress a report on processes needed to improve their reports on domestic terrorism threats. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 220-205.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Posse comitatus: The House has passed an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act that would bar the use, in legal proceedings, of evidence obtained by military members in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which governs the involvement of the military in domestic law enforcement activities. The vote on Thursday, July 14, was 215-213.
Nays: McHenry, Budd
Yeas: Manning
Military spending: The House has passed the National Defense Authorization Act to authorize $850 billion of fiscal 2023 spending at the Defense Department and military construction programs, and prescribe military personnel levels for the year. The vote on Thursday, July 14, was 329-101.
Yeas: McHenry, Budd, Manning
5G networks: The House has passed the Promoting United States International Leadership in 5G Act to require the president to form an interagency government working group for supporting U.S. 5th generation mobile telecommunications systems. The vote on Thursday, July 14, was 405-20.
Yeas: Manning, McHenry, Budd
Sudan coup: The House has passed a resolution condemning last October's military coup in Sudan and calling for the restoration of the country's constitutional leaders. The vote on Thursday, July 14, was 417-7.
Yeas: Manning, McHenry, Budd
Veterans' records: The House has passed the Access for Veterans to Records Act to require the U.S. Office of the Archivist to send Congress a plan for ways to reduce the backlog of processing veterans' requests for National Personnel Records Center documents, and authorize $60 million of spending on that effort. The vote on Thursday, July 14, was 406-21.
Yeas: Manning, McHenry, Budd
U.S. Senate
Military readiness: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Ashish Vazirani to be the Defense Department's Deputy Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness. The vote on Tuesday, July 12, was 73-21.
Yeas: U.S. Sen. Richard Burr and U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, both R-N.C.
BATF director: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Steven M. Dettelbach to be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Dettelbach was a U.S. attorney in Ohio for most of the Obama administration and, since 2016, has been a partner at the BakerHostetler law firm. The vote on Tuesday, July 12, was 48-46.
Nays: Burr, Tillis
Federal Reserve board: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Michael Barr to be a member of the Federal Reserve's board of governors for a 14-year term ending in 2032. Barr, an assistant secretary at the Treasury Department during part of the Obama administration, has since been a finance and public policy professor at the University of Michigan. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 66-28. Barr was then confirmed, in a separate 66-28 vote, to also be the board's vice chairman for supervision for a four-year term.
Nays: Burr, Tillis
Export-Import Bank: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Owen Herrnstadt to be a member of the board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. Herrnstadt, currently an executive at the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers union, is also an employment and labor law professor at Georgetown University, and was formerly a Federal Reserve official. The vote on Wednesday, July 13, was 51-44.
Nays: Burr
Yeas: Tillis
CIA general counsel: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Kate Heinzelman to be the Central Intelligence Agency's general counsel. Currently a senior aide in the attorney general's office, Heinzelman had been a partner at a Washington, D.C., law firm, and a legal official in the Obama administration in various roles. The vote on Thursday, July 14, was 50-41.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis | https://greensboro.com/news/local/how-the-local-n-c-delegation-to-congress-voted-recently/article_80186826-0468-11ed-9f9a-ef590ceab7fc.html | 2022-07-16T18:03:21 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/how-the-local-n-c-delegation-to-congress-voted-recently/article_80186826-0468-11ed-9f9a-ef590ceab7fc.html |
ARKANSAS, USA — Arkansas collected $15.8 million in tax revenue from medical marijuana sales in the first six months of 2022, down from $16.9 million in the same period of 2021. Pounds of product sold at state-licensed dispensaries is up almost 10% in the first half of 2022.
The Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration (DFA), the parent agency of the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission, reported Thursday (July 14) that the state’s 38 medical marijuana dispensaries sold 23,251 pounds of product in the first half of 2022, up 9.6% compared with the 21,000 pounds in the same period of 2021.
Medical marijuana patients spent $22.29 million in June to obtain 3,926 pounds.
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BRISTOL — An affiliate of Hard Rock International is in negotiations to purchase nearly 60 acres of land located southwest of Interstate 94 and 60th Street from the village.
The land is owned by the village but is located within the City of Kenosha because of a longstanding boundary agreement between the two Kenosha County municipalities.
During a special meeting of the Village Board and Community Development Authority in the spring a sales proposal from Kenosha Landco LLC was approved.
Kenosha Landco LLC and Hard Rock International have the same Davie, Florida, address listed as their headquarters.
Bristol Village Administrator Randall Kerkman said the village has been marketing the land for years and Kenosha Landco LLC made the highest offer of $15,213,221 for 59.91 acres.
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He said the Florida-based company is negotiating with the village attorney. Both the Community Development Authority (CDA) and Village Board will take up the matter on Tuesday evening.
Kerkman said Kenosha Landco LLC has not disclosed its plans for the site located southwest of Uke's Harley-Davidson (on the opposite side of the interstate) and northwest of Cracker Barrel.
"All approvals for use have to come from Kenosha since that is where the land is located," a letter posted to the village website on July 8 reads. "The Village Board took the highest offer to maximize the investment made in the land."
Hard Rock International had previously planned to partner with the Menominee Indian Tribe to develop an $800 million hotel and casino at the former site of Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha. A referendum on the matter was approved by residents and supported by locally elected officials. The plan, however, was rejected by then Gov. Scott Walker in 2015 during his presidential campaign and after objections from the Forest County Potawatomi, operators of a casino in Milwaukee.
Hard Rock International is owned by the Seminole tribe and operates casinos across the country. It recently opened a casino and entertainment complex in northwest Indiana. Chicago officials have also given the greenlight to a major casino in that city.
Developers of a Kenosha casino would have to partner with a local tribe to open a casino here.
Hard Rock International was not immediately available for comment.
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Do you like plants? Gardening? Building things? Helping your community in a fun way? Listening to birdsong while you do all of the above? If so, the Coos Watershed Association (CoosWA) hopes you'll sign up for a new opportunity they're offering this summer.
CoosWA operates a native plant nursery on the Matson Creek Wetland Preserve in Coos Bay and is looking for volunteers to help with projects such as building raised beds for propagation of dune plants, heeling in trees and other nursery maintenance activities. The property is in the middle of a wetland preserve, so you will also have the opportunity to watch birds and other wildlife and spend time in a beautiful part of the watershed.
WHEN: July 28 from 8 a.m.-noon, and again on August 25.
WHERE: Off of Catching Slough; exact location and directions will be provided upon sign-up.
SIGN UP (required): Email Ed Cope at ecope@cooswatershed.org or call 541-888-5922 Ext. 305. RSVP by 5 p.m. July 26. Feel free to email or call with questions.
To learn more about the Matson Creek Wetland Preserve and the role of native plants in watershed health, visit https://cooswatershed.org/what-we-do/plants/ | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/coos-watershed-association-native-plant-nursery-volunteer-day-july-28/article_93a5feb2-02fb-11ed-8453-fb8b7b8ff29b.html | 2022-07-16T18:26:33 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/coos-watershed-association-native-plant-nursery-volunteer-day-july-28/article_93a5feb2-02fb-11ed-8453-fb8b7b8ff29b.html |
After days of warm, still, clear weather, high winds and cooler temperatures hit the area Tuesday. But that didn't stop close to a dozen young children from venturing out to John Topits Park to learn how to fish.
The Coos Bay Public Library partnered with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to offer the opportunity for children to learn the basics of fishing from an expert.
Morgan Davies, who works with the ODFW, brought dozens of fishing poles, a variety of bait and a lifetime of knowledge to share with the children.
"It's a little windy, so it might be hard to cast, but we will do our best," Davies told the children as the program began.
He then explained step by step how to cast a pole, setting each child up with a pole rigged for fishing. For the younger children, the setup was without a hook, instead having a rubber fish at the end. For those ready to try, a hook and bait was available.
While the most of the children were excited to learn the basics, 14-year-old Jackson Daniels had another goal in mind.
"I want to know how to catch one," he said. "Patience is really hard for me."
Jennifer Knight, the children's librarian with the Coos Bay Public Library, said the program is part of the library's Summer Reading Program. She said the theme for the summer is "Off the Beaten Path," which includes a variety of outdoor activities.
Knight also said the library will soon be receiving a fishing pole to loan out to the people of Coos Bay.
As she was helping children bait up, one young girl turned to Knight and said, "This is hard to fish."
"It is hard to fish," Knight responded.
As the children cast into the open water, one girl wanted to be strategic, so she turned to Davies and asked where the best spot to find a fish was. He explained fish often try to hide to avoid birds and other predators.
"When you're fishing, you want to look for place they can hide," Davies said. "It's going to be harder to cast there, but that's where you'll find fish."
While few fish were actually seen Tuesday, the children dd get a lesson on enjoying the outdoors. And a few did make catches, although they hooked up with trees and rocks, rather than a wiggling trout. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/despite-wind-children-learn-basics-of-fishing/article_4ba90dd0-02fa-11ed-91df-2bfac14d4183.html | 2022-07-16T18:26:39 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/despite-wind-children-learn-basics-of-fishing/article_4ba90dd0-02fa-11ed-91df-2bfac14d4183.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin Pets Alive! is hosting its Caturday adoption and fostering event at Domain NORTHSIDE on Saturday, July 16.
Close to 20 adorable, adoptable cats and kittens will be available to attendees. All APA! cats are fully vetted, spayed or neutered and have updated vaccines and a microchip. Best of all, adoption fees will be waived.
"We are trying to promote a foster-centric model so less kittens and cats are in the shelter and more are in foster homes. With that being said, it's harder for them to be seen when they're in a cozy home and not in a shelter, so these events allow us to have visibility for our foster cats and help our fosters be able to take more cats into their home once these cats get adopted," said Halle Hamilton, cat adoption manager at Austin Pets Alive!.
Austin Pets Alive! has two locations for cat adoptions: its Town Lake Animal Center on West Cesar Chavez Street and the Tarrytown Cat Adoption Center on Windsor Road. Both locations are opened every day from noon to 6 p.m.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Two people were rescued on Saturday afternoon after a boat flipped in southeast Austin.
Austin-Travis County EMS said two people were swept downstream after the incident at 2900 S. FM 973 just after 12 p.m.
Around 12:30 p.m. medics and Austin Fire Department crews made verbal contact with the two people while they were in the water but out of the current.
Shortly after, AFD Special Operations Boat 14 rescued both victims safely with no injuries.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A first-of-its-kind proposal in the California Legislature aimed at holding social media companies responsible for harming children who have become addicted to their products would no longer let parents sue popular platforms like Instagram and TikTok.
The revised proposal would still make social media companies liable for damages of up to $250,000 per violation for using features they know can cause children to become addicted. But it would only let prosecutors, not parents, file the lawsuits against social media companies. The legislation was amended last month, CalMatters reported Thursday.
The bill's author, Republican Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham, said he made the change to make sure the bill had enough votes to pass in the state Senate, where he said a number of lawmakers were "nervous about creating new types of lawsuits."
"They get afraid it will open the floodgates to frivolous claims," Cunningham said. "They seem to be more comfortable letting this be handled by the public prosecutors, who already end up taking the lead on this kind of consumer protection type stuff."
While the revised bill might win more votes in the state Legislature, it hasn't won over social media companies, many of which are based in California and remain opposed. TechNet, a group of technology CEOs and senior executives, says it is nearly impossible to separate social media content — words, photos and videos uploaded by people — from the features companies use to deliver that content, including things like push notifications, newsfeed and the ability to scroll endlessly through posts.
"I think that violates our First Amendment rights and the editorial discretion that we have," said Dylan Hoffman, TechNet's executive director for California and the Southwest. "It doesn't make sense to identify the feature when it's the content underlying it that may cause the problem."
Hoffman said social media companies have introduced lots of new features to address what he called the "a really difficult and complex issue" of children's use of social media. Many platforms let parents set time limits for their children or disable certain features.
"There is a lot of innovation in this space to make sure that parents and kids are able to better control their social media usage," Hoffman said.
The bill would exempt social media companies from these lawsuits if they conduct quarterly audits of their features and remove any harmful products within 30 days of learning they cause children to become addicted.
Hoffman says that would offer companies little protection because advocates claim nearly everything about a social media app or website is addictive, including the newsfeed and algorithms suggesting content.
He said companies would have to dismantle their entire websites within 30 days to avoid liability — something Hoffman said would be "impossible."
Cunningham scoffs at that argument, saying the legislation would give social media companies an incentive to police themselves to avoid penalties. He said most other products are covered under consumer protection laws that allow people to sue companies for selling products they know to be dangerous.
"We just haven't extended it to social media platforms yet because they are new, and we didn't really know that they were conducting this social experiment on the brains of our kids," Cunningham said. "They don't have any incentive to change."
