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RIO VISTA, Calif. — Authorities have now identified the four people killed in a Wednesday night accident on Highway 12 in Rio Vista that left six others injured.
According to the Rio Vista Police Department, the three people inside the Honda Accord involved in the accident were:
- 20-year-old Jordon Colvin of Vacaville (Driver)
- 19-year-old Erica Anderson of Vacaville (Front passenger)
- 19-year-old Lacey Conway (Rear passenger)
Rio Vista Police identified the sole victim in the other car, a Chevrolet Suburban, as Laura Poiret.
What we know about the accident
It happened around 8:15 p.m. Wednesday on SR 12 near Summerset Road and Church Road.
Rio Vista Police say Colvin was driving a 2003 Honda Accord west when he veered off the road, overcorrected, and hit a Chevrolet Suburban going east. Colvin and Conway were ejected from the car.
The seven people riding in the Chevrolet Suburban were all Mexican nationals on vacation in the U.S. One of the occupants, Laura Poiret, died from her injuries.
Rio Vista Police say they won't make a determination on if DUI was the cause of the accident until BAC test results are returned by the coroner’s office, however, several open containers of alcohol were found in and around the Accord. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/victims-killed-in-rio-vista-head-on-crash-identified/103-750a0db2-309a-48e9-bf9c-4349b00e1404 | 2022-07-29T17:38:06 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/victims-killed-in-rio-vista-head-on-crash-identified/103-750a0db2-309a-48e9-bf9c-4349b00e1404 |
HIGH POINT — A bat found on Erica Marie Court tested positive for the rabies virus, according a new release from the Guilford County Public Health Department.
The test came back positive on Thursday. This is the 16th confirmed case of animal rabies in Guilford County in 2022.
North Carolina law requires that all domestic pets (cats, dogs and ferrets) aged 4 months or older be vaccinated for rabies. Animals that are confined in outdoor fenced areas should also have current rabies vaccinations. Supervising pets when they are outdoors could prevent contact with wild animals and lessen the possibility of rabies exposure.
Here are some tips to help prevent you or your family from being exposed to the rabies virus:
• Avoid direct contact with wildlife, dead or alive. If you find a sick or injured animal, contact animal control at 336-641-5990.
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• Avoid any animal displaying unnatural behavior. Wild animals are not usually friendly so be very careful if they approach you.
• Do not try to separate fighting animals.
• Feed your pets indoors. Leaving food outside will attract dogs, cats and wildlife into your yard.
• Report all stray animals to animal control at 336-641-5990 in Greensboro and 336-883-3224 in High Point. Stray animals may not have current rabies vaccinations.
• If a person is bitten by any animal, wash the bitten area immediately with soap and water, seek medical attention and report the bite to animal control.
For more information on rabies prevention, contact Guilford County Animal Services at 336-641-2506 or visit www.guilfordcountync.gov/our-county/animal-services. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/rabid-bat-found-in-high-point/article_98f9dfb2-0f5a-11ed-9802-877dfb0b8f56.html | 2022-07-29T17:42:23 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/rabid-bat-found-in-high-point/article_98f9dfb2-0f5a-11ed-9802-877dfb0b8f56.html |
PAUL — A Murtaugh man driving an ATV died Thursday afternoon after failing to yield to a pickup truck west of Paul, police say.
The 48-year-old man, driving a Suzuki King Quad, was northbound on 100 West when he failed to yield at a stop sign at 800 North, the Idaho State Police said in an email. The man was struck by an eastbound Ford F-150 driven by an 18-year-old Burley man.
ISP is investigating the crash and was assisted by the Minidoka County Sheriff's Office, the Minidoka Fire Department, Emergency Response Ambulance and the Minidoka County coroner. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/murtaugh-man-dies-in-atv-crash/article_b87fff30-0f58-11ed-a311-a31ee751cb74.html | 2022-07-29T17:42:49 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/murtaugh-man-dies-in-atv-crash/article_b87fff30-0f58-11ed-a311-a31ee751cb74.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Lasagna: a classic Italian dish. Everyone has their own way of making lasagna, whether it be to call up your Grandma Stouffer or making each ingredient by hand.
In celebration of this delicious dish, Friday, July 29, is National Lasagna Day.
“You don’t have to be Italian or a fat, orange cartoon cat to celebrate National Lasagna Day on July 29. Tomato sauce, cheeses, meat and vegetables — all separated by wide flat noodles — what’s not to love?” as stated by NationalToday.com.
Is this post making you hungry? Good. To ease your hunger, Tripadvisor has released a list of the best places to get lasagna in Dallas. Here is their list:
- Jimmy’s Food Store
- Cane Rosso
- Avanti Restaurant
- Kenny’s Italian Kitchen
- Bugatti Ristorante
- Eatzi’s Market & Bakery
- Maggiano’s Little Italy
- Two Guys from Italy
- Maguire’s North Dallas
- Ravenna Italian Grille & Bar
- Ruggeri’s Dallas
- Terilli’s
For more suggestions, view their full list by clicking here. | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-dallas-to-celebrate-national-lasagna-day/ | 2022-07-29T17:45:39 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-in-dallas-to-celebrate-national-lasagna-day/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. — After nearly 100 Oregonians died during the historic heat wave of 2021, leaders were pressed to make changes to ensure more people have access to critical resources like 211info.
211 is the private nonprofit that connects people with important community resources.
With this week's heat wave bringing triple-digit temperatures to Portland, KGW checked in with 211 to see how things have changed over the past year.
"We developed a punch list of things... improvements, course corrections, if you will, that we wanted to do going forward," said Dan Herman, the CEO of 211.
During one day of last summer's record-breaking heat wave, 211 was not open and they missed about 750 calls.
After the heat wave, 211 shifted to operate 24/7, expand services statewide and increased their number of staff members to 150.
Herman said the team has handled about 650 calls so far this week, mostly from Multnomah County residents. They have received about 200 calls each day, with the majority being people asking for information about cooling centers and air conditioners. The average wait time for callers is between 13 and 30 seconds.
"Last year, I will mark down to a big year of learning. Not just for 211info... but also our partners. The collective system that is support for a crisis or a time like this," said Herman.
Four overnight cooling shelters in Multnomah County will remain open through at least Saturday morning. Officials reported about 170 people stayed in these shelters overnight on Wednesday. That amounts to about 60% of total capacity.
Jake Dornblaser helps run the downtown cooling shelter inside the Portland Building on Southwest 5th Avenue.
"Calling 211 is usually the best option because we report how many spots are available at each shelter. So they are going to be able to tell you which space has spots available for folks," said Dornblaser. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/211-helpline-improvements-heat-wave/283-7798b72b-4029-4e56-9c3c-805f135a471d | 2022-07-29T17:53:27 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/211-helpline-improvements-heat-wave/283-7798b72b-4029-4e56-9c3c-805f135a471d |
SALEM, Ore. — The company that bought a troubled mega dairy plant in northern Oregon several years ago may be ready to give up their efforts toward reopening it, according to new documents that show repeated setbacks.
Easterday Dairy has been repeatedly cited for failing to bring nitrate levels in water at the site east of Portland in Boardman under control, even without cattle, The Tri-City Herald reported.
Now Easterday is suing the former owners for breach of contract, saying it’s their fault site cleanup hasn't been accomplished. Easterday Dairy is asking for millions in damages or to be released from the purchase agreement.
Their other businesses Easterday Farms and Easterday Ranches, based in the Tri-Cities area of Washington, are in the midst of a massive bankruptcy lawsuit after Cody Easterday pleaded guilty in a “ghost cattle” scheme that defrauded Tyson Foods and other businesses out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
At the crux of the conflict is a permit so far denied by Oregon agriculture officials that would allow Easterday's son Cole to reopen the Oregon dairy facility.
OTHER STORIES: Oregon county declares emergency over water contamination
The Oregon Department of Agriculture has refused to issue a permit for Confined Animal Feeding Operations until the nitrate levels in the ground water are brought back into compliance and a plan for maintaining safe levels is approved.
According to the National Institute for Health, nitrate contamination in ground water has been linked to increased risk of cancer, thyroid disease and birth defects.
Over the past two years, documents show that the state has repeatedly inspected the site and recommended courses of action, which Easterday Dairy failed to implement quickly enough.
That led to inspections showing they were in violation of nitrate levels monthly from November 2020 through November 2021. The Department of Agriculture documents show they brought the nitrate levels within acceptable range by December 2021.
The department ordered Easterday in February to continue to submit water samples until they can show the nitrate levels are within acceptable range for nine consecutive months.
In a lawsuit filed this month, Easterday appears to be placing the blame for the poor water quality on the previous owners, and a farm currently leasing the adjoining property. Lawyers for Easterday claim that ongoing and deliberate action by the two groups has prevented them from meeting state standards.
Tarah Heinzen, the legal director for nonprofit Food and Water Watch, said she hopes the state will continue to hold Easterday accountable because the water source for the dairy is an aquifer at particularly high risk for contamination. Her organization focuses on corporate and governmental accountability relating to food and water.
Heinzen said mega dairies are huge contributors to nitrate contamination.
She said the new lawsuit could provide Easterday an exit from the dairy, but the risk of water contamination remains high and the state will need to continue to press Easterday or future owners to protect the water source.
Easterday is suing Fall Line Capital and Canyon Farm, who bought the mega dairy after another company went into bankruptcy. Easterday is asking for the $10.5 million it has paid for the site to be returned and up to $4 million in addition to offset their investment.
Fall Line has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/eastern-oregon/company-get-out-oregon-mega-dairy/283-2f76c87b-8340-43eb-b1e3-1ddcfac8fc1a | 2022-07-29T17:53:32 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/eastern-oregon/company-get-out-oregon-mega-dairy/283-2f76c87b-8340-43eb-b1e3-1ddcfac8fc1a |
VANCOUVER, Wash. — Two men helped a father save his daughter from a house fire in Vancouver early Thursday morning, according to Clark County Fire District 6.
Fire officials said they responded to a reported house fire in the area of NE Saint Johns Road and NW 106th Way around 7:30 a.m.
The two men were walking by, noticed smoke in the area and soon after seeing it come from the house, tried to alert the homeowner by knocking on the door, officials said. After not getting an answer, they found a man in a small shop in the property next door.
The man confirmed that the house on fire was his and that his daughter was still inside. All three men were able to rescue the daughter by entering the house through a sliding glass door in the back.
The daughter did not suffer any injuries.
It took Fire District 6 approximately 15 minutes to bring the fire under control. As they were putting the fire out, firefighters found a dog in the house which was uninjured and later safely reunited with its owner.
The Clark County Fire Marshal is looking into the cause of the fire. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/vancouver/men-rescue-another-mans-daughter-from-house-fire-vancouver/283-1fe5c3a6-09d5-4471-8fcb-6ad195acb6c9 | 2022-07-29T17:53:32 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/vancouver/men-rescue-another-mans-daughter-from-house-fire-vancouver/283-1fe5c3a6-09d5-4471-8fcb-6ad195acb6c9 |
Two older women, who were passengers on a VIAtrans bus, were left at a closed business on Tuesday after a scheduled drop-off.
VIA Metropolitan Transit said it is investigating the incident, which involved a driver who has been an employee since 2020.
The two women were dropped off in front of Mr. and Mrs. G's Home Cooking and Pastries, the restaurant wrote in a social media post. It was closed at the time.
The VIAtrans bus arrived around 11 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the post, and despite being told the restaurant was closed on Tuesday, the driver continued to take the two women and their scooters off the bus, with the driver stating that if he didn't unload the passengers, he wouldn't have room for his other pickups.
"These actions do not meet our standards and are not reflective of the level of care and service we provide for thousands of passenger trips each day," Lorraine Pulido, communications manager with VIA, wrote in an email. "When the manager informed the driver they were closed, the driver should have taken steps to ensure proper protocol was followed, instead of departing the location."
A second VIAtrans van picked up the two women about an hour later, Pulido wrote, and the operator involved has been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the investigation. Pulido said VIA has reinforced its policy standards through printed materials and one-on-one conversations with all VIA operators, including bus and van drivers.
On ExpressNews.com: Mr. and Mrs. G's to close for good on July 30
VIAtrans is a door-to-door service provided for passengers with disabilities.
Stann Jernigan, who manages Mr. and Mrs. G's, told KSAT that it was over 100 degrees when the passengers were dropped off, and even in the shade, it would have been hot.
A member of VIA's customer care team spoke with the passengers on Tuesday and apologized for the negative experience, according to Pulido. A free round-trip was arranged to the restaurant on Wednesday.
VIA also spoke with Jernigan, Pulido wrote, and thanked him for his "assistance and kindness."
"Thankfully, the manager allowed the passengers to wait inside the restaurant while they called for another ride," Pulido wrote.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Four people are dead and six others were flown to area hospitals following a crash involving a farm tractor rollover in southern York County on Friday morning.
The crash happened just before 11:15 a.m. along Route 425 (Furnace Road) near Indian Steps Road-- around the area of the Otter Creek recreation area in Lower Chanceford Township on July 29, according to PennDOT spokeswoman Fritzi Schreffler.
According to York County EMA, a farmer on a tractor was pulling a trailer with 10 children inside when the tractor went off the road, overturning the trailer.
According to Pennsylvania State Police, one adult and three children have died as a result of the crash. Officials say the other six people have been flown to hospitals.
Currently, PennDOT has closed Furnace Road between Indian Steps Road and Lower River Road.
CORRECTION: A previous version of this story reported that an amish horse and buggy was involved in the crash. Initial reports indicated that was the vehicle involved. That has since been updated to reflect that a tractor was the vehicle involved in the crash.
This is a developing story. FOX43 has a crew on the scene, and we will provide updates as they become available. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/coroner-responds-to-crash-lower-chanceford-township-york-county/521-3e8e6918-0a59-49fc-9f1b-9daa5b299aae | 2022-07-29T17:55:54 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/coroner-responds-to-crash-lower-chanceford-township-york-county/521-3e8e6918-0a59-49fc-9f1b-9daa5b299aae |
TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. — The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office released photos of vehicles allegedly used in a deadly hit-and-run crash that happened on June 27.
The crash occurred shortly after 5 a.m. near the intersection of Tampa Oaks Boulevard in Temple Terrace, deputies say.
In a news release, deputies described the first vehicle traveling northbound on Morris Bridge Road as a dark-colored SUV resembling a Jeep Wrangler. It also stated the headlights should be rectangular and glass.
Vehicle #1:
The second suspected vehicle was described as light in color, possibly white or sliver. This vehicle was also traveling northbound. Deputies said it resembled a Lincoln Town car or Cadillac Brougham. It was stated that the rear of the vehicle had a high mount stop light (Required after 1986) and the headlights would be rectangular and glass.
Vehicle #2:
"While our detectives continue to review surveillance video to seek justice for this victim and their family, I want to remind all drivers, that it is a felony offense to leave the scene of a crash with injuries, whether you are at fault or not," Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement.
A different person near the area reportedly noticed the body on the road and called law enforcement.
"Please do the right thing and call law enforcement if you find yourself in a situation like that," Chronister added. "It's legally, and morally, the right thing to do."
If you recognize these vehicles or have any information about the crash, you are urged to call the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at 813-247-8200. If you would like to remain anonymous, you can also call Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873-TIPS (8477). | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/temple-terrace-hit-and-run-crash-photos/67-2a406152-05a9-46f6-a376-373cf36e52da | 2022-07-29T17:57:35 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/temple-terrace-hit-and-run-crash-photos/67-2a406152-05a9-46f6-a376-373cf36e52da |
Suspect charged in Warren gas station shooting that paralyzed a man
Warren — A 24-year-old Detroit man has been charged in connection with a shooting that left another man paralyzed from the waist down, prosecutors said Friday.
Darrius Ray Potts was arraigned Thursday in 37th District Court in Warren with assault with intent to murder, a life felony, and using a firearm during a felony, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido said in a statement.
Felony firearm is punishable by up to two years in prison.
A judge set Potts' bond at $250,000 and scheduled his next court date for Aug. 9.
The shooting happened Tuesday at a Sunoco gas station on Van Dyke north of Nine Mile, authorities said.
Investigators said a man was in the gas station with a .45 caliber handgun and ammunition drum magazine on his waistband. He got into an argument with Marcus Young, 67, a frequent customer of the store.
According to police, Young approached the armed man and told him he was concerned about him bringing a gun into the business. The older man told investigators the man was disrespectful and that started the argument.
Officials said Young pushed the armed man out of the gas station. The man allegedly came back into the store, they said. Young again argued with the man and forced him outside.
Detectives said while the man was outside the store and Young was standing in the doorway, the younger man shot him multiple times.
He then allegedly stood over Young, hurled insults and then kicked him twice.
Police said the man, later identified as Potts, remained at the scene until officers arrived. They also said Potts told them he was exercising his Stand Your Ground rights and that he feared for his life. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2022/07/29/suspect-charged-warren-gas-station-shooting-paralyzed-man/10184876002/ | 2022-07-29T17:58:57 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2022/07/29/suspect-charged-warren-gas-station-shooting-paralyzed-man/10184876002/ |
Warren man charged after barricaded incident; police say he fired shots at Black man, yelled slurs
A Warren man has been charged after a Monday incident, officials say, involving ethnic intimidation and barricading himself in a business and then a standoff with police.
Anthony Mangiapane, 55, was arraigned Wednesday in 37th District Court on five charges: assault with a dangerous weapon, a four-year felony; using a firearm during a felony, a two-year felony; being a felon in possession of a firearm, a two-year felony; ethnic intimidation, a two-year felony; and resisting/obstructing a police officer, also a two-year felony.
A judge set his bond at $500,000 and scheduled his next court appearance for Aug. 9, Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido said in a statement.
Police said Mangiapane's arrest stems from an incident that happened at about 11:30 p.m. Monday.
According to a preliminary investigation, a 37-year-old Black man from St. Clair Shores was walking on the west side of Schoenherr near Eight Mile when he saw a dot from a green laser on his chest.
Officials said Mangiapane was standing in a doorway across the street with a rifle aimed at the man. He allegedly called the victim a racial slur, told him to leave the area, and then fired three shots.
Investigators said the victim was on his cellphone at the time and the person on the other end of the call heard the gunshots.
Police were called and the man who fired the shots barricaded himself inside a business. He later surrendered, they said.
Officials also said they called the bomb squad because of a tip from a witness. The bomb squad found an M203 grenade shell, which was removed to a safe location.
Authorities also found a cache of weapons, including pistols, shotguns and AR-15-style rifles with high-capacity magazines. Among the rifles, police found a rifle with a green laser sight they believe the suspect pointed at the victim.
They also said the suspect had Nazi memorabilia and a pistol that could be a Luger. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2022/07/29/warren-man-charged-barricaded-incident-police-shots-black-man-yelled-slurs/10184345002/ | 2022-07-29T17:59:10 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/macomb-county/2022/07/29/warren-man-charged-barricaded-incident-police-shots-black-man-yelled-slurs/10184345002/ |
Local issues, commissioner seats at stake in Oakland County primaries
Voters in 22 Oakland County communities will consider a variety of local issues Tuesday and choose between several primary candidates seeking November ballot slots.
County commission candidates are also vying to get on the November ballot.
Voters in villages, cities and townships across the county will consider local issues, with public safety and fire millages topping the list, followed by library decisions in seven communities. Other local proposals concern schools, streets, council pay, transportation services and marijuana sales.
White Lake Township voters will be asked to decide police and fire millage renewals and a library millage.
Ballot issues include:
- A South Lyon $18,465,000 street improvement bond proposal.
- An Ortonville ordinance to permit a number of adult-use marijuana operations.
- A proposed Milford village charter amendment to pay each council member and president $50 per meeting to a maximum of $1,500 per year. Pay is currently $7.50 a month or $375 a year.
- A Royal Oak Township proposal that would authorize an unlimited number of marijuana establishments on Royal Oak Township parcels larger than five acres with a building continuously occupied for five years.
The Oakland County Board of Commissioners currently has 11 Democrats and 10 Republicans on the board representing 21 districts. The Democratic majority contrasts with years of GOP dominance on the Oakland County board.
Every 10 years the commissioner districts are redrawn to represent changing populations. The redistricting agreement generally favors the dominant party but can result with some commissioners, like Robert Hoffman, R-Highland Township, being pitted against longtime colleague Eileen Kowall, R-White Lake Township, in the primary after the merger of their respective districts means only one can serve.
“The move now is to shrink the board down to 19 commissioners with an 11-8 majority of them Democrats,” said Mike Gingell, R-Lake Orion. “We (Republicans) did it 10 years ago, and I guess what goes around comes around and it’s their turn now.”
Gingell, vice chair of the Republican minority caucus and a board member for 16 years, said while there has always been partisan infighting, he is dismayed at seeing “Republicans eating themselves.”
He noted in seven commissioner districts — including his own — there is more than one Republican running in the primary for two-year terms.
“There is something called the ‘Dream Team for Patriots” that is the furthest of the right side (of the Republican party),” Gingell said. “They don’t feel established commissioners, like myself, have done enough. They want us out and their Republican candidates running in this November election. So they are supporting candidates in some districts they hope to eventually win.
In Addison Township, for example, three Republicans are vying for the treasurer’s job. In Independence Township, no Democrat is running for the supervisor post, but voters will have a choice from a field of four Republicans seeking the job.
In nonpartisan contests, two candidates, Diana Lynn McClain and Brenda Richard, are challenging incumbent Michelle Friedman Appel for Oak Park 45th District judge. In Troy, incumbent Kirsten Nielsen Hartig is being challenged by Mike Bosnic and Tonya Clawson Goetz.
mmartindale@detroitnews.com
(248) 338-0319 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/29/local-issues-commissioner-seats-stake-oakland-county-primaries/10166891002/ | 2022-07-29T17:59:16 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/29/local-issues-commissioner-seats-stake-oakland-county-primaries/10166891002/ |
A former state Supreme Court justice and a former Democratic power broker from western New York were sentenced to prison on Thursday for their roles in a bribery scheme, which authorities say influenced judicial decisions and official appointments.
G. Steven Pigeon, the ex-chairman of the Erie County Democratic Committee, received a one-year sentence. Former Justice John Michalek received one year and four months.
However, Michalek’s sentence was put on hold until Sept. 9, after State Supreme Court Justice Donald Cerio Jr. granted an application from Michalek’s lawyer.
Pigeon had pleaded guilty in 2018 to bribing the judge with hockey tickets and job promises in exchange for favors in legal cases. Michalek pleaded guilty and resigned from the bench in 2016. Both the judge and Pigeon, who was also a lawyer, have been disbarred.
The two “engaged in a deep web of deception and bribery that violated their duty to the public and the very laws Michalek swore to uphold” between 2012 and 2015, state Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.
Pigeon’s sentence will run concurrently with a separate, four-month federal sentence he received Wednesday for admitting he arranged for a Canadian citizen to make an illegal $25,000 donation to a New York official’s reelection campaign.
Pigeon was also charged last December with sexually assaulting a child who was younger than 11, a charge he has denied. That case is pending in Erie County Court. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ny-judge-democratic-power-broker-sentenced-for-bribery-scheme/3801152/ | 2022-07-29T18:17:10 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ny-judge-democratic-power-broker-sentenced-for-bribery-scheme/3801152/ |
What to Know
- A New York City jury found a neurologist guilty of sexually assaulting patients under his care, among other crimes, prosecutors announced Friday.
- Prosecutors say that Ricardo Cruciani forced his patients to perform sexual acts in order to receive prescriptions for pain medications that he over-prescribed to the point of addiction -- ensuring his patients could not leave his care despite the abuse.
- Aside from his Manhattan conviction, Cruciani was arrested in 2021 on federal charges alleging he abused multiple patients over 15 years at his offices in New York City, Philadelphia and Hopewell, New Jersey.
A New York City jury found a neurologist guilty of sexually assaulting patients under his care, among other crimes, prosecutors announced Friday.
Ricardo Cruciani, 68, was convicted of one count predatory sexual assault, one count of sexual abuse, one count attempted rape, two counts of rape and seven counts of criminal sexual act in connection to six patients who sought medical expertise to treat chronic and debilitating pain disorders.
The conviction comes following a months-long trial that also found Cruciani overprescribed serious pain medication in order to keep them in his care.
Cruciani will be sentenced on Sept. 14.
“Ricardo Cruciani abused his power as a medical professional and knowingly took advantage of his patients’ pain. We entrust doctors to respect our bodies and health when we go to them for help, yet Dr. Cruciani utterly violated that duty. Dr. Cruciani left in his wake six survivors who continue to suffer from debilitating diseases, and now, years of trauma,” said District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
Prosecutors claimed during the trial that Cruciani manipulated and sexually abused six patients at a New York City hospital and, later, at facilities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Eventually, Cruciani allegedly developed a personal relationship with each patient, including discussing personal matters and issues. Prosecutors say that Cruciani started physical contact with his patients by stroking their hair, complimenting their appearance and giving them hugs. Through time, however, Cruciani ended up forcibly kissing the women, groping them, and forcing them to perform oral sex and have sexual intercourse.
Prosecutors say that Cruciani then forced his patients to perform sexual acts in order to receive prescriptions for pain medications that he over-prescribed to the point of addiction -- ensuring his patients could not leave his care despite the abuse.
