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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The summer edition of Birmingham Restaurant Week starts Thursday, and the city kicked off the event with a preview party Tuesday night.
Around 50 restaurants, food trucks, bars and coffee shops are participating. Proceeds benefit Feed Bham, a program by the Grace Klein Community that assists residents facing food insecurity.
Birmingham Restaurant Week organizer Audrey Pannell said it’s a great way to support local businesses and give back to a great cause.
“It’s a great opportunity for people to try a new restaurant or to revisit one of their favorites that they haven’t been to in a while. It’s affordable. You can get two, three and four course meals at fine dining restaurants from $5 to $50 with $5 increments,” Pannell said.
Birmingham Restaurant Week runs through Saturday, July 30. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/birmingham-restaurant-week-kicks-off-thursday/ | 2022-07-20T12:17:44 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/birmingham-restaurant-week-kicks-off-thursday/ |
A man was taken into police custody after he stole a school bus and took police on a chase.
Police say the bus was stolen from the Philly Transportation LLC parking lot in North Philadelphia Tuesday evening.
After a brief pursuit, the driver jumped out of the bus at 13th and Norris streets just outside of Temple University's Tyler School of Art.
No one was injured, police said. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/man-in-stolen-school-bus-leads-chase-through-north-philadelphia/3304838/ | 2022-07-20T12:23:36 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/man-in-stolen-school-bus-leads-chase-through-north-philadelphia/3304838/ |
The first of six people charged with setting fire to police vehicles in Philadelphia during the 2020 protests after the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has been sentenced.
Ayoub Tabri, 25, was sentenced Monday to 364 days behind bars -- less time than he’s already served in custody, and short enough to avoid triggering deportation proceedings for the Moroccan immigrant.
Lawyers for Tabri, of Arlington, Va., said the green card holder has been in the U.S. since he was 6 years old. A longer sentence, which he and the others faced under the original arson charges that carried a minimum sentence of seven years in prison, could have sent him to a country where he knew no one and didn't speak the language, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Former U.S. Attorney Bill McSwain had vowed to pursue the harsher arson charges against the six people arrested. After he left office last year, federal prosecutors worked out plea deals with a handful of those defendants, including Tabri and Lore-Elizabeth Blumenthal. Still, prosecutors argued for a longer sentence in court Monday.
Tabri pleaded guilty in March to one count of obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder, according to court records.
“The judge took into consideration the appropriate factors and imposed a just sentence,” Nancy MacEoin, a federal public defender representing Tabri, said Tuesday.
Once released, Tabri will serve three years probation and have to pay about $87,000 in restitution for the Pennsylvania State Police car destroyed after he and others threw lit road flares into the vehicle.
Blumenthal, who pleaded guilty to two counts of obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder related to throwing a piece of burning police barrier at a police car, is scheduled to be sentenced later this month. Police used photos from the protest and social media profiles to find Blumenthal, 35, from Jenkintown, who was wearing a distinctive shirt investigators tracked down on Etsy and had a recognizable tattoo.
Attorney Paul Hetznecker declined to comment on the specifics of Blumenthal's case, but said the shift in prosecution against defendants facing charges from the protests is important.
“This reflects an evolution in the thinking of prosecutors in the justice department about these cases and putting them in the appropriate context," Hetznecker said. “These cases occurred at an important flashpoint in our history, and they should be viewed that way."
The case against Blumenthal was widely criticized by civil rights advocates, who worried it was a signal of policies promoting heavier social media and internet surveillance of dissidents. McSwain's initial charges also became a symbol of federal officials' zeal to pursue stiff penalties for those arrested during the nationwide protests.
Another defendant is scheduled for a plea hearing to lesser charges later this month. The three others charged in the police vehicle fires are slated to go to trial later this year. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/man-who-set-pa-trooper-car-ablaze-during-philly-george-floyd-protests-sentenced/3304041/ | 2022-07-20T12:23:42 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/man-who-set-pa-trooper-car-ablaze-during-philly-george-floyd-protests-sentenced/3304041/ |
SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — Two people were injured Tuesday night when a small plane made an emergency landing on a Snohomish County road.
The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO) said the two people in the plane were taken to the hospital with minor injuries. A dog was also in the plane at the time of the crash.
The sheriff’s office said the Federal Aviation Administration was expected to respond to the scene and investigate the crash Wednesday morning.
The “experimental aircraft” had “complete engine failure” around 10:20 p.m. and crashed on 228th Street Southeast south of 45th Avenue near the Canyon Park neighborhood in Bothell, according to Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue.
The SCSO said the 4200 block of 228th Street Southeast will remain closed “into the morning hours.”
The plane was headed to Paine Field in Everett when it experienced engine failure and struck high tension power lines on the way down, Snohomish Regional Fire & Rescue tweeted.
No one on the ground was injured in the crash.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana State Fair is unveiling deals and discounts for this year's festivities, which begin Friday, July 29.
The fair goes through Aug. 21 but will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
Since the fair is closed on Tuesdays this year, the popular $2 Tuesdays are gone. Instead, fairgoers can take advantage of $3 Thursdays presented by the Indiana Secretary of State, with $3 admission, $3 midway rides, and $3 food options at each food stand.
The following discounts are now available at the Indiana State Fair's website:
- $10 fair admission tickets. Available through July 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
- $8 parking pass. Available through July 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
- $25 midway wristbands. Available through July 31 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
- $40 family four-pack (includes one parking pass and four admission tickets). Available through July 28 at 11:59 p.m. ET.
Daily gate discounts will be offered on the following dates:
- Wednesday, Aug. 3: BMV Discount Day. $7 admission with a printed or digital voucher from in.gov/bmv.
- Thursday, Aug. 4: $3 Thursday presented by the Indiana Secretary of State. $3 admission, $3 midway rides and $3 food options at each food stand.
- Wednesday, Aug. 10: Free IndyStar Ticket Union Carpters' Day. A free admission ticket will be in the IndyStar on Thursday, Aug. 4, which can only be used Wednesday, Aug. 10.
- Thursday, Aug. 11: $3 Thursday presented by the Indiana Secretary of State. $3 admission, $3 midway rides and $3 food options at each food stand.
- Wednesday, Aug. 17: AAA Day. AAA cardholders can get free admission at the gate with a valid AAA membership card.
- Thursday, Aug. 18: $3 Thursday presented by the Indiana Secretary of State. $3 admission, $3 midway rides and $3 food options at each food stand.
Friday, Aug. 19: Military & First Responders' Day presented by Peterman Brothers. Free admission for first responders, current and former military, and their families with a valid ID at the gate.
In addition to daily discounts, fairgoers can enjoy free amenities each day at this year's fair, such as tractor shuttle rides, activities and entertainment at The Hoosier Lottery Free Stage.
Bicyclists can also save $1 on admission each day. Bicycle parking is available for free with secured bike racks on the Monon Trail, north of 38th Street.
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No one won the Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night, so now you have another chance to become a millionaire.
Mega Millions announced that this Friday night’s drawing is estimated at $630 million after Tuesday night’s drawing went unmatched.
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If a ticket matches Friday, the winner could walk away with $359.7 million, lottery officials said. That would be the fifth-largest prize in Mega Millions history, officials said.
The last time someone won a Mega Millions lottery was April 15 in Tennessee, officials said. The winner claimed $20 million.
This Mega Millions lottery is one of the top lotto jackpots ever in the U.S. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/630-million-up-for-grabs-after-no-mega-millions-jackpot-winner/ | 2022-07-20T12:44:09 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/630-million-up-for-grabs-after-no-mega-millions-jackpot-winner/ |
ORLANDO, Fla. – Florida Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer Services Nikki Fried will hold a virtual news conference Wednesday to introduce a framework to improve safety on thrill rides.
The push comes months after the death of Tyre Sampson, who fell from the Orlando FreeFall ride at ICON Park.
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Fried held a meeting a last month with state Sen. Randolph Bracey to discuss the investigation into Sampson’s death.
“The problem is that we don’t even know what was the ultimate cause and what was the causation, (so) that is certainly going to be something that is what is being investigated,” Fried said.
Sampson’s autopsy report was released last month and showed that the teen weighed about 100 pounds over the weight limit of the attraction, according to the ride manual.
Sampson’s dad recently demanded the dismantling of the Orlando FreeFall, saying a permanent memorial should be created for his son.
Bracey and state Rep. Geraldine Thompson are set to join Fried at the 9:30 a.m. news conference.
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Seminole County firefighters on Wednesday will distribute and install smoke detectors in a Sanford neighborhood after a recent fire badly damaged a home.
No one was injured in the blaze, which destroyed 60% of a home in the 1800 block of Harding Street.
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The home did not have any smoke detectors, according to the Seminole County Fire Department.
“In an effort to be proactive and educate residents on the importance of working smoke alarms, the Seminole County Fire Department will go door-to-door to distribute free smoke alarms and fire prevention education materials in the Sanford neighborhood of Lincoln Heights,” fire officials said in a news release.
The devices handed out in the community will be 10-year alarms with a lithium battery that won’t have to be replaced for a decade, officials said.
In addition, SCFD has over 450 free “bed shakers,” which alert those who are deaf or hard of hearing in the event a smoke alarm activates.
Last year, the Seminole County Fire Department distributed and installed over 5,700 smoke alarms as part of a federal grant.
The smoke alarms will be handed out from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., weather permitting. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/seminole-county-to-hold-smoke-alarm-blitz-after-sanford-house-fire/ | 2022-07-20T12:44:22 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/seminole-county-to-hold-smoke-alarm-blitz-after-sanford-house-fire/ |
LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — Officials are investigating the cause of a deadly fire in Luzerne County.
The fire started in a home along Parkview Drive in Plains Township around 2 p.m. on Tuesday.
Firefighters tell Newswatch 16 that the fire is not suspicious.
The investigation is being handled by the Plains Township police with assistance from state police and the Scranton Fire Department.
The victim's name has not yet been released.
There is no word on the cause of the fire.
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Sunday marked the 150th day since Brittney Griner’s incarceration.
The Phoenix Mercury star center was placed in a Russian jail cell on Feb. 17, after officials said they found vape cartridges containing a banned substance (hashish oil) at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.
The latest developments include Griner pleading guilty in a Moscow courtroom earlier in July. On Friday, Griner’s lawyer gave the Russian court a U.S. doctor’s letter that recommended her to use medical marijuana for any pain symptoms.
“I was in a rush packing and the cartridges accidentally ended up in my bags,” Griner said.
Griner wore a faded yellow Nirvana T-shirt and sat inside a defendant’s cage in the courtroom. At one point, she held up a photo of WNBA All-Star players wearing her name and jersey number on their uniforms in the All-Star Game this month in Chicago to show support.
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This decision to plead guilty was likely the best move for Griner. There is reportedly a 99% conviction rate in Russian criminal cases. She could spend up to 10 years behind bars, if convicted. Griner will testify at a later date.
Asked about the possibility of Griner being swapped for a Russian prisoner in the U.S., Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, the senior Russian diplomat, has noted that “there are no formal or procedural reasons to talk about any further steps” until her trial is over.
Griner’s defense presented its case Thursday and Friday -- the third and fourth days of the trial. The defense brought three witnesses -- all of whom represented the Russian team UMMC Ekaterinburg that Griner played for during the WNBA offseason. The three representatives were Maksim Ryabkov, the club’s director of operations, Yevgeniya Belyakova, a captain for the team and a former WNBA player, and Anatoly Kalabin, the team’s longtime doctor.
“Our task today was to tell the court about her characteristics as an athlete, as a person -- tell about how she played a big role in the success of the Ekaterinburg club and Russian women’s basketball as a whole,” Ryabkov told reporters outside the courthouse. “Today is the first day when we have seen our basketball player since February. Thank God, she feels well, looks good.”
Said Belyakova: “I can say that Brittney has always been a very good teammate, so my role here is just to be with her, to support her. We miss her very much. We miss her energy. I was very happy to see her, and I hope this trial will be over soon and with a positive outcome.”
Diana Taurasi, Griner’s teammate with the Mercury for the past nine seasons, played for the same Russian team from 2012 to 2017, and has spoken with Ryabkov recently.
“Maks is a big piece of Russian basketball,” Taurasi said after Thursday’s game against the Mystics. “I have a great relationship with him. We talk pretty often. I think they have the same sentiment as we do -- wanting BG obviously to come home. She’s been a big part of Russian basketball. She’s done a lot for the country.
“I chatted with [Maksim] a little bit [on Thursday]. He said they made eye contact [with Griner] and he saw a smile on her face. I’m sure that meant a lot to her for them to be there to defend her character and everything she’s done for them. So, hopefully this is all trending to a place where we can get her home as quickly as possible.”
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“It speaks to what a great person BG is and what a terrible situation that she’s in,” Nygaard said Thursday. “It’s wonderful to see them do that as an extension of our basketball community and the care that they have. That’s how you know their teammates. Those are their teammates. Most of their players just know how we feel. They feel that too, so I’m extremely grateful for those teammates and coaches to testify on their behalf and for all the people that are being outspoken and making this continue to be a forefront of the news story.” | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/the-latest-developments-of-brittney-griner-after-the-150-day-mark/article_2ac645bc-0785-11ed-8843-0bd3c4a16642.html | 2022-07-20T12:56:05 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/the-latest-developments-of-brittney-griner-after-the-150-day-mark/article_2ac645bc-0785-11ed-8843-0bd3c4a16642.html |
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- The son of a retired Manhattan Supreme Court judge killed his mother at their Upper East Side luxury building Tuesday and then jumped to his death while his father was out, senior law enforcement officials say
- No motive for the murder-suicide has been speculated upon at this point; the son, Doug Solomon, had no prior criminal history and no prior domestic issues with his mother, the father told detectives, according to senior law enforcement officials
- Charles Solomon retired in 2018 after serving three decades on the bench, during which time he oversaw headline-making cases such as Sean "P-Diddy" Combs' 2001 nightclub shooting trial, as well as a case involving former New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer and one of his mistresses
The 26-year-old son of a retired Manhattan Supreme Court judge allegedly bludgeoned his mother to death, possibly with a bed lamp, then jumped to his death from the family's Upper East Side luxury building in an apparent murder-suicide, according to two senior law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the case.
The judge, Charles Solomon, told police he left for work around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, the officials said. He said his wife, Diane Gallagher, and his son, Doug Solomon, were sleeping in their respective beds when he left their East 79th Street home.
Their bodies were discovered about two hours later after Doug Solomon jumped.
He had no history of criminal history and neither did his mother. Charles Solomon told detectives he and Doug were not close but that Doug was close to his mother, the senior law enforcement officials said. He also said he and his wife had discussed their son's future the night before.
It wasn't clear if that conversation could have led to a next-day argument between mother or son. No possible motive has been released.
Charles Solomon told authorities his son struggled in college and dropped out, then got heavily involved in alcohol and marijuana in recent years, the senior law enforcement officials said. But he said there was no known psychiatric history around Doug and that his son was not on any prescribed psychiatric medication.
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And there were no prior domestic incidents between Doug and Diane, the officials say Charles Solomon told investigators. He did say his son had a temper and that he could get frustrated if he didn't get his way, but it wasn't clear how that may have manifested.
The former judge told detectives he always thought if his son took his anger out on anyone in the family it would have been on him, the officials said.
They revealed chilling new details in the deaths on Wednesday, saying Diane Gallagher endured severe blunt force trauma to her head and face. She had a huge gash on her forehead and behind her right ear, the senior law enforcement officials said.
It appears there was petechial hemorrhage in Gallagher's eyes as well as some bruising that could have been caused by being choked or by extreme force to the skull, they said. A bedside lamp found in close proximity to her body is believed to be the murder weapon.
Doug Solomon jumped from a high altitude and was pronounced dead at the scene around 10:45 a.m. Tuesday. The officials said there were multiple abrasions on him consistent with wounds he would have suffered as he tried to squeeze his body through a narrow bedroom window. There was also a large open wound at the base of his back.
Sources had said Tuesday Doug Solomon had a daughter and was reportedly set to be married soon.
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State police probe possible shooting on I-94 near Lonyo in Detroit
Detroit — Michigan State Police are investigating a possible shooting Tuesday morning on Interstate 94, officials said.
Troopers were called at about 9 a.m. Tuesday to the home of a man who reported another motorist shot at his vehicle.
He told troopers he left work in Romulus and got onto eastbound I-94 at Ecorse Road. He said a red sedan tailgated him from Ecorse to Lonyo in Detroit. The sedan pulled next to him and he and its driver looked at each other, he said.
The victim told troopers the sedan's driver then fired a shot at his vehicle, damaging the rear door and window on its passenger side. He was not struck by any round and was not injured.
He said he exited at Livernois and went home. He told police he did not see where the other vehicle went.
Investigators said the victim could not provide further details or a description of the driver.
Meanwhile, state police temporarily closed the freeway to search for evidence of the incident but were unable to locate any.
Anyone with information about the incident or suspect should call the Michigan State Police's Metro South Post at (734) 287-5000 or Crime Stoppers of Michigan at 1 (800) SPEAK-UP. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/20/state-police-probe-possible-shooting-94-near-lonyo-detroit/10104734002/ | 2022-07-20T12:58:24 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/07/20/state-police-probe-possible-shooting-94-near-lonyo-detroit/10104734002/ |
BELL COUNTY, Texas — Turn off your hoses! The Bell-Milam-Falls Water Supply Corporation has announced new water restrictions for all its customers.
According to the water supply company, they have seen extreme water usage in the past few weeks. The company said its systems are no longer able to meet demand needs.
Starting on Wednesday, the company will begin enforcing stage one of their Drought Contingency and Emergency Water Demand Management Plan. The plan is in accordance with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Stage one of the plan bans any outside water usage from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., except for animal needs, according to the city.
Violators of the restrictions could face extra charges on their accounts or even a termination of service. The order will go into full effect no later than August 30, 2022.
If you feel as though you should be exempt from these restrictions, you can mail a request to the company's office at P.O. Box 150, Cameron, TX 76520.
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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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SAN ANTONIO — Police are investigating after three people were found with gunshot wounds inside a car on the southeast side of town early Wednesday morning.
San Antonio Police were called out to the 600 block of Carolina Street just after 4 a.m. for reports of a shooting.
When officers arrived, they found the three victims, a man in his 20s and two teens, inside a car with gunshot wounds. One victim was shot in the neck and the other two had gunshot wounds to their arm.
The teens told police that an unknown suspect drove by and shot them. Police said the shooting happened at another location and the victims then drove to the location where they were found by police. They could not give a description of the suspect(s) car.
The three were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Police are still investigating.
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CROP Hunger Walk raises over $25,000
BAY VIEW — The Little Traverse CROP Hunger Walk 2022 raised over $25,000 during the event on June 25.
Around 120 walkers and rockers participated in the effort to provide food assistance to those in need through MANNA of Harbor Springs and around the world through Church World Service.
More:Little Traverse CROP Hunger Walk scheduled for June 25 in Bay View
The day began with the Bay View Trio of Jim Barnes, Fred Marderness and Casey Robards providing music. The special guest was Carrie Klingelsmith, the new executive director of MANNA. Their group provided ice cream from Corner Scoops and water for all the participants after the walk.
Daniel Moser, Bay View's director of worship and religious life, led the participants in an invocation before the walk began. After the walk, several received massages from Shannon Kiernnan from Elite Massage & Bodyworks of Petoskey with all proceeds benefiting the walk.
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SBA center opens in Gaylord to expedite assistance for tornado victims
GAYLORD — The U.S. Small Business Administration has opened a disaster loan outreach center in Gaylord to expedite assistance for victims of the May 20 tornado.
The center is located in city hall at 305 E. Main St. and is open from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday. The office will remain open until July 28.
"We are offering low interest long-term disaster loans for homeowners, businesses, renters and nonprofits that were affected by the tornado," said Laurie Dana, a spokeswoman for the SBA.
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SBA customer service representatives will be at the center daily to answer questions and provide assistance completing disaster loan applications. Business consultants from the Small Business Development Center will be in the office on July 21, 26 and 28 to provide free assistance completing financial paperwork for applying for a disaster loan.
SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman made the loans available in response to a request from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The disaster declaration by the SBA means businesses and residents in the declared area can apply for low-interest disaster loans from the agency.
In addition to Otsego County, businesses and residents of Antrim, Charlevoix, Cheboygan, Crawford, Kalkaska, Montmorency and Oscoda counties are also eligible for assistance.
Even though the SBA is behind the program, renters are also encouraged to apply for assistance.
"Homeowners and renters can borrow to replace the contents of their home that was lost or damaged," Dana said.
"Homeowners and renters are important to the (local economy) and we want them to be able to recover," she added.
More:Gilchrist, Stamas pledge state help for Gaylord, county with tornado costs
Homeowners can borrow up to $200,000 to make repairs to their primary residence said Dana.
Dana said the loans may carry an interest rate as low as 1.68 percent.
"Homeowners may be able to get relocation or refinancing assistance. Businesses can apply for working capital loans to cover bills they weren't able to pay because of the storm. Even if a business didn't have property damage, it can apply for a loan to cover financial losses," Dana said.
In a statement, Guzman said “The SBA is strongly committed to providing the people of Michigan with the most effective and customer-focused response possible to assist businesses of all sizes, homeowners and renters with federal disaster loans."
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CEDAR FALLS — John Fink lived a simple, inspiring life.
He rode his bike everywhere and often played his guitar out front of the former Cedar Falls Mennonite Church building at Ninth and Clay streets, where he was the longtime groundskeeper and janitor.
Fink, a man in his 60s with high-functioning autism, called the basement of the church home for more than 20 years. He learned in recent months that he’d have to vacate the space because of plans to demolish it.
He unexpectedly took his own life Tuesday morning.
“He had a certain cadence and rhythm to him,” said the Rev. Bob Brown, pastor of the Mennonite Church, now located a few blocks from the building where Fink still lived. “He moved through life on his own terms.”
Signs of the Heritage Days weekend festivities are “everywhere. You can’t miss it.”
In the basement was an “apartment,” an old Sunday school classroom, where Claire DeBerg, now of Minneapolis, lived for about a year and a half. Fink had briefly moved out of the church, but returned to another living space in the basement during that time.
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DeBerg moved there while she was pregnant and continued living in church for a time after giving birth to her daughter, Gloria, in August 2002.
“We’d see each other every day. … He was easy going, and that’s when there was a baby in the mix,” DeBerg said. “I think he’d say the child was a nice part of the living arrangement.”
“He’d help me, listen and offer advice,” she said.
Additionally, she noted that he recorded the CD “Mahatma Johnny.”
“We played folk music and harmonized together,” DeBerg said. “He was an incredible musician.
“And he knew his history, especially music history.”
People came to associate him with cooking turkey bacon, too, and the basement smelling of it.
“When I heard of his passing, the flash I had of him was him sitting on the church step in the sun playing his guitar,” she added.
Her sister, Jennifer Sensenig, a pastor at the Mennonite Church from 1998 until 2003, said he was a “caring and free spirit” and “was never satisfied with the easy answer.”
“He was a person that was loved, and we loved him back,” she said.
The city would apply for a grant to conduct the survey that would allow it to “get a better idea” as to what “pockets” of historic properties are there.
One of the places he rode his bike during an typical week was the Your CBD Store on East Second Street.
“He was a wonderful person,” said owner Heather Stumberg. “He lived very simply and never worried about the little things.”
She said music was “his avenue” and helped him overcome challenges.
“He counseled me, and gave me a lot of advice,” she said. “He was wonderful to visit with, and just was a kind-hearted soul.”
Fink was educated about cannabinoids and healthy living. The two bonded over that.
“There was that instant connection,” Stumberg said.
When back home, he took care of the former church building and was a welcome presence.
“He was always so thoughtful in clearing the sidewalks of snow, or taking care of our classroom rabbits,” said Gretchen Koinzan, manager of Casa Montessori Preschool, which was once a tenant of the church congregation. “He was quiet, but happy, with a smiling face.”
She described how the kids got to know him.
“They loved getting to say hello, and they just loved when he would wave back,” Koinzan said.
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The 2-year-old Kouts boy, who was rushed to a Chicago hospital Sunday after reportedly shooting himself, has died, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Officer is reporting.
Wyatt Luczak was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, the report shows.
The agency listed in association with his case is the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network.
Porter County police were notified of the shooting at 11:06 a.m. Sunday and the child was initially taken to Franciscan Health Crown Point, Porter County Sheriff's Cpl. Ben McFalls had said.
The child was then transferred to the University of Chicago Medicine hospital, he said.
"This investigation is ongoing and we have no further information or comment regarding this case at this time," McFalls said.
He confirmed early Wednesday the case remains under investigation.
"Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time," McFalls said.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into the Porter County Jail
David Darwin
Arrest date: July 14, 2022
Age: 43
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number: 2202861
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Zachary Thompson
Arrest date: July 14, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202857
Charges: Theft, felony
Robin Bluntson
Arrest date: July 14, 2022
Age: 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number: 2202854
Charges: OWI, felony
Victoria Klarich
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number: 2202849
Charges: Battery, felony
Christopher Cathey III
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202845
Charges: Aggravated battery, felony
Jennifer Helton
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 45
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2202838
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Erik Huddleston II
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 38
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202844
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
David Gonzalez
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 31
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202816
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
John Vann
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 27
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202819
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
David Arambula
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 40
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202821
Charges: Dealing in cocaine or a narcotic drug, felony
Jake Chalabis
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 20
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202826
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Tyler Cuevas
Arrest date: July 11, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202809
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Douglas Spencer
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number: 2202798
Charges: OWI, felony
Myles Whitfield
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number: 2202799
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Stephen Rusnak
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 46
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202800
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Katelynn Allsbury
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202801
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Brett Hunt
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202802
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Luciano Mercado Jr.
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number: 2202786
Charges: OWI, felony
Gail Tigue
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 62
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202787
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Heather Carter
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 46
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2202795
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Andrew Dekock
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number: 2202789
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Ilija Labovic
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202783
Charges: Dealing in marijuana, hash oil, hashish, salvia, felony
Kenneth Campbell
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 61
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number: 2202784
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Kellieasha Anderson
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 23
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202785
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Carl Ayala
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 19
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2202788
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Mark Bogart Jr.
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 36
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202782
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Mariusz Szlembarski
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 26
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number: 2202766
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Dominique Swift
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 25
Residence: Kalamazoo, MI
Booking Number: 2202764
Charges: Possession cocaine or a narcotic drug, felony
Jerome Richards
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 58
Residence: Kalamazoo, MI
Booking Number: 2202763
Charges: Possession cocaine or a narcotic drug, felony
Nicole Maslanka
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202776
Charges: OWI, felony
Luz Martinez
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2202768
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Laurie Lucchesi
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 36
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202765
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
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HAMMOND — A federal judge imprisoned an East Chicago man for contributing to a street gang’s history of violent crime.
Joseph “Dro” Roggenkamp, 24, received a 9-year sentence Tuesday.
U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon imposed that prison term following Roggenkamp’s 2020 guilty plea to a racketeering conspiracy charge that Roggenkamp was member of the Latin Dragon Nation.
Roggenkamp is among 19 people a federal grand jury first indicted in 2017 with trafficking illicit drugs and firearms as a member of the Chicago-based street gang that also operates in Hammond.
