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Slain Wayne County Jail corporal's family sues sheriff's office for wrongful death
The family of Wayne County Sheriff's Cpl. Bryant Searcy, who was murdered while on duty by a 28-year-old inmate in the Wayne County Jail, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the sheriff's office and jail staff.
Searcy was strangled while working a 16-hour, overtime shift on the night of Sep. 2, 2020. The assailant, Deandre Williams, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 50-75 years in prison.
Robert Mullen, the attorney representing Searcy's family, said conditions in the jail demonstrate a willful, wanton disregard for the safety of officers, inmates and the public on the part of the sheriff's office and jail officials.
"There's no way that you can mismanage a jail like Wayne County has by accident," Mullen said. "This is a pattern and practice of how they want to operate and how they chose to operate this jail."
The civil suit names Robert Dunlap, chief of courts and jails for the sheriff's office, Daniel Pfannes, deputy director for the Michigan sheriffs' association, county Executive Warren Evans, Sheriff Raphael Washington and the estate of former Sheriff Benny Napoleon as defendants, in addition to Wayne County and the sheriff's office. The Wayne County Sheriff's Office had not been served with the lawsuit as of late Wednesday morning and declined to comment.
Mullen said the jail has been dangerously understaffed for several years due to artificially low wages, forcing corrections officers to work overtime as a result. He also said security cameras didn't work properly and neither did the locks on inmate cells.
"Running a jail is one of the core public functions that government provides," Mullen said. "This is a sad state of the jail that they're holding these criminals in. The officers aren't safe, the citizenry isn't safe and the public at large are not safe."
A state investigation into the incident revealed that Searcy had split up with his partner to complete a floor lock-up. After closing the door to a single cell unitm Searcy moved on, believing the door to be locked. It was not and Williams escaped and killed him.
The Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed fining the Wayne County Sheriff's Office $8,000 for safety violations in connection with the incident.
"When you talk about cameras and locks, these are the most fundamental, basic things of running a safe jail," Mullen said.
Searcy's family filed the lawsuit Tuesday and is requesting a trial by jury in Wayne County Circuit Court.
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A fire is burning east of the Casper-Natrona County International Airport, authorities say.
North Six Mile Road between Highway 20-26 and Commerce Road is closed due to the fire.
The Natrona County Sheriff's Office is asking the public to stay clear of the area. | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/fire-burning-outside-casper/article_9b0fcc84-0867-11ed-90dc-5bce62eb5734.html | 2022-07-20T21:24:33 | 1 | https://trib.com/news/local/casper/fire-burning-outside-casper/article_9b0fcc84-0867-11ed-90dc-5bce62eb5734.html |
A male lion, formerly of the San Antonio Zoo, killed the Birmingham Zoo's female lion, Akili, during a meeting between the two on Monday, officials said.
The two lions were being slowly introduced after Akili, who was born at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, Colorado, lost her mate, Kwanza, in 2021. Josh, the new male lion, was transferred to the Birmingham Zoo from San Antonio in April.
Within minutes of a meeting on Monday, Akili was fatally wounded by Josh. The process of the two lions being introduced was a slow one, according to zoo officials.
"Animal introductions are always risky because wild animals can be unpredictable and we cannot control their interactions," Hollie Colahan, the Birmingham Zoo's deputy director, said in a statement.
The introduction was done on a day the zoo was closed, so there were no visitors present.
"Despite immediate intervention by the Animal Care and Animal Health teams, she succumbed to her injuries and died Monday afternoon," Colahan continued.
The Birmingham Zoo had worked with the Lion Species Survival Plan to identify a new male companion for Akili, with Josh being the chosen mate.
"The staff is devastated at this unexpected loss of a long-time favorite animal and member of the zoo family," Scott Kayser, the zoo’s manager of predators, wrote in a social media post on Tuesday.
Josh is fine and "will continue to receive the excellent care he always receives," Jennifer Ogilvie, a spokeswoman for the Birmingham Zoo, told KENS. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Birmingham-Zoo-Akili-Josh-17317729.php | 2022-07-20T21:25:28 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Birmingham-Zoo-Akili-Josh-17317729.php |
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.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/customer-shot-killed-armed-robber-st-charles-quiktrip-stlouis-missouri/63-bc66b748-2d2d-4c8b-9d5e-d3c431c574f8 | 2022-07-20T21:25:29 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/customer-shot-killed-armed-robber-st-charles-quiktrip-stlouis-missouri/63-bc66b748-2d2d-4c8b-9d5e-d3c431c574f8 |
A meteorologist for the National Weather Service in San Antonio and Austin took over the agency's Twitter feed early Wednesday to detail their overnight duties.
"This midnight shifter is getting lonely and craving human interaction," the meteorologist wrote in the tweet.
Judging by the Twitter thread, the early morning hours are just as busy as the daytime hours, but with the added obstacle of staying awake.
Mack Morris, a meteorologist with the NWS, would not identify who was responsible for the early morning Twitter thread but said they work in pairs overnight.
"You work with another colleague; there's always another person there with you," Morris said. "I wouldn't call it lonely, just tiring."
Meteorologists usually work seven straight overnight shifts every two months, Morris said, "just to get them out of the way." Some meteorologists prefer to work the overnight shifts and may do more than others. The overnight shifts come with extra pay.
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The eight-hour shift typically begins at 11 p.m. Morris said one of the highlights of starting work at that time are the chance wildlife encounters.
"Occasionally we'll see a raccoon or a skunk, those nocturnal animals," Morris said. "We have cameras set up all over the office. In the middle of the night, you'll see a skunk, just hanging out. They're much smaller than you think they are. Possums, fox, just about anything you think of that comes around at night."
With two kids at home, Morris said he usually goes straight to bed after work and wakes up around 3 or 4 p.m., depending on the day. When school starts, he may have to go pick up one of the kids around that time.
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"It's funny; whenever I tell my 5-year-old that I'm going to work (during a midnight shift), he'll say, 'you work all night?'" Morris said. "I'll say, 'yep,' and he'll say, 'you're awake all night? Wow.'"
While the work is very similar to the day shift, staying awake can be tough if you're not used to it. Morris used to work a 12-hour overnight shift for a different company. He said it was easier than the eight-hour shift with NWS because he would start around dinner time.
"When I go in, it's kind of harder to get adjusted," Morris said. "Once you get in a couple of days in a row, you'll get adjusted."
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Morris said he sometimes eats as soon as his shift begins to "prep the brain," although overnight forecasters "just eat whenever."
Overnight work can be "pretty busy," Morris said, as meteorologists work to confirm details for the morning's weather, get necessary training done and put out news items for the media and for city governments like Austin and San Antonio, including heat advisories and excessive heat warnings.
That information is vital for governments to know whether to open cooling and warming centers, Morris said.
Further work goes into ensuring the Del Rio Weather balloon makes it off the ground safely, with the auto launcher preparing for the day's lift around 5:30 a.m. and the balloon released around 6:05 a.m.
The overnight shift is also critical to the weather service's operations in Texas, as the local NWS is charged with backing up fellow offices like those in Brownsville and Corpus Christi.
"We always have to be on our toes," Morris said. "If something goes wrong, if something went wrong for them, we'd have to be ready to back them up. Things like that can happen at any time."
shepard.price@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/National-Weather-Service-overnight-shift-17317402.php | 2022-07-20T21:25:34 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/National-Weather-Service-overnight-shift-17317402.php |
A Texas favorite is once again struggling to keep the shelves stocked.
Last July, Topo Chico was in short supply because of a glass shortage. Now, a limit on daily water use in Mexico may be impacting the mineral water company, according to Market Realist, a financial news outlet.
The water, bottled in the city of Monterrey, Mexico, since 1895, takes its name from the Cerro del Topo Chico mountain near the city, which is limiting daily water from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. in response to a historic drought.
"We continue to face tight supply challenges with Topo Chico mineral water and are working hard to keep it on store shelves," a spokeswoman with the Coca-Cola Company wrote in an email. "We appreciate our loyal fans' patience."
Topo Chico, which Coca-Cola acquired five years ago for $220 million, is a popular drink in Texas. Coca-Cola did not comment on whether the water restrictions is the cause of this year's Topo Chico shortage, although food supplier What Chefs Want said in a market alert that drought conditions and water shortages have led to a halt in production for several products, including Topo Chico.
Demand for water outpaced supply by about 2.5 cubic meters per second in Monterrey in June, city water director Juan Ignacio Barragan said during a news conference last month, leading to water restrictions.
Last year's shortage was caused by a lack of raw materials, including glass. The glass shortage remains ongoing, according to CBS Austin.
shepard.price@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Topo-Chico-shortage-Texas-17316975.php | 2022-07-20T21:25:40 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Topo-Chico-shortage-Texas-17316975.php |
Texas truck driver Homero Zamorano and co-defendant Christian Martinez worked together on three previous immigrant smuggling trips before they were arrested in connection with an abandoned 18-wheeler containing dozens of migrants who died from the heat in Southwest San Antonio, a federal agent said.
Zamorano, 45, of Palestine in East Texas, is charged with illegally transporting undocumented immigrants on June 27.
Martinez, 28, of Palestine, also known as “Gordito,” also allegedly worked with at least two other drivers — one caught at the Border Patrol checkpoint north of Laredo with 107 immigrants in his trailer and one caught with dozens of other immigrants this spring, Homeland Security Investigations agent Nestor Canales testified at a hearing for Martinez this week.
“This defendant was a part of an egregious and outrageous case in which 64 people were in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning for hours, and 53 of those individuals have died,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah Spears said at the hearing in San Antonio’s federal court. “Some are still in the hospital. This defendant helped coordinate that incident, and not only did he do it on one occasion, this defendant has done it on multiple occasions, according to his own admission. And he’s done it with multiple people, not just the driver of this 18-wheeler but also several other defendants.”
Martinez, whom Spears said is homeless but has relatives in Palestine, is charged with conspiring with Zamorano and could face up to life in prison or the death penalty if convicted.
Canales testified that Martinez drove Zamorano from Palestine to a truck stop south of San Antonio and gave him instructions on where to pick up the load of 64 in Laredo. A review of court documents and investigative records shows more than 200 migrants were smuggled in similarly before Border Patrol intercepted the loads, with at least one trailer registering a temperature of 98 degrees.
Authorities have said Zamorano made it past the Border Patrol checkpoint with the load of 64, and it has not been determined if the trailer’s cooling system was working at any point during the two-hour trip from Laredo to San Antonio.
The day of the incident, San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said the cooling system of the refrigerated trailer did not appear to be working when the 18-wheeler was found along Quintana Road. The immigrants did not have any water, Hood said. Temperatures hovered at around 100 degrees, and experts have said it could have been more than 140 degrees in the trailer.
Survivors have said the trailer appeared to have bullion or a spice sprinkled in it, and former agents said that is a common tactic used by smugglers to throw off police dogs from discovering the human cargo.
Mike Gross, who with former federal prosecutor David Shearer was appointed to represent Martinez, suggested that his client might have been coerced into speaking with agents. Martinez, Gross said, attended special education classes and can’t read or write. Gross also said there’s no evidence that his client has any violent criminal history.
Gross also argued that Martinez was not at the scene when Zamorano allegedly abandoned the trailer and dying immigrants. At best, Gross said, the government’s allegations paint his client as a middle man.
“I do not mean to downplay the significance of the death of the 53 individuals,” Gross told U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad. “However, Mr. Martinez was not present when either the air conditioner went out or when the decision to abandon those people was made.”
Bemporad determined prosecutors had established probable cause and denied Martinez release on bond, finding him a flight risk.
“This is an extremely serious case,” Bemporad said. “It’s a serious case because many people died, but it’s a serious case whether or not people had died. Transporting people in bulk in tractor-trailers is about as dangerous an offense as we see in terms of the danger to life.”
guillermo.contreras@express-news.net | Twitter: @gmaninfedland | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Truck-driver-fatal-smuggling-immigrant-trailer-17317549.php | 2022-07-20T21:25:46 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Truck-driver-fatal-smuggling-immigrant-trailer-17317549.php |
Decarbonization has been one of the biggest challenges facing steelmakers, many of which have long burned coal in blast furnaces to make iron for steel.
BP and the German steel company Thyssenkrupp Steel are teaming up to tackle the challenge of carbon emissions amid mounting global concerns over climate change. The London-based energy giant, whose largest refinery is in Whiting, signed a memorandum of understanding with Thyssenkrupp that they will work to incorporate low-carbon hydrogen and renewable power into steelmaking to help "accelerate the steel industry’s wider energy transition."
“The steel and energy industries have of course long been closely linked. We provide fuel and feedstock for steel production while our platforms, pipelines, and turbine towers are made from steel," said William Lin, BP executive vice president, regions, cities & solutions.
Thyssenkrupp Steel accounts for 2.5% of CO2 emissions in Germany, mainly from its integrated mill in Duisburg. But the steelmaker is looking to replace coke-fired blast furnaces with direct reduction plants that use lower-carbon hydrogen to reduce iron ore.
They will look at blue and green hydrogen, and wind and solar power to eventually help make the company's steelmaking climate neutral.
“Thyssenkrupp Steel has the ambition to make its steel production climate-neutral by 2045 and low carbon power and hydrogen will play a critical role in achieving that," Lin said. "As part of our strategy to provide a range of decarbonization solutions to corporates, BP is already investing in and working to develop a portfolio of industrial-scale hydrogen projects in Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and Australia. With our aligned ambitions and complementary investments, Thyssenkrupp Steel and BP can together help this hard-to-abate sector decarbonize faster.”
Globally, steelmaking accounts for an estimated 8% to 11% of CO2 emissions. It is however an essential industry that supplies the automotive, construction and manufacturing sectors as well as many decarbonization technologies like wind turbines, generators and smart power grids.
Thyssenkrupp Steel now makes 11 million tons of steel per year and aspired to make 400,000 tons of green steel with fewer carbon emissions by 2025.
By 2050, it aims to reach a net zero goal.
“The decarbonization of the steel industry will require enormous quantities of low carbon and, in the long term, green hydrogen," Thyssenkrupp Steel Chief Technology Officer Arnd Köfler said. "This will increasingly require the use of electricity from renewable sources. All this can only be achieved through a well-developed hydrogen infrastructure with a supra-regional pipeline network. The MoU is an important milestone for us to set the course with BP for a reliable supply of energy in the future.”
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USW leaders have been meeting in committees and reviewing what members want before they finalize the proposals they plan to bring to the bargaining table next week. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/bp-works-with-thyssenkrupp-on-steel-decarbonization-project/article_ecb1fa3f-13b8-5733-b6cf-1efc25e08f3c.html | 2022-07-20T21:31:36 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/bp-works-with-thyssenkrupp-on-steel-decarbonization-project/article_ecb1fa3f-13b8-5733-b6cf-1efc25e08f3c.html |
For the first time in a long time, perhaps ever, the race to represent Northwest Indiana in Congress is rated a "toss up."
The Cook Political Report , a national organization that attempts to predict the outcomes of the nation's 435 U.S. House contests every two years, on Tuesday changed its rating of Indiana's 1st Congressional District contest from "lean Democratic."
The switch to toss up comes after Republican Jennifer-Ruth Green, of Crown Point, reported raising $561,329.50 for her campaign during the April 1-June 30 period.
She outraised first-term U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, whose second quarter campaign fundraising totaled $355,906.37, according to the Federal Election Commission .
Mrvan, however, still leads Green with $630,970.79 cash on hand heading into the most competitive months of the campaign. Green's cash on hand is $454,068.67, records show.
Regardless, Indiana Republican Party Chairman Kyle Hupfer said Green's unprecedented fundraising haul shows momentum is on her side.
"National pundits are clearly picking up on what Hoosiers in Northwest Indiana are feeling. The Region has had enough of Frank Mrvan's embrace of Joe Biden's disastrous agenda. They want a leader, not a follower. That's why Jennifer-Ruth Green will win in November," Hupfer said.
No Republican ever has been elected to represent Northwest Indiana in Congress since the 1st District was centered on Lake, Porter and northwest LaPorte counties in 1932 — 90 years ago.
Drew Anderson, Indiana Democratic Party spokesman, said campaign rating entities frequently are wrong, including in 2016 when they predicted a potential Democratic victory in the Indiana governor's race won by Republican Eric Holcomb.
"Bottom line: It ain't over until the votes are counted. And Rep. Mrvan has delivered for Hoosiers across the 1st District. It's why he’ll win in November," Anderson said.
Region residents who are U.S. citizens and will be 18 years old by Election Day can register to vote online, or verify their registration, at IndianaVoters.com .
Early voting for the Nov. 8 general election begins Oct. 12.
Here are the new Indiana laws to know that took effect July 1
Animals
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248 )
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248)
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Annexation
The Aberdeen subdivision may seek to officially become part of Valparaiso, even though the neighborhood is not currently contiguous to the city. A pre-annexation financial study must be completed so Aberdeen residents know the fiscal impact of being voluntarily annexed by Valparaiso. (House Enrolled Act 1110 )
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Ag equipment
Counties, cities or towns can designate agricultural zones as Economic Revitalization Areas (ERA) on the same basis as outdated business districts or distressed residential neighborhoods. New farm equipment or new agricultural improvements located in an ERA are eligible for a property tax abatement for up to five years. The exemption does not apply to farmland. (Senate Enrolled Act 119 )
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Bone marrow
The Indiana Department of Health is authorized to establish and promote a bone marrow donor recruitment program to find eligible Hoosiers willing to donate bone marrow to individuals fighting leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cell conditions. (Senate Enrolled Act 398 )
John Luke, file, The Times
Campus speech
State colleges and universities cannot designate outdoor areas of campus where First Amendment activities are prohibited. Higher education institutions may impose reasonable and content-neutral time, place and manner restrictions on other campus speech that's narrowly tailored to serve a significant interest of the school. (House Enrolled Act 1190 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Caregivers
An adult relative caring for a child after the child has been removed from a dangerous home situation is entitled to directly participate in court hearings concerning services needed by the child, or terminating the parent-child relationship. Previously, only state-licensed foster parents had a statutory right to intervene in legal proceedings pertaining to abused or neglected children. (Senate Enrolled Act 410 )
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Catalytic converters
A catalytic converter is redefined as a "major component part" of a motor vehicle and only licensed automobile salvage recyclers are permitted to buy or sell used catalytic converters. Automobile salvage recyclers also must keep the same records for catalytic converters as valuable metal dealers and cash payouts for detached catalytic converters are capped at $25 per transaction per day. (Senate Enrolled Act 293 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Coerced abortion
A new crime of "coerced abortion" punishes anyone who knowingly or intentionally coerces a pregnant woman to have an abortion with up to 2 1/2 years in prison. State law already required "the voluntary and informed consent of the pregnant woman" prior to obtaining an abortion. (House Enrolled Act 1217 )
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Data breach
Businesses, banks and similar entities that suffer a data breach must notify their customers within 45 days of the breach being discovered, instead of simply providing notification "without unreasonable delay." (House Enrolled Act 1351 )
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Dementia training
Home health aides who provide care to individuals with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or a similar cognitive disorder must complete at least six hours of dementia care training within 60 days of hire. Current home health aides with at least one year of experience must participate in at least three hours of dementia training. (Senate Enrolled Act 353 )
Joe Ruffalo, file, The Times
Double voting
The penalty for fraudulently casting more than one ballot in the same election is set at up to 2½ in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. The penalty does not apply to individuals casting a valid replacement ballot as permitted by law. (Senate Enrolled Act 328 )
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Expungement
Individuals charged with crimes who either are acquitted following a trial or the charges are dismissed will have their court records automatically expunged within 60 days of disposition, unless the county prosecutor requests a one-year expungement delay. Any non-prosecution of criminal charges within 180 days following an arrest must be expunged immediately. (Senate Enrolled Act 182 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Foreign land purchases
Foreign business entities are barred from purchasing Indiana agricultural or timber land, with certain exceptions. Businesses organized under Russian law or controlled by Russian nationals are prohibited from acquiring any real estate in Indiana. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
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Health officers
The Indiana Department of Health no longer is entitled to remove a local health officer on the basis of intemperance. Health officers still may be removed for failing to collect vital statistics, follow rules, keep records, make reports, respond to official inquires or for neglect of official duty. (House Enrolled Act 1169 )
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Handguns
Adults age 18 and up legally entitled to possess a handgun are not obligated to obtain a state permit to carry a handgun in public. Indiana carry permits remain available for out-of-state reciprocity purposes. Handguns continue to be prohibited in schools, courthouses, and any residence or business that chooses to bar handguns. (House Enrolled Act 1296 )
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Housing shortage
A 13-member Housing Task Force is directed to study issues relating to housing and housing shortages in Indiana. The task force must submit recommendations for policy changes to the General Assembly and the governor no later than Nov. 1. (House Enrolled Act 1306 )
Tony V. Martin, file, The Times
Hunting
The holder of an archery hunting permit is allowed to use a bow and arrow or a crossbow. Previously, crossbow hunters were required to obtain a separate license. (Senate Enrolled Act 186 )
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Inmate calls
The in-state rate for telephone calls placed by inmates at Indiana Department of Correction facilities drops to 12 cents per minute from 24 cents per minute. County jail telephone rates are capped at 21 cents per minute statewide, instead of ranging from 22 cents per minute to $4.70 per minute. (House Enrolled Act 1181 )
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Lead testing
Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, doctors must offer a blood lead screening test to the parents of children between nine months and six years old if the child has not previously been tested for lead poisoning. Parents are not required to have their children tested for lead. (House Enrolled Act 1313 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Low-level felons
Judges once again may sentence level 6 felony offenders to state prisons operated by the Indiana Department of Correction, replacing a mandate that individuals found guilty of minor felony crimes only serve their six-month to 2 1/2-year sentences in county jails. (House Enrolled Act 1004 )
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Lowell investment
The town of Lowell is authorized to segregate its recent water utility sale proceeds from other town funds, contract with an investment adviser, and deploy the funds in most kinds of investments offering higher returns than fixed-income securities, except corporate stock and other equity securities. (House Enrolled Act 1011 )
Kale Wilk, file, The Times
Medicaid
Pregnant individuals whose family incomes are less than 208% of the federal poverty level are entitled to receive low- or no-cost health coverage through Indiana Medicaid for the duration of their pregnancy, and up to 12 months after giving birth. (House Enrolled Act 1140 )
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Nuclear power
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is directed to adopt rules by July 1, 2023, permitting small modular nuclear reactors to be used to generate electricity in the Hoosier State. The law does not mandate any utilities switch to nuclear power but opens the door by putting in place the regulations that would guide its development and use. (Senate Enrolled Act 271 )
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Pregnant inmates
Restraints used on a prison inmate in her second or third trimester of pregnancy need to be the least restrictive restraints necessary. A pregnant inmate must be unrestrained while in labor, delivering a baby and during the immediate post-delivery period, unless she is an immediate danger to herself or others, or a substantial flight risk. (House Enrolled Act 1294 )
Connor Burge, file, The Times
Property tax
The $3,000 property tax deduction for mortgaged property is eliminated beginning Jan. 1, 2023, and the homestead deduction is increased to $48,000 from $45,000. The senior citizen tax deduction may be claimed on homes worth up to $240,000, instead of a maximum of $200,000. (House Enrolled Act 1260 )
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Public comment
School boards must allow any person physically present at a school board meeting to address the board if the person is interested in doing so in accordance with the board’s public comment rules, including any time limits. Boards still can take "reasonable steps to maintain order in a meeting," including "removal of any person who is willfully disruptive of the meeting." (House Enrolled Act 1130 )
Dan Carden, file, The Times
Rape
The definition of rape is expanded to include a person who disregards the other person's attempts to physically, verbally, or by other visible conduct refuse the person's sexual acts. Rape in Indiana also consists of the use of force, or imminent threat of force, to compel sexual conduct; sex with a person unaware sexual conduct is occurring; or sex with a person unable to consent to sex due to mental disability. (House Enrolled Act 1079 )
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Semiquincentennial
A 23-member commission is established to organize events and commemorations across the state celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. (Senate Enrolled Act 12 )
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Simulated child porn
The production, distribution, possession or viewing of a video or image depicting obscene sexual conduct involving a person who appears to be less than 18 years old — even if the person is over 18, or doesn’t exist — is the legal equivalent of child exploitation, possession of child pornography and similar felony crimes. (House Enrolled Act 1363 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
State fossil
The mastodon is designated as the official fossil of Indiana. Dozens of mastodon fossils have been found throughout Indiana, including the bones of at least five mastodons now held by the Indiana State Museum that were discovered in 2005 by workers digging a pond in the Porter County town of Hebron. (House Enrolled Act 1013 )
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Tax cuts
The utility receipts tax, a 1.46% charge paid by businesses and consumers on a portion of their electricity, natural gas, water, steam, sewage and telephone bills, is eliminated July 1. Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, the state income tax rate drops to 3.15% from 3.23%, with the possibility of future reductions to 2.9%. (House Enrolled Act 1002 )
Doug Ross, file, The Times
Tourism
The definition of "agritourism" is expanded beyond agricultural activities to include camping, canoeing, kayaking, river tubing and winter sports activities. An agritourism participant release form may be signed electronically, instead of only on paper. (Senate Enrolled Act 343 )
Connor Burge, file, The Times
Township trustees
A township trustee who fails to perform the duties of his or her office is subject to removal by court order if the removal is endorsed by the township board, county commissioners and county council, and other conditions are met. (Senate Enrolled Act 304 )
Dan Carden, The Times
Trans sports
All children assigned male at birth are barred from participating in any elementary, middle or high school athletics designated as a "girls" or "female" sport — no matter the child's gender identity or physical characteristics. (House Enrolled Act 1041 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Tribal law enforcement
A police officer employed by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi in South Bend may exercise law enforcement authority anywhere in the state, so long as the officer meets the standards of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and the tribe consents to statewide police powers. (Senate Enrolled Act 347 )
Turn signal
A mandate that drivers signal all turns or lane changes at least 200 feet ahead of time, or 300 feet if the vehicle is traveling in excess of 50 mph, is deleted on Jan. 1, 2023, in favor of a requirement that motorists signal all turns and lane changes "a reasonable time" before completing them. (House Enrolled Act 1167 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
University gifts
Public and private colleges and universities in Indiana must report to the state, and disclose on their website, all gifts from foreign entities that already must be reported to the federal government upon receipt. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
Kale Wilk, file, The Times
Vaping taxes
A tax of 15% is imposed on the wholesale price of closed system cartridges used for vaping. Under a 2021 law, the tax rate was scheduled to be 25%. An additional tax of 40 cents per ounce is assessed on alternative nicotine products, such as electronic cigarettes. (Senate Enrolled Act 382 )
Richard Vogel, file, Associated Press
Virtual instruction
Public schools may only hold up to three student-directed virtual instruction days during the 180-day school year absent extraordinary circumstances and a waiver approved by the Indiana Department of Education. (House Enrolled Act 1093 )
John Luke, file, The Times
Youth ag
A public school or school corporation may purchase up to $10,000 in food each year from a youth agricultural program, up from the former annual maximum of $7,500. (House Enrolled Act 1320 )
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BLOOMINGTON — It's unclear what the future holds for a long-vacant plaza at West Market and Howard streets, once targeted as a potential solution for west Bloomington's food desert, after the property failed to sell at auction Wednesday.
