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Owen Hughes pitched five innings and allowed just three hits to lead the Stafford Township 12-and-under baseball team to a 2-1 victory over Swedesboro in a Little League Section 4 game Monday.
Stafford is one of three teams remaining in the tournament.
Hughes also tripled in the third inning and scored the tying run. Colton Gearl earned the save and drove in the eventual game-winning run in the fourth. Conner Kerli had a game-saving catch in left field later in the game. Hunter Banach and Zando Kelly also had hits for Stafford.
Stafford was set to play Barrington Tuesday night.
"The dream continues for these boys," Stafford coach Bruce Kelly said.
Kelly also praised his coaching staff, which includes Troy Bayer and Ronnie Bayer. Troy Bayer is the junior varsity coach at Southern Regional High School. Ronnie Bayer, a former pitcher at Rutgers University, is the new organizational pitching coach for the Stafford Hitmen.
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"These two guys have created the most developmental environment for these kids and by far the most positive and intelligent staff I've ever had the privilege of coaching with," Kelly said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stafford-edges-swedesboro-2-1-in-section-4-tournament/article_e2a4e266-0775-11ed-8964-778fd90145e3.html | 2022-07-20T01:00:52 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stafford-edges-swedesboro-2-1-in-section-4-tournament/article_e2a4e266-0775-11ed-8964-778fd90145e3.html |
Fire engulfs home under renovation in Great Falls, but no one injured, GFFR reports
Tribune Staff
No one was injured in a house fire that happened early Tuesday morning in Great Falls.
According to a news release from Great Falls Fire Rescue, a passing motorist on the way to work discovered the fire at around 4 a.m. at 5821 2nd. Ave. N.
GFFR sent four engines and a battalion chief to the fire. The crew found the front of the house fully engulfed in flames. Firefighters were able to quickly knock down the main fire and spent several hours taking care of hot spots, the release said.
The home was apparently under renovation and was unoccupied, so there were no injuries or deaths in the fire. GFFR's Fire Prevention Bureau is investigating the fire's cause and will release more information as it becomes available.
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Four candidates withdrew from the race to be on the Boise School District’s Board of Trustees.
Paul Lewer, Nick Sackett, Josh Bales and Jacob Rowe withdrew over the weekend, according to the district’s website. The four, along with a fifth candidate, Zach Borah, drew attention upon filing because they appeared to be running in tandem. The five attend the same Boise church, and each signed one another’s petitions for candidacy. Borah is the only one who remains in the race.
That leaves 14 candidates to vie for five board seats:
Five candidates will seek two full, six-year board terms: Incumbents Beth Oppenheimer and Dave Wagers, both elected in 2016, and challengers Zach Borah, Krista Hasler and Greg Woodard. The five candidates will run in one catch-all race; the top two vote-getters will be elected.
Three candidates are vying to finish out a four-year board term: Incumbent Andy Hawes and challengers Neil Mercer and Matthew Shapiro. Hawes was appointed in April 2021.
Four candidates will seek to fill out a two-year term: Incumbent Elizabeth Langley and challengers Nate Dean, Dawn King and Todd Kurowski. Langley was appointed in November 2020.
Incumbent Steve Schmidt and challenger Shiva Rajbhandari will run for a separate two-year term. The newest member of the board, Schmidt was appointed in December. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/four-withdraw-from-boise-trustee-races/article_f277dbbc-dfe4-5de3-81d5-475adba72338.html | 2022-07-20T01:03:00 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/four-withdraw-from-boise-trustee-races/article_f277dbbc-dfe4-5de3-81d5-475adba72338.html |
Southwest District Health has issued an advisory for CJ Strike Reservoir, a body of water located just southwest of Mountain Home and northwest of Bruneau.
In a news release, Southwest District Health said that samples recently taken from the reservoir indicate high concentration levels of toxin-producing cyanobacteria, which can be harmful to people, pets and livestock.
Those with liver or kidney damage are at an increased risk of illness, the news release stated.
Southwest District Health, which covers Adams, Canyon, Gem, Owyhee, Payette and Washington counties, told those recreating in the area to take the following precautions:
• Avoid swimming, wading, or other water activities. Take extra precautions to ensure children, pets and livestock are not exposed to the water. Do not drink or cook with water containing a bloom. Boiling and filtering the water does not remove the toxins and can increase the risk of adverse health effects.
• After handling fish caught in water experiencing a bloom, wash hands thoroughly in clean water. Also, clean and wash fish thoroughly in uncontaminated water and dispose of internal organs before consumption. Before eating fish from the area, filet the fish and remove all fat, skin, and organs before cooking.
• For animals, clean skin or pet fur with clean water as soon as possible after any water contact.
Symptoms of cyanotoxin exposure include rashes, hives, diarrhea, vomiting, coughing, and/or wheezing. Ingesting the water can cause more severe effects to the liver and nervous system. If symptoms persist, consult your health care provider.
Pets, livestock, and wildlife can get sick or die after cyanotoxin exposure, the news release stated. If pets or livestock have been in the water, immediately wash them with clean water to keep them from licking cyanobacteria off their bodies. Seek veterinary care immediately if your pets or livestock seem sick after going in or drinking the water.
Southwest District Health will notify the public when it is likely the cyanobacteria concern no longer exists, the news release stated. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/health-advisory-issued-for-cj-strike-reservoir/article_d957d2ee-e31a-5049-b568-cec8bd315602.html | 2022-07-20T01:03:06 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/health-advisory-issued-for-cj-strike-reservoir/article_d957d2ee-e31a-5049-b568-cec8bd315602.html |
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Tucson-based Raytheon Missiles & Defense and partner Northrop Grumman successfully completed a key flight test of a hypersonic missile being developed for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the U.S. Air Force.
The test of the “scramjet”-powered Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, or HAWC, was the second successful flight test for the Raytheon-Northrop missile prototype and follows a flight test of a HAWC concept made by Lockheed Martin in April.
Raytheon applied data from its first flight test last September and the test met all primary and secondary objectives, including demonstrating tactical range capabilities, Raytheon and DARPA said Tuesday.
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The HAWC prototype is powered by a supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, which uses supersonic air produced during initial acceleration to reach speeds greater than Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound.
During the most recent test, after release from an unidentified aircraft, the missile’s first stage boosted the vehicle to the expected scramjet ignition speed range, DARPA said.
From there, the missile’s Northrop Grumman scramjet engine fired up and propelled the cruiser past Mach 5 for more than 300 nautical miles and reached altitudes higher than 60,000 feet, the missile agency said.
The date and site for the test were not disclosed, and many details about the program remain classified.
The Pentagon is scrambling to develop ultra-fast, hard-to-kill hypersonic missiles and counter-hypersonic weapons in response to apparent hypersonic testing successes by Russia and China.
Colin Whelan, president of Advanced Technology for Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said the most recent HAWC flight test success was an important milestone for the hypersonic missile program.
"The test demonstrated how we've rapidly matured affordable scramjet technology, which is the basis for air-breathing weapons," Whelan said in a news release.
The test vehicle flew a trajectory that engineers designed to intentionally stress the weapon concept to explore its limits and further validate digital performance models, Raytheon and Northrop said in a joint news release.
Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have been working together since 2019 to develop, produce and integrate Northrop Grumman's scramjet engines onto Raytheon's air-breathing hypersonic weapons.
Contact senior reporter David Wichner at dwichner@tucson.com or 520-573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com/DailyStarBiz | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/hypersonic-missile-made-by-tucson-raytheon-unit-passes-test/article_a65670ba-0791-11ed-92bc-3304693c5728.html | 2022-07-20T01:11:27 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/hypersonic-missile-made-by-tucson-raytheon-unit-passes-test/article_a65670ba-0791-11ed-92bc-3304693c5728.html |
Shreveport man accused of threatening to blow up courthouse, making violent racial threats
Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office has arrested a Shreveport man who threatened to blow up a Shreveport Courthouse, making racial threats on July 18.
According to Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator, on Monday afternoon CPSO detectives determined that Patrick Duffy, 41, allegedly "messaged a person known to him about his plan to "blow up" a Shreveport courthouse and to kill African Americans."
An arrest warrant was obtained and Duffy was taken into custody at his residence for one count of communicating false information of planned arson and one count of a hate crime.
He was booked into the Caddo Correctional Center and his bond was set at $50,000 per charge.
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Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/19/shreveport-man-arrested-threatening-blow-up-courthouse-patrick-duffy/10101243002/ | 2022-07-20T01:13:18 | 1 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/07/19/shreveport-man-arrested-threatening-blow-up-courthouse-patrick-duffy/10101243002/ |
BLACKSBURG, Va. – Maybe you don’t have millions sitting around to buy a property like this one, but the beauty of the countryside here might just make you consider a hefty loan.
The Beliveau Farm Winery in Blacksburg is now up for sale and is listed at $6.5 million on the Virginia Farms for Sale website.
Known for its mature vineyard, winery, brewery, B&B, and special events venue, the Beliveau Farm Winery is a popular spot, according to the listing.
The property has been a destination for over 20,000 residents and tourists annually, many of which come from surrounding areas, notably from Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Roanoke, Lynchburg, Staunton, and Harrisonburg, the listing said.
Coming with 75 acres with views of the surrounding countryside, there isn’t a question of if there will be enough grapes to produce wine – According to the listing, the property also has enough grapes growing on the property to produce 100% of their wines.
There is already a winery building on the property, the listing said, and there is also a general purpose building partially under construction to provide more space for vineyard and winery equipment and tools.
If that wasn’t already enough, the listing also mentions the heart of the Beliveau Farm: the Manor House.
According to the listing, the house dates back to 1890 but has had a massive remodel – instead of its original three bedroom, one bathroom layout, the home now has five guest bedrooms, one owner suite, and nine full bathrooms.
Also mentioned in the listing are the Events Center and Tasting Room Complex and the Sugar Shack.
The listing specified that the price of $6.5 million is exclusive of their wine inventory.
And even though Beliveau Farm is up for sale, there are more plans for the near future.
You can view all of Beliveau Farm’s upcoming events here. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/beliveau-farm-winery-in-blacksburg-is-up-for-sale/ | 2022-07-20T01:13:36 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/beliveau-farm-winery-in-blacksburg-is-up-for-sale/ |
The U.S. Department of Education has relaxed the rules for certain student loan borrowers to apply for forgiveness, but those changes will only remain in effect until Oct. 31.
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program allows qualifying borrowers to apply to have their Direct Loan debt canceled if they have routinely made payments while doing public interest work.
Launched in 2007 and administered by the education department’s Federal Student Aid office, the program was designed to steer graduates into careers as educators, librarians, nurses, the military and other public service jobs.
If those individuals, who took out Direct Loans from the education department remain employed at least 30 hours a week in those careers for 10 years, or make 120 payments, they can apply to have their debt erased.
Beginning Oct. 6, 2021, the education department enacted temporary rules that allow for any period of repayment before the program began in 2007 to receive credit toward forgiveness, regardless of the loan program, repayment plan or whether payment was made in full or on time.
The change only applies to borrowers with Direct Loans, however. Those with Federal Family Education Loans, Federal Perkins Loans or other types of federal student loans are encouraged to consolidate them into a Direct Loan before Oct. 31, 2022, so they might qualify for forgiveness.
Consolidation can be completed relatively quickly — in a few weeks, said Mike Baumgartner, executive director of Nebraska's Coordinating Commission for Postsecondary Education.
To apply for the program, borrowers are encouraged to submit an application at studentaid.gov .
Baumgartner said federal education department's relaxing of the rules will open the door for more borrowers to potentially qualify for loan forgiveness.
“There were a lot of students who might not have applied, who might have found it too difficult or onerous because they weren’t into the Direct Loan program,” Baumgartner said. “This is an opportunity for them to take advantage of this one-time waiver of the normal rules.”
Across the U.S., more than 145,000 borrowers have had the remainder of their debt forgiven through the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, while more than 715,000 borrowers have had their paperwork processed.
The average debt forgiven in the program is just shy of $65,000.
Nebraska borrowers who have had their loans forgiven fall slightly below the national average at $61,000.
As of May, a total of 1,080 borrowers in Nebraska have had a total of $65.9 million in student loans discharged through the program, according to data from the U.S. Department of Education.
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the program is among the Biden administration's efforts to make college more affordable and accessible in the U.S.
At a speech before state higher education officers last week, Cardona said the education department wants to help individuals "who choose public service not because of the money but because they want to make their community better."
Those individuals should see if they qualify for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, he added.
"We need your help to get the word out so more people take advantage of it," he said.
Breaking down Nebraska's colleges and universities
Bellevue University
Bellevue University, Bellevue
Pell grant students: 42%
Students with federal loans: 39%
Average annual cost: $15,616
8-year graduation rate: 46%
Median debt: $20,865
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 29%
Average earnings after 10 years: $56,762
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Bryan College of Health Sciences
Bryan College of Health Sciences, Lincoln
Pell grant students: 38%
Students with federal loans: 74%
Average annual cost: $26,122
8-year graduation rate: 76%
Median debt: $26,060
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 47%
Average earnings after 10 years: $59,446
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Central Community College
Central Community College, Grand Island
Pell grant students: 51%
Students with federal loans: 33%
Average annual cost: $8,235
8-year graduation rate: 48%
Median debt: $7,250
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 40%
Average earnings after 10 years: $34,795
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Chadron State College
Chadron State College, Chadron
Pell grant students: 39%
Students with federal loans: 57%
Average annual cost: $14,268
8-year graduation rate: 44%
Median debt: $19,295
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 36%
Average earnings after 10 years: $43,869
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CHI Health School of Radiologic Technology
CHI Health School of Radiologic Technology, Omaha
Pell grant students: not listed
Students with federal loans: not listed
Average annual cost: not listed
3-year graduation rate: 93%
Median debt: not listed
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): not listed
Average earnings after 10 years: $35,526
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Clarkson College
Clarkson College, Omaha
Pell grant students: 28%
Students with federal loans: 69%
Average annual cost: $20,123
8-year graduation rate: 73%
Median debt: $25,500
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 45%
Average earnings after 10 years: $59,883
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College of Hair Design
College of Hair Design-Downtown, Lincoln
Pell grant students: 51%
Students with federal loans: 57%
Average annual cost: $14,025
18-month graduation rate: 61%
Median debt: $12,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 30%
Average earnings after 10 years: $22,684
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College of Saint Mary
College of Saint Mary, Omaha
Pell grant students: 34%
Students with federal loans: 55%
Average annual cost: $14,325
8-year graduation rate: 60%
Median debt: $25,500
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 30%
Average earnings after 10 years: $48,273
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Concordia University
Concordia University-Nebraska, Seward
Pell grant students: 29%
Students with federal loans: 71%
Average annual cost: $20,763
8-year graduation rate: 67%
Median debt: $26,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 48%
Average earnings after 10 years: $45,784
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Creighton University
Creighton University, Omaha
Pell grant students: 13%
Students with federal loans: 51%
Average annual cost: $31,400
8-year graduation rate: 76%
Median debt: $24,369
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 49%
Average earnings after 10 years: $66,524
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Doane University
Doane University, Crete
Pell grant students: 30%
Students with federal loans: 93%
Average annual cost: $26,507
8-year graduation rate: 62%
Median debt: $25,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 36%
Average earnings after 10 years: $48,203
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Hastings College
Hastings College, Hastings
Pell grant students: 33%
Students with federal loans: 75%
Average annual cost: $21,670
8-year graduation rate: 59%
Median debt: $26,809
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 42%
Average earnings after 10 years: $48,198
Hastings College
Joseph's College Cosmetology
Joseph's College Cosmetology, Lincoln
Pell grant students: 78%
Students with federal loans: 88%
Average annual cost: $9,445
18-month graduation rate: 62%
Median debt: $12,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 24%
Average earnings after 10 years: $22,698
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Metro Community College
Metropolitan Community College, Omaha
Pell grant students: 42%
Students with federal loans: 16%
Average annual cost: $4,295
8-year graduation rate: 15%
Median debt: $7,891
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 23%
Average earnings after 10 years: $35,108
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Midland University
Midland University, Fremont
Pell grant students: 39%
Students with federal loans: 84%
Average annual cost: $21,128
8-year graduation rate: 58%
Median debt: $26,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 36%
Average earnings after 10 years: $50,032
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Mid-Plains Community College
Mid-Plains Community College, North Platte
Pell grant students: 39%
Students with federal loans: 31%
Average annual cost: $6,553
8-year graduation rate: 29%
Median debt: $8,885
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 36%
Average earnings after 10 years: $33,361
Mid-Plains Facebook page
Nebraska Christian College
Nebraska Christian College of Hope International University, Papillion
Pell grant students: not listed
Students with federal loans: not listed
Average annual cost: $21,372
8-year graduation rate: 40%
Median debt: not listed
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): not listed
Average earnings after 10 years: $41,202
Nebraska Christian College Facebook page
Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture
Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture, Curtis
Pell grant students: 31%
Students with federal loans: 33%
Average annual cost: $13,108
8-year graduation rate: 49%
Median debt: $21,362
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 48%
Average earnings after 10 years: $52,360
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Nebraska Indian Community College
Nebraska Indian Community College, Macy
Pell grant students: 76%
Students with federal loans: 0%
Average annual cost: $12,866
8-year graduation rate: 10%
Median debt: not listed
Began repayment after two years (making progress or paid in full): not listed
Average earnings after 10 years: not listed
Nebraska Indian Community College Facebook page
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health
Nebraska Methodist College of Nursing & Allied Health, Omaha
Pell grant students: 32%
Students with federal loans: 78%
Average annual cost: $25,311
8-year graduation rate: 77%
Median debt: $25,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 42%
Average earnings after 10 years: $56,533
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Nebraska Wesleyan University
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
Pell grant students: 33%
Students with federal loans: 71%
Average annual cost: $23,847
8-year graduation rate: 67%
Median debt: $26,966
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 44%
Average earnings after 10 years: $52,697
Nebraska Wesleyan Facebook page
Northeast Community College
Northeast Community College, Norfolk
Pell grant students: 46%
Students with federal loans: 43%
Average annual cost: $8,749
8-year graduation rate: 44%
Median debt: $11,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 41%
Average earnings after 10 years: $37,858
Northeast Community College Facebook page
Peru State College
Peru State College, Peru
Pell grant students: 52%
Students with federal loans: 68%
Average annual cost: $14,058
8-year graduation rate: 46%
Median debt: $22,119
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 24%
Average earnings after 10 years: $42,121
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Southeast Community College
Southeast Community College, Lincoln
Pell grant students: 45%
Students with federal loans: 77%
Average annual cost: $9,059
8-year graduation rate: 31%
Median debt: $4,818
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 32%
Average earnings after 10 years: $40,861
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Union College
Union College, Lincoln
Pell grant students: 43%
Students with federal loans: 87%
Average annual cost: $22,497
8-year graduation rate: 51%
Median debt: $27,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 33%
Average earnings after 10 years: $45,198
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University of Nebraska at Kearney
University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney
Pell grant students: 42%
Students with federal loans: 50%
Average annual cost: $16,017
8-year graduation rate: 59%
Median debt: $19,250
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 42%
Average earnings after 10 years: $46,054
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University of Nebraska Medical Center
University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
Pell grant students: not listed
Students with federal loans: not listed
Average annual cost: not listed
8-year graduation rate: 94%
Median debt: $15,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 65%
Average earnings after 10 years: $73,342
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University of Nebraska at Omaha
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha
Pell grant students: 41%
Students with federal loans: 38%
Average annual cost: $14,040
8-year graduation rate: 50%
Median debt: $19,500
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 34%
Average earnings after 10 years: $50,131
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Pell grant students: 25%
Students with federal loans: 46%
Average annual cost: $17,208
8-year graduation rate: 68%
Median debt: $21,362
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 48%
Average earnings after 10 years: $52,360
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Wayne State College
Wayne State College, Wayne
Pell grant students: 38%
Students with federal loans: 62%
Average annual cost: $13,765
8-year graduation rate: 52%
Median debt: $20,400
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 40%
Average earnings after 10 years: $43,727
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Western Nebraska Community College
Western Nebraska Community College, Scottsbluff
Pell grant students: 46%
Students with federal loans: 19%
Average annual cost: $5,339
8-year graduation rate: 30%
Median debt: $9,203
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 37%
Average earnings after 10 years: $34,452
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York College
York College, York
Pell grant students: 49%
Students with federal loans: 70%
Average annual cost: $16,961
8-year graduation rate: 49%
Median debt: $24,000
Began repayment in two years (making progress or paid in full): 22%
Average earnings after 10 years: $33,777
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Phoenix police shoot man at mental health facility in Laveen
Phoenix police shot a patient at a mental health facility in a Laveen neighborhood early Tuesday morning after the man, who police say was armed with a knife, made suicidal statements and threats toward staff.
During a news conference on Tuesday afternoon, Sgt. Brian Bower with Phoenix police said officers responded to a call of a patient threatening facility staff near 111th Avenue and College Drive. The man also threatened to jump out of a window and cut himself.
Bower said responding officers tried communicating with the man when he pulled a knife from his pocket and approached the officers inside the house. Officers ordered the man to drop the knife, but the man ignored their commands and continued to approach them, he said.
One of the officers shot the man with a stun gun, but Bower said it proved ineffective as the man continued approaching the officers with the knife. Another officer responded by shooting the man with their handgun. It wasn't immediately clear how many other officers were involved in the call, though Bower confirmed two officers tasered and shot the patient.
The officers rendered first-aid before the man was taken to a hospital in critical condition, Bower said. It is unclear how many times the man was shot. Bower did not provide the man’s identity, but did say he is in his early twenties.
Bower said Crisis Intervention trained officers were requested over the radio and a mobile Crisis Intervention Team was on its way to the area, but neither made it before the shooting occurred.
"We had a mobile crisis team en route, unfortunately the officer involved shooting took place before those resources were able to get here," he said.
There have been 29 police shootings in Maricopa County this year alone, according to a report from the Maricopa County Attorney's Office. At a statewide level, there have been at least 48 police shootings, according to an analysis by The Arizona Republic, and at least 12 of them have involved the Phoenix Police Department.
Bower said none of the officers or staff were injured during the incident.
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Arizona announces intent to execute death row prisoner Murray Hooper
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich announced Tuesday the state is planning to execute another person.
In a motion filed Tuesday, the Arizona Attorney General's Office asked the Arizona Supreme Court to set a briefing schedule. This does not set an execution date. If the motion is approved, then Hooper's attorneys and the state would submit briefs as to whether an execution date should be set. Then the court would decide whether to set an execution date, which would likely be 35 days later.
While the Attorney General's Office says Hooper has exhausted all appeals, he would still have a clemency hearing and his defense team could file additional claims for relief in court, which could delay a potential execution date.
Murray, 76, would mark the state's third execution since the botched execution of Joseph Wood in 2014. Clarence Dixon, 66, was executed May 11 and Frank Atwood, also 66, was executed June 8.
Hooper was among three men convicted for the 1980 murders of Patrick Redmond and his mother-in-law Helen Phelps as they were preparing for a New Year's Eve party in Phoenix, according to a news release from the Attorney General's Office. They were shot in the head and Redmond's throat had also be cut, the release said.
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Redmond's wife, Marilyn, was also shot but survived and identified Hooper, William Bracy and Edward McCall, a former Phoenix police officer, as the killers, according to the release. Bracy and McCall died before their sentences could be carried out.
Hooper was sentenced to death in February 1983, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections website.
There are 111 people on Arizona's death row, 22 of whom have exhausted their appeals, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
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MINIDOKA COUNTY, Idaho — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is responding to a wildfire in Minidoka County, north of Lake Walcott, near Rupert.
The fire has been named the Lake Walcott Fire. According to BLM, it is estimated to be 89 acres and running.
Crews from the East End Rural Fire Department (RFD) and West End RFD are at the scene of the fire with one dozer, a fire manager, and several aerial resources.
BLM Twin Falls is providing additional support with four of its district engines, along with one engine from the Sawtooth National Forest.
According to BLM, the fire is burning in grass and there are no structures immediately threatened.
Firefighters are expecting to contain the fire later tonight and have it controlled by 6 tomorrow afternoon.