He pleaded guilty to the felony count under an agreement with the U.S. attorney to avoid an even harsher sentence had a federal jury found him guilty of several violent crimes he committed for the gang.
Roggenkamp admitted in his plea deal that:
He was in the company of other Latin Dragons on April 30, 2017, who shot a rival gang member in the head. He shot another rival gang member in the back July 14, 2017. He tried to silence a witness to a murder by a fellow Latin Dragon, Manuel "Smiley" Diaz, 31, of Hammond. Diaz is serving a 35-year prison term for fatally shooting Charles Berrios, 50, of Hammond, in the head Sept. 30, 2017, near Indianapolis Boulevard and Howard Avenue in Hammond.
Police said Berrios was trying to stop Diaz from attacking another man with whom Diaz had been arguing.
Federal prosecutors were seeking a longer sentence, but defense attorneys Roy Dominguez and Susan Severtson argued to the court Roggenkamp had no prior criminal record and a difficult childhood.
They said Roggenkamp was only 4 years old when his father died in a gang-related killing. His mother suffered from alcoholism, and he grew up in a gang-infested Chicago neighborhood.
He moved at age 12 to East Chicago where he played football but joined the Latin Dragons for safety because he was bullied by Latin Kings members.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Kyra Willis
Age : 29
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206110
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Thien
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206094
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEH AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER; POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kevin Rodriguez
Age : 36
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206098
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Thomas Silaj
Age : 34
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206096
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Moore III
Age : 47
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206095
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Arionn Parent
Age : 52
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206108
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Philbin
Age : 34
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206105
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Germon Jones
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206101
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole McGregor
Age : 30
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206078
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Courtney Johnson
Age : 39
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206112
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeff Henderson Jr.
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206090
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Dukes
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206083
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Edwards Jr.
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206082
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jasmine Clayton
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206079
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Ballard
Age : 58
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206092
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dawn Burton
Age : 56
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206091
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tre'Vion Carlisle
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206086
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Asfall
Age : 33
Residence: Sacramento, CA
Booking Number(s): 2206106
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Aguero Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206081
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Suckey
Age : 36
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206045
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Simona Trajceski
Age : 27
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206050
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrew Stover
Age : 35
Residence: Steger, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206068
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Storey Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206047
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE; DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jason Sivak
Age : 43
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206067
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Annette Roberts
Age : 48
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206060
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph McLeroy
Age : 48
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206066
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Kewon Price
Age : 21
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206073
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Huemmer
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206041
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Henderson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206054
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tamika Graves
Age : 42
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206058
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER (ATTEMPTED)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Gross
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206059
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jamey Goin
Age : 44
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206051
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antonio Collins
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206071
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brigida Fortoso Gomez Rodriguez
Age : 49
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206056
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - STRANGULATION - AGAINST A PREGNANT WOMAN
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Missy Buhrmester
Age : 30
Residence: Linden, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206049
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Geno Carta
Age : 29
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206075
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Glorivette Bonilla
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206063
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin Seramur
Age : 31
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206013
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vashon Sherman
Age : 33
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206020
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hannah Wagner
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206039
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jessica Whitlow
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206015
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Santiago Reyes
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206018
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Schulten
Age : 38
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206029
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Plucinski
Age : 49
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206021
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Popa
Age : 40
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206009
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alan Hughes
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206010
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Johnson
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206011
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melissa Johnston
Age : 39
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206031
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stafford Henderson
Age : 64
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206016
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vincent Banks
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206019
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Bowersox
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206023
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Francisco Flores
Age : 32
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206035
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stewart Foley IV
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206037
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Kryda
Age : 32
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205991
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Hanaway
Age : 30
Residence: Medaryville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205988
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Derek Johnson
Age : 60
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205999
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Favian Juarez
Age : 25
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206005
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Haddock
Age : 42
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206000
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Dobos
Age : 29
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205998
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mary Granter
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205986
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Charles Barber
Age : 42
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206003
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE; BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Michael Warren
Age : 62
Residence: Beecher, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205965
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jereyl Willis
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205977
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Zeondre Shenault
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205978
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Stovall Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205973
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tasha Barnes
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205982
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eugene Golston
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205980
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Charlene Sandoval
Age : 60
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205974
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamarr Thompson
Age : 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205959
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dyron Wash
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205963
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Zurawski
Age : 35
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205956
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus Lucio
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205955
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Angelee Luick
Age : 28
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205947
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; INTIMIDATION; BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Gilbert Ortiz
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205951
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesus Perez Jr.
Age : 28
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205946
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Carmella Lawrence
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205948
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Gilliam
Age : 47
Residence: Grant Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205957
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Orlando Guerra
Age : 47
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205954
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rondell Johnson
Age : 23
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205950
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Bennett
Age : 28
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205943
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Bermingham
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205952
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Veronica Quijano
Age : 29
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205913
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alantae Thornton
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205908
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Armaun McKenzie
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205927
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert McKenzie Jr.
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205920
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharita Parks
Age : 38
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205911
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angelos Lujano
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205918
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - HANDGUN - W/NO PERMIT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffrey Lambert
Age : 49
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205898
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paris Larkin Jr.
Age : 26
Residence: Park Forest, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205915
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kemetka Leftridge
Age : 44
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205894
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deauntre Lester
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205919
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Kaufman
Age : 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205897
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cordarryl Jones
Age : 35
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205914
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Olivia Justice
Age : 18
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205904
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Pamela Jenkins Reynolds
Age : 51
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205901
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Irvin
Age : 44
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205909
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nedal Hamed
Age : 40
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205895
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY; ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Quinton Hicks
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205910
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cortney Dixon
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205923
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Agee
Age : 26
Residence: Ford Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205912
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Brown Jr.
Age : 43
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205902
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Buczek
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205903
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamont Walls
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205861
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rickey Washington
Age : 31
Residence: Danville, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205862
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jessica Sanchez
Age : 24
Residence: Cicero, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205878
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Monique Smoot
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205874
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Davion Torry
Age : 21
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205854
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Kirkland
Age : 37
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205853
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - PROMOTING PROSTITUTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amber Mackey
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205855
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel McGraw
Age : 36
Residence: Rensselaer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205875
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Purkey
Age : 34
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205871
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Marta Rodriguez
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205869
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; FALSE REPORTING - REPORT, CRIME, OR COMPLAINT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Nyia Hunter
Age : 22
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205881
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stacy Gorgas
Age : 44
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205856
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrei Guta
Age : 19
Residence: Baltimore, MD
Booking Number(s): 2205872
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Garcia
Age : 25
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205852
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dustin Freely
Age : 54
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205868
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Matthew Creekbaum
Age : 39
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205873
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Saya Dhiman
Age : 22
Residence: Palatine, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205891
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andrea Brown
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205867
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Clark
Age : 44
Residence: Grffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205860
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Bonner
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205850
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - W/PRIOR AN UNRELATED CONVICTION REFERENCE SAME PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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VALPARAISO — A pedestrian struck and injured by a vehicle Tuesday night in the area of Calumet Avenue and Wall Street was flown out by helicopter to receive medical care, police said.
Valparaiso police reported being at the scene around 10 p.m. and had warned motorists to avoid the area while the investigation was underway.
"The investigation is on-going and will result in Calumet Ave. being closed for an extensive amount of time in both directions," Valparaiso police Capt. Joe Hall said. "The intersection of Calumet Ave. and Wall St. may also be affected due to the investigation."
Police provided no further details.
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The injuries that caused 8-month-old Maci Moor's death in April 2016 could have happened in an instant, a Lake County supervisory deputy prosecutor said.
Raquel M. McCormick, 50, had a difficult time saying "guilty" when Lake Criminal Court Judge Samuel Cappas asked her how she pleaded to one count of voluntary manslaughter, a level 2 felony.
A pedestrian struck and injured by a vehicle Tuesday night in the area of Calumet Avenue and Wall Street was flown out by helicopter to receive medical care, police said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/valpo-pedestrian-flown-out-for-care-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-police-say/article_b7aba882-2e53-536a-986b-a41a0b8a4fec.html | 2022-07-20T13:16:27 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/valpo-pedestrian-flown-out-for-care-after-being-struck-by-vehicle-police-say/article_b7aba882-2e53-536a-986b-a41a0b8a4fec.html |
DALLAS — As temperatures across Texas continue to come near or pass all-time records this summer, demand on the energy grid has too.
On Monday, ERCOT showed demand setting a new record with an even higher record expected Tuesday followed by a third new peak on Wednesday, with demand forecast at 81.6 gigawatts (GW).
For perspective, prior to 2022, the all-time record was 74.8 GW set in 2019.
“What we’re experiencing right now is going to be our new normal for a while,” said Michele Richmond, the executive director of Texas Competitive Power Advocates.
TCPA represents 60% of all generation on the grid and says the generators holding up the grid are getting older.
Last week, ERCOT issued two conservation notices, but this week, despite the records, they don’t except any because of stronger wind and fewer thermal outages.
“We are currently doing everything we can to make sure that that doesn’t occur,” Richmond said.
Demand this high, and rapidly trending higher, isn’t sustainable without change.
“If you’re not paying attention to climate and you’re operating a grid, you’re going to be unprepared,” said Doug Lewin, a clean energy consultant with Stoic Energy.
ERCOT’s beginning of the year forecast was off significantly. The grid operator predicted a July demand peak of 74.9 GW. Lewin and Richmond both worry about old generators that have been forced to put off scheduled maintenance this year to keep up with the high demand.
“If you’ve got an old car, you don’t want to put off your maintenance because then you risk something catastrophic breaking,” Richmond said. “It’s the same kind of situation for these aging machines.”
“You’re taking your 50-year-old car, not getting the oil changed and running it at 80, 90, 100 miles an hour every day,” Lewin said. “Something’s going break.”
Where the pair differ is on solutions. Richmond says the Public Utility Commission needs to change priorities from affordability to reliability, meaning pushing for more thermal generation than wind or solar.
“Getting this market design change to emphasize reliability is absolutely critical to the future of our grid,” she said.
“It would be folly to choose one over the other,” Lewin says of reliability over affordability. “That is a false choice.”
Lewin says bills would skyrocket beyond the sharp gains customers are already feeling because of the high cost of building new thermal generators.
“Any vision for the future for the Texas grid or any other grid that just says affordability isn’t a concern is ludicrous and crazy,” he said.
His vision is more solar and more costal wind and, equally important, better energy efficiency.
This week, Texas should be in the clear, but any outage now or later this year would again create questions about the future of the grid in the heat or the cold. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-energy-experts-say-extreme-demand-generators-postpone-maintenance/287-054ba767-d83f-402a-9870-a9180e8c8704 | 2022-07-20T13:17:35 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-energy-experts-say-extreme-demand-generators-postpone-maintenance/287-054ba767-d83f-402a-9870-a9180e8c8704 |
DALLAS — A woman and her daughter are suing Taco Bell after employees at one of the restaurants in Dallas allegedly dumped a bucket of boiling water on them, causing severe burns and brain function damage.
Lawyers for the victims are asking for more than $1 million in damages from the defendants: Yum! Brands, Taco Bell Corp., Taco Bell of America, North Texas Bells, and the two unidentified employees involved — named in the suit as John Doe and Jane Doe. The victims are being represented by Ben Crump and Paul Grinke.
The incident occurred June 17 when Brittany Davis and her daughter, a minor child identified in the lawsuit only as C.T., entered the Taco Bell at 11829 Abrams Road.
"Our hearts break for these two victims whose lives are forever changed because of the horrific and damaging actions by the Taco Bell manager and the larger entities that failed to protect the safety of their customers," Crump and Grinke wrote in a news release. "Not only did Brittany and C.T. suffer physical trauma because of the burns, but they will now live with the psychological trauma that comes with an attack like this. Corporations have a duty to employ quality and stable employees who hold safety as the highest priority."
After their $31 order had been prepared twice incorrectly in the drive-thru, the two customers entered the Taco Bell with their receipt and food bag, with an employee letting them into a dining room and locking the door behind them, according to the lawsuit.
After discussing the order with these two customers for nearly 10 minutes, the employees refused to prepare the food they had paid for, the suit says, and became "combative."
"Inexplicably, the Taco Bell manager, a Hispanic female, (Jane Doe) who had not been involved in any of the conversations in the dining room, came from behind the counter with a scalding bucket of water and poured it onto C.T. and Brittany," the suit reads. "This water hit C.T. in the face and chest with the boiling water running down her body and soaking into her clothes. Ms. Davis was also hit by the water in the chest."
The two victims tried to run out of the Taco Bell, screaming, but the door had been locked. While they were trying to unlock the door, the suit states the manager came back with a second bucket of boiling water to throw on them, but the two were able to escape beforehand.
The suit says the two victims ran to their car and C.T. began taking off her clothes to try and minimize the burning, while her mother began having seizures due to the trauma.
"As this family was leaving the parking lot, a Taco Bell employee came outside the front door, laughing, clapping, and taunting the family—adding insult to horrific injury," the suit states.
C.T. ran into the emergency room naked to get help for her mother, who was still suffering seizures and burns from not being able to take her clothes off, the suit says. Davis's clothes had to be cut off with the skin still attached by hospital staff, and she was then care-flighted to an ICU burn unit in Dallas.
"Brittany suffered deep burns on her chest and stomach with significant damage to her brain function due to the seizures causing her to lose some of her memory," the suit reads.
Between the time of having the boiling water poured on her and making it to the ICU burn unit, Davis had suffered at least 10 seizures, the suit says.
"C.T. suffered severe burns to her face, chest, legs, arms, and stomach. The burns on her face will cause discoloring and scarring that will forever impact her self-image," the suit states. "When C.T. was released home from the hospital, her mother had to remove all mirrors from the walls, as C.T. could not bear to see her own face. The burns to the rest of her body caused her skin to bubble the size of softballs."
Charges against the defendants include negligence on the part of the two employees, who the suit states had a duty to exercise ordinary care and had breached that by failing to protect or consider the well-being of their customers.
The suit also charges negligent hiring, training, retention and supervision on the part of the corporations named in the suit, who the suit says had a duty to hire safe, competent employees and enforce safety policies and procedures and take action to control their employees to prevent injuries to customers.
This Taco Bell and the surrounding block have a history of criminal activity causing bodily harm to patrons, according to the suit.
"Defendants [North Texas Bells] and [Taco Bell of America] knew or should have known about the criminal history both on their premises and in the surrounding area including criminal activity that resulted in bodily harm," the suit states. "In fact, this same address had multiple reported criminal incidents in the weeks prior to the incident that are in the public record." | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/woman-daughter-suing-taco-bell-manager-pours-bucket-boiling-water-over-them/287-31c889a0-9681-4752-9309-f1c498c5a67f | 2022-07-20T13:17:45 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/woman-daughter-suing-taco-bell-manager-pours-bucket-boiling-water-over-them/287-31c889a0-9681-4752-9309-f1c498c5a67f |
ST CHARLES, Mo. — Most people would try to run away from a robbery situation, but one customer felt called to run toward it.
His courageous effort ended in a deadly shooting, which possibly saved more lives than the one lost.
"Taking somebody's life is not an everyday thing, neither is saving someone's life," the customer, who wished to remain anonymous said.
Those thoughts now consume his mind after not only witnessing an armed robbery Saturday morning at a St. Charles QuikTrip but also stepping in to stop it.
"He grabbed a backpack and ran inside, looking for I guess the clerk. I saw him grab her and drag her to the front to the counter, something wasn't right when I saw that, so me being concealed carry, I had my gun on me and I just waited," the customer said.
The customer saw it all unfold from his car, parked in front of the QT on First Capitol Drive.
"I walked up to the door and I saw him with a knife to her throat. She was emptying out the cash register and I took a step in and peeked my head in to ask if everything was okay. I couldn't see his face but he was saying yes, but I could see her face she was saying no, she was scared," he said.
Police named the robbery suspect 26-year-old Lance Bush from St. Louis City. "I pulled my gun up and I asked him are you sure everything's okay and that's when the suspect said 'no it's not okay, but I got something for you and he grabbed his bag, ran from around the counter and started running towards me and that's when I fired shots," the customer said.
He recalls shooting four times before Bush fell to the floor. Shortly after he told the clerk to call the police, he did as well.
"I don't think I honestly had a choice. He already had a knife at her throat, he could've pulled out something bigger than what I had then you would've had two people dead instead of one," he said.
His previous experience, training with guns and handling emergency situations, made him feel compelled to step in when other customers ran away.
"Instinct I would say. Instinct that's just it. I guess knowing that I'm protected, I can protect somebody else," he said.
He stayed at the scene when police arrived to find Bush shot.
Bush was transported to the hospital and died.
"Every time you second guess if you have to take a life, but you also have to think was it for the greater good and my answer is yes," the customer said.
Police believe Bush is tied to two other armed robberies that happened within the hour earlier that morning.
They found the black SUV he was driving was stolen from Maryland Heights on Friday. The customer was detained and released.
At this time, he says he has not been charged. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/customer-shot-killed-armed-robber-st-charles-quiktrip-stlouis-missouri/63-bc66b748-2d2d-4c8b-9d5e-d3c431c574f8 | 2022-07-20T13:24:05 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/customer-shot-killed-armed-robber-st-charles-quiktrip-stlouis-missouri/63-bc66b748-2d2d-4c8b-9d5e-d3c431c574f8 |
DANVILLE, Va. – Danville’s Lidl grocery store will be closing its doors on July 31.
The company confirmed the information to 10 News Wednesday morning, stating that the difficult decision was made because a store performance evaluation showed that the store is underperforming.
The store opened in Danville in September 2017 and was the first Lidl grocery store to open in Southwest Virginia.
Officials say this closure will allow it to put its focus on locations where they are seeing significant growth.
In the meantime, the company will continue to explore a variety of options for the real estate, including evaluations of offers to sell the property as well.
“We appreciate the hard work of every member of the team and all employees will have the opportunity to relocate to a different store within Lidl’s growing store network,” said Chandler Spivey, the Public Relations Manager for Lidl. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/danvilles-lidl-grocery-store-to-close-on-july-31-due-to-underperformance/ | 2022-07-20T13:24:24 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/danvilles-lidl-grocery-store-to-close-on-july-31-due-to-underperformance/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – It’s hard being without your best friend. Luckily, that won’t be the case for a Mallard duck and Canada goose who became BFFs during their stay at the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center.
The Center announced on Wednesday that the duo will be returning home together on Thursday, July 21 at 4 p.m. in a release at the Virginia Tech Duck Pond Gazebo.
Like most friendships, theirs started off unexpectedly. The center says the two became friends after being in rehab for a few months at the center.
The female Mallard duck was admitted on May 27 and could hardly stand or walk. After a further look, officials discovered that she was emaciated, was missing feathers on her lower back, had no tail, several large blood wounds and a leg that was broken in two different places.
The male goose was admitted about a month later as a small gosling. The center says he had a low chance of survival given that he was alone and away from his parents.
The center took the goose in and was able to raise him there.
The duck has had quite the transformation since her admission and can now walk, swim and fly normally. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/southwest-virginia-wildlife-center-of-roanoke-to-release-mallard-duck-and-canada-goose/ | 2022-07-20T13:24:30 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/southwest-virginia-wildlife-center-of-roanoke-to-release-mallard-duck-and-canada-goose/ |
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Late in the summer of 2004, Los Altos landlord Judy Fusco made her then-newly refurbished six-bedroom, 4.5-bathroom property in Los Altos available for rent. As reported by the New York Post, Fusco's first tenants were none other than Facebook founders Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz and Sean Parker.
At the time, Fusco's asking price was $5,500 a month. Eighteen years later? The home has been re-listed for twice that amount: $11,000 per month.
Even adjusting for inflation, that's a huge increase. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, $5,500 in September 2004 (when the home was first rented out by the Facebook founders) is the equivalent of $8,582 today.
The rental option is also an abrupt change from a few months ago, when the approximately 3,000-square-foot property was listed for sale at $5.3 million. That dropped to $4.998 million after a couple weeks on the market, and it remained for sale until July 15, when the listing was removed and replaced by the $11,000-per-month rental ask.
There's a bit of controversy about how much of Facebook's origin story can be traced back to this address. Moskovitz previously tweeted that there's "nothing historic about this house. We launched Facebook from the Harvard dorm." He wrote a whole thread about the aforementioned New York Post story, alleging that Fusco "made up" many of the anecdotes she relayed, including that the Winklevoss twins got in an argument with Zuckerberg on the property. "Judy Fusco is a clever realtor, but I hope the new owners don't assume this is true," he ended the thread.
If you're willing to look past some potentially inflated historical significance, the property has other attractive offerings, as you'd expect for a home valued in the millions of dollars. On Zillow, the listing agent notes that the home sits at the end of a cul-de-sac "with a personalized soundwall in the expansive backyard and gazebo perfect for BBQs and get-togethers." There are large bay windows in the living room, plus lots of natural light throughout. The front-facing balcony looks lovely, too.
All spots where young Zuckerberg may or may not have been plotting a global platform that has since pivoted to virtual and augmented reality after racking up an entire Wikipedia page of controversies. | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/mark-zuckerberg-house-rent-doubles-17313428.php | 2022-07-20T13:27:33 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/mark-zuckerberg-house-rent-doubles-17313428.php |
Thousands of dollars in rare dolls were allegedly stolen from an Oakland woman’s home last week, rocking the online doll community and stumping collectors everywhere.
An “ongoing art project” that she started during the pandemic, educator Kirsten Seymour says that she spent an estimated $18,000 to $20,000 on her family of unique, customized Blythe dolls. She also spent years on their character development and story lines, building elaborate miniature apartments inside suitcases and photographing them for her small but dedicated Instagram following.
The Guardian says that these dolls were introduced in the U.S. in 1972 but were discontinued after just one year because their enormous, glassy eyes and disproportionately large heads were considered too disturbing for children. However, their scarcity — and distinct appearance — are precisely what gave them a cult following among adults, especially on community photography sites like Flickr.
They’re not cheap, either. Some custom Blythe dolls on Etsy sell for a staggering $10,000, and on Ebay, originals are typically listed between $1,000 and $2,000. But for Seymour, it’s not about their extrinsic value. “People are attracted to them because they can convey a lot of emotion for storytelling,” she says.
When the pandemic took hold of the Bay Area, she used them to create what she calls “photographic novels”: tiny, detailed scenes that she photographs and chronicles on Instagram. Through the app, parents, their kids and other doll enthusiasts follow each character’s story. To date, she has more than 100 photos of them in colorful, baroque apartments complete with staged art and furniture. “It's sort of like how kids would imagine living on their own,” she continues. “I take it through the mind and eyes of a child.”
Seymour says that a dozen of her dolls disappeared last Thursday when she and her husband were in the process of moving. They had briefly left to get a rental truck, and by the time they returned, things inside their home felt off. When she saw a painting placed mysteriously close to the front entrance, dresser drawers opened and bubble wrap torn off one of her suitcases, that’s when she suspected they had been robbed. “And then I stood back and I counted my suitcases and one was missing,” she says. Shortly after, she realized it was the one full of her dolls. “And that's when I was super upset.” Later, she says she she discovered her purse and $2,400 in cash were missing, too.
Since then, she says she has gone to the Oakland Police Department and reported the incident, but says they haven’t done anything to help (OPD didn’t answer SFGATE’s questions about whether there’s currently an investigation). As a result, she’s offering a $5,000 reward for anyone who can locate her missing dolls and is continuing to reach out to law enforcement in Berkeley and Oakland.
Though she’s heartbroken over her loss, she says that she’s received an overwhelming response from the community and is even receiving some new tenants at “Suitcase City” in the meantime. “This news of who will be moving into and subletting the apartments is such a thoughtful, kind and generous gift,” she wrote in a post punctuated by heart emojis. “I will share the girls when they arrive." | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/rare-blythe-dolls-stolen-17315824.php | 2022-07-20T13:27:39 | 0 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/rare-blythe-dolls-stolen-17315824.php |
One person is dead after a shooting at Branched Oak Lake sometime late Tuesday night about 20 miles northwest of Lincoln's city limit, according to authorities.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office is investigating the homicide, the agency said in a social media post Wednesday morning. Authorities will release additional details on the shooting at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
The agency's incident log indicates deputies were dispatched to the lake's marina, south of West Davey Road and Northwest 98th Street, just before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The reported shooting death marks the second suspected killing recorded in Lancaster County this year outside of Lincoln city limits. The first occurred last week. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/one-killed-in-shooting-at-branched-oak-lake-lancaster-county-sheriff-says/article_a517f009-1b56-546d-b2c9-2f4c0c711ccc.html | 2022-07-20T13:38:10 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/one-killed-in-shooting-at-branched-oak-lake-lancaster-county-sheriff-says/article_a517f009-1b56-546d-b2c9-2f4c0c711ccc.html |
Teachers and students at Robb Elementary School knew the safety protocols when an 18-year-old with an AR-15 style rifle entered the building in May. Dozens of times in the previous four months alone, the campus had gone into lockdown or issued security alerts.
Not because of active shooter scares -- because of nearby, often high-speed pursuits of migrants coming from the U.S.-Mexico border.
An entire generation of students in America has grown up simulating lockdowns for active shooters, or worse, experiencing the real thing. But in South Texas, another unique kind of classroom lockdown occurs along the state's 1,200-mile southern border: hunkering down because Border Patrol agents or state police are chasing migrants who are trying to evade apprehension.
The frequency of lockdowns and security alerts in Uvalde -- nearly 50 between February and May alone, according to school officials -- are now viewed by investigators as one of the tragic contributors to how a gunman was able to walk into a fourth-grade classroom unobstructed and slaughter 19 children and two teachers. Although a slow and bungled police response remains the main failure, a damning new report by the Texas House says recurring lockdowns in Uvalde created a "diminished sense of vigilance."
With a new school year now just weeks away in heavily patrolled South Texas, there are worries the lockdowns will resume and deepen the trauma for scarred students in Uvalde, as migrant crossings remain high and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott continues expanding a massive border security operation.
"That's what it probably was, just complacency, because it does happen on a frequent basis," said Uvalde County Justice of the Peace Eulalio "Lalo" Diaz Jr., who had to identify the bodies of the dead at Robb Elementary.
The new findings that a culture of lockdowns in Uvalde played some role in the failures on May 24 reflects how one of the worst school shootings in U.S. history intersected with immigration policies and thousands of Border Patrol agents, National Guard members and state police assigned to apprehend migrants and stop drug traffickers. Of the nearly 400 law enforcement officers at the scene of Robb Elementary, more than half were Border Patrol agents or state police, according to the report.
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On Tuesday, over the span of just 20 minutes, eight state police vehicles and Border Patrol SUVs cruised through Uvalde's central square, less than a mile from Robb Elementary.
Uvalde is about an hour's drive from the border with Mexico, located at the crossroads of two major state highways. Nearby are the cities of Pearsall, Dilley and Karnes - all of which have immigration detention centers with some of the nation's highest populations. More than 4,500 detainees in total were at the three facilities as of June 2022, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Jazmin Cazares, whose 9-year-old sister Jacklyn was among the students killed, told Texas lawmakers in June that no one in the school district took lockdowns seriously "until that day." She said she is now terrified to return for her senior year in the fall. "Am I going to survive it? Unbelievable," Cazares said.