The sale at the McLean County Law and Justice Center was held as the result of foreclosure proceedings on the property formerly known as Fox Plaza West, 906-918 W. Market St. The opening bid was $197,865, but it failed to garner any interest from potential buyers.
The sale comes two years after city officials and residents gathered in July 2020 to celebrate what was hailed at the time as a new beginning for the property as demolition work began on the properties there. The lot was cleared by December of that year.
Arthur Haynes and Laurie Bell, leaders of the West Market Street Council, said they have been trying to work with the property owner, city officials and nonprofit agencies to acquire the plaza. They hoped to turn it into a home for several retail businesses, community service agencies and a not-for-profit grocery store, and had opened a nonprofit account at Illinois Prairie Community Foundation to help raise money for the effort.
Project advocates celebrated the development of a neighborhood grocery store as a potential end for the food desert in west Bloomington, formally designated by the City of Bloomington, McLean County, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The plan, according to Haynes and Bell as well as documents they provided, was that the previous owner, Rajesh Kumar, would agree to pay for demolition and sell the property to the council for $515,000. Kumar died in late 2020, causing a legal and financial standstill for the project.
Before Kumar's death, Bell said, the council tried to secure a loan through the nonprofit Local Initiatives Support Coalition (LISC). LISC provides funding for local projects throughout the country. According to its website, it acts as an "'intermediary'—a nimble non-profit with strong community partnerships that would connect hard-to-tap public and private resources with underinvested places and people working to access opportunities."
Bell and Haynes said that, in order to secure a loan through LISC, the city of Bloomington needed to be "invested" in the project.
A spokesperson at LISC declined to comment on the project, saying she was not familiar with it.
Kumar's death caused the estate to enter probate, a process by which the courts determine who receives the deceased person's assets and assures all debts and taxes are paid. The properties did have debts and back taxes in 2018 that totaled over $30,000, but Haynes said all parties were working on making monthly payments. These ceased when Kumar died.
Haynes said COVID-19 disrupted many court proceedings in California, where Kumar was a resident, further complicating the situation. "That whole entire year and a half, nothing was getting done," he said. "The bank wasn't getting paid as well."
Bell said many of the major players involved still wanted to complete the agreement. In March, she said, there was a meeting involving the mortgaging bank, the lender, the executor of the estate and the council. She said the parties planned to ratify and agree to continue the previous arrangement.
Bell said there was a sense of urgency. "This was all happening very last-minute," Bell said, "All of us were just flying by the seat of our pants." Despite this, she said, all parties were in agreement with one exception: the city of Bloomington.
A city of Bloomington spokesperson said city staff would not comment because of pending legal issues with the property.
Haynes and Bell spoke to The Pantagraph before the sale and said they were working with a new investor. It was unclear why the investor did not bid on the property Wednesday, and he could not immediately be reached for comment. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/future-of-former-fox-plaza-west-unclear-after-no-bids-at-auction/article_cd2aed60-06bf-11ed-881a-271941b5da42.html | 2022-07-20T21:32:46 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/future-of-former-fox-plaza-west-unclear-after-no-bids-at-auction/article_cd2aed60-06bf-11ed-881a-271941b5da42.html |
GREENSBORO — Two months after voters approved spending $1.7 billion on school construction, the results of that election have been certified.
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted Tuesday to certify the results of the May 17 bond referendum. The certification became effective Wednesday, according to Charlie Collicutt, the county's elections director, who delivered the certification to the clerk's office.
Typically, election results are certified 10 days after an election. However, the elections board delayed certification for many weeks due to a protest from former county commissioner Alan Branson, who is a candidate on the November ballot for the at-large seat for the Board of Commissioners.
Branson argued that public funds were illegally used by the county to campaign for the $1.7 billion bond and wanted the referendum put before voters a second time. The county and Guilford County Schools have defended their messaging and materials published leading up to the bond referendum as educational, and therefore permissible under state law.
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On Monday, Wake County Superior Court Judge Norlan Graves denied a request from Branson to keep the certification on pause, paving the way for the board's certification of the vote, and for county and school leaders to get started on early steps toward spending the $1.7 billion for school construction authorized by voters. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/after-delays-guilford-county-board-of-elections-certifies-school-construction-bond-referendum-result/article_5f52f4f0-085d-11ed-b5ca-bb80915fa165.html | 2022-07-20T21:37:53 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/after-delays-guilford-county-board-of-elections-certifies-school-construction-bond-referendum-result/article_5f52f4f0-085d-11ed-b5ca-bb80915fa165.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — It’s hot out in Texas and with that comes elevated fire danger in North Texas, the National Weather Service center in Fort Worth is sharing some ways to help prevent wildfires.
Firstly, the center says persistent hot and dry weather makes wildfires more likely, “As the hot and dry conditions continue, so will the increased concern for the fire weather threat. Make sure to avoid all outdoor activities that could produce fire starts, and to heed any instruction from officials.”
The weather center says that DFW is in the midst of a top 10 rain-free streaks, “DFW’s current streak of 46 days without measurable rainfall now ranks 9th on the list of most consecutive days without measurable rainfall since records began for the site.” | https://cw33.com/news/local/how-to-help-prevent-texas-wildfires-according-to-nws-fort-worth/ | 2022-07-20T21:46:19 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/how-to-help-prevent-texas-wildfires-according-to-nws-fort-worth/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — This weekend, July 21-24, is when this year’s Asian Film Festival of Dallas takes place. The festival has been run for the past 15 years, giving hundreds of Asian filmmakers the chance to show off their creations.
There will be 16 feature films shown at this year’s festival (12 narrative features and four documentary films) as well as 11 short films.
You can purchase tickets to individual screenings for about $15 per ticket. To see a full schedule, click here.
The first film to kickoff the festival will be a showing of Too Cool to Kill, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, July 21.
The Official lineup is as follows:
- Too Cool to Kill
- The Witch 2: The Other One
- Small, Slow but Steady
- 7 Days
- A New Old Play
- Baby Assassins
- Dealing With Dad
- Erzulie
- Jalsaghar (The Music Room)
- Lonely Glory
- Preman
- Yellow Dragon’s Village
- Ascension
- Cat Daddies
- Dark Red Forest
- Singing in the Wilderness
- An Island Drifts
- Falafel
- Foster Fail
- The Han Flows
- I want to hear the word on the street
- The Man of the Terms of Service
- Misdelivered
- Nai Nai
- Secret Recipe
- Spider
- Veils
Since 2002, the Asian Film Festival of Dallas has been dedicated to celebrating and supporting emerging and established Asian and Asian-American filmmakers and sharing the rich diversity of Asian culture through cinema.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Dallasites, you will have the chance to see the world’s largest coconut this weekend.
Coconut water beverage brand Vita Coco will unveil the World’s Biggest Coconut in Dallas to celebrate the launch of its newest product Vita Coco Coconut Juice. The roadside experience will be located in the Bishop Arts District, located at 707 N. Zang Boulevard 75208 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on July 22-24.
Aside from the coconut, there will also be local food vendors, outdoor games and refreshments courtesy Vita Coco. Officials say Vita Coco Coconut Juice is a ‘delicious blend of coconut water packed with electrolytes, nutrients, and a burst of tropical flavor.’ | https://cw33.com/news/local/the-worlds-biggest-coconut-experience-is-coming-to-dallas-heres-where-and-when/ | 2022-07-20T21:46:31 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/the-worlds-biggest-coconut-experience-is-coming-to-dallas-heres-where-and-when/ |
In the middle of a heatwave, Johnny Ashcraft of Mansfield got the perfect gift; a free air conditioning unit.
"I'm grateful because we haven't had anything like this," Ashcraft said.
Ashcraft is a client with Meals on Wheels of Tarrant County, which in partnership with TXU Energy, provides free AC units to clients in need. They know who is in need from the volunteers who visit homes like Ashcraft's.
"It's just so hot, and it's been so hot for so long," said Philip Gonzalez with Meals on Wheels. "So, whenever they go to a client's home and they feel the house is too hot, the client doesn't look well, they're able to call and we can get somebody out there as soon as possible."
With a new AC unit installed, relief at the Ashcraft home was just a push of a button away.
"It feels great," Ashcraft said. "I'm sweaty. When you sweat it feels even better...so this will make a lot of difference in my life for sure."
TXU Energy also plans to offer Ashcraft assistance with his energy bill.
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"He is so happy about the difference it's going to make in his household and how it's going to keep him cool in summer," said Kim Campbell, TXU senior manager of customer advocacy. "Also be sure to close your drapes and then also make sure you use fans. They help cool your body temperature three to five degrees."
Campbell said anyone needing help with deferred TXU Energy bill payments should call 1-800-242-9113. For TXU payment assistance, dial 211.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. — A man died after a crash Wednesday morning in Greenwood.
Police said a crash involving a pick-up truck and a motorcycle happened near County Line and Graham roads at around 10:30 a.m.
Witnesses said the driver of the motorcycle was traveling east on County Line Road and attempted to pass the vehicle in front of him that was also traveling east.
As the driver crossed left of center, witnesses said his motorcycle collided with a pick-up truck traveling west.
The driver of the pick-up truck was not injured.
Medics transported the driver of the motorcycle to Methodist Hospital where he died.
The name of the motorcyclist has not been released.
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SATELLITE BEACH, Fla. – A Kissimmee motorcyclist was arrested after driving more than 100 mph in a 35 mph zone Monday, according to the Satellite Beach Police Department.
Robert Figueroa, 37, was seen stopped on his motorcycle at a stop light near Shearwater Parkway, reports show. Police said Figueroa “rapidly accelerated” through the intersection as the light turned green.
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Police said Figueroa continued to increase his speed and drove through a red light at Highway A1A and Jackson Avenue, continuing south onto the highway.
Soon after, police said Figueroa was reported driving south at more than 100 mph on the highway near Cassia Boulevard — in a zone marked with a 35 mph speed limit.
An officer made contact with Figueroa Tuesday, though while the officer was speaking with Figueroa’s girlfriend, Figueroa left the area, police said.
Figueroa was later arrested near the Patrick Space Force gate, police said. According to reports, Figueroa told officers he had been trying to flee from them the day prior.
Figueroa is being held in the Brevard County Jail. He faces charges for driving with a suspended license and reckless driving.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. – A man was arrested after an armed robbery at a TD Bank in Melbourne Wednesday morning, according to the Brevard County Sherriff’s Office.
Deputies said bank employees alerted them around 11:30 a.m. to a man who had entered a TD Bank located at 4551 N Wickham Road, displayed a handgun and demanded money from one of the tellers.
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Bernard Rogers Jr., 34, was arrested when deputies conducted a felony traffic stop about 30 minutes after the robbery, investigators said.
According to investigators, they found the suspect vehicle in Cocoa as Rogers was exiting Interstate 95 onto State Road 520.
Rogers is facing multiple charges, including armed robbery, grand theft and use of a firearm in commission of a felony.
According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Rogers was also wanted in another armed robbery that occurred at a Dollar General in east Orlando on Monday.
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He will be taken to the Brevard County jail, where he will be held without bond.
Anyone who may have information relating to Rogers is asked to call Agent Danielle Quinn of the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigative Services at 321-617-7306 or Crimeline to submit an anonymous tip at 1-800-423-TIPS (8477).
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Just over a week after Florida got a visit from Vice President Kamala Harris, President Joe Biden is coming to the Sunshine State.
Biden will be in Orlando on Monday to address the annual conference for the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort.
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From there Biden is expected to head to Tampa for a Democratic National Committee event.
This is the president’s first visit to Orlando since winning the White House.
It’s also his first visit to Florida since he went to Miami in the aftermath of the Surfside Condominium collapse last year.
The president’s visit to Florida follows a trip by Harris, who came to Orlando last week for an Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority conference, as well as a reproductive rights roundtable with state Democrats. She then went to Tampa and toured MacDill Air Force Base.
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MARION COUNTY, Fla. – A missing and wanted teenager is believed to be in Marion County after he ran away from a foster home in Hernando County, deputies said.
Christian Coleman, 17, may be traveling between Hernando County and Ocala because he has family and friends who reside in the Ocala area, according to the Hernando County Sheriff’s Office. Hernando is southwest of Marion.
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Coleman is listed as a wanted person with multiple juvenile pickup orders issued for his arrest in both Marion and Hernando, deputies said. He is suspected of vehicle burglary and grand theft auto, which are both felonies.
Deputies said Coleman ran away from a foster home in Spring Hill sometime overnight in February.
Coleman is white with black hair and brown eyes. He is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, but his weight is unknown, according to the sheriff’s office.
A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for tips on this case, and the person can remain anonymous, deputies said.
Hernando County Crime Stoppers can be reached by phone at 1-866-990-TIPS (8477). Tips can also be submitted here. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/wanted-teen-ran-away-from-foster-home-may-be-in-marion-county-deputies-say/ | 2022-07-20T21:53:59 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/20/wanted-teen-ran-away-from-foster-home-may-be-in-marion-county-deputies-say/ |
MESA, Ariz. — Mesa police detained the occupants of a stolen vehicle Wednesday afternoon by deploying a "grappler" net that clung onto the fleeing car.
The stolen car was detected by a license plate reader stationed near Country Club Drive and Hampton Avenue and the information alerted officers working in Mesa's new real-time crime center.
The city decided last year to spend COVID-19 relief funds on developing a crime center that could centralize Mesa's surveillance cameras into one place.
Officers in the crime center checked the car's registration and verified it had been reported stolen. That information was relayed to patrol officers out in the field who then attempted to locate the vehicle.
Patrol officers tried trapping the car within a Home Depot parking lot but the suspects managed to break through the barrier, police said.
An unmarked police car proceeded to chase the vehicle along Country Club Drive and deployed a grappler device to safely stop the fleeing car.
Grappler nets are used by multiple Valley police agencies to wrap around the rear tire of a vehicle attempting to evade police.
That causes the rear wheels to freeze, stopping the vehicle in its tracks. A tether then extends from the patrol car like a lasso, keeping the fleeing vehicle attached.
Mesa police said officers additionally deployed a beanbag gun at the suspects and one of them was hit, resulting in them going to the hospital.
A total of four people were detained from the stolen car. Mesa police have not released their identities. Motorists on Country Club Drive may experience delays Wednesday afternoon due to the investigation.
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More than two decades after getting a demolition notice from the city of Baltimore, Sonia Eaddy has won the fight to save her home in Poppleton.
“I just want to cry right now,” Eaddy told a crowd of about 50 people. “It’s been a long time coming.”
The announcement came after months of vague pledges from city officials to find a solution that would uphold Baltimore’s deal with the New York developer La Cité and also address the concerns of the Poppleton community. Discussion online and in-person among community members, activists, La Cité and city officials had been tense and adversarial, but Monday’s mood was celebratory.
Scott thanked the Poppleton community members for their patience as the city negotiated with La Cité.
“As we become more intentional about reinvestment in communities like this one, we don’t want that reinvestment to harm our legacy residents, residents who have stayed in these communities, believed in our city and borne the burden of decades of disinvestment,” Scott told the crowd. “Redevelopment has to be a win-win for everyone.”
As Scott announced that Eaddy’s property would be removed from the planned development, the crowd cheered and applauded, and a big smile broke across Eaddy’s face.
When Eaddy spoke, she thanked the mayor, city officials, media and community organizers like Nicole King. But Eaddy said she had special thanks for the public, saying her house would not have been spared without the substantial outcry from other residents.
Eaddy even hugged Dan Bythewood, the president of La Cité, whose firm had long planned to raze her home.
“After a hearing that we had down at City Hall, we met out in the lobby and I told Dan [Bythewood] we can do this together,” Eaddy recalled. “We work better together. And I thank you for this decision. And I look forward to working with you as you move forward with your development.”
For his part, Bythewood said he was excited to “move forward in a direction that is a win for everybody.”
The home of Sonia and Curtis Eaddy dates back to at least 1900, if not the 1870s, and stands near a row of colorful alley homes on Sarah Ann Street. Alley homes are a distinct style of small rowhouses that are becoming increasingly rare in Baltimore.
As part of Monday’s announcement, Scott said the development firm Black Women Build is going to renovate those alley homes.
Poppleton, a predominantly Black neighborhood just west of Martin Luther King Boulevard, has long suffered from blight, and city leaders began working on a redevelopment plan more than two decades ago.
Eaddy received notice in 2000 that her three-story rowhouse at the intersection of North Carrollton Avenue and Sarah Ann Street was slated for demolition. She has fought her displacement ever since. Eaddy was collecting signatures for a “Save the Block” petition in 2005 after La Cité won a bid from the city to develop the project.
At that time, Eaddy’s home was one of more than 500 properties to be razed for the Center\West development, more than half of which already were city-owned or in the process of being acquired. About 114 properties were occupied, 34 of them by owners. As the redevelopment project kept getting delayed, the Eaddys became one of the few homeowners to stay and fight removal.
La Cité recently finished the first phase of its Center\West development, a mixed-use project with 262 rental units in five- and six-story buildings.
Bythewood said Monday that the next phase will be a residential building for seniors at 231 N. Schroeder St. — and it won’t displace the Eaddys.
The Center\West project is a private development, but it had to work with the city to acquire and demolish properties. The project also has benefited from tax increment financing, which diverts increased property taxes from city coffers to instead pay down the debt on some infrastructure improvements. In 2017, the city issued $12 million of such tax increment financing bonds to support the project.
Activists had drawn parallels between the Center\West development and the Franklin-Mulberry Expressway, which runs along the north side of Poppleton.
The expressway, known as “The Highway to Nowhere,” is a 1.39-mile stretch of road that was originally intended as an extension of Interstate 70 to downtown Baltimore. The project was halted in the 1970s but not before destroying Black neighborhoods and displacing hundreds of families.
Eaddy framed her victory Monday as much more than a decades-long struggle over a single house, but as a sign to other Baltimore neighborhoods that they can control their own destiny if they’re willing to organize and fight.
“This is what it’s going to take for all of Baltimore City,” Eaddy said. To “the residents who are invested in these neighborhoods, who have suffered and lived through all of the disinvestment, this victory is for us — all of us.”
— Baltimore Sun | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/woman-wins-decades-long-fight-to-save-her-home-in-baltimore/2022/07/20/79d41e8a-07d1-11ed-911b-f04803b1891b_story.html | 2022-07-20T22:02:39 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/woman-wins-decades-long-fight-to-save-her-home-in-baltimore/2022/07/20/79d41e8a-07d1-11ed-911b-f04803b1891b_story.html |
BOISE — The Idaho Lottery had its biggest sales year ever in fiscal year 2022, the year directly after the Legislature initially voted to jettison its most popular game, Powerball, then later relented.
The lottery reported more than $376.3 million in sales, topping the $300 million mark for the second time ever. As a result, it also turned over a record dividend to the state this week — $73 million to benefit Idaho public schools and state buildings.
“This is all made possible with funds from the Idaho Lottery, not state or local taxes,” said Lottery Director Jeff Anderson.
Powerball alone generated $30.2 million in sales in the past year; since Idaho joined the multi-state game in 1992, it’s pulled in roughly $921 million in total sales in Idaho. Of this year’s $73 million dividend, roughly 20% was from Powerball alone.
But in 2021, Idaho lawmakers on the House State Affairs Committee balked at legislation to authorize Idaho to continue to participate in Powerball, because the multi-state game was planning to expand to additional countries, including Australia and England. Led by Rep. Heather Scott, R-Blanchard, lawmakers expressed fears that Idaho could indirectly be supporting policies they disliked, like gun control in Australia.
The committee killed the legislation, which at the time appeared to doom Powerball in Idaho as of August 2021. However, the negotiations between the multi-state game and the other nations bogged down, giving Idaho another year’s reprieve. The Lottery went back to the Legislature this year with a narrower bill, authorizing expansion only to the United Kingdom and Australia, and requiring “affirmative action by the Legislature” before any other expansion elsewhere.
This time, the bill cleared the same House committee, and, after much debate, passed the full House and Senate. During the House debate, representatives railed against the evils of gambling, condemned the governments of Australia, Britain and Canada, quoted George Washington and more. But the bill passed, 41-25.
“I don’t like the fact we’re going into communist countries,” Scott declared, prompting laughter in the House. Rep. Sally Toone, R-Gooding, noted that Canada and Australia “are parliamentary systems of government.”
Since Idaho voters first authorized the state lottery through a constitutional amendment in 1988, it’s generated more than $1.1 billion in dividends. Three-quarters of the money is split 50-50 between K-12 public schools and the state’s Permanent Building Fund, which pays for maintenance and construction on state buildings. Each received $27.4 million this year. The other quarter of the dividend, $18.3 million this year, goes to the Bond Levy Equalization Fund, to help poor school districts cover school construction bond payments. That split was added in 2008.
Idaho schools use their lottery dividend money each year for one-time costs, like new roofs and HVAC systems. This year’s dividend presentation took place at White Pine Elementary School in Boise, where the lottery dividend paid for new flooring and fresh paint throughout the school.
“It’s based on enrollment,” said state Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra. “That’s how my department will send that check, that momentous check, out to our schools. ... Every school throughout the state has been touched.”
Powerball is one of three multi-state games Idaho offers through its state lottery; the others are Mega Millions and Lucky for Life, in which winners win $365,000 a year for life.
Idaho was one of the first states to join Powerball in the early 1990s; it has since grown to include 45 states, two U.S. territories and Washington, D.C., along with several Canadian provinces.
Powerball tickets cost $3; the current jackpot, as of Wednesday afternoon, was $101 million, with a drawing set for Wednesday night. Idaho’s biggest Powerball winner to date was Brad Duke of Star, who won $220 million in 2005.
“Powerball is the No. 1 single selling game we have,” said lottery spokesman David Workman. “It’s also the single top revenue producer.”
Workman said Powerball is “definitely, without a question” the Idaho Lottery’s most popular game.
The previous record dividend turned over to the state by the Idaho Lottery was $72.5 million last year; before that, the record was $60 million in 2019. The first year the lottery paid a dividend to the state, in 1990, it was $17.2 million.
Despite some small ups and downs from year to year, Idaho Lottery total sales have grown significantly over time. The first year of the lottery, 1990, saw $66 million in total sales. In 2000, it was $86.5 million; in 2020, $277.6 million. Since its inception the lottery has had total sales of more than $5 billion.
Among those testifying in favor of this year’s bill to keep Powerball going in Idaho were education advocates and representatives of Idaho retail stores, who said the big lottery jackpots draw customers into their stores, where they also purchase fuel and other items.
Rep. Jason Monks, R-Meridian, the sponsor of this year’s Powerball bill, told the House committee, “This is a voluntary tax. People choose to pay it, or they do not choose to pay it.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/idaho-lottery-reports-biggest-sales-year-ever/article_0ec88b49-79e7-5bd1-b7b3-91b958fdef16.html | 2022-07-20T22:04:16 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/idaho-lottery-reports-biggest-sales-year-ever/article_0ec88b49-79e7-5bd1-b7b3-91b958fdef16.html |
Originally published July 19 on KTVB.COM.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho — People living at the Valley House Homeless Shelter mistakenly attended a meet-and-greet last Thursday with former Idaho GOP Chairman Tom Luna.
Luna called it "Pizza and Patriots" where he intended to meet with GOP delegates and potentially earn their vote ahead of his bid at re-election, according to event organizer Tyler Hurst.
A person, who has been identified, reportedly passed out fake flyers at the shelter inviting guests to "Pizza for the Hungry," where they could meet with Luna to "benefit the needy." People from the shelter were used as a pawn in a political prank, according to Valley House Executive Director John Spiers.
"I hate the fact we got thrust into this, because we had nothing to do with this. But here we are," Spiers said. "We are going to continue caring for people at Valley House and caring for the people in the Magic Valley and as much as possible, avoid this type of political garbage that is happening."
A family from the shelter arrived at the event 15 minutes before it started, according to Hurst. It left him confused at first until the family showed Hurst the flyer they had received.
Hurst, and the Luna campaign, welcomed the family into the event and offered them pizza.
"I'm convinced most people would have done the same," Hurst said. "They were dressed up. They were so cute. This little family comes in, and they thought this was a really special event to meet the GOP chairman on the flyer. They thought this was a really great opportunity for them."
