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Flagstaff seniors Gracelyn Nez and Bridget Bond took unprecedented strides for the Eagles beach volleyball team this season, both individually and as part of the team.
The duo played as the No. 1 pair for nearly the entire season -- Nez missed the opening of the season as she led the Eagles to the state championship game in girls basketball -- and finished with an overall record of 15-3 together in the spring. They finished the season as the runners-up in the Division II pairs state tournament and led the Eagles to a runner-up finish in the team playoffs.
It was the first time the Eagles went undefeated in the regular season, clinching the Section Four title in the process. To get to that point, Flagstaff beat Coconino for the first time in team history. Flagstaff had never advanced to the state championship round as a team, or had an individual pair reach that point.
“It was definitely my favorite season,” Bond said. “It’s crazy being seniors and playing with all of our buddies we have grown up with and building these relationships.
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“It was exciting, especially because it’s the farthest we’ve ever gone,” added Nez. "And it being senior year, to get that far was really fun. Even though we didn’t win, it was still great."
They also played together since their freshman year in indoor volleyball, both for Flagstaff and at the club level. Bond was the setter, Nez the hitter. Both were talented on the indoor court, and earned 4A All-Conference honors from the fall 2021 season.
With their court positions meshing already, the transition to success on the sand took a bit of time, but they figured it out.
“I feel like our skills pair well together,” Bond said.
“And our chemistry is there. If the ball goes over my head, she’s there to get it and same with her. Everything has built and our communication got better,” Nez said. “It’s harder to move, but it’s the same basic skills. Ball control, setting, hitting, all that, and we’ve just gotten better over time.”
Coach Beth Haglin, who got to see the pair develop in both indoor and beach volleyball, added that their mental grasp of the sports made them even more successful.
“They’re just so intelligent. Gracelyn gets sets and she could just jam them down on the court, but she doesn’t always. She just picks the right spot, and she and Bridget see the court so well,” Haglin said. “They can hit the tough shots as much as anyone, but their ball control is great, and they just make the right play.”
The pair's championship appearance, and subsequent runner-up finish, ended the season and the high school careers of both Bond and Nez.
They finished high school athletics on a high note, both as a team and individually.
“Once we actually reached the finals, there was finally some of that hype we were expecting,” Bond said. “It was all so crazy. This whole year was.”
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A bloody night in New York City resulted in the deaths of two men in separate assaults around midnight, with suspects in one of the attacks still on the run.
Police said the first stabbing left a 58-year-old homeless man dead on Horace Harding Expressway in Queens. Curtis Rippe was involved in a dispute with two men before he was stabbed in the torso, police added.
Officers did not recover any weapons from the scene when they responded minutes before midnight, but they said a 26-year-old person of interest was taken into custody.
Less than two hours later, over in Greenwich Village, police said a 28-year-old Brooklyn man died from another stabbing.
Samer Abdalla was involved in an argument with a group of men at West 4th Street and 6th Avenue around 1:30 a.m. when the assault occurred, police said. He was fatally stabbed in the torso.
The group ran from the scene on foot before officers arrived. No arrests have been made and there's been no additional description of the men released by police.
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Another man involved in the home invasion killing of a 20-year-old Queens man has been sentenced to prison almost six years after the armed suspect stabbed Eddie Ventura to death.
Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced Friday the sentencing of Kristof Williams, 27, a fourth man connected to Ventura's death in November 2016. Her office said Williams was sentenced to 16 years-to-life in prison following a trial that wrapped in March.
"This defendant is the last of four men held responsible for breaking into a South Richmond Hill home six years ago in search of money and drugs," Katz's statement read.
Prosecutors at trial argued Williams was one of four men who broke into the Queens home on Nov. 30, around 2 a.m., in search of drugs and cash. Once inside the home, the crew found Ventura playing video games in a bedroom with two other people, according to Katz.
The 20-year-old tried fighting off the intruders but was stabbed multiple times in his back and leg, resulting in his death, the district attorney said.
Three other defendants were sentenced to prison in 2020 and 2021 after two pled guilty and a third was found guilty at trial. Williams was found guilty of murder and burglary, the DA said.
"The defendant's actions led to the senseless loss of a young man's life. No amount of time can dull the grief of the victim's family and friends but hopefully justice will offer them a measure of closure," Katz added.
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Sedran an d his business were once considered 'the heart and soul' of downtown Greenville, Mayor Knox White says
Stan Sedran, a World War II veteran and longtime businessman who was an integral fixture in Greenville's downtown revitalization, died Thursday, May 12. He was 101 years old.
After serving in the U.S. Air Force, Sedran ran Sedran Furs on North Main Street in downtown for more than 60 years.
He lived by the Golden Rule — treat others as you want to be treated — and his signature expression: "It's not what you know, it's who you know."
His daughter, Cindy Sedran, described her father as a man of integrity and humor.
"He had a heart of gold," she said.
Sedran was born Jan. 11, 1921, in the Bronx in New York City. He was the second of two boys born to Joseph and Pauline Sedran.
He was drafted into the war in 1942 at 21 years old. Appointed an Air Force bombardier, Sedran flew B-25s, which became one of the most heavily armed airplanes in the world, according to Boeing. He flew missions across North Africa, Italy and France, following the U.S. infantry.
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In a 2021 interview with The Greenville News, he spoke of the scars that the war left on him.
"I lost a lot of friends. I'm responsible for killing a lot of people who spoke a different language," Sedran said. "And to this day I realize what I went through, dropping bombs on people I didn't know. They had families."
But, "It was the right thing, because we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that," Sedran told The News.
Stan and his wife, May, came to Greenville in 1953 to start their fur business. At first, they had a store where the Hyatt hotel is now. A few years later, they moved to the corner of North Main and College streets, where they remained for 35 years.
They had a successful business, Cindy said. In the 1990s, they had more than 5,000 furs to store away for the summer, "which goes to show just how much business they brought to Greenville," she said in a note.
The Sedrans watched as the city changed and grew.
"I took a liking to Greenville very much," Sedran previously told The News. "I saw what I still see today, things that can be improved so much, and the growth."
Not just a business owner, Sedran was civically involved, too. The city of Greenville one time awarded Sedran with an "appreciation of service" award after he served on on a local community development task force, Cindy Sedran said.
"Stan was a beloved Greenville original," Mayor Knox White said in a text message. "For generations he and his business on Main Street were the heart and soul of downtown. I always appreciated his insight and embrace of the city he loved."
Sedran discovered in 2015 that his lease wouldn't be renewed on Main Street. Relocating would be too expensive, so he sold his inventory and moved to the suburbs in Taylors.
He was still active in the community after retirement. Stan was a member of two nonprofits, the Kiwanis Club and Sertoma Inc., for over 50 years, Cindy said. He received awards for perfect attendance for 12 years in a row.
Sedran also coached a local baseball team and played golf every Sunday, Cindy said.
"He was my mentor and best friend," she said.
Macon Atkinson is the city watchdog reporter for The Greenville News. She's powered by long runs and strong coffee. Follow her on Twitter @maconatkinson.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A nationwide baby formula shortage has millions of Americans struggling to find the breastmilk substitute for their infants.
Some experts say the baby formula shortage started as early as two years ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic led to disruptions in labor, transportation and raw materials.
The shortage only got worse after a nationwide recall where several babies got sick after and two died. On Feb. 17, the FDA pulled the formula off store shelves and shut down the Abbot Nutrition factory in Sturgis, Mich., leading to even more shortages.
Now, major retailers like Target and CVS are even limiting how much formula parents can purchase in one trip.
Because of this formula shortage, President Biden’s administration has gotten involved to make sure infant formula is both safe and available for families across the country. The White House announced plans to cut red tape to get more formula to store shelves quicker, increase the supply by allowing new and increased imports and called on the FTC and State Attorney Generals to crack down on any price gouging or unfair market practices related to sales of baby formula.
"We have to make sure that doesn't happen again," Rep. Josh Harder (D-Turlock) said. "But we also need to make sure that if one factory in America shuts down, we don't have huge shortages. That's not a very resilient system. And we need a much better system to make sure that our kids have all the food that they need."
This is a plan Harder has been working with the administration closely on because his family is being impacted, too. His wife Pam just gave birth to their first child, Lillian Gale, only nine weeks ago and they ran out of formula last week.
Then the store they frequent was also sold out.
"Just last week, we tried to buy some more, and we were told it was out of stock, we were going to have to be placed on a waitlist in order to get food for our infant daughter," Harder said. "That doesn't make any sense."
Harder says he is hoping the President will use the Defense Production Act, treating the shortage like the emergency it deserves. He says we could use some of the factories that are producing food for the military to produce the baby formula.
"It feels like it shouldn't happen in the United States of America and yet it does," Harder said. "And again, very similar to ocean shipping, there are four companies that have 80% of the market on baby formula and we need to make sure that we are holding them to a much higher standard so the problem, like the factory in Michigan, doesn't happen again."
Doctors are warning parents to not to try and make formula at home and don't buy formula online from overseas, because it's not FDA regulated. The House of Representatives is planning to hold multiple hearings on May 19 and May 25 to investigate how Abbott and the FDA allowed the shortage to happen.
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — The Coastal Fire near Laguna Beach and Laguna Niguel has burned homes in Orange County.
A wildfire that erupted Wednesday, May 11, in coastal Southern California raced through coastal bluffs of multimillion-dollar mansions, burning at least 20 homes, fire officials said.
On Thursday, the county declared a local emergency in response to the Coastal Fire.
Even small fires that once would have been easily contained are extreme threats to life and property because of climate change, said Brian Fennessy, chief of the Orange County Fire Authority.
The perfect example broke out Wednesday afternoon when flames that may have been sparked by electric utility equipment were pushed up a canyon by strong sea breezes and quickly ignited large homes. They burned a relatively small area — about 200 acres — but left a large path of destruction.
A sprawling estate selling for $9.9 million had looked in real estate listings like a California dream: teeming with luxuries that included a two-level library, a “wellness wing” with sauna and steam room and a pool on a terrace overlooking scenic Laguna Beach.
By nightfall, the mansion once photographed against a pastel sunset had morphed into a nightmare: its arched façade silhouetted against a glowing yellow sky as firefighters trained their hoses on the engulfed structure.
After the big flames died down Thursday, the house was one of many smoking casualties marked off with yellow tape. In another driveway, a burned-out car rested on its rims. The steep surrounding hillsides were blackened and stripped of vegetation.
Two firefighters were hospitalized but no other injuries were reported.
The fire’s cause was under investigation and damage inspections were still ongoing on Thursday, Orange County Fire Authority Assistant Chief T.J. McGovern said. Southern California Edison reported that unspecified electrical “circuit activity” occurred around the time the fire broke out late Wednesday afternoon.
Electric utility equipment has repeatedly been linked to starting some of the most disastrous California wildfires, especially during windy weather.
The state Public Utilities Commission last year approved a settlement of more than half a billion dollars in fines and penalties for SoCal Edison for its role in five wildfires in 2017 and 2018.
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These figures were updated on Thursday night. Find the latest figures from Orange County Fire Authority.
- 200 acres
- 15% containment
- 20 homes destroyed
- 11 homes damaged
- 550 firefighters on scene
- 2 firefighters were injured and have been released from the hospital
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EVACUATIONS:
The Orange County Sheriff's Office says:
- Mandatory Evacuations: Evacuation orders have been issued for north of the intersection of Flying Cloud Drive and Pacific Island Drive to the intersection of Highlands Avenue and Pacific Island Drive.
- Voluntary Evacuation: Warnings have been issued for the area south of Flying Cloud Drive and Pacific Island Drive to the intersection of Pacific Island Drive and Crown Valley Parkway.
An evacuation warning has been lifted for the Balboa Nyes (Portafina) neighborhood in Laguna Beach. The sheriff's office said that residents who voluntarily evacuated can return to their homes but should remain alert.
Residents are asked to call the Orange County Emergency Operations Center at (714) 628-7085 for updates.
An evacuation center is set up at the Crown Valley Community Center at 29751 Crown Valley Parkway.
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According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It became the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
Some counties use Nixle alerts to update residents on severe weather, wildfires, and other news. To sign up, visit www.nixle.com or text your zip code to 888777 to start receiving alerts.
PG&E customers can also subscribe to alerts via text, email, or phone call. If you're a PG&E customer, visit the Profile & Alerts section of your account to register.
What questions do you have about the latest wildfires? If you're impacted by the wildfires, what would you like to know? Text the ABC10 team at (916) 321-3310.
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Joshua, a six-year-old male Masai giraffe has arrived at the Lehigh Valley Zoo, officials announced Friday.
Joshua, from Houston Zoo, will join six-year-old male giraffe, Tatu, in the Masai giraffe habitat at LV Zoo in North Whitehall Township.
Joshua is 16-1/2-feet tall, 2,000 pounds and still growing, zoo officials said.
“The Zoo is excited to introduce the newest member of our family to the Lehigh Valley community,” said President & CEO Amanda Shurr. “Visiting the Zoo is the best way for the community to support our animals and staff, and we cannot wait to reopen our feeding deck so that our guests can get up-close to feed both Tatu and Joshua.”
The zoo has created an introduction plan to help Joshua and Tatu establish a bond. After his arrival, Joshua will have access to the giraffe barn so he can learn the lay of the land and settle into his new surroundings, officials said. Tatu will be able to investigate him through “howdy points,” which are designed to allow the pair to greet each other by choice.
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Once both giraffes are comfortable, they will have more access to each other in different parts of the exhibit. This entire process will be monitored by LV Zoo’s senior keepers, curators and veterinarians.
Masai giraffes are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, primarily due to poaching and changes in land use. There is an estimated 35,000 Masai giraffes remaining, but their population has fallen by 50 percent over the last three decades, according to the news release. The number of Masai giraffes under human care in the U.S. is small, and the Giraffe Species Survival Plan of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums manages the population to ensure that it is healthy and genetically diverse so that the population thrives.
Giraffes are social animals, and can live in loose, unstable herds. These herds can vary from 10-20 individuals, although much larger herds have been observed. Individuals may join and leave the herd at will and there is no specific structure to the herd. Herds can be made up of all females, all males, or mixed genders of all ages. It is not uncommon for young males to form bachelor herds, and isolated individuals have been observed in the wild.
Adult male giraffes will establish dominance in the herd by sparring with one another. Sparring involves two individuals rubbing and intertwining their necks and heads. They will lean against each other to evaluate their opponent’s strength. Sparring may also include the two giraffes “necking” one another. Necking appears as the giraffe standing alongside one another and swinging their heads at the other giraffe. The strongest giraffe in this interaction will be established as the dominant male in the herd.
The Masai giraffe habitat at LV Zoo was built in 2016 and guests can feed the giraffes through the Kiannala Feeding Deck. Joshua is accustomed to eating lettuce from guests as he did regularly at his prior home, officials said.
LV Zoo expects to announce the opening of the giraffe feeding deck in the near future.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — As shortages of baby formula are being reported across the country, the Alabama Department of Public Health is giving parents advice on what they need to do.
“Although the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) does not have hard data on the extent of the shortage in Alabama, it is our understanding that the issue is related to several factors,” ADPH District Medical Officer Dr. Wes Stubblefield said in a statement released by the department. “Due to supply chain issues and labor shortages, manufacturers were already experiencing strained production. With the recall of some of the formula from Abbott (Similac), the strain worsened, and shortages started to appear.”
The ADPH said that infant formula can be generally found at retailers across Alabama, including small stores, larger chain stores, grocery stores, pharmacies, convenience stores and others. Local community food banks are another option for formula. However, the Women, Infants, and Children program offices at county health departments do not store stock of routine infant formula, nor does ADPH regulate the distribution or storage of formula.
“Although both ADPH and the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics strongly encourage breastfeeding, there can be barriers to successful breastfeeding and many women must rely on formula,” the ADPH said in the statement.
Dr. Katrina Skinner, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Alabama chapter, said families who rely on formula should not dilute it with water, adding it can result in dehydration, weight loss and seizures. She also said families shouldn’t make their own formula, use cow’s milk or give babies plant-based milk due to those options not being nutritionally sufficient. Parents of babies who require a specific formula due to allergies and sensitivities should call their doctors for advice.
In addition, Skinner said donor milk is safe so long as standard guidelines are used. She recommends that parents use donor milk banks, where the milk is screened to make sure it is okay for consumption.
“Families should discuss safe alternatives with their health care provider,” Stubblefield said in the statement. “Families should also use caution when purchasing formula from internet sellers outside of well-known distributors. Purchasing formula from overseas can be dangerous as these formulas are not regulated by the FDA.”
Both the ADPH and the AL-AAP encourage families to try alternative brands of infant formula if their preferred brand is not available, including store brands. Other options include switching to a ready-to-feed product or liquid concentrate if powdered formula is unable to be located.
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MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — According to the Arkansas State Police, 14-year-old Sara Gilpin is missing from Mountain Home, Ark.
Gilpin was last seen around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon, May 12 on College Street in Mountain Home.
She has long, brown hair and was last seen wearing a gray shirt, black pants and converse shoes.
Police say it is possible that Gilpin is with 40-year-old Issac Melder, in a Maroon Diesel pickup, with a possible black hood, truck. The license plate number is 331YEW.
If you see Sara or Isaac, please call the Mountain Home Police Department at 870-425-6336.
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Many are left hunting sparse shelves for baby formula as the U.S. faces a shortage.
The Lincoln Journal Star wants to hear from residents who have been hit hard by the infant formula shortage.
Have you gone to the store to buy baby formula to no avail? Have you had to shop around or ask friends and family to be on the lookout? Or have you so far been insulated from the shortage and are worried it may soon impact you?
Tell us about your experience by clicking here or in the Google form below.
All or part of your responses may be published in the Lincoln Journal Star or at JournalStar.com.
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Texas’ child welfare agency remains blocked from investigating the family of a transgender teen that sued the state in March, but can once again investigate other families that provide gender-affirming care after the Supreme Court of Texas struck down a statewide injunction Friday.
The video above is from previous reporting.
Though it overturned the injunction on procedural grounds, the high court raised questions about why the Department of Family and Protective Services opened these investigations in the first place. The court affirmed in Friday’s ruling that neither Attorney General Ken Paxton nor Gov. Greg Abbott had any grounds to direct the agency’s actions.
You can view the court's ruling here.
In February, Paxton issued a nonbinding legal opinion that equated certain medical treatments and procedures for transgender teens with child abuse. Abbott, citing that opinion, then sent a letter to DFPS directing the agency to investigate parents who provided gender-affirming care to their transgender children.
In a statement responding to the order, DFPS said it would “follow Texas law” as laid out in Paxton’s opinion, “[i]n accordance with Governor Abbott’s directive.” The agency proceeded to open at least nine investigations into parents of transgender children.
“The Governor and the Attorney General were certainly well within their rights to state their legal and policy views on this topic, but DFPS was not compelled by law to follow them,” Friday’s ruling reads. “DFPS’s press statement, however, suggests that DFPS may have considered itself bound by either the Governor’s letter, the Attorney General’s Opinion, or both. Again, nothing before this Court supports the notion that DFPS is so bound.”
The ruling does note the myriad “informal mechanisms” through which elected officials can influence a state agency, but “ultimately, however, one department or another has the final say.”
In this case, the ruling said, DFPS was responsible for deciding whether these investigations aligned with current state regulations — and will now have to decide whether to continue these investigations and allow new ones to be opened.
DFPS employees have told The Texas Tribune that agency leadership has acknowledged that these investigations do not meet the current requirements for child abuse and have said policy would need to be generated to match the governor’s directives.
In March, a district judge granted an injunction blocking the state from continuing these investigations or opening new ones. Paxton appealed that decision to the Third Court of Appeals, which reinstated the statewide temporary injunction.
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He then petitioned the Supreme Court of Texas to review that appeal. In Friday’s ruling, the high court agreed with Paxton that the appeals court overstepped — while the appeals court can reinstate an injunction if it “preserves the parties’ rights,” they cannot reinstate a temporary injunction of any nature.
In this case, the justices ruled, the “parties” are the family that sued the state initially — not all parents of all transgender children.
This story comes from our KHOU 11 News partners at The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — As traffic volume continues to increase between the Washington state line and Coeur d'Alene, the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is looking for ways to improve Interstate 90, which could include adding a third lane.
Since it was constructed in the 1960s, I-90 hasn't changed much: two lanes going east and west with 60,000 cars, trucks and semis every day.
However, the population in the area has changed drastically. In less than 30 years, the traffic volume is expected to double, causing concern for residents in North Idaho.
Brian Rogers is one of those residents. He said he's concerned with the idea of a third lane being added to I-90 in both directions.
It's that concern that ITD is working to address, according to ITD Public Information Officer Megan Jahns.
"So right now we need to identify what the needs are, how we can address them, and then what's the cost of addressing them?" Jahns said.
ITD is collecting data for a widening study using radar and drills to see if the soil along I-90 can support a third lane. The department is also looking into which on-ramps and interchanges can be improved, as this is something engineers have to consider.
"When you're replacing bridges, you're adding a lot of dollars," Jahns said. "It's a lot easier to add a lane sometimes than it is to fund the replacement of a bunch of bridges."
The improvements could cost anywhere from $600-$755 million dollars. Funding for the entire corridor has not been identified.
"The problem with all of these projects is inflation with steel, asphalt, concrete is going up but that's one that I know the community has talked about it," Idaho Gov. Brad Little said. "I'm quite certain it will be funded."
Kootenai County voters said otherwise in 2020, voting against a $50 vehicle registration fee that would have helped fund 12 transportation projects, including widening I-90.
"I'm just not seeing this being the solutions we need, today," Rogers said. "If everybody was like a train and stayed on their own tracks and was able to get down the road at a consistent speed, then this would be a perfect solution. But it's not, and that's not how people work."
Transportation officials believe an extra lane would save drivers time, increase traffic flow and reduce crashes.
"We all know when we're sitting in traffic how frustrating it is, but it's also not safe," Jahns said. "If you have stop and go conditions, you have the opportunity for more crashes."
Rogers believes an extra lane would result in more traffic and collisions. Instead, he wants the state to build an alternative East-West route to encourage drivers to get off the freeway sooner.
"We have a larger East-West problem here and adding another lane to I-90 doesn't solve that larger problem," he said.
One thing Rogers can agree on is that Idaho needs to start planning and building for the future now.
"A decade, two decades, three decades from now, what we do today will resonate," he said.
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Delaware State University's president announced Friday that he would file a formal complaint with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice after sheriffs deputies in Georgia stopped and searched a bus the school's women's lacrosse team was riding on last month.
"What we believe is that the search was conducted inappropriately and there was implicit racial bias in the search," said Dr. Tony Allen, president of the historically Black school, on Friday. "Even if they did not know who was on the bus at the time of the stop, there was certainly great certainty who was on that bus once they boarded it."
On April 20, two sheriffs deputies from the Liberty County Sheriff’s Department stopped the DSU bus while it was traveling on Interstate 95 in south Georgia. The team was on the way back from a game in Florida.
The deputies are seen on video, which was taken by one of the people on the bus, saying that they are looking for drugs. They later used dogs to sniff through the student-athletes' belongings, including their underwear.
"If there is anything in y'all's luggage, we are probably going to find it," one deputy says.
Allen said he is "incensed" by the encounter. He said the complaint would be made available to the public once it is filed some time next week.
Allen said that he had spoken cordially with Liberty County Sheriff William Bowman and that they don't see the stop and search the same way.
"We believe the stop and search raises serious constitutional and civil rights issues," Allen said. "He disagrees."
Earlier this week, Delaware Attorney General Kathleen Jennings called for a federal investigation after body camera footage was released that shows Georgia deputies searching through the personal items of the DSU team, contradicting statements from their sheriff.
On the body camera footage, one of the deputies says, "Just a bunch of dang schoolgirls on the bus. Probably some weed. Maybe," before entering the bus.
During a news conference on Tuesday, Sheriff Bowman, who is African American, said the bus was stopped after the driver committed a lane violation. Georgia state law requires a bus or motorcoach to operate in the two most right hand lanes except when the bus or motorcoach is preparing for a left turn or moving to or from a High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV or carpool) lane, according to Bowman.
Bowman also said there were several commercial vehicles stopped that morning including one bus where "contraband" was located.
“Due to the nature of the detail, a K-9 was part of the stop and an alert was given by the K-9,” Bowman said. “Before entering the motorcoach, the deputies were not aware that this school was historically black or aware of the race of the occupants due to the height of the vehicle and the tinted windows.
“As a veteran, a former Georgia State Trooper and a sheriff of this department, I do not exercise racial profiling, allow racial profiling or encourage racial profiling,” Bowman said. “From what I have gathered, I believe that the stop was legal, but I also understand my duty to help the public understand law enforcement while seeking ways to improve services.”
Pamella Jenkins, head coach of the DSU Women’s Lacrosse team, Sydney Anderson, a member of the team who wrote about the incident in DSU’s student newspaper both said the search was expansive.
“It went from two officers to six officers and they brought out their K-9,” Anderson told NBC10. “They started smelling our bags. Going through everything. Our personal hygiene like underwear and everything in the bags and they did that for about 20 minutes.”
The deputies ultimately did not find any drugs during the search and the driver was issued a warning for the lane violation, which Bowman confirmed during Tuesday's news conference.
On Friday, Allen said the university made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for all police-worn body camera footage and paperwork related to the traffic stop. That request expired without a response for the Georgia sheriff's office.
Earlier this week, state AG Jennings also sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice, asking them to investigate.
"Like so many others, I’m deeply troubled by the actions that our Delaware State University Women's Lacrosse team and staff endured in Georgia this past April," Jennings wrote. "I want to commend these outstanding young women for their valor, and my fellow Delawareans for rallying around them."
Allen on Friday, said the civil rights complaint and AG's request are "first steps" and that the university "wholly supports" the students, coaches and bus driver's options as they explore any actions.
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The man facing federal terrorism charges for his alleged shooting of a New York City subway train last month pleaded not guilty in court Friday.
Frank James, 62, appeared in court with his attorney one week after a federal grand jury indicted the man for an attack that wounded 10 people and rattled a city already experiencing a rise in violent crime.
The indictment charges James with committing a terrorist attack or other violence against a mass transportation system and discharging a firearm during a violent crime. Both counts carry a maximum sentence of life in prison. The weapons count has a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence.