"When patients sought outside care, some doctors refused to see them because of the dangerously high doses they were prescribed. The survivors were left with opioid addictions, sexual trauma, and without proper medical care for their extremely rare and painful diseases," according to the Manhattan District Attorney's Office.
Aside from the charges he faced in New York, Cruciani was also arrested in October 2021 on similar federal charges alleging that he was a serial, sexual abuser of women who went to him for help with debilitating chronic pain. The abuse took place over 15 years at his offices in New York City, Philadelphia and Hopewell, New Jersey. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nyc-neurologist-found-guilty-of-exploiting-sexually-assaulting-patients-under-his-care/3801153/ | 2022-07-29T18:17:16 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/nyc-neurologist-found-guilty-of-exploiting-sexually-assaulting-patients-under-his-care/3801153/ |
What to Know
- NYC topped 1,000 confirmed monkeypox/orthopoxvirus cases and then some this week and now accounts for 27% of the largest-ever U.S. outbreak of the disease, which is typically confined to the African continent
- U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said Thursday the government is releasing another 786,000 vaccine doses from the federal stockpile. More than 10% of them are going to New York City
- NYC Mayor Eric Adams applauded the state health commissioner's threat response to the outbreak, adding that a state of emergency declaration is under consideration
New York City could soon declare a state of emergency as the city accounts for more than a quarter of all monkeypox cases in what has become the largest-ever outbreak of the disease in America.
Questioned Friday morning during an unrelated media briefing, Mayor Eric Adams said the city's health commissioner is making a determination whether the city should declare such an emergency that would free up additional resources in the city's overall response.
Such a declaration has plenty of support from local politicians, including a number of Manhattan representatives who expressed concern over further spread of the virus once the city's 1 million college students resume instruction next month. They applauded Thursday's imminent threat declaration by the state health commissioner to open funding opportunities for local governments, but said the move was insufficient.
"A state and local declaration of emergency will help facilitate disaster response efforts by cutting the red tape standing in the way of effective and speedy distribution of testing, treatment, and vaccines," state Senator Brad Hoylman, Congressman Jerry Nadler, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, Assembly Health Chair Dick Gottfried, Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal, and NYC Council Member Erik Bottcher said in a statement.
New York City's monkeypox outbreak climbed to at least 1,289 cases in Friday's report from the health department, up a few dozen cases after the previous days' report ballooned nearly 200 from two earlier. That total, widely believed to be significantly underreported, still accounts for a quarter of the burgeoning national caseload.
A new breakdown of the suspected positives reflect a lion's share of the cases are in people living in Manhattan, where just over 50% of cases have been discovered.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer announced Thursday that 80,000-plus monkeypox vaccine doses, or more than 10%, of 786,000 additional vials from the federal stockpile will go to the five boroughs. New York state will get another 30,000, Schumer said.
The doses are allocated based on case burden and high-risk population, according to the senator, so the heavily weighted allocation for New York comes as no surprise.
Thousands of vaccine appointments are continuously being scooped up within a half-hour of opening, and the state has warned New Yorkers in recent allocation rounds that they may be insufficient to cover everyone eligible who wants one.
Thursday's federal stockpile release is part of a series of intensifying efforts to contain America's still-growing and already largest-ever monkeypox outbreak. Anyone can get the disease, but the vaccine already exists, unlike with COVID-19.
"As we learned throughout the pandemic, vaccines not only save lives, but they contain the spread of the virus. Containing Monkeypox, our latest public health challenge, demands the same kind of resolve and focus," Schumer said. "For weeks, I have been on the phone with each and every agency working to overcome monkeypox. We know our biggest hurdle right now is that we need more vaccines, and I’ve told the FDA, we need those vaccines in New York state."
Calling the latest allocations a "big win for public health, and New York," Schumer acknowledged more work must be done, "but today marks a critical step in that fight and delivers a huge sigh of relief to New Yorkers waiting for their monkeypox vaccine. More are on the way."
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul cheered the additional vaccine doses coming to her state, but added that the vaccines "will be delivered over the next four to six weeks" throughout the state.
"With more than one-quarter of all cases in the U.S., New Yorkers, and especially our LGBTQ+ community, remain among the hardest-hit. We will continue to advocate to the federal government for our fair share of vaccines based on the disease burden impacting New York," Hochul said.
Also on Thursday, New York State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett declared monkeypox an imminent threat to public heath, which will allow local health departments will have access to reimbursement from the state after other federal and state funds get depleted.
As for surrounding states, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy wrote a letter to the federal government earlier in the week asking for more vaccine doses, pleading that his state had not been giving its fair share. He also announced two new vaccine sites in Bergen and Camden counties.
Meanwhile in Connecticut, Gov. Ned Lamont said he’s confident the virus can still be contained — especially compared to COVID — if states get the resources they need.
"When New York City sneezes Connecticut catches a cold," he said. "I believe this will be a narrower population much less likely to be transmitted broadly but be careful."
As of Thursday, the CDC reports 4,639 confirmed monkeypox or orthopox virus (the same family) cases across the United States. Alaska, Vermont, Wyoming and Montana are the only four states without a confirmed case, though that doesn't mean monkeypox isn't already spreading in those areas.
Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci called the outbreak a "serious problem" said the White House was considered establishing a monkeypox coordinator role similar to its COVID one to streamline response, distribution and other outreach efforts.
MONKEYPOX IN NYC
The New York State Department of Health listed steps people should take in order to help prevent the spread of monkeypox:
• Ask sexual partners whether they have a rash or other symptoms consistent with monkeypox.
• Avoid skin-to-skin contact with someone who has a rash or other monkeypox-related symptoms.
• Contact a healthcare provider following exposure or symptoms, and check with your local county health department about vaccine eligibility.
• New Yorkers who receive the JYNNEOS vaccine should receive both doses, given four-weeks apart, and stay vigilant until fully vaccinated, two weeks following the second dose.
• If you or your healthcare provider suspect you may have monkeypox, isolate at home. If you can, stay in a separate area from other family members and pets.
• Follow reputable sources of health information, including NYSDOH, CDC, and your local county health department. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-mulls-monkeypox-state-of-emergency-deploys-new-demographic-dashboard/3801242/ | 2022-07-29T18:17:22 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-mulls-monkeypox-state-of-emergency-deploys-new-demographic-dashboard/3801242/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – After a power outage caused widespread system shutdowns and substance releases across Eastman Chemical Company’s Kingsport campus, company officials said production is reaching normalized rates a week later.
According to a statement from Eastman, plant operations were returning to normal with all expected employees on-site to safely restore power.
During the restart process, Eastman communications staff said there were no employees out of work.
When asked which areas had shut down exactly, Eastman did not provide an answer. The expected impact on company earnings has not been released either.
A Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) investigation into the outage and chemical releases is still ongoing, with department staff expecting more information from Eastman after the startup process.
News Channel 11 has reached out to TDEC officials for an after-startup update. This story will be updated when that becomes available. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/eastman-plant-back-online-after-power-outage/ | 2022-07-29T18:30:26 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/eastman-plant-back-online-after-power-outage/ |
(WJHL) — The weekend is upon us once again!
News Channel 11 compiled a list of different events in the Tri-Cities region. It is fair to remind readers, however, that Storm Team 11 forecasts a stormy, rainy next two days.
Saturday, July 30
What: Greene County Fair
When: 4-11 p.m.
Where: 123 Fairgrounds Circle, Greeneville
More: Open Saler show at 10 a.m. at the Southland Equipment Show Barn. Open Limousin begins at 1 p.m, followed by the Open Simmental show at 3 p.m. For more information, click here.
What: Johnson City Radio Controllers class: Learn to Fly
When: 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Where: Tri-Cities Model Airport at 120 Lancaster Road off Eastern Star Road
More: The public has the opportunity to become familiar with remote-controlled flying. Anyone who donates $5 will receive a flying session.
What: Sorcerer’s Sprint
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Main Street in Jonesborough
More: Celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday with a 1-mile race while sporting your house gear.
What: Jonesborough Farmers Market
When: 8 a.m.
Where: Downtown Jonesborough
What: Kingsport Axmen vs. Greeneville Flyboys
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Hunter Wright Stadium
What: Johnson City Doughboys vs. Elizabethton River Riders
When: 7 p.m.
Where: TVA Credit Union Ballpark
Sunday, July 31
What: Brews and Tunes
When: 4 p.m.
Where: International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough
What: Yoga in the Park
When: 4 p.m.
Where: Storytelling Park in Downtown Jonesborough
What: Johnson City Doughboys vs. Elizabethton River Riders
When: 5:30 p.m.
Where: TVA Credit Union Ballpark
What: NASCAR Watch Party: INDY
When: 2:30 p.m.
Where: Michael Waltrip Brewing Co. in Bristol, Virginia | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/what-to-do-this-weekend-in-the-tri-cities/ | 2022-07-29T18:30:32 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/what-to-do-this-weekend-in-the-tri-cities/ |
How we did this: Investigation into the 2021 heat dome deaths
At least 96 Oregonians died in a catastrophic heat event last summer.
Statesman Journal reporters Claire Withycombe and Dianne Lugo wanted to know more about the people who died and whether anything could have been done to prevent their deaths.
More:As heat returns, state has done little to determine why nearly 100 people died in 2021
But as they began their research, they discovered that no state agency had shared detailed information about what happened to those people and why.
An after-action report by Multnomah County on the heat event provided some information about factors like access to air conditioning in the deaths there, and the Oregon Health Authority shared some basic demographic information with lawmakers about heat deaths in the summer of 2021.
Lugo and Withycombe obtained basic biographical information from the Oregon State Police, which oversees the state medical examiner, about the people that died.
They used information in that dataset to guide them in finding relatives of people who died in the Salem area. They also requested and got recordings of some 911 calls, which provided more details about what happened.
This reporting took Lugo and Withycombe to Monmouth, Woodburn and northeast Salem. The families of those who died shared more about their loved ones and what they knew about what happened to them.
The reporters contacted all of the medical examiners from counties where people died of heat issues during the heat dome. Only Washington County responded to requests for information about the deaths.
Withycombe spoke to Tom Stenson, deputy legal director of Disability Rights Oregon, who had acquired detailed death investigations from medical examiners under a special "protection and advocacy" authority.
Stenson told Withycombe many of those who died had disabilities, something state and Multnomah County reports had not mentioned.
Lugo sought out researchers and scientists who could talk more about what happened meteorologically in last year's heat dome and temperature and climate disparities between different neighborhoods.
Lugo and Withycombe also interviewed doctors to get a better understanding of heat's toll on the human body. For young children, older adults and people with underlying medical conditions, heat can be especially dangerous.
During their reporting on the broader story, Lugo and Withycombe discovered the state had not begun to distribute thousands of free air conditioners the state Legislature in January designated $5 million toward.
Oregon promised free ACs:Here's the status of that effort
They paused as weather forecasts began predicting 100-degree temperatures and wrote an article about the status of that program.
On July 25, two weeks after the story first published, OHA announced it had received about 1,000 of the 3,000 units they expect this summer and had started to distribute them. | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/how-we-reported-on-the-anniversary-of-the-heat-dome/65385930007/ | 2022-07-29T18:32:55 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/how-we-reported-on-the-anniversary-of-the-heat-dome/65385930007/ |
Salem man killed while walking on I-5
Whitney Woodworth
Salem Statesman Journal
A Salem man was struck and killed by a van while walking on Interstate 5 in Linn County early Friday morning.
According to Oregon State Police, a Washington man was driving southbound on the highway south of Albany around midnight when he struck Charles Dwayne Hatfield, 49.
Investigators said Hatfield was on the roadway in the lane of travel.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials with the state police said the operator of the van remained on the scene and cooperated with the investigation, which remains ongoing.
For questions, comments and news tips, email reporter Whitney Woodworth at wmwoodworth@statesmanjournal.com, call 503-910-6616 or follow on Twitter @wmwoodworth | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/salem-man-killed-while-walking-on-i-5/65386726007/ | 2022-07-29T18:33:07 | 1 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/salem-man-killed-while-walking-on-i-5/65386726007/ |
MIDLOTHIAN, Texas — The Midlothian couple that has become an internet sensation, from Texas all the way to Australia, said the source of their fame is showing signs of calming down a bit.
But a pool-noodle-armed husband will keep his defenses at the ready just in case Cosmo the emu decides to go on the attack again.
I should explain.
Toby and Michelle Wilson live on a quiet two acres in Midlothian, and like many parents, agreed to most of the requests from their children about what pets they wanted to have. So, the Wilson household is a menagerie of dogs and cats and cockatiels and hermit crabs. And when one daughter requested emus, they said yes to that too.
"Absolutely raised them in the house," Toby Wilson said of the flightless birds from Australia second in size only to an ostrich. "Swam in the pool with them. And just treated them like little dogs, kinda."
Michelle even cut holes in some of Toby's socks so the baby emus could parade around the house in "diapers."
But now empty nesters, the Wilsons were left to deal with the menagerie on their own. Including the fact that the two "male" emus they purchased ... were not.
Rocky, the second emu, turned out to be female. A clutch of eggs appeared next and Cosmo, the proud dad, suddenly began to change.
"He just snapped. At that point, I guess nature just took over and he snapped. And his whole intention was to protect those eggs," Toby Wilson said.
And that protective emu dad appeared most often when Toby Wilson was on his riding lawnmower trying to mow the pasture behind their house. Cosmo would run and attack anytime Toby Wilson got too close to Pebbles, the baby emu.
"It started getting funny because I kept watching him and watching Cosmo dart across the yard and try to attack him," Michelle Wilson said. "And so I said why am I sitting her wasting my time when I can record this and send it to my friends."
But her friends also included a growing audience on TikTok. Toby Wilson had discovered that if he took a pool noodle with him, he could joust and fend off Cosmo, get the yard mowed, and survive the ordeal unscathed.
"The idea was sound. The noodle was working," Toby Wilson said.
A pool noodle hat, however, was not.
"And the thought, the idea was to put the noodle on the hat so that it would kind of expand my radar signature right? But it wasn't that effective," Toby Wilson said.
But the comedy Michelle Wilson was recording on her phone was extremely effective. Millions of views online that led to appearances on CNN and even Australian TV.
"And before I knew it, my oldest was calling me asking me had I looked to see how many view I had. I said no. She said oh my gosh everybody's laughing at Dad. I'm like are you kidding me," Michelle Wilson laughed. "I hear people saying they saw it in other states or other countries. And I'm like, y'all got to be kidding me. It was just a video are y'all serious?"
"We got so many calls, it was craziness," Toby Wilson said. "Yeah I'm OK with it. Look, it's really she had fun, as long as she was having fun I didn't care, even if it was my expense."
"But he would hurt me if he could," Toby Wilson said of the protective Cosmo. "And my only intent was to mow the lawn and get out of there as quick as possible. And look, if that entertained people, great," Toby Wilson said as his wife laughed.
The good news in that two-acre Midlothian backyard is that, on our visit at least, Cosmo seemed to be calming down, not always as prone to attack. And Michelle Wilson, the apparent emu whisperer who was hugging and kissing Rocky when we were there, doesn't appear to be in any danger at all.
But Toby Wilson knows – and accepts the fact – that he might always be in danger of appearing in Michelle's next TikTok sensation.
"I'll be sitting here reading a book or something, and I hear some shenanigans going on. And I peak around the corner and she's filming a Tik Tok video about somethin'," Toby Wilson said as they both laughed.
Somethin' that millions fans of an emu-dueling pool-noodle-armed husband ... will definitely get to see.
More Texas headlines: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/pool-noodle-emu-dueling-lawn-mowing-internet-sensation-in-midlothian/287-6c581327-dee5-4296-aea4-a4d87499b67a | 2022-07-29T18:33:28 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/pool-noodle-emu-dueling-lawn-mowing-internet-sensation-in-midlothian/287-6c581327-dee5-4296-aea4-a4d87499b67a |
TURNER, Maine — The Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office continues to follow up on the fatal hit-and-run that occurred July 23. The crash occurred on County Road in Turner.
Amber Smith, 36, of Sabattus was charged with manslaughter following the hit-and-run crash shortly before 10:30 a.m. Saturday that took the life of Tina White, 46, of Turner.
The sheriff's office shared a Facebook post asking that the citizen who reported a suspected drunken driver in a white SUV on Lake Shore Drive in Auburn to an Auburn police officer shortly before the hit-and-run occurred to please contact them.
Chief Deputy William Gagne of the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office told NEWS CENTER Maine that police are looking to speak with the citizen who made the call about the drunken driver, as it could be helpful in the investigation.
The sheriff's office asks that the citizen who made the call to contact Deputy Jim Phillips or Chief Deputy William Gagne at 207-753-2599.
No additional information has been released.
Smith remains in jail as of Friday, Gagne told NEWS CENTER Maine. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/police-continue-to-investigate-turner-fatal-hit-and-run-maine-crime/97-6e0e40a5-4f82-4e6d-a605-d819cbe42c38 | 2022-07-29T18:34:06 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/police-continue-to-investigate-turner-fatal-hit-and-run-maine-crime/97-6e0e40a5-4f82-4e6d-a605-d819cbe42c38 |
Amid rising inflation, Region residents will have to shell out more to heat their homes this winter. NIPSCO's natural gas rates are about to rise.
The average customer will pay about 10% more, or about $6 a month, for natural gas after a rate hike kicks in this September. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission gave the Merrillville-based utility permission to start charging more for natural gas after a year-long review.
A second increase will come in March of next year as a result of the rate hike.
“Customers expect service that is dependable and rates at the lowest cost possible,” said Mike Hooper, NIPSCO’s president and chief operating officer. “This balanced outcome demonstrates a positive path toward continued investments in essential resources that will support safe operations, upgrading aging infrastructure and enhancing our customers’ experience.”
NIPSCO serves 850,000 natural gas customers across the state, including Northwest Indiana. The latest rate hike is expected to generate $71.8 million more per year that will be funneled back into system improvements and go to profit its shareholders.
NIPSCO last raised its natural gas base rates in 2018. The company used the extra revenue to invest $885 million in its distribution system, new technology and pipeline safety. That work will continue through the end of this year.
The electric and natural gas utility initially sought a 17% increase to a base rate of $24.50 a month. The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor and the NIPSCO Industrial Group of large customers ultimately reached an agreement on a base rate of $16.33.
The impact of the increased rates on commercial and industrial businesses will vary depending on usage, rate type and class, NIPSCO noted.
The utility offers energy savings programs to cut back on usage and bill payment assistance programs, including payment plans that spread winter spikes out over the whole year.
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
"First and foremost, the shutdown of Indiana Harbor No. 4 was driven by our commitment to reduce our carbon footprint. We can only do that because Indiana Harbor No. 7 is a massive consumer of Hot Briquetted Iron."
The corridor runs from the Interstate 65 interchange to Illinois 394. The stretch includes 10 interchanges and averages 204,000 vehicles daily at the state line and 158,000 at I-65.
The Move to Indiana campaign looks to further capitalize on the momentum of migration from Illinois to Northwest Indiana with a new website and new sponsors.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the state is selling the building to a developer for $30 million in cash and also getting another downtown building valued at $75 million.
The puzzle, toy and game store for all ages, which bills itself as "Northwest Indiana's largest little retailer of logic brain games," is moving from a 340-square-foot space to a 1,150-square-foot storefront down the street. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nipsco-natural-gas-bills-to-jump-in-september/article_03016dd8-f977-5e5c-a8a7-44ca1f3d847f.html | 2022-07-29T18:38:28 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/nipsco-natural-gas-bills-to-jump-in-september/article_03016dd8-f977-5e5c-a8a7-44ca1f3d847f.html |
The South Shore Line will bus passengers to stations between Carroll Avenue in Michigan City and the Gary/Chicago International Airport station at Clark Road Monday through Friday next week.
The busing is made necessary by the Double Track NWI project, the railroad said. It is in addition to ongoing busing between the Carroll Avenue and Dune Park stations.
Buses will arrive and depart with passengers to match the published train schedule. Buses will make all scheduled intermediate station stops. Loop bus service continues to be provided between 11th Street in Michigan City, where the bus stop is at 920 Franklin St., and Beverly Shores Station. Loop buses do not operate on the regular train schedule. Please view the below special weekday and weekend schedules for the Beverly Shores and 11th St. loop bus. Those passengers will be bused to either Dune Park or Carroll Ave., where they may board the next scheduled SSL train.
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Westbound passengers will board buses in front of Carroll Avenue Station and re-board trains at the Gary/Chicago International Airport stop. Eastbound passengers will detrain at the airport to board buses, and board their scheduled eastbound trains again at Carroll Avenue.
During the Aug. 1-5 busing, no bikes will be transported between the South Bend Airport and East Chicago stations. Bikes will be permitted as normal from East Chicago Station west. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/south-shore-to-bus-passengers-between-michigan-city-and-gary-aug-1-5/article_c76b951a-f58d-5ed1-a63d-4355bd02695e.html | 2022-07-29T18:38:34 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/south-shore-to-bus-passengers-between-michigan-city-and-gary-aug-1-5/article_c76b951a-f58d-5ed1-a63d-4355bd02695e.html |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Supporters of a recreational marijuana initiative have turned in the required number of valid signatures, moving the measure closer to appearing on Arkansas' ballot this fall, election officials said Friday.
A spokesman for the secretary of state's office said supporters of the proposed constitutional amendment had reached the 89,151 valid signatures from registered voters needed to qualify for the November ballot. The proposal's popular name and ballot title still must be approved by the state Board of Election Commissioners to qualify for the ballot.
The board is expected to review the measure on Wednesday.
More than 192,000 signatures were submitted July 8 for the proposal to allow people age 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of cannabis. Arkansas voters in 2016 voted to legalize medical marijuana in the state.
The secretary of state's office did not have a final count on the number of valid signatures verified yet.
The proposal is one of two initiatives vying for the November ballot in Arkansas. Officials are reviewing signatures submitted for another proposal that would scale back a casino gambling measure voters approved in 2018.
That proposal would remove Pope County as one of the four counties where a casino is allowed. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-officials-signatures-recreational-marijuana-proposal/91-8c1b2f88-8558-4f97-8738-61f80ddcad92 | 2022-07-29T18:41:13 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-officials-signatures-recreational-marijuana-proposal/91-8c1b2f88-8558-4f97-8738-61f80ddcad92 |
PHOENIX — Phoenix City Manager Jeff Barton has appointed a Baltimore police officer to temporarily replace outgoing Police Chief Jeri Williams and preside over the city's police agency for the next couple of years.
Michael Sullivan, who currently serves as deputy commissioner of compliance for the Baltimore Police Department, has been hired to lead the Phoenix Police Department as the U.S. Department of Justice continues to investigate the agency for possible civil rights violations.
Sullivan will serve as the police chief on an interim basis until a permanent replacement for Williams is hired, Barton said. Williams announced her retirement earlier this year.
“Sullivan brings 27 years of law enforcement experience to the table, and he has led police reform efforts for major cities," the city manager said.
"His experience working in collaboration with communities, the DOJ, federal court and more gives me confidence he has the experience necessary to step into the interim Phoenix Police Chief role during this important time.”
Sullivan began his career in law enforcement with the Louisville Metro Police Department before moving to Baltimore in 2019. Sullivan was assigned to lead reform efforts in Baltimore after the DOJ investigated the police agency in 2016 for accusations of excessive force and constitutional violations.
Sullivan holds a bachelor’s degree in police administration and a master’s degree in the administration of justice from the University of Louisville.
Sullivan will officially take over as police chief starting on Sept. 12.
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Workers find a piece of Bellevue history
Staff report
Construction crews found a piece of history while working on Bellevue High School.
According to BISD superintendent Wade Wesley, construction workers have been working diligently the past few days removing the cornerstone from Bellevue High School.
While working they uncovered a time capsule that contained a bit of history.
“When taking the material out, a newspaper was uncovered. The paper is Volume 8 of the 14th year of the Bellevue News,” Wesley said.
Inside the newspaper, there is a story with the title, Masons to Lay Corner Stone of New School Building. The newspaper's publication date was July 28, 1922 - 100 years ago.
Wesley said the plan is to take the stone sign and place it in their current location with new brick. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/construction-crews-find-a-piece-of-history-while-working-on-bellevue-high-school/65386696007/ | 2022-07-29T18:56:12 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/construction-crews-find-a-piece-of-history-while-working-on-bellevue-high-school/65386696007/ |
Construction means changes to Health District entrance
Lynn Walker
Wichita Falls Times Record News
Construction at the Wichita Falls-Wichita County Health District means some changes to the parking and entrance to the facility starting Monday.The parking lot directly in front of the building at 1700 Third St. and the front entrance will be closed. The entrance to the Women, Infants and Children program will also be closed.Visitors must park in the east parking lot and use the east doors that are labeled “WIC/Immunizations.”
When complete, the construction will make the parking lot, the main entrance and the WIC entrance ADA accessible. Money for the project came from the WIC program.
Construction is expected to be completed by mid-September. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/construction-means-changes-at-health-district/65386505007/ | 2022-07-29T18:56:18 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/construction-means-changes-at-health-district/65386505007/ |
Council to consider jerking a $389,000 contract award
Wichita Falls City Councilors may vote Tuesday to jerk a big contract for work on some of the city’s sewer lift stations.