Representative Dorothy Moon defeated Luna for the GOP chairmanship. While she was Luna's opponent in the election, Moon had nothing to do with the prank, according to Hurst.
Moon denounced the prank during her nomination speech this past weekend.
"We are so divided as a party where people we will go so far as to use humans at their lowest as political pawns to make a joke or political point. That's horrible," Hurst said.
Spiers gave the person 24 hours to apologize to his staff and guests. The 24-hour window expired and no apologies were issued; Spiers confirmed Wednesday that Dave Reilly was the person who passed out the fake flyers.
Reilly is a Republican from northern Idaho who ran for governor and received 22 votes as a write-in in the Democratic primary. On his Twitter profile, Reilly describes himself as an "award-winning radio host, independent journalist, Christian Nationalist and F List E-Celeb." His profile also includes hashtags for "America First" and "Bitcoin."
On Wednesday, Reilly posted several messages on Twitter about the controversy, including this: "As someone who spent several months homeless in my early 20s, I'm no stranger to the hardships of life below the poverty line in America."
Reilly also accused media and "RINO (Republican In Name Only) political operatives" of using the Valley House as a pawn.
"From what I understand after talking to the person, they wanted to make the Luna campaign aware of people in need, because they didn't believe people in need were being seen," Spiers said.
Spiers doesn't believe this excuse, and neither does Hurst.
"Tom was homeless as a child. Tom understands the needs of the homeless population," Hurst said. "If they wanted to do that, why didn't they run a resolution - or rule - or platform at the convention they were at? That sounds like a political answer trying to scapegoat what they actually did."
More from KTVB.com | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/twin-falls-homeless-shelter-demands-apology-after-political-prank/article_c100281b-0e91-5af1-895b-e621f750811a.html | 2022-07-20T22:04:22 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/twin-falls-homeless-shelter-demands-apology-after-political-prank/article_c100281b-0e91-5af1-895b-e621f750811a.html |
BOISE, Idaho — The West Ada School District has approved a pay and compensation increase for staff.
Earlier this summer, a committee met to review compensation for district employees, with the goal of increasing pay for all West Ada employees to at least $15 an hour. The newly approved changes include a base pay rate of $15 per hour for all current, full-time classified employees.
"Our classified staff continue to show their dedication to our students each and every day," West Ada Superintendent Derek Bub said. "I am happy to announce we have made another significant investment in classified employees, including pay increases to ensure classified staff are paid $15 an hour."
The changes will take effect for the 2022-23 school year. Current West Ada employees eligible for moving up the salary schedule will also receive increases from 7% to 20% for the next year.
"We know that compensation is not the only way to value our employees, but we feel compelled to do everything we can to show our appreciation for their hard work," Bub said.
Additionally, West Ada has made changes to the dependent costs for its district medical insurance plan and will now offer extra coverage savings for employees and their families.
"For an employee with a spouse on the district health insurance plan, the savings will be $366.27 per month, and for an employee with a spouse and child, the savings will be $436.14 per month," according to a press release from West Ada. "For a family of four or more, the savings will be $513 per month."
The changes are scheduled to take effect in the first paycheck for the 2022-23 school year and will continue through November 2022. In December, the district will renew its policy for the next calendar year and set the new medical insurance rates.
West Ada said its goal is to continue to improve employees' benefits while offering even lower rates. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/west-ada-school-district-approves-pay-increase-for-staff/article_4eae8633-29ff-5084-bea3-d0dc45359260.html | 2022-07-20T22:04:29 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/west-ada-school-district-approves-pay-increase-for-staff/article_4eae8633-29ff-5084-bea3-d0dc45359260.html |
Calling all foodies to Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Night Market is back at Industry City this month.
This month’s event is on July 25 from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
It’s free to attend, but you should probably RSVP to save your spot. Each ticket will count for one entry for their merch/food giveaway.
Guests can enjoy the food and tasty treats, as well as arts and culture crafts from more than 40 local vendors.
Brooklyn Night Market occurs on the last Monday of each month and will run until September.
It takes place at Industry City compound in Sunset Park on 36th St, between 2nd and 3rd Avenue.
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What to Know
- A 34-year-old man is facing a litany of charges after being accused of defrauding at least 7,500 elderly victims out of a total of $10,000,000 in a tech support scheme, federal prosecutors in New York announced Wednesday.
- Vinoth Ponmara, a citizen of India, is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced.
- The charges stem from Ponmara's alleged participation in a years-long scheme that exploited elderly victims by remotely accessing their computers and convincing victims to pay for computer support services they did not need -- and which were never provided, prosecutors said.
A 34-year-old man is facing a litany of charges after being accused of defrauding at least 7,500 elderly victims out of a total of $10,000,000 in a tech support scheme, federal prosecutors in New York announced Wednesday.
Vinoth Ponmara, a citizen of India, is charged with one count of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced.
The charges stem from Ponmara's alleged participation in a years-long scheme that exploited elderly victims by remotely accessing their computers and convincing victims to pay for computer support services they did not need -- and which were never provided, prosecutors said.
Ponmaran was arrested on Friday in Blaine, Washington. Attorney information was not immediately known.
According to federal prosecutors citing the indictment, from about March 2015 to December 2018 was a member of a criminal technical support fraud ring in the United States and India that specifically targeted the elderly across the U.S. and Canada, including New York.
The ring allegedly sought to trick victims into believing that their computers were infected with malware to deceive them into paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for fake repair services.
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According to federal prosecutors citing the indictment, the ring worked by causing a pop-up window -- which included without authorization the corporate logo on a legitimate tech company -- to appear on their targets' computers which claimed falsely that a virus had infected the device and that they should call a particular phone number for technical support.
At times, the pop-up window threatened victims that, if they restarted or shut down their computer, it could “cause serious damage to the system,” including “complete data loss,” prosecutors said. However, no virus had infected their computers.
According to prosecutors, while the purported “virus” was a hoax, the pop-up window did cause various victims’ computers to completely “freeze,” thereby preventing the victims from accessing the data and files in their computer—which caused some victims to call the phone number listed on the pop-up window.
Additionally the ring also targeted various victims more than once, even after they had made payments to purportedly “fix” their tech problems.
Ponmaran, according to federal prosecutors, was an India-based leader of the ring who managed a call center in that country that was used to provide the purported tech repairs in the scheme. Additionally, prosecutors allege that Ponmaran recruited co-conspirators in the U.S. to register fake corporate entities and open bank accounts used to receive the payments from victims and also directed co-conspirators to wire fraud these payments received to accounts in India.
The co-defendants, Romana Leyva and Ariful Haque, were both sentenced earlier this year following guilty pleas. Leyva was sentenced to 100 months in prison and three years of supervised release, and she was ordered to pay $4,679,586.93 and restitution of $2,707,882.91. Meanwhile, Haque was sentenced to one year and one day in prison and three years of supervised release, and he was ordered to pay forfeiture of $38,886.32 and restitution of $470,672.16.
“As alleged, the defendant was a leader of a sophisticated fraud scheme that preyed on victims, including the elderly," Williams said in a statement. "This conspiracy allegedly caused pop-up windows to appear on victims’ computers—pop-up windows which claimed, falsely, that a virus had infected the victim’s computer. Through this and other misrepresentations, this fraud scheme deceived thousands of victims, including some of society’s most vulnerable members, into paying a total of more than $10 million.” | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-arrested-for-10m-tech-support-scheme-that-targeted-7500-elderly-people-feds/3783129/ | 2022-07-20T22:05:09 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-arrested-for-10m-tech-support-scheme-that-targeted-7500-elderly-people-feds/3783129/ |
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Rev. T. Anthony Spearman, a civil rights advocate and former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP who also served as president of the N.C. Council of Churches, has been found dead, his attorney said Wednesday.
“In the mold of Dr. King, he truly was a drum major for justice,” Cummings said. “He saw the good in everybody in every situation, even those of his detractors, even those who would criticize him. He always found a way to see the best in them.”
Spearman’s family issued a statement calling him “a man of strong conviction who loved his family with every ounce of his being.” A family member didn’t respond on Wednesday to a request for additional comment.
Bishop William J. Barber, who preceded Spearman as the North Carolina NAACP president and who is now president of the national, not-for-profit organization Repairers of the Breach, said in a statement, “I have lost a true brother in the struggle.”
“We have lost a scholar, a preacher, a voting rights defender, an advocate for prison reform and for the wrongfully accused and a stalwart soldier in the cause of love and justice for all humankind,” Barber said. “This great man’s efforts and commitment should be cherished.”
As reported by The Urban News, Spearman filed a 28-page lawsuit in June against national NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson and chairman Leon W. Russell. The lawsuit also named state NAACP President Deborah Dicks Maxwell, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Chapter President Corrine Mack, and four other officers, according to the story.
Spearman’s lawsuit accused the officials of defamation and a civil conspiracy to have him removed as the state NAACP president. Spearman alleged in the lawsuit that his support of a woman who said she was sexually harassed by a member of the state conference led to the effort to have him ousted and made him a target for retribution.
The Rev. Curtis Gatewood, who was accused of the sexual harassment, said on his Facebook page that while he and Spearman disagreed on issues involving the state NAACP, “I loved the brother.”
“I wanted the news of his demise to be untrue,” Gatewood wrote. “I forgave him.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lawyer-former-president-of-north-carolina-naacp-found-dead/2022/07/20/3d64e5c2-0873-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html | 2022-07-20T22:07:14 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lawyer-former-president-of-north-carolina-naacp-found-dead/2022/07/20/3d64e5c2-0873-11ed-80b6-43f2bfcc6662_story.html |
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A nurse who previously worked at a Florida hospital has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for stealing fentanyl and replacing the powerful pain medication with saline.
Monique Elizabeth Carter, 36, of Middleburg, was sentenced Tuesday in Jacksonville federal court, according to court records. She pleaded guilty in April to tampering with a consumer product.
According to the plea agreement, Carter was working in the neural intensive care unit of Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville last September when a hospital pharmacist examining the ICU wing’s inventory of fentanyl found a syringe missing a tamper-proof cap but with some form of foreign adhesive remaining at the tip. A second fentanyl syringe had a cap that appeared to have been glued back onto the syringe, it said.
Authorities said a pharmacist supervisor reviewing hospital records found a pattern of Carter checking out doses of fentanyl for patients but then canceling the transactions and checking syringes back into the hospital’s inventory. Records showed that Carter did so 24 times over the preceding month.
When confronted with the findings, Carter eventually admitted that she had been stealing fentanyl for personal use for several months, officials said. Carter denied injecting herself with the drug while on duty. Law enforcement officers reported finding needles, saline syringes and adhesive in her bag.
As a registered nurse, Carter knew that her actions likely resulted in critically ill patients receiving diluted fentanyl that was not safe and effective, prosecutors said. Having been deprived of sterile, medically necessary medication, such patients were exposed to possible infection and endured unnecessary pain and suffering, officials said. They said the failure to anesthetize or control pain in intensive care unit patients can also increase the risk of illness or death from respiratory, cardiovascular and musculoskeletal complications. | https://www.cbs42.com/local/nurse-gets-year-in-prison-for-replacing-fentanyl-with-saline/ | 2022-07-20T22:07:40 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/nurse-gets-year-in-prison-for-replacing-fentanyl-with-saline/ |
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Ring doorbell video shows UPS driver collapsing in scorching Arizona heat
An Arizona homeowner released a home security video of a UPS driver collapsing in front of his door in scorching heat the state has been experiencing for more than a month.
The homeowner, Brian Enriquez of Scottsdale, captured the incident on video via his Ring doorbell on Thursday – when the high reached 110 degrees.
In the video, the driver slowly walks to the front door then bends down to put down a package. At that point, the driver falls over and lands in a sitting position, where he sits for a short period before laying down on the porch.
He then gets up, rings the doorbell and staggers away.
Enriquez told NBC affiliate KPNX he was at work when the doorbell rang and did not see the video until the driver had left his home.
“I was concerned for the fact that he was coming, stumbling to the door,” Enriquez told the outlet. “Had I gotten to my phone sooner, I could have talked to him through my Ring, but he had already left the property at that point.”
He said called police and alerted UPS to report what happened.
In a statement released to USA TODAY on Wednesday morning UPS reported their employee is fine.
Staying cool:Phoenix official says we need more cooling centers as heat worsens
“We appreciate the concern for our employee," the statement reads. "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 contacted his manager, 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 said it trains its employees to stay hydrated, eat well and get proper sleep before work – especially when working in hotter temperatures.
"We have morning meetings with drivers all year round, reminding them of forecast temperatures and encouraging them to be aware of their own health conditions. In the summer, in addition to providing water and ice for employees, we provide regular heat illness and injury prevention training to all operations managers and drivers.”
Excessive heat warnings in US
This week, forecasters put nearly 100 million Americans under excessive heat warnings or advisories.
The National Weather Service is reporting "dangerous heat" will impact a large swath of the country this week, including states ranging from Texas and Louisiana to Kansas and Missouri.
A number of states were also placed under a heat advisory with most areas forecast to reach at least the high 90s and other areas, including Phantom Ranch, on track to reach 114 degrees this week.
Amarillo, Texas, is similarly expected to reach a high of 113 degrees and Shreveport, Louisiana, could hit 108 degrees.
Natalie Neysa Alund covers trending news for USA TODAY. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on Twitter @nataliealund. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-weather/2022/07/20/ring-doorbell-video-ups-driver-collapsing-scottsdale/10108813002/ | 2022-07-20T22:12:29 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-weather/2022/07/20/ring-doorbell-video-ups-driver-collapsing-scottsdale/10108813002/ |
Phoenix police arrest man suspected of killing his uncle over a couch disagreement
Phoenix police on Sunday arrested 22-year-old Dajoun Miller, who is suspected of killing his uncle over a couch disagreement at a home near Eighth Street and Baseline Road.
According to court documents, Phoenix police received a phone call from inside the home. The caller told the 911 operator that Miller shot someone in the house and they worried he would shoot someone else.
Officers found Miller outside the house with his hands raised, the court documents state. When approached, he told officers "he shot someone" and that he had disassembled the weapon when asked by police about its location, court documents state.
Miller's uncle, Denzell Williams, was found inside the home lying on the couch with multiple gunshot wounds to his face and body, according to court documents. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Court documents state that police found 13 bullet casings on the ground and around Williams' body, while the disassembled gun was found around the house and the yard.
Family members told police that Miller had been living with his mother for the past few months and was upset that Williams had moved in.
Witnesses told police that Miller sent a text to his mother on Sunday telling her that he wanted to sleep on the couch and was planning to fight his uncle for the spot, according to court documents. Witnesses also told police they heard Miller and Williams arguing before they heard gunshots.
According to court documents, Miller's mother told police she suspected that her son had undiagnosed mental health issues and a history of hallucinations.
Miller told officers three different versions of the events when he was being interviewed, court documents state. In a final version, he told police that Williams had threatened to kill his family, and Miller shot him to prevent that, court documents state. Family members told police that Williams was no threat to the family and was not known to have a gun, court documents state.
Miller was booked into a Maricopa County jail and faces one count of first-degree murder. His bail was set at $1 million and his first hearing is set for July 27.
Reach breaking news reporter Jodicee Arianna at Jodicee.Harris@gannett.com.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — At least seven people are injured after a plane with dozens of passengers was forced to make an emergency landing in Birmingham Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service, the plane was headed for Nashville when it experienced severe turbulence and was diverted to Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport.
Federal Aviation Administration records show the American Airlines flight departed Tampa on time and made the emergency landing in Birmingham at approximately 3:18 p.m., having flown for an hour and 42 minutes.
There were reportedly 56 passengers on the plane, 10 of whom were medically evaluated. Six passengers and two flight attendants were transported to local hospitals with minor injuries. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-birmingham/ | 2022-07-20T22:12:40 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-birmingham/ |
LANSFORD, Pa. — What looks like a murky pond from Skycam 16 is actually the Lansford community pool. It's sat vacant for over seven years, but work has finally started to repair and restore it for the community to use.
"Seven years of fundraising, seven years of chicken dinners, soup sales, festivals, we sold t-shirts, we've done pretty much all that we can do," Gwyneth Collevechio, Friends of the Lansford Pool, said.
The pool has been closed since the end of the summer of 2015 after maintenance crews realized a leak in the pool.
Collevechio is the treasurer for Friends of the Lansford Pool who has been working to reopen it.
She said through fundraisers, donations, and state grants, the borough had the money to start repair work. But they ran into some problems.
"Pandemic problems and the supply chain problems, same thing with the piping, we had to wait for that. We thought we're going to start this in May and the piping didn't come in. So they're going to cap off with the leak, put new piping around the pool, and then we also have to get new skimmer pots," Collevechio said.
The Lansford Pool has been closed for a long time. People said they're thrilled that work is finally being done.
"There's not really much to do around here and it's hot. To have to travel to Lehighton and all that, you know, it's not easy especially when you know you only have one car and whatever, but now we can just walk right to it so we're excited," Chelsie Bowen, of Lansford, said.
"My wife grew up here and she would go walk down from Summit Hill to the pool and stuff. Hopefully, the kids appreciate what these people have done for them," John Shemansik, of Summit Hill, said.
If the project sticks to schedule, the borough hopes to open the pool in summer 2023.
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MILLVILLE, Pa. — Camp Victory is a busy place from April through November, as it hosts more than two dozen camps for children of all abilities.
This week it's Camp JRA for kids with juvenile arthritis and other rheumatic conditions like lupus.
"You get to spend time with people just like you, and you don't have to worry about not being able to do anything because we all have some of the same limitations," Benjamen Coken said.
This has been one of the hottest days of the year, and counselors know how important it is to keep campers safe in this heat.
Camp Director Caitie Dailey says children with lupus have an especially high sensitivity to the sun.
"They need a lot of sun protection, whether that's SPF and a hat or shade. So this heat is definitely making us a little more cautious with our kiddos and our adults here who have lupus," Dailey said.
Dailey said campers are taking water breaks every 15 minutes. If the activities are in the sun, campers are moved into the shade every so often.
"We have an incredible medical team here that has all the supplies for sunscreen and extra hats just in case," Dailey said.
One of the ways the campers keep cool is by spending the day at the swimming pool.
Swimming is one of the popular activities at Camp JRA. And on a day like this, the arts and crafts building was another good spot to hang out.
But campers said one of the most important things to remember is to stay hydrated.
"We always have big jugs of water out to fill our water bottles back up and keep hydrated," Coken said.
"Constant hydration, we get reminders, and water bottles are always full. So it's a good thing," camper Nadia Holmes said.
Another good thing? Their cabins are air-conditioned, so the campers can stay cool while they sleep.
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SCRANTON, Pa. — It's a taste of college life for a group of 20 soon-to-be high school freshmen.
A program hosted by the University of Scranton helps prospective college students prepare for higher education.
"So trying to navigate what you need to do to get to college becomes very difficult for them, so we guide them through that whole process," Margaret Loughney, director of the University of Success program, said.
The program is specifically for students who would be the first in their families to go to college.
Over the next four years, students enrolled in the University of Success will come to campus one Saturday a month. During the summer, they have a two-week campus stay.
"A sense of curiosity at this age is important especially [as] they go into high school if we can instill that, help instill that, that's all the better," Michael Fennie, associate professor of chemistry, said.
The program allows students to explore all sorts of career paths to see what sparks their interest. The lesson of the day was science.
"When they get to college and have an idea of the possibilities that are out there, they can make better use of their time," Fennie said.
Participating students said they're keeping an open mind while also setting realistic goals.
"I'm exploring a lot of my options but I've taken to accounting because I like math and numbers," student Lucianna Gonzalez, of Clarks Summit, said.
"I'm exploring but I'd say engineering. I'm really into engineering, physics, that kind of stuff," Engel Ovalles, of Scranton, said.
At the end of the program, students can decide to go to any university of their choosing.
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — The White House has released new details about President Biden's trip to Wilkes-Barre on Thursday.
Air Force One is expected to land at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport around 1:30 p.m.
From there, the president will head to Wilkes University to speak about gun violence.
Newswatch 16 spoke with people all over the city about the president's visit, and we found excitement and some indifference.
"I hope I see him," said Jennifer O'Connor, a student at King's College."Not many people can say they've seen the president. I've never seen a president live and in the flesh."
"He's not going to go in a Republican area and talk about gun violence. I mean, they're mostly strong NRA," said Wilkes-Barre resident Richard Whitmoyer.
Folks in Wilkes-Barre tell Newswatch 16 that no matter where you sit on the political spectrum, it is exciting to have the president choose your city for a visit,
Some businesses based on appointments tell us that it's a little frustrating figuring out the logistics of it all. At Loyalty Barbershop on South Main Street, they worry about keeping scheduled appointments with the city potentially shutting down several streets while the president is here.
"It's not a bad thing that he's coming here, but it would be nice to know that we can set up our schedules so that we can get to work on time, the people that are coming to see us can get here, and it can all work out," said Matt Malkemes at Loyalty Barbershop.
The president is coming to the Marts Center at Wilkes University to speak about how he wants to build on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to combat gun crime.
"People that are going to commit crimes are going to get guns, whether you ban guns or not. It's a matter of when you catch somebody that's done gun violence, you put them away, you don't let them get back out because they're ones that know how to get over them," Whitmoyer said.
While some didn't share their views with Newswatch 16, they're interested in learning more about what the president has to say.
"He's from this area, so he should probably make it a point of coming home and trying to fix anything he can," Malkemes said.
"I feel honored," O'Connor added. "I feel like I have to be like my best dress tomorrow in case I run into him."
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LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — All over our area, temperatures are soaring as much of the U.S. sees above-average heat.
In Dunmore, the splash pad at Sherwood Park is being put to good use by summer campers.
"It's very beneficial because all these kids are just hot," said camp counselor Michael Bonavoglia. "We only get so much time out here while it's 95 out, so to get them out on the splash pad, it's good for them so they can get some of their energy out."
But too much time spent in the sun can cause problems. We talked to pediatric nurse practitioner Laurie Valunas from the University of Scranton.
"When the weather outside causes the air temperature to be hotter than your body or just as hot as your body, there's no place to displace your body temperature; the air can't absorb it. So we see a lot of heat-related illnesses when both the heat index is high and the humidity is high," Valunas said.
One of the main heat-related illnesses is heat exhaustion. Symptoms include nausea, dizziness, and dehydration.
Even more serious is heat stroke. In such a case, a person stops sweating, seems confused, and may be at risk of a seizure or stroke.
"That is a true medical emergency, and those people should be immediately cooled off, take unnecessary clothing off. They should have cool compresses or water poured on them, and 911 should be called immediately if you believe someone is suffering from true heat stroke," Valunas advised.
As this high heat continues over the next few days, stay hydrated, wear comfortable, loose-fitting clothing, and sit back, relax, and enjoy some air conditioning if it calls for it.
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WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — Under a neon cross, Scott Wills leads a group in prayer, blessing Keystone Mission's new transformation center on Parkview Circle in Wilkes-Barre.
The center includes a commercial kitchen, common spaces, and bedrooms.
"Everybody has a caddy with all their toiletries in it that they can walk right into the shower room with," employee Marybeth Romero said.
There's enough space for 10-15 men to come and get back on their feet.
"One of the challenges of working with the homeless is you want to provide needs to them, basic needs. But there's also the fine line of enabling them to maintain the lifestyle they're stuck in," Scott Wills, program manager, said.
"So what we want to do again is find people who are ready to really make life change, and we're going to try to put them through this intensive program to teach them how to live independently again, so that's kind of what we're trying to accomplish here," Wills said.
Folks who will start that journey said this transformation center is a godsend.
"Just being able to have the opportunity to come here and to focus on you know, getting myself right, you know, and becoming a productive citizen and, you know, focusing on God and what's important. It's an amazing opportunity and it means a lot to me," John Thibodeau, a client at Keystone Mission, said.
"Each resident will have kind of an individual path in the program. So there's no set definite end date. It's going to depend on each person. And once one graduates, we'll have another come in and those graduates we're hoping will come back and help us continue on in the process," Wills said.
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LEWISBURG, Pa. — Faith Lutheran Church near Lewisburg was busy on Wednesday as dozens of people looked for books. This is the Public Library for Union County's book sale.
All the tables are filled with books on anything you can think of. You can fill a bag for $20, and all proceeds benefit the Public Library for Union County.
"You can get affordable reading for a good price," said Wanda Zellers. "That's what I like; you get such a variety."
"There are zillions of choices to pick from," said Marilyn from Lewisburg. "Other years, it's good, but it's really good this year."
There are around 20,000 books at this year's sale. In years past, there have been double that amount. But even so, people say there is still a good selection."
The library has not held the sale since 2019 because of the pandemic.
"Because we couldn't accept donations and because of our recent renovation, our basement was very full, so we couldn't accept anything else. We are a little bit limited this year, but there are still a lot of great items for everybody," said Jackie Dziadosz, Union County Library System.
While many people came from right here in Union County, Kara Kavka drove from Tunkhannock in Wyoming County.
"We started a hybrid school recently, so we have a very expansive library there, so we just travel to add books to that."
Some bookstore owners also stopped by the sale, saying it's a great way to restock their stores.
"We bought 24 bags of books today — popular novels, interesting art books, and all sorts of great stuff that will go straight back to Harrisburg and into our store," said Eric Papenfuse of Midtown Scholar Bookstore.
The sale runs through Saturday at Faith Lutheran Church near Lewisburg.
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ATLANTIC CITY — The NAACP wrapped its national convention Wednesday, and a piece of the resort's history was at the forefront of one of the final events.