Even the first officers on scene at Robb Elementary wondered whether the threat was a so-called "bailout" -- the term used by law enforcement along the border to describe suspected migrants or drug traffickers who have fled. Pete Arrendondo, the embattled Uvalde school police chief who has become the target of angry demands by parents to resign or be fired, told the House committee the thought crossed his mind since it happens so often.
The gunman entered Robb Elementary at 11:33 a.m. One minute earlier, according to the report, a fourth-grade teacher in Room 105 received a lockdown alert and made sure her classroom door was locked. That teacher also told the committee she saw a teacher across the hall locking the door in Room 112, one of two adjoining rooms where the shooting occurred.
The shooter is believed to have entered the classroom through Room 111, which was known to have trouble locking properly.
The signal the school's alert system sends out does not specify the potential threat. And because of the prevalence of lockdowns in recent months, according to the report, many teachers and administrators "assumed it was another bailout."
"Bailouts" has become an increasingly common part of Uvalde's vernacular in the last year as the area has become extraordinarily busy with migrants crossing illegally, largely from countries outside Mexico and northern Central America.
The Border Patrol sector based in Del Rio, Texas - one of nine along the Mexican border - was the most transited corridor for illegal crossings in June, replacing Texas' Rio Grande Valley. For much of the year, the two South Texas sectors have posted similar numbers of border encounters, well ahead of the others in California, Arizona, New Mexico and West Texas.
While many migrants turn themselves in to the Border Patrol in the border towns of Del Rio and Eagle Pass - each about an hour's drive from Uvalde - many seek to elude capture for hours or days, hiding in "stash houses" or in tall fields of corn and other crops for smugglers to pick them up at a previously agreed location for the drive to San Antonio.
The committee report said there had been no incidents of "bailout-related" violence on Uvalde school campuses before the shooting. High-speed driving sometimes crossed school parking lots, according to the report, which also said some pursuits involved firearms in surrounding neighborhoods.
Diaz, the Uvalde justice of the peace, serves as a magistrate when police make arrests in the area as part of the governor's massive border mobilization known as Operation Lone Star. He sets bail for people taken into custody for alleged human or drug smuggling, but also for crimes unrelated to national security, like minor drug charges.
He said Abbott's operation hasn't made Uvalde safer.
"These people who are coming through don't want to be in Uvalde," said Diaz. "They are looking to get away from the border and we're too close."
Over the last decade, many police departments have shifted away from having officers engage in car chases because they are a danger to the public. A 2017 report from the Justice Department found that between 1996 and 2015 police pursuits killed an average of 355 people annually, with nearly a third of those killed in vehicles not involved in the chases.
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin, who said he has not spoken to Abbott for nearly a month, has called on the governor to do even more on the border to curb migrant crossings. With classes set to re-start in less than two months, he worries about "the bailouts by the schools and so forth" and said "it needs to stop."
Angie Villescaz, who grew up in Uvalde and after the shooting founded the Latina mothers advocacy group Fierce Madres with local moms, said the border rhetoric is a distraction from the most pressing issue.
"They've always wanted to keep the narrative about securing the border," Villescaz said, "and now they can't because it's about securing our schools."
Coronado reported from Austin, Texas. Associated Press writer Paul J. Weber in Austin, Texas, contributed to this report. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/nearly-50-alerts-and-lockdowns-since-february-may-have-contributed-to-uvalde-tragedy/3019158/ | 2022-07-20T13:38:56 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/nearly-50-alerts-and-lockdowns-since-february-may-have-contributed-to-uvalde-tragedy/3019158/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Steelton-Highspire Junior/Senior High School is trying a new approach to summer school, by motivating students through project-based learning.
In addition to the usual courses like math, English, and history, students are designing projects to improve their school, then spending three weeks to build and landscape their projects.
“A lot of people think about it and think, ‘This is an easy way out.’ It’s not. Our kids are doing double the work. They just don’t realize it because they’re having fun doing it,” principal Eleni Cordero said.
The idea for the program sprung out of the COVID-19 pandemic. Online learning left a lot of students struggling academically. At the beginning of summer break, a large group of students at Steel-High were missing the credits needed to graduate to the next grade, according Cordero.
“Summer school is usually the kids who don’t do what they need to do during the school year successfully,” Cordero said. “The project-based learning, that’s how we engage. Kids, even adults, if we own what we’re doing and we have a part in it, of course we’re going to be invested in it and want to do our best.”
The program is seeing success, Cordero said. Many students have perfect attendance. The credits they are earning will help them graduate on time.
At the end of June, the incoming senior class had 52 students. Thanks to credits earned through summer school, it’s now set to have 88.
There are three major project groups, the largest being a beautification project. The school will get renovations and new plantings at the entrance, as well as a picnic table seating area outside.
The Home Depot Foundation donated $20,000 in materials for the project, including 562 bags of mulch, as well as staff volunteers to help the students through construction.
Students will begin construction of their projects on July 20. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/project-based-learning-summer-school-dauphin-county-pennsylvania/521-c00f9c2b-7ef2-44e4-9124-1cebf1fa1636 | 2022-07-20T13:44:23 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/project-based-learning-summer-school-dauphin-county-pennsylvania/521-c00f9c2b-7ef2-44e4-9124-1cebf1fa1636 |
Richard Dale Sjoerdsma, a professor emeritus of music at Carthage College, was honored recently at the 57th conference of the National Association of Teachers of Singing in Chicago.
Sjoerdsma has been the editor in chief of the Journal of Singing since 2001 and recently announced he will leave that position in May 2023.
He also wrote the book review column for 25 years for the journal, an international peer-reviewed periodical “dealing with all aspects of the act and art of the performance, pedagogy, history, science and medicine of singing” with a circulation of 10,000 subscribers and an estimated total readership of 100,000.
The association, at its July 3 banquet, honored Sjoerdsma with the association’s Lifetime Achievement Award “for his dedication and service to the association, the journal, and the students and voice community of the world.”
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Additionally, in an unprecedented move, the association’s board of directors gave Sjoerdsma the title of Emeritus Editor in Chief of the Journal and has designated a board room in his name at the association’s national headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/former-carthage-college-professor-richard-dale-sjoerdsma-honored/article_4ef18508-078c-11ed-8325-3f1172115ee9.html | 2022-07-20T13:51:27 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/former-carthage-college-professor-richard-dale-sjoerdsma-honored/article_4ef18508-078c-11ed-8325-3f1172115ee9.html |
Kenosha County’s top political leader will now have the power to remove division heads “at will” after a split majority of County Board supervisors repealed a decades old policy that previously conferred greater job security to the non-represented administrators.
The County Board voted 13-10 Tuesday night amending Resolution 12, a measure that had been in place since 1996 and which, at the time, created a new class of non-represented employees, namely the division heads. At the time the policy was enacted, both the administration and County Board had approved it in an effort to hire and retain “experienced” and “high caliber” division leaders that supported their ideas, directions and plans, according to the resolution. The latest policy will cover future and current division leaders.
Termination without cause
The policy now gives current County Executive Samantha Kerkman the ability to terminate division heads without cause. Previously, the county executive’s powers only extended to firing department heads at will.
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During deliberations, some supervisors questioned the need to repeal Resolution 12 offering that County Board be able to vote on whether a department or division head is fired, despite a decision by the county executive. In the current practice, the county executive recommends appointment of division leaders, who must then undergo vetting in the committee process and are ultimately voted on by the County Board.
Supervisor Laura Belsky said the issue wasn't Kerkman, rather the power the executive position wields. She said she was concerned about the “checks and balances” and the risk posed by the “centralization” of power to a single office. Belsky proposed that the resolution be changed to allow the board to approve terminations. Vice Chair Erin Decker, however, challenged Belsky’s amendment seeking clarification as to whether state statutes allow for board approval where department heads are involved.
“If we’re talking about the department heads, I believe that, yes, the statute indicates that department heads appointed by a county executive may be removed at the pleasure of the county executive,” said Joseph Cardamone, the county’s corporation counsel. “The caveat is unless they are appointed for some services and competitive examination.” Belsky then withdrew her motion.
Supervisor Zach Rodriguez said that county executives have the right to have an executive team around them that they trust.
“What we saw in the last election was a change in the guard. Voters selected a county executive that’s not endorsed by the out-going county executive,” he said. “They bucked the system. They said they were not satisfied with what we have … what we have right now, at least. We want a change.”
Recently retired County Executive Jim Kreuser had endorsed Clerk of Courts Rebecca Matoska-Mentink, who lost to Kerkman in the spring election.
Amendment fails
Supervisor Andy Berg later proposed a motion similar to Belsky’s but one that called for the County Board to be able to decide on whether division heads should be terminated in the event the county executive should decide to fire them. The motion was further clarified by Supervisor Terry Rose, who co-sponsored the repeal of resolution 12, stating “except the division heads’ removal shall be approved or disapproved by the County Board." Supervisor William Grady offered that the vote to approve such an action be by simple majority.
Decker questioned what would happen if the county executive removed a division head and the board voted against the removal. Cardamone said that if that occurred to a division head and did not have the approval of the board, “arguably that person could continue in that position.” She objected to the proposed change contending that it would cause confusion.
“The county executive would be forced to work with someone that can now, because they know they can’t be fired because the County Board … disapproved their letting go, they can do whatever they want,” she said. “They pretty much have carte blanche to do whatever they want, which is not a good thing for any job position.”
Grady said the amendment, however, would give supervisors who were worried about “the concentration of power” some comfort. Supervisor Brian Bashaw said the amendment would create an imbalance in power and it was “suborning” the county executive’s authority to perform the duties put forth for the office.
Supervisor Ed Kubicki said he could neither support the amendment nor the proposal to repeal the resolution.
“I feel it’s not broken. We don’t need to fix it…the executive can put people around her that will support her,” he said. “Let’s keep moving this county forward and let’s not sit there and put up these roadblocks and whatever else is going on here.”
The amendment failed 13-8
Residents oppose repeal
During public comments, more than a dozen who spoke opposed the change that would expand the county executive’s firing power.
Marieta Huff of Kenosha urged supervisors to amend the resolution to allow the human resources officials to vet any department head recommended for hire by the county executive.
Russ Hahn of Kenosha said that when Resolution 12 was established, it coincided with the state’s long history of civil service laws “that enhanced the functioning of our democracy.”
“When a county employee has to worry more about personal loyalty to the county executive rather than the diligent performance of his or her job, the quality of governmental service in the community suffers and so do the residents of Kenosha County,” he said.
Hahn said he was particularly concerned at the politicization of the county’s Division of Health and its director Jen Freiheit, who he believes is being targeted for dismissal by conservatives amid restrictive recommendations for masking and other public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Richard Christiansen of Kenosha said the new policy contradicts the goal of attracting and retaining “high caliber” division heads.
“When communicating with the county executives, a division head should not be intimidated because they need to keep their jobs,” he said.
Nonpartisan, not targeting
Rose said, however, that the resolution before the board was nonpartisan and was not aimed at a specific department or division head.
“It’s not an attempt to have someone fired or aimed at a sort of mass firing tomorrow or next week or the following week," he said. Rose said he’d never put his name on a resolution with that aim.
He said, however, that it focuses on preventing the lack of transparency that had occurred in the past with policies that protected department heads, including a human services director accused of using work time to gamble at the Potawatomi casino in Milwaukee.
Rose said that he was not suggesting that non-represented administrators don’t do their jobs.
“I think they do it well. But I think there can be improvements and I don’t think that we should be afraid to make the improvements and make changes and have transparency,” he said. “And that’s what this resolution does…the proposition that I offer you tonight here is not … a perfect system. No system is perfect. But I think this system is better than the system that we’re currently operating under.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/county-board-approves-policy-expanding-county-executives-firing-power-to-include-division-heads/article_f270db94-080d-11ed-87fe-ebc536c5c877.html | 2022-07-20T13:51:33 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/county-board-approves-policy-expanding-county-executives-firing-power-to-include-division-heads/article_f270db94-080d-11ed-87fe-ebc536c5c877.html |
Voter fraud! Voter fraud!
Yeah, we’ve been treated to those accusations repeatedly in the two years since ex-president Donald Trump lost narrowly to President Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.
It’s almost become white noise – endless white noise. The fact is that voter fraud is extremely rare here in Wisconsin and multiple reviews and audits have found no widespread fraud in the state or anywhere else.
Local elections clerks in Wisconsin referred only 12 cases to prosecutors related to the 2020 general election, out of 3.3 million cast.
Still, a recent news story out of Fond du Lac County caught our eye. It detailed how a Fond du Lac woman, Jamie Wells, and her husband, were in hot water and facing prosecution by District Attorney Eric Toney because they used the address of a UPS Store in Fond du Lac – and not a residential address as required by state law – when they registered to vote in the 2020 election.
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The couple faces up to three and a half years in prison and maximum fines of $10,000 each if convicted. They said they have received help from relatives and expect legal bills close to $17,000.
Wells said she and her husband have used that UPS Store in Fond du Lac as their address for decades without a problem. They registered to vote using that address because they didn’t have another one to list – the couple lives in a 42-foot pull-behind camper because his work on farms take them all over the state.
In a bit of irony, given that its mostly Trump supporters who have consistently raised complaints of voter fraud, Wells said she and her husband probably lean Republican but had never been politically active, but they were motivated to vote in 2020 because they thought Trump was a better candidate.
Now, she says, she may never vote again.
Tomey has drawn heat for his decision to prosecute the couple, along with three others in the county who used UPS addresses to register to vote. Ion Meyn, an assistant law professor at the University of Wisconsin, called the cases in Fond du Lac “a real abuse of (prosecutorial) discretion.”
“Here you have a prosecutor who is taking a really tortured view, in my mind, of what this provision (in the statute) means. I just find that so irresponsible,” Meyn said.
The Wisconsin Watch news report also noted Toney was a Republican candidate for state attorney general and this spring at the Republican state convention, pushed his reputation as “one of the most aggressive prosecutors of election fraud” in the state.
We were all ready to get out the bucket of tar and a few bags of feathers over the idea of a candidate for office using the prosecution of a state couple to advance his political career over an innocent mistake on an address. That’s specially so since they are U.S. citizens and have a right to vote.
But the thing is, DA Tomey has a point. As he said in February when he first filed the charges, “Even if a person doesn’t have a stable residence, they’re still able to vote; they’re still able to register, it’s just a question of making sure you do it lawfully and not listing a P.O. Box because when you’re registering to vote you clearly don’t live at a P.O. box.”
That can be particularly important in races for local offices where the registered address determines who can vote in which races – aldermanic, school board, county supervisor, judges, village boards and even referendums. If you’ve given a UPS address as your residence, you may not be entitled to cast that ballot.
The issue is probably more widespread than most realize. In La Crosse County, the district attorney found 15 cases where people used UPS store addresses and then voted. The DA declined to prosecute saying they were a mistake and not voter fraud. “There’s no way a jury would say they intentionally did something to fool anybody.”
We agree with that. But, we also acknowledge that it’s important to discourage the use of false addresses for voter registration – whether it be UPS stores or anywhere else.
Tomey has made his point; now we would hope he would show a little prosecutorial discretion and walk away from harsh prosecution for an unintended mistake. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-news-editorial-prosecuting-for-voter-mistakes/article_69672936-06da-11ed-a9ab-db61833ffc0c.html | 2022-07-20T13:51:39 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kenosha-news-editorial-prosecuting-for-voter-mistakes/article_69672936-06da-11ed-a9ab-db61833ffc0c.html |
Today is Hot Dog Day. Whether you like yours Chicago style, with chili and cheese, or just plain ol’ ketchup, make it a Dog Day Afternoon. It’s also Moon Day, celebrating the moon landing that happened on July 20, 1969, when astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to step down onto the cratered surface of the moon. He marked the occasion with these words: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” To celebrate, watch a space-related film like “First Man” or “Apollo 13” or one of the many documentaries made about the moon landing. You can also just howl at the moon!
Start your morning with the Kenosha Library System. An all-ages story time starts at 9:30 a.m. in Schulte Park, 4400 87th Place. Story time is 9:30 to 10 a.m., followed by bubbles and music until 10:45 a.m. Admission is free. Bring a blanket or a lawn chair.
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Head to Public Craft Brewing Co., 628 58th St., for an evening of opera snippets and musical theater songs, hosted by the Kenosha Opera Festival. The free, informal event starts at 5 p.m.
The Kenosha Pops Concert Band performs a program celebrating “The Final Frontier,” with music (from “Star Trek” and “Star Wars”) celebrating outer space. The program also features tuba soloist Marty Erickson. 7 tonight on the band shell in Pennoyer Park, at 35th Street and Seventh Avenue at the lakefront. Admission is free. Note: Bench seating is provided. Audience members may also bring lawn chairs and/or blankets.
All aboard! Kenosha’s Downtown electric streetcars are running seven days a week, offering wonderful lakefront views. The streetcars run 11:05 a.m. to 6:35 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10:35 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The fare is $1 for ages 13 and older and 50 cents for kids ages 5-12 (free for kids age 4 and younger). An all-day pass is $3.50. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-wednesday-july-20/article_80f8e898-06e2-11ed-be4f-43c9851cff38.html | 2022-07-20T13:51:46 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-wednesday-july-20/article_80f8e898-06e2-11ed-be4f-43c9851cff38.html |
“You’ve never heard the tuba played quite like this.”
That’s not the official description of the July 20 Kenosha Pops Concert Band’s program — but it could be.
The band’s guest tonight is tuba master Marty Erickson.
During a career spanning more than 50 years, Erickson has been the principal solo tubist with the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C., where he served for 26 years. He is in his 17th year as instructor of tuba, euphonium and chamber music at the Conservatory of Music at Lawrence University in Appleton.
Erickson is also the principal tuba player with the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra and performs with Rodney Marsalis and his "Philadelphia Big Brass."
He has performed all over the world, and after his Kenosha performance, he's heading to South Korea.
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As he rehearsed with the group Monday night, Erickson said community bands like the Pops — celebrating its 100th season — “might just save music. It’s a fun group, but the players want to sound good, too. It’s a good band, and the community should be very proud of it.”
Erickson will perform several pieces with the Pops:
- “A Touch of Tuba,” by Art Dedrick, "is just a fun little tune,” Erickson said.
- “Tiptoe Through the Tubas” — inspired by the 1929 classic “Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me” — came about when composer Jerry Brubaker was performing with a band “made up of retired service guys,” Erickson said. “He had to climb through a bunch of tubas to make his way to the front of the stage to take a bow, and someone told him to ‘tiptoe through the tubas.’ That’s how he got the idea for this piece.”
Erickson will be joined at the front of the stage by the Pops’ tuba players — Dave Boyd, Steve Carlson and Karl Mueller — for “Tiptoe.”
- "Largo al factotum ("Make Way for the Factotum)" is an aria from "The Barber of Seville" by Gioachino Rossini, sung at the first entrance of the title character, Figaro. Sam McClung arranged the piece for solo tuba and band (and, yes, this is the "Figaro, Figaro, Figaro" aria).
“When I play this,” Erickson said, “all I can think about is ‘kill the wabbit,’” referring to the famous Bug Bunny cartoon using this opera classic. Also, in the opening animated sequence by Chuck Jones in the 1993 comedy "Mrs. Doubtfire," Robin Williams plays a parrot singing the song.
Erickson will also perform “Concertino for Tuba and Band” by Frank Bencriscutto and will pop up for a special duet on a John Philip Sousa march, too.
Being a professional musician, Erickson said, "is really a privilege."
The people who perform in community bands, he added, "absolutely love what they’re doing, and they come together and make music. It’s a wonderful way to put aside all the cares of the world for a few hours. And the concert does that for the audience, too.”
The final frontier … and beyond
In addition to the tuba pieces, Wednesday's Pops program "is a fun concert with a wide mix of music," said Craig Gall, the group's musical director. "We go from rock ‘n’ roll to outer space. It’s quite a variety."
As Gall said, this program is difficult categorize, but we’ll try:
- There will be tunes from the 1970s — including a medley of hits by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, featuring “Crocodile Rock,” “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and “Candle in the Wind, and selections from the 1977 Broadway musical “Annie.”
- And tunes from the 1980s — “Under the Sea,” by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman from Disney’s 1988 animated film “The Little Mermaid,” and “Africa,” a 1982 song by David Paich and Jeff Porcaro as performed by the group Toto.
- The Pops will also take audience members to outer space, with “Star Wars — The Marches” by John Williams, featuring the main “Star Wars” theme and “Darth Vader’s Theme,” and “Star Trek Through the Years.” Arranger John Moss collected different music from the “final frontier,” including the theme from the original “Star Trek” TV series, “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Star Trek: Voyager” and “Star Trek: The Motion Picture.”
Also on the “space side of the program" are Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter Hymn” from “The Planets” and Bart Howard’s “Fly Me to the Moon.”
“It’s a very esoteric arrangement of the tune” made famous by Frank Sinatra, Gall said.
But even the stars in space don't shine as brightly as tonight's guest artist, Gall said.
Gall has known Erickson for several years and has performed with him in a number of groups, from Dixieland bands to groups playing polkas, polkas, polkas.
“We’re really thrilled to have him play with us,” Gall said. “This is his second time performing with the Pops Band, and it’s really a treat for us — and for our audience.” | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-tuba-master-performing-with-kenosha-pops-band/article_20cc1cd6-0770-11ed-9fd0-4bcaaecb7ceb.html | 2022-07-20T13:51:52 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/watch-now-tuba-master-performing-with-kenosha-pops-band/article_20cc1cd6-0770-11ed-9fd0-4bcaaecb7ceb.html |
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A father was shot and killed inside his Camden bodega Tuesday night -- just days before his wedding.
Camden police said Luis Morales, 42, died after being shot inside his bodega called "Fortuna Mini Market," located on the 1200 block of Louis Street in New Jersey.
"It was a loss of a man who if he had to take food out of his mouth to give it to you, he would do it," said Cándido Serrano, a relative of Morales. "Super humble to the community, he helped anyone," he added.
Morales' relatives said he was about to marry his fiancée, Jenniaee Rosa, within just days of the shooting, but he will now leave behind a son along with his future and dreams.
"Now I don't know how to feel in this difficult moment," Rosa said. "He has a son just going to turn one next month and he's not going to see his dad anymore," she sobbed.
Residents in the community said the fatal assault left the neighborhood broken, and that an event like this had never happened in the area.
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"He had this store for about 12 years and that never happened, but the crime here in Camden is getting worse every day," said Lucy Fernández Fortuna, a relative of Morales.
Camden police said the deadly robbery remains under investigation. They had arrested four people related to the incident as of Tuesday night.
For now, as the investigation continues, Morales’ life is honored by candles lit in the bodega he risked his life to defend. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/camden-bodega-owner-gunned-down-just-days-before-wedding/3305003/ | 2022-07-20T13:54:57 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/camden-bodega-owner-gunned-down-just-days-before-wedding/3305003/ |
A 66-year-old Tioga man is dead after a two-vehicle crash in Williams County.
The man's pickup was struck by a semitrailer that did not yield at a rural intersection about 4 miles west of Epping, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol.
The pickup driver was pronounced dead at the scene around 5 p.m. Tuesday. His name was not immediately released.
The 43-year-old man from Choteau, Montana, who was driving the semi was not hurt, according to the Patrol. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/tioga-man-killed-in-williams-county-crash/article_186428c8-082d-11ed-83e6-efebb1806282.html | 2022-07-20T14:04:06 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/tioga-man-killed-in-williams-county-crash/article_186428c8-082d-11ed-83e6-efebb1806282.html |
POLK COUNTY, Iowa — EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story said two people died in the crash. The Iowa State Patrol clarified only one victim died.
A child is dead after a chain reaction crash during the afternoon rush in the metro.
Iowa State Patrol said it happened on I-80/35 near the East 14th St. exit Tuesday just after 5:30 p.m., where traffic was slow because of a different crash.
They said a tractor-trailer rear-ended an SUV, which in turn hit another vehicle.
Troopers said the driver of the SUV was hurt, but an 11-year-old inside that vehicle later died. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/fatal-crash-80-35-e-14th-st-11-year-old-killed-iowa-state-patrol/524-59dc9f2b-76f8-4f5f-8c21-903e05ae8ac3 | 2022-07-20T14:05:07 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/fatal-crash-80-35-e-14th-st-11-year-old-killed-iowa-state-patrol/524-59dc9f2b-76f8-4f5f-8c21-903e05ae8ac3 |
CAMBRIDGE, Iowa — One of Iowa's largest youth-oriented nonprofits is set to break ground on a new youth recovery campus.
Youth Shelter and Services (YSS) released designs for the new campus, Ember, at an unveiling event Tuesday.
"[With] the trauma inflicted by the pandemic, kids and families are really struggling," said Andrew Allen, president and CEO of YSS. "There's 7,000 kids in Iowa that need treatment every year and don't get it. These are desperately needed beds to support the behavioral health needs of kids across the state."
The 53-acre campus near Cambridge, Iowa, will offer 70 beds for emergency shelter, crisis stabilization and residential addiction treatment for youth.
"Cambridge is centrally located. Really, we wanted it to be a nature-based, trauma-informed campus, and it's 53 acres of prairie and timber really easily accessible," Allen said.
The campus' main building, the "Hub," will offer a welcome center, family visit room, offices, a classroom, gathering spaces, a fitness center, café and kitchen.
Surrounding cabins will house youth bedrooms as well as caseworker offices and spaces for group therapy and activities.
"These are life saving services," Allen said. "As a teenager, I was helped by YSS. Today, I get to lead the organization that saved my life. And there's kids and families are struggling. They're desperate, and this brings hope."
YSS will host a groundbreaking ceremony on August 9 at 10 a.m. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/yss-youth-recovery-campus-cambridge-iowa/524-05d3d2f8-c2ba-4d27-9207-818439f29ad0 | 2022-07-20T14:05:08 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/yss-youth-recovery-campus-cambridge-iowa/524-05d3d2f8-c2ba-4d27-9207-818439f29ad0 |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Hot dogs, one of America’s favorite foods. Much like other great American foods the base is simple: a hot dog and a bun. Despite its simplicity, people across the nation have harnessed their creativity to concoct some beautiful hot dog creations.
In celebration of this classic dish, Wednesday, July 20, is National Hot Dog Day. If you want to get into the holiday spirit here are some places offering hot dog deals in North Texas.
Officials say they are giving customers a free hot dog or roller grill item for National Hot Dog Day. Customers will need to download the Love’s Connect app to access the barcode for their free item. The bar code is accessible from 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on July 20.
For National Hot Dog Day, you can buy 4 Original Chili Dogs for $4. This deal is only good for the Original Chili Dog and does not apply to substitutions.
To celebrate National Hot Dog Day, Philly Pretzel Factory will be selling pretzel dogs for $1. | https://cw33.com/news/local/hot-dog-deals-in-north-texas-for-national-hot-dog-day/ | 2022-07-20T14:09:17 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/hot-dog-deals-in-north-texas-for-national-hot-dog-day/ |
INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion County Coroner's Office is releasing its findings into the death of a 39-year-old Indianapolis man who died in police custody April 25.