The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, but the fire is currently under investigation by BLM.
This is an ongoing incident and we will be updating the story as we learn more; check back for more details.
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A Bexar County Sheriff's Office corporal was arrested Tuesday after being accused of choking a woman in a domestic violence case.
Cpl. Leroy Martinez, 25, faces a charge of assault of family by choking or strangulation, a third-degree felony, according to arrest records.
A bail amount was not immediately available as he was in the process of being booked into the Bexar County jail Tuesday evening.
Officials said the alleged incident occurred over the weekend but did not elaborate.
Martinez has been with the department for four years and is assigned to the detention bureau.
He has been served termination paperwork in accordance with BCSO policies and procedures with Bexar County Civil Service Rules.
Officials said he is currently on unpaid administrative leave.
San Antonio police are investigating the incident, officials said. The Sheriff’s Office is conducting its own administrative investigation.
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An off-duty Bexar County sheriff’s deputy was driving 80 mph on Interstate 10 West and swerved out of his lane before officers pulled him over, San Antonio police said.
A San Antonio police officer tasked with spotting DWI drivers saw a white 2016 Buick Encore heading toward downtown and traveling above the 60-mph speed limit at 2:20 a.m. July 1 in the 2600 block of I-10 West, a police report states.
The deputy, identified by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office as Ernesto Garza, 32, also was changing lanes improperly, the report states.
The officer activated his emergency lights, signaling Garza to pull over. When Garza failed to pull over, the officer turned off his emergency lights and followed Garza’s SUV, calling for help from San Antonio Police Department’s helicopter, according to the report.
Police said Garza took Interstate 35 North and exited at New Braunfels Avenue. He then ran a red light at New Braunfels and Lamar Street, the report states. Shortly afterward, Garza came to a stop.
Garza refused to perform a field sobriety test or to take a breath test, according to the report.
Police filed a warrant to draw his blood for testing before he was booked into the Bexar County jail. He was released the same day after posting bond. His bail had been set at $11,000.
A Sheriff’s Office spokesman said Tuesday evening that Garza was undergoing the disciplinary process.
Garza has been with the department for eight years. He was an investigator with the law enforcement bureau when the incident occurred.
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Relatives and friends wept Tuesday at courtroom video that showed Dominga “Minga” Irene Pesqueda Estrada, 33 being run over by a pickup on the side of a road early on Sept. 5, 2020.
David James Estrada Jr., then 30, was behind the wheel, authorities said, and is now on trial for murder in her death.
San Antonio police found her unresponsive and mortally injured — with Estrada at her side — near a bus stop in a grassy area beyond a curb in the 7400 block of Spur Valley Street on the Southwest Side.
At the time, witnesses told authorities they saw a pickup run her over about 2:30 a.m. as she walked along the street. Authorities questioned Estrada, who goes by James. They charged him with murder after determining that the pickup was his, accusing him of intentionally killing Minga Estrada.
Estrada has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers, in an opening statement, said the death was an accident.
Testifying for the state Tuesday on the second day of the trial, San Antonio police Det. Maria Salazar, a traffic investigator at the time of the crash, walked the jury through surveillance video that was taken from a nearby home.
Of three videos collected that night, one captured a dark pickup moving alongside a woman walking by the road, Salazar said. When the vehicle pulled up beside her, she walked away from it. The pickup then veered left toward her, accelerated and struck the woman. After a few minutes, it sped off in the opposite direction.
Relatives and friends of Minga Estrada gasped and wept as prosecutors Kristen Mulliner and Oscar Peña showed the video in court. James Estrada looked down at the defense table and wiped his eyes as he sat with his attorneys, Alex Scharff and Adrian Flores.
The couple’s friends, Maria Gamboa and her brother, Raul Gamboa, testified earlier that the Estradas had been together that night, socializing at the Gamboa’s house on Spur Valley. James Estrada came back minutes after they left, without Minga, and appeared “freaked out” in the front yard, as Raul Gamboa put it.
“I said, ‘Where’s Minga?’ but he couldn’t respond, like he was in a daze,” Raul Gamboa testified. “Then he takes off, running down the street, away from the house.”
Gamboa said he told his sister to get her SUV and they drove a short distance to find James Estrada cradling his ex-wife in his arms between some shrubs and the curb on Spur Valley.
“She was just lying there,” breathing heavily, Gamboa said. “He was telling her, ‘Don’t leave me.’”
Scharff questioned both Gamboas about the demeanor of James and Minga Estrada at their home. Each said the couple seemed fine and were not arguing. They said the Estradas drank and played pool with Raul Gamboa and his girlfriend hours before the crash, but left before 2:30 a.m. because Minga had to go to work that morning.
Later Tuesday, San Antonio police Det. Paul Davila described crime scene photographs taken of the front driver’s side bumper of the blue pickup that James Estrada drove. One image was of a hand print, another of blood. A third showed blood on the underside of the pickup on the oil pan skid plate.
Other images showed blue paint on a speed bump near where the body was found, and the victim’s broken cellphone near a puddle of blood in the grassy area near a damaged street sign.
At the trial’s opening Monday, jurors were shown video from police body cameras that showed Minga Estrada struggling to breathe as James Estrada hovered over her and called her “baby.” He became angry when EMTs would not allow him to accompany her to the hospital.
She never regained consciousness while en route to University Hospital and was pronounced dead at 3:15 a.m.
If convicted, Estrada, now 32, faces up to life in prison.
Staff photographer Kin Man Hui contributed to this report.
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BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) – As flood recovery efforts continue in Buchanan County, Virginia, a major focus is the medical well-being of victims.
Floods that swept through the county earlier in July destroyed an estimated 30 homes and damaged or impacted more than 100 others, according to assessments by the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
Several agencies, organizations and non-profits have set up headquarters at Twin Valley Elementary and Middle School to render aid and receive and distribute donations.
Among those groups are health care providers like the Health Wagon, which is providing free services like the administration of tetanus shots.
“The tetanus germ, it can live in the soil and things like that,” said Dr. Teresa Owens Tyson FNP, the CEO and president of the Health Wagon. “So with all the mud and all the debris that has came in, and these people have been exposed to trying to get back into their homes and things like that, if they had a cut or something like that the germ can enter through that and cause terrible complications.”
Additional tetanus shots are expected to arrive around noon on Wednesday for flood victims.
Those impacted by the floods can also receive vouchers for glasses and get help with prescriptions if their pairs were lost or ruined.
Operations will continue at the school 24 hours a day until Friday, at which point operators plan to move to Twin Valley High School, which is closer to the damage. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/non-profit-provides-medical-aid-to-buchanan-co-flood-victims/ | 2022-07-20T01:26:10 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/non-profit-provides-medical-aid-to-buchanan-co-flood-victims/ |
Dozens of kids showed up for free snow cones, a myriad of games and, of course, a foam party and water fight. Parents were encouraged to tour the school and learn more about what the Action Academy was all about.
The academy currently has an enrollment of about 20 students and holds grades K-8th year-roundm according to Mindy Petramalo, head of school.
Based on critical thinking and a Montessori philosophy, the school focuses on the mastery of reading, writing and math skills through hands-on experience.
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TWIN FALLS — Spring rain storms will have made a big difference when Magic Valley farmers harvest their crops this fall.
That moisture has kept many southern Idaho reservoir levels from dwindling badly this growing season but will not be enough to take all water worries from farmers.
Jeremy Dalling with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Upper Snake Field Office says May’s above-normal precipitation made a “huge” difference in reservoir levels and reduced irrigation demand.
The upper Snake River system was about 50% full — which is 71% of average.
Projections before the spring rains were dire. In early April, the reservoir system was at 59% capacity, and Jackson Lake and Palisades Reservoir, two of the headwater reservoirs of the Snake River, were not expected to fill.
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Prospects have improved, but farmers aren’t out of the woods yet, Dalling said.
“The big take for me is that we are still well below normal, but we are much better off than we were projecting,” he said. “We are still running short, so could use some added precipitation.”
Many reservoirs are expected to be almost empty at the end of the growing season, with American Falls Reservoir expected to be at about 10% and Palisades Reservoir expected to be about 5-10% full.
“It’s still kind of up in the air for us,” Twin Falls Canal Co. general manager Jay Barlogi.
Because of the dire water outlook at the start of the planting season, the canal company reduced deliveries to a five-eighths inch per share. Water managers delayed deliveries in hopes of extending water supplies to the end of the irrigation season.
Right now, “it could go either way for us,” Barlogi said, adding that some farmers are worried water rights might be cut further.
“One-hundred-degree days don’t make it any easier,” Barlogi said.
Magic Reservoir near Shoshone had about 18,000 acre-feet of water in storage Tuesday, about 9.5% of its 191,500 acre-feet capacity, Big Wood Canal Co. manager Kevin Lakey said.
The canal company plans to shut off on the evening of July 24, giving farmers about 70 days’ worth of irrigation water. That compares to an exceptionally short 2021 season when irrigation water was shut off in early June, after 27 days of water. An average irrigation season lasts 140 to 150 days.
This year, farmers relying on water from Magic Reservoir were likely able to get two cuttings of alfalfa or a crop of small grains.
“If they were growing wheat, barley or oats, they should be able to make it,” Lakey said.
Lakey said in the advent of fall moisture, the canal company might turn on the gates for a short time in early September.
“That would help with stock water or irrigating trees,” he said.
Besides the wet spring, crop selection has played a big part in irrigation water lasting as long as it has, Barlogi and Dalling agreed, meaning more wheat was planted and less corn and sugar beets.
“There is a lot more grain on the project,” Barlogi said.
He encouraged farmers to do all they can to conserve water.
Crops so far look good but are a little behind schedule from the spring’s cooler weather, Barlogi said. He expected grain harvest to begin in earnest in about 10 to 14 days.
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TWIN FALLS — A flexible, reservation-based, ride-hailing service piloted by Idaho Falls is being looked at as a public transportation option in the city.
At Monday’s council meeting, Mandy Thompson, assistant to the city manager, gave the council an update on the city’s exploration of public transit options.
Twin Falls’ population is set to hit 50,000 by the 2020 Census. And barring a rule change, the city will be required to put a plan in place for public transportation once it hits that threshold.
The public transportation division of the Idaho Transportation Department has been working with Idaho Falls and a similar solution might be appropriate for Twin Falls.
The service would consist of a number of smaller transit vans that can be requested using a mobile app or by phone to schedule a ride.
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“In very simple terms, it’s kind of the Lyft or Uber of public transportation,” Thompson said.
Idaho Falls had a public fixed-route bus system that suffered from low ridership and went bankrupt in 2019. To replace it, ITD worked with that city to develop a replacement service and selected microtransit as the best option for meeting a range of riders' needs with a smaller budget.
The College of Southern Idaho, with support from the city of Twin Falls and ITD, has run an on-demand transportation system called Trans IV since 1979. The program was funded partly with federal rural transportation dollars. But with the certification of the 2020 census expected to put the population over the 50,000-person threshold, Twin Falls will be classified as "small urban" and will no longer be eligible for the rural transportation grant.
In anticipation of this loss of funding, as well as lower ridership and increasing costs, Trans IV has announced it will be ending service on Sept. 30 of this year.
A 2021 study performed by Western Transportation Institute showed that a traditional fixed-route system would not be effective, but other options that have been tried in similar-sized cities show promise.
ITD has presented the city with the opportunity to fully fund a pilot program using federal CARES and ARPA funds made available during the COVID-19 pandemic
Every week, newcomers to Twin Falls rely on crowded, rundown vans to get them to essential services.
“It’s a great opportunity with little or no cost to the city,” Thompson said, “It’s a great solution that’s being utilized around the county for communities like Twin Falls that are just not large enough and don’t have the funding available to support fixed-route systems.”
Shawn Barigar, a member of the city council, said he recently heard about a community in North Carolina of a similar size that has been using micro transit.
“It has been very successful there and it’s serving a lot of the underserved people,” Barigar said.
Spencer Cutler, another city council member, said he liked the idea of seeing results from another community.
“The idea is, we test the waters, see what’s practical, see what actually provides a service to people, and (make sure) it's not actually going to be a money pit,” Cutler said.
Those who depend on Trans IV — primarily elderly and disabled individuals — will likely be without transportation for at least a few months, while the decision is made by the city council.
Vice Mayor Chris Reid and council member Jason Brown both urged the city to look for ways to minimize gaps in service to people who were using the Trans IV for transportation.
Reid questioned whether some of the nonprofit organizations that had recently received grants from the city for transportation services to certain populations might be able to contribute.
Brown asked if Trans IV might be able to extend beyond the Sept. 30 end-of-service date.
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BLISS — A 20,000-acre fire north of town was human-caused, the Bureau of Land Management said.
The Bray Fire was reported at 4:25 p.m. Monday, BLM spokesperson Kelsey Brizendine said, and, due to 30 mph winds, the fire exploded to thousands of acres in just a few hours.
“It moved extremely fast,” Brizendine said. “The wind was not doing us any favors.”
But the fire did not grow substantially Tuesday, she said.
Fire officials determined the fire was human-caused, she said Tuesday morning, but she was unsure whether any structures were damaged because the fire is still under investigation.
“It was pretty scary,” said Elizabeth Hendley, who was on her way back from the Camas Prairie Monday when she spotted the fire. “...(B)y the time we got to the outskirts of Gooding it had grown substantially and with the high winds it traveled quickly.”
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After the fire was mapped from a helicopter, the BLM determined the fire burned 20,345 acres. The total acreage burned translates to more than 30 square miles.
“Everything is looking pretty good today,” Brizendine said. “Crews continue to improve containment lines and are mopping up hot spots."
Two backburns started by firefighters proved effective in battling the blaze.
The BLM expects full control of the fire at 10 p.m. Thursday.
Twin Falls District BLM, Sawtooth National Forest, Boise BLM, Bliss Rural Fire Department, Gooding Rural Fire Department, Hagerman Rural Fire Department responded Monday, with about 60 firefighters on the scene. Twin Falls BLM and Sawtooth National Forest personnel remain on the scene Tuesday, with ground and air resources working to create containment lines along the southern half of the fire.
Much of Monday night was spent securing the northern flank of the fire, Brizendine said. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/watch-now-human-caused-bray-fire-burns-20-000-acres-in-gooding-county/article_b45f4af4-077a-11ed-ad6d-d3b617eb1e0c.html | 2022-07-20T01:26:28 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/watch-now-human-caused-bray-fire-burns-20-000-acres-in-gooding-county/article_b45f4af4-077a-11ed-ad6d-d3b617eb1e0c.html |
CLAREMONT — The Claremont City Council said yes in a 5-4 vote last week to privatize the city’s transfer station.
The July 13 vote authorized interim City Manager John Bohenko to begin negotiations with Claremont-based DeCamp Waste Services to operate the facility. Once finalized, the contract would have to be approved by the City Council.
The vote took place after residents debated the pros and cons of the move.
Many residents said they were happy to hear the privatization would save the city $100,000 annually and increase transfer station hours from being open two days a week to three days.
“I think privatization, in this case, does make sense,” Mike Demars said, adding the city has been looking at privatization for a decade. “Honestly it provides more benefits than negatives in every way.”
It would create private jobs and end the city practice of DPW employees working at the transfer station because it is low on staff, he said.
Others said the city may save money but residents would likely face larger costs in the future. And many warned the city to be wary of the trend to privatize public services.
“The city will save a dime and we’ll lose our shirts,” one man warned.
Many said the city needs to slow down, including Ernest Montenegro and his wife, Donna, who said the city should hold an open forum.
“I don’t think enough people know enough about this,” Donna Montenegro said.
One man called for a citizen vote.
“Let the voters vote it in or out,” Robert Davis said, saying that gas, food, and electricity costs are going through the roof. “How much more can you burden the people with?”
When city councilors deliberated, they said the issue is not being rushed and that it is believed that less than 7% of the city’s residents use the transfer station.
Councilor Nick Koloski said he was happy to see the high turnout at the meeting, and lamented he wished the city’s budget hearing had this kind of turnout.
“I would love to see more of this all this time. This is community,’ he said.
Assistant Mayor Deb Matteau said an ad hoc committee looked at the issue for many years.
She added that the city would only sign a “carefully worded contract” to protect the city’s interests with provisions to allow the city to withdraw if it doesn’t work.
She also spoke directly to the residents who didn’t think the savings would be worth it to the city.
“You can fill a lot of potholes with $100,000,” she said. | https://www.unionleader.com/news/local/claremont-makes-move-to-privatize-dump/article_e971d1c0-847d-5269-a893-74914b7b36ea.html | 2022-07-20T01:27:47 | 0 | https://www.unionleader.com/news/local/claremont-makes-move-to-privatize-dump/article_e971d1c0-847d-5269-a893-74914b7b36ea.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Chef Daniel Brophy might be gone, but his former students are ensuring his culinary taste and recipes will never be forgotten.
The students who were enrolled in the last class an Oregon Culinary Institute instructor Daniel Brophy taught before he was murdered are hosting a fundraising dinner to support victims of domestic violence.
Brophy was murdered by his wife, Nancy Crampton Brophy, inside the Oregon Culinary Institute in Portland on June 2, 2018. Crampton Brophy was convicted of second-degree murder on May 25, 2022 and sentenced to life in prison.
In her trial, several of Brophy’s former students testified saying how much they admired him and respected him as a teacher.
The dinner the former students are hosting will take place Saturday, August 27 at Alumbra Cellars in Dayton.
The five-course meal features oysters, foraged mushroom risotto, herbed steelhead salmon and more.
Tickets to attend the event cost $110.
On the Eventbrite page where guests can purchase tickets, organizers say, “Our menu was inspired by Chef Brophy’s recipes, instructions and personal memories made with him!”
All proceeds from the event will benefit a non-profit organization that benefits victims of domestic violence in Multnomah County. | https://www.koin.com/local/former-students-hold-fundraiser-meal-to-honor-chef-daniel-brophy/ | 2022-07-20T01:37:41 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/former-students-hold-fundraiser-meal-to-honor-chef-daniel-brophy/ |
Independent congressional candidate Nathan Gotsch announced a new addition to his campaign Tuesday: Christopher Thrasher.
Thrasher has experience as a senior staffer on multiple independent or third-party presidential campaigns, including as campaign manager for former Rhode Island Governor and Senator Lincoln Chafee’s 2020 run.
Now, Thrasher will fill that same role for Gotsch as he seeks to unseat Republican incumbent Rep. Jim Banks in the 3rd Congressional District.
“I’ve made this my life’s work, and I am thrilled to work with a candidate as well-suited as Nathan,” Thrasher said in a statement. “The voters of northeast Indiana deserve a representative who is willing to find real solutions to the problems we face, regardless of party affiliation. Nathan has demonstrated a commitment to doing exactly that, and I am looking forward to working with him on the campaign trail.”
According to the campaign, Thrasher has been in the area since April, helping to gather signatures.
A company Thrasher co-owns, Ballot Access Marketing, received more than $64,000 from Gotsch’s campaign according to finance reports filed with the Federal Election Commission.
Thrasher said that while the cost for the signature drive to get Gotsch on November’s ballot was not cheap, the amount charged by Ballot Access Marketing was below the market rate for similar efforts during the same time period “because of how strong the candidate is.”
Gotsch said in a statement that he’s honored Thrasher joined the campaign and that it’s a sign of the campaign’s momentum.
Although Thrasher has been involved with Libertarian candidates and groups in the past, he said he prefers working for independent candidates as he doesn’t want to be “hamstrung by ideology.”
“There is only one way to change the partisan paradigm that has held our nation hostage for far too long,” Thrasher said, “and that is to elect capable and talented Independent candidates like Nathan to office.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/independent-candidate-gotsch-hires-campaign-manager/article_31a72410-07a2-11ed-848c-979e1c8e92eb.html | 2022-07-20T01:41:08 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/independent-candidate-gotsch-hires-campaign-manager/article_31a72410-07a2-11ed-848c-979e1c8e92eb.html |
Fort Wayne police arrested eight people during this year's Three Rivers Festival – the largest number since 2009.
The data is in a report police send annually to organizers, generally the week after the festival ends.
While the numbers are up, some charges stemmed from one incident at the festival, an altercation July 9 at the food court, Deputy Chief Martin Bender said Tuesday. In that incident, a man with an unlawful gun pistol-whipped another man who also had access to a gun, police said. Another man also was involved.
Police counted 16 charges among the eight people. The charges include one for public intoxication, two for possession of marijuana, two for physically resisting arrest, and three each for unlawful carrying of a firearm, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest by fleeing on foot. One charge of battery and violation of a bench warrant were related to the July 9 incident, Bender said.
One of those involved in the altercation, Kristofer L. Acuff was charged with carrying a handgun with a prior felony conviction, a felony, on Thursday.
Another person, whom police said was involved in the altercation, also was charged with a felony firearms offense. That charge was dropped, online court records say.
One death was connected to a call to the festival, police reported. A 75-year-old woman fell and hit her head on a curb during the event’s first weekend, police said.
“She was on blood thinners, and passed later that day from an internal bleed,” according to the Allen County Coroner’s office, the festival’s police report says.
The largest number of festival arrests since 2000, 16, came in 2006. Fewer than 10 arrests have occurred every year since 2009, the report says.
In each of the first two years of the festival, 1994 and 1995, more than 40 arrests were made, the festival's police report says. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/fort-wayne-police-arrest-8-during-three-rivers-festival/article_381ce1a0-0779-11ed-81dc-2f3044c92bf6.html | 2022-07-20T01:41:15 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/fort-wayne-police-arrest-8-during-three-rivers-festival/article_381ce1a0-0779-11ed-81dc-2f3044c92bf6.html |
HAZLETON, Pa. — Tee time was noon on Tuesday at the Valley Country Club in Sugarloaf Township for Joe Maddon's annual 'try Not to Suck in The Valley' golf tournament, all to raise money for his Respect 90 Foundation and the Hazleton Integration Project.
"This is the vision that Jay and I and Bob and Elaine had in 2010. We knew there was a great disconnect in the city, the community at that time. So we did we established HIP; it became the Hazleton One Community Center with the thought that eventually we would be able to help a bunch of young people," said Joe Maddon, Former MLB Manager, Hazleton native.
Some of whom met with Joe on Tuesday and told Newswatch 16 what the Hazleton One Community Center has done for them.
"It has been since, well, since I came to the United States four years ago, and I feel like the community center, and ever since I've been there, I feel more included in the community, and has helped me develop more as a person as a human being and has like opened a lot of doors for me as well," said Yamile Nader, Hazleton.
"It's something I hope to look for my entire life, and having that second family just to look up to me and believe me, it's something any kid could have," said Richermy Batista, Hazleton.
Joe Maddon was recently let go from his position as the manager of the Los Angeles Angels, so he's back in Luzerne County now and says he will continue his efforts for charity.
"Of course, yes, absolutely. Those I want, we wanted to remain in constant," said Maddon.
And it's something he's known for in the baseball community more so than any disagreements he's had on the field.
"Just to support all the programs that they have for the kids in the in the community here, and I've been through the community center. It's really cool. There's a lot of great stuff and great opportunities for kids that wouldn't be there. If Joe wasn't involved. So it's really nice to see," said Lindsay Berra, granddaughter of Yogi Berra.
Because Joe is not managing right now, he tells Newswatch 16 that he has to come up with creative ways to raise money for the foundation, like selling a family recipe and other things.
"Bob has been able to secure some good money through grants, that is absolutely vital to our existence there. So that's that's been going well. He's done a great job with that," said Maddon.
If you want to learn more about ways you can support the Respect 90 Foundation and the Hazleton Integration Project, head to their website by clicking here.
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- In the now viral video posted Saturday on the mother’s Instagram account, two young girls are seen excitedly reaching out to a character at Sesame Place. The character is seen shaking their head “no” in the direction of the two young Black girls before walking by.
- Sesame Place issued a new statement Monday, promising to improve training for performers who wear the muppet outfits at the theme park in Bucks County, Pa.
- Other videos have surfaced on social media of people claiming similar experiences at the theme park.
A day after the mother of two young Black girls called out Sesame Place in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, for an incident over the weekend in which a character at the theme park appeared to deny and pass by her girls, an attorney for the family said the event has had a devastating effect on them.
