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A man is under arrest and facing a murder charge after Azle Police say he fatally shot a motorcycle rider on Sunday afternoon.
On July 31, Azle police officers and Azle firefighters were called to a crash and possible shots fired on the 1400 block of State Highway 199.
When officers arrived, they found 43-year-old Brian K. Turner injured and lying in the road. Turner, police said, was on his motorcycle when he was shot by another motorist, identified by police as 27-year-old Anthony Bennett.
Turner was taken by air ambulance to a hospital in Fort Worth where he later died. Bennett, meanwhile, is facing a murder charge and is being held on a $100,000 bond.
The Criminal Investigations Division is investigating the shooting and no further details, including the motive, have been released.
Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to contact the Criminal Investigations Division at 817-444-3221. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/driver-charged-with-murder-after-motorcyclist-shot-along-texas-199/3039309/ | 2022-08-03T22:48:54 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/driver-charged-with-murder-after-motorcyclist-shot-along-texas-199/3039309/ |
16-year-old Robert Rodriguez is going through something most kids his age don't have to worry about: cancer.
"When I was diagnosed with cancer...I kind of forgot how to be myself," Rodriguez said.
On Tuesday, Rodriguez completed his wish from Make-A-Wish North Texas when Titan Fitness delivered a custom barbell to go with the home gym he wished for and received.
"It's a really therapeutic experience for me," Rodriguez said. "The fact that I'm able to lift weights, I mean, I remember when I could barely walk on my own."
In October 2020, Rodriguez was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer. Still, nothing about it was common to him.
"For most of my life, I kind of identified as being a sporty person," Rodriguez said.
His chemotherapy treatments and COVID risks made sports and going to the gym risky.
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"It was very lonely, and like, you see everyone move forward with their lives and sometimes you just wish you could do that," Rodriguez said. "People are worried about what they're gonna do when they grow up. I'm worried if I'm going to make it. If I'm ever going to be that age."
Rodriguez said the Make-A-Wish granted made him feel seen and valued.
"I'm not a quitter. It's just gonna take some hard work and it's something I can overcome," Rodriguez said. "I just always gotta look at the bright side and keep pushing forward." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/farmersville-teen-and-cancer-patients-wish-for-at-home-gym-granted/3039473/ | 2022-08-03T22:49:00 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/farmersville-teen-and-cancer-patients-wish-for-at-home-gym-granted/3039473/ |
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — An 11-year-old girl was shocked when she walked up to Anna from "Frozen" at Disneyland—and the character started talking to her in sign language.
Her mother, who is from New Braunfels and appeared on CBS This Morning Wednesday, posted the heartwarming video to on TikTok. It's since racked up more than 2 million views.
Zoe Tapley, 11, is deaf and usually has to have her parents translate, but was surprised that Princess Anna from the "Frozen" films knew American sign language.
This trip was Zoe's second trip to Disneyland. But according to her mom, this was the first time she has had an interaction with a character that knew ASL, the Uplift reported.
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TEXAS, USA — The heat and drought add up to make it a tough year for ranchers. The past three months have been the hottest on record in San Antonio.
The lack of rain is not just impacting land, but the cattle and ranchers that depend on it.
Vicki Brehm owns and operates her family’s cattle ranch off of Probandt Avenue. She’s been in the business for 28 years. Brehm makes all the decisions, but no rain has made her change course.
“This year we have no grazing. So everything they’re eating, we are feeding. On this property we’re putting out eight bales of hay a week,” Brehm said she feels lucky after she stocked up on hay last year.
The drought has led to increased hay prices, according to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Lead ranchers like Brehm are already facing other costs.
“You can imagine what the water bill is on a monthly basis trying to keep 40 head plus calves in plenty of water, so it’s been a rough go,” Brehm said.
It’s been so hot that the cows will spend most of their time cooling off in the shade.
Brehm is hopeful they can get some rain soon, but estimates even a 10” rainstorm would only improve conditions for a few weeks.
“I just keep thinking we’re a day closer to getting that rainstorm,” she says.
“I love the cattle, and to see them suffer, it’s something that I just can’t deal with. Like I said, I’m just lucky enough to keep them in decent condition to where they’re okay,” Brehm said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/heat-drought-impacts-conditions-for-cattle-ranches-texas-heat-san-antonio/273-1699d484-bba6-4442-bdf4-68099bb996f1 | 2022-08-03T22:52:22 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/texas/heat-drought-impacts-conditions-for-cattle-ranches-texas-heat-san-antonio/273-1699d484-bba6-4442-bdf4-68099bb996f1 |
Police ID body found in La Paz County as 87-year-old missing Yuma woman
Police are investigating the death of a missing 87-year-old Yuma woman whose remains were found in July in a separate county.
Barbara Ann Waters, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, left her home near 38th Lane near 18th Drive in her blue 2018 Kia Soul around 3:45 p.m. July 19, according to Yuma police. She was reported missing at approximately 6:02 p.m. that day and a Silver Alert was issued, police said.
On Tuesday, Yuma police received confirmation Waters was positively identified through medical records as being the body found July 20 in Parker in neighboring La Paz County, according to the department.
Parker police is completing further investigation into Waters' case, according to Yuma police. Citing an active investigation, Parker police Sgt. Joey Venegas on Tuesday declined to comment on whether foul play is suspected in the case.
Waters was described by police as wearing a nightgown shirt with peach pajama bottoms when she went missing. Her car had an Arizona license plate with number EFR81.
Yuma police is asking anyone with information about the case to call them at 928-783-4421, or to remain anonymous, 928-78-CRIME (7463).
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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Death of 61-year-old woman near North Mountain Park believed to be heat-related
A 61-year-old woman died, possibly from heat reasons, after being found unresponsive in the North Mountain Park area on July 26, according to Phoenix police.
Officers found Karen O'conner unresponsive near 7th and Peoria avenues, according to Sgt. Brian Bower, a spokesperson with Phoenix police. She was later pronounced dead.
Bower said heat is believed to be the cause of O'conner's death. An official cause of death has not yet been determined.
Less than a week after O'conner was found, officers responded to a report of human remains found near the same area of North Mountain Park. Bower said those remains were found on Monday around 8:30 a.m. near 7th Street and Peoria Avenue.
Detectives and the County Medical Examiner Office were working on identifying the remains.
Reach breaking news reporter Angela Cordoba Perez at Angela.CordobaPerez@Gannett.com or on Twitter @AngelaCordobaP.
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Indiana and U.S. Capitol flags to be lowered at half-staff for Rep. Jackie Walorski
Gov. Eric Holcomb ordered flags across Indiana to be lowered to honor Rep. Jackie Walorski on Wednesday afternoon.
South Bend Republican Walorski and three others were killed in a crash in Elkhart County around 12:30 p.m.
A car heading north on Indiana 19 drove over the center line and struck Walorski's vehicle heading south, killing Walorski. Zach Potts, 27, and Emma Thomson, 28, also died after they were hit head on. The driver of the northbound car also died.
Potts was the chairman of the St. Joseph County Republican Party. Thomson was Walorski's communications director. The group was returning from a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Claypool, according to media reports.
More:U.S. Rep Jackie Walorski, three others killed in Elkhart County crash
More: Indiana, national leaders react to U.S. Rep. Walorski's death
Holcomb asked Hoosiers to begin flying flags at half-staff immediately and until the date of Walorski's burial.
Leaders across the nation reacted to the news of Walorski's over various social media and expressed their condolences.
Gov. Holcomb said Walorski will be remembered as "a fighter with a huge heart that always went the extra mile," in a statement posted to Facebook.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also ordered flags to be flown half-staff at the U.S. Capitol to honor Walorski.
Contact Hannah Brock at hannah.brock@indystar.com. Follow her on Twitter @hannah_m_brock. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/jackie-walorski-indiana-congresswoman-dead-elkhart-county-crash-flags-half-staff/65391457007/ | 2022-08-03T22:55:50 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/jackie-walorski-indiana-congresswoman-dead-elkhart-county-crash-flags-half-staff/65391457007/ |
Indiana, national leaders react to U.S. Rep. Walorski's death
Indiana and national leaders reacted Wednesday afternoon to the news that U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, a South Bend Republican, was killed in a car crash in Elkhart County.
Walorski was driving south around 12:30 p.m. when a car going north drove over the center line and collided with her vehicle head-on, according to the Elkhart County Sheriff's Department. Zach Potts, 27, and Emma Thomson, 28, were also in the car with Walorski at the time and were killed in the crash.
Walorski, 58, has served Indiana's 2nd district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013.
More:U.S. Rep Jackie Walorski killed in Elkhart County crash
Rep. Jim Banks
Gov. Eric Holcomb
Lt. Gov. Crouch
"I was shocked and heartbroken when I received the news today about the tragic death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski. Jackie and I served together in the Indiana House of Representatives, and she was a fighter for her constituents and conservative Hoosier values. My heart goes out to her husband, Dean, and the rest of her family and friends. She will be deeply missed."
Sen. Mike Braun
“Jackie Walorski was a tireless advocate for the Hoosiers she represented and a kind friend to everyone she met. She faithfully served her constituents and her Lord and Savior, and I trust she is now wrapped in the arms of Christ. This is a devastating loss, and we grieve for her two staff members – Zach and Emma – who had their whole lives ahead of them. Please join me and Maureen in praying for the families and friends of those lost on this tragic day for Indiana.”
Secretary Pete Buttigieg
Rep. Kevin McCarthy
GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
Indiana State Senator David Niezgodski
Former Vice President Mike Pence
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita
Rep. Liz Cheney
The Republican Study Committee
Rep. Larry Bucshon
Indiana House Democrats
Mike Schmuhl, Chairman of the Indiana Democratic Party
“On behalf of the Indiana Democratic Party, I want to express our sincere condolences to the friends and loved ones of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski, Chairman Zach Potts, and Emma Thomson.
Jackie Walorski was a dedicated public servant, who cared deeply about her constituents and northern Indiana. If you’re a Hoosier, you’re a member of one family, and Indiana tragically lost dedicated family members today.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families, to members of the communities across the Second District, and to the Indiana Republican Party.
Congresswoman Walorski served with devotion and passion in both the Indiana General Assembly and the U.S. House of Representatives. She made a lasting impact on Indiana and the United States.”
Indiana State Rep. Phil GiaQuinta
“My heart goes out to the families of Congresswoman Walorski, Emma Thomson and Zach Potts. Working in politics, you develop a tight bond with the people you work with, and the loss of three dedicated Hoosiers is insurmountable. Congresswoman Walorski and I served in the Indiana House of Representatives with the shared values of creating a better state. May the memories of their legacies and work be a blessing to those who loved them and the people they served.”
Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray
"I am shocked and devastated to learn of the deaths of Congresswoman Walorski and those who were involved in the tragic car accident this afternoon. Congresswoman Walorski was a ferocious advocate for her constituents and cared deeply about making Indiana and our country a better place for all of us. I know my family, and my colleagues here at the Statehouse, will be grieving alongside her loved ones and constituents."
Rep. Victoria Spartz
Sen. Todd Young
Indiana Chamber President and CEO Kevin Brinegar
“I am shocked and very saddened by the sudden passing of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski and her two staffers, Zachery Potts and Emma Thomson, in a car accident today in Elkhart County.
Congresswoman Walorski was such a pleasure to work with – both in her tenure at the Indiana Statehouse and in Congress. She always fought hard for her constituents and was a trusted ally in advocating for policies to better the lives of Hoosiers. The Indiana Chamber of Commerce sends its sincere condolences to the Congresswoman’s family and the families of all lost today.” | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2022/08/03/indiana-congresswoman-house-of-representatives-jackie-walorski-death-reaction-emma-thompson-elkhart/65391318007/ | 2022-08-03T22:55:56 | 1 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/indianapolis/2022/08/03/indiana-congresswoman-house-of-representatives-jackie-walorski-death-reaction-emma-thompson-elkhart/65391318007/ |
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Shreveport man sentenced to 40 years in prison for mailman's murder
A 33-year-old Shreveport man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Wednesday for shooting and killing a U.S. postal worker as he delivered mail.
Michael Jarred Gentry was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks Jr. of Shreveport.
Gentry pleaded guilty March 21 to second-degree murder in the killing of 52-year-old Antonio Williams.
Williams was delivering mail to an apartment on Dudley Drive in Shreveport shortly after 11 a.m. June 22, 2019, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Gentry was inside the apartment armed with a semi-automatic rifle. As the mailman approached, Gentry fired four shots through the front door, striking Williams twice. Williams was taken to Ochsner LSU Health, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
Earlier:Federal grand jury indicts Shreveport man in slaying of United States postal worker
More:Shreveport man charged in slaying of mailman
"This is a difficult day for the family and friends of Antonio Williams,” U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown of Shreveport said in a news release. “This family has suffered the tragic loss of a father and husband who cannot be replaced.
"Although we know that this sentence will not fill the void that these family members and friends have suffered, we hope that it brings them some comfort knowing that this defendant will serve such a lengthy sentence in federal prison where there is no parole.”
Brown's office and Gentry's attorney agreed to the 40-year sentence, which will be followed by five years of supervised release, officials said.
“The sentencing of Michael Gentry for the murder of postal employee Antonio Williams brings to an end the investigation of a heinous crime,” said Scott Fix, inspector in charge of the Houston Division of the U.S. Postal inspection Service. “The safety and well-being of Postal Service employees is a top priority for the Postal Inspection Service, and every act of violence elicits an immediate and firm response. Postal Inspectors worked tirelessly with our law enforcement partners to seek justice for the victim and his family.”
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/shreveport-man-gets-40-years-postal-carriers-murder/10230672002/ | 2022-08-03T23:04:57 | 1 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/shreveport-man-gets-40-years-postal-carriers-murder/10230672002/ |
BOISE, Idaho —
For the first time, KTVB had a behind the scenes look at the damage and the devastating loss the nonprofit Idaho Youth Ranch suffered from a massive structure fire at their outlet store and distribution center on July 18.
Idaho Youth Ranch managers do not have an exact figure, but said that the loss of donated clothing and household items is in the millions for their 24 statewide thrift stores.
While fire investigators ruled out a few potential causes of the fire, including fireworks, battery failure, smoking ash, electrical problems, operating equipment and incendiary, they ultimately ruled the cause as undetermined.
Boise Fire Department said that they could not pinpoint the cause because of the amount of water used to extinguish the fire and because they had to remove debris and items from the area where the fire started.
Doug Petcash: "We see the sprinklers going back here. Why are those still on?"
Scott Curtis, CEO of Idaho Youth Ranch: "Those have been left on. These 1,200 pound bales of clothing were all ready to be shipped and those created like fire briquettes from this thing. So, we've needed to keep making sure no other fires start out here."
Petcash: "How devastating is this? Have you even been able to calculate how much product you've lost?"
Curtis: "The first thing that impacts the devastation is we've had zero loss of life and no staff members injured as they evacuated. I keep repeating that because it really is an incredible part of this story. The financial devastation is pretty significant. We've lost all the materials out here that burned, but also the smoke because it entered our warehouse in thick clouds, it has actually made everything inside the warehouse not usable. So that years' worth of inventory I talked about is all lost."
Petcash: "Scott, all of this stuff looks pristine, but you've got to get rid of all of it?"
Curtis: "Yeah, the inspectors came through and tested it and they said all the materials have to go. We can't sell it."
Petcash: "How much is in here?"
Curtis: "From a volume standpoint, I can't tell you. But from a value standpoint, probably a couple million dollars."
Petcash: "It's sad that all of this is gone."
Curtis: "It is sad, and part of what's sad for us is one of the things we love about the Youth Ranch is so many of our communities trust us to reuse their goods. It keeps these goods out of the landfill. It offers them at low prices to people who need them, and people feel good having their stuff reused. So, we really feel terrible, and we know people are going to help us build it back up. But also, I think it really educates the community on how much their goods are valued and how many ways we have to re-use them."
Petcash: "What is the plan for this location?"
Curtis: "Great question. First thing is the disaster removal. It's the removal of all the material you see that's been burned and all of the removal inside of the buildings. Then there's another inspection of all the facilities to make sure that all of the buildings are structurally sound, and then we get to move to ‘how do we reopen this and rehab the buildings and also make some improvements for the future?’"
Idaho Youth Ranch’s individual thrift stores have remained open. Curtis said those stores will be able to start taking donations again on Sunday.
The Interfaith Sanctuary has offered the use of its new location on State Street as a temporary warehouse. Which Curtis said will also allow them to keep their staff fully employed.
The full tour of Idaho Youth Ranch’s facility and interview with Scott Curtis will be on this Sunday morning’s Viewpoint at 9 a.m.
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JIM THORPE, Pa. — The home along Center Avenue in Jim Thorpe has been in Judy Williams' family for as long as she can remember.
But she said her home is now being threatened by the property next door.
Not only is it an eyesore, but Williams said the deteriorating property is a health and safety risk for her family.
"I just want to make sure my children are fine and I can't enjoy, as I call them, my end days with the borough giving me a hard time with this," she said.
Williams is the owner of half of the double-block home where her son and his family live. She said 204 Center Ave., the adjacent part of the double block, is slated for blight mitigation.
However, the borough told her work can only be done if she provides $55,000.
"It's extremely frustrating. We're sitting in our house and you can just hear things fall. I don't know if it's the floor or cleaning, sometimes it sounds like somebody's in there. We're out here picking up nails up from the sidewalk and street. So it's basically like we're caretakers for two properties," Tracy Hunsicker, of Jim Thorpe, said.
The borough received grant money to tear down several condemned buildings, but there isn't enough left to be able to fix up William's home after demolition. Now the family is struggling to find the money.
"I'm hoping the borough can help us out and come up with a solution so that we don't have to pay $55,000 because honestly, I don't feel like we should. It's not my, our problem. This situation with this house we didn't cause it, we don't own it. We shouldn't have to pay for something that isn't our problem," Hunsicker said.
Carbon County Commissioner Chris Lukasevich has been trying to help the family find a solution, looking for alternative ways to find the money.
"The borough is in a difficult situation. They have listed five projects to potentially be remediated or mitigated with, but they clearly state this is their No. 1 priority, 'let's go ahead and take care of it'," Lukasevich said.
"I just wanna make things better for them and not have a mortgage payment and a house they can't live in, pay taxes on a house they won't be able to live in and have these neighbors and people walking up and down here when I know there has to be another way to do this," Williams said.
The homeowner said they received a letter saying they have 30 days to submit a plan to the borough for an alternative, less expensive way to demolish the home if they don't have the money.
Newswatch 16 reached out to Jim Thorpe borough for comment and has not heard back.
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FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — If you thought you were paying a lot when you drive through a Turnpike tollbooth, just wait.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is raising its rates by 5 percent in January.
"Inflation has just gone completely ridiculous, so with it going ridiculous everything's going to go up one way or another. So, we just have to pay the cost because everything gets pushed off to the regular work," said a driver named Anthony from Allentown.
The average cost for a passenger vehicle next year will increase from a $1.70 to $1.80 for E-ZPass customers and $4.10 to $4.40 for Toll By Plate customers.
Anthony from Allentown delivers packages for a living and says he uses E-ZPass because it's cheaper.
"I'm an independent contractor so I'm obligated to make sure I take care of all those things so it's pretty tough," Anthony said.
The Turnpike Commission says E-ZPass drivers will continue to receive the lowest discount, saving nearly 60 percent as opposed to those using toll by plate. But drivers we spoke with say that doesn't mean they're going to get on the road anytime soon.
"This is getting ridiculous. Everything keeps going up, and the Turnpike's not that handy," Kenneth Shiffer of Kresgeville said.
Turnpike officials say the increase in tolls is to meet financial obligations, as well as maintain and improve roads.
Shiffer says he stopped using the Turnpike years ago.
"We used to go up to above the end of the Turnpike, up by Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and if you towed a small two-wheel trailer, it was ridiculous," Shiffer said. "We stopped using the Turnpike."
The new 5 percent rate increase goes into effect on January 8, 2023.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Eric Bettencourt is a singer-songwriter originally from northern Maine who now splits his time between Portland and Austin, Texas.
Each summer, he returns to Vacationland and performs at various venues, including the Portland Lobster Company. Bettencourt said he’ll soon be releasing new music once he returns to Texas.
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"Magnetic Fields" | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/musician-eric-bettencourt-wraps-up-summer-in-maine-songs-guitar/97-5f22af11-0762-44e2-9edc-1800c2fc4d24 | 2022-08-03T23:10:25 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/207/musician-eric-bettencourt-wraps-up-summer-in-maine-songs-guitar/97-5f22af11-0762-44e2-9edc-1800c2fc4d24 |
BERWICK, Pa. — UPMC hopes to recruit some employees from Berwick Hospital Center.
Recruiters from UPMC were at The Forge Pub and Eatery in Berwick to discuss openings at the health system's facilities.
This comes a little more than a week after the owner of the Berwick Hospital Center shut down clinics and announced plans to close down the hospital.
"Offering someone an alternative place to work and just branching out. We don't have a lot of footprint here yet, but it doesn't mean we can't begin to establish that footprint here," said Rachel Zultevicz, UPMC Human Resources.
Geisinger is also hosting a job fair geared towards employees of Berwick Hospital Center.
That event takes place on Thursday.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy is produced through M.S. Walker in Massachusetts, but it's quite iconic in Maine.
For more than 20 years, it was the top selling liqueur product in the state. In 2008, Mainers consumed nearly one bottle for every man, woman, and child in our 1.3-million population.
Producers of the product recognized its impact in the state, and to pay homage, they're releasing limited-edition collector bottles of Allen's, featuring Maine lighthouses. So far, they've released Quoddy Head in Lubec, Bug Light in South Portland, and Petit Manan in Steuben.
Gary Shaw, Executive VP for M.S. Walker said they polled their loyal drinkers, asking which lighthouses they would like to see featured. Shaw says he was rooting for Petit Manan Lighthouse and was glad it won the popular vote. That bottle has just hit liquor stores and will only be available for a short time.
Andrew Volk is the owner and bartender of Portland Hunt + Alpine Club. Volk said they exclusively use Allen's as their coffee liqueur of choice. He said you can simply mix equal parts Allen's and a pineapple rum of your choice, like Malibu, for a simple cocktail.
For an espresso martini, Volk likes to mix:
- 1 part white Rum (Volk used Plantation White Rum)
- 2 parts cold brew coffee
- 1 part Allen's Cold Brew (new release)
You can find more recipes that utilize Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy here. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/allens-coffee-flavored-brandy-to-sell-maine-collectible-lighthouse-bottles/97-515283b4-587e-4695-a961-b151c6413849 | 2022-08-03T23:10:31 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/allens-coffee-flavored-brandy-to-sell-maine-collectible-lighthouse-bottles/97-515283b4-587e-4695-a961-b151c6413849 |
BEDFORD, Va. – It’s not Christmas, but for some families in need, it might feel like it.
The Bedford Community Christmas Station distributed 117 new pairs of shoes to 47 families on Wednesday.
Wednesday’s event provided children, grades preschool through grade 12, with a pair for the new school year.
The organization raised the money through donations and proceeds from their thrift store.
“Everyone is just so grateful that we’re here for them, that they can receive the shoes, the food, everything that we provide for them at Christmas, monthly food boxes, and so forth,” said Patty Brown, co-president of the Bedford Community Christmas Station.
Families also received a box of food, including canned ham and produce, with help from the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/bedford-community-christmas-station-provides-children-with-new-shoes-for-the-school-year/ | 2022-08-03T23:13:29 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/bedford-community-christmas-station-provides-children-with-new-shoes-for-the-school-year/ |
DANVILLE, Va. – Soon, many people might consider the City of Danville their travel destination when the Caesar’s Casino opens in 2024.
The new development will bring new visitors into the area, but will keep them coming back time after time? Danville city leaders are working to figure that out.
“It’s all about more people coming into your community, staying longer, and spending more money,” said Lisa Meriwether, Danville Tourism Manager.
Since November, Meriwether has been crafting her objectives, including determining peoples’ interests, educating locals on happenings in the area, and streamlining a visitor guide.
Part of the work was made official during Tuesday’s city council meeting.
And Danville’s welcome center is now back under city ownership. Previously, the state tourism team operated out of the building owned by the department of transportation.
“We have gotten the rubber stamp from the Virginia Tourism Corporation to go build this program out and put our own unique stamp on it,” explained Meriwether.
A survey was sent to Danville and Pittsylvania County residents to give them a say in the work, and the results are being tallied.
“We want to know what our own local citizens think and feel about where they live, work, and play, so we can take that information and build out a tourism market and advertisement campaign to showcase our beautiful community,” said Meriwether. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/danville-leaders-focusing-on-tourism-ahead-of-casino-opening/ | 2022-08-03T23:13:36 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/danville-leaders-focusing-on-tourism-ahead-of-casino-opening/ |
LYNCHBURG, Va. – After spending over 415 days at the Lynchburg Humane Society, this hunk is ready to find his forever home.
Zander, a 4-year-old Pitbull Terrier mix, is looking for a family, and shelter staff said he would do best in a home with adults only and does well with other dogs, but should be in a home without cats.
This pup has a sponsored adoption fee, and knows lots of tricks: Shelter staff said he knows how to sit, stay, and lay down.
Zander loves to take car rides, to swim, and he’s a fiend for some peanut butter, so he could be the perfect travel buddy.
When you’re tired, don’t worry, because Zander absolutely loves to cuddle.
To learn more about Zander and adoption information, you can visit the shelter website. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/love-peanut-butter-thats-just-one-thing-you-and-this-dog-zander-have-in-common/ | 2022-08-03T23:13:43 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/love-peanut-butter-thats-just-one-thing-you-and-this-dog-zander-have-in-common/ |
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. – A new family-owned ice cream shop is coming to Christiansburg, and this one has a unique twist.
Poppy’s, an ice cream shop run by brothers Terry and Jeremy Williams is now open for business in Christiansburg.
The brothers decided to take their shot at owning the shop after they retired and another beloved ice cream shop in the area closed.
“Christiansburg used to have a business establishment called Custard Corner. The family business closed, and Mr. Harkrader, the owner, passed away, unfortunately. So, we just decided several years ago to come in and try to do it in a newer version,” said Terry.
Terry said their goal is to make their menu as similar to Custard Corner’s menu as they can.
“If you could get it there, you can get it here,” said Terry.
Terry told 10 News that Custard Corner played a big role in his family – Terry met his wife at Custard Corner when she worked there years ago.
And the brothers are carrying on a family connection, even down to the former employees at Custard Corner.
Now the grandkids of the Custard Corner owners are working at Poppy’s.
So far, Poppy’s has seen quite a crowd, according to their Facebook post.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! The line was wrapped around the entire inside, out the door and to the road outside....
Posted by Poppy's of Christiansburg on Tuesday, August 2, 2022
You can learn more about Poppy’s on their Facebook page. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/new-family-owned-ice-cream-shop-opens-in-christiansburg/ | 2022-08-03T23:13:50 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/new-family-owned-ice-cream-shop-opens-in-christiansburg/ |
Authorities recover body of a 32-year-old man in Lake Michigan near Lakeshore State Park
Authorities have recovered the body of a 32-year-old Milwaukee man in Lake Michigan waters, near Discovery World, on Wednesday.
Milwaukee police said that at about 8:20 p.m. Tuesday, "several individuals jumped in the water to swim; however, one individual was struggling and went under the water."
Police and the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to the scene but were unable to locate the man on Tuesday. He was found dead in the water on Wednesday.
The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner's Office sent a tweet at 1:30 p.m. announcing the office was responding to the scene and described the location as "the lagoon at Lakeshore State Park."
The National Weather Service issued a "low swim risk ... forecasting one or two foot waves" for Milwaukee County on Tuesday night, according to the NWS Milwaukee/Sullivan office.
Contact Drake Bentley at (414) 391-5647 or DBentley1@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @DrakeBentleyMJS. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/08/03/milwaukee-mans-body-found-lake-michigan-near-lakeshore-state-park/10228080002/ | 2022-08-03T23:18:10 | 1 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/08/03/milwaukee-mans-body-found-lake-michigan-near-lakeshore-state-park/10228080002/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) is asking for help to find a newborn baby boy who was last seen with his parents in Portland on Monday. Authorities believe the child may be in danger.
Kanon Zee was born just eight days earlier, on July 24, before he went missing with his parents, Jonathan Darian and Kara Zee, on Aug. 1.
His parents are known to frequent a homeless encampment near Northeast 122nd Avenue and Halsey Street, but they may be planning to flee the state or the country, ODHS said in a press release.
The parents are possibly driving a 2014 Audi with Arizona license plate FCA3DGA or a white Dodge Ram truck (pictured) with Arizona license plate 0AA3NE.
Kanon Zee is 19 inches tall, about 5 pounds 15 ounces with brown hair. He had a feeding tube in place when he was last seen.
Anyone who may have information about whereabouts of the child or parents is asked to call 911 or the Oregon Child Abuse Hotline at 1-855-503-SAFE (7233). You can reference National Center for Missing and Exploited Children #1457139. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/newborn-baby-missing-portland/283-d61dfd78-3f68-4f82-a4ef-71c426e52f93 | 2022-08-03T23:21:58 | 1 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/newborn-baby-missing-portland/283-d61dfd78-3f68-4f82-a4ef-71c426e52f93 |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – A former radio DJ in Wichita Is speaking out and alleging inappropriate behavior by his former supervisor Greg “The Hitman” Williams.
Johnny Starks, known as DJ Koolout on 93.5 Radio, said he believed that Williams, who was his supervisor, was pleased with his show and happy about ratings. But a little over a week ago, he said everything changed.
Starks came to Wichita about six months ago to continue his radio career. He said he looked at his supervisor Williams as a mentor.
“I was excited. I was like, ‘OK, I can learn some stuff here. This can help me toward my goals of doing a syndicated show.’ You know, I’d grow and with the company Audacy,” said Starks. Audacy is the company that owns 93.5 Radio.
Starks said all that changed a little over a week ago when he alleges he was the victim of sexual battery after Williams followed him into the bathroom at work.
“He’s standing there, and he’s close to me. His other hand is undoing his pants. Now, his hand is on me. He’s close, and I see the other hand, and I can hear him undoing his pants in front of me,” said Starks.