In June 2021, councilors awarded $389,000 to Leetech Solutions, LLC to rehabilitate three of the city’s 56 lift stations that keep the sewer system flowing. But the Public Works Department says Leetech has completed only three percent of the work, created unsafe working conditions and had walked away from the project as of July 20.
Councilors will consider filing a claim against the company’s performance bond.
Councilors will also consider splitting costs with the Wichita Falls Independent School District for equipment necessary at the lift station to serve the new Memorial High School on the west side of town.
The cost would be about $74,000 with WFISD paying 30 percent of that amount. The school district would also agree to building. at its own cost, a lift station on the campus to help with the sewage flow.
In other business councilors will:
Sign off on redistricting changes made necessary by the 2020 census count.
Consider a much-debated new electrical code
Allocate federal COVID-19 funding to various city programs
Make corrections to the annual purchase of water treatment chemicals
Consider awarding $5.2 million to a vendor for the city’s annual motor fuel consumption. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/council-to-consider-jerking-a-389000-contract-award/65385595007/ | 2022-07-29T18:56:24 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/council-to-consider-jerking-a-389000-contract-award/65385595007/ |
Pedestrian dies after being hit by vehicle on Kingston Pike in Knoxville
Knoxville police are investigating the death of a woman who was hit by a car as she walked across Kingston Pike on Thursday night.
Officers responded to the intersection of Kingston Pike at Mohican Street in the Bearden neighborhood at around 7:30 p.m., a police department spokesperson stated.
Multiple witnesses reported the woman was crossing the street when she was hit by a car on Kingston Pike. The vehicle remained on scene, the release stated.
The woman was taken to the University of Tennessee Medical Center with serious injuries that were not initially believed to be life-threatening. However, officers were notified by hospital staff the victim died just after 10 p.m., the release stated.
The woman's age and name have not yet been released and the crash remains under investigation.
Correction: A press release from the Knoxville Police Department initially listed the wrong gender for the pedestrian. This story has been corrected. | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/knoxville-police-investigating-death-pedestrian-struck-car-kingston-pike/10183977002/ | 2022-07-29T18:56:39 | 1 | https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/knoxville-police-investigating-death-pedestrian-struck-car-kingston-pike/10183977002/ |
Severe storms are possible into Friday evening across the Richmond area ahead of a cold front.
A high of 93 degrees is forecast for Friday.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in place until 8 p.m. across the Richmond region.
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Monkeypox cases have jumped in Indiana -- and they include women and children, the Indiana Department of Health announced Friday.
Indiana reported 45 cases of the rare disease between between the first reports June 18 and July 28.
Two were in children and about 20% occurred in women. National and global data show the majority of cases in the current outbreak have occurred in men who have sex with men.
As recently as mid-July, federal health officials reported only 11 cases in Indiana. Outbreaks have been reported in Tippecanoe and Marion County. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/monkeypox-cases-on-the-rise-in-indiana/article_bec92e76-0f5c-11ed-8b1c-cb0a1ee5ca5a.html | 2022-07-29T18:58:44 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/monkeypox-cases-on-the-rise-in-indiana/article_bec92e76-0f5c-11ed-8b1c-cb0a1ee5ca5a.html |
CHADWICKS, N.Y. – One person was sent to the hospital following a one-vehicle crash in Chadwicks late Thursday night.
Willowvale Fire Company responded to the scene, where they say one vehicle rolled over off of Neals Gulf Road into a corn field.
The vehicle occupants were evaluated by paramedics on the scene and one person was taken to a local hospital for further treatment.
New Hartford Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash. | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/1-person-taken-to-hospital-following-rollover-crash-in-chadwicks/article_9bcbfb54-0f68-11ed-aeb7-075ef1d6c01c.html | 2022-07-29T18:59:47 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/1-person-taken-to-hospital-following-rollover-crash-in-chadwicks/article_9bcbfb54-0f68-11ed-aeb7-075ef1d6c01c.html |
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. – The man who was hospitalized following a house fire on Woodberry Road in New Hartford on Tuesday has died, according to the New Hartford Police Department.
According to police, the fire broke out in 59-year-old Thomas Manning’s bedroom on the second floor of the home. His mother, 79-year-old Beverly Floyd, was able to get out of the burning home safely, but Manning had to be rescued by firefighters.
Both Manning and Floyd were taken to the hospital Tuesday but Floyd was released later that day. Manning was admitted to the Clark Burn Center at SUNY Upstate Medical University Tuesday afternoon.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/new-hartford-man-saved-from-house-fire-dies-at-hospital/article_0283705e-0f62-11ed-acc5-8f20c7214f5c.html | 2022-07-29T18:59:53 | 0 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/new-hartford-man-saved-from-house-fire-dies-at-hospital/article_0283705e-0f62-11ed-acc5-8f20c7214f5c.html |
Garbage truck breaks electric pole, causes power outage
LAS CRUCES - A garbage truck hit an electric pole Friday morning, causing a few thousand El Paso Electric customers to be without power for about 40 minutes.
Ivan Chavarria, the spokesperson for EPE, explained that a garbage truck hit a pole on the corner of El Camino Real Road and Spitz Avenue at about 7:40 a.m. Friday. It was an isolated incident, but the pole broke, stopping power for about 2,400 customers.
Power was rerouted and restored by 8:20 a.m., but Chavarria said crews are still working on replacing the broken pole. He said there should not be any loss of power when lines are restored to their usual route.
Though power was out for less than an hour, it did cause delays for Las Cruces Public School buses. Jornada Elementary and Vista Middle Schools were both without power for a short time.
Traffic was also impacted as several sets of intersection lights were out, including the west intersection of US 70 and the Interstate 25 off-ramp and North Main Street and Three Crosses Avenue.
Another outage affected EPE customers Thursday near Tortugas Pueblo when wildlife affected a substation. Power was out for about an hour. The two incidents were unrelated.
Leah Romero is the trending reporter at the Las Cruces Sun-News and can be reached at 575-418-3442, lromero@lcsun-news.com or @rromero_leah on Twitter.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Supporters of a recreational marijuana initiative have turned in the required number of valid signatures, moving the measure closer to appearing on Arkansas' ballot this fall, election officials said Friday.
A spokesman for the secretary of state's office said supporters of the proposed constitutional amendment had reached the 89,151 valid signatures from registered voters needed to qualify for the November ballot. The proposal's popular name and ballot title still must be approved by the state Board of Election Commissioners to qualify for the ballot.
The board is expected to review the measure on Wednesday.
More than 192,000 signatures were submitted July 8 for the proposal to allow people age 21 and older to possess up to one ounce of cannabis. Arkansas voters in 2016 voted to legalize medical marijuana in the state.
The secretary of state's office did not have a final count on the number of valid signatures verified yet.
The proposal is one of two initiatives vying for the November ballot in Arkansas. Officials are reviewing signatures submitted for another proposal that would scale back a casino gambling measure voters approved in 2018.
That proposal would remove Pope County as one of the four counties where a casino is allowed. | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/arkansas-officials-signatures-recreational-marijuana-proposal/91-8c1b2f88-8558-4f97-8738-61f80ddcad92 | 2022-07-29T19:13:38 | 1 | https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/arkansas-officials-signatures-recreational-marijuana-proposal/91-8c1b2f88-8558-4f97-8738-61f80ddcad92 |
ARKANSAS, USA — Democrats in the Arkansas Legislature released a plan Thursday (July 28) to raise teacher salaries by $4,000 and to raise the minimum teacher salary in state from $36,000 to $42,000. The plan would tap up to $600 million from the state’s $1.6 billion surplus, which leaders contend a fund can be created to sustain the pay raises indefinitely.
Democrats are asking Gov. Asa Hutchinson to include the proposal in his call for an Aug. 9th special session to cut taxes.
Known as the RAISE Act – Raising Arkansas’s Investment in Schools and Educators – the Democratic plan would:
- Create a Teacher Pay Sustainability Fund (TPSF) to allow for an immediate and sustainable increase in teacher pay. The availability of other funding streams for teacher pay means that the $600 million in the TPSF would be needed primarily in the short term, then less as other funding streams increase, and then none at all, Democrats contend.
- Tap a major category of school district funding – the “foundation funding” determined by “the matrix” – on a biennial basis. Based on recent history, Democrats project a biennial increase in foundation funding of approximately $225 per pupil. Slightly over half of this increase is attributed to teacher salaries based on the proportion of overall foundation funding that is used for teacher salaries.
- Utilize an estimated $60 million per year identified by the Arkansas Department of Education (ADE).
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An Egg Harbor Township man was arrested following an investigation into child pornography being shared on Snapchat.
William Roman Jr., 35, faces charges related to possession and distribution of child abuse images via a social media messaging service, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said on Friday.
Roman was taken to the Atlantic County jail, the Prosecutor's Office said.
A tip about sexual content involving a child was referred to the Office's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. An investigation led detectives to Roman, who was found with videos of child sexual exploitation, the Prosecutor's Office said.
The Prosecutor's office was assisted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations and the Egg Harbor Township police. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/egg-harbor-township-man-charged-with-sharing-child-pornography-on-social-media/article_5f9a5cd4-0f63-11ed-bdee-477c237affd4.html | 2022-07-29T19:16:01 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/egg-harbor-township-man-charged-with-sharing-child-pornography-on-social-media/article_5f9a5cd4-0f63-11ed-bdee-477c237affd4.html |
To help save lives across the state, New Jersey is rolling out a new naloxone distribution program accessible to registered, eligible agencies, Gov. Phil Murphy's office said Thursday.
“With nearly 3,000 New Jerseyans lost to overdoses each year, my administration understands the critical importance of promoting harm-reduction measures that can save the lives of countless residents struggling with substance use disorder,” Murphy said in a statement Wednesday. “This distribution program is another way we are working to increase access to naloxone, so that it will be on-hand whenever and wherever it is needed."
The new program is a collaboration among the state Department of Human Services, Department of Health and Attorney General's Office.
Eligible agencies, including police departments, first responders and certain community organizations, will now have access to doses of the overdose-reversing drug through a new website. On-demand shipments can be sent directly to the entity requesting them, Murphy's office said.
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Other entities capable of using the new feature include mobile outreach providers, harm reduction agencies and libraries, Murphy's office said.
The new initiative is made to help prevent shipment delays and maximize the drug's effectiveness by sustaining shelf life, supporting a state law that revises and expands eligibility for who can administer counteracting overdose drugs, Murphy's office said.
Health Commissioner Judith Persichilli called the new online portal vital to rapid invention in overdose reversal.
Interested parties can register online through a DHS webpage, where they can log in once their application is approved.
“This program builds on existing efforts to get naloxone into as many hands as possible," DHS Commissioner Sarah Adelman said. "Reducing barriers for first responders and community organizations to obtain naloxone will help ensure this life-saving antidote will be available when it is needed most." | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-launches-naloxone-distribution-system/article_327d0816-0f57-11ed-bc3b-3b0cd1738059.html | 2022-07-29T19:16:07 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-launches-naloxone-distribution-system/article_327d0816-0f57-11ed-bc3b-3b0cd1738059.html |
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was the inspiration for an Eldergrow session at Galloway Township's Seashore Gardens Living Center in July. Eldergrow educator Mikkele Lawless taught seniors about Kahlo’s life and art, and guided the residents in creating floral crown portraits.
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SEA ISLE CITY — A 19-year-old from Pennsylvania faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated assault and assault by strangulation after an early-morning attack that took place on the beach near 33rd Street.
Francis Grady, 19, of Springfield, Pennsylvania, remains in Cape May County jail after the charges, which officials announced on Friday. He will be held pending a detention hearing.
No information was released about the victim, including the individual’s condition or the extent of any injuries.
The assault took place in the early morning, according to police. An investigation by the Sea Isle City detectives and the Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office led to the arrest, police stated.
The assault charges are second-degree charges, while the aggravated sexual assault charge is a crime of the first degree. Officials said that all charges are accusations, and that the accused is presumed to be innocent “unless or until” found guilty.
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A first-degree crime, if someone is found guilty, carries a maximum of 20 years in state prison, and second-degree crimes carry a maximum of 10 years in prison. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/teen-faces-aggravated-sexual-assault-charges-in-sea-isle-attack/article_1bed9640-0f6d-11ed-88fc-ab58b705b814.html | 2022-07-29T19:16:20 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/teen-faces-aggravated-sexual-assault-charges-in-sea-isle-attack/article_1bed9640-0f6d-11ed-88fc-ab58b705b814.html |
BURLEY — A store that’s been part of the downtown tapestry for the past 36 years is closing its doors.
Marilyn Felt and her late husband, Kraig Felt Sr., opened the store in 1986 where it anchored the northwest corner of Overland Avenue and 14th Street.
It was a supply haven for Mini-Cassia sewers and craftsmen and offered them a place to network with the like-minded.
“I’m sad,” Mill End Fabrics employee, Pam Lewis, said as she straightened items on shelves that were rearranged by customers eager to stock up on their sewing notions. “But I want Marilyn to retire and enjoy her life. She’s worked hard and she deserves it. She’s been a wonderful boss.”
One of five employees at the store, Lewis worked at the store for three years.
“Marilyn is so knowledgeable and she has a little bit of everything here,” Lewis said. “Whenever I asked her a question, I never got an eye roll. I’m expecting standing room only on Saturday when we close the doors as customers come in to say goodbye to her.”
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Felt, 75, said she’s had the store up for sale for two years, but many people did not seem to know about it.
Internet company Fybercom has purchased the building and Felt has also sold the inventory and the people who purchased the inventory intend to reopen a store in a different location.
Customer Donna Meade, of Heyburn, loaded her cart with spools of rickrack ribbon.
“I’m really stocking up on this,” Meade said.
Meade makes aprons to sell at Perkins Restaurant, and said the rickrack is hard to find online, and is rarely available in the jumbo sizes carried at Mills End Fabrics.
“We are really going to miss her and her employees," Meade said. "She has the best variety and her prices are pretty great."
Customer Madeline Staley of Albion picked out fabric to make her husband a blanket.
A year ago, she made herself a quilt, which he loves, she said.
“I’m really sad to see the store go, I love it here,” she said.
Felt said she will miss hearing about her customer’s projects.
“We love show and tell here,” she said.
When the Felts opened the store, her sister and brother-in-law owned a chain of Mill End Fabrics stores.
“At the time I was very happy for my sister but I couldn’t see myself behind the counter,” Felt said.
At times the learning curve was steep, she said.
“I’m just an ordinary person and there is so much variety here,’ she said. “But I especially liked helping people figure out how to design their quilts.”
Felt, who raised nine children, said her youngest spent time in a playpen among the racks of material and notions and entertained the customers.
All in all, she said, the store took good care of their family over the years and it kept her abreast of current events and what was happening in the community.
“I also made a lot of friends here,” Felt said. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/watch-now-burleys-mill-end-fabrics-closes-doors/article_907743de-0ea1-11ed-8c2b-e727dfcb9824.html | 2022-07-29T19:22:36 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/watch-now-burleys-mill-end-fabrics-closes-doors/article_907743de-0ea1-11ed-8c2b-e727dfcb9824.html |
BELTON, Texas — Two emergency personnel were taken to the hospital due to heat exhaustion after battling the Dog Ridge Fire in Belton, which sparked Thursday afternoon, according to the Bell County Fire Marshal Chris Mahlsedt.
The fire, which sparked Thursday afternoon, is now 70% contained as of 1:45 p.m., according to Bell County spokesperson James Stafford.
Stafford added that the fire hasn't spread beyond fire lines.
“At this point, there is little danger of it escaping the containment lines," Mahlsedt said.
The fire reportedly started before 2 p.m. Thursday in the area of Interstate 14, just west of FM 1670. Parts of I-14 were temporarily shut down in both directions due to the high smoke at the time. Minor crashes were also reported because of poor visibility on Thursday, Sgt. Bryan Washko with the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
There are no injuries so far and there hasn't been any damage to any residential or commercial areas, except a wrecking yard, which lost 1,500 vehicles, Mahlsedt said.
There has been some confusion about the total number of acres burned from the Dog Ridge Fire, but Stafford clarified a total of about 150 acres were burned since the fire started. He came to that conclusion because crews scoped the perimeter of the fire, he said.
The cause of the fire isn't known at this time.
Around 25 to 30 agencies, including fire departments from Belton, Salado and Fort Hood, responded to the fire.
Stay with 6 News as this story develops. | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/dog-ridge-fire-2-emergency-personnel-hospitalized/500-e2481944-074d-499f-a030-bdfca88e6b88 | 2022-07-29T19:23:38 | 1 | https://www.kcentv.com/article/news/local/dog-ridge-fire-2-emergency-personnel-hospitalized/500-e2481944-074d-499f-a030-bdfca88e6b88 |
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A man accused of killing his 3-year-old daughter and slashing his 12-year-old daughter’s throat before turning the knife on himself is now out of the hospital and locked up in the Seminole County jail.
Juan Bravo-Torres, 39, was booked into jail Friday morning, according to the jail’s website.
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He had been in the hospital since July 21, when police said he slashed his own throat and wrists after attacking both his daughters, killing one of them.
Bravo-Torres’ mugshot shows some of the wounds the man inflicted on himself, stitched and stapled together, on the right side of his throat and just below his Adam’s Apple.
Police said they were alerted to the deadly stabbing at 798 Highland St. in Longwood when the 12-year-old girl walked nearly a mile to a McDonald’s where her mother works to find help.
The girl told police she was sleeping when her father reached for her neck and came at her with a knife, slicing her throat, an affidavit for an arrest warrant shows.
As Bravo-Torres went to get another knife, the girl exited the bedroom and found her 3-year-old sister on the floor in the hallway, officers said.
According to the affidavit, when Bravo-Torres returned, the girl fought back and eventually “acted dead,” in the hopes Bravo-Torres would stop attacking. Police said the father then dragged the 12-year-old and her little sister into the bathroom, where he cut his own wrists and throat.
The 12-year-old girl waited for her father to lose consciousness before grabbing the knife Bravo-Torres used to attack her to protect herself, locking the bathroom door from the inside before leaving to get help.
“She’s covered in blood, drenched in blood, and (she has) bruises and cuts,” a man told a 911 operator after she arrived at the McDonald’s.
Bravo-Torres and the girl were both taken to a hospital in critical condition.
He faces charges of attempted first-degree murder and premeditated first-degree murder.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – At the strike of midnight Saturday, the Department of Economic Opportunity’s successful Homeowner Assistance Program will stop accepting new registrations from Florida homeowners seeking financial help.
Adam Callaway, the DEO’s deputy secretary of strategic business development, told News 6 that the HALF program, which started in February, has already helped nearly 9,000 homeowners statewide, issuing an average of $50,000 per resident.
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“We haven’t run out of funds yet, Callaway said. “We anticipate we will run up against our funding cap, so we have to be careful.”
That cap, issued by the federal government, started at $676 million.
As of Friday, the DEO website reported more than $240 million had been paid to struggling homeowners across the state.
“We are pushing to get folks to register as soon as possible because we do anticipate we are going to hit that funding cap for what would come in before Saturday,” Callaway said.
According to the DEO website, available options for funding include your mortgage, property taxes, utilities, fees, homeowner’s insurance and even the internet.
Callaway told News 6 that eligible Florida homeowners must have experienced a financial hardship after, or that continued after, January 21, 2020, must meet “First Tier” income qualifications and must be a homeowner requesting assistance for your primary residence.
For more information on eligibility and how to register, go to: floridajobs.org. The link includes a video that walks you through the step-by-step process. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/29/deadline-for-state-homeowner-assistance-program-ends-soon/ | 2022-07-29T19:24:38 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/07/29/deadline-for-state-homeowner-assistance-program-ends-soon/ |
VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health on Friday confirmed the first case of monkeypox in Volusia County.
The state did not provide any information about the victim, where in the county they are located or how they may have contracted the disease.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Florida has 346 confirmed cases of monkeypox, the fourth highest in the nation and just behind Illinois, which has 396. New York and California have the highest number of cases with 1,247 and 799 cases, respectively, according to the CDC.
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The health department lists at least 31 other confirmed cases in Central Florida. Orange County has the highest number of cases in the area, with 22.
The state announced the first case in Central Florida on June 17.
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JACKSON • Emma Mask, a recent graduate of Nettleton High School, is among 10 Mississippi students receiving $1,000 scholarships from the Mississippi Association of School Superintendents.
Named in honor of the late veteran educator Walter S. Bounds, the Bounds Scholarship for Excellence rewards top-performing students who excel in leadership, community service and extracurricular activities. Recipients also must meet academic requirements and be recommended by their superintendents.
"To ensure that Mississippi has strong, capable leaders to guide us into the future, we must encourage and train those leaders today,” said Dr. Phil Burchfield, MASS executive director. “The Bounds Scholarship program celebrates students who not only demonstrate a clear commitment to excellence but also seek to be responsible leaders in their careers and communities.”
Combining an eagerness to learn with a reputation for going above and beyond, Mask excelled as a leader in multiple school activities. While achieving a 4.0 grade point average, she served as a Beta Club officer, yearbook editor and homecoming court representative.
At Nettleton High, Mask also was active in band, powerlifting, Mu Alpha Theta, Jr. Civitan, FCA and the Literary Club. Of significance were her many hours of community service with FAITH Food Pantry, Nettleton Main Street Association and Liberty Baptist Church.
Mask plans to attend Itawamba Community College to major in secondary math education.
The Mississippi Association of School Superintendents and the Alliance of Educational Leaders of Mississippi is a non-profit association whose membership is made up of 139 public school superintendents and more than 2,000 public school administrators. Its mission is to provide resources, advocacy, leadership, policy information, training, support, renewal, and public relations services that improve the quality of public education.
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TUPELO • More than 50 students and volunteers at Brewer United Methodist Church gathered non-perishable items to aid North Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Care patients.
The church's vacation Bible school coordinator Stacey Blaylock said she saw that the Tupelo Farmers’ Depot was collecting items for the NMMC Cancer Care food pantries. She decided to challenge her students to bring items during the south Lee County church's July 17-19 vacation Bible school. If they did, she would allow them to pie her in the face!
“We always have a good time at VBS, but this year was extra special,” Blaylock said. “The kids were overjoyed and so excited to participate and it just exploded.”
Blaylock said that their new pastor, Joel Garrott, upped the ante and told the students if they brought in more than 50 items, they could pie him in the face, too. In total, the students and volunteers gathered 325 items for the NMMC-Cancer Care food pantry.
“Food insecurity is a larger problem than anyone realizes among cancer patients,” said Domingo Valpuesta of NMMC Cancer Care. “This donation from Brewer United Methodist Church is an added layer of the partnership between our health care system and our generous community that will further improve the health and well-being of neighbors.”
“Cancer hits everyone in the heart. We just wanted to do our part to help those in need," Blaylock said. | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/shannon-church-collects-food-for-nmmc/article_ac869f75-fd9c-5cd7-a093-e26a215a256d.html | 2022-07-29T19:25:41 | 1 | https://www.djournal.com/news/local/shannon-church-collects-food-for-nmmc/article_ac869f75-fd9c-5cd7-a093-e26a215a256d.html |
SCOTT McFETRIDGE and CIARAN GILES
Associated Press
DES MOINES (AP) — At over $1 billion, the Mega Millions jackpot is among the largest lottery prizes ever up for grabs, making it the latest focus of lotteries that have been conducted in the U.S. and around the world for centuries.
Only two prizes have grown larger than the massive jackpot that could be won Friday night. Other lotteries elsewhere around the globe offer smaller payouts, though in other ways they are more integrated into life in their countries.
"There are a ton of lotteries throughout the world," said Bill Coley, president of the Institute of Responsible Gaming, Lotteries and Sports at Miami University. "It's the mystiques of mathematics. You can take a nominal fee and give a chance to build a revenue stream of a billion dollars for potentially one individual. It's pretty exciting."
Lotteries in the U.S. initially mirrored similar games in Europe, and in 1776 one was created to help fund the Revolutionary War.
Lotteries remain popular in Europe. The Eurojackpot game paid a $120 million euro ($121.9 million) prize just last week to someone in Denmark, and a player in the United Kingdom recently won a $230 million euros ($233.6 million) Euromillions prize.
Arjan van't Veer, the secretary general of the European Lotteries Association, noted there also are numerous national lotteries.
Among the most celebrated is Spain's El Gordo (The Fat One).
Although it isn't held until Dec. 22, a large promotion campaign began July 5. The effort always includes promotional videos, such as one this summer featuring a know-it-all who is exposed as a know-nothing because he doesn't know where tickets are sold.
The U.S. Mega Millions and Powerball games can offer bigger individual prizes, but El Gordo's 2.4 billion euros ($2.4 billion) is the biggest game for total prizes. About 70% of the lottery's proceeds pay for prizes, with the remainder going to the government.
The top-prize is 4 million euros ($4 million). But the standard ticket bought by people is 20-euro "decimo," or one-tenth of a full ticket, so that people with the winning number on their décimo get 400,000 euros ($406,340), or about 330,000 euros ($335,268) after taxes.
Spain established the national lottery as a charity in 1763 during the reign of King Carlos III. Despite wars and other political and economic crisis, the lottery has never been suspended.