James was arrested on April 13, about 30 hours after authorities say he drove from Philadelphia and unleashed smoke bombs and dozens of bullets in a train full of morning commuters as it approached a Brooklyn station. The shooting victims ranged in age from 16 to 60; all were expected to survive.
Authorities said James's bank card, cellphone and a key to a van he had rented were found at the shooting scene. Police also said they found the handgun used in the shooting and traced it to James.
A lawyer representing James at the time of his arrest cautioned not to rush to judgment and noted that James alerted police to his whereabouts. James was arrested in Manhattan's East Village after he called a tip line saying he was at a fast food restaurant in that section of the city.
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A motive for the attack is unclear. In numerous rants he posted on YouTube, James, who is Black, made bigoted remarks about people of various backgrounds and railed against New York Mayor Eric Adams and complained about mental health care he received in the city years ago.
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A 28-year-old man pleaded guilty for the brutal 2019 sexual attack of a 74-year-old Queens woman in her apartment, prosecutors announced Friday.
Rodrigo Escamilla, from Corona, pleaded guilty to criminal sexual act in the first degree Thursday, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said.
Queens Supreme Court Justice Ushir Pandit-Durant said she looks to sentence Escamilla to 15 years in prison and 20 years post release supervision. He will also be required to register as a sex offender at the time of his release. Escamilla was ordered to return to court on May 27.
According to the district attorney, between midnight and 1 a.m. on July 17, 2019, Escamilla knocked on the apartment door of the 74-year-old woman. When she opened the door, Escamilla forced his way into the apartment, struck the woman in the head with a bottle once inside and dragged her to a bedroom where he sexually assaulted her.
The woman was treated at a local hospital for injuries that required multiple staples to her head.
Katz said that surveillance video obtained by the NYPD showed Escamilla follow the woman into her building’s lobby and showed him approach her apartment.
“The defendant viciously violated an elderly woman in a place that is supposed to be her safe place of refuge. Those who prey on members of our elderly community will be held accountable by my Office. The defendant has now admitted guilt for his criminal actions and faces a lengthy prison term at sentencing,” Katz said.
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A 14-year-old student at a school in Boston is accused of throwing boiling hot water on one of his teachers earlier this month.
The teacher had told her student not to use a textbook to assist in microwaving ramen noodles, as the book would be ruined in the microwave, police said. Following a disagreement, the student allegedly proceeded to stand up from his seat and pour his cup of boiling hot ramen noodles on the teacher.
The student had used the hot water side of a bubbler rather than a microwave to initially heat his noodles, the police report states.
The teacher, who arrived at the hospital in "excruciating pain," she said, had swelling and minor burns on her left cheek and redness inside of her left ear when she arrived at the hospital, per the report. The teacher had been advised by the school nurse to seek additional medical attention after being initially treated, she said.
The student, who is being charged as a juvenile, has been charged with aggravated assault.
Five days after the incident, the teacher said she was still experiencing stinging in her neck, face, left ear and left eye.
A Boston Public Schools representative told The Boston Herald that the incident was "unfortunate" and that "actions were taken to ensure the safety of the staff member involved and appropriate interventions have occurred."
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MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. — According to the Arkansas State Police, 14-year-old Sara Gilpin is missing from Mountain Home, Ark.
Gilpin was last seen around 3 p.m. Thursday afternoon, May 12 on College Street in Mountain Home.
She has long, brown hair and was last seen wearing a gray shirt, black pants and converse shoes.
Police say it is possible that Gilpin is with 40-year-old Issac Melder, in a Maroon Diesel pickup, with a possible black hood, truck. The license plate number is 331YEW.
If you see Sara or Isaac, please call the Mountain Home Police Department at 870-425-6336.
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Another highly transmissible version of the coronavirus that's been spreading around the country has surfaced in North Dakota.
State health officials over the past week confirmed the first case of BA.2.12.1, another descendant of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, and of omicron's BA.2 mutation, which was first detected in North Dakota in early February.
"Early indicators are that (BA.2.12.1) is about 30% more infectious than BA.2," state Medical Services Section Chief Kirby Kruger said. "Disease severity appears to be similar to BA.2, and vaccinations with a booster will likely provide good protection against severe disease and hospitalizations."
BA.2 remains the dominant omicron subvariant circulating both in the U.S. and in the region that includes North Dakota, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Last week it accounted for about 56% of new cases nationally and nearly 63% regionally. BA.2.12.1 accounted for about 43% of new infections nationally and 36% regionally.
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The State Lab puts positive COVID-19 test samples through a "sequencing" process to determine variants. Omicron remains the dominant one in North Dakota. All of the sequenced samples in the past week were omicron.
"Overall, since omicron was first confirmed in North Dakota on Dec. 19, 2021, there have been 6,883 sequenced samples reported and 5,710 (83%) have been omicron," Kruger said. "Of the specimens collected on or after April 17 that have been sequenced and determined to be omicron, 97.4% were BA.2."
Omicron spreads more easily than earlier variants including delta, but it generally causes less-severe disease than previous variants, according to the CDC.
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COVID-19 cases in North Dakota continue to tick up, with 723 confirmations over the past week, according to the state Health Department's coronavirus dashboard. It's the sixth consecutive week that the total has increased. The previous week's total was 613, and the week before that it was 440.
"Cases are increasing in North Dakota, but at a much more moderate pace than what we experienced in January with our omicron peak," Kruger said. "The emergence of these new variants is a reminder that this virus is still with us and still circulating through our communities. Fortunately hospitalizations are still relatively low."
Thirty-one people with COVID-19 were admitted to North Dakota hospitals during the week. Coronavirus patients continue to make up a low percentage of hospital patients -- taking up less than 3% of occupied inpatient beds and intensive care unit beds statewide.
The two hospitals in Bismarck on Friday had a total of 11 staffed adult and pediatric inpatient hospital beds available, and three adult and pediatric ICU beds open.
There have been 242,462 confirmed COVID-19 cases in North Dakota during the pandemic that began in March 2020. Federal data shows 2,272 virus-related deaths in the state, up four from last week. County-level death data is not available.
The state also no longer reports the number of active COVID-19 cases, as part of the recent shift in its coronavirus approach from pandemic to "endemic," essentially meaning that coronavirus is expected to be a part of daily life.
The weekly reporting aims to show longer-term trends and severity of disease, rather than daily virus data that could be skewed by the fact that results from widely available COVID-19 home test kits are not required to be reported to the state.
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Federal data shows that North Dakota continues to have some of the worst COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country: 66.3% of adults in the state are fully vaccinated, with the rate for all vaccine-eligible people -- age 5 and older -- at 59.9%. The national averages are 76.3% and 70.6%, respectively.
COVID-19 booster shots are recommended for people 12 and older. North Dakota's booster rate is 44.5%, compared to 48.1% nationally.
County-level COVID-19 risks determined by the CDC can be found at https://bit.ly/3Clifrq. Burleigh and Morton counties both are considered at low risk, as is much of the rest of the state.
State Health Department guidance and resources for businesses is at https://bit.ly/3w0DpKj.
Go to https://www.ndvax.org or call 866-207-2880 to see where COVID-19 vaccine is available. Information on free public testing and free test kits is at health.nd.gov/covidtesting. More detailed pandemic information is at www.health.nd.gov/coronavirus and https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html.
Reach News Editor Blake Nicholson at 701-250-8266 or blake.nicholson@bismarcktribune.com.
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The Northampton Area School Board has banned a Moore Township man, who is married to a board member, from attending school board meetings after he was charged with threatening the board president at a meeting last month.
At a meeting Monday, the board voted 7-1, with one member abstaining, to send a letter to Gerald Bretzik, prohibiting him from attending meetings for the rest of 2022.
“The exclusion from Board meetings has become necessary due to a pattern of behavior that has grown progressively disruptive culminating in a direct threat to at least one Board member at a meeting of April 11, 2022,” the agenda item from Monday’s meeting reads.
Board members Michael Baird, Chuck Frantz, David Gogel, Ross Makary, Robert Mentzell, Vice President John Becker and President James Chuss voted to send the letter to Bretzik. Board member Kim Bretzik, wife of Gerald Bretzik, abstained from the vote, while Doug Vaughn voted against it.
“This is obviously a little awkward for me because it involves a member of my family,” Kim Bretzik said at the meeting, according to the Lehigh Valley Press. “I feel I should recuse myself from the vote.”
Superintendent Joseph Kovalchik confirmed the board voted to send the letter, but he declined to comment further. Northampton school board members either declined to comment or did not return messages. Attempts to reach Gerald Bretzik were unsuccessful.
The board voted to send the letter after Bretzik, 53, was charged with harassment and disorderly conduct April 22 from an incident allegedly stemming from Northampton’s April 11 school board meeting. At that meeting, he said to Chuss, “I will see you on the streets” and repeatedly yelled expletives, according to court documents. He had to be escorted out of the meeting by officers, who he cursed at and gave the middle finger to.
It’s unclear what upset Bretzik at the April 11 meeting, but hostile scenes at school board meetings have been playing out in the Lehigh Valley and throughout the United States as school boards grapple with issues such as masking, critical race theory and book bans. School boards are used to facing upset parents and the public over issues such as tax hikes, new school boundaries and teacher cuts. But in the last couple of years, school boards are being hit with more aggressive behavior.
Stuart Knade, chief legal officer with the Pennsylvania School Boards Association, said the Northampton school board isn’t the first one to ban a person from meetings. If someone has been disorderly at a meeting, typically, board members will prohibit that person for a certain amount of time, such as a year, and then will review their decision after that, he said.
Knade said PSBA has been advising and training school boards on how to handle disruptive behavior at meetings.
“There have been much more unruly crowds at school board meetings,” Knade said. “That has become more frequent in the last year or so.”
Tensions at school board meetings led the National School Boards Association to issue a plea to President Joe Biden for help in September. Other school boards throughout the country have curbed public comment after disruptive behavior has occurred, including in Virginia and Florida.
Bretzik has a preliminary hearing scheduled later this month. According to court documents:
Bretzik attended a Northampton Area School Board meeting April 11 and said that his wife was accosted at a previous meeting. Bretzik appeared “in a agitated state and in a extremely loud voice” addressed Chuss, who then told him to settle down. Bretzik walked away from the podium but continued to yell.
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He said to Chuss, “I’ll see you on the public street then.”
Chuss asked if it was a threat and Bretzik said, “It’s not a threat, sir. It’s a promise.”
He also said to Chuss: “You’re an elected official. I can follow you around with a microphone, embarrassing you, your family, your wife.”
Bretzik yelled a stream of expletives directed toward Chuss and as he was exiting the room, he again said, “I will see you on the streets.”
Bretzik was escorted out of the meeting and continually said “F--- you” in a “loud aggressive manner and repeatedly showed officers the finger in an obscene gesture,” court documents state. He left the high school, but returned to the door and showed officers the middle finger.
Court documents state that on at least two previous occasions, Bretzik had to be escorted from board meetings because of “his display of aggression, verbal interruptions, and use of obscene language.” At one meeting, he “verbally harassed” residents who were leaving.
Morning Call senior content editor Jacqueline Palochko can be reached at jpalochko@mcall.com or at 610 778 2239.
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Bradenton settles lawsuit over 160 million gallons in sewage spills since 2018
The city of Bradenton settled a lawsuit from environmental advocacy groups over an estimated 160 million gallons of sewage dumped into the Manatee River since 2018.
The aging infrastructure at Bradenton's wastewater treatment facility has been overwhelmed by heavy rainfall on several occasions, causing raw and partially treated sewage to be diverted into the river.
Four environmental advocacy groups that sued the city late last year announced settlement terms this week. The groups include Suncoast Waterkeeper, Tampa Bay Waterkeeper, Manasota-88, and Our Children’s Earth Foundation.
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“Wastewater systems and water infrastructure are woefully outdated in too many communities throughout Florida,” Suncoast Waterkeeper Founder Justin Bloom said. “The historic lack of investment in our infrastructure harms the health of our communities and waterways. This settlement guarantees that the city of Bradenton will make much-needed upgrades in their wastewater and sewage treatment system."
The settlement requires Bradenton to invest at least $220,000 in projects to improve local waters and estuarine habitats.
It also outlines deadlines for improvements to the city's sewage treatment plant meant to upgrade pumping, treatment, and disinfection capabilities. The city also will assess pipe conditions to find any leaks and ensure that backup power is available.
City Administrator Rob Perry said Bradenton wants to protect the Manatee River from future sewage bypasses, and that the incidents only occurred during heavy rainfall events that overwhelmed the city's aged sewer and wastewater treatment infrastructure.
He said the city plans to use American Rescue Plan Act grant money to fund a large part of the efforts over the next three years.
“Aging infrastructure needs to be repaired, and our engineers have been dedicated to completing these necessary underground sewer piping system improvements for many years,” Perry said. “We’ve got a plan, we have the resources to implement that plan, and it is my responsibility to make sure we’re solidly positioned for the next 50 years.”
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'A scary time': Local moms agonize over baby formula shortage
A nationwide shortage in baby formula has crept its way into the Sarasota area, tossing an additional weight onto the shoulders of fatigued parents.
Tiffanie Emans has been scrambling between her daughters' specialists, the state's WIC nutrition program, and online shopping carts to find PurAmino, the hypoallergenic formula her five-month-old daughter needs.
"I'm only able to get this (formula) through WIC or ordering online. I don't have many short-term options because the only other formula she could use is just as hard to get a hold of," Emans said.
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Scarce availability of baby formula has emptied store shelves nationwide due to a long-lasting supply chain issue spurred by the pandemic and recently worsened by a recall from Abbott Nutrition, a baby food manufacturer.
Emans said she's doing everything she can to maintain a constant supply — including visiting her children's specialists to collect samples.
"They're starting to run out as well," she said. "I'm not sure what I'm going to do."
Sarasota Memorial Hospital is staying afloat during the shortage, according to Heather Graber, clinical manager at the hospital's NICU. She said the hospital hasn't suffered any supply disruptions but continues to monitor stock.
"We work very closely with our supply chain with weekly meetings and daily emails to make certain that we have all supply and product that we need for our babies born here at Sarasota Memorial," Graber said in a statement.
Rachna Gulati, a pediatrician with First Physicians Group in Sarasota, advised parents to rely on alternative, non-name brands if their usual is out of stock.
"That is completely OK to do," Gulati said. "The baby's not going to be harmed by switching from one brand to another unless they're on a specialty formula."
But she warned desperate parents to avoid watering down their current formulas in an attempt to make their current batch last longer.
"That is not recommended at all," Gulati said. "All of these formulas are made very specifically to supplement the infants' needs and growth. Changing any of those or watering down the formula can alter that balance and cause a lot of electrolyte and mineral deficiencies."
For mothers with special needs like Emans, there is another stressor besides shortage: price-gouging.
"My other daughter is 4 and actively drinks Pediasure Peptide, she has issues digesting foods so she relies on these drinks," she said. "A case of her shakes cost $170 for 24 bottles. She drinks three bottles a day."
Formula shortage with an abundance in discourse
The national shortage has ignited fierce online conversation, with parents and those without kids posting their opinion on how to keep their infants fed.
One mom, frustrated at comments telling her to "just breastfeed," wrote that she fed her baby with formula after struggling to produce milk.
A sympathetic user replied, stating that her son almost starved to death after she, too, was incapable of producing enough milk.
"Giving him formula was heartbreaking and hurt my ego," they wrote. "But he wasn't starving anymore."
Carla Cevasco, a scholar and historian of infant feeding, wrote a viral Twitter thread detailing why parents would seek nutrition beyond breastfeeding: a mother's death during childbirth, a need to immediately return to work, or a baby being born with a cleft palate.
Despite the overwhelming amount of discourse flooding onto parents' feeds, Bailey René Bannigan highlighted some camaraderie among local Facebook groups.
Bannigan transitioned her daughter off of formula when the shortage began, looking for breastmilk donors in local Facebook groups.
"I posted in a totally free Bradenton group asking if there was any overproducing moms in my area that would be interested in donating, and I found two that are now my consistent donors," she said.
She said that moms are doing whatever they can to support one another, sometimes offering breastmilk for breast pump bags or parts in return — creating a haven for those struggling.
Reyna Barrios, mom to an 11-month-old son, said she's baffled to be living through a formula shortage.
"I am on one can, and I've been trying to make my formula stretch. I receive WIC but no stores carry his formula," she said. "If I even attempt to supplement his formula to what's available, it can hurt his stomach."
Barrios also said she's thankful for parenting Facebook groups — but it can sometimes feel like a race.
"There's times where I'm tagged to a formula post, but not even a minute goes by, and it's swarmed with other moms asking for the formula too," she said. "It's hard, and I'm trying to get by."
Emans said if the shortage continues, she plans to also ask around on Facebook if other parents have access to the specialty products her daughter needs but doesn't have too much hope.
"From what I understand, even DME (durable medical equipment) providers are having issues with getting supplies," she said. "There's been a time that I've had to pick up half of my WIC formula ... then wait nearly two weeks to pick up the rest."
DME companies provide medical equipment such as oxygen tanks, medical beds and nebulizers, as well as specialty formulas.
One company, Star Medical Specialities, is out of stock of every specialty product listed under "infant formula."
"This is a scary time," Bannigan said. "We can't even feed the babies we have."
Stefania Lugli covers a little of everything for the Herald-Tribune while pursuing watchdog/investigative stories. You can contact her at slugli@heraldtribune.com or dm her on Twitter at @steflugli.
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Historic Shreveport home destroyed in Friday morning fire
A historic home in Shreveport was destroyed Friday morning in a fire.
When fire crews arrived on the scene the Historic C.C. Antoine House was engulfed in flames and the vacant home next door was also on fire.
Antoine was a soldier, businessman, editor, and politician in Louisiana. His house was a historic marker in the city.
The initial call for the fire came from a neighbor at 4:15 a.m. with several more calls reporting a fully engulfed home. Shreveport Firefighters were dispatched at 4:15 a.m. to the 1900 Block of Perrin and arrived on the scene at 4:18 a.m.
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Firefighters faced initial challenges due to numerous powerlines on the ground and electric poles on fire. With the assistance of SWEPCO, the live electric lines were turned off. Both homes were a complete loss.
It took eight units and 25 firefighters nearly 30 minutes to bring the blaze under control. There were no injuries reported and the fire is currently under investigation.
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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Train wreck in Caddo Parish shuts down part of Hwy 169
Makenzie Boucher
Shreveport Times
Just after 8:40 a.m. Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office received a call to McGee Road where a train reportedly crashed into a truck.
The truck, which was hauling vehicles, was crossing the tracks when the train collided.
No one was injured in this crash but Highway 169 remains closed until the wreckage is clear.
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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Veterans group praises Louisiana representatives' no votes on Ukraine aide package
On May 10, The House approved $39.8 billion aid package for Ukraine.
It passed on a 368-57 vote by the U.S. House of Representatives. One of the 57 who voted against this bill was Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson.
Johnson represents Louisiana's 4th Congressional District which incorporates the Shreveport and Bossier City areas.
Louisiana representatives Clay Higgins and Garret Graves also voted against the package.
Johnson said, "we should not be sending another $40 billion abroad when our own border is in chaos, American mothers are struggling to find baby formula, gas prices are at record highs, and American families are struggling to make ends meet, without sufficient oversight over where the money will go.”
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Bring Our Troops Home, a national organization of veterans of the Global War on Terror, praised the votes of Johnson, Higgins and Graves in opposition to the $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.
Founder of Bring Our Troops Home Dan McKnight said, "Reps. Johnson, Higgins, and Graves did the conscientious thing and voted against looting the public treasury. We are witnessing the worst inflationary crisis in over forty years, a hardship caused by overspending and artificial money creation. Our children are set to inherit a national debt approaching $30.5 trillion."
On March 9, Biden proposed a $13.6 billion emergency aid package. This package was approved with overwhelming support.
“I was proud to support $13 billion in Ukraine aid earlier this year along with several Congressional measures to sanction Russia," Johnson said. "This $40 billion spending package was released mere hours before the vote and voted upon before members could fully review it."
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Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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A major barrier to threatened fish is scheduled to be removed in rural Washington County. The Balm Grove Dam was built approximately a century ago, primarily to secure water recreation for local residents along Gales Creek.
Salmon, steelhead, and Pacific lamprey populations are struggling to adapt to the Earth's warming climate. Low flow and warming waters drive the fish farther upstream during warm Oregon summers.
“It’s considered the number one fish passage barrier in the Tualatin Basin,” said Scott McEwen, the executive director of the Tualatin River Watershed Council.
Removing the dam has been a top priority for the Watershed Council and Clean Water Services of Washington County.
"Our goal is to work with partners and leverage the work we can all do. When we come together as a community, we can do so much more," said Laura Porter, the integrative planning program manager at Clean Water Services.
The $750,000 project is a collaborative effort with groups including Oregon Metro, the Oregon Watershed Council and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
"So our goal as a water utility is water quality and watershed health," said Porter.
The dam removal will happen this summer, along with some habitat restoration along the creek. By removing the dam, it's projected that an additional 30 miles of cooler, upstream habitat will open up for Pacific lamprey, steelhead, and Coho, and up to 87 miles for cutthroat trout.
"As our climate changes, water temperatures warm, opening up cold water, headwater streams for spawning, and rearing for juvenile fish. It's very important to make sure that they can recover and that we can continue to have them persist as a species," said McEwen.
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Rival bail reform measures were before an Ohio House committee on Wednesday, but only one has so far been sent on for a vote by the full House.
Both have companion measures in the Ohio Senate which saw recent hearings, but neither appears close to a Senate committee vote.
According to the ACLU of Ohio, about 12,000 people on any given day are behind bars in Ohio without having been sentenced. That’s about 60% of the people in jail and the ACLU says those people are held primarily because they can’t afford bail. Reform advocates denounce the current bail system as discriminating against people on the basis of wealth, since a wealthy person charged with the same offense as a poor person could get out of jail while the poor person could not.
State Reps. David Leland, D-Columbus, and Brett Hillyer, R-Uhrichsville, introduced House Bill 315 in May 2021, and it had its second hearing Wednesday in the House Criminal Justice Committee.
Leland said the bill seeks to end the disparity in treating people caused by the cash bail process. Basing bail on someone’s ability to pay is a “critical part” of reform, he said.
Leland moved to substantially amend his bill based on comments from many interested parties. The changes expand the time allowed for pretrial and release decisions, and alter the formula for calculating bail, he said.
“The maximum is still 25% of somebody’s monthly income, but there is also a $200 floor,” Leland said. The calculation would also allow deduction of some costs, such as education and work expenses, from the person’s income before the 25% maximum is determined, he said.
The most important provision is a “massive expansion” of the rules for pretrial detention, Leland said. Wednesday’s amendment adds more than 50 crimes to the list of those for which a judge would need to determine the risk that releasing a prisoner would pose to others, he said.
“As opposed to the illusion of safety that a bond provides … this expansion of pretrial detention is going to ensure the court has the ability and the extra tools to make sure the people who should be behind bars remain behind bars,” Leland said.
A year ago state Sens. Rob McColley, R-Napoleon, and Steve Huffman, R-Tipp City, introduced Senate Bill 182 as a companion to Leland’s HB 315. The Senate version had a third hearing April 5 in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Leland said McColley and Huffman are “on board” with the changes made Wednesday to HB 315.
Added late to Wednesday’s agenda were two measures sponsored by state Reps. Jeff LaRe, R-Violet Twp., and D.J. Swearingen, R-Huron: House Joint Resolution 2 and House Bill 607. Both were introduced in March, hurried through four committee hearings, and passed the House Criminal Justice Committee on Wednesday.
The resolution seeks to place an initiative on the November 8 ballot that would write new requirements for setting bail into the Ohio Constitution.
The state constitution currently says anyone can be bailed by “sufficient sureties,” unless they’re charged with a capital offense or felony when “proof is evident or the presumption great,” and if their release poses a risk to the community. The proposed amendment would remove that language, instead saying only that in setting bail courts must consider public safety, the person’s criminal record, the likelihood they would flee, and seriousness of their offense.
Swearingen amended the resolution Wednesday to add “any factor that the General Assembly may describe” to those conditions. The resolution passed with no further discussion.
State Sen. Theresa Gavarone, R-Huron, has introduced a companion to HJR 2. Senate Joint Resolution 5 had its first hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1.
House Bill 607, which also passed the House committee Wednesday without further discussion, echoes the language of the proposed constitutional amendment.
“In all cases, bail must be fixed with consideration of the seriousness of the offense charged, the previous criminal record of the defendant, and the probability of the defendant appearing at the trial of the case,” says an analysis from the state Legislative Research Commission. “The bill expands these factors to require that bail must be fixed with consideration of all relevant information, including the risk to public safety.”
The ACLU of Ohio endorses HB 315 and urges rejection of HJR 2 and HB 607, describing them respectively as “positive and negative proposals” for bail reform.
The group says HB 315 and its companion SB 182 have broad bipartisan support.
These companion bills rightly focus on key provisions to ensure people don’t languish in jail simply because they can’t afford their cash bail while centering and prioritizing public safety,” an ACLU news release says.
By contrast, HJR 2 and SJR 5 – and by extension HB 607 – would make things worse, the group says.
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February marked the 10-year anniversary that Brad Stewart packed up his stuff and moved from Los Angeles back to Lincoln to take care of his ailing father, who had been stricken with Lou Gehrig's disease.
At that point, Stewart's career in comedy was just starting to take off. He was opening for Joan Rivers and making a name for himself.
But family always takes precedence. You're gifted only one father so his choice was simple. They had three months together before he died.
And that left Stewart to look after his mother and figure out how to somehow find a way to make people laugh — one of his fortes, truth be known — from Middle America.
"There just wasn’t a lot going on in comedy in Lincoln," he said, pointing to an open-mic night at Duffy's and "maybe a few other things, but that’s about it."
And then he approached Zoo Bar owner Pete Watters and made a pitch for a comedy show on Sunday, one of the few nights when the downtown club doesn't host live music.
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In May 2014, Zoolarious took to the stage for the first time and — with the exception of those two godforsaken years that we no longer need to revisit — has become a Sunday-night staple in Lincoln. After about 300 shows, it's fair to say it's here to stay.