Starks said he raced out of the bathroom and went home. The next day when he came to work, he said he intended to tell someone about what happened but claims he was fired before he could. Stark said he was told he was fired for using a company logo for a flier for a party he hosted soon after he moved to Wichita. However, he said the logo was never on any flier. Stark also said they claimed he wasn’t a good fit for Wichita.
“And I am like, ‘You just told me yesterday that I was doing good, it sounds great, everything is wonderful, no problem, keep doing what you’re doing,'” said Starks.
Starks said he has since filed a police report and did notify Audacy about what he says happened.
An Audacy spokesperson released this statement: “We’ve recently become aware of certain allegations made by a former employee against Greg Williams. We take these issues seriously and will investigate them fully. While we investigate, we have no further comment.”
The spokesperson also confirmed that Williams is not currently on the air in Wichita.
We also reached out to Greg Williams for an interview but did not hear back. On his Facebook page, he shared this statement: “The allegations being spread on social media by a former employee can never be proven because they are not true. I will share more at the appropriate time in the appropriate way.”
Wichita police do have a report on this case but have not spoken to any details of their investigation. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/popular-radio-host-off-the-air-after-allegations/ | 2022-08-03T23:23:23 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/popular-radio-host-off-the-air-after-allegations/ |
An Easton man and Wilson teenager face trial following a preliminary hearing Wednesday that revealed a third person may have been involved in the fatal shooting of two Easton teens in March.
Altajier K. Robinson, 21, and Jayden L. Denizard, 15, are charged with two counts each of criminal homicide, attempted homicide and criminal conspiracy, as well as six counts of recklessly endangering other persons and carrying a firearm without a license. Authorities charged Robinson and Denizard in connection with the fatal shooting March 14 of D-Andre Snipes, 17, and Kavan Figueroa, 18.
Snipes, Figueroa and two others were sitting in a car, operated by Snipes, in the 1300 block of Washington Street when they were shot just before 4 p.m., authorities said. Snipes died in the car, while Figueroa was pronounced dead hours later at St. Luke’s Hospital-Anderson Campus in Bethlehem Township.
The 90-minute hearing before District Judge Daniel G. Corpora of Easton at the Northampton County Government Center included testimony from a friend of the defendants and a Washington Street resident, both of whom said they witnessed the slayings.
Keila Payamps of Easton said she came home from work about 2 p.m. when she met Snipes, Figueroa, and her cousin. She joined them on a car ride around a couple of parks in the West Ward. Payamps said she knew Snipes and Figueroa from school.
Payamps said the four spotted Robinson, Denizard and a third person identified only as “Gio,” at one of the parks. They then drove and parked in front of Payamps’ cousin’s house in the 1300 block of Washington Street and talked for about 10-15 minutes before gunshots erupted.
“We were sitting there, and they then started shooting,” said Payamps, at times crying through her testimony.
Upon questioning by Rebecca J. Kulik, the chief deputy district attorney, Payamps identified Robinson and Denizard as the shooters, and said Gio participated. Authorities declined afterward to provide more information on Gio, saying the case remains under investigation.
Questioned by Robinson’s attorney, Eric Dowdle, Payamps said she was unaware of any problems involving Robinson and Snipes and Figueroa. .
Cody Van Ness, who lives on the same block as the shooting, testified he saw three individuals walk from an alley beside his home toward the front of his house and the car.
“I heard gunshots and panicked,” Van Ness testified, saying there were multiple shots fired.
Van Ness said when he heard gunfire, he ran inside his house, grabbed his firearm and returned outside, then flagged down nearby police for help.
During cross-examination, Van Ness said he did not see the shooters’ faces, noting they were wearing hooded sweatshirts and face coverings.
Dowdle tried to discredit the witnesses’ descriptions of the defendants and argued that neither Van Ness nor Payamps was able to clearly identify Snipes and Denizard as shooters. He suggested the third person fired the shots.
But Corpora ruled the prosecution had established the defendants were at the scene of the shooting and ordered the charges held for trial. Both Robinson and Denizard pleaded not guilty during the hearing, which was held to determine if enough evidence exists to send the case to trial. They both remain in custody without bail.
Authorities ask anyone with information on the slayings to contact Easton police at 610-250-6634 or 610-250-6635.
Contact Morning Call journalist Anthony Salamone at asalamone@mcall.com. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-easton-double-homicide-hearing-20220803-oolnkhlklzenfct6xztuhr3ycm-story.html | 2022-08-03T23:24:37 | 1 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-easton-double-homicide-hearing-20220803-oolnkhlklzenfct6xztuhr3ycm-story.html |
Pima County Supervisors took action Tuesday to put gun control measures into the hands of local jurisdictions.
The Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to call on the Arizona Legislature to repeal a law that bars local governments from adopting rules restricting gun use and direct the Pima County Attorney’s office to assess a potential legal challenge.
ARS 13-3108 has been the main hurdle in the way of the county requiring private gun sellers to run background checks at gun shows on the Pima County Fairgrounds, where unlicensed dealers can anonymously sell guns without conducting background checks on purchasers.
“It is wrong, due to the existence of this statute, for state government to stand in the way of local governments who seek to take action to address mounting public concerns about gun safety, gun violence and the need for common sense gun regulations,” Supervisor Rex Scott, who proposed the motion, said at the meeting. “If the people who represent us in Phoenix do not act to repeal this statute, we will see them in court.”
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A potential legal challenge
The board adopted a resolution in December 2019 to call on the U.S. Senate to approve a bill requiring background checks on all private firearms sales, including those at gun shows. Tuesday’s resolution, however, gives specific direction to the county attorney to analyze potential legal challenges to the state’s law prohibiting the county from taking on its own gun reform measures.
The resolution asks the county attorney’s office to look into how the county’s authority as a public health agency could create a legal argument in its ability to enforce “regulations necessary for the public health and safety of the inhabitants,” per another state statute, the resolution says.
Pima County Attorney Laura Conover’s office has a little over three months to come back to the board with legal options by Nov. 15.
With the state law standing in the way of county gun reform measures, Scott decided it was best to take on the hurdle itself instead of finding ways to work around it.
“Because of those situations, it then became apparent to me that the only logical course of action was to try and take on the statute and to try and take it on politically,” he said. “What I've heard from Ms. Conover and her team is that they're going to look at every possible strategy that we can use if we decide to challenge the statute legally.”
However, the board also voted Tuesday to release previously attorney-client privileged memos about the county’s authority to cut contractual ties with gun show operators.
In one of the memos, Samuel Brown, the county attorney's office’s chief civil deputy, told supervisors that the prospects for success if the county were to challenge Arizona statutes preempting local governments “are not high.”
“Even though the County has broad public health authority, this specific statute (section 13-3108) likely preempts County action,” Brown wrote, later adding, “The County would need to show that the statute is unconstitutional, and we have yet to identify a viable argument to challenge its constitutionality.”
Two supervisors opposed
Board Chair Sharon Bronson said she wouldn’t support Scott’s motion and that action against gun violence “needs to start with the federal government.”
“I think (the motion) has unintended consequences, I think it will directly impact our state shared revenue and I think it's too broad in its scope,” she said.
Any rules local governments adopt in violation of the state law could result in a civil penalty of up to $50,000 and actual damages up to $100,000. Plus, the state’s attorney general could rescind the millions of dollars in state aid the county receives from shared revenues if a violation of state law is found.
Supervisor Steve Christy, the other dissenting vote, called the portion of Scott’s motion citing public health concerns a “ham-fisted deception” and said it puts all gun ownership rights at risk.
“Why couldn't Supervisor Scott just be honest and state the truth? Through his resolution presented before us today, Supervisor Scott wants to take away everyone's guns,” Christy said.
Scott said Christy’s comments are unfounded and that he has no intentions to completely strip Second Amendment rights.
“That kind of rhetoric and tactics are familiar to anybody in this country who has called for common sense gun regulations, because anytime something like what I'm discussing today is brought up, immediately folks like my colleague from District Four will say that we are coming after the Second Amendment in total … That is nonsense,” Scott said.
The supervisor said although Arizona’s legislature has historically rejected gun reform measures, he thinks his bid to give the county control could be successful.
“This country leads the world in every gun violence statistic that you can find, and our public, the people who put us in office, expect us to deal with this issue,” Scott said. “So if the legislature is not going to lead on this issue, they need to get out of the way of local governments that would like to take some purposeful action to protect our people.”
Contact reporter Nicole Ludden at nludden@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/pima-county-set-to-challenge-state-on-local-gun-measures/article_c8a88b62-1344-11ed-a1d5-7713fd4d0cbf.html | 2022-08-03T23:27:20 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/pima-county-set-to-challenge-state-on-local-gun-measures/article_c8a88b62-1344-11ed-a1d5-7713fd4d0cbf.html |
El Jefe, the adult male jaguar repeatedly photographed in the Santa Rita and Whetstone mountains years ago, has turned up again in central Sonora, conservationists say.
Two photos of a jaguar the groups say is the cat known around Tucson as El Jefe, were captured in November 2021 by the Mexican nonprofit group Profauna, a conservation group announced in a news release Wednesday. It took some time after that to confirm that the photos were of El Jefe. But a biologist working for the Tucson-based Northern Jaguar Project said in the release that she's convinced they're of the same animal that was photographed near Tucson from 2012 through 2015.
That conclusion came from visual analysis and software analysis of spot patterns of photographs, said Juan Carlos Bravo, Conservation Programs Director of the Wildlands Network. This would be the first time El Jefe's location has been publicly confirmed since the cat was last photographed in the Santa Ritas.
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The photos were "actually very distinctive, because over the years, the Northern Jaguar Project has accumulated so many photos of jaguars in the region," said Bravo of the group that runs a major jaguar preserve in a sparsely populated area of Sonora, about 160 miles north of Hermosillo.
Bravo declined to disclose the mountain range in which the jaguar was photographed. He said only that the location was in Central Sonora, more than 120 miles south of the Santa Ritas and more than 100 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We're not releasing that information right now for the sake of the jaguar, until the partner who got the picture feels comfortable about it," Bravo said.
These photos demonstrate the ability of jaguars to repatriate their historic range, the Wildlands Network said in the news release. It's at least the second adult male jaguar known to have been photographed on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border since 1996. The other was Macho B, who was photographed in 1996 and again in 2008 and 2009 before being captured and subsequently euthanized in the winter of 2009.
El Jefe, believed to be at least 12 years old, is the third oldest jaguar known to have lived in Sonora, conservationists said. Macho B lived at least 14 years. A third male, Zapatos, was photographed in 2008, 2010 and in 2018 and 2019 in various places. He was believed to be at least 13 at the time, but it's not known if he's still alive.
The new photos were taken as part of a coordinated project known as the Borderlands Linkages Initiative. The initiative involves eight conservation groups in the U.S. and Mexico, led by the the Wildlands Network, a Salt Lake City-based, international group. The initiative's goal is to "protect the northernmost corridors of jaguar habitat through coordinated landowner outreach and wildlife monitoring," the news release said.
The effort involves more than 150, motion-sensitive cameras employed to track wildlife across Sonora. Because the groups got so many photos from that many cameras, it took a considerable time to determine the two photos were of El Jefe, the groups said. Also, "the logistics of the places we’re monitoring are exceptionally difficult." Bravo said.
Software used by the conservation groups compared these two photos with over 2,400 pictures of jaguars representing 176 individuals over 20 years, Bravo said.
“When our software showed a 100% match with El Jefe, I was skeptical, but after making a detailed visual revision, skepticism gave way to surprise and then excitement,” said Carmina Gutiérrez-González, research coordinator for the Tucson-based Northern Jaguar Project, in the news release. “There is no doubt this is the same animal photographed in Arizona."
The Star contacted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Arizona Game and Fish Department and two University of Arizona wildlife researchers who have monitored jaguars to seek confirmation of the conservationists' conclusions. Wildlife Service officials said they had no one available with expertise in reviewing jaguar spots.
Susan Malusa, a research biologist for UA's Jaguar Project, said she and a team of experts will review the new photos.
Game and Fish's Tucson expert on such matters, nongame biologist Tim Snow, recently retired, "so I'm seeking a subject matter expert from headquarters to look at the photos," said Mark Hart, a Game and Fish spokesman in Tucson, referring to the department's main Phoenix office.
El Jefe was first photographed in Arizona in November 2011 in the Whetstones near Benson by a mountain lion hunter. Later that month, the U.S. Border Patrol disclosed that one of its agents had briefly spotted a jaguar from a helicopter in the Santa Ritas in June 2011. It was later determined that was the same jaguar found in the Whetstones.
From 2012 through 2015, the same jaguar was repeatedly photographed in the Santa Ritas, at times within a half-mile of the site of the proposed Rosemont Mine and in federally designated jaguar critical habitat. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service later determined in a formal biological opinion that the mine's presence wouldn't destroy or severely modify the jaguar critical habitat. That decision helped clear the way for the mine's eventual approval by the U.S. Forest Service in 2017.
But U.S. District Judge James Soto overturned that decision in February 2021 and ordered the wildlife service to revisit that issue. That ruling added to delays in the project caused by a previous ruling by the same judge — a ruling upheld in May 2022 by the federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Speaking of the jaguar's ability to repatriate U.S. habitat from Mexico, Bravo said three gaps exist in the U.S.-Mexican border wall in Arizona through which a jaguar could possibly pass. One is in the Pajarito Mountains, leading to the Atascoasa and Baboquivari Mountains where Macho B was photographed regularly prior to his capture.
Another potential pathway would be in the Patagonia Mountains, lying south of the Santa Ritas. A third lies in the San Rafael Valley farther south, "assuming he could cross a vehicle barrier" at the U.S.-Mexican border in that area, Bravo said.
Based on what has been learned about how far jaguars can move, "it is within the realm of possibility" that El Jefe could someday return to Arizona, Bravo said.
His Sonoran presence "means that jaguars in central Sonora can make it all the way to designated critical habitat in Arizona. There’s no question about the capacity of individual animals to make that kind of travel," Bravo said. Macho B also traveled extensively in Southern Arizona and Sonora.
But "we don’t have enough information to say the likelihood that that will happen," with El Jefe, he said.
Contact Tony Davis at 520-349-0350 or tdavis@tucson.com. Follow Davis on Twitter@tonydavis987. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/jaguar-that-roamed-santa-ritas-reappears-in-sonora-conservationists-say/article_7523067e-1359-11ed-ade0-3fa6a774d31c.html | 2022-08-03T23:27:26 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/jaguar-that-roamed-santa-ritas-reappears-in-sonora-conservationists-say/article_7523067e-1359-11ed-ade0-3fa6a774d31c.html |
A woman has died after she was involved in a car crash on Tucson’s west side last month.
On July 22, the driver of a gray 2005 Chevrolet Malibu attempted to make a left turn from southbound Flowing Wells Road onto eastbound Prince Road on a yellow light when a white 2021 Toyota Corolla, traveling north on Flowing Wells Road, collided with the Malibu.
Tucson Fire personnel took the driver of the Malibu and the passenger, Marjean Ione Bloom, 84, to Northwest Medical Center for further evaluation. On Aug. 2, Bloom died due from her injuries.
Officers cited the driver of the Malibu for failing to yield while making a left turn, police said.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/woman-dies-due-to-injuries-from-car-crash-on-tucsons-west-side/article_7ece2402-1371-11ed-ae0f-5f449c1f9b01.html | 2022-08-03T23:27:32 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/woman-dies-due-to-injuries-from-car-crash-on-tucsons-west-side/article_7ece2402-1371-11ed-ae0f-5f449c1f9b01.html |
Fuel retailers that sell higher ethanol blends can now apply for tax credits.
The Nebraska Department of Revenue started taking applications for the credits on Monday, which are available to retailers that sell fuel with more than 10% ethanol.
The credits were made possible through the passage earlier this year of LB1261. Gov. Pete Ricketts signed the bill into law this spring after it was passed unanimously by the Legislature.
Currently, 124 stations in Nebraska sell E85 gasoline, which contains anywhere from 51% to 83% ethanol, while 112 sell E15, which contains 15% ethanol.
Only flex-fuel vehicles can use E85, but any passenger vehicle produced in 2001 or later can use E15.
“At the retail level, very simply put, E15 is better fuel and it costs less,” Randy Gard, chief operating officer of Bosselman Enterprises and secretary of the Nebraska Ethanol Board, said in a news release. “We are excited about the passage of LB1261e and what it can do for our customers. If you are a retailer, there is now nothing standing in your way today to make the transition from E10, the standard fuel most people use today, to joining this mass conversion to E15.”
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For more information or to apply for the tax credit, go to ethanol.nebraska.gov/resources/nebraska-higher-blend-tax-credit-act.
7 gas-saving tips that actually work
Get junk out of the trunk
Car engineers spend a lot of time engineering pounds, ounces and grams out of today’s cars. Don’t undo their efforts (and the gas savings they represent) by leaving anything unnecessary in the luggage compartment. Golf clubs are a common violator, but so is random dead weight like those items slated to go to the second-hand store one of these days. Or, dear lord, a case of individual water bottles for after-workout hydration.
Every time you accelerate, you’re using gas to get that stuff up to speed with you. How much more? This depends on your car, but the EPA estimates a 1% reduction per 100 pounds. On a per-gallon cost basis, that’s about $0.03, using the EPA baseline figures. Get your stuff in order and you’ll save money, too.
Get the rack off the roof
When they’re not worrying about the weight of their designs, auto engineers fuss over aerodynamics. Improvements to how your car cuts through the air bear fruit most at high speeds — highway miles. The most common way drivers hurt their aerodynamics, and thus mileage, is by putting items on the roof.
Do you have activities that mandate a lot of equipment? Consider whether you could use a hitch-mounted rack or box instead. Tucked in the slipstream of your car, these have a much smaller mileage penalty. And, finally, if your vehicle came with a factory roof rack that you never use, see if you can remove the crossbars. You’ll save a few pounds this way, too.
Combine your trips
Being told to group your errands sounds a bit like a nag, much like the admonition not to use the trunk as a storage locker. Still, we will repeat the reasons why planning ahead can save gas:
If grouping trips means fewer miles driven, well, that’s obvious.
But even if you have to go in multiple directions, all non-electric cars use more fuel when the engine is cold. So the fewer times you to bring the engine up to temperature, the better. Cold starts aren’t good for your car (or the environment, for that matter).
Shut that puppy off
Americans continue to wildly overestimate how much fuel it takes to start an engine versus to keep it running. The reality is, once you’re stopped, your car is wasting fuel after about 7-10 seconds of idling. That’s why newer cars have a feature that shuts the engine off during stops when the brake is applied. The car’s still on, but the engine isn’t. Push the accelerator pedal and the engine snaps back on — off you go. Some people find this maddening, but the gas savings is real. If you want to maximize mileage, don’t disable the auto on-off feature.
Check apps and join clubs
Finding the cheapest fuel was once sport for me. But phone apps like GasBuddy, Gas Guru and Fuelzee make it almost too easy to find the best gas deals. Since you can use them to screen for brands, you can also make sure you’re getting good quality fuel, which, in the long run, matters to the health of your car.
Joining a membership club like Costco or Sam’s Club could also pay off. Figuring how quickly you’ll recoup your membership cost with the per-gallon savings on their discounted fuel is pretty easy math.
Don’t rely on the tire light
All cars built since 2007 have tire-pressure monitoring systems. The hitch is this: The system might not alert you until a tire is 25% lower than the recommended pressure. And if you wait for that, you’re wasting money, as underinflated tires reduce your gas mileage by roughly 0.2% per pound that they’re low. That might not sound like much, but try this math: If your recommended inflation pressure is 40 psi, and you’re 25% low on air, that’s a 2% hit to your gas mileage. Plus, underinflated tires wear more quickly and unevenly, reducing your tire life.
Drive slowly wisely
No list of gas-saving tips would be complete without the admonition to slow down. There’s no getting around the fact that lower speeds require less fuel, most because aerodynamic resistance increases with the square of speed.
That’s the lecture. But driving to save fuel doesn’t have to be a dull crawl in the slow lane. Try thinking of it this way: brakes turn your money into heat, so can you avoid using them?
This isn’t meant to encourage dangerous behavior like not stopping for stop signs or the like. Rather, anticipate, anticipate, anticipate. Look down the road farther, and coast down when you know that traffic signal’s going to change to red. While hybrid and electric vehicles are best equipped to take advantage of this style (through regenerative braking), many conventional gas cars now engage power-sapping accessories like the alternator during coast-down to maximize fuel efficiency.
As for accelerating, if you know you’re going to be holding a higher speed for a while, like when you’re merging onto a highway, go ahead and shove the gas as hard as you need. Not only is slow acceleration in this situation potentially dangerous, it doesn’t actually save fuel. | https://journalstar.com/business/local/tax-credits-available-for-nebraska-retailers-that-sell-fuel-with-higher-ethanol-blends/article_e806f85a-8415-55a0-a2b9-76ca7fd7f9fa.html | 2022-08-03T23:28:58 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/business/local/tax-credits-available-for-nebraska-retailers-that-sell-fuel-with-higher-ethanol-blends/article_e806f85a-8415-55a0-a2b9-76ca7fd7f9fa.html |
A Lincoln photographer got more than 20 years in federal prison Wednesday for making child pornography under the guise of a modeling job and molesting his teen victims.
In court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Tessie Smith said Gregory Dightman Sr. engaged in a "decade-long pattern of exploiting young women and sexually assaulting them in the process."
While law enforcement identified four victims, she said it's very possible there were more they didn't know about because they weren't able to identify all of the people in the images and their ages.
One of the victims only was ID'd after she read about Dightman's arrest in February 2020 and called the Lincoln Police Department to report what he'd done to her back in 2009.
Identified in court as Victim 4, the young woman told U.S. District Judge John Gerrard she suffers from PTSD, anxiety and depression, has trust issues and fears for her daughter that one day she'll trust someone like Dightman.
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"I still find myself blaming myself for everything he did to me. I have a hard time forgiving myself for not reporting him right away as I could have saved other victims," she said. "He violated me and so many other underaged women. He did not have the right to do that."
She said Dightman forced her to do things she wasn't OK with and wouldn't take 'No' for an answer. She said she has suffered more than he ever will in prison.
Gerrard told her this wasn't her fault or her doing and asked if she understood that.
"I do," she said, tearfully.
Smith, the prosecutor, said despite these victims being older than the court usually sees in production cases, at 16 and 17, they still were vulnerable.
"Similar to many human trafficking cases, these victims came from personal-life situations that were difficult, and Mr. Dightman took advantage of that," she said.
Defense attorney, Dana London, said Dightman, 53, spared the victims from having to go to testify at trial by pleading guilty to four counts of possessing child pornography. And he said it was unfair to say it was a decades' long process, given that one victim reported incidents in 2009 and the three others between 2018 and 2019.
Dightman offered an apology to the victims, saying they didn't deserve what he did to them.
"As an adult, I knew better and I failed. I apologize," he said. "I've got daughters of my own, and I know I wouldn't want them treated this way."
Then, Gerrard made sure that Dightman heard Victim 4.
"All of these victims have names. They have lives. And these lives won't be the same. The court's hope is that — with counseling, with belief in themselves, with support from their families — the victims will recover to the fullest extent that they can," he said.
In addition to the prison term, Dightman also will have to serve 10 years on supervised release and was ordered to pay $12,000 to the Child Pornography Victims Reserve Fund.
The case began in November 2019 when a woman told Lincoln police she had learned that a professional photographer was taking inappropriate photos, included nude images, of her 17-year-old daughter.
Police got a warrant to search Dightman's home, phones and computers and found he had taken more than 400 sexually explicit photographs of at least four underage girls at his Walton photography studio, Fat Boy Photography. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-photographer-sentenced-for-making-child-porn-under-guise-of-modeling-jobs/article_b2e44205-ea03-5109-a5d4-f9e93b16001c.html | 2022-08-03T23:29:04 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-photographer-sentenced-for-making-child-porn-under-guise-of-modeling-jobs/article_b2e44205-ea03-5109-a5d4-f9e93b16001c.html |
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — If you thought you were paying a lot when you drive through a Turnpike tollbooth, just wait.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission is raising its rates by 5 percent in January.
"Inflation has just gone completely ridiculous, so with it going ridiculous everything's going to go up one way or another. So, we just have to pay the cost because everything gets pushed off to the regular work," said a driver named Anthony from Allentown.
The average cost for a passenger vehicle next year will increase from a $1.70 to $1.80 for E-ZPass customers and $4.10 to $4.40 for Toll By Plate customers.
Anthony from Allentown delivers packages for a living and says he uses E-ZPass because it's cheaper.
"I'm an independent contractor so I'm obligated to make sure I take care of all those things so it's pretty tough," Anthony said.
The Turnpike Commission says E-ZPass drivers will continue to receive the lowest discount, saving nearly 60 percent as opposed to those using toll by plate. But drivers we spoke with say that doesn't mean they're going to get on the road anytime soon.
"This is getting ridiculous. Everything keeps going up, and the Turnpike's not that handy," Kenneth Shiffer of Kresgeville said.
Turnpike officials say the increase in tolls is to meet financial obligations, as well as maintain and improve roads.
Shiffer says he stopped using the Turnpike years ago.
"We used to go up to above the end of the Turnpike, up by Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and if you towed a small two-wheel trailer, it was ridiculous," Shiffer said. "We stopped using the Turnpike."
The new 5 percent rate increase goes into effect on January 8, 2023.
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Eastern Idaho Public Health announced it has confirmed the first reported case of monkeypox in Health District 7.
A news release stated health officials are tracking the patient's contacts and notifying anyone who may have been exposed to the virus. The patient is receiving outpatient treatment.
Monkeypox is a mild disease that causes swelling of the lymph nodes, fever, rash, itchiness. An international outbreak was first reported in May. There have been an estimated 6,000 confirmed cases in the United States.
The virus can spread through contact with sores on a patient's body, bodily fluids, bedding and clothing, or exposure to respiratory droplets via prolonged face-to-face contact. Monkeypox can also be spread by animals, including cats and dogs.
Monkeypox symptoms typically appear between five and 21 days after exposure. A person is contagious from when they begin showing symptoms until the lesions caused by the virus heal.
According to the news release, symptoms typically last between two and four weeks.
Most patients are able to recover without treatment, and the virus is rarely fatal, though it can make the patient more vulnerable to other illnesses.
Monkeypox is preventable via washing hands, and limiting contact with others who have a rash. Anyone with symptoms should call a health care provider before visiting. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/first-monkeypox-case-discovered-in-eastern-idaho/article_cb66523f-b675-5c6f-b2ee-26e93d209a90.html | 2022-08-03T23:29:57 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/first-monkeypox-case-discovered-in-eastern-idaho/article_cb66523f-b675-5c6f-b2ee-26e93d209a90.html |
The developer of Village Premier in southeast Fort Wayne will be able to use the increase in tax revenue generated by the project to pay back bonds after getting City Council's support.
Home Investments of Indianapolis plans to put a multi-use development on the McKinnie Avenue property that used to be McMillen Park Apartments which were demolished about 11 years ago. The $42 million first phase will include 208 affordable apartments, sites for nine homes to be built and a central plaza.
The second and third phases will bring a daycare, healthcare clinic, commercial space and senior housing. About $55 million is expected to be invested in the project.
City Council pledged the tax increment financing to repay bonds for a failed project Posterity Heights more than five years ago and considered a similar arrangement Tuesday for Village Premier. City officials have looked for ways to bring a mixed-use development to the land it acquired in 2020.
Jonathan Leist, redevelopment deputy director, said the tax increment financing arrangement set for Posterity Heights would be altered to limit the bond repayment source to tax revenue generated by the Village Premier site instead of the entire Tillman-Anthony district.
The Fort Wayne Redevelopment Commission approved the economic development agreement last month. The members also approved the creation of $3.3 million in economic development bonds.
Councilwoman Sharon Tucker, D-6th, said she sees the need for affordable housing firsthand as the executive director of Vincent Village, a homeless shelter.
“We are in such a dire need in our city to provide spaces for people to be able to afford to pay their own rent on their own and to have a place to go,” Tucker said.
The apartments are expected to cost $550 to $900 a month, said Matt Gadus, chief investment officer for Home Investments. Leist said Fort Wayne’s affordable housing is currently 98.8% occupied.
“This level of occupancy can often lead to situations of housing displacement and/or rapid rent increases for tenants,” Leist said.
Councilwoman Michelle Chambers, D-at large, said she was excited to see a project that meets the needs of working parents who need affordable daycare services.
Councilman Russ Jehl, R-2nd, said the development is also financially unique and called it a positive example of a public-private partnership. The developers aren’t asking for property taxes from the General Fund or income taxes.
“In fact, you’re speeding up the recovery of the income tax of the previous project, and the only local funding beyond that is coming from TIF that already exists,” Jehl said.
Councilman Jason Arp, R-4th, challenged Gadus on the $42 million cost of the affordable apartments. Affordable apartments cost the same to build as market-rate units, Gadus said, and construction costs have increased substantially in the last year.
Home Investments' affordable multi-family developments in Indianapolis and Evansville recently encountered similar construction costs. Gadus said the developers are excited to make a multi-generational change in southeast Fort Wayne.
“It’s rare that you get 20-plus acres in city limits that you can transform,” Gadus said.
Leist said the city expects to hear later this week if the project will receive $5 million from the state's Regional Economic Acceleration and Development Initiative for Village Premier.
City Council members approved the resolutions with opposition from Arp, who has said he doesn't think residential developments should receive public funding assistance.
Councilman Paul Ensley abstained. Councilman Glynn Hines was absent. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-council-approves-financing-for-southeast-affordable-development/article_b9aa0e2c-1373-11ed-a30c-8fa23c0dbf96.html | 2022-08-03T23:31:54 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/city-council-approves-financing-for-southeast-affordable-development/article_b9aa0e2c-1373-11ed-a30c-8fa23c0dbf96.html |
The Northern Indiana Passenger Rail Association will ask the state to help bring a passenger railway corridor to the area now that the project has gotten City Council's support.
Councilman Geoff Paddock D-5th, asked his fellow members to approve a nonbinding resolution that shows the city’s support of the return of passenger rail service to Fort Wayne.