The bill is one of several proposals in the Legislature this year targeting social media companies.
A bill by Democratic Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel would require social media companies to publicly disclose their policies for removing problem content and give detailed accounts for how and when they removed it.
A bill by Sen. Tom Umberg would let Californians who were targeted in a violent social media post seek a court order to have the post removed.
And a bill by Assemblymember Buffy Wicks would require companies to meet certain standards when marketing to children online.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Two neglected tigers rescued from a long-shuttered roadside tourist attraction in Oklahoma are beginning new lives more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away at California’s Oakland Zoo after receiving much-needed medical treatment.
The female tigers, now named Lola and Mia, were rescued in June from an Oklahoma attraction that was closed in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for multiple animal safety and welfare violations.
Lola had a facial deformity caused by an untreated infected tooth and underwent dental surgery on Thursday at the Oakland Zoo.
Mia had been declawed as a cub, a painful process that removes part of the animal’s paws and it is believed the big cat was used for taking pictures with tourists.
A concerned citizen alerted the Oakland Zoo that there were underfed big cats still living in small cages at the Oklahoma drive-thru zoo that were not receiving proper care. The Oakland Zoo did not disclose the name of the roadside attraction business because it said doing so could reveal the name of the tipster.
The tigers were kept in enclosures that were probably about 10 feet (3 meters) by about 15 feet (4.5 meters) and lived among piles of feces and dirty water dishes, said Colleen Kinzley, Director of Animal Care, Conservation and Research, at the Oakland Zoo.
“These are just atrocious conditions for an animal to live in and receive no medical care,” she said. “We’re very happy to be able to provide them with a forever home and a good quality of life.”
The animals are now receiving medical care and regaining their strength before they move to Oakland Zoo’s newly remodeled tiger exhibit, which had been empty since their previous rescued tiger passed away last year.
“It will be very heartwarming to see them be able to walk out on grass for probably the first time ever. Tigers love water. The moment they get to jump into the pool, I think there’s going to be so many times when we really will be so happy about this work that we’re doing,” Kinzley said.
The owner of the Oklahoma attraction was known to trade tigers with Joe Exotic from the Netflix series “Tiger King,” according to the Oakland Zoo. But since there were no records of the big cats’ history, it’s not known if either were bred or raised by Joe Exotic.
Joe Exotic — whose real name is Joseph Maldonado-Passage — is serving a 21-year prison sentence after being convicted of hiring two different men to kill animal welfare activist Carole Baskin.
The former private zookeeper was sentenced in January 2020 to 22 years in prison but after an appeal on his murder-for-hire conviction, a judge this year lowered his sentence to 21 years.
The Oakland Zoo says the treatment the tigers need points to the need to pass the federal Big Cat Public Safety Act, which would regulate the possession, exhibition, or breeding of the animals and restrict direct contact between the public and the big cats.
The bill has stalled since being introduced in the House last year. Currently, the ownership and breeding of exotic animals is controlled by state laws.
California has strict laws protecting big cats but other states like Oklahoma are more lenient. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/oklahoma-tigers-get-care-in-california-and-new-home/103-b163cfbd-0f11-4317-b755-3ac5c5e4c88f | 2022-07-16T18:50:40 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/oklahoma-tigers-get-care-in-california-and-new-home/103-b163cfbd-0f11-4317-b755-3ac5c5e4c88f |
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. — The Purple Place Bar and Grill is fighting to stay open at its original location in El Dorado Hills.
Denise and Mike Hountalas, the owners of the Purple Place Bar and Grill, purchased and renovated the restaurant in 2006. The Purple Place quickly became a beloved restaurant for many El Dorado County residents and those passing through the area.
"We grew the struggling business into a successful community gathering place while we employed multiple generations of families and local high schoolers," Hountalas wrote in a statement to ABC10.
After the restaurant took down its neon sign earlier this week, the community was left wondering about the fate of the restaurant.
"Unfortunately, negotiations with our landlord have been difficult and the terms she has proposed have not been reasonable," Hountalas said. "We remain hopeful that we will be able to come to terms but, while negotiations continue, we decided it was prudent to remove the Purple Place neon sign and place it in storage for safekeeping."
ABC10 reached out to the landlord of the Purple Place but had not heard back from them by the time of publishing.
Hountalas said their desire is to execute a new lease with their landlord, which would allow them to operate at their current location.
According to Hountalas, the Purple Place is open for normal business hours as they continue to work diligently to stay at its original location.
"We remain hopeful that we will be able to come to terms but time is rapidly running out," Hountalas said. "We are grateful to the community for their enormous show of support now and over the many years, we have operated The Purple Place."
The community turned to ABC10, hoping to save the Purple Place.
"We are devastated," El Dorado County resident Judy Bates said. "We have lived in the community for 20 years and want it to stay open."
Residents say over the years, the Purple Place has become an iconic space for them to celebrate birthdays, the end of the year, and everything in between.
"I can't even imagine it not being here. It's a landmark." Daniela McJimsey said. "It would be absolutely devastating to lose it."
Watch more from ABC10: Folsom Pro Rodeo honors fallen and injured veterans ahead of July 4th | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/eldorado-hills/purple-place-el-dorado-hills-open/103-aeed30fb-6cbe-49c7-98a9-2ab69b0fd5e9 | 2022-07-16T18:50:46 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/eldorado-hills/purple-place-el-dorado-hills-open/103-aeed30fb-6cbe-49c7-98a9-2ab69b0fd5e9 |
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Infamous drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, who was behind the killing of a U.S. DEA agent in 1985, has been captured by Mexican forces nearly a decade after walking out of a Mexican prison and returning to drug trafficking, an official with Mexico's navy confirmed Friday.
The source was not authorized to speak publicly and agreed to confirm the action only if not quoted by name. No further details about the capture were immediately available.
Caro Quintero walked free in 2013 after 28 years in prison when a court overturned his 40-year sentence for the 1985 kidnapping and killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. The brutal murder marked a low point in U.S.-Mexico relations.
Caro Quintero, the former leader of the Guadalajara cartel, had since returned to drug trafficking and unleashed bloody turf battles in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has maintained that he is not interested in detaining drug lords and prefers to avoid violence.
An appeals court overturned Caro Quintero's verdict, but the Supreme Court upheld the sentence. It was too late by then; Caro Quintero was spirited off in a waiting vehicle.
He was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $20 million reward for his capture through the State Department's Narcotics Rewards Program. He was added to the FBI's top 10 most wanted list in 2018.
Caro Quintero was one of the primary suppliers of heroin, cocaine, and marijuana to the United States in the late 1970s. He blamed Camarena for a raid on a marijuana plantation in 1984. In 1985, Camarena was kidnapped in Guadalajara, allegedly on orders from Caro Quintero. His tortured body was found a month later.
The DEA did not immediately comment.
Mike Vigil, the DEA's former chief of international operations, said Caro Quintero was believed to have been operating independently most recently, though there had been rumors he was back with the Sinaloa cartel.
Caro Quintero was from Badiraguato, Sinaloa, the same area as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the former Sinaloa cartel leader now serving a life sentence in the United States. He eventually became one of the "godfathers" of Mexican drug trafficking.
Caro Quintero's arrest was a surprise, considering López Obrador's stated disinterest in going after drug cartel leaders, Vigil said, but he added that the DEA would never stop looking for someone who killed an agent.
"We didn't see a lot of effort (to capture Caro Quintero) in the last several years, especially when (López Obrador) came in and immediately started to dismantle a lot of the infrastructure and the bilateral relationships between the U.S. and Mexico relative to drug trafficking," Vigil said.
After seeing Caro Quintero walk out of a Mexican prison once already, Vigil said he hopes the government won't risk a repeat — Guzman twice escaped from Mexican maximum security prisons — and would agree to a likely U.S. extradition request.
In Sonora, one of the state's hit hardest by Caro Quintero's efforts to reclaim his territory, there was a hope his arrest could help.
"I believe in Sonora, in general, there could be calm, and yes, relief for us, because I believe the disappearances will diminish," said Cecilia Duarte, an activist with a team of volunteer searchers in Sonora who look for the clandestine graves of the disappeared. Some activists have been threatened and even killed in Sonora amid Caro Quintero's turf wars with the sons of "El Chapo."
But, Duarte said, Caro Quintero "is only part (of the conflict), the conflict doesn't end."
'Long and ovedue'
Patrick O'Toole, Former U.S. Attorney and Federal Prosecutor, described Quintero's arrest as welcoming and long overdue in an interview with CBS 8.
"It's one good development. Drugs are terrible. I mean, they do terrible things and the money and violence behind it are perhaps the worst of all so I applaud the fact that he's been caught," said O'Toole.
O'Toole worked narcotics cases during his time in the District Attorney's office and remembers the brutal murder of agent Camarena.
"I can remember when his body was brought back, I can remember his son, young son at the time, who’s now a judge himself, being there so it was a very sad affair when his remains were brought back to United States," added O'Toole.
Vicente Calderon, Editor of the TijuanaPress.com, says Quintero's arrest is the biggest capture under Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's presidency who has been criticized for not taking a tougher stance against drug traffickers,
But Calderon said, his capture means more to the U.S. than it does to Mexico
“This arrest is most significant for the US than for Mexico. This is a symbolic operation for the DEA who has been looking for this suspect since 1985,” said Calderon.
Despite his arrest, O’Tool and Calderon think Quintero’s capture won’t do much to put a stop to drug trafficking and drug traffickers.
Quintero was taken into jail in Almoloya, State of Mexico.
WATCH RELATED: Federal crackdown on Jalisco drug cartel nets hundreds of arrests (March 2020). | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/mexico-captures-drug-lord-rafael-caro-quintero/509-b8dee858-165f-49d1-8686-f4a3097e042c | 2022-07-16T18:50:53 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/mexico-captures-drug-lord-rafael-caro-quintero/509-b8dee858-165f-49d1-8686-f4a3097e042c |
MODESTO, Calif — The Modesto Police Department released footage Friday of a July 4 shooting where an officer shot a man who allegedly charged an officer with a knife.
The footage released by Modesto police includes 911 call audio and body camera video. They can be viewed here.
In the body camera video, officers can be seen arriving at the home and talking to a person in a car about what happened. They learn a person had allegedly been threatened and that the alleged suspect locked himself in his bedroom with knives.
Once inside the home, officers can be seen talking to the suspect through the door while loud fireworks can be heard outside.
After convincing, the man to come out of the room and talk with officers in the dining room area. After a few back-and-forth conversations with people involved in the incident, things escalate when the suspect goes back to his room and that's when the man can be seen charging at the officer with a knife, and the officer fires his weapon, hitting the man.
Paramedics responded to the scene and took the man to the hospital. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/modesto/modesto-police-bodycam-footage-shooting-july-4/103-7487545c-f99f-42e1-9f84-a24137dfa1d0 | 2022-07-16T18:50:59 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/modesto/modesto-police-bodycam-footage-shooting-july-4/103-7487545c-f99f-42e1-9f84-a24137dfa1d0 |
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — After seeing on social media that Flour Dust Pizza Company in Roseville had its windows smashed, long-time customer Chris Cheshire and his family were shocked.
"We were heartbroken that someone would go to those lengths to damage property," said Cheshire.
On June 27 around 1 a.m., security footage from Flour Dust Pizza Company shows a person walking around the outdoor patio and in front of the restaurant. The video shows a person holding a bar-shaped object and glass shards can be seen flying in front of the security camera.
Since the restaurant is closed on Sunday and Monday, it wasn't until Tuesday that staff returned and saw the damage.
When the owner of Flour Dust Pizza Company, Mano Vrapi, walked into work on June 28, he saw that every one of his 17 windows was smashed.
"My jaw dropped, like, I just was speechless. I just did not know what to say or do — I could not wrap my mind around it in that moment," said Vrapi.
He said there was no attempt to get into the restaurant or take anything, which was strange and shocking.
"With all the work that we had done on the windows, we had put a graphic artwork on the outside and tinting and so on, and these windows are going to be close to $20,000 in repairs," said Vrapi.
The restaurant fixed the windows and opened indoor dining a few days later. Vrapi says they have taken additional safety measures like installing another security camera since the incident.
Although they wrote in a Facebook post insurance would help them cover most of the damage, many people were commenting wanting to help, so Flour Dust Pizza Company took the time to shine a light on other local organizations.
"If you are feeling compelled to help, here are some places to donate that always need assistance with their great work: Foster Hope Sacramento — they are going to be providing back-to-school supplies for foster children and their families who need support. California Fire Foundation — with wildfire season around the corner, let’s help them get prepared to help families who will need it," wrote Flour Dust Pizza Company in a Facebook post.
