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UPDATE (7:20 p.m. on Thursday, July 21, 2022): Our crew on the scene tells us that traffic is back to moving after two crashes backed up traffic.
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – First responders are on the scene of two tractor-trailer crashes that have parts of I-77/I-64 blocked and happened just four miles apart in Kanawha County.
According to Kanawha County Metro 911 dispatchers, both crashes happened around 5:24 p.m., one at the 83-mile marker of I-77 South near Chelyan and the other at the 79-mile marker of I-77 North near Sharon.
Dispatchers say no injuries were reported in either crash.
According to Metro, the crash near Sharon happened when a tractor-trailer jack-knifed on the interstate. Both lanes of the roadway are blocked and the Cabin Creek and Pratt volunteer fire departments are responding. There is no word on what caused the tractor-trailer to jack-knife.
Dispatchers say the crash near Chelyan happened when a tractor-trailer hydroplaned on the interstate. The East Bank Volunteer Fire Department is on the scene. There is no word yet on how long the road will be shut down. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/2-crashes-in-chelyan-sharon-back-up-i-77-traffic/ | 2022-07-22T00:01:51 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/2-crashes-in-chelyan-sharon-back-up-i-77-traffic/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Newport man suspected of hitting an electric bicycle rider and fleeing the scene was arrested Thursday morning and now faces a felony charge, authorities said.
Around midnight on Thursday, officers responded to a report of a hit-and-run near the corner of Southwest 2nd Street and High Street. When they arrived, police said they found witnesses helping a 37-year-old Newport man whose head was bleeding.
The officers learned that the driver of a black Audi A4 was headed westbound on SW 2nd when he struck a man riding an e-bike near the intersection with High Street. Newport police officials said the driver then took off and left the area without stopping to make sure the man was OK.
NPD said evidence led the officers to a home where they found the Audi parked, near the corner of NW Spring Street and 9th Street.
Police arrested the driver, identified as 33-year-old Juan Carlos Novella Correo, and took him to the Lincoln County Jail. He now faces a felony charge from the crash. It’s unclear if he has an attorney.
The bicyclist, who was not identified, was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries. | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/driver-arrested-after-alleged-hit-run-with-e-bike-rider-in-newport/ | 2022-07-22T00:01:57 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/driver-arrested-after-alleged-hit-run-with-e-bike-rider-in-newport/ |
KENOVA, WV (WOWK) — It’s been more than a year since the city of Kenova’s only grocery store was set on fire and residents are still dealing with the loss, but hope is on the horizon.
“It’s hurt us a lot,” said Kenova Mayor, Timothy Bias. “The people here in town were good about using the store, they enjoyed coming here. It was close, convenient, they had good produce, good meats. It was a real blow to our area.”
A local business owner bought the property and construction is underway.
“The anticipation is crazy, everyone is waiting for this place to open,” said Kenova resident, Tyler Bustetter. “I live right around the street, so Save-A-Lot being here is great. I can walk around the corner if I need something.”
While there’s no food on the shelves yet, residents are already seeing the progress.
“It’ll be nice to go in your own store in your own town,” said Mayor Bias.
The store has been around for generations and is one the community relied on.
“We came here all the time,” said frequent shopper, Hannah Cyrus. “We liked coming here, our closest one is way out Wayne, closer to Wayne Walmart. It’s much closer and convenient to come to this one.”
Mayor Bias says they are still waiting for an official opening date, but he’s hoping it will reopen at the end of August. He says they are planning to have it open by the end of the year. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/hope-on-the-horizon-as-kenovas-only-grocery-store-to-reopen/ | 2022-07-22T00:01:57 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/hope-on-the-horizon-as-kenovas-only-grocery-store-to-reopen/ |
BLOOMINGTON — The Bloomington-Normal Jaycees announced this week its annual charity beer festival is returning downtown this fall.
“It’ll be just a good way for everyone to be outside, walk around and enjoy the environment,” said Sara Willenborg, co-chair of the Bruegala planning committee.
The 22nd annual Bruegala will be 5-10 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, around the museum square in downtown Bloomington, embracing the season with the nickname “Boogala.”
This will be Bruegala’s first year back to a larger scale since the pandemic began. The festival was canceled in 2020 and a scaled-down event was held downtown last year.
Willenborg said the event typically takes nine months to plan, but since organizers weren’t sure if they would be able to have it in 2021, they had to pull it together in just three months that year.
They’ve turned the scale back up this year welcoming 10 breweries to the square, “but with the pandemic still in the background, we’re not quite in full force like in 2019,” she said.
Before the pandemic, more than 50 Midwestern breweries, meaderies, cideries and wineries gathered each year at Bruegala, with thousands of attendees joining the fun and drinking samples.
This year, with local bands, food trucks and local and regional brewers coming downtown, “Everything that we’re trying to do is just to celebrate Bloomington-Normal and bring the community together,” Willenborg said.
Bruegala will coincide with downtown’s monthly First Friday, also themed for the Halloween season — “First Fright Day” — and organizers said they hope to add some of their own outdoor activities to the beer fest this year.
The Bloomington-Normal Jaycees is a nonprofit community organization that works on individual and community development and helps to raise money for other community groups through events like Bruegala.
The beer festival acts as a fundraiser for the Jaycees and two local charities. Applications are being collected this month and the charities will be selected in August.
If it rains Oct. 7, Bruegala will be held Oct. 14 instead. | https://pantagraph.com/entertainment/local/bruegala-brings-beer-fest-back-to-bloomington-this-fall/article_84889f88-091e-11ed-9522-7fbcd0a008c6.html | 2022-07-22T00:02:00 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/entertainment/local/bruegala-brings-beer-fest-back-to-bloomington-this-fall/article_84889f88-091e-11ed-9522-7fbcd0a008c6.html |
ROANE COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — As the price of everything goes up, and families struggle to stretch their budget, many are handing their pets over to animal shelters and rescue organizations.
“She’s been on antibiotics and medications,” said Roane County Humane Officer Tanya Hicks, as she prepared a recent shelter intake, Grace, for a follow-up vet visit.
Grace came to the Roane County Animal Shelter after being attacked by other dogs. Her story has been shared many times over the last several days on their Facebook page.
But she’s one of 107 animals currently being cared for here at the small rural shelter with three full-time employees.
“I mean, we adopted two and we got three adult dogs in and five puppies, you know, that were abandoned,” Hicks said. “Today we got in two more puppies. I mean, we are crunched.”
Adoptions are down and the number of animals needing help is up.
“Please keep in mind, we are full,” Hicks said. “We don’t have room for anything. It is like that everywhere.”
They say people needing to surrender their animals can help by planning ahead and not waiting until the last minute.
“We try to help out as much as possible. Just please be patient with us. I mean everybody is struggling,” Hicks said.
If you think your budget is getting so stretched you can no longer provide basic care for your pet, shelters want to know as soon as possible so they have time to work on a solution.
“There’s not enough adopters, not enough fosters, not enough volunteers,” Hicks said.
The shelter works with rescues across the country to get the animals placed into new homes and clear up space for more as the number of animals needing help continues to grow.
The shelter says the number one thing you can do to help is spay and neuter your companion animals. If you want to donate items they could always use pet food, especially canned. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/inflation-leading-families-to-hand-pets-to-animal-shelters-leaving-shelters-full/ | 2022-07-22T00:02:03 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/inflation-leading-families-to-hand-pets-to-animal-shelters-leaving-shelters-full/ |
NORMAL — The Illinois State University Board of Trustees meeting planned for 9 a.m. Friday in the Bone Student Center has been postponed, according to an email from the university early Thursday evening.
The quarterly meeting was postponed "due to unforeseen circumstances," the email said. The meeting will be rescheduled, with new details announced when they are available.
When rescheduled, the meeting will be livestreamed on ISU’s YouTube channel . An agenda and resolutions are posted on the Board of Trustees website, illinoisstate.edu/trustees .
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KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — In their Thursday meeting, the Kanawha County Commission has approved to remove John Rubin and replace him with Chris Billo as a board member for the Public Service District. This comes after allegations of misuse of funds by Rubin.
Billo was sworn into the position during the meeting.
Kent Carper, Kanawha County Commission President, says this situation is being looked at and they have notified the State Auditor’s Office and other appropriate agencies.
Investigations have been underway at the Kanawha County Public Service District involving allegations of wrongdoing, according to County Commissioners Ben Salango and Lance Wheeler.
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.”
“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.
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.
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. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/new-kanawha-county-public-service-district-board-member-appointed-amid-misuse-allegations/ | 2022-07-22T00:02:09 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/new-kanawha-county-public-service-district-board-member-appointed-amid-misuse-allegations/ |
BLOOMINGTON — A neighborhood block party is returning to west Bloomington this Saturday after a two-year suspension due to the pandemic.
West Fest is an annual party put on by the West Bloomington Revitalization Project. It's historically been a time of family-friendly fun for residents of Bloomington's west side.
"We're pretty excited to be bringing it back," said Kristen Buhrmann, board president at WBRP. "Kind of bigger and better, I think."
Buhrmann said WBRP will block off Allin Street where it runs from Front Street to Washington Street, right next to WBRP. The party starts at 5 p.m. and runs until 9 p.m.
This year's theme is everything '90s culture.
"I've bought lots of Baby Bottle Pops and RingPops because that's what the '90s were to me," Buhrmann said.
She said there will be about a dozen nonprofits and organizations bringing carnival games and prizes. There will also be an inflatable obstacle course, free food and an inflatable bounce house that, Buhrmann said, "really looks like a boombox."
Four local music artists will perform throughout the evening, but they are not essentially '90s music.
"We decided to stick with local musicians instead of trying to wedge people into like playing only '90s music," Buhrmann said. "The music's not going to be too '90s."
Buhrmann did say she is aware of high weather in the forecast for Saturday. Weather.com has a projected high of 95 degrees.
"We're going to have our building open so that people can stop in for air conditioning," Buhrmann said. "And I'll be making sure that the air conditioning is nice and cold in there so that people can chill out," she added. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/west-fest-returns-to-bloomington-after-two-year-hiatus/article_c7c6243e-091c-11ed-a2ab-7f3c15ab0fde.html | 2022-07-22T00:02:12 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/west-fest-returns-to-bloomington-after-two-year-hiatus/article_c7c6243e-091c-11ed-a2ab-7f3c15ab0fde.html |
A man was shot and killed in a brawl Wednesday night outside a convenience store on Tucson's south side, police said.
Officers went to the store on South Park Avenue and East Irvington Road just after 10 p.m. following reports of gunfire.
Officers found Francisco Javier Espriu, 25, wounded. Life saving efforts failed and Espriu was pronounced dead at the scene, police said in a news release.
Investigators say Espriu had been arguing with unknown individuals just before a fight started and he was shot.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, the anonymous tipster line.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-man-shot-dead-in-brawl/article_bd30ac2c-0941-11ed-9379-7b079cf41644.html | 2022-07-22T00:05:50 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-man-shot-dead-in-brawl/article_bd30ac2c-0941-11ed-9379-7b079cf41644.html |
A woman was killed in a hit-and-run crash southwest of Tucson early Thursday morning, officials say.
A call about a person in the road about 4:30 a.m. led deputies to the area of West Bopp Road and South Irene Boulevard, near South San Joaquin Road.
Deputies found Vanessa Garcia, 30, with obvious injuries from the crash. She was pronounced dead at the scene, the Pima County Sheriff's Department said in a news release.
The driver fled, the news release said.
There is a person of interest in the case but no arrests have been made.
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME.
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/woman-killed-in-hit-and-run-near-tucson/article_2dc40428-0908-11ed-a204-c3af3e559509.html | 2022-07-22T00:05:56 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/woman-killed-in-hit-and-run-near-tucson/article_2dc40428-0908-11ed-a204-c3af3e559509.html |
A federal court judge ordered that Tucson Unified School District be released from judicial oversight in its desegregation case, bringing an end to the decades-long legal battle.
U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bury declared this week that the district has obtained what is called unitary status in the case, and that supervision of its practices will now be the responsibility of the TUSD governing board.
“Yesterday’s court order formally recognized the good faith effort, and success, that our district has exhibited over the years in addressing the vestiges of past segregation,” TUSD Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo said in a statement issued Thursday afternoon.
TUSD spokeswoman Karla Escamilla said the district would not provide interviews or answer questions Thursday, as its legal team was still reviewing the court order.
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But TUSD Governing Board President Adelita Grijalva said the order now allows the district to use its own authority to move forward in its plans for improvements across the district.
Still, it will remain an important task for board members to ensure the district doesn’t fall back on old patterns, she said.
“I think that it's important that we continue to be vigilant in ensuring that we have equity across our district, and that's going to be the biggest issue,” Grijalva said.
A plaintiffs' representative could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday.
The case stemmed from two class-action lawsuits filed in 1974 by Black American and Mexican American students alleging segregation in TUSD, and was consolidated a year later.
In 1978, the court found that discriminatory segregation existed in TUSD.
Under the federal court order, TUSD was required to focus on more than racial integration. The case called for addressing not only quality of education, but student discipline disparities, facilities and technology, transportation and community engagement, among other issues.
Collection: Read past coverage of Tucson Unified School District's desegregation case
The case stemmed from two class-action lawsuits filed in 1974 by Black American and Mexican American students alleging segregation in TUSD, and was consolidated a year later. In 1978, the court found that discriminatory segregation existed in TUSD.
U.S. Reps. Raúl Grijalva and Ann Kirkpatrick requested the funds that were approved by the Appropriations Committee.
OPINION: "Over the last 19 years as a TUSD board member," writes longtime TUSD board memeber Adelita Grijalva, "one of the most contentious and controversial issues has been this court case and court oversight."
A federal judge says court oversight is no longer needed for Tucson Unified to provide equitable educational opportunities.
TUSD is seeking to be released from court supervision in its 41-year-old desegregation case, according to a petition for unitary status filed …
Roskruge K-8, Booth-Fickett K-8, Drachman Montessori K-8, Borton Elementary and Holladay Elementary were at risk of losing their magnet status and the funding that comes with it.
Under a new law signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, Arizona public schools will have more autonomy in how they instruct English-language learners.
Federal court says TUSD is in partial compliance with the longstanding court order but still has work to do on discipline disparities, advanced learning opportunities.
The legal tactic aims to bring closure to the decades-old case, TUSD leader says.
Have any questions or news tips about K-12 education in Southern Arizona? Contact reporter Genesis Lara at glara@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/judge-closes-tusd-desegregation-court-case/article_0e6c797a-093a-11ed-83bb-8f1a9cbd688d.html | 2022-07-22T00:06:02 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/judge-closes-tusd-desegregation-court-case/article_0e6c797a-093a-11ed-83bb-8f1a9cbd688d.html |
The mayor of Washington, D.C., says Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s migrant busing program is overwhelming migrant services in the nation’s capital.
In a recent TV appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," Mayor Muriel Bowser said migrants being bused from Arizona and Texas are filling up D.C. homeless shelters, and that migrants are being tricked into getting on the buses to D.C. when their final destinations are all over the country.
"The only trick that’s being played on asylum seekers comes from the Biden Administration, which with their open border policy, has sent every possible signal to migrants to 'head north,'" Ducey tweeted in response.
Ducey, following Texas' example, began the program on May 9, busing migrants who crossed the border in Yuma and volunteered to go to D.C.
“We are being forced to operate as a border town,” said Abel Nuñez, executive director of the Central American Resource Center, or CARECEN, the nonprofit organization in D.C. that meets the migrants and assists them in getting to their final destinations.
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While the majority of migrants arriving in D.C. are not staying there but traveling to other parts of the East Coast, those who do decide to stay will probably go to a homeless shelter, Nuñez said.
“For the few people that stay, whether from Texas or Arizona, we run into the same problem that every major metropolitan area has — there is no housing,” he said. “So unfortunately, if we have people from the Arizona bus that want to stay in D.C., for whatever reason, then we have no housing for them.”
CARECEN is not set up to help thousands of migrants who just arrived in the country. Before the busing from Texas and Arizona started, the nonprofit was mainly an immigration legal clinic and housing program for migrants who typically had already assimilated to life in the U.S.
Arizona has sent more than 1,000 migrants to D.C. since May and continues to send three buses a week. Texas has voluntarily bused more than 6,000 migrants to D.C. since mid-April, according to the Associated Press.
Busing called unsustainable
Migrants who entered the U.S. in Yuma and are traveling to sponsors on the East Coast have the option of volunteering for Ducey's busing program.
Once they reach D.C. they have been met by people with CARECEN, which doesn’t designate what state they arrived from.
CARECEN doesn’t have a respite center, like the Casa Alitas Welcome Center in Tucson, which has infrastructure and federal funding to house migrants for a short time.
The D.C. nonprofit is mainly helping the migrants get to their final destinations, which means buying same-day plane tickets as well as hotel stays for those who can’t arrange same-day travel.
CARECEN has already spent nearly $200,000 in the last two-and-a-half months, and Nuñez says other nonprofits and church organizations that are helping with the effort have also spent tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars helping the migrants once they reach D.C.
He says having community organizations handle those expenses is unsustainable.
Even though the mayor of D.C. is saying this is a federal issue, it’s becoming the mayor's issue, he said.
“You can scream at the top of your lungs that this is a federal issue, and I may agree with you, but it doesn't change that in the end, this will be your issue,” he said.
“What's going to happen when we get overwhelmed because we don't have resources to receive them is what the governor of Texas and the governor of Arizona wanted — the chaos, people wandering on the streets.”
Arizona program more coordinated
Arizona’s program is more coordinated and humane than Texas’, Nuñez said, but added that at least some of the migrants from Arizona are, in fact, ending their trip in a D.C. homeless shelter.
The Arizona busing program is being coordinated by the Regional Center for Border Health in Yuma, and is run by the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs.
It also contracts with private agency AMI, which has nurses and EMTs who travel with migrants on the buses to deal with any medical issues that may arise.
That is one difference between the two states’ programs — buses from Arizona have a medical team while buses from Texas have a security detail, Nuñez said.
As well, the Arizona buses supply the migrants with “real food,” he said, while people on the Texas buses get dehydrated military operational rations. Also, the Regional Center for Border Health provides CARECEN with medical updates and a manifest about everyone on the bus.
The center has been working with the Border Patrol since last year to prevent migrant releases on the streets in Yuma, to provide COVID-19 testing and to assist migrant families to get to their final destination “in a more compassionate and humanitarian way,” said Amanda Aguirre, president and CEO of the center and a former Democratic state senator.
The Regional Center for Border Health runs 19 rural health clinics. They started providing services for migrants just entering the country at the beginning of 2021, including food, medical support, places to charge devices, Wi-Fi and hotels if travel cannot be arranged that day.
The number of migrants coming into the U.S. through the Border Patrol’s Yuma Sector has increased from a monthly average of 730 migrants in fiscal year 2020 to a more than 26,000 monthly average this fiscal year, mostly families who turn themselves over to Border Patrol and intend to apply for asylum.
The Regional Center for Border Health receives about 350 people a day from more than 140 countries. This includes people from South America, Haiti, Russia, Georgia, India, Romania and Africa.
Pima County is not using the busing program. Nonprofits in Tucson that assist migrants have received more than $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency since April of 2021 to cover migrant services including travel expenses.
But the center in Yuma, which does not have a shelter or the infrastructure to house migrants, only began receiving federal funding earlier this year for the services it has been providing to migrants since early 2021, so the busing program has been helpful for them. Aguirre said the federal dollars will reimburse it for the $3 million or so the center has spent from its budget.
The vast majority of migrants coming through Yuma are going to the East Coast, Aguirre said. And most have a sponsor they’ll travel to, which is usually a family member, but a few have arranged travel to a church or nonprofit organization.
The migrants who choose the D.C. bus option are the ones who are traveling to sponsors on the East Coast, Aguirre said. If they make that choice, they get on a roster, which is shared with CARECEN, and notify their loved ones when they’ll be arriving.
The center gets regular status updates on the trip, and Aguirre said 90% to 99% of the migrants' families are waiting for them when they get off the bus.
“The news and the mayor from D.C. are saying the buses are just dropping people in the streets with no coordination, but that's not from our side in Arizona,” she said.
“Gov. Ducey has said that he wants to have a humanitarian response to this. Regardless of all the other politics, at the end of the day, we have to respond in a humanitarian way because people are people, and they need us.”
Affecting local community, not Biden
Nuñez says despite the better coordinated effort from Arizona than Texas, there are still Arizona passengers that don’t have a solid plan when they arrive.
Migrants who reach D.C. sometimes have changed their plans while on the bus and say they need to go to a friend or relative as far away as California.
If the governors of both states meant for the program to help immigrants get to their destinations, they would coordinate for buses to go to the places where many of the migrants are actually going, like New York, Chicago or Miami, he said.
“Yet they've chosen to aim it at D.C.,” he says. “So this is weaponizing immigrants. It is disgusting what they're doing. They should be held to account for it. And the taxpayers in both states should really be like, ‘You're spending our resources on making a political point.’”
So far final costs for the program out of Arizona have not been calculated, said Ducey's spokesman C.J. Karamargin, but the state’s 2023 budget includes $15 million for “transportation of individuals who entered Arizona seeking asylum to other states.”
Nuñez also said if the governors are trying to affect the Biden administration, it’s not working.
“They're not doing anything to the federal government,” he said. “They're hurting local communities. I don't work for the federal government. I serve the local community of Washington, D.C., and Maryland. Catholic Charities serves the local community of Washington, D.C.. So we are responding to it. So it's our resources that we need to serve our community here that are being used.
"President Biden is sleeping very comfortably in the White House.”
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For Star subscribers: The Arizona Legislature has budgeted $335 million for border barrier construction. But what will actually be built might be a combination of a virtual wall and barriers around critical infrastructure not directly on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Governor's Office says.
For Star subscribers: The Governor's Office says it hasn't yet calculated how much Arizona has spent on the busing program so far. The state is busing migrants who volunteer for the trip despite the fact the federal government already pays to transport them.
For Star subscribers: The number of migrants showing up at the entire U.S. border with Mexico continues to break records, as does the number who pass through Pima County needing assistance. Arizona's May numbers were also higher than previous months, though not a record.
Former Vice President Mike Pence visited the Arizona border with Mexico Monday to talk to residents and authorities about border security concerns and what he called “an American tragedy.”
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For Star subscribers: It's billed as "a social gathering to bring awareness to the exploitation of trafficked immigrant children." The vigilantes collect phone numbers of migrant kids; some aid workers worry how the info will be used.
For Star subscribers: Café Justo, in the border city of Agua Prieta, has helped farmers in the southern Mexico make a living and keep families together.
For Star subscribers: Hundreds of migrants in Nogales, Sonora awaiting a chance to ask for asylum rallied this week against Title 42, a public health policy that has been used keep migrants from being able to ask to stay in the U.S.
Arizona has started paying to bus asylum-seekers from the border to Washington, D.C., even though the U.S. already pays to transport them.
The Cochise County Attorney’s Office says a review of the shooting of a migrant in a remote canyon by a Border Patrol agent in February is justified.
For Star subscribers: Chris Magnus, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner, says the agency will still have an efficient law to deal with immigration after controversial Title 42 ends.
For Star subscribers: Border Patrol personnel will no longer respond to critical incidents for scene processing or evidence collection, according to a memo released Friday.
For Star subscribers: Up to 45,000 children and teens have left the U.S. for Sonora, Mexico, since 2008, according to research from the Seminario Niñez Migrante. Most of them were from Arizona.
Officials from Arizona and Mexico gather in Tucson to join forces in highlighting the dangers of crossing the desert. Video by Danyelle Khmara…
March broke records for the number of times officials apprehended migrants crossing the U.S. southern border, heightening the discussion and preparations around the approaching end to Title 42.
Aaron Mitchell, 27, is accused of abducting the girl earlier this week as she walked to school in Douglas.
Public discourse about the border is often polarized into right and left political viewpoints, but people who live and work in the border region have perspectives that don’t conform to cookie-cutter stereotypes.
A Mexican woman died Monday after getting stuck hanging upside down while attempting to climb over the border wall into Arizona, officials say.
For Star subscribers: Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity and other groups win settlement that reinforces the U.S. government's obligation to address environmental damage done by the border wall.
Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly say an abrupt end to Title 42 would increase strain on Arizona border communities. Meanwhile, migrants marched this week in Nogales, Sonora, asking for the policy to end.