The proposed Chicago to Columbus, Ohio corridor would stop at the Baker Street Station in downtown Fort Wayne, along with several smaller cities such as Warsaw, Plymouth and Lima, Ohio. Paddock said the project would give local residents more options for travel and bring more tourism to Fort Wayne.
The association has raised funding for a feasibility study, an environmental impact study and preliminary engineering. Paddock said the association wants to take the project to the next level, which would involve asking the Indiana Department of Transportation to work with the federal transportation department to bring some of the $36 billion President Joe Biden has allocated for rail improvements from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.
Paddock said support from the council members “would send a strong message that Fort Wayne wants us to move forward — or at least apply.” The association hopes the federal and state departments can come together with 80% of the cost coming from the rail allocation and the rest coming from INDOT.
The railroad project is expected to cost between $5 million and $6 million per mile. Paddock said it might sound costly, but INDOT has estimated the Interstate 69 extension south of Indianapolis will cost about $20 million per mile.
Councilman Tom Freistroffer, R-at large, said he supports the project, especially considering how the city has grown.
“Fort Wayne is not the same city it was 100 years ago, and we need this,” Freistroffer said.
Councilwomen Sharon Tucker, D-6th, and Michelle Chambers, D-at large, said they are ready for the proposed train system to become a reality.
“The only thing I’d like to say is hurry up because I’m 50,” Tucker said. “I want to see this come to fruition and ride.”
Councilman Jason Arp, R-4th, said he wouldn’t support the nonbinding resolution. The former Chicago resident said he has heard about negative consequences Lake and St. Joseph counties saw after the commuter rail stops came, such as officials rearranging neighborhoods for the station.
The council members voted 7-1 with Arp in opposition. Councilman Glynn Hines, D-at large, was absent. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/council-supports-proposed-northern-indiana-rail-project/article_3eb20d86-137e-11ed-8548-8b718c743b55.html | 2022-08-03T23:32:00 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/council-supports-proposed-northern-indiana-rail-project/article_3eb20d86-137e-11ed-8548-8b718c743b55.html |
Fort Wayne's largest college campus is welcoming a rare set of visitors – the Purdue University Board of Trustees.
The trustees, who often meet at the flagship West Lafayette campus, will conduct business at Purdue University Fort Wayne over two days, culminating with a meeting scheduled for 9:45 a.m. Friday in the Walb Student Union.
Mung Chiang, Purdue's president-elect, will presumably join the board and university President Mitch Daniels on campus, said Ron Elsenbaumer, Purdue Fort Wayne chancellor.
"It's a great opportunity for him to see firsthand what it is we do, what we look like, and what we have to offer," Elsenbaumer said of Chiang, whose presidency begins Jan. 1.
But the 10 trustees could also use a refresher about the regional campus. The board last met in the Summit City about five years ago, Elsenbaumer said, noting it preceded his tenure by months. Since then, the board has welcomed new members, and IPFW, as the university was known, split into Purdue Fort Wayne and Indiana University Fort Wayne.
"So, the campus has changed," Elsenbaumer said, calling the visit a "tremendous opportunity" for trustees to see the transformation.
Although fall classes don't begin until Aug. 22, the chancellor said the trustees should see a lively campus due to new student orientation. He is eager to show them various facilities.
"It's probably the best time of the year to see how beautiful our campus is," Elsenbaumer said, noting the plants are in full bloom.
Elsenbaumer plans to share information about Purdue Fort Wayne during Friday's board meeting. He didn't provide specifics about his presentation Wednesday but said it will include local initiatives and "points of pride," such as faculty and staff accomplishments.
The campus isn't the only aspect local officials plan to show off to the out-of-town visitors. They will also explore Fort Wayne, including downtown.
It's important for Purdue officials to see the relationship between the local campus and the region it calls home. The institution supports northeast Indiana, Elsenbaumer said, and the region supports the campus.
"We're focused locally," he said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/purdue-fort-wayne-welcomes-purdue-university-trustees/article_972536a6-1364-11ed-84b2-2fc5a0d873e4.html | 2022-08-03T23:32:06 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/purdue-fort-wayne-welcomes-purdue-university-trustees/article_972536a6-1364-11ed-84b2-2fc5a0d873e4.html |
TITUSVILLE, Fla. – Police in Titusville need the public’s help to find a dog that was stolen from a vehicle at a Walmart last month.
Police said the vehicle, with a female Boston terrier/pug mix named Lolly inside, was stolen from the Walmart in Titusville on July 15.
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The car has since been recovered, but police said Lolly is still missing.
Police are trying to reunite Lolly with her family.
If you have any information, contact Detective Williams at 321-567-3962.
TPD is investigating a vehicle theft @ Walmart on 07/15/2022. The car was stolen, a female Boston Terrier/Pug "Lolly" was inside. Car recovered, but Lolly has not been located. If you know Lolly's whereabouts, call Detective Williams & help reunite her w/her family. 321-567-3962. pic.twitter.com/zusc5mVTc2
— Titusville Police FL (@TitusvillePD) August 3, 2022
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APOPKA, Fla. – Classrooms are fully decorated and ready to welcome students at the new Kelly Park School.
The K-8 school is located on Jason Dwelley Parkway in Apopka about two miles from Kelly Park in Orange County.
Principal Kelly Steinke, who is opening the new school on Aug. 10, said she grew up in the area and was named after Kelly Park.
“My parents moved to Kelly Park Road back in 1971 and started an indoor foliage business and they liked the name Kelly for the beautiful Kelly Park at Rock Springs,” Steinke said.
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Steinke said she never imagined opening a new school in a spot that at one point was nothing but land.
“I never would’ve guessed that I would be serving students right here in my hometown and right in the backyard where I grew up. My parents still live on Kelly Park and I actually can go to the third floor and see their home and see them drinking coffee on their front porch,” she said.
Construction for the school started in February 2021 and was completed in May 2022.
Steinke said so far 735 students have registered for the new school year but the campus can hold up to 1,200.
“Apopka is such a wonderful community. It’s family-friendly, we have a large growth in the area and so I know the families in the community here in Apopka are excited for the K-8,” Steinke said.
While teachers continue to work on some final touches, Steinke has a motivational message ahead of the first day of school.
“I just want the teachers at Kelly Park School to know that we appreciate them, and we know their hard work, their hard work does not go unnoticed,” Steinke said.
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. – A Lake Wales K-9 officer was killed in a shooting Wednesday morning, according to the Lake Wales Police Department.
Earnest Borders, 57, was reported to law enforcement at about 5:06 a.m. for dragging a victim out of her car near Seminole Avenue, choking her, hitting her head on the concrete and firing a gun several times outside her apartment, police said.
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However, Borders had fled the area by the time officers got to the scene, police said.
Borders was later seen returning to the area west of Martin Luther King Boulevard, according to police. Police said he ran into a wooded area after police arrived near his location.
Police said Officer Jared Joyner and his K-9 partner, Max, searched the area along with other officers, eventually finding Borders in the woods. According to police, Borders then shot and killed Max with a stolen handgun.
Officers returned fire, shooting Borders, police said. Borders was taken to a local hospital where he was declared dead.
The police department stated that Borders had a criminal background, including battery, assault, grand theft, larceny, dealing in stolen property and numerous failures to appear in court, among others. Police said he had been sentenced to the Florida State Prison three times.
Joyner is an 11-year veteran of LWPD. Max, a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois, was paired with him in 2015, according to the police department.
LWPD said it has requested the Polk County Sheriff’s Office to investigate the shooting.
Listen to the 911 audio released by LWPD below:
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ORLANDO, Fla. – When Katerina Fedotov’s son was a toddler, she was spending hundreds of dollars trying to find activities he would like.
But she said adults have no sure way of knowing what children so young will like. While Fedotov was able to search for different programs, she also said it is ridiculous for families to waste that much money when they do not have access to opportunities.
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“That is not available to 85% of our community. We’re all working,” said Fedotov, a fourth-generation ballerina. “What if you’re single-income family? You know, $200 to $300 a month, that’s your utility bill, that’s your food.”
Fedotov is the president of Russian Ballet Orlando. She inherited the role after her family, Ukrainian Ballet Masters Vadim Fedotov and Irina Depler, founded RBO in 2000 as a nonprofit organization, offering scholarships with funds the city provides.
Since then, she decided to help families introduce children to ballet before committing to it through a free dance program.
Project Relevé, which started over four years ago, offers free 45 minute classes the second Sunday of each month. Prior to the pandemic, the free classes were twice a month, which RBO is looking to bring back.
Fedotov said the project helps families that are too busy to take kids to classes or cannot afford to consistently pay for classes.
Otherwise, families may spend around $2,000 per year for beginner’s classes and the costs only increase as students advance. Fedotov said advanced classes may cost around $8,000 to $10,000 a year as ballerinas have to keep buying pairs of pointe shoes.
Fedotov said she sees many children sign up for the school after attending classes through Project Relevé.
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“Our kids are very pure and very innocent,” Fedotov said. “The innocence of a kid—as parents, we only have it once, and we have it for such a short time.”
During Project Relevé's classes, children learn from the same system the school students do in half the time. They will learn barre techniques, center work and how to count with the music’s rhythm.
“The ballet world is very different from any other dance because it is a fairy tale, it is a love at first sight,” Fedotov said. “You grow up in this bubble, in this magical bubble, and you live in it every single day.”
Fedotov said she can’t control the outside world, but she controls what happens in her studio. She said she will help the community whenever she sees a chance.
“You create this innocence and hope,” Fedotov said. “Having parents to trust me for decades is the greatest feeling in the world because the kids is what will replace you and me.”
Registration for Project Relevé opens at noon the Wednesday before classes. The maximum capacity is 15 kids per class, and they must wear the uniform RBO lists on its website.
The next free class will be on Aug. 14. with the following schedule:
- 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. | Ballet ages 3 to 4 years old
- 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Ballet ages 4 to 5 years old
- 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. | Ballet ages 6 to 7 years old
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Flagler School Board District 4 race: Christy Chong challenges incumbent Trevor Tucker
Flagler School Board Chair Trevor Tucker is seeking a fourth term next month against political newcomer Christy Chong.
The District 4 election is Aug. 23.
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Christy Chong
Chong, 39, has lived in Flagler County for 20 years — her extended family goes back 40 years in Flagler. She was born in New Smyrna Beach and grew up in Daytona Beach.
Chong works as an advanced registered nurse practitioner at Island Doctors in Palm Coast. She graduated from the Daytona State College nursing program and has a Master of Science in nursing degree from Indiana State University.
Chong refused a phone interview. She provided her answers by email.
A newcomer to politics and a mom of three boys with her husband Kirk, Chong decided to run because she believes "parents need to be more involved in our education system.”
“I have not been happy the past few years with some of the things that we have seen in our education system, so I wanted to do more than just complain, but actually get involved,” Chong wrote in an email to The News-Journal.
“I believe in and am running for parental rights, school choice and curriculum transparency,” she added. “And I believe it’s time for parents to step up and be a part of our children’s education.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has endorsed Chong.
“I understand the toll that COVID has had on families and our children’s education and learning, and just how difficult it has been for our children to get the proper education the past few years,” she wrote. “So I am here for my children and I am here for yours. I look forward to serving Flagler County and making sure parents' voices are heard.”
She said that there have been both positive and negative moments over the past few years in the school district.
She praised the work teachers have done to improve grade reading levels for the district’s youngest students and would like to see it continue.
“Our students are still doing much better than the rest of the state, but there is still work to be done to get these kids back on track to ensure success for their future,” she wrote.
Chong said she would like to see the district’s efforts in staffing and retention improve.
“It says a lot about a system when several people are quitting and it does not reflect on our administration very well,” Chong wrote. “We need to look at why and make Flagler schools a place teachers and staff want to stay.”
In an email to The News-Journal, Flagler Schools spokesman Jason Wheeler said that 320 school staff left the district last year — the majority, 242, resigned for “personal reasons.”
Addressing school capacity and growth would be an “overriding priority” for Chong if she is elected. Other priorities include continuing to “improve school safety, improve our school district grades, and continuing to improve education and get kids back to their reading grade level and literacy post-COVID.”
Chong said that she supports the new Parental Rights in Education bill, which DeSantis signed into law in March.
“The bill reinforces our rights as parents to make decisions about the upbringing of our children in public schools,” she wrote.
The bill (referred to by critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill), drew national attention and controversy.
“It does not say ‘don’t say gay’ anywhere in the bill,” Chong wrote. “Yes, I support this bill and I support a parent’s right to make decisions about the upbringing of their children.”
Last year, the school board was involved in another controversy.
In November 2021, board member Jill Woolbright filed a police report because she said a book in school libraries violated obscenity laws.
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The book, "All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto," chronicles the experiences of author George M. Johnson, who uses they/them pronouns, growing up Black and queer in America. Parts of the book include descriptions of masturbation, oral and anal sex and sexual assault.
After the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office found that no crime had been committed by the placement of the book in some school libraries, the district introduced an “opt-out” program in the spring that allows parents to determine which books their children can check out from school libraries.
Chong called the program “an improvement but I still think we can do better.”
She referred to the book as "porn."
“Bottom line, porn doesn’t belong in our schools,” Chong wrote. “We sign permission slips for any type of sexual education for our children; so why is there pornographic material getting into our schools without parents being aware? The question should be ‘how did these books get here in the first place?’ We need to hold others accountable for allowing these books in our schools for young children.”
Trevor Tucker
Tucker, 46, currently serves as chair in the Flagler School Board. He is a lifelong resident of Flagler County. His father and grandfather also grew up and attended school in the county.
Tucker has served on the Flagler School Board for 12 years, including during the pandemic. His decision to run again, he said in a phone interview, “is really about my children.”
“Having two children in school currently compels me to run,” Tucker said. “I want the best education for my children and the best education for all children. I hope that they have the opportunity to come back and live here, have children here and continue to thrive in this community.”
Tucker is also the owner of a pest control company in the county called Sun Country Pest Control. He has a Bachelor’s of Science degree in accounting.
Tucker said that the district was “definitely on the right track pre-COVID,” but faced some difficulties brought by the pandemic.
“In 2019, our district was an ‘A’, we were getting right where we needed to be,” Tucker said. “During COVID, we kind of slipped as most districts have.”
One of the district’s current “weaker areas” is the ESE (Exceptional Students in Education) program, Tucker said.
“I think that everyone recognizes that,” he said, adding that with the recent change in the program’s leadership he hopes it will improve.
The program serves students with special learning needs. It includes students serviced under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and those who are gifted. The lack of trained staff for the program has been part of the reason the program has suffered in the past few years, Tucker said.
“There has been a lot of turnover in (health care professionals)” he said. “I think part of that is because during COVID you didn’t have all the training that you would normally have. The more training you have, the more you know how to do your job. We had two years during COVID that there wasn’t much training for staff.”
On the positive side, Tucker praised the community’s continued support for the half-cent sales tax, which the district has used to help provide K-8 students with iPads and high school students with MacBook laptop computers for school work.
“We’re lucky the voters have supported the half-cent sales tax,” Tucker said. “We were one of the first districts to have one-to-one technology for our students.”
He said that when COVID forced students to go into remote learning, the district didn’t have to spend time buying laptops or computers, “the students already had them.”
“It took a short period of transition time for students to then begin learning from home,” Tucker said. “I feel like that’s a shining spot. Other districts in the state were asking us ‘How did you transition so quickly?’ Our technology department did a great job.”
He also praised the Classroom to Careers programs, which provides students with unique opportunities to discover paths that lead them from the classroom to career success, with subjects such as culinary arts; finance and corporate services; fire leadership; aeronautics; and others.
Tucker said that he would prioritize the district’s funding if he is reelected, pointing to the state’s decision to raise the minimum wage for school staff to $15 an hour as a financial challenge ahead.
“School boards don’t create the revenue,” he said. “All we can say is how some of the revenue is spent. Because we don’t have unlimited funds, we really need to prioritize programs that will give us the most bang for our buck in the short term.”
Tucker said he is “favorable toward” the Parental Rights in Education bill, adding that he would like the bill to specify that any sex-related subjects should not be included in curriculums for students at or around the fourth-grade level.
“These are young children — that’s probably not the spot to be exposed to such things in school,” Tucker said. “When they get to older grades, yes, that makes more sense. Also, I believe the parents do have the right to be involved. The more parental involvement the better.”
On the “All Boys Aren’t Blue” book situation, Tucker said he thinks the “opt-out” program was “the most satisfactory outcome.”
“Now parents have the rights,” he said. “Whatever their belief system is, if they don’t want their child to read a book they can say, ‘I don’t want my child to have access to this book.’ It also doesn’t take away from parents the ability to say, ‘I want my child to read that book.’ I think this new system is good for everyone.” | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2022/08/03/flagler-school-board-district-4-trevor-tucker-faces-christy-chong/10209607002/ | 2022-08-03T23:38:20 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/local/2022/08/03/flagler-school-board-district-4-trevor-tucker-faces-christy-chong/10209607002/ |
The superintendent of Hanover schools is apologizing about the district using a logo on T-shirts and other materials that resembles a swastika.
The logo was used in a Hanover County Public Schools professional learning conference this week.
“One of our teachers designed the logo intending for it to represent four hands and arms grasping together — a symbol of unity for our all-county professional learning conference. Nothing more,” Superintendent Michael Gill wrote in a message to families and staff. “While we are confident that the logo was created without any ill-intent, we understand that this has deeply upset members of our staff and community who see the logo as resembling a swastika.”
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Gill said the administration has stopped distributing the T-shirts that include the logo and staff are working to remove the logo from all conference materials.
“We are deeply sorry for this mistake and for the emotions that the logo has evoked by its semblance to a swastika and, by extension, to the atrocities that were committed under its banner,” Gill wrote. “Unquestionably, we condemn anything associated with the Nazi regime in the strongest manner possible.”
Gill was not part of developing or reviewing the logo, according to district spokesperson Chris Whitley. Moving forward, the administration will reevaluate the process by which logos are reviewed, Whitley said.
In a letter on Monday afternoon, the NAACP said that the incident is another example of the urgent need for required training and professional development in diversity, equity and inclusion for all HCPS employees, including the School Board and Board of Supervisors.
“We stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters in calling out this insensitivity,” said the letter signed by Hanover NAACP President Patricia Hunter-Jordan. “We appreciate and respect Superintendent Gill’s apology. However, mere oversight by one individual cannot explain this pattern of a lack of diversity, and the refusal to make substantive changes that would result in the new direction for our schools …”
Last week, the NAACP wrote a letter urging the Hanover Board of Supervisors to “reconsider” some School Board appointments and to require both boards to participate in diversity, equity and inclusion training.
Newly appointed School Board member Johnny Redd, who was criticized in the letter in part for previous comments about using a biblical worldview to analyze policies, responded by referring to Hunter-Jordan as an “angry African American lady.” He later apologized.
The Anti-Defamation League’s regional office in Washington said in a statement to the Times-Dispatch on Wednesday that the ADL appreciates Gill’s swift response to the community and his acknowledgement of the impact the incident has on the Jewish community and other marginalized groups targeted by white supremacy and hate. The global anti-hate organization’s mission “is to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”
According to an annual ADL audit, there were 46 antisemetic incidents reported in Virginia last year, a 6% decrease from the 49 incidents reported in 2020 and a 64% increase from the 28 incidents reported in 2019. Virginia was the state with the 15th highest number of antisemitic incidents reported in the U.S. last year, according to the ADL. | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/update-anti-defamation-league-issues-statement-on-hanover-schools-swastika-t-shirt-logo/article_85ffc252-dc84-59d8-85d2-be7482983668.html | 2022-08-03T23:38:34 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/update-anti-defamation-league-issues-statement-on-hanover-schools-swastika-t-shirt-logo/article_85ffc252-dc84-59d8-85d2-be7482983668.html |
PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — Pasco County superintendent Kurt Browning made sure to let parents get a message before the new school year starts — educate kids on the consequences of their actions.
At a Pasco County School Board meeting Tuesday, the superintendent briefly touched on the topic of discipline, saying a new video about the topic will be sent out to parents, teachers and kids within the coming weeks.
Browning explained how last year the school district saw a decrease in the number of inappropriate student interactions after implementing a rule — students will be put up for expulsion if they commit one level three offense.
This rule will follow into the new school year along with the addition of being put up for expulsion if students commit two level two offenses.
Just in the 2021-2022 school year, there were more than 60,000 referrals in the school district compared to the usual number of 40,000. The reason behind the increase, Browning explains, is the parents not communicating with their children.
“[Parents] needs to have conversations with their kids about what the expectations are and that there are consequences to your actions,” he said. “We all have consequences and I don’t think that message is getting through…”
The superintendent went on to say parents need to be having these conversations about what appropriate behaviors look like in public and more importantly what it looks like in Pasco public schools.
Students will be returning back to classrooms starting next week. The school board members agree that if they don't do something, they'll be putting other students who want to learn at risk of not getting an education.
Watch the full meeting down below. (Kurt Browning starts to talk about discipline at timestamp 1:37:14) | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-county-superintendent-student-discipline/67-02e5474c-524a-47c7-b5c9-7fdaeee2d31f | 2022-08-03T23:40:49 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pascocounty/pasco-county-superintendent-student-discipline/67-02e5474c-524a-47c7-b5c9-7fdaeee2d31f |
OLDSMAR, Fla. — A home in Oldsmar was damaged after it was struck by lightning on Wednesday, authorities say.
The homeowner of the three-story house located near Wellington Avenue said she was shocked by the sound of the lightning strike and evacuated the home with her three cats at around 2:10 p.m.
"I heard a bolt of lightning and I was kind of shaken up by it because things fell off the wall while that happened," Heidi Gray said. "I was walking around inspecting but it was during a thunderstorm so I couldn't really go outside and see if there was a tree hit."
Gray said she saw smoke coming out of one of the bathroom vents in the home and left.
So far, Gray said only two of the three cats made it out of the home with her and the other cat ran elsewhere and has not yet been found.
When Oldsmar Fire Rescue arrived at the home, the homeowner said they immediately began to put the fire out.
"They (fire rescue) were at the house for about an hour putting out the fire and then they put a trap to cover the hole on the roof," Gray said. "They also had to tear down walls and ceilings, so evidently the attic was in flames."
The woman said she did not face any injuries from the lightning strike and the Red Cross has provided her with resources, but has decided to stay at the home. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/lightning-strikes-damage-oldsmar-home/67-3547b15d-16f8-4f88-8959-db74dc39d645 | 2022-08-03T23:40:54 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/lightning-strikes-damage-oldsmar-home/67-3547b15d-16f8-4f88-8959-db74dc39d645 |
SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — A slight but significant change is coming to utility bills in Sarasota County. Recently, the County Commission adopted an ordinance to allow homes to be assessed by a Stormwater Environmental Utility Rate. It's part of a long-term goal toward water quality improvement.
Prior to this change, stormwater fees residents paid could only be used to combat flooding in neighborhoods. But with this adjustment, that fund will now be split towards combatting pollution.
"The stormwater is one of the major components that contribute to these pollutants getting into the estuaries and into the nearshore marine environments," said Jon Thaxton, Gulf Coast Foundation.
The aim of the stormwater EUR is to assess properties based on the number of pollutants they are likely to add to the system. The funds will go to cleaning and preventing such runoff from getting into the waterways and negatively impacting the environment.
"The economic value of an acre of that seagrass is measured in many tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars and the loss of the sea grass that is attributed to the loadings from stormwater is significant," said Thaxton.
Recently, Sarasota issued 'No Swim' advisories at several beaches over high amounts of fecal bacteria. Experts said such events if they occur too frequently put local tourism and businesses at risk.
"We have had the same rate assessment for the last 15 years we've seen where we've really fallen behind," Amanda Boone, Senior Stormwater Manager.
According to county officials, a medium single-family home with around 3200 ft.² of impervious surface, for example, the roof and driveway could see about a six cents a day increase in their utility.
"Having this new rate structure is going to keep things fair and equitable and allow us to focus on water quality and really move forward for the county," said Boone.
"It creates an incentive for people to go from a concrete driveway to paving blocks or to some other impervious surface that will allow the stormwater to sift through the surface rather than run off the surface and go into the stormwater conveyance system," Thaxton said.
In the meantime, 'No Swim' advisories are still in effect for some beaches in Hillsborough County due to high levels of bacteria in the water. The affected beaches include Bahia and Simmons Park Beach in Ruskin. In Manatee County, Bayfront Park North, Manatee Public Beach North, Palma Sola South, and the popular Coquina Beach North also so have 'No Swim' advisories. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/sarasota-county-pollution-utility-stormwater-runoff/67-970c6d65-4fa7-444a-abc1-6d6c246a8b36 | 2022-08-03T23:41:00 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/sarasotacounty/sarasota-county-pollution-utility-stormwater-runoff/67-970c6d65-4fa7-444a-abc1-6d6c246a8b36 |
TAMPA, Fla — The rabbi of a Tampa synagogue is suing the state of Florida, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, Attorney General Ashley Moody, State Attorney Ginger Madden and other state leaders over the newly-implemented 15-week abortion ban.
HB 5, the Reducing Fetal and Infant Mortality bill, bans most abortions after 15 weeks from the start of a woman's last menstrual cycle. While it provides exceptions if the mother's life is endangered or if the fetus is considered to have a "fetal abnormality," it doesn't provide exceptions for victims of rape, incest or sex trafficking.
The bill immediately faced protest and legal challenges on the grounds of privacy and religious freedom. In June, a Palm Beach County synagogue sued Florida over the ban; and toward the end of the same month, a Florida judge temporarily blocked the ban, ruling it unconstitutional.
The state appealed, and the law went back into effect on July 5.
Now, adding onto a slew of religious challenge facing the bill, three rabbis, two reverends and a Buddhist lama are coming together to sue the state over its ban.
Rabbi Jason Rosenberg, is the leader of Congregation Beth Am in Tampa. He joined the other faith leaders to file a lawsuit that claims the abortion law is a violation of their freedom of free exercise of religion and speech that are guaranteed by both the state and federal constitutions.
Discussion on abortion is not new for Jewish people, he said.
Judaism has a thousands of years old tradition that states abortion is permitted in situations after 15 weeks, Rosenberg explained. So, this abortion ban is directly against Jewish law.
The Jewish tradition supports a woman's right to have an abortion, at least in some situations, right until the very moment of birth, he said. Although, he called those instances tragic.
“The mother's life takes precedence over the over the unborn baby, literally up until the moment of birth," Rosenberg said. "At any point if the mother's life is in danger, or health is seriously threatened, she is permitted and some would even say required to have an abortion.”
Many religious authorities say a mother's emotional health should be considered as well.
"So a woman who had suffered severe distress can, according to some authorities, pursue an abortion, and there aren't specific limits put on the time," Rosenberg said.
Another point of contention is the bill's criminalization of those who aid and abet in an abortion. The lawsuit claims these guidelines are vague and force plaintiffs to broadly interpret them out of fear of prosecution.
According to Jewish beliefs, religious leaders sometimes offer counsel on decisions, including on pregnancy and abortion, the lawsuit claims.
In his own career, Rosenberg has only had conversations like this a handful of times, he said.
"When someone has come to me and asked me for guidance about a possible abortion, it's a complicated, nuanced discussion," Rosenberg said. "I tell them both reasons Judaism would allow it and why Judaism might suggest they shouldn't, and ultimately, it becomes their decision under my guidance."
The plaintiffs argue that under HB 5 and Florida’s criminal law, “Plaintiffs are at risk of prosecution for counseling women, girls, and families to obtain an abortion beyond the narrow bounds of HB 5 as someone who aids and abets the crime. Under Florida’s aiding and abetting law, they commit the crime itself by counseling in favor of it.”
Rosenburg said this interferes with his ability to counsel female congregants on abortion.
"This law actually prohibits me from teaching and counseling fully in the Jewish tradition," he said.
Since the 15-week ban went into effect, Rosenberg said he hasn't had to counsel any of his congregants on an abortion decision, but the ban would not affect this discussion.
"If a woman were to come to me for guidance right now, while this law still stands, I would break the law and give her the Jewish guidance that she was requesting," he said.
The independent decision to participate in the filing of this lawsuit was not made lightly, Rosenberg said.
"I am adamant that women have the right to choose," he said. "I'm adamant that Jewish tradition supports that position. So that part of it was very simple for me. I understand that by participating in this lawsuit, I am involving my synagogue."
However, he said he's received an outpouring of support from his congregation. While legally, he is speaking for himself, he said, he knows he is really speaking from within the Jewish tradition and on behalf of many congregants.
Many of the women in his congregation are furious, he said.
"They are furious and they are afraid," Rosenberg said. "They are furious to have their bodily autonomy taken away. They're furious to have their Jewish decision making taken away."
Danielle Moriber, a partner at Spiro Harrison law firm — one of the firms representing the case, said ideally this lawsuit will deem the 15-week ban unconstitutional.
While this isn't the first lawsuit filed against the state over the ban, it's unlike previous challenges.
"This lawsuit is exclusively focused on a religious liberty challenge and speech concerns that come within that world," she said. "It's really a novel approach to challenging abortion bans from that perspective."
Moriber hopes this lawsuit can change the discussion on abortion as well.
"There are a number of religious minorities and other religious people, including our clergy plaintiffs here, who's religious views and exercise of their religion are substantially burdened by this law," she said. "The suggestion that it's religious or secular is really truly inaccurate when describing the American public. And so it's important from our perspective that the public generally understand that and be able to have that conversation."
10 Tampa Bay reached out to both the offices of Attorney General Ashley Moody and Gov. Ron DeSantis for statements on this lawsuit.
Moody said, she will continue to defend the state statute as it is the responsibility of the Florida Attorney General's Office.
“To be abundantly clear, terminating a pregnancy at 15 weeks requires ripping apart, limb-by-limb, a baby, which medical evidence has shown likely feels pain," she said in the statement. "It is certainly newsworthy that these religious organizations are bringing suit to challenge Florida’s ban of that practice."
The governor's office said it maintains the same stance it has expressed towards other legal challenges to HB 5: DeSantis is anti-abortion at or before 15 weeks.