"Their hearts were completely shattered by a character," attorney B'Ivory LaMarr told NBC10 in an interview Tuesday. "And tickets are not cheap. This is something these young girls were looking forward to. Words can't describe the type of grief they are going through right now."
In the now viral video posted Saturday on the mother’s Instagram account, two young girls are seen excitedly reaching out to the character Rosita, the first bilingual muppet on Sesame Street. Although it appears that the performer had interacted with other children before reaching the girls, the video seems to show the character shaking their head “no” in the direction of the two young Black girls.
“We were on our way out of sesame place and the kids wanted to stop to see the characters,” the mom wrote on Instagram. “THIS DISGUSTING person blatantly told our kids NO then proceeded to hug the little white girl next to us!”
In response, Sesame Place Philadelphia said in a statement on Instagram Sunday that it the performer did not direct the "no" hand gesture, which was used more than once in the video, toward “any specific person,” but was instead gesturing that way in “response to multiple requests from someone in the crowd who asked Rosita to hold their child for a photo which is not permitted.” It added that the performer "is devastated about the misunderstanding" and noted the costumes its performers wear “sometimes make it difficult to see at lower levels” and that sometimes “performers miss hug requests from guests."
In another statement released Monday, the theme park said "we are committed to making this right. We will conduct training for our employees so they better understand, recognize and deliver an inclusive, equitable and entertaining experience to our guests.”
The family said Tuesday that Sesame Place took a report at the time of the incident and told them that an investigation would be conducted. But they have not heard back from the theme park since the weekend.
Their attorney, LaMarr, said a lawsuit is possible. Other videos have surfaced on social media claiming similar incidents at Sesame Place in the past.
"We never bought the story that was told by Sesame Place, and I don’t think the world bought that explanation either," LaMarr said. "So it was not surprising to see substantial videos flourish to substantiate the allegations that are made in this case."
NBC News contributed writing to this report. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/girls-snubbed-at-sesame-place-completely-shattered-family-attorney-says/3304655/ | 2022-07-20T01:44:15 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/girls-snubbed-at-sesame-place-completely-shattered-family-attorney-says/3304655/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Kingsport city leaders approved a proposal to align beer sale hours with the sale of wine.
A resolution and ordinance passed in separate 5–1 votes Tuesday evening, with Alderman Paul Montgomery voting against both measures and Alderman James Phillips absent from the meeting.
The measure would allow beer sales to begin at 10 a.m. on Sundays, the same time that grocery stores can begin selling wine under state law. Currently, beer can’t be purchased between 3 a.m. and noon on Sundays in the city.
City Manager Chris McCartt said extending the hours will add consistency and reduce confusion for sales associates and citizens.
City officials also say it will make beer sales in the city more comparable with surrounding municipalities.
The ordinance will have to be approved on second reading at the board’s next meeting in order to be finalized. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kingsport-bma-looking-to-align-beer-sale-hours-with-wine-hours/ | 2022-07-20T01:47:33 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/kingsport-bma-looking-to-align-beer-sale-hours-with-wine-hours/ |
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Vancouver's new police chief is about three weeks into the job and knows he has a complex mission ahead.
"I feel very humbled and blessed I was selected," Chief Jeff Mori said.
Mori was assistant chief at the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) for about three years. He served the Washington County Sheriff's Office before that for nearly three decades and was undersheriff for several years.
Mori was selected in a highly competitive process and was thankful his existing knowledge of VPD gave him an edge. He hopes to evolve the department's culture toward constant improvement.
"[To] never believe we're the best or the greatest at what we do," Mori said. "We chase it, we relentlessly pursue it. We want to be the very best versions of ourselves that we can be."
Sworn in June 30, Mori noted several main goals ahead. In the short term, that includes hiring for nearly 30 VPD positions.
"It is very difficult to attract people into this vocation," Mori explained. "If you're willing to lead with compassion and empathy as the first arrow in your quiver, I have a job for you here."
VPD is offering $10,000 hiring bonuses to police recruits without experience and $25,000 to experienced law enforcement professionals who choose to join.
Another of Mori's goals is to diversity VPD's staff.
Women, for example, make up less than 20% of the force.
"That's unfortunate because more than half our population in Vancouver is female," Mori said. "We need our organization to not only be reflective of our community, but I would ask that our police department is reflective of the greater metropolitan cities of the United States."
Mori is also leaning into his years of developing connections with local community organizations.
"One of the first organizations I joined in 2019 when I came to Vancouver was the Vancouver chapter of the NAACP," Mori said.
He is also connected with LULAC and leaders of the Sikh religion.
"We have hired our first Sikh officer," Mori said.
The goal is not simply to recruit and diversify.
Mori acknowledged many marginalized communities, often disproportionately impacted by crime, have felt negative impacts from policing as well. He hopes building positive relationships across all communities in Vancouver can help when it matters most.
"When [police] show up at a scene with a gun and a badge, the inherent power differential that takes place is so prevalent," Mori said. "All the crimes that are happening right now, somebody knows who did them. We just need to develop that trust now to let people know that they can come forward to us and they'll trust us to do the right thing, be equitable and compassionate and make our community safer."
Police transparency is part of that plan. Mori said the department is currently testing body cameras in the field. Most VPD officers will likely be wearing cameras by the end of the year.
Mori is taking over VPD during a tumultuous year for the department.
In January, VPD lost Officer Donald Sahota, who was accidentally shot and killed by a Clark County deputy who thought he was stopping a dangerous suspect. It was VPD's first officer lost in the line of duty.
"To lose an officer like that, it changes you, it changes the organization," Mori said. "And even talking about it now I feel pretty emotional about it ... Makes us all realize we're human beings as well, and we're not these monolithic, unemotional people."
Ultimately, through the challenges and changes, Mori hopes to foster a culture of accountability, community and growth to his department.
"I want the best people from anywhere in the United States to come work for the Vancouver Police Department," Mori said. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/new-vancouver-police-chief-hiring-30-positions/283-a709f9d1-ea8e-46c1-ac52-903e85143e6f | 2022-07-20T01:48:34 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/new-vancouver-police-chief-hiring-30-positions/283-a709f9d1-ea8e-46c1-ac52-903e85143e6f |
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis family wants answers after someone hit and killed 3-year-old Jyrie Mathews.
It happened in the parking lot of Clearwater Village Shopping Center off 82nd Street around 7:30 p.m. Monday.
"They just hit my baby and they just kept going. They didn't even stop," said Lakiea Murry, Jyrie's mother. "I looked up and the last thing I saw was a white SUV that was heading towards DSW."
Murry said that evening her car began overheating. She pulled into the near-empty shopping center and parked in a parking space away from the stores.
Jyrie was in the backseat.
"I was going to wait a little while longer to put antifreeze in there," said Murry. "I got in the car and then he got his ball and then he dribbled his ball behind the car. Then when I didn't hear the ball bouncing no more, I got out of the car and I was calling his name. Then I just saw him laying there."
Murry said a car entered the parking lot, hit her son and drove away. She said she called 911 and performed CPR on Jyrie until paramedics arrived.
"I asked if I could ride in the ambulance to the hospital and they told me I couldn't. They didn't give me no reason," said Murry.
Murry said a police officer gave her a ride to the hospital.
"She said, 'Before you get in my car, I have to search you,'" said Murry. "So, she patted me down. I said, 'That's fine, you can pat me down, but what is that for? Protocol or something?' She said, 'Yeah.'"
Murry said Jyrie was pronounced dead at the hospital.
The family is hoping surveillance video from nearby businesses leads them closer to finding the driver responsible.
"I just feel like people need to slow down, pay more attention and stop," said Murry.
Murry says Jyrie loved basketball.
"He would always have a basketball with him," said Murry. "The car is filled with basketballs, the inside of the car, the trunk, that's all he loved is basketball."
Murry has this message to the driver.
"I believe that it was an accident, but at the same time, I still want the person to know you hit my son and he was only 3 years old, and he loved basketball and I just believe he had a long life to live," said Murry.
IMPD is asking anyone with information to call 317-262-TIPS.
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CLINTON COUNTY, Ind. — Police said three people were taken to hospitals after the driver of a pickup truck drove into the path of a train in Clinton County.
It happened just before 4 p.m. Tuesday at a Norfolk Southern crossing on County Road 750 West near Gas Line road.
The sheriff's department said their preliminary investigation indicated that "a blue 2006 Ford pickup truck, driven by Lora Elston, 65, of Battleground was traveling northbound and, for an unknown reason, entered into the path of an westbound train."
A girl, 7, was taken by helicopter to an Indianapolis hospital. Elston and a 7-year-old boy both were transported to a Lafayette hospital. Police didn't share information about the extent of injuries or conditions.
An investigation is ongoing.
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BRISTOL — The Village Board and the Community Development Authority voted unanimously to sell nearly 60 acres of land to an affiliate of Hard Rock International for about $15 million Tuesday evening.
The vote came after a nearly 2-hour meeting at the Municipal Building, 19801 83rd St., that at times became contentious between area residents in support or against the sale to Kenosha Landco LLC, which has the same Davie, Florida address as Hard Rock International.
Kenosha Landco LLC can now purchase nearly 59.91 acres of land located southwest of Interstate 94 and 60th Street from the village for $15,213,221.
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. Any approvals for development on the land must come through the City of Kenosha because the land is located in city limits.
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Bristol Village Administrator Randall Kerkman said the village has been marketing the land for years and Kenosha Landco LLC made the highest offer.
"I think it's a great thing for the taxpayers if the sale goes through for $15.3 million," Village Trustee John McCabe told the Kenosha News after the vote. "We could do a lot of good with that."
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.
This is a developing story. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/update-bristol-village-board-votes-to-sell-60-acres-of-land-to-affiliate-of-hard/article_3b6bd744-07c4-11ed-a3a1-c74a93375167.html | 2022-07-20T01:54:29 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/update-bristol-village-board-votes-to-sell-60-acres-of-land-to-affiliate-of-hard/article_3b6bd744-07c4-11ed-a3a1-c74a93375167.html |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The “Respect for Marriage Act,” a bill aimed at federally codifying same-sex marriages, passed the House of Representatives Tuesday in a vote of 267-157.
The bipartisan bill is set to repeal and replace current federal provisions in the “Defense of Marriage Act” defining marriage as between a man and a woman, instead recognizing any marriage as valid under state law.
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The current provisions for marriages were ruled unconstitutional in the 2013 Supreme Court case United States v. Windsor, though federal lawmakers are attempting to codify the issue to ensure states do not have the power to regulate it.
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer retweeted a statement by the United States Conference of Mayors in response to the passage.
Full Statement by U.S. Conference of Mayors' LGBTQ Alliance Chair @MayorToddGloria and CEO and Executive Director @tcochran_mayors on the House's passage of the Respect for Marriage Act, which would enshrine federal protections for same-sex and interracial marriages into law. pic.twitter.com/Os91UPgCVa
— U.S. Mayors (@usmayors) July 19, 2022
The bill is headed to the Senate where it will require a majority of votes to pass. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/house-passes-bipartisan-bill-to-federally-codify-same-sex-marriages/ | 2022-07-20T01:56:01 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/house-passes-bipartisan-bill-to-federally-codify-same-sex-marriages/ |
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – A man performing landscaping work in a New Smyrna Beach neighborhood was sent to the hospital Tuesday after being struck by lightning, according to the New Smyrna Beach Fire Department.
One of the neighbors, Mary Baluta, told News 6 she heard a loud storm outside after returning to her home on Middlebury Loop Tuesday. According to Baluta, there were two landscapers working for the neighborhood association outside on the lawn.
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However, Baluta said a palm tree caught fire near her backyard during the storm.
“I came out here, and the two guys were in my driveway, and I said, ‘Are you OK?’” Baluta said. “And they go, ‘Yeah, but look.’ And they were showing me the palm trees on fire. I said, ‘OK, I’ll call 911.’”
Moments later, Baluta told News 6, one of the workers — the man whom fire officials said was hit by a lightning strike — fell to the ground.
“I called for the fire truck, and then the next thing was, ‘Please get an ambulance here because they are doing CPR on him; He’s out,’” Baluta said.
She added that neighbors rushed to the scene to help the man following the lightning strike.
“I don’t know who they were,” Baluta explained. “But people were coming out of the woodwork, and the one guy, I don’t know who he was, he was doing CPR on him.”
Baluta said she’s lived in her New Smyrna Beach home since the late 1990s and experienced some of the worst storms Florida had to offer. She told News 6 Tuesday evening’s storm was severe.
“Intense, yeah, big bolts of lightning all over,” she said. “It was horrible.”
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – NASA announced Tuesday it has awarded SpaceX a contract to provide launch service for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, named after Dr. Nancy Roman — an astronomer whose work with NASA paved the way for large telescopes.
According to the space agency, the telescope is part of a top-priority space program that will include investigations into outstanding questions about cosmology, such as the effects of dark matter and exoplanet exploration.
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NASA leaders said the launch will cost around $255 million.
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PHOENIX — Heat-associated deaths in Arizona’s largest county have hit a half-year record as more homeless people live unprotected outdoors in the arid desert city while summer temperatures soar well into triple digits.
The most recent data from the Maricopa County Department of Health shows 17 heat associated fatalities were registered this year through the first week of July, with another 126 under investigation. About two-thirds of the deaths involved people who were outdoors.
Other cities around the U.S. and the world are also sweating through earlier, more intense and longer lasting heat waves that scientists blame on global warning. Record high temperatures currently grip Europe, with London officials asking people to stay home and wildfires raging in Spain, France and elsewhere.
In Arizona's Maricopa County, the number of heat associated deaths reported during the first half are far greater those recorded during the same period in past years. There were 11 such fatalities in the first six months of 2021 with 107 more under investigation; four during that period in 2020 with another 48 under investigation; and three in 2019 with 27 more under investigation.
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The health department reported 339 heat-associated deaths in Maricopa County for all of 2021.
The county's latest data come amid a surge in the number of homeless people living on the streets in greater Phoenix as temperatures average about 112 degrees.
More than 1,000 unhoused people currently sleep in tents in downtown Phoenix, in addition to the hundreds who fill emergency shelters nearby.
In an effort to prevent more heat associated deaths, Phoenix and Maricopa County joined local nonprofits this year to outfit a summertime shelter with 200 beds in an unused government building east of downtown.
Landscapers, construction workers and others who labor outside are also vulnerable to the intense summer heat.
A homeowner in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale late last week widely shared a video from his door camera of a delivery driver who appeared to be overcome Thursday by the heat as he briefly collapsed on the porch. The high hit 110 degrees that day. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/heat-deaths-in-largest-az-county-hit-half-year-record/article_f9b5b818-07b6-11ed-aacb-a3c8f4c4498a.html | 2022-07-20T01:59:38 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/heat-deaths-in-largest-az-county-hit-half-year-record/article_f9b5b818-07b6-11ed-aacb-a3c8f4c4498a.html |
PIKE COUNTY, KY (WOWK) — A man is dead after being hit by a truck that crossed the center line on Elkhorn Creek in Elkhorn City on Saturday.
The Kentucky State Police says the KSP Pikeville Post got a call about the fatal two-vehicle crash on Saturday just before 9:30 p.m.
They say a truck had crossed over into the other lane on Elkhorn Creek when it hit a car being driven by 44-year-old Pikeville resident James Kelly.
Kelly was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Kentucky State Police Post 9, the Elkhorn City Volunteer Fire Department, Lifeguard Ambulance Service and KSP Accident Reconstructionist Detective Mark Branham all responded to the scrash.
This is an ongoing investigation. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/one-dead-after-crash-in-pike-county-kentucky/ | 2022-07-20T02:08:43 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/one-dead-after-crash-in-pike-county-kentucky/ |
Demand for air conditioners and fans has been increasing with the temperatures.
"Working out in this heat, it's just terrible," Larry Traylor said.
Traylor manages Elliott's Hardware in Mesquite. He says the hot weather led to some hot items in his store; including AC units, baby pools and fans.
"Don't expect the AC unit to take care of everything," Traylor cautioned. "A lot of people are putting their air conditioner at 65 expecting it to get to 65, and that's not going to happen. So turn your air on, get supplemental fans so if your house is too hot, you can get the air moving."
Traylor said soaker hoses are also a big seller, adding they're helping to keep the hot dry ground moist to protect your home's foundation.
Some families who don't have the option of running to the store to buy an AC unit are getting help from Dallas County Health and Human Services Weatherization Assistance Program. In the past two weeks, HHS technicians have installed more than 100 free AC units in low-income homes.
"It felt like 106 degrees in here," Samayah Stephens said as a technician installed a window AC unit. "I'll sleep well tonight!"
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It's more than just comfort, extreme heat can be dangerous.
"I've visited homes where the temperature inside the apartment was over 120 degrees," Dallas County Health and Human Services Public Information Officer Christian Grisales said. "I mean, it's terrible! Imagine an elderly person, families with small children living in those conditions. It's terrible."
Grisales said Dallas County HHS Weatherization Assistance Program is able to get AC units to low-income homes that qualify within about 48 hours.
If you live in Dallas County and are in need of air conditioning assistance call 214-819-1976, or click here for an application form. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/north-texans-prepare-to-battle-extreme-heat/3018661/ | 2022-07-20T02:11:21 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/north-texans-prepare-to-battle-extreme-heat/3018661/ |
BREMEN, Ga. — A Georgia family is holding onto hope their young son will survive after nearly drowning.
They're sharing their story to urge other parents to make sure they know how to do CPR. The family told 11Alive's Kaitlyn Ross that’s the only reason their two-year-old son Briggs has a fighting chance.
Briggs' father Josh is a firefighter in Bremen, Georgia. He was the one who pulled the boy from the water and immediately started doing CPR.
They don’t know how long Briggs was in the water – but they’re praying he pulls through.
"You can hear his laugh in a crowd of a thousand people," family friend and fellow Bremen firefighter Daniel Norton said. "He's got little blonde hair, he's a little fella."
Briggs may be small, but he has a huge group of people pulling for him after he nearly drowned at his family's lake home Sunday.
"Things looked pretty grim in the beginning, and then he got stable, his breathing got stable, his brain activity got better, they had him on some sedatives to keep him calm and let his little body heal," Norton said.
It was Josh who found his son after the boy wandered off while they were packing up to go home.
"He saw his shirt in the water, so Josh dove in and snatched him out and got him on the dock and started doing CPR on him," Norton said.
Josh continued to do CPR on Briggs for 30 minutes while waiting for a medical helicopter to arrive, Norton said.
"Josh was able to get a heartbeat back on Briggs, but he wasn't breathing very good," he said.
Norton said the only reason Briggs' has a chance now is because of his dad’s quick action.
He thinks it's vital for parents to know water safety and CPR for their own kids.
"A lot of the success stories come from immediate CPR and immediate defibrillation and that's what Josh did. It's so important to know what to do." Norton said.
Norton said that only time can tell what will happen next.
"As time progresses, a trauma like that can have crazy effects, and it's typical for their brain to swell, it's just how much it swells and when it stops," he said.
The family has a consultation with a doctor who specializes in drowning victims Wednesday – they're hoping that doctor might have some hope for how to save their son. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-firefighter-rescues-son-drowning/85-dca869e6-6c0b-47ff-853f-e6cf1070471f | 2022-07-20T02:11:35 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/georgia-firefighter-rescues-son-drowning/85-dca869e6-6c0b-47ff-853f-e6cf1070471f |
ATLANTA — A fire broke out in the attic of a church along Howell Mill Road Tuesday evening.
Firefighters responded to a fire at Trinity Presbyterian Church at 3003 Howell Mill Road in northwest Atlanta shortly after 5 p.m.
The pastor of the church believes the roof was hit by lightning, causing it to spark a fire.
Atlanta Fire Rescue said firefighters arrived at the church within four minutes and saw that there was smoke coming from the church's gymnasium.
"All occupants were evacuated from the building during the offensive rescue mode of the incident's operation," Atlanta Fire Rescue said.
Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the flames by cutting a hold in the roof to expose the fire that was between the building's plywood and metal roof decking. The fire was contained to the attic and the roof of the church, according to Atlanta Fire Rescue.
There are no reports of injuries and the cause of the fire is under investigation, officials said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/trinity-presbyterian-church-attic-fire-howell-mill-rd/85-b4d295bf-5a5f-46de-b125-0a9369e152c2 | 2022-07-20T02:11:42 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/trinity-presbyterian-church-attic-fire-howell-mill-rd/85-b4d295bf-5a5f-46de-b125-0a9369e152c2 |
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- A 31-year-old parking enforcement worker was shot to death on the Brooklyn set of "Law and Order: Organized Crime" on Tuesday by a gunman who abruptly opened his car door and then opened fire, authorities say.
- Johnny Pizarro was sitting in a car on North Henry Street in Greenpoint around 5:15 a.m. when cops say someone opened the door and fired a gun, striking him in them head and neck, police said.
- Three law enforcement sources said that Pizarro may have been dealing marijuana out of his vehicle, and investigators are lookin into whether the shooting was targeted or possible a drug-related robbery attempt
A 31-year-old man shot to death on the Brooklyn set of "Law and Order: Organized Crime" may have been dealing marijuana out of his car, according to three senior law enforcement sources, as police continue to investigate the motive for the deadly shooting.
Johnny Pizarro was sitting in a car on North Henry Street in Greenpoint around 5:15 a.m. when cops say someone abruptly opened the door of his red sedan and fired a gun several times, striking him in them head and neck, police said. He was pronounced dead at NYC Health + Hospitals / Woodhull within the hour.
Investigators are looking into whether Pizarro was targeted or if it possibly was a drug-related robbery attempt, the senior law enforcement sources said. There was said to be a stash of marijuana in a cooler found inside the car, and Pizarro may have shared information about his location online, according to the sources.
One official said the cooler in the car was "Law & Order"-themed.
The NYPD previously confirmed Pizarro, a father of six, was hired as an outside agent to clear and save parking spaces for trucks associated with the show. He was shot 45 minutes before the show was scheduled to film on the block. No arrests have been made.
No other injuries were reported. It wasn't clear if the killer, who police said was wearing a dark-colored hoodie and black pants, knew his victim.
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Some who live in the area said it was difficult at first to realize that it was a real crime scene, instead of one staged for the show. Neighbors say that shows frequently film in the area and that they are used to the activity, even though people sometimes have arguments about parking, unhappy with the number of spots production teams take. But they don’t think anyone would be upset enough to kill.
An NBC and Universal Television spokesperson issued a statement condemning the violence.
"We were terribly saddened and shocked to hear that one of our crew members was the victim of a crime early this morning and has died as a result," the spokesperson said. "We are working with local law enforcement as they continue to investigate. Our hearts go out to his family and friends and we ask that you respect their privacy during this time."
Cops say they're looking for a man with a thin build who was last seen fleeing the area in a black hooded sweatshirt and black pants. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Disclaimer: NBC and Universal Television are owned by Comcast's NBCUniversal LLC, the parent company of this station. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/worker-shot-to-death-on-law-order-set-in-nyc-may-have-been-dealing-weed-from-car-sources/3781725/ | 2022-07-20T02:14:11 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/worker-shot-to-death-on-law-order-set-in-nyc-may-have-been-dealing-weed-from-car-sources/3781725/ |
Indiana landed $99.1 million to invest in small businesses and startups.
The Hoosier State will get the $99.1 million in federal funds through the State Small Business Credit Initiative.
The State Small Business Credit Initiative is meant to improve access to capital for entrepreneurs and the owners of startups and small businesses all across Indiana, as well as to spark more private investment in such entities.
“As a state, Indiana is strategically focused on creating the economy of the future and investing in the jobs of tomorrow and taking Indiana's Top 40 Global Entrepreneurship Ecosystem to a Top 5 Ecosystem is an essential goal of that initiative,” said Indiana Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers.
“This SSBCI award will inject critical funding and resources into our ecosystem of current and future entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses who are solving global challenges, creating new technologies, and positively impacting Hoosier communities statewide,” Chambers said.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury picked Indiana as one of the first 14 states for this round of funding for a program first created in 2010 and then funded by The American Rescue Plan Act.