The weekly show, which doesn't begin until Stewart high-fives everyone in the room — a homage to comic Ed Salazar, who raised the curtain on the first Zoolarious show by doing just that — will celebrate its eighth anniversary on Sunday at 8 p.m.
Kansas City comedian Brittany Tilander will headline the eighth-anniversary show.
"She has a star quality," said Stewart, who brought her to Lincoln in February and watched her crush it. "I like her point of view as a young progressive woman. She’s forward-thinking and she is hilarious.
"Her voice is needed in our industry."
Stewart has developed a keen sense for identifying talented comics and then finding a way to get them here. And that throw-away Sunday has proven to be a blessing in Middle America because a lot of comedians will stop off for a night on their home to one of the coasts after playing weekend shows.
"It wasn't intended, but it turned out to be good for everyone," he said. "It is the perfect setup because they could stop here for one more show on the way home."
He has brought in a lot of up-and-comers, and every now and then, he brings in someone who has already arrived. That was the case earlier this month when Adam Cayton-Holland stopped off at the Zoo Bar on his way back to Denver.
Those are the shows Stewart remembers from the last eight years. There were also the sold-out shows by Kyle Kinane and that time Alonzo Bodden came from Los Angeles and wouldn't believe there is a town near Lincoln called Wahoo.
"We've had some great shows here," said Stewart, who keeps a wish list of comedians he wants to bring to the Zoo Bar. He's able to get many of them. For the rest -- like Margaret Cho, for example -- he keeps trying.
"I don’t know if I can get her here," he said. "If they are going to need $10,000 to come here, then no. But if she wants to work with us, we can sell out the place immediately."
There was a time when Stewart worried about the number of people who will go to a Sunday-night comedy show. And then he remembered that it's Lincoln, where most — but not all — people are gearing up for the workweek.
That said, any crowd, be it 20, 30 or 40 people is more than most clubs are getting on a Sunday night.
"I used to get frustrated about it and then I had to change my way of thinking," he said. "The people who are there have a good time."
And that's important. America is in a weird place right now. A little laughter might be the best remedy for what divides us.
Sunday night will be special, Stewart said. He's going to buy a cake to commemorate eight years of Zoolarious. He might have some balloons, too -- maybe some glow sticks and silly party favors that let people know it's not an ordinary night.
"We're definitely celebrating," he said. "Eight years validates why I do this. I have always believed in this. If you believe in what you’re doing, it will eventually catch on with others. Right before the pandemic, I felt like we were starting to catch on. And then we had to stop for a couple of years.
"It’s starting to catch on again."
That's definitely worth at least a high-five, isn't it?
10 things to know about Larry the Cable Guy
How Larry came to be
Dan Whitney toured for years under his own name and spent 13 years calling morning shows of 30-some radio stations -- including Todd and Tyler at Z-92 in Omaha -- five days a week.
"I knew I had to create my own breaks," Whitney said. "I couldn't sit back and let something happen. If I had an opportunity to do it, I did it. Sometimes, it paid absolutely nothing. But you never knew who would be in the crowd or what was going to happen."
He discovered the voice of Larry the Cable Guy while hanging with Jeff Foxworthy and other comedians at Atlanta Braves spring training baseball games. He has always been able to do a Southern accent, and "we were trying to crack each other up."
He began using the voice at a show in West Palm Beach in 1991 (or 1989 - accounts differ) because Whitney was "bombing, and it got a laugh," he told the Journal Star's Jeff Korbelik.
A radio friend in Tampa, Florida, heard him and asked Larry to call his show and use the voice. Larry pretended he was going to install cable TV. It took off from there, he told Korbelik.
In 1998, the up-and-coming comic performed at the now-closed Royal Grove in Lincoln.
“It’s like a cult following,” Whitney said in 1998 of his then-growing popularity. “I’m just as shocked as anybody else.”
Owner of a bull, other interests
Larry the Cable Guy has an extensive merchandise line as well as CDs and movies. He also has done commercials for Prilosec heartburn medicine.
Larry and four-time Professional Bull Riders Stock Contractor of the Year Jeff Robinson also own a bull named Chicken on a Chain. The bull is being honored in 2015 as the brand of honor at the PBR Heroes & Legends Celebration in October. Chicken on a Chain competed in the PBR from 2005-2012 and was 2007 champion.
Larry also was part-owner of a now-defunct sports bar in Omaha, the Scarlet & Cream Letter Club, with former Huskers. Last year, he partnered with 50 Cent and others to buy Hang w/, a social video app.
The man behind Larry
Dan Whitney was born Feb. 17, 1963, and grew up in Pawnee City. He is 52. He and his wife, Cara, got married in 2005 and live just east of Lincoln on a $2 million acreage. They have a son, Wyatt, and daughter, Reagan.
Whitney's family moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1979 when he was a sophomore in high school. Whitney attended Baptist University of America in Georgia but didn't graduate before going full-time with his comedy career.
In Nebraska, his father was a minister in nearby Humboldt and Verdon and a guidance counselor at Wymore High School. The senior Whitney had been a guitarist for the Everly Brothers.
"My dad was a hard worker," Whitney said of the late Tom Sr. "He had a ton of jobs and never took a break. I guess I learned from him. Everybody (in Pawnee City) is like that. You just don't sit back and wait. You go out and make it happen."
Whitney was the youngest of three children. He played trumpet in the school band, and his family raised pigs.
After Whitney moved to Florida, he returned the next three summers.
"My friends in my graduating class, we literally were like a family," he said. "We had been together since kindergarten.
"When I moved to Florida, I never forgot my Nebraska roots."
And when he had kids, he moved back permanently to give them the chance to grow up the way he did.
Git-R-Done Foundation
Larry started the Git-R-Done Foundation to benefit children and veterans. The foundation has a yearly golf event, this year benefiting the Bryan Health Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Rooftop Healing Garden. It also has donated to Morning Star Riding Center and Creighton University (for prosthetics) within the past year.
Larry has donated more than $7 million to various charities, including $1.2 million to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital for a pediatric rehabilitation hospital and more than $1 million for the Lincoln Child Advocacy Center.
“I had the chance to see Madonna’s work in helping kids overcome all types of injuries and illnesses, and after I met Alexis (Verzal) and saw the big courage in her little body, I knew we had to dedicate the hospital in her honor,” he said.
Last year, Larry performed at a benefit for the Team Jack Foundation. When he turned 50, he used the occasion of getting a colonoscopy at Saint Elizabeth to make an online video to urge others to get checked.
“I don’t want to die. I’ve got kids,” he said. “Everybody’s got somebody who loves them, so you need to get this done.”
Larry also has made a series of Zoofari videos with the Lincoln Children's Zoo that have been sent free to hospitals and rehabilitation centers around the country so that children who can't get to the zoo can see what happens there.
Famous facts
Larry is the voice of Mater in "Cars" and "Cars 2." The comedian has sold out arenas across the country.
He has won multiple Billboard Music Awards and was nominated for a Grammy Award. He worked with Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall on the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and the Them Idiots Whirled Tour, with a recording of the show debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Comedy Charts. Larry, Jeff and Bill also starred in CMT's animated "Bounty Hunters."
Larry had his own show in 2011, 2012 and 2013 on History Channel, "Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy," which featured an episode of him going to Washington and meeting with Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.
In March of this year, SiriusXM announced that Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy will lead their own 24/7 comedy channel called "Jeff and Larry's Comedy Roundup."
Larry has starred in "Tooth Fairy 2," "Witless Protection," "Delta Farce," and his first feature "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector."
On July 4, 2009, at Memorial Stadium, Larry performed in front of more than 50,000 fans and taped his Tailgate Party for Comedy Central. The show was a thank you to his fans and Nebraska for their longtime support. Tickets were sold for only $4 and the show sold out in one weekend. The comedy CD of the same name debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Comedy Charts.
Famous Husker fan
Larry made picks for football games in the Journal Star in the 2006 season. His list included some gems: "I went spearfishin’ with a buddy of mine for the first time last week and got five 4-pound koi fish! Boy, the Henry Doorly Zoo really has no sense of humor!"
Larry is often spotted at Husker football games.
“I remember the old dudes at the sale barn when I was about 12 years old bitching about how (Tom) Osborne couldn’t beat Oklahoma. They kept saying this thing ain’t going to work. Then boom.
“I guess that’s why they were pig farmers and not coaches.”
Another time, he said: “I still remember how excited we got whenever Nebraska would score a touchdown, even before kindergarten. We never got to attend any games because we didn’t have enough money to buy a ticket, but we were like every other person who lived in this great state. The Cornhuskers were our team, and we lived and died with every play."
Whitney's Florida home sported an outdoor basketball court painted in Husker colors, and the pickup he drove in Florida was covered in Husker paraphernalia.
“If you fly over Sanford, you can look out (the plane window) and see a red ‘N’ and a Husker logo in the middle of the woods," he said in 2006.
"Once a Husker, always a Husker."
Larry's list of the seven wonders
The Journal Star in 2007 asked comedian, native Nebraskan and current resident Larry the Cable Guy (aka Dan Whitney) what he considers the top Seven Wonders in the state.
No problem. He “Got-R-Done.”
1. Runza Restaurants: Paris has the Louvre, we have Runzas. Who needs France?
2. The Waco grain elevators: I haven’t seen such architecture wonders since the Louisville grain elevators.
3. The apple pie at the Beatrice Sale Barn Cafe: It’s so good they actually coax cattle into trucks using a fresh piece of apple pie.
4. That Big Empty Glass Church on I-80 Between Lincoln and Omaha: I don’t know what it is or how to get to it, but I have to include it as a wonder because for the last two years my wife and I wonder what the hell that is when we drive by.
5. The Nebraska farmer: They feed the world and keep everyone alive. Enough said.
6. Nebraska Cornhuskers in any sport.
7. The cartoon Marmaduke in the Lincoln Journal Star: Marmaduke hasn’t been funny since 1973 and I “wonder” why it is still in the comics.
What others say about Larry
— "We always tease Dan because he hasn't changed much, and I don't mean that in a bad way," said Pawnee City's Mike Habegger, a longtime friend of Dan Whitney. "He always was a smart aleck. Now, he gets paid for it."
— "In all seriousness, working with Dan was a terrific experience," Rep. Jeff Fortenberry said after filming for an "Only in America" episode. "It was a pleasure having him visit the office. He's a very generous person who's done a great deal for those in need in our community."
— "Larry the Cable Guy has everything: sleeveless shirts, stupid catchphrases. He's Mr. T without the acting chops." -- Lisa Lampanelli, during a roast of Larry
— “He busted everybody,” former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer said of a roast at the Champions Club, “and, obviously, he hated me. He’s funny as hell. It was a great event.”
— “Don’t you kind of feel like the Beverly Hillbillies moved in?” asked Colleen Quinn, manager of Omaha’s Funny Bone Comedy Club, during a roast, about Larry's purchase of a Memorial Stadium skybox.
— "Some people say Larry's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right." -- Greg Giraldo, during a roast
Faith and family
Dan Whitney says his family and his faith are two key drivers for him.
"When you have kids, it completely changes your life, in a good way. Your priorities change. It’s not about you anymore. Everything you do is for those kids. You can’t explain it to people who don’t have kids. It’s just funny how everything changes when you have people depending on you. It literally changes every aspect of your life. It’s so awesome being a dad. I love every part of it."
During an interview with Randy York's N-sider, Whitney credited his upbringing with his faith.
“I respect the Midwest, and I respect the faith that people have in the Midwest. I have two cardinal rules in my stand-up act. I will not take the Lord’s name in vain, and I will not use four-letter words."
Later, he said: “Bottom line, faith is very important to me. How I was raised and the atmosphere I was raised in is very personal. I hope people understand that entertainment is entertainment. It’s what I do to make people laugh and feel better. My concerts are designed to help people get through the day. They are not religious crusades, and they have nothing to do with my own spiritual walk. An act is exactly what it implies -- an act. I don’t dig into it any deeper than that.”
In the words of Larry
Larry (Dan Whitney) on himself and Nebraska:
— “I’m having the time of my life. It’s really amazing. It’s all because of my fans. I can’t say enough about them. They mean that much to me.”
— “Larry says what he feels, and he doesn’t care if you like it or not. He tries to make people laugh. He loves everybody. He’s not mean. He just calls them a certain way.”
"Look, I'm not trying to change the world. I'm just doing comedy that makes people laugh. Goofy stuff. My act is nonsense. Everyday things. Other comedians would call it lowbrow. Who cares? That's what we laugh at. It's a guilty pleasure. I understand it's stupid. But I'm not running for president."
— "Oh man, the greatest days of my life was when I was a kid. I had a great childhood here and was friends with everybody."
— “You know what, I’m very thankful. I’m fortunate I have great fans who like what I do. I’m one of them. I grew up the same way they did.”
— "I loved Pawnee City, and I loved every person I got to meet, even though most of them were much older. They took me in and shared their life stories, with a bit of adult humor thrown in for good measure. So I learned at an early age what I could say and get away with and what I couldn’t say and not get away with. That sale barn may have been the most important experience I had for my entire approach to comedy."
— “I couldn’t be prouder of my state. When I grew up there, it was the greatest time in my life. I’ll always try to mention my home state.”
— “It’s like Dick Cavett says in all those commercials, ‘There is no place like Nebraska.’”
Larry's famous lines:
— "Git-R-Done"
— At July 4, 2009, Memorial Stadium show: "If you need to go to Wal-Mart, this would be the perfect time to go," he said, alluding to his fans' penchant for shopping at the department store. "They've been looking forward to this because it gives them a chance to restock the shelves."
— "Yeah, I love critters. I got a horse with a broke leg, so I had to shoot it." Beat. "Now it's got a broke leg and a gunshot wound." Beat. "What the h*** you shot 'em for?" Beat. "They say it helps the healing process." Beat. "If it ain't better next week I'm going to shoot it again."
— "I was seeing this good-looking girl in Miami for about three weeks. Then somebody stole my binoculars out of the truck."
— "I don't care who ya are, that's funny right there."
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Major crimes detectives are investigating and the medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of death, police said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — California is entering the next budget year with a record-smashing budget surplus of nearly $100 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday.
Newsom unveiled a revised budget plan of just over $300 billion for the next fiscal year, the highest in state history and fueled by surging tax revenues. The state has collected $55 billion more in taxes than officials expected in January, leaving it with an estimated $97.5 billion surplus.
That means Newsom, a Democrat, has tens of billions of dollars more to spend on new and existing initiatives as he seeks re-election in the fall. He plans additional spending to tackle the ongoing drought, to help more women get abortions in California and to offset rising costs of food, gas and other goods due to inflation.
He'll have to reach agreement with the Democratic-led legislature on all of his proposals. They have until the end of June to finalize the budget, which takes effect July 1.
Newsom said one of his top budget priorities is providing Californians relief from inflation.
“People are feeling deep stress, deep anxiety,” he said.
He’s proposed giving $400 checks to registered car owners in the state, with up to two checks per person. That would cost the state about $11.5 billion, he said. Though the money would only go to car owners, Newsom said it should be considered “inflation refund and relief."
“For you, it could be a rebate to address the issue of groceries, it could be a rebate to address the other cost burdens that are placed on you," he said.
Democratic lawmakers, though, have a different idea on how to provide relief. They want to give $200 checks only to those below a certain income level.
Republicans, meanwhile, say rather than a check Newsom should suspend the state's highest-in-the nation gas tax for one year. They've also asked him to increase a tax credit for renters and offer new tax credits to students.
“Senate Republicans believe there is a better way to invest in the state,” said Sen. Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh of Yucaipa.
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As California makes progress toward meeting its ambitious climate goals, one concern has gone unanswered: How can it stop burning fossil fuels while ensuring the power grid remains reliable?
That question is at the center of a debate over the state’s use of nuclear power.
Nuclear power does not rely on fossil fuels, so it doesn’t produce large volumes of planet-warming pollutants as other energy sources do. While it’s seen as a climate-friendly alternative, opponents cite safety threats and problems storing radioactive waste.
Now, nearly six years after the decision to close California’s last nuclear power plant — the 2,240-megawatt Diablo Canyon facility — Gov. Gavin Newsom says he is considering applying for federal funding that would keep it open past its scheduled 2025 closure. It’s a move, he said, that could avoid rolling blackouts and power shortages as the state transitions to renewables and braces for more extreme heat, wildfires, drought and floods.
Newsom has until May 19 to apply for the funding and would need the facility’s owner, Pacific Gas & Electric, to get on board, too. Some experts say if Diablo Canyon is shut down, there’s a good chance state officials will be scrambling to replace the lost megawatts.
So what should Californians know about the state’s reliance on nuclear power? Here are five key takeaways:
Diablo Canyon supplies enough power for 3 million people
Perched on California’s gusty Central Coast, Diablo Canyon has been supplying power to the state’s electric grid since 1985. But the plant near San Luis Obispo has been battered by controversy the entire time.
Just a few years into construction, PG&E found the site was near several seismic fault lines. That spurred lawsuits and massive, statewide protests, culminating in the largest arrest in the history of the country’s anti-nuclear movement. Despite the opposition, the plant was completed.
Today, the facility employs about 1,500 workers. Its 2,240 megawatts of electricity generation is roughly enough to support the needs of more than 3 million people, according to PG&E.
Nuclear power accounted for 9.3% of California’s electricity in 2020; natural gas was by far the primary source at about 37%, according to the California Energy Commission.
California gets nuclear power from out of state, too
Most of California’s nuclear energy is generated by Diablo Canyon, but it also imports nuclear-powered electricity from Arizona and Washington state, according to the California Energy Commission.
Twenty-eight states have at least one commercial nuclear reactor. But some also are facing possible closure in the decades to come.
Arizona’s Palo Verde Generating Station is the country’s largest power plant, with three nuclear reactors built in the late 1980s. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission in 2011 granted the plant a license to continue operating until 2047.
Twelve commercial reactors have closed in the past decade, including in New York, Massachusetts, Nebraska and Iowa. Yet Oregon-based NuScale Power recently gained approval to build test reactors in Idaho in 2029 and 2030.
California imports more electricity than any other state — about 30% of its supply in 2020, including some from coal-fired plants that are larges sources of greenhouse gases, according to the California Energy Commission.
Hurdles remain to keeping the plant open
In 2016 PG&E announced plans to permanently shutter Diablo Canyon, noting that the transition to renewable energy would make continued operations too costly. The California Public Utilities Commission approved the closure in 2018, after the utility reached a settlement agreement with advocacy groups and environmentalists. One reactor is slated to close in 2024, followed by the second in 2025.
Faced with a potential power crunch as climate change ravages the state, Newsom said PG&E should consider applying for $6 billion in federal funds that the Biden administration set aside to rescue nuclear plants from closing.
But the prospect of keeping it open could face numerous technical, financial and logistical hurdles.
PG&E and the Nuclear Regulatory Commision, which issues the licenses to keep the plant operating, would have to expedite the renewal process in time for the quickly-approaching shutdown.
PG&E did not respond to multiple requests for comment. In a statement to CalMatters, the CPUC said “all options are on the table.”
“Electricity reliability for California is a main priority,” said spokesperson Terrie Prosper. “Extending the operation of Diablo Canyon will require examination by the CPUC.”
PG&E also would have to address aging infrastructure problems and make investments to comply with the state’s water-cooling regulations, according to Matthew Freedman, a staff attorney with The Utility Reform Network, a consumer advocacy organization.
Delaying the closure could potentially be more expensive for ratepayers. A better alternative would be to improve the state’s energy storage capacity for renewable energy, he said.
“Since the continued operation of Diablo Canyon could prove to be very expensive, any proposal to keep the plant alive must be accompanied by binding cost containment and protections for ratepayers,” Freedman said. “PG&E’s rates have already been skyrocketing and we want to do everything we can to bring it down. So we’re definitely against any proposal that would give PG&E a blank check.”
Nuclear power comes at an environmental cost
Nuclear energy is generated from splitting uranium atoms in a reactor. This process, called fission, produces steam that is then used by turbines to create electricity. The result is a reliable, 24/7 energy supply. But operating the plant still has consequences for communities and the environment.
Nuclear plants require water as a cooling mechanism to prevent them from overheating. That water is often released back into the ocean at a much higher temperature that could damage marine habitats.
And while power plants don’t produce greenhouse gases, they do produce a toxic byproduct: spent nuclear fuel, which must be disposed of safely.
Opponents of nuclear energy argue that people of color, including Black, Latino and Native American communities, are especially vulnerable to harm from mining uranium as well as the disposal and storage of radioactive waste. Companies that operate these plants have long used ancestral native lands and other areas near disadvantaged communities to source materials and store spent fuel, said Shaun Burnie, a senior nuclear specialist with Greenpeace.
Critics of Diablo Canyon also say the facility’s infrastructure is outdated and flawed. Burnie said the threat of earthquakes is a top concern. The 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima was caused by an earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
Instead, he said the state should abandon the idea of keeping the plant open, focusing solely on renewable energy projects and decentralizing the power grid.
“It’s a complete distraction, it’s infuriating,” Burnie said. “This is about saving an embattled nuclear industry — it’s not about saving the climate.”
Still, the state’s plan to reduce its reliance on nuclear energy has not been an easy transition. Renewable energy projects have faced delays due to the pandemic and worsening drought could drive declines in hydropower energy production. Heat waves have triggered rolling blackouts and brownouts as demand for electricity soars.
“Our view is that zero-carbon resources are the replacement for Diablo Canyon and we don’t think more fossil fuel generation is needed,” Freedman said. “That being said, we understand that there are challenges with reliability that policymakers are trying to address.”
Proponents laud nuclear power as zero-carbon, lower-cost
Diablo Canyon has played a crucial role in providing carbon-free energy and maintaining the reliability of California’s power grid, said Jacopo Buongiorno, a professor at MIT’s department of nuclear science and engineering. Without it, Buongiorno said, it will be difficult to meet demand as intensifying weather patterns increasingly strain the grid. He said the state needs to rely on all kinds of renewable and carbon-free sources, including nuclear energy, to achieve carbon-neutrality by 2045.
“Given the magnitude of the challenge that we’re facing in terms of decarbonizing and mitigating climate change, I would argue that we should use more nuclear energy, we should use more solar and more wind,” he said. “Everything that does not emit carbon dioxide should be on the table.”
Buongiorno acknowledged safety and nuclear waste concerns, but described the risks as minimal compared to the detrimental effects that fossil fuel emissions have on the environment and heavily-polluted communities. He said the storage of nuclear fuel is also highly regulated and handled in a “safe, effective manner” with the use of dry cast storage.
If Diablo Canyon were to close, maintaining a carbon-neutral grid by 2045 would require more energy storage — at least 18 gigawatts of solar power, according to a joint 2021 Stanford and MIT study co-led by Buongiorno. To build those solar facilities, the state would need about 90,000 acres of land compared to the 900-acre Diablo Canyon site. Finding that available space could be a challenge due to an executive order requiring the state to preserve 30% of its natural and coastal lands by 2030.
The study found that keeping Diablo Canyon open could save an estimated $2.6 billion in power system costs from 2025 to 2035. The price of natural gas has risen recently, so existing nuclear power plants tend to be more competitive, Buongiorno said.
The cost of electricity from solar and battery storage is higher than the cost of Diablo Canyon alone, “so there are savings simply from operating a cheaper asset,” he said.
Excluding the price of nuclear fuel, PG&E spent $1.2 billion in 2021 to operate Diablo Canyon.
Steven Chu, a Stanford University physics professor and the energy secretary during the Obama administration, said the state should be making every effort to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels. Closing Diablo Canyon would only slow that transition, he said.
“Nuclear power may be certainly the lesser of two evils compared to keeping oil and natural gas plants,” he said. “You can’t wave a magic wand and say we go 100% wind and solar because they are intermittent. It’s easy to go from zero to 50%. It’s much harder to go from 50 to 75% and nearly impossible to get to 100%.”
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The California Coastal Commission tonight rejected the proposed construction of a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, sealing the controversial project’s fate after more than 20 years of debate.
The unanimous decision about the $1.4-billion plant in Huntington Beach is pivotal because it sets a high bar for the future of turning seawater into drinking water in California, which can help buffer its vulnerable water supply against drought.
The Coastal Commission staff had advised the commission to deny approval — citing, among other factors, the high cost of the water and lack of local demand for it, the risks to marine life and the possibility of flooding in the area as sea levels rise.
Executive Director Jack Ainsworth said their recommendation was not a referendum on the future of desalination in California, pointing to more optimistic prospects for another project, the proposed Doheny Desalination Facility in south Orange County’s Dana Point.
“Denial of this project does not mean that we’re setting the stage for the denial of all desal facilities or other critical infrastructures across the state,” he said. “Every project has a different set of circumstances, facts and context.”
Poseidon Water, the developer of the proposed plant, pushed back against criticism at the meeting and expressed disappointment in the decision.
“We firmly believe that this desalination project would have created a sustainable, drought-tolerant source of water for Orange County, just as it has for San Diego County,” Poseidon director of communications Jessica Jones said in an emailed statement.
Jones thanked California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who had voiced his support of the project, telling the the Bay Area News Group Editorial Board that it would be “a big mistake, a big setback” to kill it.
The plant would have sucked in nearly 107 million gallons of seawater and spit out 50 million gallons of drinkable water a day, enough to supply nearly 460,000 people in Orange County, which is home to about 3.2 million people.
Commissioners met today in a packed Costa Mesa conference room, just miles from the site, which is home to a power plant, where the project would be built. Some attendees held hand-painted signs proclaiming “Say No to Poseidon.” The sign of another attendee, wearing an inflatable green hat, declared “I am a plankton, please do not kill me!”
The public and elected officials who spoke at the hearing were divided in their support and opposition of the desalination plant. A loud cheer went up after the vote, which came almost ten hours after the meeting began.
More than 200 people had lined up to comment on the project, and public comments lasted about six hours. “It’s going to be a long day,” Commission Chair Donne Brownsey warned at the beginning of the hearing. “So everybody, just hope you brought snacks.”
Brownsey opened the meeting with a rebuke of Poseidon: The company had released a document on Coastal Commission letterhead resembling the commission’s own staff report. But instead of staff’s recommendation to deny the project, Poseidon’s version recommended approval.
“This was not a good decision by the applicant to put it on Coastal Commission letterhead, because it did cause some confusion among members of the public and the press,” Brownsey said. “We have not seen this before. We hope this is the last time we see it.”