Casa Mariposa recently received an anonymous $14,000 donation.
Hotel occupancy, one indicator, has improved so much in Tucson that “we're blown away, to be honest,” says the CEO of Visit Tucson.
A woman holding a white cross writes the name Carmelo Cruz Marcos on it in black Sharpie.
Border Patrol says the migrant attempted to escape into a canyon and was being taken into custody when he was shot to death by an agent.
Contact reporter Danyelle Khmara at dkhmara@tucson.com or 573-4223. On Twitter: @DanyelleKhmara | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-texas-migrant-busing-programs-overwhelm-d-c-services/article_5e8d79d2-087b-11ed-84fd-6b8abc3014c0.html | 2022-07-22T00:06:08 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-texas-migrant-busing-programs-overwhelm-d-c-services/article_5e8d79d2-087b-11ed-84fd-6b8abc3014c0.html |
WINDSOR HEIGHTS, Iowa — A brand new museum just opened in Windsor Heights, and the owner says its one of only two in the country.
The Law Museum of Iowa is located inside the Law Group of Iowa at 7900 Hickman Road in Windsor Heights. Chris Johnston, an attorney with the office and the creator of the museum, said he hopes the space becomes an educational space for the community.
"I wanted to create really a community resource," Johnston said. "...And so I combined the law with this community involvement sort of angle and developed the museum."
The museum features a small courtroom where visitors can stand on the witness stand or sit in the judge's seat. It also features exhibits such as Justice Around the World, Campaigns: Then and Now, Iowa Law, Law in Advertising, Polk County Courthouse and more.
"Have a seat in a jury chair," Johnston said. "And have a seat where the judge is, where the witness might be, to get comfortable. So it's not such a strange experience for people to somewhat normalize lawyers and judges and courtrooms."
While the museum will do its best to accommodate walk-ins, it asks people call ahead to ensure a time.
The museum is free to the public. Donations are welcomed. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/law-museum-of-iowa-windsor-heights-des-moines-admission/524-0e91d01f-1e45-4d4d-95dc-c5895a3b6f4e | 2022-07-22T00:10:47 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/law-museum-of-iowa-windsor-heights-des-moines-admission/524-0e91d01f-1e45-4d4d-95dc-c5895a3b6f4e |
Mehmet Oz — the former heart surgeon and TV talk show host who moved from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to run for U.S. Senate — on Thursday afternoon brought his campaign to Allentown, where he asked residents to support him if they want a change from Democratic leadership.
Focusing on the economy, Oz toured the Allentown Farmers Market in west Allentown, shaking hands and taking photos with both supporters and fans of his talk show. He was joined by other Republican candidates, including Lisa Scheller, the party’s nominee for the Lehigh Valley’s congressional district,
Asked to summarize his conversations with voters, he said the biggest concern of many is the high cost of living.
“The basics they pick here, the normal food they buy, they have to adjust because of the high cost,” Oz said.
Consumer prices increased by 9.1% in June according to the Consumer Price Index, the highest 12-month increase since 1981. The solution, in Oz’s view, is allowing drilling on federal land and loosening regulations on natural gas production, which would help bring down gas prices, as well as curbing federal spending.
Oz, the son of Turkish immigrants, is the former host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” the daytime health-themed series that aired 2009-22. Oz launched his campaign for Senate in November, earning former President Donald Trump’s endorsement. He narrowly won the Republican nomination in May, edging out former hedge fund director David McCormick by around 1,000 votes.
Oz faces Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman in the general election in November for the open Senate seat being vacated by Republican Pat Toomey of Lehigh County, who decided not to seek reelection. Election forecaster FiveThirtyEight predicts a close race between the two candidates, with Fetterman ahead by 2 percentage points, well within the margin of error.
Denise Velez of Bethlehem, who plans to vote for Oz, said her biggest concerns as a voter are drug addiction, homelessness and poverty. She believes Republican candidates are best equipped to address those issues and a change in leadership is needed.
“For me, that is No. 1. Our country needs a lot of help,” Velez said. “We have an economy that’s just sinking. Right here in this town‚ a one-bedroom [apartment] can cost $1,500. If you’re by yourself and making $15 an hour, you can’t survive off of that.”
Daniel Wuchter, owner of several farmers market stands including Dan’s Bar-B-Qued Chicken, connected with Oz, but not about their political views. Wuchter recently underwent heart surgery to implant a medical device called the MitraClip. Oz helped develop the device’s technology.
[ MORE: Mehmet Oz brands John Fetterman as Bernie Sanders 2.0. How similar are they? ]
Wuchter said he does not closely follow politics and did not name specific issues on which he agrees with Oz, but said he and his whole family plan to vote for Oz.
Not everyone Oz spoke with at the farmers market was a supporter. A man who did not identify himself approached Oz to ask, “Why are you so against abortion?”
Oz said he supports leaving the legality of abortion up to the states, in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that struck down the right to abortion nationwide and left it up to the states to decide. Many Republican-leaning states have already moved to ban abortion.
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Later Thursday, around 60 people packed into the Allentown RNC Community Center on Union Boulevard to hear from Oz. In a 20-minute speech, Oz touted his background as an immigrant and experience as a doctor, and appealed to voters’ frustration with high prices and perceived high crime.
“How many of you think Washington is getting it wrong?” Oz asked the crowd.
The crowd responded with a resounding “yes.”
“If you’re happy with where America’s going, then you have a person who wants to take Joe Biden further left,” Oz said of Fetterman.
As a senator, Oz would advocate for stricter border control, less government spending and stricter penalties for crime, he said.
Fetterman has been largely absent on the campaign trail since he won the primary, having suffered a stroke in May. He expects to return to campaigning soon, he said in a recent interview, but in the meantime has taken to Twitter to criticize Oz’s campaign, celebrity status and roots in New Jersey.
Morning Call reporter Lindsay Weber can be reached at 610-820-6681 and liweber@mcall.com. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-nws-allentown-dr-oz-senate-republican-nominee-20220721-ljf7rclnfvg5vfnwxuhuauqe2q-story.html | 2022-07-22T00:11:25 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-nws-allentown-dr-oz-senate-republican-nominee-20220721-ljf7rclnfvg5vfnwxuhuauqe2q-story.html |
Commissioners approved plans for a Wawa drive-thru — just the second in the state — in Lower Macungie Township during a meeting Thursday night.
The 2,030-square-foot development is planned for the Trexler Business Center off Hamilton Boulevard.Unlike other Wawa locations, this would be a standalone drive-thru with no convenience store or gas pumps. It would serve Wawa’s “built-to-order” dishes, such as breakfast, hoagies and coffee.
The hours of operation will be 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., according to township documents. Customers will get to the store near South Commercial Center Drive.
Concerns for the Wawa, according to Nathan Jones, the township director of planning and community development, included creating a street wall to protect nearby drivers from bright headlights while people are waiting at the drive-thru; landscaping the site for stormwater protection; and making sure the lanes don’t result in traffic jams or block emergency services.
Wawa will also have to submit a protection plan for nearby sycamore trees.
The only other drive-thru-only Wawa in Pennsylvania is in Falls Township, Bucks County, Jones said.
“We already have two other Wawas in the township — both are incredibly busy,” he said previously. “Obviously, there’s a regional draw for the use. This would likely be just as busy as the other existing Wawas.”
Check back for updates. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-wawa-drive-thru-approval-20220721-w46lye253vcztakoms4fhso224-story.html | 2022-07-22T00:11:32 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-wawa-drive-thru-approval-20220721-w46lye253vcztakoms4fhso224-story.html |
Several Community Project Funding requests in Idaho, including a reconstruction project for 1st Street in Ammon, recently passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
The 13 projects were requested by Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho. Simpson announced in a news release the requests were included in H.R. 8294, which passed Wednesday in a 220-207 vote.
The legislation includes six fiscal year 2023 appropriations bills for Transportation and Housing and Urban Development; Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration; Energy and Water Development; Financial Services and General Government; Interior and Environment; and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs.
The package moves to the Senate for a vote before it can reach President Joe Biden’s desk. Both Simpson and Rep. Russ Fulcher, R-Idaho, voted against the package, which increased government spending from the fiscal year 2022 package by $46.8 billion, according to a House Appropriations Committee news release.
“While I am pleased to see these important projects for Idaho included, the spending levels in the overall package far exceed what I could responsibly support. Reckless government spending will only worsen current inflation,” Simpson said in the release.
The Post Register earlier reported in July that 1st Street will receive $5.8 million to widen the road to five lanes, with two lanes in each direction and a center two-way turn lane. A curb, gutter and sidewalk will be added to a portion of the street and will also be reconstructed for five lanes and sidewalks.
“Every citizen in Ammon and north of Ammon is painfully aware of our community growth and its impact on 1st Street. The 1st Street reconstruction project is urgently needed in order to allow for proper traffic and pedestrian flow. I am grateful that Congressman Mike Simpson has made this project a priority -- it is hugely important for us,” said Ammon Mayor Sean Coletti in a news release.
The other 12 projects requested are as follows. Full descriptions of each Idaho project can be found on Simpson’s website.
• Rock Creek Conservation and Water Quality Enhancement Project in Twin Falls — $4 million
• Jerome Education and Training Center — $3.3 million
• McCammon Fire Station — $813,750
• Custer County Court Annex Building in Challis — $600,000
• Idaho Center for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment in Kimberly — $1 million
• Little Wood River in Gooding — $2.6 million
• City of Grace Wastewater Collection and Treatment Systems Improvement Project — $2.56 million
• City of Roberts Clean Water Project — $2 million
• Center Street Railroad Bridge Underpass in Pocatello — $5.7 million
• Downtown Boise YMCA Catalytic Redevelopment Project — $4 million
• Idaho Workforce and Public Safety Training Facility Improvements in Boise — $750,000
• Healing Idaho Community Development Project in Fairfield — $2.4 million
“I remain committed to prioritizing Idaho’s needs, reducing federal spending, and putting our economy on a sustainable, healthy path for the future. I look forward to working with my colleagues to craft a more responsible spending package that can gain bipartisan support as this bill moves forward to conference,” Simpson said in the release. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/appropriations-package-that-includes-1st-street-reconstruction-heads-to-senate/article_3dd7ae99-e3a5-5ad7-8939-d0548794a53c.html | 2022-07-22T00:14:39 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/appropriations-package-that-includes-1st-street-reconstruction-heads-to-senate/article_3dd7ae99-e3a5-5ad7-8939-d0548794a53c.html |
The 67th annual Sidewalk Art Festival in Idaho Falls, hosted by the Eagle Rock Art Guild, is coming this weekend with 35 artists in attendance and the expectation of thousands of guests.
"This is such a fun event, we are so excited for it," said Linda Metcalf, board treasurer for Eagle Rock Art Guild. "Numbers in past years lead us to expect thousands of people will attend."
The art festival is held every year on the fourth weekend in July, according to the event website, eaglerockartguild.com. Itattracts more than 15,000 people each year.
The two-day event isbeing held at a new location this year along Snake River Landing, 999 Pier View Drive.
"We are particularly excited about our new venue," Metcalf said. "It's a beautiful area in Snake River Landing. It has a lot more parking, more space for artists to spread out and for the guests as well."
The event runs from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdayand 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundaywith artists from all over the western United States. Thirty-five of the artists will be at the event showcasing and selling their art to the public.
"We are going to have a really great show," said Dawn Langston, art guild board member and artist. "Artists come with oil paintings, watercolor paintings, handmade jewelry, photography, metal sculptures, dyed silk, pottery, resin and wood. There is such a large variety of talent."
Admission is free though there are opportunities to purchase art as well as food from local food vendors.
Langston, one of the artists appearing at the festival, and her brother, Brian Hathaway, grew up in Idaho Falls and have been creating art for at least 10 years, participating in art shows for five years. They have been at the Sidewalk Art Festival for the last three and can't wait to get back out there this year.
"I just deeply enjoy the opportunity to be out in the community sharing my art with other people," Langston said.
Langston and Hathaway create art from up-cycled materials such as old metal. Hathaway creates larger sculptures while Langston prefers the smaller pieces.
"I became a member of the Eagle Rock Art Guild because I wanted to support them and participate in the art festival," Langston said. "There are not a lot of people that do what we do, I wanted to let people see that art isn't always drawing, painting or photography — art is a very large spectrum."
Langston feels that the ideals and feelings shared at the festival inspire her to keep creating and helping others to learn how they can do the same.
"The feeling of community and sharing of ideas and inspirations that arise from the event is just amazing," Langston said. "We want everyone to come out and see the talent that is here and find the talent within themselves."
The event'satmosphere fits right in with the overall purpose of the organization.
"The Eagle Rock Art Guild exists to provide opportunities to learn artistic skills, as well as engage our community through participation in art events," according to their website. The festival is made possible by the members of the art guild.
The Eagle Rock Art Guild is a volunteer nonprofit art organization that has been in Idaho Falls for 74 years, making it the state'soldest art organization. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/eagle-rock-art-guild-preps-for-67th-annual-sidewalk-art-festival/article_f631d543-b220-5c1d-95e8-88b014d9596c.html | 2022-07-22T00:14:45 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/eagle-rock-art-guild-preps-for-67th-annual-sidewalk-art-festival/article_f631d543-b220-5c1d-95e8-88b014d9596c.html |
FILE — Dr. Gurjeet Grover checks on a COVID-19 patient with the assistance of registered nurse A.J. Fisher in the intensive care unit at Idaho Falls Community Hospital on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021.
COVID-19 is resurgent in Idaho following the emergence of a highly contagious omicron subvariant.
Active cases have been on an uptick nationally and in eastern Idaho this summer from the omicron BA.5 subvariant. According to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, more than 35% of COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction tests returned positive from June 27 through July 9 in eastern Idaho, up from 1.2% from April 10 through April 16.
COVID-19 active cases in eastern Idaho were consistently low during spring, hovering at about less than five active reported cases per day, according to Eastern Idaho Public Health data. Active cases have gradually risen since then and reached a high of 96 total reported cases within the eight-county districton July 8.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention list Bonneville County as a medium-risk zone in its COVID-19 data tracker. Other eastern Idaho counties at medium-risk are Jefferson, Fremont and Madison.
All of the CDC’s high-risk areas are in western Idaho, where active case rates per 100,000 are over 300 active cases in highly populated counties and about 10% of staffed inpatient beds are used by patients with confirmed COVID-19, according to CDC data.
Bonneville County has 269 active cases per 100,000 and nearly 2% of staffed inpatient beds are used by COVID-19 patients.
Brain Ziel, Idaho Falls Community Hospital marketing director, said the hospital has seen a couple of COVID-19 inpatients during the recent wave of infections, but nothing comparable to earlier spikes in 2020 and 2021.
“It’s been much more mild to what we saw during the height of the pandemic,” Ziel said.
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center health officials are seeing a similar situation. Coleen Niemann, EIRMC’s director of marketing, said in an email that hospitalizations at EIRMC for COVID-19 related illness remains low, in comparison to previous community surges and the hospital hasn’t experienced a significant increase in hospitalizations recently.
“We encourage all community members to continue to protect themselves from illness: stay current on recommended vaccinations; practice proper handwashing; stay home when not feeling well; and follow CDC protocols for masking in public,” Niemann said in the email.
The BA.5 variant has accounted for 80% of infections in the region, according to the CDC. Jodie Powell, a health education specialist with the health district, said in an email that COVID-19 has moved at a rapid pace since the omicron variant surfaced last Thanksgiving, but the BA.5 subvariant is the most contagious strain so far, accounting for more than 50% of cases in the U.S. The omicron BA.4 subvariant accounts for about 20% of U.S. COVID-19 cases.
Lab studies consistently suggest that antibodies triggered by vaccination are less effective at blocking BA.4 and BA.5 than they are at blocking earlier omicron strains, Powell said. This leaves vaccinated and boosted people vulnerable to multiple omicron infections. Data continues to show omicron variants cause less severe disease and death than other variants like the delta variant, which preceded omicron.
Last month, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that COVID-19 booster shots used this fall be modified to better match more recent variants of the coronavirus, the Associated Press reported. The FDA has yet to make a final decision on the recommendation. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/eastern-idaho-hospitals-managing-mild-surge-of-covid-19-cases/article_055973ab-2467-5387-91cf-3096a2353856.html | 2022-07-22T00:14:51 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/eastern-idaho-hospitals-managing-mild-surge-of-covid-19-cases/article_055973ab-2467-5387-91cf-3096a2353856.html |
BURIEN, Wash. — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday proposed expanding the state's law enforcement training campus in a push to reduce officer shortages and increase agencies' abilities to recruit and retain officers.
On Wednesday, the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) released a crime report for 2021 which highlighted the state's decrease in police staffing.
The executive director of WASPC said Washington has the lowest per capita rate of officers the state has seen since the association began tracking the data in 1980. It's also the lowest in the nation. The national average per capita rate for officers is 2.33 officers per 1,000, according to the FBI.
On Thursday, Inslee joined local and state law enforcement leaders to announce support for expanding the state Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC). The governor's office said new regional training centers would accelerate training and would aid in recruitment efforts.
"Right now we have 134 recruits, who unfortunately have to wait an average of four months just to start this training. That is not acceptable to us," said Inslee.
Currently, every law enforcement officer in the state is trained and certified by CJTC, undergoing a 19-week law enforcement academy in Burien.
An expansion would mean those looking to become law enforcement officers could complete training closer to home at proposed regional facilities instead of commuting to the state's facility in Burien.
"Currently, recruits must attend training just at this location. They've got to travel, they got to be away from their homes and their families," said Inslee. "This has created a logjam in the process. It creates a barrier to recruitment of fine people and we need to do better."
Washington state lost nearly 500 police officers statewide in 2021 as the state's population grew more than the population of Everett, according to the crime report released Wednesday.
The number of commissioned law enforcement officers decreased 4.4%. The per capita rate of law enforcement officers fell to 1.38 per 1,000 statewide.
"Right now, a lot of agencies are treading water. Not every single one. Not every single agency is in a staffing crisis; many are," said Steven Strachan, executive director of WASPC. "These things are problems with solutions, and that is to support good policing and to recognize that public safety is important." | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/inslee-law-enforcement-expansion-training-facilities-recruitment/281-fb082f77-f6b5-433b-878a-4980aa9949ea | 2022-07-22T00:15:45 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/inslee-law-enforcement-expansion-training-facilities-recruitment/281-fb082f77-f6b5-433b-878a-4980aa9949ea |
SEATTLE — Editor's note: The above video was published July 6 when an inquest jury released its findings into Lyles' death.
Citing a lack of "sufficient evidence to prove a criminal act," King County Prosecuting Attorney Dan Satterberg announced he will not file charges against the two officers who shot and killed Charleena Lyles in 2017.
The announcement follows the conclusion of the King County inquest into Lyles' death earlier in July. An inquest jury concluded that officers Steven McNew and Jason Anderson were justified in their use of deadly force.
In a memorandum, Satterberg wrote that in order to prosecute the officers for any degree of homicide, the state would have to disprove justifiable homicide under the "malice" and "good faith" standards. There is "no evidence to overcome this defense," Satterberg wrote.
Despite the investigation concluding there isn't enough evidence to prove the shooting of Lyles was criminal, Satterberg said in a prepared statement that "it also does not mean that the events that unfolded went right - they didn't."
"Ms. Lyles' 911 call to report a crime resulted in her death," the statement reads. "And the entire sequence of events underscores the importance of expanding behavioral health experts who can work alongside police officers when responding to people in crisis."
On June 18, 2017, Charleena Lyles called 911 asking for help at her north Seattle apartment. There was a caution alert attached to her name due to a previous incident where she threatened law enforcement.
Officers Steven McNew and Jason Anderson arrived at the apartment.
After being let into the apartment to investigate an alleged burglary, the officers said Lyles' demeanor changed. According to information presented to the inquest jury earlier in July, Lyles threatened the officers with a knife.
The officers ordered Lyles to stand back, which the jury found she initially complied with. The majority of the jury found Lyles then stopped complying with the orders from the officers.
The officers shot Lyles multiple times.
Lyles, who was pregnant, was killed in front of her children.
The six jurors determined that at least one of the officers did not comply with department policy when it comes to use of weapons such as Tasers. Neither was carrying one at the time of the shooting. However, the jury found a Taser would not have been appropriate use of force for the situation. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/no-charges-officers-charleena-lyles/281-d2b573ce-47b2-4ae6-af0a-72d141d9c3ea | 2022-07-22T00:15:51 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/no-charges-officers-charleena-lyles/281-d2b573ce-47b2-4ae6-af0a-72d141d9c3ea |
ROANOKE, Va. – A grassroots group that’s fed up with gun violence in the Star City is bringing the community together this weekend to honor victims and their families.
The group called “F.E.D.U.P.”— Families Expecting Deliverance Using Prayer — is hosting its second annual prayer breakfast this Saturday.
There will be a stage set up with empty chairs to remember the lives lost since last summer.
Attendees will pray together and organizers are inviting counselors, ministers, and the public to come out and see the impact gun violence has had on the community.
“Giving back to the community and to those families of the victims,” said Rita Joyce, the president and co-founder of F.E.D.U.P. “Letting them know that we understand, we know how you feel. We know there’s a process and we just want to be there to give them that support.”
The event will from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at Countryside Park in Roanoke.
Breakfast is first-come, first-served and organizers said that attendees should bring chairs. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/21/event-to-offer-support-to-families-of-gun-violence-victims-in-roanoke-on-saturday/ | 2022-07-22T00:23:54 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/21/event-to-offer-support-to-families-of-gun-violence-victims-in-roanoke-on-saturday/ |
PULASKI, Va. – Communities in Southwest Virginia are being proactive to ensure people come to the area and stay.
Leaders in Pulaski County developed a plan to increase the population to 40,000 by 2030.
Jason Hudson, a local business owner, said he always wanted to own a bar.
“We were looking to start a whiskey club, my business partner and me,” Hudson said.
For Hudson, it was a no-brainer to establish a shop at the innovation center in Fairlawn.
“We have got all the facilities that we need,” Hudson said.
Lydia Gilmer told 10 News about her role as Small Business Solutions Director with the innovation center.
“I’ll walk people through the business planning process,” Gilmer said.
The innovation center houses 39 businesses from industries like manufacturing, beauty, and alcohol.
Those business owners get one-on-one help to ensure they are successful and eventually get established in the community, like connecting them to insurance and banking companies.
“We offer all types of one on one advising. Any questions they have or any issues along the way, they have a person available,” Gilmer said.
Leaders said this is the first time they have had a whole house and there is even a waiting list of people looking to get inside the hub.
“There is a great waiting list. We can encourage businesses to set up out in the community,” Gilmer said.
Pulaski County administrator Jonathan Sweet said the innovation center is part of the economic development plan to increase the population to 40,000 by 2030.
“And we are creating small businesses and supporting small businesses,” Sweet said.
Currently, the population is slightly over 34,000.
The plan features initiatives like better housing and improving infrastructure to help attract and retain businesses in Pulaski County.
“Most communities in rural Virginia are seeing decreases in population. Pulaski county is looking to make strategic investments in growing the population,” Sweet said. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/21/pulaski-leaders-looking-to-increase-population-to-40000-by-2030/ | 2022-07-22T00:24:00 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/21/pulaski-leaders-looking-to-increase-population-to-40000-by-2030/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – When it’s sizzling outside, you might be quick to turn up the A/C, but that could mean a hefty bill coming your way.
Roanoke A/C experts shared some ways to cut down on A/C costs with 10 News.
Chris Mize with Service Experts said you can expect up to a 30 percent hike on your A/C bill this summer.
“Depending on the size of the unit and how long it runs, it can be in the hundreds,” Mize said.
Ted Puzio with Southern Trust Homes said you can start by closing the blinds.
“I see the biggest benefit is using ceiling fans,” Puzio said. “And keeping shades down, curtains drawn, especially during the heat of the day.”
But seasonal maintenance on your HVAC system is the first step Mize would recommend.
“I mean just a little bit of dust on the blower wheel or impacted coils can make the unit longer and run harder,” Puzio said. “Cost more on the light bill. Plus it can shorten the unit’s life dramatically.”
Switching out your system to a more updated one can be cost-effective.
Puzio said a customer recently saved 200 bucks on his light bill by upgrading.
“A young guy just bought a house and an old system,” Puzio said. “He replaced it with a new system and he called excited because he had such a big savings on his utility bill.”