The Marion County Coroner's Office ruled Herman Whitfield III's death a homicide and said he died from "cardiopulmonary arrest in the setting of law enforcement subdual, prone restraint and conducted electrical weapon use." The coroner's office also said morbid obesity and hypertensive cardiovascular disease were contributing factors in Whitfield's death.
NOTE: The video above is from a previous report on IMPD releasing bodycam footage in the April 25 incident. Viewer discretion is advised.
Whitfield's family previously filed a wrongful death lawsuit in June against the city of Indianapolis and six IMPD officers.
The lawsuit claims the family had called for help April 25 when Whitfield was undergoing a mental health crisis in his home. The lawsuit claims the officers used a stun gun on Whitfield and then "crushed the breath out of an unarmed, non-violent Mr. Whitfield."
The lawsuit also claims the officers ignored Whitfield's cries of "I can't breathe."
The family said the claims in the lawsuit are supported by police officers' bodycam videos. Those videos were released to the public on June 28, more than two months after Whitfield's death.
(NOTE: The IMPD critical incident video has graphic content and language. Viewer discretion is advised.)
The lawsuit asserts there was no reason for officers to have used a stun gun on Whitfield and that officers violated their own training by leaving Whitfield face-down after he was restrained.
Waples & Hanger released the following statement on behalf of Whitfield's family:
The Coroner’s findings are consistent with the body cam videos showing police officers shooting Mr. Whitfield with a taser then restraining him face down even after handcuffing and after he says “I can’t breathe.” The autopsy report is consistent with the family’s federal lawsuit filed against the City of Indianapolis and the officers who caused Herman’s death.
Mr. Whitfield did not present a danger to the officers, and there was no need to taser him. Moreover, the officers violated their own training by keeping Mr. Whitfield handcuffed face down after he was restrained, and after he had told them he couldn’t breathe, and when he was not moving or breathing, which led to this death. For over twenty-five years, the policing community has agreed that officers should not 2 keep a restrained individual in the prone position because of the significant risk of death. Mr. Whitfield, who was in his family home, needed professional mental health care, not the use of deadly force.
The Whitfield family calls upon the Indianapolis Police Department to release all body cam videos which depict their son’s unnecessary death. They also call upon the City to immediately expand its crisis intervention teams to be available 24/7 so that this type of tragedy is not repeated. IMPD should also honestly respond to the misconduct of its officers which led to Herman’s death.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The city of Daytona Beach will decide Wednesday night whether to settle a lawsuit brought by the so-called Naked Cowboy, a performer known for wearing a cowboy hat and white underwear, who was arrested last year during Bike Week.
Robert Burck, known nationally as the Naked Cowboy, has performed at Bike Week for years but was arrested in 2021 on charges of violating the city’s panhandling ordinance and resisting arrest without violence.
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This past March, Burck sued the city and two police officers, saying the city’s panhandling ordinance is unconstitutional under state and federal constitutions and that the officers violated the Fourth Amendment, which protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Burck later offered to settle his claims against the city and officers for $90,000, and city commissioners will vote on the proposed settlement at the Wednesday night meeting.
The proposal would not require the city to rescind its panhandling ordinance nor include any admission of fault by the city or the police officers, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/daytona-beach-considers-90000-settlement-with-naked-cowboy-after-bike-week-arrest/ | 2022-07-20T14:13:53 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/daytona-beach-considers-90000-settlement-with-naked-cowboy-after-bike-week-arrest/ |
SAN DIEGO — In marine protected areas like the La Jolla Cove, poaching can be a problem. So, the folks at WILDCOAST and Marine Monitor utilize a radar system on the Scripps Pier to keep an eye on potential poachers.
"On any given day you can see zero to over a dozen boats poaching in a marine protected area," explained Carlos Callado who is the California Conservation Coordinator for WILDCOAST and explains how the M2 radar system works with human and AI input:
"To identify what we call fishing behaviors, the amount of time spent loitering within marine protected areas, the speed they are going, what their movement patterns look like. If they are hovering around a certain area. All of these kind of things can be used to indicate that this boat is likely fishing."
By combining human input and AI the program is cost effective.
"Radars like the M2 unit we have is a low coast solution to be able to monitor these areas 24/7," said Callado. "I have been involved with catching at least 60 violations on the water that I've personally observed."
Recreational violations are about education at first, but commercial violations can be expensive.
"The minimum fine on a first infraction would be $5,000 to, I think, $40,000 on the high end. On the second violation it gets even higher," explained Callado.
The M2 radar system continues to get smarter every day.
"As the M2 system becomes better at idtenty poaching behavorrs it can send out automatic reports to enforcement authorities if they sign up for them," Callado added.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Crews with the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District battled a vegetation fire on Wednesday morning along the American River.
The fire burned near Ancil Hoffman Park, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District tweeted. They requested more resources to help fight the fire because of the "difficult terrain."
The fire was near a homeless encampment and the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District said several small fires have burned near the area recently. The fire was contained at around a quarter of an acre and no one was injured.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Watch more on ABC10 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/vegetation-fire-american-river-ancil-hoffman-park/103-c4354c39-dfcc-4d08-aacc-f1b31af53324 | 2022-07-20T14:24:15 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/vegetation-fire-american-river-ancil-hoffman-park/103-c4354c39-dfcc-4d08-aacc-f1b31af53324 |
EUGENE, Ore. — The University of Oregon football program and the family of Spencer Webb will hold a public memorial service Thursday to celebrate his life. Webb, 22, died last week from a head injury after an accidental fall near Triangle Lake, west of Eugene.
The memorial will be held at Autzen Stadium at 6 p.m. Thursday, according to a tweet from the Oregon football program.
"Spencer blessed many lives throughout his journey as a dear friend and source of inspiration," a photo graphic with the tweet reads. "The Webb family, and the Oregon Football Program, lovingly invite you to attend a memorial service in celebration of Spencer's life. All are welcome to attend."
Webb fell and hit his head near Triangle Lake on Wednesday, July 13. The fall appeared to be accidental and there was no evidence of foul play, the Lane County Sheriff's Office said.
After Webb's death, Ducks football coach Dan Lanning tweeted about Webb, saying how much he would be missed. "So full of life in every moment of the day. Your smile and energy will be missed Spencer. I love you!," Lanning tweeted.
The Oregon football Twitter account tweeted the following: "We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Spencer Webb. Our hearts go out to his family, teammates, and friends at such a difficult time. We will miss Spencer greatly."
Webb grew up in Sacramento, where he attended Christian Brothers High School. He was a junior at the University of Oregon. In three seasons with the Ducks, Webb had 31 catches for 296 yards and four touchdowns. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/spencer-webb-memorial-service-autzen-stadium-oregon/283-dc917bab-33b6-4d7c-a98a-4d9e85d6212c | 2022-07-20T14:24:21 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/spencer-webb-memorial-service-autzen-stadium-oregon/283-dc917bab-33b6-4d7c-a98a-4d9e85d6212c |
The Mega Millions jackpot has ballooned to $630 million after there were no winners to match Tuesday's winning six numbers.
The numbers were 2, 31, 32, 37, 70 plus the gold Mega Ball 25, according to the lottery's website. The night's $555 million jackpot was the fifth largest in the lottery's history.
The next drawing will be on Friday, when the cash prize is estimated to be $360 million.
Strong ticket sales helped push Tuesday's prize to its historical rank, which was about $317 million in cash, according to the lottery's website.
There were four big winners Tuesday who drew the first five numbers, winning $1 million each. Fifty-two winners matched the first four numbers and the Mega Ball, the lottery said.
A $20 million jackpot was won on April 15, and since then there have been more than 15.5 million winning tickets at all prize levels, including 25 worth $1 million or more, the lottery said ahead of last night's drawing.
Three other jackpots have been won this year -- a $426 million prize in California on January 28, a $128 million jackpot in New York on March 8, and $110 million in Minnesota on April 12.
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Heavy security and traffic delays are expected Wednesday in Manhattan as the former First Family and others gather at a Catholic church to mourn Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former President Donald Trump who died suddenly last week at 73.
Ivana Trump's July 14 death at her East 64th Street townhouse was ruled accidental. The New York City medical examiner's office says she died of blunt impact injuries to her torso and declined further comment. A senior official with direct knowledge of the matter, though, told NBC News that the circumstances were consistent with a fall on the stairs.
There was no indication of foul play, the official said.
Wednesday's early afternoon service is invitation-only and being held at St. Vincent Ferrer Catholic Church on Lexington Avenue, between 65th and 66th streets, on the Upper East Side, a source in the Trump family told NBC News. Eulogies are expected to be given by Ivana Trump's children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric, the source said.
Ivana Trump's longtime designer Dennis Basso and longtime aide Dorothy Curry are also expected to speak, according to the source, who said, "It will be a spectacular service." Former President Trump will be in attendance, the source told NBC News, describing the pair as "very close. He was her biggest supporter and vice versa."
Ivana Trump: An Icon in Her Own Right
A Czech-born ski racer and sometime model, Ivana Trump married the future president in 1977, and became a businesswoman. She and Trump formed a publicity power couple in the 1980s, and she was the mother of his oldest children.
“I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” Trump posted on his social media app, Truth Social. “She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life. Her pride and joy were her three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka, and Eric. She was so proud of them, as we were all so proud of her. Rest In Peace, Ivana!”
Their children also released a statement, calling her "an incredible woman — a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty and caring mother and friend. Ivana Trump was a survivor.
“She fled from communism and embraced this country,” the statement continued. “She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination. She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and 10 grandchildren.”
She became an icon in her own right, dripping with ’80s style and elegance, complete with her signature beehive hairdo. She influenced the look of the over-the-top Patsy Stone in the classic British sitcom “Absolutely Fabulous,” with the character extolling Ivana as “tremendous” in one episode.
Trump herself would eventually appear in the 1996 hit film “The First Wives Club” with the now-famous line, “Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don’t get mad, get everything.”
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The Trumps became partners in love and business, with Ivana playing roles such as manager of one of his Atlantic City casinos. She worked tirelessly there and also had a hand in making Trump Tower an image of ’80s success, helping the decorator and taking a strong interest in such details as the doormen’s uniforms, said Barbara Res, a former Trump Organization executive who was in charge of the skyscraper’s construction.
“She did all that to impress Donald, to win his approval. She was traveling back and forth all the time, and leaving her kids. She had a tremendous work ethic.”
The two were fixtures of New York's see-and-be-seen scene before their equally public, and messy, 1992 divorce. Donald Trump had met his next wife, Marla Maples.
During the split, Ivana Trump accused him of rape in a sworn statement in the early 1990s. She later said that she didn’t mean it literally, but rather that she felt violated.
Donald Trump would say at times that he regretted having Ivana join him in business and blamed it for the unraveling of his marriage.
“I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing,” he told ABC News in the early ’90s. “If you’re in business for yourself, I really think it’s a bad idea to put your wife working for you,” he said, complaining that when she turned into a businessperson, “a softness disappeared.”
Nevertheless, Ivana ultimately remained friendly with her ex-husband, whom she famously called “The Donald.” She enthusiastically backed his 2016 White House run, saying he would “make big changes” in the United States, and told the New York Post that she was giving him suggestions on his campaign.
“We speak before and after the appearances and he asks me what I thought,” she said. She said she advised him to “be more calm.”
“But Donald cannot be calm,” she added. “He’s very outspoken. He just says it as it is.”
However supportive, she occasionally ruffled feathers.
In 2017, while promoting a book, she told “Good Morning America” that she spoke with the then-president about every two weeks and had his direct White House number, but didn’t want to call to frequently “because Melania is there and I don’t want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I’m basically first Trump wife, OK?” she said with a laugh. “I’m first lady, OK?”
Melania Trump’s spokesperson at the time responded, saying there was “clearly no substance to this statement from an ex, this is unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.”
Ivana Trump had continued her business ventures in recent years, promoting an Italian weight-loss diet in 2018.
“Health is the most important thing we have. Let’s keep it that way,” she said at the time.
Ivana Trump's death came during a fraught week for the Trump family. Two of her children, Donald Jr. and Ivanka, and the former president are due to appear in coming days for questioning in the New York attorney general's civil investigation into the family’s business practices.
Ivana Trump was born Ivana Zelnickova in 1949 in the Czechoslovak city of Gottwaldov, formerly Zlin, which had just been renamed by the Communists who took over the country in 1948.
She was married four times, most recently to Italian actor Rossano Rubicondi. The two divorced in 2009 after a year of marriage but continued to see each other off and on until 2019, when she told the New York Post the relationship had run its course. He died last year of cancer at 49. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ivana-trump-funeral-at-st-vincent-ferrer-nyc-church-today/3782459/ | 2022-07-20T14:28:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/ivana-trump-funeral-at-st-vincent-ferrer-nyc-church-today/3782459/ |
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- Authorities linked a third sex attack to the man wanted in two ambushes of women in Manhattan on Saturday
- Both attacks happened before dawn; one was near Central Park West and the other on Avenue A by East 4th. The NYPD says a May 15, 2022 attack on the Manhattan Bridge walkway also followed a similar pattern
- All three victims were taken to hospitals for treatment of injuries and medical evaluations; anyone with information on the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS
The NYPD has linked a man wanted in two ambush Manhattan sex attacks an hour apart over the weekend to a third case in May -- one that has chilling similarities to the two incidents that rattled New Yorkers this past Saturday.
Police said late Tuesday they had connected the suspect, who was seen riding an electric bicycle in both Saturday attacks, to a May 15, 2022 incident. As in the more recent cases, he was riding a bike and it happened in the pre-dawn hours.
Cops said the May attack happened on the Manhattan Bridge walkway around 4:30 a.m. The 26-year-old victim was riding her bike on the span when the suspect, also on a bike, approached her, cops say. He then leaped off and grabbed her hair from behind before he showed a knife and pulled her to the ground. He then forced her to perform a criminal sexual act.
The narrative was disturbingly similar to the second attack of Saturday's two attacks, which happened around 5 a.m. near Avenue A and East Fourth Street. Video shows the 28-year-old victim walking in the cross street, the man on the bike weaving in and around the lines on the pavement around her. He almost appears to bump into her at times, then swerves away.
She crosses the street and the footage cuts to another location. The woman is seen walking underneath a construction facade, along the sidewalk. Suddenly, someone is seen running from behind and tackling her.
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Police say he told the woman he had a knife and forced her to perform oral sex. He never showed the weapon, they said. He fled the scene on his bicycle. The woman was taken to a hospital for abrasions and a medical evaluation.
An hour earlier, cops say the same man attacked a 23-year-old woman around 4 a.m. near Central Park West and West 82nd Street. Again, he approached from behind and pulled her to the ground, police said. A struggle ensued. Cops say the suspect held the victim down and sexually assaulted her. He ran off on foot, then was seen a short time later traveling southbound on Central Park West on an electric bicycle. That victim had abrasions to her body and was taken to a hospital to be evaluated.
Police released a sketch of the suspect late Tuesday in hopes it will help them track down their attacker.
Anyone with information on the man seen in the surveillance video (above) is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/manhattan-sex-predator-linked-to-3rd-attack-as-cops-share-new-sketch-have-you-seen-him/3782349/ | 2022-07-20T14:28:24 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/manhattan-sex-predator-linked-to-3rd-attack-as-cops-share-new-sketch-have-you-seen-him/3782349/ |
RICHMOND, Va. — A Richmond woman was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in prison for directing a yearslong scheme to defraud state and federal officials of at least $230,000 in student financial aid funds, a prosecutor said.
Pope developed or increased financial aid eligibility for individuals, often her family members, who were not eligible for financial aid, Aber said. From there, Pope directed at least four co-conspirators to send her the majority of the funds, which she spent on personal expenses, including a vacation on Disney Cruise Line.
School leaders confronted Pope in October 2017 about her relationship with various academically ineligible students that the college had realized were receiving high amounts of financial aid, according to a news release. Pope claimed not to know the students, who were in fact her son, goddaughter and cousin. Pressed for supporting documentation to justify Pope’s financial aid structuring, Pope resigned, Aber said. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ex-virginia-school-administrator-gets-5-years-for-fraud/2022/07/20/1b293224-0832-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-20T14:30:35 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/ex-virginia-school-administrator-gets-5-years-for-fraud/2022/07/20/1b293224-0832-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html |
WAVERLY — A Wartburg College professor has installed a giant new piece of “art” on a large plot of land between Waverly, Readlyn, Plainfield and Frederika.
Brian Birgen, a math professor and avid geocacher, completed the installation – called geo-art – earlier this year. Geocaching is a treasure-hunt-like activity that uses GPS to aid individuals in hiding and seeking containers called geocaches. Geo-art is a collection of geocaches that have their posted coordinates arranged in a way that creates an image or spells out a word. In Birgen’s case, that image is a Knight’s helmet, a logo used on many Wartburg athletic items.
“A lot of the credit for this idea goes to Joe Turner (who geocaches under the alias Nascar Joe). He created a 150-cache geo-art of an Independence Mustang south of the town,” said Birgen, who has been geocaching for more than a dozen years. “He inspired me to try one, but you need a big empty space on the geocaching map.”
Using city- and county-owned rights-of-way and a nearby wilderness area, Birgen placed 133 caches this spring. The catch: None of them are actually where they appear on the map. To locate each physical geocache, one must first solve a puzzle.
“Some are easy. Some are hard, but if you want to complete the entire geo-art, it will definitely take some work,” Birgen said.
Stacey Snyder, a Wartburg graduate and teacher at Orange Elementary School in Waterloo, is up for the challenge. A longtime geocacher, she was excited when Birgen mentioned that he was going to be placing new caches in the area. But he never mentioned just how many or that they would be a work of art.
“After I realized what he was doing, I tried to figure out what he was creating since he released the caches in different waves. I knew it wasn’t the Wartburg W, and then I saw the Knight head,” she said. “Cachers like to be the ‘first to find,’ and I knew right away I wanted to be first on at least a couple. One of the puzzles was a SET game puzzle, and I was first on that.”
The puzzles include everything from linear algebra and Diophantine equations to Candy Crush screenshots and Wartburg professors.
“I’m pretty proud of some of these puzzles. And every one has been found by someone, though there isn’t a single person who has found all of the caches yet,” Birgen said. “There’s even a guy in Chicago who has solved all the puzzles, but he hasn’t been here to find any of them yet. He just likes solving them.”
Birgen, who has found caches in more than 800 counties in 47 states, isn’t planning any new geo-art installations any time soon. The Knight head took about a year from conception to final implementation. Ever the mathematician, Birgen used an Excel spreadsheet to track the creation. Each of the 133 caches needed dummy coordinates (what is seen on the map), real coordinates (which had to be within two miles of the dummy coordinates) and a unique puzzle to solve. Then, Birgen had to manually hide each of the microcontainers and create their webpage at geocaching.com. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/wartburg-professor-creates-geo-art-in-shape-of-knights-helmet/article_b7802e65-85a0-5ddc-9b3d-3cc5aa76b2f3.html | 2022-07-20T14:43:22 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/education/wartburg-professor-creates-geo-art-in-shape-of-knights-helmet/article_b7802e65-85a0-5ddc-9b3d-3cc5aa76b2f3.html |
WATERLOO — Voters in Waterloo will head to the polls Sept. 13 to weigh in on whether the city should borrow $20 million to develop a municipal communications utility.
Specifically, they will cast ballots on the city’s proposed financing of a fiber optic backbone needed to create the communications network. The City Council on Monday approved setting the voter referendum.
Residents will decide if the city should enter into a loan agreement and issue general obligation capital loan notes in an amount not to exceed $20 million. The funds would be used to design, acquire, construct, install and equip all or part of a fiber optic backbone and fiber to the premises broadband communications system. The money would also pay for related infrastructure, equipment and facilities — including facility connections that would support functions related to providing utility services.
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The referendum needs 60% voter approval to pass.
Maggie Burger, the senior vice president of Speer Financial, said the purpose of the bond dollars is to fund the construction of city owned assets – or the backbone – for the broadband project. She said it includes city public services such as sewer, stormwater, traffic, and water, with possible participation from Water Works.
Burger said the general obligation bonds are not required, but would be used to lower the cost of financing the overall project.
The backbone project will connect 100 miles of fiber optic cables to over 100 sites throughout the city. The project is expected to cost $29.28 million.
Resident Forest Dillavou voiced his concerns about the issue to the council, saying it could be too expensive.
“Our stormwater fee, our sanitary fee, all these fees once they’re added – they never go back down,” Dillavou said. “We lower the quality of life for people at the bottom and the rest of us have to pay.”
Mayor Quentin Hart responded to the comment, saying Waterloo has some of the lowest rates in the state for sewer and garbage.
Another resident, David Drier, also had concerns that the original plan never came before the City Council or voters.
In 2005, voters approved the creation of a municipal utility service, but did not approve any funding to move ahead with a system to provide internet, television or phone services.
“For the past 15 to 20 years, the city has done a lot of talking of needing to do this and to work for our own fiber network, and the time is here,” Hart said.
“This is good for the long-range interest of this community.”
Steve Nadel, an attorney with Ahlers & Cooney P.C., who deals with municipal utilities in the state of Iowa, said the ballot proposition is drafted more broadly than just the backboneand would allow financing to be used for any portion of the project.
Nadel said if any utilities, such as sewer, water or stormwater, are going to use the fiber backbone for their purposes, each one would have to hold a public hearing at a council meeting to allow for public comments.
While city officials hope general obligation bonds can be used to lower the overall borrowing costs, no matter the vote outcome they intend to move forward with the broadband project. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waterloo-to-hold-sept-13-referendum-on-broadband-project/article_b9d7188c-1db9-5e5f-88e2-9476900f30ba.html | 2022-07-20T14:43:28 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waterloo-to-hold-sept-13-referendum-on-broadband-project/article_b9d7188c-1db9-5e5f-88e2-9476900f30ba.html |
The extreme heat is causing delays for North Texas mass transit system trains as rail lines make safety adjustments that could impact service.
Forecast highs above 110 degrees and excessive heat warnings from the National Weather Service will impact service for passengers who take Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Trinity Metro and Denton County Transportation Authority trains.
DART said Monday morning the heat causes the tracks to heat up and expand as well as causing issues with overhead wiring so trains will operate at reduced speeds.
The trains must slow down because intense heat can cause rails to expand. As steel heats, there is an increase in the risk of rail lines bending, flexing or buckling.
DART says you can expect delays of 10 to 15 minutes between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m.
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DCTA will slow speeds until 9 p.m. which means passengers have to plan more time for their trip.
Trinity Metro also expects delays between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. for TEXRail and Trinity Railway Express trains which will operate at 40 mph.
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The Fort Worth Herd is a must-see for millions of visitors to the city's Historic Stockyards.
Tourists and locals alike have watched drovers slowly move a herd of longhorn cattle down Exchange Street in a re-creation of the cattle drive era.
Wednesday brings a significant anniversary. July 20, 2022 marks 20 years since Kristin Jaworksi took over the reins of the world's only twice-daily cattle drive.
"I'll never forget what it was like to be new and how much I had to learn and the journey that this program has taken me. Meeting such wonderful people and mentors but also learning what professional development area I needed to progress. And horsemanship like you mentioned. It's so important that we sharpen our skills to be able to drive the longhorns down the street," Jaworksi said.
In her two decades as trail boss, the Fort Worth Herd has earned new accreditations and certifications that validate the drovers, the program and the facilities as being up to standard.
While those are things visitors don't see, they are points of pride for Jaworski. The Tarleton State University graduate also prides herself on the day-to-day focus on authenticity.
"I really make it a goal every single day that we are authentic, that we never have strayed from that historic authentic story. And so, what you see when those drovers are driving the longhorns down the street is period correct clothing, saddles that are replicas from the late 1800s. And that story is something that is important to Fort Worth's western heritage and the American cowboy and the history here in Fort Worth," she said.
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The city debuted the Fort Worth Herd on June 12, 1999. It was created as part of the city's sesquicentennial celebration.
Jaworski is the only woman to serve as the herd's trail boss but she is quick to point out that women were on the trail back in the 1800s and in leadership positions. The diversity back then is the story she strives to tell today.
The cattle drives are held daily at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. along East Exchange in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/trail-boss-celebrates-20-years-with-fort-worth-herd/3019141/ | 2022-07-20T14:44:30 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/trail-boss-celebrates-20-years-with-fort-worth-herd/3019141/ |
NAPLES, Fla. — Some Florida beaches may look and smell a little different.
Cities across Florida have the option to ban smoking, and the City of Naples may be on board with adopting the new Clean Air Act.
This bans smoking at public beaches and parks.
Back in 2016 and 2018, Chad Merritt with Naples Community Services said the city discussed banning smoking at the pier and beach, but laws didn’t allow them to do it.
Duvane Jean said she takes her kids to Naples Beach and Baker’s Park in Naples all the time.
“I say ban it. We have to protect ourselves. We have to protect our kids, especially them,” said Jean.
Some smokers said it’s not fair that everyone needs to pay for the mess some leave behind.
Naples City Council meets on August 17 to discuss if the beaches and parks will be a smoke-free zone. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/city-of-naples-considers-smoking-ban-at-public-beaches-and-parks/ | 2022-07-20T14:52:28 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/city-of-naples-considers-smoking-ban-at-public-beaches-and-parks/ |
MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — A 71-year-old woman from West Melbourne was killed after she was hit by a car Tuesday night in Manatee County.
A 27-year-old Bradenton man was driving south on US-41, north of 66th Avenue West. The woman was walking toward the west, attempting to cross the southbound US-41 travel lanes.
The woman walked into the road in front of the driver, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
The driver crashed into her, and she was pronounced dead on the scene, troopers said.
No further details were immediately available. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/pedestrian-hit-in-manatee-county-fatal-crash/ | 2022-07-20T14:52:34 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/pedestrian-hit-in-manatee-county-fatal-crash/ |
AURORA, Colo. — Each year there’s a memorial hosted by the 7/20 Memorial Foundation to honor the victims, survivors and heroes of the Aurora theater shooting on July 20, 2012.
“There’s so many differences between this night and that night,” said Pastor Reid Hettich.
Two different nights, ten years apart. For those who were in the theater 10 years ago, it’s a different feeling.
“I close my eyes and I’m there. What I remember from that night, I remember everything very clearly it’s one of those things it never goes away,” said John Eisel.
For those here to help console, it’s also different.
“I’m struck by how peaceful and calm it is here tonight. And on that night, there was hatred, anger, violence,” Hettich said.
John Eisel escaped the hatred, anger, and violence. He made it out of theater 8 unharmed. But doesn’t view himself as a survivor.
“I didn’t get shot, I didn’t have to go to the hospital, I didn’t lose a loved one,” Eisel said.
Instead, he puts his focus into Aurora Rise, an organization dedicated to assisting those affected by the shooting.
But the memorials bring new meaning and new purpose for those left behind every year.
“Every year is hard, but it’s also comforting,” said Lisa Childress.
Comforting, for the mother of 29-year-old Staff Sgt. Jesse Childress. Lisa says he was funny, loving and had an ear for music.
“That’s how I remember Jesse. He loves rap, TuPac. He liked Linkin Park so when that music comes on the radio he’s there.”
The memorial honored the victims - the survivors. The heroes were cheered on as they played a radio call and drove through the memorial with flashing lights.