Cheshire said it just shows how humble and dedicated the business is to the community.
"It's one thing to have a business that employs folks in the local community... it's a whole other level when you promote other businesses and organizations," said Cheshire.
Although Vrapi says it's not necessary for people to show up and support them after an incident like this, if there is a silver lining to the ordeal, it's been seeing the new and familiar faces who have taken the time to stop by.
"It's been heartwarming because now you tell yourself like, okay, well this did happen and maybe this will turn into something good from it, but it's the fear of something like this happening again. It's a little bit scary because you don't want to deal with stuff like this over and over," said Vrapi.
How it all started
What started out as a pizza truck six years ago became a full-fledged restaurant in 2019 and is now getting recognized as part of Yelp's Top 50 Places in the Sacramento Area to Eat for 2022.
After 11 years in the insurance industry, Vrapi decided to follow his dream of making pizza and even trained in Florence, Italy, to learn the craft.
"I love making pizza. I love trying other people's spin on pizza, so it's a personal passion of mine," said Vrapi.
Cheshire says this passion and family-friendly environment is what makes the restaurant so inviting.
"You just feel welcome when you walk in the door — whether it's your first time or your hundredth time," said Cheshire.
For people who are thinking about checking out Flour Dust Pizza Company, Chesire says you can't go wrong with a Margherita pizza and for those who don't mind a little pineapple, the Bros Hawaiian is one of his favorites.
Flour Dust Pizza Company is located at 5080 Foothills Blvd., Suite 5, and is open Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday from 4-8:30 p.m. and Friday from 4-9 p.m.
Watch more on ABC10 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/roseville/roseville-flour-dust-pizza-company-windows-smashed/103-146aabf9-843f-4568-a292-d422f59b7f12 | 2022-07-16T18:51:05 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/roseville/roseville-flour-dust-pizza-company-windows-smashed/103-146aabf9-843f-4568-a292-d422f59b7f12 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Bissell Pet Foundation is hosting an event called "Empty The Shelters", and you can help empty the shelters locally.
The Sacramento SPCA, Placer SPCA, and about 250 additional animal shelters across the nation are participating in the event, which is happening now until the end of July.
There tends to be an increase in animal intake at animal shelters due to the summer heat and activities such as fireworks during the Fourth of July, summer vacations, relocating, etc. Therefore, these animal shelters have waived adoption fees to make it easier and more affordable to foster and adopt animals.
Before the animal is up for adoption, it's spayed or neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped so the foster parent or potential owner does not have to worry about the additional costs at a vet.
For the Empty the Shelters event, the Sacramento SPCA has a deal where the adoption fee for small animals is $50 and $25 for large animals. Also, Placer SPCA reduced their adoption fees for animals 1 year and older to $25 and $5 for their critters such as guinea pigs and rabbits.
"We're super thankful for the Bissell Pet Foundation, they are sponsoring the difference of the adoption fees so we can reduce adoption fees for our clients and our pet owners here in the community," Dawn Foster, director of marketing and communications at the Sacramento SPCA said.
Although Bradshaw Animal Shelter and Elk Grove Animal Shelter are not participants in the Empty The Shelters event, they still have great deals to make it more cost-efficient to adopt animals.
At Elk Grove Animal Shelter, they are having a special for adult dogs and cats that are over one year, reducing the adoption fee to only $25.
At Bradshaw Animal Shelter, they've reduced their adoption fees for dogs to $50. For the few dogs that have been at the shelter for over 30 days, the adoption fee is fully waived.
"We're trying everything we can just to get pets back home, that's ultimately our goal," Annette Bedsworth, director of Bradshaw Animal Shelter said. "They don't belong in shelters, pets belong at home on their own beds and on their own couches, wherever they may be. They don't belong in shelters."
Inflation and staffing shortages have been at the forefront of many businesses this year, and just as there is a seasonal abundance of animals, many animal shelters are having the opposite effect on their employees.
"We're a small shelter here. We're only about 25 people together and only six of them are animal care team," Ashley Elamrani, the senior Customer Service Specialist at Elk Grove Animal Shelter said.
The community is one thing all animal shelters emphasize. As a result of inflation and staffing shortages, they have to rely on their volunteers and the community to help find homes for the animals.
"Having an abundance of animals in the shelter or stray animals in the community is really a community problem," Leilani Fratis, CEO of Placer. SPCA said. "We all need to work together, as an organization, as individuals in the community."
Help the Bissell Pet Foundation as well as our local animal shelters by donating, volunteering, and adopting.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — Does a rib cookoff, a snake festival, or maybe the California State Fair sound fun to you? If so, that goes to show there's something for everyone this weekend in Northern California.
The weather this weekend heats back up, reaching highs in the low 100s with a southwest breeze, so gather up some friends, and family members, or even go solo but head out and enjoy.
Whether you'd like to go out, stay in, or a bit of both, here are some events for your weekend!
It's back, the California State Fair is a 17-day fair filled with everything like fair food and drinks, carnival rides and games, animals, competitions, cultural and agricultural attractions, and classic entertainment on the Toyota Concert Series on the Golden 1 Stage. Enjoy different contests, different exhibits, and deals throughout the week!
- 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., Friday, July 15 – Sunday, July 31
- Located at Cal Expo (1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento)
- Organized by Cal Expo State Fair
- More information about this event HERE.
Held on World Snake Day, SnakeFest is a free, family-friendly event including live snake presentations and demonstrations, kid's activities, and food and drinks. Explore the global efforts of Save The Snakes, a nonprofit organization dedicated to snake conservation. Take a tour of the Snake Conservation Center, learn from local nature organizations, and see lots and lots of snakes!
- 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., Saturday, July 16
- Located at the Snake Conservation Center (3100 Fite Circle, STE 101, Sacramento)
- Organized by Save The Snakes
- More information about this event HERE.
Come and enjoy sweet juicy peaches that have just achieved 'peach perfection' and are carefully picked from trees. Enjoy dozens of peach foods, desserts, and beverages and visit more than 100 vendors. Dance, celebrate, watch live entertainment on the two entertainment stages, and even enter the peach pie eating contest!
- 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., Saturday, July 16
- Located at Marysville's Historic Shopping District (547 2nd St., Yuba City)
- Organized by The Marysville Peach Festival
- More information about this event HERE.
A day party to celebrate and cultivate Sacramento's culture. There will be various authors, music by DJ Eddy and DJ 2Raw, fashion on display, local vendors, live paintings, live performances, and more!
- 9 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sunday, July 17
- Located at Esthers Park (3408 3rd Ave., Sacramento)
- Organized by Impound Comics and Kultivate Sac
- More information about this event HERE.
A family-friendly street fair filled with food and drinks, unique arts and crafts, a kid's area with summer activities, and more food! There will be a local rib cookoff competition, open to anyone with good taste and good ribs. There will be a record 27 competitors in the cookoff, so pack some extra napkins and get ready to grub.
- 10 a.m. – 10 p.m., Saturday, July 16
- Located at Downtown Dixon (165 East A St., Dixon)
- Organized by The Dixon Action Team
- More information about this event HERE.
Come and enjoy free family-friendly entertainment and live music. Tropical Sunday's summer music series features multicultural live music with a dance floor and salsa, bachata, and cumbia lessons, so get on your dancing shoes and head downtown!
- 5 p.m. – 9 p.m., Sunday, July 17
- Located at Downtown Commons (405 K St., Sacramento)
- Organized by The Sacramento Kings and Downtown Commons
- More information about this event HERE.
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Get your dog ready to strut their stuff and you can even dress up in your best summer outfit for an afternoon of pups, pints, pools, and summer treats! There will be music by DJ Anthony Romero, a doggie splash area, a bark market, and a fashion show. Pup cups for all the good doggies!
- 12 p.m. – 10 p.m., Saturday, July 16
- Located at Track 7 Brewing Company (3747 W Pacific Ave., Sacramento)
- Organized by Sacramento SPCA and Track 7 Brewing Company
- More information about this event HERE.
A chance to get together through the love of art and music, this showcase will consist of over 15 artists and vendors, live music by Chango & SantanaMustDie, and performances by Swayshon, Yumz Awkword, Virgo, Basi Vibe, and The Philharmonik. Come and celebrate Sacramento's creatives!
- 4 p.m. – 9 p.m., Sunday, July 17
- Located at Chando’s Cantina (805 15th St., Sacramento)
- Organized by TOGE+HER LIVE
- More information about this event HERE.
Dress up in your best skate outfit and check out local food and drink vendors 1837vegan and Crazy Rabbit Kitchen. Skate by and grab some brunch too!
- 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., Sunday, July 17
- Located at The Rink (2900 Bradshaw Rd., Sacramento)
- Organized by Only Sunshine Sanctuary
- More information about this event HERE.
Listen to the sounds of blues, soul, jazz, and r&b with featured musicians Terry Hanck, Nancy Wright, Danny Sandoval, and Marty Deradoorian. There will be a dance floor, comfortable seats, and tables, so secure your spot and enjoy a night of music.
- 7 p.m. – 10 p.m., Saturday, July 16
- Located at West Sacramento VFW (905 Drever St., West Sacramento)
- Organized by The Sacramento Blues Society
- More information about this event HERE.
A free and festive gallery opening event by rising artist Raul Mejia, whose artwork is a bold blend of Mexican and American culture. Wounded Deer is a solo gallery show of Mejia’s artwork inspired by the life of Frida Kahlo and the influence she has had on his personal growth, just in time for Frida Kahlo’s birthday week.
- 6 p.m. – 8 p.m., Saturday, July 16
- Located at Atrium 916 - Art, Creativity & Sustainability (1020 Front St., Sacramento)
- Organized by Atrium 916
- More information about this event HERE.
Theatre, but for grown-ups! Jacob T. Zach writes this show about a city under siege, certain things are legal and illegal like strawberry pie is illegal and bike tires can get confiscated, and the world has been outlawed. Flying kites are now a capital offense in this city, so go to the theatre and find out how they survive!
- Dates and showtimes are listed on their website
- Located at The Sofia, Home of B Street Theatre (2700 Capitol Ave., Sacramento)
- Organized by The Sofia, Home of B Street Theatre
- More information about this event HERE.
From vintage clothing to handmade goods and food, there's something for everyone at the World's Worst Expo. There will be over 130 new and familiar vendors, so check them out and support them!
- 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., Sunday, July 17
- Located at 1125 I St., Sacramento
- Organized by Worlds Worst Bodega
- More information about this event HERE.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California State Fair & Food Festival opens Friday, after two years of being closed for the pandemic.
Officials are expecting to see more than 80,000 people this year to set records.
The theme of the California State Fair & Food Festival this year is "Back Together."
A sentiment that rings true, especially after the pandemic.
For Toytopia exhibit creator Troy Carlson the reopening means coming home.
“Being a Sacramento company the pandemic was really tough, especially in the exhibit business with museums closings and things are starting to get back opened up and we are so excited to be back at the California state fair this is actually where we started our exhibit company back in 2005,” said Carlson.
For other exhibits, like California Cannabis it’s been three years in the making for the cannabis industry to make it into the state fair. Brian Applegarth the owner said he and the fair had many conversations about education and when was the right time to introduce this exhibit.
“It means inclusion and celebration and being recognized and having a seat at the table along with wine, craft beers, cheese and olive oil. So, it’s a celebration of California’s industry today,” said Applegarth.
From new exhibits to new rules Media Director Darla Givens explains some new policies.
“We have implemented a clear bag policy it makes the check-in go faster you hold up the bag to security they can see what’s in it and it makes the line go faster,” said Givens.
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Medical and diaper bags are the exception, but they must go through security screening. The fair partners with multiple agencies including the Sacramento County Sheriff for security.
“We have more than 200 cameras that are strategically placed across the fairgrounds and they are constantly monitoring,” said Givens.
For those wary about COVID-19, there are handwashing stations, hand sanitizer, and masks are optional, but not ones that obscure your face.
Also new this year, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult over the age of 21 after 6 p.m. Identification must be provided. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/california-state-fair/103-ae3464a4-c0c3-4678-9a5e-f726fad157ff | 2022-07-16T18:51:23 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/california-state-fair/103-ae3464a4-c0c3-4678-9a5e-f726fad157ff |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The nation’s first three-digit mental health crisis hotline is set to go live on Saturday, trained counselors in Sacramento are a part of the massive network who will be answering the calls and helping save lives.
The 988 system will build on the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, an existing network of over 200 crisis centers nationwide staffed by counselors who answer millions of calls each year — about 2.4 million in 2020. Calls to the old lifeline, 1-800-273-8255, will still go through even with 988 in place.