NAACP members and activists gathered for the Chicken Bone Beach Experience and were treated to an afternoon of fun and jazz at Brighton Park and the Missouri Avenue beach, which before passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the only beach that Black people were permitted to use in the city.
The nickname "Chicken Bone Beach" stemmed from the thousands who visited the beach and not only brought their beach gear but picnic baskets of fried chicken to eat for lunch. After they were done, the chicken bones would be buried in the sand.
As the event got underway Wednesday afternoon, NAACP delegates sat out on that exact stretch of beach and enjoyed the sand and water all while pondering the historical significance behind it.
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"This is such a beautiful day to be out here, it's a perfect way to wrap up the convention because everybody has been working hard with all of the events," said Louise Gorham-Neblett, an adjunct professor at Stockton University.
The section of beach was cordoned off by security and reserved for NAACP convention attendees.
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Olivia C. Caldwell, president of the NAACP's Mainland-Pleasantville Branch, which covers all of Atlantic County aside from Atlantic City, has frequented this stretch of beach her entire life and was glad the NAACP incorporated it into the convention.
"I grew up in the area and have known about the historical significance behind Chicken Bone Beach my entire life," Caldwell said. "That's probably why the NAACP chose to have this experience be a part of their convention."
Prior to 1900, Blacks and whites lived in Atlantic City together with no issues. But shortly after the start of the new century, Blacks were eventually pushed east toward Missouri Avenue and the end of the city.
In 1997, more than three decades after the passing of the Civil Rights Act, Atlantic City declared the Missouri Avenue beach a historic landmark.
Michael Robinson, of Los Angeles, was unaware of Chicken Bone Beach prior to coming to the convention. But after hearing the history behind it, he was excited to see it.
"I saw the schedule of events for the convention and saw that the Chicken Bone Beach Experience was on it, so I looked up what it was and after reading the history behind it, I couldn't wait to step out on it," Robinson said.
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During the years it was segregated, the area was one of the only entertainment spots in the country that Black people had to themselves. Notable figures made appearances on the beach over the years, including civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
The entertainment got underway about 2 p.m. Wednesday at Brighton Park, and the first performers paid tribute to a club in the city that had been a premier spot for Black jazz performers.
Club Harlem, which was located on Kentucky Avenue, opened in 1935 and closed in 1986 and in between hosted notable musicians and performers such as Larry Steele, Sammy Davis Jr., Lola Falana and Nina Simone.
Arthur Taylor and Friends paid homage to the club by portraying Steele, Davis, Falana and Simone during their hourlong performance.
The Nat Adderley Jr. Quartet concluded the event.
With the convention drawing to a close, Caldwell declared it a success.
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"I thought the convention was very engaging," she said. "You have a lot of people that are passionate about certain issues and weren't afraid to come and speak out about them. It was a great time, and I feel like things were accomplished."
Aside from enjoying the convention, Raymond Wilson, of Richmond, Virginia, had a lot of fun seeing what the city was all about.
"The convention was a lot of fun, but on top of that, this city is a lot of fun," Wilson said. "From the beaches to the casinos to the restaurants, there is a lot to keep you entertained, and I enjoyed getting to see what the city has to offer."
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Highlights from the Stockton Summer Youth Rowing Program on Wednesday, July 13, 2022 at Lake Fred on the Stockton University campus in Galloway Township.
ATLANTIC CITY — Stockton University President Harvey Kesselman will retire as the institution’s fifth president at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 2023.
“There are no words to accurately express how I feel about my beloved alma mater," said Kesselman, who announced his decision at a Board of Trustees meeting at the Stockton Atlantic City Campus on Wednesday. "My time and tenure with Stockton have been nothing short of amazing, exceeding all of my expectations as a career and a community.”
Kesselman, 71, fought back tears as Stockton staff members congratulated him after the meeting, which was attended by about 200 people.
"I'm not stopping. I'm going to move forward," he said in an interview after the meeting. "The new president and board will decide how to use me."
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He and wife Lynne are both graduates of Stockton and have put down deep roots.
"I've lived in the same home 30 years," the Mays Landing resident said. "I'm not going anywhere."
Despite his retirement, Kesselman will remain part of the Stockton family as president emeritus and tenured professor after the new president is selected.
Board President Raymond Ciccone said he has formed a committee to begin a nationwide search for a new president, and Kesselman will help in that process.
"He knows the job inside and out," Ciccone said.
During his tenure as president, which began in 2015, Kesselman oversaw the university's return to Atlantic City. In 2018, the school's $220 million Atlantic City Campus opened its doors to students. The project was hailed as a "game changer" for the city and school as the resort tried to diversify its economy.
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On Tuesday, the school held a topping off ceremony for the $69.3 million second phase of its Atlantic City expansion. The second phase, which includes more residential housing, is expected to be ready by fall 2023. The new six-floor, 135,000-square-foot residence hall will feature 416 beds.
Kesselman was appointed president of the university in December 2015. Prior to his appointment, he served as acting president after President Herman J. Saatkamp Jr. went on medical leave and later resigned amid a flawed deal to purchase the Showboat casino and open a campus in Atlantic City. The plan imploded over legal complications restricting the former casino's development.
"Stockton would not be the nationally ranked, thriving institution it is today if not for the dedication and hard work of Harvey Kesselman for nearly five decades,” Ciccone said. “He is an extraordinary, strong leader who not only planted himself where he could grow but did the same for this once small college in the Pines.”
Kesselman was a member of Stockton's first class in 1971, when it opened in the Mayfair Hotel in Atlantic City.
Following his graduation, Kesselman became a faculty member, and has held several mid- and senior-level administrative positions, including provost and executive vice president.
In addition to Stockton's Atlantic City project, Kesselman oversaw the opening of a second Unified Science Center and the John F. Scarpa Health Sciences Center on the Galloway campus, expanding Educational Opportunity Fund seats by 50 to include a program at the Atlantic City campus, increasing state appropriations to the university by 123% to balance inequities in funding and guiding Stockton to earn reaccreditation by the Middle States Commission of Higher Education in 2022.
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“More than 50 years ago, I made a life-changing decision," Kesselman said. "A decision to explore something new and different, something with promise and possibility, something I knew would be challenging but also transformative. It has proven to be one of the best decisions of my life."
Kesselman received his doctorate in higher education administration from Widener University, his master’s degree in student personnel services/counseling from Rowan University, his bachelor’s degree in political science from Stockton and is a tenured professor in Stockton’s School of Education.
“More than seven years ago, I began my presidency with the guiding principle of students first," Kesselman said. "Together, our dedicated faculty, staff and administrators worked tirelessly with me to deliver on the promise of making a Stockton degree more valuable each and every day."
As he prepares to leave the job, Kesselman said the same thing every year touches his heart the most: Commencement.
"To see the faces of graduates and parents," Kesselman said. "That always touches me."
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Stockton University men’s basketball players Kadian Dawkins, Tim Petersen, John Georgiou and Nick Duncsak were named to the 2022 National Association of Basketball Coaches Honors Court, the school announced Tuesday.
The NABC Honors Court recognizes men’s basketball players in all three NCAA Divisions and the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for their academic achievement. Athletes must be a junior or senior with a final cumulative grade point average of 3.20 or higher from the 2021-22 academic year \to qualify.
Dawkins, Georgiou, Duncsak and Petersen are all juniors. Dawkins majors in computer science, Georgiou in business management, Duncsak in education, and Peterson in exercise science. All four were also New Jersey Athletic Association All-Academic honorable mentions.
Dawkins, an NJAC honorable mention for his play, started all 31 games for the Ospreys and averaged a career-high 11.8 points per game. The point guard led the conference in assist/turnover ratio (1.9) and finished fourth in assists (4.4 apg). His 137 assists were the fourth-highest single season total at Stockton.
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Duncsak played in 27 games, shooting 37.8% from beyond the arch and 45.2% from the field. He averaged 3.8 points and 1.7 rebounds per game. Georgiou played in 12 games off the bench. He finished with 10 points, nine rebounds and four assists in 40 minutes. Peterson appeared in seven games off the bench with rebounds a two steals.
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Richmond ranked No. 8 on a national list of cities with the highest increases in rent for a one-bedroom housing unit.
The July report from Rent.com said the average cost in Richmond jumped 35.7% compared with last year. A one-bedroom unit was $1,512, according to the report. Numbers are based on the website’s multifamily rental property inventory.
The highest increase was in Austin, Texas, where the average price grew by 108.2% to $3,257 a month. Also ahead of Richmond are Jersey City, N.J. (up 51.6%); Tempe, Ariz. (up 49.3%); New York City (up 41%); Salt Lake City (up 40.5%); Long Beach, Calif. (up 39.6%); and Fremont, Calif. (up 38.2%).
The U.S. average was $1,701 a month, up 25.3%.
Nationally, rental prices have increased as the housing market surged and made homeownership more expensive. That trend has cooled, with existing home sales falling 5.4% last month from May, according to the National Association of Realtors.
From the archives: 100 photos of Pony Pasture
05-08-1989: Aqua cycling--Mark Oliver (left), 20, and his 16 year-old brother, Justin, drove down to Riverside Drive from the Fan district yesterday to look for "aqua cycling" challenges. Here, they pedal through flood waters in the parking lot of Pony Pasture. Richmond police had closed off sections of about 10 streets yesterday because of flood waters.
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Fishing the James River is a natural pasttime and has been for as long as there have been inhabitants in the area. Here, Dale Huggins tries to lure a fish in on fly rod near the Pony Pasture. July 11, 1998
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Dam between Huguenot Bridge and the Pony Pasture. July 2, 1998
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Courtney Webb, 16, meets 'Bo-Bo' while enjoying a day off from school, Tuesday, May 26, 1998 at the Pony Pasture section of the James River. Courtney and other students flocked to the river to enjoy a 'snow day.' She is a student at Manchester High School.
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Local high school students flocked to the Pony Pasture section of the James River on Tuesday, May 26, to take advantage of a 'snow day.' (Since local schools did not have to use any 'snow days' since snow did not cause any school closings this winter, Tuesday was a day off.
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Sandra Slocum and her son, Brooks, 6, cool off in a puddle of the James River at the Pony Pasture area of James River Park. They and Brooks' brother, Phil, 8, spent part of the afternoon having fun and checking out the low water conditions created by the current drought. It was the boys' first romp in the river.
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Kristi McCullough and her ten-month-old son Andrew took a break from errands to enjoy the warm weather at Pony Pasture Thursday, February 10, 2000. They live in Chesterfield.
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With just a few days left before the summer ends and school begins, Godwin High School senior Ashley Gill and her boyfriend, Stephen Serge, spend a day on the rocks at the Pony Pasture, a popular summer hangout for students. Serge attends a private school in Hampton, Virginia, so the two will see less of each other when school begins.
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Cheryl Richards, 20, right, tries to coax Gracie, her 17-week-old Beagle mix puppy, into the James River at the Pony Pasture Friday, July 20, 2001. Gracie was less than thrilled with the water and later had to be carried back to dry land.
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People enjoying the James River at the Pony Pasture . A report issued by the state Department of Envrionmental Quality says that the Pony Pasture and other parts of the James are too polluted with fecal bacteria to be fit fit for swimming . July 18 , 2002
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A dog plays in the James River at the Pony Pasture . A report issued by the state Department of Envrionmental Quality says that the Pony Pasture and other parts of the James are too polluted with fecal bacteria to be fit fit for swimming . July 18 , 2002
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These swimmers on rocks in the James River at the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA, were ignoring several signs posted in the immediate area warning against swimming, since the river was over five feet over flood stage Monday, July 7, 2003.
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Jos Munos enjoys the dryer weather by skip's rocks at Pony Pasture with his friends Monday, June 9, 2003.
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Elizabeth Esfahani relaxes at pony pasture Wednesday, August 20, 2003.
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The Pony Pasture proved to be just the right spot to cool off for Norma Ryan and a friend's children. From left: Emilio Lyton, 6; Raquel Lyton, 4; Norma Ryan; Sabrina Lyton, 2; and Catalina Lyton, 8.
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Low water on the James River near Pony Pasture . October 10 , 2007
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Warm weather brought bathers to Pony Pasture on 8/3/07.
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Riverside Dr. , shot near Pony Pasture , is being proposed to be designated as Virginia's first urban scenic byway. December 24 , 2008
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A goose glides through fall colors reflected in the James River along Riverside Drive near the Pony Pasture.
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The Pony Pasture rapids of the James River. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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As the sun starts to illuminate fog on the James River, a photographer waits for just the right moment on the rocks of the Pony Pasture lower rapids.
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Sunrise at the Pony Pasture section of the James River.
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Sunrise on the James River lights up the stepping stone-like highly accessible area of the James River known as the Pony Pasture.
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With the arrival of cold air, mixed with relatively warm water, fog forms on the James River in the lower rapids of Pony Pasture. The Carillon tower is in the background.
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A canine visitor to the dog-friendly Pony Pasture jumps (successfully) to a rock.
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Jamie Wilbar, 13, of Glen Allen, leaps from a rock at Pony Pasture for what might have been his last James River swim of the year.
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Jamie Wilbar, 13, of Glen Allen, jumps into the rapids at Pony Pasture for what might have been his last James River swim of the year.
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Despite written warnings that swimmers must wear life jackets, river-goers play in the water at Pony Pasture Rapids, in Richmond, on June 02, 2009.
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A couple heads for the Pony Pasture along the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, June 8, 2009.
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Jumping into the James was the rule of the day for many who flocked to the Pony Pasture on Memorial Day.
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Swimmers at Pony Pasture watched the Regional training of the Tactical Rescue Teams doing a quarterly drill and swift water awareness course on Aug. 4. Morning showers gave way to another hot humid day. Richmond, Henrico, Chesterfield, Hanover agencies were involved in the river rescue training.
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Participants in the "Dive & Draw!" program head into the James River near Pony Pasture on Saturday. The program, a collaboration between Chesterfield County Environmental Engineering and Friends of the James River, is designed to promote stewardship of the river.
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Lorne Field of Chesterfield county's Environmental Engineering department talks of algae blooms during a "Dive & Draw!" event in the James River near Pony Pasture on Saturday. The program, a collaboration between the Chesterfield County agency and Friends of the James River, is designed to promote stewardship of the river.
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Participants in the "Dive & Draw!" program head into the James River near Pony Pasture on Saturday. The program, a collaboration between Chesterfield County Environmental Engineering and Friends of the James River, is designed to promote stewardship of the river.
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The James River, downstream a few hundred yards from the Pony Pasture, on Richmond's southside.
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Med-Flight paramedic David Powell, with Chesterfield County Fire, grabs a 'cinch' vest lowered to him from a Virginia State Police helicopter during a training exercise in the James River in Richmond Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters, paramedics and pilots with Med-Flight ran through medical evacuation drills near the Riverside Meadow Greenspace along Riverside Drive, near the Pony Pasture. Two choppers were involved in the drills.
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Med-Flight paramedic David Powell, with Chesterfield County Fire, hangs from a 'cinch' vest om a cable hanging from a Virginia State Police helicopter during a training exercise in the James River in Richmond Tuesday afternoon. Firefighters, paramedics and pilots with Med-Flight ran through medical evacuation drills near the Riverside Meadow Greenspace along Riverside Drive, near the Pony Pasture. Two choppers were involved in the drills.
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Waterfowl in the James River's Pony Pasture catches the attention of swimmers, June 30, 2012.
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The ever-popular Pony Pasture area of the James River draws hundreds on warm summer days. Sept. 1, 2012.
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After putting his head into the cold water at Pony Pasture, Luke Logan, 9, emerges during the Polar Bear Plunge, Jan. 1, 2013.
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Lorene Davidson and a family friend, Rachel Cryster, 11, bundle up to keep warm after jumping into the frigid water of the James River at Pony Pasture for the annual Polar Bear Plunge, Jan. 1, 2013.
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Fog covers the James River across from Pony Pasture Monday afternoon, January 15, 2013.
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Mike Martin kayaks in the James River near Pony Pasture Thursday, May 9, 2013.
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Amelie Williams, 9, climbs across a log at the James River Parks' Pony Pasture a few minutes after the winter solstice hit at 12:11 pm Saturday, Dec. 21, 2013. She and some of her friends were enjoying the unseasonal weather.
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Nicole Harrison of Durham celebrates to recorded music Funk Brothers played at Pony Pasture on Riverside Drive during the Richmond Marathon Saturday, November 15, 2014.
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James Richardson, center foreground, misses his tube as he and his friends, all of Yorktown,from left, Raychel Blanchette, Bryce Burgner, and Devin Lapp visit Pony Pasture Rapids, part of The James River Park System, for tubing in Richmond on Monday, June 16, 2014.
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A video camera stationed in James River Park caught these river otters between the Huguenot Bridge and Pony Pasture Rapids in South Richmond. A project that started last spring is using video to document wildlife in the park.
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Many sought refuge from the heat by jumping into the James River at the Pony Pasture, June 23, 2015.
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Kayakers start their guided tour by Riverside Outfitters at Pony Pasture in Richmond on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.
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Lucas Crain and his five-year-old daughter McKenzie Crain head back to their car after taking a cooling dip in the James River at the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Monday, August 24, 2015.
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(L-R) Emmett Shreve, age 3, his friend Alice Hunter, age 4, and her cousin Ford Hunter, age 3, watch the churning waters of the James River at Pony Pasture after the river rose to over nine feet Sunday, October 4, 2015.
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Deepannita Hossain, left, 22, and Sahba Abolfazli, right, 22, (cqbb both names) both senior chemical engineering students at UVA, pause to watch the James River flow by the Pony Pasture area in Richmond, VA Thursday, Nov. 5, 2015. Hossain is a native of Bangaladesh and Abolfazli is a native of Iran.
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Interpretive signs for the John Smith Trail are located at a few historic sites around Richmond, including this one on at Pony Pasture Rapids Park. Photo taken Nov. 11, 2015.
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His first visit to the Pony Pasture rapids, part of the James River Park System, and Wyatt Lifsey said he picked a good day to relax. He moved to Richmond from Blacksburg, Va. about one month ago. April 21, 2016.
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Oeuyown Kim (left) and friend Morgan Moore relax with drinks in the James River at the Pony Pasture early Saturday evening before a thunderstorm rolled through. Aug. 6, 2016
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Two young women jump off a log into the James River at the Pony Pasture area in Richmond, VA Thursday, August 11, 2016 as high temperatures and humidity caused many people to head to the river to cool off.
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Geoffrey Zindren of Richmond makes his way to a spot for fishing at Pony Pasture in Richmond on Tuesday, September 13, 2016. Zindren said he doesn't expect to catch any fish but this is his excuse to be out more often.
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With temperatures in the mid-80's, fall break for these VCU students has been feeling more like summer vacation. The six friends (and a dog named Leona, lower left) spent part of the afternoon reclining and eating cookies at the Pony Pasture along Riverside Drive. From left: Muneera Hassan, Tiffany Tran, Connie Tran, Igor Tsvetkov, Isaiah Klimek, and Samantha Muehlbauer. Oct. 20, 2016
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Ryan McKinnon and his dog Rudy sit on a rock at Pony Pasture on Sunday May 29, 2016.
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Rudy took her first plunge into the James River at Pony Pasture on Sunday May 29, 2016 and jumped right back onto the dry rock after her owner Ryan McKinnon pulled her into the water with him.
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Driftwood and high river levels kept many of the popular granite boulders hideen at Pony Pasture Rapids, May 16, 2016.
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A prothonotary warbler. The small songbird was spotted by bird watchers along the James River at the Pony Pasture section of James River Park. May 11, 2016.
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Barbara Eck (left) and Alice Boller look for birds along the James River at the Pony Pasture, May 11, 2016. The two joined a few other local birders there Wednesday morning.
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Lightning Bug at Pony Pasture in Richmond on June 20, 2017.
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The James River in Richmond, VA offered some relief from the upper 90's heat Thursday, July 13, 2017 to many folks who visited the Pony Pasture rocks.
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This couple had a little difficulty getting their dog interested in entering the water at the Pony Pasture area of the James River in Richmond, VA Thursday, July 13, 2017. The dog eventually entered the water and appeared to enjoy it.
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A couple share a quiet moment on the Pony Pasture rocks in the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, August 7, 2017.
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A group of swimmers enjoy a cooling dip in the water along the Pony Pasture rocks in the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, August 7, 2017.
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Canada geese appear to be performing a water ballet in the Pony Pasture area of the James River in Richmond, VA Monday, Oct. 9, 2017. The geese were actually feeding on underwater plants.
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Some land along the James River in Richmond's West End was recently cleared, and state officials say the work violated a law requiring that a 100-foot buffer of natural vegetation be maintained along the river to protect it from pollution. The home of Stuart and Dawn Siegel sits above the cleared area. City officials say the Science Museum of Virginia Foundation, which allowed Siegel to have the work done, is responsible because it owns the land. This view is from the Pony Pasture Rapids section of James River Park in South Richmond. Pic taken 11/17.
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Jay Ross, age 8, swings on a grape vine along a Pony Pasture trail Sunday, February 25, 2018. It is a native plant to Virginia.
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Jay Ross, age 8, gets a higher view while standing on a grape vine along a Pony Pasture trail Sunday, February 25, 2018. It is a native plant to Virginia.
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Some sunbathers were ignoring warnings posted by sitting on the rocks amid rapids at the Pony Pasture section of the James River in Richmond, VA Wednesday, May 2, 2018. A half-dozen others sat on rocks along the stretch also.
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A young woman sat on the bank at the Pony Pasture section of the James River in Richmond, VA Wednesday, May 2, 2018. A half-dozen others chose to ignore high water warnings and sat on rocks out in the rapids.
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Annika Licht, 15, left, from Charlotte, NC, rides a line down a 100 ft tall hickory tree with the help of instructor Jocelyn Lohse, right, with Riverside Outfitters, in the woods near the Pony Pasture section along the James River in Richmond, VA Friday, July 6, 2018. This and other activities are part of the Riverside Outfitters Day Summer Camp program.
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Two hikers (no names given) paused to look at the James River as it flowed past the Pony Pasture area in Richmond, VA Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2018 on a balmy fall day.
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Cade Cooper, left, from Powhatan and Amanda Yowell, right, from Culpeper, took advantage of great weather on the first day of summer to float down the James River near the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Friday, June 21, 2019.
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Cade Cooper, left, from Powhatan and Amanda Yowell, right, from Culpeper, took advantage of great weather on the first day of summer to float down the James River past a group of sunbathers near the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Friday, June 21, 2019.
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A couple took advantage of great weather on the first day of summer to share a quiet moment in the James River near the Pony Pasture in Richmond, VA Friday, June 21, 2019.
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A young boy watches a family of ducks swim past as he stands beside the James River at the Pony Pasture section in Richmond, VA, Monday, July 15, 2019 as the temperature climbed above 90 degrees.
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A man talks on his phone while cooling off in the James River at the Pony Pasture section in Richmond, VA, Monday, July 15, 2019 as the temperature climbed above 90 degrees.
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Brothers Shawn (11) and Miguel Johnson (6) from Washington, DC spent part of Monday afternoon at Pony Pasture in the James River with their grandparents, who are from Richmond. Miguel looks toward his runaway Croc, which his older brother retrieved.
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Brothers Shawn (11) and Miguel Johnson (6) from Washington, DC spent part of Monday afternoon at Pony Pasture in the James River with their grandparents, who are from Richmond.
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Ballard Payne, 17, transports his friend Claire Zeno, 17, back to shore after the two spent part of the afternoon swimming the waters of the James River at the area known as the Pony Pasture along Riverside Drive. The two went straight to the river after classes ended for the day at Trinity High School.
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7:08 a.m.-Along Riverside Drive, between Williams Dam and Pony Pasture, a group of runners sets out on a 6.5-mile training run for a half-marathon they will run in August. Scenic Riverside Drive attracts many runners.
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9:37 a.m.-Bob Willis, 62, gives his dog “Valentine” a treat while walking along the Louise Burke Nature Trail at the Pony Pasture. Willis has been coming to the park for many years. He remembers the time when there were no trees.
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12:48 p.m..- At the bottom of the staircase boat ramp at the Pony Pasture, children venture into the chilly water of the James River. The children are: On the left, Brando Contreras, 3; Jasmine Vigil, 3 (right); Arlett Vigil, 9 (left, center) and Armondo Guevara, 7 (right, center). JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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7:42 a.m.- Geese fly above the rapids at Pony Pasture. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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11:15 a.m.- Trevor Frost slides down the staircase boat ramp and into the James River at the Pony Pasture. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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1:15 p.m.- "Duke" romps in the rapids of Pony Pasture. He was there with his owners, Emily and Brandon Hoffman. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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7:33 a.m.-The rocks at the Pony Pasture rapids were accessible enough to lure this man out for some shoes-off time. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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1:56 p.m.- The rapids at Pony Pasture make venturing into them a challenge and potential hazard. JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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1:30 p.m.- After spending a few hours on the rocks at Pony Pasture, Danielle Schaevitz gives Lindsey Crawford a hand crossing back to shore. They were with fellow University of Richmond students Casey Kelly (third from left, on rock), Natalie Simons (to Casey Kelley’s left). JAMES RIVER JOURNAL
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A swimmer snorkels in the Pony Pasture, near shore.
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A visitor to the Pony Pasture section of the James River Parks system navigates the rocks which are normally covered with what is referred to as the "Upper Rapids."
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Greg Mills (front) and Chad Horohoe relax in the Pony Pasture section of the James River.
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The flow of the water in the James River's Pony Pasture was just right Thursday afternoon for Tobias Barth, 14, of Chesterfield, and about a hundred others.
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A retriever returns a stick from its thrower in the James River's Pony Pasture section.