The state will get at least $86 million in federal funding and up to an additional $13 million if it meets all the targets set for it.
An estimated 37% of the federal funds will go toward underserved small businesses to encourage more equity in access to capital.
The program aims to leverage $10 in follow-up private investment for every $1 of federal funds so as to provide entrepreneurs and the owners of startups the capital they need to grow, scale up and expand their operations.
Indiana plans to spend about $70 million by investing directly in early-revenue startups through its venture development partner Elevate Ventures.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation said it will "significantly expand Indiana’s ability to support pre-seed and seed funding rounds, increasing access to working capital for innovators, entrepreneurs and startups."
Indiana-based startup companies such as in tech or biotech will be able to seek the federal funds as seed stage financing before bringing products to market, such as when getting ready for clinical trials or the regulatory approval process.
The Indiana Economic Development Corporation also plans to create a new small business loan fund investment program.
Entrepreneurs and the owners of small businesses, especially those that have been historically underserved, can get a portion of their loans for debt capital purchased by the Indiana Economic Development Corporation.
Any remaining funds will go toward administrative costs to support entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses across the state.
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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.
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.
The longtime professor of entrepreneurship at Purdue University Northwest's College of Business founded The Big Sell entrepreneurial contest and long ran the Center for Entrepreneurship Success in Hammond until Purdue Northwest sold the property it was housed out of on 169th Street in 2016. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/state-lands-99-1-million-for-small-businesses-and-startups/article_5052438a-9d33-5898-a666-a65501386674.html | 2022-07-20T02:17:48 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/state-lands-99-1-million-for-small-businesses-and-startups/article_5052438a-9d33-5898-a666-a65501386674.html |
TEMPLE, Texas — The fiery trend that is burning houses and fields around Central Texas can come to an end around the area if residents start helping out, officials said.
Officials added that human error is the route to most of the wildfire we are seeing today. When people barbeque or drive their car over tall grass, they risk starting a fire.
"If you're going to be doing something outside or you're going to be working, ranching or anything, making sure you have a way of communication," Kari Hines, an official with the Central Texas A&M Forestry Service said. "And carry something to put out just a few little embers before it does turn into a larger wildfire is important."
Kirk Turner, an official with Bosque County Emergency Management, said fireworks and controlled burns aren't the route cause of fires in their area. He said it's the simple mistakes that turn into acres of damage.
"We're seeing a lot of what we call road starts, where a fire starts at the side of a road," Turner added. "And usually that is because someone has discarded a cigarette or someone is dragging a trailer and that's dragging chains."
Turner said the constant wildfires are leaving volunteer firefighters in Bosque County strained. In only a matter of a few hours Tuesday, crews were called out to at least two fires.
This is why the county is bringing back an emergency response program, calling for community support.
It's called C-E-R-T, which stands for Community Emergency Response Team.
"They can be trained on things to help a search and rescue in disaster and all sorts of stuff like that," Turner said.
The next meeting to get involved will be next Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Office of Emergency Management building in Bosque County.
The Central Texas A&M Forestry Service says conditions right now are perfect for wildfires, so your best bet is to practice fire safety.
Hines said if you see someone barbequing, welding or not using safe fire hazard practices outside, to immediately call 911.
"If you do see a fire, say on the side of the road, you could try to put it out yourself before it gets too big," she said. "But if it gets out of hand, evacuate the area and call for help right away."
Hines added that the Forestry service provides public information on wildfire education and prevention, along with wildfire preparedness classes. They also have videos on how homeowners can be more prepared for wildfires.
The National Forest Service also has more information on how to make your home wildfire defensible. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/human-error-wildfires-you-can-stop-them/500-e5b18528-041d-46a7-ad37-43ef3fa7cb1e | 2022-07-20T02:19:24 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/human-error-wildfires-you-can-stop-them/500-e5b18528-041d-46a7-ad37-43ef3fa7cb1e |
INDEPENDENCE – Brad Bleichner has been elected the new mayor of Independence.
According to unofficial results released by the Buchanan County Auditor’s Office on Tuesday evening, he received 72.7% of the votes and beat two other candidates in the special mayoral election meant to fill the vacancy created by the death of Mayor Robert “Bob” Hill in April.
“I am honored to have been elected as your next mayor of Independence,” he said in a statement on his campaign Facebook page. “Thank you to all who worked so hard and those who have given me the opportunity to serve our community. I hope to continue Bob Hill’s legacy and provide an environment where Independence can thrive. Bob had the city moving in a positive direction, and I intend to keep us moving forward.”
Bleichner is a member of the Independence Board of Education and the Planning and Zoning Commission.
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He moved to the city in 2015 from southern California, according to an online biography. Professionally, he’s been a civil trial attorney and is currently “of counsel” to a Los Angeles-based law firm.
The other candidates were Denny Vaughn, a former city councilman who is now retired, and Nathan Hansen, a retail management professional with more than 25 years of experience.
Bleichner received 498 votes while Hansen and Vaughn received 140 and 45, respectively. Two write-in votes were cast.
According to the city clerk’s office, the oath of office will be administered either at the July 25 or Aug. 8 council meeting.
The winner will serve until Dec. 31, 2025, the end of Hill’s term.
Hill took office as mayor in January and previously has served on the City Council for 14 years. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/bleichner-elected-independences-new-mayor-in-landslide-victory/article_84be24bb-2dad-5075-86f3-2359cc60a1bd.html | 2022-07-20T02:21:48 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/bleichner-elected-independences-new-mayor-in-landslide-victory/article_84be24bb-2dad-5075-86f3-2359cc60a1bd.html |
PEORIA, Ariz. — Editor's Note: The above video is from an earlier broadcast.
The Arizona Supreme Court has sided with a Peoria mother who has taken legal action against the city for not placing a crosswalk where her 12-year-old son was fatally hit by a vehicle in 2018.
Kizzen James sued the city after her son, Isaiah McGinnis, was killed while walking home from school near 77th and Peoria avenues.
"There’s other children who live in that area that do cross that street every single day,” James told 12News in 2018.
But the mother's lawsuit was dismissed in Maricopa County Superior Court over what appears to be a technicality.
In an opinion released Monday, the high court reversed the decision to dismiss James' lawsuit and remanded the case back to the lower courts for further proceedings.
The legal issue revolved around how much time James gave the city to initially respond to her notice of claim, which is a document plaintiffs serve before filing a lawsuit in court.
James stated in the claim that the city had 30 days to respond, but Arizona law actually gives defendants 60 days to issue a response. That discrepancy resulted in the lower courts siding with the city to dismiss James' lawsuit.
The Arizona Supreme Court decided the 30-day deadline stated in the claim was irrelevant since plaintiffs don't have the power to impose their own deadlines.
"Because James did not have the statutory or other legal authority to impose a shorter time for the City to respond, her attempt in the notice of claim to shorten the sixty-day deadline to thirty days had no effect," the opinion states.
The justices additionally highlighted how James did not file her lawsuit in court until six months after serving the notice of claim.
"For all these reasons, we conclude that James’ attempt to shorten the City’s statutory sixty-day response deadline in her notice of claim was a legal nullity that did not invalidate her notice of claim," the justices wrote in their opinion.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Six years after calls began for stronger police oversight in Fort Worth, a plan for a citizen oversight board remains in limbo.
In 2016, a Fort Worth mother called police about a neighbor choking her son, but she and her daughters ended up arrested.
Video of the incident went viral, leading to the creation of a Race and Culture Task Force which recommended, among other things, the creation of a citizen oversight board for police.
“It showed the city of Fort Worth that we had somewhat of a racial issue,” councilman Chris Nettles, who has pushed and campaigned for the board, said. “This has to happen. It has to happen, and I have been the loudest voice, the strongest voice that has pushed for this oversight board.”
In January 2020, two years after the task force’s recommendation of a board, the city instead hired Kim Neal, a police monitor, to oversee policies and help handle complaints independently.
“Some areas of the city are much more appreciative of police and they appreciate what they do, and they have a different stance on policing. They have a different perception of policing,” Neal said. “But in other areas of the city, I think folks feel they are being policed more than served by the police.”
Neal’s current focus is creating a voluntary mediation program for police and the community to sit down and discuss encounters.
“It’s something that I strongly believe in,” she said. “Some of my peers across the nation have done it and it has been a great success.”
Mayor Mattie Parker and Chief Neil Noakes declined to talk about the board with WFAA, but last July, Noakes said he didn’t see it as a benefit to the city.
“When we look across the country, what we’ve been seeing, I’ll be quite honest, I haven’t seen a lot of positive results,” Noakes said in 2021. “I don’t know what a positive civilian oversight board would look like here in Fort Worth."
“Civilian review boards have been very successful,” Neal said. “I think it’s important that our community members have that voice. I don’t ever think it’s ineffective. I think that we just continue to make it as sustainable as possible.”
“If we don’t have him working alongside us to make sure we can get the best out of this board, then we still fail as a city,” Nettles said.
Neal brought a plan for a board to council last September, but Nettles felt it didn’t go far enough, while other council members pushed back on ideas like people with a felony record serving on the board.
“I didn’t feel like it was strong enough to really make a difference,” Nettles said. “We don’t want a washed up, a washed down, a washed overboard.”
Since then, Neal says she’s worked with groups to change the plan including ensuring representation from LGBTQ and mental health communities and more.
The strength of trust and the relationship between Fort Worth police and communities of color in the city is again in focus as the trial of former officer Aaron Dean, accused of murdering Atatiana Jefferson in her own home, has been repeatedly delayed with no clear start date currently.
"This shouldn’t be a partisan issue," Nettles said. “This shouldn’t be Republican, Democratic, Independent. It should be what is best for the community.”
Years after the 2016 Fort Worth arrest went viral and as the city watches a long-awaited trial, its leaders will decide if it can support for police while cultivating community trust. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-leaders-continue-push-police-oversight-years-after-recommendation/287-e796c6e1-3c87-4a90-9670-5cfe9f7d6741 | 2022-07-20T02:27:53 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-leaders-continue-push-police-oversight-years-after-recommendation/287-e796c6e1-3c87-4a90-9670-5cfe9f7d6741 |
MIDLAND, Texas —
One person is dead following a barricaded suspect situation that happened in Midland on Friday night.
According to a Midland Police Department spokesperson, officers responded to a shots fired call on St. Andrews court.
A woman was pronounced dead at the scene. A man was transported to the hospital and later released.
An autopsy has been requested from the Dallas County Medical Examiner.
This is all the information we currently have on the situation. We will update this story as more information is released. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/mpd-1-dead-after-barricaded-suspect-incident/513-5371877f-364e-44fa-9e69-485e76e66eae | 2022-07-20T02:27:53 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/mpd-1-dead-after-barricaded-suspect-incident/513-5371877f-364e-44fa-9e69-485e76e66eae |
COLLIN COUNTY, Texas — North Texas was not immune to the record breaking drought conditions of 2011. The effect of the drought was wide-ranging and, to this day, can be used as a reference point for policy decisions.
Woody Woodruff has been in the boat rental business seventeen years at Collin Park Marina at Lake Lavon. He keeps a close eye on the rising and falling lake levels. He remembers the years 2011 and 2006 very well.
"That was the worst I've ever seen it. All this right here was bone-dry," Woody said pointing to the dozens of slips in the Collin Park Marina. Lake Lavon in Collin County had receded so much you could walk onto the dry lakebed.
"We talk about [2011] a lot internally," said Galen Roberts, Assistant Deputy for Water Resources at the North Texas Municipal Water District. "We're three feet higher now than we were in 2011," he said.
Lake Lavon is North Texas Municipal Water District's primary reservoir. The regional wholesale provider saw a huge supply drop in 2011. The average lake level is 484.63 feet, which is 67% of capacity and in 2011 it was 478.75 feet, which is 45% of capacity.
"We were constantly monitoring every lake in the North Texas municipal water system," said Plano City Manager Mark Israelson.
In 2011, Mark was the Director of Policy and Government Relations for the city. He recalls almost weekly meetings to discuss the ever-changing waterscape of nearby reservoirs.
Plano is one of the region's largest water users. Like every city, it had to enforce strict outdoor watering rules -- twice a week, to once a week, to nothing at all. And, like many cities, Plano had to enforce fines for non-compliance. Israelson recalls the city having to get creative with water schedules: Monday and Wednesday for even numbered addresses and Tuesday and Thursday for odd-numbered addresses.
"Nobody knew when it was going to rain again," Mark told WFAA.
Woodruff said Lavon was so low they had to relocate the marina. He recalls the difficult task of removing the metal pilings and installing them several hundred yards over onto another side of the lake.
"They had to move out the marina out into deeper water," said Woodruff.
Low lake levels hit businesses on the water hard and North Texas was hit with the reality of a water supply crisis. North Texas had dealt with water supply shortages before but not like this. It is one of the first times North Texas cities collectively instituted outdoor watering restrictions to cut down on water usage.
"In 2011, it took some convincing that landscaping would survive at twice-a-week watering. And where we are...it's accepted now," said Israelson.
We've learned a lot since 2011, but Roberts of NTMWD tells WFAA there are new challenges. The District is serving 650,000 more people compared to 11 years ago. In total, with all its 13 member cities and smaller water contracts, NTMWD is serving more than 2 million people.
"Those high demands are putting a strain on our water system infrastructure, in particular, our ability to treat that water and send it out to member cities and customers," said Roberts.
Roberts say the solution is conservation. In the summer months, outdoor irrigation accounts for roughly 40-60% of water usage.
Lake Lavon does not have a supply issue right now as it is 90% full. The April and May rains helped a lot. But all other factors are still in play: scorching temperatures, the drought, the evaporation, the consumption, and the infrastructure.
Eleven years ago, we were reminded of the commodity we took for granted. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/look-back-2011-drought-why-reshaped-how-north-texas-looked-water/287-c9881e7f-de0b-4377-9be1-bbaa865190b4 | 2022-07-20T02:27:59 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/look-back-2011-drought-why-reshaped-how-north-texas-looked-water/287-c9881e7f-de0b-4377-9be1-bbaa865190b4 |
Atlantic County election officials help the NAACP run its national officers election Tuesday at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
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Bernard McNair, of Connecticut, offers his thoughts on the day’s NAACP board member election. “I definitely see it as the past vs. the future,” he said.
ATLANTIC CITY — The Atlantic County Superintendent of Elections’ office had employees and 10 voting machines hard at work at the Atlantic City Convention Center on Tuesday.
But don’t worry. City residents didn’t miss an election.
It was a service provided to the NAACP National Convention, during which a new national board member was selected.
“It’s part of the statute, that we can also run outside elections,” said Superintendent of Elections Maureen Bugdon. “We have done union elections ... and elections for political party leaders.”
As a government entity, Bugdon said, the office charges only what is needed to recoup costs. It is not a revenue-generating service, she said.
Deputy Superintendent of Elections Audrey Miles, who joined the office in April, said the NAACP election was her first for an independent group.
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“It’s interesting — it’s different,” Miles said. “It’s not as coordinated when somebody else is running the election.”
The NAACP is handling all but the machine elements of it, they said.
“We’ll run the tapes as soon as they close (voting),” Miles said of the totals for the candidates on each of the machines. “We will print the tickets, present them and they will do the tally and make the announcement.”
Incumbent Alice A. Huffman, of Sacramento, California, started out in 1999 as president of the California-Hawaii NAACP. She was being challenged by Atlanta NAACP chapter President Richard Rose for a seat on the 66-member board. Rose has not served on the board before.
Delegates streamed in to cast their ballots when voting opened at 1 p.m. Tuesday.
“Rose breathed new life into the chapter in Atlanta,” said Jennifer Seibert, co-chair of the health and welfare committee of the NAACP chapter in Oakland, California. “It’s exciting to see how we decide. Do we go with the tried and true, or the new?”
“I definitely see it as the past vs. the future,” said Bernard McNair, of Bridgeport, Connecticut. “I think his (Rose’s) grassroots efforts are more beneficial for what we are looking for.”
Bugdon and Miles said they are happy to serve the public in a different way.
“It’s great to showcase our new voting machines to the public,” Bugdon said.
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Atlantic County election officials help the NAACP run its national officers election Tuesday at the Atlantic City Convention Center.
Bernard McNair, of Connecticut, offers his thoughts on the day’s NAACP board member election. “I definitely see it as the past vs. the future,” he said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atlantic-county-voting-machines-help-with-national-naacp-board-election/article_f47138f4-0794-11ed-b36d-33084e2b955a.html | 2022-07-20T02:31:50 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/atlantic-county-voting-machines-help-with-national-naacp-board-election/article_f47138f4-0794-11ed-b36d-33084e2b955a.html |
An Atlantic City man was sentenced to seven years in prison for causing the death of a 37-year-old woman who fatally overdosed in 2019 on fentanyl-laced heroin he sold to her the day before she died, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia Bradshaw said Tuesday.
Kahlil Carpenter, 31, pleaded guilty last month to strict liability for drug-induced death in exchange for the prison term. The sentence was handed down Friday in Burlington County Superior Court by Judge Gerard H. Breland.
“Fentanyl has destroyed so many families and devastated several of our communities,” Bradshaw said in a news release. “We must take extraordinary measures to offer protection against such harmful, and often deadly, effects.”
The investigation began Dec. 14, 2019, after Evesham Township police were dispatched to Inverness Circle for a report of an unconscious and unresponsive woman. They entered the home and found Holly Morris in her bed.
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An autopsy performed by Burlington County Medical Examiner Dr. Ian Hood determined Morris died from fentanyl toxicity, with levels in her system five times greater than the amount necessary to cause death.
The investigation determined Morris had met Carpenter in Lumberton Township on Dec. 13, 2019, to purchase the drugs, Bradshaw said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-man-sentenced-for-fatal-overdose-in-burlington-county/article_bb0032d0-07cd-11ed-b199-9f3c14721b7d.html | 2022-07-20T02:31:56 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-man-sentenced-for-fatal-overdose-in-burlington-county/article_bb0032d0-07cd-11ed-b199-9f3c14721b7d.html |
The developer of a proposed recreational vehicle campground is seeking to rezone 7.45 acres of residential property on South Shore Drive to commercial.
The petitioner worked to gain adjacent property owners' signatures in support of the plan, but fell short of the 50% necessary for rezoning. The proposal was brought to the Clear Lake City Council meeting July 18 by City Administrator Scott Flory.
The council sent the request to the Planning and Zoning Commission for study. The commission, which meets July 26, will hear public comment before making a decision. The council will receive its recommendation and hold a public hearing at 6 p.m. Aug. 1.
Along with the possibility of new projects comes the management of current projects. The Clear Lake Consolidated Urban Renewal Area and TIF District Amendments were brought to the council for improvements to the 700 block Buddy Holly alley, Starboard Square, Pritchard's Innovation Center, Lake Lifestyle and the former SERTA building.
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All of these projects are being deleted from the current property tax increment financing plan to be brought back to an expanded Consolidated Urban Renewal Area and TIF District to run out the contracted agreements with these groups for up to 10 years.
“We’ve got a lot of positive activity going with these different projects, and I think we’re all happy to support that,” said councilman Bennett Smith.
In other news, Public Works Jeremy Korenberg updated the council on current projects. The 2021 storm sewer and water main project is almost complete, with a crew finishing the checklist for the project. The Main Avenue project has begun, with stage one removals finished.
The joint comprehensive plan committee held its first meeting last Thursday. Three representatives for Clear Lake will be appointed at the Aug. 1 meeting: one Planning and Zoning Member, one City Council member and one citizen.
The Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce made a preliminary report of record-breaking revenue for the July 4 carnival. "The Day that Music Died" has also premiered on Paramount Plus, a documentary featuring much of Clear Lake.
Chad Schreck of the North Iowa Corridor was not yet able to announce the buyers of the old SERTA building.
Flory announced a pre-construction project meeting to be held July 25 at the Mason City Airport terminal. This meeting will be for the decommissioning of the wastewater lagoon the airport currently uses, and Clear Lake's extension of the sanitary sewer system to the airport.
Rae Burnette is a GA and Crime & Courts Reporter at the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by phone at 641.421.0523 or at Rae.Burnette@GlobeGazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/incoming-development-working-to-rezone-part-of-south-shore-drive/article_4e9b9250-3059-5c5d-9af8-9700daf40c8a.html | 2022-07-20T02:37:28 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/incoming-development-working-to-rezone-part-of-south-shore-drive/article_4e9b9250-3059-5c5d-9af8-9700daf40c8a.html |
Will city manager residency requirement come before Deltona voters again?
DELTONA — Residents last answered the question about whether or not the city's charter should be amended to remove the manager's residency requirement in 2014.
More than 76% responded "no."
But officials and residents have continued to debate the matter over the years as the city has seen more than a dozen different people at the helm — permanent, acting or interim — since incorporating in 1995.
The matter came up Monday night when the City Commission voted 5-1 to submit proposed charter amendments as a referendum in the upcoming general election. Commissioner David Sosa cast the dissenting vote; Commissioner Loren King was absent.
"We are a charter city and currently have no charter officers," Commissioner Dana McCool said. "If we're good with that as a city, let's rock and roll, but I'm pointing that out again, as has been pointed out to me."
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Currently, the proposed amendment coming before voters would address whether or not the charter should be cleaned up to remove language that is obsolete or superseded by state statutes.
The commission in April ultimately decided against moving any of the Charter Review Committee's recommendations forward.
'Elephant in the room'
Acting City Manager John Peters III said, technically, neither he nor the city attorney "are true charter officers by definition."
Peters, who lives in DeBary and has said he has no intention of moving, became acting manager at the end of 2020 through a contract, which makes no residency-related stipulations.
As the city is technically represented by the law firm Fowler, Feeney & Associates, P.A., and not one particular attorney, the city's legal representatives don't live in Deltona either.
McCool, wanting to address "the big elephant in the room," eventually asked for consensus for city staff to work up language for an amendment that would let voters decide on whether or not it would be acceptable for a city manager to live within 50 miles of the city.
The proposed amendment must come before the commission for the first reading on Aug. 8 and the second reading on Aug. 15 if they want to meet the deadline, Peters said.
McCool received consensus from the others on the dais, save for Commissioner Anita Bradford who said the questions she's receiving from constituents pertain to the search for a permanent city manager.
"They want to know why are we trying to amend the charter just to allow individuals who aren't charter officers to be here sitting in those seats," Bradford said.
During a commission meeting in May, Bradford asked what the charter states about searching for a city manager.
The charter states the commission "shall begin the process to fill a vacancy in the Charter Office of the City Manager or the City Attorney within 90 days of the vacancy."
And as it was pointed out by Peters during that May meeting, "it doesn't say you have to complete the search."
McCool said the commission is in a difficult position because it has someone who's doing a good job but isn't a true charter officer.
"This is the most stability we’ve had in a while," McCool said.
Mayor Heidi Herzberg said none of the city's managers have purchased a home in the city and lived in it, choosing to rent instead.
"This city right now is in a housing crisis like Central Florida, there are very few rentals available, and we certainly have no apartments," Herzberg said.
Charter Review Committee leaders disappointed
The commission's decision to not move forward any of the Charter Review Committee's recommendations didn't sit well with the committee's chair and vice chair, Pat Northey and Chris Nabicht.
"I'm very bitter about the way they (the commission) treated the CRC and our recommendations," Northey, a former longtime Volusia County Council member, said.
She said she'd hoped the commission would consider a proposal that would automatically place the Charter Review Committee's proposed amendments on a ballot as is done in Volusia County government.
"They are, in my opinion, eviscerating the charter," Northey said.
Nabicht, a former Deltona commissioner, said this commission has shown "it doesn't really care about the charter."
"They're just using a loophole," Nabicht said, adding that there's been no real effort to search for a permanent city manager over the past 18 months.
"I hope the voters speak loud and clear at the polls in August and November, and maybe somewhere down the line, we can't get some relevant charter changes," Nabicht said. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/19/deltona-city-manager-residency-requirement-vote-election-2022/10086057002/ | 2022-07-20T02:46:36 | 1 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/19/deltona-city-manager-residency-requirement-vote-election-2022/10086057002/ |
She is just 16 years old and has already earned a major achievement in her young career.