Mize said this is a wise idea because in 2023 the government is raising efficiency standards for all new equipment.
“Ultimately it’s for the better because the equipment is more efficient and it cost less to operate,” Mize said. “But it kind of eliminates some options to replace a system at a more cost-effective level.”
Mize said the older units won’t be available after the first of the year, but manufacturers are starting to change their inventory now to get ready for the change. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/21/roanoke-area-experts-share-how-you-can-cut-down-on-your-ac-costs/ | 2022-07-22T00:24:07 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/21/roanoke-area-experts-share-how-you-can-cut-down-on-your-ac-costs/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – As temperatures near triple digits this week, a local nonprofit is helping families keep their air conditioning on.
Roanoke Area Ministries’ RAM House is a day shelter for people experiencing homelessness and serves about 150 meals a day. The nonprofit also provides rent and electric bill assistance.
This summer, they’re giving out about $6,000 a week to help people pay their electric bills, and so far, the RAM House has given out nearly $200,00 for rent and electric assistance, all from private donations.
The day shelter’s executive director, Melissa Woodson, said the heat is extremely dangerous for anyone without access to air conditioning or a cool environment. They can suffer from dehydration, sunburn, heat stroke, and more.
The nonprofit’s ultimate goal is to prevent people from ending up without housing.
“We are serving people who have never been here before; many fixed-income seniors and disabled people,” Woodson said. “They got along fine before, but when you increase your fuel costs by 30% and food — we all know how bad that is — these people have fallen through the cracks.”
The RAM House offers a cooling center from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for anyone in need of a place to cool off.
The shelter also needs donations of water, three-part food containers, and money. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/22/amid-heatwave-local-nonprofit-helping-families-in-need-keep-ac-on/ | 2022-07-22T00:24:13 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/22/amid-heatwave-local-nonprofit-helping-families-in-need-keep-ac-on/ |
After years of debate and delays, a Dallas Plan Commission vote was scheduled for Thursday on future size restrictions for new homes in the Elm Thicket neighborhood.
Opponents said the restrictions for 1,700 properties would be the largest residential downzoning in Dallas history and could set a precedent as larger new homes replace smaller old ones in many parts of the city.
“If they’re successful here, what’s to stop them from going after other neighborhoods,” opponent Jennifer Brower said.
Supporters sought the 25-foot height restriction and limit on the lot space dwellings may use as a way to curb soaring property values that are pricing some existing residents out of their existing homes.
Lifelong Elm Thicket resident Jonathan Maples said it would be a good precedent.
“It will push the city to put something in place for middle and lower-income people,” Maples said. “This has all the makings of a good western movie. You've got the colonizers and you've got the natives.”
Elm Thicket, bounded by Mockingbird Lane, Lemmon Avenue, Lovers Lane and Inwood Road near Love Field used to be a mostly African American and Latino neighborhood.
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“We're not trying to keep anybody out. We're just asking that if you come to the neighborhood that you abide by the parameters that are set forth,” zoning supporter Olga Smith said.
During the years the rezoning issue dragged on, the giant new homes the legacy residents wanted to keep smaller raced ahead of the small old ones in numbers.
“The train has left the station,” Brower said. “We are the majority and our voices have not been heard but we are overwhelmingly the majority and we are in opposition.”
The opponents argue that all property owners including the legacy residents would be hurt by the reduction in property values that size limits would cause.
“New home buyers, their desires have changed so the market has to at least be current with what the current building science is and what the modern home buyer wants,” opponent Doug Brower said.
Dallas city staff recommended Plan Commission approval of the rezoning, but the Dallas City Council will still get a final say at a future meeting.
Leaders on both sides Thursday said the fight is not over. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-plan-commission-vote-on-elm-thicket-zoning-could-set-precedent/3021006/ | 2022-07-22T00:28:17 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-plan-commission-vote-on-elm-thicket-zoning-could-set-precedent/3021006/ |
Tina Crawford has seen many happy occasions at her Paradise Cove at Lake Grapevine event space, including her own marriage to her husband, Brent Patrick Crawford. This weekend, she will mark another anniversary: his death.
"It's, ah, still so hard to wrap my head around," Crawford said wiping tears. "July 24 at 5 p.m., and that moment destroyed my heart."
That's the day one year ago Brent died from an overdose of heroin and fentanyl. He was 31 years old.
"Yes. The drug killed him physically, but really the shame killed him," Crawford said. "In Brent's case, pot led to pills, pills led to heroin, heroin led to death."
Crawford said her husband had battled addiction since his teenage years, with stretches of sobriety and relapse.
"I had those blinders on. Like, 'OK, he's in recovery now. All is good,'" Crawford said. "I could have done things differently so I could assist him. Now, my purpose in life is to help others so they don't live in regret."
Crawford will hold a community event at Paradise Cove on Sunday that is part block party get-together, part addiction awareness and education. Local law enforcement, the Drug Enforcement Agency, Valley Hope Treatment Center, addiction counselors and NARCAN trainers will be there.
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"Something happened to society with COVID," said Jacqueline Mayfield, executive director of Valley Hope. "It changed the addict."
According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 100,000 people died of drug overdoses in the year ending in April, 2021. That's a nearly 30% increase over the year prior.
"I have people from under a bridge, to a surgeon in my center," Mayfield said. "So it's touching every walk of life. So we've got to figure it out. People are lost and hurting. It's everybody. It's everywhere."
"He was this buff, good-looking guy, but his heart was better looking than he was," Crawford said. "So much life lived in such a short time. He would want his story shared."
The First Annual Overdose Awareness Community Event is Sunday, July 24, from 4 to 9 p.m. at Paradise Cove on Lake Grapevine. The event is free. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/personal-tragedy-leads-local-woman-to-host-event-shining-light-on-addiction/3020947/ | 2022-07-22T00:28:43 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/personal-tragedy-leads-local-woman-to-host-event-shining-light-on-addiction/3020947/ |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Severe weather across central Alabama has led to thousands of residents suffering from power outages.
According to Alabama Power, there are 1,033 power outages at this time with 47,048 customers being impacted.
Storms are expected to last throughout most of Thursday night.
Stay with CBS 42 as this is a developing story. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/more-than-42000-alabamians-impacted-by-power-outages/ | 2022-07-22T00:32:11 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/more-than-42000-alabamians-impacted-by-power-outages/ |
Northwest Health is offering a free presentation in LaPorte about a new procedure that helps eliminate gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD.
Physicians will the health care provider will present “Got GERD? Turn down the Heat on Heartburn” at 6 p.m. July 28 at the Healthcare Foundation of LaPorte at 140 E. Shore Parkway.
"According to the National Institute of Health, more than 60 million Americans experience GERD at least once a month, and it’s not only painful but can be potentially dangerous," Northwest Health Marketing and Communications Manager Karen Keltner said. "GERD can burn the esophagus, cause chronic inflammation and lead to major damage and potentially result in cancer of the esophagus."
General surgeon Adam Conn and gastroenterologist Eric Steinberg will talk about treatments for GERD, such as the new Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication procedure. It's billed as a long-term solution for chronic acid reflux or GERD.
“For GERD sufferers who are dissatisfied with their current treatment regimes, TIF is an effective treatment for chronic heartburn,” Conn said.
The event is free and open to the public but registration is required.
To register, visit bit.ly/Got_GERD .
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Geitonia Greek Grill, Las Delicias Mexican Ice Cream, Underground Thrift Clothing, gym, courthouse patio opening; Timbrook Kitchens relocated; Overstuffed closed
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Break out the lemon, oregano and gyro cone. A new Greek restaurant is coming to Valparaiso.
Geitonia Greek Grill will serve "quick, authentic and homemade Greek food" at 1703 Calumet Ave. in Valparaiso.
"There's a big Greek community in Valpo and a church festival but not any real good authentic Greek food like we ate growing up," said owner Michael Filipidis, a Valparaiso native whose family owns the Sunrise Family Restaurant in Chesterton.
Named after the Greek word for feeling like part of a family, neighborhood or community, the restaurant will offer both dine-in and takeout at its location between CVS and the Calumet Station shopping center.
"North Valpo is kind of neglected," he said. "This is something cool right off Calumet Avenue in a newer strip mall that gets traffic off Glendale Boulevard and Calumet and is close enough to downtown that it benefits from that traffic on the weekend."
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The menu will include gyros, Greek salads and other Greek fare like platters with one's choice of lamb gyro, chicken gyro, salmon or shrimp atop a bed of rice. It will have lemon rice soup, at least seasonally. It also with have Greek sweets like baklava and loukoumades. Sides will include feta, imported olives and fries with different flavors like lemon and oregano, cumin garlic and Cajun.
Geitonia Greek Grill plans to open by early August. It will deliver via Doordash, UberEats and GrubHub.
Instead of numbers, customers will be given Greek Islands like Santorini, Karpathos, Mykonos and Crete after placing an order.
For more information, find Geitonia Greek Grill on Facebook.
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Las Delicias Mexican Ice Cream is coming soon to Cedar Lake.
The ice cream shop specializing in south-of-the-border sweets will open in a newly constructed building at 13212 Wicker Ave. just north of Harry O's and Walgreens. The takeout ice cream parlor will occupy a 1,000-square-foot building with 27 parking spaces that was constructed last year.
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Underground Thrift Clothing is coming to a Highland shopping center.
The thrift shop sells an array of used apparel at affordable prices. It signed a lease at Porte De L’eau Plaza on 45th Street.
John O’Malley of Crown Point-based Latitude Commercial represented the new tenant in the transaction. He said it brought a new dynamic to the shopping center.
“Underground Thrift brings an exciting use to Porte De L’eau Plaza. The tenant is known for having a very strong social media presence that assists in sales, but this will be their first 'brick and mortar' store that will add another key element to help bring awareness to the Highland community of a thriving clothing company."
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Overstuffed Skillets & Sandwiches closed in Highland.
The restaurant served breakfast, lunch and dinner at 3309 45th St.
Chef Tim Champagne, who previously ran concessions at Chicago Fire, Colorado Rockies, Oakland A's, San Jose Sharks and Gary South Shore RailCats games, opeerated the restaurant in the former Zorba's space on the border of Highland and Griffith.
The 140-seat restaurant served hearty fare like skillets, omelets, burgers, Philly cheesesteaks and fried bologna sandwiches. It had massive Overstuffed Bomb sandwiches, including the Italian Bomb that topped chicken fingers with mozzarella sticks, pepperoni pizza bites, cheese curds, chunky marinara sauce and a warm blanket of mozzarella cheese.
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Relocated
Timbrook Kitchens closed in Munster, relocating to the new SoHo Sweets in South Hollard.
The chef-driven restaurant and bakery was located on Ridge Road near the state line. Specializing in gourmet cuisine, it offered savory pies, paninis, quiche, croissants, scones and Intelligentsia coffee.
"Thank you customers for all the support, conversations and laughs," owner Chris Monroe posted. "Hope that you will visit soon. We have great ice cream, amazing craft coffees with soon to be expanded breakfast and all-day food of sandwiches, sides, salads and pie. You will be welcomed by our friendly staff."
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The modern but quaint SoHo Sweets Creamery and Cafe is located at 16129 South Park Ave. in downtown South Holland.
"Our beautiful South Holland historic location includes indoor and outdoor seating with an upper floor for meetings, showers or small group outings," Monroe posted. "Any Timbrook Kitchens gift certificates with a remaining balance will be converted to a gift card upon your visit. Big thank you to the Village of South Holland team for helping with a smooth transition."
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Nina Hartman Counseling opened Wednesday in the Galleria buildings on U.S. 30 in Dyer.
The new counseling agency is located at 275 Joliet St., suite 120A, owner and mental health clinician Nina Hartman said.
"My clinical practice provides mental health counseling/services to clients from children to adults," Hartman said. "We currently accept private insurance, Medicaid and self-pay for those clients that do not have health insurance. "
For more information, visit ninahartmancounseling.com , call 219-289-6790 or email nkhartman@ninahartmancounseling.com .
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You can take in a whole new view while dining outside in downtown Crown Point.
Ramen District, the hip new Japanese restaurant Chef Chris Pappas opened in the basement of the Old Courthouse, opened an outdoor patio where one can dine al fresco right on the courthouse grounds.
The restaurant at 1 Court House Square serves pork belly bao buns, short rib gyoza, shrimp tempura, smoked chicken fried rice, Thai fried rice, Dan Dan Noodles, Drunken Noodles and of course many varieties of its namesake ramen.
It sources ingredients from local suppliers like Five Hands Farms in Lowell.
For more information, visit ramendistrict.com or call 219-213-2397.
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Fans of roller dogs and brain freezes have reason to rejoice.
The 7-Eleven at 2407 Calumet Ave. in Hammond reopened under new management.
The 24/7 convenience store across from Wolf Lake had been temporarily closed. The 7-Elevent at 415 W. Glen Park Ave. in Griffith also has been temporarily closed, though there's another 7-Eleven just two blocks away on Broad Street in Griffith.
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Hour of Change Fitness is coming soon to the Crossroads of America shopping center at Indianapolis Boulevard and U.S. 30 in Schererville.
It's a Christian-based gym from Chicago that's been in business since 2007, serving the greater Chicagoland metropolitan area. It aims to fill a voice in the health and fitness industry by offering fitness training based on biblical principles.
"Hour of Change Fitness, Inc. is an organization whose goal is to be available to anyone that walks in through our doors. Our purpose is to build quality relationships with our clients, so that we have a proper response to their health and fitness needs," the company said on its website. "We strive to be an organization that can address the needs of a wide variety of clientele. By structuring various select programs, implementing innovative training practices, and strategic pricing we position ourselves to be attractive to people from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds."
For more information, call 773-801-3932 or visit hourofchange.com .
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Northwest Health-Porter adopted new national guidelines for cardiac imaging meant to enhance care for adult patients with chest pain.
The more comprehensive guidelines developed by the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association are meant to make it easier for physicians to assess and diagnose cases of acute and stable chest pain for patients who visit the energy room or a doctor's office.
The evidence-based recommendations provide a roadmap for evaluating patients with coronary artery disease, risk factors like age or other health conditons.
“These long-awaited guidelines provide the most up-to-date recommendations for assessing and diagnosing chest pain in individuals who seek treatment at Northwest Health,” said Chris Atherton, regional director of cardiology services at Northwest Health-Porter.
The new guidelines recommend the highest priority for Coronary Computed Tomography Angiography, a non-invasive test that determines potential treatments and interventions. It rules out obstructive diseases, allows for quicker discharges from the hospital and prevents long waits in the emergency rooms.
It helps doctors determine appropriate medical and lifestyle therapies, so they can be started earlier in life.
Northwest Health cardiologists Andrew Putnam, Jay Shah and Stella Kyung are certified to read and assess the test results.
"For patients who are experiencing chest pain, and have a history of extensive coronary disease or are at the highest risk of CAD events, the ACC/AHA guidelines recommend an Invasive Coronary Angiography," Northwest Health Marketing and Communications Manager Karen Keltner said. "In this case, a small incision is made in the wrist or groin, and a catheter is directed toward the heart. An injected dye through the catheter allows physicians to better see an individual’s blood vessels on x-ray images and whether there are any restrictions in blood flow to the heart."
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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."
Highland native and Highland High School graduate Anna Wermuth, now an attorney at Cozen O'Connor in Chicago, also was recently named a Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers of America and one of the Top 500 Corporate Employment Lawyers by Lawdragon.
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 recycled aluminum flat-rolled mill and two slab centers that will feed it with recycled material. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/northwest-health-porter-implements-new-national-guidelines-for-heart-care/article_b85c3de3-b946-528e-a4e7-509915c3b4f4.html | 2022-07-22T00:33:33 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/northwest-health-porter-implements-new-national-guidelines-for-heart-care/article_b85c3de3-b946-528e-a4e7-509915c3b4f4.html |
Northwest Medical Group has expanded its cardiology services across Northwest Indiana.
Northwest Medical Group cardiologist Maya Kommineni opened a new office at Northwest Health–Michigan City at 3777 N. Frontage Road. She also will continue to see patients at her existing offices in Valparaiso and Portage as well.
Kommineni is accepting new patients at her Michigan City office, where she accepts Medicare, Medicaid and most insurances.
"Dr. Kommineni uses a multidisciplinary approach to cardiovascular disease management," Northwest Health said in a news release. "She has specific interests in preventive cardiology, cardiovascular nutrition, women’s cardiac health and cardio-oncology, the cardiac care of patients undergoing both chemo and radiation therapy."
To make an appointment, call 219-879-6021.
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Northwest Medical Group cardiologist Sammi Dali will begin seeing patients at Northwest Health–Chesterton located at 650 Dickinson Road and Northwest Health Medical Plaza at 85 East U.S. in Valparaiso starting in August.
He also practices in Michigan City, where he will continue to see patients.
"Dr. Dali has special interest in preventive cardiology and cardiovascular health," Northwest Health said in a press release. "He offers treatment for a range of conditions including hypertension, heart failure, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease and structural heart disease."
He is accepting new patients in Chesterton or Valparaiso.
To make an appointment, call 219-983-6300.
For more information, visit NWMedicalGroup.com. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/northwest-medical-group-expands-cardiology-services/article_fa2e73c6-690f-5904-b738-fe17c00009d1.html | 2022-07-22T00:33:34 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/northwest-medical-group-expands-cardiology-services/article_fa2e73c6-690f-5904-b738-fe17c00009d1.html |
U.S. Steel released its annual sustainability report, saying it is making significant progress toward its sustainability goals.
The Pittsburgh-based steelmaker, one of Northwest Indiana's largest employers, said it reduced its greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 16% as compared to 2018, according to the report released Thursday.
U.S Steel is aiming for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 to help tackle climate change, according to the report.
“I am excited about the significant progress we continue to make on our sustainability goals and what it means for our people, customers, communities and products,” said U. S. Steel President and Chief Executive Officer David B. Burritt.
“We can’t stand still when it comes to sustainability and are delivering profitable steel solutions by investing in sustainable and advanced steelmaking technologies that meet our business and customers’ goals while also reducing our greenhouse gas emissions intensity," Burritt said.
The company touted in the report that it acquired the only LEED-certified steelmaking facility in the United States, Big River Steel in Osceola, Arkansas.
U.S Steel noted in the report that it recycled 73% more scrap steel than in 2020.
The company also achieved a perfect score by the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index for the third consecutive year, according to the report.
U.S. Steel received recognition from Ethisphere as one of the 2022 World’s Most Ethical Companies as well.
U.S. Steel also offered salaried employees 100% pay, performance, and advancement equity, meaning gender or ethnicity did not influence their compensation.
“Sustainability is integrated into our corporate strategy and touches every part of our organization, from operations to environmental," said Richard L. Fruehauf, U. S. Steel’s Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer.
"The efforts and accomplishments highlighted in the report are essential to executing U.S. Steel’s Best for All strategy and to our continued success,” Fruehauf said.
“We are continuing to make significant progress on our sustainability goals," he said, "allowing us to continue to transform this iconic company to make the essential steel of the future.”
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Geitonia Greek Grill, Las Delicias Mexican Ice Cream, Underground Thrift Clothing, gym, courthouse patio opening; Timbrook Kitchens relocated; Overstuffed closed
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
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."
Highland native and Highland High School graduate Anna Wermuth, now an attorney at Cozen O'Connor in Chicago, also was recently named a Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers of America and one of the Top 500 Corporate Employment Lawyers by Lawdragon.
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 recycled aluminum flat-rolled mill and two slab centers that will feed it with recycled material. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/u-s-steel-says-its-making-progress-toward-its-sustainability-goals/article_275dee1d-51ab-5b50-9c11-9bfb1945fcaf.html | 2022-07-22T00:33:36 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/u-s-steel-says-its-making-progress-toward-its-sustainability-goals/article_275dee1d-51ab-5b50-9c11-9bfb1945fcaf.html |
CROWN POINT — A Calumet City man posted bond Wednesday on charges he shot another man multiple times Dec. 11 in Hammond.
Maurice A. Farley, 24, told police at the crime scene he felt he was in "imminent danger" but refused to talk further without an attorney, Lake Criminal Court records state.
The wounded man told police he was walking in the area of a gas station in the 6900 block of Hohman Avenue when a white car with heavily tinted windows pulled between a row of pumps and stopped.
The man said he turned around as the car's front passenger window rolled down, saw a driver he didn't recognize pointing a gun at him and attempted to run away as he was shot four times, according to court records.
The man was taken to a local hospital and later transferred to Stroger Hospital in Chicago, where he was treated for gunshot wounds to his chest, upper arm and middle back.
He was hospitalized for several weeks and underwent multiple surgeries as a result of his wounds, court records state.
Farley waited at the scene for officers to arrive and gave them a .40-caliber Glock handgun he used to shoot the man.
A Lake Criminal Court magistrate entered not guilty pleas on Farley's behalf to felony aggravated battery, battery by means of a deadly weapon, battery resulting in serious bodily injury and criminal recklessness.
Farley posted a bond of $65,000 surety or $6,500 cash, records showed.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Kyra Willis
Age : 29
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206110
Arrest Date: July 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Thien
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206094
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEH AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER; POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Kevin Rodriguez
Age : 36
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206098
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Thomas Silaj
Age : 34
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206096
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Moore III
Age : 47
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206095
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Arionn Parent
Age : 52
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206108
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Philbin
Age : 34
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206105
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Germon Jones
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206101
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole McGregor
Age : 30
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206078
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Courtney Johnson
Age : 39
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206112
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeff Henderson Jr.
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206090
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Dukes
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206083
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Edwards Jr.
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206082
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jasmine Clayton
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206079
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Ballard
Age : 58
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206092
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dawn Burton
Age : 56
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206091
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tre'Vion Carlisle
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206086
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeremy Asfall
Age : 33
Residence: Sacramento, CA
Booking Number(s): 2206106
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Aguero Jr.
Age : 53
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206081
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Suckey
Age : 36
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206045
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Simona Trajceski
Age : 27
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206050
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrew Stover
Age : 35
Residence: Steger, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206068
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Storey Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206047
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE; DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jason Sivak
Age : 43
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206067
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Annette Roberts
Age : 48
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206060
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph McLeroy
Age : 48
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206066
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Kewon Price
Age : 21
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206073
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Huemmer
Age : 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206041
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Henderson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206054
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tamika Graves
Age : 42
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206058
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER (ATTEMPTED)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Gross
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206059
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING - W/NO INTENT OF FELONY THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Jamey Goin
Age : 44
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206051
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antonio Collins
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206071
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brigida Fortoso Gomez Rodriguez
Age : 49
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206056
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - STRANGULATION - AGAINST A PREGNANT WOMAN
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Missy Buhrmester
Age : 30
Residence: Linden, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206049
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Geno Carta
Age : 29
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206075
Arrest Date: July 14, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Glorivette Bonilla
Age : 45
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206063
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Benjamin Seramur
Age : 31
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206013
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vashon Sherman
Age : 33
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206020
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hannah Wagner
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206039
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jessica Whitlow
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206015
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Santiago Reyes
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206018
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Schulten
Age : 38
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206029
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Plucinski
Age : 49
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206021
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Popa
Age : 40
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206009
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alan Hughes
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206010
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Johnson
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206011
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melissa Johnston
Age : 39
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206031
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stafford Henderson
Age : 64
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206016
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vincent Banks
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206019
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicole Bowersox
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206023
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Francisco Flores
Age : 32
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206035
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Stewart Foley IV
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206037
Arrest Date: July 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Kryda
Age : 32
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205991
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Hanaway
Age : 30
Residence: Medaryville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205988
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Derek Johnson
Age : 60
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205999
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Favian Juarez
Age : 25
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206005
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Haddock
Age : 42
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206000
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ryan Dobos
Age : 29
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205998
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mary Granter
Age : 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205986
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESS LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Charles Barber
Age : 42
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206003
Arrest Date: July 12, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT DEFENDANT USES A VEHICLE; BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Michael Warren
Age : 62
Residence: Beecher, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205965
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jereyl Willis
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205977
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Zeondre Shenault
Age : 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205978
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Stovall Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205973
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tasha Barnes
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205982
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Eugene Golston
Age : 52
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205980
Arrest Date: July 11, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Charlene Sandoval
Age : 60
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205974
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamarr Thompson
Age : 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205959
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dyron Wash
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205963
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Zurawski
Age : 35
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205956
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcus Lucio
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205955
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Angelee Luick
Age : 28
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205947
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; INTIMIDATION; BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Gilbert Ortiz
Age : 40
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205951
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesus Perez Jr.