The loved ones and strangers in attendance took a guided stroll in a garden lined with lights, stories of the victims and flying cranes. The 70 white cranes represent those injured in theater 9. The 13 clear and silver cranes represent the 12 lives and unborn child taken that night.
In the garden is where Lisa sits on her son’s memorial holding his army tags. She says they give her strength.
“There was many, many stories of how he helped people that he crossed paths with,” Childress said.
Helping people is what ultimately took Jesse’s life, which somewhat leaves his family at peace.
“He was doing what he loved, full day of work and saved a friend that he had only known for 30 days and to me that’s - it may sound crazy. But at least I knew what he was doing. And I knew although it’s hard he saved a life on his way out the door to heaven,” Childress said.
While interviewing Lisa, a group of Alex Sullivan’s loved ones surrounded his memorial and started singing Happy 37th Birthday.
Alex turned 27 the night he was killed. He was celebrating by going to see the midnight premiere. But sadly, he never made it out.
Now every year to celebrate his birthday his parents go to the theater to sit in the same seat where he was killed.
The 7/20 Memorial Foundation has a number of events planned over the weekend to continue to honor the victims and survivors of the Aurora Theater Shooting.
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WHITEHOUSE, Ohio — A Whitehouse family is raising money in an effort to secure a service dog for their high school grad before she heads off to college.
Gabbey Segura is like a lot of 18-year-old girls. She's getting ready for college and all the challenges that come with it.
But, she faces a challenge many other girls her age don't. Segura deals with Dejerine-Sottas Syndrome, a rare form of muscular dystrophy.
According to the National Organization for Rare Disorders, muscular dystrophy almost exclusively affects males.
"I can't go out and walk for a long distance," Segura said. "And my overall balance is very different compared to your 'normal' or average person."
For years, Gabbey struggled with her condition, not being able to walk far and being at risk of falling.
Then, in 2018, came a Great Dane named Thor, a service dog who helped in every aspect of her life.
"It was just life-changing, how he provided strength and balance," Segura's mother, Angie, said. "We just saw such a difference in her ability to get around. She became so strong with it."
But things took a turn for the worse about a year later when Thor unexpectedly died from a rare blood disorder.
"It was the hardest call for me to make ... to have to make the decision to put him down," Gabbey said.
Segura was without a service dog, and her plan of attending Ohio State University was in danger of not happening.
"It's very challenging. Gabbey takes the brunt of all of it because she's the one with the disease," her father, Greg, said.
The Segura family is connected with a new service dog for people with conditions like that of Gabbey. Wilbur, a sheepadoodle, is in training at a facility in California and will cost the family $22,000. But Gabbey said insurance doesn't cover any of the cost.
"It's a two- to five-year process to get a dog, and very, very, very expensive," Angie said. "A lot of people think that service dogs are donated or given."
A golf outing to fundraise for the caring canine is planned for July 30 at the South Toledo Golf Club.
Gabbey wants to have Wilbur after his graduation in early August, just before she leaves for classes. She says having a companion like him would make a world of difference.
"Emotionally, it's huge and it's going to be, I think, a great bond and connection because the two of us are going to be going to college together, and it's just going to be us two," Segura said.
While the deadline to enter has already passed, non-golfers interested in donating money can do so through the event's raffle or by sending money to the Venmo account @ServiceDogWilbur. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/service-dog-fundraising-south-toledo-gold-club-muscular-dystrophy/512-08ff215d-a0d6-455b-ae1e-c1a5ba4a2298 | 2022-07-20T15:03:37 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/service-dog-fundraising-south-toledo-gold-club-muscular-dystrophy/512-08ff215d-a0d6-455b-ae1e-c1a5ba4a2298 |
ARGYLE, Texas — If you've ever sat in your cubicle and dreamt a life of ranching, riding and roping, then we found you a deal.
Six houses, even more barns, and an in-ground pool, to boot.
And you won't even have to leave North Texas.
Oh, and you'll need about $20 million.
That's the going price for the Fossil Gate Farms ranch in Argyle, listed by broker Layne Walker of Chas S. Middleton and Son.
The Middleton and Son brokerage is no stranger to high-end ranches in Texas; they're also selling the late Boone Pickens' Mesa Vista Ranch (listed at $170 million) in the Panhandle, and they brokered the sale of the "Yellowstone"-famous Four Sixes Ranch (initially listed at $341 million) in Guthrie.
But both of those ranching properties are far from North Texas.
Fossil Gate Farms is right in the heart of it, located off Interstate 35W and Sam Davis Road, between growing developments from the Alliance area of Far North Fort Worth up to Denton.
Fossil Gate, which sits on 160 acres, was owned by Linda Gordon, a longtime quarter-horse breeder who passed away in December. Gordon and her husband, Gary, who died in 2018, raised dozens of champion halter horses at Fossil Gate.
And Fossil Gate's facilities back up that pedigree.
The property includes a show barn with a covered arena; a stud barn; two mare barns; two barns that have stalls for mares and colts; and an equipment and shavings barn.
If you're in the market for that many barns, you'll know what each one is for.
The arena and stud barns both come equipped with rubber flooring down the center, 18 and 16 stalls, respectively, and a heating and air system.
And that's just the ranch side of things.
The property also includes six houses, ranging in size from 600 square feet to 5,500 square feet.
The ranch owner's home is the largest on the property and includes a back balcony overlooking an in-ground pool. The ranch manager's home is 3,600 square feet with a two-car garage and a large back deck.
According to the property listing, the ranch could also "have the opportunity to be a large development tract." Subdivisions have been developed in and around Argyle, surrounding the ranch, and west side of the property, which runs along I-35W, will possibly be "zoned commercial along the planned access road," the listing said.
But Fossil Gate isn't an outlier in Denton County, which has been a mix of new development and ranch properties as one of the top locations for horse breeding in Texas. Denton County has more than 300 horse farms, the most in Texas, according to Texas Highways.
The sandy loam soil and mild climate make the area ideal for year-round horse training, the magazine reported. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-ranches-for-sale-fossil-gate-farms-6-houses-and-even-more-barns-a-20-million-ranch-in-the-heart-of-north-texas-is-up-for-sale/287-37df31c6-738a-45b2-86a5-f63442fabab4 | 2022-07-20T15:03:43 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-ranches-for-sale-fossil-gate-farms-6-houses-and-even-more-barns-a-20-million-ranch-in-the-heart-of-north-texas-is-up-for-sale/287-37df31c6-738a-45b2-86a5-f63442fabab4 |
WALKER COUNTY, Texas — Firefighters continue Tuesday to battle a large fire in Walker County.
What started Monday afternoon as 100 acres burning, is now being called the Nelson Creek Fire.
The Texas A&M Forest Service said about 1,852 acres have burned so far and at last check, is 80 percent contained.
Around 8 p.m. Monday, the fire grew to more than 1,000 acres as it continued moving north toward the Trinity River.
TAMFS said Tuesday morning they've made good progress containing the fire to slow progression. Officials said helicopters are assisting with water drops to suppress the flames.
So far, there have been no words of evacuations in that area.
Dozer crews are working to widen and improve containment around the fire. Firefighters are also engaged in mop up operations.
There are several other fires happening across Texas, including the Chalk Mountain Fire southwest of Fort Worth that tripled in size overnight, growing from around 1,200 acres to 4,000 acres.
The Chalk Mountain Fire was 10% contained and "remained very active overnight," according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Also on Monday, fire crews worked to contain a 90-acre fire in Central Texas. Fourteen emergency service agencies worked together to put the fire out.
No homes or businesses were affected, and no injuries were reported. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-wildfire-updates-nelson-creek-fire/285-625d86c7-5315-45b1-be6a-89e8735f0969 | 2022-07-20T15:03:49 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas-wildfire-updates-nelson-creek-fire/285-625d86c7-5315-45b1-be6a-89e8735f0969 |
Since Texas lawmakers in 2019 legalized some forms of the cannabis plant but not others, marijuana prosecution cases around the state have been thrown into disarray, and enforcement can vary greatly depending on where you live.
Editor's note: The above video is from KHOU 11's previous coverage of medical cannabis in Texas.
A new Texas law sought to bring the state in line with a 2018 federal law that legalized hemp while keeping marijuana illegal. The result: widespread confusion.
Here’s how Texas law currently stands on marijuana and other cannabis-derived products, according to the Texas Tribune.
Hemp, marijuana, CBD and delta-8: What’s the difference?
Marijuana and hemp are often indistinguishable by look or smell because they both come from the cannabis plant. The difference amounts to how much of the psychoactive compound THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, they contain.
Marijuana is classified as a cannabis plant or its derivatives that have a THC concentration of more than 0.3%. If the substance has less THC, it’s considered hemp.
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a nonpsychoactive compound of cannabis. Businesses may sell it throughout Texas as long as its THC concentration is less than 0.3%. Supporters claim it can alleviate conditions such as anxiety, depression and insomnia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasn’t evaluated many of those claims and has approved only one CBD treatment so far, Epidiolex, to treat seizures related to a rare genetic disease. It’s also approved three products that contain synthetic THC or THC-like chemicals.
Delta-8 is a psychoactive substance that is naturally produced in small amounts by cannabis plants. When concentrated in a lab, delta-8 can produce a similar “high” to marijuana, leading to its popularization.
OK, what is legal right now?
It is still illegal to use or possess marijuana under Texas law — and has been since 1931. What changed in 2019 is that hemp is considered different from marijuana.
Hemp was made legal federally by the 2018 Farm Bill and in Texas by House Bill 1325, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed in 2019. Now, CBD products are being sold across the state.
Manufacturing, however, is a separate issue. While hemp is legal to buy, sell and possess, the Texas Department of State Health Services bans the processing and manufacturing of smokable hemp within the state. That ban was upheld by a Texas Supreme Court ruling in June 2022, according to the Dallas Observer.
Medical cannabis is legal in Texas in very limited circumstances. Through the Texas Compassionate Use Program, Texans with a variety of conditions — such as epilepsy, autism, cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder — can access cannabis oil with less than 1% THC by weight. Medical cannabis can treat the symptoms of some of these diseases or reduce the side effects of other treatments, such as alleviating the nausea and loss of appetite associated with chemotherapy or reducing nightmares in patients with PTSD.
The fate of delta-8, however, is unclear. CBD businesses initially began selling delta-8 in Texas because its low THC concentration qualifies it as “lawful marijuana extract” under HB 1325. But in 2021, DSHS attempted to halt sales by classifying delta-8 as an illegal substance.
Delta-8 remains legal in Texas as an ongoing lawsuit against DSHS determines whether the agency can outlaw delta-8. A district court judge ruled DSHS didn’t follow Texas’ rule-making requirements when it listed delta-8 as an illegal drug and therefore can’t enforce the order making the drug illegal. The injunction will last only until there’s an official decision in the case. Hometown Hero, an Austin-based dispensary involved in the legal battle, did not respond to a request for comment, but said in a January 2022 YouTube video that no court date had been set for the case.
In May 2021, a federal court in California ruled in a separate suit that delta-8 products fall under the legal definition of hemp — and are therefore federally legal — so long as their THC concentration remained under 0.3%.
Are cannabis-derived products safe to use?
There are too many unanswered questions to make definitive claims about whether cannabis-derived products are safe or not, though the FDA says it’s currently working to gather more information about the safety of cannabis use. The Texas Medical Association has also called for more comprehensive study about the safety of cannabis-derived products and their efficacy as a medical treatment.
The Mayo Clinic, a medical nonprofit, writes that medical marijuana and CBD products are generally safe and well tolerated, and there is some evidence to show that it may treat the symptoms of specific diseases, such as multiple sclerosis.
However, any cannabis-derived products besides Epidiolex, Marinol, Syndros or Cesamet are not FDA-approved or evaluated to treat any disease or condition. The FDA warns they may also interact with other medications, leading to reduced efficacy or adverse side effects. It may also worsen the symptoms of mental health conditions, such as depression or bipolar disorder, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Cannabis-derived products may also cause side effects of their own, especially when used in large amounts. The FDA cautions that CBD products can cause liver damage, changes in mood and appetite and may impact fertility. There have also been reports of delta-8 products causing hallucinations, vomiting and loss of consciousness. In September 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a health advisory warning that it had observed an increase in health emergencies associated with delta-8 usage as the drug became more popular. Many of the cases involved children being exposed to the drug, which is often sold in gummy and other candy forms.
Another safety concern is the potential contamination of non-FDA-approved products. Some CBD and delta-8 products can contain unsafe levels of household chemicals and other contaminants, such as heavy metals and pesticides. Some products labeled as CBD have also been found to contain THC, according to the Mayo Clinic. In April 2021, the U.S. Cannabis Council, a coalition of individuals, organizations and businesses advocating for the legalization of cannabis, tested 16 samples of delta-8 products sourced from across the country, including Texas. The testing, though limited, found that each of the products tested contained an illegal amount of THC, and several of the products contained copper, nickel and other toxic heavy metals.
WATCH: This report originally aired on 4/20
The lack of a standardized formula is in part what makes it difficult to determine the general safety of using cannabis-derived products. Because THC and CBD concentration can vary so widely in product to product, it makes it hard to conduct reproducible trials on the effectiveness of the drug because it's difficult to get a consistent dose every time, according to Texas-based neurologist Sara Austin.
In pharmaceutical-grade products such as Epidiolex, the FDA-approved seizure medicine, the dosage can be standardized across all products and tested in clinical trials. The same isn’t true of medical marijuana in Texas, in which case it’s up to individual doctors to decide how much to prescribe based on recommendation, rather than scientific data, Austin said.
You should not use THC or CBD products if you’re planning to drive. CBD can cause sleepiness or drowsiness, according to the FDA, and can impair your ability to drive.
How do Texas marijuana laws compare to those of other states?
Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana possession, according to U.S. News. In those states, marijuana use and possession is still regulated, but people are not criminally or civilly punished under state law.
As of May 2022, 10 states, including Texas, allow access to CBD products with low THC concentrations. Seventeen states allow higher THC concentration marijuana use for medical purposes, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Three states — Idaho, Nebraska, and Kansas — have no public cannabis access program.
In 27 states and Washington, D.C., possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use has been decriminalized. Under many of these state laws, it is still illegal to use marijuana recreationally, but prosecutors do not press criminal charges. Instead, offenders face civil penalties, which usually include fines or drug education programs. However, in Texas, people arrested or cited for marijuana possession may still face legal penalties depending on the amount.
As of July 2022, 14 states have banned either delta-8 specifically or all unregulated forms of THC, which includes delta-8, according to NBC News.
What are the legal penalties of marijuana possession in Texas?
In Texas, possession of up to 2 ounces of marijuana is a Class B misdemeanor, which can be punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine.
Possession of 2 ounces to 4 ounces of marijuana is a Class A misdemeanor that can result in a fine of up to $4,000 and up to a year in county jail. Possession of any amount more than 4 ounces would result in a felony charge.
Possession of drug paraphernalia — such as pipes or bongs, but not marijuana itself — is a Class C misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine up to $500, but no jail time.
Are there efforts to legalize marijuana in Texas?
During the 2021 legislative session, both Republicans and Democrats in the Texas House made renewed attempts to lessen criminal penalties for marijuana possession. Some of the bills introduced included getting rid of jail time for possession of small amounts of marijuana and eliminating automatic driver’s license suspensions. Some passed the House, but none were successfully signed into law.
Both Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat running against him in the race for governor, have voiced support for decriminalizing marijuana, with O’Rourke campaigning on legalizing the drug.
In its official platform, the Texas Republican Party supports the federal government moving cannabis from a Schedule I drug — drugs with a high potential for abuse and no medical usage — to a Schedule II drug — drugs that have accepted medical uses but still have a high potential to be abused. While this change would federally recognize cannabis use as a medical treatment, it would still remain illegal for recreational use at the federal level.
How are cities and counties handling marijuana possession?
Many Texas prosecutors, Republicans and Democrats alike, are dropping low-level marijuana possession charges and declining to pursue new ones altogether.
Before the hemp law passed, law enforcement agencies in Harris, Dallas, Bexar and Nueces counties had already stopped arresting many people found with small amounts of the drug on a first offense. Instead, they may offer diversion programs to keep defendants out of jail or issue citations for people with a misdemeanor amount of marijuana.
In June 2019, the Texas Department of Public Safety — the state’s largest law enforcement agency — ordered its officers not to arrest people but to issue citations if possible in misdemeanor marijuana possession cases, which still carry a penalty of up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
The Austin City Council voted unanimously in January 2020 to end most arrests and fines — and ban spending city funds on testing — for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Those policies were codified this May, when Austin voters approved a ballot measure effectively decriminalizing marijuana.
Other cities, such as El Paso and Plano, have begun using “cite-and-release” policies, in which people found possessing small amounts of marijuana will be cited instead of arrested. These policies don’t completely decriminalize marijuana — those cited may still face fines and potential jail time — but they do reduce arrests and immediate jail time.
In Bexar County, cite-and-release policies saved $2.6 million in taxpayer money between July 2019 and December 2020 by reducing the number of people held in county jail for misdemeanor marijuana offenses and the number of cases being prosecuted by the local district attorney, according to KSAT.
How has the law impacted arrests in the state?
After the 2019 bill was passed that legalized hemp in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials insisted that the bill didn’t decriminalize marijuana. But the law was still followed by a large decline in marijuana arrests across the state as some counties stopped prosecuting marijuana possession cases and others lacked the testing capabilities to differentiate between marijuana and legal hemp.
Prior to June 2019, when the law went into effect, Texas prosecutors filed upwards of 5,000 misdemeanor marijuana possession cases a month. That then steadily declined, dropping below 2,000 cases a month by November 2019.
Between January and May of 2022, 1,745 marijuana possession cases were filed per month on average, according to data by the Texas Office of Court Administration.
What do the polls say?
Polls have shown that support for some form of marijuana legalization has stayed strong throughout the past few years.
In a June 2018 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, 84% of the state’s voters would legalize pot, either just for medical use (31%), in small amounts (30%) or in any amount (23%).
A May 2022 by The Dallas Morning News/UT-Tyler found similar support for legalization: 83% of Texas voters would support legalizing marijuana for medical use and 60% would support legalizing recreational use.
This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-marijuana-laws/285-4e039ac1-c8c8-4900-8dbf-78069ba446c8 | 2022-07-20T15:03:55 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-marijuana-laws/285-4e039ac1-c8c8-4900-8dbf-78069ba446c8 |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Heise 12,438 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 3,090 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 11,109 cfs
Snake River at Milner 0 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 289 cfs
Jackson Lake is 45% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 67% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 33% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 50% of capacity.
As of July 19. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_9029181a-077d-11ed-b552-a74419337aa3.html | 2022-07-20T15:05:22 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/average-daily-streamflows/article_9029181a-077d-11ed-b552-a74419337aa3.html |
When Congressman Mike Simpson first proposed breaching the four lower Snake River dams to preserve imperiled salmon about 18 months ago, all he had were incentives.
When he called for a “Northwest solution that ends the salmon wars and puts the Northwest and our energy systems on a certain, secure and viable path for decades and restores Idaho’s salmon,” Simpson could only offer ways to insulate Lewiston-Clarkston and the Inland Northwest from the economic fallout that would follow a diminution of navigation, hydropower and irrigation.
The southern Idaho Republican was handing out dollar bills by the fistful — $16 billion for lost hydropower here, $1.5 billion for high-speed loader grants there, another $200 million to compensate the ports, $150 million for riverfront restoration and $275 million to help Clearwater Paper make the transition.
In all, Simpson’s Columbia Basin Initiative involved a $33.5 billion payout.
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But if the region told Simpson to pound sand — which it promptly did — there wasn’t much he could do. Simpson had a lot of carrots but no sticks.
Until now. The sticks are piling up.
Most prominent among them was the Biden administration weighing in Tuesday with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration planting a bull’s-eye on the dams as the single largest detriment to fish survival. That’s a jarring change to a community grown accustomed to previous administrations — George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump — remaining on the sidelines.
However this shakes out, Biden’s team intends to intervene on behalf of the fish and tribal treaty rights. “Business as usual will not restore the health and abundance of Pacific Northwest salmon,” said Brenda Mallory, chairwoman of Biden’s White House Council on Environmental Quality. “We need a durable, inclusive, and regionally-crafted long-term strategy for the management of the Columbia River Basin.” That’s on top of the ongoing efforts of Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to explore salmon restoration. Perhaps that means a congressional signal toward a breaching deal. But it certainly leans into an alliance with Oregon Gov. Kate Brown as well as the region’s Indian tribes, most prominently the Nez Perce.
“We each remain firmly committed to saving our salmon,” Murray and Inslee said last month in releasing a preliminary study. “We also know that the dams provide significant benefits to our region’s economy and communities. In the coming weeks, we will carefully review and consider public input, tribal consultation, and other engagement from stakeholders before making any recommendations.”
Meanwhile, the Biden administration and the parties suing it on behalf of salmon recovery in the federal courts have placed a pause on their litigation.
None of this adds up to what would be the largest dam removal project in the United States. Only Congress can authorize that and the political leadership representing the dam community — Idaho Gov. Brad Little, Sen. Jim Risch and Congressman Russ Fulcher as well as Washington Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse — promised to gum up the legislative gears as much as possible. What the Biden administration can achieve on its own absent congressional support remains to be seen.
But momentum is converging from several sources and it seems to be accelerating.
All of which must feel like familiar terrain to Simpson, who spent more than a decade drafting and passing a Boulder-White Clouds wilderness bill. During that time, Simpson considered himself an honest broker of information. To skeptics in Blaine and Custer counties, the congressman would argue that determining their own destiny through an Idaho bill that designated wilderness boundaries, motorized trail access and economic development was far more preferable to having a Democratic president impose a national monument declaration from afar.
The Inland Northwest should not ignore that lesson. As tasty as Simpson’s carrots may be, they have a shelf life. The offer will not remain on the table indefinitely. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/idaho-view-where-once-there-were-carrots-now-there-are-sticks/article_e7bf3e24-07b4-11ed-b91c-c37db3e6ca15.html | 2022-07-20T15:05:28 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/idaho-view-where-once-there-were-carrots-now-there-are-sticks/article_e7bf3e24-07b4-11ed-b91c-c37db3e6ca15.html |
SUN CITY CENTER, Fla. — Hillsborough County deputies on Tuesday arrested a woman who they say took a hot pot and pressed it against a child's arm "in an attempt to teach the child a lesson."
Jennifer Posey, 29, faces a charge of aggravated child abuse, the sheriff's office said in a news release.
Authorities say Posey was in charge of watching a 10-year-old and two other children. After Posey made a pot of instant ramen on the stovetop, one of the children pretended to spill a bowl of hot ramen on another.
As a form of discipline, the sheriff's office said, Posey then took the pot and put it on the child's arm. They reportedly suffered a 4-inch burn.
"Children will be children, but an adult should know better than to use such great physical punishment to try to correct their bad behavior," Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement. "This suspect's actions were intentional, unacceptable, and she will now face the consequences for inflicting unnecessary pain on a helpless child." | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/jennifer-posey-hot-pot-child-burn/67-3054e2ba-88bd-447b-a82c-ebd8fcaf0f01 | 2022-07-20T15:05:31 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/jennifer-posey-hot-pot-child-burn/67-3054e2ba-88bd-447b-a82c-ebd8fcaf0f01 |
BRADENTON, Fla. — Manatee County deputies arrested a 15-year-old boy they say accidentally shot his friend in the head while playing with a handgun.
It happened just before 4 p.m. Tuesday on 14th Street East near 9th Avenue in the Sylvan Oaks area of Bradenton.
Deputies say they were initially told by a witness that a 16-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the head while holding a gun.
He was transported to Blake Hospital where he remains in critical condition.
Further investigation revealed that the teen's 15-year-old friend was playing with the gun when it accidentally went off and shot him, according to the sheriff's office.
The 15-year-old was arrested and charged with attempted manslaughter. He was booked into the Manatee Regional Juvenile Detention Center. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/manatee-teen-accidental-shooting/67-eb6ff0b5-e30b-4579-829c-5d03fa39a2d4 | 2022-07-20T15:05:37 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/manateecounty/manatee-teen-accidental-shooting/67-eb6ff0b5-e30b-4579-829c-5d03fa39a2d4 |
Free summer camp pays dividends: 100K Arizona children fill learning gaps created by pandemic
The hallways at Self-Development Academy in Mesa in July are abuzz. While many students across Arizona are enjoying their annual vacation, some remain in the classroom, meticulously forming handfuls of toothpicks into pyramids while others make their own traditional tunics.
Meanwhile, 25 miles away at the Lincoln Family Downtown YMCA, kids are lining up for buses en route to Chase Field for a Diamondbacks game.
Across Arizona this summer, students are learning in a variety of new ways. The pedagogy has changed, but the educational purposes are familiar and, leaders say, critical to catch students up to fill social and learning gaps the pandemic may have created.
Gov. Doug Ducey's AZ On Track Summer Camp program, announced in March, awarded 150 organizations grant contracts to offer free summer camp sessions and allocated more than $100 million from American Rescue Plan funds toward it.
The participating organizations, which include school districts, charter schools and youth institutions such as the YMCA and the Boys and Girls Clubs, offered 800 camp sessions at roughly 680 campsites. So far, about 100,000, or roughly 6.2% of Arizona schoolchildren, have participated in the program.
Whether children were into music, sports, science or history, camps were tailored to all kinds of different interests.
Fashion lovers explored different careers and aspects of the fashion industry at the Garment League's Fashion Industry Youth Camp.
Young musicians delved into songwriting and musical instruments at the Phoenix Boys Choir's Music Camp, and those with a passion for theater learned about storytelling and puppetry at the Great Arizona Puppet Theater.
The camps were required to offer an academic component covering one of the following topics: math, civics, literacy and building attitudes and behaviors that supported learning. Another option for this component could also be credit recovery for those students who needed to bump up their grades or those who dropped out. But the programs also had to include engaging activities meant to entertain and build social and emotional skills.
Most camps started their sessions in June, and most will conclude them in the first week of August.
'Making free child care available to all this summer'
Lisa Graham Keegan, chairperson of the program and a former Arizona schools superintendent, said the governor’s goal was to focus on Arizona’s most vulnerable students, who are at risk of learning loss and disengagement after the pandemic.
The Governor’s Office also required that camps provide food and transportation for students.
The YMCA, which has traditionally offered summer camps every year to mostly families that can afford their programs, was able to serve 3,600 kids every week this summer throughout its locations statewide.
Jenna Cooper, the organization's vice president of government and community relations, said access to these programs has been difficult for some families. "What this grant did when the governor came out and said he was going to dedicate $100 million to camp programs ... he effectively said he was making free child care available to all this summer."
The organization partnered with the Valley of the Sun United Way to create a curriculum around math and literacy through games and arts for pre-K through 12th-grade students. Their camp sessions also included swim classes, sports and e-sports activities and field trips.
Self-Development Academy, a charter school with one location in Phoenix and another in Mesa, offered camp sessions that focused on the great civilizations connected with the Silk Road.
The program taught students math, reading, music, arts and other skills while connecting each subject with one another. While learning about Egypt, for example, kids not only learned about the history of the pyramids but also the math, engineering, arts and cultural components behind them.