Liv Hovde, of McKinney, is the 2022 Wimbledon Girls' Singles winner. She's only the second American girl to do that in 30 years, and just the 14th American in history to bring home the title.
With the win, Hovde also earned her first junior grand slam.
“There were just absolutely no words to describe what I was feeling,” Hovde said. “It was just incredible and it’s still, like, hard to believe that that dream came true.”
Hovde picked up her first racket at age five in Minnesota. She moved to McKinney at age 10 and says she's played on every court in town.
“They've supported me so much,” Hovde said.
A year ago, Hovde's junior ranking was 173 in the world. Now, she's ranked fourth and was the number one seed heading into Wimbledon.
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“I just think I’ve had more competitiveness and I’ve traveled more abroad lately,” she said.
She's brought home a lot of honors over the past year. Tuesday, she brought home one more.
“We could not be prouder,” said McKinney Mayor George Fuller.
Alongside her proud parents and brother, McKinney's city council presented Hovde with a proclamation declaring July 19, "2022 Wimbledon Girls Champion Liv Hovde Day”.
“I'm just super honored to even be getting an award in my hometown,” Hovde said.
Hovde says a highlight of her win was getting the chance to meet Novak Djokavic, the top men’s player in the world.
She plans to play at the U.S. Open later this summer. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dream-come-true-mckinney-teen-wins-wimbledon-girls-title-honored-by-city-council/3018843/ | 2022-07-20T02:50:31 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dream-come-true-mckinney-teen-wins-wimbledon-girls-title-honored-by-city-council/3018843/ |
CTI, Inc.: DMC Insurance, Inc. has named Rudy Kroll of CTI, Inc. the 2022 DMC Driver of the Year. Kroll was unanimously selected as the winning driver by a committee comprised of trucking industry experts. Kroll has been a professional driver with CTI for the past 38 years, accumulating over 2 million miles, without ever being involved in a single accident, collision or incident, a news release said. In addition to his safe-driving record, Kroll has been a long-time mentor to his fellow drivers at CTI and is meticulous in his safety practices, from navigating regulations in his area to the most detailed of pre-and post-trip inspections.
Carondelet Health Network: St. Mary’s and St. Joseph’s hospitals have been recognized for high-quality stroke care by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. Both campuses received the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke GoldPlus with Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite, and Target: Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll awards. The 2022 Get With The Guidelines-Stroke awards highlight Carondelet Health Network’s commitment to research-based treatment guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
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Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona: Arizona Capitol Times, Best Companies Group and Best Companies AZ announced that the Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona has earned a spot on the 10th annual list of 2022 Top Companies to Work for in Arizona. The list is the result of anonymous and comprehensive employee surveys measuring culture, work environment, leadership and employee pride and satisfaction, combined with evaluations of workplace practices, policies, employee perks and inclusivity based on demographics.
Feast and The Grill at Hacienda Del Sol: Two Tucson restaurants, Feast and The Grill at Hacienda Del Sol, were recognized in Wine Spectator’s 2022 Restaurant Awards, which honor the world’s best restaurants for wine. This year’s awards program honored 3,169 dining destinations from all 50 states in the U.S. and more than 70 countries internationally.
University of Arizona Center for Innovation: The University of Arizona Center for Innovation has been named the Soft Landings Designee of the Year, which was announced at the 36th International Conference on Business Incubation, hosted by the International Business Innovation Association. The category references the ability to provide a “soft landing” experience, meaning international businesses have the necessary accommodations for a smooth entry into the United States. UACI works with the businesses to introduce them to local community leaders, connect them to governmental officials, and inform them of the resources and tools available through the University of Arizona.
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BOOTHBAY, Maine — Visitors to Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens poured nearly $42 million into Maine's economy, according to an economic impact report done by Stepwise Data Research.
The gardens have been open to visitors for 15 years, but the 336,400 visitors they saw in 2021 equated to a big year.
"Literally every state in the country — I’m just looking at the map right now — has representation in terms of where people came from last year to visit the gardens," CMBG CEO Gretchen Ostherr said.
Ostherr added that the new report helps them better understand where visitors are coming from and what's behind their visit. Part of the increase, she said, was more people exploring the outdoors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many were also drawn to the gardens' five large wooden trolls, created by artist and arts activist Thomas Dambo.
According to the study, visitors spent an estimated $5.8 million at Maine restaurants, $3.1 million on lodging, $2 million at retail stores, and $1.2 million on other recreational activities. In total, the report estimates that $15.2 million of direct visitor spending contributed to earnings and jobs in the Maine economy across various sectors.
"It’s really informative in terms of helping us understand our impact here [and] also in terms of helping us project what we can expect in terms of future visitation, which then can help us quantify the kind of investments we want to make," Ostherr explained.
Some of those investments include updating the cafeteria and food service through the winter and spring. Staff also hope to grow CMBG's horticulture and research departments and add a conservatory.
The trolls will remain at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens until they start to deteriorate, which could be within the next five years.
To learn more about visiting the Gardens, click here. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/coastal-maine-botanical-gardens-boothbay-maine-troll-trolls-christas-lights-holiday-visitors-spend-millions-per-economic-impact-study-economy/97-8a33fdff-8dd3-469e-8466-80fac2c4312f | 2022-07-20T02:54:07 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/coastal-maine-botanical-gardens-boothbay-maine-troll-trolls-christas-lights-holiday-visitors-spend-millions-per-economic-impact-study-economy/97-8a33fdff-8dd3-469e-8466-80fac2c4312f |
PORTLAND, Maine — The newspaper in Maine’s largest city is decrying the use of its parent company name in a national conservative group’s political survey.
The name of the American Principles Project survey — “Maine Today & Public Insight” — led some to believe it had something to do with MaineToday Media, which owns the Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
The survey asked questions about welfare for illegal immigrants, critical race theory and gender issues.
Steve Greenlee, executive editor of the Press Herald, called on the conservative think tank to stop using the newspaper’s name.
“Everyone knows that MaineToday Media is the company that publishes the Press Herald, Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel,” Greenlee said in a written statement. “Misappropriating the name of a news organization in an attempt to legitimatize a survey is unacceptable and unethical, and we demand that whoever is behind this cease doing so immediately.”
The American Principles Project produced anti-Gov. Janet Mills advertisements that could be deployed depending on the survey results, said Terry Schilling, the group’s president.
“This is just like a poll, except instead of polling a question we’re polling messages and advertisements,” Schilling told the newspaper. “We’re going to look at how effective they are and then make a decision about whether or not to get involved in the election in Maine.”
Schilling said Monday he's checking into why the out-of-state vendor that conducted the survey chose to use the name Maine Today. It was primarily an online survey that closed Sunday evening, he said. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/portland-press-herald-condemns-conservative-survey-name-tied-to-company-newspaper/97-24c6691d-91af-4f1e-ac2c-820aa1c658ff | 2022-07-20T02:54:13 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/portland-press-herald-condemns-conservative-survey-name-tied-to-company-newspaper/97-24c6691d-91af-4f1e-ac2c-820aa1c658ff |
Salem Fire responds to house fire in South Salem
The Salem Fire Department responded to a house fire Tuesday night on Glyneagle Drive SE in South Salem.
Multiple units were dispatched to the fire.
The fire started around 5 p.m. and was under control just after 6 p.m., according to Reed Godfrey, deputy chief of operations for Salem Fire.
The fire was put out completely just after 6:30 p.m.
One person was injured, according to Godfrey, but the person did not require immediate medical attention. It was unclear how many people were in the home at the time of the fire.
Godfrey said the fire started at the home’s back patio and extended into the attic.
The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
Dejania Oliver is the breaking news reporter for the Statesman Journal. Contact her at DAOliver@salem.gannett.com or follow on Twitter @DejaniaO. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/salem-fire-responding-to-house-fire-in-south-salem/65377794007/ | 2022-07-20T02:55:05 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/salem-fire-responding-to-house-fire-in-south-salem/65377794007/ |
BOISE, Idaho — Idahoans looking at their 401K or retirement accounts in recent months likely have something in common, those accounts are down as of late and have been for some time now.
Stocks are simply down in recent months. Some Idahoans nearing retirement age are now worried, their account balances are not what they hoped for.
It's a tough reality, but Boise Financial Expert Dave Petso said it's not like 2008 or 2009, a memory still fresh for some weary investors.
"There's really been nowhere to hide, but this is not like a 2008. We're not down that much. We're not down 50% and nobody knows if the banking system is solvent," Petso said. "There are lots and lots of worries, and I'm sure we'll talk about those, but what we're really dealing with today are people's fears that there's been nowhere to hide."
For starters, Petso said there are a variety of issues contributing to poor stock and retirement account performance. Recovery from COVID, war in Europe, supply chain issues, among the top few reasons. Pew Research also published data in June indicating continued low trust in government. Only 20% of those surveyed said they trust the Government to do what is right most of the time.
"We're hearing it from both sides of the aisle. This is not a time where people feel confident and when they don't feel confident, any losses are seeing in their portfolio is exaggerated, because it doesn't feel like we are coming to a conclusion like, well, don't worry, we have solutions," Petso said. "Three months from now, six months from now, we're going to be okay. That's what it's different this time, but every time has a different feel to it."
A KTVB viewer reached out with concerns about their PERSI retirement plan. They say they've lost thousands in their retirement in recent months and have concerns about affording retirement. PERSI, the public employee retirement system here in Idaho, published an investment report on June 30 to cap off the fiscal year.
PERSI CIO Bob Maynard wrote in the report that 2022, "is the worst start for the calendar year for capital markets since the 1930's." The PERSI report indicates what many other retirement accounts show as well, loses in the stock market.
Fiscal year to date PERSI reported a loss of 9.5%, the fourth worst in PERSI's 55-year history. The three other worst returns happened in fiscal years 1970, 1974 and 2009.
So, if you have PERSI or any other retirement accounts like a 401K, what should you generally do? Don't panic, according to Petso.
"I know it sounds like putting your head in the sand, but I'll tell you, walking through 2000 throughout 2002 and in 2008 in particular, when people were like, 'I just can't deal with this,' then don't open your statements. Watching their joy, literally six months, eight months, a year later, when they finally feel the courage to open it up and they cannot believe what a life changing decision they made," Petso said. "It really is people that sold out at the bottom. In truth, early 2009 literally changed their life in a bad way. They have so much less money than they would today because they took a temporary loss and made it permanent."
Perspective is huge on this topic. Using PERSI as an example, yes, the return is down from the fiscal year, but it is still up 7.1% over the last 25 years. Petso said investing is about long-term strategy, not hour-to-hour like some mobile trading apps have made it seem in recent years. At the end of the day, many 401K and retirement plans are investing in traditionally strong markets, markets that rebound historically.
"These really are times for us to take a pause, take a deep breath and try, as you might, to not be a human being. Quit being an emotional package wrapped in skin. That's what we are. And when it comes to money, people are super emotional," Petso said. "We just know that these are the best investments. All of time has said they are and you don't give up in the middle of it and take a temporary loss and make it permanent. That's always been the rule. I think that that's what we just have to cling to."
KTVB reached out to Gov. Little’s office for insight on Idahoans' concerns with PERSI, specifically if he shares concerns about people being forced to push off retirements. Little’s office shared the statement below:
“Governor Brad Little understands Idahoans are grappling with the many negative impacts of inflation under President Biden’s watch. Idaho is leading the nation in economic prosperity and providing our citizens and businesses historic tax relief, and Governor Little continues to push for national policies that help provide more economic certainty for Americans.”
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BOISE, Idaho — At the Idaho GOP Convention last weekend, 13 resolutions - or ideas Republicans would like to see become rules going forward - were passed.
The party touched on everything from no support for any abortion to unequivocal support for Israel. The 208 touched on one of the resolutions Monday, the crossover voting resolution put forth by Branden Durst.
The idea was to clamp down on people signing up to vote Republican, who aren't really Republican, like Democrats crossing over just to have a say in the Republican Primary Election.
To limit the crossover from happening, Durst believes a voter should not qualify as a Republican if …
- They joined the party less than a year before the next primary election held in an even-numbered year.
- They removed themselves from the Republican roles at any time in the past two years.
- They donated to more than one candidate of a different political party within two years of the primary.
- They were a member of any other political party within those two years.
- They voted in a primary or caucus for any other political party over that same time span.
These rules would not apply to new voters.
The reason for these new requirements, or what the majority of those delegates believe was happening, was the infiltration of the Republican Primary this past May.
The number of registered Republicans jumped this past spring. Back in January, there were 531,420 registered Republicans in Idaho. Democrats accounted for 134,000, with about 310,000 unaffiliated.
Then, along came the idea of Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, Priscilla Giddings, Dorothy Moon, Raul Labrador and even Branden Durst, running for statewide offices on the Republican ticket.
By April, just two weeks after the deadline to switch parties, that number of registered Republicans went up by about 15,000 voters. However, the Democrats only dropped by about 15,000, which means most were jumping in from the unaffiliated side of the pool, where that number dropped by about 7,000.
A bigger influx of Republicans happened between April and July, to the tune of 31,000 new Republicans and 28,000 fewer unaffiliated voters.
So, is it crossover, or just joining?
It was a complaint made by Branden Durst almost immediately after he lost his primary bid to be the next State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He lost because of the votes of the not-real Republicans, which is why in just his second Republican Convention, he spear-headed this plan to make it more difficult to participate in the Republican Primary.
His idea got a lot of support, he says, because he's not the only one who thinks it's a problem:
Branden Durst: "The problem is that those who do not share the values of the Republican Party as espoused by its platform are choosing to vote in the Republican primaries and with the intention of nominating candidates that don't reflect the Republican platform. I look at it like a team, like a sports team, you don't want the other coach picking your quarterback, you want your coach picking the quarterback and the same is true in a political party. It's a club, it's a group. They have defined rights to say who's in the group and who isn't."
Brian Holmes: "So, are you basing this on the fact that a lot of people joined the Republican Party prior to the May primary?"
Durst: "I don't think it's just those people that joined. I mean, there are those that have been around for times beyond just that. There are those who have affiliated as Republicans for many election cycles, who do so not because they share the values of the Republican Party, but because they want to interject their own values into the Republican Party that are antithetical to the Republican Party, but then they go vote for Democrats in the general election. I think that's really the test, because then it just demonstrates that they weren't really acting in good faith. They were doing something to try and mitigate what they probably consider their own losses in terms of an ideological disposition, but I don't think that serves the Republican Party well, and I think most of the Republicans feel the same way, and that's why we made this change."
Holmes: "In a state like Idaho where we have nearly a million registered voters, and as of July, 525,000 are registered Republicans, it is a Republican-dominated state, so if they want their voice to be heard, they feel maybe they should be able to have a say in who runs as a Republican, because we all know if there's an 'R' by the name in Idaho, chances are you're going to get elected."
Durst: "That's true and I don't blame them for having that opinion or that feeling, but I think what's missing is the perspective of the party, which again is an organization that has a constitutional right to decide who associates it with and who associates with it, and so that's where the disconnect is at. This isn't an election, this is a nomination process. This is how we pick who's going to be on our team, whose going to represent team red. It'd be no more fair to them to have a voice in that process as it is for U of I to have a decision on who starts at quarterback for Boise State."
Holmes: "Are you worried about alienating voters, because you're setting up such a strict process when it comes to registering and voting in primaries?"
Durst: "I really don't think the requirements are all that strict. It's no secret I was a Democrat. I would have been eligible to vote in the last primary. I would have been able to vote in the prior primary. What we want is, we want committed Republicans participating in our process, that's what we want, even if, and we don't really, were not even going to put a litmus test on ideologically what part of the party they're in."
Holmes: "I was going to say, because it sounds like that's what it is. It sounds like you have to believe this and this only."
Durst: "Yeah and that's why the rule doesn't speak to where they are at. We don't actually say, you have to sign something that says, 'yes, I agree with all the party platforms.' We're not having that requirement."
Holmes: "OK, so the direction the party's going now could be seen as alienating to some moderates?"
Durst: "It could."
Holmes: "And you will lose registered voters."
Durst: "That's possible."
Holmes: "You're okay with that?"
Durst: "Yep."
Holmes: "Why is that?"
Durst: "Because, I think at the end of the day, the question is, 'why do we do what we do in May?' We do it to nominate who is going to represent the Republican brand. How do we know what the Republican brand is? The only metric we really have, or the only way we can really measure that, is through our party platform and the adherence to that platform."
Holmes: "How do you feel about the direction of the Republican Party after this weekend?"
Durst: "I love it. I'm going to be real honest, I think it's great."
Holmes: "You don't feel like it's extreme?"
Durst: "No."
Holmes: "Why not?"
Durst: "Well, because, I think it's all dependent upon where you sit as to how you see perspectives of things, right? Ultimately, I think the party is moving towards what I believe the Republican Party should really stand for."
Holmes: "You've just been elected a chairman, a chairperson, that doesn't believe the 2020 election was legitimate. You're okay with that?"
Durst: "That's what the party, what the assembled wisdom of the convention said they wanted and who would I be to disagree with that?"
Holmes: "If it's not true …"
Durst: "If what's not true?"
Holmes: "The Presidential Election of 2020, do you believe it was legitimate?"
Durst: "I think that we had an election process that was flawed. Were there improprieties, were there imperfections? Yes, there absolutely were."
Holmes: "Even though none of that has been proven."
Durst: "It absolutely has been proven."
Holmes: "Can you give me an example?"
Durst: "Sure. We know, for example, in the state of Pennsylvania, they were not requiring the statutory requirement that people sign their affidavits for their absentee ballots. They were dispensing with the requirement and still counting those ballots anyways."
Holmes: "Wasn't that accepted by the court?"
Durst: "It was, it was accepted by the state Supreme Court in Pennsylvania."
Holmes: "So, therefore it's legal."
Durst: "Well, that's a matter of judicial interpretation. I would say those things are still illegal, the court just permitted them to exist."
Holmes: "I guess that is the gist of all this, this idea of freedom, yet we want to set up all these rules, whether it's from who can vote in the primary to whether a woman has rights over her own body, and you're okay with the way that is going right now, as a former Democrat?"
Durst: "Yeah, I am. As someone who switched parties, I maybe have a level of appreciation that others don't. I'm not going to apologize for believing an unborn baby deserves to live. I'm not going to apologize for believing that Republicans should have the right to decide who their quarterback is, who they nominate for different offices to represent them in the general election. Those are the right things that we should be doing and frankly, it's incumbent on the other side of the aisle to be doing their part too, because that's how we live. That's the kind of republic that we're supposed to be and we're supposed to have a marketplace of ideas that are competing."
As for who's going to track and police this possibly policy, Durst says it would come from data already archived by the Secretary of State's Office, even those moving in from out of state.
So, it would be a small burden, in both process and paying for it, but any extra costs would be covered by the party, Durst says.
It's worth pointing out, these platforms that will guide the direction of the party for more than 500,000 Idahoans were decided by 750 people, who were handpicked by each county's central committee.
These are just resolutions, not rules. There's nothing binding about them, but they are ideas that could be introduced as bills in the upcoming legislative session.
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TWIN FALLS, Idaho — People living at the Valley House Homeless Shelter mistakenly attended a meet-and-greet last Thursday with former Idaho GOP Chairman Tom Luna.
Luna called it "Pizza and Patriots" where he intended to meet with GOP delegates and potentially earn their vote ahead of his bid at re-election, according to event organizer Tyler Hurst.
Someone passed out fake flyers at the shelter inviting its guests to "Pizza for the Hungry," where they could meet with Luna to "benefit the needy." People from the shelter were used as a pawn in a political prank, according to Valley House Executive Director John Spiers.
"I hate the fact we got thrust into this, because we had nothing to do with this. But here we are," Spiers said. "We are going to continue caring for people at Valley House and caring for the people in the Magic Valley and as much as possible, avoid this type of political garbage that is happening."
A family from the shelter arrived at the event 15 minutes before it started, according to Hurst. It left him confused at first until the family showed Hurst the flyer they had received.
Hurst, and the Luna campaign, welcomed the family into the event and offered them pizza.
"I'm convinced most people would have done the same," Hurst said. "They were dressed up. They were so cute. This little family comes in, and they thought this was a really special event to meet the GOP chairman on the flyer. They thought this was a really great opportunity for them."
Representative Dorothy Moon defeated Luna for the GOP Chair. While she was Luna's opponent in the election, Moon had nothing to do with the prank, according to Hurst.
Moon denounced the prank during her nomination speech this past weekend.
"We are so divided as a party where people we will go so far as to use humans at their lowest as political pawns to make a joke or political point. That's horrible," Hurst said.
Multiple sources have told KTVB the name of the person behind this prank. However, no source was willing to confirm the name in an on-the-record conversation.
Spiers has given this person 24 hours to apologize to his staff and guests. Depending on the outcome of this apology, Spiers may or may not publicly name the person.
"From what I understand after talking to the person, they wanted to make the Luna campaign aware of people in need, because they didn't believe people in need were being seen," Spiers said.
Spiers doesn't believe this excuse, and neither does Hurst.
"Tom was homeless as a child. Tom understands the needs of the homeless population," Hurst said. "If they wanted to do that, why didn't they run a resolution - or rule - or platform at the convention they were at? That sounds like a political answer trying to scapegoat what they actually did."
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LAKE STEVENS, Wash. — Summer camp is taking on a different meaning in Snohomish County, with drownings becoming an all too common occurrence.
The situation has kids like 10-year-old Henry Messer worried.
"I can become very nervous and stuff with people on the water," he said. "That is something that does hit me."
A water safety camp put on by Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue isn't just teaching kids the basics about wearing a life jacket. It's teaching basic rescue techniques, as well as "situational awareness."
"We do a lot about how you hang out by the water, what do you look out for, what do you do if there is trouble, how do you help yourself if you need it," said Lt. Jamal Beckham.
They are skills that Henry Messer and his sister Holly are eager to learn.
"I wanna save people and I wanna make sure people don't get hurt," said Henry.
"It's a very unfortunate situation for kids," added 12-year-old Holly. "I want to help people, so if anybody's ever drowning I can go and save them."
There have already been at least seven drownings in Snohomish County this year. Two of them happened on Lake Stevens, where the water safety camp is taking place.
Rescue crews believe having children trained with this sort of awareness will help save lives.
"Having eyes on the water is super important," said Beckham. "The quicker the emergency is recognized, the quicker the rescue can happen."
Instructors are quick to tell kids not to jump in the water to save someone, but to know how to quickly call 911 and alert an adult.
"Contrary to common belief, it's not some big, loud event when somebody drowns," Beckham said. "Quite often it's silent and quiet."
With a lifeguard shortage this summer, kids like Henry and Holly could very well be the first line of defense if something goes wrong. It's a responsibility they're more than willing to take on.
"It's important because if I see someone in trouble and nobody else is around I can help them," said Holly.
"I'm glad I'm doing it and I'm glad all these other kids are here doing this, too," added Henry. "If something were to happen they can all tell people what to do." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/drownings-snohomish-county-training/281-00fe144e-a553-45fd-9b74-bc7ce6b1f937 | 2022-07-20T03:09:49 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/drownings-snohomish-county-training/281-00fe144e-a553-45fd-9b74-bc7ce6b1f937 |
SEATTLE — When you’re on an island, transportation is everything. With the ferry delays and cancellations, a new express flight from Everett is one more option.
Lifting off in a Cessna Grand Caravan, Nancy Moloney is one of the first passengers to fly from Paine Field to the San Juan Islands on Kenmore Air.
“I’m watching for whales but they’re not showing up,” said Moloney who is making the trip to San Juan Island from Idaho.
“I kind of worked backward how I would get from Idaho close to the ferry,” said Moloney. The flight costs $189 each way. Moloney found a $50 difference to take one of the four flights now offered out of Paine Field as opposed to a shuttle and ferry. She said it was worth the extra cost to not have to wait.
Moloney anxiously traveled to see her sister who just got out of surgery, “It’s been about four months since I’ve seen her.”
These flights are a new venture for Kenmore Air who’s been in the Pacific Northwest for 76 years. “We think that we hit the right chord and are offering a service that’s being welcomed,” said David Gudgel with Kenmore Air.