DJ Moore of the law firm Latham & Watkins, speaking on behalf of Poseidon, later apologized “if the alternative staff report we submitted caused any confusion … Our intent was only to show the commission the findings that could support a project approval.”
Brownsey shushed the audience’s laughter, and issued a reminder about decorum — one of many such admonitions to a restive audience.
The Huntington Beach facility wouldn’t have been the first desalination plant constructed in California. Poseidon also developed one in Carlsbad that supplies water to San Diego County. Santa Barbara also has one. Other inland plants clean up brackish groundwater stores in Orange County.
The approval process for the Huntington Beach plant, though, was particularly drawn out and contentious. “There are still many key details about the project that are not developed, which has made it incredibly difficult to review,” said Kate Huckelbridge, a Coastal Commission deputy director.
The staff report points to San Diego County water costs from the Carlsbad plant that have tripled since Poseidon’s early estimates.
It’s unclear, however, whose water bills might be affected by the Huntington Beach project, because “Poseidon has not yet secured a buyer for the water and does not know where its water would be delivered,” the staff report said.
Though Orange County Water District signed a non-binding term sheet with the company, “any eventual purchase is contingent on Poseidon being able to obtain hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from Metropolitan Water District and that Poseidon provide specific expected costs for its water, among other things. (Orange County Water District) also had not identified an immediate need for much of the water…,” the staff report said.
Multiple Orange County Water District board members voiced their support of the project at the hearing, with board member Cathy Green saying, “We need this water and we need it now.” Board member Kelly Rowe, however, said “it fundamentally does not make sense.”
Coastal Commission staff also sounded the alarm about the millions of gallons of larval fish that would be sucked into the plant, and the millions of other marine creatures killed by the water pumped back into the ocean.
“The project would kill marine life in about 275 million gallons of seawater per day, which is about 100 billion gallons of seawater each year,” said Tom Luster, an environmental scientist with the commission. “If this type and scale of impact were to happen on land, it would be highly visible and alarming.”
Though staff described many of these concerns in 2013, Huckelbridge said “Poseidon has not been willing to offer more than a cursory description” of how it would reduce those ecological impacts. Staff said construction of projects to offset the impacts of the Carlsbad facility, which opened in 2015, still have not begun.
Poseidon’s representatives addressed the staff’s concerns point-by-point, emphasizing the need for desalination in a drought-prone state.
They cited building plans intended to reduce threats to the facility and its pipes, including from earthquakes, tsunamis and rising sea levels. And they contested staff’s criticism of their environmental restoration efforts, saying they propose to restore about 150 acres of degraded wetlands in Long Beach, among other projects.
articular plant — but not desalination itself — had fallen short.
“I wish that I didn’t have to take this vote today. I’m not opposed to desalination. Full stop,” said commissioner Meagan Harmon, a Santa Barbara City Councilmember. She pointed to the desalination plant in Santa Barbara as a critical part of the city’s supply. But she said desalination has to be cost-effective and environmentally sound. “And I don’t think this project and the mitigation package as it’s currently proposed, meets those standards.”
Brownsey, the commission chair, added that California “must have a statewide plan” and ground rules for desalination so the expectations for businesses and governments are clear.
“Time is running out,” she said. “We have major water problems in California, and it’s going to take every tool in the toolbox, including intelligent desalination to address those.”
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After studying at home during the pandemic, University of California Davis junior Michelle Andrews tried to find housing in the city of Davis when in-person classes resumed last fall.
On-campus housing was scarce; UC Davis only guarantees dorms for freshmen. Off-campus houses listed on Zillow received mountains of applications within days, with rooms close to campus going for as much as $1,800 per month.
So she ended up living with family in Woodland, 11 miles away. That distance made her miss out on spontaneous meetups with friends, she said, and made college feel a lot more like a job than it should.
The disappointment inspired Andrews, the legislative director for UC Davis’s student government, to advocate for new legislation that would fast-track university housing developments at UC, California State University and community colleges by getting rid of a secondary review currently required under the California Environmental Quality Act.
“It’s more about getting students housed than anything. Any legislator who wants to get students housed will need to get on board with this bill,” Andrews said.
Student activists supporting Senate Bill 886, authored by San Francisco Democratic Sen. Scott Wiener, want faster action on housing projects, which can get tangled in lawsuits and lengthy review processes. Critics, however, say this bill won’t actually solve the core problem: a lack of funding for housing.
The bill comes as California is facing a massive campus housing shortage, forcing some students into long commutes from home or living in hotels. Five percent of UC students, 10% of CSU students, and 19% of California community college students reported experiencing homelessness in recent surveys.
Universities trying to build more housing have run into pushback from residents and environmentalists concerned about the impact on surrounding communities.
Often, opponents invoke the California Environmental Quality Act, which was signed in 1970 by then-Gov. Ronald Reagan and requires state agencies to analyze the environmental impact of proposed projects and mitigate potential damage.
CEQA lawsuits against UC Davis claim that its Aggie Square development, which would include four academic buildings and at least 200 beds, would bring gentrification throughout Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood. Lawsuits against UC San Diego allege that the Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood, which could add 2,000 new beds, would increase vehicle traffic in the area. UC Santa Cruz’s 3,000-bed Student Housing West project has faced charges that it would decrease the natural beauty of the campus and impact critical species such as the California red-legged frog.
“This has been a longstanding tool, this use of CEQA, to engage in battles to try to restrict campus growth,” said Jennifer Hernandez, an environmental and land-use lawyer of more than 30 years based in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Student government representatives and other student housing activists are increasingly working with organizations such as California YIMBY to push lawmakers and universities to speed up housing developments.
“It’s good that more students are being part of our higher education system, but we have to make sure that we have housing for them,” Sen. Wiener said of the bill, which the Senate Environmental Quality Committee passed unanimously last month.
But advocacy groups opposing the measure call it a blow to vital environmental regulation that fails to address the fundamental causes of the student housing crisis — poor planning by universities and insufficient investment.
“Students need safe, affordable and healthy housing, but (weakening) CEQA is not a magic bullet and will instead further deteriorate protections for our most vulnerable communities,” warns a joint letter from the California Environmental Justice Alliance and the Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability.
If universities don’t have to disclose details of student housing projects, as CEQA currently requires, their reputations will ultimately suffer, said Paul Schoellhamer of the East Meadow Action Committee, a group that opposes the Student Housing West development at UC Santa Cruz and has sued it for allegedly violating CEQA.
“The party harmed here will be the general public,” Schoellhamer said. “Over time, the result of that will be greater public animosity toward the university.”
Under current law, a campus Long Range Development Plan, which contains a multitude of infrastructure projects, has to go through an environmental review. Once the long-term plan is approved, individual housing projects must undergo a second review — the stage where housing projects are more likely to encounter lawsuits.
If SB 886 passes, that second review would be eliminated. Universities would still need to prove their developments meet certain environmental standards, such as not being located in flood hazard areas and high-risk fire zones.
The students behind the legislative push
Senate Bill 886 is co-sponsored by the student governments of UC and the California Community Colleges, California YIMBY, the California Faculty Association and the State Building and Construction Trades Council. The Student Housing Coalition, a new organization that sprung up at UC Santa Cruz in 2021 in the hopes of finding solutions to the campus’s housing crisis, is also a co-sponsor.
The coalition’s president, freshman Zennon Ulyate-Crow, has two years of guaranteed on-campus housing. Theoretically, he has some time before fretting about finding an apartment.
But that’s not how looking for housing in Santa Cruz works. From his first moments on campus, he’s been hearing horror stories from people who don’t have access to on-campus housing.
“I remember my first day of class, one kid was talking about how he wasn’t able to sign a lease on time. And he was a junior, so he couldn’t get housing on campus, and that meant he had to commute over two hours each way just to come to this one discussion session because he was living with his parents in Redwood City,” Ulyate-Crow recalled.
Ulyate-Crow and other student housing advocates say the current environmental review process is duplicative. And while some lawsuits are unsuccessful and projects can move forward, they say, delays still reduce the amount of available student housing.
“Delays on those sorts of projects would mean that there’s a longer interim period where we’re not getting our new and improved and increased number of beds,” said UC San Diego sophomore Ian Fosth.
Ire over CEQA among housing advocates came to a boiling point after UC Berkeley announced earlier this year that it would potentially be forced to reduce the number of students it enrolls by 2,600 due to a lawsuit. Local neighborhood group Save Berkeley’s Neighborhoods argued that the university did not address how additional enrollment would take a toll on the city’s services, noise and housing scarcity.
A judge sided with the neighborhood group and ordered Berkeley to cap its enrollment for the coming year. But the Legislature quickly moved to pass a bill barring the use of enrollment as a basis for lawsuits under CEQA. As a result, UC Berkeley went ahead in offering its intended number of admission letters.
The outrage from the UC Berkeley lawsuit is causing a shift in the California political landscape and getting people to understand the ways CEQA can be problematic, said Brandon Yung, a UC Berkeley senior and chair of the ASUC Housing Commission.
That opens up the space to achieve “forward-thinking, incremental benefits to student housing production,” Yung said.
A groundbreaking ability to expedite housing? It’s complicated
But it’s unclear how helpful SB 886 will be in expediting student housing projects currently underway, since the exemption can only be applied at the start of the planning process.
Richard Flacks, chairperson for Sustainable University Now in Santa Barbara, said he’s not sure what problem the bill is trying to solve and is wary about the motivations behind it.
“Is the purpose of the bill really to improve UC performance on housing?” he said. “Or is it to water down CEQA on a more general level?”
Flacks added that his group was initially concerned that the bill would provide a loophole to expedite Munger Hall, the controversial 11-story mega-dorm where 94% of residents would not have windows. But he said the argument against that project is that it doesn’t conform with the university’s original long-range plan — so he says it wouldn’t qualify.
At UC Santa Cruz, the proposed Student Housing West was initially scheduled to open in 2020 but is bogged down in lawsuits and has yet to break ground. The project may not qualify for an exemption since some of the legal challenges stem from the university’s long-range plan, said Santa Cruz County Supervisor Ryan Coonerty, whose district includes the campus.
Coonerty also said that SB 886 is missing actual solutions to the student housing crisis, such as allocating more state money and requiring universities to build housing before growing enrollment.
“If they’re serious, put the money up and build the housing,” Coonerty said.
Lawmakers have recently moved to provide more funding for student housing. The Senate’s budget proposals for the 2022-23 year include $1.5 billion to expand student housing and Assemblymember Kevin McCarty has proposed a $5 billion revolving loan fund that universities can use for building. Meanwhile, the legislature has already approved up to $2 billion over three years toward affordable student housing.
Wiener said he doesn’t think that CEQA is the main inhibitor to building housing, but one of a plethora of forces that prevent construction. Still, he says SB 886 is one tool that public universities and colleges across the state can use.
The next steps
State senators at the April 27 committee hearing added more restrictions on which student housing projects could qualify for exemptions under the bill: They must have no more than 33% of the square footage used for dining, academic or student support spaces, be within half a mile of a major transit stop or the campus boundary and must conform to their university’s overarching long-term development plan.
The bill is scheduled to be heard by the Senate Appropriations Committee on May 16. It would need to pass both houses of the Legislature and be signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom to become law.
While lawmakers on the environmental committee voted to advance the bill, they also had their reservations. Some pointed out that simply putting the fault on CEQA takes away blame from individual universities. They argue that they aren’t against student housing, but are trying to hold universities accountable for failed promises of building more dorms.
“I don’t want to be here in seven years after this bill expires and have no student housing because the UCs and CSUs haven’t gotten their act together on doing it,” said state Sen. Bob Wieckowski, a Democrat from Fremont. “So please, UC and CSUs, spend some work on your long-term plans.”
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FOLSOM, Calif. — At a recent Folsom City Council meeting, residents left frustrated as the city council voted to approve the permit for a controversial crematorium in their neighborhood.
For nearly two years, residents in the Preserve have voiced their concerns about the crematorium, asking for the denial of the proposed project. Residents gathered thousands of signatures on a petition, sent letters to the city, put up signs in their yards, walked through the historic district to raise awareness and voiced their concerns at both the historic commission meeting and the city council meeting.
Despite their efforts, at Tuesday's city council meeting, Folsom city leaders decided to approve the conditional use permit in a 3-2 vote. City leaders say they do not think the crematorium will have a negative impact on the community.
“We are disappointed and surprised, to say the least,” Steve Walsh, a resident of the Preserve neighborhood, said. “Even the city council’s own historic commission and city staff previously recommended that they deny this project.”
Residents' concerns included but were not limited to, the threat of a massive explosion, the proposed crematorium being next to an open space that could be prone to wildfires and air quality.
“My main concern has always been the same: safety,” Walsh said. “If the propane tanks were to catch fire during a wildfire, it would be devastating.”
Although the city council approved the permit, residents of the Preserve neighborhood say their fight is not over. They plan on meeting this weekend to discuss what their next steps are. Walsh hopes that his neighbors do not lose hope, and instead continue voicing their concerns.
Walsh said his goal is for the city to realize the Preserve neighborhood is not the right space for the crematorium in hopes they decide to choose a different location for it.
“I think the louder our voices are, the better the chance we have at making a change,” Walsh said. “We need the whole community to be involved."
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A fourth-grade student at a Sacramento elementary school shared cannabis candy resembling Skittles with other students.
On Thursday, a student at Michael J. Castori Elementary School brought cannabis edibles to school that resembled Skittles and shared it with their classmates. After learning that it was a cannabis product, school officials at the elementary notified parents and school nurses. Paramedics evaluated all the students who consumed the candy and advised parents to call their health care provider if their child experienced any discomfort.
Twin Rivers Unified School District officials say there have not been any reports of students who consumed the candy being hospitalized.
"School administration at Castori Elementary are reminding students not to bring candy to school and not to share food with others at school even if they think it's safe," Zenobia Gerald, the Director of Communications for the district, said in a press release.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — The Stockton Police Department has arrested one adult and two teens in a February shooting that left an 18-year-old dead.
On Friday, Stockton police announced the arrests of 21-year-old Elias Ripoyla, 19-year-old Ivan Tongco, and a 17-year-old man in connection to the shooting that happened on Feb. 12, 2022.
Earlier this year, Stockton police responded to reports of a shooting at Michael Falkis Park along the 5200 block of Cosumnes Drive. When officers arrived on the scene, they found 18-year-old Isais Lopez inside of a vehicle in a parking lot suffering from a gunshot wound.
Medics on the scene pronounced Lopez dead.
ABC10 spoke with Lopez's family shortly after the shooting. Veronica Lopez, Isaias' sister, said he "he was just the sweetest, kindest" and didn't believe her brother had any enemies.
"He was just like a teddy bear," Veronica said.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — For a Stockton family, Mother's Day has never been the same since a triple shooting four years ago claimed the lives of Joe Lor, 22, his wife Gina Xiong, 22, and their 5-year-old daughter, Kayleen Lor.
"Since this happened on Mother's Day, we never see Mother's Day the same anymore," Chang, Joe Lor's brother, said. "We've been grieving for so long."
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On May 13, 2018, bullets pierced an apartment near Belleview and 11th Streets in Stockton's Sierra Vista neighborhood. Inside the apartment, Joe Lor, his wife Gina Xiong and their 5-year-old daughter, Kayleen were gathered in their family's living room for a Mother's Day celebration.
Joe was pronounced dead at the scene and Gina and Kayleen were taken to an area hospital where they later died, police say. The other two victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries. As the sirens began to sound with first responders rushing down to the scene, word began to spread, including to family members of the victims.
"My mom coming in, you know, all frantic, saying that, you know, there's something that happened at the in-law's house and we have to go because they mentioned that Joe and his wife and kid and their family... something had happened," Chang said.
When Chang and his family arrived at the south Stockton neighborhood, police tape was up, no one had access to the apartment but could tell something tragic had happened.
Days later, a large vigil popped up just feet away from where the family gathering turned into a massacre. Missing from the vigil were answers on what happened on May 13 and why.
"I feel like I've kind of failed my brother because even trying to do my best, I can't," Chang said. "I don't seem to have any leads or information. You know, the detectives and them are giving us this, coming up dead end."
As the grieving family continued to search for answers and justice, they took matters into their own hands and passed out flyers around the neighborhood. They also announced a $30,000 reward, never giving up hope that the killers will be caught.
At Chang's home, his brother's car remains parked in the driveway. It's a reminder for Chang how his brother's dreams will never be fulfilled.
"He deserved so much," Chang said. "I just don't want this to happen to anybody, any other family."
The emotions of sadness, anger and hope all come and often crash into each other. Chang, who has started a nonprofit in his brother's name hoping to spark new leads in the case, hopes no one else will feel his pain.
"You know, we really we want justice," Chang said. "We want to know why. We want to know. We want some closure. And we want to know whether or not, you know, these guys are still out there harming people or not."
Four years later, the crime remains unsolved and while family members are sharing an important message to never lose hope, they say the patience is painful.
"For some families, four years is not that long. But to us, it seems like eternity," Chang said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Stockton Police Department at 209-937-8377 or reach out to Stockton Crime Stoppers where tipsters can remain anonymous and collect the $30,000 reward.
Watch the full Unsolved California story, Friday night on ABC10's Late News Tonight at 11 p.m.
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A 14-year-old student at a school in Boston is accused of throwing boiling hot water on one of his teachers earlier this month.
The teacher had told her student not to use a textbook to assist in microwaving ramen noodles, as the book would be ruined in the microwave, police said. Following a disagreement, the student allegedly proceeded to stand up from his seat and pour his cup of boiling hot ramen noodles on the teacher.
The student had used the hot water side of a bubbler rather than a microwave to initially heat his noodles, the police report states.
The teacher, who arrived at the hospital in "excruciating pain," she said, had swelling and minor burns on her left cheek and redness inside of her left ear when she arrived at the hospital, per the report. The teacher had been advised by the school nurse to seek additional medical attention after being initially treated, she said.
The student, who is being charged as a juvenile, has been charged with aggravated assault.
Five days after the incident, the teacher said she was still experiencing stinging in her neck, face, left ear and left eye.
A Boston Public Schools representative told The Boston Herald that the incident was "unfortunate" and that "actions were taken to ensure the safety of the staff member involved and appropriate interventions have occurred."
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A North Carolina man is accused of selling nearly 50 pounds of crystal meth in Manhattan and Queens, prosecutors announced Friday.
Juvenal Andrade-Mora, 37, was arraigned Thursday night Manhattan criminal court on one count of criminal sale of a controlled substance in the second degree. The arraignment comes one day after Andrade-Mora was arrested on 155th Street in Manhattan following an undercover investigation, authorities announced.
Following his court appearance, Andrade-Mora was released without bail as per law. Attorney information for Andrade-Mora was not immediately known.
According to New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor Bridget Brennan, days before his arrest, Andrade-Mora traveled to the city from North Carolina to allegedly meet with an undercover officer on Monday in Queens. Andrade-Mora allegedly provided the undercover one kilogram of crystal meth wrapped inside a green sweatshirt.
Andrade-Mora and the undercover officer also arranged for a second meeting and the sale of an additional 19 kilos for a wholesale price of $11,000 per kilo, or a combined $220,000, according to Brenna. Allegedly, authorities used electronic devices as surveillance to track Andrade-Mora's return to North Carolina, then travel to Atlanta, before returning Wednesday to New York.
It was on that day, authorities allege, that Andrade-Mora met with the undercover officer on West 155th Street n Manhattan and directed the undercover officer to a black suitcase in front of a building, insinuating the drugs were inside that suitcase.
Prosecutors say the undercover officer retrieved the bag before Andrade-Mora was arrested.
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Inside the suitcase, authorities found two plastic bags, each with a number of plastic bags inside containing a white, crystal-like substance. The packages weighed about 21 kilograms and on-field testing revealed the substance to be crystal methamphetamine. However, lab test results are pending.
According to prosecutors, it is believed the crystal meth seized is from Mexico and has a street value of more than $2 million.
“Methamphetamine, a synthetic drug, is a potentially lethal stimulant, which is driving up overdose deaths across the country, according to federal health officials. The increased volume of methamphetamine coming into our city is astonishing, most of it produced in Mexico. Once here, it is mixed with other dangerous drugs and pressed into counterfeit pills,” Brennan said.
DEA Special Agent in Charge Frank Tarentino III shared similar sentiments, adding that there has been an increase in drug trafficking related to crystal meth.
"Synthetic drugs are the most powerful and dangerous drugs found on the streets today," Tarentino said. "Fentanyl and methamphetamine are man-made synthetic drugs that have been unleashed on the streets causing overdoses and deaths nationwide. This year DEA New York has seized over 100% more methamphetamine than in 2020 which signifies a concerning shift in the New York drug trade toward methamphetamine."
NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the NYPD will continue to work to rid communities of illicit drugs.
"Illegal drugs like the ones seized in this investigation poison our communities and destroy lives," Sewell said. "Our department works day and night to rid our streets of these toxins, and we vow to bring anyone who peddles them to justice."
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In his first visit to the American Museum of Natural History, Morgan Guerin had a list. Not of things he wanted to check out, though — a list of things that he hated.
It started with seeing certain regalia from his Musqueam Indian Band — sacred objects not intended for public display — in the museum's Northwest Coast Hall.
This wasn't just any visit. Guerin was there at the museum's invitation in 2017 for the start of a project to renovate the hall, incorporating Indigenous perspectives. For him and representatives of other Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest and western Canada, the 5-year, $19-million renovation of the Northwest Coast Hall, which reopened to the public Friday, was an opportunity to tell their stories themselves.
“Our people are very, very tired of being ‘studied,' because the misconception of who we are has always been the outside community's downfall," he said. “We have always been here, ready to tell people who we are."
The hall was the museum's first gallery, opened in 1899 under the auspices of Franz Boas, an anthropologist who was deeply interested in the Indigenous cultures of the Northwest and western coastal Canada. Boas was also a proponent of what was then a revolutionary idea that different cultures should be looked at in their own right and not on some kind of comparative scale.
It had largely remained unchanged, though, since the early 1900s. When museum officials decided it was time to renovate, they knew they couldn't do it without input from the people whose cultures are on display.
“A lot of what we did was trying to bring this historic collection to the 21st century, and that’s by telling new stories with active voices in all of these communities and nations," said Lauri Halderman, vice president for exhibition.
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The museum brought together the representatives of the Indigenous communities to talk about what the gallery should contain and what it should look like for the showcase of 10 Pacific Northwest tribal nations.
It wasn't a simple process, made even less so by the impact of the pandemic with its forcing of remote instead of in-person collaborations.
The hall includes some iconic pieces that anyone who has been to the museum will remember - including a massive 63-foot-long canoe that for decades was placed outside the hall but has now been brought in and suspended from the ceiling as well as several giant carvings. But its new exhibit, items are accompanied by text in both English and Indigenous languages and includes a gallery section showing how younger Indigenous artists are using motifs and designs from prior generations.
There was also, and continues to be, the fundamental question of whether museums should be holding these collections and trying to tell these stories in the first place, given the role that theft and colonialization has played in building them, and the way Indigenous communities have been treated.
Museums “seem to function as very expensive, and in the case of the American Museum of Natural History, maybe the most expensive, trophy cases in the world," said Haa’yuups, co-curator of the hall, who is Head of the House of Taḳiishtaḳamlthat-ḥ, of the Huupa‘chesat-ḥ First Nation.
He said, “They seem to have a meta language about them or a meta message, ‘Aren’t we powerful? Don’t we go forth and dominate the world?'"
He saw his involvement as a way to help spur a difference, to get people thinking about whether the items on display would be better served by being with the people they came from.
“Does it make sense to have a bunch of people who have nothing to do with objects, to have them spend their lives managing them?" he said. "Or does it make sense to send those treasures back to the communities where they come from?”
It's an issue the museum has and is continuing to grapple with, said Peter Whiteley, curator of North American ethnology. He said the institution, which has repatriated items over the years, had decided through the renovation process that it was willing to do some additional limited repatriation and develop greater collaboration between the museum and the native tribes.
Deeper questions notwithstanding, those who took part in the process, both from the Indigenous nations and the museum staff, said it was a valuable one in terms of showing what is possible in terms of collaboration and listening to Indigenous voices.
“The best thing about this, the result of these consultants from the different native tribes,” said David Boxley, representing the Tsimshian tribe, “is that it's our voice speaking.”
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Hajela is a member of the AP’s team covering race and ethnicity. She’s on Twitter at http://twitter.com/dhajela.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Fort Worth and Cowtown Coliseum will make Western sports history when the Women’s Rodeo World Championship comes to the Fort Worth Stockyards in May.
The all-women’s rodeo will bring Cowtown action where cowgirls from around the country compete for the largest cash prize in the history of women’s rodeo.
On May 18, the top 40 women in the world will compete and go head-to-head in team roping, breakaway roping, and barrel racing.
A collective $750,000 will be on the line with $182,500 being paid out in each event. Each category's champion will leave the Cowtown Coliseum with at least $60,000.
The All-Around World Champion will earn a $20,000 cash bonus. The Women’s Rodeo World Championship will also award each World Champion a $5,000 bonus per discipline per leaderboard.
The event will be the second of four major rodeos that are a part of the 2022 WCRA Triple Crown of Rodeo.
Should the winner in any event at the Women’s Rodeo World Championship also take the top spot on the podium at the subsequent two World Champions Rodeo Alliance majors, the athlete will be eligible to win an additional $1 million cash bonus.
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In 2021, world titleholder and Texas native Madison Outhier earned her second consecutive Women’s Rodeo World Championship, propelling the 19-year-old to become the fifth richest athlete in the World Champions Rodeo Alliance.
As the only athlete to earn the Women’s Rodeo World Championship Breakaway World Champion title, Outhier has won more than $124,000 in the championship event, edging cowgirls Jackie Crawford and Hope Thompson.
Outhier was also joined in the winner’s circle at the 2022 World Championship by All-Around World Champion Cowgirl Shelby Boisjoli, Team Roping World Champions Lari Dee Guy and Jimmi Jo Montera along with then 17-year-old Barrel Racing World Champion Rainey Skelton.
On May 16, all 40 Women’s Rodeo World Championship athletes will be introduced together on the steps of Cowtown Coliseum.
Women’s Rodeo World Championship Commissioner Linsay Sumpter will be joined by Professional Bull Riders CEO and Commissioner Sean Gleason and World Champions Rodeo Alliance President Bobby Mote.
