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AUSTIN, Texas — The teen driver who went viral after his truck was swept up by a tornado in Elgin, Texas has joined the Texas Department of Transportation's "Click It or Ticket" campaign.
Riley Leon will be speaking at a TxDOT media conference on May 16 at the Texas Capitol about how wearing a seatbelt saved him when he was caught in the March 21 tornado.
"It was a couple days after that I realized that thank God I wore my seatbelt that day because if not, the accident could have been more tragic. I probably wouldn't be here at this moment without my seatbelt. But thankfully, I wore it and I'm here," he said.
Leon was driving home along U.S. Highway 290 after an interview at Whataburger on Mach 21. On the way home his truck was caught in the path of a tornado in Elgin. The teen's red Chevy was flipped on the driver's side by the tornado before falling back on its wheels. Leon was able to drive away from the scene that day.
A storm chaser out that day caught the ordeal on camera and posted it on Twitter. The video then went viral.
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The department's campaign reminds drivers and passengers alike about the importance of wearing a seatbelt. According to TxDOT, wearing a seatbelt reduces the risk of dying in a crash by 45% for people in the front seat. For those in pickup trucks, the risk is reduced by 60%.
In 2021, there were more than 3,500 crashes in Texas where unbuckled people sustained fatal or serious injuries, TxDOT reported. That's a 14% increase from the previous year.
Texas law requires drivers and all passengers in a vehicle to wear a seat belt. Unbuckled drivers and passengers could fines and court costs of up to $200.
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PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The body of a US veteran was recovered hours later after not surfacing during a dive class at American Lake on Saturday, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.
The US veteran was taking part in a civilian scuba diving class on Joint Base Lewis McChord Saturday morning and did not surface following a practice dive at American Lake, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said.
The Pierce County Metro Dive Team was called for a recovery effort at the lake at around 12:15 p.m., over an hour after the diver was reported missing, according to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department.
The Pierce County Metro Dive Team used sonar and dive equipment to locate the diver's body and recovered the man at 4:30 p.m. and brought him to shore.
The Pierce County Metro Dive Team will be assisting the US Army Criminal Investigation Division with the investigation, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said.
The US Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) is the lead investigative agency for the US Army.
CID primarily investigates deaths, sexual assault, armed robbery, procurement fraud, computer crimes, counter-drug operations and war crimes, according to its website.
2021 was one of the busiest seasons on record for water rescue crews all across western Washington.
Earlier this month, 38 Snohomish County water rescue members from five departments trained on the Skykomish River andlearned how to save lives.
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SEATTLE — Editor's note: The above video ran on April 20 and covered the push for safer marijuana banking regulations.
As pot shop robberies surge across Washington, the State Liquor and Cannabis Board (LCB) is offering cannabis retailers a free security assessment through a third-party firm.
LCB has partnered with Tacoma-based Setracon to give the state's 180 pot shops the opportunity to have thorough physical security and crime prevention assessment.
Upwards of 50 pot shop robberies were reported through just the first three months of the year by LCB. One of those incidents, at World of Weed in Tacoma, left a 29-year-old employee, Jordan Brown, dead.
Federal law forces pot shops to operate almost entirely with cash only, making them more susceptible to robberies.
On the annual 4/20 marijuana holiday last month, Sen. Patty Murray held a press conference at a Seattle-area pot shop and emphasized she will push for marijuana banking reform.
The SAFE Banking Act bill would allow depository institutions to work with licensed cannabis retailers free of prosecution. The measure has passed the House of Representatives six times, but repeatedly has failed in the Senate.
LCB and Setracon say among the services provided to local pot shops will be:
- Working with retailers to assess potential security risks;
- Review criminal threats facing the retailer;
- Evaluate and document present mitigations and suggest solutions for improvement;
- Providing retailers with a report of findings.
The LCB also recently announced it has partnered with the Washington State Crime Prevention Association (WSCPA) to offer security and safety training to cannabis licensees and their employees.
WSCPA will be holding a number of trainings between May and August, focused on "cannabis retail and processor safety best practices and regionally focused to address any unique local circumstances."
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark — Arkansans were at the state capitol Saturday, bringing a large turn out in support of reproductive rights. The same thing took place on Sunday too.
One-by-one, Arkansans made their way there to the building holding signs. Although, the attendance numbers weren't as high as Saturday's, the passion remained the same.
Kay Hughes is 78-years old and said she's too old to be continually protesting for human rights, but she'll never stop.
"I'm old enough to remember before Roe v. Wade. It was a horrifying thing for a young girl to think she was pregnant, and they did take terrible risks and end up almost killing themselves," said Hughes.
Hughes and her two friends joined the dozens of individuals that gathered at the state capitol with their signs for Sunday's rally.
Community organization, Pro Choice with Heart, were the ones behind the rallies that took place around the country, including this one in Little Rock.
The community organization is demanding the Supreme Court keep safe, legal, and accessible abortions in light of the leaked draft where a majority opinion by the Supreme Court seeks to overturn Roe v Wade.
If overturned, the organization believes this will come next:
- Women will not have access to healthcare at affordable clinics like Planned Parenthood, resulting in them ultimately choosing unsafe "back street" abortions.
- Miscarriages will be investigated to ensure the "crime" of abortion didn't happen.
- Wealthier populations will still have unfair access to abortion.
Little Rock was just one of the many cities around the country showing support for Roe v. Wade, each taking place on the same day at the same time.
It's something that's being felt around the nation, not just Arkansas.
Neighboring states have trigger laws which means if overturned, abortions would become illegal across the entire region.
"If you don't want to have an abortion, just don't have one," said Frances "Chey" Featherston. "Don't take that safe option away from the people that need it."
She said if overturned she fears what happened in the past could happen again-- people will choose unsafe practices that can harm or kill them.
She also said it's not just cis women's rights-- trans and intersex women would also be affected.
With that in mind, she's emphasizing the importance of having a choice.
"What if your choice was taken away? What if you didn't believe what you did and you were just another individual that you know had your rights taken? How would you feel? You know, or like what would your argument be then?" said Featherston.
This rally also meant a lot to parents in Arkansas. Josh Patterson is a father, attending to support his daughter Chloe.
He held a sign that read: 'I'm here to support a right to choose.'
"Really, I shouldn't have any kind of perspective on it. A man should not have any right to comment or have any kind of input on what a woman chooses to do with her body," said Patterson.
There were also mothers in attendance with their young children.
One mother in attendance said that he support for pro-choice grew even more after she had her now 1-year-old child.
As for the organizers, they plan on continuing their grass root efforts to support reproductive rights ahead of a likely Roe v. Wade ruling by the Supreme Court this summer.
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The Friends of the Morton Mandan Public Library group is hosting a book sale on Saturday.
The sale is from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the new Bookmobile Garage attached to the library building. Proceeds will go toward an all-purpose gaming table in the library’s teen lounge.
The gaming table is the final of three “specialty pieces” to be funded for each age zone of the library. The other pieces are a fireplace in the adult reading room and a stage in the children’s section.
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North Dakota educators will begin drafting new learning standards for K-12 math and English this summer.
Educators who want to be part of the process can find an application at https://www.nd.gov/dpi/districtsschools/k-12-education-content-standards. They must be emailed to dpiacademicsupp@nd.gov by May 31.
North Dakota schools use the standards to shape their curricula. The standards were last updated in 2017. They're typically reviewed every five to seven years, according to State School Superintendent Kirsten Baesler.
A separate educator committee is updating North Dakota’s library and technology standards and soliciting public comments about them. They were last revised in 2012. For more information, go to https://bit.ly/3Ldi2cD.
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CALDWELL, Idaho — Gracie Medina of Caldwell is a proud wife and mother, she works at a bank and calls herself "The Tortilla Lady." She has a gift passed down from her grandma, making homemade tortillas.
"I'm Gracie, the tortilla lady," said Medina with a big smile.
It's her grandma's traditional family recipe. She uses that gift to bless others in our community. Medina organizes tortilla fundraisers. She makes them by the dozen, and sells them. Then, she donates the cash she earns to people in need from around the community.
"I know we are all struggling," said Medina. "The reward for me is sharing these tortillas, sharing what I grew up with!"
Recently, she chose the Boise nonprofit The Blessing Bike as the recipient of her fundraising efforts. Jill and Wade Houser started the nonprofit, a few years ago. It was inspired by Jill's mother, Rosemary Sorce, who was in her nineties. They wanted to take her for bike rides. So, Jill's husband Wade built a cargo bike so they could do just that. The idea took off. Rosemary has since passed, but they proudly carry on the nonprofit as her legacy.
"The Blessing Bike is a nonprofit organization and we provide access to passenger bikes for people with disabilities and the elderly," said Jill Houser. "Gracie contacted us through Facebook and said that she had done tortilla fundraisers for people. She was wondering if we would like her to participate in a fundraiser for us as well."
The Housers were so touched by her generous offer, Medina says something about The Blessing Bike touched her heart.
"After reading more on Facebook, and seeing The Blessing Bike's photos and videos, something just spoke to me," said Medina. "A lot has to do with my grandmother."
Her Grandma Josephine passed away last year, she is Medina's inspiration.
"Tortillas are something that we grew up with, and she left that recipe to us as a stamp to remember her," Medina told KTVB. "She never measured... she always just threw in her special recipe. With grandma leaving that behind, being hispanic, and all that tradition, I just wanted something different to offer, and making these flour tortillas, that's what it was."
That's why she calls herself Gracie, The Tortilla Lady. She dedicated an entire Saturday to making tortillas to benefit The Blessing Bike.
"We posted it on my social media, and it just went from there and I was taking orders," said Medina. "I ended up making 420 tortillas! I'm in the kitchen all day, making the dough, rolling them out, cooking and flipping, then packaging them. Then I load up my vehicle and start delivering. That way they can have their fresh warm homemade tortillas that same day."
Medina says the best part of making her grandma's tortillas, is the feeling that she is close, and knowing she is carrying on her tradition.
"She is with me," Medina said.
Grandma Josephine's tortillas earned hundreds of dollars for The Blessing Bike. Gracie's husband and kids went with her to drop off the donation to the Housers. They were so touched by her heart to give!
"Gracie's contribution will really help The Blessing Bike continue on," said Wade Houser.
Medina hopes to help even more people in the future.
"I would love to reach out to families in need or even nonprofits," said Medina. "Because It doesn't cost a thing to be kind and show others love and support."
Gracie Medina is spreading love one tortilla at a time.
"It's just who I am."
If you'd like to reach out to Gracie about her tortilla fundraisers, you can do that by emailing her at givinggracetortillas@gmail.com
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BOISE, Idaho — Gas prices in Idaho continue to rise. AAA reported Sunday that the average price for a gallon of fuel in the Gem State is now $4.50, about 10 cents more compared to a month ago.
People around the state are all feeling the impacts of the rise in fuel costs, including state and county agencies.
"Even though the fuel prices are rising, our priority is the maintenance of the roads," said Ada County Highway District Deputy Director of Maintenance Jennifer Berenger. "We will adjust other parts of the budget to make sure that we have the necessary fuel to make sure that all of the planned projects and maintenance activities that we have scheduled will occur as expected."
ACHD's 2022 fiscal year budget was approved for $150,613,900 by the agency's Commissioners last August, where they also voted to collect $45,223,00 in revenue from property taxes.
Berenger said of the FY22 budget, the agency allotted $1.1 million to help fuel their more than 260 mobile vehicles.
"It's a very small percentage," Berenger said." As we have those fluctuations in the market, we're able to adapt from within the budget that we have."
The FY22 started in October of 2021. Berenger said so far ACHD has not exceeded its fuel budget, but if they do there are plans in place to help get the trucks out on the road and working on the projects.
"While we have a budget line specifically for fuel, we have other budget lines for various other equipment expenses, other materials. It is just general fluctuations in the market will show different responses," Berenger said. She added that ACHD may hold off on buying new equipment to help balance the budget.
While Berenger doesn't see ACHD overspending on the fuel budget, it's already a different story for Idaho State Police.
"Each year, our budget is set through the legislature. But the cost of what gas price has gone up significantly since the beginning of the year," said Captain Matt Sly with ISP.
According to ISP's finance specialist, the department is budgeted at $3.50 a gallon for fuel. ISP's patrol is budgeted at $720,000 for the FY22 (July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022). This year through April, the state patrol team has already spent $867,000. The finance team anticipates another $200,000 in fuel expenses for patrol in May and June.
However, just because the state police department has already gone over budget, doesn't mean Idahoans will see fewer troopers on the road.
"It doesn't impact how we do things at the operations level because we still have to respond to crashes, and we still have to respond to the different services," Sly said.
ISP is using salary savings to cover unbudgeted fuel expenses and will ask lawmakers for additional funds next year to cover the rise in gas prices.
"We are still out there every day, you know, doing what's expected of us," Sly said.
Idaho Department of Transportation's more than 2,400 fleet vehicles across the state are also spending more at the pump in the FY22 than in previous years.
"This isn't the first time we've seen this happen. They have fluctuated before and gone up," said John Tomlinson, the communications manager for ITD. "We're still maintaining and we're doing everything that we need to do to make the roads safe here in Idaho."
Tomlinson said they budget for fuel by averaging the last five fiscal years, FY17-FY21.
For diesel, they budgeted $2.46 million dollars for FY22. Through April 2022, ITD has pumped up 906,000 gallons of diesel fuel, about 200,000 gallons less than the five-year average. However, they've already spent $2.76 million dollars in FY22, about $300,000 more than the average budget.
Filling up on unleaded gas is also over budget for ITD.
The department budgeted $1.06 million dollars for FY22. The five-year average of filling up unleaded for ITD is about 441,000 gallons. Through April, crews have pumped up 346,000 gallons of unleaded gas which has cost them $1.1 million.
ITD's fiscal year ends June 30.
"We do have some leniency, we have some strategies and opportunities where we can maybe not spend as much on certain areas within our budget," Tomlinson said.
With ITD already going over budget, Tomlinson assures that ITD will continue with its projects and daily operations.
"One thing that we do is build into our contracts with our construction projects so we have a fuel contingency," Tomlinson said. "If the fuel prices go up 20% more than when the project was started then we talk about a contingency plan. We try to give that assurance to our contractors when we're working on those construction projects."
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As controversy simmers over animal shelter, Anderson County considers hiring veterinary director
Anderson County will consider Monday whether to hire a veterinary director to oversee operations at its animal shelter and install cameras, in part to address serious concerns raised by residents about how many animals are euthanized and the method used to put them down.
The issue has been simmering for months, driven in large part by criticism on social media of Brian Porter, director of Anderson County Animal Care and Control, and how he runs the shelter. Additionally, Porter conducted euthanizations of animals with an expired license for most of 2021.
The criticism has caught the attention of the County Commission, which is maneuvering to take on a larger oversight role of the shelter even though Porter reports to County Mayor Terry Frank.
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In addition to considering whether to hire a veterinary director, the commission will vote Monday on whether to install cameras at the shelter to provide better information about “what is going on,” according to minutes from the Operations Committee’s May 9 meeting.
That meeting was swamped by residents worried about the treatment of animals that come through Anderson County Animal Care and Control, which handles pickup of strays as well as care, placement and euthanization of animals.
Porter, at a Dec. 13 meeting, presented statistics about the shelter’s operations that showed an 82.6% increase in the number of dogs and cats the facility handled in 2021 compared to 2016, from 601 to 1,098. He said the euthanization rate dropped from 72% in 2017 to 14% through mid-December 2021.
By year's end, Frank told Knox News, the shelter took in 1,179 animals: 697 cats and 482 dogs. Of those animals, the shelter euthanized 10% of the dogs and 17% of the cats. No-kill shelters strive for euthanizing no more than 10% of animals.
Frank acknowledged challenges at the shelter at the December meeting, saying “we can develop some better strategies and we’re willing to do it.”
In addition to Porter, the shelter employs two animal control officers, a shelter manager and two part-timers who help with adoption programs and cleaning.
The shelter’s capacity is limited to 20 cat cages and 12 dog cages, Porter told commissioners in December, though it also places animals in foster homes as they await adoption and provides healthy spayed or neutered animals for placement through PetSmart Charities, which helps place animals with new homes through PetSmart stores.
Porter’s performance is complicated by the fact his state license as a certified animal euthanasia technician expired on Feb. 28, 2021, according to a Tennessee Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners document issued May 13 and reviewed by Knox News. He continued to perform euthanizations until December.
Frank, in a written statement Friday, told Knox News, "On-premise euthanasia has not occurred at the Anderson County Animal Shelter since mid-December of 2021, and any humane euthanasia required would occur on-site at a licensed veterinarian’s office."
In addition to scrutiny of the shelter by commissioners, the county’s human resources department is looking into the allegations of mismanagement of the shelter. County Commissioner Robert McKamey and Human Resources Director Kim Jeffers-Whitaker encouraged people to attend Monday's meeting to share information they have about the shelter's operations.
Frank told Knox News a social media post that has fueled much of the public concern "is by one employee against another employee, and touches numerous areas of county policy."
She said Porter "strongly denies the allegations made against him," and promised a review of the investigation's findings will be released.
Commissioner Tracy Wandell told Knox News in a written statement he hopes the HR investigation "will provide insight and direction for the Anderson County Animal Shelter's future.
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“The only way we can have success is to work together and develop strategies that will find our animals homes. The Anderson County Animal Shelter is one of Mayor Frank's departments and I am confident she will ensure the department is being operated properly and correct any issues that may exist. I am hopeful our commission will consider establishing a new committee at our next commission meeting to address the Anderson County Animal Shelter.”
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Could changing land development regulations help fix lack of affordable housing?
DeLand looking at 'Band-Aid' fix to issue
DELAND — It's no secret the country is experiencing an affordable housing crisis.
It's especially noticeable in Florida where skyrocketing rent and housing costs have made finding shelter in the Sunshine State even more difficult.
While it's not the end-all, be-all solution, the City of DeLand is amending its land development regulations, or LDRs, in an effort to make building on nonconforming lots easier.
The ordinance proposing to ax some of the regulatory red tape comes before the City Commission on Monday for a final vote; it received unanimous approval on the first reading on April 18.
"This is one of those Band-Aid kind of fixes," Mayor Bob Apgar said during the first hearing.
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Mike Holmes, the city's planning director, said staff, as directed, generated amendments that would make infill development at the city's core more feasible by easing certain LDRs and allowing for the renovation or expansion of existing structures or lots that don't comply with current regulations.
Specifically, the proposed revisions are:
- Reduced minimum square footage for the living area in all single-family dwelling zoning districts to 900 square feet (current range is 1,000-1,800 square feet)
- Allow new single-family dwellings in the Downtown Commercial district that comply with the single-family dwelling district standards
- Eliminate minimum square footage requirement for multi-family units in the Downtown Commercial district
- For mixed-use buildings, expand when dwelling units can be on the first floor in the Downtown Commercial district
- Allowing accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, as a conditional use rather than a special exception in all single-family zoning classifications
- Eliminate requirement for garage in the Core Gateway overlay
- Allow for a reduction in required parking for multi-family projects in the Core Gateway overlay
- Revise entire Article IX, Hardship Relief, to simplify when a variance is necessary and when the request can be approved administratively
Staff also added a section allowing "for an affordable housing program to be established for the waiver or deferment of impact fees by creating a Local Housing Assistance Plan," per state law.
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Parking problems
Though Holmes said there's a lot of existing housing with only two parking spaces, the parking amendment caused the most concern.
"I agree with the not having a garage component, but is that kind of creating an issue that we've seen throughout DeLand, with parking in the street or parking on lawns, especially when you have accessory dwelling units?" Commissioner Kevin Reid asked.
While newer developments have been required to provide four spaces, Rick Werbiskis, the city's community development director, said "historically, the city has generally required two parking spaces," which is the industry standard.
"This is all geared towards trying to provide affordable units, because if we require that they have wider driveways and additional off-street parking, that adds to the cost of the units," Werbiskis said.
Commissioner Chris Cloudman, a mayoral candidate, said the intent was to capture some of the national discussion on affordable housing and identify the low-hanging fruit, something they could address quickly and easily, such as with parking-space requirements.
"It's not the answer to everything, and it will only actually help you with a certain small percentage of the overall affordable housing issue," Cloudman said.
During public comment on the matter, the commission heard from Randy Jenkins, executive director of West Volusia Habitat for Humanity.
Jenkins said the most common request of the organization as of late is for affordable aging-in-place homes.
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He said the organization owns approximately 40 non-conforming lots but can't build on them due to current regulations.
"We need the ability to build on a 45-foot lot in Spring Hill, we need the ability to put a 600- or 700-square-foot home because that's what will fit on that lot," Jenkins said. "That's the solution to affordable housing, to use the inventory we have and make the regulations flexible enough that we can build on those lots."
City Manager Michael Pleus said the organization hopefully will be more easily able in the future to build on those lots as both the city and Volusia County are looking at changing their land development regulations.
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'Words cannot express our heartfelt sadness': Abington High mourns senior struck by train
ABINGTON — A local teenager who was set to graduate high school in less than a month is dead after she was struck by an MBTA commuter rail train in her hometown of Abington, according to her mother.
Lori Frost said she believes her 18-year-old daughter, Katelyn McCarthy, had earbuds in when she was fatally struck shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday near the Birch Street crossing.
The MBTA Transit Police Department said a deadly crash involving a commuter rail train did happen at that time near that crossing, but did not identify McCarthy as the victim.
According to transit police, the victim was "walking along the right of way" when she was struck by the train and that the equipment at the crossing was functioning properly at the time of the incident. Foul play is not suspected.
Frost said her daughter was set to graduate from Abington High School on June 4.
"She had her whole future ahead of her. She was supposed to graduate. She was in driver's (education). She was going to go to Toni and Guy Academy, a beauty academy," Frost said. "She was my whole life. She's my only child. She's my whole heart. My life is never going to be the same."
In a message to the Abington Public Schools community, Superintendent Peter Schafer said McCarthy was killed in a "tragic accident."
Counselors and the school district's crisis intervention team will be available at Abington High School between noon and 3 p.m. Monday for any student who may want to speak about McCarthy's death.
Click here to donate to a GoFundMe page that has been set up to help cover the costs of McCarthy's funeral.
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It is a partly cloudy, muggy, and mild morning across Central Alabama. Temperatures are in the 60s.
A weak cold front will move across Alabama today, and it will set off a few showers and storms today. One or two of the storms could be strong to possibly severe. There is a Level 1/5 Marginal Risk for severe weather for areas along and south of I-59. The risk is very low today across Central Alabama, but a little better chance for South Alabama. The threats will be gusty winds, hail, and downpours. High temperatures will be a little “cooler” as they only get into the mid to upper 80s.
Tonight, we will be mostly clear and cool-ish. Lows will be in the upper 50s to mid 60s.
A ridge of high pressure will build over the Southeast U.S starting on Tuesday. We will be mostly sunny and hot with high temperatures in the upper 80s.
Get ready for summer heat for the end of the work week! The ridge will sit over us Wednesday through Friday. Each day will be mostly sunny to partly cloudy and hot. High temperatures will climb into the lower to mid 90s. There will be some dry air over us, so the humidity levels will not be too bad. This means it will be hot for the first day of Lake Fest in Pell City on Friday.
Weekend Outlook: The ridge of high pressure will break down and move east of Alabama. This will bring back southerly winds and Gulf of Mexico Moisture. A cold front will also move toward Alabama on Saturday. This will lead to scattered showers and storms. A few storms could be strong to possibly severe with gusty winds. Some downpours will be likely with the added moisture in the air. High temperatures will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s. The cold front will move through by Sunday with spotty showers and storms. It will turn cooler with high temperatures in the upper 70s to lower 80s.
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Nearly a dozen people spread out in the benches of a third-floor courtroom in Lancaster County District Court late Friday morning. Not for an arraignment in a criminal case. Or to finalize a divorce.