Vernetta Madsen, Self-Development Academy Mesa campus director, said teachers wanted to expand the kids' understanding of the world by covering texts and subjects they don't get to learn about daily while school is in session.
Cooper and Madsen said their hope is that the kids who went through the summer camps will have gained academic, emotional and social skills that will make them more prepared to go back to school this fall.
How the money was distributed
The Governor's Office set three different funding formulas for the camps, depending on the student-teacher ratio and how much the programs offered.
Camps that had a student-teacher ratio of 15 students or fewer per teacher received $50, or $25, per student per day depending on whether they offered a whole day, or seven hours, of activities, or a half-day, or 3.5 hours.
Camps that had one teacher per 16 to 20 students received $40, or $20, per student per day, depending on whether they offered six or three hours of activities. Camps with 21 to 35 students per teacher received $30 per student per day.
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Since this grant program was funded by American Rescue Plan dollars and Ducey is leaving office at the end of the year, it's unclear if it will continue next year.
Keegan said the Governor's Office has asked the schools and the participating organizations to collect data on the success of the initiative to share that with the Legislature and the next governor so that the program lives on.
Renata Cló and Yana Kunichoff are reporters on The Arizona Republic's K-12 education team. You can reach them at rclo@arizonarepublic.com and ykunichoff@arizonarepublic.com. Follow them on Twitter @renataclo and @Yanazure.
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High school international exchange program is looking for Arizona host families
Youth for Understanding, a nonprofit international high school exchange program, is looking for Arizona volunteers to host high school exchange students for the coming school year.
Historically, it has been a challenge for YFU to place students in Arizona because public schools here start much earlier than other places in the country. But Katy Lindell, YFU’s Tucson-based community development manager, is hoping to expand the program’s presence in the state.
For the coming school year, the program has students from 60 countries and every continent. YFU still has 174 students left to place across the U.S., and Lindell is hoping to bring at least 10 to Arizona. So far, they have one confirmed host family in Arizona – a Tucson family that will be hosting a boy from Chile.
Students can attend public, charter, or private high schools all over the state through a J-1 visa.
Though Arizona public schools are starting as early as this week, it is not too late to apply to host a student. “Whether they miss a few days of school in the beginning or not, they just want to get here and get their year started,” Lindell said.
Bringing a person into your family
Years before being hired as a community development manager, Lindell was an exchange student through Youth for Understanding. In 2009, she studied abroad in Sweden as a junior in high school.
“I grew up in a tiny town in Idaho, so it was like a whole new world,” she said. “And that relationship with my family really stuck.” She visits her host family regularly, and in November they came to Tucson for her wedding.
Michele Weyker, a Litchfield Park resident, began hosting students through Youth for Understanding in 2008. Since then, she has hosted nine girls.
“I wish more people could experience it ... just learning about different cultures and opening up your heart to someone,” Weyker said. “Almost all of them call me Mom, still to this day. We say 'I love you.' We video chat every so often.”
She recently visited two of her exchange daughters in Germany and Denmark. In September, one of her exchange daughters from Latvia will be visiting.
“You’re bringing a person into your family,” she said. “You’re not ever supposed to treat them like a guest in your house.”
After school ended in May but before they left in June, Weyker took her exchange daughters on trips. “Every last one of my girls, we went to Vegas,” she said. “It just seems to be a place that everybody wants to see, because they see it on TV.”
She’s taken them to California, as well as Arizona destinations such as Sedona and the Grand Canyon.
What to know if you’re interested in hosting an exchange student
Families can choose to host a student for a semester or a year, or to serve as a welcome family that hosts a student for 12 weeks until a permanent host family can be found.
Families are required to provide three meals a day and a bed to sleep in (though the student can share a room with a same-sex sibling), as well as “parental support like they would their own child,” Lindell said. Students come to the U.S. with medical insurance and money for a cellphone, entertainment and toiletries.
Host families can be single parents, same-sex couples, divorced families and families with and without kids, Lindell said.
After applying on YFU’s website, families must pass a background check, provide references, upload photos of their living space and complete an in-home interview with a YFU volunteer. They can then look through profiles to choose which student they want to host.
“There is no deadline to apply to host,” Lindell said. “We are actively looking for families that are interested for this school year, even short stay ‘welcome families.'’’
If a family is interested in hosting an exchange student but is not quite prepared to do so this year, YFU is looking for families for future years as well. The program will start receiving profiles for next year’s students in October.
Madeleine Parrish covers equity issues for The Arizona Republic. Reach her at madeleine.parrish@gannett.com and follow her on Twitter @maddieparrish61. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2022/07/20/youth-understanding-exchange-program-looks-arizona-host-families/10102198002/ | 2022-07-20T15:06:22 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-education/2022/07/20/youth-understanding-exchange-program-looks-arizona-host-families/10102198002/ |
Amid heat waves, a study questions cooling centers. A Phoenix official says we need more
In the hottest big city in America, it's important to be prepared for heat, which caused the deaths of 338 people in Maricopa County last year. That's why Phoenix created the Office of Heat Response and Mitigation in 2021, and appointed former Arizona State University urban planning researcher David Hondula as its director.
Scaling up public services and innovation to match the rising mercury is no simple task, especially with five cities in Maricopa and Pinal Counties ranking among the top 15 in the nation for percentage population growth between July 2020 and July 2021. And Hondula says those counts may not fully capture the number of unsheltered people migrating to the area, who are among the most vulnerable to heat exposure and made up 40% of heat-associated deaths last year.
Heat waves are defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "prolonged periods of abnormally hot weather," with a sentence-use example labeling them as times "when many people become increasingly bad-tempered." Data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) show heat waves growing in frequency, duration, season length and intensity since 1961 across 50 large U.S. metropolitan areas.
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This week, highs in the Phoenix area are forecast to hover just below daily historical maximums at between 104 and 113 degrees Fahrenheit, temperatures the National Weather Service deems a "high risk to most people." Out of the past 128 years, this June was the 15th warmest on record nationwide, according to NOAA. In Phoenix, it was the 6th warmest June.
Meanwhile, parts of Europe, North Africa, the Middle East and Asia are reeling from a rash of heat waves. The U.K. shattered its all-time temperature record by nearly 3 degrees Tuesday when it provisionally hit 104.5 F. Last week, a 40-year temperature record fell in Tunisia. At the beginning of July, a portion of the Marmolada glacier in the Dolomites collapsed in Italy. Roads and roof tiles are succumbing to heat in China, with the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory recording its highest temperature ever on July 13.
The reason behind this universal warming trend has been unequivocally linked by an international group of scientists to climate change, the rise in average temperatures and weather abnormalities due to the emission of greenhouse gases, mainly from burning fossil fuels, which trap heat within our atmosphere and energize chaotic meteorological events.
The answer to limiting future heat waves is to address climate change, which scientists say will require political action to reduce global reliance on fossil fuels as an energy source. But even if leaders mobilize now to enact aggressive climate policies — which they are not doing — a certain amount of warming is locked in from past emissions.
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That means the answer to addressing current and imminent heat waves must be different. No one wants a repeat of the heat wave that swept through an unprepared Europe in 2003 and caused at least 30,000 deaths, especially among the elderly. Many attributed that disaster to a lack of cooling infrastructure in homes and public places.
As Phoenix's heat czar, Hondula is determined to improve local air conditioning access to reduce heat-associated deaths, illness and suffering. One way he's doing that is by helping coordinate the regional Heat Relief Network of more than 160 facilities — 112 cooling centers that offer a air conditioned space and 56 hydration stations that supply water — throughout the county where people feeling the heat can seek relief.
Visitors to the network website, (https://hrn.azmag.gov/), can type in an address to find the Heat Relief Network site nearest them. A map of participating locations in the valley shows a smattering of orange triangle symbols for designated cooling centers, blue pentagon symbols marking public hydration stations and pink circles denoting locations where residents can donate supplies.
The offerings appear extensive, and Hondula can testify that the effort behind coordinating the mapped cooling centers has been substantial. But a new study published in June in the journal Epidemiology out of Boston University's School of Medicine, calls into question their effectiveness.
Controversy over cooling
The study's authors, some of whom are affiliated with Boston University's new Center for Climate and Health, cited challenges faced by governments, communities and health care workers during the June 2021 record-breaking heat wave across the Pacific Northwest as their motivation for assessing cooling centers as a heat intervention.
At the outset, they noted that air conditioning is the "the most obvious protection against the adverse health impacts of extreme heat, but access to air-conditioned spaces is far from ubiquitous." On this point, the study authors and Hondula can agree.
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After combing through heat-related mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to estimate the number of visits to a cooling center that would be required in Maricopa County to prevent a single heat-related death, the researchers suggested that "there seems to be a discrepancy between the enthusiasm of public health officials to open cooling centers during periods of extreme heat and a decided lack of enthusiasm or ability by the public to take advantage of these resources."
Based on the population of Maricopa County, the assumption that there are 10 days of extreme heat per year and an estimate that visiting a cooling center reduces the risk of heat-attributable death by 66%, they calculated the number of cooling center visits that would be required on a day of extreme heat in order to prevent a single heat-associated death at 1,648,868.
That's a staggering 14,722 visits per day, on average, to each of the mapped cooling centers in the valley. Yet a 2014 study published in the journal Weather, Climate and Society found that 27% of Maricopa County cooling centers were often filled at less than 5% capacity. These numbers, though, can be hard to pinpoint.
“I know on the spectrum of heat related intervention, that cooling centers are less expensive to implement," said Neil Singh Bedi, a medical student researcher at Boston University and the recent study's lead author. "But then the question is, how much bang for your buck are you getting if people aren’t really using them?"
As one of the authors of that 2014 paper, Hondula is well aware of the problem of cooling centers being underused and understudied. But he disagrees with the questioning of their effectiveness.
“I don’t want to say the paper is wrong, but we have a different perspective," he said.
In preparation for his interview with The Arizona Republic, Hondula did his own back-of-the-envelope calculations. He factored in an estimate of local unsheltered people that may have been missed in census counts and the fact that this group is at 200 to 300 times higher risk of heat-associated deaths than the rest of the population, and arrived at 5,500 as the number of daily visits to a cooling center that would be required to prevent one heat-associated death, as opposed to Bedi and colleague's 1.6 million.
Hondula also noted that he fields frequent requests from the public to expand the Heat Relief Network by adding cooling centers and filling gaps between existing locations, which is why he feels there is a disconnect between what the CDC numbers indicate and how much cooling centers are actually helping offset deadly impacts of heat waves.
“This paper really highlighted some of the tension I felt in between what my understanding of the problem was as an academic and my understanding of what the problem is now as an employee of the city," he said. "One understanding people could have from the paper is that cooling centers aren’t working, and that’s totally at odds with the feedback we get from the public every day that cooling centers aren’t open long enough or there aren’t enough of them."
Pounding the piping-hot pavement
One central problem that may underscore the contrast between Hondula's experience on the ground in Maricopa County and the assessment by Boston University researchers is that visitation to cooling centers is a hard number to come by.
The city doesn't have the staffing to regularly send people out to evaluate how cooling centers are being used, Hondula said. Even if they did, walking up to people in a public library, for example, a common cooling center location, and asking them why they are there can be indelicate.
“If somebody is at a cooling center to cool off, they are often not having the best day or moment of their life and it’s often not very comfortable to approach them with a clipboard and ask them questions about why they are there," Hondula said. "So that’s something we’ve been trying to navigate."
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Since many cooling centers are public places or local establishments offering their spaces to help overheating Arizonans during business hours, they are generally not staffed by anyone with the time or expertise to collect data or evaluate visitors for signs of heat exhaustion or stroke, which include headache, dizziness, nausea and muscle cramps.
"Other information that we really want to know is why folks aren't using cooling centers," Hondula said. "And that answer would not be found at cooling centers, the answer is found elsewhere."
Despite these gaps in knowledge, Hondula is firm in his stance that cooling centers are worth the effort and expense, especially since he says the city budget for this intervention is "not a substantial investment" and has mostly been for signage. His office is dreaming up more ways to publicize information about cooling centers, including by distributing paper maps of Heat Relief Network facilities to places like Circle K stores, where some of the most vulnerable people tend to congregate.
Coordinating climate cooling
On the need for increased awareness among the public about cooling center availability, and about the problem of heat waves and climate change in general, Hondula and the Boston University researchers are in complete agreement.
In their paper, Bedi and colleagues concluded that "barriers to wider (cooling center) adoption can be classified as being related to awareness and motivation and to access and opportunity." In other words, it's not that cooling centers are worthless, it's that not enough people know about them or are able to get there before it's too late, or they feel some kind of stigma about visiting a cooling center or uncertainty about what they're supposed to do while they're there.
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Hondula even admits that, once upon a time, he wasn't sure what a cooling center was.
"When I first moved here, I thought a cooling center was an elementary school gym that is open exclusively for cooling purposes on days when there’s a heat advisory," he said. "And there’s not a single cooling center in the network that operates like that.”
Residents who find someone else or themselves in need of a cooling or hydration center are encouraged to call 2-1-1 to request free transportation, through an agreement with Lyft funded by a grant from Arizona Public Service (APS), to the nearest network facility. Those wishing to donate to the program can do that by visiting the Arizona 211 heat relief website (211arizona.org/crisis/heat-relief/).
As a young medical student eager to help solve climate-related public health issues, Bedi thinks awareness needs to go far beyond the availability of immediate interventions to prevent climate change consequences like heat stroke. He says there has to be more translation between what scientists are learning and what is being done on the policy side to prevent heat-associated health crises from escalating.
"I'm growing up in this decade where people realize that there is a role for both public health professionals and for physicians and for people in a health care-oriented field to do work in climate change and respond to the climate crisis," Bedi said. "(But it can) feel like you’re just shouting into the void."
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Hondula, for one, is all about integrating science and action. After learning of Bedi's paper from The Republic, he called up its senior author, Bedi's advisor, and had a long chat about what he, as a former academic and leader of Phoenix's heat response, can do to maximize cooling center effectiveness. In true scientist fashion, they honed right in on the next research obej.
“What if the question is, how many visits are required over the entire summer to save one life instead of over the course of one day? If we could save one life every day with the Heat Relief Network, 180 lives saved, that would be a huge, huge success," Hondula said. "An unprecedented success."
Joan Meiners is the Climate News and Storytelling Reporter at The Arizona Republic and azcentral. Before becoming a journalist, she completed a doctorate in Ecology. Follow Joan on Twitter at @beecycles or email her at joan.meiners@arizonarepublic.com. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2022/07/20/how-effective-cooling-centers-preventing-heat-related-deaths/10087174002/ | 2022-07-20T15:06:28 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2022/07/20/how-effective-cooling-centers-preventing-heat-related-deaths/10087174002/ |
Once seen as crass profiteering, Arizona prisons are all in on leasing prisoners to private companies
For most of its history, Arizona avoided leasing prisoners to private companies to avoid profiteering.
But that changed in 1995, when Arizona Correctional Industries began sending a few hundred prisoners to work for Hickman’s Family Farms, the state’s biggest egg factory; Greater Auto Auction — now known as Manheim Auto Auctions — which auctions used cars to dealers across the state; and Televerde, a telemarketing firm that gathers sales leads for high-tech companies such as Microsoft and SAP.
Since then — and especially under CEO Brian Radecki — ACI’s prisoner leasing business has expanded, according to a 15-month investigation by The Arizona Republic and KJZZ News. Prisoners now do everything from milk cows at Du-Brook Dairy to weld trailer parts for Sun Country Trailer.
Subscribe to azcentral.com to read Prison Sell, an investigation into Arizona's prison labor. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/07/20/these-companies-arizona-use-prison-labor/10064188002/ | 2022-07-20T15:06:34 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/07/20/these-companies-arizona-use-prison-labor/10064188002/ |
Prisoners sell mainly to the Arizona Department of Corrections. But they have plenty of other buyers
Arizona Correctional Industries, a state-run company under the auspices of the Department of Corrections, makes thousands of different products at its workshops and warehouses at prisons throughout the state.
The overwhelming majority of products are manufactured for the Department of Corrections itself and other state agencies and government entities, according to a 15-month investigation by The Arizona Republic and KJZZ News that delved into the more than 11,000 price quotes that ACI delivered to potential customers.
Those products include everything from bunk beds and restraint chairs made for prisons to football goal posts and teak locker rooms made for high schools.
But prisoners working for ACI also made a wide variety of products for private companies and individuals. They include bar furniture, kitchen cabinets, car parts, calf chutes and horse trailers.
Subscribe to azcentral.com to read Prison Sell, an investigation into Arizona's prison labor. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/07/20/who-buys-products-made-by-arizona-prisoners/10064074002/ | 2022-07-20T15:06:40 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-investigations/2022/07/20/who-buys-products-made-by-arizona-prisoners/10064074002/ |
A person of interest has been taken into custody in relation to a rape at gunpoint on a Philadelphia subway platform.
The Philadelphia Police Department announced the person’s detainment Wednesday, saying additional details would be forthcoming. The alleged rape happened Monday in SEPTA’s Snyder subway station in South Philadelphia.
"It was a traumatic event that occurred down on that platform," Capt. James Kearney, commanding officer of the Special Victims Unit, said Monday.
The 40-year-old woman told police officers when they arrived around 4:45 a.m. that she was with her boyfriend trying on some clothing ahead of the attack, Kearney said. The woman first arrived to the subway platform around 4 a.m.
The boyfriend first saw a man in a NASA sweatshirt, but briefly lost track of him before the attack, Kearney said. The attacker pointed a gun at the woman's boyfriend and at her back. He then demanded sex, Kearney said.
The boyfriend could be seen in surveillance video with his hands up. "He was made to watch," Kearney said.
The man carried a black handgun with a green slide and an extended magazine during the attack and rode a bicycle in the underground, police said.
Police recovered DNA at the scene that was being processed, Kearney said.
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Police warned anyone who spots the attacker not to approach but to call 911 immediately.
Anyone with information on the attack is asked to submit tips by phone or text to 215-686-8477 or submit a tip anonymously online.
Resources for victims of sexual assault are available through the National Sexual Violence Resources Center and the National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline at 800-656-4673. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/person-of-interest-detained-in-philly-septa-subway-station-rape/3305095/ | 2022-07-20T15:13:29 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/person-of-interest-detained-in-philly-septa-subway-station-rape/3305095/ |
Pantagraph journalists will be available to meet with readers from noon to 3 p.m. Friday at the Pontiac Public Library.
The journalists will be in the reading room at the library, 211 E. Madison St. They hope to meet with readers who have news tips and story ideas to share.
The stop is part of the news organization's new Out-of-Office Hours outreach effort, which brings journalists to libraries across the coverage area to meet with readers. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/attention-pontiac-readers-pantagraph-journalists-want-to-meet-you/article_c0afc89e-0782-11ed-8454-3bc9fc2e4808.html | 2022-07-20T15:14:30 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/attention-pontiac-readers-pantagraph-journalists-want-to-meet-you/article_c0afc89e-0782-11ed-8454-3bc9fc2e4808.html |
WALKER COUNTY, Texas — Firefighters continue Tuesday to battle a large fire in Walker County.
What started Monday afternoon as 100 acres burning, is now being called the Nelson Creek Fire.
The Texas A&M Forest Service said about 1,852 acres have burned so far and at last check, is 80 percent contained.
Around 8 p.m. Monday, the fire grew to more than 1,000 acres as it continued moving north toward the Trinity River.
TAMFS said Tuesday morning they've made good progress containing the fire to slow progression. Officials said helicopters are assisting with water drops to suppress the flames.
So far, there have been no words of evacuations in that area.
Dozer crews are working to widen and improve containment around the fire. Firefighters are also engaged in mop up operations.
There are several other fires happening across Texas, including the Chalk Mountain Fire southwest of Fort Worth that tripled in size overnight, growing from around 1,200 acres to 4,000 acres.
The Chalk Mountain Fire was 10% contained and "remained very active overnight," according to the Texas A&M Forest Service.
Also on Monday, fire crews worked to contain a 90-acre fire in Central Texas. Fourteen emergency service agencies worked together to put the fire out.
No homes or businesses were affected, and no injuries were reported. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-wildfire-updates-nelson-creek-fire/285-625d86c7-5315-45b1-be6a-89e8735f0969 | 2022-07-20T15:18:55 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-wildfire-updates-nelson-creek-fire/285-625d86c7-5315-45b1-be6a-89e8735f0969 |
AUGUSTA, Maine — More money is headed for Maine towns, aimed at shoring up infrastructure against the effects of climate change.
The Mills administration announced Tuesday $20 million in federal relief funds are being allocated to 13 cities and towns that requested help with projects like outdated sewage lines and culverts that are too small to deal with increased storm surges due to climate impacts.
Maine Department Transportation Chief Engineer Joyce Taylor helped guide the funding. She says she's proud the money is not just going to the coastal communities one might think about when they think of rising water.
"People tend to always talk about sea level rise," Taylor said. "But they forget about these storms we're having inland, and how they can also wipe out culverts and roads and bridges."
Tim Curtis is Madison's town manager, where they're due to receive more than $800,000. He showed NEWS CENTER Maine the sheriff's office and a stretch of downtown that are in frequent danger of flooding. That piece of town is in a low spot, he explained, and culverts in the area aren't equipped to handle extreme rain storms.
Madison and nearby Anson, Curtis says, have needed upgrades to their drainage systems for years, but they had to be put off to make room for other projects.
"We had lots of infrastructure projects that were put on hold while we had to deal with the economic ramifications of losing the mill," Curtis said, referring to the Madison Paper Industries mill closure in 2016. "So, it was really after COVID that we got things kind of settled back down."
He said he was also thrilled when he heard about the anticipated funds because town leadership wanted to avoid raising taxes to pay for the needed projects.
The funding is part of the federal American Rescue Plan, which is then distributed under the Maine Jobs and Recovery Plan, passed by the Maine state legislature and allocated by the governor's office. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/13-maine-communities-getting-relief-funds-for-key-infrastructure-projects-climate-change-federal-funding-grants-flooding/97-3ff4d6e0-4e29-46ca-91aa-a490bab31195 | 2022-07-20T15:23:37 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/13-maine-communities-getting-relief-funds-for-key-infrastructure-projects-climate-change-federal-funding-grants-flooding/97-3ff4d6e0-4e29-46ca-91aa-a490bab31195 |
MILLINOCKET, Maine — When a hiking trip takes a turn for the worst, it can be a frightening situation.
Last week, hiker Jody Croft found herself facing her fears head-on during a trip to Baxter State Park.
“It is just crazy how beautiful it is up there, and it was a beautiful day to [hike]… and then it wasn’t,” Croft said.
While attempting to find the blue markers on Traveler Loop, a trail she and her hiking partner had never been on before, Croft misstepped and found herself falling headfirst onto a rock below the trail.
When Croft lifted herself from the rock, she found that she was bleeding heavily and didn’t believe that she could make it down the trail on foot.
“I just couldn’t do it. There was no way. Like, I couldn’t see because I had lost so much blood," Croft said.
Luckily, Croft packed a first-aid kit made by her friend.
Croft says that while she’d been on many hiking trails before, this was the first time she brought the first-aid kit along with her. Croft’s hiking partner helped to tend to her injury, but it was unfruitful.
Croft says no matter their efforts, the bleeding continued and worse than that, any amount of walking left her dizzy and nauseous.
“You’re three hours in, on top of a mountain — you know your head's bleeding and you’re like, ‘How the heck am I going to get off this mountain?'" Croft said.
Her hiking partner was able to find enough cellphone reception to call 911. From there, the authorities contacted the Baxter Park rangers who were able to land a helicopter on the mountain to get Croft the help she needed.
“They came in and they flew around — we heard them and then they landed, and that was just… I was in awe," she said.
Croft says she wouldn't have been able to make it off the trail without aid — or if her head had met with one of the more jagged rocks in the area.
“[The first responders] looked at me and made sure there was nothing they could see, and... took me to the helicopter. They were more concerned about the head injury and whether or not there was something more [serious],” Croft said.
She is extremely thankful to the first responders that helped her during her frightening hiking misstep.
“Just thank the people that help you. I mean, they don’t have to," Croft said. "This is the life that they choose, to help people, to rescue people. They deserve recognition for this. They really do." | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-hiker-thankful-for-first-responders-after-near-death-experience-at-baxter-state-park-outdoors-hiking-maine-parks/97-bfc56fc2-1473-4d69-84b3-e8a70c3eaf0f | 2022-07-20T15:23:43 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-hiker-thankful-for-first-responders-after-near-death-experience-at-baxter-state-park-outdoors-hiking-maine-parks/97-bfc56fc2-1473-4d69-84b3-e8a70c3eaf0f |
ATLANTIC CITY — Chances for a casino workers strike in the city are still possible after an overwhelming majority of members of the Unite Here Local 54 union at Resorts Casino Hotel and Golden Nugget Atlantic City endorsed hitting the picket lines if a new deal is not reached.
After Tuesday's vote, the union's negotiating committee set a deadline for July 30.
Resorts and Golden Nugget are the last of the city's nine casinos to settle contracts with the union.
Strikes threatened to disrupt casino operations earlier this month prior to the deals being signed, with the casinos facing a lack of employees at three casinos as Independence Day weekend, one of the city's busiest stretches of its summer tourism season, was only days away.
Last week Local 54 members at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Caesars Atlantic City, Harrah’s Resort Atlantic City, Tropicana Atlantic City and Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City ratified a new contract that would provide for substantial wage increases for all classifications, including tipped and non-tipped employees, retroactive to June 1.
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Under the new contract housekeeping employees will immediately see their hourly salary increased to $18, up from varying levels at different casinos.
Two other casinos, Bally’s Atlantic City and Ocean Casino Resort, agreed to so-called “me-too” deals, committing themselves to adopting the terms of contracts reached by some of the larger properties in the city.
City officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
About 1,000 workers at Resorts and Golden Nugget remain without a new agreement. With their contract expiring this summer, workers at both casinos, like the others, are demanding significant wage increases, better housekeeping workload standards, and job protections, Unite 54 said.
"We just want what workers at the other casinos in the city are getting,” J Eger, a bartender at the Golden Nugget, said in a statement on behalf of his coworkers. “We’re not asking for any more or any less than that.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/local-54-members-at-golden-nugget-resorts-support-a-strike-if-new-deal-cant-be/article_954a15ce-082c-11ed-9a41-0b84caae6f80.html | 2022-07-20T15:25:37 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/local-54-members-at-golden-nugget-resorts-support-a-strike-if-new-deal-cant-be/article_954a15ce-082c-11ed-9a41-0b84caae6f80.html |
PARKER COUNTY, Texas — A Parker County woman faces animal cruelty charges after authorities found multiple dead animals on her property, including several horses, a peacock and a bull, officials announced in a news release Wednesday.
Police say Shamorrowia Jeanette Alexander, 31, of Whitt, was arrested Tuesday on eight counts of animal cruelty to livestock animals and one count of cruelty to non-livestock animals.
The animals who died did not have a fresh water source, according to a news release from the sheriff's office.
Authorities had responded Tuesday to the woman's property in the 4200 block of North Farm-to-Market Road 52 on an animal welfare check. When they arrived, they found a decomposing bull inside of a pen, near an empty hay feeder.