"We believe HB 5 will ultimately withstand all legal challenges," Christina Pushaw, spokeswoman for DeSantis wrote in an email. "The struggle for life is not over." | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/tampa-rabbi-suing-florida-15-week-abortion-ban/67-c11989c2-afc2-4595-8a7d-406888f0aae6 | 2022-08-03T23:41:02 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/tampa-rabbi-suing-florida-15-week-abortion-ban/67-c11989c2-afc2-4595-8a7d-406888f0aae6 |
BURLEY — An 18-year-old Idaho Falls man was injured in a motorcycle crash on Tuesday as he fled from police.
Jordan Scott Fenton was taken to the hospital by ambulance, according to a report released by the Cassia County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday.
At about 9:15 p.m., Cpl. Mason Butikofer of the Cassia County Sheriff's Office was patrolling in the area of Overland Avenue and Bedke Boulevard when he saw Fenton run a red light on a black 2014 Kawasaki motorcycle.
The motorcycle just missed the patrol car. The officer swerved and turned on the overhead lights and estimated the motorcycle to be traveling at 110 mph in a 25 mph zone.
The motorcycle hit the front driver’s side bumper of a silver Honda Odyssey, driven by Cathy Anne Leoni, 73, of Burley, according to the Cassia County Sheriff's police blotter.
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Leoni was turning left onto Oakley Avenue from Bedke Boulevard.
Fenton was thrown from the motorcycle to the roadway.
The officer witnessed the crash and saw the motorcycle roll multiple times into the field on the south side of the street.
The officer found Fenton lying on his back and complaining that his right leg hurt. He was wearing a helmet.
An Idaho State Police trooper arrived at the scene and told the officer he had attempted to stop the motorcycle for speeding around traffic in a construction zone at the Burley-Heyburn Bridge on U.S. Highway 30.
Fenton did not yield to the trooper and the trooper continued to follow him.
The trooper said Fenton failed to stop at a sign at Fifth Street and Hiland Avenue and due to the motorcycle’s speed he discontinued the pursuit, turned off his lights and slowed down to the posted speed limits prior to the motorcycle running the red light at Bedke Boulevard and Overland Avenue and causing the crash.
A citation for reckless driving is pending for Fenton. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/idaho-falls-man-injured-after-fleeing-from-police-and-crashing-motorcycle-in-burley/article_a0cf017e-1377-11ed-b8e7-87abf32b67a9.html | 2022-08-03T23:43:23 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/idaho-falls-man-injured-after-fleeing-from-police-and-crashing-motorcycle-in-burley/article_a0cf017e-1377-11ed-b8e7-87abf32b67a9.html |
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Those with Lifesouth Community Blood Centers estimate that if everyone gave blood every 56 days there wouldn’t be a shortage.
John Donahey in Montgomery is donating even more than that.
“I donate every two weeks for platelets, I donate once a month for my blood,” Donahey said.
He says he donates to help cancer patients and others who need it.
“It also helps people out there in the hospitals that really need. I feel everybody should be able to donate if you can,” Donahey said.
Lifesouth District Community Development Coordinator Melinda Hinds says summer is a difficult time for donations. While people are giving less, there are often more car accidents and more hospitals in need of blood.
“Even before the summer we were seeing shortages, and our inventories are at an all time low,” Hinds said.
Lifesouth’s several locations in the state give blood directly to hospitals in their areas. Hinds says they’re open seven days a week and even send out several ‘bloodmobiles’ daily for collections.
Right now though, she says they haven’t always been able to complete hospital orders.
“We need you terribly right now, so we want our best to adequately get that inventory level to where it needs to be so we can meet our hospital needs every day for our patients,” Hinds said.
The American Red Cross offers another way to give. The Central East Alabama chapter was short last month about 1,000 units, according to Executive Director Kelly Hodges. She says three lives can be saved from one donation.
“When I donate blood, I’m saving a life from a car accident, from somebody who had an accident they didn’t expect to happen. Blood is needed everyday. Surgeries happen every day. If we don’t donate, if we don’t keep supplies on our shelves, what are we going to do? People need it to live,” Hodges said.
The American Red Cross collects throughout the state and sends the blood wherever it’s needed.
Those at Lifesouth encourage everyone to donate, but especially those whose blood type is O-negative, which can be universally used. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-blood-centers-call-for-more-donors-amid-supply-shortage/ | 2022-08-03T23:43:52 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/alabama-blood-centers-call-for-more-donors-amid-supply-shortage/ |
With 100% of Coconino County precincts reporting, the unofficial results of the primary elections are in for a low-turnout election that saw only 24% of the county’s registered voters casting ballots.
For many in the Flagstaff area, most pressing was the Flagstaff mayoral race, where incumbent Paul Deasy and former Vice Mayor Becky Daggett pulled ahead of Daniel Williamson to earn spots on the Nov. 8 general election ballot.
Daggett took a commanding lead at the polls, earning 4,418 (50.69%) of the votes cast in the race. Deasy came in second with 2,342 (26.87%), getting onto the ballot less than 400 votes ahead of the 1,955 (22.43%) earned by newcomer Daniel Williamson. Numbers have displayed a stark reversal of the strong 57% majority that elected Deasy in 2020 when he ran as a political outsider against established local politicians.
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But Deasy is not concerned. While he is “grateful for the support” that allowed him to continue onto the general election, he considered the low primary turnout a “shocking historic low” that likely skewed results.
“A 24% voter turnout is not representative of the general public, and is weighted towards partisan politics and partisan candidates,” Deasy said. “Independents are often not aware that they can request a ballot to vote in primaries. In 2020 we had a 39% voter turnout in the primary. In 2018 it was 35%. I look forward to seeing greater representation in the general.”
When it comes to the campaign ahead, Deasy said he will continue to focus on “people over politics” to get “real results” for the Flagstaff community.
As for Daggett’s success in the primaries, she said, “I'm honored by the trust that voters have shown me. I'm grateful to all the volunteers and campaign donors who helped me get here.”
She feels confident that when it comes time for the general election, “the math will work out” similar to how it did in the primary. Moving ahead, her plan is to continue with what has worked so far.
“I'm going to talk to even more voters, hear their concerns and find ways that we can work together,” she said.
While Williamson was disappointed he fell short of reaching the general election ballot, he said he would “figure out how I can best serve our city still, the city that I love and that I want to see thrive.”
While the mayoral race is technically nonpartisan, Williamson, who has largely garnered a Christian conservative base, thought his loss had to do with a lack of conservative turnout at the polling booths.
“I think we saw just by the sheer low numbers that far too many conservatives chose to sit on the sidelines,” he said.
In the days ahead, Williamson hopes to sit down with both Daggett and Deasy to learn more about their “thought process and policy.” He has refrained from endorsing either candidate, but he did note that if the primary numbers were “indicative of anything at all,” it’s that Daggett “did a drop-dead amazing job with her campaign.”
“What it boils down to for me is serving Flagstaff,” Williamson said.
Along with choosing a new mayor, Flagstaff will also elect four new members for city council -- at least two of which will be write-in candidates, at the time of the general election. Austin Aslan and Lori Matthews are officially on the ballot.
Other notable results from the Arizona primaries include the selection of Jeronimo Vasquez over Tomas “Tommy” Hernandez for the run at the Coconino County Board of Supervisors District 2 seat. In the City of Sedona mayoral race, Scott Jablow and Samaire Armstrong earned places on the ballot.
For CD2, Republican Eli Crane advanced to face Democrat Tom O'Halleran, who was unopposed in the primary, fending off Walt Blackman, Williams Mayor John Moore and four other candidates.
In LD7, Wendy Rogers outlasted the primary challenge from Kelly Townsend to earn the right to face Democrat Kyle Nitschke -- who was unopposed in the primary.
Some other unofficial results from other northern Arizona races, all with 100% of precincts reporting:
-- Christy Riddle has 30 more votes for Fredonia mayor than Kimley Purvis, 116-86.
-- Incumbent Bill Diak has about a 17% lead over Rick Yanke for Page mayor, 545-383.
-- Clarinda Vail leads for Tusayan mayor, with 42 votes to Brady Harris' 33. | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/flagstaff-mayoral-candidates-daggett-deasy-advance-to-general-election/article_17f8c876-1377-11ed-806f-ab3de37d1955.html | 2022-08-03T23:48:31 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/flagstaff-mayoral-candidates-daggett-deasy-advance-to-general-election/article_17f8c876-1377-11ed-806f-ab3de37d1955.html |
Northern Arizona University standout sprinter Alyssa Colbert will serve as the alternate for Team USA's 4x100-meter relay team at the World Athletics U20 Championship in Cali, Colombia.
The preliminary round for the women's 4x100m relay will take place on Thursday at 1 p.m. Should the USA squad qualify, it will be in the finals set to take place on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
Colbert had an outstanding freshman spring season for Northern Arizona, sweeping the Big Sky women's freshman of the year awards during the indoor and outdoor track and field season. During the indoor conference championship meet, she set a new school, Big Sky championship and facility record in the 60m preliminary with a personal best time of 7.32. In addition to winning the 60m, she was the 200m champ with a PR of 24.44. Colbert was named the conference's co-most valuable athlete for her efforts at the indoor championships.
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At the outdoor Big Sky championship meet, Colbert swept the 100m and 200m titles. Her 100m time of 11.33 was a personal best as well as a conference, conference championship and school record. She was also a member of the 4x100m relay team, which earned third place at the Big Sky outdoor championship meet.
At the NCAA Outdoor West Regional Preliminaries, Colbert competed in both the 100m and the 200m dashes, placing 30th in the former with a time of 11.62 and 45th in the latter in 24.37.
The competition will not be televised; however, fans can follow live results from the event at the event website. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-colbert-to-compete-at-world-championships/article_ea1c3804-1351-11ed-ad0c-ab699a504f2e.html | 2022-08-03T23:48:37 | 1 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-colbert-to-compete-at-world-championships/article_ea1c3804-1351-11ed-ad0c-ab699a504f2e.html |
LEE COUNTY, Fla. — They want to make decisions for their children but many of the candidates for the Lee County School board don’t have kids in the district.
Four of the school board seats are up for grabs and the majority of the people running don’t have kids in the district.
The District 6 seat is a race all county voters can decide and none of the candidates in the race have a child in the public school system. Some parents are questioning if they have the child’s best interest in mind.
Adriana Muellah is one of those who prefers candidates to have children in the district to have a better understanding of what is going on in the district and the classroom.
Jason Stewart agrees and feels the candidate will be vested in their job if they have a child in the district.
“I think it would be in the best interest to have kids in the appropriate neighborhoods they’re representing,” Stewart explained.
However, District 6 School Board Candidate Jada Langford sends her kids to a private school.
“I would love nothing more to put my kids back into the public school system but as of now I think we need to clean this mess up,” Langfor said.
That mess she’s referring to is the Lee County School System.
When asked why she was running when her kids are in a private school, Langford said she had many children she had previously taught in the Lee County School District pointing out she was a former teacher and product of public schools.
Her opponent Tia Collin would not question Langford’s reason for pulling her kids out of public schools.
“I’m not about to start questioning another person’s motives,” Collin responded.
Collin doesn’t currently have children in the district but insisted that wasn’t stopping her from running either.
“I owe a debt to the teachers and the staff of Lee County Public Schools who greatly supported my family and myself. Without them my children would not be where they are today,” Collin said about her kids who graduated from the district.
Political Consultant Dennis Pearlman pointed out having a child in the district isn’t a requirement in order to run.
“It’s a great talking point if you have kids in the system. It does give you a step up, a leg up but it’s not a determinate if you don’t,” Pearlman said.
He insisted experience matters to voters.
“It goes much beyond I have kids in the system and I want to make the system great,” Pearlman stressed.
Candidate Denise Nystrom doesn’t have kids in the district, however, she didn’t make herself available to comment for this story.
Voters still have plenty of time to decide before casting their vote in the August 23 primary election. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/03/parents-question-intentions-of-lee-county-school-board-candidates/ | 2022-08-03T23:55:10 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/03/parents-question-intentions-of-lee-county-school-board-candidates/ |
CHARLOTTE COUNTY, Fla. — A suspected reckless driver could have killed someone in Charlotte County. Instead, their car was the only one damaged.
The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office released a video of the crash as a warning for you to stay safe behind the wheel.
Reports said the driver wasn’t drinking or having a medical episode. They were simply reckless.
We spoke to drivers who travel over the U.S. 41 bridge to Port Charlotte on a regular basis. Greg Perry said there’s always problems.
“Either weaving in and out or driving so slow it causes an accident,” Perry explained.
Those are happening more so in the day. The crash being used as an example was filmed at night. In it, you can see the red car fly past a deputy and slam into a guardrail. The impact sent sparks flying.
Perry said this is why people need to be more cautious when behind the wheel.
“No one cares. No one cares anymore. No one has any regard for any kind of law or speed limit or anything,” he said.
Deputies report the driver wasn’t hurt in the crash. They were cited for reckless driving. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/03/reckless-driver-crash-caught-on-camera-by-deputies-in-charlotte-county/ | 2022-08-03T23:55:16 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/03/reckless-driver-crash-caught-on-camera-by-deputies-in-charlotte-county/ |
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — People living in a southeast Cape neighborhood want their voices heard about a planned carwash in between Kamal Parkway and SE 28th Terrace.
“I mean let’s be realistic. Does the Mayor want to live next to this gigantic car wash?,” said Richardson.
Richardson and others who live nearby believe the owner of the lot could drastically impact their end of the Mast Canal to make more room for Tommy’s Express Carwash.
The proposal is to transform the nearly two-acre grassy lot into the car wash. To do that, the applicant, SunDream Inc. wants to fill-in a quarter-acre of the Mast Canal.
SunDream Inc. submitted a permit application to the Army Corps of Engineers. On Wednesday, a spokesperson said they are still in the infancy stages of that review process.
If the proposal goes through, Lynn Jenkins is worried what will happen to the wildlife and what type of message this will send to other developers across the Cape.
“Who’s to say they’re not going to fill-in other canals? These waterways are precious and they’re for everyone to use,” said Jenkins.
The corporate office for Tommy’s Express Carwash said there is no set date for construction or an opening. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/03/residents-clamor-against-planned-car-wash-on-mast-canal/ | 2022-08-03T23:55:22 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/03/residents-clamor-against-planned-car-wash-on-mast-canal/ |
Council terminates deal with contractor over unfinished work
Wichita Falls City Councilors on Tuesday passed a resolution finding Leetech Solutions, LLC in material breach ofcontract for a rehabilitation on three city lift stations. The lift stations help pump sewage to the wastewater treatment facility.
The resolution declared an immediate termination of the contract and intends to file a claim against the company's performance bond.
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The city had granted Leetech extensions on the contract, but as of July 20, only three to four percent of the work had been completed and work had been discontinued. The city also cited unsafe working conditions.
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In other business, councilors:
- Authorized the purchase of equipment for rehabilitation of a lift station to serve the new Memorial High School in west Wichita Falls. The work is a cost sharing project with the Wichita Falls Independent School District.
- Changed the awarding of bids for some chemicals for water and wastewater treatment due to supply issues.
- Awarded a contract to W. Douglas Distributing, LTD for the annual supply of gasoline and diesel fuel.
- Adopted a redistricting map that slightly alters the city’s five single-member council seats to reflect population shifts in the 2020 census count.
- Altered the allocation of annual Community Development Block Grants to include Coronavirus relief funding.
- Approved application for a grant from the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant for the police department.
- Adopted the 2017 National Electric Code. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/council-terminates-deal-with-contractor-over-unfinished-work/65390496007/ | 2022-08-03T23:57:28 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/council-terminates-deal-with-contractor-over-unfinished-work/65390496007/ |
Kappa Sigma Chapter at MSU receives Founders Award for second year 
The Kappa Sigma Chapter at MSU Texas was honored with the Founders’ Award Chapter Excellence. The local chapter was named one of the fraternity’s top chapters in North America for the second consecutive year.
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According to a news release, the award is “the benchmark award in the Kappa Sigma Fraternity,
recognizing outstanding Chapter management, achievement, and program development in all areas of
operation.”
In 2022, 29 chapters of the 291 total chapters and colonies received this recognition.
“Winning a Founders’ Award of Chapter Excellence means that our chapter at Midwestern State University is not just one of the best chapters in Kappa Sigma but is one of the best fraternity chapters on any college campus in North America,” said Worthy Grand Master Adam J. Merillat, president of Kappa Sigma’s international board of directors.
In the past year, the Kappa Sigma’s Theta-Gamma Chapter at MSU maintained a high average GPA, completed more than 3,000 community service hours, raised more than $11,000 for charities and more than $3,500 for the fraternity’s Military Heroes Campaign. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/kappa-sigma-chapter-at-msu-receives-founders-award-for-second-year/65391254007/ | 2022-08-03T23:57:40 | 1 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/kappa-sigma-chapter-at-msu-receives-founders-award-for-second-year/65391254007/ |
Region 9 educators recognized
Two Graham ISD teachers were honored as outstanding educators Tuesday during a recognition ceremony at Region 9 Education Service Center.
Koby Andrews of GISD was named Region 9 Elementary Teacher of the Year, and Courtney Dobbs of GISD was selected as the Region 9 Secondary Teacher of the Year, according to a post on Region 9's Facebook page.
Andrews and Dobbs will move on to the Texas Association of School Administrators' 2023 Texas Teacher of the Year program.
The event honored the 23 nominees, including Andrews and Dobbs, with recognition from their principal,another administrator or coworker, according to a Region 9 media release.
Being named the Texas Teacher of the Year is the highest honor the state can bestowon a teacher, according to the media release.
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Facilitated by TASA since 2011, the program recognizes teachers who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and excellence in teaching each year.
More information on the Texas Teacher of the Year process is available on the TASA website.
The other nominees for Region 9 Elementary Teacher of the Year include the following:
• Bowie ISD – Amber Pelton• Burkburnett ISD – Adela Martinez• City View ISD – Tiffany Rorabaw• Crowell ISD – Allison Barritt• Newcastle ISD – Charitye Jackson• Nocona ISD – Jill Lemley• Perrin-Whitt CISD – Rhonda Self• Petrolia CISD – Sydney Daniels• Vernon ISD – Twaleena Weddle• Wichita Falls ISD – Stephanie Musquiz
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The other nominees for Region 9 Secondary Teacher of the Year include the following:
• Bowie ISD – Kelley Smiley• Burkburnett ISD – Jacqueline Sanderson• City View ISD – Jeffery Hughes• Crowell ISD – Whitney Halsell• Jacksboro ISD – Craig Parson• Midway ISD – Cally Cox• Nocona ISD (Middle School) – Jaicee Sawyer• Nocona ISD (High School) – Nancy Pirkey• Petrolia CISD – Brittany Womack• Vernon ISD – Ivone Rozo• Wichita Falls ISD – Kayci Bell
Aaron Alejandro, Executive director of the Texas FFA Foundation, gave the keynote address.
Sponsors of the event were Perdue Brandon Fielder Collins & Mott P.C., Wichita Falls Teachers Federal Credit Union, E3 Entegral Solutions, Leon Alcala, PLLC, Red River Superintendents Association and Red River Affiliate - Texas Association of School Business Officials.
In another selection process, City View ISD Superintendent Tony Bushong was named Region 9 Superintendent of the Year, according to the Texas Association of School Boards.
He was among 20 education leaders in Texas named regional superintendents of the year, advancing them in the annual Superintendent of the Year competition, according to TASB.
A TASB committee is expected to interview regional winners later this month and select five finalists.
The winner of the Texas Superintendent of the Year award will be announced at txEDCON22 Texas Association of School Administrators|TASB Convention Sept. 23 through Sept. 25 in San Antonio, according to TASB. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/region-9-educators-honored-with-teacher-of-the-year-awards/65390113007/ | 2022-08-03T23:57:46 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/region-9-educators-honored-with-teacher-of-the-year-awards/65390113007/ |
Wichita Falls firefighters battle two-alarm fire in hundred-degree weather
Firefighters responded to a structure fire in the 2600 block of Lebanon Road Tuesday afternoon.
According to WFFD assistant fire marshal Jody Ashlock, they found heavy fire and smoke coming from a two-story house and called for a second alarm and more manpower.
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The house was vacant but it appeared vagrants had been inside and were using a bedroom window to come and go. The fire started in a downstairs bedroom and the open window allowed it to spread upstairs and to the rest of the house.
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Firefighters also had to deal with the heat brought on by Mother Nature. According to the National Weather Service, Tuesday’s high temperature was more than 100 degrees. Battalion Chief Rusty Downs said they called for extra manpower to give firefighters relief and allow them to cool off and stay hydrated while battling the blaze.
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Ashlock estimated the damage to the house and contents at nearly $26,000. No injuries were reported.
According to a previous Times Record News report, the fire department has seen an increase in fires caused by vagrants this year. | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/wichita-falls-firefighters-battle-two-alarm-fire-in-one-hundred-degree-weather/65390357007/ | 2022-08-03T23:57:52 | 0 | https://www.timesrecordnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/wichita-falls-firefighters-battle-two-alarm-fire-in-one-hundred-degree-weather/65390357007/ |
TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) – Law enforcement will have a heavy focus this week on traffic safety in school zones. This comes as many local students have already gone back to class this week, and others will soon.
The message from local law enforcement is simple: heightened awareness when driving in school zones could save you a ticket – or even save a life.
“We want folks to pay a little bit more attention, much more situational awareness,” said Tom Patton with the Kingsport Police Department. “Be aware kids are very unpredictable. They don’t always know the rules themselves. They may dart out between parked cars, they may not use crosswalks.”
Police typically focus on two common violations in school zones.
“Speeding is a big problem, and the other is distracted driving, being on the cell phone. You cannot be texting,” said Washington County, Tenn. Sheriff Keith Sexton.
Tennessee’s ‘Hands Free’ law enacted in 2019 makes it illegal to have your phone in your hand while driving. The fine jumps from $50 to $200 if committed in a school zone.
As kids head back to class, officers across the Tri-Cities have committed to ramping up patrols. Sexton says that includes specific distracted driving operations in Washington County where officers will be watching for ‘hands free’ violations.
“We will simply have an officer parked just before the start of the school zone, and he will be looking for people distracted on their cell phone,” said Sexton.
When it comes to school buses, people often break the law when they are not paying attention or simply do not know the rules of stopping.
“It’s important to know that if there is a school bus that is stopped with a sign out, we must stop even if it is on the other side of the road, unless there is a physical barrier,” said Patton.
Bus drivers play crucial role in school zone safety
As for those who take your kids to school on the buses, there is an overwhelmingly common trend: a shortage of bus drivers at school systems regionwide.
“We are gonna see some shortages with bus drivers, we are gonna see bus drivers out with different illnesses. Their job is crucial to helping keep students safe,” said Dr. Steve Barnett, Superintendent of Johnson City Schools.
Barnett explained as the school year begins for Johnson City Schools, alterations have been made so bus drivers can come back to the schools and pick up a second round of kids.
This means staff members are being paid to stay behind and watch those remaining children until the driver can come back to pick them up. If all bus driver positions were filled and all routes could be completed, this would not be necessary.
“Our goal is to have everyone home by 4 p.m.,” Barnett said.
For Kingsport City Schools, there is a similar trend of adjusting to the consistent bus driver shortage. Assistant Superintendent Dr. Andy True said they are pushing anyone looking for a job to consider driving a school bus.
“It is such a rewarding position because you have that interaction with students every day,” True said.
Starting the school year with too few drivers is not ideal, which is why KCS is committing to helping those interested in driving a bus.
“We can provide high levels of training, high levels of certification to be able to help someone who wants to be a bus driver but has never gone through the experience or the training,” said True.
As those flashing lights on school buses and school zone signs begin to pop up across the region, it’s a reminder to keep your focus on the road at all times.
“People need to be aware to be patient. If you need to, schedule a little more time, leave the house a little bit earlier,” said Sexton. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/back-to-school-news/districts-emphasize-school-zone-safety-need-for-bus-drivers-as-kids-head-back-to-class/ | 2022-08-03T23:58:12 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/back-to-school-news/districts-emphasize-school-zone-safety-need-for-bus-drivers-as-kids-head-back-to-class/ |
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – In a Wednesday press event, Ballad Health officials revealed the result of a partnership that they hope will bring care to hard-to-reach parts of the region.
“Today, we’re taking health improvement beyond the hospital and clinic walls,” said Paula Masters, vice president of Health Programs for the system. “And bringing it straight out into those communities that need it most.”
The new outreach came in the form of an RV outfitted with medical equipment to perform a variety of care for nearby and far-flung destinations.
“The mobile clinic will operate under two functions, general medical care and women’s health services,” Masters said. “Vital services such as cancer and health screenings, STREP and flu tests, referrals to dentists and OBGYN services and so much more.”
The vehicle was made possible largely through private donations, according to Ballad Health Foundation president Jack Simpson. The expansion’s biggest contributor was PYA, an accounting and healthcare consultation firm based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Masters said the partnership between Ballad and PYA has stood for several decades, and was only made stronger through the new foray into mobile medicine.
“We have been looking to expand healthcare into our rural and remote areas for a long time,” Masters said.” We’ve been providing mobile mammography for decades so to be able to provide more services, it’s so encouraging.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/ballad-unveils-free-mobile-health-clinic/ | 2022-08-03T23:58:18 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/ballad-unveils-free-mobile-health-clinic/ |
ATLANTA — A Georgia gun law enacted eight years ago, cited as the reason for this week’s surprise cancellation of Music Midtown, required public parks to be among the places legal gun owners were allowed to carry firearms.
Opponents of that law said it would spike gun violence, but Atlanta crime data indicates that argument is debatable.
Surrounded by a throng of gun-carrying supporters, then-Gov. Nathan Deal was in Ellijay in April 2014 to sign a bill known among supporters and critics as "guns everywhere."
The bill expanded the ability of permit holders to carry their firearms into churches, government building and public parks.
And while gun violence did go up, Atlanta police data shows that:
- From 2010 to 2014, the number of shooting incidents in the city rose by 26%.
- From 2014 to 2018, they rose by only 19%.
"Democrats promised that the sky would fall, and it didn’t," said Brian Robinson, who was a top aide to Deal in 2014.
The bill Deal signed is the one that requires cities to allow guns in public parks, including Piedmont Park, which had hosted Music Midtown – until it was abruptly cancelled this week.
Democrats cite that cancellation as another reason to oppose looser gun laws, including constitutional carry.
Asked about the stats 11Alive found, Georgia Democratic party chair U.S. Rep. Nikema Williams said: "I don’t have all the statistics you have, but I have a second grader who just started second grade on Monday. And I know that we have leaders in this state who are willing to put their gun rights ahead of the rights of a second grader to go to school and come back home alive."
Williams and other critics of expanded gun rights cite polls that show voters mostly don’t want gun laws like constitutional carry.
This year, early voting will start just a few weeks after the scheduled date of the now-cancelled Music Midtown festival. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/2014-gun-law-controversial-didnt-spike-shooting-rate-atlanta/85-2c170292-5e88-4ae9-8b6c-01770035eb97 | 2022-08-04T00:02:34 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/2014-gun-law-controversial-didnt-spike-shooting-rate-atlanta/85-2c170292-5e88-4ae9-8b6c-01770035eb97 |
CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A Clayton County officer indicted for murder in the case of a Black man shot and killed by federal task force agents in 2016 has been moved to "non-training duty" after an outcry about his continuing role in the department by the family of the man and a popular YouTube account.
Jamarion Robinson, 26, was killed six years ago when he was shot nearly 60 times by U.S. Marshals agents and officers working with a Marshals task force, leaving him with 76 bullet wounds.
The case languished for several years until Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis brought it to a grand jury last year, which indicted two law enforcement agents involved in the incident - U.S. Marshal Eric Heinze and Clayton County Police Officer Kristopher Hutchens - for murder.
Hutchens has remained with the Clayton County Police Department since then, evidently in a training role. The department had said in March he was placed on administrative duty.
"Recent concerns presented to the Clayton County Board of Commissioners about the administrative assignment of Sergeant K. Hutchens, to the in-service training unit have impacted the Board and the Clayton County Police Department. Chief Kevin Roberts has reconsidered the Sergeant’s assignment, and moved him to a non-training duty; effective immediately," a CCPD statement said.
The role came under scrutiny this week when the case was highlighted by the YouTube account of Dr. Rashad Richey, who produces a popular commentary program "Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey."
A video on Hutchens published on Tuesday, "Cop Indicted For Murder Of Black Man Still Training Officers HOW TO SHOOT" had been viewed nearly 90,000 times as of Wednesday.
It also prompted new reaction from Robinson's family, who have now planned a press conference for Thursday at 1 p.m. in front of the department's Jonesboro headquarters.
According to a release, they will be "demanding Hutchens be released from his duties."
The release said Hutchens has been involved in the training of Clayton County SWAT officers.
"This is not only a slap in the face of the family who will be mourning six years of Jamarion’s death this Friday but shows the disparity in the law as Hutchens is indicted on multiple felony charges," the release said.
According to the police release, the trial for Hutchens and Heinze is due to begin on Sept. 12.
Attorneys for the officers late last year filed requests to have the case moved to federal court where court records show the pair would plan to seek immunity as federal officers, a move the Fulton County District Attorney's Office has objected to.
Robinson had been a college football player at Clark Atlanta University and Tuskegee University, and had no criminal convictions.
The Marshals Regional Task Force said it was serving an arrest warrant on behalf of Gwinnett Police and Atlanta Police, over incidents in which he had allegedly poured gas on the floor beneath his bed and in front of his mother’s bedroom and for allegedly pointing a gun at officers while being confronted at a friend’s apartment complex.
Robinson’s mom said she called police, not to have him arrested, but to get him mental health assistance. His mother said at the time he had been recently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and that police were aware of this.
A private detective hired by his mother uncovered evidence of gunshots straight into the ground where his body was laying. There is no body-camera video of the shooting though because, at the time, federal policies didn't allow for U.S. Marshals or local police officers assisting them to wear body cameras.
The U.S. Marshals have said Heinze was also placed on administrative duty following the murder indictment. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/jamarion-robinson-case-kristopher-hutchens-clayton-county-officer-reassigned/85-81def332-7eb9-4d19-bbf9-db4ca28f4749 | 2022-08-04T00:02:41 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/jamarion-robinson-case-kristopher-hutchens-clayton-county-officer-reassigned/85-81def332-7eb9-4d19-bbf9-db4ca28f4749 |
ATLANTA — A boy was shot near a barbershop in Atlanta Tuesday afternoon, according to police. It happened around 4 p.m. near 251 Peters Street in southwest Atlanta, where Off the Hook Barber Shop is located.