They had one thing in common: All (even the police officer among them) had skipped jury duty, and the Lancaster County Attorney's Office was asking a judge to find them in contempt.
Jury Commissioner Troy Hawk said they've always had people here or there not show up. But in the past three to six months more people have been ignoring the summons they're required by law to fill out. He said those who do respond have been "angrier, a lot ruder and, quite honestly, a lot more abusive" to staff when they call.
Starting in the March and April jury terms, they started seeing more not show up at the courthouse when called, Hawk said.
"They either ignored our messages or said 'I'm out of town. I didn't realize that was something I had to do,'" he said.
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In all, 12 skipped in April, plus one in March.
"Which is a big problem. Because when we call in jurors, we call in the number we need to provide to the judge and to that courtroom so they can pick a jury for that trial," Hawk said. "When we have people not show up that throws everything out of whack."
He said it had become such a problem they decided they needed to get in front of it. He's hoping to educate the public, so they appreciate the importance of jury duty and show up when called.
"Right now we just want to get people to understand this is a big deal. This is important," Hawk said. "And if you don't show up there are going to be consequences."
In the courtroom Friday, after reading through their names to determine who had shown up, Lancaster County District Judge Jodi Nelson gave the group a brief civics lesson.
"The Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Nebraska each afford the right to trial by jury," she said. "This right to trial by jury is fundamental to our democracy."
A democracy grants many privileges and benefits to its citizens. It also imposes responsibilities, Nelson told them. Jury service is one of the responsibilities.
She said those in the judicial branch understand and fully appreciate the imposition jury service can pose.
"However, we must follow the law," the judge said. "The law does not permit prospective jurors to be excused from jury service due to inconvenience or a desire not to serve."
Nelson said they were there because they had failed to appear and fulfill that duty. But no one in the courtroom wanted to find them in contempt. Just to fulfill their responsibility.
So one at a time she called them up and gave them the option of appearing for jury duty in July, August or September. If they show up, the contempt case against them will go away.
If not, they'll be required to show up at another hearing, where they could be fined or even sent to jail.
One told the judge he did show up on the scheduled day — 30 minutes late — and was told he could go home.
No one else offered explanations or excuses, simply picking which month they'll be on call for two weeks in case they're needed.
Kenneth West Jr. asked the judge when they changed to notification by email or phone.
"This is my 10th time I've been called up. I'll do my job and everything. But in the past you always sent out a second letter telling you when to show up," he said.
Hawk explained later that jurors get an initial summons for jury duty and a questionnaire to fill out either in writing or online. If they don't fill it out, they get a second one. Then, after his office gets word from bailiffs about when and where prospective jurors are needed, they call and send emails to let them know the specifics.
West said he understands the paper waste, but he doesn't answer his phone while driving and doesn't mess around with email.
"I have served several times. Some good, some bad. You know, it is what it is," he said.
Nelson said she appreciated his service and said jurors all are selected at random.
West said he's been selected randomly a lot.
"I figure it's for everything I did wrong when I was a little kid. This is my punishment," he said. "My wife was so excited that she finally got picked. And I'm like 'whoopie.'"
Hawk said he gets that jury duty can be an inconvenience.
"But that's also part of getting to live in the United States of America. That's one of the things you have to do as your part of that bargain," he said.
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Four people were shot in three separate incidents in Manhattan overnight, with one dead and another facing life-threatening injuries.
This latest violence adds to a growing toll, with shooting incidents in the lower part of Manhattan now at a 25-year high.
The first shooting happened in the East Village, at 3rd Street and Avenue D, about 11:15 p.m. Sunday. A 39-year-old Bronx man, Brandon Atkinson, was found with a gunshot wound to the head, and pronounced dead at Bellevue.
About an hour later, at the LaGuardia Houses on the Lower East Side, a car pulled up to a curb and opened fire on a group of people standing outside. Two young men, ages 19 and 22, were shot in the leg and arm, respectively.
Both are in stable condition at Bellevue; it was not immediately clear if they were the intended targets.
And then, about 5 a.m. Monday, a 24-year-old man was shot in the chest at 47th Street and Tenth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen. Cops say he took himself to Mount Sinai West, where he is listed in critical condition with life-threatening injuries.
The shootings will compound the problem already plaguing Manhattan this year, as the city confronts a massive spike in violent crime. Year-to-date through May 8, shooting incidents in the NYPD"s Patrol Borough Manhattan South are up 31% over last year.
According to the NYPD's CompStat system, for the period from Jan. 1 to May 8, shooting incidents in Manhattan South are now at their highest since 1997.
Of the NYPD's eight patrol boroughs citywide, only Manhattan South and the Bronx are back to the levels of the late 1990s.
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Annual Rhode Island Kids Count report shows worsening mental health, learning conditions
Rhode Island Kids Count will release its annual report Monday on the state of Rhode Island’s children, and for the second year the pandemic’s consequences are reflected in worsening mental health and learning conditions, the group says.
Each year the Providence-based nonprofit charts through data comparison the improvements and declines in the well-being of Rhode Island’s children — a population group now at 209,785, the group says, and trending downward.
“I think this data confirms what we were seeing last year,” said Elizabeth Burke Bryant, executive director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT. “The pandemic is continuing to have a significant impact on the well-being and safety of children in youth in many areas.”
Mental health being one.
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, starting in March 2020, teen mental health was a growing concern, said Burke Bryant. Then as schools closed for distance learning and children were isolated at home, away from their peers and extracurricular activities, data shows their mental health worsened.
For instance, Bradley Hospital’s 24-hour hotline, called Kids Link Rhode Island, saw a doubling of calls between fiscal year 2019 and fiscal 2021 — from 4,849 to 9,702.
In 2021, 467 teenagers were admitted to a health care emergency center after a suicide attempt, compared to 334 in 2020. Three quarters of those attempting suicide were girls.
“We are also seeing a major increase in children and youth with mental health conditions whose families are having trouble accessing services due to a workforce crisis in community-based programs," Burke Bryant said.
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Difficulty accessing mental health care
In Rhode Island in 2020, about 33% of children ages 3 to 17 who needed mental health treatment or counseling had a problem obtaining needed care, Kids Count found.
The workforce crisis predates the pandemic. But the pandemic exasperated issues of low wages and reimbursement rates for community service agencies. The result has been too few workers to provide critical care, Kids Count says.
“It is cost effective,” the group says, “to invest in a seamless system of high-quality children’s behavioral health care rather than pay the much higher cost of crisis intervention."
The Kids Count data also reflects a drop in calls to the state’s child abuse hotline, which on the surface may seem like good news. In truth it could reflect the opposite.
In 2021 the hotline received 14,876 calls, down from 16,195 in 2020. In comparison, in 2019, before the pandemic, the hotline received 19,401 calls.
The decline likely doesn’t reflect a drop in abuse, Burke Bryant said, but rather a decline in the reporting of abuse.
“Because children and youth were not with other caring adults in their lives — coaches, music teachers, drama instructors — those kinds of caring adults would possibly notice abuse and neglect and report it, there were fewer reports,” she said.
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Chronic absenteeism
During the 2020-2021 school year, student groups with the highest levels of chronic absence were also hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some 22% of all Rhode Island children in grades K-3 were chronically absent. Meanwhile 47% of Rhode Island’s low-income middle and high school students were chronically absent that school year compared with 21% of higher-income students.
Kids Count found that 16% of Rhode Island children were living under the poverty level, defined as a family of three making $21,831 or less a year. That was 1% less than last year.
Two thirds of those children live in the four cities: Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls and Woonsocket.
Said Burke Bryant: "Now that we are turning the curve on the pandemic, we need to ensure that long-term supports are in place that will yield the best outcomes for Rhode Island’s children and families, particularly the most vulnerable who were hardest hit by the pandemic and the resulting economic impact."
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Veterans Voice: Service dog a good soldier to Vietnam vet
Ken Howe, 74, grew up on Providence’s East Side. His companion Fiona, 7, was born in Minnesota and grew up in North Dakota. This is the story of how they met, and how their relationship developed.
Ken Howe attended Hope High School and was drafted in March 1968. After completing basic and infantry training he was sent to Vietnam in September, assigned to Company D, 3rd Battalion, 8th Infantry of the 4th Division.
They operated in the general area of Kontum, in the Central Highlands.
In early March 1969, the 66th Division of the North Vietnamese Army moved into the region, and four infantry companies were inserted to block them.
Alpha Company was badly mauled when it was dropped right into the headquarters of the NVA unit. Howe and his Delta Company mates were ordered to assist their beleaguered comrades.
Moving cautiously along a well-worn trail, Howe's platoon ran into a group of NVA soldiers walking toward them. Both sides opened fire and scattered. One of the men with the NVA screamed, “Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot!” and began running toward them. It turned out he was a survivor from Company A who had been captured.
The soldier warned Delta Company not to go any farther: “The NVA are right over this ridge, and they are waiting for you!”
Thus warned, they pulled back to a more defensible position and dug in for the night.
Dawn came, and Howe began to think they were OK — and then all hell broke loose.
“They hit us at 7 a.m. There was a big hardwood tree to my left front. Three other guys were between me and the tree, and one guy was behind the tree.
“The NVA fired an armor-piercing B-40 rocket round into the tree, and it took us all out. I was the least injured of all of us, but I still had shrapnel in my face, elbow, shoulder and back. That's how I got my Purple Heart.”
Two days later, the fighting died down enough to allow wounded to be evacuated.
“I spent six weeks in the hospital,” said Howe. He completed his tour.
Back home, and denial
On the surface he seemed healed, and ready to return to a normal civilian life.
“I got home,” said Howe, “and I got married.”
And then he got divorced. And then he married again; and divorced again. “I've had four divorces,” he said matter-of-factly. “And I’ve been married five times.”
“I swore up and down that Vietnam didn't affect me,” he said. “It wasn’t me. It was everybody else who changed.
“Oh, yeah, I was in denial for a long while. I drove a truck out of Worcester, working 10- to 12-hour days plus commuting. My job helped hide it.”
In the 1980s he joined the Vet Center in Pawtucket, and was a founder of the first Vietnam Veterans of America chapter in Rhode Island.
“But I still was in denial.”
Howe said that PTSD “didn't really bite me in the behind until after I retired.”
“Then it really caught up with me, because I had time to think. It got to the point where I didn't even want to go out of the house.
“I started counseling, and was told, ‘You have to do exposure. Go to Walmart.’ And I couldn't go to Walmart.
“Then I was at the V.A. for a PTSD evaluation, and the examiner gave me a hard time. I finally fell down and yelled, “Don’t [expletive] with me any more!”
Other incidents followed, and Howe finally accepted he had a problem. While trying to figure out what to do, he bumped into a Vietnam brother he hadn't seen for a while.
“He had a dog with him, and he said the dog helped with PTSD.
“That put the bug in my ear. But no one I dealt with at the V.A. seemed to know about service animals.”
The V.A. itself does not provide dogs, but for veterans and dogs who qualify, it provides certain benefits, such as veterinary care.
But the onus is on the veteran to start the process, and find his own dog.
So Howe started looking up service dogs. This was in 2016.
He found potential sources in several states. Some had no dogs available, or there was a long waiting list.
He finally heard back from Service Dogs for America in North Dakota. They would consider his application.
“It took about eight months, but they finally invited me out for an evaluation,” Howe recalls.
“Plan on spending the better part of a month here,” they said.
The first day he filled out grant applications.
“Donors picked up the whole tab,” Howe said gratefully. “That was a $20,000 [price tag, in 2017]; two-plus years of training for the dog, plus lodging, and the cost of somebody training me. Plus my flights.”
Jenny BrodKorb is executive director for Service Dogs for America. A highly qualified dog trainer herself, she spent four years as an officer in the Army’s Medical Service Corps.
“Since I became executive director in 2015 not a single Veteran has had to pay out-of-pocket for his dog,” she told The Journal.
The price tag today is $25,000, and a major element of Service Dogs for America's staff work is generating the funds to support each veteran.
“The cost of training is significant, especially for dogs dealing with issues such as seizures,” BrodKorb said.
As dogs progress, certain animals seem suited for PTSD work, while others become mobility dogs, and still others handle seizures.
The group's website adds, “Occasionally we must decide that a dog is not suitable to become a service dog because of a health or temperament issue.”
“The decision we have to make,” BrodKorb explained, “is whether the animal is more suited to hold down the sofa or to hold up a human.”
Her group calls this the "career change option."
While there is no definite timeframe, three years is the upper limit before a dog goes into career change.
“We must look at a working career of 10 years or so in order to amortize the cost of training,” said BrodKorb.
'You can’t lie to the dog'
Fiona and her sister Evie were donated to the program.
In what sounds like an episode from a Snoopy cartoon about the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm, Evie had an independent streak. They could never break her habit of chasing squirrels and rabbits. So she became a career-change dog.
Although Fiona passed training with flying colors, she had a different problem. She never showed any interest in a potential human life partner.
BrodKorb explained, “We are the only certified service dog training facility where the dog chooses the human.”
The client seeking a dog sits in the middle of an empty room. The trainers are behind a two-way mirror. Dogs are brought in, one at a time, to see how they interact with the human.
In Howe's case, Fiona was brought in as an afterthought.
“We were considering adding her to the career-change list because she was in her third year and had not expressed interest in any of the human candidates,” said BrodKorb.
When Howe went through this process, he said, “Some dogs wouldn't even come near me.”
To everyone’s surprise, Fiona did. So BrodKorb brought them both into the office. Howe was feeling pretty stressed that day.
“You two spend the afternoon together. If everything works out, you'll have a sleepover,” instructed BrodKorb.
“Then she asked me how I was feeling,” said Howe. “So I lied and said I was feeling fine.”
At that moment Fiona came over, picked up her paw and started stroking him. BrodKorb said, "Look, you can lie to yourself and you can lie to me. But you can't lie to the dog."
BrodKorb and other staff love seeing the dogs pick their humans, even though it’s emotional to see them go. In a TV interview last year she said, ”There’s always tears at graduation. Big ol' alligator tears, usually.”
Fiona provides mobility assistance as well
Howe also suffered from neuropathy, which made it difficult for him to walk a straight line. Fiona had been cross trained for PTSD and mobility.
“So they put Fiona in a hard harness, like a seeing-eye dog. And she didn't blink. So every time I go out, that harness keeps me steady and moving in a straight line.”
I asked Howe what difference Fiona has made in his life. “I’m much more confident in public,” he replied. “She's a great icebreaker with people. That immediately helps with strangers.”
He plans to travel to a national 4th Division reunion at the end of July.
V.A. policy is still evolving
The relationship with the V.A. can still be tricky. Confusion exists when it comes to PTSD about the distinction between a service dog (eligible for V.A. benefits) and an emotional support dog (not eligible).
As BrodKorb explained, “A service dog is considered as a medical device, just like a pacemaker or an insulin pump.”
While service dogs go through intensive training by experienced handlers, any pet can be an emotional support animal.
V.A. guidance states, “Service Dogs may be used as additional support for Veterans with PTSD and mobility limitations.”
The operative word is “may,” and the interpretation of those rules can vary from state to state.
Last year Congress passed the PAWS Act, which should help. It established a pilot program in five states to provide dog training to eligible veterans with PTSD “as an element of a … health program for such veterans.”
BrodKorb served on a board that helped write this legislation.
Service Dogs for America is the only service dog training facility right now without a waiting list.
“We have dogs available, and we want to match them with humans,” BrodKorb said.
Calendar
Thursday, 8:30 a.m., Sgt. Adam S. DeCiccio Warwick Memorial Post 272 VFW golf tournament at Cranston Country Club. Shotgun start; $130 per player; individual – Callaway system; foursome, scramble, low gross. Raymond Denisewich, co-chairman, (401) 644-8066 or raymond.denisewich@gmail.com.
Thursday, 2 to 5 p.m., Rhode Island House of Representatives annual Veterans & Military Families Day, in the State House.
Thursday, 5:30 p.m., woodworking class at the Providence Vet Center, 2038 Warwick Ave, Warwick. Vet Center eligibility is required to attend. Contact Paul Santilli, Paul.Santilli@va.gov or (401) 739-0167.
Friday, 7:30 a.m., CSM Edward McConnell annual golf tournament, presented by the Military Police Regimental Association, Rhode Island Chapter, Triggs Memorial Golf Course, 1533 Chalkstone Ave., Providence. For tickets and information go to mprari.org/events-1/mpra-ri-2022-csm-edward-mcconnell-annual-golf-tournament.
To report the outcome of a previous activity, or add a future event to our calendar, email the details (including a contact name and phone number/email address) to veteranscolumn@providencejournal.com.
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Two state senators who were behind the push to legalize sports gambling in Ohio say they believe it will begin in mid-to-late fall.
State senators Niraj Antani, R-Miamisburg, and Kirk Schuring, R-Canton, recently said that good progress is being made by the Ohio Casino Control Commission, which is implementing sports gambling in Ohio.
“I still believe sports betting will be able to start in the late fall, around the World Series,” Antani told the Dayton Daily News.
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Ohio’s legislature passed a sports betting bill in December, and Gov. Mike DeWine signed it on Dec. 22. Sports betting must start by Jan. 1, 2023, according to the bill, but there is room for it to start before then.
Exactly when sports betting will begin remains unclear as the Ohio Casino Control Commission is creating rules, applications, forms and other essentials to launch sports betting.
An Ohio Casino Control Commission spokesperson previously said the January 2023 deadline was chosen to give the commission enough time to write and approve rules and for it to review companies that apply for licenses.
The commission announced this month that it will begin accepting applications for sports gaming licenses on June 15.
“I think the application schedule they set out is very promising but also very reasonable,” Antani said.
The sports betting bill that was passed calls for one start date across the entire state.
Schuring told News-Talk 1480 WHBC that many view Ohio’s sports betting law as one of the most comprehensive in the country and covers many types of businesses that want to implement sports betting.
“Sometime I would think in the mid-to-late fall we would have everything operational,” Schuring said.
Whenever sports gambling goes live, it is expected to generate big revenue. The state estimates that sports betting will be a $1.1 billion industry in Ohio in its first year or so of operation, growing to $3.35 billion within a few years. Since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling four years ago cleared the way for all 50 states to legalize sports gambling, Americans have bet more than $125 billion on sports.
Two-thirds of states have legalized sports gambling.
PlayOhio recently released an analysis that found Ohio will be missing out on potentially millions of dollars if it doesn’t launch by the NFL season. The analysis found that sportsbooks in Ohio will bring in as much as $130 million per week in NFL betting volume during the 2022 season. The analysis found that it could result in about $7 million won by sportsbooks and $700,000 in tax revenue a week.
“If Ohio does wait until the new year to launch, the opportunity cost will be substantial,” PlayOhio analyst Eric Ramsey said in a release.
Daniel Wallach, who owns a sports gaming-focused law firm, said some other states tried to launch their sports gambling around football season. He said Ohio is competing against other states for tax dollars and September is going to be one of the busiest months of the year for sports gambling.
The Associated Press contributed to this article
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The latest North Dakota coronavirus news: health blog, food aid and more.
Health blog
The state Health Department has introduced a blog on its website called Knowtify that aims to inform North Dakotans on a variety of topics including COVID-19.
The blog at knowtify.health.nd.gov includes written articles, video segments, audio interviews and infographics.
New content will be added regularly on health and wellness, immunization, safety, seasonal topics, nutrition, fitness, medical education and more.
“The (department) has very active social media sites and excellent resources on its website. The Knowtify blog brings this information together in one place, sortable by topic,” department spokeswoman Marie Moe said. “In a time where it can sometimes be difficult for people to know what is true when they are online, the Knowtify blog provides a trusted source of content that has been verified by public health professionals.”
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Mobile food pantry
Trucks carrying fresh vegetables, bakery items and boxed goods will make stops in northwestern North Dakota this week.
Food through the Great Plains Food Bank Mobile Food Pantry is available at no cost to those in need. Scheduled stops are:
Tuesday
- Stanley, South Complex, 8103 61st St. NW, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
- Bowbells, United Methodist Church, back parking lot, 3:20-5 p.m.
- Lignite, Community Center, 216 Main St., 3:30 p.m.
- Crosby, Concordia Lutheran Church, 204 Main St. NE, 5-6 p.m.
Wednesday
- Wildrose, Fire Hall, 9:30 a.m.
- Ray, 20 1st Ave. E., 10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Thursday
- Tioga, Fire Department, 810 N. Welo St., 10:30 a.m.
Testing and vaccines
A comprehensive list of free public COVID-19 testing offered in North Dakota can be found at health.nd.gov/covidtesting. That site also lists where free at-home test kits are being offered.
People can go to https://www.ndvax.org or call 866-207-2880 to see where COVID-19 vaccine is available near them.
County-level COVID-19 risks determined by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be found at https://bit.ly/3Clifrq.
Guidance and resources for businesses are at https://bit.ly/3w0DpKj.
General information is at https://www.health.nd.gov/diseases-conditions/coronavirus.
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NSB selects 4 city-owned properties to be donated for affordable housing projects
NEW SMYRNA BEACH — On Tuesday, the New Smyrna Beach City Commission approved the donation of four city-owned properties – out of a list of eight – that will offer families the chance at a new home.
Every three years, Florida Statute 166.0451 requires municipalities to identify such properties that are appropriate for use as affordable housing and put them up for sale or donation.
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City officials began writing the list almost a year ago during a City Commission workshop. Commissioners analyzed and identified eight properties suitable for affordable housing, which could benefit both those in need of housing and the city’s finances.
“I would certainly like to put them back on the tax rolls,” said commissioner Michael Kolody at last year’s workshop in September. “They would go back to the tax rolls; they would be affordable housing, which everybody knows we really need.”
Another affordable housing project is also underway in the city.
Just three months ago, construction began for the Greenlawn Manor project on 600 Greenlawn St. The project will help senior citizens in need of affordable housing. It consists of a three-story building with 80 individual living units that will give a new face to the city's historic westside neighborhood.
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But for the recently approved properties to help families in need, the city must list all four empty lots on its website for donation and wait for applications to come in.
The four properties are located at:
- 2524 Nordman Ave.
- 2519 Auburn Ave.
- 708 Francis Ave.
- 706 Francis Ave.
As is often the case in this situation, the city will prioritize applications from nonprofit organizations or community trusts “with a clearly demonstrated history of successfully constructing and administering affordable housing projects within Volusia County,” according to a city document.
Organizations like Habitat for Humanity and Mid-Florida Housing Partnership are two such organizations that might apply.
The properties’ posting on the city website will be up for a minimum of two weeks. Once the deadline (which is yet to be determined) for applications closes, each applicant will have five minutes to present their project before the City Commission.
Four more properties could be donated
The list of eight available properties will not include the other four identified for affordable housing because those belong in the Community Redevelopment Agency district. The state statute requires that all properties belonging in a CRA district be donated through the Request for Proposal process.
These other four properties would still be donated by the city, but the RFP process is more time-consuming than the city website posting method. That is part of the reason why commissioners decided on Tuesday to approve the four non-CRA properties for donation.
“(My recommendation) is that we simply donate them to put them back on the tax rolls and provide the housing,” Kolody said on Tuesday. “And have people be allowed to put in their offers individually for each property.”
Making only some of the eight listed properties available has been a point of discussion since the first workshop last year. City Mayor Russ Owen said that starting with a few properties will give the commission a chance to gauge the public’s reaction to this effort (particularly of residents living in each property’s surrounding neighborhood) before making more properties available for donation.
“There’s probably 10 houses around each of these lots,” Owen said. “Someone should knock on a door and explain it.”
He added that he himself would go these neighborhoods and do it if necessary, because “I’d rather do that before I have a room full of people saying they didn’t know what was happening.”
If the city does receive applications, those could come before the City Commission at its June 14 meeting, according to a city staff document.