Deputies searched the property and found other dead animals, including a sorrel horse, two miniature horses, two emus and a peacock.
Most of the animals did not have access to fresh water; and the only two water sources on the property had algae "and other contaminants," the release said.
There were also rabbits, turkeys, chickens and a goat on the property. The goat was alive in a pen with no water, though neighbors reported they gave the goat water after finding none available, officials said.
Parker County Sheriff Russ Authier urged residents to make sure their animals have fresh water available.
"In the climbing temperatures, it is imperative" to provide fresh water for animals, Authier said in the release.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — A Scottsdale homeowner caught a delivery driver collapsing in the heat right in front of his doorbell camera and is sharing the video in hopes to remind those who work outside that the Arizona heat can sneak up on them.
Brian Enriquez was at work Thursday when he received a ring doorbell notification. He couldn’t get to his phone right away, which is something he now regrets.
Captured on his doorbell’s video was a UPS driver struggling to walk to the door. The driver then collapses on the porch, Enriquez believed the extreme heat was to blame.
“I was concerned for the fact that he was coming, stumbling to the door,” said Enriquez. “Had I gotten to my phone sooner, I could have talked to him through my Ring [doorbell] but he had already left the property at that point.”
The video shows the driver walking unsteadily to the front porch, holding an envelope. As the driver sets down the envelope, he collapsed in a sitting position. After a moment, the driver falls onto his back, then slowly stands up. Still unsteady, he rings the doorbell and makes his way back towards the street, staggering as he walks.
As soon as Enriquez saw the video, he contacted Scottsdale Police for a welfare check and attempted to contact UPS, to let them know one of their employees was having trouble.
In a statement, UPS addressed Thursday’s situation:
“We appreciate the concern for our employee and can report that he is fine. UPS drivers are trained to work outdoors and for the effects of hot weather. Our employee used his training to be aware of his situation and contact his manager for assistance, who immediately provided assistance. We never want our employees to continue working to the point that they risk their health or work in an unsafe manner.” - UPS Public Relations.
Hearing that the driver recovered was the news Enriquez was hoping to hear.
“I just want to make sure those guys are safe, you know, and with this heat, those guys don’t have AC in those trucks,” Enriquez said. “His safety is my concern.”
Enriquez hopes that the video will encourage delivery companies to supply their drivers with air conditioning, especially during the heat of the summer.
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ARGYLE, Texas — If you've ever sat in your cubicle and dreamt a life of ranching, riding and roping, then we found you a deal.
Six houses, even more barns, and an in-ground pool, to boot.
And you won't even have to leave North Texas.
Oh, and you'll need about $20 million.
That's the going price for the Fossil Gate Farms ranch in Argyle, listed by broker Layne Walker of Chas S. Middleton and Son.
The Middleton and Son brokerage is no stranger to high-end ranches in Texas; they're also selling the late Boone Pickens' Mesa Vista Ranch (listed at $170 million) in the Panhandle, and they brokered the sale of the "Yellowstone"-famous Four Sixes Ranch (initially listed at $341 million) in Guthrie.
But both of those ranching properties are far from North Texas.
Fossil Gate Farms is right in the heart of it, located off Interstate 35W and Sam Davis Road, between growing developments from the Alliance area of Far North Fort Worth up to Denton.
Fossil Gate, which sits on 160 acres, was owned by Linda Gordon, a longtime quarter-horse breeder who passed away in December. Gordon and her husband, Gary, who died in 2018, raised dozens of champion halter horses at Fossil Gate.
And Fossil Gate's facilities back up that pedigree.
The property includes a show barn with a covered arena; a stud barn; two mare barns; two barns that have stalls for mares and colts; and an equipment and shavings barn.
If you're in the market for that many barns, you'll know what each one is for.
The arena and stud barns both come equipped with rubber flooring down the center, 18 and 16 stalls, respectively, and a heating and air system.
And that's just the ranch side of things.
The property also includes six houses, ranging in size from 600 square feet to 5,500 square feet.
The ranch owner's home is the largest on the property and includes a back balcony overlooking an in-ground pool. The ranch manager's home is 3,600 square feet with a two-car garage and a large back deck.
According to the property listing, the ranch could also "have the opportunity to be a large development tract." Subdivisions have been developed in and around Argyle, surrounding the ranch, and west side of the property, which runs along I-35W, will possibly be "zoned commercial along the planned access road," the listing said.
But Fossil Gate isn't an outlier in Denton County, which has been a mix of new development and ranch properties as one of the top locations for horse breeding in Texas. Denton County has more than 300 horse farms, the most in Texas, according to Texas Highways.
The sandy loam soil and mild climate make the area ideal for year-round horse training, the magazine reported. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas-ranches-for-sale-fossil-gate-farms-6-houses-and-even-more-barns-a-20-million-ranch-in-the-heart-of-north-texas-is-up-for-sale/287-37df31c6-738a-45b2-86a5-f63442fabab4 | 2022-07-20T15:26:44 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/texas-ranches-for-sale-fossil-gate-farms-6-houses-and-even-more-barns-a-20-million-ranch-in-the-heart-of-north-texas-is-up-for-sale/287-37df31c6-738a-45b2-86a5-f63442fabab4 |
Since Texas lawmakers in 2019 legalized some forms of the cannabis plant but not others, marijuana prosecution cases around the state have been thrown into disarray, and enforcement can vary greatly depending on where you live.
Editor's note: The above video is from KHOU 11's previous coverage of medical cannabis in Texas.
A new Texas law sought to bring the state in line with a 2018 federal law that legalized hemp while keeping marijuana illegal. The result: widespread confusion.
Here’s how Texas law currently stands on marijuana and other cannabis-derived products, according to the Texas Tribune.
Hemp, marijuana, CBD and delta-8: What’s the difference?
Marijuana and hemp are often indistinguishable by look or smell because they both come from the cannabis plant. The difference amounts to how much of the psychoactive compound THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, they contain.
Marijuana is classified as a cannabis plant or its derivatives that have a THC concentration of more than 0.3%. If the substance has less THC, it’s considered hemp.
Cannabidiol, or CBD, is a nonpsychoactive compound of cannabis. Businesses may sell it throughout Texas as long as its THC concentration is less than 0.3%. Supporters claim it can alleviate conditions such as anxiety, depression and insomnia. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasn’t evaluated many of those claims and has approved only one CBD treatment so far, Epidiolex, to treat seizures related to a rare genetic disease. It’s also approved three products that contain synthetic THC or THC-like chemicals.
Delta-8 is a psychoactive substance that is naturally produced in small amounts by cannabis plants. When concentrated in a lab, delta-8 can produce a similar “high” to marijuana, leading to its popularization.
OK, what is legal right now?
It is still illegal to use or possess marijuana under Texas law — and has been since 1931. What changed in 2019 is that hemp is considered different from marijuana.
Hemp was made legal federally by the 2018 Farm Bill and in Texas by House Bill 1325, which Gov. Greg Abbott signed in 2019. Now, CBD products are being sold across the state.
Manufacturing, however, is a separate issue. While hemp is legal to buy, sell and possess, the Texas Department of State Health Services bans the processing and manufacturing of smokable hemp within the state. That ban was upheld by a Texas Supreme Court ruling in June 2022, according to the Dallas Observer.
Medical cannabis is legal in Texas in very limited circumstances. Through the Texas Compassionate Use Program, Texans with a variety of conditions — such as epilepsy, autism, cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder — can access cannabis oil with less than 1% THC by weight. Medical cannabis can treat the symptoms of some of these diseases or reduce the side effects of other treatments, such as alleviating the nausea and loss of appetite associated with chemotherapy or reducing nightmares in patients with PTSD.
The fate of delta-8, however, is unclear. CBD businesses initially began selling delta-8 in Texas because its low THC concentration qualifies it as “lawful marijuana extract” under HB 1325. But in 2021, DSHS attempted to halt sales by classifying delta-8 as an illegal substance.
Delta-8 remains legal in Texas as an ongoing lawsuit against DSHS determines whether the agency can outlaw delta-8. A district court judge ruled DSHS didn’t follow Texas’ rule-making requirements when it listed delta-8 as an illegal drug and therefore can’t enforce the order making the drug illegal. The injunction will last only until there’s an official decision in the case. Hometown Hero, an Austin-based dispensary involved in the legal battle, did not respond to a request for comment, but said in a January 2022 YouTube video that no court date had been set for the case.
In May 2021, a federal court in California ruled in a separate suit that delta-8 products fall under the legal definition of hemp — and are therefore federally legal — so long as their THC concentration remained under 0.3%.
Are cannabis-derived products safe to use?
There are too many unanswered questions to make definitive claims about whether cannabis-derived products are safe or not, though the FDA says it’s currently working to gather more information about the safety of cannabis use. The Texas Medical Association has also called for more comprehensive study about the safety of cannabis-derived products and their efficacy as a medical treatment.
The Mayo Clinic, a medical nonprofit, writes that medical marijuana and CBD products are generally safe and well tolerated, and there is some evidence to show that it may treat the symptoms of specific diseases, such as multiple sclerosis.
However, any cannabis-derived products besides Epidiolex, Marinol, Syndros or Cesamet are not FDA-approved or evaluated to treat any disease or condition. The FDA warns they may also interact with other medications, leading to reduced efficacy or adverse side effects. It may also worsen the symptoms of mental health conditions, such as depression or bipolar disorder, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Cannabis-derived products may also cause side effects of their own, especially when used in large amounts. The FDA cautions that CBD products can cause liver damage, changes in mood and appetite and may impact fertility. There have also been reports of delta-8 products causing hallucinations, vomiting and loss of consciousness. In September 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a health advisory warning that it had observed an increase in health emergencies associated with delta-8 usage as the drug became more popular. Many of the cases involved children being exposed to the drug, which is often sold in gummy and other candy forms.
Another safety concern is the potential contamination of non-FDA-approved products. Some CBD and delta-8 products can contain unsafe levels of household chemicals and other contaminants, such as heavy metals and pesticides. Some products labeled as CBD have also been found to contain THC, according to the Mayo Clinic. In April 2021, the U.S. Cannabis Council, a coalition of individuals, organizations and businesses advocating for the legalization of cannabis, tested 16 samples of delta-8 products sourced from across the country, including Texas. The testing, though limited, found that each of the products tested contained an illegal amount of THC, and several of the products contained copper, nickel and other toxic heavy metals.
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The lack of a standardized formula is in part what makes it difficult to determine the general safety of using cannabis-derived products. Because THC and CBD concentration can vary so widely in product to product, it makes it hard to conduct reproducible trials on the effectiveness of the drug because it's difficult to get a consistent dose every time, according to Texas-based neurologist Sara Austin.
In pharmaceutical-grade products such as Epidiolex, the FDA-approved seizure medicine, the dosage can be standardized across all products and tested in clinical trials. The same isn’t true of medical marijuana in Texas, in which case it’s up to individual doctors to decide how much to prescribe based on recommendation, rather than scientific data, Austin said.
You should not use THC or CBD products if you’re planning to drive. CBD can cause sleepiness or drowsiness, according to the FDA, and can impair your ability to drive.
How do Texas marijuana laws compare to those of other states?
Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have legalized recreational marijuana possession, according to U.S. News. In those states, marijuana use and possession is still regulated, but people are not criminally or civilly punished under state law.
As of May 2022, 10 states, including Texas, allow access to CBD products with low THC concentrations. Seventeen states allow higher THC concentration marijuana use for medical purposes, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Three states — Idaho, Nebraska, and Kansas — have no public cannabis access program.
In 27 states and Washington, D.C., possession of small amounts of marijuana for personal use has been decriminalized. Under many of these state laws, it is still illegal to use marijuana recreationally, but prosecutors do not press criminal charges. Instead, offenders face civil penalties, which usually include fines or drug education programs. However, in Texas, people arrested or cited for marijuana possession may still face legal penalties depending on the amount.
As of July 2022, 14 states have banned either delta-8 specifically or all unregulated forms of THC, which includes delta-8, according to NBC News.
What are the legal penalties of marijuana possession in Texas?
In Texas, possession of up to 2 ounces of marijuana is a Class B misdemeanor, which can be punishable by up to 180 days in jail and a $2,000 fine.
Possession of 2 ounces to 4 ounces of marijuana is a Class A misdemeanor that can result in a fine of up to $4,000 and up to a year in county jail. Possession of any amount more than 4 ounces would result in a felony charge.
Possession of drug paraphernalia — such as pipes or bongs, but not marijuana itself — is a Class C misdemeanor, which is punishable by a fine up to $500, but no jail time.
Are there efforts to legalize marijuana in Texas?
During the 2021 legislative session, both Republicans and Democrats in the Texas House made renewed attempts to lessen criminal penalties for marijuana possession. Some of the bills introduced included getting rid of jail time for possession of small amounts of marijuana and eliminating automatic driver’s license suspensions. Some passed the House, but none were successfully signed into law.
Both Gov. Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke, the Democrat running against him in the race for governor, have voiced support for decriminalizing marijuana, with O’Rourke campaigning on legalizing the drug.
In its official platform, the Texas Republican Party supports the federal government moving cannabis from a Schedule I drug — drugs with a high potential for abuse and no medical usage — to a Schedule II drug — drugs that have accepted medical uses but still have a high potential to be abused. While this change would federally recognize cannabis use as a medical treatment, it would still remain illegal for recreational use at the federal level.
How are cities and counties handling marijuana possession?
Many Texas prosecutors, Republicans and Democrats alike, are dropping low-level marijuana possession charges and declining to pursue new ones altogether.
Before the hemp law passed, law enforcement agencies in Harris, Dallas, Bexar and Nueces counties had already stopped arresting many people found with small amounts of the drug on a first offense. Instead, they may offer diversion programs to keep defendants out of jail or issue citations for people with a misdemeanor amount of marijuana.
In June 2019, the Texas Department of Public Safety — the state’s largest law enforcement agency — ordered its officers not to arrest people but to issue citations if possible in misdemeanor marijuana possession cases, which still carry a penalty of up to a year in jail and a $4,000 fine.
The Austin City Council voted unanimously in January 2020 to end most arrests and fines — and ban spending city funds on testing — for possession of small amounts of marijuana. Those policies were codified this May, when Austin voters approved a ballot measure effectively decriminalizing marijuana.
Other cities, such as El Paso and Plano, have begun using “cite-and-release” policies, in which people found possessing small amounts of marijuana will be cited instead of arrested. These policies don’t completely decriminalize marijuana — those cited may still face fines and potential jail time — but they do reduce arrests and immediate jail time.
In Bexar County, cite-and-release policies saved $2.6 million in taxpayer money between July 2019 and December 2020 by reducing the number of people held in county jail for misdemeanor marijuana offenses and the number of cases being prosecuted by the local district attorney, according to KSAT.
How has the law impacted arrests in the state?
After the 2019 bill was passed that legalized hemp in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials insisted that the bill didn’t decriminalize marijuana. But the law was still followed by a large decline in marijuana arrests across the state as some counties stopped prosecuting marijuana possession cases and others lacked the testing capabilities to differentiate between marijuana and legal hemp.
Prior to June 2019, when the law went into effect, Texas prosecutors filed upwards of 5,000 misdemeanor marijuana possession cases a month. That then steadily declined, dropping below 2,000 cases a month by November 2019.
Between January and May of 2022, 1,745 marijuana possession cases were filed per month on average, according to data by the Texas Office of Court Administration.
What do the polls say?
Polls have shown that support for some form of marijuana legalization has stayed strong throughout the past few years.
In a June 2018 University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, 84% of the state’s voters would legalize pot, either just for medical use (31%), in small amounts (30%) or in any amount (23%).
A May 2022 by The Dallas Morning News/UT-Tyler found similar support for legalization: 83% of Texas voters would support legalizing marijuana for medical use and 60% would support legalizing recreational use.
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EVERETT, Wash. — Nurses at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett said they’re dealing with a severe staffing shortage, and they’re asking the community for help.
“I worked 12 and a half hours last night. I had one 15-minute break that whole time,” said Jacque McNeil, a nurse who works in the emergency room and labor and delivery at Providence.
McNeil's experience is the daily reality for ER nurses at Providence as they feel the brunt of staffing shortages made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We've been screaming about inadequate staffing and egregious workload for years, and it seems to have fallen on deaf ears as far as the hospital administration,” said McNeil.
“This is a long-term, complex issue that the industry is working on, however, there are no quick fixes," a Providence spokesperson said in a statement to KING 5.
The hospital went on to highlight the national and statewide shortage, citing a need for 6,100 more nurses in 2021, according to a Washington State Hospital Association survey.
“Hospitals in Washington and nationally continue to rely on temporary staff to fill these gaps, and we are competing in a national market for both permanent and temporary staff."
McNeil left the ER because of the workload, but due to a worsening staffing shortage, she finds herself working there more often than not.
“I had to leave the job that I loved because it felt like it was trying to kill me. I was sick, and I felt miserable,” said McNeil.
Nurses said they’re concerned about patient care and safety.
“We have recliners and beds just filling every hallway, every nook and cranny, every empty corner trying to deliver care, but that care is insufficient when you don't have the tools to work with,” said McNeil.
Due to an influx of patients and not enough staff, the hospital asked only those with a life-threatening emergency to go to the ER.
“If you have an injury or health issue that is less severe, please go to a walk-in clinic, urgent care, contact your primary care physician or seek virtual care,” McNeil said.
A lack of nurses is also causing the hospital to temporarily pause admissions to its pediatric unit.
“Not having that unit means families in that area have to drive all the way down to Seattle to be inpatient,” said Alisa Ortega, a pediatric nurse at Providence.
Ortega said she recently had a child of her own and chose not to give birth at Providence.
She and several other nurses spoke to Everett City Council last week and asked for hazard pay in hopes of keeping the nurses they do have.
“I've seen more nurses start out and leave the field than I ever have before,” Ortega said.
During the meeting, the city’s attorney questioned if the city had the authority to issue hazard pay.
In response, Providence said it provided bonuses and competitive market pay during last year’s contract and didn’t furlough or lay off caregivers during the pandemic.
The statement from Providence went on to say, “Our goal is to address the root causes of staffing rather than continue to work our current staff more.”
“We do so much and to feel so undervalued is just not the best feeling,” said Ortega.
Nurses calling on Gov. Jay Inslee and lawmakers to step in, hoping to revive a bill that died in the legislative session that could implement nurse-to-patient ratios.
Providence said it is seeing progress, and in June saw the highest number of applicants per month so far this year.
In a statement, the hospital said staff is working to recruit and retain more nurses who can work in a pediatric unit in order to accept new patients as soon as possible.
The statement continues:
"Operations in our NICU are normal and are not affected by changes in the pediatric unit. Through our continued partnership with Seattle Children’s Hospital, our inpatient pediatrics team continues to see consultations in the ED and care for babies in our Newborn Nursery at the Pavilion. The most impactful change that would help Providence help patients with acute medical needs in our community would be to increase the supply of post-acute care facilities and reform current regulatory discharge processes that create unnecessary barriers to timely discharge.” | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/everett/providence-nurses-staffing-shortages-hazard-pay-retention-lawmakers-help/281-7abaf55a-c419-4f20-889f-ce5a48fc3d59 | 2022-07-20T15:26:51 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/everett/providence-nurses-staffing-shortages-hazard-pay-retention-lawmakers-help/281-7abaf55a-c419-4f20-889f-ce5a48fc3d59 |
SEATTLE — Dominique Davis was inside a Seattle-area church one day in March 2021 when a man with a handgun opened fire during a meeting of Community Passageways, a group he founded that works to curb gun violence.
The gunman shot 19-year-old Omari Wallace several times before fleeing. Wallace, who was attending an orientation for a program to steer young people away from violence and keep them out of prison, died from his wounds.
Two more Seattle shootings followed that week. “It was back to back to back," Davis recalled.
In 2021, Seattle recorded more shootings involving injuries and fatalities than in the previous five years. Davis heard that a leader of one of two rival groups whose confrontations had intensified said the only way the bloodshed would stop would be if the groups could put some distance between each other.
So he seized the opportunity. Davis arranged for 16 young men from the two groups to leave the city — one to Phoenix, the other to Los Angeles — and paid them to stay away for 30 days and work with therapists and mentors. Davis said that since returning to Seattle, all but three of the young men, several of whom had previously been involved in gun violence, have faced no charges.
The unusual plan is an example of how community groups across the country that have long sought to prevent violence are adopting new ways to stem the surge in shootings over the past two years as well as a spike in gun purchases. Known as community violence intervention, the approach deploys people with personal connections — and credibility — with those most likely to be involved in gun violence. Though the approach isn't new, interest in it is growing.
The Biden administration has made community violence intervention a key priority. It has designated $5 billion in support over eight years, though that funding has stalled in Congress, along with the rest of the administration’s Build Back Better legislation.
And under the just-passed bipartisan gun violence law, which seeks to keep guns away from dangerous people after the Uvalde killings fanned momentum for reforms, Congress provided $250 million for community violence prevention. The administration has also told municipalities and states that they could spend federal stimulus money, allocated last year, for violence intervention.
Support for these local organizations marks a departure from a long-standing reliance on policing to curb gun violence. Alia Harvey Quinn, executive director of FORCE Detroit, one such group, likens the approach to “how we prevent drunk driving with our friends: just intervening and snatching the keys aggressively and using our relationships to do so.”
In the same church in south Seattle in June, Davis invited members of local groups who try to defuse conflicts to the front of the room. The leaders — predominantly people of color, mainly Black — said their work is part of a long struggle for safety and justice and against systemic racism.
Beneath the words “Love,” “Joy” and “Peace” on the wall, Davis tallied the years in prison they’d served. Some shared journeys of redemption, how they eventually achieved freedom and now devote themselves to healing their communities.
They shared strategies with representatives from similar groups in Newark and Baltimore, part of an 18-month initiative sponsored by the Biden administration and paid for by a dozen philanthropic foundations. The Community Violence Intervention Collaborative launched in June 2021 to train and expand local organizations in 16 cities.
The training is funded by $7.4 million from philanthropies, including the Ford Foundation, the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hyphen, a nonprofit specializing in public-philanthropic partnerships, manages the initiative. Its founder, Archana Sahgal, called the effort a once-in-a-generation opportunity.
“You’re able to turbocharge a social movement that reimagines public safety in this country,” Sahgal said.
So far, few large cities or states have responded to Biden’s call to invest in these programs. But municipalities have until 2024 to allocate their funding from the $1.9 trillion stimulus package, which was enacted in 2021 to address the pandemic and the economic damage it caused.
Researchers Amanda Kass of the University of Illinois Chicago and Philip Rocco of Marquette University analyzed how the money was spent between March and November 2021. They found that $79 million had been allocated by nine states and 79 localities for violence intervention.
That's much less than the $5 billion Biden hoped to direct toward this work, although budgets adopted by those same entities propose spending $470 million on the projects over time.
Many leaders and participants in Seattle’s network of gun violence intervention have survived gunshots or have relatives who have been injured or killed by guns. They feel a growing urgency about their work. Some liken their fight for funding — from the city and King County or for small grants allocated through intermediary organizations — to “The Hunger Games.”
“We’re saying, give us the $30 million,” Davis said. “We know who is doing the work.”
Another Seattle-area organization, the SE Network, arranges community gatherings on Friday evenings — in the parking lot of a grocery store where a fatal shooting occurred in 2020 — to try to prevent further violence. The group's executive director, Marty Jackson, said they use data about where shootings have occurred to determine where to deploy their teams.
“We totally know the rest of the city needs this kind of attention,” Jackson said. “We need resources to replicate what we know for sure is working in these concentrated places.”
Every year, she seeks renewed funding for her work, which includes sending trained workers to spend time around schools.
“You have to create performance measures for your work,” Jackson said, "And then market it yourself. It’s a daunting task.”
Jeffrey A. Butts, director of research at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and one of the authors of a recent review of community intervention programs, cautioned against drawing easy conclusions about the effectiveness of such intervention.
“They say, ‘We started doing program X here two years ago and our shootings have gone down by 30%.’ And the audience applauds and everyone congratulates themselves,” Butts said. ”But that’s not evidence that the program resulted in that change.”
Some evidence does support such intervention, but Butts noted that many projects called community violence intervention actually target younger children or housing or economic programs. Without rigorous evaluation, he said, it's difficult to assess the effectiveness of community violence intervention or determine which strategies work best.
Tim Daly, program director for gun violence at The Joyce Foundation, said government investment is critical.
“We need public dollars to be able to scale those strategies to the extent that is necessary,” Daly said.
Until then, organizations that intervene in gun violence are competing for a limited number of grants. Several groups that underwent training sponsored by the White House and philanthropies said they could use many more times their funding.
Alia Harvey Quinn of Detroit said her group could easily spend $15 million annually to provide a broad ecosystem of services, including therapy and entrepreneurship training. That would be in addition to the street outreach at the heart of community intervention — engaging with people who are likely to be involved with shootings. Her group's annual budget is just $1.2 million.
A recently passed Michigan state budget included $500,000 for Harvey Quinn's group and $3 million for a group in Flint, as well as $11 million in competitive grants that could go to community intervention. Detroit has allocated $12 million of its pandemic relief funding for the programs that hasn’t been spent yet.
In last year's budget, Seattle granted $1.5 million to the violence intervention collaborative that includes Community Passageways and the SE Network. But the city has exhausted its pandemic relief funding. King County said it's allocated around $1 million from pandemic relief funds to community violence intervention.
The Biden administration says it hopes its new program can generate further funding.
“By bringing philanthropy, the federal government and (community intervention) leaders together in this first-of-its-kind partnership, it puts our country on a path to redefining public safety in this country and reducing gun violence,” said Julie Rodriguez, a senior advisor to Biden.
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POWERS LAKE — An 8-year-old girl has died following a reported drowning that occurred Tuesday night at Powers Lake.
Authorities were called to the scene at 5:46 p.m. to 9018 Lake Park Drive at the beach where rescue personnel attempted life-saving measures, according to Lt. Keith Fonk of the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department. According to Sheriff David Beth, authorities on scene said the 8-year-old girl was pulled from the water at Powers Lake.
According to a news release, Kenosha County deputies responded at Lakeside Park on the south end of Powers Lake for a report of a drowning child. Dispatch advised that law enforcement officers from Walworth County had originally been called prior to Kenosha County deputies and were already on the scene performing CPR on the child.
Initial reports indicated that she had been swimming in Powers Lake in a roped-off swim area and was located unresponsive in the water by another swimmer near the end of a pier at the beach, according to the release.
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The child was not wearing a flotation device. Richmond, Ill.- rescue personnel arrived a short time later, took over life-saving measures and transported the child to a hospital in Burlington. Authorities said the child died at the hospital. The girl's name is being withheld out of respect for the family, authorities said. The incident remains under investigation.
Families in need of assistance in dealing with the tragedy are encouraged to contact the Mental Health Resource Center at 262-764-8555. The sheriff's department asks that anyone with information regarding the incident to contact the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Department Detective Bureau at (262) 605-5102.
The latest reported drowning is the second Kenosha County has experienced in a week.
On July 12, rescue personnel pulled a 5-year-old boy from Lake Michigan after he went missing near the mouth of the Pike River at Pennoyer Park in Kenosha. The boy, whose identity has not yet been disclosed, was reported missing at 6:17 p.m. that day, minutes after a "near drowning" had been reported of an older child who was with him, according to officials with the Kenosha Fire Department.