In Sacramento, the WellSpace Health Suicide Prevention Crisis Center is a participant in the network which answers local, state, and national calls, said Ben Avey, a WellSpace spokesperson.
“When you dial the number 9-8-8 nationwide, you will be connected to those same crisis counselors,” Avey said.
These counselors are trained to provide free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crises or emotional distress. The number can be dialed at any time and someone will be there to help.
“You dial 9-8-8, you can talk to somebody they can help you through that suicidal or mental health crisis in that moment,” Avey said.
Counselors may offer resources available in the area or even follow up after the call.
Shara Gabaldon, 45, is a mother of four who recently lost a son to suicide. Her 22-year-old son, Jordan Drummer, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and had battled with his mental health for his entire life, Gabaldon said.
“He lit up the room with his smile and laughter, his jokes and his quirkiness,” Gabaldon said. He was amazing, he is amazing.”
She says her son was provided immense family and professional support. Drummer died by suicide after his second attempt in the same year. His mother attributes his death to flaws in the mental health system.
While she’s unsure if her son would have sought help through a hotline, she encourages those in need to seek help. She is also speaking out in hopes there will be continued improvements to the mental health system that will save lives.
“So that the end that I experienced isn’t the end for somebody else,” Gabaldon said.
988 launches on July 16 and will be accessible nationwide. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/dial-988-for-crisis-support-a-sacramento-counselor-may-answer-the-call/103-f35fe35d-b9ea-4744-84aa-be65559efa26 | 2022-07-16T18:51:29 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/dial-988-for-crisis-support-a-sacramento-counselor-may-answer-the-call/103-f35fe35d-b9ea-4744-84aa-be65559efa26 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A 16-year-old has died and another juvenile has been injured after a Friday night, high-speed police chase involving two law enforcement agencies in Sacramento ended in a violent crash near Norwood and Main Avenues.
Officials with the Sacramento County Coroner's Office have identified the 16-year-old driver who died in the crash as Elvis Umanzor of Sacramento.
Around 8:48 p.m. Friday, officers with the Sacramento Police Department say they tried to pull over a car in the area of 65th Street and 14th Avenue for what authorities describe as a "vehicle code violation."
The car did not stop and officers began chasing it, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Three minutes later, the Sacramento Police Department said they called off the chase and all officers stopped pursuing the car.
"During this pursuit, the vehicle was driving erratically on the roadway and was going approximately 100 miles per hour. A short time later, the pursuit was canceled," said Sacramento County Sheriff Sergeant Kionna Rowe. "Moments later, our officers saw his vehicle on the freeway and they then initiated a pursuit."
Deputies with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, who picked up the chase after the Sacramento Police Department canceled theirs, say the driver of the car continued to drive erratically at speeds higher than 115 miles per hour.
After weaving in and out of lanes of traffic on both surface streets and freeways in the capital city, the car continued back into the jurisdiction area of the Sacramento Police Department, according to police.
Sheriff's Office officials say the high-speed chase came to a deadly end when the driver of the car crashed into a tree near Norwood and Main Avenues.
"It appears that the vehicle lost control sometime during the pursuit and crashed," Rowe said.
One passenger of the car, identified only as a juvenile, was taken to an area hospital suffering from unknown injuries. The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene, officials say.
"I can't imagine the pain the family is going to go through," Rowe said. "This is a tragedy all the way around, it's just unfortunate."
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office is now investigating the chase and what led law enforcement to begin pursuing the car. Meanwhile, the Sacramento Police Department is investigating the crash itself.
"It's an unfortunate situation," Rowe said. "It is going to be kind of a joint effort here because we are in Sac PD's jurisdiction."
Officials said during a news conference Friday night, that deputies did not attempt intervention techniques before the deadly crash.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department's general orders outline that intervention techniques such as PIT maneuvers, spike strips and stop sticks are allowed to be used by deputies when they believe the continued movement of the car could place others in imminent danger, when the risk of harm to the public is greater than the risk of harm to deputies or suspects involved in attempting to intervene and when other means of apprehension have been considered but rejected.
Officials say they are investigating whether an item may have been thrown out of the suspect's car during the chase.
Police took to social media just before 9:30 p.m. Friday to advise the public of the crash in the area of Norwood and Main Avenues. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/north-sacramento-crash/103-a1fe0545-3088-4b14-817f-e93be412ba21 | 2022-07-16T18:51:35 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/north-sacramento-crash/103-a1fe0545-3088-4b14-817f-e93be412ba21 |
STOCKTON, Calif. — Two years to the day since Antwaune Burrise was shot and killed by Stockton police officers, emotions are still raw for some family members and friends but the focus now is on seeking justice.
“They murdered my brother,” said Tamiya Burrise, Antwaune’s sister. “They took him away from his mother, his children, his wife, and me and my kids, everyone who loved him. And like everyone else, they need to pay the piper, too much time has gone by.”
Antwaune, suspected in a murder and other shootings according to police, was shot and killed after three Stockton Police officers opened fire on his car in the parking lot of an apartment complex in north Stockton on July 15, 2020.
Officers say they found Antwaune in his car and attempted to block him in using police units.
According to police, Antwaune ignored “multiple commands to surrender,” instead, placing his car in reverse and driving in the direction of an undercover officer. Three officers then opened fire striking and killing Antwaune.
“Today marks two years that I watched my son be assassinated,” said Stephanie Hatten, Antwaune’s mother. “Why didn't you apprehend my son as he walked out of his door unarmed? That was your first opportunity for a peaceful arrest if you had an arrest warrant. Your second opportunity was when he walked 11 stalls down.”
Hatten and nearly a dozen other family members and friends gathered Friday in front of the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office in Downtown Stockton calling for justice and answers in the case.
Specifically, family members are asking for officials to release the arrest warrant that led officers to the apartment complex parking lot, prosecute the officers involved and sit down for a meeting with Hatten.
“It is in our opinion as his family, that you committed the most hideous crime: premeditation murder,” Hatten said. “You knew exactly what was going to happen, you went with the intent to kill Antwaune Burrise.”
The San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the case Friday saying that the incident is still under review. The District Attorney’s Office has not announced a decision yet on whether they believe the shooting was justified.
Watch More Stockton News from ABC10: Stockton man burned in tent as city faces 28th homicide of 2022 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/antwaune-burrise-two-years-calls-for-justice/103-0f1ba880-8d26-4b2b-8791-289b85dc98da | 2022-07-16T18:51:41 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/stockton/antwaune-burrise-two-years-calls-for-justice/103-0f1ba880-8d26-4b2b-8791-289b85dc98da |
SACRAMENTO, Calif — Truckers protested this week at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and have more plans to protest on Monday at the Port of Oakland. They’re upset over a California law that changes the framework of independent contractors.
Independent contractors
In extremely simple terms, the law requires that many independent contractors either become a regular employee for the company or they operate as a small business by themselves and get the proper licensing and insurance, which the California Trucking Association said is not that easy and very expensive.
The law is not technically new. Governor Gavin Newsom signed it back in 2019, but it immediately faced legal actions and was blocked. The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided not to take the case, meaning the California law now stands.
While images of the trucks protesting AB5 and slowing down traffic on the LA highways by the ports during a time when the global supply chain is already suffering is not welcoming, there were no reported supply-chain disruptions.
“At the ports in general, it's upwards of 70% of the trucks that service the ports are owner operators,” Eric Sauer with the California Trucking Association said.
Disruptions to come
The association said there will be disruptions soon.
“Essentially, what they're (contractors) being told by the state right now is that you can become a company/employee driver, but I think what you're seeing with the actions down at the ports in southern California is these owner operators, independent business owners, do not want to be an employee drivers, they want to remain as owner operators.”
Republican Assemblymember Kevin Kiley’s called it the, "Worst law California has ever passed."
“if you're just calling someone an employee contract, even though they're actually an employee, that was not allowed before AB5," Kiley said. "AB5 though, put it in this whole new set of rules that has made it impossible for people who have chosen voluntarily to be independent contractors because that's what works for them to actually do that. So that's where the problem lies.”
Over the past decade, drivers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been challenging their classification as “independent contractors” and trying to prove their rights as regular employees for things like wage standards, health insurance, and required break times.
In fact, there’s a current labor standoff from railroad workers at the port who want to be classified as regular employees adding to the supply chain stress.
The author of the bill, former assemblymember turned labor union leader, Lorena Gonzales is on vacation and could not do an interview, but she’s been posting on social media about the latter.
She said AB5 makes companies financially reliable for misclassifications now and years past.
”No wonder they’re spinning so hard and lying to driver about it," Gonzales said. "You can file for back wages here.”
It’s unclear how this will be enforced, the California Trucking Association said they’re still waiting on details. The association represents over a thousand trucking companies in the state, companies that would have to increase their costs if they had to bring more employees under their umbrella.
Not all truckers are against ab5.
It does not apply to all independent contractors, like ride-share employees, for example. Proposition 22 passed by the voters, exempts App‑Based Transportation and Delivery Companies from Providing Employee Benefits to Certain Drivers
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YOSEMITE VALLEY, Calif. — Yosemite National Park visitors will be prohibited from having campfires in some areas of the park starting Saturday to reduce the threat of sparking new wildfires at Yosemite, where firefighters have been battling a blaze since last week, officials said.
Visitors won't be allowed to start campfires, cooking fires, and/or charcoal fires in areas that are below 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) in elevation unless they are in campgrounds accessible by car or in picnic areas in developed portions of the park, the National Park Service said in a statement Friday.
It said smoking is also prohibited in areas below 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) except inside an enclosed vehicle, a campground or picnic area where fires are specifically allowed, in a designated smoking area, or while in an area that is barren or has been cleared of all flammable material.
Officials said visitors will be allowed to start fires in areas above 8,000 feet (2,400 meters) elevation but not above 9,600 feet (2,900 meters) elevation.
The human-caused Washburn Fire broke out last week next to the park’s Washburn Trail and had grown to 7.3 square miles (18.9 square kilometers) and 27% containment Friday. How the blaze started remains under investigation.
Farther north, the Peter Fire in Shasta County south of Redding remained at 304 acres (123 hectares) but containment jumped to 34% Friday, up from 25%.
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the fire erupted shortly before 3 p.m. Thursday and destroyed 12 structures before its forward progress was stopped.
The Redding Record Searchlight newspaper reported that at least three of the structures were homes.
Fire Map
This wildfire map was created using data from NASA, NGA, USGS and FEMA.
WILDFIRE PREPS
According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
Some counties use Nixle alerts to update residents on severe weather, wildfires, and other news. To sign up, visit www.nixle.com or text your zip code to 888777 to start receiving alerts.
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FWC helps investigate death of woman grabbed by alligators after falling into Englewood pond
ENGLEWOOD — An elderly woman died late Friday after falling into a pond and being grabbed by two alligators, Sarasota sheriff's officials said.
The incident occurred at a pond at the Boca Royale Golf and Country Club in Englewood, south of Sarasota. The woman, who was not identified and whose age was not released, was observed falling into a pond along the golf course near her home and struggling to stay afloat, according to a news release from the Sheriff's Office.
"While in the water, two alligators were observed near the victim and ultimately grabbed her while in the water," a news release said.
Earlier coverage:Woman dies after falling into pond in Englewood, being grabbed by alligators, Sarasota sheriff's office says
From May:Police say alligator 'was involved' in man's death at Largo disc golf course
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission responded to capture and remove the alligators from the pond, officials said. No cause of death had been determined.
The sheriff's office is working with the FWC and medical examiner's office to investigate the incident and find the cause of death, sheriff's department spokesperson Doug Johnson wrote in an email.
FWC spokesperson Melody Kilborn said it was unclear if the alligators were involved in the incident, only that they were observed to be near the body. The two alligators, one 8 feet 10 inches and the other 7 feet 7 inches, were removed from the pond shortly after the incident.
Doug Foote, the general manager of Boca Royale Golf and Country Club, declined to comment because of the ongoing nature of the investigation. He said there was warning signage posted near the water on the golf course. However, it is unclear if there was signage on the housing side of the water.
One neighborhood resident said there are too many gators in the ponds near the community. Brett Norton, the property's manager, could not be reached for comment in time for publication.
The Boca Royale Golf and Country Club is a gated community in South Sarasota County of about 1,000 acres and includes homes, lakes, golfing and nature preserves, according to its website. There are about 1,000 homes on the property, with several being on the water, Foote said. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/07/16/sarasota-woman-dies-after-falling-into-pond-grabbed-alligators/10076826002/ | 2022-07-16T19:06:13 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/07/16/sarasota-woman-dies-after-falling-into-pond-grabbed-alligators/10076826002/ |
A clothing store in southeast Lincoln is closed indefinitely after a fire sparked by a faulty outlet ripped through the business early Saturday morning.