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Expect traffic detours around DeBary Elementary School as work on new parent pickup loop starts
Construction work to fix a longtime traffic headache at DeBary Elementary School begins Monday.
Motorists will encounter intermittent detours and road closures as the parent pickup loop at the school, 88 W. Highbanks Road, undergoes a long-awaited makeover.
"Right now we anticipate most of the work, the heavy lifting, being done by the time school starts in mid-August," Shari Simmans, the city's director of economic development, communications and government affairs, said Thursday.
Barring any inclement weather or unforeseen circumstances, the project could be completely finished by October, Simmans said.
For several years the current parent pickup loop has impacted emergency vehicle access and area residents.
The traffic backups "cause many drivers to cycle around the area and randomly park in neighborhoods causing additional traffic and pedestrian safety concerns," according to city documents on the project.
The new design moves the ingress/egress onto Donald E. Smith Boulevard with car stacking occurring in two lanes on school property as opposed to West Highbanks.
Vehicles are routed back onto Donald E. Smith after students are picked up.
Traffic impacts
Donald E. Smith Boulevard, between Hammock Oak Circle and West Highbanks Road, will be affected by the construction work throughout the summer.
Donald E. Smith Boulevard will be open to only northbound traffic Monday through June 2, when school closes. Motorists on Hammock Oak Circle only will be able to make right turns onto Donald E. Smith.
Any vehicles on Donald E. Smith traveling south toward Highbanks Road will stop at Hammock Oak. Motorists on Highbanks will be able to turn onto Donald E. Smith until June 3.
Donald E. Smith will be closed in both directions, south of Hammock Oak, from June 3 until mid-August.
Pedestrians will have access to the portion of Donald E. Smith between Hammock Oak and Highbanks throughout the construction process, according to the city.
Additionally, the Florida Department of Transportation is extending the timing of the traffic light at DeBary Plantation Boulevard and U.S. 17-92 so that more vehicles can exit the neighborhood.
Project history
The project "was pretty much dead in the water back in 2018" when the estimated cost of the work was more than $1,461,000, DeBary City Manager Carmen Rosamonda said previously.
Changes to the project's design brought the cost down to just over $926,000, and in January 2021, the City of DeBary and the Volusia County School Board agreed to split the cost.
Due to supply chain issues and costs increasing in multiple areas across the country, the amount ultimately spent may be greater than was projected, Simmans said.
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This past weekend was the busiest of the Lehigh Valley high school prom season so far, and The Morning Call was there once again to take photos of the big night.
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SULLIVAN COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Those who travel I-81 North should expect traffic delays Monday morning following a crash near Shipley Ferry Road.
The wreck occurred just before 7 a.m. near mile marker 63, according to the Kingsport Police Department (KPD). Another responding agency included the Kingsport Fire Department.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation’s (TDOT) SmartWay map reported a multi-vehicle crash in the area that closed both northbound lanes and the right shoulder near mile marker 63.2 of I-81 N at 7:03 a.m.
The KPD advises motorists to avoid the area and drive an alternate route.
Circumstances surrounding the crash and possible injuries remain unclear. This is a developing story, and News Channel 11 has a crew on the way to the scene. Stay updated on-air and on WJHL.com.
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Lincoln Day Dinner set for June 9 in Gibson City
GIBSON CITY — The 2022 Ford County Lincoln Day Dinner will be held at 5 p.m. Thursday, June 9.
The event will take place at the Kruse Center, 207 N. Lawrence IL Rte 54, Gibson City.
Jeff Orr, chairman of the Ford County Republican Committee, said all of the Republican candidates for governor have been invited to make presentations and meet with attendees at the dinner.
Candidates Darren Bailey and Gary Rabine have confirmed they will attend. Candidates Paul Schimpf and Jessie Sullivan have confirmed their running mates for lieutenant governor, Carolyn Schofield and Kathleen Murphy, will attend.
A meet-and-greet for the candidates will start at 5 p.m. with the program and dinner starting at 6 p.m. Local elected officials and other candidates will be introduced and brief comments from other state officials are expected, followed by presentations from the governor candidates or their running mates.
Tickets are $35 per person and are available from any Republican precinct committee women or men; Denis Fish in Gibson City, 217-249-1989; Kim Evans in Paxton, 217-379-1347; or Jeff Orr in Piper City, 815-848-6786.
Contact Steve Pacey at 217-621-8783 for information on becoming a sponsor for the event.
Golf outing to support Midwest Food Bank
NORMAL — A golf outing to support the Midwest Food Bank of Bloomington-Normal will be held Friday, June 17, at the Den at Fox Creek in Bloomington.
Registration and lunch will be provided by Chick-fil-A of Normal beginning at 11 a.m., with a noon shotgun start and a best position, four-player golf format.
There will be prizes for first and second place and raffle tickets available for a chance to win additional prizes.
Dinner will be at 5 p.m. and will be provided by Biaggi's. The cost is $150 per golfer and $600 per foursome, and sponsorships are available.
Visit midwestfoodbank,org or call 309-663-5350 to register for the event.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Reader, the city’s famed alt-weekly, is expected to become a nonprofit this month after the sale was nearly derailed over a co-owner’s column opposing COVID-19 vaccine requirements for children.
The publication was on track to be sold to the new nonprofit last year until the November printing of defense attorney Leonard Goodman’s column headlined “Vaxxing our kids” prompted allegations of misinformation and censorship.
Goodman agreed to step aside in late April, allowing the sale to go through. Still, the standoff among the alt-weekly’s managers left staff members in limbo for months, wondering if the Reader would be shut down after surviving multiple previous sales and the coronavirus pandemic.
In the column, Goodman wrote that “feverish hype by government officials, mainstream media outlets, and Big Pharma” made him question whether his 6-year-old daughter should be vaccinated.
Critics including former and current Reader staff quickly blasted his take, arguing that Goodman relied on sources repeatedly fact-checked by media and infectious-disease experts.
Publisher Tracy Baim said editors asked to hire an independent fact-checker to vet the column. Baim said she and her co-publisher then met with Goodman and discussed options, but “it was very clear he didn’t like any” of their proposals.
Goodman said the Reader should have stood by him once the piece was published, regardless of his argument.
“This is an opinion piece,” he said. “It’s not writing as a scientist.”
Hoping to keep the peace, Baim said she told editors they would leave the column as written until the sale closed. But then two board members accused Baim and Reader staff of censorship and demanded several changes to the sale agreement — stalling the transition.
Sladjana Vuckovic, one of the members who backed Goodman, said she wouldn’t have objected to the Reader publishing another writer’s column favoring vaccination for kids but thought Goodman’s perspective “was of great interest” and didn’t require a rewrite.
The Reader’s staff union led protests outside Goodman’s home last month, bringing renewed attention to their demand that Goodman and his backers “free the Reader.” Many in the city’s arts, music and performing arts communities backed the push, sharing stories of the Reader’s influence on Chicago.
The alt-weekly first published in 1971, with editions assembled in some of its young founders’ apartments. In an issue celebrating the publication’s 50th anniversary, one founder recalled breaking even for the first time three years later.
By the 1980s, ad revenue was in the millions and kept growing to a peak of $22.6 million in 2002. But the Reader has struggled financially since as advertising dollars migrated online and the publication shuffled between owners.
Goodman and Elzie Higginbottom, a developer, bought the alt-weekly for $1 in 2018 in an orchestrated bid to keep it alive. Baim, also the founder of the LGBT newspaper the Windy City Times, became the Reader’s publisher.
She felt a drastic change was the only solution. In the summer of 2019, Baim made her pitch to the owners and board: form a new nonprofit to purchase the Reader.
The IRS approved creation of the Reader Institute for Community Journalism in February 2020. And then the COVID-19 pandemic arrived.
Alt-weeklies including the Reader have struggled for several decades alongside local newspapers. But they were uniquely vulnerable to the pandemic that abruptly shut down restaurants, performing arts and other advertisers.
“Any news outlet that was free and dependent entirely on advertising had a very real and in some ways almost impossible challenge,” said Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University specializing in alternative business models.
Nonprofit local newsrooms remain rare in U.S. media, but there has been a growing push to create them as the pressures of a declining business model force consolidation and increasing ownership by hedge funds and private equity.
The Reader cut its 60,000 printed copies down to twice a month, furloughed staff and tried to make money by selling branded merchandise and publishing a coloring book.
“We lost almost 100 percent of advertising overnight,” Baim said. “We had to basically dance for dollars.”
Baim said she still believed the nonprofit strategy was the Reader’s best chance — if board members and Goodman would allow it to go forward. But she and others balked at the board members’ insistence on more seats on the new nonprofit’s board.
Goodman said he tried to work out an agreement with his co-owner “for many months,” including a proposal to complete the sale and resolve the dispute about the board appointments later on. That idea was rejected, he said.
”And there was no path forward at that point other than filing a lawsuit, which would have destroyed the Reader” Goodman said.
Goodman said the dispute hasn’t swayed his confidence in the sources cited in the column. He called the suggestion that staff felt pressure to run a co-owner’s piece “complete nonsense” and said his opposition to requiring vaccines was the reason for the backlash, not his sources.
Baim though said that the staff’s pushback was a journalistic response to the sources Goodman used — not a reaction to his opinion.
“I am horrified the relationship deteriorated over one column out of 21 that we tried to do the right thing journalistically with,” Baim said.
For the Reader’s staff, the final sale expected to close this month brings optimism. But they worry the delay cost the paper financially and will make the process ahead more difficult, said Philip Montoro, the music editor who has been on staff since 1996.
“We don’t have owners anymore, there’s no backstop, no safety net,” Montoro said.
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“Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” stayed on top of the box office charts during its second weekend in theaters, earning an additional $61 million from North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday.
With $688 million in global grosses, it’s already one of the highest grossing films of the pandemic and the second biggest of 2022. But a 67% fall is also a steep drop — even for reliably frontloaded superhero films. Still, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” slid 68% in weekend two.
Released by the Walt Disney Co., “ Doctor Strange 2 ” benefitted from being the first Marvel movie to follow “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” in which Benedict Cumberbatch’s sorcerer played a pivotal role.
Directed by Sam Raimi, “Doctor Strange 2” also builds upon the popular Disney+ series “Wandavision” and contains a number of cameos that fans didn’t want to be spoiled. The elements all came together to give “Doctor Strange” the 11th-biggest domestic debut of all time. But reviews also weren’t quite as strong as those for the latest “Spider-Man” installment, which could impact the film in the long run.
The movie has already exceeded the global earnings of the first “Doctor Strange” movie, as well as 11 other Marvel Cinematic Universe titles — and it’s not even playing in China.
“Audiences crave these big blockbusters on the big screen,” said Paul Dergarabedian, the senior media analyst for Comscore. “This marketplace has given ‘Doctor Strange’ a pretty long runway to be successful until ‘Top Gun.’”
There was little in the way of new competition. The only major new movie was Universal Pictures and Blumhouse’s adaptation of Stephen King’s “Firestarter,” which was released in both theaters and on the company’s streaming service, Peacock+.
Starring Zac Efron and Ryan Kiera Armstrong, “Firestarter” earned just $3.8 million from 3,412 North American theaters. Reviews for the film didn’t drop until the day of release, but critics have been less than impressed with this iteration of King’s story about a preteen with pyrokinetic powers. Audiences weren’t on board either, giving it a C- CinemaScore. As Dergarabedian noted, however, no film that opens “day and date” in theaters and on streaming is expecting to break any records.
“The notion that a theatrical exclusive debut gives movies their best shot at success is right,” Dergarabedian said.
“Firestarter” debuted in fourth place, behind holdover family films “The Bad Guys” and “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” which took the second and third spots. Now in its fourth weekend, Universal’s “The Bad Guys” added $6.9 million, bringing its global grosses to $165.6 million. “Sonic 2,” in its sixth week, earned $4.6 million, raising its cumulative total to $175.7 million.
Meanwhile, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is still going strong even after eight weeks in release. The A24 film picked up an additional $3.3 million, down only 6% from the previous weekend, bringing its total grosses to $47 million.
The faith-based comedy “Family Camp” also opened this weekend from Roadside Attractions. Playing on 854 screens, the PG-rated pic earned $1.4 million. And Bleecker Street released the well-reviewed indie “Montana Story,” starring Haley Lu Richardson as a woman who returns home with her estranged brother to care for their ailing father. “Montana Story” grossed $20,104 from four theaters.
Things will pick up considerably in the coming weeks: Next weekend, Focus Features debuts “Downton Abbey: A New Era” and A24 has the Alex Garland thriller “Men,” before everyone clears the way for Tom Cruise in “Top Gun: Maverick.” That flies into theaters Memorial Day weekend.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness,” $61 million
2. “The Bad Guys,” $6.9 million.
3. “Sonic the Hedgehog 2,” $4.6 million.
4. “Firestarter,” $3.8 million.
5. “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” $3.3 million.
6. “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore,” $2.4 million.
7. “The Lost City,” $1.7 million.
8. “The Northman,” $1.7 million.
9. “Family Camp,” $1.4 million.
10. “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” $1 million.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island dog whose inspiring story of going from shelter dog to lifesaving police K-9 became the subject of a recent Netflix moviehas been euthanized.
State Police said Sunday K-9 Ruby was put down Friday following a “sudden, acute, and untreatable illness.” She was 11 years old.
Col. Darnell Weaver, superintendent of the state police, expressed gratitude for K-9 Ruby’s years of service.
“K-9 Ruby dedicated her life to serve the citizens of Rhode Island and make a positive impact on every person she ever interacted with,” he said in a statement. “She became a symbol of hope for all shelter dogs, showing the world what a shelter dog can do when just given love and the chance to shine.”
Ruby served with the Rhode Island State Police for 11 years and was handled by Corporal Daniel O’Neil, Weaver said.
Part Australian shepherd and part border collie, Ruby was one of the first shelter dogs trained to serve with the Rhode Island State Police. She participated in numerous search-and-rescue missions and made many public appearances during her career.
Ruby gained notoriety in 2017 when she located a teenage boy who was severely injured while hiking in the woods. The boy turned out to be the son of the animal shelter volunteer who had fought to keep her from being put down.
“She was a total knucklehead,” shelter volunteer and dog trainer Patricia Inman had told The Associated Press of Ruby, who had been returned by five families for being too rambunctious before O’Neil adopted the then-eight-month-old in 2011.
Ruby earned national recognition for the rescue — the American Humane Hero Dog organization named her the nation’s “Search and Rescue Dog of the Year” — and her story was made into the 2022 Netflix movie “Rescued by Ruby.”
“She had a full, happy, and wonderful life, not only as a trooper, but as part of a loving family,” Weaver said. “She worked right until the end and never gave up doing what she loved most — making people smile.”
Ruby lived with O’Neil and his family and will be honored privately, police said.
“She was given a chance and she’s been doing everything she can to pay it back,” O’Neil said earlier this year. “You have this dog that was given up on, and she’s changed so many people’s lives.”
Despite her lauded search-and-rescue career, Ruby’s mischievous spirit was irrepressible: Three years ago, she bolted near a state park, turning up safe and soundafter a 19-hour search. More recently, she returned from a bathroom break with a live skunk writhing — and spraying — in her jaws.
The antics were part of what made Ruby, well, Ruby. Above all, she was a good dog.
“If you show them love and compassion and you give them a certain type of stability, they’ll show their true colors,” O’Neil had said.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Naomi Judd was celebrated with words and soaring music at a public memorial service Sunday that ended with her daughter Wynonna announcing that a tour planned for later this year would go on.
“Tonight is a celebration, and at the same time I can’t put into words how devastated I am,” Wynonna Judd said. “I miss her so much.
“After a lot of thought, I’m going to have to honor her and do this tour. I’m just going to have to,” she said to applause and cheers at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium. “Tonight, as we close, the show must go on, as hard as it may be. And we will show up together and you will carry me.”
Judd died April 30 at age 76, one day before she and daughter Wynonna were scheduled to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. The ceremony went on, though until Sunday it was unclear whether Wynonna Judd would continue plans for The Judds tour slated to begin in September.
In a statement provided to The Associated Press, the family said they lost her to “the disease of mental illness.”
Her daughter Ashleysaid on “Good Morning America” last week that her mother shot herself.
Brad Paisley and Emmylou Harris were among the performers who took the stage to honor Naomi Judd during “The River of Time” memorial service, which was broadcast live on CMT.
Wynonna Judd returned to the stage later toperform “The Rose” with Brandi Carlile. Wynonna Judd paused her performance at one point so that she could redo a section of the song better, her voice soaring as the crowd cheered.
The ceremony began with Judd’s daughter Ashley delivering a eulogy that traced her mother’s life from its humble beginnings in Kentucky to the heights of superstardom.
“We are here tonight remembering an icon and a legend who left country music better than she found it,” Ashley Judd said tearfully.
“She was every woman. Perhaps this is why everyone felt they knew her,” the actor said. “She was a nurse. She was a single mom who sometimes relied on public assistance. She was traumatized by early childhood sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and rape, and she was fired by a boss when she refused to go away with him for a weekend.
“Tonight, we remember her in song,” the actor said, introducing her sister Wynonna who sang “River of Time.”
The lyrics — “I’m holding back a flood of tears, just thinking ’bout those happy years, like all the good times that are no more,” filled the Ryman Auditorium, which both Judd daughters noted was country music’s “Mother Church.”
Carly Pearce performed the Judds’ “Why Not Me,” noting “I’m a Kentucky girl myself,” and saying she had an image in her mind that “Naomi’s flipping her skirt in heaven tonight.”
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Natalie Ulm’s daughter started sixth grade as a vibrant, outgoing 12-year-old — but when that began to change, an increasingly desperate mother found herself in an all-too-common struggle to find her daughter the help she needed.
“There were times when I just didn’t know what I would do. I just felt so alone,” Ulm said. “I felt like I failed her because I couldn’t find anyone to help her.”
Thanks to an influx of millions of dollars in federal stimulus money, Lancaster County Human Services and Region V Systems hope to change that by creating a family resource center — a one-stop place families in crisis can go to address not only their mental health needs but a host of other challenges they may face.
Over the past few years, Lancaster County hired two outside groups to do assessments of the community’s needs, said Human Services Director Sara Hoyle, and a recurring theme was the need to get families help before the situation gets too bad.
“One of the things that came out in the focus groups is when families are in crisis it’s not just a behavioral health crisis, it’s a need for assistance with food, rent or access to Medicaid,” she said. “Anything to stabilize that family.”
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Ulm said having one place to go for help would have helped immensely.
Not long into the school year, her daughter stopped caring about her appearance, began lashing out, making bad decisions. She began cutting herself, her grades dropped from As to Fs — which Ulm recognized as classic signs of depression and anxiety.
She eventually learned her daughter — who was already dealing with trauma she’d suffered from the verbal abuse of a father no longer in the picture — was being bullied at school. A therapist she’d been seeing regularly left her practice and that was hard.
Ulm reached out to the school for help, had her daughter see a crisis counselor, took her to a hospital crisis center and to a respite program at Cedar’s Youth Services.
While they offered temporary relief, the services didn’t provide consistent help, or what Ulm believes her daughter needed: a full psychiatric evaluation to really identify the problems and begin to deal with them.
Instead they bounced from one program to another, until things got bad enough that Ulm called sheriff’s deputies, once after her daughter stole her grandmother’s cell phone, and once when she physically lashed out at Ulm.
That led to criminal citations and — ultimately — the county’s juvenile mental health diversion program.
"(My daughter) is hurting," Ulm said. "She really is such a beautiful person with a kind heart, but it just got lost somewhere."
Hoyle said the family’s situation — and resorting to calling law enforcement — is far too common.
“You see it more frequently than not with kids who have mental health or behavioral problems,” Hoyle said. “Parents have tried so many avenues and gotten no help and when it escalates in the home, they get law enforcement involved.”
While that means a young person may finally get services he or she needs, it also means they've now been thrust into the criminal justice system.
Renee Dozier, director of Region V Systems children's and family behavioral health services, said one of the goals is to keep that from happening.
“We also want to make sure we are helping families by providing early opportunities to access services to prevent some of the unintended consequences — becoming a state ward to get services or becoming involved in probation to get support.”
Social service providers have known for years the struggle families face to get the help they need before things escalate to the point of a suicide attempt, a child landing in the criminal justice system or another major crisis.
John Danforth, reinvestment coordination specialist with Region V Systems, said their providers also identified that need, as have other federal and university studies. Region V Systems manages public funding for community-based behavioral and mental health services for 16 counties including Lancaster.
Now, the influx of federal stimulus money offers an opportunity — especially since the pandemic exacerbated mental health issues for so many, including young people.
Lancaster County has earmarked $6 million in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan for the resource center. Region V Systems hopes to earmark carryover money from a previous budget. That money is available because Medicaid expansion has reduced the reliance on funding provided by Region V.
Transportation — or just figuring out where to get help for needs ranging from food to housing — can be daunting, Danforth said. So the center will partner with other non-profit agencies to bring services to families. Hoyle said they are partnering with Cedar's Youth Services to provide crisis beds.
Some of those challenges, such as food insecurity, can be addressed more quickly, helping to improve the situation and allowing the family to work on the child’s mental health needs, Danforth said.
“What we’re envisioning is when a family comes in and we’re able to do some screening to help identify issues, the challenges the family is facing,” he said. “Most of the time it’s not just one thing.”
Human service leaders are in the process of working out details: looking for a location, coordinating with other agencies, deciding who can refer people to the center. They’ll have to provide a detailed plan to the Lancaster County Board, which they hope to do within the next six months.
Since Ulm's daughter has been in the diversion program, a peer support counselor has met with Ulm, and her daughter is seeing a therapist and a nurse practitioner to help find the right medications.
She still hasn't had the full evaluation Ulm believes her daughter needs, and managing the situation is still hard. But she believes if such a resource center had been available, the last year could have been different.
“It would have started the process so much sooner for my daughter and we could be where we need to be and not where we’re at,” she said. “A place like that would have been a Godsend for us because we had nowhere to go.”
Reach the writer at 402-473-7226 or mreist@journalstar.com.
On Twitter @LJSreist
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Heart of Stark: 'Birdie Bags' provide meals for Alliance students
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Since it began serving the school district two years ago, the Ben Curtis Family Foundation has provided 9,000 Birdie Bag food and toiletry packages for students in Alliance City Schools.
The Alliance Board of Education recognized Ben and Candace Curtis, the founders of the Ben Curtis Family Foundation, during a recent board meeting in recognition of the milestone and for impacting the lives of so many families.
Ben Curtis, an accomplished golfer who appeared on the PGA Tour and won the British Open in 2003, named the Birdie Bags after his love for the game of golf. Ben and Candace created the foundation to help alleviate the food insecurity many students experience by providing nearly a week’s worth of nonperishable foods and toiletries for families in need.
Currently, the organization serves 12 schools in 10 districts in Stark, Summit and Portage counties and distributed nearly 50,000 bags in 2021.
Each Birdie Bag consists of six meals, six snacks and toiletry items and often includes foods like Hamburger Helper, mac and cheese, spaghetti, ramen noodles, tuna fish and more. The bags are given to students at no cost to the family, and older students can request two or three bags to help feed younger siblings.
More so, the bags are designed to send a message to every child: "Don’t worry. Someone cares. Focus on your responsibilities and become the best version of yourself in school and beyond." That’s how Ben describes the bigger mission of the foundation – providing food and supplies as the first step to empowering students to succeed.
"The Ben Curtis Family Foundation plays a big role in alleviating food insecurities for students in Alliance City Schools," said Shawn Jackson, Alliance City School’s director of secondary education. "Through the generosity of Ben and Candace Curtis, ACS has been given 500 Birdie bags a month since April 2020. The Birdie Bags have provided students with 54,000 meals and 54,000 snacks."