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DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department have located a critical missing 58-year-old man Friday.
Dallas police said Anson Dale Burdine was last seen Thursday, May 12, in the 12600 block of Jupiter Road around 11 p.m. They asked for the public's help in locating Burdine Friday.
By 2 p.m. Friday, police said that Burdine was located and was safe.
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DALLAS — KERA and the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture are in the final confirmation process of a management agreement for Dallas-based classical music station WRR 101.1 FM — the first licensed broadcast station in Texas and one of the nation’s oldest operating radio stations, according to a KERA press release.
KERA said in the release that it submitted a proposal in an open procurement process and has finalized a contract with the City. That contract proposal will go to the Dallas City Council for approval.
“KERA is honored to be considered to manage WRR and deepen its commitment to classical music,” Nico Leone, president and CEO of KERA said. “Together we can help WRR grow and serve diverse audiences in Dallas and across North Texas, ensuring WRR’s sustainability for generations to come. And given our own commitment to arts and culture, and our strong partnerships both locally and nationally, KERA is well positioned to build on the success that WRR has achieved in its incredible 101-year history.”
If approved by city council, the agreement would ensure WRR remains a locally-programmed classical station, operated by KERA and owned by the City of Dallas.
The agreement also ensures WRR will continue to operate out of its Fair Park studios in South Dallas for the next seven years, KERA officials said.
“WRR is a beloved station in the Dallas and North Texas community,” Sylvia Komatsu, Chief Content and Diversity Officer of KERA said. “We are thrilled at the opportunity to deepen our shared commitment to the arts and classical music in North Texas, and together engage with previously underrepresented communities in the classical space.”
The Dallas City Council is expected to make a vote on KERA’s contract in June.
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PLANO, Texas — A slow-moving North Texas reptile got a helping hand earlier this week after some neighbors spotted the animal trying to get to its destination. And city officials later found out this is a more common occurrence than they realized.
On Friday, the city of Plano shared a Facebook post that talked about a recent encounter some city workers had earlier that day.
Two of Plano's environmental quality specialists were doing routine grease trap inspections when they saw a turtle crossing Pipestone Drive. This is south of State Highway 121 Access Road and Dallas North Tollway.
The specialists pulled over to make sure the turtle got across safely. A nearby resident was on their daily walk and told them that turtles often cross this road to get to Russell Creek, city officials said in the post. The city workers walked the turtle safely to assist its journey back to the water.
City officials also said for your safety and for the turtles, residents should not approach wildlife.
According to Turtle Survival Alliance, this organization says to enjoy wild turtles in the wild, and "If you find turtles in a safe place, leave them there. Turtles are very slow to mature and very few hatchlings live to adulthood. For these reasons, removing any individuals from the wild can greatly impact local populations."
The Mid-Atlantic Turtle & Tortoise Society has a section on its website specifically answering the question, "What's the right way to help a turtle cross a road?"
- Don't put yourself or others in danger
- Avoid Excessive Handling
- Allow Unassisted Road Crossings
- Handle Turtles Gently
- Maintain Direction of Travel
If you're concerned about an animal, you can contact Plano Animal Services at 972-769-4360.
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IDAHO COUNTY, Idaho — A missing Georgia boy and the father who took him on the run have been found after officials say they spent more than a week in Idaho's rugged backcountry.
Gabriel Daugherty, 11, was reported missing from the town of LaGrange, Georgia southwest of Atlanta on April 28. Authorities in Georgia said the boy was likely with his father, 37-year-old Addam Perry A. Daugherty.
Daugherty had shared custody of his son, and had told the boy's mother he was taking Gabriel on a trip to a Georgia amusement park.
Instead, Idaho County Chief Deputy Brian Hewson said, the pair took off, heading north to Idaho. The father and son abandoned their rental car along Highway 12 near the Canyon Creek Trailhead in the Clearwater National Forest, and walked into the woods.
Idaho State Police troopers spotted the car there on May 4. Six days later, when the car had not moved, according to the Idaho County Sheriff's Office, ISP ran the plates and ultimately returned it to the rental company.
It was soon after that officials learned the abandoned car was connected to the Daughterys' disappearance.
Working with Idaho State Police, Idaho Fish and Game, and the Forest Service, the sheriff's office launched a search for the father and son, sending up drones over the dense forest and combing the area on foot.
Deputies reached the site where the pair had been camping on Thursday and surrounded their small tent. Addam Daugherty was taken into custody, while Gabriel was taken to a hospital for observation.
Hewson said that the father was shocked to see that law enforcement had caught up to them.
"He thought he was in the middle of the wilderness and would never be found," he said.
Investigators believe that Addam Daugherty, who works as a long-haul trucker, had driven the long east-west Highway 12 route through Idaho previously, and selected the area for its remoteness.
"It was clear he had this planned," he said.
In fact, the Daughertys were just 2.5 miles from the highway, but "two and a half miles is a ways in that country," Hewson said.
Hewson said the pair were not equipped for the harsh conditions in the backcountry.
"They were really unprepared: food, clothing, sleeping arrangements," Hewson said.
The father and son's clothes got damp, and so did their small nylon tent. Conditions were too wet to start a fire, and by the time deputies reached their camp, the Daughertys' situation was getting increasingly dire, Hewson said.
"They were starting to eat local plant life, and snails, and little bugs when they found them," Hewson said. "[Gabriel] was feeling very weak and sick. He mentioned he was glad we showed up when we did."
Addam Daugherty refused medical care, and was taken to the Idaho County Jail. Hewson drove Gabriel, who he described as "very pleasant, very sweet" to Syringa Hospital where he could be treated for dehydration and checked out.
"The first thing I wanted to do was to stop and get him a cheeseburger and french fries," Hewson said, but medical personnel advised him to take the boy straight to the hospital instead.
Both Gabriel and his father and doing well, Hewson said. The 11-year-old is currently still hospitalized and in the custody of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. He is expected to be returned to his mother in Georgia following a shelter care hearing.
Addam Daugherty remains held on the Georgia warrant for non-custodial parent abduction.
Hewson praised the cooperation between agencies and the doggedness of the trackers who ultimately made it to the Daughertys' camp. In the vast national forest, searches can sometimes stretch on for multiple days, he noted.
"Things would have become pretty desperate for them," he said of the father and son. "It turned out good."
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UPDATE: MAY 13, 3:08PM
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Cape Coral police has given the all-clear after a bomb threat was made at Cape Coral High School on Friday.
CCPD responded to CCHS after a report of an alleged bomb threat Friday, officials said.
No threats were found and no one was hurt. Students were dismissed at the regular time.
ORIGINAL STORY: MAY 13, 2:42 PM
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Cape Coral police are on scene for an alleged bomb threat at Cape Coral High School.
It’s the last day of school for seniors, according to Lee County School District spokesperson Rob Spicker.
Students and faculty have been evacuated and the investigation is ongoing.
Count on NBC2 to bring you the latest information as it is released.
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The statewide ban on burning brush ends on Saturday, but the Department of Environmental Conservation urges residents to continue to use caution as the risk for wildfires is still high.
The annual early spring ban started in 2009 as an effort to prevent wildfires that can spread in dry and windy conditions this time of year.
“Especially early in the year, people presume because the snow cover ends that everything is wet and it's not going to burn. You have all of the vegetation that is dried out from the winter, and that coupled with the low humidity and the wind creates a real risk for spread of fire, and especially brush fires,” said Randy Caldwell, assistant chief of Maynard Fire Department.
When the ban is lifted, people in towns with populations under 20,000 can burn tree limbs with attached leaves as long as they are less than 6 inches in diameter and less than 8 feet long. However, burning large piles of brush at town or county transfer sites is prohibited.
Open burning is generally prohibited in New York all year long, with the following exceptions:
- Campfires or any other outdoor fires less than 3 feet in height and 4 feet in length, width or diameter are allowed.
- Small cooking fires are allowed.
- Ceremonial or celebratory bonfires are allowed. Disposal of flags or religious items in a small-sized fire is allowed, if it is not otherwise prohibited by law or regulation.
- Only charcoal or dry, clean, untreated or unpainted wood can be burned.
Fires cannot be left unattended and must be fully extinguished.
Burning garbage or leaves is always illegal.
For a full list of rules and regulations, click here.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Portland Parks & Recreation announced it will open a new expansive and more inclusive playground at Southwest Portland’s Gabriel Park.
According to PP&R, the innovative new playground at Southwest 37th Avenue and Southwest Vermont Street has play elements that are unique in the department’s system.
It is more than three times the size of the previous play area, with features allowing access and enjoyment by people of differing abilities – including those using mobility devices and those accompanying them, such as caregivers and friends.
“Inclusive playgrounds are a crucial part of building a sustainable Portland Parks & Recreation,” said Portland Parks Commissioner Carmen Rubio. “No child should be deprived a rich play experience, addressing physical, sensory, and social needs, just because a playground was inaccessible. The Gabriel Park play area is inspiring, beautiful, functional, and a key move towards equity and inclusion in our growing parks system.”
Gabriel Park’s play area features include an inclusive in-ground trampoline that allows users to wheel — possibly with assistance — or walk onto the feature along with accessible routes to all play equipment.
People can also find a perimeter fence for safety, an inclusive spinner that allows users to wheel or walk on and swings for groups or individuals of varying abilities and ages.
“Portland Parks & Recreation remains committed to centering equity in the delivery of our programs and services,” said Portland Parks & Recreation Director Adena Long. “The inclusive features of the new Gabriel Park playground mean fewer barriers for Portlanders to access the recreation and play opportunities that we all need now more than ever. This playground is a place of exploration and connection, and one all Portlanders will be proud of. It reflects our commitment to an inclusive park system that can meet Portland’s current and future needs.”
The renovated Gabriel Park play area will join Portland’s inclusive playgrounds at Arbor Lodge Park, Couch Park and Gateway Discovery Park, added the department.
The Southwest Portland location means PP&R is one step closer to the goal of an inclusive play area of significant size — a regional destination — in every part of the city. According to the announcement, most new PP&R playgrounds incorporate some inclusive design techniques and accessible elements, including adaptive swings, ramps, slides with platforms, and rubber surfacing.
PP&R said it engaged extensively with the community on the Gabriel Park playground design to ensure it would be effective in accommodating people of differing abilities and developmental levels.
Those who collaborated with the department were members of the Project Advisory Committee, which included people who work with the disability community in the medical and education fields, people who are living with disabilities themselves (or have family members who are), residents at Home Forward’s Stephens Creek Crossing, members of the Somali community, young people and park neighbors.
How was the play area funded?
It was funded by the 2014 Parks Replacement Bond, Parks System Development Charges and PP&R’s Capital Fund ADA Program.
System Development Charges are described as one-time fees assessed on new building development across the city. The announcement said SDCs help ensure that Portland’s quality of life keeps pace with our growing and changing city by providing additional parks and recreation facilities to meet the needs of all Portlanders.
The inclusive play area at Gabriel Park is the 10th PP&R playground to be constructed with funds from the Parks Replacement Bond, which Portland voters overwhelmingly approved in 2014, noted the department. The play area will be open to community members on Saturday, May 14.
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Wichita Falls Police to honor fallen officers during memorial ceremony
Wichita Falls Police Department will hold a Police Memorial Service for fallen officers Monday, May 16.
WFPD announced they will have their annual Police Memorial Service on Monday May 16th at 10 a.m., in front of the WFPD headquarters located at 610 Holliday Street.
According to a release, in the United States, 617 officers died in the line of duty, 439 deaths were COVID-related. During the ceremony there will be a Flag Presentation, Call to Colors, the playing of the National Anthem, an Invocation, Recognition of Guests, a Proclamation given by the Mayor, Police Chief Manuel Borrego, a Tribute to the Fallen, a Honor Guard Salute, the playing of Taps, placing of the wreath, and Amazing Grace.
According to a previous Times Record News report, in 2020 the department produced a video of the annual tribute due to the pandemic and reopened the ceremony to the public in 2021.
WFPD spokesman Sgt. Charlie Eipper said they will not be using the city’s mobile concert stage this year and instead will have the event in the lawn of the police station. Each year, traffic is temporarily diverted from Holliday Street, in front of the police department, so family members, officers and loved ones can honor officers who sacrificed everything while in the line of duty.
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Wichita Falls woman arrested for allegedly embezzling from employer
A Wichita Falls woman was arrested Friday for allegedly embezzling from her employer.
According to allegations made in the arrest warrant:
On Feb. 3, 2022, a local business made a theft report to the Wichita Falls Police Department. The, victim, Wichita Falls Fit Body Bootcamp, told police they were a victim of an email scam where they lost nearly $10,000.
The victim said they received two different emails in December 2021. Both contained digital invoice links for rent payments associated with their building lease.
The victim said prior to receiving the emails, they had never made digital rent payment before and had only paid the landlord with checks. The office manager for the victim's business, Amanda Bolding, received the emailed digital invoice and paid the amount of nearly $6,000. Bolding received a second digital invoice email and paid nearly $4,000.
It was later discovered the emails containing the digital invoices were fraudulent and connected to a Square online account. The fraudulent invoices were created a manner in which they displayed an email address similar to the real email address for the business’ landlord. Bolding paid the two invoices which resulted in the victim's business losing nearly $10,000.
Police discovered the Square account that generated the digital invoice belonged to Bolding and was verified with her personal identifying information and bank information. The transaction details for the Square account showed the two payments were deposited to the account owned by Bolding.
During a non-custodial interview with the police, Bolding admitted she and her husband had made "lots" of trips to the casino and they were behind on their bills. She said she made up the email address to make it look as if it was from the business landlord.
Bolding continued that she submitted the emails to herself in her business email and paid the digital invoice using the victim's business bank account, which she had access to through her job duties.
Bolding said after the funds were transferred to her Square account, she transferred the money to her personal bank account, where she used it to pay bills and go to the casino. A warrant was issued and Bolding was arrested Friday and is charged with Theft over $2,500 and under $30,000-Embezzlement.
Prior to Bolding's arrest, the business owner posted a statement May 11 about the incident to their Facebook page saying they were "sad and heartbroken."
According to previous a Times Record News story, Bolding is the mother of 16-year-old Kaleb Honea, a Rider High School student that died from injuries he received in an automobile accident in 2020.
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Al fresco dining is back on Federal Hill. Here's what's new this year
Federal Hill’s outdoor dining extravaganza is returning for its third year with several new restaurants participating.
Starting this weekend, most of Atwells Avenue will be closed to vehicular traffic on Fridays and Saturdays as at least 30 restaurants set up tables and invite diners to stroll the thoroughfare while enjoying live entertainment.
New restaurants participating
Among the program’s newcomers are Bonanno Vinicola, a wine bar that opened in November; Mambo Sushi, a Peruvian-Asian fusion eatery that opened in December; PiANTA, a vegan spot that opened this month; and Cap’t Loui, a Louisiana-style seafood chain that also opened recently on the hill.
Alex An, Cap't Loui’s manager, said he hopes this will “be a great opportunity for us to bring more people in, let the people know that this is a new space that we just [opened] up here, and hopefully we can grow some more customers.”
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Rick Simone, president of the Federal Hill Commerce Association, said two additional restaurants are preparing to open by the end of June, though they have not yet made announcements.
Though Simone described the al fresco setup as having “created a renaissance” in the neighborhood, restaurants are still in need of staff, as is the hill itself. Next week, a job fair may help to fill some of the at least 350 open positions across various industries in the area, including food service.
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For customers dining out this weekend, that means things may look a little different.
“The restaurants are all making accommodations based on their staffing,” Simone said. “So they may, this weekend, one restaurant, instead of having 10 tables out on the street, they might have eight. So they’re managing based on their staffing levels.”
More parking around Federal Hill
A small number of locals have taken issue with traffic patterns for al fresco events. Simone said this year's pattern is “100% different than it was last year,” leading to the opening of 1,000 new parking spaces in the area. However, he acknowledged that in previous years, the patterns were “very challenging.”
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John Campanone Jr., owner of Caserta's Pizza on Spruce Street, which runs parallel to Atwells Avenue, has concerns about al fresco dining, feeling that the program should be held on a monthly basis instead of weekly. But Campanone does not oppose it, and said he will wait to see how this weekend's traffic plays out before making any judgements.
Outdoor dining a lifeline for restaurants amid pandemic
While Simone joked that he hadn’t imagined pulling off the “mammoth project” for this many years when it began due to COVID in 2020, he noted it has served as a lifeline for local businesses.
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“It is what has helped us to survive,” Simone said. “And not just our restaurants but our retail shops [and] residents.”
"Al Fresco on the Hill" will continue each week until Oct. 1, with the exception of June 17-18 during the annual summer festival. For a list of participating restaurants, parking information and details on closing times for Atwells Avenue, visit federalhillprov.com.
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Mary Donnelly mourned: Block Island nurse kept making house calls till she was 85
NEW SHOREHAM — Mary Donnelly, Block Island's state nurse for 55 years before retiring a decade ago, died Thursday at age 94, according to her daughter Marguerite Donnelly.
"It's very hard to sum up mom in one word. but it's faith," said Marguerite Donnelly, adding that her mother had faith in God and in other people.
Outpourings of love on Facebook to the children of Mary Donnelly brought the news Thursday that the island has lost an extraordinary woman whose simple life, resourcefulness and devotion to the poor drew national media attention. She did not retire until the age of 85.
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Donnelly had been the island's state nurse since 1958, when she arrived with her husband, John Donnelly, and their growing family for a temporary assignment. The family with two sons and five daughters became fixtures, although Mary lost her husband and a son and daughter.
Photos dated Sunday indicate that she was remembered on Mother's Day with a gathering of her children and grandchildren.
As the only licensed medical professional on the island, she worked with the rescue squad and was one of the founders of the Block Island Medical Center. She worked from the medical center, still making house calls, until 2013, when she was 85. As she had done from the beginning, she made house calls to check on some of the poorest of the island's 1,000+ year-round residents. In answer to needs she saw on her visits, she started the Mary D. Fund, a nonprofit funded by donations and the annual Mary D. Ball. With the help of a daughter, she administered the fund until last year.
Her collection jars and other requests for Mary D. Fund donations were so common that some visitors thought 'Fund' was her last name. She raised and allocated about $50,000 a year.
She would use the money to pay bills or buy the food, heating oil, or goods that for folks who were going without. Last year, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence recognized her with the Lumen Gentium Award in Community Service and Charitable Outreach.
Several people sending their love and condolences to the Donnellys on Facebook observed that she was the most like a saint of anyone they'd ever met.
She was the subject of a piece on CBS Sunday Morning in 2011, followed a month later by an NBC News piece. The New York Times wrote about her in 2012, calling her "The 83-Year-Old Money Tree." A documentary airs occasionally on RI PBS.
Besides her daughter Marguerite, she leaves three daughters, Patricia Hiller, Mary Ann Tapia and Elizabeth Masci; a son, Michael Donnelly; six grandchildren; and five great grandchildren. Her husband, a son, John Donnelly Jr., and a daughter, Kathleen Donnelly, died before her.
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Drought relief for Concho Valley area farmers available: Here's what you should know
SAN ANGELO — As temperatures reaching the 100s becomes more common in the Concho Valley area, San Angelo city officials took a moment to remind area farmers about drought relief in a news release Friday.
"Farmers in the Concho Valley may be eligible to qualify for Farm Service Agency emergency loan assistance for damages or losses caused by drought occurring April 12, 2022, and continuing, the release stated. "This designation makes farm operators in both primary and contiguous counties eligible to be considered for low interest emergency loans from the FSA, provided eligibility requirements are met."
These loans are made available through the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Applications for the emergency loans can be sent through Dec. 19, 2022, for production and physical losses. The FSA will judge applications with considerations to "the extent of losses, security available and repayment ability," according to the release.
Counties include:
- Concho
- Coke
- Crockett
- Irion
- Kimble
- Mason
- McCulloch
- Menard
- Reagan
- Schleicher
- Sterling
- Sutton
- Tom Green
There are several service centers in Tom Green County, which can assist. Those locations are:
San Angelo Service Center, 3514 Devonian Drive.
Farm Service Agency Office, 3514 Devonian Drive, Suite A. Phone: 325-653-1246. Email: Michael Sturm at Michael.sturm@usda.gov.
Natural Resources Office, 3514 Devonian Drive, Suite C. Call 325-655-3521, extension 3. Email: Kendall Tidwell at Kendall.tidwell@usda.gov. This office also provides services to conservation programs.
For more information on the program, visit farmers.gov.
Alana Edgin is a journalist covering Crime and Courts in West Texas. Send her a news tip at aedgin@gannett.com.
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Street projects on Rio Concho, College Hills resume Monday: Here's how that could impact you
San Angelo travelers may need to alter plans starting Monday, May 16, as two street projects will begin, according to a city news release.
The Rio Concho Drive project will have work starting at the intersection of Bell Street and Rio Concho Drive. The western side of the intersection will be closed. Construction will move west, toward South Irene Street throughout the week and continue to Magdalen Street.
Motorists will "need to be cautious of changes to travel lanes and possible detours due to construction," according to the release.
The College Hills Boulevard project will also begin utility work, with traffic control set along portions of College Hills Boulevard from Loop 306 to Avenue N. The lanes may go to one lane north and one going south, which could lead to detours while work continues.
"Motorists traveling on College Hills Boulevard need to be cautious of changes to travel lanes due to construction," the release states.
Alana Edgin is a journalist covering Crime and Courts in West Texas. Send her a news tip at aedgin@gannett.com.
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Flagler County Sheriff's Office honors fallen law enforcement officers
Family and friends held up electric blue candles and placed a red rose on a star formed by yellow flowers during a Flagler County Sheriff’s Office memorial service for fallen law enforcement officers last week in Bunnell.
The ceremony was in recognition of Peace Officers Memorial Day, which is May 15, but Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said he held it early because some would be busy that day.
Staly himself will be out of town. He will be escorting the families of Flagler County Sheriff’s Detention Deputy 1st Class Paul Luciano and Sgt. Francesco Celico to Peace Officer Memorial Day ceremonies in Washington, D.C.
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Luciano, 60, died Aug. 26 after contracting COVID-19 during an outbreak at the jail. Celico died on Sept. 9, 2011, of a massive heart attack after “a high-stress work incident,” the sheriff’s office stated.
Luciano's and Celico’s names will be etched on the memorial wall. Celico had not been nominated until recently and his name was just approved to be added to the wall.
Sheriff Staly says the memorials the right thing to do for people who served community
Staly said he would be with the families during a Concerns of Police Survivors event and then again at the National Law Enforcement Memorial which concludes on Sunday with a candlelight vigil.
Staly said in a phone interview that he’d prefer not to have memorials because it means a law enforcement officer had died.
“It’s clearly something I wish I didn’t have to do, but it’s the right thing to do to support the families that lost loved ones while serving the community and I'm honored to assist them as they attend these memorial events in Washington, D.C.
“The fallen heroes' names will be etched into the National Law Enforcement wall. They will be etched in the wall for eternity,” Staly said.
But before the ceremony in Washington, D.C., the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office held its 2022 Fallen Officer Memorial and Candlelight Vigil on May 5 on the steps of the Kim C. Hammond Justice Center in Bunnell.
The names of Luciano, Celico and other members of the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office were read during the ceremony and family members were escorted to place a red rose on a gold star formed by yellow flowers.
Also recognized during the service was Bunnell Police Sgt. Dominic Guida, 43, who died after suffering a heart attack on Nov. 9 during a training exercise, and FBI Agent Daniel Alfin, 36, the son of Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin.
Daniel Alfin and fellow FBI agent Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, were fatally shot on Feb. 2, 2021, while trying to serve a warrant in a child pornography investigation in Sunrise in Broward County.
“In the end, each of these heroes, like so many across the country, paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving and protecting all of us,” Staly said. “Paying tribute to our fallen heroes no matter what color of uniform they wear and remembering those that have made a difference in your life, the lives of others and our community is an important and sacred duty.
“And we must always remember our fallen heroes' families, as they made the sacrifice for our community, too, as they must carry on without their loved one.”
Staly said he was shot early in his law enforcement career.
"For those of you who don't know, I'm one of the lucky ones. Early in my career, I survived being shot three times saving the life of a deputy sheriff. So I understand firsthand the dangers of our profession,” Staly said.
Whether a patrol deputy on the street or a detention deputy at the jail, it’s a risky job, Staly said.
“We all serve in a dangerous profession. Recognizing our fallen heroes and their families, it was an honor that I take very seriously."
Celico’s father, Carlos Celico, said that his son’s name, along with Guida's, were among 85 names engraved this year on the FOP Law Enforcement Memorial Wall in Tallahassee.
“They were real good friends. And they have their names engraved in Tallahassee right next to each other,” Celico said. “This year is very special."
Luciano’s daughter, Tina Luciano, stood with members after the memorial.
“It was beautiful, absolutely beautiful,” she said. “It’s nice to know he will always be remembered.”
Flagler County Sheriff's Office fallen
Here are the names and date of death of the six Flagler County Sheriff’s Office members who were honored during the ceremony: Sheriff Perry Hall, Aug. 21, 1927; Deputy George “Son” Durrance, Aug. 24, 1927; Sheriff Homer Brooks, March 23, 1965; Deputy Charles “Chuck” Sease, July 5, 2003; Sgt. Francesco “Frankie” Celico, Sept. 9, 2011; Deputy 1st Class Paul Luciano, Aug. 26, 2021. Also recognized during the service were Bunnell Police Sgt. Dominic Guida, Nov. 9, 2021; and FBI Agent Daniel Alfin, Feb. 2, 2021.
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DeLand man charged with sexually abusing minors, making child porn
Katie Kustura
The Daytona Beach News-Journal
Volusia sheriff's investigators are asking potential victims to come forward after arresting a DeLand man on sexual battery and child pornography charges.
Dustin Price, 33, was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail without bail on Thursday and charged with two counts of sexual battery on a person younger than 12 years old and 22 counts of enhanced possession of sexual performance by a child, records show.
The investigation into Price, which began last fall, yielded elicit images, made by Price, of children being sexually abused, according to a Friday release from the sheriff's office.
Anyone with information about potential additional cases is asked to call the Child Exploitation Unit at 386-323-3574.
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Oconee County Council member arrested for domestic violence, neglect of child
An Oconee County Council member has been arrested on domestic violence and neglect of child charges, according to warrants from the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division.