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The heat was no problem for 7-year-old Jose' Gill Thursday afternoon. He and his two brothers and a cousin soaked in the waters of the James River near the Pony Pasture. About two hundred others had the same idea. Later in the afternoon, a thunderstorm rolled in and most of the rivergoers left. But Jose' and his brothers and cousin stayed in the water.
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The Richmond Department of Public Utilities said about 300 customers were without the service as of Wednesday afternoon.
The residences and businesses are in the area of Lauderdale, Gayton and Cambridge Drive.
"Technicians are on standby to restore gas service as soon as the issue is resolved," the utility said.
Customers are asked to call (804) 646-8426 for more information.
PHOTOS: 6 easy RVA take-out options for picnics and the pool all summer long
Garnett’s Cafe has a date night and picnic basket. Choose any two menu items, plus a bottle of wine or pitcher of beer for $33. When ordered to-go, it’s already packaged and in a picnic basket with blanket.
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Garnett’s Cafe has a date night and picnic basket. Choose any two menu items, plus a bottle of wine or pitcher of beer for $33. When ordered to-go, it’s already packaged and in a picnic basket with blanket.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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The fried chicken dinner from the Supper Club Market on Tuesday, June 28, 2022 in Richmond, Virginia.
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Charcuterie board from RVA Cheese Girl.
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If you’re looking for a swanky setup, Picnic RVA can pull together a picnic to remember at a variety of Richmond-area locales, such as Maymont, the James River or even your own backyard. Pricing starts at $180 for a two-person picnic.
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Picnic RVA can set up a whole experience with for anywhere from two to ten people with a table, seating, décor, food, desserts and non-alcoholic beverages. Choose from their list of outdoor destinations, or they can even turn your yard into an outdoor dining oasis. Pricing starts at $180 for a two-person picnic.
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Arwad is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has chicken kebab over field greens, cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, olives, feta, pickled chili peppers, fried crispy pita and lemon-tahini dressing. The bowls are named after cities.
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Sydon with falafel is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has fettoush salad consisting of tomato, cucumber, lettuce, onion, parsley, mint, bell pepper, radish, olive oil, pomegranate molasses and crispy pita. The bowls are named after cities.
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Tyre is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has chicken shawarma, Natalie’s rice, baba ghannouj, hummus, coriander carrots, tabbouleh and sumac blistered tomatoes. The bowls are named after cities.
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Byblos is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has seared shrimp, Natalie’s rice, harissa, tabbouleh, coriander carrots, sumac blistered tomatoes, charred lemon and tahini dressing. The bowls are named after cities.
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Beirut is one of the Phoenician bowls served at Natalie’s Taste of Lebanon Wednesday, July 6, 2022. It has beef ribeye shawarma, Natalie’s rice, harissa, coriander carrots, sumac blistered tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes and tahini dressing. The bowls are named after cities.
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Souvlaki bowls at Stella’s Grocery.
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Salmon Nicoise at Stella’s Grocery.
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Virginia Commonwealth University Health is enrolling local families in a multi-hospital study to determine the effects of long COVID-19 on children and young adults.
The VCU School of Nursing will lead the study, which hopes to analyze 240 families with children or young adults 25 years or younger in central Virginia.
Interested families can register at https://rampages.us/virginiakids4covidproject/.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long COVID has affected about 75% of children and adolescents in the United States.
Long COVID can included a wide variety of symptoms, including fatigue, joint pain, headaches and stomach pain. It's unclear why some people's symptoms last weeks or months, while others' clear up in days.
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Much of what is known about long COVID comes from studies of adults. VCU's project is part of the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery initiative, or RECOVER, a nationwide study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
What is less known is the effect on children. VCU will study any children and young adults who have had symptoms from COVID-19. It will also study children and young adults who have not had COVID-19 to determine whether the pandemic affected their health in other ways.
Researchers will collect saliva and blood and study participants' lungs, heart and neurodevelopment. Participants will be monitored for up to four years. Some research will be conducted in Richmond-area neighborhoods closer to where participants live.
Children and parents will be paid for their participation. VCU is joining with Rhode Island Hospital and New York University Langone Health to perform the study.
“The RECOVER project is going to help us understand long COVID so we might develop treatments for those affected by the pandemic for years to come, but it’s also going to give back to the families deciding to participate in the study by understanding important information about their children’s development, health and mental well-being,” said Amy Salisbury, an associate dean at the VCU School of Nursing who is one of the principal investigators. | https://richmond.com/news/local/vcu-health-is-enrolling-families-in-a-study-of-long-covid-in-children-and-young/article_773e1a6b-cb74-5176-95e7-f7835d38a264.html | 2022-07-20T22:19:44 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/vcu-health-is-enrolling-families-in-a-study-of-long-covid-in-children-and-young/article_773e1a6b-cb74-5176-95e7-f7835d38a264.html |
FORT DODGE, Iowa — A house sustained heavy damage after a morning fire in Fort Dodge that officials believe was caused by arson.
According to a press release from the Fort Dodge Fire Rescue, a house fire broke out at 402 N 17th St. at approximately 7:32 a.m. Wednesday.
Neighbors told officials that the house is currently vacant, but squatters have been in the house throughout the summer, including shortly before the fire started.
Upon arrival, fire crews started search and rescue operations, but there was no one in the building.
“All were able to escape on their own and left the scene before the Fire Rescue’s arrival,” the press release read.
A second alarm was called by the incident commander in relation to additional accidents during the fire rescue operation. Four patients from these additional incidents were sent to the hospital.
The building is owned by Colleen Holcombe, but it is unclear whether she was at the scene or not.
Fire department officials say the cause of the fire is arson.
This is the fourth residential fire to occur in the city over the past month. According to a press release from the Fort Dodge Police Department, they do not believe the fires are connected.
FDPD continues to investigate the case. Anyone with information is encourage to contact the department.
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KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – A man is facing DUI charges in a crash that caused a woman to lose her unborn child.
According to the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office, Timothy Wickline, 29, of Greenbrier County, was arrested today, July 20, 2022 on a felony charge of “Driving Under the Influence Causing Death.”
Deputies say the head-on crash happened near the 114-mile marker in the Sissonville area on the morning of Monday, July 18, 2022. Authorities say Wickline was traveling north on I-77 when, according to witnesses, his vehicle crossed the median and went into the path of oncoming traffic in the southbound lanes and colliding with another vehicle.
The driver of the southbound vehicle was taken to an area medical center after telling responders she was concerned about her unborn child. Deputies say a doctor then “confirmed the death of the fetus.”
The sheriff’s office says Wickline was allegedly showing signs of impairment at the scene. Deputies say he told allegedly told them he believed he was traveling on I-64 when he “fell asleep.” Deputies also say Wickline claimed he had had his cruise control set to 70 mph at the time of the crash.
Wickline was taken to a medical center to be treated for his injuries, and a blood draw was conducted. According to the sheriff’s office, the sample was sent to the West Virginia State Police Laboratory.
Wickline is being held at the South Central Regional Jail on a $100,000 cash-only bond. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-charged-with-dui-after-woman-loses-unborn-child-in-crash/ | 2022-07-20T22:21:34 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-charged-with-dui-after-woman-loses-unborn-child-in-crash/ |
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — Investigations are underway into the Kanawha County Public Service District allegedly misusing county funds, according to Kanawha County Commissioner Lance Wheeler.
The State Auditor’s Office told 13 News that they were invited to attend the County Commission meeting Thursday, July 21, at 5 p.m., but they couldn’t provide further information.
Commissioner Lance Wheeler says the meeting will bring to light the allegations, and they’ll decide whether the current chairman of Kanawha PSD, John Rubin, will be removed from the position.
If they vote to remove him, Wheeler says they already have a replacement.
13 News also reached out to the Executive Director of the PSD today, but we were still unable to speak with him.
ORIGINAL STORY – Investigations are underway at the Kanawha County Public Service District involving allegations of wrongdoing, according to County Commissioners Ben Salango and Lance Wheeler.
“There are allegations that came to our attention of misuse of funds by John Rubin as a board member of Kanawha PSD,” says Kanawha County Commissioner Lance Wheeler
The County Commission is meeting Thursday to decide whether the current chairman of Kanawha PSD, John Rubin, will be removed from the position. If they vote to remove Rubin, Wheeler said they already have a replacement.
The meeting agenda for Thursday lists the item as “Order appointing Chris Billo to the Kanawha Public Service District filling the unexpired term of John Rubin.”
This is all happening just months after Rubin was reappointed in June 2021 to a six-year term ending in 2027, which was previously recorded in the minutes from the County Commission’s June 2021 meeting.
13 News has learned from other sources that at least some of the allegations involve misuse of county money and personnel. However, Wheeler would not provide specifics.
“These are allegations at this point, Wheeler said. “Nothing has been proven in the court of law.”
The district itself provides sewer service to about 2,800 customers and recently applied for a quarter of a million dollars in funding from the American Rescue Plan.
13 News also reached out to the Executive Director of Kanawha PSD, but so far we haven’t been able to speak with him. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/update-officials-investigate-kanawha-co-public-service-district/ | 2022-07-20T22:21:40 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/update-officials-investigate-kanawha-co-public-service-district/ |
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WAVERLY — The Waverly Exchange Club in partnership with Waverly Health Center, The W and Thrivent-Monica Severson is hosting the Best Dam Run to Prevent Child Abuse on Sept. 24.
The event will feature a half marathon, 10K run, 5K run and a 5K walk leaving from the Waverly Civic Center. The half marathon and 10K highlight Waverly’s trail system and the 5Ks travel along the Cedar River.
All proceeds go to local Waverly Exchange Club causes which include the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, Friends of the Family, Girls Little League Softball and other area charitable organizations.
PHOTOS: Final Round of the 89th Waterloo Open
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Brady Calkins of Chehalis, Wash. chips onto the first green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course. Calkins entered the final day as the 36-hole leader.
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Will Dickson of Atlanta, Ga. hits an approach shot to the second green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Jonathan Yoshihiro of Yorba Linda, Calif. sinks a short put on the first green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Carson Schaake of Omaha, Neb. lines up a put on the fifth green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Will Dickson of Atlanta, Ga. hits an approach shot to the first green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Carson Schaake of Omaha, Neb. hits from under a tree on the fifth hole Sunday during the final round of the 89th Annual Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Amateur Jack Moody hits an approach shot to the first green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Cedar Falls native Jack Moody tries to coax his put on the fifth hole to go in Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course. Moody started the day two-strokes back of the leader in the amateur division.
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Zack Wax of Downers Grove, Ill. sinks a birdie putt on the fifth hole Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Joe Weiler of Bloomington, Ind. sinks a short birdie putt on the fifth hole Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Beau Breault of Howell, Mich. follows through on an approach shot Sunday to the first green during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Amateur JD Pollard of Marshalltown chips onto the first green during Sunday's final round at the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Connor Peck of Ankeny, the leader of the amateur division after 36 holes, chips onto the first green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Carson Schaake of Omaha, Neb. blasts his tee shot off the 18th tee box Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Will Dickson acknowledges the gallery after sinking a birdie putt on the 11th hole Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Amateur Connor Peck of Ankeny chips onto the 10th green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
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Brady Calkins of Chehalis, Wash. chips onto the 10th green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
JIM NELSON, Regional Sports Editor
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Will Dickson of Atlanta, Ga. chips onto the 10th green Sunday during the final round of the 89th Waterloo Open at Irv Warren Memorial Golf Course.
JIM NELSON, Regional Sports Editor
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KYLE, Texas — The City of Kyle announced on Wednesday it's amending the second stage of its drought contingency plan and asked residents to conserve water to avoid further restrictions.
Under stage two, installing new landscapes, opening new pools, washing paved areas, doing charity car washes and using automatic fill valves for pools are not allowed.
The drought contingency plan as a whole forbids watering or irrigating between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
Each Kyle home has a designated water-use day. Odd-numbered addresses get Wednesdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., while even-numbered addresses get Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and commercial and multi-family units get Fridays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.
The City said that "a hose and sprinkler, a soaker hose, drip irrigation or automatic irrigation system" are all permitted during the hours of someone's designated water-use day. Residents can also use a handheld hose or watering can on any day from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m.
Cars, boats and other vehicles may be washed with a handheld hose or bucket from 7 p.m. to 10 a.m. on someone's designated water-use day.
The City said those who don't comply with the drought contingency plan could face a fine of maximum $2,000 and minimum $50 per violation.
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AUSTIN, Texas — A swimmer died on Wednesday afternoon after being pulled from the water at Lake Travis.
Around 2:40 p.m., Lake Travis Fire Rescue (LTFR) said its crews, along with the Austin Fire Department, responded to a missing swimmer in Lake Travis near Bob Wentz Park.
Rescuers located the swimmer and pulled them from the water to conduct CPR.
Around 3:40 p.m., LTFR said that despite CPR efforts from fire responders, the swimmer did not survive.
No other information is available at this time.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. – A Mark Twain boat was tied up and abandoned next to a seasonal Cape Coral resident’s dock.
Residents near SW 45th Terrace and Agualinda Boulevard said it appeared overnight two weeks ago. The homeowner had no clue who it belonged to or how it got there.
His neighbors, Ellen and Frank Radochonski, came home from a two week trip on Tuesday to find it rotated 90 degrees, blocking canal traffic under the Agualinda Blvd bridge.
Frank said, “…that’s not good! People won’t be able to get through.”
The couple and other neighbors called City Code Enforcement after noticing what appeared to be a fuel slick sitting on the water.
“It’s not one big thing. Tiny, small, little spots in the water. It’s certainly not what we’ve seen here in the past,” said Radochonski.
Code Enforcement and Cape Coral PD officers took a look at the boat Wednesday morning.
By the afternoon, CCPD Marine Patrol Unit towed the boat away. A spokesperson said CCPD has located its owner, who was supposed to pick it up later in the day. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/abandoned-boat-congests-cape-coral-canal/ | 2022-07-20T22:28:38 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/abandoned-boat-congests-cape-coral-canal/ |
MARCO ISLAND, Fla. – Last night, Marco Island Police Officers along with staff from Collier County Parks & Recreation were able to rescue sea turtle hatchlings that became disoriented after leaving their nest.
According to officials, the hatchlings became confused because of the condo lights in the area. Thankfully, officers were able to round up as many hatchlings as possible and hope to release them later this evening.
Officials want to remind the public to please turn off all of their unnecessary lights, close their blinds, and shield all light sources along the beach during nesting season. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/marco-island-police-department-rescues-sea-turtle-hatchlings/ | 2022-07-20T22:28:44 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/20/marco-island-police-department-rescues-sea-turtle-hatchlings/ |
DANVILLE, Va. – Temperatures will hit nearly 100 degrees over the July 22 weekend in parts of Southwest Virginia.
If you need somewhere to cool off, the Salvation Army of Danville is here to help.
The Salvation Army of Danville has extended their lunchtime hours this week. The building will now be open until 2 p.m. on Thursday and Friday for people to cool off.
Then on Sunday, they’re opening their doors and offering ice cold lemonade, snow cones, popsicles, and ice cream.
“We want to definitely open up the facilities just for them to catch a breather, get some more cool refreshments because the next few days it’s going to be extremely hot,” said Lieutenant Antonio Hodges from the Salvation Army of Danville.
Lunch will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Sunday. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/ahead-of-heatwave-salvation-army-of-danville-extends-hours-for-community-to-cool-off/ | 2022-07-20T22:32:08 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/ahead-of-heatwave-salvation-army-of-danville-extends-hours-for-community-to-cool-off/ |
LYNCHBURG, Va. – Serving others looked a little different Wednesday for those who wear the badge.
Several gathered at the Jamerson Family YMCA in Lynchburg for the friendly competition called Battle of the Badges Blood Drive.
“Our goal started a couple of years ago,” Lynchburg Sheriff Chief Deputy Tommy Carter said. “Getting out into the community and educating the community about law enforcement.”
Carter is also the President of the John Lynch Lodge #34 Fraternal Order of Police, an organization that supports and teaches others about law enforcement.
“What better way to do it than with a blood drive,” Carter added. “There is such a need.”
The FOP worked to recruit local agencies to compete and see who could give the most, and officers even took turns relieving each other so that they could donate.
The organization surpassed its goal, bringing 57 people in to donate.
It was Debbie Padgett’s first time giving blood, and as a former federal police officer, she wanted to help bring others to the FOP brotherhood.
“Law enforcement right now is not a very popular topic,” Padgett said. “They need to see that there are good people behind the badge and this is one way to show community support.”
Noah Smith donates often, but said there was all the more reason to in order to support the group that does so much for those like him in the community.
“Everyone is so nice. Everyone is willing to talk to you,” Noah Smith said. “Everyone has a smile on their face.” | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/battle-of-the-badges-blood-drive-surpasses-goal/ | 2022-07-20T22:32:14 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/battle-of-the-badges-blood-drive-surpasses-goal/ |
SALEM, Va. – A local brewery is looking to give back to the community.
Parkway Brewing Co. has always been big on giving back to the community and through their Pints with a Purpose events on Wednesdays, the brewing company donates a dollar of every pint they sell that day to a local non-profit.
General Manager Mike Pensinger said it’s good for business and good for their community.
“It allows us to show other people what Parkway is and it allows us to give back to the community,” Pensinger said.
This week’s organization is the Clean Valley Council, a non-profit committed to helping retain the beauty of the natural world.
“Anytime we can help the environment, we’re very conscious of what the environment is and where it comes from and the things that affect it,” Pensinger said. “We want to make sure that we do our parts in order to make sure our supplies come in and stay clean.”
If you want to participate in the event, you can head to the brewery until 9 p.m. on Wednesdays. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/pints-with-a-purpose-at-salem-brewery-to-raise-donations-for-local-non-profits/ | 2022-07-20T22:32:21 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/pints-with-a-purpose-at-salem-brewery-to-raise-donations-for-local-non-profits/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – You can join other bike riders for a 20K ride down Roanoke Valley greenways for a good cause.
Cardinal Bicycle is hosting the 12-mile family ride on Saturday at 10 a.m. to support Roanoke Valley Greenways and Pathfinders for Greenways.
The ride begins and ends at Cardinal’s Grandin Village location at 1312 Winbourne Ave SW in Roanoke.
Riders of all skill sets can participate – In fact, they said the greenway is the perfect place to start bike riding.
“The greenway is the foundation,” said Julia Boas, Cardinal Bicycle Marketing Director, “That’s where it starts where you can take beginners and little kids out and really have a great time. Maybe one day you’ll be racing downhill or maybe you’ll be mountain biking, but this is where it starts.”
Make it to the end of the race and you’ll get snacks and drinks, beer for adults, and medals for the kids.
To participate you can register here – adults are $35, kids 8+ are $15, and kids 7 and under are free. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/ride-20k-for-the-greenway-to-be-held-in-roanoke-on-saturday/ | 2022-07-20T22:32:27 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/ride-20k-for-the-greenway-to-be-held-in-roanoke-on-saturday/ |
MONETA, Va. – An annual event is coming back to Smith Mountain Lake in September to battle poverty.
On Wednesday, the Lake Christian Ministries announced the 2022 SML Walk to End Poverty.
The event’s proceeds will support programs and services that assist people in the area that are struggling with poverty, the release said.
“The prolonged COVID pandemic, high gas and food prices and continued inflation have created an extraordinary increase in the number of families facing financial crisis in our local community,” Jane Winters, Executive Director of Lake Christian Ministries said. “2022 marks the 30th anniversary of Lake Christian Ministries’ service to local families in need.”
The walk will be held on September 17 at Smith Mountain Lake State Park, the release said, and it features 5K and 10K options that walkers and runners can choose from.
After you finish walking or running, the release said there will be lunch and live music, fellowship, and an awards presentation.
And everyone in your family is invited to participate.
“The Walk is a fun family event that enables all of us to work together to make a difference for local families in need while bringing much-needed awareness to our mission to impact poverty,” Winters said.
You can register ahead of time on the event website, the release said, and donations can be made on the LCM website. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/sml-walk-to-end-poverty-to-be-held-on-september-17/ | 2022-07-20T22:32:33 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/sml-walk-to-end-poverty-to-be-held-on-september-17/ |
SALEM, Va. – A new work program will aim to help Roanoke City job seekers with funding for training and educational needs.
The Star City Works Program has multiple services for people looking for jobs in the area including:
- Funding for existing workers to receive training,
- Funding to provide customized training to secure new employees,
- Tuition dollars for individuals to attend training and education,
- Work-based learning opportunities including internships,
- On-the-job training reimbursement,
- Wrap-around supportive services (transportation, childcare, food assistance, utility/mortgage assistance, etc.) to assist individuals in completing training and employment activities.
Morgan Romeo, Director for The Greater Roanoke Workforce Development Board, said this will help people looking for jobs and jobs looking for employees.
“All of our employers, especially in the city of Roanoke, are hurting for employees,” Romeo said. “We think by helping some of these and providing some of these other wrap-around services, we’ll help folks kind of realize and help get out of the hole and back to work. And just help them with that sustainability.”
In September 2021, the Star City Strong Taskforce identified funding recommendations for the ARPA dollars received by the City of Roanoke, including $3 million devoted to identifying the needs of employers in high-growth, high-potential sectors, and gaps that may exist in the local workforce.
“ARPA funding is intended to respond to the impacts of COVID-19...We are pleased to see this funding going to such a meaningful purpose,” City Manager Bob Cowell said in a press release.
Romeo said the program is built around the person trying to find a job.
“We’re going to take an all-access approach here to try and meet people where they are because we know that people are suffering and [some] still can’t get over to our center,” Romeo said.
Businesses or job seekers that are interested in learning more about the Star City Works program can email starcityworksva@gmail.com. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/star-city-works-program-launches-to-help-roanoke-city-job-seekers/ | 2022-07-20T22:32:39 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/20/star-city-works-program-launches-to-help-roanoke-city-job-seekers/ |
Search for HMS Gaspee involves hours of going back and forth bottom of Narragansett Bay
NEAR THE LAST REPORTED POSITION OF HMS GASPEE — Engineers in a small work boat spent hours motoring back and forth off the beach of Gaspee Point Tuesday, electronically scouring the bottom of Narragansett Bay.
They were part of the initial phase of the latest search for the shipwreck of HMS Gaspee, a British revenue schooner that Colonists burned to the waterline in 1772 because the ship was menacing trade on the Bay.
"They're just doing lines to scope around Gaspee spit," said D. K. Abbass, of the Rhode Island Marine Archaeology Project.
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The Gaspee ran aground on that submerged spit on the afternoon pf June 9, 1772, while chasing the Hannah, a merchant vessel owned by John Brown, of Providence. The Gaspee wouldn't float free until the next high tide, well after midnight, giving some 60 raiders time to row down from Providence, board the Royal Navy vessel and destroy it.
Although the hulk of the Gaspee was salvaged and scavenged for about a year afterward, no one knows how much, if any of it, is left today.
That's Abbass' first mission: determine whether there's anything that requires further study.
"What we want to do is just figure out what's out here," Abbass said Tuesday from the deck of the Norlantic, a research vessel that was watching the work boat loaded with side-scan sonar and magnetometers, which would make a detailed picture of the bottom and see whether any metal objects lay hidden in the bottom.
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Abbass and her crew have been at work since Friday and plan to be there until the end of the month.
The public is invited, weather permitting, to stop by a research station set up on the beach to see what is happening. It is open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., weather permitting. It is a short walk from beach parking spots on Lane 6, which is the name of a street in Warwick.
The search is being paid for by $50,000 in donations from area businesses, including the Providence Journal Charitable Legacy Fund. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/initial-phase-search-hms-gaspee-shipwreck-rhode-island-marine-archaeology-project/10104699002/ | 2022-07-20T22:41:03 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/initial-phase-search-hms-gaspee-shipwreck-rhode-island-marine-archaeology-project/10104699002/ |
Providence councilors want Flock camera program halted, calling for more time to review
PROVIDENCE — Several City Council members are set to introduce a resolution calling for the Police Department to halt its implementation of license plate cameras until the council can review plans for their use.
The resolution, obtained by The Providence Journal on Wednesday, will be presented on Thursday night by Councilwomen Helen Anthony, Rachel Miller and Katherine Kerwin, and Councilman John Goncalves.
It notes that the council "has not had an opportunity to thoroughly review or consider the Police Department's implementation of this [automated license plate reader] technology" and that it "warrants more robust public notice and input."
Public Safety Commissioner Steven Paré confirmed that 25 cameras are in the process of being installed. They have not yet been activated. Paré said the Police Department has already collected public feedback on the cameras, but only approximately 40 to 50 people responded.
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He described the replies as "a mix," though he later added that they are "more on the critical side."
"A lot of them were cut and pasted, so clearly someone drafted a response and a lot of folks just copied it and sent it, so there were like eight bullets to it," Paré said. Those included calls for the Police Department to seek authority from the General Assembly to use the cameras, and gain approval from the council.
The cameras, designed by a company called Flock Safety, are made to capture images of license plates as cars drive past. Police contend that information is valuable in allowing them to track down criminals. So far, a small handful of cities, including Cranston and Woonsocket, use such cameras.
Council President John Igliozzi, who is generally supportive of the cameras, said that he visited Cranston to see how its system works, noting that it "seems that it has a lot of positive attributes in fighting crime."
Providence police have been developing a policy for the use of the cameras, which has not yet been finalized. Igliozzi said he doesn't know what is in the policy.
"I'm not aware of it, but the policy I'm sure is going to mirror what has been probably the best practices and national standards," Igliozzi said, later adding that he has faith in Chief Col. Hugh Clements.
Providence will be using the cameras on a trial basis for 12 months before evaluating whether to continue. Because the program is free to the city for the year, there is no budgetary process and apparently no necessity for the council to approve it.
As the process continues, Igliozzi said "everybody should just keep an open mind."