Age : 28
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205946
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Carmella Lawrence
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205948
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
James Gilliam
Age : 47
Residence: Grant Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205957
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Orlando Guerra
Age : 47
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205954
Arrest Date: July 10, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rondell Johnson
Age : 23
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205950
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Joshua Bennett
Age : 28
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205943
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Bermingham
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205952
Arrest Date: July 9, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Veronica Quijano
Age : 29
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205913
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alantae Thornton
Age : 29
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205908
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Armaun McKenzie
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205927
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert McKenzie Jr.
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205920
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharita Parks
Age : 38
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205911
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angelos Lujano
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205918
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - HANDGUN - W/NO PERMIT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffrey Lambert
Age : 49
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205898
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paris Larkin Jr.
Age : 26
Residence: Park Forest, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205915
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kemetka Leftridge
Age : 44
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205894
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Deauntre Lester
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205919
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Kaufman
Age : 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205897
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cordarryl Jones
Age : 35
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205914
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Olivia Justice
Age : 18
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205904
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Pamela Jenkins Reynolds
Age : 51
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205901
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Irvin
Age : 44
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205909
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nedal Hamed
Age : 40
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205895
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY; ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Quinton Hicks
Age : 36
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205910
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cortney Dixon
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205923
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Agee
Age : 26
Residence: Ford Heights, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205912
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Brown Jr.
Age : 43
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205902
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Buczek
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205903
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lamont Walls
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205861
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rickey Washington
Age : 31
Residence: Danville, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205862
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jessica Sanchez
Age : 24
Residence: Cicero, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205878
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Monique Smoot
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205874
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Davion Torry
Age : 21
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205854
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Kirkland
Age : 37
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205853
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC INDECENCY - PROMOTING PROSTITUTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amber Mackey
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205855
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel McGraw
Age : 36
Residence: Rensselaer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205875
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Purkey
Age : 34
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205871
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE; POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Marta Rodriguez
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205869
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS; FALSE REPORTING - REPORT, CRIME, OR COMPLAINT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Nyia Hunter
Age : 22
Residence: Riverdale, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205881
Arrest Date: July 8, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stacy Gorgas
Age : 44
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205856
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrei Guta
Age : 19
Residence: Baltimore, MD
Booking Number(s): 2205872
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adam Garcia
Age : 25
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205852
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dustin Freely
Age : 54
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205868
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Matthew Creekbaum
Age : 39
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205873
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Saya Dhiman
Age : 22
Residence: Palatine, IL
Booking Number(s): 2205891
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andrea Brown
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205867
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jason Clark
Age : 44
Residence: Grffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205860
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Bonner
Age : 37
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2205850
Arrest Date: July 7, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - W/PRIOR AN UNRELATED CONVICTION REFERENCE SAME PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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VALPARAISO — Porter resident Elon Howe was found guilty of rape and incest Thursday after a second trial on charges he assaulted an intellectually disabled family member three years ago.
Howe, 58, opted not to take the witness stand Thursday morning to testify on his own behalf. He revealed his decision to the judge shortly after Porter County Deputy Prosecutor Harry Peterson ended the presentation of evidence against him.
Defense attorney Mark Chargualaf did not present any evidence on behalf of Howe before closing arguments in this week's trial were conducted.
Chargualaf did ask the judge for a directed verdict, arguing prosecutors did not provide enough evidence to prove the charges of rape and incest against his client.
Porter Circuit Court Judge Mary DeBoer denied the request, leaving Howe's fate with the jury.
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This was the second time the case had gone to trial, with last month's effort ending in a mistrial after it was learned a piece of evidence had mistakenly been presented to jurors.
Jurors in the first trial watched as Howe told a detective during a videotaped interview how he attempted to have sexual intercourse with the intellectually disabled family member.
While describing how the adult woman "liked attention," Howe took blame for his actions.
"I'm the bad person," he told Porter police Detective Sgt. Tawni Komisarcik during the July 29, 2019, interview.
Komisarcik had testified that her department was alerted to the accusations against Howe on July 10, 2019, and went to the local Fairhaven Baptist Church where the pastor told them a church member had been told of the abuse by the alleged victim.
The church member told police the alleged victim was helping out with day care at the church on July 7, 2019, when she mentioned she was Howe's "belated birthday present," court documents state. It was at that point that she described the sex acts and the pain they caused her.
"He stated that she (his wife) has not been giving him attention," police said of Howe. "Howe did not deny the allegations and said that he would try to be a better (family member)."
Komisarcik said the alleged victim's responses reminded her of a 5-year-old child.
DeBoer ruled earlier that the woman, who reportedly has an IQ of 48, which places her in the severely intellectually disabled range, was not competent to testify during the trial.
Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 17. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/porter-county-man-found-guilty-of-rape-incest/article_a0ce8ca9-ec87-58f7-a29f-69c36367f370.html | 2022-07-22T00:33:58 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/porter-county-man-found-guilty-of-rape-incest/article_a0ce8ca9-ec87-58f7-a29f-69c36367f370.html |
GARY — Grammy-nominated gospel singer Ricky Dillard will perform at Gospel Fest Friday at Beyond 4 Walls Christian Center in Gary.
The event is free and will begin at 7 p.m. New G will also be featured.
Dillard has been nominated twice for a Grammy, for best contemporary R&B gospel album for his album "Promise" and in the category best gospel album for "Amazing."
The injuries that caused 8-month-old Maci Moor's death in April 2016 could have happened in an instant, a Lake County supervisory deputy prosecutor said.
Raquel M. McCormick, 50, had a difficult time saying "guilty" when Lake Criminal Court Judge Samuel Cappas asked her how she pleaded to one count of voluntary manslaughter, a level 2 felony.
Davon N. Jones, of Hammond, is accused to fatally shooting Amarion W. Holmes, 20, in the head as Holmes sat in his white Hyundai sedan April 9 in a Hammond alley. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/ricky-dillard-to-perform-in-gary-friday/article_c6c6c9e7-d82f-5006-a16d-8e97477c55d0.html | 2022-07-22T00:34:04 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/ricky-dillard-to-perform-in-gary-friday/article_c6c6c9e7-d82f-5006-a16d-8e97477c55d0.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — A 65-year-old Pennsylvania man set up by a concerned citizen on social media is accused of attempting to lure a child, police said Thursday.
Geraldo Colapinto, of Yardley, Bucks County, was arrested Tuesday and charged with luring/enticing a child by various means.
Police said they were assisted by a concerned citizen who posed as an underage child on a social media site and was contacted by Colapinto, police said. Colapinto then attempted to lure the citizen and engage him in sexual conduct.
The concerned citizen confronted Colapinto and notified Atlantic City police.
At 9:36 p.m. Tuesday, police made contact with the citizen and Colapinto, and the citizen provided officers with screen shots and detailed information of communication between Colapinto and an individual claiming to be a 15-year-old boy, police said.
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WILDWOOD — Jitney is canceling its Sunday-through-Thursday island-wide services because of lower ridership rates during the weekdays.
Jitneys will only run on Fridays and Saturdays from 6 p.m. to 2:30 a.m., North Wildwood and Wildwood Crest said on their respective Facebook pages Thursday.
A Jitney Association representative could not be reached for comment Thursday.
The association runs a route between Rochester Avenue in Wildwood Crest and First Avenue in North Wildwood, according to the service map on its website.
ATLANTIC CITY — City Council on Wednesday passed an ordinance raising the cost of a jitney r…
It also runs routes in Cape May, Avalon, Stone Harbor and Ocean City, according to the website.
First launched in 1915, jitneys have been rolling icons on Jersey Shore streets, most famously in Atlantic City. The association also is open to private trips for parties, weddings and wine tours, the website states.
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Thursday's announcement is the latest route the association has scratched in the past two years. The association suspended its service to Atlantic City International Airport at the end of 2020. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/jitney-cancels-weekday-shuttles-in-the-wildwoods/article_6a414e94-0924-11ed-9afd-83cac64ab97a.html | 2022-07-22T00:41:17 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/jitney-cancels-weekday-shuttles-in-the-wildwoods/article_6a414e94-0924-11ed-9afd-83cac64ab97a.html |
Northampton County Council withheld acting Thursday evening on a resolution granting a property-tax exemption for a New Jersey developer to repurpose the former Dixie Cup factory in Wilson.
Council members John Brown and John Cusick cointroduced the resolution that would include the county in a tax-incentive program known as LERTA, or Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance.
But council did not discuss the ordinace and took no action. Vice Chairman Kerry L. Myers said a hearing and possible vote will be scheduled Aug. 4.
County Executive Lamont McClure told The Morning Call earlier this week he would veto the ordinance, arguing he doesn’t want to see another warehouse, and extending a tax break for the project would be inappropriate.
The borough and Wilson Area School Board have already approved its LERTA pacts with the prospective buyer and developer Nick Tsapatsaris. Under LERTA, county, borough and school property taxes would be frozen for a number of years at current assessment rates, then be increased before a new assessment based on the improvements leads to a hike in tax revenue from the property.
Dixie owner Joseph Reibman and borough officials urged council to consider the resolution.
Mayor Donald Barrett Jr. noted when Dixie Cup was a thriving manufacturer until the early 1980s, several other large businesses operated in the vicinity.
“There was a lot more pollution and traffic then,” Barrett said.
He also asked council for ideas about what it sees for reusing the plant, which first opened a century ago and made a variety of paper cups and related products.
“What does county council want to see?” Barrett said.
Borough resident Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen urged council to vote no on LERTA, arguing the proposed development would harm residents by decreasing air quality and further congesting roads, particularly along 25th Street at the border of Wilson and Palmer Township.
“The proposal to redevelop the Dixie Cup is not equitable nor innovative,” Moritz-Chapelliquen said.
Councilmember Justin Woodring said many, including borough officials, agree with Moritz-Chapelliquen’s concerns. “We share having a safe, clean community,” he said. But he noted previous efforts at redeveloping the massive complex have failed in part due to exorbitant rehab costs.
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“Nobody has been able to make the numbers work,” Woodring said.
Reibman, who had been in a partnership that has owned the 12.5 acre complex about 40 years, has an agreement of sale with Tsapatsaris. The potential buyer, who did not attend Thursday’s meeting, has said the LERTA is essential to doing the project. Tsapatsaris has proposed a “last-mile logistics” concept that would include a mix of business with some distribution and possibly manufacturing. Up to 15% of the property could be earmarked residential.
Borough officials have not heard from Tsapatsaris of any prospective tenants, but they have hoped for decades to see reuse for the old Dixie factory, a 640,000-square-foot, massive 100-year-old industrial complex that ceased manufacturing of paper cups and more in the early 1980s.
Over the years, much of the vacant complex had become an eyesore, with hundreds of broken windows. It has needed a new roof and other repairs, according to Reibman. An environmental cleanup is also required, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
In the early storage days under Reibman, the property, which sits off Butler Street, between South 24th and 25th streets, was used for distributing ALPO pet food, Hefty trash bags and other products. But the market for the complex dried up around 2010 as more modern warehouses were being built in the Lehigh Valley, and previous attempts to resurrect the complex — which includes a giant, rooftop cup — have failed.
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WATERLOO — Local law enforcement agents expect “several more arrests” in connection to a two-year long investigation into a Mexico-based drug trafficking organization’s presence in Black Hawk County.
Waterloo Police announced Thursday a third person was arrested last week on felony money laundering charges by the Tri-County Drug Enforcement Task Force and several other agencies.
The $7,908 agreement with the university was approved unanimously by the City Council on Monday night.
Megan Jolene Heying, 22, of New Hampton, allegedly distributed methamphetamine from the organization and also participated in the movement of the drug proceeds twice last year and once this year, from Black Hawk County to Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.
She was involved three times in the wire transfer of funds, which totaled about $2,500, and faces three money laundering charges.
Richard Louis Mohorne, 46, and Mark Anthony Sayles, 31, also were charged last week in connection with each transferring some $900 in proceeds last year from Black Hawk County to the “Manjarrez Drug Trafficking Organization” in Mexico.
Mohorne allegedly transferred the funds on two occasions.
According to the criminal affidavit, detectives identified one of the main operators in Mexico who was supplying Black Hawk County individuals with large amounts of methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl.
The operator was supplying another defendant with pounds of methamphetamine and thousands of pills containing fentanyl. That individual then provided Sayles, Mohorne and Heying with methamphetamine to sell.
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TEXAS, USA — Editor's Note: the above video is from a June 2022 story related to a shortage of beds in state mental hospitals
While seemingly all parts of Texas deal with a scorching hot summer, the state's prison system continues to have issues giving inmates and employees consistent access to air conditioning.
Temperatures inside Texas prisons regularly reach 110 degrees and topped out at 149 in at least one unit, according to a July study from the Texas A&M University Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center.
However, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), the agency said the average temperature of unit housing areas that do not have air conditioning in the month of June was 89.2 degrees. It also said the average for the first 11 days of July was 91.4 degrees. This is based on temperature taken in consistent sample areas from each unit, according to TDCJ.
Texas is one of at least 13 states that does not have universal air-conditioning in its state prisons. According to a risk management training article from TDCJ, someone can begin to feel the impact of heat exhaustion as low as 80 degrees. It also added the risk for heat stroke starts at 91 degrees.
The issue of how hot it can and does get in Texas jails has been an ongoing issue for years. In 2017, as part of a court order, Texas submitted a plan to move about 1,000 medically-sensitive inmates from the Pack Unit southeast of College Station, which is not air-conditioned, to other state jails and prisons that do have air conditioning. The plan came after a federal judge ordered air conditioning for the inmates in a scathing ruling against the Texas Department of Criminal Justice in July.
At least 23 documented heat-related deaths of incarcerated people have also been recorded by the TDCJ since 1998, according to the Texas A&M study.
It wasn't until 20 years later that policy change related to heat came into the fold. In 2018, TDCJ mediated 10 lawsuits connected to heat issues and air-conditioning in its prisons. The agency would be legally required to put vulnerable incarcerated people in air-conditioned facilities. TDCJ also updated its heat mitigation policies.
As a part of this mediation, TDCJ implemented other changes as well for all inmates that involved creating cooled areas, providing water and ice, implementing additional showers when possible, allowing incarcerated people to wear cooler clothing options at times, and allowing the purchase of cooling items from the prison commissary, according to the Texas A&M study.
Since then, TDCJ said revisions were made on May 8, 2020, under the "Excessive and Extreme Temperature Conditions" category. Primary changes included adding language clarifying notification procedures once an offender is identified as at-risk. It also added language regarding offender access to respite areas and proper designation of the respite areas and the importance of prioritizing maintenance work orders to keep air conditioning units, shower temperatures, fans, ice machines, and other vital areas functional during excessive heat conditions. This revision codified processes that were already in place, according to TDCJ.
Of the state's nearly 100 prison facilities, 70% do not have air-conditioning, according to a 2021 Texas Tribune article.
The Texas A&M University Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center study looked at 309 surveys, which were distributed by the Texas Prisons Community Advocates to incarcerated people in 57 TDCJ units between October 2018 and December 2020.
The subjects covered in the surveys relate to:
- Experience with heat-related illness
- Experiences with heat restrictions.
- Knowledge of heat-related deaths
- The provision of resources (water, cups, ice)
- Access to and experience with showers
- Access to and experience with respite areas
- Access to and conditions of fans and other infrastructure
- Work-related experiences with heat
- Accessibility and availability of cooling commissary items
- Filing grievances
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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. – A Lehigh Acres lake filled with alligators now has two less.
A man stepped out his back door only for an alligator to make a beeline right for him yesterday evening. That man believes someone has been feeding the gators in the lake behind his house.
Along Lakeview Drive in Lehigh Acres, Philip Ferrier, father to a 6-year-old son, is well aware of the gators in the lake behind his house.
“Kids walk along the shoreline fishing all the time, and there is a park right there at the end where they are sitting there fishing also,” Ferrier said.
However, last night was the first time he’s felt threatened by them.
“Just walked out the back door, and the Gator made a beeline for the shore towards our house,” he said.
He said a 7-foot-long alligator crawled up on the shoreline just feet away from him, with another lingering nearby.
“Somebody has been feeding them, they are getting too friendly with people,” he said.
That’s why he called the sheriff’s office, who sent FWC and a nuisance alligator trapper. With Phil’s help, they removed two from the lake.
“We caught 2 of them, 7-foot-6 and 8-foot-2,” Phil said.
FWC said it’s actively investigating feeding violations in the lake, which can be punishable with a $500 fine and up to 60 days in jail. Meanwhile, Phil said there are more still to be caught in the lake.
“They mentioned coming back out, they’ve got a 9-footer in there and another 7-footer it looks like,” he said. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/21/multiple-large-alligators-removed-from-lehigh-acres-lake/ | 2022-07-22T00:51:44 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/07/21/multiple-large-alligators-removed-from-lehigh-acres-lake/ |
Clyde Emery Haga, 94, of Coos Bay, passed away June 27, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Harold "Hollywood" Edward McDonald, 64, of Coquille, died July 11, 2022 in Coquille. Arrangements are under the direction of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service - Coquille Chapel, 541-396-3846
Kris A. Palica, 64, of Coos Bay died July 17, 2022 in Coos Bay. Services will be announced at a later date under the direction of North Bend Chapel. 541-756-0440. www.coosbayareafunrals.com | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/july-22-2022-death-notices/article_21888c0c-046b-11ed-8f4b-e781227d0b29.html | 2022-07-22T00:54:24 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/july-22-2022-death-notices/article_21888c0c-046b-11ed-8f4b-e781227d0b29.html |
NEWTON COUNTY, Ga. — One person is dead after a crash in Newton County Thursday evening.
According to the Newton County Sheriff's Office, Highway 11 south of Adams Circle will be closed until 9 p.m.
Authorities said to avoid the area and use alternate routes.
The sheriff's office is still investigating the crash and has not yet released specific details on the crash.
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A Memorial Celebration to the memory of Roy A Swanson of Langlois, Oregon. Saturday, July 30, 2022 from 2-5 pm at Mr. Ed's in Port Orford. Friends and Family are invited to share and remember Roy with 3 of his favorite things--Stories, Songs, and Snacks!
A memorial service for Besse Guthrie, 97, of Coos Bay, will be held at 2:00 pm, Friday, July 29, 2022 at the Coos Bay Church of Christ, 775 W. Donnelly Avenue in Coos Bay. Private interment will be held at Sunset Memorial Park in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/july-22-2022-service-notices/article_aa1012a4-06e9-11ed-a594-e3c1e8d1d1b3.html | 2022-07-22T00:54:30 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/obituaries/july-22-2022-service-notices/article_aa1012a4-06e9-11ed-a594-e3c1e8d1d1b3.html |
BOISE, Idaho — The ripple effect of Boise’s abortion resolution continues to expand with an ongoing conversation on the topic. On Tuesday, during the weekly city council meeting, the city council voted to declare it would not prioritize city resources to help in the investigation of anyone accused of violating Idaho’s new abortion ban, set to begin in August.
Mayor Lauren McLean told the 208 Wednesday that the city will not invade the privacy of individuals and doctors who are making really tough decisions. Decisions, she says, that should remain private.
The mayor explained her position saying Boise Police, the law enforcement arm who would do those investigations in Boise, would be better off keeping people safe.
There have been questions though. Can a city pass a resolution saying they essentially won't enforce a law?
There is a section of Idaho code that some are pointing to. Title 31, chapter 22 deals with the powers of county sheriff's. The code says in-part: "Whenever in the opinion of the governor any peace officer of this state refuses to offer assistance when requested to do so, or refuses to perform any duty enjoined upon him by the penal statutes of this state, the governor shall direct the attorney general to commence action under chapter 41, title 19, Idaho Code, to remove such officer from office."
KTVB got insight on Idaho law and how it interacts with the new Boise resolution from former U.S. Attorney for Idaho, Wendy Olson.
Olson says her interpretation of the law reads the code as only applying to Idaho State Officer, also known as Idaho State Police.
“The Idaho Constitution, Art. 12, Sec. 2 provides that 'Any county or incorporated city or town may make and enforce, within its limits, all such local police, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with its charter or with the general laws.' This is generally referred to as a city’s police powers," Olson explained.
"Even assuming that Idaho’s abortion statute is a general law, the Boise City Council’s resolution is almost certainly (and I use that qualifier because anything can be litigated) not in conflict with it,” Olson said.
Olson says there are three main reasons for her explanation.
“First, the resolution is not a regulation or ordinance. Second, the resolution doesn’t purport to make abortion legal – so no conflict. Third, the language of the resolution is very careful," Olson said. "It says the city will not prioritize investigations of providers and that it will not expend additional resources on such investigations. Governmental bodies always have to decide how to allocate scarce law enforcement resources. The resolution does that.”
The caveat here is anything can be litigated, and it will not be surprising if this situation comes up in a courtroom one day.
The situation highlights a potential gray area for law enforcement in the Boise area.
KTVB reached out to the Ada County Sheriff's Office on how the Boise resolution could impact them.
A spokesman writes to KTVB "We are still analyzing the situation and figuring out what this means for our agency. What I can tell you is we generally don't investigate reports of crimes in another jurisdiction, unless specifically asked to by that agency. In general terms, we investigate activity in our jurisdiction the Idaho legislature has determined to be crimes, and pass that information to the Ada County Prosecutor's Office, who makes a charging decision."
In recent weeks, Boise Police has commented on the concept of not using resources to investigate cases of illegal abortion.
In a Twitter thread, BPD wrote: "Pending legal review and input from Boise City Council, Boise Police are not planning on providing additional resources to investigate reports regarding abortion. We understand that there are many strong feelings on this issue and will follow the direction of our legal team"
KTVB reached out to Governor Little's Office with some questions on the resolution and enforcing the law. Little’s office did not respond immediately but Gov. Little did take to Twitter to comment, writing:
"Idaho led the nation in protecting preborn lives. When the trigger law goes into effect in a few weeks, abortion will be illegal in Idaho. That's the law of the land, and as elected officials we must uphold the law," the Governor’s tweet said Thursday.
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March 21, 1935 – June 29, 2022
Marvin V. Hankins passed away June 29, 2022 in Sparks, Nevada. Marvin was born March 21, 1935 in Bell, California to parents, Vernon and Ruth Hankins.
Marvin was a Boatswain’s Mate on the USS Hector, and USS Jason in the United States Navy. He attended ship reunions in Las Vegas, Nevada and Branson, Missouri. Employed many years by Union Oil in Portland, Oregon and retired from Borden Chemical in Springfield, Oregon.
After retiring Marvin and Jerene enjoyed trips to Coos Bay and North Bend, the east coast Tennessee, Hawaii, Canada and Mexico. In 2018 they moved to Sparks, Nevada for excellent care at the Reno Veterans Administration.
Marvin V. Hankins leaves behind his wife, Jerene (Button) Hankins; their daughters, Julie L. Harrison and Kathryn K. Hankins; 3 grandsons; 4 great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Preceded in death by his parents, Vernon and Ruth Hankins; sisters, Bonnie Belden and Rilley Vandorn.
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BOISE, Idaho — More than 20 years ago, Gene and Sandy Ralston started helping dive recovery teams find the bodies of people who drowned.
Currently, they are assisting the Ada County Sherriff’s Office find a 16-year-old who fell off at jet ski at Lucky Peak on Monday.
The Ralston’s use something called side-scan sonar. Unlike some others, their sonar is towable, which means they can search waters as deep as 850 feet, Gene said.
This is the Kuna couple’s second time helping the Ada County Sheriff's Office in the last 12 years. Detective Hyrum Jones said the Ralston’s are an invaluable resource, especially considering the sheriff’s office does not own a towable sonar.
Ada County’s sonar is mounted to their boat and cannot see as far, he said.
“They're a great tool to have,” Jones said. “We're just blessed to have them living in our county.”
The Ralston’s boat, while now outfitted with state-of-the-art technology, was originally bought for sentiment samplings along the Lower Snake and Columbia rivers, Gene said. The couple are retired scientists – with degrees in biology, zoology and biochemistry.
The couple soon changed course after helping with a recovery search in Oregon. After convincing Sandy to purchase a sonar of their own, Gene said they never looked back.
"It helps to even the odds,” Gene said. “It allows you to search water deeper than divers can dive. It creates images of obstructions on the bottom as well, and that helps keep divers safe."