Matthew Durham, 38, was charged Friday.
The warrants allege multiple domestic violence incidents between March 2020 and August 2020 in front of children, for the child neglect charge.
A specific alleged incident in September 2020 at a Mountain Rest location, involving actual or attempted physical harm on a member of his household, is cited for the domestic violence charge.
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A statement from the state agency does not give further detail about the allegations. Oconee County Sheriff Mike Crenshaw requested state officials investigate, according to the state agency.
Online Oconee County jail records indicate Durham is being held on a temporary custody order.
A lawyer is not listed and a call to a number for Durham went to a mailbox that is full. The council chair, John Elliott, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Mike Ellis lives in Powdersville and tells South Carolina stories with a focus on Anderson County and Pickens County along with faith and investigations. He's always looking for the next story that people need to read, please send any tips or feedback to mellis@gannett.com.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — While spooky season is still a couple of months away, Friday the 13th decided to show up during the springtime (May 13).
This prompted the Dallas Zoo to speak some facts into the Twitter world about some superstitions surrounding giant anteaters.
“IT’S FRIDAY THE 13TH: Did you know superstition is one reason giant anteaters like Tullah are classified as vulnerable? Some across South America will kill them on sight, regarding them as tricksters, who bring bad luck. In reality, they are highly effective exterminators!”
Big shoutout to the zoo for always keeping the days filled with interesting animals and animal facts!
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FORT WORTH (KDAF) — The Professional Bull Riders World Finals are being held in Fort worth from May 13-22. Mayor Mattie Parker made sure to welcome the huge event with open arms and even a declaration.
Mayor Parker tweeted, “Proud to declare May 13, 2022 as Pro Bull Riding Day in Fort Worth as we celebrate the kick-off of the 2022 @PBR World Finals right here in the home of cowboys and culture!”
To learn more about the PBR World Finals in Fort Worth, click here.
Visit Fort Worth says, “Fort Worth is excited to host PBR World Finals. Discover the Modern West in the nation’s 12th largest city. From cowboy cuisine to the Cowgirl Museum, the historic Stockyards district and Billy Bob’s Texas, the world’s largest honky-tonk. It’s easy to see it all.”
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DALLAS (KDAF) — It’s Friday the 13th and while some are superstitious or may want to get some horror movie-action tonight, one thing’s for sure; the two kittens Dallas Pets Alive tweeted about at 10:30 a.m. are ADORABLE.
The tweet reads, “This Friday the 13th, we think Williard + Pickles would bring some luck to anyone who adopted them! These brothers are absolutely adorable & prefer to cuddle than cause mischief!”
While they look cute, their names are even cuter; I mean come on, Williard? PICKLES? Super cute. If you’re interested in applying to adopt Williard or Pickles, check out the links in the tweet.
Dallas Pets Alive is a foster-based nonprofit with a mission of saving North Texas pets through rescue, education and adoption.
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FORT WORTH (KDAF) — For the first time in Fort Worth history, the Professional Bull Riders World Finals will be held in Fort Worth May 13-22.
The PBR World Finals will crown the 2022 PBR World Champion, YETI PBR World Champion Bull, Rookie of the Year, World Finals event winner and more inside Cowtown’s Dickies Arena.
The City of Fort Worth says, “Harkening back to a past format of the World Finals, reminiscent of when the year-end event was split between Mandalay Bay and Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, the first three rounds of the 2022 PBR World Finals will be held May 13-15, with the final five rounds May 19-22.
“The richest bull riding event in the world features a more than $2.7 million purse, including $1 million bonus to the PBR World Champion, who also receives the coveted gold World Champion buckle, as well as a $300,000 check awarded to the event winner and a $100,000 bonus to be presented to the 2022 YETI PBR World Champion Bull.”
For more information about tickets, schedule, concerts, things to do and more, click here.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — We got the heat, we got the heat, we got the heat… yeah we got the heat! If you can’t tell, it’s going to be another hot weekend in North Texas.
NWS Fort Worth says, “No relief from the heat is in sight throughout North and Central Texas as temperatures stay in the 90s to around 100 degrees. Heat index values will be a few degrees above actual temperatures.”
So, North Texas, make sure you and your loved ones stay safe if you plan on spending an extended amount of time outdoors. Stay hydrated and seek shade often.
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The Capital Area Transit bus transfer facility between Fifth Street and Seventh Street on Front Avenue near the Bismarck Event Center will be temporarily moved while a water main is replaced.
The bus stop starting Monday will be moved two blocks to the west -- between Third Street and Fifth Street on Front Avenue.
The water main work will take three to four weeks, according to the city.
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DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks are one victory away from the Western Conference Finals after defeating the Phoenix Suns 113-86 in Game 6 to tie the semifinal series at three games apiece against the proclaimed best team in the West.
For a team that entered the season with a complete front office and leadership overhaul, traded away their most expensive player at the deadline, and was without their franchise player for a good portion of the first round, getting this far has been quite a statement.
With the series progressing in physicality and verbal taunts, Luka Doncic has been dead-set on making any Suns player that talks trash at him look ridiculous. Doncic more than backed up his own taunts and mean mugs with an electric performance in Game 6 to keep Dallas’ season afloat.
Doncic led the Mavericks with 33 points and 11 rebounds, just missing another triple-double with eight assists on the night. Doncic’s playoff breakout right-hand man Jalen Brunson added 18 points and led the team with a +24 in 35 minutes of action while the entire Suns team finished in the negatives.
Defensive lynchpin Dorian Finney-Smith had a quiet night offensively but continued to stifle the Suns, teaming with Reggie Bullock to lock up the All-Star Phoenix guards, with Devin Booker (-19) and Chris Paul (-14) struggling to figure out the Mavs’ defensive gameplan.
With Brunson and Doncic leading the charge, the Dallas shooters took full advantage of their looks. Bullock brought the buckets back after an off-game in the Valley, lighting up the Suns behind the arc and adding 19 points in the Dallas win. Spencer Dinwiddie showed his shooting stroke, going 5 of 7 from deep and scoring all 15 of his points on threes.
Perhaps most critical to the win was Dallas’ ability to hold possession at home, as they committed only 6 turnovers on the night. On the other side of the court, a shell-shocked Suns squad cooked up a Booker and Paul special with 13 turnovers between the star guards and 22 as a team.
Now the Mavs head back to Arizona with their confidence at an all-time high, looking to beat the number No. 1 seed in the Western Conference one last time. In what could be a defining moment in the Luka Doncic era during an instant-classic series, a Mavs win in Phoenix on Saturday would be their first win in the desert since 2019.
To accomplish that goal, Dallas will need to bring the defensive intensity that they have cultivated on their home court for one last run at the Suns guards. Phoenix hasn’t lost on their home court since April 19 against New Orleans and finished the regular season 32-9, a 78% home winning percentage, which was tops in the league.
One would think this obstacle would stress out a young roster that is experiencing the Western Conference semis for the first time. Yet the Mavericks, and especially Doncic, have shown again and again that the bright lights of the biggest stage do not scare them off.
Doncic has been feeding off the negativity and physicality from the Suns and enters Game 7 ranked 2nd all-time in playoff scoring per game, trailing only Michael Jordan. There are times when stats can be manipulated to express a certain view of a player or team, but that one is pretty undeniable. Luka is in rare form with how he is performing when the stakes are at their highest.
Both teams have been doing their scouting and vigorously adjusting to each other with each passing game, and now they have reached the last checkpoint. The series is tied 3-3, and one game remains to decide who gets to advance to the Western Conference Finals and continue the journey for the Larry O’Brien trophy.
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DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department held a press conference Friday afternoon to give an update on the Korean salon shooting, stating they have connected the incident to two other recent shootings of Asian-run businesses.
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said the shooting was connected back to an April 22 shooting, when a vehicle drove past a strip mall of Asian-run businesses at 2208 Royal Lane and fired upon three businesses, but no one was injured.
One other May 10 shooting was connected to the latest shooting, Garcia added, where a suspect in a burgundy van shot into Asian-run businesses near 4849 Sunnyvalle Street. Three people were in the back part of the building but were uninjured.
In response to this series of shootings, Garcia said the department has reached out to partner agencies to make them aware and has asked for assistance from agencies, including the FBI and member agencies of the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
The Dallas Police Department will also be using camera trailers in certain areas and increasing patrols in areas of Asian communities. He added that the department had scheduled a Korean-American safety town hall meeting early next week.
Garcia now says there "may be a link to hate" in regards to the latest shooting.
"Hate has no place here," Garcia said.
Just 24 hours ago, Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said police could “confidently” say hate was not the motivating factor.
“At this point we can’t responsibly say that hate was a factor, because our investigation is telling us that it is not,” Garcia said Thursday.
The department activated a task force to investigate, Garcia said, and officers discovered the crime was motivated by “different factors” that had nothing to do with a hate crime.
“If there were a nexus to hate we certainly would be conducting outreach to make sure our community knows and it’s important our community realizes that,” Garcia said.
Around 2 p.m., officers responded to the shooting at Hair World Salon in the 2200 block of Royal Lane -- an address located within an area known as a historically Asian district known as Koreatown in Dallas.
People on the scene said that when officers arrived, they found three women suffering from injuries. They were transported from the scene with non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to be OK, police said.
Police say the suspect was dressed in all black when he walked inside Hair World Salon around 2:20 p.m. Wednesday and began shooting.
They say he got away in a maroon minivan.
A $5,000 reward for information that leads to the suspect’s arrest and indictment is being offered. Anyone with information regarding the crime should contact detectives at 214-671-3523.
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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho officials on Friday announced a $119 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and three major distributors over their role in the opioid addiction crisis.
Republican Gov. Brad Little and Republican Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said it’s the second-largest consumer settlement in state history, trailing only the 1998 national tobacco settlement of $712 million.
An Ada County judge on Wednesday approved the settlement that Little and Wasden had agreed to in August. The state’s participation made it eligible for a minimum of $64 million. It also opened the way for local government entities to take part, and all those eligible did so by the end of December, boosting the amount to $119 million.
The money will address damage wrought by opioids, which the federal government declared a public health emergency in 2017. Johnson & Johnson and the three distributors finalized a national $26 billion settlement in February.
“Idaho has made significant strides in recent years in combatting the opioid crisis, and the culmination of our legal action against opioid manufacturers – led by Attorney General Wasden and his team – now offers additional resources,” Little said in a statement. “Altogether, our investments and activities will turn the tide on the opioid crisis."
Wasden is continuing legal action against other opioid makers as well as the Sackler family, owners of Purdue Pharma.
“This settlement holds some of those most responsible for the opioid crisis accountable and provides significant funding for treatment, recovery and prevention in Idaho,” Wasden said. “These funds will be a huge asset to our state as it continues its recovery from the opioid crisis."
By signing onto the national settlement, government entities agree to forego lawsuits of their own against Johnson & Johnson, AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson.
For Idaho, the Johnson & Johnson payment of about $21 million would be spread over nine years. The roughly $98 million payment from the drug distributors would be spread over 18 years.
According to the agreement, 40% of the money would go to participating counties and cities, with another 20% going to regional public health districts.
The remaining 40% would go to the state-directed opioid settlement fund, created by lawmakers last year and signed into law by Little. The Idaho Legislature would appropriate money from the fund based on recommendations by the Idaho Behavioral Health Council, which is part of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
The settlement agreements, besides the payments, include increased accountability and oversight for the drug companies, changes in how prescriptions are distributed and sold, independent monitoring, a national database to help stop deliveries of opioids to pharmacies where misuse is occurring, and a ban on Johnson & Johnson from selling or promoting opioids.
Alabama, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Washington and West Virginia did not join in the agreement and have sought their own deals or taken legal action.
Washington would have received $418 million had it joined the settlement. Earlier this month state officials agreed to a $518 million settlement with AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson. The agreement still requires approval from a judge and from dozens of Washington cities that pursued their own cases. Washington's lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson is scheduled to go to trial in September.
West Virginia in April settled with Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc. for $99 million. State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said he believed West Virginia’s settlement was the largest in the country per capita with Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen.
Also last month, Alabama reached a $276 million settlement with Johnson & Johnson, McKesson and Endo International.
Idaho's portion in the 1998, $206 billon national tobacco settlement was $712 million over the first 25 years of the deal.
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BOISE, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
In the final week before Tuesday’s primary election, Idaho’s airwaves are crackling with charges and counter-charges, as candidates get in their last shots before voters head to the polls.
In a single hour of local news programming on Wednesday, 26 political commercials aired, all in Idaho GOP primary races, and that’s including only a handful of repeats. “For voters watching, it’s a lot to kind of process at once,” said Boise State University political scientist Jaclyn Kettler.
It also becomes increasingly hard to tell which messages are from the candidates and which are from outside groups, she noted; two outside groups are running ads in the 2nd Congressional District primary race, in addition to the candidates’ own ads. But Kettler said research suggests that “the more ads you see, the more you’re aware that there’s an election.” Viewers might not enjoy the onslaught, she said, but it might give them more information and motivation as they prepare to make their picks at the polls.
Here’s a look at the current crop of TV ads, based on the two dozen-plus that aired from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday on KTVB:
GOVERNOR’S RACE
Both incumbent GOP Gov. Brad Little and Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin, who is challenging him in the primary, have new ads out this week. McGeachin’s latest, her second TV commercial, opens with her endorsement by Donald Trump, as did her first ad back when the campaign had just begun in January, but then immediately shifts to attacks on Little.
“Mr. Little has openly described himself as a RINO, a Republican in Name Only, and he cast the deciding vote to increase taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood in Idaho,” the ad claims.
The cited source for the “RINO” claim is a Sept. 20, 2013 article in the Lewiston Tribune about Little announcing that he’d seek reelection as lieutenant governor in 2014. In the article, addressing transportation funding, Little says “I guess I’m a RINO because I think we shouldn’t let our roads go to hell.”
McGeachin has been making the claim that Little is a “self-described RINO” repeatedly in campaign speeches as well as in the new ad. “It seems like a clear example of a campaign deliberately trying to misconstrue an opponent’s statement,” Kettler said. “I’m not sure it does so successfully.”
No source is cited for the Planned Parenthood claim. The McGeachin campaign promised to provide a citation to the Idaho Press on Wednesday but provided only a bill number without a year; bill numbers repeat over the years. It’s unclear what the claim is referring to.
McGeachin’s ad continues with criticisms of Little for receiving campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies, and for vetoing this year’s “Coronavirus Pause Act” which sought to forbid employer COVID vaccine requirements in Idaho for a year; major Idaho employers opposed the bill. Her ad concludes, “Vote McGeachin for governor to make Idaho free again.”
Little’s campaign spokesman, Hayden Rogers, said, “The governor’s been endorsed by our police, he’s been endorsed by our teachers, he’s been endorsed by our firefighters, he’s been endorsed by Idaho Choose Life, he’s been endorsed by the NRA, and his conservative credentials stack up against anyone.”
Little has two new campaign commercials out this week, one a positive one highlighting his record as governor, and the other an attack ad against McGeachin.
The first, which began airing several days ago, opens, “When liberal elites were pushing for lockdowns, I said, ‘get lost.’ We said no to the liberal mask and vaccine mandates, and kept our economy open. Now Idaho has record low unemployment and we’re the national leader in economic growth.” While Little did impose a statewide stay-at-home order when the pandemic first hit Idaho in March of 2020, it was lifted 37 days later and he never imposed mask or vaccine requirements. “As your governor, I will always protect your freedoms and I will always fight for hardworking small businesses that are the backbone of our economy,” Little says in the ad, concluding, “In Idaho we cherish our liberty and we fight for our jobs.”
Kettler noted that McGeachin has been highly critical of Little’s pandemic responses. The ad appears to be “really kind of challenging, not allowing her or her campaign to claim ownership of those issues,” she said.
Little’s attack ad against McGeachin says, “Idahoans can’t afford Janice McGeachin as governor. In the state Legislature, McGeachin voted against $260 million in property tax relief for Idaho families.” That’s a reference to HB 1 in the 2006 special legislative session, which cut property taxes while raising the sales tax a penny to 6%, at the urging of then-Gov. Jim Risch. McGeachin cast one of 23 “no” votes in the House; Little, who then served in the Senate, cast one of 24 “yes” votes there.
The ad continues, “McGeachin backed a new tax on everything from haircuts to car repairs. Her tax hike plan would have cost Idaho families hundreds of millions of dollars.” The Little campaign cites a Nov. 10, 2010 Idaho Business Review article about various tax proposals lawmakers were floating ahead of the 2011 legislative session. In the article, McGeachin talked about lowering the sales tax from 6% to 4%, “saying that would encourage business growth. To offset the revenue loss, McGeachin proposes a service tax on providers such as lawyers, accountants, hair stylists and car mechanics,” the article said.
However, McGeachin never ended up proposing such a bill in 2011. The closest proposal was a personal bill from then-Democratic Rep. Shirley Ringo to lower the sales tax from 6% to 5% while eliminating various exemptions including those for nine categories of services.
“Taxes tend to be a major issue for many voters, especially, perhaps, in the Republican primary,” Kettler said.
Little’s ad continues, “When McGeachin got sued for breaking the law, she tried to stick Idaho taxpayers with $50,000 in legal bills.” That is the amount of a supplemental appropriation McGeachin requested in taxpayer funds last fall to cover legal costs for her loss in a public records lawsuit; she later lowered the request to roughly $29,000, but lawmakers never acted on it. The ad concludes, “Janice McGeachin, bad for Idaho and wrong for governor.”
Kettler said both Little and McGeachin focused earlier on their records and endorsements, and are “now, here at the end, spending money and energy attacking the other. … Voters may remember them more … so that might be part of that motivation for right here at the end, to kind of get those attacks out.”
During the single hour of programming on Wednesday, McGeachin’s ad aired once, and Little’s anti-McGeachin ad aired twice.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Current House Speaker Scott Bedke is running two commercials that he also ran earlier in the campaign, both touting his views and values. Neither mentions his GOP primary opponent, Rep. Priscilla Giddings, R-White Bird. While Giddings has been sending out fundraising letters urging her supporters to donate to get her ads on the air, none appeared during this hour. Four of the 26 ads that aired were for Bedke, including two repeats.
CONGRESS
In the 2nd District congressional race, the commercial messages have been hot and heavy between incumbent GOP Rep. Mike Simpson and challenger Bryan Smith. Of the 26 ads, 11 were for or against Simpson or Smith, including four sponsored by outside groups. America Proud PAC, funded by Money Metals Exchange owner Stefan Gleason and an Idaho Falls doctor, ran three against Simpson, including one that suggested he’s been in office for 42 years. Simpson was first elected to Congress in 1998, 24 years ago. He served in the Idaho House before that, including as speaker of the House from 1992 to 1998.
American Dream Federal Action, a PAC funded entirely by $4 million from a cryptocurrency platform CEO from New Hampshire, ran an ad promoting Simpson, praising him on issues ranging from energy to conservative values.
Meanwhile, both Simpson’s and Smith’s own ads sharply criticize their opponent. Kettler said it continues an unusual pattern in this race of the candidates running attack ads against each other, while leaving it to outside groups to run positive ads for their favored candidates.
U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo also has a new ad out, and it’s in a style usually reserved for “comparison” ads between a candidate and challenger, opening with grim black-and-white images, before shifting to reassuring color images of the incumbent. But Crapo’s sinister initial images feature Democratic President Joe Biden, rather than any of his challengers this year.
“He probably doesn’t have to, but he’s got plenty of money so he might as well,” Kettler said of Crapo running the ad. “It can help for turnout and things like that.”
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Longtime Idaho GOP Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, whose previous advertising messages have focused on his record as Idaho’s “constitutional conservative” attorney general, is now running an attack ad against challenger Raul Labrador, a former 1st District congressman; the anti-Labrador ad took up five of the 26 ad slots during the hour.
“Raul Labrador and D.C. special interests are lying about Lawrence Wasden, but then Labrador’s never really been honest with us,” the ad says. “Did you know Labrador is a criminal defense attorney turned lobbyist?” The ad then criticizes positions Labrador took, including opposing allowing local police departments to receive surplus military equipment for free, a position that was unpopular with Idaho law enforcement agencies. The ad shifts from bleak black-and-white images to color as it concludes by showing Wasden, saying, “Vote again for Lawrence Wasden, our tough-on-crime attorney general.”
Out-of-state groups have been targeting Wasden in independent expenditure campaigns that appear intended to support Labrador, but never mention him.
SECRETARY OF STATE
The only ads in the Secretary of State race that aired during the hour were for Phil McGrane, one of three Republicans vying in the May 17 primary. One slot was one of his earlier ads, touting his credentials as an elections expert, as he’s the current Ada County clerk. The other two both featured a new ad that focuses on his support for gun rights, opposition to abortion, and opposition to “federal overreach,” including on election issues.
Common themes in the ads from all the GOP candidates include opposition to abortion and support for gun rights, to the point that many of the candidates are shown carrying or using firearms. “They’re hitting those key issues for Republican voters,” Kettler said.
This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press, read more on IdahoPress.com.
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NAMPA, Idaho — This article originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
A Nampa restaurant will be featured on an upcoming episode of a popular reality show.
Restaurant: Impossible is coming to the Gem State to try to reverse the fortunes of Island Kine Grinds. The Food Network show, starring chef Robert Irvine, helps struggling restaurants with parameters of a two-day time limit and a $10,000 budget.
Irvine and the show's crew are filming at the restaurant, located at 140 Caldwell Blvd., on May 24 and 25. The community is invited to assist the renovation process and participate in the rejuvenated dining experience.
Those who are interested in assisting in the renovation and construction should email reservationsimpossible@gmail.com by 1 p.m. on May 20 and include 2016 / ISLAND KINE GRINDS Volunteer in the subject line. Those interested in dining at the new-look restaurant should email reservationsimpossible@gmail.com by 1 p.m. on May 20 and include 2016 / ISLAND KINE GRINDS RESERVATION in the subject line.
Island Kine Grinds opened in 2011 and features "authentic Hawaiian style plate" meals, according to its website.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California's governor on Friday proposed a temporary tax cut for the state's struggling legal marijuana industry, but businesses said it falls far short of what’s needed to revive a foundering pot economy.
Broad legal sales began in California in 2018, but the industry has been burdened by hefty taxes that can approach 50% in some areas, costly regulation and competition from a flourishing illegal marketplace, which industry analysts estimate is at least twice the size of the legal one.
Meanwhile, a glut of cannabis from corporate-scale farms has sent wholesale prices into a tailspin, leaving some growers unable to make a profit.
California was once envisioned as a national model for legal sales, but industry leaders warned Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom in December that the state's licensed industry was verging on collapse and needed immediate tax relief and a swift expansion of retail outlets to survive.
In a proposal to the Legislature for the budget year that starts in July, the Newsom administration recommended eliminating the much-despised cultivation tax, which is set at $161 on a pound of buds. But to make up for those lost funds, the state after three years would raise the excise tax imposed on retail cannabis purchases to 19%, up from the current 15%.
Under the proposal, however, an excise tax jump could come sooner.
If the state isn't taking in enough cannabis tax money to support a range of education, law enforcement and other programs — a total of $670 million each year — the excise tax could be stepped up to cover that gap as soon as January 2024, though not necessarily to the 19% level. Additionally the state is putting up a one-time $150 million stream of funds to help cover those costs.
There are other provisions, including about $20 million for grants to communities to accelerate licensing for retail shops. While cannabis is legal in California, many communities have either banned it or not set up local licensing programs for markets to operate. There are less than 1,000 retail shops, down from about 8,000 before broad legalization kicked in, businesses say.
Overall, the governor's proposed changes would “greatly simplify tax compliance, reduce the overall tax burden for our licensees and help stabilize the legal market,” said Nicole Elliott, director of the state Department of Cannabis Control.
If approved, the plan would represent the first change in tax policy since legal sales kicked off. However, some taxes, including cultivation, have increased over that time.
The plan disappointed leading businesses, which had been seeking elimination of the cultivation tax, along with a cut in the excise tax imposed on retail sales to 5%, down from 15%, among other changes.
Jerred Kiloh of the United Cannabis Business Association, a Los Angeles-based trade group, said the plan would not allow companies to reduce steep consumer prices that have been driving buyers into the underground market, where taxes are not imposed and prices are cheaper.
Without that, the industry will continue to suffer, Kiloh said.
“All they are really doing is shifting some taxes around, and it’s not ever going to get to the customer,” Kiloh added.
Cannabis is covered by a range of state taxes, and it also can be taxed at the local level. Currently, state taxes include a cultivation tax on buds, leaves and plants, the 15% excise tax on retail sales and the usual sales tax.
The Save California Cannabis Coalition — an industry group — said in a statement that Newsom's proposal keeps California's “dying market handcuffed to oppressive taxes.”
Lindsay Robinson of the California Cannabis Industry Association viewed the plan as an initial step that didn't do enough to crack down on illegal sales. “It’s kicking the can down the road,” she said.
There will be no quick fix. Speaking with reporters in Sacramento, Newsom said the proposal marked “the beginning of a process” to force illegal operators into retreat that would take years.
The proposal is subject to review in the Legislature, where it could be modified.
Cannabis remains illegal at the federal level, though most Americans live in states with at least some access to legal legal marijuana.
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Two of Roseville's spray grounds open this weekend as temperatures are expected to be in the low 90s.
Harry Crabb Park, 1000 Scarborough Drive, and Vernon Street Town Square, 311 Vernon St., will open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends, starting May 14 through May 31, Memorial Day.
From Memorial Day through Labor Day, both parks will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. After Labor Day through Sept. 30, the parks will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Hours could change because of special events or maintenance.
Luken Park along with other smaller water play areas are closed because of drought conditions since they do not recirculate water.
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At the Costco in Roseville, gas prices as of Friday, May, 13, are $5.54 for regular gas, $5.79 for premium and $5.99 for Diesel, according to Costco's website.
This is compared to other gas stations in Roseville where prices can be as high as $5.79.
The gas station at Costco in Roseville is open Monday through Friday from
6:00 a.m. - 9:30 p.m., Saturday its open 6:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. and Sunday 7:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.It will be closed on Memorial Day.
California's average price of gas is about $5.87, according to AAA.