The flight lands on both Orcas Island and San Juan Island.
“No traffic involved,” said Amy Nesler with the San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau.
It's the fastest option to get to the islands, flying for about 25 minutes. The flight is a welcome service for the San Juan Islands Visitors Bureau as tourism is a major economic driver for the islands.
“The numbers seem to be up this year, they’re not as high as last year, I think partly inflation and gas prices are driving that," said Nesler.
COVID-19 shut everything down for three months, it was a major hit to their economy.
“There’s still some recovery,” said Nesler.
"It’s creating another transportation link and reliably so, and so a lot of people depend on us to come see family and friends and get medical services,” said Gudgel.
Connecting family like Moloney, who didn't want to waste even one minute taking care of her sister.
At this point, you can get to the San Juan's from Boeing Field and Paine Field. Kenmore Air said they plan to announce another flight out of the Tacoma area next Spring. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/flight-san-juan-islands-everett-pain-field-tourism/281-759bbb5c-1e1f-40c9-a9cc-1e487be10a63 | 2022-07-20T03:09:56 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/flight-san-juan-islands-everett-pain-field-tourism/281-759bbb5c-1e1f-40c9-a9cc-1e487be10a63 |
KENT, Wash. — Adam Young is a kennel technician at a veterinarian clinic in Des Moines and said he balances the 12-hour days with his hobby turned passion.
Young said he moved to Kent so he would be close to the ice.
“I grew up in Michigan and have always been such a big hockey fan, so when I moved to the Seattle area I knew I wanted to live somewhere that I could skate all the time,” Young said.
He trains at the Kent Valley Ice Centre several days a week. Young is a defensive player for his club hockey team and said he likes defense because it keeps the game in front of him.
That’s important for a blind hockey player.
Young said he always wanted to be a hockey player but realized in high school that his vision would limit him because he’s been visually impaired since birth.
“I have no vision in my left eye and very little in my right eye. I have tunnel vision with a lack of depth perception, so I kinda see everything through a pin hole," he said.
Normal vision is 20/20. Young has 20/2400.
Young said blind hockey is the perfect form of the sport for him because the rules are the same but the puck is uniquely built for the blind.
“It’s bigger, metal and makes noise so we rely on sound a lot,” he said.
The larger size makes it more visible for those with some vision and the noise is key for players with little or no vision.
Young said now-friend Mark DeFlorio is responsible for him getting involved in playing with the Seattle Blind Hockey team years ago. DeFlorio is the founder of Seattle Blind Hockey and a former player with the United States National Blind Hockey Team.
“It’s been really exciting to see his development as a player and as a teammate and ambassador for blind hockey,” said DeFlorio.
He said passing the torch to a teammate like Adam is important for the growth of the sport. For the second year in a row, Young has been selected to try out with the National Blind Hockey team and DeFlorio said it’s pure talent earning him the honor.
“I had vision for more than 30 years and played hockey the whole time, but Adam has none of that background and had to learn the sport without being able to see and that’s amazing.”
Young said playing hockey at a high level is exhilarating and expensive. The hockey pucks cost around $200 a piece and are only used once. The gear and travel expenses add up and Young said he wouldn’t have been able to make it all work with out generous donations.
A friend set up a GoFundMe and raised more than $4,000. Unfortunately, training camp was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so Young is thrilled to have an invitation this summer and is fundraising once again. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/kent/blind-hockey-player-kent/281-c9a9b391-d155-4096-9cbf-f61589c099ac | 2022-07-20T03:10:03 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/kent/blind-hockey-player-kent/281-c9a9b391-d155-4096-9cbf-f61589c099ac |
SEATTLE — The family of a teenager killed in 2020 during Seattle’s Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, or CHOP, is taking legal action against the City of Seattle. They believe the city could have prevented the death of their son.
"I think we have a big puzzle here; I think there's a lot of pieces and they need to be put together," said Evan Oshan during a press conference on Tuesday
Oshan is the attorney representing Antonio Mays Jr.’s family. Mays Jr. was the 16-year-old shot multiple times while inside a white jeep, during protests on June 29, 2020.
"Antonio came up here to participate in the civil rights movement,” said Oshan.
In a statement, Oshan also said, "The abandonment of the east precinct and the government directive to not allow first responders to do their job led to the predictable and preventable death of Antonio Mays Jr."
On behalf of the family, Oshan filed a tort claim against the City of Seattle, King County and the state of Washington, claiming its leaders aided and abetted the chaos.
“To figure out what really happened here, to figure out why a police precinct was essentially walked away from, why the safety of the citizens of Seattle were put at risk," said Oshan.
Right now, the family is not asking for any monetary compensation. Two years after the incident, no one has been charged in connection to May’s death. A spokesperson with the Seattle Police Department said it’s still an active and ongoing investigation.
"CHOP was a colossal screw up for the city,” said Mark Lindquist of Herrmann Law Group. “This lawsuit is one of many."
Lindquist is an attorney representing the family of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, who was killed just days before the death of Mays. He said the city does have a plausible general defense.
"The city's going to argue that this was a murder that we couldn't prevent, we're not responsible for the criminal acts of third parties," said Lindquist, former district attorney for Pierce County.
He also said CHOP is a unique situation, and is confident the court will make an exception to the general rule.
"This city does not want any of these cases in front of a jury, therefore I expect they're going to play out some of their legal defenses, and in the end they ought to settle these cases," said Lindquist.
The mayor's office sent KING 5 an emailed statement that said, in part:
“The death of a child from gun violence is a tragedy that no family should have to endure. Mayor Harrell trusts that the City will respond to the claim and any related litigation in an appropriate manner.”
A spokesperson with King County also emailed KING 5 a statement:
“King County offers its sincere condolences to the family of Antonio Mays, Jr. No family should have to face the loss of their 16-year-old son. The CHAZ/CHOP was located wholly within the jurisdiction of the City of Seattle. With regard to the events surrounding the death of Antonio Mays, Jr., King County had no role in these events. The claim filed by the family does not point to any action by King County or its employees. A court will ultimately determine the merits of the families claim, but this litigation should not involve King County.”
Meanwhile, a spokesperson with the governor’s office said they didn’t have a chance to review this litigation. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/legal-action-taken-teens-2020-death-capitol-hill-protests/281-ee2029e1-a070-4e6d-ab4c-0557f61ccdc2 | 2022-07-20T03:10:09 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/legal-action-taken-teens-2020-death-capitol-hill-protests/281-ee2029e1-a070-4e6d-ab4c-0557f61ccdc2 |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A section of University Parkway is closed to traffic due to a crash, according to Washington County dispatch.
Dispatchers say the westbound lanes of University Parkway are currently closed at the Carter County line.
Injuries have been reported, according to dispatch.
Crews on the scene tell News Channel 11 the road will remain closed for an extended period of time.
This is a developing story. Look for updates on WJHL.com. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/crash-with-injuries-closes-university-parkway-at-county-line/ | 2022-07-20T03:17:50 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/crash-with-injuries-closes-university-parkway-at-county-line/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — A proposed residential development that could bring just over a thousand new homes to Kingsport is one step closer to becoming a reality.
The Kingsport Board of Mayor and Aldermen on Tuesday approved a rezoning request for the proposed Fieldcrest development, which would be located off Fieldcrest Road and Catawba Lane, less than a mile north of West Ridge High School. Once fully built out, the 201-acre site is expected to have 1,050 units, including 400 single-family homes, 250 townhouses, and 400 apartments.
Eight acres have also been zoned “neighborhood commercial.”
The proposed development also includes space for a potential new elementary school. City officials believe the development could add around 355 students to the city school system.
The measure was approved in a 5–1 vote with Alderman Betsy Cooper abstaining.
The BMA annexed the property and approved a plan of services at its June 21 meeting. Because the annexation was non-contiguous, state law required the city to seek an interlocal agreement with the county detailing how the city will provide services to the newly annexed area. The County Commission unanimously approved the agreement last month. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/fieldcrest-rezoning-approved-by-kingsport-bma/ | 2022-07-20T03:17:56 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/fieldcrest-rezoning-approved-by-kingsport-bma/ |
LEE COUNTY, Fla. — New draft documents uncovered by NBC2 show the Lee County School District is requesting some pretty personal information about transgender students.
The district; however, believes the policies are meant to keep kids safe while some parents say the district is creating a registry for trans students.
Crystal Czyscon is a parent with LGBTQ children and she was asked to sit on the district’s equity committee. She said the new forms expected to be adopted by the district are creating obstacles and ways to exclude children. She called the forms discriminatory.
“The way they’re doing it is first they’re going to put the children on a registry,” she said.
She was referring to a “Confidential Gender Support Plan” which asks questions like how public the student is about their gender and asks parents to come up with a plan if their child is outed.
“It’s discriminatory. It’s illegal. I would love to speak with the ACLU,” Czyscon said.
NBC-2 reached out to the ACLU, who was reviewing the documents.
Lee County School Board Member Debbie Jordan defended the forms.
“It’s to make sure everyone has an understanding. That’s how I am interpreting this,” Jordan responded.
Jordan insisted the documents will keep students safe.
“The district has an understanding of what the needs are for the children and it is in their file,” she noted.
The “Gender Affirming Name Request” is also in a student’s file if the parent completes it. It’s a plan between the parent and school counselor which allows a student to use their gender affirming name rather than their birth name in year books and at graduation.
“It’s not who fills out the forms, it’s what they do with the forms and why they want the forms,” said Dr. Laura Streyffeler.
The mental health counselor said sensitive information in the wrong hands could be concerning.
“Is it something to educate teachers or is it to keep a list of kids so they know who those kids are,” Streyffeler asked.
All of these documents will be presented to the school board next Tuesday. They’ll decide then whether to adopt these draft documents.
The district appointed people from the community to sit on this equity committee.
Some new state laws like the parental bill of rights, which has been dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay Bill” by opponents, requires all districts to come up with an equity plan similar to this. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/19/lee-county-school-district-draft-documents-are-requesting-personal-info-on-transgender-students/ | 2022-07-20T03:19:19 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/19/lee-county-school-district-draft-documents-are-requesting-personal-info-on-transgender-students/ |
DALLAS — Editor's note: The video above is from a report on July 10, 2022.
The July 20 traffic court hearing for the pregnant Plano woman fighting a ticket for driving in the HOV lane has been postponed.
The reason for this, court records show, is her court hearing has been moved off the general populate docket and onto an attorney's docket, meaning she hired an attorney for her case.
The woman, Brandy Bottone, said it could take between two and six months for her to get a hearing.
Bottone was pulled over early in July when she alone took the high occupancy vehicle lane, or HOV lane, on Central Expressway in Dallas County.
She felt it was right to think the child she's carrying is a passenger in a lane designed for vehicles with two or more passengers.
Bottone of Plano tells WFAA that in the moment she wasn't trying to take a stand but only trying to fight a ticket. For context Roe v. Wade had just been overturned several days before, and Texas has an impending ban on abortions.
"One law is saying that this is a baby and now he's telling me this baby that's jabbing my ribs is not a baby. Why can't it all make sense?" she posed rhetorically.
The officer wasn't buying her explanation, and she was handed a $275 ticket for an HOV violation.
The Texas Department of Transportation's online description of the HOV rule isn't entirely clear. It reads simply, "A vehicle occupied by two or more people."
Even the officer admitted she could fight the ticket and hundreds, even thousands, of people on social media feel that, too. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/pregnant-plano-woman-hov-court-date-postponed/287-b9565d89-a023-4f5d-bcdb-3d0ca99bcfb9 | 2022-07-20T03:19:55 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/pregnant-plano-woman-hov-court-date-postponed/287-b9565d89-a023-4f5d-bcdb-3d0ca99bcfb9 |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL)- News Channel 11’s Kelly Grosfield sits down with Johnson City Mayor Joe Wise to discuss his leadership background and ongoing projects throughout the city.
Have a question for the Mayor who represents the city or county where you live in Northeast Tennessee or Southwest Virginia? Email them to KGrosfield@WJHL.com. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/first-at-four/meet-the-mayor-johnson-city-mayor-joe-wise/ | 2022-07-20T03:22:11 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/first-at-four/meet-the-mayor-johnson-city-mayor-joe-wise/ |
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A woman is now recovering back home in Colombus, Ohio, after being bitten by a shark in Daytona Beach Shores over the weekend.
40-year-old Tasa Summers told News 6 she was there on vacation with her boyfriend. They were staying in a hotel right off the beach.
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Summers said she spent a lot of time in the water this past Saturday.
“Never thought enjoying the day at the beach would land me in the emergency room with stitches,” Summers said.
She knows sharks lurk in ocean waters but said it was not top of mind while on vacation.
“Obviously, we know when we visit that there are sharks in the ocean, and that’s always going to be a risk — but never did I expect that would happen to me,” Summers said.
She said she first felt a sharp pain in her leg, until it sunk its teeth into her leg.
“I looked down, and the first thing that came to mind was, ‘That’s a shark,’ and the second thing was, ‘And it just bit me.’”
She said all she could think about was not falling in the water, worried it would bite other parts of her body.
Her boyfriend bravely helped by fending off the shark.
“My boyfriend kind of swatted towards its nose which is what they typically tell you to do when you come into contact,” Summers said.
While screaming and bleeding she ran for help on the shore.
“Everyone around was so helpful, and I’m just so thankful for that,” she said.
She said staff from her hotel and even a nurse who happened to be at the beach put a bandage on her wound and tied a makeshift tourniquet around her leg until first responders arrived.
Emergency crews took her to a hospital where she had to get eight stitches on her leg.
“At the top of my ankle, I have the top teeth marks from the shark. The bottom of my ankle kind of had the bottom teeth, and that’s what really grabbed my calf and took a chunk out of that,” Summers said.
(While Summers provided pictures of the wound, News 6 has decided against presenting several of them in this story due to the graphic nature of their content.)
She is now home and healing. She said the incident could have been worse.
Summers is relieved that the shark bit her instead of the small children who were near her at the time.
Although this experience was frightening, she said this will not be her last time at the beach.
“I love the ocean, and I love to be at the beach, so I might have a little bit of hesitancy at first, but it probably won’t last for long,” she said.
She is the fifth person bitten by shark in Volusia County this year. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/ohio-woman-bit-by-shark-while-on-vacation-in-daytona-beach-shores/ | 2022-07-20T03:29:13 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/ohio-woman-bit-by-shark-while-on-vacation-in-daytona-beach-shores/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An Orange County crash along Landstar Boulevard in Orlando killed one man and injured two others Tuesday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers said a 71-year-old Kissimmee man was driving north on Landstar Boulevard, though for unknown reasons, he lost control and drove over the median into the southbound lanes. As a result, an oncoming southbound SUV crashed into the car, troopers said.
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The 71-year-old was taken to the Osceola Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The 39-year-old driver of the SUV was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening serious injuries. The 12-year-old passenger of the SUV was taken to Nemours Children’s Hospital with minor injuries.
This crash remains under investigation. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/orange-county-crash-kills-kissimmee-man-injures-two-others-fhp-says/ | 2022-07-20T03:29:19 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/orange-county-crash-kills-kissimmee-man-injures-two-others-fhp-says/ |
BRISTOL — The Village Board and the Community Development Authority voted unanimously to sell nearly 60 acres of land to an affiliate of Hard Rock International for about $15 million Tuesday evening. The land is located in the City of Kenosha.
The vote came after a nearly 2-hour meeting at the Municipal Building, 19801 83rd St., that at times became contentious between area residents in support or against the sale to Kenosha Landco LLC, which has the same Davie, Florida address as Hard Rock International.
Kenosha Landco LLC can now purchase nearly 59.91 acres of land located southwest of Interstate 94 and 60th Street from the village for $15,213,221.
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. Any approvals for development on the land must come through the City of Kenosha because the land is located in city limits.
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Bristol Village Administrator Randall Kerkman said the village has been marketing the land for years and Kenosha Landco LLC made the highest offer. Officials 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.
"I think it's a great thing for the taxpayers if the sale goes through for $15.3 million," Village Trustee John McCabe told the Kenosha News after the vote. "We could do a lot of good with that."
Dozens of village residents turned out to express their concerns or hopes about the sale and to ask questions of village officials.
Resident Diana Brenner spoke against the sale during the public comment portion of the meeting. She fears the sale will pave the way for a casino.
"Do we need money? Yes. But does it come as a price tag of morals or values? Because this is going to bring more crime in," Brenner said, adding she wants to keep the areas surrounding the village "family oriented."
However, resident Todd Becker said he is "greatly in favor of a casino."
"I think of all the direct jobs," he said. "I also think of all the associated tax revenue that will come in from the casino, restaurant and hotels - anything that's going to be built with it or built around it. Fifteen million dollars plus all that revenue, my goodness, that can only be a good thing for Bristol and the residents in Kenosha County as a whole."
Becker said anyone opposed to a casino shouldn't visit one.
"That's your prerogative, don't go," he said. "But don't interfere with my personal choices and freedoms. Give me my choice, you can have yours."
Resident Bob LeFebve said he's in favor of the board selling the property.
"I see this as two elements," he said. "First of all, we own a piece of property that is not in the village but resides in the City of Kenosha. I know there's a lot of rumors around that it will eventually be a casino, and that may well be, but that matter lies with the City of Kenosha, the County of Kenosha and the State of Wisconsin. That is not a matter before the (Village) Board. Our matter is simply do we sell this land that we've had in our inventory for a long period of time."
Lorri Pickens, of Appleton-based Citizens Against Expanded Gambling, also attended the meeting. Perkins fought against the sale of land to Kenosha Landco LLC.
"I oppose any sort of government-sanctioned gambling," she told the Kenosha News.
"When you think about the role of government, its primary job is to protect its citizens. How does the government win in this scenario? The citizens lose. Do you honestly think that everyone walks away from a casino a winner? Very few people (do). The odds are stacked very much against them. The entire industry's business model is based on those who play to extinction. They don't make money off of the casual gambler who goes in and spends $50 and leaves."
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. The Seminole Tribe of Florida acquired the Hard Rock brand about 15 years ago.
This is a developing story. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-bristol-village-board-votes-to-sell-60-acres-of-land-to-affiliate-of/article_3b6bd744-07c4-11ed-a3a1-c74a93375167.html | 2022-07-20T03:47:15 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-bristol-village-board-votes-to-sell-60-acres-of-land-to-affiliate-of/article_3b6bd744-07c4-11ed-a3a1-c74a93375167.html |
This may be an offer some film buffs can't refuse.
A New York City mansion seen in the 1972 classic "The Godfather" will be available to rent on Airbnb, the company said.
The exterior of the Staten Island estate was seen in the movie, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, as the Corleone family home. It will be available in August for up to five guests at a time.
And while it may be a mansion, it's coming at a real bargain. The price to stay in the home: Just $50 a night (or $1,500 for the 30-day rental).
Bookings open on July 27th. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-mansion-used-in-the-godfather-available-for-rent-on-airbnb/3781759/ | 2022-07-20T03:49:41 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-mansion-used-in-the-godfather-available-for-rent-on-airbnb/3781759/ |
A Bexar County Sheriff's Office corporal was arrested Tuesday after being accused of choking a woman in a domestic violence case.
Cpl. Leroy Martinez, 25, faces a charge of assault of family by choking or strangulation, a third-degree felony, according to arrest records.
A bail amount was not immediately available as he was in the process of being booked into the Bexar County jail Tuesday evening.
Officials said the alleged incident occurred over the weekend but did not elaborate.
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Martinez has been with the department for four years and is assigned to the detention bureau.
He has been served termination paperwork in accordance with BCSO policies and procedures with Bexar County Civil Service Rules.
Officials said he is currently on unpaid administrative leave.
San Antonio police are investigating the incident, officials said. The Sheriff’s Office is conducting its own administrative investigation.
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An off-duty Bexar County sheriff’s deputy was driving 80 mph on Interstate 10 West and swerved out of his lane before officers pulled him over, San Antonio police said.
A San Antonio police officer tasked with spotting DWI drivers saw a white 2016 Buick Encore heading toward downtown and traveling above the 60-mph speed limit at 2:20 a.m. July 1 in the 2600 block of I-10 West, a police report states.
The deputy, identified by the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office as Ernesto Garza, 32, also was changing lanes improperly, the report states.
The officer activated his emergency lights, signaling Garza to pull over. When Garza failed to pull over, the officer turned off his emergency lights and followed Garza’s SUV, calling for help from San Antonio Police Department’s helicopter, according to the report.
Police said Garza took Interstate 35 North and exited at New Braunfels Avenue. He then ran a red light at New Braunfels and Lamar Street, the report states. Shortly afterward, Garza came to a stop.
Garza refused to perform a field sobriety test or to take a breath test, according to the report.
Police filed a warrant to draw his blood for testing before he was booked into the Bexar County jail. He was released the same day after posting bond. His bail had been set at $11,000.
A Sheriff’s Office spokesman said Tuesday evening that Garza was undergoing the disciplinary process.
Garza has been with the department for eight years. He was an investigator with the law enforcement bureau when the incident occurred.
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Wednesday's heat index could exceed 100 degrees, says Indianapolis NWS
Indy Hoosiers should prepare for a hot Wednesday as temperatures could feel like they're breaking 100 degrees.
High humidity and forecasted temperatures in the mid-90s could cause the heat index to rise to 103 degrees, according to the Indianapolis National Weather Service, which issued a special weather statement in response.
The heat index is a real feel temperature that combines the factors of heat and humidity.
Wednesday's forecast shows a high of 94 degrees with a low of 70 degrees as of Wednesday night. Forecasts show high temps in the mid to low 90s for the remainder of the week.
Hot weather prompts heat stroke and heat exhaustion warnings. Here's what you should look out for:
Symptoms of heat exhaustion include:
- Dizziness or fainting
- Excessive sweating
- Cool, pale and clammy skin
- Nausea or vomiting
- Rapid, weak pulse
- Muscle cramps
People experiencing heat exhaustion should seek air-conditioning, take a cool shower or use a cold compress, or drink water if the person is fully conscious, NWS recommends.
Those with symptoms of heat stroke should call 911 immediately.
Heat stroke symptoms include:
- Throbbing headache
- No sweating
- Body temperature above 103 degrees
- Losing consciousness
- Red, hot and dry skin
- Rapid, strong pulse
Contact Hannah Brock at hannah.brock@indystar.com. Follow her on Twitter @hannah_m_brock. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/indianapolis-could-feel-like-its-100-degrees-wednesday/65377776007/ | 2022-07-20T03:53:03 | 1 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/indianapolis-could-feel-like-its-100-degrees-wednesday/65377776007/ |
How Redding School of the Arts plans to open new high school in August
Long a desire for the public charter school, Redding School of the Arts is moving forward with plans to open a high school next to its existing campus off Shasta View Drive.
But instead of waiting for the new campus to get built, the school wants to put up four modular buildings that would house a temporary high school in time for the 2022-23 academic year, which starts in mid-August.
On Wednesday, the city’s Board of Administrative Review (BAR) will consider amending the school’s use permit to allow the modular buildings, which would house ninth- and 10th-graders, school Executive Director Lane Carlson said. The BAR meeting starts at 2 p.m. in the River Conference Room inside City Hall.
The modular buildings would be within an empty dirt lot on the southeast side of the campus, and the four buildings would be a combined 4,160 square feet, Carlson said. The temporary high school would share restrooms and other necessary facilities with the existing campus, the city’s staff report says.
Carlson said Redding School of the Arts has been working on this expansion for at least five years. The charter school currently serves kindergarten through eighth grade students.
“We think the community is in need of a small high school,” Carlson said, adding that high school students will be taking college prep courses through an alliance with Shasta College. Other high schools in Shasta County have similar partnerships with Shasta.
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The temporary campus would be used for at least two years, with the potential for a one-year extension.
Carlson expects the high school to serve about 50 students in 2022-23.
Ultimately, the high school would serve grades nine through 12 with an enrollment of 300 students.
The new school would be called RSA Early College High School and would be built to the south of RSA on an adjacent 2.3-acre site.
RSA officials had hoped to move students out of the modular buildings and into the new high school campus in August 2023. But Carlson said that date has been pushed back to August 2024.