Purchasing and sharing decimos — especially in the run-up to Christmas — is a tradition among families, friends, co-workers and in bars and sports and social clubs. People line up, even in the cold and rain, outside lottery offices, especially those that have sold winning tickets in the past.
After the winning numbers are announced, televised street and bar celebrations follow, with people dancing and singing with uncorked bottles of sparkling wine.
There also are numerous large lotteries in Asia, such as the Japan Jumbo Draw as well as Japan's Loto 6 and Loto 7, and the Ultra Lotto in the Philippines.
David Schwartz, a professor and gaming historian at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, noted that lotteries have long histories throughout the world, in part because they are simple to play and offer rare but potentially huge winnings.
"The driving force behind lotteries is that one ticket isn't that expensive but you have a chance for a huge, huge payoff," Schwartz said. "I think people have an understanding there are pretty slim odds, but on the other hand, somebody has to win."
Visitors to the U.S. are welcome to play lottery games like Mega Millions, and for years residents of Canada and Mexico who live along the borders have made the short trip to buy tickets. There also are options to buy tickets online through private companies, but U.S. lottery officials says people do so at their own risk.
And keep in mind, Ohio Lottery spokesman Michael Bycko said, that people who aren't U.S. residents are still on the hook for federal and possibly state taxes, depending on where they play.
Gordon Midvale fills out a lottery ticket inside a 7-Eleven store in Oakland, Calif. The Mega Millions lottery jackpot has topped $1 billion — only the fourth time a lottery game has reached such heights. | https://globegazette.com/news/local/1-1b-mega-millions-jackpot-latest-in-history-of-lotteries/article_7f0e76c1-e809-54b0-8e0d-23c6053530dd.html | 2022-07-29T19:35:35 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/1-1b-mega-millions-jackpot-latest-in-history-of-lotteries/article_7f0e76c1-e809-54b0-8e0d-23c6053530dd.html |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Towne East Square has announced that six new stores will soon open there.
Starting on the upper level, Pandora jewelry will open next to Von Maur this fall. Skate shoe brand Vans will also open this fall near the center court. Finally, sports apparel store Pro Image will open in August next to SCHEELS.
On the lower level, the clothing store Daily Thread is coming in August. It will be by Dillard’s. Bubble tea shop Panda Boba will open in the fall in center court.
Clothing and home goods company Earthbound will open sometime in spring, but it is still working on a specific location.
The mall says exact opening dates will be announced later on their website and Facebook page. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/6-new-stores-coming-to-towne-east-square/ | 2022-07-29T19:38:34 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/6-new-stores-coming-to-towne-east-square/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Wichita Police Department is on the scene of a shooting in the 1600 block of North Fairview. The address is just north of Wichita’s Midtown.
Sedgwick County dispatchers tell us that one person has potentially critical injuries. KSN News has a crew on the scene. Our reporter said she saw the ambulance was leaving as she arrived.
Drivers may want to avoid the area as the street appears to be blocked.
KSN News has reached out to the police department to get more details. We will update this story as we get more information. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/one-person-injured-in-north-wichita-shooting/ | 2022-07-29T19:38:40 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/one-person-injured-in-north-wichita-shooting/ |
OROVILLE, Calif. — A woman was arrested Thursday after she walked into an Oroville preschool and allegedly tried to get a 4-year-old child to leave with her.
According to the Oroville Police Department, it happened around 12:30 p.m. Thursday at the A Bright Starr Preschool & Daycare on Feather River Boulevard.
The person who called police said the woman walked into the school and tried to leave with a child.
Police got to the school and found 41-year-old Dezirae Guthrie. They also found the child was uninjured and safe inside the school.
School employees reported to officers that Guthrie tried to persuade a 4-year-old to come outside with her.
She was taken to the Butte County jail on suspicion of attempted kidnapping and her bail was set at $60,000.
ABC10 reached out to the school for more information. We have not heard back yet.
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What to Know
- Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered New York's Department of Environmental Conservation to issue a drought watch for 21 counties following dry conditions due to the lack of sufficient rain.
- The counties under drought watch are Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genessee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Onondaga, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Suffolk, Tompkins, Wyoming, and Yates.
- New York is encouraging residents in affected counties to conserve water during the coming weeks.
Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered New York's Department of Environmental Conservation to issue a drought watch for 21 counties following dry conditions due to the lack of sufficient rain.
The counties under drought watch are Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung, Erie, Genessee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Onondaga, Orleans, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Suffolk, Tompkins, Wyoming, and Yates.
"Recent rains across the state were not enough to address the dry conditions that have persisted this year," Hochul said. "Local water restrictions and educating residents about how to help conserve our water resources will be crucial steps to help prevent a more severe shortage should conditions worsen."
New York is encouraging residents in affected counties to conserve water during the coming weeks.
"Conserving water is important all year long, but particularly during extended dry periods like we are experiencing now," Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said. "DEC will continue to monitor water conditions as the summer continues and work with our partners to help address the short-term water issues leading to this watch and the longer-term impacts of climate change on our everyday lives."
According to the state, below-normal rain during the past three months, low streamflows, and low groundwater levels has prompted Hochul's action.
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The National Weather Service outlook predicts above-normal temperatures and below-normal precipitation during the rest of the summer, the state said.
New York recommends the following tips to conserve water use:
- Water lawns only when necessary, opting for watering methods that avoid waste. Try to water early in the morning to reduce evaporation and maximize soil hydration;
- Reuse water collected in rain barrels, dehumidifiers, or air conditioners to water plants;
- Raise lawn mower cutting heights since grass that is longer tends to be healthier, have stronger roots and need less water;
- Use a broom instead of a hose to clean driveways and sidewalks; and
- Fix leaking pipes, hoses, and faucets.
- For more water saving tips, visit DEC's website. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/drought-watch-issued-for-21-new-york-counties/3801355/ | 2022-07-29T19:48:18 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/drought-watch-issued-for-21-new-york-counties/3801355/ |
Prosecutors filed charges in the overdose of a New Jersey fire department captain found dead in his firehouse back in January.
Newark Fire Captain Carlos Rivera was discovered unresponsive the morning of Jan. 15 inside the firehouse on Park 15, county prosecutors said. A second man, a retired firefighter, was found unconscious alongside the captain.
Both were transported to University Hospital, where the captain was pronounced dead.
Eliasel Biaz, 42, was arrested and charged with distribution and causing a drug-induced death. Attorney information for the Kearny man was not immediately known.
“Essex County leads the state in drug overdoses. Given those numbers, it is important we fully investigate these cases and charge the perpetrators with strict liability homicide when appropriate,’’ Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-charged-in-newark-fire-captains-overdose-death-at-station-house/3801326/ | 2022-07-29T19:48:19 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-charged-in-newark-fire-captains-overdose-death-at-station-house/3801326/ |
Amtrak stopped running passenger trains Friday along a stretch of track near an old warehouse in Albany with an exterior wall in danger of partially collapsing.
The track closure interrupted service west from Albany and complicated operations of Amtrak’s new Burlington, Vermont to New York City service. Amtrak officials could not say how long the stretch of track would be off limits to trains.
City officials in Albany are concerned about the stability of the privately-owned Central Warehouse; a massive, old building north of the city’s downtown. Mayor Kathy Sheehan said a structural engineering report states that a collapse of part of the warehouse’s south wall is considered imminent.
Chunks of the façade have already fallen off.
Amtrak spokesman Jason Abrams said the rail service was taking preemptive measure to keep passengers and employees safe.
Lake Shore Limited trains to Chicago, and Maple Leaf trains to Toronto, were not running Friday. Empire Service was running between New York City and Albany, but not west of Albany.
Customers on the newly expanded Burlington to New York City route will get off the train and take a bus for the portion of the trip in upstate New York between Saratoga Springs and Albany, Abrams said.
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In Albany, Sheehan declared a state of emergency.
“We are working closely with local, state, and federal partners and engineering experts to determine the extent of the structural failure and develop a plan to ensure the safety of our residents and businesses, and get the trains running on time and interstate commerce back on track,” she said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/unstable-upstate-ny-building-interrupts-some-amtrak-service/3801319/ | 2022-07-29T19:48:19 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/unstable-upstate-ny-building-interrupts-some-amtrak-service/3801319/ |
Cocoa Beach man charged with attempted murder, holding woman hostage, police say
A 21-year-old Cocoa Beach man was arrested Thursday on multiple charges, including attempted murder, after he was accused of holding a woman hostage and sexually battering her, police said.
Following an argument at about 3 a.m. Thursday, Isaiah Burrows held a woman against her will at his residence in the 600 block of South Orlando Avenue and "actually, intentionally and knowingly threatened (her) life," an arrest affidavit said.
The woman told police Burrows pushed her onto a bed and pinned her down, hitting her across multiple parts of her body with an open palm and then a closed fist, the affidavit said. When she attempted to flee, he began biting her.
She attempted to run twice, once making it to the front door and once to a bus stop before Burrows stopped her, the affidavit said.
Burrows broke the woman's phone and told her, "I should kill you," the affidavit said. He put his hands around her neck and squeezed until she lost consciousness, she said in the report. She woke up to Burrows punching her abdomen and screaming her name.
Burrows used an aluminum brook stick to sexually batter her, telling her he would continue to beat her if she didn't obey him, and that he was going to kill her, the affidavit said.
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The woman told police she attempted to deescalate the situation because there was a knife and boxcutter nearby, the affidavit said.
Burrows eventually stopped harming the woman, picked up the boxcutter and took it into the bathroom to hurt himself, giving her the chance to escape, the affidavit said.
In an interview with police, Burrows said he and the woman used the drug MDMA — a synthetic drug that alters mood and perception and is also known as Ecstasy or Molly — after which they began arguing about social media and his belief that she was cheating on him, the affidavit said.
He admitted to hitting her, biting her, striking her with a broom and sexually battering her with the broom. He said he could have possibly told her that he would kill her.
Burrows was in possession of an electronic smoking device that field tested presumptive positive for MDMA, the affidavit said.
Burrows was charged with attempted murder, two counts of sexual battery, false imprisonment, possession of controlled substance, tampering with a witness. He is being held at the Brevard County Jail without bond.
Court paperwork did not list an attorney representing Burrows and a court date has been set.
Finch Walker is a Breaking News Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Walker at 321-290-4744 or fwalker@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @_finchwalker | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/cocoa-beach-man-arrested-charged-attempted-murder/10184066002/ | 2022-07-29T19:52:39 | 0 | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/cocoa-beach-man-arrested-charged-attempted-murder/10184066002/ |
Upstate: Spartanburg Medical Center receives top ranking; Bon Secours, Prisma just behind.
U.S. News & World Report released its 2022-2023 national hospital rankings this week, recognizing several hospitals in the Upstate as among the best in South Carolina.
Spartanburg Medical Center received the top ranking in the Upstate. It came in fourth in South Carolina overall, with Bon Secours St. Francis Health System-Greenville as second in the Upstate and sixth statewide, and Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital as third in the Upstate and seventh statewide.
Top Five Hospitals in the Upstate
- Spartanburg Medical Center
- Bon Secours St. Francis Health System-Greenville
- Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital
- Abbeville Area Medical Center
- AnMed Health Cannon
All three Upstate hospitals received high ratings for their work in several areas of care. Spartanburg Medical Center performed highly in cardiology, diabetes, stroke, kidney failure, and various cancers. Likewise, both Greenville Hospitals performed highly in ratings for various cancer surgeries, cardiac treatment, stroke, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Ben Secours also received top ratings for a variety of orthopedic procedures, including hip and knee replacements.
U.S. News, which evaluates data on nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide to issue its rankings, identified MUSC Health-University Medical Center in Charleston as the top hospital in South Carolina. MUSC is ranked nationally for ear, nose and throat care and for obstetrics and gynecology, in addition to a variety of pediatric specialities including pediatric cardiology and heart surgery. U.S. News also determined MUSC to be a high-performing hospital in the areas of cancer care, gastroenterology and gastrointestinal surgery, rheumatology, and urology.
Nationally-ranked hospitals excel in handling extremely ill and medically complex patients.
Top Ten Hospitals in South Carolina
- MUSC Health-University Medical Center
- Lexington Medical Center
- Roper Hospital
- Spartanburg Medical Center
- McLeod Regional Medical Center
- Bon Secours St. Francis Health System-Greenville
- Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital
- Grand Strand Regional Medical Center
- Abbeville Area Medical Center
- Aiken Regional Medical Centers | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2022/07/29/spartanburg-medical-center-receives-top-ranking-bon-secours-prisma-upstate/10183204002/ | 2022-07-29T19:53:59 | 0 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2022/07/29/spartanburg-medical-center-receives-top-ranking-bon-secours-prisma-upstate/10183204002/ |
Volusia, Flagler counties report first cases of monkeypox
Volusia County reported its first case of monkeypox on Friday, but the Florida Department of Health said the threat to the general population is low.
Flagler County also reported its first case of the disease, according to the Department of Health’s website.
The Florida Department of Health - Volusia County declined to provide any information about the person who contracted monkeypox, such as their age or an age range.
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“The patient is isolated and we are looking into possible exposures he may have had and we will offer any exposure treatment,” said Wendi Jackson, the Volusia County DOH public information specialist.
When asked if the general population should be concerned, she said that monkeypox is spread only through close contact or possibly through the sharing of contaminated items, such as bedding or towels.
“Monkeypox is spread through close intimate contact with somebody who has monkeypox,” Jackson said.
No additional cases have been identified, according to a press release from the health department.
Monkeypox was once rare in the United States and had been found mostly in Central and Western Africa; but it is now spreading throughout the country.
Monkeypox transmission “generally requires prolonged, face-to-face contact, direct contact with an active rash, or indirect contact with an active rash through contaminated items, such as contaminated clothing,” the release stated.
A person infected with monkeypox should get a vaccine within 14 days of exposure, although the vaccine is most effective within four days, the release stated.
Monkeypox has similarities to smallpox so treatments used for smallpox may also be used against monkeypox, according to the release. | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/29/monkeypox-florida-volusia-flagler-counties-report-first-cases/10186911002/ | 2022-07-29T19:53:59 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/07/29/monkeypox-florida-volusia-flagler-counties-report-first-cases/10186911002/ |
Flagler School Board District 2 race: Meet Lance Alred, Will Furry and Courtney VandeBunte
With less than a month before the state primary election, the three Flagler County School Board races are highly contested.
Lance Alred, Will Furry and Courtney VandeBunte are vying for the District 2 seat, currently held by Janet McDonald. McDonald is not running for reelection.
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Lance Alred
Lance Alred, 50, owns Nomad, LLC – a concrete pumping and placement company that provides services for residential and light commercial construction in Palm Coast and northeast Florida.
Alred is from Palatka, where his family was deeply involved in the school environment (both his parents were teachers and coaches). He was a residential home builder in Atlanta for 11 years before working as a civilian contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense, where he oversaw off-base construction of school, university and judicial buildings in Afghanistan for six tours.
Alred has not held public office before. He graduated from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and a minor in political science.
He said that what inspired him to run were his parents, who “always taught me to try to make your community a better place.”
“I just saw a need,” Alred said in a phone interview. “I saw a school board that I felt my background and experience could help.”
He said he is motivated by his desire to get the Flagler School District back to “where I think it belongs, which is an 'A' district, and I think we should be a top 10 school district in the state of Florida.”
If elected, Alred said that his most important priority would be security in schools.
“I’m not privy to the security protocols and assessments because (the district) does not provide those to candidates,” he said, adding that his military background gives him the chance to make suggestions for how to improve security.
“With my background in Afghanistan doing the security work (for school buildings) it would be a benefit to the district,” he said.
Alred also mentioned that the district’s Exceptional Students in Education program “needs a lot of work.”
The program serves students with special learning needs. It includes students serviced under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and those who are gifted.
Alred said that he has heard complaints from other parents about the ESE program, saying that "some parents feel their kids aren't getting enough help." He has also heard from some of the schools' paraprofessionals and assistants that "they feel like they need more training."
With a recent change in the program’s management, Alred said that he is encouraged by the new leadership’s proactiveness.
“It could be a very positive sign for us,” he said. "It's the most challenging program most school districts face."
Another point of concern for Alred is the district’s literacy rates.
“I would really like to see our literacy rates increase at the VPK and K-3 grade levels” he said. “I would like to see us bring in certified teachers at the VPK level and really focus on literacy.”
He said the reason for his particular concern with literacy rates is because of the amount of “reading-based” learning that is include in the school curriculum.
Alred praised the district’s handling of its finances, saying school board members were “pretty good stewards of the funds.”
“I think from a budgetary standpoint, the board does a pretty good job,” he said.
He also commended the district’s investment in technology – which was especially helpful during the pandemic – and the schools’ acceleration programs, such as the Cambridge Advanced International Certificate of Education Diploma program at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast.
AICE is an international program with more than 10,000 participating schools in more than 160 countries. It offers students the opportunity to tailor their studies to their individual interests, abilities and future plans within an international curriculum framework.
The Parental Rights in Education bill (referred to by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill), signed into law a few months ago by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, drew national attention and controversy.
The bill restricts school instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade “or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.”
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Alred said that he is in favor of “parents having a say and more involvement in the education of their kids.”
“On the positive side, my hope is that, because of the Parental Rights bill, we have more involvement from parents in the education of their kids,” he said. “On the flip side, I’m all for teaching controversial subjects in school, I think it’s appropriate. But I also believe it’s the right of every parent to decide when it’s appropriate for the school curriculum to include these controversial subjects.”
Alred said that including lessons on sexuality and sexual orientation in the elementary school curriculum would be "flat out wrong," adding that high school would be “way more appropriate.”
Will Furry
Will Furry, 47, has been a Flagler County resident since 2013. For the past eight years, Furry has been a local realtor and real estate investor.
Also an entrepreneur, he served on the board of the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce in Miami, where he lived with his family before moving to Flagler County.
Furry has never held public office and has a high school diploma. He said his children inspired him to run, especially during the challenges school boards across the country faced during the pandemic.
“It sparked me to take more interest in my local government,” Furry said in a phone interview. “It was one of those things when you don’t agree with what’s going on and then somebody says ‘Why don’t you do something about it?’ So I decided to do something about it.”
Furry also pointed to the district’s ESE program, which “seems to be a failure.”
His son has an IDP (Individualized Education Plan), which allowed Furry and his wife to have first-hand experience with the program.
“One of the concerns is that the kids are not getting the full accommodations that are required in the contract,” he said. “As I was on the campaign trail, especially during the petition time, I met a lot of parents, getting my petitions signed, who expressed their frustration with the ESE program and their challenges were far greater than my own.”
He added that ESE kids need the extra attention now as the district continues to adjust to pandemic restrictions and new ways of learning.
Furry also mentioned that he is not satisfied with the relationship between the district’s leadership and the teaching staff.
“There has been a lot of turnovers,” he said. “Of course there are teacher shortages and yes, that is a challenging thing to navigate when you have a lack of available talent to hire. But the retention falls on the superintendent’s leadership choices. I believe that’s an area we need improvements.”
In an email to The News-Journal, Florida Education Association spokesperson Joni Branch wrote that there are "8,031 vacancies for teachers and 5,892 for support positions, totaling 13,923 vacancies" statewide.
According to the association, Flagler County has 67 total vacancies as of July 24. Trevor Tucker, Flagler County School Board Chair, told The News-Journal that the district "did have a lot of turnover last year, no doubt."
Furry also said that “we need to bring back the joy of in-person learning” by providing more “attractive and stimulating” extracurricular activities.
“Outside of our typical curriculum, these type of things – electives and extracurricular activities – I believe these are the things that keep kids in school,” he said. “I believe that they’re helpful in keeping kids from dropping out of school, especially in the high school grade levels. I’d like to promote that.”
He praised the district’s three-year strategic plan that “ties the superintendent’s evaluation to the results;” the approval of the increased impact fees for new construction in preparation for school growth; and, more recently, the overhaul of the school uniform policy.
Other priorities he mentioned were “school safety,” “protecting and preserving parental rights,” “curriculum transparency,” “education, not indoctrination,” and “enriching classroom environment.”
On the Parental Rights in Education bill, Furry expressed full support for the new law.
“In my opinion, I don’t think it went far enough,” he said. “I believe the government is reaching too far in the relationship between a parent and a child and is trying to instill worldly values in children that may not be in alignment with their parents’.”
Furry said he believes the prohibition of sexual orientation and gender identity instruction from kindergarten through third grade should be extended to “at least middle school, if not all the way through 12th grade.”
He added: “I believe that morals and values come from the home, regardless of what they are – that is between the parent and the child. With the (Parental Rights in Education) bill, we are talking about sex talk with children. This should not even be a debate.”
VandeBunte
Courtney VandeBunte, 35, was born and raised in Flagler County. She attended Old Kings Elementary School, Indian Trails Middle School and graduated from Flagler Palm Coast High School.
She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida State University and moved back home to become a teacher. She taught at elementary, middle and high school levels for nine years.
She left the classroom to care for her third child with her husband, Blake, who is also an educator.
“Now that she is in kindergarten, I thought about going back to the classroom, but when I saw the opportunity to run for school board, I thought my unique experience as a lifelong Flagler resident and as an established teacher here served me well to be on the school board.”
In the time when wasn’t teaching, VandeBunte designed science curriculums for public schools across the country.
“But I want to do more, which is why I’m running for school board,” she said.
She said the last few years have been “very challenging” for the school district, including school staff, students and parents.
“Our community has been through the ringer,” she said. “I want to be a positive change that gets our schools back on track, that gets our district back to the ‘A’ grade that we were before all of these challenging years.”
VandeBunte said that the district is “doing a good job so far” of trying to overcome the challenges posed by the pandemic.
She praised the district’s superintendent Cathy Mittelstadt’s strategic plan, which lays out the district’s goals and how to reach them.
“One of those goals is academic achievement, another goal is safety and student wellness,” VandeBunte said. “I think those two go hand-in-hand. I think the district recognizes that our students’ safety and wellness need to be put on a pedestal before academic achievement can occur.”
One of the challenges the district is facing, VandeBunte said, is “retaining high-quality teachers.”
“Teaching has become such a hard profession to stay in these days,” she added. “Flagler is recognizing the need to retain our teachers, and I think it’s going in the right direction. But as a teacher who worked here, I can offer the board important insight and perspectives on how to retain those high-quality teachers.”
One of her priorities, if elected, would be to “reestablish a positive culture for the whole district.”
“Not just the students and the staff, but also families as well. Not only do we want them to be academically successful, but we want them to be happy,” she said. “In order for students to be happy and successful, we need our teachers and staff to be happy successful. We need to make them feel supported by a district-wide culture.”
Another thing that the district needs to focus on, VandeBunte said, is “creating more opportunities for families to be directly involved with their individual child’s learning journey.”
“The district needs to communicate with all of their constituents,” she said. “To figure out how our constituents feel, how can we make the parents and the families feel supported and involved in their child’s education.”
On the Parental Rights in Education bill, VandeBunte mentioned that the legislation has received criticism from school board members across the state for “not being transparent enough.”
“There are a lot of terms in that bill that have not been defined, so it leaves a lot of questions up in the air that board members don’t really know how to interpret,” she said.
She said that she supports parental involvement in their child’s education but is concerned with the possibility of community members suing teachers and schools “based on terms in the bill that haven’t been defined.”
She added: “Before I can really answer (whether she supports the bill), I would say that the most important thing is that the Department of Education, working with the state, needs to release guidelines to this particular bill, so we know what it is actually saying.”
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Development, revenue, water supply on minds of Volusia Council Dist. 5 candidates
DAYTONA BEACH — Two current Deltona city commissioners and one past Deltona city commissioner are all vying to be the next District 5 Volusia County Councilman.
Victor Ramos, David Santiago and Julio David Sosa are facing off in the Aug. 23 primary election that will determine if one of the men wins outright with more than 50% of the vote, or if the top two vote-getters among them will square off in the Nov. 8 general election.
The winner will be sworn into office in January for the position that pays $47,797 annually and comes with a four-year term.
The District 5 seat is currently held by Fred Lowry, but he is not seeking re-election to the County Council. Lowry has instead decided to run for a post on the Volusia County School Board.
Here's a closer look at each of the three competitors hoping to represent District 5, which covers southwestern Volusia County.
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Ramos: 'Challenges ahead of us'
Victor Ramos grew up in Miami, and he was a teacher and coach in that city for 12 years. The 51-year-old taught both elementary and high school kids, and he coached softball and bowling.
He was also the assistant director at a Miami housing services nonprofit organization.
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Ramos moved to Deltona in 2000, and he continued teaching at a Seminole County elementary school and at Daytona State College.
He is now the CEO of Mid-Florida Housing Partnership, which has 46 affordable housing properties and helps people who struggle to pay their rent and mortgage. He also runs Palmetto House, a large home in Daytona Beach with small affordable rental units.
Ramos served on the Deltona city Planning Board for about five years, and then he was appointed to the District 5 Deltona City Commission post in 2016 to fill a vacancy. He was elected to the Deltona City Commission in 2018 for a four-year term.
Ramos was first to enter the now three-man District 5 County Council race. He said he wants to help remedy what he believes is a lack of communication between the county government and local cities, including Deltona and DeBary.