The Ralston’s now assist dive recovery teams all across the country. Jones said it is not something to take advantage of. After the couple begins their second retirement, the sheriff’s office wants to be prepared.
"We know Gene is a great resource, but we also know that Gene is not going to be in the business forever,” Jones said. “As a sheriff's office, we are looking and starting to do our research about buying equipment that can help us achieve our mission even be able to do recoveries and searching."
Until the 16-year-old boy at Lucky Peak is found, teams will continue to search. The Sheriff’s Office said the pipeline camp area will be closed as searches are in progress.
As for Gene and Sandy, he said they are heading up Washington state next week in hopes of finding another drowning victim and bringing closure to grieving families.
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POCATELLO, Idaho — Longtime Idaho lawmaker Sen. Mark Nye has died. He was 76.
Nye, a Democrat from Pocatello, died at a hospital on Saturday after an extended illness, the Idaho State Journal reported.
Nye was elected to the Idaho House in 2014, and two years later was elected to the state Senate, where he served three terms. He announced earlier this year that he would not run for re-election.
Democratic Rep. James Ruchti, also of Pocatello, said in a news release on Thursday that Nye was a loved and essential part of the community. He lauded Nye's work as an attorney and support for Idaho State University, and said Nye's death was difficult to process.
“I think the thing I most respected about Mark was that he was kind to people,” Ruchti said. “From the janitor to the CEO, he treated people with respect.”
Nye graduated from Harvard University and earned a law degree at the University of Idaho College of Law. He was a past president of the Idaho State Bar.
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BOUNDARY COUNTY, Idaho — Idaho State Police (ISP) are seeking assistance in locating a missing endangered 76-year-old man in Boundary County, Idaho.
According to a press release, Robert Wayne Swindle was reported missing in the vicinity of Deep Creek Loop around 10:30 a.m. Thursday. ISP says he was last seen around midnight and 1 a.m.
Swindle is described as a white man with partially balding white hair and full beard. He is 6'1'' and his weight ranges between 160 and 175 pounds. He was last seen wearing dark colored jeans and possibly a t-shirt, but police say he may be shirtless and shoeless.
While ISP is not currently looking for search volunteers, anyone with information on Swindle's whereabouts can contact Boundary County Dispatch at (208) 267-3151, extension 0 or 911.
We will provide more updates as they become available.
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BOISE, Idaho — A Weiser woman was killed in a single vehicle rollover crash on Highway 95, south of Sunnyside, Thursday morning.
A 66-year-old woman, the sole occupant in the vehicle, was traveling northbound on SH 95 near milepost 80 in a 1994 Nissan Quest, when police say she lost control of her car and ran off the road.
The woman then overcorrected, causing the vehicle to roll, and landed 100 feet from the highway; she was ejected from her vehicle during the incident.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office identified the woman as Jean M. Hawk.
What caused Hawk to lose control of her vehicle or other contributing factors are currently unknown, according to Chief Deputy Brady Johnston with Washington County Sheriff's Office.
Both lanes of the highway were closed for approximately an hour while emergency crews worked to clear the accident.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to the accident with assistance from the Weiser Police and Fire departments and Weiser paramedics.
Johnston said the woman was improperly wearing her seatbelt, and just had the lap restraint on.
Hawk was life-flighted from the scene of the accident to a nearby hospital but passed from her injuries mid-flight. Her family has been notified.
The Washington County Sheriff's Office is conducting an investigation into what caused the crash.
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FBI: No sign of Jimmy Hoffa under New Jersey bridge
Detroit — The FBI found no evidence of missing Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa during a search of land under a New Jersey bridge, a spokeswoman said Thursday.
The Pulaski Skyway now becomes another dead end in the decades-long mystery that has stretched from a Michigan horse farm to the East Coast: Where are the remains of one of America's most powerful labor leaders?
The 47-year riddle turned last year to land next to a former landfill under the bridge in Jersey City. The FBI conducted a search there in early June.
“Nothing of evidentiary value was discovered during that search,” said Mara Schneider, an FBI spokeswoman in Detroit.
“While we do not currently anticipate any additional activity at the site, the FBI will continue to pursue any viable lead in our efforts to locate Mr. Hoffa,” she said.
Schneider declined to comment further when asked for details about the excavation.
Authorities believe Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit in 1975 while meeting with reputed mobsters.
Dan Moldea, a journalist who has written extensively about the Hoffa saga, said he was personally briefed by the FBI in a video conference call Thursday.
He said the FBI and its contractors did not dig in the exact spot that he had recommended.
“I'm not thrilled with the result. ... My impression today was them breaking the bad news to me: Thanks for the tip but this is over. That’s my interpretation," Moldea told The Associated Press.
“They dug holes very, very deep,” he said.
The FBI reached out to Moldea last year after he published a detailed account from Frank Cappola, who was a teenager in the 1970s when he worked at the old PJP Landfill near the bridge.
Cappola said his father, Paul Cappola, who also worked at the landfill, explained how Hoffa’s body was delivered there in 1975, placed in a steel drum and buried with other barrels, bricks and dirt.
Paul Cappola, worried that police might be watching, dug a hole on New Jersey state property, about 100 yards from the landfill, and subsequently moved the unmarked barrel there, according to Moldea.
Frank Cappola spoke to Fox Nation and Moldea before he died in 2020 and signed a document attesting to his late father’s story.
Moldea said the FBI told him it did not dig in the exact spot that he had recommended because radar showed nothing suspicious below ground.
“I do think they missed this one spot,” he said. “I think the body’s there. We just can't find it.”
Hoffa was president of the 2.1 million-member Teamsters union from 1957-71, even keeping the title while in prison for trying to bribe jurors during a previous trial. He was released from prison in 1971 when President Richard Nixon shortened his sentence.
It has been long speculated that Hoffa, who was 62, was killed by enemies because he was planning a Teamsters comeback. He was declared legally dead in 1982. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/21/fbi-no-sign-jimmy-hoffa-under-new-jersey-bridge/10123484002/ | 2022-07-22T00:56:27 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/07/21/fbi-no-sign-jimmy-hoffa-under-new-jersey-bridge/10123484002/ |
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A SCUBA diving computer that can display inaccurate sea level dime times at certain altitudes, peptide-C glass vials that can break and hammock stand welds that can break are among recalls issued Thursday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Aqualung i33OR SCUBA Diving Computer
The recalled wrist diving computers can fail to adjust its pressure level when the user is diving at 3,000 feet or higher, posing a risk of decompression sickness or drowning.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled diving computers produced and distributed in 2021 and 2022 and contact the Aqua Lung website to arrange for a free repair. Consumers can download a software update through the DiverLog+ application or bring their recalled dive computer to their dealer or dive center to have the software update installed.
LiftActiv Peptide-C Ampoules
The glass packaging of the small, sealed vials, or ampoules, can weaken over time and break when opened, posing a laceration hazard to fingers and hands.
The recall affects about 200,200 units.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled product and visit the Vichy USA Consumer Care website or call 844-973-0595 for a full refund.
Key West Knock Down Hammock Stand
The Hammock Source is recalling about 32,500 hammock stands because the weld attaching the stand to the base can break, posting a fall hazard.
The hammock stands were sold exclusively at Lowe’s stores and online at Lowes.com for about $120 between October 2020 and May 2022.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled hammock stands and contact The Hammock Source for instructions on receiving a full refund. Consumers can email standrecall@keywest-hammocks.com or call 888-744-4366.
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POTTSVILLE, Pa. — As temperatures continue to rise throughout Schuylkill county, so do concerns for the elderly.
Pat Kechula lives at the Mahanoy Elderly Apartments in Mahanoy City. We found her outside, waiting for her daughter to arrive with some groceries.
“They want to do it but they can't. And then other people have to go to the store. They have aides like I do, like my daughter. They help me out because I can't go out in this heat,” said Kechula.
During this heat wave, senior centers across Schuylkill county are helping folks stay safe during the summer heat by providing extra resources.
The senior center in Pottsville is staying open longer to accommodate senior citizens who may not have air conditioning, and that's not all.
“What we're doing tomorrow with our Meals on Wheels consumers, we have just around 400 consumers that we deliver meals to and we are providing them a hydration packet to them tomorrow,” said Susan Long, Diakon Community Services Director.
Each hydration packet includes a water bottle and information about the importance of drinking water when it's this hot.
“I mean people do not realize how important it is, even if they don't feel thirsty, just please stay hydrated. Just drink as much water, water is so important to drink,” said Long.
The senior centers across Schuylkill county are also hosting more indoor activities to allow seniors to socialize while staying indoors.
“I feel people don't realize how hot it is out there. People are always going out and trying to do things they normally do in the heat and just don't realize until it's too late. So I do caution everyone to limit your time outside, somewhere where it's air-conditioned or they have a fan,” said Long.
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A 19-year-old serving a life sentence for killing a Lincoln police officer while trying to escape arrest now faces a first-degree murder charge for a fatal stabbing six months earlier.
Felipe Gonzalez Vazquez, of Lincoln, initially was charged with second-degree assault in connection to Edward Varejcka's killing March 8, 2020.
But late Thursday afternoon, prosecutors got permission from the judge to add a first-degree murder charge and two weapons counts.
In May, he was sentenced to life in prison plus 129 years for the murder of Lincoln Investigator Mario Herrera.
On Aug. 26, 2020, police had cornered Gonzalez Vazquez at his father's house at 33rd and Vine streets to arrest him on a warrant in the Varejcka case when the then-17-year-old broke out a bedroom window and fired three shots from a stolen gun, wounding Herrera and injuring a second officer from shrapnel.
In an affidavit for Gonzalez Vazquez's arrest in the Varejcka case, Lincoln Police said at least three young men went to an apartment on Orchard Street near 22nd and Orchard streets around 3:30 a.m. March 8, 2020, and began demanding a phone.
It led to a physical confrontation.
Lincoln Officer Matt Franken said a witness heard one of the intruders say "kill him," and another pulled out a knife and stabbed Varejcka several times. A TV was believed to have been thrown at his head.
Police arrived to find a friend performing CPR on Varejcka. Officers took over until rescue workers arrived but were unable to save him.
Crime scene investigators found a kitchen knife from the apartment, the suspected murder weapon, thrown outside the apartment complex as the intruders left, according to court records.
Five friends were inside a boat when an unidentified man opened the cabin door and fired two shots at 42-year-old Benjamin J. Case, who died at the scene.
A Lincoln therapist and drug and alcohol counselor has had her mental health practitioner license revoked over allegations that she befriended a client and took thousands in cash and trips from her.
Police on Friday identified the 83-year-old woman found dead this week in a southwest Lincoln stream as Marilyn McArthur, a longtime Union College professor.
"This was an atrocity, the crime that was inflicted on Kayla Matulka. And the actions were violent and brutal," Saunders County District Judge Christina Marroquin said.
The Lincoln Police Department were called to the 1600 block of West E Street with complaint of a disturbance. Upon arrival, 22-year-old Xavier Wheeler was found hiding in a bedroom closet, LPD Sgt. Justin Armstrong said.
The intruder, who identified himself to residents as "John," kicked in the door of the house and ran through the home before firing a gun and leaving out the back door, Sheriff Terry Wagner said.
Sgt. Chris Vollmer said a volunteer arrived Monday to find the place in disarray, a computer missing and the security cameras removed. There was no sign of forced entry. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-teen-serving-life-for-officers-killing-faces-murder-charge-in-2020-stabbing/article_f80449a7-bd07-54c4-b73d-efe520fc291c.html | 2022-07-22T01:09:01 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-teen-serving-life-for-officers-killing-faces-murder-charge-in-2020-stabbing/article_f80449a7-bd07-54c4-b73d-efe520fc291c.html |
When elementary students in the Twin Falls School District arrive for their first day of school this fall, they’ll be greeted by their new teacher, their classmates, their principal – and their armed security guard.
The district’s board of trustees voted unanimously at a meeting Wednesday evening to add 10 armed security guards from Eagle Eye Security, a private company. They will each be stationed at one of the district’s nine elementary schools and at an alternative middle school.
The guards will supplement SROs in the district to ensure there’s an armed, trained adult in every school building every day. With the prevalence of school shootings on a national level, student safety has been foremost in the minds of parents, educators, and district officials. Adding armed guards is a relatively new approach to school safety in Idaho schools.
The May shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 students and two teachers dead spurred the district to add extra coverage for its primary schools.
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“We were getting a lot of comments, concerns, and questions from the community about what we were doing to support safety at elementary schools,” said Eva Craner, a spokesperson for the district. “We’ve had pretty positive feedback that this is the direction the community would support.”
Last school year, the district’s six school resource officers were each assigned to a high school or middle school as their “home base,” with one to three elementary schools to check in on regularly. With six SROs covering 16 schools, they could not be everywhere at once.
But the Twin Falls Police Department said it likely would not be able to provide any more than six SROs due to its own staffing shortages. Every new SRO means one fewer patrol officer.
So the district got creative and considered a new idea – bringing in armed guards.
The price tag for the guards is estimated to be about $250,000, Craner said, which will be covered with federal monies this school year. In future years, the district will likely put forward a supplemental levy to help pay for the new personnel.
That cost is on top of the $318,876.66 the district will pay for its Twin Falls Police Department SROs and their supervising sergeant this school year. The department and district each pay half of the law enforcement officers’ salaries.
When combined, that’s over half a million dollars to staff every school with armed protection.
The school district and Twin Falls Police Department plan to work together closely to make sure the new armed guards are adequately trained.
“When putting someone with a firearm in a school, you don’t want just anybody,” Sergeant Dusty Solomon, who oversees the juvenile crimes unit, said. “Our biggest concern is training them – that is a serious thing.”
The SROs have a rigorous training process. Before becoming an SRO, they must work as a patrol officer for at least three years. Then they must complete a 40-hour training course the summer before their first school year. More experienced SROs take advanced classes.
Craner said that Eagle Eye Security will provide “highly-trained professionals who have a law enforcement background.”
But the SROs the armed guards will be supplementing have multifaceted roles that go beyond basic security.
An SRO is the first line of defense in a school shooting – but there’s more to the job than that
If a shooting ever did occur, an SRO would be the first line of protection. Solomon said the department always works hard to make sure SROs don’t become complacent.
“Hopefully it never happens, but if it were to happen, they’re ready and prepared to take care of it,” she said. “SROs are the chief of their jurisdiction. It’s their area that they’re in charge of and tasked with protecting.”
But SROs in the Twin Falls School District have more on their plate than just emergency response preparedness.
Solomon said SROs work to foster positive relationships with students so they will see police officers in a different light.
“We don’t want them to always see police as the bad guy who comes around because someone’s in trouble or something bad has happened, but as people there to support them,” Solomon said.
SROs will often go out in the hallways during passing periods or at lunch to greet students or even play basketball with them. And they try to get into classrooms, teaching about whatever is their focus that year – like preventing online harassment or quashing vaping.
That’s on top of helping school administrators deal with issues like students fighting, using drugs, bringing weapons to school, or being excessively absent. They also conduct welfare checks.
SROs are just one part of a school’s ever-evolving safety plan
SROs and armed security guards are just one part of the district’s broader safety plan. Other safety measures in Twin Falls School District include the following:
All elementary schools have a single point of access, and secondary schools are working toward reducing their access points as well.
Any visitors must bring a government issued identification and receive a visitor’s badge before entering the school.
The district has a safety committee that meets quarterly and is comprised of district officials and local law enforcement. The district will also be adding teachers and parents to the group this year.
Radios are used to enhance communication.
Cameras are used within schools to prevent incidences and to identify those involved after the fact.
Staff members complete ALICE active shooter training.
Three years ago, Twin Falls also added a security aide to every school building. The aides are unarmed staff members who monitor safety by double checking that doors are locked appropriately, checking in visitors, and building relationships with kids in the hopes that they’ll report anything that’s out of the ordinary.
“They’re really a presence to make kids feel safe,” Craner said.
Those aides’ job descriptions may change slightly (with a focus on student behavior) now that the guards will be in place.
Going forward, the district is considering making other changes too. For example, they are considering whether clear backpacks would increase safety and whether intercom systems need to be updated.
Mike Munger, the program manager for the Idaho Safety and Security Program, said thinking outside the box about how to improve safety is exactly what districts should be doing.
The ISSP conducts triennial safety evaluations of every school in Idaho, then points out vulnerabilities and makes recommendations for how schools can address them. But ultimately, it’s up to each school board to make decisions about how to best protect its students.
“It’s good to be thinking through all the options that are available,” he said. “It’s how the process is supposed to go … I like the fact that school boards are giving thoughtful consideration to a variety of solutions.”
Most schools in Idaho at least have a contact person within their local police department if not a full-time SRO, Munger said. And at least one other district that he could think of – the Lakeland School District – has hired armed guards to help protect students.
Whatever safety plan a school has in place, he said it’s important to continually reevaluate it.
“Acts of violence are not like a flood or earthquake that behaves the same every time,” he said. “[Shooters] learn and change and every situation is a little different. It’s one of those elements where we can never really rest on our laurels.”
Craner would agree.
“It’s never a tabled conversation,” she said. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-to-place-10-armed-security-guards-in-schools/article_b0a88da6-0911-11ed-8f21-df453ae100de.html | 2022-07-22T01:14:02 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/twin-falls-to-place-10-armed-security-guards-in-schools/article_b0a88da6-0911-11ed-8f21-df453ae100de.html |
Twin Falls County Commissioner Don Hall talks about what's going on in the county during a Kiwanis Club meeting Thursday afternoon, July 21, 2022, at the Turf Club in Twin Falls.
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County commissioner Jack Johnson talks about what's going on in the county during a Kiwanis Club meeting Thursday afternoon, July 21, 2022, at the Turf Club in Twin Falls.
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County commissioner Brent Reinke talks about the new location in County West for juvenile detention during a Kiwanis Club meeting Thursday afternoon, July 21, 2022, at the Turf Club in Twin Falls.
All three Twin Falls County Commissioners attended the latest Kiwanis Club meeting to talk about county affairs.
The commissioners took an informal approach as they moved about the crowd of about 20 members while answering questions as they spoke concerning a number of topics.
Some of the issues that were addressed were building another bridge, mental health awareness and gun rights along with the Lava Ridge Wind Project and the new juvenile detention center located at Twin Falls County West.
According to the Kiwanis Club Facebook page they are "a service club made up of caring men and women from all walks of life who want to support the children and the community of Twin Falls, Idaho and the surrounding Magic Valley."
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Twin Falls County Commissioner Don Hall talks about what's going on in the county during a Kiwanis Club meeting Thursday afternoon, July 21, 2022, at the Turf Club in Twin Falls.
County commissioner Jack Johnson talks about what's going on in the county during a Kiwanis Club meeting Thursday afternoon, July 21, 2022, at the Turf Club in Twin Falls.
County commissioner Brent Reinke talks about the new location in County West for juvenile detention during a Kiwanis Club meeting Thursday afternoon, July 21, 2022, at the Turf Club in Twin Falls. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/watch-now-kiwanis-club-hears-from-twin-falls-county-commissioners/article_d3b3a3f4-0915-11ed-ab15-2fe73fd12acc.html | 2022-07-22T01:14:08 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/watch-now-kiwanis-club-hears-from-twin-falls-county-commissioners/article_d3b3a3f4-0915-11ed-ab15-2fe73fd12acc.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — Police are investigating a crash Thursday evening on Indianapolis' northeast side.
Around 6:30 p.m., a pickup truck was northbound on Interstate 465 just south of the I-69 exit. According to police, the truck left the highway, went down an embankment and ran into a building in the 6800 block of North Shadeland Avenue. The building houses multiple local radio station studios, including 95.5 WFMS.
Police are investigating whether a driver medical issue preceded the collision. The driver's condition was not reported.
Part of the building's exterior and interior were extensively damaged. No one inside the building was injured.
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DALLAS — The Dallas Parks and Recreation department is warning residents about a poisonous plant that's been found growing around White Rock Lake.
According to the department, the water hemlock plant has been found growing along the lakefront and that it's possible residents can accidentally come into contact with it.
"Park maintenance staff recently learned of several populations of the poisonous growing around the lake," the department said in a news release.
The parks department said it will be conducting "emergency pesticide application" on Friday to eliminate the plant. If this works, the department added the plant should dry up and the roots killed "to neutralize any toxicity and threat to human health."
The water hemlock plant grows as small clusters of white flower in the shape of an umbrella. The parks department said the plant is described as "highly toxic" and that it affects the central nervous system.
The primary method of poisoning is ingesting the plant, but the department said skin contact could cause a reaction.
"The public is advised to keep away from this plant if discovered growing at the park and immediately contact a Poison Control Center if exposed," the parks department said in the news release.
The parks department said it will be using the Rodeo herbicide, as the chemical is approved for use near White Rock Lake. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/poisonous-plant-water-hemlock-white-rock-lake-dallas/287-77b233b3-d112-41a8-abb7-36bfc88d5e48 | 2022-07-22T01:20:51 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/poisonous-plant-water-hemlock-white-rock-lake-dallas/287-77b233b3-d112-41a8-abb7-36bfc88d5e48 |
SOMERVELL COUNTY, Texas — There are miles of property in Somervell near a fire which has also destroyed several homes. Still, the people who live in the burned area are thankful and glad no one has been hurt in the wildfires.
In areas where firefighters have successfully knocked out flames, there are what's known as dust devils popping up. There are also fire personnel on ATVs riding around monitoring the area for hot spots and flare-ups.
There are miles of charred land where fire has damaged or destroyed at least 16 homes.
Cindy Glover and her husband, retired firefighter Larry Glover, rushed home from vacation. Fire destroyed their barn and many of Cindy's neighbors lost everything.
"But we still have our home," Cindy Glover said. "Although we have no water or septic at the time at this time."
Somervell Fire Chief Brian Jones has not stopped working since the fires started. They train for this kind of battle but nothing can train you for the day-to-day exhaustion that comes with the job sometimes. Still, his crews remain steadfast in doing their job to protect and serve the community, even with the dangers they face with an unpredictable wildfire.
This is the first day his crews are out of the burn area thanks to the mutual aid they're getting from all over this part of the country.
Chief Brian Jones is also in charge of Emergency Management Services in his area. So, the wildfires are on top of an already double-duty schedule.
"When we get something this size, we have to call. You know, we've had Hood County, Erath County, and Johnson County," said Chief Brian Jones, "Our priority is the safety of our community. We hope that there is some aid for our families who have lost everything when it comes to FEMA stepping in."
Jones says Texas A&M Forest Service has also been a godsend for his fire department.
They are coordinating firefighter shifts around the clock to give Somervell Fire some relief. Alex Schwier is the acting spokesperson for Texas A&M Forest Service.
"So, we have multiple shifts. We have crews working this fire throughout the night as well as during the day," said Alex Schwier.
Signs of the fire devastation not only include the dust devils popping up around Somervell, but signs of the intensity of the flames are evident from the destroyed homes that are leveled to the ground, vehicles like a flatbed found completely burned out and even animals found wandering like deer.
Cindy Glover -- even with these before-and-after photos of her bluebonnets destroyed by fire -- somehow remains thankful.
"I'm here, I have my husband, we have our family, we're here," she said. "I'm blessed. I'm very blessed." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/somervell-fire-chief-speaks-first-time-since-wildfires/287-2a2aa4f6-56c4-4ded-87da-09e53bf8d51a | 2022-07-22T01:20:57 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/somervell-fire-chief-speaks-first-time-since-wildfires/287-2a2aa4f6-56c4-4ded-87da-09e53bf8d51a |
GREENSBORO — High school students will soon get to see the walk-through weapons scanners that will be used this school year.
The touch-free body scanners, which are meant to detect and deter hidden guns, are being installed at Guilford County Schools' traditional high schools.
"They should be in place prior to the open house for the high schools, so that students will be able to see it before they actually have to walk through on a school day and all that stress that first day of school," said Mike Richey, the district's director of emergency management.
The first day of school for traditional schools is Aug. 29.
Richey said the district is spending $800,000 to lease 43 scanners for the 19 schools for one year. That money comes from the federal COVID-19 relief dollars the district has received. Richey said there is funding from the same source for the year after, but the school board will have to find additional funds if the district wants to continue beyond that.
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The scanner installation will take place over the next three to four weeks, Richey said. He said they will also be rolling out communications to students to let them know what to expect.