"We'll hear more about it as we move forward." | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/providence-councilors-raise-concerns-over-license-plate-camera-use/10107113002/ | 2022-07-20T22:41:09 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/providence-councilors-raise-concerns-over-license-plate-camera-use/10107113002/ |
Sewer commission paid quarter-million-dollar ransom to end cyberattack
PROVIDENCE — Sewer-system operator Narragansett Bay Commission said Wednesday that it paid a quarter-million-dollar ransom to end a cyberattack against its computer systems.
"The NBC resolved the situation with a $250K negotiated payment," commission spokeswoman Jamie R. Samons said in an email to The Providence Journal Wednesday. "After payment, NBC was able to bring its systems back on-line in a matter of hours."
On Friday, when the commission first disclosed the attack, Samons said the attackers encrypted the data on commission computer systems, but not those that run the sewage-treatment plants. "There has been no disruption to wastewater collection and treatment services," she wrote.
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In ransomware attacks, hackers encrypt data on a victim's computer system and refuse to supply the key to decode the data and make it usable until a ransom is paid.
"Last week, the Narragansett Bay Commission identified a cybersecurity incident that involved the encryption of data on certain computers and systems in its network," Samons wrote on Friday.
The commission runs sewer systems in parts of the metropolitan Providence and Blackstone Valley areas. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/ri-sewer-system-narragansett-bay-commission-paid-250-000-end-cyberattack/10107968002/ | 2022-07-20T22:41:15 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/20/ri-sewer-system-narragansett-bay-commission-paid-250-000-end-cyberattack/10107968002/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — It’s another 90-degree day in Central Pennsylvania, but that hasn’t stopped Marsico’s Italian food cart from making food for the Harrisburg downtown community.
“We’re here to serve the people of Harrisburg, make their lives a little bit easier during their lunch break, and just help them out," said Joe Joe Headen.
Headen, who works behind the kitchen, says working hot days never gets easy. Especially as he deals with things like excessive sweating.
“I need another shirt, I might need another two just because it’s so hot and then the grease gets on it," said Headen.
But he knows that days like this bring a big crowd.
“It’s so nice out, people want to get out, especially during their work days for their break. We just try and get them in as quick as possible so they have time to enjoy the outside while they can," said Headen.
He says some fresh air helps, and that hydration is key.
“All the steam that comes from the stove, all the heat that comes from our oil, that’s really the hardest thing for us, even when we get a little bit of break, we just try to step outside, catch a little bit of the breeze and then get back in there," said Headen. "If you’re not hydrated, your body is not going to function correctly, you're going to get light-headed, and that’s when bad things happen," he said. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/how-food-truck-workers-stay-cool-amid-soaring-temperatures-heat-hot-weather/521-f896a497-476d-4658-be2d-1a423c555462 | 2022-07-20T22:41:25 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/how-food-truck-workers-stay-cool-amid-soaring-temperatures-heat-hot-weather/521-f896a497-476d-4658-be2d-1a423c555462 |
LANCASTER, Pa. — A Delaware man is facing child endangerment and DUI-related charges after a July 5 incident in Manheim Township, police say.
Akeem Leroy Miller, 23, of Middletown, allegedly suffered an opioid overdose and was found incapacitated and unresponsive by officers dispatched to Route 30 East at Harrisburg Pike, according to Manheim Township Police.
He was observed to have shallow, labored breathing, foam around the mouth, and pinpoint pupils in his eyes, according to police.
One of the responding officers administered Naloxone to Miller, who was subsequently taken to Lancaster General Hospital for treatment, police say.
A passenger in the vehicle reported Miller began to swerve and could no longer control the vehicle when the alleged overdose began. The passenger, who was sitting in the back seat, said they climbed over Miller and took the wheel while manipulating Miller's leg to apply the brakes and bring the vehicle to a stop.
The passenger, who was the vehicle's registered owner, provided consent to have the vehicle searched, according to police.
A prescription pill bottle was seized from the center console, with Miller’s name on it, containing a substance suspected to be marijuana, according to police. A blue plastic pen tube with a bluish-white powdery residue was also seized in the vehicle.
Later, at the hospital, a plastic pen tube containing powdery residue was seized from Miller’s pants pocket, police say.
Miller admitted to purchasing the substance illegally and believed it to be Percocet, which Miller is not authorized to possess, according to police. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county/akeem-miller-dui-child-endangerment-lancaster/521-72d00105-01ce-49d8-9f88-4c7ea9b9244a | 2022-07-20T22:41:31 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/lancaster-county/akeem-miller-dui-child-endangerment-lancaster/521-72d00105-01ce-49d8-9f88-4c7ea9b9244a |
PENNSYLVANIA, USA — As temperatures continue to rise across the state and country, here are some quick tips on how to protect your garden from extreme heat.
Water... often
It may sound obvious, but it's also the most effective. Experts say that the best time to water is early in the morning before the full force of the sun hits plants.
Watering later in the day during high temperatures poses a higher risk to plants. The water could evaporate before it reaches the roots of the plant, causing the leaves to burn. The evening is another recommended time to get out and water before temperatures rise again the next day.
However, resist the urge to overwater plants. In high temperatures, leaves may wilt, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they need more water. If you're unsure, check the moisture content of your soil. This can be done by probing an inch to two inches below the soil surface. If it still feels moist, the plant probably doesn't need any more water.
Avoiding watering plant leaves
On hot, sunny days it's recommended that plant-lovers avoid overhead watering. Moisture tends to amplify the sun like a magnifying glass. Lingering water droplets on plant leaves in direct sunlight can increase the chance of sunburn or scorched leaves on plants.
The best practice when watering is to focus on the base and soil surrounding the plant, so that the water can properly reach the roots.
Provide shade
Plants may need sunlight, but, just like us, they also need shade when it's hot outside. Shade is a very effective tool when keeping plants cool. By reducing the impact of the sun on plants, soil tends to stay cooler, keep its moisture, and reduces the impact of excessive heat. Shade also prevents sun scalding, which easily affects peppers and tomatoes.
A variety of household objects can be used to provide shade. Draping bed sheets or specialized shade cloths over stakes or other support devices will help cool plants. Beach umbrellas and large shade canopies can be used too, to protect an entire garden instead of a specific plant. For longer heatwaves where plants will need extended periods of shade, it's best to use shade material that allows some light through.
For portable plants, an easy option is to move them to shadier areas, such as underneath patios.
Add mulch
Mulch acts as an additional layer of protection for the soil and roots of plants. Mulching also helps buffer against extreme temperatures and promotes more controlled soil temperatures.
Gardners recommend applying about two inches of mulch material on the soil surface, around the base of plants, or over the whole garden. For lighter mulch, like straw, a heavier application is recommended. Organic mulch can include wood chips, shredded leaves, pine needles, aged compost, or straw. Some even use newspaper, cardboard, or plastic sheeting as mulch. A full guide to mulching can be found here.
Avoid mowing the lawn
Cutting the grass too short in hot temperatures can cause root exposure to the sun, increase moisture loss and sun damage and cause plants to lose the shade that taller grass blades provide.
Keeping your lawn at three inches adds additional shade to the grass.
Change out or seal terracotta pots
While great for indoor use, terracotta pots are not ideal for outdoor use, especially in a heatwave. If not sealed, the material allows for quick evaporation, which causes plants to dry out much faster. Terracotta sealant improves this issue.
Consider changing out store-bought plastic containers that plants usually come in. They act similar to terracotta by absorbing more water than the plant. The best option when repotting plants is to choose light-colored containers which reflect sunlight. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/protect-gardens-extreme-heat-waves-plants-watering-soil-shade/521-47495689-dc0d-460a-b53e-e84ad27e91e4 | 2022-07-20T22:41:37 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/protect-gardens-extreme-heat-waves-plants-watering-soil-shade/521-47495689-dc0d-460a-b53e-e84ad27e91e4 |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Members of the Wolf administration celebrated the launch of the new 988 Suicide Prevention Lifeline on Wednesday. The new lifeline will provide Pennsylvanians with an easier way to access mental health support during a crisis.
"We’ve made progress in recognizing how essential mental health is to our overall well-being and quality of life," said Meg Snead, Acting Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. "Mental health is health."
Pennsylvanians who call 988 will be patched into one of 13 call centers with mental health professionals throughout the state. In anticipation of more calls, the Pa. Department of Human Services will continue working to improve service at call centers, which already answer 85% of in-state calls.
“The Federal Substance Abuse Mental Health Administration asked for states achieve a 90% answer rate from in-state calls for the first year that 988 is active," said Kristin Houser, Deputy Secretary of the Pa. DHS. "So we are just about there.”
Democratic Representative Mike Schlossburg says 988 will help break the stigma when it comes to asking for mental health services. He adds that while the new number is a good start, more work is needed to provide quality mental healthcare resources.
“The legislature put more than $200 million into new behavioral health services," said Schlossburg. "But thanks to two years and arguably decades of disinvestment, we’ve got a long way to go before we get where we need to be.”
Pennsylvanians will still be able to use the old 1-800 number to call for mental health crisis responders. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/wolf-administration-promotes-988-suicide-prevention-lifeline-after-launch-pennsylvania-department-of-health/521-c9ea4722-b169-4ed4-b08f-3f1301e8e7f1 | 2022-07-20T22:41:43 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/wolf-administration-promotes-988-suicide-prevention-lifeline-after-launch-pennsylvania-department-of-health/521-c9ea4722-b169-4ed4-b08f-3f1301e8e7f1 |
TEMPLE, Texas — Editor's Note: The attached video is about the deaths of three people in a crash in Killeen.
One person died and two others were critically injured Wednesday afternoon after a rollover crash on I-35 in Temple, according to Temple police.
Police said the crash involved two vehicles in the 5100 block of S. General Bruce Dr. on southbound I-35.
Four people were in one of the vehicles. Police said one female in that vehicle died, two other females were in critical condition and a male suffered non-life threatening injuries.
The passengers in the second vehicle were not injured, police said.
Police did not release the ages or identities of anyone involved.
Anyone with information can call the Temple Police Department at 254-298-5500 or the Bell County Crime Stoppers at 254-526-8477. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/one-killed-two-in-critical-condition-after-i-35-rollover-crash/500-69aa04ed-b2d3-496d-bd8c-1af2886ed59d | 2022-07-20T22:42:15 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/one-killed-two-in-critical-condition-after-i-35-rollover-crash/500-69aa04ed-b2d3-496d-bd8c-1af2886ed59d |
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.kcentv.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 | 2022-07-20T22:42:22 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.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 |
BLOOMINGTON — Sometimes, good tunes just happen to drop out of the sky.
For Edward David Anderson, it was an early morning visit from a “pretty little bird” that sang him through excited moments of anticipation, as his wife slept in while pregnant with his daughter.
Two songbirds — one feathered and the other not — shared heartfelt harmonies at the start of each day. As the week carried on, Anderson fixed in a guitar capo and the bird followed his key change. Within weeks, “Little Wren” came to fruition as a song, and the guitarist welcomed a new child into this world.
Special songs and remarkable moments may sprout like tiny seeds dropped by a small bird, but they most certainly grow monumental meanings in our lives. And sometimes, they teach us how to love and look to the future.
The singer and guitarist for Backyard Tire Fire is holding his hat up high for his Saturday performance in downtown Bloomington, rocking out for the return of Black Dirt Music Festival. He’ll be joined by his brother Matt Anderson on bass guitar, Scott Tipping on guitar, and drummer John Ganser, who lives in Towanda. Anderson said their old pal Dan Ingenthron is also playing the keyboard and organ that evening.
Their most recent album, “Black Dirt Blue Sky,” partly shares the festival’s name and wholly takes on an exceptional sound, ranging widely in vocal ability, lyricism and instrumental melodies. The band melds alternative and country styles, building up slow and suspenseful guitar twangs and hammering down hard with a slick solo.
The apparition of Lone Star State folk legend Alejandro Escovedo marks another story told well in a track named in his honor on the band’s 2021 EP. Then, in “House of Cards,” Tipping chimes out a catchy guitar jingle from a bridge. In this all-out rocker of a tune, Anderson reflects deeply on how we should be careful with family and friends.
The band has chemistry that Anderson holds dear. He said: “I feel grateful to make music with these guys. And maybe it’s because we don’t get to do it near as often as we used to, but it feels special every time we set up.”
From singing about life on the road to beginning his journey into fatherhood, Anderson’s path in music has taken him to 46 of 50 states in the country. Central Illinois music lovers should feel blessed he now calls Havana home.
BloNo Beats invited Edward David Anderson to answer five questions about his career in music. Here’s what he had to say:
1. How has Central Illinois culture made a lasting mark on your music? What themes have emerged in your songs as a result?
While the band and the songs were certainly influenced by our time in the South, we were only down there for a couple of years before returning to Bloomington. At this point, I’ve lived in Central Illinois for half of my life and I can tell you that even when we’ve lived elsewhere or I’m on the road far from home, I always feel a strong connection to the Midwest. It’s blue collar. You’ve got a little breathing room. People are down to earth. I think all of that comes through in the songs.
2. What are the most important lessons you’ve learned from writing and releasing new music?
Writing songs has always been therapeutic for me. It helps to make sense out of this mysterious life we’re living. I think it’s a healthy way to deal with emotions. So new songs are very important to me. They keep me balanced and motivated and excited to do what we do. When I decided to pull this thing out of hiatus, I was pumped to play the old tunes, but it was the idea of bringing new material to the table that really excited me. The "Black Dirt Blue Sky" EP (2021) marks the beginning of a new chapter with a new lineup and a fresh start. It’s our finest recording to date.
3. With your last record released, which songs are you most proud of and why?
"Little Wren" is probably my favorite track on the new recording. About a month before our daughter was born, a pretty little bird started coming around the backyard of our old house in Bloomington. Each morning I’d wake before my pregnant wife and doggy and head downstairs to drink coffee and play guitar out on the back porch. And this little bird (later identified as a house wren) would sit where my garage eaves met and sing this beautiful song. After a handful of days, it got to where I woke up excited to hear and see the little song-singer.
One day I started playing in the key the bird was singing, found a cool capo configuration, and the next thing I knew we were sorta playing/singing together. And this tune dropped out of the sky. Pretty much wrote itself. I was feeling a lot of emotion at that time. Anticipation and excitement and happiness. All of it comes through in the song, I think, and I’m grateful to have the moment documented.
Also love the way "Truck Stop Shower" turned out. I got to sing with the incomparable, Grammy-nominated Garrison Starr on this little country number, and she takes it to another level. Also loving the fiddle, pedal steel guitar and piano on the tune. Fun to hear it come together and about as "Black Dirt country" as you can get.
4. Are there any specific life experiences that you derive inspiration from? Or is it anything and everything that strikes a lasting emotion?
I definitely write songs about what’s going on in my life. For a long time, I wrote road tunes. Songs about being broke and away from home because that’s what I was living. Now I’m writing about being a dad and watching our child grow up here in rural Havana, Illinois. Everything is game, really, when it comes to songwriting. Some stuff hits you harder, so you follow that trail. It’s also fun to invent characters and scenarios out of thin air.
5. If you could give any advice to someone who is newly developing their passion for playing and writing music, what would you say?
Keep doing it. My mom used to say “anything worthwhile isn’t easy.” She was right. I’ve definitely grown into the writer/musician that I am... Some folks get it young, right? Jackson Browne wrote “These Days” when he was 16. For me, it’s taken a lot of life experience and a lot of love for playing music to get to where I am at the moment.
Ranking every Elvis Presley movie
Ranking every Elvis Presley movie
#31. ‘Stay Away, Joe’ (1968)
#30. ‘Harum Scarum’ (1965)
#29. ‘Double Trouble’ (1967)
#28. ‘The Trouble With Girls (And How to Get Into It)’ (1969)
#27. ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’ (1967)
#26. ‘Kissin’ Cousins’ (1964)
#25. ‘Paradise, Hawaiian Style’ (1966)
#24. ‘Frankie and Johnny’ (1966)
#23. ‘Speedway’ (1968)
#22. ‘Clambake’ (1967)
#21. ‘Girls! Girls! Girls!’ (1962)
#20. ‘Live a Little, Love a Little’ (1968)
#19. ‘Charro!’ (1969)
#18. ‘Spinout’ (1966)
#17. ‘Tickle Me’ (1965)
#16. ‘Fun in Acapulco’ (1963)
#15. ‘Change of Habit’ (1969)
#14. ‘Roustabout’ (1964)
#13. ‘It Happened at the World’s Fair’ (1963)
#12. ‘Kid Galahad’ (1962)
#11. ‘G.I. Blues’ (1960)
#10. ‘Blue Hawaii’ (1961)
#9. ‘Love Me Tender’ (1956)
#8. ‘Wild in the Country’ (1961)
#7. ‘Girl Happy’ (1965)
#6. ‘Viva Las Vegas’ (1964)
#5. ‘Loving You’ (1957)
#4. ‘Flaming Star’ (1960)
#3. ‘Follow That Dream’ (1962)
#2. ‘Jailhouse Rock’ (1957)
#1. ‘King Creole’ (1958)
Contact Brendan Denison at (309) 820-3238. Follow Brendan Denison on Twitter: @BrendanDenison
Brendan Denison is our breaking news reporter. Denison was a digital content producer for WCIA-TV in Champaign and a reporter for The Commercial-News in Danville. He can be reached at (309) 820-3238 and bdenison@pantagraph.com. | https://pantagraph.com/entertainment/local/watch-now-backyard-tire-fire-scorching-hot-alt-country-at-black-dirt-music-festival/article_f4474f60-085e-11ed-a3c1-db864603ca3f.html | 2022-07-20T22:42:26 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/entertainment/local/watch-now-backyard-tire-fire-scorching-hot-alt-country-at-black-dirt-music-festival/article_f4474f60-085e-11ed-a3c1-db864603ca3f.html |
JEWETT, Texas — The Waco Fire Department is sending some of its crews to Leon County to assist with a fire at a coal facility.
The department tweeted that its hazmat unit and other firefighters are providing aid at Texas Westmoreland Coal Company near a power plant on FM 39 in Jewett, Texas. That's in Leon County.
The number of firefighters going to help with the fire is not known at this time; neither is the size of the fire or how it started.
Stay with 6 News as this story develops. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/waco-hazmat-team-called-to-fire-at-leon-county-coal-facility/500-b71b4a3e-6078-4dcf-ac36-dff4d2555c2a | 2022-07-20T22:42:28 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/waco-hazmat-team-called-to-fire-at-leon-county-coal-facility/500-b71b4a3e-6078-4dcf-ac36-dff4d2555c2a |
BLOOMINGTON — The McLean County Museum of History and its visitors center will be temporarily closed starting at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 23, following the Downtown Bloomington Farmers Market.
The museum will reopen to the public at 9 a.m. Tuesday, July 26. The scheduled closing will allow the museum to perform routine maintenance work and cleaning in the public areas of the building.
In this week's BloNo Beats, taste a preview of this weekend's Black Dirt Music Festival by learning about how a little bird in Bloomington helped Backyard Tire Fire write their song "Little Wren." | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-museum-of-history-closing-saturday-afternoon-through-monday/article_e935c4cc-0862-11ed-aecb-772dc00c975f.html | 2022-07-20T22:42:32 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-museum-of-history-closing-saturday-afternoon-through-monday/article_e935c4cc-0862-11ed-aecb-772dc00c975f.html |
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 allegedly involved, who are named in the suit as John Doe and Jane Doe. The victims are being represented by Ben Crump and Paul Grinke.
The incident allegedly 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 lawsuit claims that the employees refused to prepare the food they had paid for 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 claim they then 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.
According to the suit, C.T. then 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. Davis's clothes had to be cut off with the skin still attached by hospital staff, the suit claims, 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 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 and competent employees, 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."
In a statement to WFAA, Taco Bell said it was in contact with the franchise owner and operator.
“We take the safety and wellbeing of team members and customers seriously. Taco Bell is in contact with the franchise owner and operator of this restaurant on this matter and cannot comment on specifics of pending litigation," the company said. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/woman-daughter-suing-taco-bell-manager-pours-bucket-boiling-water-over-them/287-31c889a0-9681-4752-9309-f1c498c5a67f | 2022-07-20T22:42:34 | 0 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/woman-daughter-suing-taco-bell-manager-pours-bucket-boiling-water-over-them/287-31c889a0-9681-4752-9309-f1c498c5a67f |
I am not 100% sure, but I think the very time-honored tradition of teenagers, and younger adults, dating is in great danger of completely unraveling. I do see folks still together, but the way they get together is a startling change from days gone by.
When I was growing up, which some people say never really completely occurred, as a pre-high-schooler you would ask a girl to go steady with you. This meant she would wear your ID bracelet, and all the world would know she was yours. You would only go steady with someone to whom you were very attracted and with whom you had a relationship building already. So, normally you’d get your best friend Joe to tell her best friend Suzy that you wanted to go steady with Cindy. Cindy would then let Suzy know up or down and then tell Joe.
Waiting on the response was sort of like watching a gladiator movie and waiting to see if the emperor would motion thumbs up or down. If up, within a few days you might eventually even talk to the girl who was now your steady.
In high school, you actually had to call the girl and ask her out. This was pre-cellphone, pre-answering machines, and pre-caller ID. Thank God for that. On many occasions, I called 10 times and hung up before there was an answer, then finally getting the nerve to let it ring through and I’d babble around until finally asking if they wanted to go out Friday night. Of course, the girl knew the minute she answered why I called and this invite was soon coming. What she did not know was who was calling when she picked up the phone. It could be her dream guy or it could end up being some dork, like me.
I’ve been told all kinds of excuses for why someone could not go out. My college roommate was once told, over the phone by a potential date, that she would love to go out Friday night but she had to wash her hair that night. What terrible luck to have asked her out on an already scheduled hair-washing night.
Nowadays you can’t call a girl’s house 72 times in a row without an answer. She’ll see caller ID and know it was you. Next thing you know, you have a restraining order out. It works both ways, though. Girls used to not answer the phone, figuring you were calling and later made up some excuse that they were not home. But now, with cellphones, she can’t claim she did not know it was you calling.
I guess they can claim their phone was lost, or battery dead, but most folks now can’t survive more than 10 minutes without a working cellphone, so I doubt that excuse would ring very true.
I’m not sure any of that really even matters. I have two teenagers, and I don’t think anyone calls for a date anyway. I’m not sure how they meet, and I’m not sure I want to know. They seem to just gather up like a school of fish or something. They definitely would never call the home phone to ask someone out. Nothing was worse than calling to ask a girl out and getting her father answering the phone. Normally you at least kinda’ knew her father. I’ve hung up when dad answered on more than one occasion rather than face the expected awkward conversation.
I suppose I’m just glad I missed out on the newer version of the dating game. I prefer to be lied to and then convince myself, “You know she really may have been out of town for three straight months.” But now, if they don’t want you, I suspect you know it. I guess every generation has its challenges. The one before me had to, horror of horrors, ask someone out face to face. This generation will figure it out. I only hope it’s not on hair-washing night. | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/t-gamble-the-challenges-of-dating-in-the-age-of-cellphones/article_cb45a454-0831-11ed-8fde-0719015160d5.html | 2022-07-20T22:44:22 | 0 | https://www.albanyherald.com/local/t-gamble-the-challenges-of-dating-in-the-age-of-cellphones/article_cb45a454-0831-11ed-8fde-0719015160d5.html |
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The latest news from around North Texas. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dog-days-of-summer-louis-and-leo/3019787/ | 2022-07-20T22:47:26 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dog-days-of-summer-louis-and-leo/3019787/ |
The Fort Worth Police Department will offer free active shooting training to all Fort Worth ISD teachers and campus-based staff as part of their collaborative effort with the district to improve school safety, the department announced Wednesday.
"We are pleased to continue our work with the Fort Worth Police Department as we look to take advantage of every resource in protecting our students and employees," said Deputy Superintendent Karen Molinar.
FWPD said the free, four-hour training contains three parts featuring both classroom and scenario-based instruction:
- Civilian Response to Active Shooter Event: Evolution of Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT) Center at Texas State University
- Avoid, Deny, Defend/Run, Hide, Fight: What actions to take to survive an active shooter event
- Stop-the-Bleed: Hands-on training on stopping bleeding by a tourniquet, packing a wound or applying pressure
Interested individuals may register and find training dates/times on the FWPD website here. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/free-active-shooting-training-for-fort-worth-teachers-staff-offered-by-fwpd/3019640/ | 2022-07-20T22:47:33 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/free-active-shooting-training-for-fort-worth-teachers-staff-offered-by-fwpd/3019640/ |
An arrest affidavit shows that Texas Longhorns basketball player Arterio Morris was arrested in June by Frisco Police after being accused of assaulting his girlfriend.
According to a probable cause affidavit, Morris, who is an incoming freshman at UT, went to his girlfriend's house on June 2 to speak with her in person rather than by text.
The conversation turned physical, according to the woman's statement, and Morris allegedly grabbed her by the forearm and pulled her off of a bed. Morris allegedly then grabbed her by her sports bra and pulled on it, creating what police described as a "3-inch long abrasion on the right side of her neck."
According to Frisco Police's affidavit, Morris initially told police there had been no physical contact between him and the woman and that he was surprised she'd called the police. After learning of her allegation, police said Morris altered his statement to say that he may have accidentally grabbed her bra while trying to pull the covers off of her as she ignored his attempts to talk to her.
Morris was arrested on June 2 and charged with misdemeanor assault causing bodily injury to a family member, according to documents obtained by NBC 5.
The Austin American-Statesman reported Morris posted a $3,500 bond and was released on June 3 from the Denton County Jail. The paper also reported that Morris was still working out with the team while they conduct their own investigation.