He also just wants to serve residents in general.
"I strongly believe my work and volunteering has given me a wide perspective," Ramos said.
His top three priorities are small business, quality of life and infrastructure.
"We need to create a relationship with small businesses," he said. "They need to know who to go to."
He's on the executive board of the River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization, which is responsible for the urban transportation planning and programming process for Volusia County and parts of Flagler County.
"We see challenges ahead of us with Volusia County growing," Ramos said. "We need a game plan for the future of transportation."
Ramos has said he considers himself a moderate who opposes "overdevelopment," but believes growth is a key part of Volusia County's economy.
"I've been consistently consistent on how I stand. I definitely enjoy the environment and our trails," Ramos said. "It's nothing new for me to advocate for them. There also has to be some type of fair balance in terms of how things are moving, how things are going to get paid for."
Santiago: 'We don't have time to train anybody'
David Santiago is from New York, where he and his wife met while they were in high school. The couple moved to Deltona 31 years ago and raised their two daughters there.
The 51-year-old sold his insurance and financial services business two and a half years ago, and now he works fulltime as a business consultant.
Santiago served on the Deltona City Commission from 2003 until 2007, and he served in the Florida House of Representatives from 2012 until 2020.
In 2020, Santiago lost to Will Roberts in a bid to become the first Volusia County tax collector.
"I lost the tax collector's race by a large margin, but what was encouraging for me is the area where I served for eight years I still won strongly," Santiago said in an interview a few months ago. "And the majority of this County Council seat sits within that area, also."
Santiago said he's running for a County Council seat because "I still have more to offer."
"We have some challenging times before us," he said, adding he believes he has the solid experience needed. "We don't have time to train anybody."
He said the relationships he developed inside the state capitol could also help him serve the citizens of Volusia County, and he "always felt Volusia County could do more in its participation in Tallahassee." He feels "opportunities were missed."
His top three priorities are infrastructure, the local economy and keeping taxes low. He expects an economic slowdown over the next year, and he thinks governments need to plan for a drop in revenue.
He also thinks water "will continue to be a topic of concern over the next several years."
"If you don't protect it properly, it can get expensive and scarce," he said. "I've spoken to scientists, and some say in 10-20 years we'll have a problem. Some say the aquifer will recharge."
He said Volusia County needs a unified vision.
"We need to decide what we want Volusia County to look like," he said. "There are lots of competing views. We need to give indicators for future investors."
Santiago is winning the campaign contributions race, with $30,180 amassed so far. Ramos has raised $17,594 and Sosa has collected $6,508.
Sosa: 'County at a crossroads'
Julio David Sosa was born in New York, moved to Puerto Rico when he was a preschooler, and then relocated to Florida in 1974 when he was about 8 years old. His family settled in Altamonte Springs, and after high school he took a job in computer operations.
Over the course of 14 years, he worked his way up to operations manager of a technology company based in Jacksonville. He then moved back to Central Florida and worked for an information technology company for 10 years.
In 2006 Sosa, who has been involved in martial arts since he was 11, opened a martial arts studio in Deltona.
The 56-year-old Sosa moved to Deltona about 20 years ago, and he was elected to the Deltona City Commission in November 2020 for a four-year term.
"As a city commissioner, I see the county at a crossroads with six County Council positions open," Sosa said.
He said he wants to get on the County Council to address aging infrastructure, water quality, taxes that he believes are too high and the rate and scope of new development — all things he hears residents talking about.
"With taxes we really have to look at the budget," Sosa said. "Do we have wasteful spending?"
He said he's opposed to any future sales tax increases. He also wants governments across Volusia County to stop making exceptions to their comprehensive plans to better control development, and he wants the proper water supply to be in place before a new development is approved.
He's opposed to the "toilet to tap" water recharging method, and he worries about wetlands getting built over.
"What is your game plan to replenish the aquifer once you drain it?" Sosa asked.
He said ultimately he just wants "Volusia County to be the greatest place for residents to live, work and play."
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FILE - This 1997 image provided by the CDC during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, and depicts the dorsal surfaces of the hands of a monkeypox case patient, who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. The World Health Organization is convening its emergency committee on Thursday, July 21, 2022 to consider for the second time within weeks whether the expanding outbreak of monkeypox should be declared a global crisis.
On Friday, Southwest District Health announced the first case of monkeypox of an Idaho resident in its jurisdiction. The case was detected in Canyon County.
According to a press release, local and state public health officials are working with the patient’s health care providers to ensure the patient is treated and any potential close contacts are identified and notified of exposure risk. The investigation is ongoing.
The initial testing identification was performed at the Idaho Bureau of Laboratories, but samples are being sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for confirmation of the monkeypox virus. The CDC results are expected in the next week, according to the press release.
According to Assistant State Epidemiologist Dr. Kathryn Turner, community spread of monkeypox has not been detected in Idaho, but there is a concern that could change. As of Tuesday, Turner said Idaho currently had enough vaccines to provide post-exposure prophylaxis to contacts of identified cases.
The state's first probable case of monkeypox was announced in early July; the individual lives in Central Health's jurisdiction, which encompasses Ada, Boise, Elmore and Valley counties.
People who have been in close contact with someone who tests positive for monkeypox should be monitored for symptoms for 21 days, according to the press release. Symptoms of monkeypox include a fever of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit or more, chills, swelling of the lymph nodes and a new skin rash that may look like pimples or blisters.
Southwest District Health also said that to avoid the spread of monkeypox people should avoid close, skin-to-skin contact with people who have a rash that looks like monkeypox. They should also take care to not handle or touch bedding, towels, or clothing of a person with monkeypox, not share eating utensils or cups, and wash their hands often with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer.
Those who develop an unexplained skin rash should contact their health care provider and avoid contact with others, per SWDH. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/monkeypox-detected-in-canyon-county/article_ba6e56bd-d83c-51ad-9371-4fc728aad0d6.html | 2022-07-29T19:54:33 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/monkeypox-detected-in-canyon-county/article_ba6e56bd-d83c-51ad-9371-4fc728aad0d6.html |
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Caldwell police officers responded to the report of a shooting at a residence on Danville Street in Caldwell just before sunrise Thursday morning.
Upon arrival, officers discovered a 59-year-old female resident of the house shot once in the chest, according to a press release from the city of Caldwell. Steven J. Smith, a 53-year-old male who is also a resident of the house, allegedly told the 911 dispatcher that he had shot the female accidentally. The female was treated by paramedics, but was pronounced dead at the scene, per the release.
Caldwell police said there is no indication that anyone else was involved in this incident. The male suspect is in police custody and police say there is no ongoing threat to the public. Smith has been charged with second-degree murder.
Smith hung two Nazi flags in front of his house and covered a van in his driveway with paper with the painted words "HOAs are Nazis" and "don't buy CBH homes."
At the time, a man identifying himself as the home's resident and going by the name "Dave" called into the Nate Shelman Show, a local talk radio show.
“Let me tell you what started this off,” he told Shelman. “I kept getting notices for stupid things that I didn’t do, or that I thought they were exaggerating on, from the HOA.”
"Dave" said he noticed a neighbor with a trailer in front of their home had not received a letter from the HOA. In response, he put an "ugly couch" on the patio area in front of his house and immediately received two HOA complaints.
“I am not a bad guy,” "Dave" said on the radio show. “I just did something I shouldn’t have, according to some people’s beliefs. ... The flags aren't illegal."
Caldwell detectives are continuing the homicide investigation assisted by the Canyon County Sheriff's Office Crime Lab team. Additional information will be released as the investigation progresses. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/police-caldwell-man-being-investigated-for-murder-same-man-hung-nazi-flags-from-home/article_fa32338b-a5bb-5ff0-8eb2-208b592aa248.html | 2022-07-29T19:54:41 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/police-caldwell-man-being-investigated-for-murder-same-man-hung-nazi-flags-from-home/article_fa32338b-a5bb-5ff0-8eb2-208b592aa248.html |
SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE, Va. – Community members gathered together to collect tons of debris during Smith Mountain Lake’s 2022 cleanup days.
This year’s cleanup days were held from May 1 to May 31, a release from Smith Mountain Lake said, and there were approximately 4.31 tons of debris collected.
The release said that these cleanup days were part of a modified version of Take Pride in Smith Mountain Lake, which was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic.
According to the final 2022 collection report, which covered cleanup reports from over 25 miles of shoreline, there were about 125 trash bags full of trash and debris collected.
Items collected at this year’s clean-up days included plastic and glass bottles, beverage cans, plastic bags, food wrappers, lawn chairs, logs, and tree branches, according to the report.
Bill Butterfield, one of the event’s organizers and president of the Smith Mountain Lake Association, said this year’s collection amount fell short of 2021′s numbers.
“We think an abundance of rainy weekends in May and the lingering pandemic contributed to lower collection numbers this year, but we’re still really pleased with the progress made toward cleaning up SML prior to the opening of the season,” Butterfield said.
Butterfield organizes the program in collaboration with the Tri-County Lakes Administrative Commission and the SML Regional Chamber of Commerce, the release said
Andy Bruns, the Executive Director of the SML Regional Chamber of Commerce, said that the cleanup days wouldn’t be as successful without the help of the community.
“Our annual cleanup days are so important to the overall health, beauty, and safety of Smith Mountain Lake,” said Bruns. “Many, many thanks to the awesome volunteers and amazing sponsors who make Take Pride in SML possible.”
The release said that volunteers were provided with supplies needed to collect trash and debris along the shoreline and that each volunteer received a commemorative waterproof cellphone bag for their help.
Sponsors for this year’s cleanup days included American Electric Power, Western Virginia Water Authority, Berkshire Hathaway Smith Mountain Lake Real Estate, Capps Home Building Center, Turner’s Dock Building, and The Windward Waterfront Lots and Custom Homes, according to the release.
You can find the full report and learn more about the initiative here. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/29/smith-mountain-lake-collects-over-4-tons-of-debris-during-2022-cleanup-days/ | 2022-07-29T19:59:32 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/07/29/smith-mountain-lake-collects-over-4-tons-of-debris-during-2022-cleanup-days/ |
'Shark Tank' to 'Jeopardy!': Small screen has a big impact on the coast
Coastal Delaware is best known for its food, beaches, and shopping. We don’t think of the region as a focus of television programming. Nonetheless, that medium is in the very air we breathe with broadcasting, narrowcasting, but not, even with a DNREC permit and a cellphone, surfcasting.
Within the last few years, businesses and locations in the area have been featured on several popular TV shows.
For instance, the Frozen Farmer products of Evans Farms in Bridgeville were showcased in 2020 and 2021 episodes of "Shark Tank." As a result, their premium ice cream and other chilled confections are now sold at 8,000 outlets nationwide, including by local Giants (the stores, not the little league team) and Walmart.
The Frozen Farmer desserts are made from “imperfect” fruit that does not meet the aesthetic standards, if you can call them that, of chain grocery stores.
Such produce is not to be confused with genuinely Ugli fruit, which comes from the island of Jamaica, is readily available, and tastes considerably better than it looks.
Interestingly, the same food markets that refuse to stock imperfect fruit from Evans Farm are quite willing to sell Frozen Farmer products made from that same fruit.
If the most important thing in real estate is “location, location, location,” then it might be said that the key to food merchandising is “packaging, packaging, packaging”.
The coastal region has also been a presence on "Jeopardy!" In 2021, “Lewes” was a clue on that game show, and this year a former ferry boat deckhand from the First Town was a contestant. I am pleased to report that in the first instance the show’s host pronounced Lewes correctly, i.e., as “Loo-is.”
But I am saddened to relate that, in the second case, the deckhand wagered all his early round winnings ($8,400) on Final Jeopardy! and did lose, as in Lewes mispronounced as “Loo-ze.”
Recognition on these TV shows indicates that the region has put its toe in the water, so to speak, in terms of television programming.
Perhaps it’s time for one or more Delaware-themed shows. Not since NBC’s "The Pretender" in the late 1990s has there been a network show with an ongoing Delaware connection.
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That action-drama series revolved around The Centre, a sinister think tank located in the fictional town of Blue Cove, Delaware. That’s one of the few geographic designations that hasn’t been applied to any local sub-division, although developers have certainly had their chances.
"The Pretender" protagonist was a skilled impostor, able to quickly master the complex skills necessary to impersonate a member of any profession. Find enough people like him and the labor shortage at local restaurants and shops becomes a thing of the past.
A possible contemporary venue for a coastal-centric show might be the History Channel. Lately, it has been defining “history” very broadly, possibly approaching historical fiction. That’s something you probably wish your Cape teachers had found acceptable when grading your social studies essays and exams.
For 212 episodes (and counting), the History Channel’s "Ancient Aliens" series has hypothesized that “historical texts, archaeology and legends contain evidence of past human-extraterrestrial contact,” dating back to pre-history; i.e., well before the Methodists held camp meetings at Rehoboth Beach.
Is it possible that they, the extraterrestrials not the Methodists, are still with us? In the immortal words of the series narrator: “Ancient Astronaut Theorists say ‘yes’”.
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Where, you ask, are these extraterrestrial aliens? They’re living in the ocean depths, something of interest (and possible intrigue) in any coastal region like ours.
And what marine arthropod has roots or, more correctly, legs dating back to pre-historic times? The innocent looking horseshoe crab, that’s who. With a family tree originating at least 350 million years ago, and enough leaf hints to crash the Ancestry.com website, the number, behavior, and appearance of those crabs are otherworldly.
In the Delaware Bay alone, by my count, there are 31.3 million horseshoe crabs.
With five sets of legs, they have enough limbs to function effectively even within the most complex UFO crab trap, err, cockpit, while their shells — functioning as inverted heat shields — keep them comfortable in the coldest of ocean water.
They brazenly engage in sex on the beach while participating in “the world’s oldest and largest wildlife migration,” a ritual that provides cover, in more ways than one, for their annual land-based reconnaissance.
Who would suspect that horseshoe crabs are aliens, given the caviar-like gifts that they leave for the red knots and other differently colored and untied migratory shore birds? And the fact that they are universally recognized as true “blue bloods” has led to their designation as a protected species.
So, be forewarned, the future of television programming in the coastal region may not be found in the air waves above, but rather in the sea waves below.
Mike Berger is a freelance writer and retired university administrator with a home in Lewes. Contact him atedadvice@comcast.net. | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2022/07/29/tv-on-the-coast-small-screen-has-a-big-impact/65383084007/ | 2022-07-29T20:01:20 | 1 | https://www.delmarvanow.com/story/news/local/delaware/2022/07/29/tv-on-the-coast-small-screen-has-a-big-impact/65383084007/ |
Fallen tree and fire destroy Salisbury home
A double whammy of a fallen tree and fire destroyed a Salisbury home Wednesday night.
A very large tree uprooted and fell on the single-family home on the 1700 block of Emerson Avenue at about 10:20 p.m. July 27. The falling tree did significant damage to power lines that ignited a fire, the Maryland State Fire Marshal's office said in a release.
"The majority of the house collapsed prior to the fire as a result of the tree," the release said.
It took Salisbury firefighters one hour to control the fire which was called in by the occupants.
The incident caused damages worth $200,000, the release said, and the family is being assisted by the American Red Cross.
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Apparent chemical exposure sends man, 3 EMS to hospital on Eastern Shore
A 78-year-old man and three emergency medical services providers were taken to hospitals Thursday after an apparent chemical exposure at a Cheriton home.
EMS responded to Center Lane at about 4:40 p.m. July 28 for a man having difficulty breathing, according to a Northampton County Sheriff's Office statement Friday. Shortly after arriving, the three EMS providers reported a strong chemical smell and experienced shortness of breath, with one losing consciousness, the statement said.
When a Northampton County Sheriff's deputy arrived on scene at about 5:20, both the man and the three EMS providers were all conscious but in distress. The four of them were taken to the Cheriton Volunteer Fire Company, then transported to hospitals.
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The EMS providers were treated at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital and released. The 78-year-old was treated at Norfolk General Hospital. His condition was unknown Friday.
Hazmat teams entered the home at about 8:30 p.m. and found an accidental mixture of household cleaning items was likely the cause of the incident, the sheriff's office said.
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Michael Jordan's plane spotted in Salisbury ahead of White Marlin Open 2022
The 2022 White Marlin Open is a little more than a week away, and its most famous returning participant appears to have arrived on the Eastern Shore to compete in the world's largest billfishing tournament.
Michael Jordan's plane, which features his famous Air Jordan logo, was spotted at the Salisbury regional airport Friday afternoon.
Jordan's famous Catch 23 boat is also registered to compete in this year's White Marlin Open. This will be the fourth year in a row that His Airness and his crew have competed in the tournament.
Jordan is no stranger to fishing tournaments, as he and his 80-foot yacht have frequented many tournaments across the country in recent years. Most recently, Jordan competed in the Big Rock Blue Marlin Tournament in his home state of North Carolina in June, where he reeled in a 24-pound dolphin fish.
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The NBA Hall-of-Famer also competed in Jimmy Johnson's Quest for the Ring fishing tournament in Atlantic City earlier this month. Catch 23's Danny Young claimed third for heaviest wahoo and wahoo optional categories at 16.5 pounds, according to the tournament's online leaderboard.
Jordan has not yet made an appearance at the Harbour Island Marina scales in Ocean City in his previous three years competing in the White Marlin Open, but his crew did have success in 2021. Last year, Trey McMillian of the Catch 23 boat caught a 23.5-pound mahi on Day 3 of the tournament, which ended up being worth $20,000 as the fish of the day.
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Raynham's last TA left amid rift with selectmen. New one says he knows who sets policy.
RAYNHAM — Raynham Selectmen have chosen the person who will help run the town — after the winning candidate made it very clear he understands selectmen are the policy makers.
"I’m not coming here to be town manager. I serve at your will to carry out your goals and objectives,” Gregory W. Barnes told selectmen.
Selectmen voted unanimously to appoint Barnes to be the new town administrator and approved his contract at their July 26 meeting. His start date is Sept. 1.
Barnes said he has over 27 years of professional experience in municipal government.
“I have the experience, education, skills and attitude to be a successful town administrator. I really want to do this at this point in my career, in a community I think that will appreciate my hard work,” he said at his interview at the July 12 selectmen's meeting.
Since 2010 Barnes has served as the director of budget and finance and treasurer for Dartmouth. He is also the town’s chief procurement officer and has served as co-interim town administrator for Dartmouth.
Before working in Dartmouth, Barnes served stints as town administrator in Swansea from 2001-2004 and Townsend from 2004-2010. He worked as assistant to the town administrator for Attleboro from 1999-2001.
Selectman Patricia Riley said at the July 26 meeting it was a combination of Barnes’ educational and professional backgrounds, his experience level and his attitude during his interview that made him the best selection in her mind.
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Selectman Joseph Pacheco echoed what he previously said at the July 12 meeting by saying it was Barnes’ skill set, temperament, demeanor and education that “pushed him over the edge” and above the other candidates.
Selectmen approved a three-year contract with Barnes with a starting salary of $153,000 and 2% annual raises.
Board Chair Richard Schiavo said he was very impressed with Barnes’ experiences as both finance director and previously as a town administrator.
“They go together hand in glove,” he said, adding Barnes’ expertise, in combination with working with Raynham’s finance director “will create a stronger team."
"Besides people, finance is at the core of what we do,” Schiavo said.
Disagreement with last town administrator
Barnes is replacing former Raynham Town Administrator Graham Waters, who left in June after less than three years in the position.
Raynham Fire Chief Bryan LaCivita has since filled in as interim town administrator.
At the time, Waters said he didn’t renew his contract with the town due to a disagreement he had with the board over the extent of power and influence he believed his position should have had.
“Almost immediately, the reality of the job and what was written down were two different things,” Waters said back in June.
Selectman Joseph Pacheco sees it differently, saying Raynham has a town administrator, not a town manager.
“That’s where the disconnect is. Town managers have executive authority. The town administrator does not,” Pacheco said back in June.
'An administrator, not a policy maker'
Barnes referenced this point about executive authority during his interview, much to the liking of board members, by explaining he is here to be an administrator, not a policy maker.
“I’m aware of the differences between a town administrator and town manager," Barnes said.
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He concluded his point by stating, “I can have all the skills and education and experience, but you want someone who brings enthusiasm and determination to the job. I bring that in spades. I’m not here to be a caretaker; I want to help you make Raynham a better community than it already is.”
Coming on board in wake of failed B-P debt exclusion
Barnes showed he was current with town affairs by referencing Raynham's failed Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School vote which would have authorized a debt exclusion to pay for the town's portion of the estimated $305 million new school building.
With Raynham's share being $39 million the town will have to make budget cuts to government operations.
“The challenge will be trying to do what you can, with limited resources,” Barnes said.
He said there are economists who believe a recession is coming and every community, including Raynham, needs to prepare for the decline in revenue.
“You’ve been progressive in this town, but it’s not just about putting money in the bank. It’s also about keeping infrastructure up to date. That is a form of savings you can use for the future. It's an indicator of a strong community,” Barnes said.
His financial experience goes beyond his role in Dartmouth. An example he gave was when he served as TA for Swansea. When he took the position the town had a deficit of $2.2 million, he said.
Barnes said he had work to balance the town’s budget, or otherwise it would revert to being state-controlled. Measures taken by Barnes included changing healthcare plans for the town, paying for trash pickup through the town’s tax base, shutting off half the street lights at night, and lots of staffing cuts.
Ultimately, the town succeeded in wiping away its deficit, according to Barnes.
“It’s something I never want to go through again. It required a great deal of innovation,” he said.
Berkley's former town administrator was in the running
Barnes was up against some familiar faces in the region. Other candidates included:
- Heather Martin-Sterling, former town administrator for Berkley who recently resigned after two years of service
- Jim Montgomery, who worked for the Department of Conservation & Recreation for 15 years, including two as commissioner, and served as finance director for Boston EMS for seven years
- David Marciello, an attorney, who previously served as town manager for Millbury (2017 -2019) and Rehoboth (2001-2011)
- Ed Swartz, who served 20 years as chair of Dighton’s Finance Committee and who has worked in retail sales and sales management for such companies as Nestle and Pulmuone Foods
Barnes said he is excited about being the new Raynham town administrator.
“It seems like it is a real nice community with a number of challenges to focus on. The board seems very involved and concerned with its community. I’m very excited for this opportunity,” he said. | https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/raynham-town-administrator-dartmouth-gregory-w-barnes-ta/10167411002/ | 2022-07-29T20:04:36 | 1 | https://www.tauntongazette.com/story/news/local/2022/07/29/raynham-town-administrator-dartmouth-gregory-w-barnes-ta/10167411002/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A historic ferry harbored in Astoria partially sunk, the U.S. Coast Guard tweeted Friday morning.
Officials said no one was aboard the ferry, called Tourist II, when it went under water.
A perimeter has been set around the ferry to minimize the release of oil. A spill response team is scheduled to begin cleanup Friday.
The ferry was one of several that transported passengers and cars across the river before the Astoria bridge opened in 1966. The ferry also laid mines at the river’s mouth during World War II. | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/historic-ferry-partially-sinks-in-astoria/ | 2022-07-29T20:16:18 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/historic-ferry-partially-sinks-in-astoria/ |
Your new fur-ever family member awaits you! Adopt a pet at this year’s NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 Clear the Shelters all month long, August 1 – August 31. This is the purr-fect opportunity to grow your family.
Many shelters are experiencing a summer surge of new pets for various reasons. Unfortunately, this can result in euthanizations due to the lack of space in the shelters. Help us save pet lives this summer.
What is Clear the Shelters?
Clear the Shelters is an annual campaign to save shelter animals across the country. Participating shelters are all waiving adoption fees on Saturday, August 27, and some are waiving fees throughout the month, however, other fees may apply.
How do I adopt a pet in DFW during Clear the Shelters?
To adopt, you must be at least 18 years of age. Be sure you bring your current/valid driver’s license or state ID. If you do not have your current address on your driver’s license or state ID, you will need to bring proof of residency such as a current utility bill or current lease agreement with your correct address.
For more information and interesting articles on Clear the Shelters, please visit www.cleartheshelters.com.
When is 2022 Clear the Shelters?