Tips to save money
There are steps you can take to make an old car, truck or SUV perform better, go farther and perhaps save some money on fuel:
— Make sure there’s enough air in the tires. Underinflated tires create more rolling resistance with the pavement, thereby reducing gas mileage. Inflate your tires to the pressure recommended on the inside of your driver’s side door. Check them periodically with a tire pressure gauge. “Typically, your gas mileage is going to be impacted by about 5% to 10% if you don’t have proper inflation,” said David Bennett, manager of repair systems for AAA. But don’t over-inflate. Doing so could cause tires to wear out more quickly.
— Properly maintain your vehicle. Follow the manufacturer’s recommendations for oil and other fluid changes and for replacing air and other filters. Replacing spark plugs at the proper intervals can help, too. “The vehicle is going to operate at its peak efficiency” with good maintenance, Bennett said. It will cost between $235 and $289 for new spark plugs on, say, a 10-year-old Ford F-150 pickup with a 4.6-liter V8, according to Repairpal.com.
— Watch your speed. AAA says fuel economy peaks around 50 miles per hour on most vehicles, then drops as speed rises. Reducing highway speeds by 5 mph (8 kilometers per hour) to 10 mph improves gas mileage by up to 14%.
— Plan your route in advance. Try to minimize backtracking. Do multiple tasks on each trip. Avoid rush hours and other peak travel times.
— Don’t idle too much. An engine burns one-quarter to a half-gallon (1.9 liters) of gas per hour when idling, but a warm engine needs only around 10 seconds worth of fuel to restart, according to AAA. So when safely possible, shut your engine off if you’ll be stopped for more than a minute. Many new vehicles do this on their own. Bennett says owners shouldn’t disable their new “stop-start” system.
— Coast to stop lights. Time your travel to keep rolling and avoid unnecessary stops. Cars consume a lot of fuel to get moving from a dead stop.
— Fill up with gasoline designated as “Top Tier.” Oil companies put additives in Top Tier gas that cuts carbon deposits. “As you start getting carbon buildup, the vehicle will not be running as efficiently,” Bennett said. Gasoline brands with additives have stickers on the pumps. They can be found HERE.
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — Authorities are investigating the death of a man who was found stabbed in a Sacramento County home Thursday morning.
According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to a call from a resident just before 10 a.m. Thursday, May 12, along the 1300 block of Rowena Way, report a man unresponsive.
Upon arrival, deputies found Dan Richard O’Riordan, 53, with at least one stab wound at the scene. Shortly after, deputies located the suspect and arrested Thomas Dwayne Grant, 40, just blocks from where O'Ridordan was found.
Grant was arrested on the charge of suspected homicide. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, Grant is being held without bail at the Sacramento County Jail and is now awaiting trial.
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COVID-19 metrics were mixed for the week ending May 7, according to the latest dashboard report from Coconino County Health and Human Services (CCHHS).
While the county is still at a low community level and the number of new cases fell, percent positivity, CLI and the two community level indicators all rose.
Coconino County reported 2.8 new COVID admissions per 100,000 (double the previous week’s rate of 1.4) and 2.7% of staffed in-patient beds occupied by COVID patients for the week (the previous rate was 1.3%). These are still below the medium level thresholds of 10 per 100,000 and 10%, respectively.
Four people were hospitalized with COVID for the week, the same as the previous week. The incidence of COVID-like illness in county hospitals (CLI) rose to 3.7%, after two weeks at a rate of 3.2% and one COVID death was reported for the week (zero the week before).
The county's case rate fell after three consecutive weeks of rising rates, to 89 per 100,000 from 112.8 the week before. The threshold for adjusted community indicator levels is 200 per 100,000. The number of new cases reported for both weeks (127 this week, 161 the week before) is above the two year average of cases throughout the pandemic so far (119 and 89, respectively).
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Percent positivity continued to rise for the fifth week in a row. A total of 9.6% of the 1,595 tests conducted in the county this week had positive results (from 8.7% of 2,155 tests the week before).
Tribal communities and Flagstaff had the highest case rates for the week: 150.5 and 104.3 per 100,000 respectively. Residents aged 25 to 44 had the highest case rate (124 per 100,000) and those aged 45 to 64 had the highest positivity (11.1%).
A new omicron subvariant, BA.2.12.1, has been increasing in prevalence in both Coconino County and Arizona. TGen’s Arizona COVID Sequencing Dashboard first reported it in the county the week ending April 23.
At the time, it accounted for 17.65% of sequenced genomes, which has grown to 45.45% the week ending May 7. The county's other sequenced genomes are of the BA.2 subvariant, which accounted for over 99% of genomes the first two weeks of April.
This is similar to Arizona as a whole, with BA.2.12.1 accounting for a growing percentage of genomes sequenced throughout April and BA.2 making up the majority of others. Unlike Coconino County, however, the state reports a small percentage (less than 10%) of genomes being of the BA.1 and BA.4 subvariants.
The week ending May 7, 41.67% of genomes sequenced in the state were BA.2.12.1, 55% were BA.2 and BA.1 and BA.4 each made up 1.67%.
Boosters continue to make up the majority of COVID vaccines administered in Coconino County. The dashboard data reports 59% of its eligible population as being fully vaccinated, 51.7% of whom have received an additional dose.
The Fieldhouse’s last day of operation will be Saturday, May 14. Other vaccination and testing locations can be found at coconino.az.gov/2294/COVID-19-Information.
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CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — Charlotte County firefighters are putting their skills to the test today. Special operations crews are getting hands-on time to work on something that rarely happens… until this week.
A trench collapse Monday killed two men on Burnt Store Road. Today, the technical team had a chance to hone the skills they use in that situation.
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“We do a lot of the theory training and stuff before we come out and this is an opportunity to put that theory into practice,” Lt. Jon Jensen said.
This type of training makes awful accidents like Mondays go a lot smoother. First responders spent the morning building and installing fin foam boards that would safeguard them if they had to go into a trench for rescue.
Lt. Jensen has 26 years of experience in the firefighting industry. Today, the crews training with him have more than 100+ years of collective trench experience.
Trench collapses are relatively rare in Charlotte County. Before this week, the last real emergency was 14 years ago which is why training is tantamount.
“There’s always something we can improve,” fire medic Alejandro Valdes said.
The session starts with lining the simulated soil with wooden boards. Then, they go in with pressurized support poles before replacing those with real wood.
The technique is fresh in the minds of the firefighters who were on scene Monday when two construction workers died under dirt. Those who weren’t working had the ability to hear from and learn from those who participated in the recovery.
“A lot of the things we did out there that worked well, we’ll repeat those things. Things we had to modify out there, we’ll take those lessons, bring them into the training and hopefully incorporate them next time,” Lt. Jensen said.
Moving forward, the hope is the special operations team will only have to use these skills in the classroom. However, as we saw earlier this week, they have the tools ready for whenever a trench tragedy occurs.
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Someone opened fire inside a restaurant on the campus of Drexel University Friday evening, police said.
It was unclear if anyone was shot, but police were being cautious because they were unsure if anyone was inside the restaurant’s bathroom, Philadelphia Police Department Capt. John Walker said.
NBC10’s SkyForce10 observed several police officers outside a Shake Shack on the campus around 5:30 p.m., though Walker did not say whether that was the restaurant involved in the shooting.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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The potato market is getting a much-needed shot in the arm after Mexico agreed to grant full market access for U.S. fresh potatoes.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Mexico’s national plant protection organization announced Thursday that the U.S. has begun exporting potatoes beyond the 26-kilometer border zone that previously marked the limit of their export.
U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, noted in a statement that a shipment from Idaho was the first one cleared to enter Mexico.
The two countries reached an agreement late last year to expand that market access for U.S. potatoes, a USDA news release said. The agreement was something that the United States had sought for more than 25 years.
Mexico is the largest export market for U.S. potatoes and products valued at $394 million in 2021, a National Potato Council news release said Friday. Despite the previous restriction to the 26-kilometer border region, Mexico was the second-largest market for fresh potato exports in 2021, accounting for 124,449 metric tons valued at $60 million last year, the release said. U.S. potato industry officials estimate that access to the entire country of Mexico for fresh U.S. potatoes will provide a market potential of $250 million per year, in five years.
Earlier this year at the the University of Idaho-sponsored Idaho Potato Conference, Kam Quarles, executive director of the National Potato Council, told the audience that full-market access to Mexico could result in a "10 to 15% increase in potato exports, global, just through that one market,” Quarles said as reported by Intermountain Farm & Ranch, “obviously a huge potential there, incredibly valuable. Even if you’re not directly shipping to Mexico. That rising tide is going to help the entire U.S. industry.”
Quarles told the Idaho Potato Conference the success of the drawn-out legal fight for full-access could not have been accomplished without the combined efforts of state organizations like the Idaho Potato Commission and congressional members such as Crapo and Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho.
Thursday's announcement was heralded by Idaho's U.S. senators who'd long pushed for the expansion.
“Addressing this decades-long dispute is a significant step forward in improving and strengthening our trade relationship with Mexico," Crapo said in a statement. "While this is a positive development, we must continue to monitor Mexico’s compliance with USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) to ensure every aspect is fully enforced and the agreement lives up to its full potential.”
Sen. Jim Risch said in a statement, "I’m glad to see this initial shipment of fresh Idaho potatoes granted access to Mexico, but this needs to be the first step of many. Potato growers in Idaho and across the country were promised meaningful market access more than 15 years ago, and Mexico has a responsibility to make good on its pledge to our farmers.”
In Friday's news release, Quarles said the agreement wouldn’t have been possible without the "tireless work" of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and United States Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai.
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MARSHALL, N.Y. – Town of Marshall residents are encouraged to keep an eye out for rabies symptoms in wild or stray animals after a rabid cat was located in the town on Friday.
The Oneida County Health Department sent the cat to the Wadsworth Center in Albany to be tested, and the results came back positive Friday afternoon.
According to the health department, one person was exposed and received preventative treatment.
Signs of rabies include the animal acting mad or shy, and drooling or foaming at the mouth.
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The Fredstrom Elementary gym was filled with excited voices as children found their seats, not knowing that one special teacher was about to be honored and awarded with $10,000.
Rochelle Settles, who has been teaching at Fredstrom for 26 years, didn't know what was in store for her either. When students and staff entered the gym Friday afternoon, they thought it was nothing more than a normal assembly.
Settles was chosen out of thousands of nominees to be this year's Scottish Rite Distinguished Teacher of the Year award winner for her work as a special education teacher and now a K-5 science teacher.
"I was extremely surprised," she said. "My heart was pounding and I could hardly speak. It was a total surprise. I’m pretty overwhelmed, but so grateful."
The prestigious award honors one Lincoln Public Schools teacher each year who has shown outstanding effort to be innovative and creative in the field, said Eric Weber, LPS associate superintendent of human resources.
Teachers and staff can be nominated by principals and other district leaders.
“The slate of candidates this year was really, really good. We could’ve named many Scottish Rite Teachers of the year, but we only picked one," Weber said. "(Settles) is a great representation of all the teachers in Lincoln."
Settles was presented with a plaque and a $10,000 check donated by the Lincoln Scottish Rite Preservation Foundation, which she plans to use to travel overseas to Europe in the near future.
"The kids are great here and I get to do what I love. It’s just a great life," she said. " I feel very fortunate that my administration here lets me be a good teacher and do what I need to do to make sure that we foster the field of science."
Breaking down Lincoln's public schools: Enrollment, test scores and more
Adams
Adams Elementary: 7401 Jacobs Creek Drive
Enrollment : 776 students
77.9% white, 2.3% Black or African American, 9.6% Asian, 4.9% Hispanic/Latino, 5.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 8.6% free, 2.3% reduced
Gifted students: 10.4%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 73 language arts; 76 math
LPS
Arnold
Arnold Elementary: 5000 Mike Scholl St.
Enrollment: 742 students
57.1% white, 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.4% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 19.2% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 46.7% free, 12.7% reduced
Gifted: 2.8%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 32 math
LPS
Beattie
Beattie Elementary: 1901 Calvert St.
Enrollment: 368 students
73.6% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.3% Black or African American, 1.1% Asian, 8.2% Hispanic/Latino, 13.3% two or more races
Free or reduced-price lunch participation: 25.3% free, 8.2% reduced price
Gifted: 6.0%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 55 math
LPS
Belmont
Belmont Elementary: 3425 N. 14th St.
Enrollment: 829 students
42.4% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 15.7% Black or African American, 2.2% Asian, 26.9% Hispanic/Latino, 11.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 67.5% free, 11.0% reduced
Gifted: 3.7%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 34 math
LPS
Brownell
Brownell Elementary: 6000 Aylesworth Ave.
Enrollment: 320 students
65.9% white, 4.9% Black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 14.8% Hispanic/Latino, 14.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 45.2% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 2.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 50 language arts, 37 math
LPS
Calvert
Calvert Elementary: 3709 S. 46th St.
Enrollment: 361 students
62.9% white, 1.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.1% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 12.0% Hispanic/Latino, 15.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 45.7% free, 6.7% reduced
Gifted: 11.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 47 language arts, 31 math
LPS
Campbell
Campbell Elementary: 2200 Dodge St.
Enrollment: 591 students
46.6% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 14.3% Black or African American, 11.3% Asian, 16.6% Hispanic/Latino, 10.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 59.4% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 4.2%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 38 language arts, 34 math
LPS
Cavett
Cavett Elementary: 7701 S. 36th St.
Enrollment: 580 students
77.0% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.9% Black or African American, 4.0% Asian, 8.9% Hispanic, 6.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.4% free, 3.6% reduced
Gifted: 13.3%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 69 math
LPS
Clinton
Clinton Elementary: 1520 N. 29th St.
Enrollment: 392 students
39.2% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 24.3% Black or African American, 4.7% Asian, 21.0% Hispanic/Latino, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 81.2% free, 10.5% reduced
Gifted: 3.6%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 30 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Eastridge
Eastridge Elementary: 6245 L St.
Enrollment: 291 students
72.9% white, 1.0% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.5% Black or African American, 1.4% Asian, 10.3% Hispanic/Latino, 10.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.8% free, 10.0% reduced
Gifted: 7.9%
Statewide test scores (percent who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 51 math
LPS
Elliott
Elliott Elementary: 225 S. 25th St.
Enrollment: 383 students
23.3% white, 1.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.7% Black or African American, 12.8% Asian, 33.7% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 14.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 76.4% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 4.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 42 language arts, 35 math
LPS
Everett
Everett Elementary: 1123 C St.
Enrollment: 374 students
27.8% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.5% Black or African American, 9.9% Asian, 40.4% Hispanic/Latino, 7.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 73.7% free, 8.7% reduced
Gifted: 5.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 24 math
LPS
Fredstrom
Fredstrom Elementary, 5700 N.W. 10th St.
Enrollment: 437 students
74.0% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.7% Black or African American, 3.6% Asian, 9.7% Hispanic, 10.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.3% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 52 language arts, 54 math
LPS
Hartley
Hartley Elementary, 730 N. 33rd St.
Enrollment: 339 students
37.5% white, 2.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 17.5% Black or African American, 3.6% Asian, 25.9% Hispanic/Latino, 1.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 71.5% free, 9.4% reduced
Gifted: 3.2%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 38 language arts, 28 math
LPS
Hill
Hill Elementary , 5230 Tipperary Trail
Enrollment: 449 students
72.2% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.8% Black or African American, 5.3% Asian, 10.3% Hispanic/Latino, 7.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 24.0% free, 5.0% reduced
Gifted: 10.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 59 math
LPS
Holmes
Holmes Elementary , 5230 Sumner St.
Enrollment: 393 students
70.7% white, 3.5% Black or African American, 3.5% Asian, 10.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 37.1% free, 7.0% reduced
Gifted: 11.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 61 language arts, 47 math
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Humann
Humann Elementary, 6720 Rockwood Lane
Enrollment: 564 students
78.8% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.2% Black or African American, 1.3% Asian, 5.9% Hispanic/Latino, 9.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 23.9% free, 4.0% reduced
Gifted: 16.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 72 language arts, 67 math
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Huntington
Huntington Elementary , 2900 N. 46th St.
Enrollment: 370 students
45.0% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 12.0% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 24.6% Hispanic/Latino, 16.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 67.0% free, 14.1% reduced
Gifted: 4.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 23 math
LPS
Kahoa
Kahoa Elementary, 7700 Leighton Ave.
Enrollment: 537 students
78.8% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.9% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 6.7% Hispanic/Latino, 7.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.9% free, 7.3% reduced
Gifted: 6.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 66 language arts, 64 math
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Kloefkorn
Kloefkorn Elementary, 6601 Glass Ridge Drive
Enrollment: 488 students
83.7% white, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.5% Black or African American, 4.4% Asian, 5.3% Hispanic/Latino, 4.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 6.2% free, 2.0% reduced
Gifted: 11.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 77 language arts, 72 math
LPS
Kooser
Kooser Elementary, 7301 N. 13th St.
Enrollment: 821 students
63.5% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.6% Black or African American, 11.9% Asian, 11.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 7.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 30.0% free, 8.3% reduced
Gifted: 2.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Lakeview
Lakeview Elementary, 300 Capitol Beach Blvd.
Enrollment: 400 students
53.0% white, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.3% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 22.8% Hispanic/Latino, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 57.0% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 1.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 35 language arts, 29 math
LPS
Maxey
Maxey Elementary, 5200 S. 75th St.
Enrollment: 683 students
75.9% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.2% Black or African American, 13.5% Asian, 3.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 5.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.6% free, 3.4% reduced
Gifted: 10.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 70 language arts, 69 math
LPS
McPhee
McPhee Elementary, 820 Goodhue Blvd.
Enrollment: 304 students
26.8% white, 1.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 16.3% Black or African American, 12.7% Asian, 35.9% Hispanic/Latino and 6.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 77.2% free, 6.9% reduced
Gifted: 4.0%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 22 math
LPS
Meadow Lane
Meadow Lane Elementary, 7200 Vine St.
Enrollment: 620 students
72.1% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.8% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 13.8% Hispanic/Latino, 8.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 33.6% free, 8.1% reduced
Gifted: 8.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 51 language arts, 39 math
LPS
Morley
Morley Elementary, 6800 Monterey Drive
Enrollment: 421 students
78.1% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.8% Black or African American, 0.2% Asian, 7.4% Hispanic, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 20.2% free, 5.5% reduced
Gifted: 15.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 69 language arts, 56 math
LPS
Norwood Park
Norwood Park Elementary, 4710 N. 72nd St.
Enrollment: 238 students
68.0% white, 4.4% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 18.9% Hispanic/Latino, 6.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 46.6% free, 15.0% reduced
Gifted: 4.9%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 43 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Pershing
Pershing Elementary, 6402 Judson St.
Enrollment: 430 students
57.5% white, 0.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.6% Black or African American, 3.3% Asian, 20.6% Hispanic/Latino, 11.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 54.5% free, 12.7% reduced
Gifted: 4.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 49 language arts, 50 math
LPS
Prescott
Prescott Elementary, 1930 S. 20th St.
Enrollment: 492 students
44.9% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.8% Black or African American, 7.3% Asian, 18.8% Hispanic/Latino, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 13.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 51.2% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 52 language arts, 36 math
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Pyrtle
Pyrtle Elementary, 721 Cottonwood Drive
Enrollment: 454 students
78.9% white, 1.9% Black or African American, 2.6% Asian, 10.0% Hispanic/Latino, 6.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 17.3% free, 3.6% reduced
Gifted: 17.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 68 language arts, 60 math
LPS
Randolph
Randolph Elementary, 1024 S. 37th St.
Enrollment: 428 students
61.4% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.6% Black or African American, 3.7% Asian, 16.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.5% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.4% two or more races
Free and reduced-lunch participation: 45.6% free, 8.9% reduced
Gifted: 3.0%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 53 language arts, 40 math
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Riley
Riley Elementary, 5021 Orchard St.
Enrollment: 321 students
49.5% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.9% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 22.7% Hispanic/Latino, 16.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 55.1% free, 10.0% reduced
Gifted: 5.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 42 math
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Roper
Roper Elementary, 2323 S. Coddington
Enrollment: 803 students
53.5% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.9% Black or African American, 6.9% Asian, 21.2% Hispanic/Latino, 8.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 40.0% free, 10.4% reduced
Gifted: 6.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 44 language arts, 46 math
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Rousseau
Rousseau Elementary, 3701 S 33rd St.
Enrollment: 531 students
72.9% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.0% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 7.0% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 22.7% free, 8.4% reduced
Gifted: 14.7%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 68 language arts, 63 math
LPS
Saratoga
Saratoga Elementary, 2215 S. 13th St.
Enrollment: 235 students
48.5% white, 1.5% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.8% Black or African American, 3.4% Asian, 26.2% Hispanic/Latino, 12.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 61.7% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 5.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 25 math
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Sheridan
Sheridan Elementary, 3100 Plymouth Ave.
Enrollment: 407 students
86.0% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.5% Black or African American, 0.5% Asian, 4.9% Hispanic/Latino, 6.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 12.0% free, 5.2% reduced
Gifted: 17.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 74 language arts, 64 math
LPS
West Lincoln
West Lincoln Elementary, 630 W. Dawes Ave.
Enrollment: 505 students
37.0% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.7% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 41.2% Hispanic, 9.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 72.1% free, 10.3% reduced
Gifted: 3.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 29 math
LPS
Wysong
Wysong Elementary, 7901 Blanchard Blvd.
Enrollment: 684 students
89.9% white, 0.1% Black or African American, 2.2% Asian, 3.8% Hispanic/Latino, 3.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 3.9% free, 1.5% reduced
Gifted: 7.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 75 language arts, 68 math
LPS
Zeman
Zeman Elementary, 4900 S. 52nd St.
Enrollment: 440 students
63.0% white, 0.9% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.8% Black or African American, 3.0% Asian, 16.1% Hispanic/Latino, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 29.5% free, 9.3% reduced
Gifted: 3.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 58 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Culler
Culler Middle School, 5201 Vine St.
Enrollment: 708 students
39.4% white, 1.0% American Indian or Alaska Native, 14.7% Black or African American, 7.1% Asian, 27.3% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 10.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 60.9% free, 9.3% reduced
Gifted: 8.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 30 math
LPS
Dawes
Dawes Middle School, 5130 Colfax Ave.
Enrollment: 398 students
55.0% white, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.3% Black or African American, 2.3% Asian, 19.8% Hispanic/Latino, 14.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 53.3% free, 13.1% reduced
Gifted: 10.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 32 math
LPS
Goodrich
Goodrich Middle School, 4600 Lewis Ave.
Enrollment: 818 students
42.9% white, 1.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 13.0% Black or African American, 4.0% Asian, 29.5% Hispanic/Latino, 9.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 61.6% free, 11.1% reduced
Gifted: 9.7%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 38 math
LPS
Irving
Irving Middle School, 2745 S. 22nd St.
Enrollment: 910 students
62.7% white, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska Native, 6.5% Black or African American, 3.2% Asian, 14.3% Hispanic/Latino, 12.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 35.4% free, 8.1% reduced
Gifted: 26.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 49 math
LPS
Lefler
Lefler Middle School, 1100 S. 48th St.
Enrollment: 558 students
57.9% white, 0.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.5% Black or African American, 4.7% Asian, 15.8% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 43.7% free, 12.0% reduced
Gifted: 13.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 45 language arts, 45 math
LPS
Lux
Lux Middle School, 7800 High St.
Enrollment: 789 students
80.0% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.7% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 7.2% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 6.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 10.5% free, 6.3% reduced
Gifted: 28.3%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 66 language arts, 68 math
LPS
Mickle
Mickle Middle School, 2500 N. 67th St.
Enrollment: 719 students
70.9% white, 0.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.8% Black or African American, 1.5% Asian, 11.8% Hispanic/Latino, 12.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 34.9% free, 9.5% reduced
Gifted: 17.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 55 language arts, 53 math
LPS
Moore
Moore Middle School, 8700 Yankee Woods Drive
Enrollment: 646 students
86.4% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.6% Black or African American, 4.3% Asian, 3.4% Hispanic/Latino, 4.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 7.0% free, 2.3% reduced
Gifted: 27.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 69 language arts, 78 math
LPS
Park
Park Middle School, 855 S. Eighth St.
Enrollment: 833 students
41.2% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.9% Black or African American, 6.7% Asian, 30.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.2% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 55.8% free, 10.4% reduced
Gifted: 9.8%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 37 language arts, 37 math
LPS
Pound
Pound Middle School, 4740 S. 45th St.
Enrollment: 700 students
67.6% white, 0.6% American Indian or Alaska Native, 4.6% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 12.4% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 12.3% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.7% free, 8.6% reduced
Gifted: 22.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 60 math
LPS
Schoo
Schoo Middle School, 700 Penrose Drive
Enrollment: 898 students
63.9% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 7.2% Black or African American, 5.0% Asian, 12.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 30.3% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 15.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 50 language arts, 48 math
LPS
Scott
Scott Middle School, 2200 Pine Lake Road
Enrollment: 1,182 students
77.7% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.2% Black or African American, 4.6% Asian, 7.2% Hispanic/Latino, 7.1% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 13.1% free, 4.3% reduced
Gifted: 30.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 65 language arts, 70 math
LPS
East
East High School, 1000 S. 70th St.
Enrollment: 2,250 students
78.7% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 2.2% Black or African American, 4.6% Asian, 8.4% Hispanic/Latino, 5.8% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 14.6% free, 5.3% reduced
Gifted: 24.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 59 language arts, 58 math, 63 science
LPS
Lincoln High
Lincoln High School, 2229 J St.
Enrollment: 2,320 students
42.6% white, 1.7% American Indian or Alaska Native, 11.9% Black or African American, 8.9% Asian, 23.3% Hispanic/Latino, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 11.5% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 47.5% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 15.5%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 36 language arts, 34 math, 34 science
LPS
North Star
North Star High School, 5801 N. 33rd St.
Enrollment: 2,243 students
54.9% white, 0.4% American Indian or Alaska Native, 8.7% Black or African American, 6.5% Asian, 21.5% Hispanic/Latino, 7.9% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 42.1% free, 9.7% reduced
Gifted: 10.1%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 29 language arts, 31 math, 34 science
LPS
Northeast
Northeast High School, 2635 N. 63rd St.