Lincoln Fire and Rescue responded to a fire alarm at The Fort near 56th Street and Highway 2 shortly before 12:30 a.m. Saturday.
Crews discovered a fire in the building and were able to knock it down in about 30 minutes, said LFR Investigator Thomas Schmidt. Sprinklers in the building did a "good job" containing the fire, Schmidt added.
A faulty outlet below the checkout desk sparked the blaze, which caused about $250,000 in damage. No one was injured.
Employees said in a Facebook post that the store will be closed until further notice, but the building is not believed to be a total loss.
The Fort is a Nebraska-based clothing store specializing in Western wear and decor. It has stores in Nebraska City, Columbus and St. Joseph, Missouri.
Zach Hammack, a 2018 UNL graduate, has always called Lincoln home. He previously worked as a copy editor at the Journal Star and was a reporting intern in 2017. Now, he covers students, teachers and schools as the newspaper’s K-12 reporter.
Sgt. Chris Vollmer said police are looking into whether the crimes are related, given their proximity in time and location. All were in the area of South 70th and A streets. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/electrical-fire-causes-250-000-in-damage-to-southeast-lincoln-clothing-store/article_e67591ac-97fd-5645-a220-5504610a604a.html | 2022-07-16T19:15:56 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/electrical-fire-causes-250-000-in-damage-to-southeast-lincoln-clothing-store/article_e67591ac-97fd-5645-a220-5504610a604a.html |
Here’s an update of the COVID-19 numbers in the state:
New positive cases: 2,993
New deaths: 7
Total positive cases: 2,171,027
Total number of deaths: 31,069
Total vaccine doses administered: 14,111,664*
Rate of transmission: 1.10
CASES BY COUNTY
Atlantic: 61,124 cases, 955 deaths, 380,042 doses administered*
Cape May: 12,106 cases, 262 deaths, 134,246 doses administered*
Cumberland: 35,964 cases, 574 deaths, 186,479 doses administered*
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Ocean: 149,130 cases, 2,868 deaths, 702,918 doses administered*
*Vaccination totals not updated Saturday. All other figures as of 1:45 p.m. Saturday
Source: N.J. Department of Health | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-reports-nearly-3-000-new-covid-19-cases-7-new-deaths-rate-of/article_e0e7984a-04fc-11ed-96a5-abf1614c108b.html | 2022-07-16T19:16:00 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-reports-nearly-3-000-new-covid-19-cases-7-new-deaths-rate-of/article_e0e7984a-04fc-11ed-96a5-abf1614c108b.html |
Keira Phillips is a model runner.
The recent Middle Township High School graduate won the Cape May County, Cape-Atlantic League and South Jersey and state Group II 400-meter hurdle titles this spring. She finished fourth at the Meet of Champions and third at the New Balance Nationals in Philadelphia to earn All-American status.
Phillips is The Press Female Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
Yet when it comes to her future, Phillips will trade in jumping over hurdles for walking down runways. She plans to move to New York City in August to pursue a career in modeling and walk the runway at Paris Fashion Week in September.
“I really wanted to make a mark in my last year (of track and field),” Phillips said.
Phillips was one of the Cape-Atlantic League’s most versatile runners this spring. In addition to her 400 hurdles success, she also won the CAL 800 run and Cape May County 400 dash championships.
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“I started track in the eighth grade running sprints,” she said. “When I got to high school, I learned hurdles and started running middle distance. I think for my team that was pretty awesome. I really love the 800 race.”
The highlight of her season was winning the state Group II 400 hurdles title. Phillips had finished second in 2021. She won this year’s race by more than three seconds.
“Pure joy,” she said of her reaction when she crossed the finish line in first place. “Honestly, I was in disbelief. Last year I got second place in a really, really close race. This year I was surprised how far ahead I was. I crossed by myself and it felt so weird because last year I was fighting so hard to win.”
Phillips’ track and field career began almost by accident, which is surprising considering her family history. Her mother, Sherry Phillips, and aunt, Jennifer Maher, both ran for Middle Township.
“I wanted to try out for softball in the eighth grade, and I had no softball experience,” she said. “I did not make the team. I was super upset about it, but Mom told me if I didn’t make the team, I would have to start track like she did.”
Sherry and Maher both once held the 400 hurdles school record that Phillips now owns.
“I always joke with my aunt and mom about breaking their records,” Phillips said. “I was super proud I could carry on what they did at Middle.”
Phillips’ modeling career began about three years ago. She said it was a tough decision to choose her modeling career over college.
“I’m going to take a gap year and model around the world and see how that goes,” Phillips said. “I’m really going to miss running. But college wasn’t calling my name right now, and I wanted to see what I could do with modeling.”
Coach and Team of the Year
Mainland finished 9-0 and won the Cape-Atlantic League American Conference for the season straight season this spring.
The Mustangs also won their second consecutive Atlantic County championship and finished third in South Jersey Group III.
Mainland is The Press Team of the Year, and Mustangs coach Mike Colombo is The Press Coach of the Year.
“It’s nice that I’m Coach of the Year, but it’s really the staff of the year,” Colombo said. "Track is a team of teams. That’s why we're so successful. Our throwers, our distance, sprinters, jumpers, hurdlers all put their work in and were relentless. We pride ourselves on we’re not going to be out-coached and we’re not going to be out-worked.”
Mainland featured several talented athletes. Camryn Dirks won the South Jersey Group III triple jump and javelin championships. Eva Morrison was the South Jersey Group III pole vault champion. Gillian Lovett led a host of standout distance runners.
“You might be our No. 1 girl (in an event),” Colombo said. “But then we’re going to get second and third. We had lots of depth across the board.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/middle-townships-keira-phillips-and-mainland-regional-girls-excelled-during-this-track-and-field-season/article_24716182-03a8-11ed-969b-0f4ff815c42e.html | 2022-07-16T19:16:13 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/middle-townships-keira-phillips-and-mainland-regional-girls-excelled-during-this-track-and-field-season/article_24716182-03a8-11ed-969b-0f4ff815c42e.html |
A Delaware teacher is charged with raping a 15-year-old student, and police are concerned there may be more victims.
James L. Garfield, a teacher at High Road School of Delaware at 1200 N. French Street in Wilmington, was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of third-degree rape and one count of first-degree sexual abuse of a child by a person of trust, the New Castle County Division of Police said in a news release.
In a video, the school says it caters to students in third to 12th grade who have “unique needs” like learning, emotional and intellectual disabilities.
Officers launched an investigation after the victim came forward on July 11 to report Garfield, the department said. “Evidence was recovered that corroborated the disclosures,” the NCCDP said.
Garfield was arrested at his home on the unit block of Norway Avenue. It was unclear if he had retained a lawyer to comment on his behalf.
“Based on this investigation, the Division is concerned there may be additional victims who have not yet come forward,” the police department said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact detective Alex Laux at 302-395-2756 or via e-mail Alex.Laux@newcastlede.gov . They can also call the police department’s non-emergency number at 302-573-2800.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – An ‘extremely serious’ collision involving a motorcycle occurred on East Stone Dr. at North John B. Dennis Highway at 2 p.m., according to the Kingsport Police Department (KPD).
According to the release, two people involved in the crash have been transported to the hospital.
Motorists are advised to avoid the area and seek alternate routes for the next few hours.
No further details have been released. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kpd-investigating-serious-crash-involving-motorcycle/ | 2022-07-16T19:30:18 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kpd-investigating-serious-crash-involving-motorcycle/ |
LAPORTE — When Mia Burns toyed with the idea of entering her goat in the agility contest at the LaPorte County Fair, she was advised against it.
After all, Beatrice, her pet goat, only has three legs. She lost her right front leg as a result of complications to repair the broken limb.
But Beatrice was as determined as Burns to prove the naysayers wrong and prove she could complete the obstacle course.
She finished 27th out of 40 goats but showed she had the spirit of a champion.
At the beginning, Beatrice looked strong when clearing several hurdles and climbing to the top of a ramp, but she needed help weaving her way around a half dozen poles set up in a straight line.
It took her about twice as long as some of the other goats to cross the finish line in just over two minutes.
“I think the whole judging arena was full of people cheering for her,” Burns said.
“She’s a little slower just walking, but when they go and run across the field, like when it’s time to eat, she’s usually at the front of the group,” she said.
The goat can also still balance herself on a teeter totter placed outside for all of her goats to play on.
Sacha Burns, Mia's mother, said Beatrice and all of her other goats are Oberhaslis, a rare breed native to the mountains of Switzerland.
Her goats are used for breeding and the babies sold nationwide to help rebuild a population estimated a few years ago at less than 5,000 in the U.S.
She said Oberhaslis are quieter than other goats and just as friendly.
“The only time they make noise is when they’re hungry. Otherwise, they just follow you around like big dogs,” she said.
The fair, which is marking its 176th year and is known as Indiana's oldest fair, stars live musical entertainment, eclectic food vendors, carnival rides, 4-H events, kid's activities and more.
The fair, which is marking its 176th year and is known as Indiana's oldest fair, stars live musical entertainment, eclectic food vendors, carnival rides, 4-H events, kid's activities and more.
Five homeowners’ septic systems have failed, forcing them to have the waste pumped out frequently, costing about $1 million a house for the houses that the neighbors are bailing out. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/laporte/three-legged-fair-contestant-steals-the-show/article_08886442-6ac8-5667-a3a5-0827d1f15f19.html | 2022-07-16T19:33:09 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/laporte/three-legged-fair-contestant-steals-the-show/article_08886442-6ac8-5667-a3a5-0827d1f15f19.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — This story was originally published by the Texas Tribune on Saturday, July 16, 2022.
An Austin couple gave $2 million to Beto O’Rourke, making up his largest donations yet in his campaign against cash-flush Gov. Greg Abbott.
Simone and Tench Coxe each wrote O’Rourke’s campaign a $1 million check earlier this year, Simone Coxe said in an interview with The Texas Tribune. Both are philanthropists and investors who have long been politically active, with Tench Coxe supporting both parties over the years.
Their donations to O’Rourke and others are set to be disclosed on a campaign finance report due Friday and expected to be posted Saturday.
“We believe that state government is really important and we believe in good governance, and we believe good governance requires some checks and balances on the system,” Simone Coxe said in an interview. “Looking at the way [Texas] is structured in terms of the gerrymandering … the only real opportunity to put a check on the state Legislature is through the statewide race, and we think Beto is an extraordinary candidate.”
The Coxes’ donations are part of a historic $27.6 million haul that O'Rourke announced Friday morning. The figure covers late February through June, and it bested Abbott's fundraising for the same period, which totaled $24.9 million, according to his campaign.
Abbott has his own donors who have contributed seven figures at a time, especially in recent years. They include people like Dallas pipeline billionaire Kelcy Warren, whose $1 million donation to the governor after the 2021 power grid failure has proven especially controversial. O’Rourke has assailed it as bribery, and Warren has sued O’Rourke for defamation over the attacks.
For O’Rourke, though, the two $1 million checks are much larger than any donations he has ever received in his political career. O’Rourke, a former congressman and presidential candidate, has previously been bound by federal election rules that cap contributions. In fact, some of O’Rourke’s biggest donations until now were from the Coxes, who each gave him $50,000 shortly after he announced his candidacy in November of last year.
Simone and Tench Coxe moved to Austin from Palo Alto, California, in January 2021. Simone Coxe co-founded the public relations firm Blanc & Otus, where she served as CEO for 15 years, and she more recently co-founded CalMatters, the California news nonprofit. Tench Coxe is a former venture capitalist.
Simone Coxe has been a prolific political donor in her own right, mainly giving to Democrats, including O’Rourke when he ran for U.S. Senate in 2018. Her husband, however, has a more bipartisan giving history, especially prior to the 2016 presidential election. For example, he gave to Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign, as well as the Republican National Committee that year.
“We’re pretty middle of the road,” Simone Coxe said. “We’re moderates, and I’m more of a liberal moderate than he is probably. But I think that’s how we would both describe ourselves. We need commonsense solutions.”
She said the couple has been drawn to O’Rourke’s positions on public education, health care and the economy. They support abortion rights, but Simone Coxe acknowledged O’Rourke would have a hard time reversing the state’s stringent abortion restrictions with a Republican-led Legislature. Still, she expressed hope that he could be a “moderating influence” on those kinds of issues as governor.
This is O’Rourke’s first campaign at the state level, where there are no contribution limits. While O’Rourke has long crusaded against big money in politics, he said when he launched his campaign he would take advantage of uncapped donations, saying he did not want to “run this campaign with a hand tied behind our backs.”