• All month long, August 1 – August 31
• Adoption fees will be waived in all participating shelters on Saturday, August 27; other fees may apply
• COVID-19 protocols will be observed
• Please check with your local shelter for their hours of operation and adoption procedures
North Texas shelters participating in 2022 Clear the Shelters
(Listed in alphabetical order by city)
ALLEN
Allen Animal Services
770 S. Allen Heights Drive
Allen, Texas 75002
214-509-4378
For more information Click HERE
ALVARADO
Alvarado Animal Services
602 South Parkway
Alvarado, Texas 76009
817-666-7401
For more information Click HERE
BENBROOK
Humane Society of North Texas (HSNT)
Benbrook Waggin Tails Adoption Center
9009 Benbrook Blvd. (HWY 377 S.)
Benbrook, Texas 76126
817-249-DOGS (3647)
For more information Click HERE
BOWIE
Bowie Animal Shelter
1504 E. Wise Street
Bowie, Texas 76230
940-841-2774
For more information Click HERE
BURLESON
Burleson Animal Services
775 SE John Jones
Burleson, Texas 76028
817-426-9283
For more information Click HERE
CARROLLTON
Carrollton Animal Services and Adoption Center
2247 Sandy Lake Road
Carrollton, Texas 75006
(972) 466-3420
For more information Click HERE
Operation Kindness
3201 Earhart Drive
Carrollton, Texas 75006
972-418-7297
For more information Click HERE
Clear the Shelters
CEDAR HILL
Tri-City Animal Shelter and Adoption Center
1150 E Pleasant Run Road
Cedar Hill, Texas 75104
972-291-5335
For more information Click HERE
COPPELL
City of Coppell Animal Services
821 S. Coppell Road
Coppell, Texas 75019
972-304-3515
For more information Click HERE
CROWLEY
Crowley Texas Animal Shelter
101 E. Hampton Road
Crowley, Texas 76036
817-297-2201
By Appointment Only All Month Long
No Appointments are needed on August 27 For more information Click HERE
DALLAS
Dallas Animal Services
1818 N. Westmoreland Road
Dallas, Texas 75212
214-670-3111
For more information Click HERE
East Dallas Kitty Club
Dallas, Texas 75214
972-325-8192
For more information Click HERE
SPCA of Texas
Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center
2400 Lone Star Drive Dallas, Texas 75212
214-742-7722
For more information Click HERE
DENTON
City of Denton Animal Shelter
Linda McNatt Animal Care & Adoption Center
3717 N. Elm Street
Denton, Texas 76207
940-349-7594
For more information Click HERE
EULESS
City of Euless Animal Services
1517 Westpark Way
Euless, Texas 76040
817-685-1594
For more information Click HERE
FLOWER MOUND
Flower Mound Animal Adoption Center
3950 Justin Road
Flower Mound, Texas 75077
972-874-6390
For more information Click HERE
FORT WORTH
Fort Worth Animal Care and Control
Alliance PetSmart Charities Adoption Center
2901 Texas Sage Trail
Fort Worth, Texas 76177
817-392-7117
For more information Click HERE
Fort Worth Animal Care and Control
Chuck & Brenda Silcox Animal Care & Adoption Center
4900 Martin Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76119
817-392-1234
For more information Click HERE
Fort Worth Animal Care and Control
Hulen PetSmart Charities Adoption Center
4800 SW Loop 820
Fort Worth, Texas 76109
817-392-6561
For more information Click HERE
Fort Worth Animal Care and Control
North Animal Campus
351 Hillshire Drive
Fort Worth, Texas 76052
817-392-1294
For more information Click HERE
Humane Society of North Texas (HSNT)
Saxe-Forte Cat Adoptions
1840 E Lancaster Avenue
Fort Worth, Texas 76103
817-332-4768
For more information Click HERE
GAINESVILLE
Noah’s Ark SPCA
2501 N Weaver Street
Gainesville, Texas 76240
940-665-9800
For more information Click HERE
GARLAND
Garland Animal Shelter & Adoption Center
600 Tower Street
Garland, Texas 75040
972-205-3570
For more information Click HERE
GRAND PRAIRIE
Grand Prairie Animal Services
Prairie Paws Adoption Center
2222 W. Warrior Trail
Grand Prairie, Texas 75052
972-237-8573
For more information Click HERE
GRAPEVINE
Grapevine Animal Services
500 Shady Brook Drive
Grapevine, Texas 76051
817-410-3370
For more information Click HERE
GUN BARREL CITY
Straydog, Inc.
P.O. Box 1465
Gun Barrel City, Texas 75147
903-479-3497
Adoption Fees Waived All Month Long
All Adoptions are by Appointment For more information Click HERE
Straydog, Inc. will also hold adoptions in Plano at the
Willow Bend Mall / Neiman Marcus
Special Adoption Date on Saturday, August 13, ONLY
No Appointments Needed
10 a.m. – 3 p.m. 2201 Dallas Pkwy Plano, Texas 75094
For more information Click HERE
HURST
Humane Society of North Texas (HSNT)
Hurst Adoption Center
900 TCC Rd.
Hurst, Texas 76054
817-788-7216
For more information Click HERE
IRVING
DFW Humane Society of Irving, Inc.
4140 Valley View Lane
Irving, Texas 75038
972-721-7788
For more information Click HERE
Irving Animal Services
4140 Valley View Lane
Irving, Texas 75038
972-721-2256
For more information Click HERE
JOSHUA
Joshua Animal Control
100 Santa Fe Street
Joshua, Texas 76058
817-774-9450
For more information Click HERE
KAUFMAN
Humane Society of North Texas (HSNT)
Kaufman County Pet Adoption Center
1904 E. US Highway 175
Kaufman, Texas 75142
469-376-4120
For more information Click HERE
KELLER
Humane Society of North Texas (HSNT)
Keller Regional
330 Rufe Snow Drive
Keller, Texas 76248
817-743-4711
For more information Click HERE
LANCASTER
Lancaster Animal Shelter
690 E Main Street
Lancaster, Texas 75146
972-218-1210
For more information Click HERE
LEWISVILLE
Lewisville Animal Services
995 E. Valley Ridge Boulevard
Lewisville, Texas 75057
972-219-3478
For more information Click HERE
LONE OAK
Sadie’s Place Animal Rescue
2821 FM 2737
Lone Oak, Texas 75453
903-662-8125
For more information Click HERE
MANSFIELD
Mansfield Animal Care & Control
407 Industrial Boulevard
Mansfield, Texas 76063
817-276-4799
For more information Click HERE
MCKINNEY
Collin County Animal Services
4750 Community AvenueMcKinney, Texas 75071
972-547-7292
For more information Click HERE
MEXIA
The Kittery Kat and Kitten Rescue Corp
838 Krisker Lane
Mexia, Texas 76667
254-424-3234
For more information Click HERE
NACOGDOCHES
Nacogdoches Animal Services and Adoption Center
3211 SW Stallings Drive
Nacogdoches, Texas 75964
936-560-5011
For more information Click HERE
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS
North Richland Hills Animal Adoption & Rescue Center7301 Iron Horse Boulevard
North Richland Hills, Texas 76180
817-427-6570
For more information Click HERE
Email: animalcontrol2@nrhtx.com
PLANO
Dallas Cat Rescue DBA Cat Matchers
P.O. Box 262571
Plano, Texas 75026
972-458-7877
For more information Click HERE
Straydog Inc.
Willow Bend Mall, Neiman Marcus Special Adoption Date on Saturday, August 13, ONLY
No Appointments Needed
10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
2201 Dallas Pkwy Plano, Texas 75094 For more information Click HERE
Plano Animal Shelter
4028 W Plano Parkway
Plano, Texas 75093
972-769-4226
For more information Click HERE
RED OAK
Red Oak Animal Care and Control
411 W Read Oak Road
Red Oak, Texas 75154
214-399-7730
For more information Click HERE
RICHARDSON
Richardson Animal Shelter
1330 Columbia Drive
Richardson, Texas 75081
972-744-4480
For more information Click HERE
RICHLAND HILLS
Richland Hills Animal Services Center
7049 Baker Boulevard
Richland Hills, Texas 76118
817-616-3769
For more information Click HERE
ROYSE CITY
Royse City Animal Shelter
1101 N Josephine Street
Royse City, Texas 75189
214-934-9352
For more information Click HERE
SACHSE
Sachse Animal Shelter
6436 Sachse Road
Sachse, Texas 75048
972-675-9662
For more information Click HERE
SAGINAW
City of Saginaw Animal Services
205 Brenda Lane
Saginaw, Texas 76179
817-230-0458
Adoption fees will be waived August 27 – August 31 For more information Click HERE
SEAGOVILLE
Seagoville Animal Shelter
1330 E Malloy Bridge Road
Seagoville, Texas 75159
972-287-6838
For more information Click HERE
TOOL
Humane Society of Cedar Creek Lake
10200 CR 2403
Tool, Texas 75143
903-432-3422
For more information Click HERE
WATAUGA
Watauga Animal Services
5203 Watauga Road
Watauga, Texas 76137
817-656-9614
For more information Click HERE
WAXAHACHIE
SPCA of Texas
Ellis County Animal Care Center
2570 FM Road 878
Waxahachie, Texas 76165
972-935-0756
For more information Click HERE
WEATHERFORD
Weatherford Parker County Animal Shelter
403 Hickory Lane
Weatherford, Texas 76086
817-598-4181
For more information Click HERE
WYLIE
City of Wyle Animal Shelter
949 Hensley Lane Building 100
Wylie, Texas 75098
972-429-8047
For more information Click HERE
How many animals have been adopted due to Clear the Shelters?
To date, over 51,000 pets found their fur-ever homes in North Texas and more than 700,000 have been adopted across the country. You can be a part of helping us Clear the Shelters this year. Every adoption is a life saved! | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/clear-the-shelters/what-to-know-about-2022-clear-the-shelters-in-north-texas/3035364/ | 2022-07-29T20:19:14 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/clear-the-shelters/what-to-know-about-2022-clear-the-shelters-in-north-texas/3035364/ |
Dallas Police released videos Friday afternoon showing the attempted arrest and fatal shooting of a man they say eluded police and was selling drugs outside a convenience store Wednesday night.
Chief of Police Eddie Garcia said undercover officers were investigating drug complaints at about 10:20 p.m. outside the LBJ Food Mart on the 13000 block of Jupiter Road when they observed a man they identified as 30-year-old Kyle Dail make multiple hand-to-hand drug deals.
Garcia said Dail then left the store in his Nissan Versa and was followed by undercover officers who later requested a traffic stop after noticing he made a traffic violation. Dail did not stop, police said, and eventually eluded officers.
At about 11:35 p.m. officers spotted Dail back at the convenience store and called for uniformed officers to take him into custody for evading arrest.
Three officers, Thomas Hoffman, Noah Hemm, and Michael Piering, responded and entered the store and approached Dail from behind.
In the video, officers can be heard telling Dail, "Don't move, don't move," and he can be heard saying "I'm not moving. I'm not moving. I can't breathe."
Garcia said Dail resisted and that as officers struggled to get him into custody he pulled out a handgun from his pocket and raised it in the air in front of Hoffman's face.
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Garcia said detectives reviewed store surveillance cameras and the officers’ body-worn cameras and saw Dail remove the handgun from his pocket. An officer can be heard on body-worn camera warning the other officers Dail had a gun.
"Dail transitions the weapon from his right to his left hand then throws the weapon to another aisle in the business.
A moment after Dail threw his weapon, Officer Hoffman fired his duty weapon," Garcia said, describing the video.
After the shooting Garcia said Dail was unresponsive and was taken to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas in critical condition. The Dallas County Medical Examiner said Dail died on Thursday.
"This event and these events are traumatic. This is traumatic to the family of Kyle Dale. We recognize that. I recognize that. And for those who know him as a friend," Garcia said. "But it's also traumatic to our officers who were involved that night. This is never our intended outcome."
Garcia said Dail's weapon was cocked and loaded with four rounds and that he was a convicted felon with a substantial criminal history who should not have had a gun. Garcia added that drugs were found on Dail and inside his vehicle.
Garcia said the videos were released in the spirit of transparency so people could see what occurred in the moments leading up to the shooting.
The investigation into the shooting is ongoing and is being led by the Dallas Police Special Investigations Unit. The Dallas County District Attorney's Office is also conducting an independent investigation.
This is the fourth officer-involved shooting involving a Dallas Police officer in 2022. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-dies-after-being-shot-by-dallas-officer-during-arrest-bodycam-surveillance-videos-released/3035454/ | 2022-07-29T20:19:20 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/man-dies-after-being-shot-by-dallas-officer-during-arrest-bodycam-surveillance-videos-released/3035454/ |
MIDLAND, Texas — On July 24, 2022 the Midland County Sheriff's Office Central Detention Facility went into lockdown due to heavy smoke in the building.
Investigators discovered that a suspect wearing a Dallas Cowboys Football jersey, jeans, and a baseball cap threw a lit road flare on top of the jail, attempting to burn the building down.
The suspect was seen on video standing on Washington Avenue throwing the flare on top the facility.
The suspect is shown on the image attached to this story. More pictures of the suspect can be viewed on the Midland Crime Stoppers Facebook page.
Anyone that provides information on this case that leads to the identity and the arrest of the suspect will be eligible for a $1,000 cash reward.
To submit a tip, call Midland Crime Stoppers at 694-TIPS or use the P3 mobile TIPS app.
No caller ID is ever used, and callers will remain anonymous. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-county-sheriffs-office-seeking-assistance-in-solving-crime/513-fc21fb14-485a-450b-8824-878c88911336 | 2022-07-29T20:25:34 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-county-sheriffs-office-seeking-assistance-in-solving-crime/513-fc21fb14-485a-450b-8824-878c88911336 |
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — A 74-year-old man from Dade City is dead after getting run over by his own truck Thursday evening, Florida Highway Patrol reports.
It all started when two pickup trucks were parked in a line in a driveway off of St. Joe Road. The driver of one of the trucks was outside attaching a tow chain between the two vehicles, the FHP report reads.
This was when the driver of the first truck in line started to move forward to help tighten the tow chain. But according to troopers, this only caused the second truck to move forward, as well.
The driver standing outside was run over by his own truck, FHP reports. He died at the scene of the incident from his injuries. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/dade-city-man-dies-truck-tow/67-b48accef-19f3-49bb-8e00-ac82b08e6fd9 | 2022-07-29T20:27:47 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/dade-city-man-dies-truck-tow/67-b48accef-19f3-49bb-8e00-ac82b08e6fd9 |
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla — The Tampa Bay area has a growing art community. Artists from all across the world are showcasing their talents here using art — the universal language — and their creativity to connect and communicate with others.
"When I find these things, I may not understand it. But I will find out the cause of these problems and then I will put them in my paintings," said Hao Penghe, the owner of Grounded Gallery.
Hao Penghe
Penghe moved to St. Petersburg in 2019 from his hometown of Liaoning in China. He attended Dalian Polytechnic University and graduated from the school of art and design in 2017.
"When I first came to the United States, I didn't know anyone or have anything," Penghe said. "So, I did anything to start from the ground. So, later, I said, OK, maybe I can use this word for my studio name and gallery name. So, I just called it 'Grounded Gallery.'"
Penghe started Grounded Gallery almost there years ago. It’s located at The Factory St. Pete in South St. Petersburg — creative destination for artists like Penghe, to showcase their art to the public.
Most of the ideas and inspiration that Penghe has comes from his life, focusing on the different people and situations around him and sketches them in his sketchbook.
"I am a very, very sensitive person," Penghe said. "So, I always catch something and when I catch something, I can write in my phone."
A majority of the paintings in "Grounded Gallery" were originally once small sketches. Going back into sketchbooks which date back to 2017, he can recall the emotions he felt that specific day and he will turn that memory into a painting on a canvas.
Hao Penghe's Sketches
Another inspiration he uses for his art is not necessarily a specific subject, but a quote that his college roommate told him.
"Many, many pain make a smile."
Penghe says that he would like to say thank you to his friend Yang Gong Tan, for telling that. The quote is the core support of his art.
"I know this sentence is not art, but for me, this is art," Penghe said. "Art is like magical. It can make everyone different and make everyone use the same power to do something."
Penghe didn’t have the intention to teach art when moving to the bay area. But his passion for art and helping the general public to understand him and his message shifted over to guiding people to be able to express their own message. Part of having a gallery and studio was having space available for him and his students.
He offers a range of sessions from open art public, live model, private drawing and even painting parties.
“Every student learns differently,” Penghe said. “Because every time I teach a student, I am not only speaking, I need to show them how to do that.”
Penghe says that he has multiple sketchbooks of different variations of the same object. Each student may have a question that will be different from another student. So, he will show them the technique from the beginning resulting in him sketching more than 100 times.
“I’m really proud of me and my students,” Penghe said.
Since moving to St. Petersburg, Penghe says that he's happy and enjoying the art community because of how diverse the artists and art are here. The communication he has with each artist shows that the community just wants each artist to be better.
With art being a universal language, he says that people can understand art because art is not just one answer.
"I want everyone to understand something but that doesn't mean you need to understand the same," Penghe said. "You can understand here, or you can understand here."
He says that everyone can see and feel art.
Grounded Gallery is located at 2630 Fairfield Ave. S., at The Factory in St. Pete. Follow its Instagram for updates on student work, events and more.
Editor's note: Chinese and English translation by Calvin Chen and Hao Penghe. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/st-pete-chinese-artist-community-connection-universal-art-language/67-d5107b4a-0fad-473d-ad52-e686fdb9a100 | 2022-07-29T20:27:53 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/st-pete-chinese-artist-community-connection-universal-art-language/67-d5107b4a-0fad-473d-ad52-e686fdb9a100 |
Tucson-based copper producer Asarco LLC and unions representing more than 1,700 Asarco workers in Arizona and Texas are back at the bargaining table for the first time since 2019.
The bargaining committee for the United Steelworkers and six other unions this week resumed negotiations with Asarco over the terms of a basic contract, the Steelworkers said.
The two parties exchanged proposals during talks Tuesday through Thursday and reached a tentative agreement on four issues, the union said in an update to members.
“Significant changes have occurred in the industry since the unions and the company last met for (basic labor agreement) negotiations in late 2019,” the Steelworkers said.
Copper prices have soared since early 2020, with spot prices rising from just over $2 in March 2020 to top $4 a year later. Copper averaged nearly $4.25 per pound during 2021 and nearly hit $5 in February, before declining to around $3.50 per pound recently.
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“Our labor is more valuable than ever at all five ASARCO properties, and the need to address wage erosion from inflation combined with ongoing workplace justice and dignity issues demands immediate action from management,” the Steelworkers said.
The new talks come as the National Labor Relations Board prepares to open formal hearings in August on a complaint consolidating charges of unfair labor practices and anti-union behavior by Asarco in Arizona and Texas dating back to 2015.
Asarco’s unions went on strike in October 2019, rejecting the company’s final offer and accusing the company and its Mexican parent, Grupo Mexico, of bargaining in bad faith.
In July 2020, the unions ended their strike and offered to return to work, while seeking a ruling that Asarco had engaged in unfair labor practices, which would require the company to reinstate striking workers.
Most recently, the unions in mid-June filed charges with the NLRB alleging that Asarco has unlawfully refused to bargain while seeking to withdraw recognition of the union at its Silver Bell mine west of Marana.
Besides Silver Bell, Asarco operates the Mission Mine in Sahuarita; the Ray Mine and Hayden smelter in central Arizona; and a refinery in Amarillo, Texas.
Two Canadian tech startups are targeting Tucson as a "soft landing" spot for U.S. entry, helped by a fast-growing University of Arizona program.
The parent of Tucson-based Raytheon Missiles & Defense on Tuesday posted higher second-quarter profits but revenue fell short of expectations.
Tucson and Pima County had the biggest jump in travel spending in 2021, though spending remained below pre-pandemic levels statewide.
Contact senior reporter David Wichner at dwichner@tucson.com or 520-573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com/DailyStarBiz | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/tucson-based-asarco-mining-unions-back-at-bargaining-table/article_016553ba-0f5b-11ed-b3f2-53619ff44d7b.html | 2022-07-29T20:28:35 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/business/tucson-based-asarco-mining-unions-back-at-bargaining-table/article_016553ba-0f5b-11ed-b3f2-53619ff44d7b.html |
PHOENIX — The more than $18 million Karrin Taylor Robson has spent running for Arizona governor — including $15 million from her own pocket — may be the only thing that has made the Republican primary a competitive race.
"It's remarkable that she has spent $15 million and she's just drawn even with her," political consultant Chuck Coughlin said about Robson making it a close race with Kari Lake, the former Phoenix television newscaster endorsed by Trump.
By virtue of her years on TV reading the news in Phoenix, Lake started with a built-in name ID. And Coughlin said that, everything else being equal, Lake might have walked away with the nomination.
"Without that money, this would not be a race," he said of Robson who, depending on whose survey is to be believed, is within striking distance in the final days of the campaign leading to Tuesday's primary election.
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How much of a race there is depends on who you ask.
Robson says her own internal polls show a virtual tie.
But a new survey released Friday by OH Predictive Insights shows Lake with an 18-point lead, and just 12% undecided with the primary just days away and a 4.4% margin of error. And the survey conducted earlier this week found nearly half of those questioned already have voted.
It's not just what Robson is spending in her own campaign.
There's another more than $2.5 million spent on her behalf, largely by Americans for Prosperity, a business-oriented group founded by the Koch brothers.
By contrast, Lake had spent just $3.8 million as of July 16, the date of the most recent campaign finance reports. And independent expenditures on her behalf totaled less than $1.3 million.
There's no question but that money matters in politics — and made a difference in the GOP race for Arizona governor, said Constantin Querard, a consultant.
"You have to water the lawn to get green grass," he said.
But how much is too much in a state like Arizona with 4.3 million registered voters — and fewer than 1.5 million of them Republicans?
"At some point in time you do reach a saturation point where more water won't make the grass greener," Querard said. And he said he believes that Robson and her backers have reached that saturation point in terms of the message she is trying to get out.
Consider: Just this past week some Republicans got two pieces of mail the same day from the business-oriented Americans for Prosperity, with duplicate points about how Robson will fight inflation, how she is a "principled conservative" and how she will create a "safe and secure border."
But does it make any difference?
Pollster Mike Noble who is the managing partner of OH Predictive Insights, agrees with Coughlin that Robson had no choice but to spend like crazy when she got in the race.
"We know Lake, being on TV for 20-plus years in Maricopa County, where six in 10 likely voters derive from, especially being on Fox, kind of started in a great position," he said. By contrast, he said, Robson, a former member of the Board of Regents, the owner of a land-use firm and the wife of developer Ed Robson, started with very low numbers.
That's putting it mildly.
In November 2021, she polled at just 1% among Republicans while Lake already was at 28%.
Noble said, however, there comes a point of "diminishing return," especially in a primary — and especially a primary in an off-year election when there is no presidential race.
What that means, he said, is a relatively low turnout, and more importantly who is likely to cast a ballot, Nobel said.
"These are your more hard-core, high-propensity, much older folks," he said. "And they're usually pretty engaged as compared to the general electorate."
That means they pretty much already have made up their minds from what they've already learned.
"I think everybody knows who Kari Lake is," said Coughlin. "I mean, they've beaten the hell out of each other on the airwaves."
What that may leave, he said, is some last-minute positive messages about who they are, versus slamming each other, basically making their closing arguments to get those who already support them to the polls. Anything else, said Coughlin, is not only wasted but ends up suppressing the overall vote.
"Who, at this juncture of the game is undecided?"
Querard said there's only so much that money can do, especially the closer it gets to the election.
"If I'm not convinced of your position, then you repeating it 10 more times is not going to convince me," he said.
Still, Querard said, there are some folks out there who, even just days before the primary election, have not made up their minds.
And that's something he always finds surprising.
"It's a week before the election and you don't know if you're going to vote for Trump or Hillary," Querard said.
"Well, how is that possible?" he asked, given how much each spent, given each had total name ID. "And you can't decide which vision of America you prefer, you can't decide which candidate your like?"
Who is left in that group, he said, are those who are voting not by issues but instead by "instinct."
"If you're an abortion voter or a Second Amendment voter or a 'build the wall' voter, then you decided three months ago," Quearard said. And what that leaves, he said, is voters asking themselves "who do my guts like?"
"And, from that standpoint, a lot of money doesn't necessarily move those people," he said. "It's going to be the sense they've developed of who you are as a person."
That, said Coughlin, is where there would be an opportunity for candidates to spend money on positive ads about themselves, without referring to their foes.
"But I haven't seen that," he said.
Noble has his own ideas on how candidates should spend the money in the last days of the campaign. He said they should be trying to get out the vote "and focusing on their supporters that they've identified that maybe have not voted yet."
Querard said there's another side to the money question that could influence voters — but not necessarily in the way the bigger spender wants.
"It may feed distrust in the mind of the voter that you're trying to buy it," he said.
"If you're being outspent, you're not the establishment candidate," Querard said. And that, he said, makes that person the "underdog'" and, in the mind of voters, that "you're more likely to be one of them."
A group advocating for more voter ID requirements is now trying to keep Arizonans from weighing in on a competing measure that would loosen them.
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Detroit offers monkeypox vaccine to city residents
Detroit —The city of Detroit is providing vaccines to city residents who have been exposed or suspect they have been exposed to the monkeypox virus.
Through the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services the city began issuing the Jynneos vaccine Friday at two Detroit locations:
*Wayne HIV/STI Clinic, located at 50 E. Canfield. Open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Saturday Aug. 6 and Aug. 20.
*Detroit Health Department, located at 100 Mack Ave. Open 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
There are nearly 5,000 known cases of monkeypox in the U.S., 37 of which have been documented in Michigan.
Of the 37 cases, there have been 10 cases in Detroit, nine in Oakland County, five each in Macomb and Kent counties, three each in Wayne and Washtenaw counties, and one each in Ionia and Montcalm counties, according to the state health department tracker.
The vaccine will be used as first doses during initial allocations from the state health department to Detroiters in need on the following basis:
• Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP): To prevent development of the virus in individuals who have been exposed to the virus.
• Expanded post-exposure prophylaxis: Individuals with risk behaviors in locations with specific areas, settings, events or venues with known monkeypox virus transmission in the previous 14 days.