To learn more about the Ben Curtis Family Foundation and its impact through the Birdie Bag Program, visit www.bencurtisfoundation.org.
The Stark Community Foundation helps individuals, families, businesses and nonprofits achieve their philanthropic goals through a variety of charitable funds and strategic initiatives. Ranked in the top 10% of community foundations in the country, the foundation and its family of donors have granted $215 million to nonprofits since 1963. Learn more at www.starkcf.org.
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SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Thieves drive off with a trailer full of jewelry in Encinitas. Their heist, caught on a Ring security camera. But that jewelry was someone’s business. Her livelihood. And now it’s gone.
CBS8’s Anna Laurel spoke with Andrea Edington who says, when her trailer was stolen, her life stopped.
Edington has sold jewelry for years. She says, “I’ve always done pop up sales. I’m old school.”
If you’ve been to a farmers market or street festival around San Diego, there’s a good chance you’ve seen Edington and her jewelry. She sells Tigers Eye, Blue Turquoise, Jasper, Montana Agate, Green Amethyst, Opal, Garnet. And because she does all in-person sales, her inventory is usually with her. She says, “It goes from the trailer to the house to the storage unit and it just so happened that Sunday, I was flat with a migraine. So everything was left in the trailer.”
Shortly before 1am early Wednesday morning, a truck drove past Edington’s house. Her Ring camera picked it up. A minute later, the truck came back. This time, it somehow hitched Edington’s trailer up to it and drove off. We watched the video with her of the truck driving away -- her life in it. She says, “How dare they do that? It took a lot of nerve.”
The trailer was full of thousands of Sterling Silver rings, precious stone bracelets and earrings. The police report shows $143,000 worth of equipment and jewelry stolen. Insurance will cover about $20,000.
She says, “It puts me in a huge bind, I have no money coming in. I've lost my income." Income she says had just picked up after COVID.
She says, “I’ve had my best days and I’m like, oh my gosh. I’m going to get ahead of things I’m going to get out of debt.”
Now that hope is gone. She says, “She's in God's hands you know.”
Edington’s friends put together a GoFundMe page to try to help her.
If you know anything, please call CRIMESTOPPERS. 888-583-TIPS
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A central Pennsylvania man is facing a death sentence following his conviction in the 2020 murders of two women with whom he had been romantically involved, one of whom was pregnant.
Jurors in Cumberland County announced Tuesday their decision that 27-year-old Davone Unique Anderson deserved capital punishment after he was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree murder of an unborn child as well as child endangerment, PennLive.com reported.
Authorities alleged that Anderson killed 23-year-old Sydney Parmelee in Carlisle on July 5, 2020, because he believed she was cheating on him. They allege he then killed 23-year-old Kaylee Lyons, who was six weeks pregnant, at the same home on July 30, 2020, because he feared she would tell police about the earlier slaying.
Jurors deliberated for almost four hours before deciding on a death sentence for Anderson in the slaying of Lyons. But they deadlocked on the death sentence in the killing of Parmelee, which resulted in the judge imposing a life term without parole on that charge. The judge will formally impose the sentence May 31.
Prosecutors said the defendant had been involved with both women and had fathered children with both of them. District Attorney Sean McCormack credited the efforts of jurors, telling WHTM-TV that he appreciated that “to return a verdict of death is no simple task.” Earlier, he hailed the convictions after the guilty verdict.
“It has been almost two years since these two young mothers were murdered leaving three very young children motherless," he said. “Their families are relieved that the man who killed them has been found guilty.”
Defense attorneys acknowledged that their client committed both slayings but cited the difficult life he led. Louise Luck, a mitigation specialist with Court Consultation Services, said he grew up at the mercy of abusive or absent family members.
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“How we are raised affects how we raise our children,” Luck said on Monday. “This by no means attempts to excuse his behavior. It just explains his life story. He was suppressing everything.”
The state has executed three people since resuming the use of the death penalty in 1978. Gov. Tom Wolf, who leaves office in January, imposed a moratorium on the use of the death penalty in February 2015.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Arkansas authorities have found and recovered the body of 25-year-old Jordan Simeon who was reported missing on March 7 and was last seen near Maumelle.
According to reports, Simeon's body was recovered from Newton Creek near I-40 and the White Oak Crossing on April 27.
Simeon was making a move from North Dakota to New Orleans, when he encountered car problems that forced him to stop at the White Oak Crossing--that was the last time he and his family communicated.
According to a press release, investigators had previously searched the area multiple times but were unable to locate Simeon.
The most recent search proved to be successful as investigators utilized the assistance of cadaver dogs, leading to the discovery of the body.
Linda Simeon, Jordan's grandmother posted on social media he was found about 200 yards away from the interstate. She said it couldn't be searched sooner because of flooding.
She added it did not appear there was any trauma on the body.
Pulaski County Sheriff's Office said an autopsy will be performed and they are still investigating.
We will update this article with more information as it becomes available.
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Q: I served in the Army from 1966 to 1968. I did not serve in Vietnam and spent my permanent party assignment in the United States. I have been told that since I did not serve in Vietnam, I am not a Vietnam veteran. Strange to me that in World War II, a person that served in the military was called a World War II veteran even if all their service was stateside. Service during the Korean War was treated the same as World War II service: If you served during the war years, you were called a Korean War veteran. Am I a Vietnam veteran?
A: Officially, the U. S. government recognizes someone who served in the armed forces of participating countries during the Vietnam War as a Vietnam veteran whether or not the veteran was stationed in Vietnam during their service. In other words, the government refers to all veterans who served during Vietnam as Vietnam-era veterans. However, the more common usage distinguishes between those who served in-country and those who did not serve in Vietnam by referring to the in-country veterans as Vietnam veterans and the others as Vietnam-era veterans. However, beginning with the Korean War, the military services developed a National Defense Service Medal that connoted military service during a war period. The NDSM was designed to recognize that all service members contribute to the success of those who serve in a combat zone. Those who served in a combat zone are awarded the NDSM and have special medals and ribbons such as the Vietnam Service Medal and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal to denote that they served in the combat theater of war. World War II and Korea also had special medals and ribbons connoting combat zone service, but all veterans of World War II received the World War II Victory pin that could be worn on civilian attire. Veterans are proud that they served! There are plenty of apparel items indicating “Vietnam veteran,” often with the image of the VSM on them. A non-combat zone veteran will not wear apparel with the Vietnam service ribbon on it because while they are proud that they served, they do not feel that displaying the image of the VSM medal or ribbon is appropriate when the VSM was not officially awarded.
Q: I enrolled in VA health care over 30 years ago. I recently needed emergency room care and notified the civilian hospital emergency room that I had VA health care. The VA eventually denied my request for health care at the emergency room. I was told by the VA that my condition was not of a life-threatening condition and therefore not eligible for reimbursement. I know other veterans who appear to have gotten their ER bills paid under the same conditions. I do not understand.
A: Under VA rules, ER visits to civilian medical facilities for non-life-threatening conditions are not reimbursed by the VA. However, if the visit is for treatment of the veteran’s service-connected conditions, or a medical condition that is related to a veteran’s service-connected condition, the VA will pay. The VA may also pay for emergency room medical care for a veteran’s non-service-connected condition. However, there are specific requirements in federal law and regulation that detail the conditions for eligibility for both service-connected and non-service-connected conditions. Non-life-threatening medical conditions may be better resolved using urgent care medical facilities. The VA will normally cover the cost of such care where using a VA facility is impractical. Visit www.va.gov-initiatives-emergency-room-911-or-urgent-care.
Jerry Vogler is superintendent of the McLean County Veterans Assistance Commission.
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Meet the city's first-ever youth poet laureate. Here's what Brockton means to her.
BROCKTON — Ayanna Blake stood at a wooden podium facing the small crowd in the Driscoll Art Gallery, moments after finding out she'd just been selected to be Brockton's first ever Youth Poet Laureate.
"Yay!" she said, nearly in a squeal. "I'm so happy."
During an event held May 7 at the Brockton Public Library, Blake was announced the winner, chosen between two finalists for the new role, which she will start following her inauguration in July.
"I'm so excited to keep going with poetry because it means so much to me," she said to the crowd. "My vision is to leave a legacy."
Blake, 16, a junior at Brockton High School, along with fellow finalist Hannah Baptiste, 17, a senior at Cardinal Spellman High School, read two original poems at Saturday's event, including one about Brockton.
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Blake read a poem titled "What Brockton Means To Me," which describes her experience moving to Brockton a few years ago.
"I moved to Brockton, and it's a safe space for me now," she said in an interview.
Four judges — Mark Walsh, Kate DiMarca, Sawsan Zahara and Tim Trask — made the decision following the finalists' performances on May 7. Walsh, DiMarca and Zahara, who are all professors of English at Massasoit Community College, selected the finalists among six students who applied for the role. Trask, a member of the Library Foundation, was added as a judge for the final selection.
"This was the most agonizing decision I've made in my life," said Walsh.
Blake's term will begin in July, and will last for a full year. Poet Laureate of Brockton Phil Hasouris said that Blake's first appearance as youth poet laureate will be at an event celebrating Juneteenth on June 19, at which Blake will perform an original poem.
"We're going to throw her right into the fire," Hasouris said.
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Blake currently serves as president of Spark Brockton, a student-led organization that has held two toy drives in Brockton and worked to feed 25 families for Thanksgiving.
Two runners-up — Kylie Medrano and Del'or Ehade — also performed their original work at the event, which was held in the Driscoll Art Gallery in the Brockton Public Library.
"All of the voices we're going to hear today are the future of Brockton," send the event's host Emily Levine.
City Councilor Winthrop Farwell and Mayor Robert Sullivan also attended the event, and Farwell presented Hasouris with an official copy of the City Council's ordinance that created the position of Youth Poet Laureate, which will be hung up in the library.
"The arts are so important to Brockton," Farwell said. "You are a message we are sending into the future."
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Lewes deputy mayor Andrew Williams wins mayoral election over the weekend
The second in command will become the first in Lewes.
Andrew Williams, city councilperson and deputy mayor for Lewes, won the mayoral election on Saturday with 471 votes, according to a city press release.
He was running against incumbent Ted Becker, who was not far behind with 414 votes, and Ric Moore with 238 votes.
Recording a total of 1,123 votes, Lewes saw about 75% of its registered voters turn out either in person or by absentee voting.
To read more about the candidates: Who is running for Lewes mayor this weekend? What to know about the three candidates
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Emily Lytle covers Sussex County from the inland towns to the beaches. Got a story she should tell? Contact her at elytle@delmarvanow.com or 302-332-0370. Follow her on Twitter at @emily3lytle.
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Swim at your own risk: Why there will be no lifeguards at Lewes beaches this summer
Visitors can expect to see a new sign at the beaches in Lewes this summer: Swim at your own risk.
The two municipal beaches in Lewes — now known as Savannah Beach and Johnnie Walker Beach — will not be guarded this summer due to staffing challenges, according to City Manager Ann Marie Townshend.
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"We were not in a position to safely guard the beach," Townshend said, adding that the city did not want to inadequately staff the beach ad create a "false sense of security"
Townshend recognized the importance of having guarded beaches, and she confirmed that the intention is to return to a full lifeguarding staff for future summers.
In the meantime, though, she reminds people to continue to follow the beach rules and be careful while swimming and enjoying the beach.
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"Parents who bring their children to the beach need to make sure that they watch them, and (know) that their eyes are the eyes that need to be on the kids," she said. If there is a medical or other emergency, people can call 911 or reach out to a parking enforcement officer who can connect them with the needed resources.
These staffing challenges are familiar for Delaware's resort towns, many of which have recently increased pay or benefits for its seasonal police officers and lifeguards to attract more employees in the summer.
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Lewes had recently increased its lifeguard pay from $13.49 per hour to $16 per hour in order to compete with neighboring municipalities.
Last summer, Lewes hired eight of its typical 10 lifeguards, and they managed but Townshend said it was difficult. The beaches were unguarded for a weekend in August due to low staffing.
This also comes shortly after Lewes Lifeguard Captain Elisha Hartman, who worked with the city beach patrol for more than 18 years, has left her position for a new job.
While losing that valued leader certainly made the staffing challenge even more difficult, Townshend said, "even if she was able to come back full time, with the number of applications we received, we wouldn’t have been able to effectively guard the beach."
Typically Lewes, like its neighbors to the south, Rehoboth and Dewey Beach, had lifeguards patrolling throughout the summer from around 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Known for quickly filling with beachgoers in the summer, Rehoboth Beach is guarded along the entire two-mile stretch of the city limits, according to the beach patrol's website.
City spokesperson Lynne Coan assured that the beaches are ready to welcome visitors with a full staff of 65 guards on the Rehoboth Beach Patrol.
Most of the Delaware State Park beaches — including Cape Henlopen, Delaware Seashore and Fenwick Island — also staff lifeguards in designated swimming areas from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
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However, due to staffing challenges, that schedule has changed in the past. Last summer, the Delaware State Parks announced that a couple of its beaches were going to be unguarded during weekdays and some swimming areas were going to be smaller during those final two weeks of summer when many of the young guards were heading back to school.
Shauna McVey, spokesperson for Delaware State Parks, said in a statement that any reduction in hours typically happens at the end of the season as high school, college and sports camps start back up.
There have been fewer applications for the 2022 season than in recent years, but McVey said the beach patrol is still hiring and offers several opportunities for bonuses and subsidized housing.
While people can certainly swim in unguarded areas, lifeguards and beach patrol captains remind visitors that it is safest to swim where lifeguards are present. This is especially true in areas of the Delaware and Maryland beaches where the waves crash hard and fast.
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Emily Lytle covers Sussex County from the inland towns to the beaches. Got a story she should tell? Contact her at elytle@delmarvanow.com or 302-332-0370. Follow her on Twitter at @emily3lytle.
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NEW PLYMOUTH, Idaho — A fire that started Sunday night has destroyed a church building in New Plymouth.
The Idaho State Fire Marshal's Office said firefighters from several departments in surrounding communities were called to fight the "massive" fire at First Baptist Church, located at Elm Street and Holly Avenue.
The fire marshal's office is investigating the origin and cause of the fire.
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Push for environmental justice in underserved communities gains traction in Arizona
A federal judge recently halted construction on a mine because of its potential effects on Indigenous lands. The Hualapai Tribe is suing to stop a lithium mine that threatens a water source. An environmental organization is suing the EPA for failing to enforce air pollution laws. And a Black community in Randolph pushed back on a proposed natural gas generating station that residents say will worsen already toxic air.
What those incidents have in common, activists say, are historically disenfranchised communities negatively affected by pollution and climate change seeking environmental justice.
The concept has been gaining momentum for years in Arizona, where industrial and mining operations have left polluted legacies in lower-income urban neighborhoods and on tribal lands around the state.
It has recently gained the attention of local and national leaders, who last month wooed communities whose support they’ll need in the face of opposition from industry groups and elected officials skeptical of more regulation. Those leaders want to enact new laws that could put in place some of the most sweeping environmental laws in a generation.
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., who chairs the House Committee on Natural Resources, toured the country to tout the benefits of a piece of legislation he hopes will help communities get a seat at the table for projects that impact their communities. So far, he's taken his message to numerous states, including New York, New Mexico and now Arizona.
Some lawmakers and environmental advocates hope the legislation will fill some of the gaps left by the now-stalled Build Back Better Act. While not a complete replacement, the Environmental Justice for All Act would make the process of starting federal projects a more equitable, holistic endeavor, supporters say. The bill would require federal agencies to increase inclusiveness and seek input from communities affected by environmental projects before they even begin.
Meanwhile, protesters rallied at the Arizona capitol on Earth Day to call on leaders to act on climate change. State Rep. Morgan Abraham, former Sen. Kirsten Engel, and health advocates also called on President Biden to enact stronger air protections to reduce pollution from power plants.
Activists say such actions are critical now. According to a recent report by the National Lung Association, over 6 million Arizonans live in areas with poor air quality, dangerous levels of particulate matter and ozone pollution.
At-risk groups, such as the elderly, lower-income residents and people of color are three and half times more likely to live in areas that received a failing air quality grade in the report compared to individuals who live in affluent communities.
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Similar disparities exist for poor water quality. High concentrations of arsenic fluoride are frequently found in marginalized communities, especially tribal lands. Numerous mining projects, including lithium mines on Hualapai tribal land, threaten aquifers and sacred sites.
"My history on the issue of frontline communities and environmental justice is very local. That's where it began for me," said Grijalva at an event in Tucson. "All we knew was that impacted communities ... were predominantly working-class and poor, predominantly of color."
Bill would give more people a voice
If Grijalva and other leaders have their way, a slew of new laws will make it easier for individuals affected by hazardous projects to weigh in and make it more difficult for future administrations to reverse course. An executive order is subject to the political whim of whoever is in power at the time, Grijalva noted.
To help craft something more permanent, he laid the groundwork for an environmental justice bill in 2015, when he led a Democratic Forum on Environmental Justice in Los Angeles. Since then, he has championed ways to combat environmental racism. Activists say his work, along with co-sponsor Rep. Donald McEachin, D-Va., has been instrumental in building support for environmental justice measures in Congress.
Grijalva and McEachin have spent the last two and half years putting together their latest piece of legislation, HR2021.
Also included in the drafting process were advocacy groups and representatives of communities seeking environmental justice. The lawmakers received over 350 comments from leaders and individuals, who weighed in on what they felt their communities needed and how they think the federal permitting process could be improved.
The result includes eight key principles. All of them are based on strengthening environmental laws and creating inclusive, collaborative community engagement that would allow private citizens to be involved with projects that impact their communities.
The first tenet would restore a provision in Title VI of the Civil Rights Act to ban projects that adversely affect marginalized communities. The Act's second and, supporters say, most significant provision would require consideration of cumulative impacts for projects requiring permits under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.
Projects are currently reviewed as stand-alone activities, meaning a power plant is evaluated based on its use and discharge alone. But areas riddled with pollution, such as parts of south Phoenix, are often sites of multiple facilities and power plants, leading to cumulative impacts that are often overlooked.
'We have time': Activists, elected leaders call for climate action at Earth Day rally
Another significant boost would come from a section that would require federal agencies to work with communities early in the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. This provision would ensure tribal representation in the planning phase, even for projects off reservations that still have the potential to impact tribal land.
Other parts of the bill would provide $75 million in funding for grant projects related to environmental justice, support access to green spaces in underserved areas, and establish a Federal Energy Transition Economic Development Assistance Fund to help communities move away from fossil fuels.
Despite what backers say are laudable goals, the bill's passage is not without challenges. In addition to getting buy-in from fellow Democrats, Grijalva will also need to gain support from Republicans, some of whose members have opposed greater recognition of environmental justice issues.
Some of the measures will likely be seen as red tape, according to a member of Grijalva’s team. Grijalva pointed out that there will be pushback on some of the provisions, including cumulative impacts, which could potentially hinder resource extraction. Industry groups could also pose a potential challenge to the bill’s passage, Grijalva said.
“The industry and its various forms, whether it is the manufacturing side, or whether it’s the American Petroleum Council, whether it is Dow Chemical, I think their thing is going to be, and they’re already saying this, is that it’s going to cost us, all this is going to cost consumers more,” said Grijalva of potential opposition to the bill. “The other thing will be that it will affect poor people worse, because of affordability. I mean, those are the things that they're already saying.”
One factor that does work in his favor, he said, is science. Years of data and experience have shown that high levels of pollution, contaminated water and toxic land disproportionally affect at-risk communities, which tend to have fewer resources to mount strong opposition campaigns against polluters.
'The status quo is not OK'
To find support, Grijalva met with leaders in Tucson at the end of April to hold a public briefing on the bill at the El Pueblo Neighborhood Center. The event offered a way for the public to learn more about the measure and brought local leaders out.
"Black, indigenous, low income, and communities of color are at the forefront of environmental injustice," said Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, who attended the event. "And this particular bill, the environmental justice for all bill, is absolutely necessary and something that I as mayor ... truly understand and want to make sure that this bill passes and becomes national law."
By the end of April, Grijalva had met with other leaders and advocates to host a roundtable to discuss the need to address environmental injustice in the Latino community. According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that provides data on social issues and public opinions, at least 81% of Latinos in the survey think urgent action is needed to address climate change.
In Arizona, studies indicate that Latin communities are more likely to feel the effects of extreme heat, with poorer neighborhoods being on average 4 degrees warmer than their leafier, more affluent counterparts.
At a separate event in Washington, D.C., Grijalva joined Abraham, Engel, and public health advocates to urge President Biden and the EPA to put in place new laws that would help reduce air and water pollution from Apache Generating Station in Cochise County.
"I stand before you as a mom, a former state legislator, a former staff attorney at EPA and a concerned citizen, to say that the status quo is not OK," said Engel. "Climate change driven by the current rates of fossil fuel burning is draining our reservoirs of water, burning our forests, reducing the size of our crops and draining our pocketbooks with high utility bills.
On Earth Day, hundreds of activists gathered in front of the Arizona Capitol. City council members from around the state, including Phoenix's Yassamin Ansari and Tempe's Lauren Kuby, were on hand. Tribal leaders and advocacy groups were also out in force to stress the need for urgent action to address climate change and environmental injustice.
Hazel Chandler, an Arizona field coordinator for Moms Clean Air Force, an advocacy group that pushes for stronger clean air protections, was among the crowd. The organization hosted a table, held signs and handed out swag emblazoned with its logo.
When asked about her hopes for the proposed laws, Chandler stressed the need to bring equitable solutions to communities of color throughout the valley. Trees in areas that lack shade, cool corridors and better transportation are some of the programs she thinks could use a boost to get off the ground.
"Hopefully if this justice bill passes, there's a big great opportunity to speed up some of those programs," said Chandler.
Her colleague, Columba Sainz, also a field coordinator for Moms Clean Air Force, shared some of the same sentiments and also stressed the need for urgent action.
"I would like my community to have access to that $75 million for Environmental Justice grant programs to address environmental public health issues," said Sainz. "And also, to fund and research in grant programs are focused on health equity, in personal products, childcare. And also, to help establish federal energy transition."
Federal agencies set new policy standards
While Grijalva and other Arizona leaders were calling for more action, President Joe Biden announced plans to expand support and investments in underserved communities.
He directed over 90 federal agencies, including both the Environmental Protection Agency and the Justice Department to develop equity plans to address "systemic barriers." As a result, some agencies, like the EPA, have accelerated the rate at which they process civil rights complaints. Several agencies also have additional funding to handle equity issues and backlogged caseloads.
For example, the Department of Justice and EPA recently announced the restoration of a program that the previous administration canceled to advance environmental justice. They are resurrecting the Supplemental Environmental Projects program as a result of one of Biden’s executive orders. As a part of this initiative, polluters can undertake an environmental project that benefits local communities to help rectify previous harms.
Previous examples include reducing lead paint hazards, installing air filtration systems at schools in heavily industrialized areas and enhancing the emergency response capabilities of local fire departments, said an EPA news release. Such measures are used to evaluate the enforcement of environmental violations.
Grijalva stresses that the bill is still under construction. He’ll continue his tour, heading to Detroit, Albuquerque and New Orleans next. The participation of communities in crafting the final version will be key in making sure the legislation is as comprehensive as possible.
He'll also need to gain support on the Senate side. Last year, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., crafted a senate version of the bill. But with such a slim majority, Democrats will need to reach across the aisle, and, so far, no Republicans have indicated support for the bill.
"It's in the Senate now," Grijalva said. "We're heartened to know that Senator (Mark) Kelly is working on that ... and look forward to the legislation he comes up with so that we can sit down, reach a consensus with House legislation and the Senate legislation and pass something."
Lindsey Botts is an environmental reporter for The Arizona Republic/azcentral. Follow his reporting on Twitter at @lkbotts and Lkbotts on Instagram. Tell him about stories at lindsey.botts@azcentral.com
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Why aren't more movies made in Arizona? Valley 101 finds out
The Western movie genre held sway for decades over the box office. And Arizona featured prominently in many of them. From John Wayne to Henry Fonda, Clint Eastwood to Kurt Russell, Hollywood’s golden actors flocked to our state to shoot movies.