He was found about 45 minutes later with the help of a beachgoer who volunteered the use of his drone to assist in finding the boy. The boy was located submerged in the water 50 feet from the shoreline. Emergency medical personnel performed “cold water resuscitative measures” prior to transporting him to a local hospital; however, he died a day later.
The investigation into the boy's death continues with the police department and no additional details have yet been disclosed. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/update-eight-year-old-girl-who-apparently-drowned-at-powers-lake-tuesday-night-had-been/article_c9cc5890-07e4-11ed-9b2f-330792dddf85.html | 2022-07-20T15:27:06 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/update-eight-year-old-girl-who-apparently-drowned-at-powers-lake-tuesday-night-had-been/article_c9cc5890-07e4-11ed-9b2f-330792dddf85.html |
KENOSHA — The Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour -- a national tour featuring historic World War II aircraft -- stops at the Kenosha Regional Airport, 9894 52nd St.
The aircraft arrived on Wednesday and will be there through Sunday, July 24.
There will be cockpit tours and airplane rides available to the public.
Attending aircraft include: a B-29 Superfortress FIFI, B-24 Liberator Diamond Lil, T-6 Texan and Boeing Stearman.
The B-29/B-24 Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force brings together the aircraft, pilots and crews from more than 70 CAF units across the country to create the AirPower Squadron, described as "an ever-changing assortment of military aircraft touring together to bring the sights, sounds and smells of World War II aviation history to audiences across the United States."
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The AirPower Squadron always includes at least one of the two rarest World War II bombers in the world: FIFI, the most famous, flying Boeing B-29 Superfortress and Diamond Lil, an equally rare B-24 Liberator. Both of those planes will be in Kenosha.
The aircraft event is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.
Tickets can be purchased on-site the day of the event.
Ramp access costs $20 for adults, $10 for children (ages 11-17) and is free for children ages 10 and under younger, accompanied by an adult.
Note: The entrance fee includes cockpit tours but does not include plane rides.
B-29 rides start at $595; B-24 rides start at $524; a T-6 Texan ride is $445 or $645; and a 20-minute ride in a PT-13 Boeing Stearman is $299.
For more information about the aircraft or to book a plane ride, go to airpowersquadron.org/kenosha-wisconsin | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/caf-airpower-history-tour-coming-to-kenosha-airport/article_8578537e-06bd-11ed-8074-6ff81c212af9.html | 2022-07-20T15:27:07 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/caf-airpower-history-tour-coming-to-kenosha-airport/article_8578537e-06bd-11ed-8074-6ff81c212af9.html |
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin is partnering with Hard Rock International to relaunch the tribe’s efforts to open an entertainment center and casino on the west side of the City of Kenosha.
Menominee would own the casino and its related facilities, and Hard Rock would serve as developer and manager of the project.
"Hard Rock has a long standing partnership with the Menominee Tribe and is proud to support them in their continued efforts to bring a world-class gaming and entertainment resort to the Kenosha community,” Hard Rock International COO Jon Lucas said in a statement. The Seminole Tribe of Florida owns Hard Rock International.
Menominee Chairman Ronald J. Corn, Sr. said that the revived effort is aimed at providing necessary resources for the ongoing and growing needs of the tribe’s members. 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. The plan, however, was rejected by then Gov. Scott Walker in 2015.
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“Much has changed since our 2015 effort, but the needs of our tribe and its members have continued and in some cases grown more acute,” Corn said in a statement.
Corn said the new Hard Rock International project would have a "trimmed back" casino to "reflect the increased number of gaming facilities in both Wisconsin and northern Illinois."
“The proposed project will not be as big as it was previously envisioned, but it will still create jobs and be substantial. It will still be ac Hard Rock brand and be an incredible addition to the community, the local and regional economy, and the state,” Corn said.
While previous plans called for the Menominee-Hard Rock entertainment center and casino to be built at the site of the former Dairyland dog track, the new site being proposed is just west of Interstate 94 on about 60 acres of land in the city.
The property was previously owned by the Village of Bristol. The Village Board and the Community Development Authority voted unanimously to sell nearly 59.91 acres of land for $15,213,22 Tuesday evening.
Corn also said that because this is a different site from the 2015 proposal, developers must develop a revised federal gaming application as well as negotiate intergovernmental agreements.
“We are sincerely grateful for the positive working relationship we have had over the years with the City of Kenosha, Kenosha County, the local business community, and the countless residents who have supported our previous efforts,” Corn said. “We look forward to re-engaging with the community as our talks with the City and County take shape. We have always said it must be good for Kenosha to be good for Menominee, and we are excited about getting the process started.”
Mayor John Antaramian said the proposal "has a lot of positives, a lot of financial benefits, a lot of employment benefits, a lot of good things, but there are other issues that we have to make sure we address."
"The city will now start the process of sitting down and reviewing the old compact and making sure we have a good understanding of that again because that has not been looked at for a long time, and then sit down with the tribe and start discussions as to what we would be looking at," he said. "We start the process now. We'll talk more about where we're going and we need to make sure the public and the (City) Council will be kept informed."
This is a developing story. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/menominee-tribe-partners-with-hard-rock-to-relaunch-kenosha-casino-effort/article_afa4110a-0835-11ed-b3f9-4f3b12980d86.html | 2022-07-20T15:27:09 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/menominee-tribe-partners-with-hard-rock-to-relaunch-kenosha-casino-effort/article_afa4110a-0835-11ed-b3f9-4f3b12980d86.html |
One of the most-anticipated art shows of the year is now on display the Coos Art Museum. The 28th annual Maritime Art Exhibit, which showcases the best art related to the ocean is on display downstairs at the museum.
The show includes 75 pieces from artists around the nation, and is the only maritime show sanctioned by the American Society of Maritime Artists on the West Coast. It will run through September.
Leah Ruby, the executive director of the Coos Art Museum, said the talent on display is amazing.
“It’s very fine maritime painting,” Ruby said. “It’s sort of a hallmark of summer in the area.”
Three jurors, one from Chicago, one from New York and one from Washington state, chose the pieces on display in a blind process.
The artwork is from artists from more than a dozen states.
Jim Griffiths acted as the judge, choosing a painting from Carolyn Hesse-Low as best of show. The director’s choice award went to Linda Best of Mead, Wash., and the Port of Coos Bay Award went to Pat Snyder of Coos Bay.
“He actually painted that in the studio upstairs,” Ruby said.
Several local artists from Coos Bay, North Bend and Bandon had pieces chosen for the show, a sign of the talent seen in the region.
The final award for the Maritime Show will be chosen by guests of the museum, with the People’s Choice Award given out when the show closes in September.
While the Maritime Show fills the downstairs, two solo exhibits are on display upstairs.
Colleen Goodwin Chronister of Florence has a display titled “Rocks, Rocks, Rocks” where she embraces the maritime theme and showcases her own style.
Christine Hanlon of Bandon also has a display titled “Anthropocene Legacy” that uses art to show the impact of climate change.
The work is balanced between maritime scenes and forest fires as Hanlon shows her view of how climate change is impacting the world.
The display is open during regular hours. On the second Saturday of each month, the museum hosts CAM Community Days, where the museum and the exhibits are open to the community for free.
Ruby said all three exhibits will run through September 24, at which time the museum will prepare to host the CAM Biennial, a show that runs every two years and showcases new, emerging artists.
“That’s when we take art from people we’ve never heard about,” Ruby said.
She said the museum would issue an open call for local artists to participate this week. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/maritime-exhibit-fills-coos-art-museum/article_2e9a17b0-06c0-11ed-9530-a76d36d69d7a.html | 2022-07-20T15:27:47 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/maritime-exhibit-fills-coos-art-museum/article_2e9a17b0-06c0-11ed-9530-a76d36d69d7a.html |
Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to help protect bees from pesticides.
Cory Simon, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Xiaoli Fern, associate professor of computer science, led the project, which involved training a machine learning model to predict whether any proposed new herbicide, fungicide or insecticide would be toxic to honey bees based on the compound’s molecular structure.
The findings, featured on the cover of The Journal of Chemical Physics in a special issue, “Chemical Design by Artificial Intelligence,” are important because many fruit, nut, vegetable and seed crops rely on bee pollination.
Without bees to transfer the pollen needed for reproduction, almost 100 commercial crops in the United States would vanish. Bees’ global economic impact is annually estimated to exceed $100 billion.
“Pesticides are widely used in agriculture, which increase crop yield and provide food security, but pesticides can harm off-target species like bees,” Simon said. “And since insects, weeds, etc. eventually evolve resistance, new pesticides must continually be developed, ones that don’t harm bees.”
Graduate students Ping Yang and Adrian Henle used honey bee toxicity data from pesticide exposure experiments, involving nearly 400 different pesticide molecules, to train an algorithm to predict if a new pesticide molecule would be toxic to honey bees.
“The model represents pesticide molecules by the set of random walks on their molecular graphs,” Yang said.
A random walk is a mathematical concept that describes any meandering path, such as on the complicated chemical structure of a pesticide, where each step along the path is decided by chance, as if by coin tosses.
Imagine, Yang explains, that you’re out for an aimless stroll along a pesticide’s chemical structure, making your way from atom to atom via the bonds that hold the compound together. You travel in random directions but keep track of your route, the sequence of atoms and bonds that you visit. Then you go out on a different molecule, comparing the series of twists and turns to what you’ve done before.
“The algorithm declares two molecules similar if they share many walks with the same sequence of atoms and bonds,” Yang said. “Our model serves as a surrogate for a bee toxicity experiment and can be used to quickly screen proposed pesticide molecules for their toxicity.”
The National Science Foundation supported this research. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oregon-state-researchers-develop-computer-model-to-predict-whether-a-pesticide-will-harm-bees/article_0c128266-06c2-11ed-8814-3f2e551ffcf7.html | 2022-07-20T15:27:48 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/oregon-state-researchers-develop-computer-model-to-predict-whether-a-pesticide-will-harm-bees/article_0c128266-06c2-11ed-8814-3f2e551ffcf7.html |
Prosecutors for Ohio’s major urban counties, including Montgomery, announced their neutrality in a lawsuit that seeks to block the state’s “Heartbeat Bill” abortion ban.
In a stipulation filed Tuesday with the Ohio Supreme Court, prosecutors or their representatives for Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas and Montgomery counties said they “will not actively defend” against Preterm-Cleveland et al. v. Dave Yost et al.
The signatories include Montgomery County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Ward Barrentine, who speaks for Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias Heck in the case.
In return, plaintiffs – the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Ohio and Planned Parenthood Federation of America on behalf of Ohio’s six abortion clinics and one doctor – agree not to seek any costs from those prosecutors or other officials in their counties.
The “Heartbeat Bill,” Senate Bill 23, passed in 2019 but was blocked by a federal judge until the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade June 24. Senate Bill 23 outlaws abortion after five or six weeks’ gestation, once a fetal heartbeat is detectable.
The lawsuit suit seeks to have SB 23 declared unconstitutional and return to the previous Ohio standard, which banned almost all abortions 22 weeks after the start of the mother’s last menstrual period.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, state health officials and prosecutors in counties that are home to abortion clinics are named as defendants. That includes Montgomery County, with the Women’s Med Center of Dayton; and Hamilton County, with the Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio.
Plaintiffs argue that many women have no physical indicators of pregnancy at six weeks, and varying menstrual patterns make dates of conception uncertain. Banning almost all abortions discriminates against women, particularly against the poor and minorities who receive the majority of abortions and can least afford their denial, the suit says.
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GREENSBORO — A Charlotte man has been charged in the death of his passenger in an accident Monday in Greensboro, police said in a news release this morning.
Officers responded to the crash Monday at approximately 11:15 a.m. in the area of Interstate 40/85 and Mt. Hope Church Road. According to police, a 2018 GMC Sierra driven by Roosevelt Gardner, 69, was traveling east on the interstate when it left the roadway to the right.
The GMC struck a large drainage culvert on the passenger side. Gardner was wearing his seatbelt and received minor injuries. The right front passenger, Misty Ann Phillips, 47, of Charlotte, was unrestrained and died as a result of her injuries, Greensboro police said in the news release.
Gardner was charged with misdemeanor death by motor vehicle and failure to maintain lane control, police said. This crash is being investigated by the Crash Reconstruction Unit.
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GREENSBORO — The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, a former state NAACP president and longtime social justice advocate, has died.
Family members confirmed on Facebook Wednesday that Spearman, 71, died Tuesday. Spearman, a former substance abuse counselor and president of the N.C. Council of Churches, served on the Guilford County Board of Elections up until his death.
Spearman was elected in 2017 as the N.C. NAACP president and served for one term. He lost last year to Deborah Dicks Maxwell but was contesting the election. He had recently filed a lawsuit against national NAACP leadership as well as Maxwell, alleging defamation and a conspiracy to have him removed from office, according to an exclusive report last month in the Carolina Peacemaker.
Before being elected to succeed the Rev. William Barber, the soft-spoken but direct Spearman had been a faithful lieutenant in the state NAACP.
"He helped to make the footprint," Barber told the News & Record in a 2019 interview. "If you look back, Dr. Spearman was right there."
More introvert to Barber's extreme extrovert, Spearman was one of the original 17 protesters at the "Moral Monday" demonstrations starting in 2013 against Republican-led legislative policies they felt were attacks on the poor, with both Barber and Spearman being arrested.
In 2012, Spearman was among the few Black pastors in the state to speak out against Amendment One, a constitutional amendment that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.
Spearman, the former pastor of Phillips A.M.E. Zion Church in Greensboro, had also served as a third vice president of the NAACP over a heavily-minority district that had some of the worst poverty in North Carolina.
During his tenure, Spearman traveled the state rallying people against policies aimed at the poor, people of color and members of the gay community.
"Educating people," Spearman said in 2019," is empowering them."
This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates at greensboro.com.
Records from the U.S. Small Business Administration show the private, nonprofit school received two loans for $743,059 each, one in May 2020 and another in February 2021.
Rogers, who died Friday at age 90 after a period of declining health, served as the sixth president of Guilford College from 1980-96, the private Quaker school said in a news release.
Officers responded about 6:40 p.m. to the intersection and found one person seriously injured, police said in a news release. He was taken by EMS to a hospital.
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Ray Flowers, who served from 1993-99, was the city's first Black fire chief. He joined the fire department in 1961 when he was 21, the Greensboro Fire Department said in a news release announcing his death.
The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman with the N.C. NAACP speaks out about at voter identification requirement at a news conference at the state offices in Greensboro in 2019. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/former-nc-naacp-leader-greensboro-pastor-the-rev-anthony-spearman-has-died/article_f8585d14-082d-11ed-85f5-676bcacadec4.html | 2022-07-20T15:32:18 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/former-nc-naacp-leader-greensboro-pastor-the-rev-anthony-spearman-has-died/article_f8585d14-082d-11ed-85f5-676bcacadec4.html |
LAKE STATION — A crash that had temporarily closed the two right lanes of eastbound Interstate 80/94 in the area of Clay Street Monday morning has been cleared, the Indiana Department of Transportation says.
The lanes were expected to be blocked for an hour or more, INDOT said.
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The 2-year-old Kouts boy, who was rushed to a Chicago hospital Sunday after reportedly shooting himself, has died, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Officer is reporting.
Wyatt Luczak was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, the report shows.
The agency listed in association with his case is the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network.
Porter County police were notified of the shooting at 11:06 a.m. Sunday and the child was initially taken to Franciscan Health Crown Point, Porter County Sheriff's Cpl. Ben McFalls had said.
The child was then transferred to the University of Chicago Medicine hospital, he said.
He confirmed early Wednesday the case remains under investigation.
Porter County Prosecutor Gary Germann said Wednesday his office has not yet been presented with the findings of the investigation and thus he is unable to say whether criminal charges will be filed.
"Please keep the family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult time," McFalls said.
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The 2-year-old Kouts boy, who was rushed to a Chicago hospital Sunday after reportedly shooting himself, has died, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Officer is reporting. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-porter-county-2-year-old-dies-after-shooting-himself-investigation-underway-officials-say/article_e1aef47d-a724-5d68-8a45-fca330495b3c.html | 2022-07-20T15:32:55 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-porter-county-2-year-old-dies-after-shooting-himself-investigation-underway-officials-say/article_e1aef47d-a724-5d68-8a45-fca330495b3c.html |
DYER — Pat Rosenwinkle pinched a dry, faded red flower and removed it from the otherwise healthy-looking coral bell plant growing outside the Dyer Fire Department.
"You have to deadhead your plants," Rosenwinkle explained. "When a plant starts to die, the flower is telling you, ‘I’m ready to go to sleep.’”
"Deadheading," the act of removing dying flowers so that plant energy is redirected to healthy blooms, is just one of the many ways Rosenwinkle and her fellow Dyer in Bloom members maintain the landscape of the town.
Though residents and visitors may not know it, there is a team of knowledgeable volunteers behind the many colorful flower beds that decorate Dyer. Blue lavender, purple petunia and purple sage grow outside the Dyer Police Department, red and white vinca and red canna at the Fire Department and a colorful mix of orange canna, purple wave petunias, sweet potato plants and cordyline surround the Dyer Town Hall.
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Every spring about a dozen volunteers with Dyer in Bloom, nicknamed "DIBs," plant annuals and perennials all across town. The group maintains plots beneath several of the park signs and at multiple municipal buildings. After officially forming in 2017, DIBs joined the Dyer Parks and Recreation Department just a few months ago.
The initiative started when Councilwoman Mary Tanis, R-4th, learned about the national America in Bloom Program. Started in 2001 by a team of horticulture experts, America in Bloom helps communities with beautification projects through grants, seeds and regular evaluations. In 2015, Dyer received an America in Bloom/Canadian National Railway grant to help screen the CN Railway from residential properties using over 500 evergreens. In the years since, Dyer has stayed a member of America in Bloom, paying a $1,000 annual membership fee.
At first Dyer in Bloom was a committee of one. Tanis recalls maintaining the beds by herself, hauling six gallons of water every day. In 2017, the official Dyer in Bloom group formed, steadily growing each year.
Now most of the watering is done by a parks department employee, with help from the town's water truck which can lug 450 gallons.
America in Bloom member communities are evaluated by judges every year. At the start of June, two judges traveled to Dyer. DIBs members showed them around the town, showcasing parks, businesses, municipal buildings and several homes with notable landscaping. While the judges' official report has not been released, Tanis said the town received a lot of positive feedback. The judges also recommended DIBs members attend as many town council meetings as possible.
“The whole goal is economic development," Tanis said. "We want people to come into Dyer and say, ‘What a beautiful town, I'm going to bring my family here, I'm going to bring my business here as well.'"
DIBS is about "more than just planting flowers," Vice President Pat Patena said. Beautification efforts like landscaping, public art and lush parks help attract tourists, businesses and new residents. The group is currently working to get a mural painted on the side of the former fire station that sits behind the Town Hall, it gives out trees every Arbor Day, hosted an herb workshop with kids earlier this year and has discussed planting a sensory garden.
The beautification efforts also "have a good habit of spreading," Tanis said. When one neighbor starts adding flowers to their yard, pretty soon the entire block starts to bloom.
Though DIBs receives seeds and other resources from America in Bloom, much of the expertise comes from members. About half of the group are certified Master Gardeners and some were part of the former Dyer Garden Club.
Many of the plants seen in the plots around town come from members' own gardens.
"That one came from my yard," Rosenwinkle, who is president of the club said, pointing to a red twig dogwood that grows beside the fire department. "My garden is like a jungle. ... I just get lost in it."
Most weekends Rosenwinkle can be found digging around her garden from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. For her, maintaining a lush garden is "about more than just wanting it to look good. I think you have to enjoy it, it has to give you energy."
DIBs is currently looking for both donations and volunteers so the group can complete more projects. Members meet the second Tuesday of every month at 2:30 p.m. in the Central Park Fire Station. Those interested in donating or learning more can email parks@townofdyer.com.
Rosenwinkle said everyone is welcome, even non-Dyer residents and volunteers who have little horticulture knowledge.
“Just by working with other people and working with flowers, you will learn so much," Rosenwinkle said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/dyer/watch-now-more-than-just-planting-flowers-dyer-in-bloom-beautifies-town/article_f02a7b9c-5c34-5604-ad15-fc9484bd6845.html | 2022-07-20T15:33:01 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/dyer/watch-now-more-than-just-planting-flowers-dyer-in-bloom-beautifies-town/article_f02a7b9c-5c34-5604-ad15-fc9484bd6845.html |
Veterans, active military members and their families will be able to get help with various resources available to them at a Thursday veterans event sponsored by Indiana’s two U.S. senators.
The "one stop shop" event, sponsored by the offices of U.S. Sens. Mike Braun and Todd Young, will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Crown Point location of Ivy Tech Community College Lake County, 9900 Connecticut Drive.
Attendees will be able to get individualized assistance navigating issues they may be having with the Veterans Administration and Social Security Administration, as well as learn about resources available from various agencies. Groups represented will include the Veteran Health Administration, the Lake County Veteran Service Office, Operation: Job Ready Veterans and Ivy Tech Lake County’s veteran services office, among others.
For more information, contact Jacob Harkin, Military and Veteran Outreach Manager and Constituent Services Specialist for U.S. Sen Mike Braun, at Jacob Harkin@braun.senate.gov. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/senate-staffers-to-offer-assistance-to-veterans-at-ivy-tech/article_91720186-70bc-59f5-ac72-d02ad3d0092f.html | 2022-07-20T15:33:07 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/senate-staffers-to-offer-assistance-to-veterans-at-ivy-tech/article_91720186-70bc-59f5-ac72-d02ad3d0092f.html |
Watch the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office news conference Wednesday morning about a fatal shooting at Branched Oak Lake late Tuesday that is being investigated as a homicide.
One person is dead after a shooting at Branched Oak Lake sometime late Tuesday night about 20 miles northwest of Lincoln's city limit, according to authorities.
The Lancaster County Sheriff's Office is investigating the homicide, the agency said in a social media post Wednesday morning. Authorities will release additional details on the shooting at 9 a.m. Wednesday.
The agency's incident log indicates deputies were dispatched to the lake's marina, south of West Davey Road and Northwest 98th Street, just before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The reported shooting death marks the second suspected killing recorded in Lancaster County this year outside of Lincoln city limits. The first occurred last week.
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A 42-year-old Lincoln man is dead after a shooting on a boat at Branched Oak Lake sometime late Tuesday night about 20 miles northwest of Lincoln's city limit, according to authorities.
Lancaster County Sheriff Terry Wagner identified the victim as Benjamin J. Case, and called his death a "terribly tragic situation."
Wagner said deputies were dispatched to the lake's marina, south of West Davey Road and Northwest 98th Street, just before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Wagner said Case and four friends were on the water inside a boat when an unidentified man opened the cabin door and fired two shots from a handgun at Case, who died at the scene.
The other two men and two women jumped off the boat into the water to escape and were uninjured, Wagner said. The suspect then left the lake area in a vehicle.
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The sheriff said it appears Case was targeted.
"We believe the gunman knew where he was going, where he was headed. It wasn’t a random situation, we don’t believe. So other folks shouldn't have any concern for their safety," Wagner said at a briefing near the marine Wednesday morning.
He said a gun had not been recovered. He said there was no evidence the suspect took anything from the boat or the victim's vehicle, which was parked at the lake.
Wagner said he also didn't know if Case had previously been the target of threats.
The sheriff asked anyone who might have cameras on their boats, businesses or homes nearby to help with the investigation by calling the office, 402-441-6500, or Crime Stoppers, 402-475-3600.
The reported shooting death marks the second suspected killing recorded in Lancaster County this year outside of Lincoln city limits. The first occurred last week.
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HERSHEY, Pa. — Penn State Health Children's Hospital is the recipient of a $16,000 donation through funds raised by Ollie's Bargain Outlet Inc. and its partnership with the Children's Miracle Network, Ollie's announced on Wednesday.
Ollie's and CMN Hospitals raised more than half a million dollars nationwide during a fundraising effort from June 12 to July 9.
The funds raised at Ollie’s stores will benefit 85 local member hospitals in communities Ollie’s serves. The money raised for Penn State Health Children’s Hospital will benefit kids and families in Central Pa. and beyond.
“Since opening our doors 40 years ago, Ollie’s has valued giving back to kids in communities we serve, and we plan to keep that central to our culture for decades to come,” John Swygert, president and CEO of Ollie’s said in a statement. “This year we have helped more hospitals than ever across our 29 state footprint. Although inflation is at an all-time high, we are amazed by the continued generosity of our customers and their willingness to help kids with urgent health needs.”
Children’s health is a local and global issue impacting the future of our communities and society at large, Swygert says. Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals raises funds for 170 children’s hospitals across the U.S. and Canada, helping to make sure every child receives the best possible care.
Through unrestricted fundraising, local member hospitals are able to fulfill their most urgent needs. Whether that’s investing in research that discovers life-saving treatments and cures, training the next generation of doctors and nurses, or offering families comfort and peace of mind during the most trying moments of their lives, Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals’ funds are used where they are needed most, the release concluded. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/ollies-bargain-outlet-fundraiser-penn-state-health-childrens-hospital/521-27fd63ae-d0bb-426c-9726-f49729ebf4da | 2022-07-20T15:40:26 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/ollies-bargain-outlet-fundraiser-penn-state-health-childrens-hospital/521-27fd63ae-d0bb-426c-9726-f49729ebf4da |
BEECH GROVE, Ind. — The Beech Grove Police Department will be featured in the revival of A&E's "Live PD" that will now air on REELZ.
"On Patrol: Live" will air live on Fridays and Saturdays from 9 p.m. to midnight ET. Beech Grove PD will participate in the show's first two episodes July 22 and July 23.
REELZ announced the revamped show's return in June, with the same format and Dan Abrams returning as host.
Abrams will be joined by retired Tulsa Police Department Sgt. Sean "Sticks" Larkin and Deputy Sheriff Curtis Wilson. The show will feature minute-by-minute analysis, documenting for viewers in real time the everyday work of police officers on patrol from diverse departments across America.
"In a time when law enforcement is continually under the microscope and judged on split second decisions, we are excited to highlight the hard work and service of our dedicated and professional officers," Beech Grove PD Chief Michael Maurice said in a news release. "I am honored to invite America to come behind the lens and witness our officer's compassion, integrity and resilience. We are so humbled that 'On Patrol: Live' has chosen to highlight our police department and the people behind the badge."
The Beech Grove Police Department has 36 officers who serve a population of more than 14,000 people, as well as others outside city limits. The department consists of a road division, investigations division, special response team and two K-9 teams.
"Live PD" aired on A&E from 2016-2020 and followed police departments around the country while officers were out on patrol.
However, "Live PD" was abruptly canceled by A&E in the summer of 2020 following the protest of police brutality in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the Minnesota man who was killed by former Minnesota Police Officer Derek Chauvin.
REELZ is available in 70 million homes on DIRECTV channel 238, DISH Network channel 299, Verizon FiOS TV channel 692HD, AT&T U-verse channels 799/1799HD and Xfinity, Spectrum, and many other cable and streaming systems nationwide.
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