In a statement on the Coxes' donations, an O'Rourke spokesperson, Chris Evans, said the campaign was "going to do everything necessary to ensure our organizers and more than 78,000 volunteers have the resources" to win the race.
“I would make a distinction between special-interest large contributions and kind of general-people public interest,” Simone Coxe said. “We have no agenda other than debate and dialogue.”
“No strings attached,” she added. “Nothing we want out of anything other than good leadership.”
Disclosure: Tench and Simone Otus Coxe have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/beto-orourke-gets-2-million-his-largest-campaign-donation-yet-from-austin-couple-texas-govenor-abbott-election-november/273-6fc411ab-15c0-4f82-bfd5-35542f9d448c | 2022-07-16T19:40:23 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/beto-orourke-gets-2-million-his-largest-campaign-donation-yet-from-austin-couple-texas-govenor-abbott-election-november/273-6fc411ab-15c0-4f82-bfd5-35542f9d448c |
UVALDE, Texas — This story originally published on July 15, 2022 by The Texas Tribune.
Over the past month and a half, Adam Martinez has attended Uvalde City Council meetings in this grieving Texas town hoping officials will give some insight into why police officers waited 77 minutes to confront and kill an 18-year-old gunman who fatally shot 19 elementary school students and two teachers on May 24.
Earlier this week, at the third city council meeting Martinez attended since the state’s deadliest school shooting, he stood up from his chair inside an auditorium to challenge Mayor Don McLaughlin’s criticism that surveillance footage showing officers waiting in a school hallway was leaked to news outlets.
The mayor said the leak “was one of the most chicken things” he’d ever seen. But what Martinez wanted to know is what McLaughlin thought of the officers’ lack of action and if any of them were going to be held accountable.
“I don't want to get into it with you, Adam,” McLaughlin said from his seat between other council members.
Martinez pressed him and the mayor said every officer in the hallway should be held accountable.
“It's confusing — we really don't know who is in charge,” said Martinez, whose 8-year-old son was at Robb Elementary School the day of the shooting.
The interaction between Martinez, 37, and McLaughlin highlights a prolonged — and growing — frustration residents and parents of victims have felt for nearly two months since the horrific massacre. People in Uvalde, a city of about 15,000 people west of San Antonio, say they can’t depend on getting information from city, county or state leaders who for weeks have provided conflicting accounts, pointed fingers at each other over the law enforcement response and publicly squabbled about why more details can’t be provided. Some residents have depended on leaks to news outlets for insight, and others have turned to social media.
Active-shooter protocols train police to confront mass shooters immediately. Victims’ families, Uvalde residents and elected leaders have questioned and criticized why police waited more than an hour at Robb Elementary to confront the gunman. Law enforcement experts have said that several lapses in judgment occurred during the response to the Uvalde shooting.
State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, the chair of a state House committee investigating the shooting and law enforcement response, had promised to show victims’ loved ones the school surveillance footage on Sunday — before it was to be released to the public. So it came as a shock to parents when the footage was published earlier this week by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, then later disseminated by national news outlets. In a letter to readers, the Statesman’s editor said the paper published the video to bring light to what happened and also edited out the screams of children.
For many victims’ relatives, seeing the footage online retraumatized them, furthered their suspicions about trusting officials and prompted them to question news organizations’ judgments.
Kimberly Rubio, whose 10-year-old daughter Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah Rubio was killed, appeared at a news conference Tuesday in Washington, D.C. along with other victims’ parents and said it was unnecessary for the video to have been leaked and published before they could review it since it was coming out soon.
“We understand that the media wants to hold people accountable because the government hasn't been transparent with us, but you don't need the audio for that and you don't need the full video for that,” she said.
The Texas Tribune reviewed the surveillance video from the hallway outside where the shooting happened last month and published a detailed account of law enforcement’s delayed response, but did not obtain a copy of the video and did not publish one.
The leak of the video followed a series of changing stories and conflicting accounts about how the gunman got into the school, who led the police response and what caused the delay in killing the shooter.
Last week, the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University in San Marcos released a report saying a Uvalde police officer had the gunman in his crosshairs and asked a supervisor for permission to shoot — but the supervisor did not hear the request or responded too late. ALERRT was asked by the state Department of Public Safety to review the response to the shooting.
Two days later, McLaughlin refuted the report.
“A Uvalde Police Department officer saw someone outside but was unsure of who he saw and observed children in the area as well,” McLaughlin said. “Ultimately, it was a coach with children on the playground, not the shooter.”
John Curnutt, the assistant director of ALERRT, told CNN in a statement earlier this week that their findings were based on two statements from an officer that was later contradicted by a third statement.
“At the time we released our initial after-action, the information we had on this particular officer came from the officer's two previous statements given to investigators,” he said in a statement. “We were not aware that just prior to us releasing our initial after-action, the officer gave a third statement to investigators that was different from the first two statements.”
The day after the shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott said school police officers had “engaged with the gunman” outside before the gunman got into the school. The next day, a DPS commander said the gunman got into the school unobstructed by police. Abbott, in turn, said he was “livid” about being “misled.”
Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo defended the law enforcement response in an interview with the Tribune last month. Among other things, he said he and other officers tried to get inside adjoining classrooms where the shooter was, but the doors were reinforced and impenetrable. But no such attempts were caught in school surveillance footage reviewed by the Tribune and some law enforcement officials are skeptical that the doors were ever locked.
DPS Director Steve McCraw has said that Arredondo was the incident commander at the scene of the shooting and blamed him for deciding to “place the lives of officers before the lives of children.” Arredondo has disputed that he was the incident commander. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, told The New York Times “there was no incident commander” and called the response a “complete system failure.”
And on Friday evening another instance of law enforcement squabbling came to light when The New York Times reported that Uvalde officials had asked the head of DPS to sign on to a statement in June that would have praised police for their response to the shooting. McCraw refused, the Times reported.
On Sunday, the House committee investigating the incident is scheduled to release its own report about the shooting and police response.
But Martinez said the repeated back-and-forth has led him to mistrust not only news outlets but official leaders. He said all he wants to know is how the city is going to make sure this type of tragedy doesn’t happen again. He said his son’s personality has changed from playful and jovial to serious and anxious.
“They're not on the same page. There's lack of communication, there's incompetence, all those things don't mix,” he said. “Those are the people that are in charge of the school police, those are the people that are supposed to be keeping my kid safe. But do you think I'm gonna feel good? Do you think I’m going feel safe?”
Some residents who didn’t have children at the school have also grown frustrated.
Pastor Daniel Myers, who has attended city council meetings, said he approached a Uvalde police officer to ask him why the department hasn’t publicly explained why police officers waited so long to enter the classroom.
Myers said the officer responded “‘If I talk, I go to jail.’ So I told him, ‘Go to jail then, but do the right thing.’”
“If it bothers me, if it irritates me and frustrates me, can you imagine how the parents feel?” Myers said.
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A 26-year-old woman has been booked on a murder charge in the death of her mother, found two days after her death in their Bronx apartment building, authorities said.
Charlene Novoa, accused in the death of 66-year-old Silma Garcia, was arrested around 2 a.m. Saturday, police announced. Her mother was found in the building off Park Avenue.
Police said the victim was found lying face down with multiple cuts on her forehead. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A motive in the murder investigation is not yet known, police said Saturday. The investigation is ongoing.
Attorney information for Novoa was not immediately available.
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The Lonestar mission played out like an intense war drama worthy of the great fiction writers of our times. Only it’s not fiction.
The attempt to rescue American scientist John Spor from war-torn Mariupol, Ukraine, by a team of military veterans from the Project Dynamo organization was a life-risking task for Spor and the team trying to extricate him. He found himself trapped in the city as Russian forces obliterated it and himself in the crosshairs as a high-value target.
“My field that I basically have been working in for a long time is electro-optics, and a lot of it has to do with military stuff like laser-guided weapons, laser range-finding, LED displays. I mean, my company here in Texas builds one of the sensors in the Abrams tank and tells the gun where to point,” Spor said in a phone interview. “Just about all of the weapons systems that have been built and whatnot in the last 20 years or so, I’ve been involved in at some point. The Russians wanted me for what’s in my head.”
He resided in Mariupol in a beautiful home on a hill overlooking the sea with all the amenities one could ever want, he said.
“I saw myself living there until I die, basically. And now, I can’t even go back to my house and, believe this, 90 percent of Mariupol, the houses are destroyed. My house is still there almost totally undamaged.”
Time to get out
He had no choice but to leave.
His wife safely got out before him, but it took much longer for Spor to make his way out of the country.
He knew a few days before everything seemed to implode that he needed to find a safe way out.
“The 21st of February I was watching Putin’s speech he gave, and he was talking about a history lesson he wanted to give Ukraine and the anger and everything in his voice and how he said it. He said something along the lines of Ukraine has been decommunizing. They wanted to get rid of the communist stuff,” Spor said. “And he says, ‘I’m going to show them what decommunization really looks like.’ And that’s when I knew that he was coming, on the 21st. And I’m in Mariupol and I’m like, ‘Oh, crap.’ There was already shelling and whatnot happening before the 24th when the official war started. I could hear it and see it from my house because I was 6 miles from the border with separatists.”
Spor’s sister, Lake Jackson resident Lauri Weigle, was desperate to get her brother home.
“Originally, I had reached out to (Sen. Ted) Cruz’s office and the State Department right after the war broke out. But at that time, we were not so concerned about Johnny’s safety,” Weigle said. “It wasn’t until April 28 with some instances that happened that I then recontacted the State Department and Ted Cruz’s office and (Congressman) Randy Weber’s office.”
This led to the introduction to Project Dynamo — and the rescue mission to get Spor out of Ukraine officially began.
The task to get him out was not easy, Project Dynamo Co-founder Bryan Stern said.
“John Spor is kind of like the Mick Jagger of Mariupol. He’s a very successful American,” Stern said. “Everyone knows that he designed something to do with bombs or munitions or something for the United States, which is a problem. Right? Everyone knew who he was. Everyone knew what he sounds like. Everyone knows his house with all that stuff. So for me, from a rescue or an evacuation perspective, this becomes a pain to my existence for a long time because, how do you hide Mick Jagger?”
The danger escalated for Spor when Chechen agents came to his door in Mariupol.
“The Chechens came by my house looking for me twice. I didn’t happen to be there at the time. The Chechens don’t come by your house just to say ‘hi.’ They come by your house to shoot you,” Spor said. “They’re crazy people. What do I do? I work for various governmental agencies and corporations that do weapons. So, I got some other information that the FSB was looking for me. That’s the Russian security service, internal security service. And they were not happy that I left.”
Plan of action
It took weeks of planning, covert messaging and rehearsing to create a safe but risky plan of action to get Spor out of the Ukraine. Every tiny detail mattered, Stern said.
“There’s just about 900 data points that we played with for context,” Stern said. “Just for example, we got him a set of crutches. Part of our thing was to make him kind of handicap, right, an invalid. We gave him old, crappy, nasty crutches. It looks like he’s had it for his entire life.
“He practiced sitting up and standing down using the crutches, and people will say, ‘Well, why did you do that?’ Well, because of the border guard watching the guy get out of the car. Because … you can tell if someone has never walked on crutches before in their life or if they’re kind of used to it. You know, all these little detailed things, to project what I wanted to project and to hide what I needed to hide.”
The more intimate details of the mission cannot be discussed in order to preserve the integrity of future efforts, but Spor made it to Poland and to safety, Spor said.
“When I saw the Ukrainian flags, I started crying,” Spor said. “I mean, when I first got from the occupied territories to Ukrainian territories and saw the Ukrainian flags there, and I knew that I was in a place that was relatively free, and that these guys weren’t going to shoot me if they found me. I mean, Ukrainians wouldn’t do that, Russia would.”
He had spent four months behind Russian lines in the midst of a full-blown war. Spor was reunited with his sister and son in Poland and has returned to Texas. They feel as though he is relatively safe now that he is on U.S. soil.
“I think that he is safer. The theory is a concern that Russia has not been known to respect boundaries or borders. So I think that it’s probably the safest place for him at this time,” Weigle said. “It was great. It was wonderful to see my brother and being able to actually give him a hug and know that he is out of harm’s way and that I’ll be able to have another holiday with him and talk with him and not have to worry so much about it.”
Dynamo team
Spor and his family are immensely grateful for Project Dynamo and their success in rescuing him.
“I wouldn’t be out if they hadn’t come got me. There was no way for me to get out by myself. I mean, it’s just that simple,” Spor said.