Morris was a five-star recruit out of Kimball High School and was ranked as the 17th best player nationally and the No. 1 point guard in his class by ESPN. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/incoming-ut-basketball-recruit-accused-of-assaulting-girlfriend/3019569/ | 2022-07-20T22:47:39 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/incoming-ut-basketball-recruit-accused-of-assaulting-girlfriend/3019569/ |
The Austin woman who allegedly shot and killed pro-cyclist Moriah Wilson appeared in an Austin courtroom for the first time Wednesday after spending 43 days on the run.
Kaitlin Armstrong entered the courtroom Wednesday in a red top and striped gray pants. In addition to entering a plea of not guilty, her attorneys filed a motion for a speedy trial.
KXAN’s Grace Reader, who attended the Wednesday hearing, reported the docket call is set for Oct. 19, with a jury trial the week after.
The state said it has more than 100 murder cases backlogged because of the pandemic and argued an October trial would be difficult. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/woman-accused-of-killing-cyclist-pleads-not-guilty-in-austin-court/3019507/ | 2022-07-20T22:47:47 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/woman-accused-of-killing-cyclist-pleads-not-guilty-in-austin-court/3019507/ |
California poised to adopt some of nation’s strictest restrictions on bee-killing pesticides
Widely used insecticides that harm bees and songbirds would face far-reaching restrictions in California under regulations proposed by the state’s pesticide agency.
The new limits would be among the nation’s most extensive for agricultural use of neonicotinoids, a class of insecticides used to kill plant-damaging pests like aphids. The highly potent pesticides have been shown to harm bees, birds and other creatures.
Aimed at protecting bees that pollinate crops, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s proposed rules would restrict four closely related neonicotinoid chemicals: imidacloprid, thiamethoxam, clothianidin and dinotefuran.
Unveiled in February, the rules would limit when and how much can be applied, depending on the specific chemical, the crop and, in some cases, the presence of honeybees or other pollinators. California’s pesticide regulators are still evaluating public feedback and there is no specific timeframe for finalizing the proposal.
What are neonicotinoid chemicals?
Neonicotinoids are the most popular insecticides in the world — although not in California, according to the state pesticide agency.
More than a decade in the making, California’s reevaluation of neonicotinoids began in 2009, after the agency received a report from pesticide manufacturer Bayer CropScience that “showed potentially harmful effects of imidacloprid to pollinators.” A 2014 law set a series of deadlines for reevaluating their risks and adopting “any control measures necessary to protect pollinator health.”
In addition, a bill in the Legislature would ban use of neonicotinoids in homes, yards and other outdoor non-agricultural settings, starting in 2024. A variety of consumer products are registered for use in California, such as BioAdvanced All-in-One Rose and Flower Care Liquid Concentrate, which contains imidacloprid.
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The bill trails other states, including New Jersey and Maine, that have already banned outdoor uses in gardens and residential areas. New Jersey’s ban extends to commercial landscapes, like golf courses, too.
The European Union banned several neonicotinoids for all outdoor uses because of the risks to bees. And other states already have some restrictions on agricultural use, largely by allowing the chemicals to be bought or used only by those with specific training. Rhode Island has also barred neonicotinoids when crops are blooming.
If finalized, California’s proposal to restrict agricultural use could “significantly impact when and how” neonicotinoid products can be used in the nation’s No. 1 agricultural state, according to an analysis by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
“This is critical,” said Karen Morrison, acting chief deputy director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation. “Pollinators play a very important role in the ecosystem at large as well as for crops and being able to produce food in the state.”
California regulators anticipate the rule would reduce neonicotinoids applied to plants and soil by 45%. Seeds coated in neonicotinoids — a major use of the chemicals — would not be restricted.
What do growers say?
California growers say the restrictions could hamstring their power to protect crops and could ultimately lead to worse outcomes for pollinators.
Limiting the use of neonicotinoids could force the citrus industry, for instance, to use other pesticides that are “not necessarily what the state of California wants” and could require “multiple sprays, something that may pose more risk to bees,” said Casey Creamer, president and CEO of California Citrus Mutual, a trade association of citrus growers.
Almonds, cherries, citrus, cotton, grapes, strawberries, tomatoes and walnuts are major crops expected to be highly affected by the restrictions. These crops make up about half of the state’s agricultural exports and two-thirds of the acreage treated with neonicotinoids from 2017 to 2019. Fresno, Kern, Tulare, Monterey and San Joaquin top the list of counties where the most neonicotinoids were applied.
Some replacement chemicals may be more toxic to pests’ natural enemies — worsening infestations, the California agriculture department warned in its analysis.
Such alternatives like pyrethroids, for instance, are also “very toxic to bees, in that they hit the bee, the bee dies. If they're in the spray, they all die,” said Robert Van Steenwyk, a cooperative extension specialist emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the authors of the report. “So, that isn’t a great alternative.”
The regulation contains some exceptions to allow neonicotinoids for invasive pests like the Asian citrus psyllid, which spreads citrus greening disease.
Though the California agriculture department does not anticipate any crop losses, its experts do expect an increase in costs because of the price of replacement pesticides.
The eight highly affected crops collectively earned nearly $19 billion in revenue in 2019, according to the assessment by the California agriculture department. Had the regulations been in place, costs to the growers would have ranged between $13.3 million in 2017 to $12.1 million in 2019.
Representatives of pesticide manufacturer Bayer CropScience raised several concerns about the proposal in a letter to the pesticide agency, including that it “is not grounded in science.” In addition, the proposed pesticide application rates “are not efficacious and therefore will not provide control of target pests” on some crops, the company said.
Birds, bees and aquatic life
Neonicotinoids are a relatively new class of pesticides that hit the market in the 1990s, billed as being less harmful to mammals and other vertebrates.
Inspired by the toxicity of nicotine, neonicotinoids coat crop seeds, are sprayed on plants and drench the soil in fields. The chemicals suffuse the plant and its pollen and nectar, attacking the central nervous systems of insects.
As their use has climbed, so too have studies revealing that they threaten birds, bees, aquatic creatures. Potential human health risks remain under investigation.
Wild bees living and foraging near crops grown from neonicotinoid-treated seeds showed large population die-offs in a study funded by pesticide manufacturers.
Honey bees are reared and managed for their honey production and ability to pollinate crops, among other services. Research shows the insecticides kill worker bees, reduce immunity of the hive and leave colonies without their queens.
The insecticides also decimate zooplankton and therefore the fish that feed on them. Birds stop eating, and delay migration. In an assessment of three of the chemicals, the US Environmental Protection Agency found they are likely to harm between 67% and 79% of federally endangered or threatened species and between 56% and 83% of their critical habitats.
Part of the problem is that the chemicals don’t stay put. They “can move from treated plants to pollinators and from plants to pests to natural enemies,” wrote entomology professors Steve Frank at North Carolina State University and John Tooker of The Pennsylvania State University in the journal PNAS in 2020. “We believe that neonicotinoids pose broader risks to biodiversity and food webs than previously recognized.”
The chemicals are turning up in groundwater and surface water, including 93% of water samples pulled from creeks, rivers, and runoff in Southern California and 97% of samples drawn from agricultural stretches of the Central Coast and Southern California.
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Jacob Cecala learned that neonicotinoids are far more toxic to bees than he anticipated during his graduate research at the University of California, Riverside.
A month after he treated native plants from a California nursery with the neonicotinoid imidacloprid, following the label instructions exactly, Cecala discovered that all his bees were dying — their little bodies still on the flowers.
His goal had been to study the non-fatal effects of the pesticide on a species of bee used for pollinating alfalfa crops. “I was like, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do? How am I going to complete my dissertation?’” Cecala said.
It took him another year — and cutting down the amount of pesticide by two-thirds — to find out that although more bees survived, the survivors still stopped foraging for food as much and their reproduction dropped drastically.
“Bees are insects — they're just as susceptible to these compounds as an aphid or some other insect pest would be,” said Cecala, who is now a postdoctoral scientist at the University of California, Davis. “That's where the problem lies.”
‘Some very concerning gaps remain’
Though environmental advocates applaud state pesticide regulators for the proposed restrictions, they say they’re too limited in scope to address the risks that neonicotinoids pose.
"As is often the case, California is leading the way with the first state regulatory system for neonics in the nation,” said Daniel Raichel, acting director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s pollinator initiative. “It’s an important first step — especially in regards to pollinator protection — but some very concerning gaps remain.”
California does not address, for instance, crop seeds coated with neonicotinoids, which permeate the plant as it grows but also seep into water, soil and other plants. Coated seeds “may introduce a significant contribution of pesticide mass that remains unreported” in California, state officials said in a November workshop.
But the state doesn’t regulate treated seeds as pesticides and found that the seeds don’t pose a significant risk to pollinators, Morrison said, although she added, “this is an area that we’re actively looking at.”
Environmentalists also raised concerns that the proposal is primarily aimed at reducing risk to carefully tended hives of honeybees — not its native bee species and other pollinators.
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But state officials said even though their assessment analyzed the risks to honeybees, the rules would protect wild bees, too.
The proposal bars spraying plants and drenching soil with neonicotinoids when crops that are attractive to bees are blooming, and sets a cap for seasonal application. It also establishes crop-specific restrictions on application rates and timing that, for crops moderately attractive to bees, only apply when hives of honey bees or other managed pollinators are on the field.
“Honey bees are actually pretty odd as far as bees go,” Cecala said. They make honey, for one thing, and live in hives. The consequences of pesticide exposure can be much more drastic for California’s solitary bees. If a solitary mother bee “gets exposed to a pesticide and she is not able to reproduce, that essentially ends her entire genetic line,” Cecala said.
Legislators are considering closing one gap environmental groups have identified in California’s draft regulation: non-agricultural use of the pesticides, including in gardens and commercial landscapes like golf courses. These account for 15 to 20% of known neonicotinoid use in California, according to a legislative analysis of the bill.
The bill, which contains exceptions for veterinary use and indoor pest control, is set to be triaged by the Senate Appropriations Committee in August, when it decides which bills will survive and which will die.
Assemblymember Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, a Democrat from San Ramon and author of the bill, said other states have already taken the lead on banning the use of these chemicals in households and neighborhoods.
“We're not leading the way,” she said. “We’ve got to get our act together!” | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/california/2022/07/20/california-moves-restrict-agriculture-pesticides-harm-bees-honeybees-birds-food-crops-homes-yards/10109890002/ | 2022-07-20T22:49:24 | 0 | https://www.redding.com/story/news/local/california/2022/07/20/california-moves-restrict-agriculture-pesticides-harm-bees-honeybees-birds-food-crops-homes-yards/10109890002/ |
DALLAS — It is hot in North Texas. There’s no doubt about that reality. However, some residents have been complaining about inoperable or malfunctioning air conditioning units in their homes, during the triple-digit temperature streak.
“My children are not doing well in this apartment. We don’t have any A/C. They have asthma,” one woman wrote.
Another viewer messaged, “I am pregnant and fear suffering a heat stroke in my own home.”
Workers with the City of Dallas said air conditioning complaints have significantly increased in recent weeks. It’s something staff with Dallas Code Department said they consider a priority, especially with the heat residents are experiencing.
“The first thing they should do is attempt to contact their manager or the landlord, and make them aware of the fact that they’re having problems with the A/C unit,” said Carl Simpson, an assistant city manager for the City of Dallas.
If reporting the issue to the landlord or property manager doesn’t work, or their staff is slow to respond, Simpson suggests tenants dial 311 to log a complaint with the City of Dallas service staff. The Dallas Code Office has 24 hours to respond to air conditioning complaints.
“They can go online and use our app to file a complaint regarding no A/C,” Simpson added.
City staff considers working air conditioning a life and safety priority during extreme temperatures. However, there are some realities to keep in mind.
“I think that every tenant has a right to be able to say that when I moved into this unit, my A/C was working, and so I expect it to continue working. The reality is sometimes in some of our older homes and older structures our A/C units aren’t equipped to be able to cool at the level that we would like them to in such extreme heat,” explained Simpson.
Dallas Code staff is encouraging tenants to be patient, yet productive, as they work to put pressure on property owners to help keep families cool this summer. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-weather-air-conditioner-problems-rising/287-ec986ee3-9d2f-44bc-a7c6-c61c45853f33 | 2022-07-20T22:50:08 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/dfw-weather-air-conditioner-problems-rising/287-ec986ee3-9d2f-44bc-a7c6-c61c45853f33 |
DALLAS — Zamia's courage is on a long list of great attributes that make her such a wonderful person!
"I'm named after a flower, and I'm unique, and smart, and intelligent and brave," said the 15-year-old.
WFAA met with Zamia at Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, where she faced her fear.
"I want to try and get over my fear by going on the slide, and I want to try and learn how to swim today," she said.
Not only did Zamia get in the water, but she also made waves.
Her caseworker and other workers at Child Protective Services got in the water with her, so that she didn't face her fear alone.
"Thank y'all for treating me nice and being kind to me," she said about her advocates, along with the staff at Great Wolf Lodge.
Zamia thanks her advocates for being there for her -- whether she's learning to swim or overcoming other challenges.
"I feel like they love me because they take good care of us. Even when we act bad, they give us more chances in a day," she said about the staff at her group home.
Zamia thanks her advocates for being there for her -- whether she's learning to swim or overcoming other challenges.
Zamia has been in and out of foster care since she was a little girl.
Developmentally, her caseworker says she is like a10-year-old with a photographic memory.
When WFAA asked Zamia what she desires most, she didn't hesitate.
"I want a home," she said.
Zamia wants loving parents to adopt her.
"I'm gonna show them that I'm a really smart girl and I'm responsible."
Right now, it's Zamia's advocates who treat her like family, which is why she is going to pay it forward in the future.
"I want to be a foster mother because I want to help the kids in CPS custody and make them feel like they're loved. I'm going to show them that no matter how bad you hurt, someone always loves you," she said, sincerely.
Just like water can heal, so can the loving influences in our lives.
Zamia needs parents who will treasure her heart and help her to continue to blossom.
For more information on how to adopt Zamia, please send all approved home studies to LaQueena Warren at LaQueena.Warren@dfps.texas.gov. Please remember to include Zamia's name within the subject line.
If you're not licensed, please visit adoptchildren.org to find out more information on how to become licensed to foster and/or adopt or contact LaQueena Warren at 817-304-1272.
If you would like to read more Wednesday's Child stories, click here. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/outreach/wednesdays-child/wednesdays-child-15-year-old-zamia/287-98a2039f-3cc7-4d21-bdac-5d704aa0ceff | 2022-07-20T22:50:14 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/outreach/wednesdays-child/wednesdays-child-15-year-old-zamia/287-98a2039f-3cc7-4d21-bdac-5d704aa0ceff |
PARKER COUNTY, Texas — Crews in Parker County are currently battling a large grass fire between Weatherford and Springtown.
Sean Hughes, of the Parker County fire marshals, says the fire is happening near FM 51 and Veal Station Road, about 30 miles northwest of Fort Worth.
According to Hughes, the fire has burned about 40 acres so far. He says there have been some evacuations but didn't specify where.
Hughes says assistance from the Texas A&M Forest Service has been requested.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information is released. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/parker-county-crews-working-large-grass-fire-springtown/287-9583d8d9-3d53-45e2-b03c-c801a8a542f2 | 2022-07-20T22:50:20 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/parker-county-crews-working-large-grass-fire-springtown/287-9583d8d9-3d53-45e2-b03c-c801a8a542f2 |
The Highland Acres neighborhood in Bismarck has been added to the National Register of Historic Places after a long collaborative effort involving the city, state and neighborhood volunteers.
It becomes the capital city's third such district, joining the Downtown Bismarck Historic District and the Cathedral Area Historic District.
Amy Sakariassen said she remembers moving to Bismarck in 1981 and thinking she couldn't wait to see Highland Acres be old enough for the National Register, the federal government’s list of properties considered worthy of preservation and recognition. The chair of the Bismarck Historic Preservation Commission said she was thrilled to see the district receive the designation.
"It took a long time but it's pretty exciting," she said. "From the first time I laid eyes on the neighborhood I thought it was pretty special and unique. It speaks to such a time period and such a spirit of development and planning."
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The process did not come without controversy, however, with some neighborhood residents viewing it as a tactic to delay the installation of sidewalks.
Neighborhood history
Highland Acres was developed after World War II as a housing cooperative for returning veterans and their families. Sakariassen said the design and layout of the district was novel for its time: curved streets, irregularly shaped lots and cul-de-sacs to fit the hilly topography of the area. She said the way the district is organized tells a story about the people who built and lived there.
"I can go into a neighborhood anywhere and I can look at the houses, pick out what is dominant and know then what the values to that area (were) and the time that it was built," she said. "This was a neighborhood that was built for veterans -- a place they could afford to live in -- and you can see there was a desire for a sense of community, sheltering, comforting -- a kind of retreat for them."
The historic district includes the original 1946 planned and platted area for Highland Acres, the 1960 Second Addition, and replatted subdivisions from 1953 and 1963. The boundary was based upon the development timeline, the age of buildings, and the visual and aesthetic connections of properties.
Sakariassen said almost all of the houses in the district are considered to be contributing, or adding historical integrity, to the district as a whole.
Senior City Planner Will Hutchings said there has been a request to add the Torrance Addition as an amendment, which would put around 20 homes along Arthur Drive on the Register if approved.
Nomination history
The nomination process was started in 2017 by a group consisting mostly of Highland Acres homeowners, including Bruce Whittey, who helped spearhead the project. Whittey, who moved to Highland Acres 18 years ago, said he is a second-generation resident, as his parents had lived in the neighborhood in the 1960s and '70s. He said he was inspired to start the nomination process after learning about his neighborhood's history and seeing the Cathedral Area Historic District develop.
"I think this particular neighborhood has just a fascinating history," Whittey said. "It is such a compelling story that is unique for North Dakota; we just thought it was a good move."
After the completion of some site surveys, the project turned out to be too much for the group of volunteers, so they "needed to call in the professionals," Whittey said. A year later the city of Bismarck became a "certified local government" so that it could provide resources for historic preservation projects.
Cities can become a certified local government through a National Park Service program under which municipalities become eligible for funding and other aid by committing to local preservation efforts, so future generations can be aware of their cultural heritage.
Bismarck hired Metcalf Archeological Consultants in 2020 to complete site surveys with assistance from the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
Highland acres was officially accepted by the Register on July 6, sooner than expected, according to Sakariassen.
"It was so quick. The turnaround oftentimes is far longer than it was this time, so it meant it was a good nomination," she said.
Sidewalk dispute
Adding sidewalks to the neighborhood has been a contentious point for some homeowners over the years. There are sidewalks along areas such as main roads but not in more private cul-de-sac areas.
Whittey in July 2017 asked the city to delay installing city-mandated sidewalks in Highland Acres for fear that it could disqualify the neighborhood from being listed in the Register. The City Commission has delayed sidewalk installation a few times since 2017. Supporters of sidewalks have said not having them is a safety concern and that the nomination project was used as a delay tactic.
City Engineer Gabe Schell said now that the district is on the Register, sidewalk additions would first have to go through the Historic Preservation Commission and the State Historical Society. He added that as long as a proposed change is not too aggressive or impactful -- such as adding a retaining wall next to the sidewalk -- it is likely to be implemented. There are no plans to add sidewalks this year, but Schell said the city always welcomes input on where residents would, and would not, like to see sidewalks.
Sakariassen said much of the opposition stemmed from a misunderstanding of what being on the National Register means. She said property owners will not face restrictions or covenants from the National Park Service unless they are receiving federal funds to maintain or repair their historical property.
Having a property listed does not prevent homeowners from altering their property, restrict the use or sale of the property, or require times that the property must be open to the public, according to the State Historical Society. Significant alterations to a property can change its historically contributing status, however.
"There isn’t any downside, really," Sakariassen said. "It's just a nice recognition that the history of this place matters in this country." | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarcks-highland-acres-district-added-to-national-register-of-historic-places/article_e4a70310-0788-11ed-8551-cb58ef34a138.html | 2022-07-20T22:56:52 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarcks-highland-acres-district-added-to-national-register-of-historic-places/article_e4a70310-0788-11ed-8551-cb58ef34a138.html |
Attorneys for police being sued over the 2020 death of a Mandan man say the officers used reasonable force, their actions were necessary in the situation and the lawsuit should be dismissed.
They argue further that the family of John “Ernie” Prudente waited too long to file the federal lawsuit on Feb. 8, 2022, the second anniversary of his death. He died after a traffic stop ended with a struggle between him and officers that sent him to the hospital, where he died.
Prudente’s family named Mandan Police Officers Mary Hamilton, Joshua Scherr and Dominic Hanson; Lt. Peter Czapiewski; Sgt. David Raugust; and the city of Mandan in the wrongful death suit. Hanson is no longer with the department.
The family in the complaint alleges that officers stopped Prudente based on an arrest warrant for an unpaid parking ticket that was in his father’s name, used unreasonable force, weren’t adequately trained, and were told Prudente had mental health issues but “acted with deliberate indifference to his medical needs.”
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The city failed to adequately "train, supervise and control employees in the dangers of repeated Taser shocks" and restraint methods on people with preexisting medical conditions, and the officers’ conduct "constitutes a pattern of constitutional violations" by the police department, the complaint states.
The family seeks unspecified money damages for emotional distress, burial and related expenses, along with monetary damages as a way of punishing the defendants.
Attorney Alyssa Lovas in an answer filed Tuesday said the family’s claims are barred by state law including the statute of limitations, and that officers are not liable for injuries inflicted in the use of reasonable force. She further states the suit can’t be heard in federal court under the 11th Amendment, which limits the ability of people to bring certain lawsuits in federal court.
Lovas also argues that officers are immune from civil liability unless they violate someone's statutory or constitutional rights.
Police said Prudente, 36, drove off after they initiated a traffic stop on Feb. 8, 2020, pulled into the driveway of a home owned by his father, fought with officers and continued to struggle after being handcuffed. He then became “limp and unresponsive,” police said. Officers administered CPR, used an external defibrillator and gave Prudente a dose of Narcan. He was transported to a Bismarck hospital, and police learned later that he had died.
The lawsuit alleges Prudente drove from the traffic stop to the home and that Hamilton and Raugust followed him inside. Prudente lived with his parents, who told the officers he had mental health issues. Hamilton used her Taser on Prudente for one, five, and three seconds, and Raugust used his once for five seconds, the document states.
Prudente according to autopsy reports died of “excited delirium as a result of methamphetamine use and underlying diagnoses.”
Raugust and Hamilton were placed on administrative leave after the incident. They returned to duty after an investigation by the North Dakota Bureau of Criminal Investigation concluded the officers had not committed a crime, Deputy Chief Lori Flaten said at the time. The autopsy showed no evidence of the use of excessive force, she said.
Excited or agitated delirium is characterized by “agitation, aggression, acute distress and sudden death, often in the pre-hospital care setting,” according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of a branch of the National Institutes of Health. The syndrome is associated with the use of drugs that alter dopamine processing, hypothermia, “and most notably, sometimes with death of the affected person in the custody of law enforcement,” according to the center. A treatment plan has not been established in part because most patients die before arriving at a hospital.
Groups including the American Civil Liberties Union have questioned the use of "excited delirium" as a medical term. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/city-mandan-officers-seek-dismissal-of-wrongful-death-suit/article_842f2a66-0865-11ed-b3c5-e39e19b05eb2.html | 2022-07-20T22:56:58 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/city-mandan-officers-seek-dismissal-of-wrongful-death-suit/article_842f2a66-0865-11ed-b3c5-e39e19b05eb2.html |
BUCHANAN COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) – Buchanan County is no stranger to natural disasters. Parts of the county were rocked by floods that destroyed dozens of homes earlier in July, prompting several agencies and hundreds of volunteers to respond.
Less than a year earlier in August 2021, the county – and specifically the Hurley area – fell victim to flooding that killed one person and displaced several more.
But predating both instances was the flooding of 1977, which devastated large swathes of the Southwest Virginia region and Buchanan County especially. Some of the victims of 2022’s floods drew unwelcome comparisons to the disaster decades before.
“This house went through the ’77 flood, so it had a lot of sand and stuff in it then,” said Jeffrey Horne, who spoke with News Channel 11 as he cleaned his aunt’s house. “So it survived one, but this is worse.”
The Virginia Emergency Management Agency updated its original damage assessments Wednesday, now estimating that 32 homes were destroyed, 59 were damaged and another 36 were affected.
“It got more water in it, a lot of sand in the floors,” Horne said. “We pulled the carpets out. The fire company [came] down, and we washed down with a fire hose – the mattresses. It was pretty much the same kind of damage, but there’s more mud in the house this time.”
Burns Mullins lives on Dismal River Road and told News Channel 11 that the latest floods far exceeded the damage done by the 1977 disaster.
“At least ten times worse in my opinion,” Mullins said. “People got washed off. It’s come up and messed us up, and we’ve never had no water in here before in 50 years.”
“It had a lot more power to it,” Horne said, comparing the latest floods to 1977. He said a nearby camper was swept up in the floodwaters and collided with his aunt’s house, taking off a whole brick side of the structure. “It was deep, and now you’ve got so much mildew and mold in there. I don’t feel it will be liveable for anybody.”
Crews have been hard at work attempting to clear debris that was swept into creeks and rivers nearby. Officials say everything from furniture and propane tanks to vehicles and actual pieces of houses have been removed from various locations.
“There’s no telling what’s been in this water,” said quality paving supervisor Mac Osborne. “You’ve got that tank yonder. There’s no telling what was in that tank. It contaminates the water.”
Crews say clearing debris from below bridges is the first priority so water can flow rather than build up and cause further risk.
The extent of the damage varies for each victim. Some face a few days of clean-up, while others are looking at a timeline of years.