APD Deputy Chief Charles Hampton Jr. said a father and his 2-year-old son were leaving the barbershop and then drove south on Peters Street. Hampton Jr. said a car was following them and opened fire while they were at the intersection of Peters Street and Chapel Street.
The child was struck by a bullet and is in critical but stable condition, APD said. The father then drove to Atlanta fire station 14 on Lee Street for help, according to police.
Hampton called the shooting a "targeted" incident and said this is a "very fluid" investigation.
"We still have to piece together, we have to go back to the barbershop to figure out exactly if there's anything that happened inside the barbershop," he said.
Authorities are looking for a suspect in a blue Kia Optima.
"We know that car after the shooting continued to travel southbound onto Peters Street," Hampton said. "We're asking anyone if they have any information to call the Atlanta Police Department or they can call Crime Stoppers, where they can remain anonymous."
News happens fast. Download our 11Alive News app for all the latest breaking updates, and sign up for our Speed Feed newsletter to get a rundown of the latest headlines across north Georgia. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/toddler-shot-atlanta-barbershop/85-49b68f95-5c07-4d1f-a1c5-a352dd4d0e1a | 2022-08-04T00:02:47 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/toddler-shot-atlanta-barbershop/85-49b68f95-5c07-4d1f-a1c5-a352dd4d0e1a |
FAIRBURN, Ga. — Two Douglas County students started their first day of school with special people by their side.
Fairburn police escorted the son and daughter of fallen Fairburn Police Department Sgt. Jean-Harold Louis Astree to class on Tuesday.
Astree died last week in a four-vehicle wreck, according to Georgia State Patrol. According to the department, he had been employed with the city since 2018. They said he was also a U.S. Air Force veteran.
Astree's son walked through the halls of Mason Creek Elementary School with at least eight officers for his first day of first grade. Sporting a Kansas City Chiefs t-shirt, the child was met at his classroom with high-fives from his father's colleagues and hugs.
Fairburn police also accompanied Astree's daughter on the first day of her freshman year at Alexander High School.
GSP said Astree was driving an unmarked Fairburn Police Dodge Charger northbound on Capps Ferry Road, near Brookcrest Court, when he "struck a GMC dually truck" in the southbound lane. The truck lost control and began spinning, crossing the center line and striking an Audi SUV in the oncoming lane.
"After striking the GMC dually truck, the Charger traveled into the southbound lane of Capps Ferry Road and struck a second GMC truck head-on," a GSP statement said. Astree was the only victim killed in the wreck, authorities said.
Patrol services continue to investigate the crash. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/union-city-fairburn/fairburn-police-fallen-sergeant-kids-first-day-of-school/85-99304edd-13f4-46b9-8a41-4a7e2c8e0e91 | 2022-08-04T00:02:53 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/union-city-fairburn/fairburn-police-fallen-sergeant-kids-first-day-of-school/85-99304edd-13f4-46b9-8a41-4a7e2c8e0e91 |
Tribute Island
People do love their cover bands and tribute acts.
I mean, how else can you successfully put on something called Tribute Island?
The huge three-day tribute band festival returns to the Wyndham Garden Hotel grounds Friday through Sunday in Downtown Kenosha, right on the harbor.
There will be five stages and more than 50 tribute groups performing.
As for music styles, you can hear hard rock, metal, country, folk, pop, punk, grunge, jam -- and probably more.
It’s the band names that really grab me. How about Smells Like Dave Grohl, Spin Lizzy, Jak Crowes and Cheap Foreign Cars (that last band is a tribute to three groups: Cheap Trick, Foreigner and Cars), just to name a few?
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Bands run from 6 or so to 11 p.m. on Friday, starting just after noon and playing until midnight on Saturday and from noon to 9 p.m. on Sunday.
Sure, this "island" festival is not on Simmons Island, but the bathroom amenities are much better in this location. Tickets can be purchased at beta.purplepass.com for $35 for a weekend pass ($79 for VIP status). Individual day passes may also be purchased.
Tribute Island runs Friday through Sunday, Aug. 5-7, outside the Wyndham Garden Hotel, 5125 Sixth Ave. in Kenosha. Festival hours are roughly 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, noon to midnight Saturday and noon to 9 p.m. Sunday.
Red Hot Chilli Pipers
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are returning to McAuliffe’s Pub in Racine tonight.
OK, read that again.
There is no Flea in this band. There ARE fine young men in kilts, however.
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers are far and away the most famous bagpipe rock band in the world. Still confused? The group fuses traditional Scottish music and rock/pop anthems into what the band and fans proudly call "Bagrock."
Here's what to expect: "Bagpipes with attitude, drums with a Scottish accent and a show so hot it carries its own health warning.” (Their words, I’m not that witty.)
Songs that pop up at their shows include "Smoke on the Water," "Thunderstruck," "Hallelujah," "Fat Bottom Girls," "Californication" and many other deliriously giddy songs, along with their original tunes. It's a guaranteed great time -- unless you hate bagpipes that rock and, well, than I just don’t want to know you.
The Red Hot Chilli Pipers perform starting at 8 tonight, Aug. 4, at McAuliffe’s Pub 3700 Meachem Road in Racine.
Electronica show
I don’t write enough about electronica shows or the online releases of artists like Dead Language Decoder, aka Dove Paige Anthony.
That said, there is a very interesting double bill of electronica music coming up Saturday at Public Craft Brewing Co.
Jeff Noise’s solo project (d)VICES and Chicago Electronic star charlie otto + his gear will both perform.
(d)VICES got into this during the early stages of the pandemic and realized he enjoyed building sound collages, often with video and still images. Otto describes his performance as “The drums are electronic + i place them right inside your ear, the synths are lush and colorful + they are inside a big cave + the lyrics are about making a better world thru inner awareness.”
So what does that mean to people whose brains don’t work that way? To simplify, otto is on the cutting edge of live music and video performance, using his guitar to generate what you see on screen as well as turning knobs to both modulate a synth and distort the images in the video part of the show. Mind blown. Also, it’s not just ethereal stuff as the songs are often danceable rock tunes.
charlie otto + his gear and (d)VICES perform starting at 8 Saturday night, Aug. 6, at Public Craft Brewing Co., 628 58th St. in Downtown Kenosha.
Rust Belt concert
Rust Belt is making a return to Racine with a "Saturday Sounds on the Square" performance Saturday, Aug. 6.
The Americana band is loaded with talented players and vocals with veteran members Paul Aceto (bass), Brandon Shilts (guitar), Don Miller (drums) and Kevin Schultz (Hammond organ) painting a musical picture of our times in Flyover Land.
In addition to the roots rockers’ original songs, they also deliver great renditions of hits by the likes of Ryan Adams, Jason Isbel, The Allman Brothers, Wide Spread Panic, the Grateful Dead, Tom Petty, Paul Simon, Government Mule, The Band and much more.
Rust Belt will perform starting at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6. at "Saturday Sounds on the Square" in Monument Square, on Main Street between Fifth and Sixth streets in Downtown Racine.
Peacetree Festival
Peacetree Music Festival is back Friday and Saturday in Pennoyer Park in Kenosha.
This is mainly an original music festival that includes many of the area’s favorite bands, as well as a legendary act.
There will be 14 bands performing over the two days, including somewhat newer bands like Lunar Lizard, Mountains on the Moon and Bodhicitta as well as longtime faves like Jill Plaisted, the Rhythm Dogs and the legendary Cosmic Railroad.
This is a laid back, groovy sort of peaceful festival. Highly recommended. The music runs from around 2:30 to 11 p.m. Friday and noon to 11 p.m. Saturday.
The Peacetree Music Festival is Friday and Saturday, Aug. 5-6 at Pennoyer Park, 3601 Seventh Ave. in Kenosha, on the lakefront. Presale tickets -– available at Union Park Tavern, The Flair, Herbert’s Jewelers Kenosha and Peacetree Originals -– are $15; $20 at the gate. All profits from beverage sales will go to the Kenosha Achievement Center.
Vinyl Remix on the Shell
Are you like me and have to work most weekends but still want to catch some live music? Give "Tuesdays at The Shell" a chance.
The shows are every Tuesday through August at the Pennoyer Park band shell in Kenosha. It’s an early concert -- and it’s free.
Vinyl Remix will take the stage at the next Tuesday concert. The band is very popular on the Kenosha festival and benefit circuit and is an offshoot of the band The New Vinyls. Expect to hear a lot of songs you love.
Vinyl ReMix will perform starting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 9, at the Pennoyer Park band shell, on Seventh Avenue at 35th Street in Kenosha.
That’s it for this week. Bands, artists and venues, please send me your gig listings, event posts, bios, Facebook event invites or anything else you think might be useful to me to write you up. Email me at pjfineran@gmail.com. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/local-music-columnist-paddy-fineran-reports-on-upcoming-live-shows/article_a2af5e7a-1288-11ed-b49a-bf26acbb597a.html | 2022-08-04T00:09:47 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/local-music-columnist-paddy-fineran-reports-on-upcoming-live-shows/article_a2af5e7a-1288-11ed-b49a-bf26acbb597a.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The family of a 9-year-old boy from Tacoma who died in a skiing accident in Jan. 2021 is filing a lawsuit against Mt. Bachelor.
Brecken Boice was near the summit of the mountain when he crashed. He was flown to a hospital in Bend to undergo brain surgery but did not survive.
Brecken’s parents are now suing the resort, saying employees told them conditions were good and there was minimal ice. However, according to skiers on the hill, there had been dangerous, icy conditions on that part of the mountain.
KOIN 6 reached out to the resort and is waiting to hear back.
“Everyone at Mt. Bachelor continues to convey our deepest condolences to the family. While we cannot comment on the specifics of the case due to pending litigation, this is a tragedy which has affected our whole mountain community. Our thoughts and blessings are with the family,” said John McLeod, Mt. Bachelor Resort President and General Manager. | https://www.koin.com/local/family-suing-mt-bachelor-after-9-year-old-son-died-in-skiing-accident/ | 2022-08-04T00:10:17 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/family-suing-mt-bachelor-after-9-year-old-son-died-in-skiing-accident/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – KOIN 6 News helped a Salem viewer get his money back after pressing Chase Bank about an unauthorized fraudulent wire transfer that stole $25,000 from his account.
Don Fensler emailed KOIN 6 News saying he was disappointed after banking with Chase all these years, that they didn’t treat his case with the urgency he says it deserved.
Fensler said he woke up and checked his Chase Bank account and saw a lot of money missing and noticed an outgoing wire transfer of $25,000 that he did not authorize.
His account showed a fraudulent transfer to a woman in Kerrville, Texas listed as “a business proposal. The chance to start a new life and become business partners for the better of both our sake.”
For the next 11 days, he said he got the run-around from his Chase Bank branch in Salem who told him to call a 1-800 number to file a claim and wait for paperwork in the mail, which never came.
“Still, it’s $25,000, money is gone. And I call up the bank manager and he says, ‘Well, we just have to go through the process. We’re trying to get the money back and you just have to wait.’ I mean, they gave my money away. I didn’t authorize this at all. They allowed somebody just to walk in and take my money,” Fensler said.
Fensler got so fed up that he contacted KOIN 6 News.
“I send you email, like at 9:00 in the morning, you answer like less than an hour later, like by 10:00,” Fensler said.
KOIN 6 News contacted regional leaders at Chase Bank and shared the details of Fensler’s fraud case at his Salem branch and pressed them on an explanation.
Within hours of KOIN 6 News’ inquiry, Chase Bank returned Fensler’s $25,000. In a statement to KOIN 6 News, Chase Bank said “We received the documentation we needed to resolve this and have spoken to the customer.”
Fensler said he would have understood waiting had he fallen for a scam, but he says the mistake slipped through the cracks on their end, and to go through that stress as unacceptable.
According to Fensler, he even called his local bank to let them know KOIN 6 News was involved and the manager got upset, said she could no longer help and hung up on him.
“At noon, the money is back in my account — $25,000, you know?” Fensler said. “So I mean, that’s kind of this whole story. Nothing happened that the Chase Bank either couldn’t or wouldn’t help me.”
While he feels like Chase Bank owes him for the time and money wasted on phone calls and in-person visits trying to fix this, he’s very relieved to have his money back.
“Anyway, I was really disappointed … but I’m really grateful to you,” he told KOIN 6 News. | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-man-has-25k-stolen-in-wire-fraud-chase-bank-recovers-money-after-koin-6-inquiry/ | 2022-08-04T00:10:23 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-man-has-25k-stolen-in-wire-fraud-chase-bank-recovers-money-after-koin-6-inquiry/ |
The kids from Boys & Girls Club of Nampa said their name and one thing about themselves at Amalgamated Sugar, which donated $5,000 to Boys & Girls Club of Nampa on Wednesday.
Dave Hawk, Nampa plant manager at Amalgamated Sugar, speaks to kids who were there to accept a $5,000 donation on Wednesday to Boys and Girls Club of Nampa.
Representatives from Amalgamated Sugar and youth from the Boys and Girls Club of Nampa hold up a donated $5,000 check on Wednesday. The company donated the money to celebrated reach a safety milestone.
Dave Hawk, Nampa plant manager at Amalgamated Sugar, speaks to youth from the Boys and Girls of Nampa on Wednesday. The company donated $5,000 to the organization.
Amalgamated Sugar employees Rey Basaldua, mechanic 1st class, left, and Derek Childers, BCTGM Union Nampa Local 284G president, speak during donation of $5,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Namp on Wednesday. They described how they have an injury free work place by watching out for each other.
Jim Brigham, corporate director of Human Resources at Amalgamated Sugar, speaks to youth from Boys and Girls Club of Nampa on Wednesday. The company donated $5,000 to the organization.
The kids from Boys & Girls Club of Nampa said their name and one thing about themselves at Amalgamated Sugar, which donated $5,000 to Boys & Girls Club of Nampa on Wednesday.
Photo by Jim Max
Dave Hawk, Nampa plant manager at Amalgamated Sugar, speaks to kids who were there to accept a $5,000 donation on Wednesday to Boys and Girls Club of Nampa.
Photo by Jim Max
Dave Hawk, Nampa plant manager, speaks during the donation of $5,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Nampa on Wednesday.
Photo by Jim Max
Kids from Boys and Girls Club of Nampa listen to speakers from Amalgamated Sugar, which donated $5,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Nampa on Wednesday.
Photo by Jim Max
Representatives from Amalgamated Sugar and youth from the Boys and Girls Club of Nampa hold up a donated $5,000 check on Wednesday. The company donated the money to celebrated reach a safety milestone.
Photo by Jim Max
Dave Hawk, Nampa plant manager at Amalgamated Sugar, speaks to youth from the Boys and Girls of Nampa on Wednesday. The company donated $5,000 to the organization.
Photo by Jim Max
Troy Morfin, district safety manager at Amalgamated Sugar, speaks during the donation of $5,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Nampa on Wednesday.
Photo by Jim Max
Amalgamated Sugar employees Rey Basaldua, mechanic 1st class, left, and Derek Childers, BCTGM Union Nampa Local 284G president, speak during donation of $5,000 to Boys and Girls Club of Namp on Wednesday. They described how they have an injury free work place by watching out for each other.
Photo by Jim Max
Melissa Gentry, executive director at Boys and Girls Club of Nampa, speaks Wednesday at Amalgamated Sugar, which donated $5,000 to the organization.
Photo by Jim Max
Jim Brigham, corporate director of Human Resources at Amalgamated Sugar, speaks to youth from Boys and Girls Club of Nampa on Wednesday. The company donated $5,000 to the organization.
NAMPA — In honor of another 500,000 hours logged without a recordable injury, the employees at Amalgamated Sugar chose to donate $5,000 to the Boys & Girls Club of Nampa.
Ten children from the program as well as staff traveled to the sugarbeet factory in Nampa on Wednesday morning to receive a symbolic giant check and learn about the significance of the award.
“First of all, congratulations,” said Boys & Girls Club of Nampa CEO Melissa Gentry, addressing the factory staff at the event. “This is huge for you guys, and we are so honored to be able to receive it.”
The club is entirely funded by donations, and serves about 450 to 500 children per day across its sites, Gentry said. Last year, it opened a site in Caldwell, and plans to open a second site there, she said.
Derek Childers, BCTGM Union Nampa Local 284G president, said the hours without a recordable injury milestone comes from employee efforts to look out for one another.
“It’s a lot better than it used to be because we have our safety-oriented group of people that is trying to make sure that we all go home the way we came in in the morning,” Childers said. “It’s a good job; it’s a rewarding job, but it can also be dangerous, so you need a good buddy watching out for you,” Childers explained to the kids. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/boys-girls-club-of-nampa-receives-donation-from-amalgamated-sugar/article_e4c59a1f-2bb3-506a-b84d-89087fb39be5.html | 2022-08-04T00:19:25 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/boys-girls-club-of-nampa-receives-donation-from-amalgamated-sugar/article_e4c59a1f-2bb3-506a-b84d-89087fb39be5.html |
BOISE — All five Idaho Supreme Court justices were engaged and actively questioning the parties as they heard arguments Wednesday on three procedural questions involving two lawsuits over Idaho’s far-reaching anti-abortion laws, including whether either or both should be stayed, preventing them from taking effect while they’re challenged in court.
Justice Robyn Brody called the two challenged statutes, which overlap and in some areas supersede each other, “a bit of a maze.”
She told Nevada attorney Monte Neil Stewart, who argued on behalf of the Idaho Legislature in favor of allowing both laws to take effect immediately, “A lot has changed in the last 90 days, and continues to change, and it’s very challenging for all of us to sort through.”
At one point, Justice Greg Moeller and New York attorney Alan Schoenfeld, who argued on behalf of Planned Parenthood, had an exchange in which each told the other they “respectfully” disagreed over whether factual issues about medical practice needed to be explored in the cases.
Justice Colleen Zahn told Deputy Idaho Attorney General Megan Larrondo, “None of us are medical providers,” as Larrondo sought to counter Schoenfeld’s arguments that the state’s “trigger” law, which is set to take effect Aug. 25, is unconstitutionally vague, in part because it would allow abortions to “prevent the death” of the mother, while not defining how imminent or likely death must be in those cases.
“That just has to be determined by the physician in his good-faith medical judgment,” Larrondo responded. “There is enough here for a physician to know broad strokes what is prohibited.”
At the conclusion of the hour-long arguments, Chief Justice Richard Bevan said, “This matter is under consideration by the court … and we will render a decision accordingly.” The court is expected to issue its decision in writing; no time frame was specified.
Rebecca Gibron, CEO of the Planned Parenthood group that filed the lawsuits, said afterward, “I think it went well. I thought we presented all of the core flaws with the two bills, and I’m feeling hopeful that the justices will do the right thing on behalf of Idahoans.”
Larrondo said she, too, thought it went well. “The justices seem to understand our arguments, and we’re hopeful for a favorable, quick decision,” she said.
Stewart said, “The court conducted a fair and impartial hearing that we believe will be helpful to the justices in making their decision. The Legislature appreciates its opportunity to explain to the court its views on these important matters.”
He surprised the justices by telling the court that the Legislature’s “paramount interest here” is to lift the stay on SB 1309, the Texas-style abortion lawsuits law that authorizes relatives of a fetus aborted after about six weeks gestation to sue doctors for minimum $20,000 damages. “That’s the Legislature’s paramount interest,” he said. He noted that SB 1309, passed this year, amended a 2021 “fetal heartbeat” anti-abortion law that includes exceptions for medical emergencies involving “substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function,” and said, “The Fetal Heartbeat Act is sound and valid and constitutional in every way. And the civil enforcement of it is entirely valid.”
Moeller said, “I’m confused at the Legislature’s priority of the civil sanction statute, as opposed to the total ban,” contained in the 2020 “trigger” law that’s also being challenged. That law makes all abortions felonies in Idaho, at any stage of gestation, with only narrow exemptions for cases of rape or incest in which a police report is provided to the doctor; or to prevent the death of the mother by means other than suicide.
- By CAROLYN KOMATSOULIS ckomatsoulis@idahopress.com
That trigger law is the target of a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the U.S. Justice Department, which charges that it violates federal laws requiring hospitals receiving Medicare funds to provide emergency care.
Stewart said the Legislature intended the fetal heartbeat law to go into effect first; it’s currently slated to take effect Aug. 19, “which will endure for all of about a week until the 25th. But then you will have what the Legislature envisions as the permanent enforcement solution,” he said. “What is it? The permanent enforcement solution is executive-branch enforcement through criminal law of all unlawful abortions in this state,” referring to the trigger law.
That prompted Brody to interject, “Hold on just a second. Let’s look at that assertion.”
She said, “When I look at these, when the dust settles on Aug. 25 and both of these laws go into effect … now we have these two competing criminal standards. … That seems to provide two very different statutory schemes for medical providers.”
While Stewart argued that when the trigger law took effect, the criminal enforcement of the “fetal heartbeat” provision would end and be superseded by the trigger law but the civil lawsuit mechanism would continue for a “subset of all unlawful abortions in this state,” Brody asked Larrondo if the whole “fetal heartbeat” law, including the civil lawsuits, would just “disappear” when that law is superseded by the trigger law on Aug. 25.
Larrondo, arguing for the state, responded that she thought that was a reasonable reading of the interplay between the two.
Bevan warned as the arguments began that while they “may touch on the merits” of the cases, they were focused on “specific procedural questions that were identified for the parties.”
It was the procedural question about whether the two laws should be stayed that brought out the most pointed arguments about whether the two laws are constitutional or not.
Schoenfeld told the justices that the trigger law suffers from “impossible and irreparable vagueness,” including in allowing an abortion only to prevent the death of the mother. “Must a woman’s death be certain?” he asked. “Must it occur the next day or week?”
And he pointed to wording in the law requiring any abortions performed under the exceptions to be done in a way that provides the best opportunity for the fetus to survive as “nonsensical,” saying especially early in a pregnancy, that’s impossible. “It’s written in a way that makes it impossible to comply with or invoke, ensuring that no provider will provide an abortion, even where the mother’s life is at stake, or even in cases of rape or incest,” he said.
Moeller questioned Schoenfeld’s argument that the Idaho Constitution indirectly guarantees a right to abortion, though Schoenfeld said other constitutional factors alone should warrant staying both laws.
“Abortion was a crime dating back to Idaho’s territorial era, dating back to 1863,” Moeller said, before the Idaho Constitution was drafted. “The only thing that changed was that in 1973, we had Roe vs. Wade. … It didn’t find a right to abortion in the Idaho Constitution.” He asked Schoenfeld, “Has it always been there, or did it somehow arise as a result of the Roe decision?”
Schoenfeld said the “wisdom” of Idaho’s founding fathers was that they included strong guarantees of the “right to decisional autonomy … to enjoy and defend life and liberty.” Originally, those rights were guaranteed only to men, he said, because women couldn’t vote. But he said numerous state courts have found that past criminal prohibitions don’t foreclose current recognition of constitutional rights, including abortion and other issues, such as homosexual sodomy laws.
Larrondo countered, “There is no way that the framers of the Idaho Constitution were thinking that they were enshrining as a fundamental right something that was criminally prohibited when they were drafting that document. … It is not the place of this court to be deciding what’s best for Idaho now. It’s the place for the court to be looking at what the drafters of the Idaho Constitution intended.”
She suggested the justices follow the lead of the U.S. Supreme Court in its Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. “This court … has been strongly guided by how the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the federal constitution when there’s an analogous provision, unless there’s a really good reason that Idaho’s history and circumstances compel a different reasoning,” she said.
Stewart said he believed the court’s current stay on SB 1309 is “perpetuating in Idaho the Roe/Casey abortion regime, which as of June 24 was stripped of all legitimacy” by the U.S. Supreme Court. “Yet it’s still operating in this state because of that stay,” he said. “Because of that stay, preborn children are being killed in Idaho, contrary to duly enacted and wholly valid statutes.”
He said the Legislature would like the stay to be lifted immediately, on the same day as the arguments.
All three parties told the justices they’d support consolidating not just the two cases at hand, but all three pending state cases; Planned Parenthood last week filed a third lawsuit challenging the 2021 fetal heartbeat law. Consolidating the cases could still allow the court to cite different grounds in its decisions on the fate of each law.
Several hours after the arguments, the plaintiffs gathered for a news conference on the Idaho state Capitol steps. Dr. Caitlin Gustafson, a rural family doctor and co-plaintiff in all three lawsuits, said, “I cannot stand by while Idahoans are stripped of their rights to safe reproductive health care and doctors are stripped of their right to provide their patients with safe, essential medical care.”
“These bans are not pro-life,” she said, “but rather are dangerous and life-threatening for Idahoans. … If these bans are allowed to go into effect later this month, patients with miscarriages, tubal pregnancies, high-risk health conditions, cancers that need to be treated, and wanted pregnancies with tragic fetal conditions that are not compatible with life may be forced into situations that put their health and their lives at risk."
"Doctors will lose precious time caring for patients while waiting for symptoms to become life-threatening," she said, "and will be forced into this untenable situation, stuck between breaking the law and breaking the oath that we take to provide the standard of medical care to our patients. ... These laws were written without consulting medical experts and as a result put Idahoans in harm’s way." | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/idaho-justices-hear-arguments-in-abortion-law-cases/article_75e87602-69bd-590a-a649-4f53e26f7adb.html | 2022-08-04T00:19:31 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/idaho-justices-hear-arguments-in-abortion-law-cases/article_75e87602-69bd-590a-a649-4f53e26f7adb.html |
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The locally made Ford Explorer SUV posted a 32.4% surge in sales in July as compared to a year ago, the second straight month it saw a strong increase.
Explorer sales have been picking back up after slumping heavily during the coronavirus pandemic, largely as a result of the semiconductor shortages that roiled the global automotive industry, shutting down the Chicago Assembly Plant for weeks at a time, reducing shifts and leaving dealership lots half empty.
Overall, Ford and Lincoln sales grew by 36.6% to 163,942 last month, up from 120,053 in July 2021.
In July, the Dearborn, Michigan-based automaker saw a 52.3% surge in retail sales; a 33% jump in retail truck sales; a 81.6% leap in retail SUV sales; and a 147.3% increase in electrified retail sales. Ford's overall truck sales grew by 20.3%, overall SUV sales by 69.9% and overall electrified vehicle sales by 168.7% last month.
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Ford has been phasing out lower-margin cars, selling just 3,373 last month, down 22.7% from 4,365 in July 2021. It has shifted its strategy to focus on pricier and higher-margin pickup trucks and SUVs that fatten its profit margin and is now projecting it will become the second-largest electric vehicle manufacturer in the United States.
“Our overall sales rose 37% in July and electric vehicle sales grew at three times the rate of the EV segment," said Andrew Frick, a Ford vice president. "F-Series hit the 60,000-truck mark for the first time this year, with our all-new electric F-150 Lightning having its best sales month yet. Ford SUVs were up 70 percent, while E-Transit leads the electric van space with 95 percent of the electric van segment.”
In July, Ford sold 17,673 units of the Explorer, which is made at the Chicago Assembly Plant on the far South Side near the state line, up from 13,351 units during the same month in 2021. After the semiconductor shortages, the related plant shutdowns and running of only two shifts, Explorer sales are down 8.4% as compared to the first five months of 2021, with 120,590 units sold as compared to 131,592 during the same period the previous year.
In 2019, Ford also started making the Lincoln Aviator at the Chicago Assembly Plant after phasing out the Lincoln MKS and Ford Taurus. Sales of the SUV rose 71.1% to 1,927 units last month, up from 1,126 during the same time the previous year.
Aviator sales have declined 0.8% to 12,877 units sold through the end of July, down from 12,982 units through the first five months of 2021.
Ford employs more than 5,810 workers at the Chicago Assembly Plant and another 1,290 at the Chicago Stamping Plant on U.S. 30 in Chicago Heights. They were often out of work during the pandemic because the plant was repeatedly idled due to the lack of semiconductors that are used in rear view cameras, lane-assist and other modern features. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/calumet-region-made-explorer-sales-surge-by-32-4-in-july/article_723a6180-6774-5e03-91eb-06b67cb36f7d.html | 2022-08-04T00:20:02 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/calumet-region-made-explorer-sales-surge-by-32-4-in-july/article_723a6180-6774-5e03-91eb-06b67cb36f7d.html |
An Arlington family wants answers after police drew their weapons on a teenage boy, mistaking him for a possible suspect.
Rykaeem Morris, 16, said he returned home on Monday afternoon and was about to go swimming. He was steps outside of his home.
“Right before I could even head to the door, I see the cops pull up. I didn’t pay attention at first, until they full get out of the car,” Morris said.
Guns were drawn, he remembers.
“I was so scared. My body became stiff. I couldn’t move. I was directly frozen in fear. I saw they had their guns on me. I saw the green dots pointed on me, on the wall. I was just shocked,” he said. “In my mind, I was like, ‘oh my god, I’m going to die.’”
A spokesperson for the Arlington Police Department confirmed officers responded to Hudson Apartments in Arlington after a 911 call from someone Monday afternoon. The caller claimed to see someone through his door’s peephole wearing a hoodie and holding a firearm that was partially covered by a towel.
“The 911 caller advised that he'd been receiving threats from a person over social media, and the 911 caller believed the person at his door with a firearm was the same person who was making the threats,” an emailed statement to NBC 5 read.
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When officers arrived, they quickly observed a person on the third level of the apartment building wearing a hoodie and “who had a towel covering something in his hands,” police said.
“Given this person's proximity to the 911 caller's location, that he [Morris] matched the 911 caller's description of the suspect, and that officers were concerned he might be armed, officers attempted to detain the subject by pointing their weapons at the subject and gave verbal commands for him to show officers his hands,” the emailed statement continued.
Morris was not armed. Police also added he was not the person making social media threats to the 911 caller.
His older brother, Relius Johnson, said he got a call from Arlington police while he was at work nearby. At the time of the initial call, Johnson said authorities instructed him to tell his brother to shelter in place due to the search for the possible suspect related to the 911 call.