But Arizona’s film history goes beyond the Wild West stereotype.
The golden age, according ASU film professor Chris LaMont, was actually during the 1980s and 1990s. That's when films such as "Raising Arizona," "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Jerry McGuire" were filmed.
The landscape of shooting movies really started to change in the 1990s and into the 2000s. Starting in Canada, film tax incentives were used to lure productions to shoot in locations outside of Los Angeles.
Very quickly, states such as Georgia and New Mexico created programs that would kick money back to filmmakers in the form of tax credits. Arizona had its own program from 2006 to 2010. But it had a built-in end date, and since then, the program hasn't been revived.
But there is hope, according some. Senate Bill 1708 is aimed at bringing back a tax incentive program for filmmakers. It has bipartisan support and is working its way through the Arizona Legislature now.
In this episode of Valley 101, we explore what movies were made in Phoenix and Arizona at large. And we find out why more movies aren't made here now.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — People are paying much more for products due to inflation across the country. According to CBS News, average gas prices have jumped to $4.45 a gallon.
The price of food at the grocery store is also taking a toll on millions of Americans, inflation is hitting home with apartments rent nationally being up by 17 percent.
“Prices will continue to rise,” economist Dr. Victor Claar said. “I think the best we can hope for us that they rise a little less slowly than they have been lately.”
Economists expect the government to raise baseline interest rates again this summer.
Inflation is currently nearing a 40 year high.
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SEATTLE — Washington state could see a 385% increase in patients seeking an abortion if Roe V. Wade is overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a study released by the Guttmacher Institute, with most potentially coming from neighboring Idaho due to its trigger law to ban abortion.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion rights think tank, twenty-six states are certain or likely to ban abortion if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
22 of the 26 states already have total or near-total bans in place, including Idaho.
Idaho's trigger law, passed in 2020 and signed into law by current Governor Brad Little, would ban all abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to protect the life of the mother. That law would take effect 30 days after the final U.S. Supreme Court decision.
The Guttmacher Institute published an interactive map where readers can view how a total ban, a 15-week ban and a 20-week ban would impact driving distances for people seeking an abortion.
According to the Guttmacher Institute, in the case of a total ban, the number of patients of reproductive age (15-49) whose nearest provider would be in Washington would increase from 110,000 to 510,000. 230,000 is the max number of patients who may travel across state lines from Idaho to seek an abortion.
In March, Governor Jay Inslee signed a bill prohibiting legal action against people seeking an abortion or anyone who helps them.
The bill signing came just days after the Legislature in Idaho approved a bill that allows lawsuits by potential family members to enforce a ban on abortions performed after six weeks of pregnancy. Governor Little signed the bill a week later.
Washington's measure, which takes effect in June, prohibits the state from taking any action against an individual seeking to end their pregnancy or for assisting someone who is pregnant in obtaining an abortion.
The language is in response to a Texas law, which took effect last September, and which bans abortion after roughly six weeks of pregnancy and makes no exceptions in cases of rape or incest. The enforcement of the law is left up to private citizens, who can collect $10,000 or more if they bring a successful lawsuit against a provider or anyone who helps a patient obtain an abortion.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Freeland Spirits is a women-owned and operated distillery in Northwest Portland.
The company says master distiller Molly Troupe was born wearing a pair of chemist goggles and never took them off. Her interest in science led her to a master’s degree in distillation, and eventually to Freeland Spirits.
The Portland distillery bottles its spirits in colorful, teardrop-shaped vessels and its gin has botanical notes of cucumber, mint and juniper.
Now, those aromatics can be found outside the bottle.
Freeland Spirits collaborated with Wildwood Candle Co. to capture the scent of its gin in a candle
“We hope you love this local collaboration as much as we do, and can taste and sense through the lovely aromatics of both our Gin and Wildwood’s candle,” Freeland Spirits wrote on its website.
The candles and gin are available to order on Freeland Spirits’ website. Customers can have the items shipped to them or pick them up at Freeland Spirits’ location at 2671 NW Vaughn St. in Portland.
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Comcast announced a new round of cities will receive grants from the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, providing $5 million additional dollars to hundreds of small businesses owned by people of color, including Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian American owners, and women, bringing the total to $16 million in grants awarded as part of the Comcast RISE Investment Fund initiative.
Beginning on June 1, and through June 14, eligible businesses in Atlanta, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and the Twin Cities can apply for a $10,000 grant at www.ComcastRISE.com. A total of 100 grants per city, or 500 grants overall, will be announced and awarded in July 2022. The Investment Fund is an extension of Comcast RISE, the multiyear, multifaceted initiative launched in October 2020 to support small businesses and provide the resources and tools they need today and in the future. RISE stands for “Representation, Investment, Strength and Empowerment.”
As part of the initial Comcast RISE Investment Fund program, the company previously awarded $1 million in April of last year to 100 small Black-owned businesses in Philadelphia and Chester.
“The effects of the pandemic continue to create challenges for our small businesses,” said Philadelphia City Councilmember Cherelle L. Parker. “This second infusion of investment grants, coupled with the hundreds of marketing and technology packages awarded in our city and the additional training and support provided through RISE, will help these businesses as they recover and rebuild to emerge from this crisis stronger than ever.”
“While we know that no single organization can solve historic and systemic inequities overnight, we are committed to taking tangible actions that can drive long-term impact and change,” said Dennis Mathew, Senior Vice President, Comcast’s Freedom Region. “Comcast RISE and the Comcast RISE Investment Fund offer the opportunity for small businesses owned by people of color and women to help grow their businesses, create jobs, and play a vital role in supporting our communities. This new round of Comcast RISE grants will provide more entrepreneurs with the resources and tools they need to scale their businesses and thrive for years to come.”
Chanda Anderson, owner of Chanda’s Hair Studio and Uptown Hair Salon, both in the Cedarbrook section of Philadelphia, was awarded an Investment Fund grant in 2021. She shared the following: “When the pandemic hit and we had to shut down our business, I was distraught. My only means of income was suddenly taken away, but, meanwhile, my bills kept coming in. The $10,000 grant from Comcast RISE not only helped me stay afloat, I used it to purchase hair for my clients and actually generate some income. At a time when I was seeing one client a day in my house versus five to seven clients a day pre-pandemic, it helped more than you can imagine.”
To help drive awareness about round three of the program and provide additional support, training, and mentorship, Comcast has also awarded support to the following local non-profits:
- African American Chamber of Commerce of PA, NJ and DE
- Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Philadelphia
- Greater Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
- Independence Business Alliance
- The Enterprise center
- Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations
In addition, Comcast RISE invests in ongoing mentorship and resources to help businesses succeed over the long-term. The program has partnered with Ureeka, an online platform for entrepreneurs, to provide grant recipients with business coaching to help build skills in company foundation, growing customers and financial stability.
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“Ureeka is proud to partner with Comcast RISE to grow small businesses nationwide with coaching and digital services,” said Melissa Bradley, Co-Founder, Ureeka. “We know there are stark disparities in access to capital and resources for entrepreneurs of color and women entrepreneurs. The additional coaching and digital resources that these businesses receive, in addition to potential monetary funding, will help these businesses gain valuable skills and opportunities that will help them move from survive to thrive.”
The first round of the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, announced in April of 2021, provided $5 million in grants to 500 small businesses owned by people of color in five cities: Philadelphia/Chester, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago and Detroit. Round two was announced in September of 2021, providing $6 million in grants to 600 small businesses in six locations: Miami, Houston, Oakland, Seattle, the Twin Cities, and Washington, D.C.
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Two bodies were found inside a flaming vehicle in the Bronx Monday after authorities responding to a call extinguished the fire, police say.
Cops responding to a 911 call about the vehicle fire on Shore Road, near Pelham Split Rock Course, around 4:30 a.m. saw a Honda Accord on the side of the road.
It was fully engulfed.
Firefighters extinguished the flames, then found the two bodies inside the car.
Both people were pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities said there was no evidence of a crash.
No other details on the circumstances of the fire were available.
The medical examiner's office will conduct autopsies to determine how they died.
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The white gunman accused of committing a racist massacre at a Buffalo supermarket planned to continue his bloody rampage down the street before he was stopped, police said Monday.
Authorities said he shot, in total, 11 Black people and two white people. The shooter livestreamed the attack on Twitch, prompting scrutiny of how fast social platforms react to violent videos.
Investigators pouring through the gunman's history and evidence obtained at the scene as well as the 18-year-old's house say he wanted to keep targeting Black Buffalo residents after the supermarket attack.
“It appeared that his plans were to drive out of here and continue driving down Jefferson Avenue looking to shoot more Black people as he could and possibly go to another store location,” Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said on ABC’s “Good Morning America."
Authorities said they were investigating the attack on predominantly Black shoppers and workers at the Tops Friendly Market as a potential federal hate crime or act of domestic terrorism. Saturday's mass violence in Buffalo was the deadliest of a wave of fatal weekend shootings, including at a California church and a Texas flea market.
Federal authorities were still working to confirm the authenticity of a racist 180-page document, purportedly written by the 18-year-old, that said the assault was intended to terrorize all nonwhite, non-Christian people and get them to leave the country.
Portions of the Twitch video circulating online showed the gunman killing multiple shoppers in less than a minute. At one point, he trains his weapon on a white person cowering behind a checkout counter, but says “Sorry!” and doesn’t shoot. Screenshots purporting to be from the broadcast appear to show a racial slur targeting Black people scrawled on his rifle.
Gunman's Past Threat Faces Scrutiny
The gunman made threatening comments that brought police to his high school last spring, but he was never charged with a crime and had no further contact with law enforcement after his release from a hospital, officials said.
The revelation raised questions about whether his encounter with police and the mental health system was yet another missed opportunity to put a potential mass shooter under closer law enforcement scrutiny, get him help, or make sure he didn’t have access to deadly firearms.
Law enforcement officials revealed Sunday that New York State Police troopers had been called to his high school last June for a report that the then-17-year-old had made threatening statements.
The gunman had threatened to carry out a shooting at Susquehanna Valley High School in Conklin around graduation, a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity said. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on the investigation.
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said the 18-year-old had no further contact with law enforcement after a mental health evaluation that put him in a hospital for a day and a half.
“Nobody called in,” he said. “Nobody called any complaints,” Gramaglia said. The threat was “general" in nature, he said, and not related to race.
New York is one of several states that have enacted “red flag” laws in recent years that were intended to try and prevent mass shootings committed by people who show signs that they might be a threat to themselves or others.
Those laws allow law enforcement officers, a person's family, or in some cases, medical professionals or school officials to petition courts to temporarily seize the person's firearms, or prevent them from buying guns.
Federal law bars people from owning guns if a judge has determined they have a “mental defect” or they have been forced into a mental institution — but an evaluation alone would not trigger the prohibition.
It is unclear whether officials could have invoked the “red flag” regulation after the high school incident. Police and prosecutors wouldn't provide details on the incident, or say when he had purchased the weapons used in the assault.
The long list of mass shootings in the U.S. involving missed opportunities to intervene includes the 2018 massacre of 17 students at a high school in Parkland, Florida, where law enforcement officials had received numerous complaints about the gunman's threatening statements, and the killings of more than two dozen people at a Texas church in 2017 by a former U.S. Air Force serviceman who was able to buy a gun despite a violent history.
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LAGRANGE, Ga. — LaGrange College is mourning the loss of two baseball players after a car crash on Saturday night.
According to a statement on the school's athletics page, Stephen Bartolotta and Jacob Brown were both killed.
Georgia State Patrol said the crash happened around 9:15 p.m. Saturday and involved three vehicles. One other person was killed in the crash, according to GSP. The Troup County Coroner identified the third victim as 24-year-old Rico Dunn.
The news comes as an especially heavy blow to the team, as hours earlier they won their conference championship with a win over North Carolina Wesleyan, which earned them a spot in the NCAA Division III national tournament, according to a tweet from the school.
"To go from winning the conference title and then a few hours later to losing to teammates. I just don't think there are words to describe where they are right now," college spokesman Dean Hartman said.
"As we all work to process this tragedy please care for one another," College President Dr. Susanna Baxter said in a statement.
The school held an impromptu gathering at the college Sunday afternoon.
“I knew them most from the baseball field and they were quite talented. But our students talked about the studying with them, the partnership, the dedication, the work ethic that they put out on the field but also in the classroom," Baxter said.
A water bottle sat on the mound Sunday evening. That's where the two young pitchers would have been practicing. The college's baseball field remained empty as the team remembered their two friends and teammates.
“The team has to gather to decide if we're going to continue to play. It is too soon to ask those questions as to what they feel they need to do to work toward their healing process," Baxter said. "We will walk through this together as a campus family with God as our strength. Please support one another as the caring community that I know we are."
This is a developing story, we will continue to update as more information comes forward.
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BEMIDJI, Minn. — Healthcare workers embody compassion and teamwork in a way most will never know. Olha Finnelly knows that all too well.
Olha is originally from the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine. Olha fell in love with a Minnesota man and moved to Bemidji. Burnt out from years of work in financial institutions, she decided to try her hand at nursing, quickly discovering a newfound passion.
"Oh, Olha's wonderful. She's very kind, very nice, accommodates us, helps us. We all work well as a team here," said Kim Schulz, a medical laboratory scientist at Sanford Bemidji.
"I really enjoy being a nurse," said Finnelly. "I'm feeling happier every day if I could help somebody."
Olha’s supervisor Erin Petrowske says she's quick to handle whatever task walks in, from shots to rooming patients. Her co-workers took note of her positive attitude and eagerness to help people.
"I feel that every day we do changes in somebody's life, and hopefully one day [it] will be one big change for somebody," said Finnelly.
Olha selflessly carried on with her work, unaware of the changes she would soon face in her own life.
The news that Russia invaded Ukraine sent shockwaves around the world. The situation hit hardest for those who still have family there. That's the situation Olha faced. Her parents, sister, brother-in-law, and 3-year-old niece were in the destruction's path.
"She would come to work and say bits and pieces about what was going on," said Petrowske.
When Olha described what Ukraninans are going through, she said everybody's scared. Every 30 minutes an alarm goes off, which means a missile is flying, and nobody knows where it will land.
"When she started opening up [there were] lots of tears, lots of distraction for her. You could tell she was thinking of her family," said Schulz.
A cell phone was her only connection to her loved ones.
"You don't know [whenever] we talk and hang up on the phone-- you think was that the last conversation," Finnelly said. "It was incredibly important for me to get them here."
Olha's dad and brother-in-law are still in Ukraine. Men ages 18-60 were required to stay. The women in Olha's life fled to Poland.
Since all international airports were bombed, they had to take a 22 hour train ride from Dnipro to Lviv. There were 16 people in each room instead of four. They only had their backpacks, leaving everything else behind.
"To listen to what they're all going through just to get here— we've never experienced it. We probably never would," said Schulz.
That's when Olha's co-workers stepped in, determined to take care of one of their own. They sent an email to Sanford employees, laying out Olha's situation. Within no time, help poured in.
With the money raised, Olha bought plane tickets from Poland to Minnesota for her mother, sister, and niece. They reunited in March.
"When I got all this help I was just touched beyond words," said Finnelly.
People gave more than the gift of money; they also gave clothing, toys, and even a bike to her niece.
"When I moved to Bemidji, I could never even imagine that I would find my second family," said Finnelly.
Luckily for Olha's family, they were supposed to visit the U.S. a couple of years ago and already had open tourist visas. They're allowed to stay only through September.
"We are hoping that it will somehow be extended," said Finnelly. "We are just all hoping that it will be over as soon as possible because every day and every hour more and more people get hurt."
In the meantime, her family is doing what they can to show their gratitude, like baking food for the people who gave so that they could be safe.
"I put in the word friend a lot of meaning. And I truly want to say that I have a lot of friends in Bemidji. If they ever need help, I will be there for them," said Finnelly.
They're still accepting donations for this family to help with expenses. There's an Olha Finnelly Ukrainian Fund set up at the Bemidji branch of First National Bank.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Wearing the Gown is all about prevention. The more you know, the better you can fight off problems, even those presented by diabetes. But, a little divine intervention doesn't hurt either.
James Langley has been the pastor at the Apostolic Faith Church in Arkadelphia for 30 years, but since 2014 he has been coming here once a week.
“Diabetes — I had callouses to grow on the bottom of my feet,” Langley said.
Pastor Langley isn't in a lot of pain.
“Uh, the most uncomfortable thing is this boot,” Langley said.
He knows if he doesn't get treatment, it can be tragic.
“It starts out with basically a break in the skin and then that skin forms an ulcer and that ulcer can actually deepen,” clinic director Robert Kleinhenz said.
The infection grows, and loss of limbs is often the outcome.
Dr. Kleinhenz leads the fight to keep infection at bay with weekly cleanings.
“The quicker we catch this, the smaller the wound, the better it is,” Dr. Kleinhenz said.
The trouble is, diabetics get no pain signals.
“And the longer you've been diabetic, you tend to lose feeling in your feet,” Dr. Kleinhenz said.
Pastor Langley has had problems on and off again and has had to adjust.
“Got some good people I work with,” Langley said. “And they kind of do my leg work for me. Everything except preachin’.”
Dr. Kleinhenz has a sermon of his own, for diabetics
“They need to always make sure they check their feet several times a day when you get up in the morning and when you got to bed in the evening,” Dr. Kleinhenz said.
Any break in the skin, get into a clinic, and don't expect it to heal quickly.
“I say this gonna take a while to heal, and you think it's gonna take a couple of weeks, and I'm thinking a couple of months,” Langley said. “I feel very fortunate that I discovered the problem when I did because out of all the tragedies it would've been more tragic if I had not come to get help with this.”
Spoken by a man who saves souls on Sunday and looks to save his during the week.
“And hopefully one day it'll be healed,” Langley said.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — One of the first victims from the mass shooting at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo on Saturday to be publicly identified, was Aaron Salter Jr.
He was a retired Buffalo Police Officer who worked at the store as an armed security guard.
He is also being hailed as a hero, who died while trying to save others.
"In my heart and in my mind Aaron was a hero," said Kimberly Beaty, of her friend and former colleague who was among the ten people killed in the massacre.
From what police have said thus far, when the accused gunman in the shootings, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, made his way through the store wearing bulletproof armor and firing rounds from a semi-automatic rifle Salter, armed with a pistol, valiantly engaged the threat.
"We have evidence that he (Salter) struck him at least one time and that unfortunately had no effect," said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia, who said Salter died during the exchange.
He Would Lay Down His Life
"It's just a big shock to me and I feel very sick over it," said Scott Escobar, a retired Buffalo Police Officer who worked alongside Salter for several years in the BPD Traffic Division.
Escobar noted that Salter, as a police officer for 30 years before his retirement in 2022, spent his career trying to protect others.
So it came as no shock to him that Salter spent his last moments on earth doing the same thing.
"Aaron was a great individual and I know in his heart he wanted to save as many people as he could and it didn't surprise me to hear he engaged the guy right away and tried to stop him...he was the kind of guy that would lay down his life like that and protect his community," Escobar said.
"Surviving a job in law enforcement and making it to retirement is a big deal for you and your family because they expect you can ride it out now and enjoy your life," said Beaty, who retired from the police department as Deputy Commissioner and is currently Director of Campus Safety at Canisius College. "And then you have people who want to continue to work in the spirit of their community and that's what Aaron Salter was doing."
"He helped so many people n this community," said Thomas Whitt, who described himself as a regular customer at the store where he got to know Salter. His voice filled with grief, Whitt continued, "...to have him gunned down like this?... Oh my God..."
"We suffered a tremendous, tremendous loss yesterday …and it's heartbreaking," said Beaty, before turning away momentarily to collect herself.
2 On Your Side did attempt to speak with Salter's family, but we were told that they are not granting interviews at this time.
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FORNEY, Texas — A doorbell camera captured a young boy walking up to a family's house in Forney and hitting their front door with a whip last week, and the video got widespread attention over the weekend.
Authorities said the boy's intentions were to confront a classmate, and that there's been a "bullying issue" between the two children.
The family of the girl, who is Black, called the incident with the boy, who is white, a "racial issue."
“We know the history of the whip," said the girl's father, Dezerrea Nash. "This is a racial issue. He comes to the door with a whip."
No one was injured during the Thursday incident, but the boy's father was later arrested after his gun accidentally discharged while he argued with the girl's family, officials said.
The girl's family posted videos of both incidents -- the boy whipping their door, and then their interaction with the boy's father, they said -- and the footage began to receive attention in the following days, getting tens of thousands of views on social media.
On Sunday, the girl's mother, Carissa Nash, told WFAA how the incident unfolded Thursday afternoon on Cross Cut Drive in Forney.
Nash said it began with a knock on her front door.
“I look at my doorbell camera before going to the door, and I see it’s a little kid,” Nash said.
The child was her 9-year-old neighbor with a whip in his hand, she said.
Nash's video showed the boy hit their door with the whip. Then, after a second whip on the door, Nash can be heard opening the door and telling the boy to leave.
“Little boy, you better get your [expletive] off my porch, beating on my door like this," Nash told him, according to her video. "I will call the police. You need to leave. Don't you ever beat on my [expletive] door like this. Go."
The boy then turned and walked away.
The next video Nash posted was of her husband, Dezerrea Nash, who said he went to the boy's father's home to get answers.
On the video, Dezerrea Nash can be heard telling a man, "I'm coming to have a conversation with you, sir. Your son. I'm going to show you the video."
The man said the Nashes were "accusing my son," according to the video, and the man told them to leave.
They responded, "We're showing you the video."
Dezerrea Nash also told the man that there was a "huge scratch on our car."
Seconds later, the sound of a gun could be heard going off from near the man at the door.
Jason Johnson, the Kaufman County Precinct 2 constable, identified that man as Bryan Brunson.
Johnson said Brunson had a gun in his right hand, and that the gun went off, firing in the direction of his daughter, who was standing behind him.
Brunson was later arrested on a charge of deadly conduct, Johnson said.
WFAA reached out to Brunson, who had posted bond and was released from jail, speaking to him briefly on the phone. Brunson said he had retained an attorney and that there was more to the story.
Johnson said the incident started when the two kids were walking home from school together.
“There have been several interactions between them at different times and locations,” Johnson said.
More information about those interactions was not released.
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Normal native Leah Marlene will return to her hometown Tuesday as part of filming for the "American Idol" finale.
The 20-year-old singer-songwriter, who was one of the three finalists chosen by viewers of the show, is set to film an outdoor performance around 7:30 p.m. in uptown Normal.
The community is invited to join in the festivities, town officials said. Footage from the performance will be used as part of the "Idol" finale, which airs live on May 22.
Marlene will greet fans from a convertible during a procession along East Beaufort Street starting at 6 p.m. as she makes her way to the stage, town officials said.
Normal Mayor Chris Koos is set to proclaim Tuesday "Leah Marlene Day."
How to get into the concert
Primary entry for the concert will take place at the intersection of North Street and Uptown Circle.
Attendees will be required to pass through security checks. Backpacks, purses and other non-essential bags are prohibited within the concert area.
Event details are subject to change; any updates will be posted online at www.uptownnormal.com/leahmarlene.
Road closures
Street closures for this event will be as follows:
• North Street from Uptown Circle through the intersection at Broadway to Fell Avenue will be closed TBA between 9 a.m. and noon, and reopened following the concert as soon as safely possible (estimated around 10:30 p.m.)
• E Beaufort Street from Linden to Uptown Circle, and including Uptown Circle will be signed No Parking after 4 p.m., closed at 5 p.m., and reopened following the concert as soon as safely possible (estimated around 9 p.m.)