Project Dynamo began operating in 2021 during the U.S. embassy crisis in Afghanistan and is now helping Americans, Ukrainians and surrogate babies get out of war-torn countries. To date, they have helped about 4,000 people with a list of 10,000 more that is continuing to grow.
The organization is completely nonprofit and run by volunteers.
“My immense thankfulness and gratefulness to them. These individuals risked their lives to get my brother out. They don’t get paid for what they’re doing. They are all volunteers,” Weigle said. “Everything that they do is privately funded. Every dollar means another life. It means someone that they got out of Mariupol. It means it’s someone that they got out of other areas. It’s another baby. It’s an American.”
Donations can be made at projectdynamo.org or through their Instagram or Facebook pages, Stern said.
“I understand this war has been going for a while and people are losing interest, but the war’s still going, and there are people over there every single hour, dying 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And it’s for no reason. It’s one man’s greed and lust for power — Vladimir Putin,” Spor said. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Russian-threats-forces-American-scientist-to-flee-17309708.php | 2022-07-16T19:52:54 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Russian-threats-forces-American-scientist-to-flee-17309708.php |
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Attached is a photo of San Pedro at Jackson-Keller looking north circa 1959. Based on other photos I have from the Texas Highway Department of San Pedro that are taken from the same vantage point and around the same time, I'm sure this photo was also taken by the Highway Department. San Pedro, of course, was U.S. 281 at this time.
My question is, do you know — or can you find out — the purpose of the wide paved area along the right side (east side) of San Pedro here? Based on old aerial photos on historicaerials.com, this paved area stretched from Jackson Keller Road to Oblate Drive. I have not found any other areas like it around town. It seems far too wide for additional lanes, plus it only extends for a half-mile or so.
As you can see at the right, stores along here had their own parking lots, at least initially, so it doesn't seem like it would have been built for parking. And if so, why only on this section and one side?
By the mid -960s, the motel at 6808 San Pedro (now the El Montan) had encroached on this paved area with their front porte-cochere. Soon after, several areas had been sectioned off and turned into parking lots. Today, the entire stretch is used for parking lots, but a check of tax records shows that it is all still public right of way.
My initial thought was that it may have been a provisional military airstrip, but given it is less than 2.5 miles from the airport, that seems unlikely. Since this was during the height of Cold War angst, my other thought is that it may have been for civil-defense purposes, such as an evacuation marshaling area or as a location for emergency shelters, hospitals or supply dumps. Or maybe it had some other arcane purpose.
— Brian Purcell
If the author of the Texas Highwayman website, www.texashighwayman.com, doesn't know, we are in seriously uncharted territory. In fact, this newspaper published a story about Brian Purcell headlined “Road question? Texas Highwayman knows the answer,” Dec. 29, 2015.
Both of us have reached out to the Texas Department of Transportation, or TxDOT, without success. The agency’s published rules on the width of right of way — the width between property lines and the road — don’t help either as they relate to the amount of traffic (not much at the time) and speed cars need to attain to get on the main road (also not that big a leap at the time).
What we do know is that San Pedro Avenue, so-named because it starts in front of San Pedro Springs Park, was and is a north-south artery and until the McAllister Freeway was built between 1969 and 1978, this stretch was a part of U.S. 281, a highway that connects Mexico to Canada.
The undated photograph that shows this unusually wide place in the road must have been taken in the late 1950s to early ’60s from the scant evidence it contains. The Robert Hall Clothing Center in the picture opened in 1956 at 6522 San Pedro Ave., and the El Montan Motor Hotel was built in 1950 (then numbered as 6806 San Pedro) with an addition and remodeling in 1963.
This area was part of what the San Antonio Express described as “the extreme northern stretch” of San Pedro Avenue in a Feb. 6, 1966, story on business development. “The Miracle Strip in Business Growth” was a nine-block stretch ending at Loop 410 where, before 1957, there was “little more (than) scrub oak, mesquite trees and a few dotted service stations.” Then came new subdivisions off San Pedro, and retail development followed, including strip shopping centers and free-standing businesses.
“My best guess is that they were planning to widen the road to three lanes in each direction,” said Hugh Hemphill, author of “San Antonio on Wheels: The Alamo City Learns to Drive,” who then suggested that I ask the Texas Highwayman (before he knew that’s where the question came from).
If anyone knows why this curiously extra expanse of paved space was built along a single side of San Pedro, contact this column. All replies will be forwarded and may be quoted in a future column.
UNSTUCK PIG: Speaking of stumpers … reader Carol Baass Sowa wrote in response to a July 2 column on the progress of the Big Pig — now under the protection of the King William Association — among different restaurants on the South Side, Broadway and Southtown. She remembers seeing it as an orphaned pig-shaped building in 1992 while on her way to an event at Wanda and O’Neil Ford’s Willow Way estate near Mission San José. When she spotted the pig, she said, “I felt compelled to turn back to take his picture.” Not sure of the exact location, Sowa thinks it must have been the location at East White and Roosevelt avenues mentioned in the column.
At that time, the now-pink pig was still white and didn’t appear to be part of anything nearby. It “looked rather lonely and down-at-hooves, though the area around him appeared to be mowed, and there was a protective wood fence behind him.”
A decade later, she wrote a news release about the restored pig, which by then had moved to the Pig Stand at 801 S. Presa St., and an opportunity to go inside that was offered in 2002 as part of a “Dine in the Swine” package for an annual fundraiser for KSYM, San Antonio College Radio. Among the facts she received from then-owner Richard Hailey were its dimensions — 14 feet tall, 2 feet taller than the description on a 1933 patent for a pig-shaped “barbecue stand,” and 25,000 pounds — as measured for its move. Jumbo shrimp were on the menu for the lucky diners, who would eat inside the former carhop shelter, as the pig is said to have been at one of its previous locations.
Another reader who prefers to remain anonymous remembers hearing from an older relative that the pig, which has windows and a door, was used during segregation to allow Black customers to buy takeout food without entering the associated restaurant. Anyone who remembers this may contact this column.
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Stacker compiled a list of hot and new restaurants in Dallas from Yelp. Read on to see restaurants that opened near you that are worth checking out.
Mattito’s
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (20 reviews)
– Categories: Tex-Mex, Mexican, Breakfast & Brunch
– Address: 2945 Long Prairie Rd Flower Mound, TX 75022
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Anaya’s Seafood Scratch Kitchen
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (21 reviews)
– Categories: Seafood
– Address: 4621 W Park Plano, TX 75093
– Opened: Opened 4 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
42 BBQ Smokehouse + Market
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (30 reviews)
– Categories: Barbeque, Smokehouse, Sandwiches
– Address: 3613 Shire Blvd Richardson, TX 75082
– Opened: Opened 2 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Dirty Bones
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (12 reviews)
– Categories: Burgers, Chicken Wings
– Address: 2610 N Houston St Dallas, TX 75201
– Opened: Opened 3 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Hudson House
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (36 reviews)
– Categories: Seafood, Bars, American (Traditional)
– Address: 5904 N MacArthur Blvd Irving, TX 75039
– Opened: Opened 3 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
The Cluckin
– Rating: 5 / 5 (21 reviews)
– Categories: Chicken Wings, Halal, Burgers
– Address: 18110 Midway Rd Dallas, TX 75287
– Opened: Opened 3 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Real Thai Cuisine
– Rating: 5 / 5 (9 reviews)
– Categories: Thai, Desserts, Soup
– Address: 2230 S Collins St Arlington, TX 76010
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Velvet Taco
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (6 reviews)
– Categories: American (New), Tacos, Vegetarian
– Address: 5350 Nebraska Furniture Mart Dr. The Colony, TX 75056
– Opened: Opened 2 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Cane Rosso
– Rating: 4 / 5 (10 reviews)
– Categories: Pizza, Italian
– Address: 6959 Arapaho Rd Dallas, TX 75248
– Opened: Opened 5 weeks ago
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Ford’s Garage – Plano
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (64 reviews)
– Categories: Burgers, Comfort Food, Bars
– Address: 3904 N Dallas Pkwy Plano, TX 75093
– Opened: Opened 5 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Ford’s Garage – Plano
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (64 reviews)
– Categories: Burgers, Comfort Food, Bars
– Address: 3904 N Dallas Pkwy Plano, TX 75093
– Opened: Opened 5 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
The Barrel
– Rating: 4 / 5 (20 reviews)
– Categories: Cocktail Bars, Diners, Wine Bars
– Address: 2648 Farm To Market Rd 407 E Bartonville, TX 76226
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Awesome Times
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (20 reviews)
– Categories: American (New)
– Address: 2630 Justin Rd Highland Village, TX 75077
– Opened: Opened 4 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
The Toasted Yolk – Southlake
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (5 reviews)
– Categories: Breakfast & Brunch, Sandwiches, Salad
– Address: 2820 E Southlake Blvd Southlake, TX 76092
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Akira Back
– Rating: 4 / 5 (31 reviews)
– Categories: Japanese, Korean
– Address: 5765 Grandscape Blvd The Colony, TX 75056
– Opened: Opened 2 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Federales
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (51 reviews)
– Categories: Tacos, Cocktail Bars
– Address: 2820 Commerce St Dallas Dallas, TX 75226
– Opened: Opened 8 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Carbone Dallas
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (32 reviews)
– Categories: Italian
– Address: 1617 Hi Line Dr Dallas, TX 75207
– Opened: Opened 2 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
The Dream Tacos
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (19 reviews)
– Categories: Tacos
– Address: 2807 Central Dr Bedford, TX 76021
– Opened: Opened 4 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Uzy’s Pizza And Gyro
– Rating: 4 / 5 (8 reviews)
– Categories: Pizza
– Address: 607 Harwood Rd Bedford, TX 76021
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
The Alley Noodle Bar
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (41 reviews)
– Categories: Noodles, Chicken Wings, Vietnamese
– Address: 7701 Stacy Rd McKinney, TX 75070
– Opened: Opened 3 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
District Dallas
– Rating: 4 / 5 (25 reviews)
– Categories: Whiskey Bars, Wine Bars, Tapas/Small Plates
– Address: 5100 Belt Line Rd Dallas, TX 75254
– Opened: Opened 2 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Sushi Mocki
– Rating: 5 / 5 (5 reviews)
– Categories: Sushi Bars
– Address: 5321 E Mockingbird Ln Dallas, TX 75206
– Opened: Opened a few days ago
– Read more on Yelp
Darna Mediterranean Market
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (20 reviews)
– Categories: Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Pizza
– Address: 7700 Windrose Ave Plano, TX 75024
– Opened: Opened 5 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Baonecci Ristorante
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (14 reviews)
– Categories: Italian
– Address: 7151 Preston Rd Frisco, TX 75034
– Opened: Opened 4 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Cafe Duro
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (3 reviews)
– Categories: Cafes, Desserts, Wine Bars
– Address: 2804 Greenville Ave Dallas, TX 75206
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Hugo’s Invitados
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (7 reviews)
– Categories: Mexican, Seafood, Cocktail Bars
– Address: 3699 McKinney Ave Dallas, TX 75204
– Opened: Opened 5 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Arabica
– Rating: 5 / 5 (16 reviews)
– Categories: Middle Eastern, Arabic, Mediterranean
– Address: 1403 E Campbell Rd Richardson, TX 75081
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
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Pho 95
– Rating: 4 / 5 (15 reviews)
– Categories: Vietnamese
– Address: 9780 Walnut St Dallas, TX 75243
– Opened: Opened 3 months ago
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Dolly Llama
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (8 reviews)
– Categories: Waffles, Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt
– Address: 2817 Howell St Dallas, TX 75204
– Opened: Opened 6 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Iwa Sushi Grill Dallas
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (8 reviews)
– Categories: Sushi Bars, Japanese, Asian Fusion
– Address: 5940 Royal Ln Dallas, TX 75230
– Opened: Opened 7 weeks ago
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Beehive
– Rating: 3.5 / 5 (17 reviews)
– Categories: Cocktail Bars, American (New), Seafood
– Address: 1514 Elm St Dallas, TX 75201
– Opened: Opened 8 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Odelay Tex Mex
– Rating: 3 / 5 (28 reviews)
– Categories: Mexican, Wine Bars, Beer Bar
– Address: 5600 W Lovers Ln Dallas, TX 75209
– Opened: Opened 3 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Hong Dumpling House
– Rating: 5 / 5 (5 reviews)
– Categories: Korean
– Address: 1901 Royal Ln Dallas, TX 75229
– Opened: Opened 7 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
China Queen
– Rating: 4 / 5 (43 reviews)
– Categories: Chinese
– Address: 3412 E Hebron Pkwy Carrollton, TX 75007
– Opened: Opened 3 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Mike’s Chicken
– Rating: 4 / 5 (19 reviews)
– Categories: Chicken Shop
– Address: 7752 Forest Ln Dallas, TX 75230
– Opened: Opened 8 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Restaurant Beatrice
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (25 reviews)
– Categories: Cajun/Creole, Salad, Breakfast & Brunch
– Address: 1111 N Beckley Ave Dallas, TX 75208
– Opened: Opened 2 months ago
– Read more on Yelp
Tatsu Dallas
– Rating: 5 / 5 (10 reviews)
– Categories: Sushi Bars
– Address: 3309 Elm St Dallas, TX 75226
– Opened: Opened 7 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Douglas Bar and Grill
– Rating: 4 / 5 (7 reviews)
– Categories: Steakhouses, Barbeque, American (Traditional)
– Address: 6818 Snider Plz Dallas, TX 75205
– Opened: Opened 5 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
286 Noodle House
– Rating: 5 / 5 (2 reviews)
– Categories: Vietnamese
– Address: 3347 W Walnut St Garland, TX 75042
– Opened: Opened 5 weeks ago
– Read more on Yelp
Hello Dumpling
– Rating: 4.5 / 5 (6 reviews)
– Categories: Chinese
– Address: 8041 Walnut Hill Ln Dallas, TX 75231
– Opened: Opened 2 months ago
– Read more on Yelp | https://cw33.com/news/local/recently-opened-restaurants-in-the-dallas-area/ | 2022-07-16T19:59:26 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/recently-opened-restaurants-in-the-dallas-area/ |
CORINTH, Texas — An AMBER Alert was issued Saturday afternoon for a 12-year-old North Texas girl who police say was abducted and believed to be "in grave or immediate danger."