Most cases so far have been among men who have sex with other men. The disease is spread through close skin-to-skin contact.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends the Jynneos vaccine be administered for PEP within four days from the date of exposure to prevent illness. If it is administered up to 14 days following exposure, the vaccine may still prevent development of the illness and may also effectively reduce symptoms if disease occurs, according to the city health department.
Further information about the monkeypox virus, and who should get vaccinated, is available by calling the Detroit Health Department nurse hotline Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.to 5 p.m. at (313) 876-4444 or send an email to dhdoutbreak@detroitmi.gov.
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Man charged with sexually assaulting Pontiac hospital patient
A Detroit man has been charged with sexually assaulting a hospital patient in Oakland County.
Kevin Darcell Blanks, 56, was arraigned Friday on three counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct by 50th District Court Judge Cynthia Walker.
He was held at the Oakland County Jail on a $50,000 bond. A probable cause conference is scheduled for Aug. 9. If convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison for each of three counts.
Oakland County Sheriff's officials on Thursday announced Blanks was wanted in connection with the assault.
Detectives were called to the Pontiac General Hospital on July 14 and learned Blanks, a night-shift mental health technician on the psychiatric floor, had sex with an 18-year-old patient that morning.
The victim was incapacitated, the judge said during Blanks’ arraignment Friday.
Blanks was arrested Thursday evening in Detroit after he turned himself in to members of the Sheriff’s Office Fugitive Apprehension Team. He has also been fired from his job, officials said. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/29/man-charged-sexually-assaulting-pontiac-hospital-patient/10187645002/ | 2022-07-29T20:31:30 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/07/29/man-charged-sexually-assaulting-pontiac-hospital-patient/10187645002/ |
The Indiana Senate will decide Saturday whether to advance to the House a near-total abortion ban with limited exceptions for Hoosier women and girls impregnated through rape or incest, or when the life of a pregnant person is at risk.
It's not clear whether Senate Bill 1 will reach the 26 votes required for approval, even though Republicans, who generally oppose abortion, control 39 seats in the 50-member chamber.
If the measure fails, the Senate could start over and try crafting new abortion restrictions next week. Or, the Republican-controlled House may take the lead on the issue and begin working to find a set of abortion policies capable of winning majority support in both chambers.
Ultimately, the House and Senate must approve any abortion plan with identical language prior to the Aug. 14 adjournment deadline for this year's special legislative session to send it to the governor to be signed into law or vetoed.
As it currently stands, seemingly no one genuinely likes the near-total abortion ban crafted by state Sen. Sue Glick, R-LaGrange, and shepherded through the legislative process by Senate President Rod Bray, R-Martinsville.
At least 18 Senate Republicans would prefer eliminating the opportunity for women and girls to terminate a pregnancy caused by rape or incest, and instead permit abortions only when a doctor is willing to stake his or her medical license on the judgment that a patient will die without one.
Their position is supported by Indiana Right to Life President and CEO Mike Fichter. He said Friday the exceptions remain too open to exploitation, such as the lack of a requirement that any claim of rape or incest to obtain an abortion need not be reported to police.
"We did not wait 50 years for the full reversal of Roe vs. Wade for this. We stand opposed to Senate Bill 1," Fichter said.
Another 18 Senate Republicans indicated Thursday they aren't willing to accept a "no exceptions" abortion ban. But they also don't necessarily favor Glick's proposal that limits abortion access to eight weeks gestation for rape or incest victims age 16 and older, or 12 weeks for abortion-eligible girls under 16 years old.
Their suggestions to maintain Indiana's existing abortion regulations up to 12 to 20 weeks of pregnancy, or to expand abortion availability to include harms to the physical and mental health of the mother, so far have not been incorporated into the proposal.
The 11 Senate Democrats are expected to oppose any new abortion restrictions.
As a result, if the 18 "no exceptions" Republicans refuse to support Senate Bill 1 because of it contains rape and incest exceptions, and all the Democrats also vote against it, there won't be 26 votes to send it to the House.
The legislation also was revised Thursday to give Republican Attorney General Todd Rokita a larger role in enforcing laws against illegal abortion, even though Rokita is accused of defaming on national television an Indiana doctor who recently administered abortion-inducing medication to a pregnant 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio, where abortion generally is prohibited.
Under the plan, if a county prosecutor categorically refuses to enforce Indiana's abortion statutes, or any other law, such as marijuana possession, Rokita would be entitled to overrule the prosecutor's discretion and file charges in place of the prosecutor.
In addition, Rokita, a Munster native, potentially would be able to gain access to, and investigate the basis for, the affidavit that victims of rape or incest must provide as a condition of obtaining an abortion under the proposal.
Originally, the affidavit was to be confidential. On Thursday, spurred by state Sen. Liz Brown, R-Fort Wayne, the Senate voted 24-23, with Republican Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch breaking a tie, not only to delete the confidentiality provision, but to add a mandate the affidavit be notarized.
The legislation also was revised to bypass Indiana's parental consent requirement for a minor's abortion if the minor is pregnant because she was a victim of rape or incest perpetrated by a parent or guardian.
In addition, the measure now requires the Statewide Maternal Mortality Review Committee to assess in coming years how banning nearly all abortions in the state affects the number of Indiana women who die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, or within one year of giving birth — a rate already among the highest in the nation.
Other proposals to expand abortion access through telehealth services, license crisis pregnancy centers that perform ultrasounds on pregnant women, make low-cost housing available to pregnant women and new mothers, and to recognize religious exceptions to the near-total abortion ban were defeated in the Senate, mostly on party-line votes.
State Sen. Rodney Pol Jr., D-Chesterton, said he's astounded Senate Republicans declined to incorporate into the legislation his proposal for additional housing support for women being compelled to carry pregnancies to term in Indiana.
"If we're forcing women to give birth, we better be damn sure we're ready to support them all the way through," Pol said.
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State Sen. Sue Glick said the time limits ensure exceptions to her proposed abortion ban remain available, but aren't open-ended opportunities to terminate a pregnancy after viability is reached.
Thousands of people, including the vice president of the U.S., showed up at the Indiana Statehouse on Monday to make their voices heard as Hoosier lawmakers consider enacting a near-total abortion ban.
Competing proposals to reduce taxes and increase spending on pregnancy and child care programs may end up being just as divisive as abortion during the special session of the Indiana General Assembly.
Some of the more than 50 women, men and children who rallied Sunday at Wicker Memorial Park vowed to keep fighting until the right to abortion is fully restored.
Women's access to abortion largely could be eliminated in Indiana as soon as mid-August under legislation unveiled Wednesday by Republican Senate leaders.
"Politicians are wading into an issue they are not smart enough to understand outside of their Washington talking points," said Ali Brown, a Portage native and Democratic city leader in Indianapolis.
Attorney Jim Bopp, of Terre Haute, said his proposal offers "the best opportunity to protect the unborn" following last month's U.S. Supreme Court ruling rescinding the constitutional right to abortion.
The 2021 Terminated Pregnancy Report shows 8,414 women had an abortion in Indiana last year, up from 7,756 in 2020, a total of 658 more abortions, or an 8.5% increase.
"We are elected to do what you want us to do. And right now, 79% of the individuals in our country are against the ban on abortion. ... So let your voices be heard," said state Rep. Carolyn Jackson.
Following Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Indiana lawmakers are almost certain next month to enact severe restrictions on abortion access, or outright ban the procedure in the Hoosier State.
Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday issued an official proclamation directing the General Assembly to convene on July 6 “in order to consider and address the current adverse economic conditions."
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VALPARAISO — Police asked for help Friday in locating an 18-year-old woman last seen Tuesday.
Olivia Haley Stokes-Lopez, of Valparaiso, was last seen by family about 3:45 p.m. Tuesday in the area of 950 Easporte Centre Drive.
She entered a nearby building for a scheduled appointment, but her family later learned she didn't attend the appointment. Police were notified of Stokes-Lopez's disappearance Thursday.
Stokes-Lopez has not contacted her family and may be in need of medication, police said.
She was last seen wearing black shorts, black gym shoes and a purple shirt.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call Detective Sgt. Melanie Sheets at 219-462-2135.
Information also can be texted to TIP411 (847-411). Enter "Valpo" in the message field prior to sending and use the word "Olivia" in the first line of the tip to identify the case.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into the Porter County Jail
David Darwin
Arrest date: July 14, 2022
Age: 43
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number: 2202861
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Zachary Thompson
Arrest date: July 14, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202857
Charges: Theft, felony
Robin Bluntson
Arrest date: July 14, 2022
Age: 31
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number: 2202854
Charges: OWI, felony
Victoria Klarich
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number: 2202849
Charges: Battery, felony
Christopher Cathey III
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202845
Charges: Aggravated battery, felony
Jennifer Helton
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 45
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2202838
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Erik Huddleston II
Arrest date: July 13, 2022
Age: 38
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202844
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
David Gonzalez
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 31
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202816
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
John Vann
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 27
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202819
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
David Arambula
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 40
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202821
Charges: Dealing in cocaine or a narcotic drug, felony
Jake Chalabis
Arrest date: July 12, 2022
Age: 20
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202826
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Tyler Cuevas
Arrest date: July 11, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202809
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Douglas Spencer
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number: 2202798
Charges: OWI, felony
Myles Whitfield
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 23
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number: 2202799
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Stephen Rusnak
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 46
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202800
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Katelynn Allsbury
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202801
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Brett Hunt
Arrest date: July 10, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202802
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Luciano Mercado Jr.
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number: 2202786
Charges: OWI, felony
Gail Tigue
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 62
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202787
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Heather Carter
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 46
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2202795
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Andrew Dekock
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number: 2202789
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Ilija Labovic
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202783
Charges: Dealing in marijuana, hash oil, hashish, salvia, felony
Kenneth Campbell
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 61
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number: 2202784
Charges: Possession of cocaine or narcotic drug, felony
Kellieasha Anderson
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 23
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202785
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Carl Ayala
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 19
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2202788
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Mark Bogart Jr.
Arrest date: July 9, 2022
Age: 36
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202782
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Mariusz Szlembarski
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 26
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number: 2202766
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Dominique Swift
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 25
Residence: Kalamazoo, MI
Booking Number: 2202764
Charges: Possession cocaine or a narcotic drug, felony
Jerome Richards
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 58
Residence: Kalamazoo, MI
Booking Number: 2202763
Charges: Possession cocaine or a narcotic drug, felony
Nicole Maslanka
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202776
Charges: OWI, felony
Luz Martinez
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2202768
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Laurie Lucchesi
Arrest date: July 8, 2022
Age: 36
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202765
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Richard Siar
Arrest date: July 17, 2022
Age: 58
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202895
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Anthony Letson
Arrest date: July 16, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202883
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jennifer Koczur-Richardson
Arrest date: July 17, 2022
Age: 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202897
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Laura Viloria
Arrest date: July 18, 2022
Age: 57
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202906
Charges: Resisting law enforcement, felony
Christina Dinsmore
Arrest date: July 19, 2022
Age: 34
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202924
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Jose Botello
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2202927
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Micky Vance
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 44
Residence: Hanna, IN
Booking Number: 2202948
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Caleb Wolfe
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 24
Residence: Akron, OH
Booking Number: 2202938
Charges: Resisting law enforcement, felony
Sergio Garcia
Arrest date: July 15, 2022
Age: 23
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202862
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
James Weaver
Arrest date: July 18, 2022
Age: 40
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202912
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Justin Wright
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 41
Residence: Knox, IN
Booking Number: 2202949
Charges: Possession methamphetamine, felony
Toby Lewis
Arrest date: July 16, 2022
Age: 47
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2202882
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Nathan Workman
Arrest date: July 17, 2022
Age: 28
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202894
Charges: Battery, felony
Matayzia Hughes
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 24
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202928
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jason Creason
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 39
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202946
Charges: Dealing in methamphetamine, felony
Jason Haddock
Arrest date: July 19, 2022
Age: 42
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202917
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Michael Gleim
Arrest date: July 15, 2022
Age: 38
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number: 2202877
Charges: Neglect of a dependant, felony
Maurice Sims
Arrest date: July 19, 2022
Age: 45
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202915
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Darice Meyer
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 52
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number: 2202939
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Alan Germain
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 34
Residence: Burns Harbor, IN
Booking Number: 2202942
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Jordan Olson
Arrest date: July 16, 2022
Age: 24
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202880
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jamel Woodley
Arrest date: July 18, 2022
Age: 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202904
Charges: Weapons/carry handgun w/no permit
Joseph Bowen
Arrest date: July 18, 2022
Age: 53
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202901
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Ying Huang Knight
Arrest date: July 19, 2022
Age: 58
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number: 2202913
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Christina Jennings
Arrest date: July 15, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number: 2202869
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Mary Jo O'Neill
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 61
Residence: Porter, IN
Booking Number: 2202936
Charges: OWI, felony
Michael Brown
Arrest date: July 18, 2022
Age: 57
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202902
Charges: Battery, felony
Robert Powalski
Arrest date: July 16, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number: 2202878
Charges: Burglary, felony
Jacob Franko
Arrest date: July 17, 2022
Age: 24
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202891
Charges: OWI, felony
Brady Langley
Arrest date: July 19, 2022
Age: 50
Residence: Sarcy, AZ
Booking Number: 2202923
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
Ian Littlefield
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 30
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202951
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Johnny Smith
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 64
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202937
Charges: Fraud, felony
Kenneth Kukler Sr.
Arrest date: July 15, 2022
Age: 80
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202865
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Shannon Allan
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202943
Charges: OWI, felony
Samuel Speckhard
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 25
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202929
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Adam Ibarra
Arrest date: July 16, 2022
Age: 28
Residence: Burns Harbor, IN
Booking Number: 2202884
Charges: OWI, felony
David Ragan
Arrest date: July 19, 2022
Age: 54
Residence: Munhall, PA
Booking Number: 2202916
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Mercedes Rubio
Arrest date: July 17, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number: 2202896
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Alfonso Ortiz
Arrest date: July 18, 2022
Age: 57
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number: 2202911
Charges: OWI, felony
Miguel Quinones II
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 28
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202952
Charges: Resisting law enforcement, felony
Tyler Robinson
Arrest date: July 15, 2022
Age: 19
Residence: Emory, TX
Booking Number: 2202873
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Kevin Thompson
Arrest date: July 20, 2022
Age: 51
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202932
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Kelly Florian
Arrest date: July 17, 2022
Age: 44
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number: 2202899
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
David Beliles
Arrest date: July 21, 2022
Age: 33
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202945
Charges: Theft, felony
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Ford reported $667 million in profit in the second quarter.
The automaker, which operates the Chicago Assembly Plant on the far South Side and the Chicago Stamping Plant in Chicago Heights, pulled in $40.2 billion in revenue and adjusted earnings before interest and taxes of $3.7 billion in the three-month period that ended on June 30.
“We’re moving with purpose and speed into the most promising period for growth in Ford’s history — to innovate and deliver great products and connected services, raise quality and lower costs,” said CEO Jim Farley. “We’re giving customers great experiences and value, improving our profitability and making Ford the next-generation transportation leader.”
Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford brought in $2.9 billion in operating cash flow and adjusted free cash flow of $3.6 billion in the second quarter.
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Despite rising costs, Ford expects to make $11.5 billion to $12.5 billion in adjusted EBIT, up 15% to 25% as compared to last year. Ford plans to be able to produce 600,000 electric vehicles a year by 2023.
The company said it already has more than 8,000 orders for its two-ton electric E-Transit, which accounts for 95% of the full-size electric vans sold in the United States.
“And vehicles represent only one part of the ‘always on’ relationships we’re creating with commercial customers,” said Farley. “We’re helping them reduce the total cost of vehicle ownership and make their enterprises more productive overall.”
Chief Financial Officer John Lawler said Ford has not changed its financial outlook for 2022. It expects to pull in adjusted free cash flow of $5.5 billion to $6.5 billion. The automaker plans for a 10% EBIT margin by 2026, including an 8% EBIT margin from its electric vehicles.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Local Atlanta Braves fans will have a chance to see the team’s 2021 World Series trophy in person next month in Kingsport.
The Braves’ World Champions Trophy Tour will make a stop in the Model City on Sunday, Aug. 14. The event will take place at the Kingsport Farmers Market from 2–5 p.m.
Fans will be able to take a picture with the trophy and enjoy ballpark-type foods, kids’ activities, and $1 rides on the Kingsport Carousel.
The Braves defeated the Houston Astros in six games to win the 2021 World Series, the franchise’s first World Series title since 1995.
For more information on the World Champions Trophy Tour, visit www.braves.com/trophytour. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/atlanta-braves-world-series-trophy-coming-to-kingsport/ | 2022-07-29T20:37:10 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/atlanta-braves-world-series-trophy-coming-to-kingsport/ |
BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) – A woman was hit by a vehicle in Bristol, Virginia Friday afternoon, according to the Bristol Virginia Police Department (BVPD).
BVPD Det. Lieutenant Steve Crawford said officers are working the scene as of 2:50 p.m. The female pedestrian was taken to a nearby hospital, Crawford reported.
The incident occurred at the intersection of Moore Street and State Street. The status of the injuries is unknown at this time.
This story is currently developing and News Channel 11 will provide updates as they are received. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bvpd-responding-to-pedestrian-hit-by-vehicle/ | 2022-07-29T20:37:16 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bvpd-responding-to-pedestrian-hit-by-vehicle/ |
CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – In a letter addressed to the Carter County Commission, Sheriff Dexter Lunceford said the county’s law enforcement is in crisis due to underfunding from the county government.
“For eight years I have been asking for increases in pay for Sheriff’s Office employees in an effort to hire and retain good people,” Lunceford said. “This had increased in urgency the past two years.”
As of Friday, the Sheriff’s office was missing 51 full-time workers, according to Lunceford’s letter.
Lunceford outlined several opportunities for additional funding that were denied by the county, including a $5,000 hazard payment for all department employees using state funds during COVID-19 shutdowns.
“The County Commission denied these monies for the employees,” Lunceford said. “And bought a cardboard bailer instead.”
Despite some raises for the department, Lunceford stated his employee budget is 20% under where it needs to be to match nearby agencies and prevent his staff from leaving.
“This past month the commission again denied a $4000.00 bonus for all county employees after two committees had approved it,” Lunceford said. “The commission has ignored my pleas and we simply cannot compete with surrounding departments.”
Lunceford said his office had warned the commission of staff shortages within the Carter County Jail, and that the reduced staff caused the closure of inmate work programs and the removal of student resource officers from county schools. Now, Lunceford said non-accredited staff are working inside the jail to prevent incidents.
“The jail has failed the Tennessee Corrections Institute inspection because of this and I look for them to de-certify it on September 9,” Lunceford said. “To help maintain the jail I have no choice but to re-assign P.O.S.T certified patrol officers (including SROs) to work in the jail. This helps us operationally, but will not help with the T.C.I. inspection, because they are not certified Correction Officers.”
Veteran staff that were pulled to work in the jail for shifts are regularly leaving the department, Lunceford said, and administrative staff are expected to fill empty time slots in the facility.
“When my staff and I sat down to try and find SROs for this school year it became painfully obvious that we could only provide four,” Lunceford said. “So this forces me to a position where I could not, in good conscience, renew the SRO contract with the school system knowing there is no way I could fulfill that contractual obligation. What I am going to do is provide one for each high school at the Sheriff’s Office expense.”
Lunceford said the move to pull officers out of schools was his only choice.
“The truth is there are no options. If there were, the choice to protect our children would be simple,” Lunceford said. “There will never be a higher commitment than mine, as Sheriff, to ensure their safety. For the remainder of my term I will do everything within my power to protect our schools. I have instructed the patrol shifts to make routine stops at the schools and have asked the Tennessee Highway Patrol to do the same. This is the best we can do with the current staffing levels we have.”
Until things change, Lunceford said the limited police presence will have to do since each SRO must be a certified law enforcement officer.
“I wish I could tell you it will get better,” Lunceford said. “Unfortunately it won’t until the commission places a priority on hiring and keeping employees by paying a living wage. People that choose law enforcement as a career don’t do it for the money, but they should be able to take care of their families and feel appreciated by all, and they should absolutely make more money than fast food restaurant employees.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/carter-co-sheriff-department-is-51-employees-short-jail-failed-inspection/ | 2022-07-29T20:37:22 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/carter-co-sheriff-department-is-51-employees-short-jail-failed-inspection/ |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Mall at Johnson City was packed with shoppers on Friday as Tennessee’s Tax-free weekend takes effect for the school year.
Starting first thing Friday morning, stores in Tennessee were no longer required to collect sales taxes on several items until midnight on Sunday:
- School Supplies Under $100
- Clothing and Shoes under $100
- Art Supplies under $100
- Computers and Tablets under $1,500
For Tri-Cities residents, that tax break meant making it out before school started to catch some much-needed deals.
“It’s nice to save money,” said 18-year-old Ezekial Watts. “It’s always nice to save money.”
For Watts, tax-free weekends are a yearly tradition that let him update his wardrobe and get prepared for the fall. For this year, he said he plotted out a game plan early.
“I usually plan it out, like I do my clothes and stuff on Friday,” Watts said. “And then the next day I’ll do my electronics or my books.”
As the weekend goes on, Watts said he expects to see shelves clear out. Rather than searching for vital school supplies and work clothes on Sunday, he goes for the essentials first thing on Friday before shopping for personal treats.
“I make sure I get what I need first,” Watts said. “And then I get what I want after.”
For parents, tax-free weekends mark an unofficial end to summer vacation as they get classroom-bound kids back into the store to try on this year’s hottest items. Catherine Taylor, a mom of two, said the reduced prices are a welcome relief after a costly break.
“Anything helps,” Taylor said. “Because it adds up when you’ve got lots of little ones.”
From tennis shoes to new shirts that will inevitably get grass-stained, Catherine said her crew always looks forward to the chance to get out and shop as a family.
“We get everything done and that way we’re ready for school on Monday,” Taylor said. “We are prepared, and ready, and they can start the school year with some fresh new stuff.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/tri-cities-residents-take-advantage-of-tax-free-weekend/ | 2022-07-29T20:37:29 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/tri-cities-residents-take-advantage-of-tax-free-weekend/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — The 20th annual Perfect Game All-American Classic rosters have been announced and the Lone Star State, to no surprise, is heavily represented. The classic is featuring 61 of the best high school-aged baseball players in the country in Arizona on Sunday, August 28.
The classic will be airing live on ESPNU at 8 p.m. ET; 21 U.S. states and China will be represented on the rosters. Perfect Game says, “More than 250 past Perfect Game All-American Classic participants have gone on to play Major League Baseball.”
California leads the way with 15 players, Florida not far behind with 12 as Georgia holds six spots and Texas with five. “The rosters for the 2022 All-American Classic were chosen by a panel of talent evaluators assembled by Perfect Game, after being scouted and identified through a series of tournaments and events, including Perfect Game’s National Showcase, which took place recently in St. Petersburg, FL, July 20-24.”
Texas players named on West roster:
- Infielder TJ Pompey
- Pitcher Travis Sykora
- Pitcher Zane Adams
- Catcher Blake Mitchell
- Pitcher Barrett Kent
For more on this All-American Classic, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/local/5-texas-high-school-baseball-players-named-on-perfect-games-all-american-classic-roster/ | 2022-07-29T20:38:43 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/5-texas-high-school-baseball-players-named-on-perfect-games-all-american-classic-roster/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Stop right there. We know you have been planning that trip to Europe for quite some time now, but did you know that you can still get the beauty of Europe in North America?
You just have to look a little closely for it.
To help you out, House Beautiful has created a list of 35 American towns that look like they are straight out of Europe, and what do you know, Texas has made the list.
According to the report, Fredericksburg is one of the towns they say looks like it is straight out of Europe.
“German immigrant settlers founded this town in 1846, which is why it’s known for its mix of German heritage with Texan hospitality (an unbeatable combination). Throughout the town you’ll find tons of specialty shops and biergartens,” as the report states.
For the full report, visit House Beautiful. | https://cw33.com/news/local/report-says-this-texas-town-looks-like-it-is-straight-out-of-europe/ | 2022-07-29T20:38:49 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/report-says-this-texas-town-looks-like-it-is-straight-out-of-europe/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — After much anticipation, Selena Quintanilla “Selena’s” estate has finally released her new Single “Como Te Quiero Yo A Ti.”
The single was released on Friday, July 29, and is available on most music streaming platforms, including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tidal, Amazon Music and more.
“Fall in love with Selena all over again with brand new arrangements beautifully curated for her fans. @warnermusiclat is proud to present, ‘Como Te Quiero Yo A Ti’, the first new single from her new upcoming anticipated album, ‘Moonchild Mixes’,” her estate said on her official Instagram page.
This song is the first song released for her highly-anticipated posthumous album “Moonchild Mixes” which is expected to release on Aug. 26. | https://cw33.com/news/local/texas-artist-selena-quintanillas-estate-posthumously-releases-new-single/ | 2022-07-29T20:38:55 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/texas-artist-selena-quintanillas-estate-posthumously-releases-new-single/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — The Texas Rangers just won’t stop celebrating 50 years as a franchise and rightfully so! This time, they’re doubling down in the kick’s game with another dope giveaway.