• Eastern-most portion of Trail East Lot will be signed No Parking after 4 p.m., closed at 5 p.m., and reopened following the procession (estimated 7 p.m.)
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Dozens of people gathered at the state Capitol in Bismarck over the weekend to join others around the country rallying for abortion rights.
The "Bans Off Our Bodies" rallies came in the wake of a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that portends to strike down abortion rights rendered in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. They also came just days after the U.S. Senate fell short in an effort toward enshrining Roe v. Wade abortion access as federal law, blocked by a Republican filibuster.
"We are here because these types of protests are happening all over the country," said Heather Hammes, who estimated the size of the Capitol group at 100 people from across the state on Sunday. A rally at the Capitol on Saturday drew a similar crowd.
Members of Capitol Heights Baptist Church attended to counter protest. There were some heated exchanges between the two sides.
"(Highway Patrol) personnel were present and spoke with individuals at the demonstration to ensure things stayed civil," Patrol spokesman Sgt. Wade Kadrmas said. "No arrests were made."
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The Patrol is in charge of security on the Capitol grounds.
Rallies also were held in Minot, Grand Forks and Fargo. Groups involved included ACLU North Dakota, ERA Now, North Dakota WIN Fund, North Dakota Women’s Network, Planned Parenthood North Central States, Prairie Action ND and the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, North Dakota’s only abortion provider.
North Dakota is one of about a dozen states that have laws that would come into force if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The 2007 North Dakota law makes it a felony to perform an abortion unless necessary to prevent the woman’s death, or in cases of rape or incest. Violations would be punishable by up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
North Dakota recorded 1,171 abortions in 2020, according to the latest figures available from the state Health Department. The total includes 833 North Dakota residents and 338 women from other states, particularly Minnesota and South Dakota, who came to North Dakota for the procedure.
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Fayetteville police official: 60 hires expected over next month, fully staffed by summer
Vacancies in the Fayetteville Police Department have been the subject of much discussion the past couple of years. The issue has even seeped into this year’s City Council races: Several candidates have cited the unfilled positions as a driving force behind their campaigns.
But Police Department officials suggest they have turned the corner on recruitment and hiring.
Fayetteville Police Capt. Todd Joyce said that as of Friday, there were 49 open positions among sworn officers. More officers are set to be hired Monday and on May 31, and a total of 60 were set to be hired in the next 30 days, he said.
Joyce pushed back against a commonly cited figure by critics of the department that the force, which is budgeted for more than 430 sworn officers, was at one point down by 100 or more officers.
“No, it was never that,” he said Friday. “The highest we would have ever been was right around 60, that could be plus or minus. High 60.”
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Last October, the department reported 58 vacancies.
Hiring spree this summer
The Police Department is looking toward what could be a hiring spree this summer. Two academies to train prospective officers are scheduled for July and August.
Police Lt. Lori D. Holloway, a department spokesperson, said earlier this month that would mean “at least 40 more officers joining our department.”
Joyce said the Police Department expected to hire enough officers to potentially enter what he says is an “overhire” status.
“The overhires are there to foresee any potential retirements or things like that, that come in the future,” he said. “Our goal is that we are fully staffed this summer and then move into overhire status.”
He said the hiring boost is thanks to incentives greenlighted by Police Chief Gina Hawkins, City Manager Doug Hewett and the City Council. These include a $10,000 incentive for lateral officers, or those with experience; $4,000 for new officers out of the academy; and $6,000 for people with military experience. The department also provides reimbursements for moving expenses and educational incentives, he said.
The cash incentives are paid off in installments. To qualify, officers have to get certified, pass the state exam and be otherwise eligible.
“It has helped us with recruiting," Joyce said of the incentives. "As you can tell … with the numbers, and our projected numbers over the summer, it has had a great impact on our hiring.”
Myron B. Pitts can be reached at mpitts@fayobserver.com or 910-486-3559.
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Cumberland County JROTC students top in the nation to earn scholarships
Local high school and college students will have some of their college tuition paid with the help of military-affiliated scholarships.
At South View High School in Hope Mills, Cadet Maj. Trinity Ashworth and Cadet Pfc. Bakari Walker, both seniors in the junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, recently learned they were among the top cadets in the nation to earn a four-year ROTC scholarship.
Their instructor, retired Command Sgt. Maj. Ruby Murray, said that out of more than 9,000 applicants, Ashworth’s and Walker were among 10% of students selected nationwide.
“They both make me proud,” Murray said. “The scholarship is more than just their grades. It’s about service-learning, selfless service, hard work, dedication, integrity, being something bigger than themselves and teamwork.”
Ashworth is South View High School’s junior ROTC battalion commander and helps lead 120 cadets as part of the program.
She's been in JROTC since her freshman year and said she joined because her mother was in JROTC, and she thought it would help prepare her to join the military.
“I just got drawn in, loved it, got involved in the community and really started to care for the cadets who I lead,” Ashworth said.
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During her time with the program, she’s participated in the annual Sandhills Purple Heart Dinner, with a saber presentation to honor the wounded Purple Heart veterans, and has helped feed homeless people in the surrounding communities during Thanksgiving.
Ashworth said the JROTC program is an elective course that teaches about military science, drill movements and uniform maintenance, but she’s also gained time management and leadership skills in the program.
During high school, she balanced the program with her other classes, drill and track team, work and community service.
“What I’ve taken away from the program is having a voice for myself,” Ashworth said. “When I first joined the program, I was very shut-in. I didn’t like to say much. I didn’t like to speak in front of people. Public speaking is also something that we focus on very heavily in the program.”
Murray said Ashworth was one of the students she could count on when peer-on-peer contact was started this past year to allow cadets to tutor fellow cadets struggling in other high school classes.
Walker joined the JROTC program this school year because both his parents were in the military and he considers them role models.
Like Ashworth, he said the program has helped develop leadership skills.
“We learn how to build bonds between our cadets, to better prepare for the world outside and mainly just take care of ourselves and our community,” Walker said.
He said he’s taking away leadership, public speaking and time management skills from the program.
During his time in JROTC, Walker said he balanced international baccalaureate program classes, community service, serving as a captain of the track and cross-country team, serving as co-captain of football, soccer and wrestling teams and a part-time job.
Murray said during Walker’s time in the program he’s also been part of South View High School’s Tiger Stripes program, which helps mentor special needs students.
"I help out wherever I can," Walker said.
Both Walker and Ashworth will attend N.C. A&T State University, where Ashworth plans to major in psychology and branch into Army psychology once she commissions. Walker plans to major in engineering and computer science and branch into technical support once he commissions into the Army.
MOAA recognizes ROTC cadets
Also handing out scholarships to college ROTC students this month was the Cape Fear Chapter of the Military Officers of America.
The recipient of the $3,500 Meinhardt ROTC Scholarship award is Army Cadet Marquize Woodson who is a first-year student at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.
Woodson said he joined ROTC because his parents were in the military, and he plans to work either in the signal or ordnance fields once commissioning.
The recipient of the $3,000 Charles Pimble ROTC Scholarship is Army ROTC Cadet Jasmine Thompson-Yanes, who is also a Fort Bragg military spouse and will attend her final semester at Fayetteville State University in the fall.
Thompson-Yanes said her stepfather, who served in the military, inspired her to join.
“He was the first person I ever saw who had a house and a car and was situated and all his ducks in line,” she said.
Thompson-Yanes joined the North Carolina National Guard in 2018 and focused on military intelligence. She joined the ROTC in 2019.
After a deployment to Kuwait last year, she became interested in geospatial science, which is what she is now majoring in, she said.
Other recipients of the $3,000 Cape Fear MOAA ROTC scholarship were Army Cadet Andrei Fennimore, a student at Campbell University, and Air Force Cadet David B. Hudson, a student at Methodist University.
Corvias Foundation awards Fort Bragg military child
Corvias Foundation, founded by the chairman of military housing provider, Corvias, also announced that Katrina Churchill, the daughter of an active-duty service member at Fort Bragg, is receiving one of the foundation’s four-year college scholarships worth up to $40,000.
“Our assistance does not stop with financial support,” Chairman John PIcerne said. “We encourage our scholars to engage with the Corvias Foundation community, where we cultivate personal and professional growth through a network of support and advocacy."
The scholarship program provides financial support to military children all four years of college and provides opportunities to attend conferences, participate in internships and receive mentoring, according to a news release.
Churchill is a senior at Pinecrest High School in Southern Pines and plans to attend Saint Louis University in Missouri to study international business with a focus on economics and finance, according to the release.
She has been active in Girl Scouts, worked for a local business since she was 15, played cello in Pinecrest High School's Sinfonietta Orchestra and the Moore Philharmonic Orchestra, is a drum major with the Pinecrest Marching Patriots and was a choreographer, soloist, and captain this past winter with Moore County Combined Percussion.
Staff writer Rachael Riley can be reached at rriley@fayobserver.com or 910-486-3528.
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — A man was found dead in Roseville after a fight in the early hours of Monday morning, the Roseville Police Department said in a social media post.
Officers responded to reports of an altercation around 3 a.m. near the 100 block of North Sunrise Avenue. Police said in a Facebook post that a fight happened between two men. One man was pronounced dead at the scene another person left the area in a vehicle.
Officers are investigating and anyone with information can call the Roseville Police Department at 916-774-5000.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District responded to several semi-trucks on fire around midnight on Monday morning.
The fire was put out several hours after it started. No injuries have been reported and Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District is investigating the cause of the fire.
The fire was located on Wilbur Way in South Sacramento, the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District tweeted.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — One of the first victims from the mass shooting at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo on Saturday to be publicly identified, was Aaron Salter Jr.
He was a retired Buffalo Police Officer who worked at the store as an armed security guard.
He is also being hailed as a hero, who died while trying to save others.
"In my heart and in my mind Aaron was a hero," said Kimberly Beaty, of her friend and former colleague who was among the ten people killed in the massacre.
From what police have said thus far, when the accused gunman in the shootings, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, made his way through the store wearing bulletproof armor and firing rounds from a semi-automatic rifle Salter, armed with a pistol, valiantly engaged the threat.
"We have evidence that he (Salter) struck him at least one time and that unfortunately had no effect," said Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia, who said Salter died during the exchange.
He Would Lay Down His Life
"It's just a big shock to me and I feel very sick over it," said Scott Escobar, a retired Buffalo Police Officer who worked alongside Salter for several years in the BPD Traffic Division.
Escobar noted that Salter, as a police officer for 30 years before his retirement in 2022, spent his career trying to protect others.
So it came as no shock to him that Salter spent his last moments on earth doing the same thing.
"Aaron was a great individual and I know in his heart he wanted to save as many people as he could and it didn't surprise me to hear he engaged the guy right away and tried to stop him...he was the kind of guy that would lay down his life like that and protect his community," Escobar said.
"Surviving a job in law enforcement and making it to retirement is a big deal for you and your family because they expect you can ride it out now and enjoy your life," said Beaty, who retired from the police department as Deputy Commissioner and is currently Director of Campus Safety at Canisius College. "And then you have people who want to continue to work in the spirit of their community and that's what Aaron Salter was doing."
"He helped so many people n this community," said Thomas Whitt, who described himself as a regular customer at the store where he got to know Salter. His voice filled with grief, Whitt continued, "...to have him gunned down like this?... Oh my God..."
"We suffered a tremendous, tremendous loss yesterday …and it's heartbreaking," said Beaty, before turning away momentarily to collect herself.
2 On Your Side did attempt to speak with Salter's family, but we were told that they are not granting interviews at this time.
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DALLAS, Texas (KDAF) — Cowboys and horses are part of the DFW DNA – at Equest, horses are for much more than just riding. They’re actually used to enhance lives.
“Instead of going to the clinic and sitting on a big rubber ball, you come to Equest and utilize the symmetrical, three-dimensional movement of the horse to facilitate the therapy plans,” Joan Cutler, Program Manager at Equest said.
They have therapy plans for every kind of person: emotional therapy.
“We can actually read the horses,” Megan Price, an occupational therapist with Equest, said. “We’ll say, Thoran here is not so interested in this person. What’s going on inside them – let’s work on that.’”
They also offer physical therapy. Many of Equest’s programs are geared toward helping those with disabilities.
“Pretend you’re an 8-year-old little boy and you sit in a wheelchair most of the time,” Cutler said. “But every Tuesday at 3 o’clock, you get to come to Equest and they put you on a 1,200-pound horse and you get to tell that 1,200-pound horse where to go, what to do, how to do it. Your brothers and sisters get to watch you do it.”
For those like 17-year-old Patrick, his time on the horse doubles as his time at the gym.
“A physical therapist once told me that 30 minutes on the horse for some of these kids, is like 2,000 mini situps,” Cutler said. “That doesn’t happen when you’re sitting in a chair. That happens when you’re on the back of a horse and you have to correct your balance every time the horse moves and every step. You’re getting that exercise can benefit while on the back of a horse – which is pretty cool in itself.”
All of which gives clients an ego boost. Not just for those with disabilities.
“You might’ve seen him sitting, standing or in a two-point position with his hands down on Thoran with his bottom off of the saddle,” Price said. “These are different positions to strengthen the core, strengthen the legs, put some pressure on the hands for some proprioceptive input to the joints. It’s mainly all for strengthening and conditioning Patrick’s body.”
A lot of it is empowering, self-confidence, socialization and physical things that go with it.
“You come to Equest, start working with the horses and one of your self-confidence things is that you can pick up the foot of a 1,200-pound horse.”
One Equest participant named Bralen, who learned horsemanship skills through programs taught CW33’s Landon Wexler how to groom a horse. You can watch that full experience above.
“It’s hay and rocks and you get it out like this… and then you use this to get the rest out.”
Participants like Bralen learn the ins and outs of taking care of a horse – a therapy in itself.
“That teaches kids and adults horsemanship skills – how to ride, how to work with them, how to groom them, how to get them ready, how to put them away – all the things that go into riding and teaching responsibility,” Cutler said.
At the same time, therapies also serve as clients’ daily exercises.
“I have some other kids and folks who come here and just move their arm and do that motion, getting that range into the count of ten – I’d rather brush a horse than lift weights, go to the gym and those things,” Cutler said. “It has a lot of different benefits and some of them we sneak in without you even knowing about it.”
As of now at Equest, veterans and their families have access to programs for free.
“Equest provides services for veterans and their families for themselves and their families at no charge because we’re able to fund that program through donations, grants and other funding,”
Equest is partnering with horses to enhance the lives of kids, adults and veterans alike. For information about enrolling in their services or their free programs for veterans and their families, you can visit the Equest website.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — How do you like your eggs? Scrambled, fried, over-easy, boiled poached, even raw perhaps? Well, if you were in the mess that was I-30 traffic Monday morning in Dallas, you could’ve had them over-concrete.
During the morning rush hour commute, it seems I-30 at I-45 was closed due to a crash that involved a hefty amount of eggs spilled on the roadway. TxDOT Dallas tweeted out its first alert at around 6:30 a.m. followed up by another two hours later.
The cameras show that the mess seems to be getting cleaned up with no word on the timing of that being finished. However, it would be eggsellent news for it to be cleared by the afternoon drive.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — The National Weather Service center in Fort Worth reports some ranging highs across North Texas on Monday, May 16.
The center says a front will stall which will separate hot conditions to its south from seasonably warm conditions to its north. Basically, the southern portion of the region will experience highs reaching near 100 while the north will see high 80s into low 90s.
“A stationary front will settle across Central Texas today, separating hot conditions to its south from seasonably warm conditions to its north. Highs will range from the mid 80s over eastern Red River counties to near 100 in the southwest.”
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DALLAS (KDAF) — The Texas Department of Transportation’s “Click It or Ticket” campaign is in full swing, and officials are enlisting the help of a teenage tornado survivor to get the word out.
Their “Click It or Ticket” campaign aims to raise seatbelt awareness and enforcement.
Riley Leon, 16, was on his way home from a job interview at Elgin when his truck was intercepted and flipped by an EF-2 tornado with winds of 130 mph. TxDOT officials say that he made the wise decision of wearing his seatbelt the morning he was caught in a tornado.
Now he is encouraging Texas drivers to wear theirs as well.
According to the department, there were more than 3,500 vehicular collisions in which unbuckled passengers sustained serious, or even fatal, injuries, which is up 14% from 2020.
Wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of dying in a vehicular collision by 45% for people in the front passenger seats of a car. For pickup trucks, it reduces the risk by 60%.
If you would like to learn more about TxDOT’s campaign visit their website at texasclickitorticket.com.
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An iconic symbol of Fishtown will soon disappear.
Production of Arctic Splash iced tea's pint-sized cartons, with the frost-covered blue bubble letters, has been discontinued, according to Fishtown bar Interstate Drafthouse. The beloved drink will still be available in a jug.
"We only have a limited supply of Arctic Splash cartons in stock, when they are gone it could be the end," the bar, known for using the cartons for an iced tea cocktail, wrote on Instagram.
Interstate staff said they were informed Thursday that Lehigh Valley Dairy is discontinuing the production of the school-milk style carton.
The good news is Dean Foods Co., the Dallas-based manufacturer of the Philadelphia-known drink, will still continue to make the iced tea, offering it in gallon and half-gallon jugs moving forward, Interstate said.
For years, the small cartons have been known for to turn up nearly everywhere in Fishtown – from corner store shelves to street gutters. Social media accounts have emerged to track littered cartons.
And although the absence of the carton may be good for Fishtown's streets, it's certainly being felt in residents' hearts.
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A racist ideology seeping from the internet's fringes into the mainstream is being investigated as a motivating factor in the supermarket shooting that killed 10 people in Buffalo, New York. Most of the victims were Black.
Ideas from the “great replacement theory" filled a racist screed supposedly posted online by the white 18-year-old accused of targeting Black people in Saturday's rampage. Authorities were still working to confirm its authenticity.
Certainly, there was no mistaking the racist intent of the shooter.
WHAT IS THE ‘GREAT REPLACEMENT THEORY'?
Simply put, the conspiracy theory says there's a plot to diminish the influence of white people.
Believers say this goal is being achieved both through the immigration of nonwhite people into societies that have largely been dominated by white people, as well as through simple demographics, with white people having lower birth rates than other populations.
The conspiracy theory's more racist adherents believe Jews are behind the so-called replacement plan: White nationalists marching at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that turned deadly in 2017 chanted “You will not replace us!” and “Jews will not replace us!”
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A more mainstream view in the U.S. baselessly suggests Democrats are encouraging immigration from Latin America so more like-minded potential voters replace “traditional” Americans, says Mark Pitcavage, senior research fellow at the Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism.
WHAT ARE THIS CONSPIRACY THEORY'S ORIGINS?
How long has racism existed? Broadly speaking, the roots of this “theory” are that deep. In the U.S., you can point to efforts to intimidate and discourage Black people from voting — or, in antagonists' view, “replacing” white voters at the polls — that date to the Reconstruction era, after the 15th Amendment made clear suffrage couldn't be restricted on account of race.
In the modern era, most experts point to two influential books. “The Turner Diaries,” a 1978 novel written by William Luther Pierce under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald, is about a violent revolution in the United States with a race war that leads to the extermination of nonwhites.
The FBI called it a “bible of the racist right,” says Kurt Braddock, an American University professor and researcher at the Polarization and Extremism Research & Innovation Lab.
Renaud Camus, a French writer, published a 2011 book claiming that Europe was being invaded by Black and brown immigrants from Africa. He called the book “Le Grand Remplacement,” and a conspiracy's name was born.
WHO ARE ITS ADHERENTS?
To some of the more extreme believers, certain white supremacist mass killers — at a Norway summer camp in 2011, two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques in 2019, a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a Black church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2017 — are considered saints, Pitcavage says.
Those “accelerationist white supremacists” believe small societal changes won't achieve much, so the only option is tearing down society, he says.
The Buffalo shooter’s purported written diatribe and some of the methods indicate he closely studied the Christchurch shooter — particularly the effort to livestream his rampage. According to apparent screenshots from the Buffalo broadcast, the shooter inscribed the number 14 on his gun, which Pitcavage says is shorthand for a 14-word white supremacist slogan.
A written declaration by the Christchurch shooter was widely spread online. If the message attributed to the Buffalo shooter proves authentic, it's designed to also spread his philosophy and methods to a large audience.
IS THE THEORY MAKING WIDER INROADS?
While more virulent forms of racism are widely abhorred, experts are concerned about extreme views nonetheless becoming mainstream.
In a poll released last week, The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that about 1 in 3 Americans believe an effort is underway to replace U.S.-born Americans with immigrants for electoral gain.
On a regular basis, many adherents to the more extreme versions of the “great replacement” theory converse through encrypted apps online. They tend to be careful. They know they’re being watched.
“They are very clever,” Braddock says. “They don’t make overt calls to arms.”
WHO'S TALKING UP THIS THEORY?
In particular, Tucker Carlson, Fox News’ most popular personality, has pushed false views that are more easily embraced by some white people who are concerned about a loss of their political and social power.
“I know that the left and all the gatekeepers on Twitter become literally hysterical if you use the term ‘replacement,’ if you suggest the Democratic Party is trying to replace the current electorate, the voters now casting ballots, with new people, more obedient voters from the Third World,” he said on his show last year. “But they become hysterical because that's what's happening, actually, let's just say it. That's true.”
A study of five years' worth of Carlson's show by The New York Times found 400 instances where he talked about Democratic politicians and others seeking to force demographic change through immigration.
Fox News defended the host, pointing to repeated statements that Carlson has made denouncing political violence of all kinds.
The attention paid by many Republican politicians to what they see as a leaky southern border along the United States has been interpreted, at least by some, as a nod to the concern of white people who worry about being “replaced.”
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik's campaign committee was criticized last year for an advertisement that said “radical Democrats” were planning a “permanent election insurrection” by granting amnesty to undocumented immigrants who would create a permanent liberal majority in Washington. Stefanik represents a New York district.
Pitcavage says he's concerned about the message Carlson and supporters are sending: “It actually introduces the ‘great replacement theory’ to a conservative audience in an easier-to-swallow pill."
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This story has been corrected to report that Camus’ book was published in 2011, not 2012.
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BOISE, Idaho — Idaho State Police troopers are investigating a crash on I84 in Ada County at 9:54 Sunday night.
A 41-year-old woman from Eagle Point, Oregon, was driving westbound on I84 near mile marker 63, in a 2021 Kia Forte. According to police, she then merged onto the median construction crossover before striking a concrete traffic barrier.
The driver and three of her passengers, a 68-year-old woman, a 44-year-old woman, and a juvenile all from Eagle Point, were wearing their seatbelts. All of the occupants were transported to a local hospital by ground ambulance.
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SCHUYLER LAKE, N.Y. – A home in Schuyler Lake was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning.
Schuyler Lake, Richfield Springs and other fire departments were called to Mill Road just before 5 a.m.
It took the crews almost three hours to extinguish the fire.
According to fire officials, everyone inside the home, including the pets, got out safely.
The American Red Cross is assisting the displaced family.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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A former police dog that had served alongside Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies for more than 10 years died unexpectedly over the weekend, only a month after the dog's retirement from policing.
Sacha, a German shepherd who began serving the county in 2012, died after a tumor erupted, Chief Deputy Ben Houchin said Monday.
The dog had retired earlier this year, Houchin said, but was still staying with her handler, Deputy Jason Henkel.
Over the course of a decade, Sacha had worked with the agency's Tactical Response Unit and had helped in countless narcotics busts on the Criminal Interdiction Task Force.
"She was a good dog, and she will be missed," Houchin said.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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A 41-year-old Lincoln woman was stabbed early Monday morning after an unknown man approached her as she smoked a cigarette in northeast Lincoln before attacking her, according to police.
The woman was smoking near 41st Street and Baldwin Avenue around 1 a.m. Monday when she told the man she didn't have any cigarettes left to spare, Lincoln Police Sgt. Chris Vollmer said.