The Corinth Police Department is looking for Angie Carrasco, 12. Police said Carrasco is 5 feet, 1 inch tall, 120 pounds with brown hair, brown eyes and was last seen wearing an unknown color T-shirt, black shorts and black croc-style shoes.
Police did not give an identifying characteristics for the suspect, but the suspect is believed to be driving a silver newer model Chevrolet with an unknown license plate. The suspect was last heard from in Corinth, Texas, police said.
If you have any information about the abduction of Angie Carrasco, you're asked to call the Corinth Police Department at (940)349-1600.
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UVALDE, Texas — This story originally published on July 15, 2022 by The Texas Tribune.
Over the past month and a half, Adam Martinez has attended Uvalde City Council meetings in this grieving Texas town hoping officials will give some insight into why police officers waited 77 minutes to confront and kill an 18-year-old gunman who fatally shot 19 elementary school students and two teachers on May 24.
Earlier this week, at the third city council meeting Martinez attended since the state’s deadliest school shooting, he stood up from his chair inside an auditorium to challenge Mayor Don McLaughlin’s criticism that surveillance footage showing officers waiting in a school hallway was leaked to news outlets.
The mayor said the leak “was one of the most chicken things” he’d ever seen. But what Martinez wanted to know is what McLaughlin thought of the officers’ lack of action and if any of them were going to be held accountable.
“I don't want to get into it with you, Adam,” McLaughlin said from his seat between other council members.
Martinez pressed him and the mayor said every officer in the hallway should be held accountable.
“It's confusing — we really don't know who is in charge,” said Martinez, whose 8-year-old son was at Robb Elementary School the day of the shooting.
The interaction between Martinez, 37, and McLaughlin highlights a prolonged — and growing — frustration residents and parents of victims have felt for nearly two months since the horrific massacre. People in Uvalde, a city of about 15,000 people west of San Antonio, say they can’t depend on getting information from city, county or state leaders who for weeks have provided conflicting accounts, pointed fingers at each other over the law enforcement response and publicly squabbled about why more details can’t be provided. Some residents have depended on leaks to news outlets for insight, and others have turned to social media.
Active-shooter protocols train police to confront mass shooters immediately. Victims’ families, Uvalde residents and elected leaders have questioned and criticized why police waited more than an hour at Robb Elementary to confront the gunman. Law enforcement experts have said that several lapses in judgment occurred during the response to the Uvalde shooting.
State Rep. Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, the chair of a state House committee investigating the shooting and law enforcement response, had promised to show victims’ loved ones the school surveillance footage on Sunday — before it was to be released to the public. So it came as a shock to parents when the footage was published earlier this week by the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, then later disseminated by national news outlets. In a letter to readers, the Statesman’s editor said the paper published the video to bring light to what happened and also edited out the screams of children.
For many victims’ relatives, seeing the footage online retraumatized them, furthered their suspicions about trusting officials and prompted them to question news organizations’ judgments.
Kimberly Rubio, whose 10-year-old daughter Alexandria “Lexi” Aniyah Rubio was killed, appeared at a news conference Tuesday in Washington, D.C. along with other victims’ parents and said it was unnecessary for the video to have been leaked and published before they could review it since it was coming out soon.
“We understand that the media wants to hold people accountable because the government hasn't been transparent with us, but you don't need the audio for that and you don't need the full video for that,” she said.
The Texas Tribune reviewed the surveillance video from the hallway outside where the shooting happened last month and published a detailed account of law enforcement’s delayed response, but did not obtain a copy of the video and did not publish one.
The leak of the video followed a series of changing stories and conflicting accounts about how the gunman got into the school, who led the police response and what caused the delay in killing the shooter.
Last week, the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University in San Marcos released a report saying a Uvalde police officer had the gunman in his crosshairs and asked a supervisor for permission to shoot — but the supervisor did not hear the request or responded too late. ALERRT was asked by the state Department of Public Safety to review the response to the shooting.
Two days later, McLaughlin refuted the report.
“A Uvalde Police Department officer saw someone outside but was unsure of who he saw and observed children in the area as well,” McLaughlin said. “Ultimately, it was a coach with children on the playground, not the shooter.”
John Curnutt, the assistant director of ALERRT, told CNN in a statement earlier this week that their findings were based on two statements from an officer that was later contradicted by a third statement.
“At the time we released our initial after-action, the information we had on this particular officer came from the officer's two previous statements given to investigators,” he said in a statement. “We were not aware that just prior to us releasing our initial after-action, the officer gave a third statement to investigators that was different from the first two statements.”
The day after the shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott said school police officers had “engaged with the gunman” outside before the gunman got into the school. The next day, a DPS commander said the gunman got into the school unobstructed by police. Abbott, in turn, said he was “livid” about being “misled.”
Uvalde schools police Chief Pete Arredondo defended the law enforcement response in an interview with the Tribune last month. Among other things, he said he and other officers tried to get inside adjoining classrooms where the shooter was, but the doors were reinforced and impenetrable. But no such attempts were caught in school surveillance footage reviewed by the Tribune and some law enforcement officials are skeptical that the doors were ever locked.
DPS Director Steve McCraw has said that Arredondo was the incident commander at the scene of the shooting and blamed him for deciding to “place the lives of officers before the lives of children.” Arredondo has disputed that he was the incident commander. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, told The New York Times “there was no incident commander” and called the response a “complete system failure.”
And on Friday evening another instance of law enforcement squabbling came to light when The New York Times reported that Uvalde officials had asked the head of DPS to sign on to a statement in June that would have praised police for their response to the shooting. McCraw refused, the Times reported.
On Sunday, the House committee investigating the incident is scheduled to release its own report about the shooting and police response.
But Martinez said the repeated back-and-forth has led him to mistrust not only news outlets but official leaders. He said all he wants to know is how the city is going to make sure this type of tragedy doesn’t happen again. He said his son’s personality has changed from playful and jovial to serious and anxious.
“They're not on the same page. There's lack of communication, there's incompetence, all those things don't mix,” he said. “Those are the people that are in charge of the school police, those are the people that are supposed to be keeping my kid safe. But do you think I'm gonna feel good? Do you think I’m going feel safe?”
Some residents who didn’t have children at the school have also grown frustrated.
Pastor Daniel Myers, who has attended city council meetings, said he approached a Uvalde police officer to ask him why the department hasn’t publicly explained why police officers waited so long to enter the classroom.
Myers said the officer responded “‘If I talk, I go to jail.’ So I told him, ‘Go to jail then, but do the right thing.’”
“If it bothers me, if it irritates me and frustrates me, can you imagine how the parents feel?” Myers said.
Disclosure: The New York Times has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/uvalde-residents-frustrated-with-officials-over-finger-pointing-conflicting-accounts-and-leaked-video-texas-school-shooting-robb-elementary/273-06f32e52-995a-4528-bc54-f8eff144ef8f | 2022-07-16T20:21:24 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/uvalde-residents-frustrated-with-officials-over-finger-pointing-conflicting-accounts-and-leaked-video-texas-school-shooting-robb-elementary/273-06f32e52-995a-4528-bc54-f8eff144ef8f |
Teaching traditions: Texas Tech Alumni Association hosts 2nd annual Legacy U camp
Over the past three days, 170 youths and their grandparents visited the Texas Tech campus as part of the Texas Tech Alumni Association's 2nd Annual Legacy U camp in hopes of learning more about the university and possibly continuing their family legacy one day.
Through participating in classroom activities and Tech traditions, this event aims to help connect future Red Raiders with their family legacies, said Lori Garcia, coordinator of Legacy U for the alumni association.
"A lot of the grandparents here are alums," she said. "It's about) the love for Texas Tech that they have, and I think they just want their grandkids to come and experience what Tech is all about, the atmosphere, the spirit."
Garcia said the 87 campers and 83 grandparents got to stay on campus during the three-day camp, staying in Talkington Hall and eating in The Commons, adding that both the campers and grandparents enjoyed this aspect of the camp.
The campers got to participate in many beloved Tech traditions such as the bell circle, a spirit rally and learning the Fight Song and Matador Song. Campers even go to meet members of the Texas Tech football team.
Campers tentatively got to pick the major they wanted to study and attend classes taught by professors.
"I had horticulture and we learned all about plants and floral design." said Melissa Hancock, a volunteer TTAA ambassador. "We even had a chance to learn about doing floral design for real flowers and then we planted succulent plants and learned kind of how to design them."
Hancock said the students got to tour the horticulture gardens at Tech.
As an ambassador, Hancock said it was neat to connect with different generations of Red Raiders, adding she witnessed an underlying theme - everyone shared a love for Tech.
John Mark Bernal, a TTAA ambassador, said this camp was a special one for him on a personal level.
"My niece is actually 7 and this is the first year she was able to attend," he said. "She is here attending for the first time with my mom and so that was a neat experience - to be able to see her go through this and then seeing her eyes light up like she knows that I work here at Texas Tech."
Finally, after three days full of classes, learning traditions and connecting with other Red Raiders, the camp hosted its final event Friday afternoon.
Wearing red T-shirts, and jeans, campers and their grandparents filled the McKenzie-Merket Alumni Pavilion at Texas Tech for the final event of the Legacy U, graduation.
Just like with any other Tech graduation, Texas Tech President Lawrence Schovanec and Provost Ronald Hendrick took their places on the stage to shake the hands of the new "graduates" after the president conferred the certificates upon the campers.
The campers graduated from 10 different majors:
- All Things Agriculture- Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
- Mission: Engineer It!- Whitacre College of Engineering
- Multimedia Story Telling: Once Upon a Time in the Land of the Red Raider- College of Media & Communication
- Racing into the Future: Fuel Cell Technology- Whitacre College of Engineering
- Raider Red, How Does your Garden Grow?- Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
- Raiderland in Bloom- Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources
- Raider Mover and Shakers!- Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management
- Soaring with STEM- The Center for the Integration of STEM Education and Research
- What's the BIG Idea?- Rawls College of Business & Texas Tech Innovation Hub
- Where the Wild Things Are: Zoology 101- College of Arts & Sciences
- Wreck 'Em Games and Gaming Design- College of Media & Communication
Curt Langford, President and CEO of TTAA, said the association wanted to celebrate the campers' accomplishments with this graduation.
"To us, it's like one of those punctuation points in life," he said. "These youngsters came in and invested themselves in the curriculum that we put together for them."
With next year being the 3rd annual camp and Texas Tech's centennial celebration, Langford said the Alumni Association is working on a way to incorporate some of Tech's history into the camp.
"We started Legacy U in the 98th/99th year of the university and next year will be the 100th and I can't think of anything more fitting or more beautiful than seeing a grandparent walking hand-in-hand with their grandkids across campus," he said. "The grandparent representing the last 100 years and the grandkid representing the next century." | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/07/16/texas-tech-alumni-association-hosts-2nd-annual-legacy-u-camp/65374635007/ | 2022-07-16T20:26:32 | 0 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/07/16/texas-tech-alumni-association-hosts-2nd-annual-legacy-u-camp/65374635007/ |
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