“I’m calling my little brother. He finally answers. He’s chaotic. I’m thinking he’s chaotic because of what’s going on outside the door,” Johnson said. “Until he finally answered the phone again, was screaming, ‘they have their guns on me. Come save me.’ Then I was like, 'hold up. That’s you.'”
Johnson is the director of New Maverick Orientation at the University of Texas at Arlington. As he rushed home to his brother, he said "the worst" was going through his mind.
“I teach a Black Lives Matter course. So, I just start thinking of all the names that were running through my head, and also, am I going to have to call my grandma and say, 'Hey, gran. Keem just shot by the police?'” he recalled. “I could be preparing for him to go six feet under and have a funeral and everything. I’m happy he’s here, but I’m also really upset about all the stuff he had to go through.”
Johnson said he tried to get as many officers as he could to listen to him once he arrived.
“We’re working through a lot of trauma already for him [Rykaeem]. So, this doesn’t help me help him,” he said. “He already had a fear of cops. He already had a fear of guns. Both of these put together just doesn’t help.”
Arlington police declined an interview on the matter Wednesday. A spokesperson said eventually, the department’s Tactical Unit was able to make responsive verbal contact with Morris and he agreed to show officers his hands and come down the stairs and meet with officers. Morris was detained by officers without further incident before being released to his brother.
The entire incident lasted just under three hours Monday, police said. A spokesperson said counseling and additional services were offered to Morris and his family.
“While our investigation is continuing at this time, APD does not believe this was a 'swatting' incident. We are currently looking into the original and subsequent statements made by the 911 caller as part of our further evaluation of the incident,” a statement to NBC 5 read. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/arlington-family-seeks-answers-after-police-draw-weapons-detain-teen-mistaken-for-reported-suspect/3039529/ | 2022-08-04T00:20:06 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/arlington-family-seeks-answers-after-police-draw-weapons-detain-teen-mistaken-for-reported-suspect/3039529/ |
A labor union is charging that local workers are being excluded from a $1.5 billion solar farm project in Northwest Indiana, calling it a slap in the face.
The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 filed unfair labor practice charges against California-based SOLV Energy and recruiter Aerotek, charging they are recruiting workers from outside Indiana for the Mammoth Solar Farm Project and paying them "substantially lower than Indiana standards."
The project is underway in Starke County and will also take place in neighboring Pulaski County, where construction has been held up by lawsuits.
SOLV Energy and Aerotek did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The union representing heavy construction equipment operators faulted the companies for not prioritizing the use of local workers. It alleged they recruited workers from other states to get the project started, paying them less than what local Northwest Indiana workers normally would make during such projects.
The union charged the companies did not contact local contractors who specialize in that type of construction work. The union also alleges SOLV Energy's recruitment firm offered $27 per hour, plus $850 per week, to workers from outside Indiana, less than the local prevailing wage in the area. The union further charges the company had offered just $20 per hour to local Hoosier workers, well below the established standard for skilled equipment operators in Northwest Indiana.
“Local workers are being systematically excluded from this project,” said Local 150 Financial Secretary David Fagan. “Despite the economic incentives our communities have given this developer, it is seeking to use a low-wage workforce from out of state while offering Indiana workers even less. It is a slap in the face.”
The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150, which represents more than 23,000 workers in construction in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa, filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board charging unlawful discrimination against Indiana workers.
“Our communities have acted in good faith to support this project,” said Fagan. "And we have been repaid thus far with hostility of the worst kind. When Gov. Holcomb set out to bring this project to Indiana, he could not have imagined that our workers would be shoved aside and that out-of-state developers would treat our communities with this kind of disrespect."
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Bombers BBQ is now serving up its beloved brisket and other slow-cooked meats in Crown Point.
The acclaimed military aviation-themed barbecue joint has built up a fervent following at its original location at 435 Ridge Road in Munster. It reached a deal with Darin Jacobs, who owns Rosati's pizzerias in Munster, St. John and Valparaiso, to open franchises.
Jacobs, a longtime bombers customer, on Monday opened the first Bombers BBQ franchise at 35 W. 112th Ave. next to Cold Stone Creamery and Three Monkeys Pub in Crown Point. He's eyeing future locations in St. John and Valparaiso.
"It's definitely the barbecue smoking shows on the Food Channel," he said. "We carry more than most. We sell smoked turkey that's the most tender turkey you've ever had. Our best customers are those who smoke or barbecue themselves because they know what they're looking for. They come in, ask how we prepare our food, understand it makes sense and keep coming back."
Jacobs hopes to open more franchises after establishing the Crown Point location.
"We're thinking of Valparaiso and St. John once we feel comfortable we've replicated it in Crown Point," he said. "This is the freshest, best-tasting barbecue around."
"Everything is fresh, smoked that day," he said. "Not to disparage other barbecue restaurants, but if they say they close at 9 p.m. and then close at 9 p.m. the meat's not all fresh."
The new Bombers BBQ in Crown Point seats 80 people in a former furniture store and another 24 on an outdoor patio. It has a liquor license that lets it serve 12 types of beer, half craft and half domestic.
The 5,000-square-foot restaurant is decorated with the same military aviation theme, inspired by how founder Chris Cole's relatives served as pilots in World War II and Vietnam.
"We've had a lot of military people come in and say they appreciate it. They like to take it all in," Jacobs said. "Some people don't know where the name comes from or think it's because the food is the bomb, but it's because both Chris Cole's relatives were bomber pilots."
Bombers BBQ in Crown Point has the same menu as the original Munster restaurant, adding banana pudding. It smokes its meat fresh every day, selling it until it runs out and closing early if sold out.
"We smoke meat daily and stay open until we sell out," he said. "If we still have some left we donate it or let employees take it home. But we're pretty good at estimating how much we'll need based on the previous day's sales."
Spirit Halloween will return to 1525 U.S. 41 in Schererville this Halloween season. Long located every fall at the former Ashley Furniture big-box in Schererville, it moved across the street last year to the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til.
Though it's still beach season when many have little more than beer and sunshine on their mind, to paraphrase the artist who just played Hammond's Festival of the Lakes, the Halloween retailer already posted "coming soon" and "now hiring" signage at the location.
The seasonal pop-up is known for occupying vacant commercial real estate for a couple of months, selling a wide array of Halloween costumes like Jason Vorhees hockey jerseys, as well as Halloween decorations like the styrofoam headstones you can plant to make your front lawn look like a cemetery.
The local chain of barbecue joints in Munster, Crown Point and Griffith is coming to Merrillville, near the busy intersection of U.S. 30 and Interstate 65.
It's taking over the former Fresh to Order space at 540 81st Ave., where it will share a strip mall with Planet Fitness and Catch Table and Tap.
The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill is coming soon to Crown Point.
The restaurant at 146 E. 109th Ave. is now hiring for a variety of positions, offering sign-on bonuses. It offers Greek favorites like grilled lamb, tzatziki, village salads, rice and pita bread. The menu includes many handhelds such as gyros, wraps and Greek burgers.
For more information, call 219-274-7335, email greatgreeknwi@gmail.com or find the business on Facebook.
True BBQ has opened its long-awaited third location in downtown Griffith, where it's bringing smoked meats and another late-night spot for drinks.
The modern barbecue restaurant took over the former Twincade space at 106 N. Broad St. at the corner of Broad and Main streets in downtown Griffith.
True BBQ first opened in Munster in 2014 and recently opened a second location in downtown Crown Point.
It's owned by Progressive Dining Group, which also owns Bullpen Luxury Bar & Grill, Gino's Steakhouse and The Links in Schererville.
The True BBQ in Griffith has the same menu, which includes baby back ribs, St. Louis-style ribs and smoked rib tips. It offers full slabs of ribs for $16 on Mondays. Other barbecued meats include turkey, andouille sausage, pork belly, pork shoulder, brisket, corned beef and chicken.
The menu also features steaks, pasta salads and appetizers. A full bar serves up craft beers, artisan cocktails and a wide selection of whiskeys.
Catering toward dinner and drinks in Griffith, True BBQ is open from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 3 p.m. to 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. It's closed on Tuesdays.
Port of Peri Peri's ship has sailed in Schererville.
Signs posted outside the Portuguese peri peri chicken restaurant in Shops on Main on U.S. 41 have said it was temporarily closed "for improvements" for some time.
But now the Port of Peri Peri sign on the building facade has come down. And Shops on Main owner Regency Center is listing the 2,388-square-foot restaurant space as available for lease.
Sports Clips left its longtime spot in the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til and Walmart and moved a few miles north in Schererville.
The sports-themed hair care chain, in which customers can watch sports on television getting their hair cut, moved to 336 Indianapolis Blvd. in a newer strip mall by McAlister's Deli and Buona Beef.
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Bombers BBQ, True BBQ and Great Greek Mediterranean Grill opening; Port of Peri Peri closed
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Bombers BBQ, True BBQ and Great Greek Mediterranean Grill opening; Port of Peri Peri closed
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Bombers BBQ is now serving up its beloved brisket and other slow-cooked meats in Crown Point.
The acclaimed military aviation-themed barbecue joint has built up a fervent following at its original location at 435 Ridge Road in Munster. It reached a deal with Darin Jacobs, who owns Rosati's pizzerias in Munster, St. John and Valparaiso, to open franchises.
Jacobs, a longtime bombers customer, on Monday opened the first Bombers BBQ franchise at 35 W. 112th Ave. next to Cold Stone Creamery and Three Monkeys Pub in Crown Point. He's eyeing future locations in St. John and Valparaiso.
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Brisket the top seller
It has three smokers on site, two for the restaurant traffic and one for catering. It will cater to as few as 50 people and as many as 500.
Top sellers include brisket, pulled pork sandwiches, mac and cheese and jalapeno cornbread.
"The brisket is by far the No. 1 seller," he said. "It's the recipe and because we made everything fresh."
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Drive-through for online orders
It has a drive-thru pickup window for online and phone orders.
"It's a trend," Jacobs said. "The drive-through at Rosati's is 20% of our business and growing. This is perfect for pickup."
Barbecue has taken off in Northwest Indiana in recent years, with many new barbecue joints opening.
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Further expansion planned
"It's definitely the barbecue smoking shows on the Food Channel," he said. "We carry more than most. We sell smoked turkey that's the most tender turkey you've ever had. Our best customers are those who smoke or barbecue themselves because they know what they're looking for. They come in, ask how we prepare our food, understand it makes sense and keep coming back."
Jacobs hopes to open more franchises after establishing the Crown Point location.
"We're thinking of Valparaiso and St. John once we feel comfortable we've replicated it in Crown Point," he said. "This is the freshest, best-tasting barbecue around."
Joseph S. Pete
Meat smoked daily
"Everything is fresh, smoked that day," he said. "Not to disparage other barbecue restaurants, but if they say they close at 9 p.m. and then close at 9 p.m. the meat's not all fresh."
The new Bombers BBQ in Crown Point seats 80 people in a former furniture store and another 24 on an outdoor patio. It has a liquor license that lets it serve 12 types of beer, half craft and half domestic.
The 5,000-square-foot restaurant is decorated with the same military aviation theme, inspired by how founder Chris Cole's relatives served as pilots in World War II and Vietnam.
Joseph S. Pete
Open daily
Bombers BBQ will be open in Crown Point from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
For more information, call 219-613-4444, visit bombersbbq.com or find the business on Facebook.
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Open until sold out
"We've had a lot of military people come in and say they appreciate it. They like to take it all in," Jacobs said. "Some people don't know where the name comes from or think it's because the food is the bomb, but it's because both Chris Cole's relatives were bomber pilots."
Bombers BBQ in Crown Point has the same menu as the original Munster restaurant, adding banana pudding. It smokes its meat fresh every day, selling it until it runs out and closing early if sold out.
"We smoke meat daily and stay open until we sell out," he said. "If we still have some left we donate it or let employees take it home. But we're pretty good at estimating how much we'll need based on the previous day's sales."
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon
It's almost the most spooktacular time of year.
Spirit Halloween will return to 1525 U.S. 41 in Schererville this Halloween season. Long located every fall at the former Ashley Furniture big-box in Schererville, it moved across the street last year to the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til.
Though it's still beach season when many have little more than beer and sunshine on their mind, to paraphrase the artist who just played Hammond's Festival of the Lakes, the Halloween retailer already posted "coming soon" and "now hiring" signage at the location.
The seasonal pop-up is known for occupying vacant commercial real estate for a couple of months, selling a wide array of Halloween costumes like Jason Vorhees hockey jerseys, as well as Halloween decorations like the styrofoam headstones you can plant to make your front lawn look like a cemetery.
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon
True BBQ hasn't stopped growing.
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon to Merrillville
The local chain of barbecue joints in Munster, Crown Point and Griffith is coming to Merrillville, near the busy intersection of U.S. 30 and Interstate 65.
It's taking over the former Fresh to Order space at 540 81st Ave., where it will share a strip mall with Planet Fitness and Catch Table and Tap.
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon
The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill is coming soon to Crown Point.
The restaurant at 146 E. 109th Ave. is now hiring for a variety of positions, offering sign-on bonuses. It offers Greek favorites like grilled lamb, tzatziki, village salads, rice and pita bread. The menu includes many handhelds such as gyros, wraps and Greek burgers.
For more information, call 219-274-7335, email greatgreeknwi@gmail.com or find the business on Facebook.
Joseph S. Pete
Now open
True BBQ has opened its long-awaited third location in downtown Griffith, where it's bringing smoked meats and another late-night spot for drinks.
The modern barbecue restaurant took over the former Twincade space at 106 N. Broad St. at the corner of Broad and Main streets in downtown Griffith.
True BBQ first opened in Munster in 2014 and recently opened a second location in downtown Crown Point.
It's owned by Progressive Dining Group, which also owns Bullpen Luxury Bar & Grill, Gino's Steakhouse and The Links in Schererville.
The True BBQ in Griffith has the same menu, which includes baby back ribs, St. Louis-style ribs and smoked rib tips. It offers full slabs of ribs for $16 on Mondays. Other barbecued meats include turkey, andouille sausage, pork belly, pork shoulder, brisket, corned beef and chicken.
The menu also features steaks, pasta salads and appetizers. A full bar serves up craft beers, artisan cocktails and a wide selection of whiskeys.
Catering toward dinner and drinks in Griffith, True BBQ is open from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 3 p.m. to 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. It's closed on Tuesdays.
Port of Peri Peri's ship has sailed in Schererville.
Signs posted outside the Portuguese peri peri chicken restaurant in Shops on Main on U.S. 41 have said it was temporarily closed "for improvements" for some time.
But now the Port of Peri Peri sign on the building facade has come down. And Shops on Main owner Regency Center is listing the 2,388-square-foot restaurant space as available for lease.
Joseph S. Pete
Relocated
Sports Clips left its longtime spot in the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til and Walmart and moved a few miles north in Schererville.
The sports-themed hair care chain, in which customers can watch sports on television getting their hair cut, moved to 336 Indianapolis Blvd. in a newer strip mall by McAlister's Deli and Buona Beef.
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
Steelworkers will take home bonus checks of upwards of $14,000 for the three-month period that ended on June 30, U.S. Steel Media Relations Manager Amanda Malkowski said.
Customer complaints have mounted as Old National Bank has integrated First Midwest Bank branches. Customers have complained about debit cards being declined, being locked out of their accounts online, being allowed to overdraft their accounts without warning and having to wait for hours on the phone.
The cost of gas has dipped under $4 a gallon at a few Region gas stations, including BP in Dyer, Murphy USA in Valparaiso, Speedway in Wanatah, Family Express in Hobart and Valparaiso and Sam's Club and Costco in Merrillville as of Monday, according to GasBuddy.com.
The average customer will start paying about 10% more or about $6 a month for natural gas after a rate hike kicks in this September. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission gave the Merrillville-based utility permission to start charging more for natural gas.
Israeli Ambassador Gilad Erdan, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, Doral LLC officials and others throw a ceremonial shovelful of dirt to announce the launch of a $1.5 billion solar energy installation in Starke and Pulaski counties last year. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/union-files-unfair-labor-complaint-charging-solar-farm-project-excluding-local-workers/article_2aef5437-ebee-59d6-8cd1-dc6628ae080f.html | 2022-08-04T00:20:08 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/union-files-unfair-labor-complaint-charging-solar-farm-project-excluding-local-workers/article_2aef5437-ebee-59d6-8cd1-dc6628ae080f.html |
White Castle reopened at the Crossroads of America intersection in Schererville.
The fast food restaurant at 800 W. Lincoln Highway underwent an extensive renovation, initially of the interior and then of the whole restaurant. It went from being drive-thru-only to closed entirely over the course of the construction project.
Columbus, Ohio-based White Castle unveiled the fully revamped restaurant Wednesday. It presented a $22,000 check to the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Northwest Indiana as part of its national “District Charity of Choice” campaign and gave the first 100 customers White Castle gift bags that includes mugs and coupons for free 10 sacks of Sliders.
White Castle first opened the restaurant at the busy intersection of Indianapolis Boulevard and U.S. 30 in Schererville in 1987.
"White Castle, a family-owned business for more than a century, has been a proud member of the northern Indiana community for many decades," White Castle said in a news release.
It closed the restaurant on May 3 for the renovation project.
The White Castle, which employs 40 workers, has new booths, counters, chairs and decor. It also added a double drive-thru for faster service and a drive-thru hospitality door.
It will now resume 24/7 operations for those looking to get their hands on White Castle's famous little square sliders late at night.
Founded in 1921, White Castle now has more than 350 restaurants nationwide, including in Whiting, Hobart, Hammond, Griffith, Merrillville, Munster, Gary, East Chicago, Valparaiso and Michigan City, as well as just across the state line in Calumet City, Chicago Heights and Dolton.
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Bombers BBQ is now serving up its beloved brisket and other slow-cooked meats in Crown Point.
The acclaimed military aviation-themed barbecue joint has built up a fervent following at its original location at 435 Ridge Road in Munster. It reached a deal with Darin Jacobs, who owns Rosati's pizzerias in Munster, St. John and Valparaiso, to open franchises.
Jacobs, a longtime bombers customer, on Monday opened the first Bombers BBQ franchise at 35 W. 112th Ave. next to Cold Stone Creamery and Three Monkeys Pub in Crown Point. He's eyeing future locations in St. John and Valparaiso.
"It's definitely the barbecue smoking shows on the Food Channel," he said. "We carry more than most. We sell smoked turkey that's the most tender turkey you've ever had. Our best customers are those who smoke or barbecue themselves because they know what they're looking for. They come in, ask how we prepare our food, understand it makes sense and keep coming back."
Jacobs hopes to open more franchises after establishing the Crown Point location.
"We're thinking of Valparaiso and St. John once we feel comfortable we've replicated it in Crown Point," he said. "This is the freshest, best-tasting barbecue around."
"Everything is fresh, smoked that day," he said. "Not to disparage other barbecue restaurants, but if they say they close at 9 p.m. and then close at 9 p.m. the meat's not all fresh."
The new Bombers BBQ in Crown Point seats 80 people in a former furniture store and another 24 on an outdoor patio. It has a liquor license that lets it serve 12 types of beer, half craft and half domestic.
The 5,000-square-foot restaurant is decorated with the same military aviation theme, inspired by how founder Chris Cole's relatives served as pilots in World War II and Vietnam.
"We've had a lot of military people come in and say they appreciate it. They like to take it all in," Jacobs said. "Some people don't know where the name comes from or think it's because the food is the bomb, but it's because both Chris Cole's relatives were bomber pilots."
Bombers BBQ in Crown Point has the same menu as the original Munster restaurant, adding banana pudding. It smokes its meat fresh every day, selling it until it runs out and closing early if sold out.
"We smoke meat daily and stay open until we sell out," he said. "If we still have some left we donate it or let employees take it home. But we're pretty good at estimating how much we'll need based on the previous day's sales."
Spirit Halloween will return to 1525 U.S. 41 in Schererville this Halloween season. Long located every fall at the former Ashley Furniture big-box in Schererville, it moved across the street last year to the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til.
Though it's still beach season when many have little more than beer and sunshine on their mind, to paraphrase the artist who just played Hammond's Festival of the Lakes, the Halloween retailer already posted "coming soon" and "now hiring" signage at the location.
The seasonal pop-up is known for occupying vacant commercial real estate for a couple of months, selling a wide array of Halloween costumes like Jason Vorhees hockey jerseys, as well as Halloween decorations like the styrofoam headstones you can plant to make your front lawn look like a cemetery.
The local chain of barbecue joints in Munster, Crown Point and Griffith is coming to Merrillville, near the busy intersection of U.S. 30 and Interstate 65.
It's taking over the former Fresh to Order space at 540 81st Ave., where it will share a strip mall with Planet Fitness and Catch Table and Tap.
The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill is coming soon to Crown Point.
The restaurant at 146 E. 109th Ave. is now hiring for a variety of positions, offering sign-on bonuses. It offers Greek favorites like grilled lamb, tzatziki, village salads, rice and pita bread. The menu includes many handhelds such as gyros, wraps and Greek burgers.
For more information, call 219-274-7335, email greatgreeknwi@gmail.com or find the business on Facebook.
True BBQ has opened its long-awaited third location in downtown Griffith, where it's bringing smoked meats and another late-night spot for drinks.
The modern barbecue restaurant took over the former Twincade space at 106 N. Broad St. at the corner of Broad and Main streets in downtown Griffith.
True BBQ first opened in Munster in 2014 and recently opened a second location in downtown Crown Point.
It's owned by Progressive Dining Group, which also owns Bullpen Luxury Bar & Grill, Gino's Steakhouse and The Links in Schererville.
The True BBQ in Griffith has the same menu, which includes baby back ribs, St. Louis-style ribs and smoked rib tips. It offers full slabs of ribs for $16 on Mondays. Other barbecued meats include turkey, andouille sausage, pork belly, pork shoulder, brisket, corned beef and chicken.
The menu also features steaks, pasta salads and appetizers. A full bar serves up craft beers, artisan cocktails and a wide selection of whiskeys.
Catering toward dinner and drinks in Griffith, True BBQ is open from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 3 p.m. to 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. It's closed on Tuesdays.
Port of Peri Peri's ship has sailed in Schererville.
Signs posted outside the Portuguese peri peri chicken restaurant in Shops on Main on U.S. 41 have said it was temporarily closed "for improvements" for some time.
But now the Port of Peri Peri sign on the building facade has come down. And Shops on Main owner Regency Center is listing the 2,388-square-foot restaurant space as available for lease.
Sports Clips left its longtime spot in the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til and Walmart and moved a few miles north in Schererville.
The sports-themed hair care chain, in which customers can watch sports on television getting their hair cut, moved to 336 Indianapolis Blvd. in a newer strip mall by McAlister's Deli and Buona Beef.
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Bombers BBQ, True BBQ and Great Greek Mediterranean Grill opening; Port of Peri Peri closed
NWI Business Ins and Outs: Bombers BBQ, True BBQ and Great Greek Mediterranean Grill opening; Port of Peri Peri closed
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Bombers BBQ is now serving up its beloved brisket and other slow-cooked meats in Crown Point.
The acclaimed military aviation-themed barbecue joint has built up a fervent following at its original location at 435 Ridge Road in Munster. It reached a deal with Darin Jacobs, who owns Rosati's pizzerias in Munster, St. John and Valparaiso, to open franchises.
Jacobs, a longtime bombers customer, on Monday opened the first Bombers BBQ franchise at 35 W. 112th Ave. next to Cold Stone Creamery and Three Monkeys Pub in Crown Point. He's eyeing future locations in St. John and Valparaiso.
Joseph S. Pete
Brisket the top seller
It has three smokers on site, two for the restaurant traffic and one for catering. It will cater to as few as 50 people and as many as 500.
Top sellers include brisket, pulled pork sandwiches, mac and cheese and jalapeno cornbread.
"The brisket is by far the No. 1 seller," he said. "It's the recipe and because we made everything fresh."
Joseph S. Pete
Drive-through for online orders
It has a drive-thru pickup window for online and phone orders.
"It's a trend," Jacobs said. "The drive-through at Rosati's is 20% of our business and growing. This is perfect for pickup."
Barbecue has taken off in Northwest Indiana in recent years, with many new barbecue joints opening.
Joseph S. Pete
Further expansion planned
"It's definitely the barbecue smoking shows on the Food Channel," he said. "We carry more than most. We sell smoked turkey that's the most tender turkey you've ever had. Our best customers are those who smoke or barbecue themselves because they know what they're looking for. They come in, ask how we prepare our food, understand it makes sense and keep coming back."
Jacobs hopes to open more franchises after establishing the Crown Point location.
"We're thinking of Valparaiso and St. John once we feel comfortable we've replicated it in Crown Point," he said. "This is the freshest, best-tasting barbecue around."
Joseph S. Pete
Meat smoked daily
"Everything is fresh, smoked that day," he said. "Not to disparage other barbecue restaurants, but if they say they close at 9 p.m. and then close at 9 p.m. the meat's not all fresh."
The new Bombers BBQ in Crown Point seats 80 people in a former furniture store and another 24 on an outdoor patio. It has a liquor license that lets it serve 12 types of beer, half craft and half domestic.
The 5,000-square-foot restaurant is decorated with the same military aviation theme, inspired by how founder Chris Cole's relatives served as pilots in World War II and Vietnam.
Joseph S. Pete
Open daily
Bombers BBQ will be open in Crown Point from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
For more information, call 219-613-4444, visit bombersbbq.com or find the business on Facebook.
Joseph S. Pete
Open until sold out
"We've had a lot of military people come in and say they appreciate it. They like to take it all in," Jacobs said. "Some people don't know where the name comes from or think it's because the food is the bomb, but it's because both Chris Cole's relatives were bomber pilots."
Bombers BBQ in Crown Point has the same menu as the original Munster restaurant, adding banana pudding. It smokes its meat fresh every day, selling it until it runs out and closing early if sold out.
"We smoke meat daily and stay open until we sell out," he said. "If we still have some left we donate it or let employees take it home. But we're pretty good at estimating how much we'll need based on the previous day's sales."
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon
It's almost the most spooktacular time of year.
Spirit Halloween will return to 1525 U.S. 41 in Schererville this Halloween season. Long located every fall at the former Ashley Furniture big-box in Schererville, it moved across the street last year to the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til.
Though it's still beach season when many have little more than beer and sunshine on their mind, to paraphrase the artist who just played Hammond's Festival of the Lakes, the Halloween retailer already posted "coming soon" and "now hiring" signage at the location.
The seasonal pop-up is known for occupying vacant commercial real estate for a couple of months, selling a wide array of Halloween costumes like Jason Vorhees hockey jerseys, as well as Halloween decorations like the styrofoam headstones you can plant to make your front lawn look like a cemetery.
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon
True BBQ hasn't stopped growing.
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon to Merrillville
The local chain of barbecue joints in Munster, Crown Point and Griffith is coming to Merrillville, near the busy intersection of U.S. 30 and Interstate 65.
It's taking over the former Fresh to Order space at 540 81st Ave., where it will share a strip mall with Planet Fitness and Catch Table and Tap.
Joseph S. Pete
Coming soon
The Great Greek Mediterranean Grill is coming soon to Crown Point.
The restaurant at 146 E. 109th Ave. is now hiring for a variety of positions, offering sign-on bonuses. It offers Greek favorites like grilled lamb, tzatziki, village salads, rice and pita bread. The menu includes many handhelds such as gyros, wraps and Greek burgers.
For more information, call 219-274-7335, email greatgreeknwi@gmail.com or find the business on Facebook.
Joseph S. Pete
Now open
True BBQ has opened its long-awaited third location in downtown Griffith, where it's bringing smoked meats and another late-night spot for drinks.
The modern barbecue restaurant took over the former Twincade space at 106 N. Broad St. at the corner of Broad and Main streets in downtown Griffith.
True BBQ first opened in Munster in 2014 and recently opened a second location in downtown Crown Point.
It's owned by Progressive Dining Group, which also owns Bullpen Luxury Bar & Grill, Gino's Steakhouse and The Links in Schererville.
The True BBQ in Griffith has the same menu, which includes baby back ribs, St. Louis-style ribs and smoked rib tips. It offers full slabs of ribs for $16 on Mondays. Other barbecued meats include turkey, andouille sausage, pork belly, pork shoulder, brisket, corned beef and chicken.
The menu also features steaks, pasta salads and appetizers. A full bar serves up craft beers, artisan cocktails and a wide selection of whiskeys.
Catering toward dinner and drinks in Griffith, True BBQ is open from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 3 p.m. to 12 a.m. Friday and Saturday and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sunday. It's closed on Tuesdays.
Port of Peri Peri's ship has sailed in Schererville.
Signs posted outside the Portuguese peri peri chicken restaurant in Shops on Main on U.S. 41 have said it was temporarily closed "for improvements" for some time.
But now the Port of Peri Peri sign on the building facade has come down. And Shops on Main owner Regency Center is listing the 2,388-square-foot restaurant space as available for lease.
Joseph S. Pete
Relocated
Sports Clips left its longtime spot in the Crossroads of America shopping center anchored by Strack and Van Til and Walmart and moved a few miles north in Schererville.
The sports-themed hair care chain, in which customers can watch sports on television getting their hair cut, moved to 336 Indianapolis Blvd. in a newer strip mall by McAlister's Deli and Buona Beef.
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
Steelworkers will take home bonus checks of upwards of $14,000 for the three-month period that ended on June 30, U.S. Steel Media Relations Manager Amanda Malkowski said.
Customer complaints have mounted as Old National Bank has integrated First Midwest Bank branches. Customers have complained about debit cards being declined, being locked out of their accounts online, being allowed to overdraft their accounts without warning and having to wait for hours on the phone.
The cost of gas has dipped under $4 a gallon at a few Region gas stations, including BP in Dyer, Murphy USA in Valparaiso, Speedway in Wanatah, Family Express in Hobart and Valparaiso and Sam's Club and Costco in Merrillville as of Monday, according to GasBuddy.com.
The average customer will start paying about 10% more or about $6 a month for natural gas after a rate hike kicks in this September. The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission gave the Merrillville-based utility permission to start charging more for natural gas. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/white-castle-reopens-crossroads-of-america-restaurant-in-schererville/article_d0c5a105-5ae6-5483-85be-3e244a59d37d.html | 2022-08-04T00:20:14 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/white-castle-reopens-crossroads-of-america-restaurant-in-schererville/article_d0c5a105-5ae6-5483-85be-3e244a59d37d.html |
Mesquite has approved a 235-acre development creating approximately 180,000 square feet of retail and business space and about 3.2 million square feet of industrial, business and logistics space.