Carlson explained that the school is in a design-build contract with Gifford Construction and Nichols, Melburg & Rossetto Architects, and has been working with the Redding companies over the last two years.
“Due to the rapid rise in the costs of construction and interest rates recently, RSA's board has paused this process to explore other funding opportunities,” the executive director said.
The school has applied to the state Office of Public School Construction for a grant through its charter school funding program, Carlson said.
Between the grant and loans, Carlson said they hope to secure about $14 million for the high school project.
Redding School of the Arts opened in August 1999 and moved to its then-new $25 million campus on Shasta View Drive in September 2011. The McConnell Foundation paid for construction of the campus, according to Record Searchlight articles.
McConnell in 2007 offered to build the charter school on property it owns off Shasta View Drive across from its walking trail and then lease the campus back to Redding School of the Arts.
Shannon Phillips, the foundation's chief operating officer, said Redding School of the Arts did not ask them to fund the high school expansion. But the school did ask for McConnell to provide the land, which the foundation has agreed to do.
Phillips said the foundation also will eventually deed the property to the school.
"It will become their land to go with their high school since they are funding the project," she said.
McConnell plans to give the property to RSA "once the design is finalized and we establish exactly the footprint they need," Phillips said.
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Boy, 12, fatally shot in west Detroit home; 13 year old in custody, police say
A12-year-old boy was fatally shot Tuesday night on Detroit's west side and a 13 year old was in custody, police said.
The shooting was reported around 9 p.m. in the 11300 block of Bramell, near Rouge Park, said Cpl. Dan Donakowski, a spokesman for the Detroit Police Department.
Officers learned the victim had been among three other teens in the basement of a home while his father was upstairs, possibly sleeping, police Chief James White told reporters.
A juvenile believed to be 13 years old allegedly shot the boy, White said. Police took the youth into custody and were questioning the other two at the scene, believed to be in their late teens, White said. Their relationship to the victim was unclear.
Authorities recovered the gun as well as another weapon at the scene. They were working to determine who owned them and what led to the shooting, the chief said.
"There's a lot of information that we’re just getting," White said. "We’re hearing that they were doing something with social media. … We don’t know if there’s any truth to that, they were playing with the weapons."
The incident was another deadly reminder about the danger of guns, the chief said.
"It's just troubling and frustrating," White said. "And if you’re gonna have a gun in your home, you have to do so responsibly. Once you bring a gun In a home, everything changes." | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/19/boy-12-fatally-shot-west-detroit-police/10103653002/ | 2022-07-20T03:55:03 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/19/boy-12-fatally-shot-west-detroit-police/10103653002/ |
Detroit police seek SUV driver accused of striking man with his vehicle
Detroit police are seeking tips to find a driver wanted in connection with an aggravated assault last week on the city's north side.
The suspect argued with a 30-year-old man in the parking lot of a club on the 19200 block of West Eight Mile around 1:20 a.m. July 12, investigators said in a statement.
They both drove off, but the suspect followed the 30-year-old into a nearby CVS parking lot, according to the release.
"The victim exited his red 2022 Chevy Camaro and the suspect struck the victim with his vehicle, then fled the scene," police said.
The victim was hospitalized with injuries, authorities said Tuesday. Other details were not released.
The suspect is described as a man is his mid-20s or 30s with a short haircut and medium build, last seen wearing a white T-shirt and red or orange pants.
He had been driving a newer-model black Dodge Durango with black rims. A female passenger wearing a blue shirt accompanied him.
Anyone who has information is asked to call the Detroit Police Department’s Eighth Precinct at (313) 596-5840. Crime Stoppers of Michigan accepts anonymous tips at 1-800-SPEAK-UP. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/19/detroit-police-seek-driver-accused-of-striking-man-suv/10103196002/ | 2022-07-20T03:55:09 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/19/detroit-police-seek-driver-accused-of-striking-man-suv/10103196002/ |
'Good Samaritans' save woman who fell into Lake Michigan
Officials are crediting bystanders with helping save a 78-year-old woman who fell into Lake Michigan near Saugatuck on Tuesday.
The Illinois resident was on a paddle board or kayak at Oval Beach around 4:40 p.m. "when she suffered a medical emergency and fell into the water," Allegan County Sheriff's officials said in a statement.
Sheriff's deputies were alerted about a possible drowning. By the time emergency personnel were contacted, good Samaritans on the beach had already pulled the woman from the water and started administering CPR, according to the release.
Witnesses reported the woman had been under water for approximately 1-5 minutes before she was rescued and brought to shore, county officials said.
EMS arrived on scene and found a pulse before transporting her to a hospital.
"The Allegan County Sheriff Office would like to thank the Saugatuck Fire Department, Douglas City Police Department, Holland AMR and the citizens on the beach for their assistance on this emergency," representatives said Tuesday night.
Last week, searchers located the body of a man who disappeared in Lake Michigan while trying to save a child, the fourth drowning from a day earlier in west Michigan.
Anthony Diehl, 33, from Beaver Creek, Ohio, was recovered by divers from the Allegan County Sheriff's Department, according to a post by South Haven Area Emergency Services. He may have been trying to help a 7-year-old boy who was struggling Wednesday in the water in South Haven. The 7-year-old also drowned.
The rescue Tuesday came as the National Weather Service issued a beach hazards alert for Ottawa, Allegan and Van Buren counties starting at 2 a.m. Wednesday.
Winds near 20-30 mph are expected, the weather service said.
"High wave action, strong currents and dangerous swimming conditions expected," the notice said. "Piers may be heavily swamped by waves. ... Strong currents can pull swimmers into deeper water and high waves can sweep people off piers." | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/19/good-samaritans-save-woman-lake-michigan/10103543002/ | 2022-07-20T03:55:21 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/19/good-samaritans-save-woman-lake-michigan/10103543002/ |
Man shot, killed at Southfield apartment complex; 1 in custody
One person wasen arrested after a fatal shooting Tuesday night at a Southfield apartment complex, police said.
Officers were called to the Franklin Hills complex near 12 Mile around 6:53 p.m. on a report of a home invasion and gunfire, investigators said in a statement.
They found a 35-year-old man with a gunshot wound and started life-saving measures, according to the release.
The Inkster resident was rushed to a hospital but died from his injuries.
"The preliminary investigation indicates the deceased was acquainted with the residents of the apartment," police officials said. "The person responsible for firing the shot(s) remained on scene and was taken into custody."
Other details were not released Tuesday night.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Southfield Police Department at (248) 796-5500 and reference case number 22-24190. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/19/man-shot-killed-southfield-apartment-complex-1-custody/10103835002/ | 2022-07-20T03:55:39 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/19/man-shot-killed-southfield-apartment-complex-1-custody/10103835002/ |
Legal experts: Accused Oxford school shooter's parents can get fair trial in Oakland County
Pontiac — Despite all the news coverage and social-media speculation surrounding the involuntary manslaughter cases against the parents of the accused Oxford High School shooter, most legal experts argue James and Jennifer Crumbley can get an impartial jury and fair trial in Oakland County.
Attorneys and law experts familiar with the case of the Crumbley parents largely agree with Oakland County Circuit Judge Cheryl Matthews, who last month rejected defense arguments that the trial be moved out of the county. They say keeping the proceedings in Oakland County presents certain but not insurmountable challenges — despite the nature of the Nov. 30 rampage in which four students were slain, and six others and a teacher were wounded.
In a filing late Monday, lawyers for James and Jennifer Crumbley asked the Michigan Court of Appeals to dismiss the case, arguing that judges abused their discretion in binding their clients over to circuit court — and that evidence regarding any knowledge of their son’s state of mind before the shooting should not have been accepted and should not be permitted at the couple's trial.
The prosecution has argued the couple had knowledge of their son’s emotional and mental problems and did not nothing to help him, instead purchasing a handgun for him that was later used in the shootings. Monday's filing by defense attorneys say there is no proof that James and Jennifer Crumbley had read their son’s journal or texts sent to a friend, which included several instances in which he complained they would not provide him with mental health counseling.
Those journal entries and texts — and reports that the Crumbleys had refused to remove their son from school as requested by officials two hours before the shootings — have been widely disseminated. But the fact that potential jurors have prior knowledge of a case should not automatically disqualify them, said Barbara O’Brien, who teaches criminal law and procedure at Michigan State University College of Law.
“Particularly in a case this high-profile,” O’Brien said of the Crumbleys’ case. “...You’d have serious concerns about a potential juror who claimed to know nothing about it.”
The trial judge has a lot of discretion to grant or deny a motion to change venue, she said.
“But if the judge denies it in a case like this, it’s essential that the court allows the lawyers a lot of latitude during "voir dire" to explore what the potential jurors have heard and any opinions they’ve formed,” O'Brien said.
Voir dire — French for “to get to the truth” — is the pretrial process in which attorneys question potential jurors in court about their knowledge and beliefs about their client or case. Jurors are usually asked if they have beliefs or opinions that might sway their views — and if so, would they be able set them aside and decide a person’s innocence or guilt based entirely on evidence and testimony presented in court?
Attorneys are permitted an unlimited number of challenges of jurors for cause and a dozen peremptory charges — without cause — to help shape a jury.
Southfield-based attorney Geoffrey Fieger — who has defended controversial clients such as assisted-suicide pathologist Jack "Dr. Death" Kevorkian in Oakland County — said he didn't request a change of venue in high-profile cases. But to him, the case of Jennifer and James Crumbley is different.
Fieger, who currently represents two Oxford families in a federal lawsuit against Oxford Community Schools, said of the Crumbley parents: "If there ever was a case in Oakland County which deserves a change of venue, it is this one.”
“There has been massive pretrial clearly prejudicial publicity and they (the couple) have been vilified,” Fieger said. “While it makes sense to move to err on the side of a fair trial and move it (trial) to another county or city — to Ludington, to Marquette — it's not going to happen.”
Judges rarely like to make the move, he said.
In June, Judge Matthews rejected claims by the couples' attorneys of alleged prejudicial remarks by County Prosecutor Karen McDonald, including what they termed character assassination of their clients. Prosecutors say the couple provided son Ethan, 16, with access to a gun; failed to address his mental health problems; and did not remove him from school or tell school officials he might have had a weapon during a meeting the morning of the shootings.
Despite those remarks and extensive news coverage, Matthews said lawyers had not demonstrated the jury pool had become irredeemably tainted. Nor, she said, did they demonstrate that the Crumbleys would be unable to get a fair jury trial unless the venue was changed.
Matthews noted Oakland County has a large and diverse population from which to select a jury. She said that in addition to a gag order she placed on lawyers last week, other measures were available to help identify and exclude biased jurors, including targeted questionnaires.
Oakland County Court Administrator Kevin Oeffner confirmed that Matthews has suggested that defense attorneys and the prosecution meet jointly on the creation of a juror questionnaire. These traditionally consist of questions both sides can agree on which may automatically prompt exclusion of a potential juror without resorting to trial challenges and expedite facilitate the selection process.
In some cases, the process can take weeks. Judges sometimes request an especially large pool of jurors in anticipation that many will be excluded by attorneys.
Past trials in Oakland County have had 100-200 potential jurors on hand to make sure there were enough to seat.
In an Oakland County murder trial earlier this year involving a Muslim teenager who prosecutors said smothered his mother and then threw her out of a second-story window to make it look like an accident, a judge requested a jury pool of 100. That case garnered a tiny fraction of the attention the Oxford school shooting has received.
Attorney David Moran, co-director of the Innocence Project at the University of Michigan, which focuses on overturning convictions, said judges in high-profile cases need to take special steps, including screening jurors for bias. Moran pointed out that despite what he called “massive media attention in the Boston Marathon bombing," the trial remained in Boston.
This wouldn't be the first high-profile jury trial in Oakland County.
►Dr. Kevorkian made international news in assisting 130 suicides by his count. He was acquitted in three widely watched trials between May 1994 and June 1997 with the help of an attorney; a fourth ended in a mistrial. In 1999, Kevorkian was eventually convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10- to 25-year prison sentence.
►Nathaniel Abraham was prosecuted and convicted for a 1997 murder at age 11 for shooting a stranger to death outside a Pontiac party store. Investigators said he already had at least 22 police contacts for arson, assaults, break-ins, thefts and threatening children and adults alike with a steel pipe. He was released from a juvenile detention facility in 2007 at age 21 and has since had a couple of brushes with the law.
►Jonathan Schmitz killed acquaintance Scott Amedure with a shotgun in 1995, three days after a taping of a "Jenny Jones Show" episode during which Amedure confessed to a secret same-sex crush on Schmitz. Schmitz — who due to a legal technicality was tried twice for the same crime with similar results — was released from prison in August 2017 after serving 22 years of a 25- to 50-year sentence for second-degree murder. Amedure’s family won a $29.3 million verdict against the tabloid talk show for ambushing Schmitz, who thought he was going to meet a female admirer; a Michigan appeals court later overturned the ruling.
Each of the trials and others received heavy media play across the nation. Lawyers would have been hard-pressed to find Oakland County residents who hadn’t heard details about the deaths. But that didn't automatically exclude them from sitting in the jury box and delivering a verdict.
Attorney Fieger — who defended both Kevorkian and Abraham, and was involved in the "Jenny Jones" civil case — said he never requested a change of venue in these or other cases for a couple reasons.
“Strategically, I never wanted one,” Fieger said. “It suited my purposes for those trials not to be moved. But secondly, judges very rarely permit a change of venue. That would mean they would have to travel to some other jurisdiction. And they don’t like that.”
Fieger described the jury-selection system as “imperfect.”
“You can have jurors lie about not reaching an opinion on a case or even insisting they are able to set aside preconceptions,” Fieger said. “That doesn’t mean they can or will. People are biased. People have personal agendas. And they will cover them up. You have to be very careful about weeding out the biased jurors.”
But Robert Sedler, a Wayne State University Law School professor, said moving the trial elsewhere in the state wouldn't make much difference.
“In today's world, with multimedia, the internet, Facebook, etc., the information about the Oxford killings is spread far and wide," he said. "Moving the trial to another venue would not affect the extent of pretrial publicity."
“There will be a large jury pool, and the judge will find that an impartial jury has been selected,” said Sedler, who specializes in constitutional law. “For these reasons, claims of prejudicial pretrial publicity and improper prosecutorial statements are not viable.”
Oakland University criminologist Daniel Kennedy said a change of venue is not easily granted, especially in cases with national publicity.
“After all, where in the U.S. would one not be exposed to the national publicity which accompanies such extreme cases of criminal conduct as mass murder at a school?" Kennedy asked.
"Then, of course, there are the practical matters of access to witnesses, superior knowledge of local realities available only to jurisdiction residents, different administrative rules by jurisdictions, jury sequestration in foreign jurisdictions, tradition of trial by one's peers in his own community rather than somewhere else in the country..."
Judge James M. Biernat has handled several high-profile cases as both a prosecutor and a judge in Macomb County Circuit Court.
Biernat said jurors in the 2007 murder trial of Stephen Grant were required to complete a 25-page questionnaire regarding their prior knowledge and beliefs in an effort to “streamline” the selection process. Grant was convicted of second-degree murder for strangling his wife, Tara, in the bedroom of their Washington Township home and then dismembering her body.
Oakland County Court Administrator Oeffner said potential jurors typically receive notification of jury duty about five weeks before a trial is to begin. In the James and Jennifer Crumbley case, which has an Oct. 24 trial date, they would be notified of jury duty in September. The county’s jury assembly room, where jurors stay temporarily before being called to a specific court, can hold about 250 jurors at a time.
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Dozens of kids showed up for free snow cones, a myriad of games and, of course, a foam party and water fight. Parents were encouraged to tour the school and learn more about what the Acton Academy was all about.
The academy currently has an enrollment of about 20 students and holds grades K-8th year-round according to Mindy Petramalo, head of school.
Based on critical thinking and a Montessori philosophy, the school focuses on the mastery of reading, writing and math skills through hands-on experience.
PHOTOS: Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Acton Academy
Party brings community front and center to Action Academy
Party brings community front and center to Action Academy
Party brings community front and center to Action Academy
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ATLANTA — Two violent carjackings in Atlanta within 8 days left a father dead and a mother of three in the hospital. Bradley Coleman, 29, was shot as he tried to prevent his car from being taken. Suzanne Hill was hospitalized after the thieves ran over her in her own car.
In addition, Atlanta Police have investigated mass car break-ins in several neighborhoods and at apartment complexes.
After hearing the news, 11Alive viewer Andrea Barrios wanted to know if carjackings are up in Atlanta and what she could do to prevent it from happening to her.
11Alive set out to verify if car break-ins and/or carjackings were increasing in and around Atlanta.
We’ve asked several police and sheriff departments around the metro for their data. This portion will be updated as departments respond.
FBI Statistics:
According to the latest available data from the FBI, 14,621 cars were reported stolen in Georgia in 2020, however, only 399 of 657 law enforcement agencies reported their data. The previous year, 4,009 motor vehicle thefts were recorded. However, only 125 Georgia law enforcement agencies reported their data in 2019.
Going off FBI statistics for those years, given the vast difference in how many agencies reported data, makes it difficult to paint a true picture of how car thefts increased or decreased across the state.
Atlanta Police Department:
According to data for the year ending 07/09/2022, there have been 4,289 reports of theft from a motor vehicle. That’s up 16 percent from the same time in 2021 when 3,692 were reported.
As for motor vehicle theft, 1,496 were reported so far for 2022. That’s down 10 percent from the previous year, where 1,665 were reported.
So, for the City of Atlanta, it appears more people are reporting car break-ins than having the actual car stolen.
How to help prevent carjackings
As these crimes continue to happen, it leaves people wondering what to do. Police recommend removing all valuables from one's car and do not recommend fighting the suspects over the vehicle.
In the case of Hill, a tracking device on her car allowed Atlanta Police to find and arrest the suspects.
Millions of cars already have location tracking. To check, verify with the dealer or manufacturer to see if your car has this feature. If it does, your car’s location can be tracked and updated via the car manufacturer’s smartphone app.
There are also plenty of GPS trackers that can be purchased and added to a car, either by a magnet, by waterproof mount, or installed on the car’s battery. The car can then be tracked via a smartphone.
An Apple AirTag can also be used to help track the location of the car.
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In addition, changing your car’s factory settings can help prevent someone from getting into the car while you’re still in it. Many cars’ factory setting allows all four car doors to unlock at the same time.
Check the owner’s manual to see if, and how, you can change these settings. If you don't have your owner's manual, you can likely find the instructions online.
From there, change the settings so your vehicle will unlock just your driver's side door, thus keeping someone from sneaking into your car through the passenger side.
Drivers can also change their settings so all four doors will remain locked even once you put the car in park. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/are-carjackings-breakins-going-up-in-atlanta/85-7b458611-4b9e-43d0-b785-ead2b512e78e | 2022-07-20T03:55:59 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/are-carjackings-breakins-going-up-in-atlanta/85-7b458611-4b9e-43d0-b785-ead2b512e78e |
Though newly hired defensive line coach Rudy Griffin is the most novice member of the staff for Northern Arizona football, he has a long history of working with and for several key Lumberjacks.
Griffin, who joined Northern Arizona in June, played for the Alabama Crimson Tide from 2003 to 2005 after a couple of seasons with the Citadel. At that time, Lumberjacks head coach Chris Ball, deputy head coach Bob Connelly and special teams coordinator Dave Ungerer all were on staff in Tuscaloosa.
He then, near the start of his own coaching journey, worked under Ungerer and Ball again in 2010 at Washington State. The third time around, Griffin is ready to compete alongside his friends and co-workers on staff.
“It was honestly a true blessing to come here, be a part of this great university and join a group of coaches that I feel like I’ve known for a lifetime,” Griffin said.
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"It's special, very special," Ball said in a release by NAU Athletics. "I've been trying to hire him for a long time. He was a walk-on for us at Alabama, and ending up earning a scholarship and starting. That says a lot about him. He's a very knowledgeable coach, brings a lot of energy and is a great, great person."
This season is not Griffin’s first in the Big Sky Conference. He led the linebackers for the Idaho State Bengals from 2011 to 2012 before bouncing around to several college and high schools for the next decade as he moved up the coaching ranks.
Most recently, he spent the 2021 football season as the head coach of Lowndes High School in his home state of Georgia.
He will still be in constant contact with two Lowndes alumni -- defensive lineman Ezekiel Duncan and athlete Chase Belcher -- who were both recruited to Northern Arizona with the class of 2022.
Duncan, along with several returning playmakers on the defensive line, are aspects of coaching the Lumberjacks that have proven enticing to Griffin.
Northern Arizona graduated Carson Taylor, who led the team in sacks at six in 2021 and signed a deal with the Chicago Bears. But there are many of last year’s top producers still set to be in a Lumberjacks uniform in 2022.
“My defensive line has some great players, and I think we have the potential to be one of the best in the conference, so I’m excited to get it going and coach these guys,” Griffin said. “I’m encouraged by them. The guys I’m coaching have embraced me these past few weeks.”
Griffin describes himself as someone who coaches with a lot of energy, and whose athletes play with “a lot of passion, and also they know I love them.”
He said now that he’s more settled into the staff, there is much to look forward to. Northern Arizona plays its opening game on Sept. 1 at Arizona State in Tempe.
“I’m still trying to catch my breath, but the community has been great and I’m making the transition. Now I’m just ready to get to work with all of them,” Griffin said. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/griffin-ready-to-get-to-work-with-nau-defensive-linemen/article_bd87bf94-07ac-11ed-a071-5b56281e5e8a.html | 2022-07-20T04:01:12 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/griffin-ready-to-get-to-work-with-nau-defensive-linemen/article_bd87bf94-07ac-11ed-a071-5b56281e5e8a.html |
North Dakota Securities Commissioner Karen Tyler has ordered a Fargo man to stop doing business as an investment adviser after an examination of his business revealed alleged violations of state securities laws.
Authorities say Jeremy Carlson and his firm Jamieson Capital Financial LLC took custody of investor funds, acted as an unregistered broker-dealer and agent, breached fiduciary duty, and engaged in fraudulent practices.
Tyler said Carlson took custody of nearly $18 million in client funds, which is prohibited under the North Dakota Securities Act. He and others were paid a 3% commission on the sales, and $338,000 plus management fees he was charging as an investment adviser went to Carlson and his own company, the commissioner said.
Carlson without Health Department approval used $3.9 million in investor funds to acquire ownership in a medical marijuana business. He also used a cryptocurrency exchange not allowed in the U.S., paid management fees to unregistered advisers of a private fund, and engaged in borrowing and lending activity involving private funds he controlled that was not approved in investor documents.
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Carlson did not immediately respond to a Tribune request for comment. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/fargo-man-firm-ordered-to-halt-investment-business/article_f53d3d78-06db-11ed-9da0-3fc0974da36c.html | 2022-07-20T04:03:58 | 0 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/fargo-man-firm-ordered-to-halt-investment-business/article_f53d3d78-06db-11ed-9da0-3fc0974da36c.html |
NITRO, WV (WOWK) — Leaders in Nitro are hoping to fix drainage issues by building a retention pond.
At Tuesday’s City Council meeting, members voted to have engineers draft the retention pond.
They say this will hopefully fix drainage issues in the Brookhaven subdivision.
They are continuing work on the same issue in other parts of Nitro, including Smith Road and Easter Road. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/city-of-nitro-hoping-to-fix-drainage-issues/ | 2022-07-20T04:06:56 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/city-of-nitro-hoping-to-fix-drainage-issues/ |
NITRO, WV (WOWK) — Nitro Councilwoman Cynthia Migill is teaming up with the Vice Mayor of St. Albans, Walter Hall, to create a dementia-friendly program in Nitro.
During Nitro’s City Council meeting on Tuesday, Hall spoke about their dementia-friendly program. Migill is hoping to create a similar program in Nitro.
In 2018, 13 News reported that St. Albans was working to earn the designation as a Dementia Friendly Community. They announced they were the first dementia-friendly city in the Mountain State in 2020.
The program would help residents and businesses in Nitro to better communicate with those who have dementia. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/nitro-teaming-up-with-st-albans-to-create-dementia-friendly-city/ | 2022-07-20T04:07:02 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/nitro-teaming-up-with-st-albans-to-create-dementia-friendly-city/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Pies & Pints wrapped up its fundraiser for former Cabell Midland football star, Jakob Caudill.