The scanners were tested at Smith and High Point Central high schools this summer. Richey called that trial period successful because the district was able to screen students with a minimum of disruption to their day and environment.
He said it has been interesting to see how students have adapted to the scanners. For example, he said, students are learning to pull their glasses cases, which are often metal, out of their packs so they can walk through with them in their hands. If the case sets off the device's warning system, the school staff member can tell immediately it's the eyeglass case in their hand that's being visually highlighted by the device's artificial intelligence and wave them along.
"They get going through it pretty quick," Richey said of the students.
Richey said that 84% of all school shooting situations are high-school related, so the district is focusing on high schools for now, but could consider middle schools later.
"We will always be evaluating to see how we can make this system work the best, how we can make it work the most efficiently, and if that does involve hiring folks, we'll learn that and put that forward as well," he said.
The Evolv scanners are still new technology and not widely used by school districts, but one other major North Carolina school district, Charlotte-Mecklenburg, started trying out the scanners this spring.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is trying a different tack. The district bought portable metal detectors to be used not on a daily basis, but for events and in situations of special need. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/watch-now-guilford-county-schools-readying-to-place-weapons-scanners-in-regular-high-schools/article_b860260e-092e-11ed-94a5-3fbb8f667eab.html | 2022-07-22T01:24:40 | 1 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/watch-now-guilford-county-schools-readying-to-place-weapons-scanners-in-regular-high-schools/article_b860260e-092e-11ed-94a5-3fbb8f667eab.html |
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A nonprofit that supports Gov. Eric Holcomb announced a "substantial" five-figure radio ad buy to support his inflation relief plan.
Imagine Indiana announced the purchase in a news release Tuesday. Holcomb proposed sending $225 payments to Hoosier taxpayers last month, but Republicans in the state Senate may not support the proposal as they released their own economic plan Wednesday.
“In promoting efficient and effective government, conservatives in Indiana have proven to be strong stewards of hard-earned tax dollars," Imagine Indiana Executive Director Joe Elsener said in the release. "In turn, this has led to a historic state surplus, and Imagine Indiana believes that what is not needed to operate state government should be immediately returned to taxpayers."
The group released their 30-second radio spot, which features Holcomb speaking in support of his plan.
According to the release, Indiana ended the 2022 fiscal year with $6.1 billion in reserve — $1.24 billion more than expected. Holcomb's proposal would send $1 billion of that to taxpayers in the form of direct payments.
“The governor’s plan will provide direct, flexible, meaningful relief to Hoosier families in the fairest and fastest way possible as they’re being impacted by a 40-year high national rate of inflation,” Elsener said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/nonprofit-announces-ad-buy-supporting-holcombs-inflation-relief-plan/article_775e5d0c-0937-11ed-8c83-33eccc4fa48d.html | 2022-07-22T01:25:06 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/indiana/nonprofit-announces-ad-buy-supporting-holcombs-inflation-relief-plan/article_775e5d0c-0937-11ed-8c83-33eccc4fa48d.html |
Neighborhood surveillance and a Thursday morning traffic stop led to the arrest of a Fort Wayne man for what police described as “a large amount of marijuana.”
Marquan Dshawn McGee, 26, of the 1300 block of St. Marys Avenue, was arrested on a preliminary felony charge of dealing in marijuana with a prior conviction, according to the police department.
The Fort Wayne Police Department’s gang and violent crimes unit and vice and narcotics unit, along with other officers, were conducting surveillance on a house in the 1000 block of St. Marys. The traffic stop about 11:37 a.m. showed evidence of drug trafficking, police said.
Officers obtained a search warrant for the house, and Indiana State Police troopers were also on the scene when the house was searched. Police dogs went through the residence, and officers were still collecting evidence at the scene about 3 p.m.
Police didn’t specify the amount of marijuana found, but a strong odor of the drug came from the house while police were searching it. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-traffic-stop-leads-to-marijuana-trafficking-operation-and-arrest/article_630b08f4-093d-11ed-8635-d3c48816d77a.html | 2022-07-22T01:25:13 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-traffic-stop-leads-to-marijuana-trafficking-operation-and-arrest/article_630b08f4-093d-11ed-8635-d3c48816d77a.html |
A jury on Thursday found Susan A. Behny, 75, not guilty of murdering her husband.
It took the 12-person panel about six hours to reach the verdict. Behny broke down in tears when they delivered the decision. She held her hand over her mouth as her body convulsed with sobs.
Someone shot her 74-year-old husband, Kenneth Ralph Behny, in the back of the head with a shotgun in the early morning hours of Nov. 8. Susan Behny didn’t call police until about 1 p.m., however.
The prosecution’s case centered on the conflict between the evidence and the story Behny told police, as well as the difficult relationship between the husband and wife. The defense focused on the prosecution’s evidence being primarily circumstantial and raised doubts about whether someone with Behny’s health problems could have carried out a murder.
Tesa Helge, deputy prosecutor, said in her closing argument that there were flaws in the alternative theory that someone else entered the house and shot Kenneth Behny.
If there was an intruder, the person stole nothing, meaning it would’ve been a personal vendetta against the husband, Helge said.
She reminded jurors that police testified they believed Susan Behny wasn’t telling them the truth, that she contradicted herself when explaining things to them and that they felt her behavior didn’t match someone’s who discovered her husband had been shot.
Officers also found a bruise on Behny’s shoulder that witnesses testified is consistent with the recoil from someone using a shotgun incorrectly, Helge said. Behny had previously told police the bruise was caused by her son lifting her.
Although her husband usually woke up at 4:30 a.m., Behny didn’t call police until 1 p.m. when, she had told police, she went to wake him for an appointment, Helge reminded jurors in her closing.
Tom Chaille, deputy prosecutor, said although the house was small, Behny said she never heard the shotgun go off or smelled gunpowder. He also said no evidence – DNA or fingerprints – from anyone else was found in the house.
In the defense’s closing, attorney Tony Churchward questioned whether Behny had the physical strength to carry out the shooting, including lifting a 12-gauge shotgun. Police never found the shotgun, and witnesses said they never saw one in the house.
During the trial, Behny sat in a wheelchair and had tubing in her nose attached to a device to help her breathe.
Chaille in rebuttal reminded jurors that Behny was not in a wheelchair or attached to a tank when the shooting happened. Although she needed help walking, she had upper body strength and a few hours after the shooting to clean things up, Chaille said.
Churchward said it didn’t make sense for Behny to kill her husband because she couldn’t get around without at least a cane and was dependent on her husband to drive, shop and cook.
The defense attorney said there was no motive or DNA and fingerprint evidence showing Behny killed her husband. His $3,000 life insurance policy didn’t even cover funeral expenses.
“What you have is speculation,” Churchward said.
Behny’s family declined to comment on the verdict. Outside the courthouse, they hugged each other and said, “she’s coming home.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/woman-acquitted-in-husbands-shooting-death/article_b51f4506-0910-11ed-9e0e-a72b897a7e07.html | 2022-07-22T01:25:19 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/woman-acquitted-in-husbands-shooting-death/article_b51f4506-0910-11ed-9e0e-a72b897a7e07.html |
Drought worsens in Wichita County
The lingering drought across North Texas has worsened as temperatures have soared and rain has been scarce.
A new map issued Thursday by the U.S. Drought Monitor showed the southwestern portion of Wichita County slipped back into the Extreme Drought category while the rest of the county was classified in a slightly better Severe Drought category. Generally, the drought gets worse to the west of Wichita County.
The National Weather Service had a small chance of rain in the forecast for Wichita Falls through Friday along with a slight decrease in expected high temperatures. The forecast high Thursday was just at 100 degrees following weeks of highs above 100. Highs of 100-plus degrees are forecast to return beginning Friday.
By midday Thursday, Wichita Falls had received 9.9 inches of rain during 2022, which is about six inches below average.
On Thursday, Lake Arrowhead was 76.4 percent full, Lake Kickapoo was at 67.9 percent of capacity and Lake Kemp was at 67.6 percent. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/drought-worsens-in-wichita-county/65379210007/ | 2022-07-22T01:28:20 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/drought-worsens-in-wichita-county/65379210007/ |
Elevator again running at Wichita County Courthouse
An elevator is again functioning in the Wichita County Courthouse.
The permanent failure of the only working elevator in the courthouse entrance Monday created a small crisis. Trials and hearings had to be postponed because courtrooms are on the upper floors.
Wichita County Commissioner Mark Beauchamp said an elevator in the former jail area has been pressed into service for the time being. He said he got temporary approval from the Texas Commissions on Jail Standards, which had to be notified because the elevator is used to transport prisoners to court appearances.
Beauchamp had hoped the only working elevator in the courthouse entrance would last a few more months until a new replacement could be installed, but it began malfunctioning and throwing sparks. Repairmen said the cost of fixing it would be prohibitive.
Beauchamp said the new elevator should be delivered by the first of the year. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/elevator-again-running-at-wichita-county-courthouse/65379418007/ | 2022-07-22T01:28:26 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/elevator-again-running-at-wichita-county-courthouse/65379418007/ |
Florsheim reflects on years directing Wichita Falls chamber
Henry Florsheim is packing up his Chamber of Commerce smile and heading down the highway.
The man who has led the Wichita Falls chamber for nearly nine years is taking a similar position in Cedar Hill on the south edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Although Cedar Hill is only half the size of Wichita Falls, it has grown rapidly from fewer than 7,000 people in 1980 to nearly 50,000 in the 2020 census. Florsheim will be coming from a city that has experienced a population decline.
He thinks his time in Wichita Falls was productive.
“We turned the chamber into an effective, impactful organization that creates a positive impact on the community. Expectations are higher than ever for the chamber both from within and from the outside,” Florsheim said.
He believes the Wichita Falls chamber is positioned to create a positive economic impact “long into the future.” He attributes that to “thousands of hours of work by lots of committed volunteers and staff who had a new vision for the chamber.”
Florsheim said he thinks the future mission of the local chamber will be to continue to recruit companies and support local expansions.
“Because of the workforce issues that all our industries have, chambers have to be so much more focused on developing the product. The product is the community. What do we have to sell to a company?” Florsheim said. “It’s not just a site, it’s a talent pool. It’s a future talent pool and what are the things that are going to attract that talent to stay or to move to our community.”
He said that’s why things like schools, recreation, downtown and overall quality of life are important.
“Those things attract people and people attract the companies,” he said.
Florsheim said the incoming superintendent of public schools will need to quickly earn the trust of the community so people feel comfortable with the future of students in WFISD.
He said if he had had stayed in Wichita Falls longer, he would have worked closely with Midwestern State University to make the city more of a college-town environment.
“I would work closely with Sheppard Air Force Base to identify some additional economic opportunities that we have not taken advantage of yet,” he said.
He said he would also advocate for ongoing downtown revitalization efforts.
“I would heavily focus on a business equity initiative to help more of our small business owners to tear down barriers and take advantage of the things that some of us take for granted,” he said.
Florsheim said the move to Cedar Hill is good for his career and his family, but Wichita Falls has been a good experience.
“We will miss this community with all our heart,” he said.
Florsheim said the chamber is likely to name an interim CEO and hire a firm to do a national search for his permanent replacement, a process that could take several months. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/florsheim-reflects-on-years-directing-wichita-falls-chamber/65378374007/ | 2022-07-22T01:28:32 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/florsheim-reflects-on-years-directing-wichita-falls-chamber/65378374007/ |
Scorching summer ups demand for church's air-conditioner program, installers needed
New Jerusalem Baptist Church will reach out to the community yet again Saturday with free services, this time including school immunizations provided by the local health district. But the church has an ask of its own as extreme temperatures blast Wichita Falls.
The Rev. Angus Thompson is hoping for volunteers from other churches to help install in-demand air-conditioners during New Jerusalem's 17th annual air-conditioning ministry this summer.
“It’s never been this hot. I guess those years that we were doing it before was a practice run for us," Thompson, church pastor, said. "Almost daily we install air conditioners."
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New Jerusalem takes the names of people screened by Adult Protective Services and provides them with free air conditioners. The church buys them, and volunteers install the air conditioners in Wichita County homes.
Demand has been higher this year as temperatures — often topping 100 degrees — hammer the Wichita Falls area day after day.
"This is a very crucial time. This is a deadly time," Thompson said. "I realize that people don’t want to get out, but we have people who are suffering in this heat.”
Churches interested in providing volunteers for air-conditioner installation and people in need of air conditioners who are reluctant to go through APS can contact New Jerusalem directly at 940-766-4022.
“We want to help as many people as we can," Thompson said. “We are praying for those who live in houses where there’s no cooling equipment. That’s the main thing is we want to keep them alive and keep them cool.”
And New Jerusalem would certainly appreciate help with air-conditioner installation, Thompson said.
This coming Saturday, the church at 1420 Borton Lane is offering free school vaccinations, COVID shots, food and clothing, as well as bringing meals to shut-ins.
Students can receive back-to-school immunizations 10 a.m. to noon Saturday at the New Jerusalem Baptist Church, according to Thompson. They must bring their updated shot record.
The church will give backpacks to the first 50 students who receive their vaccinations.
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The shots will be given by the Wichita County-Wichita Falls Public Health District.
The health district will offer COVID boosters for adults and children's COVID immunizations, said Mary Ann Merriex, a retired licensed vocational nurse who is in charge of New Jerusalem's health ministry.
For more information about immunizations, contact Merriex at 940-704-2188.
The doors at the church's Family Life Center will open at 9 a.m. Saturday. The church will have its fourth Saturday food and clothes distribution at 9:30 a.m. that day, as well as deliver Meals on Wheels for shut-ins.
New Jerusalem's assistance to schools, seniors and others includes Project Operation Fresh Start.
The volunteer community group is dedicated to improving local neighborhoods and schools. Sheppard Air Force Base personnel, several other churches, students and other community members give their time for the initiative. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/new-jerusalem-church-offers-immunizations-needs-help-with-ac-program/65378359007/ | 2022-07-22T01:28:39 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/new-jerusalem-church-offers-immunizations-needs-help-with-ac-program/65378359007/ |
Wichita Falls police release third quarter STEP results
Christopher Walker
Wichita Falls Times Record News
WFPD says they stopped more than 300 speeders during the 2022 3rd quarter STEP program.
According to a press release:
The Wichita Falls Police Department has finalized the 3rd Quarter Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP)
3rd Quarter FY 2022 (April 1st – June 30th ) TxDOT STEP Grant Stats:
- Adult Seatbelt Citations – 22
- Child Safety Seats – 0
- Intersection Violations – 48
- Speeding – 315
- Distracted Driving (Cell Phones) – 12
- Non-Hazardous Violations – 29
- Warnings - 80
- Arrests – 3
- Vehicles Impounded – 2
According to the report, officers worked 217.83 hours and drove nearly 2,500 miles.
The STEP projects pay for local law enforcement overtime to help reduce incidences of speeding, driving while intoxicated, seatbelt violations, distracted driving, and intersection traffic control violations. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/wichita-falls-police-release-third-quarter-step-results/65379499007/ | 2022-07-22T01:28:45 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/21/wichita-falls-police-release-third-quarter-step-results/65379499007/ |
Two men injured in bull attack
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Wichita County deputies kill bull after it attacked two men Thursday
According to the Wichita County Sheriff’s Office:
Around 2 p.m., deputies responded to the 4600 block of Iowa Park Road for a medical call where a 73-year-old man was attacked by a bull. The 600-pound animal attacked the man after it enter his property from next door.
The bull's owner, a 33-year-old man, was injured while escorting the animal back to his property. The bull attacked its owner and was shot and killed by deputies. The 73-year-old was taken to the hospital by ambulance, the 33-year old was transported to the hospital by a private vehicle. Both men's condition are unknown. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/texas/2022/07/21/two-men-injured-in-bull-attack/65379804007/ | 2022-07-22T01:28:51 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/texas/2022/07/21/two-men-injured-in-bull-attack/65379804007/ |
SAN ANTONIO — This weekend, San Antonio is playing host to the National Association of Black Military Women, an organization dedicated to sharing the stories of black women in the military.
On the second day of the NABMW's conference at the Westin Riverwalk 420 W Market Street, the discussion is about the trailblazers.
"We are here as an organization to let people know that we are alive, we are well, and we served," said former NABMW president Ret. Col. Dolores H Hampton.
The organization's stated goal --- to tell HER story.
"We believe that nobody can tell your story better than you," said Convention Chairwoman Ret. Col. Kathaleen Harris
Six NABMW leading members gathered to discuss the impact of the Six Triple Eight --- a World War II postal battalion made up entirely of black women.
"They were, as we have stressed, the only black female battalion to go overseas. and that's something we are extremely proud of," Hampton said.
One other story getting attention this weekend is that of Elizabeth Eckford. Eckford famously a member of the Little Rock Nine, was also an enlisted woman during the Vietnam war.
“I joined the military as I saw it as an opportunity to try out a new profession. I wanted to be a journalist,” Eckford said.
The NABMW last held a convention in San Antonio in 1994, when the organization was divided into regions. It does not currently have a chapter here, but NABMW National President Ret Lt. Col. Patricia Jackson-Kelley said that could change soon.
"We feel that this is a stepping-stone for us to get a chapter started in San Antonio," she said.
On Friday, a reception and book-signing will be held for the release of Eckford’s book “The Worst First day,” which details her experiences during the desegregation of Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/black-women-share-experiences-of-being-in-military-san-antonio/273-479c70d9-74cd-49e0-8335-f30a377fbd55 | 2022-07-22T01:32:29 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/black-women-share-experiences-of-being-in-military-san-antonio/273-479c70d9-74cd-49e0-8335-f30a377fbd55 |
Josey Garcia, the Democratic nominee for the Texas House District 124 seat, says she was reminded last week how petty and personal San Antonio politics can be, even when it’s in Dallas.
As Garcia tells it, she and her husband were walking back to the Omni Dallas Hotel at around 9:30 p.m. Friday from the Democratic Party’s state convention next door when she encountered Michelle Barrientes Vela, the indicted former Bexar County constable, her husband and some of her supporters outside the front lobby.
An altercation ensued. Her campaign manager, Pharoah Clark, ended up testifying about it Thursday on behalf of a Bexar County District Attorney’s Office attempt to have a judge impose a bond on Barrientes Vela.
The judge rejected the DA’s motion but ordered the former constable to stay away from both Garcia and Clark.
Vela is awaiting trial on a charge of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony, and three counts of official oppression, a Class A misdemeanor, the latter for allegedly shaking down a family for cash in a San Antonio park in 2018.
Garcia said a build-up of animosity between her and Barrientes Vela had occurred gradually, likely stemming from Garcia’s support for the reelection bids of the DA, Joe Gonzales, and Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar, and from other conflicting allegiances among local Democrats’ street-level politics.
The two women met this year to clear the air, but in recent months, Garcia said, she had heard one of Barrientes Vela’s allies was “going around town slandering me.”
Outside the Dallas hotel, Barrientes Vela confronted Clark, a San Antonio police accountability activist, in a “hostile, super-aggressive manner,” Garcia said.
There might have been some chest-bumping, a finger in someone’s face, perhaps profanity, she said. Not unheard of at political conventions, where some loyalists lose their cool.
“I was caught completely off guard. It was over in just minutes,” Garcia said. “But Pharaoh said he was calling 911. My husband is a Purple Heart veteran. I served in Iraq. We got in a hyper state of fight or flight … and the Dallas police did arrive.”
Officers spoke to all the parties and decided to do nothing, said Barrientes Vela’s attorney, Jason Goss, who was in court with her Thursday when the Dallas dust-up was brought up by a prosecutor.
The district attorney’s office wanted 226th District Judge Velia Meza to set a $20,000 bond on Barrientes Vela. The often-delayed trial currently is set for Aug. 22.
But Meza rebuffed the prosecutor and said there was no evidence Barrientes Vela assaulted anyone. She ordered the former constable not to have any contact with Clark or Garcia, not leave Bexar County without the judge’s permission and not use alcohol or drugs. Goss called it a standard requirement in such cases.
“We think this is just another attempt by people who don’t like our client to taint the jury before she goes to trial,” Goss said.
Barrientes Vela was released on a court summons, he said, a process allowing the judge to require her presence in court whenever the judge wishes.
“We categorically deny everything,” Goss said. “She wasn’t inebriated. She didn’t touch anybody. The Dallas police didn’t arrest her or file anything. This is all political.”
Staff writer Elizabeth Zavala contributed to thie report. bselcraig@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Hotel-Bexar-county-constable-judge-17321059.php | 2022-07-22T01:32:35 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Hotel-Bexar-county-constable-judge-17321059.php |
SAN ANTONIO — Authorities say two people, including a San Antonio Police officer, are hospitalized Thursday evening after an apparent domestic violence threat devolved into an exchange of gunfire on the west side.
According to SAPD Chief William McManus, a woman called police saying her boyfriend was en route to her home and threatening to shoot it up. Officers dispatched to the area were able to catch up to the suspect before he ever arrived, but he attempted to evade them on the road.
The pursuit continued on foot after the suspect eventually wrecked his car, McManus said, at which point he allegedly fired toward officers, hitting one of them. That same officer returned fire and hit the suspect three times.
“I heard he’s in bad shape,” McManus said about the condition of the suspect, identified only as a man in his 20s. “Not doing well.”
The officer, who has been with the force for five years, is expected to be OK after he was struck by bullets once.
McManus added the suspect had several outstanding warrants, including charges of assault, harassment and burglary. It’s likely he’ll receive additional charges as a result of Thursday evening’s incident.
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SAN ANTONIO — In Texas the worsening drought, dry vegetation and ongoing wildfires are a few things that have resulted from abnormally dry conditions. As San Antonio nears the end of July 2022 unless more rain comes by the end of the year we could be observing one of the driest years on record.
Given records that date back to the 1880s, most years in San Antonio reach over 13" by late July. With only about 5" of rain picked up at San Antonio International, 2022 ranks last in "Year-to-Date" rainfall leaving us extremely behind.
Other Texas cities such as Del Rio and Laredo are also observing a huge deficit in annual rainfall. Del Rio is around 7" below the yearly average but San Antonio is over a foot behind schedule.
The only month San Antonio made average rainfall was in February but other usually rainy months such as May and June have been at least two inches below average. The months of September and October in San Antonio usually average more than three inches so fingers crossed our dry pattern doesn't continue.
San Antonio has more than five months left in the year but we would need to receive at least 27 inches of rainfall to make our average.
Drought update
Based on the latest drought report released July 21, around 95 percent of the state is now under drought with over 20 percent considered Exceptional Drought.
Over a decade ago, in July 2011, 72 percent of Texas was under Exceptional Drought with almost 100% of the state at Moderate Drought or worse.
Burn bans
The lack of rainfall has also resulted in widespread burn bans with the exception of Webb and McMullen counties, other counties in orange are under a burn ban.
Check with your county on the latest burn ban information as dry vegetation and worsening drought will contribute to daily threats for fire weather. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-drought-2022-the-driest-years-record/273-268cf541-fa46-4429-b881-a09e34fadab9 | 2022-07-22T01:32:42 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/san-antonio-drought-2022-the-driest-years-record/273-268cf541-fa46-4429-b881-a09e34fadab9 |
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio is changing the way it welcomes migrants and trying to make the process more efficient.
A new migrant resource center has opened, but some migrants still wait outside Travis Park before they take their bus or plane to their next destination.
Many volunteers are trying to make that wait easier. It’s about getting from point A to B, but the journey isn’t that easy for migrants legally entering the United States.
“They travel or many months often times, coming on foot, for some of them, it’s been years since they’ve been displaced from their home country,” said Katie Myers with the Interfaith Welcome Coalition.
Myers helps migrants travel through San Antonio, connecting them with food, water and shelter. She’s volunteered with the group for four years, but she didn’t know her journey with the group would go this far.
“I always tell people I started off making sandwiches. It all started with a sandwich and now I have to be in charge of the bus station administration,” Myers said.
The City of San Antonio is averaging 600 migrants traveling through town each day. Since April 2021, more than 198,000 people have transited through San Antonio in route to their final destination. Myers has also noticed an uptick.
“It’s been a really busy year. We’ve definitely seen numbers that are outside of what we’ve experienced in the past,” Myers said.
The migrants may not just be resting at Travis Park, but other locations around town. The city opened a new migrant resource center which operates through partnership with the city and non-profits like the Interfaith Welcome Coalition.
Through July 20, approximately 8,000 migrants have arrived at the resource center according to the city’s Department of Human Services.