“We had stuff lost, but it’s no problem,” said Mullins. “We’re still alive.”
“It’s a sad feeling,” Horne said. “It really is. There is no comparison; this was totally worse.”
To donate to the Buchanan County 2022 Disaster Fund, text GIVE to 276-200-2440 or click here. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/buchanan-co-victims-say-recent-floods-were-worse-than-1977-disaster/ | 2022-07-20T22:59:26 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/buchanan-co-victims-say-recent-floods-were-worse-than-1977-disaster/ |
PILGRIM’S KNOB, Va. (WJHL) — After flood waters swept through part of Buchanan County last week, flood survivor James Keene is trying to salvage what he can, but there isn’t much left.
“It’s all gone. It’s no good,” Keene said.
The floods destroyed 32 homes and damaged dozens of others, according to the Virginia Department of Emergency Management.
Keen said “it looked like a tidal wave coming in on an ocean.”
“It broke the windows out,” he said. “That door was closed over there, it was pushed open. All the water coming this way in and then it went all through the house.”
Losing his home of 20 years isn’t the only tragedy Keene has been forced to deal with lately. Last month, he lost his wife.
“On top of that, my wife just passed away June 11th…then this happened,” Keene said, adding that it has felt like he’s been in a daze for two months.
Now that the floodwaters have receded, Keene is digging through the mud to salvage his wife’s things.
“I was just looking for stuff that belonged to my wife. I wasn’t worried about my stuff,” he said.
“Because it was hers. It was sentimental. It belonged to her. I just wanted to save what I could for her memory.”
Keene and his wife Doris had been married 61 years.
“I couldn’t ask for no better person in this world, and I wouldn’t trade her for all the money in the world,” he said.
Keene and his dog are currently staying in a hotel, at least through the end of the month. He isn’t sure what will come after that.
To donate to the Buchanan County 2022 Disaster Fund, text GIVE to 276-200-2440 or click here. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/buchanan-county-flood-survivor-searches-for-late-wifes-belongings/ | 2022-07-20T22:59:32 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/buchanan-county-flood-survivor-searches-for-late-wifes-belongings/ |
FLINT, Mich. (WJRT) – With an election close by, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office held their second meet the candidates forum for jail inmates eligible to vote.
“All voting is important to our society and I don’t think we need to separate that,” former Mayor Karen Weaver said.
The town hall forum is giving those behind bars a second chance by helping inform them before they cast their ballot.
“They have a right to vote in jail and a lot of times they don’t have the chance to know these candidates,” Genesee County Ambassador Johnell Allen-Bey said.
Three candidates running for Flint mayor: Eric Mays, former mayor Karen Weaver and incumbent Sheldon Neeley, gathered with their constituents currently waiting to be sentenced at the Genesee County jail Wednesday morning to talk policy and answer questions from their constituents.
Ambassadors with the I.G.N.I.T.E program say all inmates in attendance are eligible to vote and should have the chance to take interest in who will be on the ballot.
“Part of the process for people to come in and be successful is giving that right to vote,” Allen-Bey said. “That's what we’re doing here. We’re allowing people to accomplish something.”
The mayoral candidates say the opportunity is part of bettering jail reform and giving them a second chance to be part of change in where they live before they were placed behind bars.
“In 2020 Genesee County was disfranchised, that means our inmates didn’t get a chance to vote,” he said. “Something had to change because of the fact that this is a constitutional right and they weren’t able to exercise that right.”
These voters will have the chance to cast their ballot through absentee ballot in all upcoming elections.
The Genesee County Sheriff's department is looking to hold more town halls before the November election with other candidates running for county positions. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/mayoral-candidates-meet-with-genesee-county-jail-inmates/article_6bf0ac92-0868-11ed-ae8d-cbfbe18d30c5.html | 2022-07-20T23:04:32 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/mayoral-candidates-meet-with-genesee-county-jail-inmates/article_6bf0ac92-0868-11ed-ae8d-cbfbe18d30c5.html |
HIGH POINT — Deputies seized 15 dogs they suspect were intended for a dog fighting operation, according to a news release from the Guilford County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies executed a search warrant at 1209 Penny Road and seized three adult male dogs, three adult female dogs and nine recently born puppies, the release said.
The owner of the premises, Toriano Marcellus Cave, 51, was arrested and charged with one felony count of owning and/or possessing a dog with the intent that the dog be used in a fight with another animal, according to the release..
Deputies were assisted by Guilford County Animal Services, The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The sheriff's office said the incident is part of an ongoing criminal investigation, but that no further information would immediately be released.
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Anyone with information concerning this matter is asked to contact Detective Weavil at 336-641-5988 or Guilford County Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/15-dogs-seized-in-high-point-property-owner-faces-charge-related-to-dog-fighting/article_c870ad82-0872-11ed-91ee-c35844dd4e4f.html | 2022-07-20T23:09:06 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/15-dogs-seized-in-high-point-property-owner-faces-charge-related-to-dog-fighting/article_c870ad82-0872-11ed-91ee-c35844dd4e4f.html |
GIBSONVILLE — Authorities released photos of a person they are looking for in connection with the theft of jewelry on Wednesday, according to a news release from the Gibsonville Police Department.
The theft of an undisclosed amount of jewelry occurred at Wades Jewelers at 101 E. Main St., police said.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Alamance County Crime Stoppers at 336-229-7100, Guilford County Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000 or Gibsonville police at 336-449-6677. You can also download the mobile P3tips app to submit a mobile tip, or go to P3tips.com to submit a web tip. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/authorities-release-photo-in-gibsonville-jewelry-theft/article_9658a9dc-0875-11ed-ac89-f35b4a1e57de.html | 2022-07-20T23:09:12 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/authorities-release-photo-in-gibsonville-jewelry-theft/article_9658a9dc-0875-11ed-ac89-f35b4a1e57de.html |
GREENSBORO — Hospital admissions of confirmed COVID-19 patients continue to increase across North Carolina, according to a report released on Wednesday.
Statewide, at least 1,099 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospitals during the week ending July 16. That’s up from 971 the previous week, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
Nationwide, new hospital admissions increased 7.8% from the previous week, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as the BA.5 subvariant of omicron is becoming the dominant strain.
In Cone Health hospitals on Wednesday, 57 patients were hospitalized with the coronavirus. Of those patients, 28 are unvaccinated and 29 are fully vaccinated.
On its website, Cone Health posted this message accompanying the data: "Rising numbers of vaccinated patients in Cone Health hospitals can be traced to several factors. Few people getting a second booster, existing vaccination wearing off and an increase in the number of people testing positive without serious symptoms all contribute."
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The note emphasized that Cone Health encourages everyone at high risk to get a second booster shot. State vaccination data released to the public each Wednesday does not indicate how many residents have received a second booster.
In North Carolina, there were 27,930 newly reported cases during the week ending July 16 — up from 26,014 the previous week, according to the DHHS report.
Guilford County’s “community level” remains a “low” classification as determined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which uses several metrics to classify the impact of COVID-19 illness on health and health care systems in a county. Alamance and Forsyth counties were listed with a "high" community level on Wednesday.
Locally, public health officials reported 205 new infections for a total of 2,332 active cases on Wednesday and no new deaths. The single-day positivity rate was 14.9%, meaning that’s the percentage of tests coming back positive for COVID-19.
The percentage of all emergency room visits statewide for patients with coronavirus symptoms was 6% during the week ending July 16 — down slightly from 6.3% the previous week, according to the state report.
Another metric that health experts are watching closely is the number of COVID-19 virus particles found in wastewater, which has been shown to be an early indicator of how quickly the virus may spread without relying on individual test results.
In the state’s latest report, 25.7 million coronavirus particles were found in wastewater samples during the week ending July 13 — a notable increase from 16.5 million the week prior.
By comparison, 100 million COVID-19 particles were found in wastewater samples in late January during the peak of the omicron surge. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/hospital-admissions-of-covid-19-patients-continue-to-rise-in-nc-nationwide/article_29bc0d0c-086e-11ed-862d-774dbe3baee7.html | 2022-07-20T23:09:18 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/hospital-admissions-of-covid-19-patients-continue-to-rise-in-nc-nationwide/article_29bc0d0c-086e-11ed-862d-774dbe3baee7.html |
The Cerro Gordo County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to set up a special fund account to receive the first of its $43,600 payment related to the settlement of a class-action litigation against pharmaceuticals, manufacturers, and distributors of opioids.
Heather Mathre, Cerro Gordo County Finance Director, said they will be receiving the money over the course of 16 years. These payments reflect the $174 million the state of Iowa expects to receive, which will be split evenly between the state and local government.
Iowa’s Attorney General, Tom Miller, has been challenging and suing manufacturers and distributors who have contributed to the national opioid crisis. In February a $26 billion settlement was reached in a national case against four drug distribution companies, Cardinal, McKesson, Amerisource and Johnson & Johnson.
This settlement agreement showcases three years of negotiations, resolving more than 4,000 claims from state and local governments across the country. This is the second largest multi-state agreement in US history, with all 52 states and U.S. territories signing on. The largest was the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement in 1998.
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Each settlement includes funds that will be used to abate the opioid crisis through prevention and treatment. In a press conference after the announcement of the Class Action settlement Miller said, “The funds from this agreement will go a long way toward addressing Iowa’s opioid crisis and provide help to those who need it.”
Cerro Gordo County Chief Administrative Officer Tom Meyer said the Iowa Attorney General’s office has established a Memorandum of Understanding with the Iowa counties and cities which govern the allocation of settlement funds.
Meyer said the board of supervisors will read through the Memorandum of Understanding with its accompanying guidelines and will hold a public meeting and discussion to determine how they would like to proceed.
Mary Loden covers city and county government for the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by emailing Mary.Loden@globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/cerro-gordo-county-to-receive-opioid-settlement-funds/article_5e4bbe43-747b-503a-851e-f41135916e2f.html | 2022-07-20T23:13:46 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/cerro-gordo-county-to-receive-opioid-settlement-funds/article_5e4bbe43-747b-503a-851e-f41135916e2f.html |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — Two men now face several charges in what Fayetteville Police Department investigators have deemed a kidnapping case.
Police released their update Wednesday, a day after they were called to the Woodbyne Subdivision and blocked entry into the neighborhood for hours. Law enforcement descended there after a person called 911 and whispered that they had been kidnapped by an organization, according to police.
Officers arrived at a home along Selwyn Court where 10 people were inside. Nine walked out of the home willingly, an 18-year-old was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to investigators.
Authorities arrested 36-year-old Augustus Romain and charged him with two counts each of aggravated sodomy, conspiracy to commit a felony, false imprisonment, kidnapping, aggravated assault and criminal street gang activity.
At the scene Tuesday, Romain identified himself as Gazi Kodzo, the homeowner, and told an 11Alive crew that he had concerns about how the SWAT situation was handled and questioned how the 18-year-old ended up dead.
While police said it appears the 18-year-old's wounds were self-inflicted, Romain questioned that and called for body cam video to be released.
Meanwhile, a 21-year-old man was also arrested and faces charges of conspiracy to commit a felony, false imprisonment, kidnapping, aggravated assault, criminal street gang activity and obstruction.
Both Romain and the 21-year-old have since been booked into the Fayette County jail on warrants relating to the reported kidnapping. According to police, the two are residents of the home.
Police did not offer any other details about the other individuals in the home. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/fayetteville/fayetteville-swat-scene-kidnapping-aggravated-assault-charges/85-6d6542bd-d94f-4287-98d4-1ca08d5a0c5c | 2022-07-20T23:13:48 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/fayetteville/fayetteville-swat-scene-kidnapping-aggravated-assault-charges/85-6d6542bd-d94f-4287-98d4-1ca08d5a0c5c |
Palm Coast sets maximum possible tax rate of $4.61, which would be a tax increase
The Palm Coast City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a maximum possible tax rate of $4.61 per $1,000 of taxable value. If approved, it would be a tax increase because property owners would pay more due to rising values.
The City Council must vote on the rate two more times before it can take effect. The council can lower the rate but by law cannot increase it.
The $4.61 rate would be the same as this year but would generate more money due to increased property values. If approved, the $4.61 rate would generate $33.8 million, according to a presentation by city staff.
The $4.61 is 13% more than the rolled-back rate of $4.01 per $1,000 of taxable value. The rolled-back rate is the amount that would produce the same revenue as the current rate, using the new assessments of the same properties.
The first public hearing on the tax rate is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. Sept. 8 at City Hall when the City Council will set a tentative budget and tax rate. The final hearing and vote is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. on Sept. 21 at City Hall.
If approved, the $4.61 rate means that the owner of a $250,000 house with a homestead exemption of $50,000 would pay $922 in property taxes to the city.
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Non-exempt property in the city of Palm Coast is valued at $7.6 billion, an increase of 19.7%, according to an assessment by the property appraiser’s office. About 5% percent of that, or $315 million, is due to new construction, city staff said.
The city plans to hire 12 new full-time workers with money from the general fund. The city currently has about 244 employees paid through the general fund. Among the new hires, if approved, would be two new firefighter/emergency medical technicians and a fire inspector, and two new equipment operators for public works. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/07/20/palm-coast-sets-maximum-possible-tax-rate-4-61-increase/10094476002/ | 2022-07-20T23:16:25 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/07/20/palm-coast-sets-maximum-possible-tax-rate-4-61-increase/10094476002/ |
Tucson police are looking for a vehicle involved in a hit and run collision early Sunday morning on the city's south side that left a man seriously injured.
On July 17, the driver of a Chevrolet Camaro was traveling east on West Irvington Road through South 12th Avenue when it struck a man who was in the crosswalk just east of the intersection, police said. The Camaro is believed to be between model years 2010 and 2015.
The Camaro was last seen traveling east on Irvington Road, police said. Detectives believe the Camaro will have front-end damage and it appears to be a convertible.
The pedestrian has serious injuries and remains hospitalized.
Anyone with information, especially those in the auto body repair business, are asked to call 88-CRIME, the anonymous tipster line.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-searching-for-driver-who-hit-pedestrian/article_97764214-0877-11ed-8d6b-0ba2109b0cde.html | 2022-07-20T23:19:36 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-searching-for-driver-who-hit-pedestrian/article_97764214-0877-11ed-8d6b-0ba2109b0cde.html |
The annual Congressional Steel Caucus hearing on the state of the steel industry in Washington D.C. touted a strong sector that still faces challenges, such as decarbonization and the threat of imports.
Co-chair Congressman Frank Mrvan said the bipartisan Congressional Steel Caucus continues to advocate for the success of the domestic steel industry and steelworkers, including those in Northwest Indiana.
"I am proud that one of my formative votes in the 117th Congress was for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which included expanded and strengthened Buy America requirements," he said. "I also am grateful to have advocated with my fellow Steel Caucus leaders and Members for the value and continuation of the Section 232 steel tariffs, and also expressed support through the Appropriations Committee for adequate funding for the International Trade Administration in the Department of Commerce and the International Trade Commission."
He's also been advocating for more tariffs targeting foreign steelmakers looking to dump steel that it can't sell in its home markets at a loss in the United States.
"I also am proud to have testified before the International Trade Commission on five different occasions during my first term in Congress, and I look forward to being in front of them again tomorrow," Mrvan said. "All of these initiatives would not be possible without the support and advocacy of my fellow Steel Caucus leaders, members, industry, and members of organized labor and the United Steelworkers."
International President of United Steelworkers Tom Conway said the steel industry continues to thrive despite economic strains.
"Although both the U.S. and the world’s economy are being stressed in significant ways, the fundamentals of the domestic steel industry are strong because of cooperation between industry, government, and labor," he said. "The passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will add between 40 to 50 million tons of steel demand over the course of the next five years. Congress’ addition of the Build America, Buy America provisions require that all federally-financed infrastructure projects use American-made iron and steel. BABA provisions allow for the creation of good-paying jobs and increased demand for the domestic steel industry."
Increased procurement of domestic steel will be a big boon to the industry, Conway said.
"Take for example the Department of Housing and Urban Development: just one account at HUD spends over $400 million dollars annually on clean water and drinking water materials, such as sewer pipe," he said. "Two other agencies already ensure that U.S. workers get the first shot at making those materials. It’s time to harmonize our procurement rules using BABA to maximize domestic manufacturing jobs, and Congress must continue its oversight of these agencies."
Efforts to reduce greenhouse gases should focus on new technologies and preserving jobs and manufacturing capacity, Conway said.
"Domestic efforts to confront climate change create opportunities and challenges," he said. "Expanding clean technology manufacturing, for example, can create opportunity with new demand for steel products that go into wind turbines to smart grid to EV charging infrastructure. The clean tech industry and policymakers must create demand for those domestically produced steel products, and the steel industry must grow the capacity to manufacture them."
Cleveland Cliffs President, Chairman and CEO Lourenco Goncalves, said American manufacturing was due for a revival.
"First — we have, right now, a real opportunity to reverse this misguided 30-plus-year-old failure called globalization. And we can only do that by rebuilding the American manufacturing sector," he said. "Over the past two years, the United States has experienced two painful lessons in over-reliance on other countries: the COVID pandemic, and Russia’s war in Ukraine. The pandemic resulted in the realization by the broader society that the United States has outsourced to China and other nations the production of goods and materials needed for the health of our people and the basic functioning of our economy. Backlogged ports, trucking shortages and customs delays were not the cause of supply chain problems, but rather symptoms of the relentless and systematic outsourcing of American manufacturing."
The events of the last few years have shown that global supply chains are nowhere near as reliable as they had seemed, Goncalves said.
"The second lesson came with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the grim realization that a conventional shooting war between global superpowers is an ever-present threat," he said. "The promise that unrestrained free trade would lead to a lasting global peace is a farce. The invasion was undeniable evidence of the strategic realignment of the world, with the United States and its allies on the side of democratic values, and with Russia and China using unbridled aggression to grow territory, suppress dissent and commit human rights abuses."
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USW leaders have been meeting in committees and reviewing what members want before they finalize the proposals they plan to bring to the bargaining table next week.
McColly Real Estate Founder Ronald F. McColly is transitioning to a chairman role after starting and long running what's billed as "the largest independent residential real estate company in Northwest Indiana." | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/congressional-steel-caucus-hearing-touts-strong-industry-real-opportunity-to-rebuild-american-manufacturing-sector/article_f3d43309-ac6a-553f-8882-541c6c2ba450.html | 2022-07-20T23:20:37 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/congressional-steel-caucus-hearing-touts-strong-industry-real-opportunity-to-rebuild-american-manufacturing-sector/article_f3d43309-ac6a-553f-8882-541c6c2ba450.html |
Steel Dynamics, the largest steelmaker headquartered in Indiana, plans to build a $1.9 billion aluminum flat-rolled mill, diversifying its product mix to encompass new markets.
The Fort Wayne-based steelmaker, a competitor to U.S. Steel and Cleveland-Cliffs, plans to invest a total of $2.2 billion in the 650,000-ton aluminum flat-rolled mill and two slab centers that will feed it with recycled material.
“We are incredibly excited to announce this meaningful growth opportunity, which is aligned with our existing business and operational expertise,” Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Mark D. Millett said. “We have intentionally grown with our customers’ needs, providing efficient sustainable supply-chain solutions for the highest quality products. Thus far, this has primarily been achieved within the carbon steel industry — however, a significant number of our carbon flat-rolled steel customers are also consumers and processors of aluminum flat-rolled products."
Steel Dynamics plans to build the new mill at a yet-to-be-determined location in the southeastern United States. It will recycle aluminum scrap to make a variety of aluminum flat-rolled products.
The steelmaker expects the aluminum mill will generate about $650 million to $700 million in Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization a year. The capital project will be funded with the company's cash on hand and cash flow.
It's meant to meet the increasing demand for aluminum from automakers and the beverage can industry. It's estimated there's currently a supply deficit of 2 million tons a year, with imports capturing more than 25% of the existing market share in North America.
Steel Dynamics will pursue a joint venture with Unity Aluminum but own 94% of the rolling mill, which is expected to begin manufacturing in the first quarter of 2025. The operation will include finishing lines such as annealing, continuous coating, slitting and packaging.
It will be fed by about 900,000 tons of aluminum slab a year, including from new slab centers Steel Dynamics plans to build in the southwestern United States and North Central Mexico. Steel Dynamics will own 100% of the satellite slab centers, which will collectively cost about $350 million to construct.
"We are announcing our plans to broaden our ability to serve our existing and new customers by adding high-quality, low-carbon flat rolled aluminum to our product portfolio. We are also excited to further diversify our end markets with plans to supply the sustainable beverage can industry," Millett said. "We believe our unique performance-based operating culture, coupled with our considerable experience in successfully constructing and operating cost-effective, highly profitable carbon flat rolled steel mills, positions us exceptionally well to execute this strategic opportunity in an adjacent metal space, and to deliver strong long-term value creation.”
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MERRILLVILLE — Three are in custody after a fight ensued at Deep River Water Park on Wednesday evening, police said.
Lake County Sheriff's Department said a man and a woman pushed a lifeguard around 5 p.m. Officers approached the individuals, who then tried to run and leave the property.
When officers attempted to catch them, they were surrounded by more than 30 people, and a ruckus ensued.
In addition to the three in custody, eight were detained for questioning, police said.
Lake County Sheriff's Department said it had no additional information at this time. Merrillville Police Department and Hobart Police Department assisted with the incident, helping disperse the crowd.
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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CROWN POINT — The Lake County commissioners believe voters should elect Lake Superior Court judges instead of continuing to rely on a state-mandated merit selection process that ends with the governor appointing new judges for the county.
The Democratic-controlled Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 along party lines Wednesday to adopt a resolution urging the Republican-controlled General Assembly to terminate Lake County's status as one of four Indiana counties whose voters are not permitted to elect all their judges.
The two commissioners favoring the resolution, Mike Repay, D-Hammond, and Kyle Allen Sr., D-Gary, said they don't have any issues with Lake County judges, past or present, who secured their spot on the bench through merit selection.
Rather, they simply believe Lake County's 40-year experiment with merit selection should come to an end and Lake County voters be given the same opportunity as nearly all other Hoosiers to choose their judges through elections.
"It's time for the people of Lake County to have the same rights as the people of Jasper and Porter and almost every other county in the state," Repay said.
Commissioner Jerry Tippy, R-Schererville, opposed the resolution. He said that ending merit selection likely would eliminate the court's partisan balance that largely has served Lake County well.
The resolution adopted by the commissioners follows similar action by the Democratic-controlled Lake County Council, which voted 5-2 along party lines in March to call for elected superior court judges in Lake County.
During debate on that measure, Councilman David Hamm, D-Hammond, noted that 85% of Indiana's Black population lives in the counties where voters aren't allowed to elect their judges: Lake, St. Joseph, Allen and Marion.
"I'll call it for what it is. I think it's racism," Hamm said. "It appears to me the African American community is being slighted."
The General Assembly earlier this year did not take up legislation that would have authorized elected judges in Lake County in place of merit selection.
In fact, the Legislature last year gave Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb more say over the five finalists recommended to him for appointment by Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission, in addition to continuing to allow Holcomb to select the county's new superior court judges.
House Enrolled Act 1453 (2021) shrunk the nominating commission to seven members from nine and eliminated the members previously chosen by Lake County lawyers and judges in favor of members selected by the governor.
That prompted Democratic Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. to file a still-pending federal lawsuit challenging the state mandate that Lake Superior Court judges continue to be chosen through merit selection instead of by voters.
Lake County voters this year actually will get the opportunity to elect one judge because the Indiana Constitution mandates the single circuit court jurist be elected to the bench in all 92 counties in the state.
Seven Lake Superior Court judges appointed by the governor also will be on the Nov. 8 general election ballot seeking voter approval to retain their seats for another six years.
The appeals court said a 1981 Indiana law authorizing the council to take over the county's purchasing from the commissioners remains valid, even though the council waited nearly 40 years to do so.
Newton County native Derek Molter will succeed Justice Steven David on the Indiana Supreme Court when David retires from the five-justice bench later this year.
"There is no logical, feasible and fair explanation as to why Lake County can't elect its superior court judges," said Councilman Charlie Brown, D-Gary.
Gov. Eric Holcomb is urging a federal commission studying possible reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court to not even consider increasing the number of justices serving on the nation's highest court.
The Indiana General Assembly approved legislation Wednesday giving the governor a bigger say over which judicial candidates are nominated to him for appointment to the Lake Superior Court.
The Republican-controlled chamber agreed to change House Bill 1453 by making the new Lake County Judicial Nominating Commission a seven-member body, instead of a five-member body.
An Indiana Senate committee narrowly agreed Wednesday to advance legislation altering the process Lake County uses to recommend superior court judicial candidates for appointment by the governor.
The Lake County Bar Association is reaching out to Indiana senators trying to halt legislation that dramatically changes how Lake County judges are selected.
The Indiana House voted to remove local attorneys from each county's judicial nominating commission and instead have members selected by Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb control the commissions.
The legislation would eliminate the commission members currently selected by Lake County attorneys and statutory requirements that commission members reflect the diversity of Lake County's population.
The Lake County Juvenile Center courtroom is shown. The Lake County Commissioners voted 2-1 Wednesday to adopt a resolution urging the Indiana General Assembly to end the merit selection process for picking Lake Superior Court judges and instead allow voters to elect the county's judiciary, just as voters in 88 of Indiana's 92 counties do. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/commissioners-call-for-all-lake-county-judges-to-be-elected/article_81bb5700-4d6d-5ab9-92e1-5b1c7678d63b.html | 2022-07-20T23:21:20 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/commissioners-call-for-all-lake-county-judges-to-be-elected/article_81bb5700-4d6d-5ab9-92e1-5b1c7678d63b.html |
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