Enrollment: 1,869 students
59.4% white, 1.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, 9.7% Black or African American, 2.4% Asian, 17.1% Hispanic/Latino, 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 10.0% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 49.9% free, 10.8% reduced
Gifted: 10.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 32 language arts, 30 math, 34 science
LPS
Southeast
Southeast High School, 2930 S. 37th St.
Enrollment: 1,980 students
73.4% white, 1.1% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.8% Black or African American, 1.2% Asian, 10.6% Hispanic/Latino, 0.3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, 9.6% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 25.1% free, 7.6% reduced
Gifted: 22.6%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 49 language arts, 48 math, 53 science
LPS
Southwest
Southwest High School, 7001 S. 14th St.
Enrollment: 2,196 students
76.8% white, 0.2% American Indian or Alaska Native, 3.9% Black or African American, 3.8% Asian, 9.6% Hispanic/Latino, 5.7% two or more races
Free and reduced-price lunch participation: 17.7% free, 5.1% reduced
Gifted: 24.4%
Statewide test scores (percentage who meet or exceed standards): 62 language arts, 58 math, 64 science
LPS
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SEARCY, Ark. — This summer-like heat has crushed previous records. That's not the only record being broken though, so are the hundreds of Arkansas athletes competing in this year's Special Olympics.
"I was nervous when I got up this morning, but I quickly just made that disappear," said Travis Benson, an athlete competing in the Bocce matchup.
This will make Benson's seventh year competing, but he still likes to keep his skills sharp.
"We practice, like probably two or three times in a month before coming," Benson said.
You can see the results of that practice when you look at the medal around his neck.
For him, it's a reward for those long hours he's spent honing his skills.
Thursday's matches are just half of the two day competition.
There's also another aspect to the competition. A big part of it comes down to health and wellness, according to competing athlete Sharon Johnson.
"In here are healthy athletes where we get different things done, like eyesight, teeth, [and] hearing," Johnson said.
Special Olympics Arkansas allows thousands of people with intellectual disabilities to really get the full experience while competing.
While the competition is fun, leaders are not just focusing on the accomplishments on the track or under the weights, but also making sure people are truly in good shape.
"It's very important to just take care of yourself, your team, body wise, everything," Johnson said.
That message is being pushed by the volunteers too. Megan Slayton, with the Van Buren Police Department, is out there for the second time, volunteering with the Special Olympics.
"A feeling of just true joy, [and] to be able to work side by side with them," Slayton said.
She's lending a hand in cheering on all of those star athletes, as well as presenting awards.
She also participated in the law enforcement torch run Wednesday.
For her, this community, built of hundreds of supporters, is her reason for coming back.
"With COVID and everything like that, it was a little more difficult the last couple of years. But we're here this year, and we're making it work," Slayton said.
Thursday was the first day of two day competition.
The matches will resume Friday at 9:30 a.m. at Harding University.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fayetteville Police Department has confirmed that the body of a missing woman was recovered from the Town Branch Creek Friday, May 13.
28-year-old Shelby Ratliff went missing during the early morning hours of May 5. She was last seen leaving Dickson Street in Fayetteville around 2 a.m. and was dropped off by a rideshare service at a friend's apartment off Beechwood Ave.
Sgt. Murphy with the Fayetteville Police Department says the initial investigation makes them think that this was a drowning incident directly related to the severe weather.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Ms. Ratliff."
No further details about the investigation have been released at this time.
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GREENWOOD, Arkansas — Arkansas State Police (ASP) confirmed that they are investigating several allegations involving students at Greenwood Schools.
ASP began investigating the alleged incident involving possible criminal behavior with students on a Greenwood school bus.
Several concerned parents reached out to 5NEWS about the alleged incident.
Greenwood held a school board meeting Thursday, May 12, but the allegations were not discussed in an open session.
On Friday, May 13, the Suzanne Wilson, Assistant Superintendent of the Greenwood School District, released the following statement:
"The Greenwood School District regards matters of student safety as a top priority. We are cooperating with authorities and conducting a thorough and robust investigation into the allegations to assure the safety of students. Since this matter involves the actions of students and staff, the District will have no further comment as applicable law provides for the confidentiality of such matters."
The district says it is cooperating with authorities during the investigation.
5NEWS has requested records surrounding this case but that request is still now awaiting review.
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KELLER, Texas — History will be made this Friday when a North Texas native walks across the stage to graduate as the youngest law student at Southern Methodist University ever.
She’s also set to become the youngest African American to graduate law school in the United States.
At 19, Haley Taylor Schlitz says her path to SMU’s Dedman School of Law was non-traditional. When she was in the 5th grade, she struggled with not being acknowledged as a gifted student. Her parents noticed that she was beginning to act out and, after seeing a pediatric psychologist, it was revealed that Taylor Schlitz needed to skip several grades after scoring extremely high on an intelligence test.
Her parents then decided to homeschool her to better meet her educational needs.
“Many girls and students of color are left out of our nation’s gifted and talented programs,” Taylor Schlitz said in an interview with SMU. “Society will lose out on the potential scientist who cures a major disease, the entrepreneur who starts the next Amazon and so much more. All because of their gender and/or skin color.”
Taylor Schlitz said she thrived at working at her own pace and by 13 she graduated from high school. At 16, she was accepted into nine different law schools across the U.S.
Taylor Schlitz has been passionate in using her voice to help move the needle in her community and to speak on public policies. In 2020, she was elected to serve as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention.
But the talented teen isn’t the only one in her family making a name for herself. In 2021, WFAA sat down with Taylor Schlitz, her brother Ian and Hana – who were also home-schooled, and both finished high school by the age of 13.
Ian earned a bachelor’s degree, graduating magna cum laude from The University of North Texas in Denton by 15. He began work on his MBA through Tarleton State and has started his own company, Kidlamity Gaming, which hosts video game tournaments for gamers between the ages of 8 and 17 years old.
Hana finished high school at 12 and is attending Texas Woman’s University in Denton.
Parents, Myiesha Taylor and William Schlitz, said they always wanted to teach their children to honor their brilliance and honor their Blackness.
They frequently tell their children:
“You’ve been blessed with this opportunity to shine. But, the real judgment of each of you is what do you do with this opportunity? That doesn’t mean you have to be Lebron James or President Biden. But, what impact do you make on the world?”
Now, Taylor Schlitz’s hard work has paid off and she will graduate on May 13. And what impact does she plan to make on the world? To work on education policy issues for an elected official or a nonprofit organization. Taylor Schlitz also wants to find a way to increase opportunities for gifted and talented girls and students of color.
Ahead of this weekend's ceremony, Taylor Schlitz also got to meet another graduate making headlines at SMU. At 85, Marillyn Seeberger is graduating with a bachelor's degree in film and media arts and plans to write screenplays.
Seeberger and Taylor Schlitz sat down to talk about each other's journeys. Watch the clip below:
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fayetteville Police Department has confirmed that the body of a missing woman was recovered from the Town Branch Creek Friday, May 13.
28-year-old Shelby Ratliff went missing during the early morning hours of May 5. She was last seen leaving Dickson Street in Fayetteville around 2 a.m. and was dropped off by a rideshare service at a friend's apartment off Beechwood Ave.
Sgt. Murphy with the Fayetteville Police Department says the initial investigation makes them think that this was a drowning incident directly related to the severe weather.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Ms. Ratliff."
No further details about the investigation have been released at this time.
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CARMEL, Ind — Comedian Dave Dugan broke the world record Wednesday for longest time spent driving around a roundabout. He did it, of course, in Carmel.
Dugan drove 1,001 laps around the Jackson Circle along Horseferry Road. That's just south of Main Street in the Village of West Clay. He accomplished the feat in four hours and 29 minutes.
It's not the first time he's done something like that, but he didn't have the world record. Before Wednesday, that belonged to a man from Australia, who spent four hours and 52 seconds driving around a roundabout.
It's something he's done before...but he didn't have the world record until Wednesday.
"I'm gonna try to beat the Aussies. I mean, I love them. They gave us the Outback Steakhouse, wallabies, and, I don't know, Crocodile Dundee," Dugan said. "But I'm going to try to beat that record today."
His efforts weren't just for fun. He was raising money for the Cancer Support Community in the process.
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A British officer's perilous ride through wild southern Delaware: History
It was the middle of the day when a harried visitor to the American colonies, John Fontaine, and his traveling companion reached the Indian River.
A short time later, he wrote in his journal, “We were detained at this creek for two hours, for want of a canoe.” As Fontaine desperately searched for a way across the river, he knew that the brigands who were chasing him could arrive at any moment.
In November 1716, British army officer John Fontaine and a friend traveled on horseback from Dover southward through Sussex County. Three centuries ago, many of the narrow roads of southern Delaware followed Native American routes established long before the first European colonist arrived.
In the late 17th century, when William Penn took over control of Delaware, post roads were established to give southern Delaware easier access to Pennsylvania. The post roads were better than the old American Indian trails, but in many places, these narrow pathways could not accommodate carriages.
Later in the 17th century, the King’s Highway was constructed to connect Lewes with Milford, Dover, New Castle and Wilmington. In addition, a road from Lewes to Dagsboro was cut through the wilderness on the western shores of the coastal bays.
The road that Fontaine took roughly followed the path of what is now Route 113. About 10 miles south of Milford, Fontaine and his friend stopped for the night at a tavern, where they encountered a gang of unsavory local residents.
Fontaine recorded in his journal: “There were about eight rogues that were drinking there, being resolved to fall upon us and rob us. My comrade, going out, not expecting anything, was knocked down.”
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Fontaine heard the commotion, drew his sword and went to his friend’s defense. After fighting with the robbers for a short time, Fontaine and his companion were able to reach their horses and ride off.
The brigands, sensing that they had encountered a profitable prey, rode after them. After riding for about six miles, Fontaine thought that he had escaped the outlaws, and he and his friend decided to stop at a house north of the Indian River.
About ten o’clock that night, the brigands arrived and tried to steal Fontaine’s horses. The alert British army officer, however, spotted the outlaws; and as he recorded in his journal, “After some few injurious words and threats they made off. This is Sussex County. We set up on all night on guard.”
Fontaine and his companion set out again at two in the morning. After riding for several hours, they reached the upper reaches of the Indian River.
In 1696, Peter Waples petitioned the Sussex Court for permission to establish, “A ferry from his house over the Indian or South River for ye mutual [ac]commodation…of the inhabitants of this county.”
The court agreed with the ten-pence toll and gave Waples a monopoly by decreeing: “And all other persons, his neighbors, and are hereby forbidden (upon hire or pay) to ferry any persons or horses over ye said ferry.”
Unfortunately, Fontaine was either unaware of the existence of the ferry or was unable to find Waples to carry him across the Indian River. After searching for two hours, Fontaine and his companion found a small boat, and they were able to row across the Indian River. From there, he was able to ride safely into Maryland without further incident.
After his distressing experience dogging brigands in southern Delaware, Fontaine wrote in his journal, “This part of the country is hardly inhabited and what people here make it their business to rob all passengers.”
Principal sources:
Edward Porter Alexander, ed. The Journal of John Fontaine, Williamsburg, 1972, pp. 120, 175.
J. Thomas Scharf, History of Delaware, 1609-1888, Philadelphia, 1888. Vol. 1, p. 420.
Harold Hancock, Delaware, Two Hundred Years Ago: 1780-1800, Wilmington, 1987, pp. 82-91.
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Delmarva Now and Daily Times staff members win multiple awards for their work
Delmarva Now and The Daily Times staff members have been honored for their work and talents, earning multiple regional awards.
The Maryland Delaware D.C. Press Association awards recognize the best work of journalists in Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. MDDC Executive Director Rebecca Snyder announced the 2021 awards virtually from May 10-13.
The Daily Times and Delmarva Now took home 13 first-place finishes, five second-places and a best of show.
The news organization was also recently honored with a Best in Gannett award for video.
And Delmarva Now and The Eastern Shore News, serving Virginia's Eastern Shore, also took home a first place finish in the Virginia Press Association Awards at the end of April.
The MDDC contest admitted more than 1,500 entries from 48 member publications among 85 categories.
There are seven divisions in the contest, which group member publications into daily and non-daily print and online-only categories, then further group them by circulation. These entries were judged by news media professionals at the Missouri Press Association.
Our award-winning work
Delmarva Now staff swept the Investigative Reporting category, with Kristian Jaime placing first with an article on offshore wind development's encroachment on fishing areas, "Standoff as sea sours fishermen, US Wind relations." Taking second place was Rose Velazquez and Matthew Prensky with "As outcry grows over OC Boardwalk vaping incidents, record detail viral video arrests."
Jaime also swept the Environmental Reporting category, starting with a first place win for “ ‘Water just kept coming.’ How flooding in Salisbury moves from headache to an emergency” on the ongoing flooding issues near the downtown waterfront and Fitzwater Street area. His second place story was "Hemp could be Eastern Shore's next cash crop if growers can beat heat and pests," on the possibility of hemp growing becoming a mainstay.
Photographer/videographer Lauren Roberts took home three awards. She took first-place for Features Video with "Haitians on Delmarva help their own as tragedy continues across Haiti," which focused on groups' efforts to support Haiti after an August 2021 earthquake and as violence, kidnappings and gang activity take over the nation.
Roberts, together with Thomas Costello of the USA TODAY Network, also took home a first place finish and Best in Show for "Delaware Farmland Power to Preserve," focusing on the pressure to develop and build while working to preserve farmland in the state. The video also was bestowed a Best in Gannett award for Division III, a prestigious award within the Gannett-owned news organizations. Gannett judges pointed to strong local interviews that turned a national issue into a powerful local story.
In " 'A guardian now a warrior': Why police may need to flip the script on training" Delmarva Now looked into what experts called an imbalance deep in the roots of policing and called for a cultural overhaul to correct it. Reporter Kelly Powers took first place in Public Service Reporting, with designer Kayla Golliher also claiming first in News-driven Art or Illustration.
Powers also claimed additional first place awards for:
- Coronavirus in Communities wildcard category with “ 'The couldn’t survive without each other.' Salisbury couple dies minutes apart, hand-in-hand."
- Business reporting for "Haitian business is growing on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Advocates want to keep it that way."
For their live coverage of the White Marlin Open, reporters Alec Branch and Ricky Pollitt, along with photographer Roberts, took first place for General Social Media Reporting.
Pollitt, along with Michelle Ganassi and Paula Ramirez of the Digital Optimization Team, took second place in Multimedia Storytelling for their work honoring the Delmarva Shorebirds' 25th anniversary year with a look at the Top 25 Players of All Time. Ganassi created her own baseball cards to accompany the presentation both online and in print. The print Sports Page Design for this project took home second place for Ganassi, Marci Jordan and Anthony Miller.
Reporter Maddie Aiken won first place awards for:
- Medical and Science category with "Unmarked graves: How Salisbury university professor uncovered hundreds at local cemetery."
- Arts/entertainment for "Preserving history: Korean War painting at UMES restored by University of Delaware."
Additional MDDC design awards went to:
- Matthew Cardenas: Features Page Design, second place, Fall festival fun.
- Denisha Kranthoven: Page 1 Design, first place, Summer bucket list.
- Mike Batista: Sports Page Design, first place, "Finally! Prep sports return to Shore.”
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Wicomico County jury finds man guilty of kidnapping, second-degree rape
A man accused of sexually assaulting women at two different locations in Salisbury was found guilty of several charges, according to the Wicomico County State's Attorney's Office.
Jurors convicted Damon Williamson, a 50-year-old formerly of Westover, of kidnapping, attempted first-degree rape, two counts of second-degree rape and other related offenses after a two-day trial that ended May 5.
Williamson sexually assaulted a woman at the Chesapeake Inn in January 2021, according to prosecutors.
He also took two women from east Salisbury to the city's industrial park area in February 2021, prosecutors said, to sexually assault each of them.
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Williamson was on parole at the time on previous convictions of rape, aggravated assault and burglary in Pennsylvania.
Maryland court records show his sentencing is scheduled for July 1.
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DALLAS — When Texas Monthly writers Jim Atkinson and John Bloom sat across an interview table from Candy Montgomery in 1984, four years after she killed neighbor Betty Gore with an axe, Atkinson admits he bought her claims of self-defense.
"Candy spoke with us at length," he said. "She didn't make any apologies for what she'd done. She maintained that it was self-defense. And at that time I believed her."
But as their extensive and detailed reporting of the killing, including their book "Evidence of Love", is turned into a Hulu miniseries called "Candy" featuring Jessica Biel in the lead role, he admits his opinion has changed these 42 years after the brutal incident rocked what was then the small town of Wylie north of Dallas.
"I am still of a mixed feeling about this case," Atkinson told WFAA. "I have trouble still with the idea that it was self-defense. I think that this story will...it's almost Shakespearean," he said. "It will go on and on. It's an amazing story. It's rich and it's resonant. And it has lessons to it that I think are eternal in a certain way."
Candy Montgomery, who at the time was having an affair with Betty Gore's husband, went to Gore's house that day allegedly to borrow a bathing suit for a daughter. But when confronted about the affair, a fight ensued.
Montgomery claimed Gore attacked her first with an axe, that she wrestled it away from her. But the excuse or reasoning for an estimated 41 brutal strikes to Gore's body and head with that axe was never fully explained.
"We still don't know exactly what happened," said Atkinson, who said their interviews back in 1984 included upwards of 50 people connected to the case. But he says the Biel production, which he believes captures Montgomery's anxiousness and mystery well, leaves as many doubts and questions as there were in 1980.
"Somebody could be lying," he said. "Somebody could be not remembering well. And since there were only two of them there, you know, that's where you're left."
"That has always been the missing element in this story. We don't know Betty's version of events. And we never will."
Shakespearean, and brutally tragic, no matter how many years go by.
"As much time as I spent on it, who knows, you know," he said.
Atkinson served as a consulting producer on the Biel/Hulu production. His and Bloom's work also serves as a resource for a second HBO production called "Love and Death" starring Elizabeth Olsen.
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DALLAS — The streets in Deep Ellum were busy with its daily lunch crowd, tourists, and neighbors walking about on Friday afternoon. It’s the type of daytime energy locals have become used to.
It’s the type of cultural vibe and energy that typically draws diverse crowds to the Dallas entertainment district.
“I love coming down here to have fun. It always is pretty lively,” said Julissa Sanchez as she waited outside a pizza shop with her friend.
However, the fun vibe was a stark contrast from the chaos that rang out in the overnight hours near Elm and Crowdus Street.
Gunshots rang out early Friday morning. Two people were killed, and three others were hurt in the crossfire. It’s the type of disruption some residents are getting tired of seeing in the area.
“Whenever I come down here, it’s usually in the daytime. I feel safe walking around, by myself,” said Taylor Donnelson.
Safety and security have long been issues neighbors and business owners have been proactively working to address in the Deep Ellum area.
The Deep Ellum Foundation recently opened a public safety office on Main Street. From it, a security team can monitor dozens of surveillance cameras in the area throughout the day.
That system, in addition to strategic planning and deployment, is what helped with the quick response during Friday morning’s shooting and other recent violent episodes.
“I feel like this stuff’s going on all the time now. I just moved here from Austin. That stuff goes on all the time on 6th Street, and it makes me not want to go down there anymore,” Donnelson explained.
The Deep Ellum Foundation has been working closely with public safety partners. The group just released a community safety plan this week.
The plan includes deploying special police forces for crowd and traffic control, heightened foot patrols and fixed police posts in hot spots, and looking into youth curfews for the area, as summer approaches, among other things.
“Well, it’s an upbeat neighborhood during the day. But at nighttime it’s just dark,” said Sean Rodriguez. He’s an entrepreneur and stylist who’s lived in Deep Ellum nearly six years.
Unfortunately, the 34-year-old said recent crime is forcing him to move out of the community.
“It started off pretty good. But over the years, it’s been a lot of car break ins, and a lot of violence. So it’s time to get out of there,” Rodriguez explained.
As neighbors and stakeholders continue working to be vigilant about plans and protocols for security in Deep Ellum, they said public safety remains top of mind.
“We are a community that welcomes all comers but we do not welcome violence,” Deep Ellum Foundation Executive Director Stephanie Keller Hudiburg said in a statement.
To learn more about the newly released Deep Ellum Community Safety Plan, click here.
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TEXAS, USA — During a company-wide conference call, Six Flags Entertainment announced it would be eliminating its monthly meal plan, referencing attendees who came to eat at the park "all day" and created "choking points" for regular customers.
In 2021, TikTok user @thundermunker, who got the nickname "Six Flags Scoundrel," took advantage of this monthly plan and had his social media posts go viral regarding his meals at Six Flags Magic Mountain in California.
“The pass gives you two meals a day, one snack, and unlimited drinks, so that’s up to 400 meals and 200 snacks a year for $200," the TikTok user explained in one of his most-viewed videos. "I live less than ten minutes from a Six Flags, so I decided to start doing it.”
President and Chief Executive Officer Selim Bassoul spoke on this change during the call, saying that the old monthly plan had too many things attached to it, such as too heavy discounting on food, no blackout dates and free parking.
Bassoul called the dining meal plan "very unprofitable for us." He said it was often causing delays for daily customers trying to get food while these other customers were taking advantage of the situation.
"Those people would come in and they can have several of those and sometimes they will most probably abuse the system as you've seen online," Bassoul said during the conference call. "It created a lot of choking points for those people coming in and regulars who came to eat in our park all day long. It then ruined the experience of somebody who came in on a single-day ticket with their family who paid a lot of money to come, paid parking and came in. Now they have 45 minutes to an hour waiting to get a meal while those other people are choking the line for $80 for the whole season."
While Bassoul acknowledged the people taking advantage of the monthly plan are "most probably upset" that it's now gone, he said the dining plan needs to be "totally revisited" before it is reintroduced.
Bassoul said most likely, his team will choose between a season-dining plan or an all-exclusive plan.
"It's going to be completely changed from what people expect because I want to avoid the choking points," Bassoul said. "It complicated the business. It complicated the way our employees were delivering the service. It complicated our accounting. It complicated our security and safety."
This change was part of a larger discussion during the call in terms of how Six Flags would try to increase its profitability and bounce back from financial issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and inflationary costs.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Austin will be the first major Texas city to use local tax dollars to give cash to low-income families to keep them housed as the cost of living skyrockets in the capital city.
Under a yearlong, $1 million pilot program that cleared a key Austin City Council vote Thursday, the city will send monthly checks of $1,000 to 85 needy households at risk of losing their homes — an attempt to insulate low-income residents from Austin’s increasingly expensive housing market and prevent more people from becoming homeless.
“We can find people moments before they end up on our streets that prevent them, divert them from being there,” Mayor Steve Adler said at a press conference Thursday morning. “That would be not only wonderful for them, it would be wise and smart for the taxpayers in the city of Austin because it will be a lot less expensive to divert someone from homelessness than to help them find a home once they’re on our streets.”
Eight Austin City Council members voted Thursday to establish the “guaranteed income” pilot program and contract with a California nonprofit to run it.
Austin joins at least 28 U.S. cities, like Los Angeles, Chicago and Pittsburgh, that have tried some form of guaranteed income. Locally, the idea came out of efforts to rework how the city tackles public safety in the wake of protests over police brutality in 2020.
Other Texas metro areas have experimented with guaranteed income programs during the pandemic. Programs in San Antonio and El Paso County have sent regular payments to low-income households using a combination of federal stimulus dollars and charitable contributions. Austin is believed to have the only program fully funded by local taxpayers.
Austin officials are working out how exactly the program will work and which families will receive the money. Austinites who qualify won’t have restrictions on how they can spend the money — but the idea is that they’ll use it to pay household costs like rent, utilities, transportation and groceries.
City officials have floated some possibilities regarding who should qualify for help: residents who have an eviction case filed against them or have trouble paying their utility bills, as well as people already experiencing homelessness.
Ahead of Thursday’s vote, some council members voiced concerns about the relative lack of details about the program and questioned whether it was a good idea for Austin to use local tax dollars to fund the program, rather than letting the federal government or nonprofits take the lead.
“I believe that we do need to invest in people and their basic needs, but I’m not sure that this is the right way today,” council member Alison Alter said at Thursday’s meeting before voting against the measure.
Brion Oaks, the city’s chief equity officer, told city officials in a memo that the Urban Institute, a nonprofit think tank based in Washington, D.C., will help measure the program’s impact by looking at factors like participants’ financial stability, stress levels and overall wellness over the course of receiving the funds.
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Preliminary findings from a similar pilot program showed some promising results. UpTogether, the California nonprofit that will run the Austin program, ran a separate guaranteed income program funded by private dollars in Austin and Georgetown that ended in March, the nonprofit said in a statement Thursday. That program gave 173 families $1,000 a month for a year, and the nonprofit said participants used the money for expenses like rent and mortgage payments, child care, fuel and groceries.
Some were able to boost their savings, more than half of recipients slashed their debt by 75% and more than a third eliminated their household debt, the nonprofit said.
According to Austin’s Ending Community Homelessness Coalition, the city has more than 3,100 people experiencing homelessness. A local ban on most evictions during the pandemic kept the number of eviction case fillings low compared with other major Texas cities, but that number has exploded since the ban ended last year.
Guaranteed income may be one way to put a dent in those problems, proponents said.
“This is about preventing displacement, preventing eviction and ensuring that our families are able to stay in their home, that we have that stability,” council member Vanessa Fuentes said.
This story comes from our KHOU 11 News partners at The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues.
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AUSTIN, Texas — About a week after rising concerns of high demand, ERCOT on Friday is again asking Texans to conserve power.
Friday afternoon, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) said six power generation facilities tripped offline. This resulted in the loss of about 2,900 MW of electricity.
ERCOT is asking Texans to conserve power when possible by setting thermostats to 78 degrees or above and to avoid using large appliances such as dishwashers, washers and dryers during peak hours between 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. through the weekend.
"With unseasonably hot weather driving record demand across Texas, ERCOT continues to work closely with the power industry to make sure Texans have the power they need," ERCOT said in a press release.
ERCOT said that all generation resources are now operating and provided the following resource performance percentages as of 4 p.m.:
- Thermal -- 50,703 (66%)
- Wind -- 5,859 (17%)
- Solar -- 8,333 (73%)
Friday's news comes just hours after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he met with members of ERCOT and the Public Utilities Commission of Texas (PUC) at his office.
"We continue to work closely to ensure Texas’ power grid remains reliable and meets the needs of Texans," he said prior to ERCOT's announcement.
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