The city tells KENS 5 the Migrant Resource Center was created to allow for a single point-of-entry for migrants, but migrants still do complete onward travel through San Antonio through the Airport and various bus stations.
Myers says it is gratifying to her that she can help migrants along their way.
“To me what I usually tell people is we’re responsible for how we treat people, it mattered to me how people are received when they enter the United States looking for home and safety, and that was something I can do something about,” Myers said.
If you're interested in volunteering with the non-profit, you can visit their website. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/volunteers-try-to-make-legal-migrants-waiting-for-asylum-easier-san-antonio/273-ccdfadb9-c782-49cc-bcae-259393e28927 | 2022-07-22T01:32:48 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/volunteers-try-to-make-legal-migrants-waiting-for-asylum-easier-san-antonio/273-ccdfadb9-c782-49cc-bcae-259393e28927 |
ELK GROVE, Calif. — The Sky River Casino in Elk Grove will be a massive 100,000 square foot addition to the city that'll bring along 1,500 jobs. It's a project more than decade in the making that'll finally be a reality in September.
"This has been a dream of the Wilton Rancheria people for a very long time, and they are very excited to deliver this to Sacramento County," said Chris Gibase, president and chief operating officer of Sky River Casino.
The September opening is coming nearly a month and a half earlier than originally expected. Gibase said its the result of a lot of planning that helped them avoid supply chain issues and some luck.
Sky River Casino has been under construction since it broke ground near Highway 99 in early 2021. It will have 2,000 slot machines, 80 table games and 12 different venues for food and drink. It'll be located at 1 Sky River Parkway.
Here's what to know about the casino before it opens.
Sky River Casino's name
Some people might remember the casino project in Elk Grove as the Wilton Rancheria Resort & Casino as opposed to Sky River Casino. The two names are one and the same.
Wilton Rancheria Resort & Casino was placeholder name while an official one was in the works. The updated name is Sky River Casino, a name that Gibase said pays tribute to the Wilton Rancheria community and to the area itself.
"Wilton Rancheria is the only tribe that's from Sacramento County. Their history is obviously a long history and (has) a lot to do with the Cosumnes River and the area around here about nature. So Sky River was what we ended up choosing...," Gibase said.
Things to do at Sky River Casino
Sky River Casino will have 2,000 slot machines and 80 table games, but it's not all about gambling. There will also be 12 different venues for food and drink.
"It's not just slot machines and table games here. A lot of this is all about the foodies," Gibase said.
Sky River Casino will have a marketplace for those foodies to get lost in. It's something Gibase said is far more than a food court.
"If you like wines and you like craft beers and you like great food, this is a place you're going to want to come because that's in the forefront of the entire environment," he said.
"It is definitely not a fast food (place). This is restaurant food, 12 different ways," he added.
The Traffic Impacts
This is a massive project with the potential to draw a lot of people into the area. It's a detail that wasn't lost on the casino or the city of Elk Grove.
Gibase said they're currently working on plans to keep a smooth flow of traffic in and out of the area for the casino and for the nearby community.
"We have houses that are around us, and we want to make sure that... they don't get impacted by this dramatically...," he said.
Kristyn Laurence, spokesperson for the City of Elk Grove, said most of traffic to the casino is expected to come from Highway 99, and that the nearest exit, Kammerer Road, was already made to accommodate traffic from the former mall plan in the area, known locally as the ghost mall.
"Staff is working with the casino to make minor signal timing adjustments and striping improvements to address slight changes to the traffic patterns associated with the casino compared to a mall," Laurence said.
Plans for grand opening traffic impacts are being developed.
"Once the casino opens, the City’s Traffic Engineering and Police Department staff will monitor traffic and make additional changes as needed," Laurence said.
The Economic Impacts
Estimates on the economic impact of the casino were not available when ABC10 reached out to the City of Elk Grove, however, Gibase said the impacts are likely to be far reaching.
"We're going to have about 2,000 people that work here between full-time team members and part-time team members. They obviously then go out to the community, but we're buying local produce, we're buying local wines, we're buying local local beers," he said.
He added that the goal is to source 75% to 80% of their product within 150 miles of the casino.
"Sacramento's got a rich history of farm to fork. That's what we're doing here," Gibase said.
Opening Plans
While the opening was moved up, the official opening date has not been released. Gibase said there'll be plans for the big day, but most of those details will come in time.
More information on the casino and jobs can be found on their website HERE.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/elk-grove/sky-river-casino-elk-grove/103-22863ab2-53b7-4a45-ba8f-51a03071a237 | 2022-07-22T01:41:33 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/elk-grove/sky-river-casino-elk-grove/103-22863ab2-53b7-4a45-ba8f-51a03071a237 |
FAIRFIELD, Calif. — A decades-long investigation into two separate homicides across California ended Monday when Solano County Sheriff's deputies arrested 76-year-old James Ray Gary of Fairfield.
Police allege Gary killed 46-year-old Latrelle Lindsay of Union City in 1980 and 46-year-old Winifred Douglas from the Oakland/Berkeley area in 1996.
Both woman were declared dead because of asphyxia from strangulation and blunt force trauma.
It wasn't until 2003 that evidence from the 1996 homicide with possible DNA was sent to the California Department of Justice for DNA analysis—where it would later match with evidence from the Union City case.
The DNA also matched evidence in a sex crime investigated by a North Bay Police Department in 2021. Gary would eventually be identified through this most recent investigation, where a fresh DNA sample was collected.
He was booked into the Solano County Jail on charges related to the Oakland/Berkeley area homicide, and law enforcement say they expect to file charges in the Union City homicide as well. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fairfield/fairfield-man-charged-two-homicide-cold-cases/103-6bd03bd0-51ae-43f6-9752-cb55dbd50e08 | 2022-07-22T01:41:39 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/fairfield/fairfield-man-charged-two-homicide-cold-cases/103-6bd03bd0-51ae-43f6-9752-cb55dbd50e08 |
NAPA COUNTY, Calif. — Two people from Placer County were identified as the victims in last Sunday's plane crash in Napa County.
The crash happened around 8:30 a.m. near Pope Valley and involved two people, officials said.
On Thursday, the Napa County Sheriff's Office identified the victims as Scott Killian, 61 of Roseville, and Dreyson Hicks, 22 of Rocklin. Killian was also identified as the pilot. Both died at the scene.
The crash and the cause of death are still under investigation.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/two-placer-county-residents-napa-county-plane-crash/103-c329a0dd-45f7-47ab-bb89-a0951f218f43 | 2022-07-22T01:41:45 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/two-placer-county-residents-napa-county-plane-crash/103-c329a0dd-45f7-47ab-bb89-a0951f218f43 |
A 3-series BMW slams into a Volvo XC-90 SUV during a crash simulation staged by the Idaho State Patrol and the Boise Police Department at the Idaho Department of Transportation on Thursday.
The face of a crash-test dummy, not seat belted in place, is pinned to the windshield in the aftermath of a simulated crash at the Idaho Department of Transportation on Thursday.
The face of a crash-test dummy, not seat belted in place, is pinned to the windshield in the aftermath of a simulated crash at the Idaho Department of Transportation on Thursday.
Officer Kyle Wills, with the Boise Police Department, speaks with members of the media prior to a car crash simulation set up at the Idaho Department of Transportation Department on Thursday.
Tabitha Smith, the child passenger safety program manager with the Office of Highway Safety, talks with members of the media prior to a simulated crash at the Idaho Department of Transportation on Thursday.
The face of a crash-test dummy, not seat belted in place, is pinned to the windshield in the aftermath of a simulated crash at the Idaho Department of Transportation on Thursday.
The face of a crash-test dummy, not seat belted in place, is pinned to the windshield in the aftermath of a simulated crash at the Idaho Department of Transportation on Thursday.
BOISE — Local law enforcement officials and the Idaho Department of Transportation took time Thursday to remind residents of the importance of driving focused and safe when on the roads.
The news conference was held in the midst of the “100 deadliest days of summer,” a time of year that stretches from Memorial Day to Labor Day when national statistics show an increase in traffic fatalities on roadways, according to Boise Police Officer Kyle Wills.
“We’re just trying to bring some more awareness and let people know the importance of buckling up, slowing down, not driving distracted, not driving impaired,” Wills said. “All those kinds of things that keep us safe and get us home to our families.”
Representatives from the Boise Police Department were joined by Idaho State Police on the campus of the Idaho Department of Transportation in northwest Boise.
Aside from addressing members of the local media, a crash simulation between two cars took place with crash-test dummies and child restraints installed to demonstrate the impact a collision between two vehicles, one of which was traveling between 35-40 mph, can have.
Also, as part of the demonstration, attendees wore "beer goggles" and rodea tricycle course to simulate various levels of impairment.
Between 2015 and 2019, there were more than 25,000 distracted driving crashes in the state that killed 237 people, according to the Idaho Transportation Department Office of Highway Safety. Department data also shows that nearly 40% of all fatal crashes in Idaho involve some level of driver impairment.
Those statistics inevitably rise in the summer months when more drivers are on the road. A news release from ITD said that last summer 92 people died in Idaho traffic accidents – 31 of whom weren’t wearing seat belts.
This summer has seen 40 fatalities on Idaho roads including seven last week, Wills said.
While driving under the influence was a point of emphasis on Thursday, Wills said, there are different forms of distracted driving including using a cell phone while operating a vehicle, eating food behind the wheel, adjusting a radio or GPS system, putting on makeup or tending to a child in the back seat.
“There’s just all kinds of distractions going on in our cars. And I think the important thing and the message we want people to know is, really just drive engaged,” Wills said. “Driving is a full-time job and we really need people to be engaged in the active driving. Those other distractions, those other things, either do them beforehand or afterhand. While you’re on the road, focus on that drive.”
Tabitha Smith, the child passenger safety program manager with the Office of Highway Safety, pointed to data showing that using proper child safety constraints can reduce risk of fatality by up to 57%.
Idaho law says children up to 7 years old must be in a child restraint seat when traveling in a vehicle.
“It’s been shown that putting children in car seats saves lives,” Smith said. “Last year we had one fatality under the age of 7 in the state of Idaho. Which shows us, we had really high fatality numbers, so for only one of them to be a child, it shows that Idahoans are putting their kids in proper restraints and doing a good job keeping them safe.”
Smith said that national data shows wearing a seat belt reduces risk of fatality by 50%.
“Your seat belt holds you in place when you’re in a crash,” Smith said. “It keeps you from bouncing around the car, it keeps you from becoming a projectile in the car, it keeps you in the car which is actually the safest place for you in a crash.”
Teddy Feinberg is the Managing Editor at the Idaho Press. He can be reached at 208-465-8110. Follow him on Twitter: @TeddyFeinberg | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/public-safety-officials-stress-safe-alert-driving-in-midst-of-100-deadliest-days/article_9f3e603c-23ae-5e3d-9327-425f9d9f79b6.html | 2022-07-22T01:42:03 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/public-safety-officials-stress-safe-alert-driving-in-midst-of-100-deadliest-days/article_9f3e603c-23ae-5e3d-9327-425f9d9f79b6.html |
ARIZONA, USA — Some days you never know what you’re going to encounter at work.
A routine day for two Salt River Project (SRP) workers turned into a horse rescue.
On the hottest days – the canals can be a refreshing spot to cool off for the Arizona wildlife.
“I noticed a horse standing in the water, cooling off, blowing bubbles with his nose. Looked like he was having a great time,” said Kristen Keim. “Didn’t think twice about it at all. He was in there cooling off. I was jealous because it was a hot day.”
Kristen Keim, a water master with SRP, was cleaning moss from the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community canals on July 9 when she captured a video of the horse. It’s not uncommon to see wild horses enjoying a dip in the canal.
Keim took off to another location – but when she returned four hours later – the horse was still there. This time standing taller above the water. Suggesting it was on its knees the first time Keim saw it.
“My concern was that he was injured and couldn’t move. He may have been stuck in mud or some filth. The moss was too slippery to catch his footing to be able to get back out of the canal,” said Keim.
She sprang into action – got a rope from her truck and lassoed the horse with some cowboy-like action. She grew up watching rodeos in Southern Idaho and used to be a cruise captain, where a lot of her rope and knot skills came in handy.
“Tried to get him to turn around to get him to face up our equipment ramp,” said Keim.
After about 20 minutes - with the help of fellow water master Chris Crosland who used a pole to help guide the horse up the utility ramp – the two were able to get the stuck horse out of the canal
“He immediately went to the shade and started eating. So, I think he was happy to be out of the water,” said Keim.
Keim says the horse didn’t have any visible signs of injury beyond a couple of scraped knees. She hasn’t seen the horse since.
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KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — The Kanawha County School Board has voted to approve new safety measures during Thursday’s meeting. The measures will now be on the ballot for voters to vote on in Nov.
The Board approved the excess levy as originally presented. They say they plan to use the millions of dollars from it to put new safety plans into action.
The plan will be to hire an additional 11 disguised and armed security officers, add weapon detectors to schools and man traps to prevent unwanted visitors from entering the schools.
A Kanawha County spokesperson says the levy proposal to voters will also include non-security related sections, like funding for HVACs, roof projects, facilities projects, staff and more.
They say the security measures are one of five sections of the excess levy.
Kanawha County School Board member Tracy White says the school system currently has 12 officers, but the additional safety measures will further safeguard schools that are currently not covered by current officers. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/kanawha-county-school-board-approves-new-safety-measures/ | 2022-07-22T01:50:43 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/kanawha-county-school-board-approves-new-safety-measures/ |
ASHLAND, KY (WOWK) — A new barbershop in Ashland is adding a fun twist to the traditional haircut experience.
Barbers and barbershops have been around for a long time, but Groomed Lounge in the warehouse district of Ashland is unlike any other.
Owner of the Groomed Lounge, B.J. Burcham, tells 13 News Photojournalist Chris Holtzapfel about the concept and what to expect when coming in.
Burcham says there is a little bit of the traditional, old-school barbershop feel with hot towel shaves and men’s haircutting, but the place is looking for a lounge-type atmosphere.
“A little bit of the old-school barbershop with hot towel shaves and men’s haircutting, but also a lounge area where you can come and relax, play some pool, watch some sports, play darts,” Burcham says.
Along with being a hang-out spot, patrons will be invited to partake in the full-service bar.
“We have a really nice bloody mary menu for mornings and mimosas. In the afternoons, we’re coming up with some signature drinks right now, some cocktails, margaritas, and then we’ll have plenty of beer, just be a nice hangout place throughout the day and throughout the late afternoon and evening,” Burcham says.
Maverick Lewis with Groomed Lounge says he hopes the shop will bring people in, even if they don’t need a haircut.
“We wanted to make it more of a lounge, like an area that people can go to even if they didn’t necessarily need a haircut,” Lewis says.
Burcham says a place like this is what the community needs.
“It is the first one we’ve brought to this area. Hoping it won’t be the last. It’s just something that I felt like this area could use and needs,” Burcham says.
The Groomed Lounge can be found along 16th Street in Ashland. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/new-barbershop-in-ashland-offers-haircuts-and-mimosas/ | 2022-07-22T01:50:49 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/new-barbershop-in-ashland-offers-haircuts-and-mimosas/ |
SALADO, Texas — Some Texas schools are throwing away five day work weeks to attract more teachers. The Texas Tribune reported that it's those schools who have kept to a normal schedule that are losing their teachers.
Schools in Central Texas, like Salado ISD and Moody ISD said they will not follow this trend.
"Instructional regression across weekends is definitely a thing, so that becomes an issue, besides the fact the kids come to school for a lot more reasons than just education," Moody ISD Superintendent, Andrew Miller, said.
Miller added that if students lost their Fridays, that would be one less day they'd be able to receive a place to go to for food, air-conditioning and more.
Michael Novotny, the Superintendent of Salado ISD noted that the schedule they have now works well, and cutting back a day could impact students and parents.
"The downside in terms of childcare for working parents for me really outweighs the benefits of a four day work week," Novotny said.
Novotny added that his students probably wouldn't even get four days off if they were to move to a shorter week. He noted that most of them have extracurriculars that would have them at the school on Fridays anyways.
"There's practice fives days a week and I'm sure those coaches and those participants would still be practicing five days a week," Novotny said. "So that one day a week wouldn't get them out of school fully."
Both Superintendents said they would never move to a shortened week schedule, and they don't know of any districts in the area that are either.
They both agreed that any kind of move like this is one that benefits the faculty and staff, more than the students, adding that they don't need to push an incentive like this one to keep their teachers around.
"In Moody, teachers are only scheduled to work 182 days, so we pay them for 187, even though they only work 182," Miller said, "That's a good example of an incentive that doesn't compromise instructional days."
Miller added that teachers can receive free lunch and are also given competitive pay.
Novotny said their district always offers competitive pay and a positive work environment.
"We have a great culture and environment here in our district," Novotny said. "Employees enjoy working with kids, we have great kids and a great community, so that's a real selling point." | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/central-texas-schools-shorter-school-weeks-would-not-be-beneficial/500-970d10e3-61a4-43f4-8853-fd1fe2222ae7 | 2022-07-22T01:50:54 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/central-texas-schools-shorter-school-weeks-would-not-be-beneficial/500-970d10e3-61a4-43f4-8853-fd1fe2222ae7 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Interstate Bridge Replacement project is heading into the federal environmental review process, marking the start of a two-year period that will see the project go from a conceptual plan to a more concrete design for the new bridge.
The project team unveiled its proposed "Modified Locally Preferred Alternative" in May, a preliminary configuration recommendation that included a fixed crossing with no drawbridge, three main lanes and two auxiliary lanes in each direction, a scaled-down Hayden Island interchange and a light rail extension.
The "modified" part refers to the fact that the project is adapting the plan left over from its predecessor, the mothballed Columbia River Crossing. The old plan's federal approval is still valid, so modifying it will allow the project to go through a faster "supplemental" environmental review process.
The project team has spent the past couple months shopping the plan around to eight local boards and councils at agencies and governments like Trimet and Portland. All eight signed off on it, and each group reaffirmed its support at a Thursday morning meeting of the project's Executive Steering Group.
The environmental review process will take about about two years, according to project program administrator Greg Johnson, ideally ending with a federal green light for the project in 2024, which would allow construction to begin in late 2025 — although that will also require lining up billions of dollars in funding.
The plan is for the project cost to be evenly split between toll revenue, state funding and federal dollars. So far, only Washington has pledged $1 billion for the project. Johnson said the team plans to request the same amount from Oregon next year, and up to $2.5 billion from the federal government.
On Thursday afternoon, the bi-state legislative committee overseeing the project held a hearing to discuss the proposal and also came to a general consensus to move forward into the environmental process, although there were some concerns about the early design.
Some lawmakers voiced concerns about the planned use of tolling to fund part of the project, and raised questions about whether the proposed 8-lane crossing would be enough to handle the region's future traffic.
There were also concerns about the proposed height of the bridge, due to the U.S. Coast Guard's recent rejection of a proposal for 116 feet of vertical clearance as insufficient for river traffic (with the lift span raised, the current bridge has 178 feet of clearance).
Johnson said the Coast Guard's rejection wasn't a final determination, and noted that the old Columbia River Crossing was ultimately able to get permission for 116 feet after developing mitigation strategies for the small percentage of river traffic that would be affected. The new team plans to do the same.
Even so, Oregon State Rep. Khanh Pham said she was nervous about entering the federal environmental review process with a single 116-foot plan and no backup option in case the project ultimately failed to reach an agreement with the Coast Guard. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/i-5-bridge-replacement-plan-federal-environmental-review/283-a8f86e94-4d8b-4881-99d5-de1bc9aaf6b1 | 2022-07-22T01:55:17 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/i-5-bridge-replacement-plan-federal-environmental-review/283-a8f86e94-4d8b-4881-99d5-de1bc9aaf6b1 |
STANDISH, Maine — Police have confirmed that a 9-year-old girl died after severe weather in Standish caused a tree to fall on the car she was in Thursday afternoon.
Detective Donald Foss of the Cumberland County Sherriff's Office confirmed the incident to NEWS CENTER Maine Thursday evening, which took place near the Sebago Lake Family Campground in Standish.
This investigation is ongoing. No further information has been released at this time. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/9-year-old-dead-in-sebago-during-thursday-storm-maine-severe-weather/97-9c9f945c-9807-4b94-a74d-3c4aab21e1b5 | 2022-07-22T01:55:22 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/9-year-old-dead-in-sebago-during-thursday-storm-maine-severe-weather/97-9c9f945c-9807-4b94-a74d-3c4aab21e1b5 |
LAKE OSWEGO, Ore. — The judge in charge of a legal battle to decide the future of public access to Oswego Lake has been removed from the case, delaying a trial that was previously set to begin this week.
The defendants in the lawsuit requested that Clackamas County Circuit Court Judge Ann Lininger be removed from the case and replaced by another judge after they found evidence suggesting that one of the plaintiffs had emailed her about the lawsuit in 2014 and she later met with the plaintiffs to discuss it.
Lininger was serving as a state representative at the time and was not appointed as a judge until three years later, but the defendants argued that her failure to disclose the communication history when the case was assigned to her in 2020 called her impartiality into question.
The case centers around a 2012 Lake Oswego city ordinance that prohibits people from entering the lake from the city's three downtown parks. Plaintiffs Mark Kramer and Todd Prager challenged the rule in court, arguing that since most of the rest of the lake perimeter was private property, the ordinance effectively blocked access to a public waterway.
The defendants are the City of Lake Oswego, the State of Oregon and the Lake Oswego Corporation, a waterfront property owner consortium that manages the lake. The lawsuit began in 2012 and went all the way to the State Supreme Court before being sent back to Clackamas County Circuit Court in 2020.
Lininger divided the case into two phases; one to determine if the lake is a public waterway under Oregon law and the second to determine if the city's ordinance is reasonable. Lininger ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in phase 1, concluding that part of the lakebed and all of the lake water is public property.
The defendants said the information about the 2014 meeting emerged during discovery ahead of phase 2. They first wrote to Lininger at the end of June and asked her to recuse herself, but she declined to do so. The defendants later filed a motion to have her replaced. An advisory jury trial for phase 2 was originally scheduled to begin this week, but was delayed in light of the removal motion.
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Ryan was brought in to oversee a hearing Tuesday morning, and ultimately ordered Lininger removed from the case, according to reporting from the Lake Oswego Review, Willamette Week and OPB.
Lake Oswego Corporation general manager Jeff Ward told KGW on Thursday that he didn't yet know whether the change of judge would have any impact on the already-decided portion of the case. Lininger's assistant said last week that her removal could potentially trigger a hearing over the status of the first phase of the case, according to the Lake Oswego Review. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/judge-removed-oswego-lake-access-case/283-8734ffb5-6364-45c6-add3-5190b68691c1 | 2022-07-22T01:55:23 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/judge-removed-oswego-lake-access-case/283-8734ffb5-6364-45c6-add3-5190b68691c1 |
BREWER, Maine — On the hills of Indian Trial Park in Brewer, a local theater company has been performing Shakespeare’s plays every summer for nearly twenty years.
This summer, Ten Bucks Theatre Company will be performing "Romeo and Juliet."
“We founded [the company] in 2000 and [we've done] many plays over the course of the years. But every summer, we always do outdoor Shakespeare," Director Julie Arnold Lisnet said.
Doing a play in a park instead of a traditional theater venue comes with its own set of challenges, but the show must go on — even if the wild animals wander through or the wind picks up.
“The natural world is a big part of it here. We have to imagine that this is a villa in Verona, Italy," Ron Lisnet, who is playing the part of Friar Laurence, said.
The performers range from old to young, and new to “been around for a while.” This year’s performance is actress Robin Henry's first time performing in this outdoor space.
“It’s really fun! It’s a lot more fun than I expected!... Lots of bugs," Henry said.
As for Director Julie, actor Ron, and their daughter Natalie Lisnet, they’ve been around for every performance.
“It’s been a family thing for us. Our daughter Natalie is in the show — she’s been doing this since she was 10 years old,” Ron Lisnet said.
Natalie Lisnet says her first show for the Ten Bucks Theatre Company was “Romeo and Juliet” years ago. It’s been exciting for her to do the play again with more experience and a different part.
“It’s fun! You get to meet new people. The cast and the community isn’t the same every time," Natalie Lisnet, who is playing the part of Mercutio, said.
Director Lisnet says that part of her goal of putting on Shakespeare plays year after year is to help people feel more comfortable with the Bard's “fancy” words and themes.