Jakob Caudill was hospitalized after he fell and suffered a brain injury on July 4. He is currently in an induced coma.
Organizers of the event call it a success.
Pies and Pints will be donating 45% of all non-alcoholic dine-in and carry-out sales on Tuesday to the Caudill family to help get Jakob back on his feet.
The fundraiser finished at 9 p.m. on Tuesday. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/pizza-place-fundraises-for-injured-former-cabell-midland-football-player/ | 2022-07-20T04:07:08 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/pizza-place-fundraises-for-injured-former-cabell-midland-football-player/ |
Arizona lottery numbers, July 19
Associated Press
These Arizona lotteries were drawn Tuesday:
Pick 3
5-7-3
Fantasy 5
09-19-27-33-40
Estimated jackpot: $116,000
Triple Twist
03-18-25-28-33-34
Estimated jackpot: $892,000
Mega Millions
02-31-32-37-70, Mega Ball: 25, Megaplier: 3
Estimated jackpot: $555 million
Powerball
Estimated jackpot: $101 million | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/19/arizona-lottery-numbers-july-19/10103947002/ | 2022-07-20T04:09:03 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/07/19/arizona-lottery-numbers-july-19/10103947002/ |
Report: Glendale day care fined $1,700 after toddlers escaped and ran into roadway
A day care in Glendale where children who were reportedly unsupervised for nearly six minutes escaped through an open gate before walking into the nearby road has paid a $1,700 fine and completed training after an investigation found numerous safety violations that included insufficient staff training and improper staff-to-child ratios.
The day care, Happy Dayz III, came under intense scrutiny on Feb. 28 after drivers on Olive Avenue had to unexpectedly brake for the seven toddlers who had wandered outside. The Arizona Department of Health Services, which licenses child-care facilities, launched an investigation into the day care and how the toddlers were able to wander into the street before the facility’s staff noticed.
According to an inspection report posted on ADHS’s website, a female staff member brought eight children inside the classroom to change their diapers but propped the door open allowing children to stream between the classroom and the outside playground.
According to a surveillance footage cited in the report, it shows seven toddlers between the ages of 1 and 3 exited the playground through an open gate where they explored parking and landscaping area for over three minutes, with one child closing the gate from the outside. The report states that footage shows traffic on Olive Avenue slowing down four minutes and 20 seconds after the toddlers escaped before a woman is seen northwest from the parking lot at the four minute 42 second mark.
'I was terrified':Woman found toddlers wandering in road outside of Glendale day care
She and another woman gathered the children and moved them back to the playground before a day care employee runs into the frame at five minutes and 53 seconds, the report states.
The ADHS report cites a Glendale police report, that found the women who guided the children back to the day care found the facility’s staff were unaware the children had escaped.
According to the ADHS report, one of the staff members told investigators that landscapers had left the gate open and that a playground gym obscured their view of it. The report states staff members involved were written up for lack of supervision.
The investigation also found one staff member had only 10 hours of training for the annual period — below the mandatory 18 hours.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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SHAVERTOWN, Pa. — Hot day? Cold treat. Folks of all ages lined up outside Hillside Farms Creamery in Shavertown to get a taste of that delectable ice cream.
With temperatures expected in the 90s all week, getting a brain freeze is the last of their worries.
"Usually if we have like something to celebrate or something like that, we say 'why not' and come on down. On a hot day like this, we said we need some other way to cool down," said Issa Dahdal of Shavertown. "Cookie dough with cookie dough bites, because why not?"
Some chose a cup, while others decided to live life on the edge. The hot weather means those cones are shrinking faster.
"I decided to become a little menace of society today," said Mark Nakhlah of Whitehall, while holding a chocolate cone in his hand. "If you're fast enough, you can save it."
Even when it heats up, people can't stay away from the farm animals here.
"I hope they give them ice cream. That would be nice," said Maray Dahdal. "I like the peacock and the little pigs and the ducks. If you feed them little bread and stuff, that would be cute."
They may not eat the ice cream, but even the animals are looking for a cool place on a hot summer day.
For some, the temperatures may be hard to stomach, but an evening like this is full of thrills.
We found four-year-old Dominic King feeding the goats with his grandfather, happy to deliver every handful. It's the perfect summer evening for grandpa.
"Kids and ice cream, they go along very well and the animals here," said Richard Caruso of Kingston. "The Hillside Farms does a great job as far as promoting, not just the ice cream and the business end of it, but the human element and also what they do for the community."
For many families, there's more days of melty goodness ahead.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/beating-the-heat-with-cold-treats-hillside-farms-creamery-shavertown-issa-dahdal-mark-nakhlah-richard-caruso/523-7563a21f-5f1b-4b97-b41c-3577808bde2d | 2022-07-20T04:12:07 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/beating-the-heat-with-cold-treats-hillside-farms-creamery-shavertown-issa-dahdal-mark-nakhlah-richard-caruso/523-7563a21f-5f1b-4b97-b41c-3577808bde2d |
Lakeland Ledger site moves one step closer to adding apartments and commercial space
LAKELAND — The Ledger's surface parking lots along Lime Street may become the next high-rise buildings in downtown Lakeland.
The city's Planning and Zoning Board unanimously approved a request form property owner Lakeland West Lime LLC for a major modification to its Planned Unit Development. This will allow a wide variety of commercial, office and residential uses on the site in the future.
Lakeland West Lime LLC has put forth a proposal designed by The Lunz Group in Lakeland to turn the 17-acre property into the city's "gateway to Downtown Lakeland West."
"This is where you want to see that type of intense development downtown," said Bart Allen, a lawyer representing Lakeland West Lime.
The property owners seek to construct a mixed-used complex consisting of five- to seven-story buildings that will contain:
- Up to 500 multi-family apartment units.
- 900,000 square feet of mixed-use space, which includes the existing office space.
- Approximately 1,200 parking spaces.
- Ground-floor retail space.
City staff said it will not place restrictive caps on the site's future development in terms of maximum square footage or number of apartment units.
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The Lunz Group has proposed the first phase of construction through 2025 would include mixed-use buildings with structured parking over the existing parking lots between Lime Street and the existing building, on both sides of the property's long driveway opposite New York Avenue.
A second phase of construction will develop land on the south side of the existing building and to the west along Sikes Boulevard.
Lakeland planners are interested in making sure the site's development team coordinates with the city's West Lake Hunter Trail project. As terms of approval, the city will require the developer to build a 10-foot wide trail between West Lake Hunter Trail and Lime Street. It will end opposite the New York Avenue Cycle Track, with a future traffic signal at the intersection if warranted.
The city has required the developer to incorporate several pedestrian-friendly features, including a 12-foot wide pathway to Palmetto Street — south of the property — and 11-feet from the Lime Street sidewalk to create a "pedestrian promenade" similar to landscaping found off Main Street in downtown Lakeland.
Chuck Barmby, the city's planning and transportation manager, said the pathway to Palmetto Street will hopefully re-establish a connection to Dixieland without adding vehicular traffic to the neighborhood. Previously, New York Avenue ran through The Ledger's site until it was severed in 1997 during construction of the existing building.
Allen said The Ledger's administrative offices, newspaper production and distribution offices will remain on site in the existing building.
"There is no intent to make any changes to The Ledger building or their operations," he said. "Gannett is staying in place."
Gannett has been The Ledger's parent company since 2019, after Gannett merged with Gatehouse Media. The warehouse and production plant now prints and distributes several other newspapers in addition to The Ledger, including the Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Bay Times and national editions of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
The proposed modifications to the site will need to go before the City Commission for its approval at a future meeting.
Sara-Megan Walsh can be reached at swalsh@theledger.com or 863-802-7545. Follow on Twitter @SaraWalshFl. | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/07/19/lakeland-downtown-mixed-use-development-lime-street-planning-approved/10096933002/ | 2022-07-20T04:14:04 | 0 | https://www.theledger.com/story/news/local/2022/07/19/lakeland-downtown-mixed-use-development-lime-street-planning-approved/10096933002/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Roanoke’s Gun Violence Prevention Commission is focusing its efforts on the city’s most impacted communities.
To help, Roanoke City leaders are adopting an approach used in Chicago. Commission Chairman Joe Cobb said it’s called “Operation Pinpoint.”
According to the latest data from Roanoke Police, half of the city’s shootings this year happened in Northwest Roanoke, and Cobb said the efforts will be focused on those areas most impacted by gun violence.
“This is a grassroots program that engages neighbors through door-to-door engagement, through meetings,” Cobb said. “It engages business owners, faith leaders, anyone who lives and works in those neighborhoods we want to have input from to help us develop programs and strategies to help that neighborhood reclaim itself from gun violence.”
Another intervention effort will begin in August – a new program called “First Step.”
“First Step is a way to reduce community violence by learning how to resolve conflicts peacefully. To learn mediation skills, to learn de-escalation skills,” Cobb said.
There are more upcoming outreach events being held in the coming months, like the FEDUP Prayer Breakfast scheduled for Saturday and National Night Out, scheduled for next month.
“We plan to have members of our commission attend as many events as possible. Our Youth and Gang Violence Prevention team will also be sharing information about their work,” Cobb said.
There are also free classes available to learn the tools needed to identify, de-escalate, relate, and intervene in the earliest stages of a community conflict.
You can learn more about the classes and register for free here. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/roanoke-leaders-look-to-new-initiatives-to-help-curb-gun-violence/ | 2022-07-20T04:16:09 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/roanoke-leaders-look-to-new-initiatives-to-help-curb-gun-violence/ |
Wildfire closes part of highway
Lynn Walker
Wichita Falls Times Record News
The Texas Department of Transportation said U.S. 287 is closed between Highway 79 near Wichita Falls and Highway 148 in Henrietta because of a wildfire in the area. The danger is heavy smoke rolling across the busy highway. TxDot said detours are in place.
Multiple agencies were battling the fire, including the Texas Forest Service and the Wichita Falls Fire Department. Coyote Creek Ranch RV Park and the community of Jolly were under voluntary evacuations. The fire appears to be on ranch land in Clay County.
Much of the region has been under a Red Flag fire danger warning Tuesday because of extreme temperatures, strong winds and very low humidity. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/19/wildfire-closes-part-of-highway/65377608007/ | 2022-07-20T04:18:55 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/19/wildfire-closes-part-of-highway/65377608007/ |
HARKER HEIGHTS, Texas — Harker Heights was designated as a "Music-Friendly Community" by the Texas Music Office (TMO), according to an announcement by Gov. Greg Abbott.
Per the announcement, TMO made the decision after Harker Heights officials completed a multi-step certification process to get the designation.
"I congratulate the City of Harker Heights on earning the Music Friendly Community designation, and I look forward to working together on their continued success," Abbott said.
With the title, it is hoped Harker Heights will foster music business-related economic development, the announcement said.
“Our Music Friendly Community designation will help promote our diverse music industry and allow it to grow by fostering economic development in Harker Heights,” said Gina Pence, President & CEO of Harker Heights Chamber of Commerce. “We will support local artists and develop the music scene in the bright star of Central Texas. Harker Heights will amplify the power of music to connect people, celebrate cultures, and transform lives.”
Harker Heights joins more than 30 other Texas cities, including Salado, that have received the official Music Friendly Community designation.
“I am proud that the City of Harker Heights has joined other great Texas communities with the designation of a Music Friendly Community,” said Mayor Smith. “The Chamber of Commerce has worked hard to earn this certification, and we are excited to celebrate live music and support the incredible talent in the area.”
To help celebrate this news, there will be a community bash with live music on Friday, July 22 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Carl Levin Park, 400 Miller's Crossing. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/harker-heights-designated-music-friendly-community-in-texas/500-214639a1-eddb-4347-aaa5-c4cde37b5511 | 2022-07-20T04:20:56 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/harker-heights-designated-music-friendly-community-in-texas/500-214639a1-eddb-4347-aaa5-c4cde37b5511 |
As North Texas temperatures reach record highs, the nonprofit Our Calling is extending its hours to help provide relief for the estimated 10,000 people who are homeless in Dallas.
Tuesday, Our Calling, a nonprofit that relies on both monetary donations and volunteer time to serve the homeless population in Dallas County, stayed open until 6 to offer air conditioning, dinner and plenty of water.
Earlier in the day, its search and rescue teams took to the streets to do welfare checks and provide hot weather essentials like sunscreen.
It’s an emergency operation plan that kicks into gear anytime the heat index tops 105 and is something the nonprofit has had to do more than usual this year.
“We prep months in advance for this hot summer heat, but we certainly didn't expect this 100-plus degree weather to happen every single day for weeks on end. So it does take a strain on our team's inventory like sunglasses, sunblock, and things like that," said Development Manager Ali Hendricksen. "Of course, staying open extra hours does cost more money to keep our building running, our air conditioner running. We need staff and security on guard as well.”
Our Calling said as the DFW area continues to grow, so does its homeless population. The nonprofit is serving about 70 new people each week compared to 20 or 30 new clients a week three years ago. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/local-nonprofit-to-provide-homeless-relief-as-temperatures-increase/3018874/ | 2022-07-20T04:26:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/local-nonprofit-to-provide-homeless-relief-as-temperatures-increase/3018874/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California parole officials have approved the release of a notorious former Mexican Mafia prison gang leader who has been cooperating with law enforcement for nearly 20 years.
Two consecutive governors previously blocked parole for Rene "Boxer" Enriquez in part based on the argument that he is safer in prison than on the streets, where he may be targeted as a snitch by his old cronies.
"They can't deny him parole based on, 'He might be in danger.' That's kind of his risk to take," his attorney, Laura Sheppard, said Tuesday.
Authorities have taken extraordinary steps to protect him over the years, once booking him into custody under a false name on a bogus charge of possessing a swordfish without a license.
In 2015, the Los Angeles Police Department used SWAT officers and a police helicopter to secure a downtown building so Enriquez could speak to a group of police chiefs and business leaders about the gang's growth and operations. Just last week, prison officials refused to provide his current photograph, citing security concerns.
"With his knowledge of the mafia, it's his belief that if he stays out of their way ... that he'll be fine," Sheppard said. "He doesn't believe they're going to chase him down like you see in the movies, hunt him throughout the world."
Yet Enriquez plans to keep cooperating with federal authorities as they are again prosecuting the leadership of the prison-based gang that began in the 1950s in a juvenile jail and has since grown into an international criminal organization.
"It's how he makes amends," Sheppard said. "He's probably prevented more crimes than he was ever involved in."
He has been in prison since 1993, serving a life sentence for two second-degree murders, multiple assaults and drug trafficking conspiracy.
Enriquez joined the Mexican Mafia — nicknamed the Black Hand or "La Eme," its Spanish language initial — in 1985 while serving an earlier prison stint for rape and armed robbery, according to parole records. He spent nearly the next two decades building a reputation within the gang through murder, drug-running and terror, both in and out of prison.
Gov. Gavin Newsom turned over the final decision on the fate of Enriquez, now age 60, to a hearing by a 12-member panel of the 21-member parole board.
He cited in part the "unique security threats." Enriquez has revealed "the inner workings of large-scale gang associations, and informed on individual gang members. He testified for the prosecution in numerous cases," Newsom wrote.
Officials including a retired assistant director for the California prison system told the parole panel during a hearing Monday that Enriquez is a changed man who will continue contributing to law enforcement's battle against the gang.
"I've seen the worst of the worst and I know that he has definitely changed his world," said retired San Diego Police detective and gang expert Felix Aguirre.
But relatives and friends of Cynthia Figueroa Gavaldon lined up to argue that he is still dangerous and they fear for their safety upon his release. She was a 27-year-old mother of two young children when Enriquez ordered her killed on Christmas Eve 1989.
Enriquez "has nothing to offer the community. All he ever has known and touched has died," said her father, Raymond Figueroa, referring to Enriquez as a "monster."
He had two gang associates, including Figueroa's daughter, killed for violations such as stealing drugs and money. In the second case, he and an accomplice first forcibly overdosed their victim with heroin before driving him to a remote area where Enriquez fatally shot him.
He and another man also stabbed Mexican Mafia leader Salvador "Mon" Buenrostro 26 times with inmate-made weapons in 1991 in an interview room in the Los Angeles County Jail, though Buenrostro survived.
Enriquez has said he quit the gang in 2002 when he discovered its members were killing children and innocent relatives of gang members who fell into disfavor. He has said that he would have help from a witness protection program if he is released.
And over the years, Enriquez has had dozens letters of support for his parole from the FBI, local law enforcement officials, multiple state and federal prosecutors, and a deputy state attorney general.
Newsom previously blocked Enriquez's parole twice, in 2019 and 2020, and then-Governor Jerry Brown blocked it three times, in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
"He personally molded and shaped the Mexican Mafia's expectations of its members and expanded the gang's reach outside the prison," Brown wrote in 2016. He said that included pioneering the gang's control of a vast network of drug dealers and gang members outside the prison walls.
Newsom this time said he was leaving a decision to the parole board because of its "unique procedural and appellate history" and "other unusually complex factors." He asked parole officials to consider both Enriquez's "particularly violent criminal history and his singular rehabilitative record."
A Los Angeles County judge overturned Newsom's 2020 parole reversal in August, saying the governor hadn't shown proof that Enriquez is still dangerous. The Second District Court of Appeal had blocked Enriquez's release while it considers Newsom's appeal.
Sheppard said she hopes the appeals court still rules on the case, even with Enriquez paroled, to set a legal precedent that "the governor can't just make a decision based on speculation and historical issues."
Commissioners late Monday separately ordered new parole hearings for two inmates of some renown.
Donald Bohana, 85, is serving a life sentence for the 1994 murder of Delores "Dee Dee" Jackson. She is the ex-wife of Tito Jackson, a member of the Jackson 5 musical group.
Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll, 43, is serving a life term for a robbery-murder in 1996, when he was 17. He helped start a financial literacy program in San Quentin State Prison where he, other inmates and volunteers taught money management. He gave a TEDx talk in 2016 that has more than 4.1 million views.
Both men were denied parole in March, Carroll for the first time and Bohana for the sixth time.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — After putting off routine health care for much of the pandemic, Americans are now returning to doctors' offices in big numbers — a trend that's starting to show up in higher insurance rates across the country.
Health insurers in individual marketplaces across 13 states and Washington D.C. will raise rates an average of 10% next year, according to a review of rate filings by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
That's a big increase after premiums remained virtually flat for several years during the pandemic as insurers seek to recoup costs for more people using their policies, combined with record-high inflation that is driving up prices for virtually everything, including health care.
The rates review included Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Texas, Vermont and Washington.
"We're at a point in the pandemic where people are using health care that they may have put off before," said Larry Levitt, executive vice president for health policy with the Kaiser Family Foundation. "We have a double whammy right now of people using more care and inflation throughout the economy."
In California, state officials announced Tuesday that rates would increase an average of 6% next year for the 1.7 million people who purchase coverage through Covered California, the state-operated health insurance marketplace. That's a big jump after years of record low increases, when rate increases averaged about 1% in the past three years.
Increased use of health plans was the biggest reason for the increase, accounting for four percentage points, according to Jessica Altman, executive director of Covered California.
"That is really the consistent message that other states are seeing as well, and even more so than California," she said.
About 14.5 million people purchased individual health coverage through state marketplaces this year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
That's a small portion of the total number of insured Americans, as about 155 million people get their insurance through their employer-sponsored coverage. But Kaiser said the filings for the individual plans are more detailed and publicly available.
The annual open enrollment period for when customers can shop for and buy 2023 coverage starts this fall. That's the main window each year when people on the individual market can buy coverage or change plans.
How much people will pay for coverage depends on a variety of factors, including where they live and what type of plans they choose.
The rate increases come as Congress debates whether to extend financial help for consumers through the American Rescue Plan — the $1.9 trillion economic aid package Congress passed last year to combat the economic impacts of the pandemic.
The American Rescue Plan included significant funding to keep health insurance premiums low for people who purchase coverage through state marketplaces.
California receives about $1.7 billion annually from that funding to make sure no one paid more than 8.5% of their household income on monthly premiums.
If that assistance expires at the end of this year, about 3 million Americans — including 220,000 Californians — would likely drop coverage because they will no longer be able to afford it, according to an analysis by Covered California.
Without guidance on whether Congress will extend the assistance next year, some insurers have reacted by proactively raising rates in anticipation of people dropping coverage. The uncertainty accounted for half a percentage point of California's 6% increase, Altman said.
California officials have lobbied hard for Congress to extend the financial assistance through the American Rescue Plan. In general, the price of health insurance premiums depends on who is buying coverage. If its mostly sick people, the premiums are more expensive. If more healthy people buy them, the premiums cost less.
Altman said California has managed to keep its rate increases below the national average in part because more healthy people are buying coverage through Covered California than most other states.
She said that's in part because of a California law that taxes people who refuse to purchase health coverage. But she said it's also because of subsidies that keep premiums low so more people can afford them.
Altman said not extending the federal financial assistance would price some people out of coverage and "is the core outcome to be concerned about here."
"That would be a big step backwards," she said.
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Associated Press health writer Tom Murphy in Indianapolis contributed to this report.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/covered-california-raise-health-insurance-rates/103-7b9fc14d-d1d3-4e85-ac52-d53be21fc0c7 | 2022-07-20T04:33:33 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/covered-california-raise-health-insurance-rates/103-7b9fc14d-d1d3-4e85-ac52-d53be21fc0c7 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The start of the school year is just around the corner and COVID-19 cases are on the rise across California and the Sacramento region.
Over the summer, pediatricians have seen a lot of kids coming through their offices for sports physicals and to get their general vaccines, including the COVID vaccine.
Now, pediatricians are sounding the alarm that it's crucial for kids get the COVID vaccine even though it's not state mandated.
Dr. Steve Millar is a pediatrician at Kaiser Permanente and says a lot of parents are interested in allowing their kids to get the vaccine so they can live a more normal life.
There are two vaccines -- Moderna and Pfizer -- approved for children as young as six months.
Everybody over the age of 12 can get the booster, and kids who just turned 12 are now eligible for the adult booster.
Dr. Millar says getting the COVID vaccine is the best way to protect children as they head back to the classroom, but making sure your child has a mask when indoors gives an extra layer of protection.
“Certainly KN95 masks are fantastic. They do a good job of protecting you but you have the standard surgical mask, which is the mask that most people use, [which] offers a good deal of protection as well,” said Millar.
He recommends parents call their pediatricians as soon as possible because appointments are booking up fast. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/covid-cases-are-on-the-rise-how-to-keep-students-safe/103-0325d61b-b3d2-4606-80fe-d83eb9b857a5 | 2022-07-20T04:33:39 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/covid-cases-are-on-the-rise-how-to-keep-students-safe/103-0325d61b-b3d2-4606-80fe-d83eb9b857a5 |
ELK GROVE, Calif. — A second-grade teacher in the Elk Grove Unified School District will be representing California in the upcoming Mrs. American Pageant.
Karen Johnson, a teacher at Robert J. Fite Elementary School, was recently crowned Mrs. California American 2022. With the win, she bested 19 other competitors across the state and will head to Las Vegas to represent California in the 2022 Mrs. American Pageant.
Johnson has been with the district for 25 years.
“I’ve been a teacher for 30 years, so the value and importance of education is in my DNA,” Johnson said. “My students were close in heart as I competed. One of the questions the judges asked me was, ‘If you could have any superhero power, what would it be?’ My answer was to be able to speak every language fluently so that I could speak to my students in their native language. Students in my class speak at least 10 different languages, and I would love to have the ability to converse with them without losing anything in translation. The moment I won the title, I thought about them and I hope they are inspired to pursue their biggest dreams regardless of obstacles or challenging circumstances. No matter how many times you fall short, keep trying.”
The pageant takes place Aug. 19 and is available to view HERE.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/elk-grove/elk-grove-teacher-mrs-american-pageant/103-78a3458c-33fe-434a-8324-367c5f95a441 | 2022-07-20T04:33:45 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/elk-grove/elk-grove-teacher-mrs-american-pageant/103-78a3458c-33fe-434a-8324-367c5f95a441 |
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