That's when the man, who remains unknown to police, swung an object at the 41-year-old, causing non-life-threatening injuries to her left hand, head and chest, Vollmer said.
The attacker was last seen running south on 41st Street before police arrived.
An investigation into the stabbing is ongoing.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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Two people were transported to a local hospital after they were stabbed in northeast Lincoln following a nondescript argument Friday night, according to police.
Police responded to the area of 56th and Fremont streets at around 8:45 p.m. Friday and found the victims, a 29-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman, neither of whom are residents of the area, Lincoln Police Sgt. Chris Vollmer said.
The man had one puncture wound in his back, Vollmer said. The woman had been stabbed twice in the abdomen area, he said.
Vollmer said it's unclear how the two victims knew the attacker, but police did not describe the incident as a random stabbing.
An investigation is ongoing.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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Natalie Ulm’s daughter started sixth grade as a vibrant, outgoing 12-year-old — but when that began to change, an increasingly desperate mother found herself in an all-too-common struggle to find her daughter the help she needed.
“There were times when I just didn’t know what I would do. I just felt so alone,” Ulm said. “I felt like I failed her because I couldn’t find anyone to help her.”
Thanks to an influx of millions of dollars in federal stimulus money, Lancaster County Human Services and Region V Systems hope to change that by creating a family resource center — a one-stop place families in crisis can go to address not only their mental health needs but a host of other challenges they may face.
Over the past few years, Lancaster County hired two outside groups to do assessments of the community’s needs, said Human Services Director Sara Hoyle, and a recurring theme was the need to get families help before the situation gets too bad.
“One of the things that came out in the focus groups is when families are in crisis it’s not just a behavioral health crisis, it’s a need for assistance with food, rent or access to Medicaid,” she said. “Anything to stabilize that family.”
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Ulm said having one place to go for help would have helped immensely.
Not long into the school year, her daughter stopped caring about her appearance, began lashing out, making bad decisions. She began cutting herself, her grades dropped from As to Fs — which Ulm recognized as classic signs of depression and anxiety.
She eventually learned her daughter — who was already dealing with trauma she’d suffered from the verbal abuse of a father no longer in the picture — was being bullied at school. A therapist she’d been seeing regularly left her practice and that was hard.
Ulm reached out to the school for help, had her daughter see a crisis counselor, took her to a hospital crisis center and to a respite program at Cedar’s Youth Services.
While they offered temporary relief, the services didn’t provide consistent help, or what Ulm believes her daughter needed: a full psychiatric evaluation to really identify the problems and begin to deal with them.
Instead they bounced from one program to another, until things got bad enough that Ulm called sheriff’s deputies, once after her daughter stole her grandmother’s cell phone, and once when she physically lashed out at Ulm.
That led to criminal citations and — ultimately — the county’s juvenile mental health diversion program.
"(My daughter) is hurting," Ulm said. "She really is such a beautiful person with a kind heart, but it just got lost somewhere."
Hoyle said the family’s situation — and resorting to calling law enforcement — is far too common.
“You see it more frequently than not with kids who have mental health or behavioral problems,” Hoyle said. “Parents have tried so many avenues and gotten no help and when it escalates in the home, they get law enforcement involved.”
While that means a young person may finally get services he or she needs, it also means they've now been thrust into the criminal justice system.
Renee Dozier, director of Region V Systems children's and family behavioral health services, said one of the goals is to keep that from happening.
“We also want to make sure we are helping families by providing early opportunities to access services to prevent some of the unintended consequences — becoming a state ward to get services or becoming involved in probation to get support.”
Social service providers have known for years the struggle families face to get the help they need before things escalate to the point of a suicide attempt, a child landing in the criminal justice system or another major crisis.
John Danforth, reinvestment coordination specialist with Region V Systems, said their providers also identified that need, as have other federal and university studies. Region V Systems manages public funding for community-based behavioral and mental health services for 16 counties including Lancaster.
Now, the influx of federal stimulus money offers an opportunity — especially since the pandemic exacerbated mental health issues for so many, including young people.
Lancaster County has earmarked $6 million in federal funds from the American Rescue Plan for the resource center. Region V Systems hopes to earmark carryover money from a previous budget. That money is available because Medicaid expansion has reduced the reliance on funding provided by Region V.
Transportation — or just figuring out where to get help for needs ranging from food to housing — can be daunting, Danforth said. So the center will partner with other non-profit agencies to bring services to families. Hoyle said they are partnering with Cedar's Youth Services to provide crisis beds.
Some of those challenges, such as food insecurity, can be addressed more quickly, helping to improve the situation and allowing the family to work on the child’s mental health needs, Danforth said.
“What we’re envisioning is when a family comes in and we’re able to do some screening to help identify issues, the challenges the family is facing,” he said. “Most of the time it’s not just one thing.”
Human service leaders are in the process of working out details: looking for a location, coordinating with other agencies, deciding who can refer people to the center. They’ll have to provide a detailed plan to the Lancaster County Board, which they hope to do within the next six months.
Since Ulm's daughter has been in the diversion program, a peer support counselor has met with Ulm, and her daughter is seeing a therapist and a nurse practitioner to help find the right medications.
She still hasn't had the full evaluation Ulm believes her daughter needs, and managing the situation is still hard. But she believes if such a resource center had been available, the last year could have been different.
“It would have started the process so much sooner for my daughter and we could be where we need to be and not where we’re at,” she said. “A place like that would have been a Godsend for us because we had nowhere to go.”
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The Flying Fish Farm has nothing to do with fish, though Salt Creek winds its way through the nearby wilderness, below a steep embankment that marks the eastern line of the property.
It has everything to do with a large windsock that flew on the land in the mid-'70s, a free-spirited namesake hinting at the heart of the property, which has become the focal point of a controversial housing development planned across the street.
Kathleen Danker, an English scholar and retired professor who goes by K.D., has owned the property since 1980, when she and a friend who rented rooms in the large old house on the land put down $20,000 to buy it and the little more than 2 acres of wooded land on which it sits.
“She and I bought it so we all didn’t have to move out,” Danker said.
The property is an anomaly: a piece of private land surrounded on three sides by Wilderness Park on what — until last week — was just outside the city limits, across the street from a swatch of open land owned by the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln.
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At the moment, that land is also the site of a prayer camp set up by a group of Native leaders who oppose the City Council’s May 2 approval of zoning and annexation ordinances that will allow Sam Manzitto Jr. to proceed with plans to build more than 500 single-family homes, townhouses and apartments on about 75 acres.
They fear the development, called Wilderness Crossing, will destroy the sanctity of a Native sweat lodge located nearby — across First Street, down a gravel driveway, past a house dating to the 1900s, in a clearing on land known these days simply as the Fish Farm.
Years ago — before Danker bought it — a colorful University of Nebraska-Lincoln professor who owned the land had his own issues with the city and wanted to protect the 1,475-acre park that was his neighbor.
David Hibler — who made news in the 1990s for various controversies, one of which ended with him being fired from UNL — also made news in the 1970s for, among other things, his objections to construction of the West Bypass.
What was then a proposed thoroughfare now known as U.S. 77 that runs along the western edge of Wilderness Park prompted Hibler to make an unsuccessful bid for Lancaster County commissioner in 1974, largely because of the damage he feared the expressway would do to the park.
A year later, he made news again for refusing to appear in court on charges that he let his goats graze in Wilderness Park, a charge that appeared to have as much to do with a disagreement with a park ranger as with the goats.
Hibler moved in 1976 — before the sweat lodge arrived — and began renting rooms in the house, which dates to the early 1900s. Danker moved there in 1979, and remembers the sweat lodge always being there, a part of the place where people have gravitated to for years.
Danker estimates that about 150 people have stayed at the house over the past 46 years, with the Fish Farm a refuge of sorts for those needing a place to stay till they figured out what was next for them. Some stayed just a short time, others for decades.
“It was a good place for people who were transitioning,” she said. “How long they would stay kind of depended on if they fell in love with the place — the land.”
Residents have ranged from people in their 20s — like Danker was when she first arrived — to parents with children to those in their 80s. They’ve come because it’s affordable, they’ve come to spend time in Wilderness Park, and they’ve come because of the people and community there.
“When you get here, some people really take to the place,” she said.
Danker was one of them.
About a year after she moved there, she and her friend bought it, and in 1985, she and her husband bought out her friend’s interest in the property, after the friend moved out of state.
She’d likely still live there, had South Dakota State University not offered her a job in the department of English and interdisciplinary studies.
Danker, who’d earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s and doctorate in English at the University of Nebraska, decided to take the job in 1990, though she and her husband kept the land, turning the collection of the still-modest rent and maintenance of the place over to longtime residents.
Now retired and widowed, Danker still comes back to visit regularly.
“I still think of it as my home,” she said.
The land is littered with evidence of its residents over the years: a ceramic face placed in a tree stump, an old bicycle, an outdoor space created by a longtime resident who had an affinity for art and collectibles, the remnants of what was once a large garden.
Inside the house, now cluttered with boxes and years' worth of belongings, the walls are adorned with oil canvases painted by a resident’s brother — including a landscape of the back garden of the property — and brightly-colored fish adorn the walls.
Outside, there’s old lawn furniture, a shed, an old pole barn, and a horse barn where Hibler once kept his horses.
And the sweat lodge.
Danker said she didn’t know, until recently, that Native spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog helped establish the sweat lodge years ago, nor did she realize just how important it was to Native people here — and others who have found it a place for recovery and renewal.
Danker stands firmly behind those who hope to convince either city officials or the developer to make additional concessions to protect the sanctity of the sweat lodge and the peacefulness of the Fish Farm — and to include Native voices in city government.
“I am thoroughly aligned with the Native people,” she said.
Just what will happen with the prayer camp remains to be seen. Amy Olson, a spokeswoman for Manzitto Construction, said the company isn’t willing to consider additional changes to the development — other than those agreed to as part of the plan approved by the City Council.
Kevin Abourezk, one of the leaders of the prayer camp, said leaders have met with Manzitto and the mayor, as well as the police chief. The open lines of communication are good, but Abourezk said they need to see some tangible change.
“If it’s just a promise of a meeting, it’s not enough,” he said. “Native people have been given so many promises and they just never, ever hold true.”
When the City Council approved the zoning and annexation ordinances May 2, the annexation included land surrounding the development, including the Fish Farm.
The privately-owned land wasn’t made part of Wilderness Park years ago because it wasn’t in the flood plain, said both Danker and Lincoln Parks and Recreation Director Lynn Johnson.
The site is on a hillside that runs from the land across the street, Danker said. At the top — near where the tipis now sit — the view reaches Saltillo Road to the south and the state Capital to the north, she said.
Wilderness Park was established in 1972 as both flood protection and to preserve a natural area for the public to use. The city planted many of the trees, Johnson said, to help slow the flow of stormwater.
The disputed land wasn’t identified in a 1999 study about the need to acquire land around the park to create a buffer. But in a portion of the park just north of the Fish Farm, the city has been taking out trees and replacing them with native grasses in an effort to protect a sandstone outcropping and the prickly pear cactus that grows there, Johnson said.
The city has suggested creating a neighborhood park in the development to protect the sandstone hill, though Johnson said it could also be created at a lower point nearer First Street — and the Fish Farm — though the developer has yet to agree to a park.
The annexation means Danker will eventually have to hook up to city sewer and electricity, a concern for her, and she worries that city regulations might impact the sweat lodge.
City Planning Director David Cary said he doesn’t think that’s an issue.
“It’s an activity on a piece of private property that’s there,” he said. “There’s no concern.”
Danker also worries about how the development will change her land — and has the same flooding concerns of other opponents of the development, who also worry about how traffic, light and noise pollution will affect the park.
‘It will change the nature of the place,” she said. “It’s so quiet and secluded.”
She doesn’t know what will happen in the future, but said the Fish Farm is dear to her — her husband’s ashes and those of a longtime resident are scattered there — and for others who’ve made their home there.
“I’ve always felt the place was important, not just for the land itself — it was important for the people who lived here and for those who use the sweat lodge.”
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A new lawsuit is attempting to throw out new political maps setting the boundaries of New York state Assembly districts, a challenge that comes amid a broader legal battle over the state’s redistricting.
The lawsuit filed Sunday by a bipartisan group of political activists contends that the maps draw by the legislature are unconstitutional, a similar claim used in lawsuits to successfully strike down maps favored by Democrats for state Senate and U.S. House districts as unconstitutional.
The lawsuit filed by Democratic activist Gary Greenberg and conservative political commentator Gavin Wax asks a judge to throw out the maps and move all of New York’s primary elections to the same day.
New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, ruled last month that the Democrat-controlled Legislature had failed to follow an anti-gerrymandering constitutional process approved by voters in 2014 when it drew new political districts for the 2022 elections.
But the Court of Appeals didn’t order the drawing of new Assembly maps because a group of GOP voters who sued over the redistricting process didn’t specifically challenge them in their lawsuit. They only went after the maps for U.S. House and state Senate seats.
A redistricting expert, hired by a New York Court court, is now working to redraw the congressional and Senate districts under court supervision. The expert’s first draft of those maps are due to be released Monday.
New York plans to hold Assembly and gubernatorial primaries on June 28. State Senate and Congressional primaries were delayed to Aug. 23 to allow time for the mapmaking process.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Police are investigating a crash involving a pedestrian and a MAX train in Northeast Portland Sunday evening.
Officers responded to the incident around 9:02 p.m. near Northeast Jonesmore Street and Northeast 82nd Avenue. The Portland Police Bureau (PPB) said the pedestrian was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
PPB has not released the identity of the pedestrian and has not said what led up to the incident.
The Portland Police Major Crash Team is investigating the crash. During the investigation, police closed the MAX light rail station at Northeast Jonesmore Street and Northeast 82nd Avenue.
The incident marked the second crash involving a MAX train and a pedestrian in Portland the past week. On May 13, a MAX train hit and killed a pedestrian around 10:30 p.m. near Northeast 160th and Burnside Street. According to TriMet, the pedestrian was standing on the tracks at the time of the crash.
Anyone with information about the crash on May 15 is asked to contact the Traffic Investigations Unit at crimetips@portlandoregon.gov and reference case number 22-128626, or call (503)823-2103.
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ATLANTA -- Georgia students will soon be trading their pencils and books for sunglasses and swimsuits after a busy school year. For teachers, the summer break is often a time for lesson planning and professional training.
Tiffany Fannin, a social studies teacher who works with special education students, will be undergoing some extra training this summer to help her handle the type of sensitive issues currently occupying headlines and legislators’ brains.
“I just want to make sure that I am covering my standards in a way that’s not going to cause an alarm with certain parents and learning how to present things factually, but also learning how to be able to present another side, if that’s possible, for many of the issues that we’re facing,” said Fannin, who asked that the Recorder not name the district where she teaches.
Starting in the fall, history teachers will navigate a raft of new laws passed by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp ostensibly aimed at taking politics out of classrooms.
The law that originated as House Bill 1084 bars teachers from discussing nine so-called divisive concepts, including that the United States is inherently racist, that a person should not be discriminated against because of their race or that an individual bears responsibility for misdeeds committed by others of the same race.
“It ensures all of our state and nation’s history will be taught accurately,” said Kemp at a signing ceremony for the bill. “Because here in Georgia, our classrooms will not be pawns to those who indoctrinate our kids with their partisan political agendas.”
Many Georgia teachers take umbrage at the idea that they would seek to indoctrinate students, but they worry zealous parents could find fault with their lessons for political reasons and land them in hot water.
One Forsyth County middle school teacher who asked that her name not be published for fear of retaliation said she worries her lessons on colonialism could be put under scrutiny.
She said she teaches students about the effects on colonized people, including the loss of their freedoms and the erasure of their cultures and languages and how that affects those populations today.
“If I’m linking it to how those people have functioned throughout the time of colonization and after that, and I’m linking it to today, to many of the ramifications, like loss of language and how people are trying to bring those back, I’m sure somebody in our community could say that I am, under the guise of standards, trying to teach critical race theory,” she said. “However, that is not the case. Whether I ascribe to that idea or not, I’m just helping kids to realize cause-effect and long-term impact.”
Critical race theory was once defined as an academic framework examining racism as a cultural force rather than an individual evil. It has come to be used as a catch-all for lessons that some white parents say cause their children to feel guilty by association for sins like slavery and Jim Crow.
In a February committee meeting, Dawsonville Republican Rep. Will Wade, HB 1084’s sponsor, said teachers will not need to avoid difficult subjects as long as they do not assign blame to white children. He told the committee about a time his young daughter came home from school in tears after hearing the story of Rosa Parks.
“She said ‘Why did white people do that?’ and then she just started squalling,” Wade said. “She said ‘Why do people hate each other, daddy?’ My daughter, in that moment, she was feeling anguish. My job as a parent is to embrace that child at that moment, to let her know what she is doing, that she has natural empathy for another human being. The teacher did not do anything in order to tell that she should feel that way because of her race.”
Whether parents understand the difference is another issue. Another Kemp-backed bill known as the parents’ Bill of Rights codifies the rights of parents, including to inspect classroom materials.
Fannin said she’s had a few parents express concerns about her lessons over the course of her career, but she’s always been able to reassure them by having a conversation and showing them her lesson plans. She said she is distressed by a perception that educators are up to no good, and she worries the new laws will make the parent-teacher relationship more hostile.
She said she trusts her administrators to be fair if she is accused of teaching improper concepts, but she worries that will not be the same across the state, especially for newer teachers who have less experience allaying parents’ concerns.
The Forsyth middle school teacher said she’s less confident in her administrators. She worries they will kowtow to what she calls a vocal minority of parents to avoid further problems, but she says she’s hopeful her district will come up with good guidelines and follow them properly.
“I hope that it is followed with an open mind to actually hear what is being said and with someone who can think critically about what’s being said and not just take it and make it go away because it makes it look better for us,” she said.
During the debate over the bills, detractors said the added scrutiny will push people away from becoming teachers. The Forsyth teacher said she has considered other lines of work, but she’ll be back in the classroom in the fall with her fingers crossed that everything will work out.
“The thing that keeps me coming back is working with students,” she said. “I have fun with them. And there’s only been one part of my time in, during this year, particularly, that I’ve really had to consider where my allegiances are. But it is for the students that I even choose to come back. And I’ve signed my contract for next year, so I hope it’s going to continue to be a relative non-issue within my school.”
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LEESBURG -- The Lee County High School Distinguished Alumni Program Committee is seeking nominations for the Class of 2022 LCHS Distinguished Alumni.
The purpose of the program is to recognize outstanding alumni who have maintained a high standard of excellence and distinguished themselves through their work, personal accomplishments, or in the lives of others. These individuals exemplify the ideals of the Lee County School System and the community, and serve as role models for current and future Lee County High School students.
Nominations will be accepted through June 1. Nomination packets can be emailed directly to the nominator. Email shirleypa@lee.k12.ga.us to request a packet. They also can be picked up in person at the Lee County Chamber of Commerce and the Lee County Board of Education Central Office. The nomination packet can be downloaded directly from the main page of the school system website: www.lee.k12.ga.us.
For more information on how to nominate a LCHS Distinguished Alumni, contact 2022 Committee Chair Patsy Shirley at (229) 903-3993 or shirleypa@lee.k12.ga.us.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A restaurant chain that served up American comfort food off of North Roan Street closed its doors to diners indefinitely.
O’Charley’s staff said Monday that operations at its 112 Broyles Drive location ended — effective immediately. The news came after the eatery revealed it will serve free meals to Johnson City, Kingsport and Bristol police departments on May 16 to celebrate National Police Week.
The offer stemmed from the O’Charley’s Hometown Heroes campaign, which works to honor those who serve their communities to promote safety. While the Johnson City location will not be available for the offer, a company spokesperson stated that the Kingsport and Bristol locations will participate.
O’Charley’s in Kingsport is located at 1920 N. Eastman Road, and the Bristol, Virginia location is at 3173 Linden Drive. The restaurants’ hours are both 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. Delivery services for the Kingsport location end at 10 p.m.
This is a developing story, and News Channel 11 will provide updates on-air and online at WJHL.com.
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WISE COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — A single-vehicle crash on Route 630 (South Mountain Road) Friday killed an 8-year-old passenger and injured a 16-year-old driver.
A release from Virginia State Police (VSP) revealed that a 2015 Hyundai Veloster had been traveling east near Route 869 (Haddonfield Road) when it ran off the side of the road and hit a tree before bursting into flames.
First responders arrived at the scene at 5:26 p.m. and transported the driver and passenger, both from Pound, to the hospital. The 16-year-old received minor injuries in the crash. The 8-year-old boy died of his injuries at the Dickenson Community Hospital.
Both had been wearing a seatbelt.
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BLOOMINGTON — A Clearwater, Florida, man remains jailed in McLean County on drug charges .
Hendricks
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David L. Hendricks, 44, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony).
He also is charged with Class 3 felony unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver, Class 4 felony unlawful cannabis possession and misdemeanor unlawful controlled substance possession.
The Class X and Class 1 felony charges are for accusations of LSD possession.
Hendricks was jailed in lieu of posting $10,035.
An arraignment is scheduled for June 3.