City officials anticipate breaking ground on the development in early 2024.
"Our team is extremely excited about the opportunity to work in the City of Mesquite. We see such potential for this area as one of the premier industrial/business park in Mesquite along Interstate 20 in Dallas County," said Sergio Izquierdo, of 42 Real Estate.
The retail and industrial developments, said Mesquite, will feature a modern design with high-quality building materials and be surrounded by 3,900 new homes in the highly desired area of Solterra.
These sites will also encompass the redevelopment of a major roadway, new sewer and water connections, and add jobs to the area for new residents.
The city said the location includes aspects like highway visibility and accessibility to 1,500 miles of interstate connecting Mesquite to Shreveport, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Atlanta, Georgia; and Columbia, South Carolina.
"Mesquite is excited to welcome this promising development and I'm looking forward to working with this developer who has a commitment to high-quality construction. This project is full of potential that will benefit the entire community," said City of Mesquite's City Manager Cliff Keheley. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/construction-of-235-acre-retail-business-development-approved-in-mesquite/3039198/ | 2022-08-04T00:20:20 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/construction-of-235-acre-retail-business-development-approved-in-mesquite/3039198/ |
Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is leading an effort to persuade Congress to focus on reducing the federal budget deficit as a means of taming inflation, bolstering the economy and slowing the growth of the national debt.
In a letter sent Wednesday in his role as co-chairman of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Daniels urges Democratic President Joe Biden, congressional leadership of both political parties and rank-and-file federal lawmakers to prioritize enacting deficit reduction legislation in the weeks and months ahead.
"There was a strong case for borrowing earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, when the country faced a public health crisis, the economy was underperforming and inflation was not a problem. However, that time has passed," Daniels says in the letter signed by more than four dozen current and former elected officials and budget experts, including former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind.
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He continues, "As President Biden has explained, 'Bringing down the deficit is one way to ease inflationary pressures.' Thoughtful deficit reduction would also have a number of economic, budgetary and geopolitical benefits. Deficit reduction could come from reducing spending, lowering health care costs, raising taxes or some combination."
Daniels, who is slated to end his 10-year tenure as Purdue University president Jan. 1, does not endorse any specific legislation to reduce federal spending relative to revenues, which already has plummeted from a deficit of $3.1 trillion in 2020 under Republican President Donald Trump to an estimated $1 trillion for the current budget year that ends Sept. 30.
However, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget notes the pending Inflation Reduction Act that's backed by Biden would reduce deficits by nearly $2 trillion over two decades, in part by setting a 15% corporate minimum tax, reforming prescription drug pricing and stepping up IRS enforcement of the nation's tax laws.
"With debt headed to 140% of GDP in two decades, much more would need to be done to put it on a sustainable path. But the Inflation Reduction Act would be a step in the right direction," the committee said .
Nevertheless, U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., and Jennifer-Ruth Green, the Republican candidate seeking to represent Northwest Indiana in the U.S. House, remain unconvinced — notwithstanding the deficit reduction advice by Daniels, a two-term Republican governor and former director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under Republican President George W. Bush.
Young declared Wednesday he considers the Inflation Reduction Act an "anti-Indiana bill" because he claims it will raise taxes on low-income Hoosiers despite Biden's pledge not to increase taxes on Americans earning less than $400,000 per year.
"This is really bad politics back where I live. We have the worst inflation, certainly, in memory. And they're trying to revive this massive tax and spending initiative?" Young said. "We will fight against this ill-advised public policy."
Green likewise declared the legislation "a massive spending bill that raises taxes on Americans at a time when inflation is at a 40-year high and our economy is entering a recession."
According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the new spending and tax cuts in the Inflation Reduction Act total $900 billion from 2023 to 2042.
The Congressional Budget Office projects the federal government will spend approximately $150 trillion over the same 20-year period, meaning just 0.6% of federal spending over the next two decades would be tied to the Inflation Reduction Act.
Gallery: Indiana historical markers in the Region
First Physician
First Physician
Location: 2985 W. 73rd Place, Merrillville
Erected by Woman's Auxiliary, Lake County Medical Society
Henry D. Palmer, M.D. (1809-1877) located at this site in 1836. First physician in Lake County, he was also counselor to the pioneers for 40 years and member of the underground railroad aiding escaped slaves.
Great Sauk (Sac) Trail
Great Sauk (Sac) Trail
Location: Van Buren Street at West 73rd Avenue (Old U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway) on traffic median east of Calumet Cemetery and west of Broadway, Merrillville
Erected by Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission, 1966
Part of a transcontinental trail used by prehistoric peoples of North America, it passed through modern Detroit, Rock Island and Davenport in the Midwest. The trail was important into the 19th century.
St. John's Lutheran Church Tolleston
St. John's Lutheran Church Tolleston
Location: 2235 W. 10th Avenue at Taft Avenue, southeast corner, Gary
St. John's Church, the oldest surviving institution in Gary and north of the Little Calumet River, began with the work of the Rev. Henry Wunder in the early 1860's. He regularly came from Chicago by horse and buggy. Baptism records date from 1863; the first church was built on this site in 1868 or 1869; 1870 is celebrated as date of organization. The church served German immigrants to Tolleston (named for George Tolle who came in 1856). Tolleston was annexed to Gary in 1910.
Dutch in the Calumet Region
Dutch in the Calumet Region
Location: 8941 Kleinman Road, Highland
Erected 1992 Indiana Historical Bureau and Lamprecht Florist & Greenhouse, established 1923
Dutch immigrants after 1850 began moving to this area because of its similarities to their homeland. They helped to locate ditches to drain water from the extensive marshes, leaving rich land to expand successful horticultural activities.
St. John Township School, District #2
St. John Township School, District #2
Location: 1515 Joliet Street (Old U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway), east of St. John Road at the St. John Township Community Center, Schererville
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau and Committee to Save Township School #2
Built, 1853, approximately one half mile south; closed, 1907; moved to this site and restored for educational and community uses, 1993-1994. One of twelve St. John Township schools; structure typical of early one-room school buildings in Indiana.
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
Location: Southeast corner U.S. 30 (Joliet Street) and Janice Drive, Schererville
Erected 1996 Indiana Historical Bureau, Northwest Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, Dyer and Schererville Historical Societies, Sand Ridge Bank, Welsh, Inc.
United States' first transcontinental highway, constructed 1913-1928, from New York City to San Francisco. Dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Conceived by Carl G. Fisher to encourage building "good roads." Sponsored by Lincoln Highway Association and supported by automotive industries.
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
"Ideal Section" - 1.5 miles - of Lincoln Highway, completed 1923, designed and built as a model for road construction. Funded by county, state, and U.S. Rubber Co. Features included 100 foot right-of-way, 40 foot paved width, 10 inch steel-reinforced concrete, underground drainage, lighted, landscaped, bridge, and pedestrian pathways.
Froebel School - side 1
Froebel School - side 1
Location: 15th Avenue and Madison Street, Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Froebel Alumni Park Committee, and Northern Indiana Public Service Company
Froebel opened here, 1912, as many European immigrants and southern blacks moved to Gary for jobs in steel mills. An experiment in progressive education, it served students of diverse backgrounds and the local community. Despite early status as integrated school, black students were excluded from many extracurricular activities and facilities into 1940s. Closed 1977.
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Froebel School
Froebel School
Location: 15th Avenue and Madison Street, Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Froebel Alumni Park Committee, and Northern Indiana Public Service Company
After WWII, Froebel made national headlines when hundreds of white students walked out protesting "integration experiment" there. "Hate strikes" lasted several weeks in 1945 and reflected growing racial tension in North. In 1946, Gary school board adopted desegregation policy, but discrimination continued. Indiana state law desegregating public schools passed 1949.
Stewart Settlement House
Stewart Settlement House
Location: 1501 E. Massachusetts St., Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana Landmarks, and Christ United Methodist Church
Stewart House was organized during depression of 1921 to provide social services for Gary’s black community. A vital neighborhood center for unemployed WWI veterans and southern blacks who migrated for jobs in steel mills, it helped thousands adjust to urban life. Services included lodging and meals, as well as legal, medical, and employment advice. Moved here, 1925.
Stewart Settlement House
Stewart Settlement House
Location: 1501 E. Massachusetts St., Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana Landmarks, and Christ United Methodist Church
U.S. Steel, with an interest in regulating its workers, helped fund the settlement house, designed by architect W.W. Cooke. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Gary’s blacks also donated funds. Rev. Frank Delaney guided its development as superintendent, 1920-1939, and made it a source of pride for blacks. During Great Depression, it aided hundreds daily. Closed 1970s.
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Location: 1927 Madison St., Gary
Installed 2019 Indiana Historical Bureau, KHEF, Inc., Atty. Junifer Hall, Atty. Jacqueline Hall, and Law Office of Deacon-Atty. John Henry Hall
Rep. Katie Hall (1938-2012)
Democratic leader Katie Hall was born in rural Mississippi and moved to Indiana in 1960. She taught in Gary before serving in the Indiana General Assembly, 1974-82. Hall became the first African American U.S. Representative from Indiana, serving 1982-85. During her tenure, she authored and sponsored the bill that made Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a federal holiday.
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Location: 1927 Madison St., Gary
Installed 2019 Indiana Historical Bureau, KHEF, Inc., Atty. Junifer Hall, Atty. Jacqueline Hall, and Law Office of Deacon-Atty. John Henry Hall
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
The struggle to make Dr. King’s birthday a federal holiday began soon after the civil rights leader’s death in 1968. Growing interest, publicity, and advocacy helped Representative Hall secure passage of a bill in 1983. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law that November, designating every third Monday in January as the holiday. Celebration began in 1986.
Bailly Homestead
Bailly Homestead
Location: Bailly Cemetery, U.S. 12
Marker no longer standing.
Home of Joseph Bailly, a French Canadian, who established a fur trading post here on the Detroit-Chicago road in 1822. It became a center of trade, culture and religion. The family cemetery is on the land near by.
Iron Brigade
Iron Brigade
Location: Eastbound U.S. 20 at southeast corner of Ind. 49 overpass, Chesterton
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau, Porter Co. Tour. Com., Indpls. Civil War Rnd. Tbl., Porter Cmp. 116, Dept. of Ind., Sons of Un. Vets. of Civil War
Composed of infantry regiments from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, the Iron Brigade fought with Army of the Potomac during the Civil War (1861-1865). Received name for valor at battle of South Mountain, Maryland (1862). Sustained combat fatalities among the highest in the Union armies.
Willow Creek Confrontation
Willow Creek Confrontation
Location: Southeast corner of Woodland Park, 2100 Willow Creek Road, Portage
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau
As railroad lines expanded through U.S., conflict occurred between competing lines. Michigan Central Railroad, with track in Porter County since 1851, briefly defied state militia and court orders (1874) to allow Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to cross its track. Crossing was built at Willow Creek Station.
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Ogden Dunes Ski Jump
Location: Kratz Field, 82 Hillcrest Road at Boat Club Road, Ogden Dunes
Erected 1997 Indiana Historical Bureau and Historical Society of Ogden Dunes.
Steel and wood ski jump with adjustable height and length was built here for Ogden Dunes Ski Club, incorporated in 1927 to promote winter sports. Five annual events with international competitors were held 1928-1932, with 7, 000 to 20, 000 spectators. Reputed to be the largest artificial ski jump at the time. Dismantled after 1932 event.
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Edwin Way Teale
Location: 285 E. U.S. Highway 20, Chesterton
Installed: 2009 Indiana Historical Bureau and Musette Lewry Trust
Born 1899 in Illinois, Teale became an influential naturalist, author, and photographer[ who won 1966 Pulitzer Prize for his book Wandering Through Winter. Teale wrote that boyhood summers and holidays spent near here at his grandparents’ farm inspired his interest in nature. Teale moved to New York City; employed by Popular Science Monthly 1928-1941.
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Edwin Way Teale
Location: 285 E. U.S. Highway 20, Chesterton
Installed: 2009 Indiana Historical Bureau and Musette Lewry Trust
Teale published his first critically acclaimed book, Grassroot Jungles, in 1937. In 1943, he published Dune Boy, recollections of time spent exploring the dunes and woodlands in this area. During his life, he wrote, edited, and contributed to over 30 books, which educated Americans about nature’s importance and beauty. He died in Connecticut in 1980.
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Legacy of Steel/Burns Harbor Steel Plant
Location: Burns Harbor Town Hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd., Burns Harbor
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau, ArcelorMittal, and the Town of Burns Harbor
In the early 1900s, steel plants were developed on southern Lake Michigan to improve access to growing Midwest markets. After purchasing 3,300 acres in Porter County, Bethlehem Steel built and began its Burns Harbor operations in 1964. The plant’s development spurred local conservation efforts leading to the creation of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966.
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Legacy of Steel/Burns Harbor Steel Plant
Location: Burns Harbor Town Hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd., Burns Harbor
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau, ArcelorMittal, and the Town of Burns Harbor
The Burns Harbor plant was key to building the Port of Indiana and incorporation of the Town of Burns Harbor in 1967. Designed as a fully integrated plant, it relies on the port for transporting raw materials. Since 1969, Burns Harbor remains the newest integrated U.S. steel facility. Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal gained ownership of the Burns Harbor plant in 2007.
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Civil War Camps
Location: Ind. 2 W and Colfax Avenue, La Porte
Erected by the Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963
Two Civil War training camps: Colfax and Jackson, were located near La Porte. The 9th and 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiments were organized and trained here.
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Old Lighthouse
Location: Old Lighthouse Museum in Washington Park, Michigan City
Marker no longer standing. Replaced by local marker.
Built on the water’s edge, 1858, by the United States Government. One of the first lights on the Great Lakes. Harriet E. Colfax was the tender from 1853-1903. Remodelled 1904, electrified 1933, discontinued 1960.
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Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad
Location: CR 250 and Ind. 39, south LaPorte
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau.
Proposed in 1905 as a 742 mile, straight-line, high speed route, without crossings; estimated ten hours travel time at a cost of ten dollars. Just under twenty miles, between LaPorte and Chesterton, were constructed, 1906-1911.
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Camp Anderson
Location: 2404 E. Michigan Boulevard at Carroll Street, Michigan City
Erected 1996 Indiana Historical Bureau and McDonald's Restaurant
One of three Civil War training camps in La Porte County. Site is one fourth mile west. Named for Colonel Edward Anderson. Used 1863-1864 to train Indiana Union volunteers of the 127th, 128th, and 129th regiments.
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Indiana Territory Boundary Line
Location: 213 Pine Lake Avenue, LaPorte
Erected 1999 Indiana Historical Bureau, the Hinton Family, and L Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Northwest Territory formed 1787; Indiana Territory formed 1800. Admission of Ohio 1803 and formation of Michigan Territory 1805 established Indiana Territory's northern boundary at southern tip of Lake Michigan. When Indiana became state in 1816, Congress moved boundary ten miles north giving Indiana part of Lake Michigan.
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Indiana Territory Boundary Line
Location: 213 Pine Lake Avenue, LaPorte
Erected 1999 Indiana Historical Bureau, the Hinton Family, and L Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Northern boundary of Indiana Territory established at southern tip of Lake Michigan when Michigan Territory formed in 1805.
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LaPorte County Courthouse
Location: 813 Lincolnway and Michigan Avenue, southeast corner of LaPorte County Courthouse lawn
Installed: 2001 Indiana Historical Bureau, LaPorte County Board of Commissioners, and LaPorte County Historical Society
County formed by Indiana General Assembly and LaPorte selected county seat 1832. Three courthouses built on this site: first 1833, second 1847-1848. Present courthouse constructed 1892-1894 of Lake Superior Red Sandstone; designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne in Richardsonian Romanesque Style. Incorporates cornerstone from 1848 courthouse.
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LaPorte County Courthouse
Location: 813 Lincolnway & Michigan Avenue, SE corner of La Porte County Courthouse lawn, LaPorte
Installed: 2001 Indiana Historical Bureau, La Porte County Board of Commissioners, and La Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Features include open-arched central tower, stained glass window transoms, wood paneling, and gilded friezes. Goddess of Justice stained glass graces courtroom. Tower has 272-piece glass skylight; gargoyles decorate exterior. Included in Downtown La Porte Historic District, listed in National Register of Historic Places 1983.
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LaPorte's Carnegie Library
Location: LaPorte County Public Library, SW corner of 904 Indiana Avenue/US 35 & Maple Avenue
Installed: 2002 Indiana Historical Bureau and Friends of the LaPorte County Public Library
La Porte's first public library was established 1896. La Porte City School Board was awarded $27, 500 Carnegie grant 1916; by 1919 local support had been secured to meet grant requirements. Architect Wilson B. Parker designed the Neo-Classical style structure. Library opened in 1920 with 30, 000 volumes.
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LaPorte's Carnegie Library
Location: LaPorte County Public Library, SW corner of 904 Indiana Avenue/US 35 & Maple Avenue
Installed: 2002 Indiana Historical Bureau and Friends of the LaPorte County Public Library
Renovation and expansion designed by architect William Koster; building dedicated 1991. Original 1920 section retained. Library has played a major role in community's development. One of 1, 679 libraries built in U.S. with funds from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Indiana built more Carnegie libraries than any other state.
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The Rumely Companies
Location: NW corner of Madison Street & Lincolnway, La Porte
Installed: 2003 Indiana Historical Bureau and Rumely Historic Recognition Committee
Meinrad Rumely (1823-1904), a German immigrant, founded a blacksmith shop here 1853, which grew into a dominant company through reorganizations and acquisitions. Rumely companies in La Porte benefited from available rail transportation plus German and later Polish immigrant laborers. Products included a wide variety of agricultural machines.
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The Rumely Companies
Location: NW corner of Madison Street & Lincolnway, La Porte
Installed: 2003 Indiana Historical Bureau and Rumely Historic Recognition Committee
Rumely's prizewinning thresher later became one of the earliest powered by steam. Thousands of OilPull tractors sold worldwide 1910-1930. Rumely companies were at the forefront of mechanization of American and world agriculture and had significant impact on La Porte. Allis-Chalmers acquired the firm 1931 and closed La Porte plant 1983.
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The Lincoln Funeral Train
Location: 100 E. Michigan Blvd. (U.S. 12), Michigan City
Installed 2010 Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln's funeral was April 19, 1865 at the White House. The funeral train left for Springfield, Illinois April 21 directed by military; stops en route allowed the public to pay homage. From Indianapolis, train passed mourners lighted by bonfires and torches along the way; arrived in Michigan City by 8:35 a.m., May 1.
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The Lincoln Funeral Train
Location: 100 E. Michigan Blvd. (U.S. 12), Michigan City
Installed 2010 Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Residents decorated depot north of here with memorial arches adorned with roses, evergreens, flags, and images of Lincoln. Train stopped to switch engines and to allow dignitaries from Illinois and Indiana to board. Sixteen women entered funeral car to place flowers on casket. Train left for Chicago on Michigan Central Railroad; track was lined with mourners.
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LaPorte University/Indiana Medical College
Location: Lincoln Elementary School, SE corner of Clay St. and Harrison St., LaPorte
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau and the Healthcare Foundation of LaPorte
LaPorte University was established in the early 1840s to include law, literary, and medical departments. The medical department, later Indiana Medical College, began classes by 1842. Its distinguished faculty attracted students from across the U.S. Notable attendees included Dr. William W. Mayo, whose practice evolved into Mayo Clinic, and Dr. William H. Wishard.
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LaPorte University/Indiana Medical College
Location: Lincoln Elementary School, southeast corner of Clay Street and Harrison Street, LaPorte
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau and the Healthcare Foundation of LaPorte
Before the university’s founding, Indiana offered few opportunities for professional medical training. The medical college trained skilled doctors in the Midwest, preparing them for the region’s medical needs in surgery, anatomy, theory, and obstetrics. Classes ceased circa 1850; it consolidated with Indiana Central Medical College (1849-1852) in Indianapolis, 1851.
Source: Indiana Historical Bureau, www.in.gov/history/
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Gary Roosevelt High School
730 W. 25th Ave., Gary
Installed 2020 Indiana Historical Bureau, Lady Panthers & Supporters '63, Roosevelt Adult Booster Club, National Gary Theodore Roosevelt Alumni Assoc., Inc., and Indiana Landmarks
As Gary grew in the early 1900s, African American students were segregated within white schools or overcrowded into small, separate schools. To compensate, officials transferred some Black students to Emerson High School in 1927. After over 600 white students walked out in protest, the school board reinforced segregation by building a new school for the Black community.
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Gary Roosevelt High School
730 W. 25th Ave., Gary
Installed 2020 Indiana Historical Bureau, Lady Panthers & Supporters '63, Roosevelt Adult Booster Club, National Gary Theodore Roosevelt Alumni Assoc., Inc., and Indiana Landmarks
Theodore Roosevelt High School was dedicated in 1931 as an all-Black K-12 school. While many community members opposed segregation, they took pride in Roosevelt, and strove to make it equal to Gary’s white schools. It employed highly educated Black teachers, pushed students to excel in academics and sports despite discrimination, and produced many distinguished alumni.
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CROWN POINT — Austgen Equipment Inc. will be completing the first phase of the stormwater retention project planned for Sauerman Woods Park.
The Crown Point Board of Public Works selected Austgen during a Wednesday morning meeting after the bid was reviewed by the legal department and a team of engineers. The city received a total of three bids: one from G.E. Marshall Inc. for about $2.9 million, one from Austgen Equipment Inc. for about $2.3 million and one from Dyer Construction Company Inc. for about $3.2 million.
First unveiled in 2017, the Sauerman Woods project involves the creation of a stormwater retention lake, complete with paddle boats and pickleball courts.
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The first phase of the project will include the excavation of the 3-acre lake, construction of the necessary stormwater lines and the removal of the existing Hub Pool and pool house. Phase one is slated to begin in late August and be completed by the end of the year.
Phase two will likely begin at the end of 2022 or the start of 2023. According to a city news release, phase two "will focus on upgrading recreational amenities," creating pickleball courts, relocating the sand volleyball courts, adding oversized parking and renovating the existing skate park at the Crown Point Sportsplex.
The third phase, creating a four-leg roundabout at U.S. 231 and 113th Avenue, will likely be completed in 2024.
One leg of the roundabout will serve as the main entrance to the park; the existing entrance on east South Street will be gated off.
The city has also partnered with Friends of the Military to create a walking path around the lake area with tribute walls detailing the conflicts of World War I and World War II as part of the 10.5-mile Friends of the Veterans Memorial Parkway.
During the Wednesday BOW meeting, Mayor Pete Land said the Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission has been a huge supporter of the project, contributing $3 million.
“Our staff is excited to see work begin on this project. Sauerman Woods Park is one of our destination parks in the city of Crown Point, and these improvements will enhance the quality of life for not only nearby residents, but the community,” Land said in the news release. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/crown-point/crown-point-awards-bid-for-sauerman-woods-stormwater-retention-project/article_43e40b49-02a5-5332-860b-b61ea0da3c12.html | 2022-08-04T00:20:33 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/crown-point/crown-point-awards-bid-for-sauerman-woods-stormwater-retention-project/article_43e40b49-02a5-5332-860b-b61ea0da3c12.html |
The fire that severely damaged a historic church in Prosper Tuesday afternoon began as an electrical fire in the building's air conditioning system, fire investigators said Wednesday.
It happened at about 1:45 p.m. inside the First Presbyterian Church of Prosper in the 400 block of South Coleman Street.
Fire crews arrived to find heavy smoke and flames coming from the building. They worked quickly to put it out, but the damage to the historic piece of property was already done.
"We’re optimistic, but we’re are definitely saddened by the loss of the memories here. But in the big picture, God is in charge and God’s not done with us and God will lead us to where we need to be," said John Fowler, the pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Prosper.
Out front of the church sits a historical marker that reads that the church was organized on July 7, 1978. In 1982 the building was constructed in the Rock Hill Community, but was moved in 1896 and changed to Rock Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church. It was moved to Prosper in 1902 and has been expanded since then.
The Texas Historical Commission named the church a historical landmark in 2012.
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"We’ve seen a lot of births, a lot of deaths and that kind of thing, and it’s such a historical place," said Martha Hammers, whose been a member for 20 years.
On Wednesday she reflected on all the memories of the church, to even before she started attending.
"The window panes all have dedications on them to certain people and the families probably have been here a while the families have all passed on," she described.
"There was an old Bible inside that sat in front of the pulpit," she reflected "My favorite thing they have is the nativity scene, it’s the figurines are ceramic material and we set that up every Christmas."
She talked about two-foot pump organs that were inside, documents and pictures that are possibly ruined.
"I’m just praying that something can be salvaged," she said.
Fortunately, no one was injured, but the fate of the building is unknown.
“It’s like an old friend has died. It’s really sad," said Hammers.
"It’s significant and serious. Maybe the building will be a total loss, may not be," said Fowler.
Before the official cause of the fire was released, the pastor has his own idea as to who was behind it.
"We ticked Satan off one time too many to burn the house down," he said.
Fowler said they're relying on faith to guide them through the next steps.
“Most important, listen to the Holy Spirit and tell us what to do what we need to be doing next because we are not here just to be here, we are here because God has called us to be at this church and this time and place and God has called us with ministry and a mission and that doesn’t stop," said Fowler. "It’s about the people and it’s about what God has called us to do.”
He said services will continue on Sunday, though they will be virtual only. Fowler said the pandemic prepared them for that.
“If there’s good news, there’s always light in the darkness," said Fowler.
The Town of Prosper's Mayor, David Bristol issued the following statement.
“The Town of Prosper mourns the news of yesterday’s fire at the historic First Presbyterian Church of Prosper. This iconic landmark in downtown Prosper has served as a place of congregation and worship for over 120 years for many of the Prosper community. I’m grateful for the quick response of Prosper Fire Rescue and everyone involved for their efforts to extinguish the fire and salvage the church from further devastation. We are a strong community built on our faith and resiliency and I’m certain that members of the church and the Prosper community will continue to move forward, even through this historic tragedy.” | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/electrical-issue-behind-fire-at-historic-prosper-church-fire-marshal-says/3039508/ | 2022-08-04T00:20:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/electrical-issue-behind-fire-at-historic-prosper-church-fire-marshal-says/3039508/ |
DYER — Dyer Police and Fire Departments were dispatched to a house fire in Briar Ridge Country Club at 3:25 p.m. on Wednesday.
A passerby notified the dispatcher that a structure fire was occurring at 823 Killarney Dr., Fire Chief Joe Martin said. Martin said crews were met with heavy smoke coming from the roof of the 4,300-square-foot home.
"The initial crews made a fantastic knockdown to keep the fire contained to the attic space," he said.
Martin said the house was unoccupied at the time of the fire and no one was injured. The cause of the fire is undetermined but may have been a potential lightning strike due to severe weather conditions, he said.
Assisting units at the scene included St. John Fire Department, Munster Fire Department, Lake Hills Fire Department, Crown Point Fire Rescue, Sauk Village Fire Chief Stephen Barrett and two Superior ambulances.
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Jenell Echols
Age : 36
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206430
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Elijah Joshua
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206376
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Ogden
Age : 23
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206429
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Taylor Ecsy
Age : 25
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206457
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
DeAndre Tillotson
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206423
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyronn Jones Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206393
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jamel Kennedy
Age : 22
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206474
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyon Phelps
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206449
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Yesenia Calderon
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206505
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
John Petrassi
Age : 45
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206428
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexandra Rojo
Age : 19
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206489
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth McCammon
Age : 42
Residence: Schneider, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206362
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kurt Van Nugtren
Age : 51
Residence: Winfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206433
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Ferguson
Age : 42
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206418
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Bobbie Fields
Age : 44
Residence: Whitesburg, KY
Booking Number(s): 2206444
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Monique Randolph
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206441
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shane Camp
Age : 32
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206499
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: CHILD MOLESTATION - STATUTORY RAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keith Lasenby
Age : 58
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206493
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ayanna Williams
Age : 31
Residence: Oak Lawn, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206422
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Logan Atkins
Age : 23
Residence: Bloomington, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206372
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Mathison
Age : 42
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206409
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Green Jr.
Age : 68
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206455
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kristy Gibson-Miller
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206424
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - ORGANIZED THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tony Clark
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206487
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kristin Mobus
Age : 32
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206385
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adan Reyes
Age : 19
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206453
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Losano
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206472
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Zlatanovski
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206419
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Brooks
Age : 40
Residence: Elkhart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206395
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Markale Bolden
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206380
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ky Pryor
Age : 35
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206397
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shavesz Johnson
Age : 25
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206421
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mayra Reyes
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206458
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Johnnie Cobb Jr.
Age : 50
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206486
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffrey Meeks
Age : 42
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206466
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Darren Stocky Jr.
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206504
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ernest Howard III
Age : 31
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206459
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edwin Cabrera
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206361
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Erin Baldwin
Age : 38
Residence: Saline, MI
Booking Number(s): 2206442
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: HEALTH - LEGEND DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Jimenez
Age : 26
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206476
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antonio Brown Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206470
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Shaw Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206448
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Frank Pfeifer
Age : 37
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206482
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Terrence Thomas Jr.
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206500
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cardia Combs
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206375
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrew Hudson
Age : 28
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206460
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Hexadore Randall
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206477
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER (ATTEMPTED); BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Kimus Williams Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206440
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Scorcese Steveson
Age : 30
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206398
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anh Tuan Phung
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206484
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kolin Burgess
Age : 23
Residence: Kouts, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206439
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: - DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tabitha Kirk
Age : 37
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206432
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Camron Gill
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206394
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Hanas
Age : 40
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206373
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Sitarski
Age : 32
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206426
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kristy Meyers
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206447
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lawrence Tobel
Age : 40
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206401
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Brown Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206485
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
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HAMMOND — Roadways have cleared after two semi-trucks collided on Interstate 80/94 at the westbound Kennedy Avenue exit after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Indiana State Police said one driver has been injured but the extent of the injuries is unknown at this point.