The Rangers have released images of their 1 of 1 1980’s retro Rangers Jordan 1’s that were created by Jake Danklefs of Dank & Co. which makes custom footwear. “Our second 50th anniversary shoe giveaway! RT for a chance to win these 1 of 1 1980’s Rangers Jordan 1’s created by @jwdanklefs,” the Rangers tweeted.
It’s simple really, all you have to do is retweet their tweet in order to have your shot at the team’s second 50th anniversary shoe giveaway! | https://cw33.com/news/local/texas-rangers-giving-away-retro-80s-rangers-jordan-1-high-top-shoes/ | 2022-07-29T20:39:01 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/texas-rangers-giving-away-retro-80s-rangers-jordan-1-high-top-shoes/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — A Texas amusement park is now home to the world’s steepest dive coaster. Six Flags Fiest Texas in San Antonio is opening Dr. Diabolical’s Cliffhanger this Saturday, July 30.
“The device has three 21-passenger trains to lift riders 150 feet in the air, then lock them in a face-first Cliffhanger hold just before dropping them down a 95-degree, beyond-vertical plummet at 60 mph,” as the website states.
Officials say this ride travels on more than 2,500 feet of track, a 270-degree zero-g roll, a 75-foot drop and a high-speed spiral finale.
For more information, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/local/worlds-steepest-dive-coaster-will-open-at-six-flags-fiesta-texas-on-july-30/ | 2022-07-29T20:39:07 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/worlds-steepest-dive-coaster-will-open-at-six-flags-fiesta-texas-on-july-30/ |
An organization attempting to raise money for students in the D'Hanis Independent School District has deleted a Facebook post advertising a gun raffle after backlash from a gun control group in Uvalde.
The school district is only 33 miles from Uvalde, where a gunman entered an elementary school and killed 19 students and two teachers on May 24.
In a separate social media post, officials said the raffle was conducted by the D'Hanis Spirit Organization and not the school district.
"The District was not consulted regarding the prizes that were selected for the raffle and has no say in how the D'Hanis Spirit Organization chooses to raise funds," the school district said on its official Facebook page.
The use of one of the "many of the District's school logos" on the Facebook post may have led to some confusion, the school district wrote.
For just a $10 donation, according to the now-deleted post by the organization, participants could win one of four guns, including an action rifle, an AR-556, a 12 gauge semi-automatic or a pistol. The post was shared on various pages, including the "Uvalde Strong for Gun Control" Facebook group.
The D'Hanis Spirit Organization is a local nonprofit organization that benefits D'Hanis Athletics. Its Facebook page, where the ad appeared, has also been taken down.
It is not clear if the fundraiser has been canceled. The ad said the drawing would take place on Nov. 6.
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At first, some of the police officers who’d raced to Robb Elementary School on May 24 thought the gunman was holed up in an office.
“Male subject is in the school, on the west side of the building,” Uvalde Police Sgt. Daniel “Corn” Coronado said into his radio at 11:41 a.m. “He’s contained. We got multiple officers inside the building at this time. We believe he’s barricaded in one of the offices. Male subject is still shooting.”
As the facts became clearer, the horror intensified.
At 11:43 a.m. — 13 minutes after the shooter, dressed in black and toting a black backpack and assault-style rifle, walked into the school through an unlocked door — a male officer said over police radio that he was in a classroom.
“The classroom should be in session right now,” he said. “The class should be in session — Mrs. (Eva) Mireles.”
“Oh no, oh no,” Coronado said nearly under his breath, as heard in a video recording from the police body camera he wore that day.
At 12:11 p.m., an emergency dispatcher’s voice crackled over the radio, alerting officers on the scene that a boy had called 911 from one of the fourth-grade classrooms where Ramos carried out his rampage.
“Child is advising he is in a room full of victims,” the dispatcher said. “Full of victims at this moment.”
Yet police — who were gathered at both ends of the hallway in front of Rooms 111 and 112 where 18-year-old Salvador Ramos gunned down 19 students and two teachers and wounded 17 others — wouldn’t enter one of the classrooms and kill the shooter for another 39 minutes.
MORNING OF CHAOS: A reconstruction of how the Uvalde massacre unfolded
On July 17, the city of Uvalde released nearly 3.5 hours of video from city police body cameras. The stream of recordings came only hours after a special Texas House committee investigating the massacre issued a report that condemned the law enforcement response as a jumble of missed opportunities and unlearned lessons from past mass shootings.
The recordings — from seven Uvalde officers’ body cameras — show officers anxious, frustrated or confused by conflicting information. Several frantically searched for a master key for Room 111’s door, which apparently was unlocked.
The footage also shows a steadily increasing flow of police officers from other local, state and federal agencies into Robb Elementary, beginning less than 10 minutes after Ramos began shooting inside the classrooms. Some of the police carried rifles. Some wore body armor or full protective gear.
The recordings — especially of the radio message at 12:11 a.m. alerting officers that wounded victims were trapped in the rooms with Ramos — could become pivotal as prosecutors weigh whether to charge some of the responding officers with a crime because of their failure to confront the shooter much earlier in his rampage.
“They’re looking hard at when officers learned about kids being in the classrooms,” said one law enforcement source familiar with the conversations of prosecutors looking into the case. “At what point did (officers) know when the kids called from inside the classrooms?”
Christina Mitchell Busbee, district attorney of Uvalde and Real counties, has declined to comment on the investigation.
The Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers are handling the probe, with input from Mitchell’s office. In August, the agencies are expected to hand over their findings to Mitchell, who will decide whether to file any charges.
WHO THEY WERE: Remembering the lives lost in Uvalde
The source said one of the potential charges under consideration is injury to a child by omission — when someone with a legal duty to protect a child fails to take action, leading to a child’s injury.
Former prosecutors say such a case could be hard to bring, and even more difficult to prove.
Gerald Reamey, a professor of criminal law and procedure at St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, said police are generally shielded by several legal protections.
Even suing them is difficult because the U.S. Supreme Court, in a pair of decisions in 1989 and 2005, ruled that police have no obligation to protect someone.
“The general rule is law enforcement doesn’t owe any special duty to society to protect in a certain way, unless law enforcement takes someone into custody,” Reamey said.
To prove criminality, prosecutors would have to show that police had a legal duty to act.
“If you look at Texas law, you’ll discover peace officers have very few legal duties,” Reamey said.
“With respect to protecting people, there is no state law requiring an officer to act in a particular way,” he said. “It would be very difficult to prosecute an officer for failing to act in a situation such as a mass shooting.”
‘He’s gonna keep shooting’
The partially-edited body-cam recordings don’t provide a complete picture of what happened that day. Uvalde school district police were not wearing body cameras because they do not have any, sources said. Video from body cameras worn by other officers, such asconstables or sheriff’s deputies, have not been made public.
However, the recordings do capture the first moments of the police response, with Uvalde officers Eduardo Canales and Javier Martinez entering the campus building within a few minutes of Ramos.
As they approached a classroom, either Room 111 or 112, the unseen shooter fired a volley into the hallway through the wall.
Canales and Martinez, both grazed by building material as bullets ripped through the wall, retreated to an adjoining hallway.
“He’s in the class!” Canales said, stepping outside the building and speaking into police radio. “I’ve got shots fired! We’re going to be in the building. The west side.”
At 11:38 a.m., Canales then told other officers, “Dude, we gotta get in there!”
A Texas Department of Public Safety officer replied, “DPS is sending people.”
“We gotta get in there!” Canales repeated. “He’s gonna keep shooting! We gotta get in there!”
Shortly after that exchange, Uvalde school police officer Ruben Ruiz is seen looking at his cellphone, exiting the building and telling other officers, “Dude, he’s in my wife’s classroom.”
His wife was teacher Eva Mireles.
An officer on police radio asked dispatchers to activate Uvalde’s SWAT team.
Canales stepped outside again and made a phone call asking someone for help.
“The guy’s (expletive) shooting,” he said. “He’s in the classroom actually shooting. Robb School. Just givin’ you a heads up. The more help the better, you know.”
Later, Canales told other officers that he and Martinez did not return fire because it was dark in the room and they didn’t want to hit students if any were in there.
In the meantime, Ruiz stumbled back into the building with his gun drawn, visibly shaken after speaking by phone with his wife, who was bleeding to death in one of the classrooms.
“She says she’s been shot,” he told other officers. They escorted him outside.
Within 15 minutes of Ramos entering the campus building, parents and onlookers had started gathering outside the school, on the perimeter. Sgt. Coronado called for more officers to help “keep everybody back.”
He also called for Border Patrol and told dispatch to inform the Uvalde school district to lockdown the rest of its schools.
Coronado’s body camera footage, more than an hour long, shows other officers arriving near one of the building’s entrances and asking if they needed to go in.
“I’m worried of overcrowding in here,” Coronado said, referring to the hallway. “Wait. Chief is in there. Chief’s in charge right now. Hold on.”
At 11:58 a.m., Coronado asked officers to peek into a classroom near Rooms 111 and 112. They found it full of children. The officers ran out of the building to evacuate them through their classroom windows.
“Kids coming out! Kids coming out! Kids coming out!” Coronado said.
Officers broke the windows of nearby classrooms. They had to coax frightened children to make their escape.
“We had to get them out forcefully,” Coronado said. “There has to be kids everywhere.”
The evacuation of that side of the building continued until 12:09 p.m.
Afterward, Coronado re-entered the building.
‘Probably some casualties’
Over the next 40 minutes, Coronado’s body cam shows Uvalde school police Chief Pedro “Pete” Arredondo — at times on his cell phone — strategizing with other officers.
The Texas House committee report on the disastrous police response found that no one had established either a command post outside the school building or a centralized means of communicating new information. (One problem was that police radio and cellphone use was spotty inside the school).
And no one was clearly in charge,
though some officers deferred to Arredondo.
He and other officers called out to the gunman in English and Spanish, trying to get coax to drop his gun and to tell them his name. They pleaded with him not to hurt anyone.
They also tried numerous keys on nearby classrooms, including one that was apparently still occupied with students. However, it didn’t appear that anyone tried the doors to Room 111 or Room 112, but Arredondo said he believed they were locked.
Looking for a master key, Arredondo tried several keys on the door to another classroom, but none worked. A constable and Coronado helped, using knives to try to pry open the door as they called for a breaching tool.
“Easy, easy, cuz — they’re going to think we’re going to attack,” Arredondo said.
At one point, he said, “People are going to ask why we’re taking so long” to breach the classroom, adding that they were trying to save other lives first.
Another officer asked at 12:34 p.m. if they knew whether the gunman had anybody — students and teachers — trapped in the room with him. “Yeah, he does,” Coronado replied.
“If he does, there are probably some casualties,” Arredondo said.
“Casualties,” Coronado repeated.
“Just so you understand there’s some injuries in there,” Arredondo said at 12:43 p.m. “What we did is clear off the rest of the building, so we wouldn’t have any more than what’s in there, obviously.”
At 12:45 p.m., he repeated something he’d uttered minutes earlier: “That door, I bet you it was unlocked. I bet you it was unlocked.”
At 12:48, it appeared officers opened the door to one of the classrooms, but didn’t encounter the gunman. Arredondo and Coronado discussed whether the shooter was in the adjacent classroom, or climbed into the ceiling.
“Dude, I know they opened that door,” Arredondo said. “So I don’t know what the (expletive) is going on.”
But two minutes later, Arredondo said a team was “really going in.”
Uvalde officials didn’t release video recordings of a Border Patrol tactical unit and two off-duty sheriff’s deputies entering Room 111 and killing the gunman at 12:50 a.m. — 70 minutes after the horror started.
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Batman and Robin. Peanut butter and jelly. David Robinson and Tim Duncan.
Dynamic duos appear in all facets of our lives, from pop culture to food and beyond. It makes sense that San Antonians would want to form a duo of their own with the naming of their cats.
Using data from San Antonio's Animal Care Services Department, we found hundreds of cat pairings with cute combo names, from "Bean" and "Cheese" to "Bernie" and "Sanders." We found 137 combos in all.
We found these names through microchipping data. All San Antonio dogs, cats and ferrets are required to have a registered microchip in them. Microchips do not need to be registered with the city or ACS, only with a chip manufacturer. But pet owners can get a free microchip through ACS.
During the appointment, cat parents fill out a form with their pets' names. We requested data for cats registered between Jan. 1, 2021 thorough May 13 of this year. During this time frame, 600 cats were registered with ACS, sporting 499 unique names.
Luna happens to be the most common name of dogs registered through ACS, too. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/cute-cat-names-san-antonio-17336509.php | 2022-07-29T20:40:55 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/cute-cat-names-san-antonio-17336509.php |
BLOOMINGTON — While no cases have been reported locally, McLean County public health leaders are preparing for the state's monkeypox outbreak to reach the area.
"We are prepared and really at this point we're just letting people know what to look for," said Marianne Manko, public information officer at the McLean County Health Department. "We will always have contact tracing and we are prepared to respond in any case."
The monkeypox virus is part of the same family as the variola virus, otherwise known as smallpox, according to the CDC. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox, but milder, and the disease is rarely fatal. The disease does not spread easily between people without close contact and the outbreak has primarily affected men who have sex with men, health officials say.
But anyone can spread the disease through contact with bodily fluids, sores, shared items such as clothing and bedding that have been contaminated with fluid or sores, or through respiratory droplets in close settings.
"If you know somebody who you suspect does have monkeypox and especially if you live with that person or have close contact with them, you do want to avoid skin-to-skin contact," Manko said. "You don't want them touching the rash or scabs because then they touch surfaces, and like with any virus, you have to be concerned about that."
While monkeypox has been known to affect people for decades, the current outbreak is the largest. Earlier this month, it was designated a global emergency by the World Health Organization, and a shortage of vaccines for the once-rare disease has caused public health leaders to scramble.
In Illinois, the state's department of public health announced that the state is prioritizing giving the first dose of the vaccine, known as the Jynneos vaccine, to as many high-risk people as possible, rather than giving fewer people more protection with a second dose 28 days after the first.
The state agency said studies have shown the first dose can offer protection for several months.
The state has received 7,371 doses of the vaccine, designating 4,631 of those for Chicago. Additionally, Chicago has received 18,707 doses, according to IDPH.
Currently, the state is only issuing the vaccines to areas and counties with cases reported, officials said.
More than 16,000 cases of monkeypox have been reported in 74 countries since about May, according to the CDC. To date, monkeypox deaths have only been reported in Africa, where a more dangerous version of the virus is spreading.
“The bottom line is we’ve seen a shift in the epidemiology of monkeypox where there’s now widespread, unexpected transmission,” said Dr. Albert Ko, a professor of public health and epidemiology at Yale University. “There are some genetic mutations in the virus that suggest why that may be happening, but we do need a globally-coordinated response to get it under control.”
Symptoms can range from a fever, headache, chills, exhaustion, swollen lymph nodes, muscle aches, sore throat, nasal congestion, cough, and a rash that can look similar to pimples or blisters.
The rash can appear on the face, inside the mouth, and on other parts of the body like the hands, feet, chest, genitals or anus. It will go through different stages before healing completely.
Anyone experiencing symptoms should cover up any rashes, wear a mask and notify a healthcare provider as soon as possible. Cases should be reported to the health department.
The Associated Press contributed.
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Rash begins one to three days after fever, often starting on the face and then spreading
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This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (orange) found within an infected cell (brown), cultured in a laboratory.
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-health-officials-prepared-for-monkeypox/article_c3509f8c-0f44-11ed-9573-377d9a4b04bf.html | 2022-07-29T20:42:44 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-health-officials-prepared-for-monkeypox/article_c3509f8c-0f44-11ed-9573-377d9a4b04bf.html |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Little Rock Police Department has asked for the help of the public in locating a missing teenager.
16-year-old Niya Flint was last seen in Little Rock on July 26, 2022.
If you have any information on the whereabouts of Ms. Flint, please contact Detective Dearing at (501) 404-3014, Detective Yetmar at (501) 404-3037, or the Little Rock Communications Center (501) 371-829. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/little-rock-police-search-for-missing-teen/91-9abe5aca-1290-479d-aa58-d54cf9297163 | 2022-07-29T20:45:14 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/missing-persons-reports/little-rock-police-search-for-missing-teen/91-9abe5aca-1290-479d-aa58-d54cf9297163 |
CORBETT, Ore. — Search and rescue crews are looking for a man who got lost on Thursday near the Lewis and Clark State Recreation area near Corbett. Deputies do not believe he was prepared to stay overnight.
Around 12:30 p.m., dispatchers received a 911 call from the man, who was identified as 44-year-old Daniel Graham. He said he was off-trail in an area with thick brush and could see a series of powerlines.
Deputies with the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) used open source satellite imagery to determine his approximate location.
Based on landmarks Graham provided to crews, drone pilots with Gresham police spotted him and pinpointed his coordinates. Dispatchers told Graham to stay in place while a team of MCSO deputies hiked to the area. When they arrived, there were no signs of Graham, according to MCSO.
The MCSO's trail rescue team, the Green Hornets, searched for Graham over the next 12 hours, but didn't find him.
The search was suspended at 11 p.m. on Thursday due to nightfall and trail and weather conditions.
A small team of Clackamas Search and Rescue members and MCSO deputies on ATVs resumed search efforts Friday morning.
Deputies said the terrain in the area is steep, wooded and brush and there are no official trails. Temperatures in the area reached about 100 degrees, and the sheriff's office is concerned about the extreme heat.
"The challenges are the heat, primarily, and the terrain. So we're working in very steep, thick brush," said Corrine Eshbaugh, a deputy with MCSO. "As one of the searchers who was out there yesterday, we were working our way through blackberries that were over our heads, so it is very thick terrain out there."
Graham was last seen wearing a black tank top, grey shorts and Nike shoes.
Anyone with information about Graham is asked to call MCSO at 503-988-7300.
OTHER STORIES: Missing swimmer's body found at Hagg Lake near Forest Grove | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/missing-man-lewis-and-clark-state-recreation-corbett/283-44bea326-fca0-45e8-9d5d-31d0e6524075 | 2022-07-29T20:47:24 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/missing-man-lewis-and-clark-state-recreation-corbett/283-44bea326-fca0-45e8-9d5d-31d0e6524075 |
PHOENIX — Authorities have arrested two suspects in connection to the killing of an 18-year-old Thursday morning near Sahuaro Elementary School in North Phoenix.
Phoenix police said Ali Mohamed Samir was shot and killed near 33rd and Sweetwater avenues. The suspected shooter was seen fleeing from the area after Samir was wounded.
Two juveniles have recently been arrested in relation to Samir's death, police said. Their identities have not been released.
Details on a possible motive behind the teenager's killing have not been disclosed by investigators.
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Police said Friday that a 15-year-old accused of robbing and assaulting a man before taking the victim's truck crashed into a car in Chesterfield County on Thursday evening while attempting to elude officers, killing the driver.
The victim, identified as 23-year-old Khalil R. Hamlin of Chesterfield, was pronounced dead at the scene. His female passenger, who was not identified, had life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital.
The teenager, whose identity was withheld because of his age, was charged with felony homicide, robbery, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, grand larceny, vandalism, felony eluding, felony hit-and-run, driving without an operator's license and disregarding a traffic signal. He is being held in juvenile detention.
Felony homicide is killing someone accidentally in the commission of another felony crime.
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Chesterfield police said they were called to the scene of a 6:59 p.m. robbery in the 3700 block of Meadowdale Boulevard.
The robbery victim was assaulted with a firearm before the suspect fled the scene in the victim's red Dodge truck. Officers located the stolen truck and initiated a pursuit, but the driver refused to stop, police said.
While traveling in the 7500 block of Hopkins Road, the suspect crossed the double yellow line in an attempt to elude officers and struck a silver Kia Rio traveling in the opposite direction. The suspect then fled on foot but was apprehended a short time later, police said.
The initial robbery victim had advertised some tools for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and arranged to meet a potential buyer near an apartment complex in the 6000 block of Cricklewood Drive, said Chesterfield police Capt. Tim Kehoe.
But when the seller arrived, "he was essentially approached by these three Black males near the front of the complex," Kehoe said. "And they brandished firearms [and] ordered him out of the truck. He got out of the vehicle and at some point was pistol-whipped by one them. And they took his truck and fled the scene from there."
Police suspect that all three suspects initially drove away in the victim's car after the robbery. But after the truck collided with the Kia, officers observed only one person running from the vehicle, Kehoe said.
"It doesn't sound like anybody else was in the vehicle at the time of the crash," he said. "There's obviously some time in the time line that's unaccounted for, from the robbery to starting point of the pursuit."
Police are continuing to investigate the incident. Anyone with information is urged to contact Chesterfield police at (804) 748-1251 or Crime Solvers at (804) 748-0660. Tips can also be submitted through the P3 app. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-boy-15-charged-with-homicide-after-crashing-into-car-killing-driver-while-fleeing-armed/article_eaba259f-6612-552b-a1cc-02e3488e4ced.html | 2022-07-29T20:59:16 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/update-boy-15-charged-with-homicide-after-crashing-into-car-killing-driver-while-fleeing-armed/article_eaba259f-6612-552b-a1cc-02e3488e4ced.html |
The city of Richmond has unveiled a new bike lane sweeper.
It’s smaller than your average sweeper to help keep bike lanes clear of debris and to help make them safer for cyclists.
And guess what? You get to name it.
The Grim Sweeper. Sweepy McSweeperson. Meryl Sweep.
These are just a few of the names for the city of Richmond’s new bike lane sweeper.
"Richmond has a lot of pride, we all know that," Mayor Levar Stoney said on Wednesday. "And there are many things to be excited about in our great city....but one thing that we are excited about is our love for our bicyclists and last week we unveiled a new bike lane sweeper."
The city of Richmond maintains 61 miles of bike lanes. The narrow bike lanes don't have room for a full size sweeper and the new mini-sweeper will help keep them clear and safe. The Richmond Department of Public Works even debuted a video of the cute mini-sweeper in action set to "Lord of the Rings" type music:
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We've added a mini street sweeper to our fleet that’s dedicated to bike lane maintenance. The compact sweeper will give our crews access to protected bike lanes to help keep them clear of debris and to make them safer for cyclists. https://t.co/J71hJ62w6L @000RVA #1RVA pic.twitter.com/1qm8ikcXnM
— Richmond VA DPW (@DPW_RichmondVA) July 19, 2022
Max Hepp-Buchanan at Venture Richmond had seen other cities do naming contests for bike lane sweepers . He came up with the idea to host a Sweet 16 Tournament style bracket to choose the new name for the sweeper.
This week, Venture Richmond launched the #RVASweep16 on Twitter and has been received over 1,110 votes in each poll in the first bracket.
We have entered the quarterfinals of #RVASweep16!
— Venture Richmond (@VentureRVA) July 29, 2022
What should we call the new @DPW_RichmondVA sweeper that will keep dirt and debris out of our downtown and neighborhood bike lanes? Vote this weekend in the thread below! Semifinals start on Monday! @CityRichmondVA pic.twitter.com/VAl7seMbTG
16 names were initially up for elimination.
"Now, I normally don't tell you I'm going to vote for but I'm going to tell you today," Stoney said earlier this week. "I'm voting for Lebroom James."
Unfortunately, Lebroom James got knocked out earlier this week, losing to Bike Dyson. "A strong contender," according to Hepp-Buchanan
And now it’s down to 8. Voting will continue through the weekend.
The semifinals will start on Monday. Venture Richmond expects to have a name by Friday.
The bike lane sweeper “is something we’ve been advocating for years, so we’re really excited about it,” Brantley Tyndall, director of Bike Walk RVA, said. “We’re hoping it will generate some local pride. That people will see it and say, ‘Oh look, the little thing [insert new name here] is going by!’”
While Stoney’s choice may have been knocked out of the running, there are still plenty of names to choose from, including MFBROOM, GusGus, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Broom, just to name a few.
“My prediction is it will be Bike Dyson vs. Meryl Sweep in the finals, but we’ll see. Right now, it looks like The Grim Sweeper might beat Bike Dyson,” he said.
To vote, go to https://twitter.com/VentureRVA. | https://richmond.com/news/local/the-grim-sweeper-or-meryl-sweep-vote-for-the-name-of-the-new-richmond-street/article_e396468f-7545-53e9-96c3-fc63a637075e.html | 2022-07-29T20:59:22 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/the-grim-sweeper-or-meryl-sweep-vote-for-the-name-of-the-new-richmond-street/article_e396468f-7545-53e9-96c3-fc63a637075e.html |
SEA ISLE CITY — A 19-year-old from Pennsylvania faces charges of aggravated sexual assault, aggravated assault and assault by strangulation after an early morning attack that took place on the beach near 33rd Street.
Francis Grady, 19, of Springfield, remains in the Cape May County jail after the charges, which authorities announced Friday. He will be held pending a detention hearing.
No information was released about the victim, including the individual’s condition or the extent of any injuries.
The Cape May County Prosecutor’s Office assisted with the investigation. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-faces-aggravated-sexual-assault-charges-in-sea-isle-attack/article_1bed9640-0f6d-11ed-88fc-ab58b705b814.html | 2022-07-29T21:00:22 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-faces-aggravated-sexual-assault-charges-in-sea-isle-attack/article_1bed9640-0f6d-11ed-88fc-ab58b705b814.html |
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