Updated mug shots from The Pantagraph
David L. Hendricks
David L. Hendricks, 44, of Clearwater, Florida, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kenneth R. McNairy
Kenneth R. McNairy, 32, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X and Class 1 felonies), and two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 and Class 4 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Emmitt A. Simmons
Emmitt A. Simmons, 21, of LeRoy, is charged with indecent solicitation of a child (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Elizabeth A. Johnson
Elizabeth A. Johnson, 40, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of meth (Class 3 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathon P. Keister
Jonathon P. Keister, 38, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony), and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of meth (Class 3 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brandon J. Black
Brandon J. Black, 33, of Decatur, is charged with child pornography (Class X felony), attempt to produce child pornography (Class 3 felony), sexual exploitation of a child and grooming (Class 4 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ricky A. Smith
Ricky A. Smith , 30, 0f Urbana, is charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felonies), unlawful possession of meth and possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Connor M. Mink
Connor M. Mink, 18, of Bloomington is charged with unlawful:
Possession of 5-15 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) Possession of less than 5 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony) Possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony) Possession of less than 5 grams of meth (Class 3 felony) Possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) Possession of less than 1 gram of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 2 felony) Possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony) Possession of less than 15 grams of alprazolam (Class 4 felony) Possession of 30-500 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 3 felony) Possession of 10-30 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver (Class 4 felony)
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Mark A. Thrower
Mark A. Thrower, 40, of Vinton, Louisiana, is charged with:
Eight counts child pornography (Class X felonies) Two counts aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor (Class 2 felonies) Two counts grooming (Class 4 felonies) Indecent solicitation of a child (Class 3 felony) Traveling to meet a minor (Class 3 felony)
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kayala D.C. Huff
Kayala D.C. Huff, 23, of Normal, is charged with aggravated battery, domestic battery and resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Rebecca Y. Choi
Rebecca Y. Choi, 32, of Wheaton, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony), possession of less than 15 grams of amphetamine (Class 4 felony), and possession of drug paraphernalia (Class A misdemeanor).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David W. Kallal
David W. Kallal, 36, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony), possession of 15-100 grams of meth (Class 1 felony), and possession of 5-15 grams of meth (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Javon T. Murff
Javon T. Murff, 19, of Normal, is charged with two counts aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class 1 felony), robbery (Class 2 felony), possession of a stolen firearm (Class 2 felony), two counts aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (Class 4 felony), two counts reckless discharge of a firearm (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Demarcus J. Heidelberg
Demarcus J. Heidelberg, 24, of Belleville, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Deon K. Moore
Deon K. Moore, 26, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon (Class 2 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Cordaiz J. Jones
Cordaiz J. Jones, 35, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery (Class 2 felonies), stalking (Class 4 felony) and two counts of misdemeanor resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christopher L. Anderson
Christopher L. Anderson, 40, of Downs, is charged with unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, unlawful possession of meth, unlawful possession of a controlled substance and aggravated assault.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Latele Y. Pinkston
Latele Y. Pinkston , 29, was sentenced to five years in prison. Pinkston pleaded guilty to unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Daniel Wilcox
Daniel Wilcox, 22, of New Concord, Kentucky, is charged with five counts each of criminal sexual assault (Class 1 felonies) and criminal sexual abuse, which are charged as Class A misdemeanors.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kaveior K. Thomas
Kaveior K. Thomas, 32, of Normal, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver (Class X felony), unlawful possession of a controlled substance (Class 1 felony), two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, and violation of the Illinois FOID Card Act (Class 3 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Courtney A. Boyd
Courtney A. Boyd, 27, of Normal, is charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jodi M. Draper
Jodi M. Draper, 55, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Brian D. Stewart
Brian D. Stewart, 48, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lonnie L. Kimbrough
Lonnie L. Kimbrough , 36, of Peoria, was sentenced to 24 months on conditional discharge and four days in jail. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful cannabis possession.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Amari S. Buchanon
Amari S. Buchanon, 25, of Normal, was sentenced to 16 days in jail. She earned credit for eight days served in jail. She pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a firearm without a valid Firearm Owner's Identification Card. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Donna Osborne
Donna Osborne, 52, of Decatur, is charged with two counts of burglary (Class 2 felonies) and one count each of retail theft (Class 3 felony) and theft (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Juls T. Eutsey
Julian T. Eutsey, 21, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 24 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of criminal sexual abuse.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Megan J. Duffy
Megan J. Duffy, 27, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony) and two counts each of unlawful possession of 5-15 grams (Class 2 felony) and less than 5 grams of meth (Class 3 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Qwonterian V. Ivy
Qwonterian V. Ivy, 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated discharge of a firearm at an occupied building.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Madison A. Knight
Madison A. Knight , 20, of Rutland, was sentenced to 120 days in jail and 30 months' probation for unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dexter D. McCraney
Dexter D. McCraney , 38, of Normal, is charged with one count each of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Thomas J. Davis
Thomas J. Davis , 27, of Bloomington, was sentenced to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Christina D. Noonan
Christina D. Noonan , 42, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of controlled substance trafficking (Class X felonies), two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver charged as Class X felonies and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver as a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Wesley M. Noonan
Wesley M. Noonan , 48, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of controlled substance trafficking (Class X felonies), two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver charged as Class X felonies and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver as a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kenyatta L. Tate
Kenyatta L. Tate , 46, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of between 15-100 grams and 1-15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver (Class X and Class 1 felonies) and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Quacy L. Webster
Quacy L. Webster , 43, of Bloomington, is charged with one count each of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felony) and unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine (Class 4 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jalen A. Davis
Jalen A. Davis , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with six counts of child pornography possession (Class X felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lazaro Flores
Lazaro Flores , 34, of Streator, was sentenced to seven years in prison for aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol causing death.
Mohamed N. Thiam
Mohamed N. Thiam , 19, of Bloomington, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lorenzo Sims
Lorenzo Sims, 30, of Chicago, is charged with five counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance (Class 2 felonies).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Laycell D. Wright
Laycell D. Wright , 32, of Rantoul, is charged with unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine (Class 1 felony). He also is charged with unlawful possession of 100-500 grams of cannabis (Class 4 felony) and 30-100 grams of cannabis (Class A misdemeanor).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Richard S. Bjorling
Richard S. Bjorling , 54, of Peoria Heights, was sentenced to seven years in prison for unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyler D. Vidmar
Tyler D. Vidmar , 23, of Clinton, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
James E. Chase
James E. Chase , 52, of Bloomington, is charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Melissa J. Piercy
Melissa J. Piercy , 38, of Normal, is charged with unlawful delivery of meth (Class 2 felony), unlawful possession of 15-100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class X felony) and unlawful possession of 5-15 grams of meth with the intent to deliver (Class 1 felony).
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Charles L. Bell
Charles L. Bell , 33, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery (Class X felony), two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm (Class 1 felonies), aggravated unlawful use of a weapon (Class 2 felony), unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon (Class 2 felony), and violation of the Illinois Firearm Identification Card Act (Class 3 felony).
BLOOMINGTON POLICE
Wilmer A. Marquez-Ayala
Wilmer A. Marquez-Ayala , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with six counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a minor family member (Class 2 felonies) and three counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a victim under 13 years old (Class X felonies).
BLOOMINGTON POLICE
Joshway C. Boens
Joshway C. Boens , 41, of Chicago, is charged in McLean County with aggravated domestic battery and domestic battery as a subsequent offense.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Seth A. Kindred
Seth A. Kindred , 31, of Ellsworth, was sentenced March 30 to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Matthew D. Nunley
Matthew D. Nunley , 33, of Eureka, was sentenced to four years in prison for one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Clinton A. Page
Clinton A. Page , 29, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 24 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery of a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Loren M. Jepsen
Loren M. Jepsen , 34, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of home invasion causing injury (Class X felony). All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Calvin E. Young
Calvin E. Young , 30, of Bloomington, was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of cocaine.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jason R. Roof
Jason R. Roof , 46, of Heyworth, was sentenced March 28 to five and a half years in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
James L. Fields
James L. Fields , 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to eight years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm at an occupied vehicle and unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Michelle E. Mueller
Michelle E. Mueller , 32, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of burglary. All other charges were dismissed.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Telly H. Arrington
Telly H. Arrington , 24, of Normal, is charged with four counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Antonio R. Ross
Antonio R. Ross , 28, of Springfield, was sentenced March 24 to two and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of retail theft. All other charges were dismissed. He also was ordered to pay $7,305 in restitution. Ross earned credit for previously serving 239 days in jail.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Carlos L. Hogan
Carlos L. Hogan , 33, of Decatur, was sentenced to four years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 30-500 grams of cannabis. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David W. Kallal
David W. Kallal , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kent D. Johnson
Kent D. Johnson , 34, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Andre D. Seals
Andre D. Seals , 37, of Champaign, is charged with aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyler S. Burns
Tyler S. Burns, 31, of Chenoa, was sentenced to 170 days in jail and 30 months probation. He earned credit for the 170 days previously served in jail. Burns pleaded guilty to one count of burglary.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Carrie Funk
Carrie Funk , 54, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of criminal neglect of an elderly person.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Anthony R. Fairchild
Anthony R. Fairchild , 51, of Bloomington, is charged with one count each of burglary and theft.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Inez J. Gleghorn
Inez J. Gleghorn, 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated battery causing great bodily harm in connection to an April 2021 stabbing in Bloomington. Other battery charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Alexis S. Williams
Alexis S. Williams, 24, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. She pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Nayeon A. Teague
Nayeon A. Teague , 21, of Normal, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Frankie L. Hutchinson
Frankie L. Hutchinson , 21, of Chicago, is charged with one count of aggravated unlawful possession of stolen vehicle parts, two counts of unlawful possession of stolen vehicle parts, two counts of aggravated fleeing a peace officer and two counts of criminal damage to property.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joseph L. McLeod
Joseph L. McLeod , 40, of Peoria, is charged with two counts of burglary, two counts of theft, and one count each of forgery and deceptive practices.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lanee R. Rich
Lanee R. Rich , 18, of Heyworth, is charged with two counts each of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Corey K. Butler
Corey K. Butler , 19, of Champaign, is charged with possession of a stolen firearm and two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Darrius D. Robinson
Darrius D. Robinson , 29, of Normal, is charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jacob Z. Kemp
Jacob Z. Kemp , 32, is charged with three counts of aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathan A. Jamison
Jonathan A. Jamison , 44, of Normal, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathon K. Campbell
Jonathan K. Campbell , 43, Jonathan K. Campbell, 43, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 48 months on probation. He pleaded guilty to one count of domestic battery causing bodily harm.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Geno A. Borrego
Geno A. Borrego , 23, of Pontiac, is charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jaylin M. Caldwell
Jaylin M. Caldwell , 21, of Bloomington, was sentenced to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of 1-15 grams of cocaine. All other charges were dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Joshua D. Rials
Joshua D. Rials , 28, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of armed violence, Class X felonies, four counts of unlawful possession of a firearm and firearm ammunition by a convicted felon, Class 2 felonies. He was charged March 1 with two counts each of unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and of firearm ammunition by a felon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jamakio D. Chapell
Jamakio D. Chapell , 28, of Montgomery, Alabama, is charged with four counts of Class 2 felony aggravated battery, misdemeanor resisting a peace officer and 11 traffic charges, including driving under the influence of alcohol.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Thomas E. Dolan
Thomas E. Dolan , 22, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful possession of between 500 and 2,000 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver, unlawful cannabis possession, battery and unlawful restraint.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jordyn H. Thornton
Jordyn H. Thornton , 22, of Bloomington, was convicted of first-degree murder in the Oct. 30, 2018, shooting death of Trevonte Kirkwood, 27, of Bloomington, in the 1300 block of North Oak Street in Bloomington.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ty W. Johnson
Ty W. Johnson , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with criminal sexual assault, robbery and possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kyle D. Kindred
Kyle D. Kindred , 23, of Shirley, is charged with cannabis trafficking, two counts of unlawful possession of cannabis with the intent to deliver and two counts of unlawful possession of cannabis.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Lorel M. Johnson
Lorel M. Johnson , 41, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of aggravated battery and two counts of aggravated domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kimberlee A. Burton
Kimberlee A. Burton , 29, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of child endangerment, Class A misdemeanors.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kevin C. Knight
Kevin C. Knight , 40, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Derail T. Riley
Derail T. Riley , 35, of Normal, is charged with one count of aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and five counts of Class 4 felony domestic battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ade A. McDaniel
Ade A. McDaniel , 40, of North Miami Beach, Florida, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, a Class 1 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jahni A. Lyons
Jahni A. Lyons , 19, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated discharge of a firearm and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon.
BLOOMINGTON POLICE
Justin A. Atkinson
Justin A. Atkinson , 39, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated domestic battery-strangulation, a Class 2 felony, and domestic battery as a subsequent offense, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Destiny D. Brown
Destiny D. Brown , 39, of Bloomington, is charged with three counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver, three counts of methamphetamine possession and one count of methamphetamine delivery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Billy J. Braswell
Billy J. Braswell , 39, of Wapella, is charged with three counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and four counts of methamphetamine possession.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Mitchell A. Rogers
Mitchell A. Rogers , 37, of Peoria, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine with the intent to deliver and two counts of unlawful possession of methamphetamine.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Matthew D. Stone
Matthew D. Stone , 22, of Normal, is charged with one count of aggravated battery, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tyler A. Guy
Tyler A. Guy , 25, of Towanda, is charged with one count of Class 2 felony aggravated battery.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Gordan D. Lessen
Gordan D. Lessen , 36, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of domestic battery as a subsequent offense, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Steven M. Abdullah
Steven M. Abdullah , 31, of Heyworth, is charged with two counts of harassment of jurors, Class 2 felonies, 11 counts of communication with jurors, Class 4 felonies, and one count of attempted communication with a juror, a Class A misdemeanor.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Ryan D. Triplett
Ryan D. Triplett , 27, of Decatur, is charged with aggravated domestic battery-strangulation, a Class 2 felony, and domestic battery as a subsequent offense felony, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Pedro A. Parra
Pedro A. Parra , 40, is charged with two counts of burglary, Class 2 and Class 3 felonies, and misdemeanor theft.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Gregory A. Spence
Gregory A. Spence , 39, of Bartonville, is charged with three counts of burglary, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Justin A. Leicht
Justin A. Leicht , 41, of Downs, is charged with three counts of burglary, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Edward L. Holmes
Edward L. Holmes , 50, of Bloomington, is charged with the following:
Controlled substance trafficking of between 400 and 900 grams of cocaine Unlawful possession of between 400 and 900 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver Controlled substance trafficking of between 100 and 400 grams of cocaine Unlawful possession of between 100 and 400 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver Methamphetamine trafficking of between 100 and 400 grams of a substance containing meth Unlawful possession of between 100 and 400 grams of meth with the intent to deliver Methamphetamine trafficking of between 15 and 100 grams of meth Unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of meth with the intent to deliver
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Latoya M. Jackson
Latoya M. Jackson , 31, of Bloomington, is charged with one count of possession of a stolen or converted motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Shaquan D. Hosea
Shaquan D. Hosea , 26, of Bloomington, is charged with residential burglary, a Class 1 felony, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jaccob L. Morris
Jaccob L. Morris , 20, of Bloomington, is charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, burglary, each Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dontel D. Crowder
Dontel D. Crowder , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, Class 2 felonies, and harboring a runaway, Class A misdemeanor.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Donnell A. Taylor
Donnell A. Taylor , 29, of Bloomington, is charged with two counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Eric E. Seymon
Eric E. Seymon , 19, of Bloomington, is charged with eight counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance and one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Aikee Muhammad
Aikee Muhammad , 19, is charged with two counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon, possession of a stolen motor vehicle and resisting a peace officer.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
William M. McCuen
William M. McCuen , 33, of Atlanta, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Meontay D. Wheeler
Meontay D. Wheeler , 23, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and torture, a Class 1 felony, aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and aggravated domestic battery involving strangulation, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Fenwrick M. Bartholomew
Fenwrick M. Bartholomew , 51, of Normal, was sentenced to three years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Javares L. Hudson
Javares L. Hudson , 21, of Bloomington, is charged in federal court with possession of a machine gun. He was initially charged in McLean County court with two counts of unlawful use of a weapon-machine gun parts. One charge is a Class X felony and the other is a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tommy L. Jumper
Tommy L. Jumper , 59, of Bloomington, is charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of a controlled substance, each a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
David S. Fry
David S. Fry , 70, of Normal, is charged with 45 counts of child pornography. Sixteen of the charges are a Class 2 felony and 29 charges are a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Logan T. Kendricks
Logan T. Kendricks , 35, is charged with two counts of aggravated domestic battery, Class 2 felonies.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Davis W. Hopkins
Davis W. Hopkins , 25, of Chenoa, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine, a Class X felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson , 38, of Chicago, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class X felony; unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, a Class 2 felony; unlawful possession of firearm ammunition by a convicted felon, a Class 2 felony; unlawful possession of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 3 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Rochelle A. McCray
Rochelle A. McCray , 37, of Chicago, is charged with unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class X felony; unlawful possession of between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine with the intent to deliver, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of cocaine, a Class 1 felony; unlawful possession of less than 15 grams of cocaine, a Class 4 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Dontae D. Gilbert
Dontae D. Gilbert , 30, of Bloomington, is charged with aggravated domestic battery, a Class 2 felony, and domestic battery, charged as a Class 3 felony for a subsequent offense.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Stefan A. Mangina
Stefan A. Mangina , 32, is charged with three counts of unlawful delivery of methamphetamine, unlawful possession of meth with the intent to deliver and unlawful possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Michael J. Owen
Michael J. Owen , 30, of Stanford, pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of between 1 and 15 grams of cocaine. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail and 30 months on probation.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Cedric J. Haynes
Cedric J. Haynes , 21, of Bloomington, is charged with nine counts of unlawful delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jonathan Wiley
Jonathan Wiley , 30, of Chicago, is charged with attempted possession or sale of stolen car parts, a Class 2 felony, and resisting a peace officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
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Jason S. Russell
Jason S. Russell , 22, of Chicago, is charged with attempted possession or sale of stolen car parts, a Class 2 felony, and resisting a peace officer, a Class A misdemeanor.
Provided by Bloomington Police
Aaron J. Zielinski
Aaron J. Zielinski, 28, of Plainfield, was sentenced to four years on probation for unlawful possession of between 15 and 100 grams of methamphetamine. A charge of unlawful possession of meth with the intent to deliver was dismissed.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Albert F. Matheny
Albert F. Matheny , 35, of Bloomington, was sentenced Jan. 10 to six years in prison. He pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than five grams of methamphetamine.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Hunter C. Kellenberger
Hunter C. Kellenberger , 24, of Pekin, was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine. A meth possession charge was dismissed.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Samuel Harris
Samuel Harris , 21, of Chicago, was sentenced to 22 days in jail and 30 months on probation after pleading guilty to one count of possession of a stolen motor vehicle.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jordan P. Gillespie
Jordan P. Gillespie , 27, of LeRoy, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for residential burglary and unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
PROVIDED BY MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
William R. Carter
William R. Carter , 23, of Bloomington, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sexual assault, attempted residential arson and unlawful restraint.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Kentre A. Jackson
Kentre A. Jackson, 26, of Ypsilanti, Mich., was sentenced to 30 months of conditional discharge. He was charged as of June 9, 2020, with unlawful possession of 500 to 2,000 grams of cannabis and unlawful possession of 500 to 2,000 grams of cannabis with the intent to deliver. The latter charge was dismissed.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Andrew L. Stanley
Andrew L. Stanley , 39, of Bloomington, was sentenced to four years on probation for one count of arson. He pleaded guilty to setting his home on fire while a woman and a teenage girl were inside. One count of aggravated arson was dismissed in a plea agreement.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Jerail M. Myrick
Jerail M. Myrick , 26, of Springfield, is charged with one count of unlawful delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Amari M. McNabb
Amari M. McNabb , 23, of Country Club Hills , was sentenced to 28 years in prison for murder and mob action for his involvement in the 2019 fatal shooting of Juan Nash, 25, in Bloomington. He was found guilty in a jury trial of those charges, but the jury found him not guilty of discharge of a firearm.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Aaron Parlier
Aaron M. Parlier , 40, was sentenced Jan. 14 to 450 years in prison after he was found guilty in a bench trial of 10 counts of predatory criminal sexual assault of a minor and 10 counts of child pornography production.
Rebecca L. Gormley
Rebecca L. Gormley , 35, of Bloomington, is charged with unlawful delivery of less than 5 grams of methamphetamine, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Penny S. Self
Penny S. Self , 59, of Ashland, is charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle, a Class 2 felony.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
Nathaniel A. Butler
Nathaniel A. Butler , 20, of Bloomington was sentenced Jan. 4, 2022, to seven years in prison. He pleaded guilty to aggravated discharge of a firearm into an occupied building and two counts of unlawful possession of a firearm without a valid firearm owners identification card.
MCLEAN COUNTY JAIL
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Ocean City player wins big in record-setting Maryland Lottery week
In a record-setting week for the Maryland Lottery, one Ocean City player has cashed in their ticket for a big prize.
A $25,000-winning Pick 5 ticket was sold May 11 at Beach Barrels, 13207 Coastal Highway in Ocean City.
The state's big winner for the week was a record-setting $5.1 million Multi-Match jackpot on a ticket sold in Hampstead. Meanwhile, just in time for Preakness week, a Racetrax player in Edgewood landed an $86,841.90 prize.
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In all, 48 tickets worth $10,000 or more were sold or redeemed in the seven days ending May 8, and the Lottery paid a total of more than $32.5 million in prizes during that span.
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen treated for minor stroke
U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen says he has suffered a minor stroke and is being treated at George Washington University Hospital. The Maryland Democrat says he has been told there are no long-term effects or damage.
In a statement Sunday night, Van Hollen said he has been advised by doctors to remain under observation at the hospital for a few days out of an abundance of caution.
Van Hollen, 63, was elected to the Senate in 2016 after serving seven terms in the U.S. House.
The senator said he experienced lightheadedness and acute neck pain while delivering a speech in western Maryland. On the advice of a physician, he sought medical attention upon his return home.
An angiogram indicated a minor stroke in the form of a small venous tear at the back of his head, Van Hollen said.
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“I look forward to returning to work in the Senate later this week and thank the medical team for their excellent care,” he said.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – One of Kingsport’s biggest festivals returned Saturday with BBQ and hundreds of drink options.
Racks by the Tracks was held in the fall of 2021 due to the novel coronavirus postponing its usual springtime date, but the festival got back to tradition this year.
Breweries, and wineries from across the region set up shop at the Kingsport Farmers Market to give attendees tastes of their beverages. On the street, some of the most well-known BBQ joints in the area set up shop. Some were newcomers, but others were no strangers to the Model City event.
“This is actually my first year with Racks,” said Keith Dancy, the head brewer for Great Oak Brewing.
“This is our sixth year,” said John Burgess, owner of Boozy Creek Smokers.
Vendors were thrilled to be back at the festival’s regular time after the difficulties presented by the pandemic.
“Of course, COVID kinda put a damper on everything, but hopefully it’s coming back,” Burgess said. “Hopefully, we can come back and do more events, but then I love Racks. I just love coming here.”
The selection of beers, ciders, wines and seltzers meant there were drinks for just about any palate.
“I’ve brought in ten ciders, one hard seltzer,” said Myron Woods, the head cider maker for Slammin’ Ethyl. “We’ve got several new ones: we got prickly pear, we got blood orange pomegranate, got a fireball style cider, cotton candy, blackberry.”
“We kind of stick [to] really traditional style brewing,” said Dancy. “I stick kind of to a German-style brewing, so we do like today I brought my Kolsch and of course, we do like a West Coast IPA.”
While people at Racks by the Tracks may have different taste preferences, there is one thing they all agree makes the festival great.
“The people, the interaction with the people just getting out and interacting with the crowd,” said Burgess.
“The people, we enjoy having them, laughing and stuff,” said Woods. “I really enjoy them telling me how good things are and how much they appreciate it. That means more to me than anything, best compliment you’d ever have.”
In addition to drinks and BBQ, festival-goers were able to enjoy live music all day with performances from bands paying tribute to Aerosmith and the Eagles on stage.
City officials were thrilled with the turnout and hope it serves as a sign that after two years of uncertainty, Kingsport can once again enjoy its fun traditions.
“Last year, we had to push because of the pandemic into September,” said Frank Lett of Visit Kingsport. “We saw a great rebound but not full capacity. I think this year we’re back to full capacity, being back in our normal month of May. The crowd has been huge today, so I’d say we’re back.”
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HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The search for a Beech Creek 6-year-old who has not been seen in nearly a year sparked months of searching throughout hundreds of acres of remote and rough terrain.
The scouring and planned missions to bring Summer Wells home involved hundreds of trained personnel from all over the country, and the case has garnered national attention in the months following her disappearance.
But no answers have come to light.
Summer Utah-Moon Wells vanished on June 15, 2021, after helping her mother and grandmother in the garden, according to family members. That evening — 11 months ago — marked the last time her family would see her. An Amber Alert was issued the following day.
Family members told News Channel 11 in one-on-one interviews that they believe Summer had been kidnapped, and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) stated that there was a “very real possibility that she wandered off” after thousands of tips yielded no leads in the case.
The Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) acted as the first responding agency on the scene when Summer vanished. Sheriff Ronnie Lawson said after five months of searching that crews have not given up, but no signs have pointed to an abduction.
The agency did ask for the public’s help in a break in the case that involved a possible witness, but nothing ever arose from its search for a red or maroon truck in late June 2021. Witnesses had claimed to see the vehicle in the area the night Summer disappeared from her Ben Hill Road residence.
Investigators have stressed that social media rumors and speculation interfere with the case as agents attempt to pinpoint what happened to Summer last June. This involved what was spread online as YouTubers learned of the case, including those who claim to have psychic abilities.
A reward fund for information leading to Summer remains just shy of $74,000.
The ongoing AMBER Alert lists the following details for Summer:
- Age: 6 years old
- Sex: Female
- Race: White
- Hair: Blond
- Eyes: Blue
- Height: 3 feet
- Weight: 40 lb.
- Missing from: Rogersville, Tennessee
- Missing since: June 15, 2021
Those with information regarding Summer should call 1-800-TBI-FIND.
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