“I love helping people fall in love with him,” Julie Arnold Lisnet said.
“Romeo and Juliet” will be performed both in Brewer and at Fort Knox. Tickets cost $15.
Dates and times can be found on their website or Facebook page. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/ten-bucks-theatre-company-performs-romeo-and-juliet-outdoors-theater-performance-acting-shakespeare-plays-maine-brewer-indian-trail-park-fort-knox/97-1dc2e6cd-313f-403e-b4c2-b185bcdf0c96 | 2022-07-22T01:55:28 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/ten-bucks-theatre-company-performs-romeo-and-juliet-outdoors-theater-performance-acting-shakespeare-plays-maine-brewer-indian-trail-park-fort-knox/97-1dc2e6cd-313f-403e-b4c2-b185bcdf0c96 |
Human remains found along a rural highway in East Texas 20 years ago have been identified as those of an Arlington woman.
When construction workers found the remains near Longview in May 2002, police had almost nothing to go on.
No victim's name.
Not even a cause of death.
"All we had to go off of was a skull and some partial bones,” Gregg County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Craig Harrington said. "Obviously we did an initial search back then, an initial search back then, trying to find missing person reports. We didn't find anything. So the case went cold."
Over the years, investigators never gave up.
They ended up working with Kevin Lord of the nonprofit DNA Doe Project who spent 15 months researching the DNA through genealogical databases.
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"This case really became personal to me,” he said. "Eventually we were able to finally narrow that down to a particular family and then eventually saw that Pamela lived in the Dallas area and that piqued our interest."
With the help of DNA from her daughter, the mystery woman was identified as Pamela Darlene Young of Arlington.
Her family had never reported her missing and told police she lived a transient life.
But they gave investigators important information about someone they wanted to question.
"However, we then learned that the person of interest in her disappearance, is what we would say, has since passed away in 2017,” Harrington said.
Investigators are suspicious about what happened and the case remains open.
But they stop short of labeling the death a homicide.
"It's always kind of bittersweet,” the DNA researcher said. “I'm always glad when we're able to come to some resolution. We don't know what happened to her but we're able to at least provide some answers to the family so they're not left wondering what happened to her." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/after-20-years-human-remains-identified-as-missing-arlington-woman/3021005/ | 2022-07-22T02:03:50 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/after-20-years-human-remains-identified-as-missing-arlington-woman/3021005/ |
Dallas County is out of monkeypox vaccines as cases continue to rise amid a national vaccine shortage.
The county health department is waiting for a shipment of around 300 doses of the Jynneos vaccine, which helps prevent monkeypox and smallpox, although director Dr. Philip Huang said he doesn't know exactly when the vaccines will arrive from the federal government. Dallas County Health and Human Services placed the order for additional doses last week.
The slowed vaccine allotment is in sharp contrast to how requests were being filled in weeks prior, said Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen.
"Those shipments from the feds have slowed down a bit," he said. "Early on, even into last week, any requests we had for the vaccine they were turning around the next day." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-county-is-out-of-monkeypox-vaccinations-as-cases-continue-to-climb/3021130/ | 2022-07-22T02:03:56 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-county-is-out-of-monkeypox-vaccinations-as-cases-continue-to-climb/3021130/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Many Central Pennsylvanians will be relying on their AC units over the next few days, driving up electricity usage.
“Weather like this puts great stress on the grid," said Maggie Sheely with PPL Electric. “Obviously the bigger the load on the grid, the more equipment is used, and for longer.”
In anticipation of heat waves like this, electric companies have been working for months to prepare the grid. Todd Meyers with Met-Ed says all equipment from transmitters to electrical lines have been examined and replaced before the summer.
“It’s just like putting snow tires on your car," said Meyers. "We're trying to get the grid prepped and be ready for this.”
Record temperatures have increased concerns about rolling blackouts in certain parts of the U.S. However, Sheely says she expects the grid to hold up in the heat.
“We’ve been preparing for this for a long time and we don’t anticipate seeing any blackouts, especially on the East Coast," she said.
The heat wave will likely cause many Central Pa. households to see higher electric bills.
Sheely and Myers advise keeping the thermostat around 78 degrees, using ceiling and box fans to circulate air and sealing up windows and doors to keep your house cool and save on your electricity bill.
They also say maintenance workers will be on standby to fix any electrical issues during the heat wave.
“We know no one wants to be out of air conditioning right now in this heat," said Meyers. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/electric-grid-expected-to-withstand-central-pa-heat-wave-dauphin-county-harrisburg-adams-york/521-0a7e3742-c0ce-4e59-a7ef-5149702fd67a | 2022-07-22T02:07:57 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/electric-grid-expected-to-withstand-central-pa-heat-wave-dauphin-county-harrisburg-adams-york/521-0a7e3742-c0ce-4e59-a7ef-5149702fd67a |
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Two children died in a house collapse in Birmingham due to storm damage the structure received Thursday night.
Birmingham Fire and Rescue Service was called to the scene of a tree that fell onto a home near the 600 block of 10th Avenue West at around 7 p.m.
BFRS Battalion Chief Sebastian Carrillo told CBS 42 that three children were transported to local hospitals. It was later reported that two of the children, a 2-month-old and a 3-year-old, died due to the incident. An 11-year-old is currently being treated at a local hospital with serious injuries.
The department assisted in rescuing two adults that were trapped under the home and tree. They are reported as being “coherent.”
Stay with CBS 42 as this story develops. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/2-children-killed-in-birmingham-house-collapse-due-to-storm-damage/ | 2022-07-22T02:08:24 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/2-children-killed-in-birmingham-house-collapse-due-to-storm-damage/ |
One of the biggest lottery jackpots in history is up for grabs on Friday night, and Richmonders were lining up Thursday in the hopes of turning a $2 investment into an estimated $660 million Mega Millions jackpot — a return that, at least for the moment, outpaces inflation.
Local barber Jimmy Squire was among those taking his chances.
“You got to be in it to win it,” he said. “You never know.”
This is the fifth time in 20 years the Mega Millions jackpot has surpassed $600 million. Friday, six numbers will be drawn to determine if a lucky someone, or someones, will take home the huge prize.
The winner has the option of taking the prize as an annuity or as a lump sum of $376.9 million in cash, though the government will want its share, too. An estimated $105.5 million in tax would be withheld on the lump sum, not counting potential income tax obligations.
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The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350. The tickets are sold in 45 states and the District of Columbia.
In Virginia, Mega Millions tickets are sold by the Virginia Lottery. Unaudited results show that in the previous fiscal year, $92.6 million in Mega Millions tickets were sold in the commonwealth.
That’s far short of the amount Virginians spent on scratch-off tickets ($1.3 billion) and less than the amount of tickets sold for competing mega-jackpot drawing Powerball ($133.4 million).
The Mega Millions jackpot hasn’t been won since April 15, when the winner received a paltry $20 million since there had been another winner in the previous drawing. Twenty-seven consecutive drawings have happened without anyone matching all six numbers.
On Tuesday, the winning numbers were 2, 31, 32, 37 and 70, and the Mega Ball was 25. But once again, there were no perfect tickets. However, 2,380,347 entries won prizes at other levels.
Squire bought three tickets at Davis Market in Richmond on Thursday hoping he’d be the lucky one.
“It’s just something that I like to do,” he said. “I have a Cash 5 number that I like to play, and I just play it every day. ... But when the Mega Millions gets high like this, I give it a chance because you never know. Anybody can hit it.”
As Friday’s stakes have risen, the excitement has grown. People who don’t normally play Mega Millions decided to give it a try at the market on Thursday.
“I feel great,” said one customer, who identified himself as Shameek. “I definitely already won.”
Shameek said his strategy is to use the ages of his seven children for the Mega Ball choice. If he wins, he said he would buy property in Puerto Rico for his whole family and take a vacation to Europe.
Squire is a barber at Legacy Grooming Lounge and has lived in Richmond his entire life. If he wins, he said he would build a trade school in Richmond for young people to learn a skill and give it back to the community.
“My wife is a pastor, so I would probably build us a bigger church and just try to give people life,” Squire said.
Friday’s drawing is at 11 p.m.
If there is no winner, the next jackpot will be even larger, though it still has a ways to go to reach the all-time record of $1.537 billion given by Powerball in October 2018. | https://richmond.com/business/local/virginians-buying-up-tickets-for-630-million-mega-millions-lottery-drawing/article_59660f91-99e1-5f4d-a4e9-1e5fa37ff839.html | 2022-07-22T02:18:40 | 1 | https://richmond.com/business/local/virginians-buying-up-tickets-for-630-million-mega-millions-lottery-drawing/article_59660f91-99e1-5f4d-a4e9-1e5fa37ff839.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — A retired Pennsylvania Catholic high school teacher is accused of attempting to lure a child in the city, police said Thursday.
Geraldo Colapinto, 65, of Yardley, Bucks County, was arrested Tuesday and charged with luring/enticing a child by various means.
Police said they were assisted by a concerned citizen who posed as an underage child on social media and was contacted by Colapinto. Colapinto then attempted to lure the citizen and engage him in sexual conduct.
The concerned citizen confronted Colapinto and notified Atlantic City police.
At 9:36 p.m. Tuesday, police made contact with the citizen and Colapinto, and the citizen provided officers with screen shots and detailed information of communication between Colapinto and an individual claiming to be a 15-year-old boy, police said.
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Following the investigation, Colapinto was arrested. He is being held in the Atlantic County jail.
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According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Colapinto is a retired math teacher from Holy Ghost Prep in Bensalem, Bucks County. He taught four decades at the school and retired in 2021, the school's director of communications, Bill Doherty, told the Inquirer.
Holy Ghost Principal Kevin Burke sent a message to people involved with the school announcing "deeply disheartening and troubling news" about Colapinto's arrest in the city.
“We have no knowledge of any alleged misconduct by Mr. Colapinto during his tenure at the school," Burke wrote. "However, given our knowledge of recent events and the current allegations, we will make the appropriate reporting to the authorities and will fully cooperate with any investigation into the alleged misconduct."
Colapinto's confrontation by the citizen and arrest by police were captured on YouTube by a group who use social media to expose alleged predators. The channel, which goes by MrWEB, livestreamed for 33 minutes, garnering more than 8,400 views as of Thursday evening.
The confrontation occurred in the lobby of Harrah's Resort Atlantic City, and the group walked Colapinto outside the casino. The group told Colapinto he was talking to a kid at first, but the group was made aware of the conversation and took over the chat 20 minutes before the encounter. They confirmed Colapinto knowingly sent messages to a person posing as a 15-year-old boy on Grindr, an LGBTQ dating app.
In the video, Colapinto claims he thought the profile was fake and didn't believe the person was 15. He also denied he intended to meet for a sexual encounter. The men also accused Colapinto of sending a nude photo, which Colapinto admitted doing. Colapinto also admitted asking for a nude photo.
After police arrived, Colapinto and the accusers were separated for questioning. A short time later, police are shown handcuffing Colapinto and assisting him into a vehicle. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-ex-pennsylvania-teacher-arrested-in-atlantic-city-child-luring-sting/article_2d2b7f5e-094f-11ed-bd45-437709cc38fb.html | 2022-07-22T02:21:10 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-ex-pennsylvania-teacher-arrested-in-atlantic-city-child-luring-sting/article_2d2b7f5e-094f-11ed-bd45-437709cc38fb.html |
When high temperatures are still forecast in the 80s, it’s hard to imagine drinking hot cocoa and taking in the sight of thousands of twinkle lights. That hasn’t stopped the folks at Little America Hotel from thinking about Christmas in July. They're laying the groundwork for Kris Kringle’s annual arrival at the North Pole Experience.
The North Pole Experience (NPX) has been a holiday event staple in Northern Arizona for 14 years running. From November 12 through December 24, families travel by trolley through acres of ponderosa pines on a magical journey to Santa’s workshop. On the way, they visit Santa’s Bakery and Elf University for a little cookie tasting and a crash course in toy making — North Pole style.
This year, visitors don’t have to wait for the leaves to change colors to start making their holiday plans. Ticket sales for the North Pole Experience are on-sale now, and event planners say there are a couple of reasons why.
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According to Morgan Vanderwall, a spokesperson for the North Pole Experience, it’s not uncommon for the event to book quickly. Weekend spots typically start selling out in the fall.
But there’s another reason why the folks at Little America and NPX are giving customers extra lead time.
After a few years of quarantine and socially distanced holidays, Vanderwall says a lot of families will be getting back to their holiday traditions. That has NPX anticipating larger than average crowds, and greater public interest in activities that were canceled or delayed by the pandemic.
Early ticket sales aren’t the only thing that’s new this year. The traditional trolley ride will be served up with a side of culinary delight. In addition to the usual North Pole Experience staples, the kitchens at Little America Hotel will prepare a special holiday buffet breakfast, attended by the jolly elf himself -- Santa Claus.
To learn more about the event, visit www.flagstaff.littleamerica.com/north-pole-experience. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/christmas-in-july-little-america-launches-ticket-sales-for-their-popular-north-pole-experience/article_a2067144-076f-11ed-a946-23c0c2fc2ab6.html | 2022-07-22T02:25:31 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/christmas-in-july-little-america-launches-ticket-sales-for-their-popular-north-pole-experience/article_a2067144-076f-11ed-a946-23c0c2fc2ab6.html |
WASHINGTON -- Hualapai Chairman Damon Clarke told a Senate committee Wednesday that getting access to Colorado River water is “the only feasible solution” for his tribe, whose wells are failing under the stress of the continuing drought.
The Hualapai Tribe Water Rights Settlement Act of 2022 would give the tribe water rights to the Colorado, Verde and Bill Williams rivers and fund construction of water infrastructure that would deliver about 4,000 acre-feet of water a year to the tribe.
Besides delivering water to the roughly 1,600 Hualapai on the reservation, the project would serve Grand Canyon West and its Skywalk, tribe-owned tourist attractions that Clarke said are major employers of tribal members.
“The Colorado River is the only feasible solution to these problems and the only water supply that can satisfy the longer term needs of our population,” Clarke said in testimony to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. “The lack of a secure water supply is a major obstacle we still face.”
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The Hualapai reservation encompasses around 1 million acres along 108 miles of the Grand Canyon, with the Colorado River serving as the northern boundary. But previous agreements have not allowed water to be drawn from the Colorado for the tribe, which relied on wells for its water.
But a two-decade drought, believed to be the most severe in the Southwest in 1,200 years, has sent water levels at Lake Mead and Lake Powell to historic lows and has dried up the wells and stressed nearby aquifers the Hualapai relied on.
“Three years ago, those wells suddenly failed because of the drought,” Clarke said.
The Hualapai have been working for decades to expand their water rights, efforts that were often opposed by the Interior Department. But Jason Freihage, Interior’s deputy assistant secretary for management, told the committee Wednesday that the department is “pleased to support” the latest bill, which brought a fleeting smile to Clarke’s face.
Besides expanding access, the bill would also create a $180 million Hualapai Water Trust Fund Account and a $5 million Hualapai Water Settlement Implementation Fund Account that would be used for construction, operations and environmental compliance costs for a water pipeline.
The bill was sponsored by Arizona Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly. Sinema told the hearing the bill provides “long-term stability to the Hualapai tribe’s water needs in northern Arizona, which is especially important as Arizona and the Southwest face historic drought conditions.”
An identical House bill was sponsored by Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-Sedona, and co-sponsored by Arizona Reps. Greg Stanton, D-Phoenix; Paul Gosar, R-Prescott; Ruben Gallego, D-Phoenix; and Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Tucson. It got a hearing May 12 before the House Natural Resources Committee, but no further action has been taken.
In a statement after the bill was introduced, O’Halleran said it “takes into account tribal sovereignty, the protection of our most precious natural resource, and the growing communities of Peach Springs and Grand Canyon West.”
Besides less-crowded views of the Grand Canyon, the Hualapai owned and operated Grand Canyon West includes the Skywalk, a glass-bottomed walkway that extends 70 feet into the the canyon, with the canyon floor 4,000 feet below. But water shortages have affected the tribe’s ability to keep these tourism services up and running.
“The collapse of these wells have forced us to limit our operations at Grand Canyon West, threatening our tribal economy and the main source of employment for our members,” Clarke told the committee.
To keep operations running, the tribe has had to pump water from an aquifer and haul it “15 miles by truck on a gravel road to get to Grand Canyon West,” Clarke said. “It is the only way we can continue our remaining operations at Grand Canyon West.”
The Hualapai “will help in any way we can to secure enactment of this critical legislation,” said Clarke, who called the bill “absolutely essential if our tribe is to attain a secure future on our reservation, to accommodate future growth of our population and to realize the full economic potential of our reservation.” | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/hualapai-leader-urges-senate-to-ok-water-plan-as-wells-fail-in-drought/article_0b872a6e-094b-11ed-bc73-ff205a7e783b.html | 2022-07-22T02:25:37 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/hualapai-leader-urges-senate-to-ok-water-plan-as-wells-fail-in-drought/article_0b872a6e-094b-11ed-bc73-ff205a7e783b.html |
GEORGETOWN, Texas — Editor's Note: The video above is from a report that first aired in June 2022.
The Georgetown Police Department was founded in 1948. Newly appointed Police Chief Cory Tchida has been with the department for 25 of those years in various roles. He joined the department after a short stint with the Aransas County Sheriff's Department.
"My goal was really ultimately to get back to Austin. I had worked as a volunteer at Austin PD when I was going to college," Tchida said. "I kind of always envisioned myself going to Austin PD. I kind of had to get back here because Austin wasn't hiring, so I took a job in Georgetown. What was striking to me was that I quickly fell in love with this place."
The City of Georgetown has grown from around 25,000 residents when Tchida joined the department, to more than 75,000 today. When a town grows that fast the police department must change and grow as well.
The chief said that rapid growth places pressure on all aspects of the community, not just the police department.
"There are certainly inherent challenges with that. We are facing the same issues with recruiting and retention that we are seeing throughout the entire job market, really," he said.
Chief Tchida said that the attrition his department saw last year while he was serving as the interim chief was the highest he's seen in several years.
The City is allowing the police department to use overhires within the department to deal with the high turnover. That allows the department to have a new officer ready when a current officer steps down.
"I coined a phrase, and I think it's really important. Much like a lot of employers, we are desperate to hire but we are never going to be desperate in hiring," Tchida said.
The crime rate in Georgetown is significantly lower than the crime rate in the State of Texas as a whole. Chief Tchida said that's not just due to the job the police department is doing.
"That is not Georgetown PD's success, that is this community's success. I'm a firm believer, a huge fan of Sir Robert Peele, the founder of modern policing. One of the things he talks about and when I talk to the public, I hammer this home all the time, the way this is supposed to work is the relationship between a community and its police has always been and should always be a partnership," he said.
Chief Tchida said that the growing City of Georgetown is dealing with the same problems that larger cities face. Homelessness and mental health issues are two that he and his officers have dealt with.
"We're not going to enforce our way out of homelessness. We're not going to enforce our way out of mental health. We want to be part of the equation and we want to do whatever we can to help but these are community-based problems that are going to require engaged communities to actually help start to mitigate and solve some of these issues," Tchida said.
As he begins his stint as the newly appointed chief of police in Georgetown, Chief Tchida said he loves the people he works with and loves the people of the Georgetown community.
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The Castro Theatre’s owners are finally speaking out on the future of the historic San Francisco movie palace – and in doing so, lashed out at one of the venue’s most vocal supporters.
Last month, the Castro Theatre Conservancy launched a campaign titled “Save the Castro Theatre,” with the hopes of preserving the venue as a film-centric space that continued to prioritize LGBTQ+ events. Specifically, the group hopes to put a stop to the theater’s present plans to clear out interior features like the orchestra-level seating and sloped floor. This came in the wake of legislation introduced by Supervisor Rafael Mandelman in May that would expand the venue’s landmark status beyond the facade to include those interior features as well as the theater’s cultural interest and value at large.
Support of the organization’s mission grew swiftly. A Change.org petition created last month has collected 4,582 signatures as of Thursday evening. Noteworthy backers include a long list of filmmakers like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Joel Coen, Wes Anderson, John Waters, Ari Aster, Barry Jenkins, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jamie Babbit, Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro and Boots Riley. Authors Armistead Maupin and Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), actresses Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand and Diane Baker, musicians like the Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra and Talking Heads’ David Byrne, and activists Sister Roma and Cleve Jones have also shown their support.
“One of our City’s most precious landmarks – the Castro Theatre – is under siege,” the Castro Theatre Conservancy’s website reads. “Please join us in advocating that the Castro Theatre not be reconfigured in ways which would undermine film presentation or price out LGBTQ+ events or the City’s many independent film festivals that call the Castro home.”
This might explain the tone of the statement from the Nasser family, the Castro Theatre’s longtime owners, which was shared with SFGATE on Wednesday night and appeared in a full-page ad in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Bay Area Reporter, the Examiner and the San Francisco Bay Times on Thursday morning.
(SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but operate independently of one another.)
The letter started on a fairly innocuous note, addressing some of the changes the Castro Theatre needed to undergo in order to survive for 100 years.
“The Theatre first opened on June 22, 1922 with the showing of a silent film. That evening the orchestra pit was full and admission was ten cents a ticket,” it reads. “Since that June night the orchestra musicians were replaced by a sound system in the 1930s, the mezzanine fireplace was removed, a new marquee was introduced, the famous neon blade sign was added, the Art Deco chandelier was installed, new seats arrived in 2001 and the stage was expanded to allow for more diverse live programming.”
The owners insisted that the Castro Theatre would continue to show movies as it had for the last century, but said that film exhibition alone was not sustainable, pointing to “low attendance” at the theater’s recent 100-year anniversary screenings as an example. They lauded the new changes proposed by their partners at the Berkeley-based concert promotion company Another Planet Entertainment before scrutinizing the Castro Theatre Conservancy’s efforts to halt them.
“Recently, groups have come forward that claim an affiliation with the Castro Theatre or the proposed changes that they think are best. While we appreciate their love for the theatre we strongly disagree and oppose the wildly restrictive guidelines that groups such as the Castro Theatre Conservancy are trying to impose,” the letter reads. “Their approach, while well intentioned, is extremely misguided and will further restrict and limit the diverse programming needed for the theatre to remain operational. Surprisingly, many of these groups who claim to know what’s best for the theatre failed to participate in or support the recent 100th anniversary events.”
Peter Pastreich, executive director of the Castro Theatre Conservancy, disputed such claims and reiterated the organization’s goal to preserve the theater’s current floor seating as well as post-renovation programming that would continue to include events helmed by independent producers, film festivals, LGBTQ+ and community groups.
“The Castro Theatre Conservancy has never proposed ‘wildly restrictive guidelines,’” he said in an email to SFGATE on Thursday. “We are deeply concerned that the changes being proposed to the orchestra floor will either make the theatre no longer usable for those groups, or add such enormous expense for making it usable that the LGBTQ+ community, the film festivals, and others, will lose what has been their beloved home.”
Pastreich referred to other historic movie houses in California, including the Orpheum and Los Angeles and the Paramount in Oakland, which he said had been renovated “without destroying their seating areas, and are thriving as multi-use spaces.”
“We have never advocated that the Castro be sustained by ‘film alone;’ the Castro Theatre has served its community and San Francisco with much more than film up to now,” he continued. “And no doubt APE can add to that mix, with the excellent live entertainment that is their specialty.”
As for the Castro Theatre Conservancy’s absence from the 100-year-anniversary events? Pastreich said the organization “was not invited to participate.” He shot back at the theater owners’ reports of a disappointing turnout at the film series.
“Attendance at last May’s Silent Film Festival at the Castro exceeded 25,000. APE, with no experience programming film festivals, programmed one that failed, and now contends that means no one wants to see films,” he said. “The Castro Theatre Conservancy is working to ensure that the Castro Theatre remains the beloved icon of its community and the City.”
These tensions will continue to unfold when a long-awaited meeting about the Castro Theatre’s controversial renovation plans is held at the historic venue from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on August 11. Bevan Dufty, a current member of BART’s Board of Directors and a former city supervisor who now serves as Another Planet’s community outreach coordinator, will moderate a Q&A session following the presentation. All are welcome to attend. | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Castro-Theatre-SF-conservancy-petition-17321003.php | 2022-07-22T02:33:43 | 1 | https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Castro-Theatre-SF-conservancy-petition-17321003.php |
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