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Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Jenell Echols
Age : 36
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206430
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Elijah Joshua
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206376
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Ogden
Age : 23
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206429
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Taylor Ecsy
Age : 25
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206457
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
DeAndre Tillotson
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206423
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyronn Jones Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206393
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jamel Kennedy
Age : 22
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206474
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyon Phelps
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206449
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Yesenia Calderon
Age : 42
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206505
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
John Petrassi
Age : 45
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206428
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexandra Rojo
Age : 19
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206489
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth McCammon
Age : 42
Residence: Schneider, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206362
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kurt Van Nugtren
Age : 51
Residence: Winfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206433
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Daniel Ferguson
Age : 42
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206418
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Bobbie Fields
Age : 44
Residence: Whitesburg, KY
Booking Number(s): 2206444
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESS HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Monique Randolph
Age : 23
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206441
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shane Camp
Age : 32
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206499
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: CHILD MOLESTATION - STATUTORY RAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keith Lasenby
Age : 58
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206493
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION - OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ayanna Williams
Age : 31
Residence: Oak Lawn, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206422
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Logan Atkins
Age : 23
Residence: Bloomington, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206372
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Mathison
Age : 42
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206409
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Green Jr.
Age : 68
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206455
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kristy Gibson-Miller
Age : 32
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206424
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - ORGANIZED THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tony Clark
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206487
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kristin Mobus
Age : 32
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206385
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Adan Reyes
Age : 19
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206453
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Losano
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206472
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Zlatanovski
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206419
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Brooks
Age : 40
Residence: Elkhart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206395
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Markale Bolden
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206380
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ky Pryor
Age : 35
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206397
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shavesz Johnson
Age : 25
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206421
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mayra Reyes
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206458
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Johnnie Cobb Jr.
Age : 50
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206486
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffrey Meeks
Age : 42
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206466
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Darren Stocky Jr.
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206504
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ernest Howard III
Age : 31
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206459
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edwin Cabrera
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206361
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Erin Baldwin
Age : 38
Residence: Saline, MI
Booking Number(s): 2206442
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: HEALTH - LEGEND DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Jimenez
Age : 26
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206476
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antonio Brown Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206470
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Shaw Jr.
Age : 42
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206448
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Frank Pfeifer
Age : 37
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206482
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Terrence Thomas Jr.
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206500
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cardia Combs
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206375
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Andrew Hudson
Age : 28
Residence: Hebron, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206460
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Hexadore Randall
Age : 28
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206477
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: HOMICIDE - MURDER (ATTEMPTED); BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Kimus Williams Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206440
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL; RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Scorcese Steveson
Age : 30
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206398
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anh Tuan Phung
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206484
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kolin Burgess
Age : 23
Residence: Kouts, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206439
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: - DEALING - METHAMPHETAMINE; NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tabitha Kirk
Age : 37
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206432
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Camron Gill
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206394
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Hanas
Age : 40
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206373
Arrest Date: July 22, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Sitarski
Age : 32
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206426
Arrest Date: July 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kristy Meyers
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206447
Arrest Date: July 25, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lawrence Tobel
Age : 40
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206401
Arrest Date: July 23, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
David Brown Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206485
Arrest Date: July 26, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
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NIPSCO is working to restore power to nearly 18,000 residents across Northwest Indiana experiencing power outages as of 6:30 p.m.
NIPSCO said that an estimate on when power will be restored cannot be determined at this time but that the company is tracking developing weather patterns and has crews prepared to respond to the anticipated weather.
People are recommended to stay away from fallen power lines and report outages, according to NIPSCO's website .
According to the NIPSCO's power outage map 587 Beverly Shores residents with the 46301 postal code are without power. There are 1052 Chesterton customers experiencing outages.
Gary has 1,703 residents without power across all postal codes.
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There are 3,524 Hobart residents in the 46342 postal code without power. Outages are also occurring in Merrillville, affecting over 3,780 residents, and Michigan City, affecting 453 residents.
As of 6:30 p.m., Portage has 2,771 outages. The Valparaiso postal code, 46385, has 2707 outages and the 46383 postal code has 341 customers without power.
LaPorte has 120 residents who are also experiencing outages.
NIPSCO will continue to update the power outage map online. If you are experiencing a power outage, NIPSCO asks that residents text "out" to 444111 or visit nipsco.com/outages .
Check back at nwi.com for updates.
Gallery: The Times Photos of the Week
Buscia cooking show
The buscias sample their "libation" at the Buscia Cooking Show on Saturday.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Buscia cooking show
Buscias Carolyn Kruzynski, Jean Lovasko and Theresa Meyer prepare an alcohol "libation" for their Buscia Cooking Show.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Buscia cooking show
Flanked by Sue Betustak, left, and Jean Lovasko, right, Carolyn Kruzynski demonstrates how to make a proper pierogi during the Buscia Cooking Show on Saturday.
John J. Watkins, The Times
St. Sava's SerbFest
At St. Cava Church's SerbFest, Riste Talev, left, and Miladin Latinovic get a batch of cevaps, Serbian sausages, ready for hungry fest goers at the St. Sava Church's SerbFest in Merrillville.
John J. Watkins, The Times
St. Sava's SerbFest
Leland Clark, 10, of Lake Station, gets a tiger face from face painting artist Ashley Cunningham at the St. Sava Church's SerbFest in Merrillville.
John J. Watkins, The Times
St. Sava's SerbFest
Annette Hose, of Crown Point, buys palacinkes from Jennifer Rudman at the St. Sava Church's SerbFest in Merrillville. Palacinkes are crepes with cheese filling.
John J. Watkins, The Times
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Ahead of Friday's induction ceremony for the newest members of the Gary Sports Hall of Fame, former NBA Champion and Gary-native Dick Barnett, right, speaks to guests at IUN.
Joe Ruffalo, The Times
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Earl H. Smith, Jr. addresses attendees at the Gary Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Indiana University Northwest on Friday evening.
Joe Ruffalo, The Times
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Gary Sports Hall of Fame board member Al Hamnik shares words about late 2022 inductee Hank Stram at Friday night's induction ceremony.
Joe Ruffalo, The Times
Pierogi Fest Parade
Pierogi Fest 2022
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Pierogi Fest Parade
Pierogi Fest 2022
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Pierogi Fest Parade
Mr. Pierogi poses for pictures for the last time.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pierogi Fest Parade
Beatrix Powell, 6, of Munster chases bubbles at the Polka Parade.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pierogi Fest Parade
Ryan Rodriguez prepares pierogies for Dan's Pierogis at Pierogi Fest.
John J. Watkins, The Times
4-Hers display hoofed critters at fair sale
Easton Egolf, 9, of Morgan Township waits to exhibit his lamb at the Porter County Fair 4-H livestock auction.
John J. Watkins, The Times
4-Hers display hoofed critters at fair sale
Jonah Hasse looks up at the auctioneer as he exhibits his lamb at the Porter County Fair 4-H livestock auction.
John J. Watkins, The Times
4-H livestock auction
Makenzie Duttlinger, 10, of Valparaiso washes her pig "Piggley" before the start of the Porter County Fair 4-H livestock auction.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Veteran tells of leading Marines in Afghanistan
Valparaiso American Legion members salute the U.S. flag during the national anthem Wednesday at the veterans recognition program at the Porter County Fair.
Doug Ross, The Times
Veteran tells of leading Marines in Afghanistan
Wes Barnes, who led a platoon of 40 Marines during his deployment in Afghanistan a decade ago, tells of his experiences there and while training to become a second lieutenant. He later became a captain in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves.
Doug Ross, The Times
Frank Calabrese Jr.
Frank Calabrese Jr. speaks to the public at the Karma Cigar Lounge in Merrillville.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Frank Calabrese Jr.
Frank Calabrese Jr. got this Chi-Town tattoo after leaving prison.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pro-choice rally at Wicker Park
Organizer Katelin Sears leads chants at an abortion rights rally at Wicker Memorial Park.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pro-choice rally at Wicker Park
Betsy Hunt, of Schererville, carries a banner that she has carried to protests since 1986.
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Pro-choice rally at Wicker Park
Alexia Hamilton, of Gary, joins in the chants at an abortion rally at Wicker Memorial Park.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pro-choice rally at Wicker Park
U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, speaks to an abortion rights crowd at Wicker Memorial Park on Sunday.
John J. Watkins, The Times
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At dawn, police and federal agents with cover from helicopters flying overhead raided a large ranch nestled among the mountains of northern Guatemala, not far from the border with Mexico.
Unlike the ranch’s impoverished neighbors, inside authorities found horse stables, a swimming pool, late model vehicles, guns and a still drunk Felipe Diego Alonso, the alleged leader of a smuggling ring that moved migrants from Guatemala north to the United States.
The raid was part of several carried out Tuesday in four Guatemalan provinces against a migrant smuggling ring, for which authorities say they’ve documented $2 million in revenue since 2019.
Alonzo and three others arrested Tuesday were targets of U.S. prosecutors, wanted in connection with the death of a Guatemalan migrant in Texas last year. In total, authorities nabbed 19 alleged members of the smuggling ring.
The arrests came a month after 53 migrants, including 21 Guatemalans, died in a failed smuggling attempt when they were abandoned inside a sweltering trailer in San Antonio, Texas. There was no indication those arrested Tuesday were involved in the San Antonio tragedy.
The extradition of alleged migrant smugglers known as “coyotes” has been rare and these would be the first known cases in Guatemala of smugglers allegedly pursued for the death of a migrant in the United States.
Prosecutions of migrant smugglers in Guatemala have proven exceedingly difficult because migrants are almost never willing to identify or testify against their smugglers. In some cases they hope for another chance to migrate to the United States with the smuggler’s help and in others, they are afraid of the smugglers or their organized crime connections.
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Alonzo, appearing groggy in blue jeans and a white golf shirt, said he was an onion grower who also sometimes sold land and automobiles.
Some of the detainees were flown to Guatemala City for their initial court appearances.
The arrests come at a time of heightened tensions between Guatemala’s President Alejandro Giammattei and Washington.
The Biden administration has been outspoken in its criticism of perceived backsliding in corruption prosecutions. The U.S. government sanctioned Guatemala’s Attorney General Consuelo Porras, alleging she was an obstacle to anti-corruption work and was now pursuing judges and prosecutors who had worked on corruption cases.
It was the Attorney General’s Office backed by the National Police that carried out the raids near the northern town of Huehuetenango at dawn Tuesday.
“This was an organized group dedicated to getting migrants with the proposal of transporting them to Mexico and then to the United States,” said Stuardo Campo, Guatemala’s prosecutor for migrant trafficking.
He said that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had supported the operation. Guatemalan authorities had documented 11 operations by the smuggling network to move migrants since last October, but Campo did not say how many migrants were smuggled.
The four people arrested at the request of U.S. authorities are allegedly linked to the death of Marta Raymundo Corio who was found dead near Odessa, Texas after being smuggled through Mexico in early 2021.
Campo said the woman had died in a warehouse in Texas due to a lack of food and water and her relatives had requested the help of authorities in determining what had happened.
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ELKHART COUNTY — U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski of Indiana's 2nd district was killed Wednesday in a car crash in Elkhart County.
The 58-year-old South Bend native, a Republican, represented much of LaPorte County as well as all or parts of St. Joseph, Elkhart, Starke, Marshall, Kosciusko, Pulaski, Fulton, Cass, Miami and Wabash counties.
The Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office said officers were called to the scene of a two-vehicle crash shortly after noon Eastern time. Police said a car traveled left of the center lane and collided head-on with an SUV Walorski was riding in, killing her and the other two occupants of the vehicle, her communications director, Emma Thomson, 28, and St. Joseph County Republican Chairman Zachery Potts, 27, who was Walorski's district director.
Edith Schmucker, 56, of Nappanee, was driving the other car and also killed in the crash, police said. The crash, which occurred near the town of Wakarusa, is still under investigation.
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Walorski was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2012. Before that, she served three terms in the Indiana House of Representatives. Walorski was seeking reelection this year to a sixth term in the solidly Republican district.
Elected officials from across the state and country issued statements mourning her loss, along with that of Thomson and Potts.
President Joe Biden pointed to Walorski's work with the House Hunger Caucus in a statement crediting Walorski for years of public service.
“We may have represented different parties and disagreed on many issues, but she was respected by members of both parties for her work,” Biden said. “My team and I appreciated her partnership as we plan for a historic White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health this fall that will be marked by her deep care for the needs of rural America.”
“I am deeply saddened to learn of the sudden passing of my Indiana colleague and Congressional-district neighbor Rep. Jackie Walorski," U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, said. "I am grateful for our all too brief shared time together in the U.S. House of Representatives and appreciate her consistent friendship, example of public service, and openness to conversation. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and friends during this difficult time, as well as with the loved ones of her staff member Emma Thomson and St. Joseph County Republican Chair Zachery Potts.”
"Janet and I are devastated by the tragic loss of our friend Congresswoman Jackie Walorski and her two staffers — Emma Thomson and Zach Potts — earlier today," Gov. Eric Holcomb said. "Our broken hearts go out to her husband Dean and the entire family during this time of unimaginable mourning. At every level of public service Jackie was known to be a positive force of nature, a patriot and a relentless policy maker with an unwavering loyalty to her constituents. Jackie’s record of achievement is impossible to quantify. She will be remembered as a fighter with a huge heart that always went the extra mile and I’ll treasure the times we walked a few of those together. Every waking moment for her was energetically devoted to improving the lives of all Hoosiers, the epitome of a good and faithful servant. She, and the example she set, will be missed every day forward.”
Holcomb is directing flags in Indiana to be flown at half-staff in honor of Walorski immediately until the date of her burial. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, ordered the flags at the U.S. Capitol to be flown at half-staff in Walorski’s honor. The White House said its flags would be lowered Wednesday and Thursday.
Pelosi said Walorski “lived a life of service.”
“She passionately brought the voices of her north Indiana constituents to the Congress, and she was admired by colleagues on both sides of the aisle for her personal kindness,” Pelosi said.
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, a former mayor of South Bend, said he was "shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of Congresswoman Jackie Walorski. My thoughts and prayers are with her family and the other victims of this terrible crash. Though we came from very different places politically, she was always prepared to work together where there was common ground, always decent and straightforward, and she cared deeply about her work and her constituents."
"I'm truly devastated," said U.S. Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind. "Jackie loved Hoosiers and devoted her life to fighting for them. I'll never forget her spirit, her positive attitude and most importantly, her friendship. All of Indiana mourns her passing, along with the tragic deaths of her staff Emma Thomson and Zach Potts. Please join me in praying for their families in this difficult time.”
U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Ind., called Walorski "a tireless advocate for the Hoosiers she represented and a kind friend to everyone she met. She faithfully served her constituents and her Lord and Savior, and I trust she is now wrapped in the arms of Christ. This is a devastating loss, and we grieve for her two staff members — Zach and Emma — who had their whole lives ahead of them. Please join me and Maureen in praying for the families and friends of those lost on this tragic day for Indiana.”
"Jackie and I served together in the Indiana House of Representatives," Lt. Gov. Suzanne Crouch said, "and she was a fighter for her constituents and conservative Hoosier values. My heart goes out to her husband, Dean, and the rest of her family and friends. She will be deeply missed."
"Jackie Walorski was a woman who stood strong in her values, cared for her family, and served Hoosiers well," said Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita. "I have many great memories and stories of our time together in Congress and on the campaign trail. In addition to everything else, she had a great sense of humor. She will be missed. Our sympathies also go out to the families of Zach Potts and Emma Thomson, who died in the same tragic accident. Hoosiers across the state mourn the loss of these public servants."
State Rep. Phil GiaQuinta, the Indiana House Democratic Leader, served with Walorski in the General Assembly.
“My heart goes out to the families of Congresswoman Walorski, Emma Thomson and Zach Potts,” GiaQuinta said. “Working in politics, you develop a tight bond with the people you work with, and the loss of three dedicated Hoosiers is insurmountable. Congresswoman Walorski and I served in the Indiana House of Representatives with the shared values of creating a better state. May the memories of their legacies and work be a blessing to those who loved them and the people they served.”
"Northwest Indiana, our state and our country was blessed to have such a strong woman diligently care for our communities," said state Sen. Mike Bohacek, R-Michiana Shores. "I am praying for the families of those who passed this afternoon, and will grieve alongside our shared constituents and the state."
Ambassador Joe Donnelly, who preceded Walorski in the U.S. House and now serves as ambassador to the Vatican, called it "a terrible tragedy."
"Jill and I offer our heartfelt sympathies and prayers to Dean, Jackie's husband, and to all the families who have suffered such an awful loss," he said.
Walorski and her husband, Dean Swihart, were previously missionaries in Romania, where they established a foundation that provided food and medical supplies to impoverished children. She worked as a television news reporter in South Bend before her turn to politics.
Since Walorski's election to Congress in 2012, the second district has included the city of LaPorte and all or part of 14 townships in central and eastern LaPorte County. Beginning next year, it will contain all of LaPorte County except the western half of the city of LaPorte and the six townships in the northwest corner of the county.
Walorski is just the third sitting member of Congress from Indiana to die in office during the past half-century.
Northwest Indiana U.S. Rep. Adam Benjamin, D-Gary, suffered a fatal heart attack Sept. 7, 1982, in his Washington, D.C., apartment. Benjamin, 42, represented the Region in the U.S. House for six years prior to his death.
U.S. Rep. Julia Carson, D-Indianapolis, succumbed to lung cancer Dec. 15, 2007. She was 69 and had represented Indiana’s 7th District since 1997. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/us-rep-jackie-walorski-killed-in-car-crash/article_8234f0cf-1d35-5614-ba22-ba9e6ceb027e.html | 2022-08-04T00:20:58 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/us-rep-jackie-walorski-killed-in-car-crash/article_8234f0cf-1d35-5614-ba22-ba9e6ceb027e.html |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Recently there has been a familiar hum in the air of The Muffler Shop in Little Rock.
Jerry Duvall, the shop manager said he has come to know all too well.
He typically sees cars in his shop for all sorts of issues, but lately, many of them have been there for one specific reason.
Some parts of the city have seen an uptick in catalytic converter thefts.
Duvall added that the reason customers have been coming into the shop is unfortunate to have to see.
"That's what they did, they take a saw and they cut right through them," Duvall said, as he pointed out a gaping hole on the underside of a Kia Soul.
There should be a catalytic converter in that spot. Duvall said, unfortunately, business has been steady for them due to the recent thefts.
"It's times where it'll pick up and slow down," he said. "We still see anywhere from five to ten a week, if not more."
Thieves can make a quick buck from selling the catalytic converters.
Unfortunately for you, it costs significantly more to have them replaced.
Duvall said they can start at around $250 to replace, but for the bigger cars and trucks, those repairs can cost upwards of thousands.
On Wednesday morning, residents at the Riverside at Rockwater in North Little Rock got an email, that stated "Two men were apprehended and arrested while attempting to remove catalytic converters from our vehicles."
That email went on to say, "It breaks my heart to report that these suspects had access to the community because they were residents."
"We've had gated communities have converters stolen off of them, so that doesn't exactly help you there," Duvall added. "It really boils down to if they want it, they're gonna get it."
There are some things you could do that might deter thieves from taking the catalytic converters.
"Paint them with a high temp orange spray paint that tells a converter buyer that they're not supposed to be buying that," Duvall said. "That it came off of a vehicle that it wasn't supposed to come off of."
It's not guaranteed that it will stop a thief, but Duvall said anything you can do to try and stop them, can help.
"I feel bad for people that come in here and have had them stolen, there are some people that just can't afford to replace them," Duvall said. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-catalytic-converter-thefts/91-d6128eb6-7a47-4fca-bdde-a376f610ad92 | 2022-08-04T00:23:53 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/arkansas-catalytic-converter-thefts/91-d6128eb6-7a47-4fca-bdde-a376f610ad92 |
FORT SMITH, Ark. — Fort Smith police are investigating after a woman was found dead in a retention pond Wednesday afternoon.
According to the Fort Smith Police Department, around 4 p.m. on Aug. 3, officers responded to a call from a local retailer about a person "in crisis." The woman had reportedly fled the retailer and was found dead in a nearby retention pond at Wheeler Avenue and Y Street.
The woman's identity and cause of death have not been released.
Police ask that you avoid this area and take alternative routes while they investigate.
More information will be released as it becomes available.
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A Cherry Hill, New Jersey man has been charged in the death of a 2-year-old girl who ingested cocaine and fentanyl, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Walter H. Clark, 27, faces aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault and child endangerment charges, the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said.
On Saturday, July 23, authorities said officers responded to a home on the 300 block of Evergreen Avenue in Cherry Hill for a report of a 2 year old who had stopped breathing shortly before 8 p.m.
Inside, first responders found a 2-year-old girl unconscious lying next to drug paraphernalia, prosecutors said.
Authorities said she was rushed to the hospital where she died a short time later.
Through investigation, officials said it was determined that the child had cocaine and fentanyl in her system.
As a result, Clark was arrested and charged Wednesday, law enforcement officials said. He will remain in the Camden County Jail prior to his first hearing.
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Prosecutors did not disclose whether the man and child are relatives. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/toddler-dies-after-ingesting-cocaine-fentanyl-cherry-hill-man-charged/3325190/ | 2022-08-04T00:28:44 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/toddler-dies-after-ingesting-cocaine-fentanyl-cherry-hill-man-charged/3325190/ |
ELKVIEW, WV (WOWK) — When the Capital High School band director took another job last week, the school’s marching band was left without a director.
That is when a very special teacher at Herbert Hoover raised her hand to help. All week long, Meleah Fisher has pulled double duty — starting with Hoover’s band in the morning, then Capital’s at night.
For Fisher, it is all about repaying a favor. When Hoover was hit hard by the rising Elk River in 2016, the band room was flooded by seven feet of water, and surrounding schools donated instruments and uniforms.
“I’ve been helped with us losing our school,” Fisher says. “We were helped financially. We were helped with uniforms from Annandale High School. We wore those for two and a half years.”
Even during those tough times, Fisher refused to let the music die, says Herbert Hoover’s principal Mike Kelley.
“Those kids just continued,” Kelley says. “They didn’t complain. They didn’t make excuses. They just kept going, and that’s all attributable to Ms. Fisher’s leadership.”
To Fisher, she has done nothing special.
“I’m nobody, I’m just the band director here at Hoover,” she says. “I love my kids, and I’m soft-hearted, I’m sorry. I told Capital’s kids I hope whoever is their new director loves them as much as I love my kids.”
But to others, she means so much.
Principal Kelley says, “Meleah is just one of the most decent people I know. She’s a great role model for kids, she works hard.”
Fisher has been teaching at Hoover since 2000. She says being a part of the band has given her a sense of belonging. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/herbert-hoover-band-director-coaches-two-rival-bands/ | 2022-08-04T00:29:10 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/herbert-hoover-band-director-coaches-two-rival-bands/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The fight will roll on for one of West Virginia’s biggest opioid lawsuits.
The City of Huntington and Cabell County announced they are appealing a federal court’s decision that three major drug distributors were not responsible for West Virginia’s opioid crisis.
They accused Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson of flooding the state with pills, but a federal judge ruled they did not prove their case. Now it goes to the federal court of appeals.
Then on Monday, dozens of other cities and counties in West Virginia settled out of court with the same three drug companies, which agreed to pay a $400 million settlement.
“They violated the law by failing to report trends and deviations from the norm when it came to distributing their pills in West Virginia. Just distributed millions and millions of them,” said attorney Rusty Webb, who is on the legal team representing dozens of West Virginia cities and counties.
“Those were the bad actors,” Del. Joey Garcia (D-Marion) said. “Those were a huge part of the problem, that they took advantage of West Virginians who were in pain.”
So far, there is no timetable on when the federal court of appeals may rule on the case.
The cities and counties will also sue various chain pharmacies, blaming them, in part, for the opioid epidemic.
The State of West Virginia has also settled out of court with several other drug makers. That money will be used for future drug abuse prevention, treatment and law enforcement. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/huntington-and-cabell-county-appeal-federal-opioid-ruling/ | 2022-08-04T00:29:16 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/huntington-and-cabell-county-appeal-federal-opioid-ruling/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — For most car owners, finding somewhere to fill up is easy, but it’s not that simple for electric cars.
“I can go anywhere and there’s a gas station,” said Maria Scott, a Pittsburgh resident. “And that’s not the case yet with chargers.”
That could be changing in the next few years with the West Virginia Department of Transportation planning to bring more charging stations to the Mountain State.
“U.S. car manufacturers are rolling out electric cars now, and people need a place to charge them,” said Gary Zuckett, Executive Director of the West Virginia Citizen Action Group (WVCAG).
In anticipation of an increase in electric vehicles, the federal government asked each state to submit a National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) plan.
West Virginia’s NEVI Deployment Plan proposes putting over 900 charging stations along all 6 interstates that cross West Virginia, starting with areas around major cities. According to their plan, these stations would ideally be located about 50 miles apart.
Anyone can use the stations, but it will primarily benefit those out of state, like Virginia resident Kosca Apostalakis.
He said it typically costs him seven dollars to fill up for 300 miles.
“Typically, you’re never at zero. You’re at twenty percent, and you normally charge to eighty percent. So, I normally stop for fifteen, twenty minutes, grab a coffee, do something, depending on where the super charger is,” Apostalakis said.
Superchargers may be faster than normal electric car chargers, but with more available charging stations, it will make Apostalakis’ trips easier.
“There’s enough to get you where you need to get, but the difference is you just may need to charge a little bit longer than you will if there’s more superchargers where you can just charge ten minutes,” he said.
Through the NEVI program, West Virginia is expected to get more than $45 million over the next five years to help develop charging stations and electric vehicle infrastructure. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/more-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-coming-to-west-virginia/ | 2022-08-04T00:29:22 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/more-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-coming-to-west-virginia/ |
Report: Modify Glen Canyon Dam soon or risk losing the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon
The federal government must rapidly prepare plans to redesign Glen Canyon Dam’s plumbing to keep the Colorado River flowing through the Grand Canyon as the water levels behind the dam continue to fall, a coalition of environmental groups warned on Wednesday.
Lake Powell is just a quarter full, its surface now at 3,536 feet above sea level — 46 feet from the minimum level to produce hydropower — and falling after the early summer gush of snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains. Two more dry winters could push the reservoir past that point, according to forecasters, and ultimately dam managers may have to open bypass tunnels more than 100 feet deeper just to keep the river flowing.
If it comes to that, the river advocates and their new analysis caution, those tunnels will prove insufficient to release as much water as the Southwest counts on to pass through the Grand Canyon and restock Lake Mead each year.
“This system needs flexibility and it needs it now,” said Eric Balken, whose Glen Canyon Institute partnered with the Utah Rivers Council and the Great Basin Water Network on a new report urging action.
Lake Powell’s elevation has dropped more than 160 feet since it was essentially full at the turn of this century, and the pace has quickened in recent years. Dropping below what the outlets were designed to handle would jeopardize delivery of the water needed to irrigate farms and fully supply cities from Phoenix and Las Vegas to Los Angeles and Tijuana.
The groups’ quest is to persuade the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the dam, to study how to keep the river flowing if, as their analysis suggests, climate change and overuse push the system to a breaking point in coming years. Their preferred alternatives are to either expand the capacity of the bypass tunnels or build new tunnels at the dam’s base to allow the river to flow even if Lake Powell empties.
Agency looks for ways to preserve power production
On their first premise — the need to act to prevent the loss of hydropower — they’ll find agreement from many corners. The Bureau of Reclamation, the state of Arizona and the group representing the dam’s hydropower customers all say the region’s two decades of drought present an imminent threat to normal operations at Glen Canyon.
"Given the current uncertainties facing the Colorado River system, as well as the engineering uncertainties involving moving water through the existing infrastructure of Glen Canyon Dam with historically low levels, it would be prudent to thoroughly investigate all reasonable options for making changes to the infrastructure of the dam that enhance its capacity to move large volumes of water safely," said Arizona Water Resources Director Tom Buschatzke.
NASA images reveal:Lake Mead's water supply reaches record-low levels
A Reclamation spokeswoman said the agency has committed $2 million to studying options to both continue generating power and meet water supply commitments to Arizona, Nevada, California and northwestern Mexico. One such idea that has long been discussed is the option of fitting hydropower turbines lower, in the bypass tunnels.
The idea of building new outlets around the dam’s base, essentially allowing the government to drain the reservoir at least temporarily if and when water managers decided that’s best, is more controversial.
“It gets you to the same point (environmentalists) have always been at, and that’s drain out Powell and fill Mead,” said Leslie James, executive director of the Colorado River Energy Distributors Association.
What is the future for both dams?
The Glen Canyon Institute for years advocated a “Fill Mead First” proposal that would push Powell’s stored water downstream to an equally depleted Lake Mead, restoring treasured natural and recreational assets flooded behind Glen Canyon Dam.
That’s a prospect that ends hydropower production for customers who live around the West, including numerous tribes, so James opposes it. But she welcomes a Reclamation study of other options.
“I’m glad they’re doing it,” she said. “They’re the ones that know the dam inside and out.”
Fill Mead First is an idea whose time has passed, Balken said, if only because draining all the water from Powell at this point would not, in fact, be nearly enough to fill the larger reservoir downstream. Instead, he said, a river-level bypass system would allow the government to continue moving water downstream regardless of how low Lake Powell falls.
As currently designed, the dam would stop releasing water if the reservoir falls below the existing bypasses, effectively drying up the Grand Canyon and trapping nearly 2 million acre-feet of water behind the dam, nearly two-thirds of what Arizona would normally take from the river in a year.
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But the Southwest would suffer long before the river actually stopped flowing, Balken and colleagues say, because the reservoir’s declining elevation would reduce pressure that causes water to gush from either the power intakes or the bypass tunnels. For this part of their analysis, they relied on a white paper produced by river scientist Jack Schmidt and colleagues at Utah State University.
Schmidt, a former chief of the government’s Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, published a paper in 2016 that included a quantification of the amount of water that the dam could move in a year at various elevations.
At elevation 3,430 feet, the volume that the dam could push downstream would drop below the 7.5 million acre-feet that the Colorado River Compact requires upstream states to supply to the states below Glen Canyon, not to mention the 1.5 million acre-feet in Mexico’s treaty allocation.
At 3,400 feet, still 26 feet above where the bypass tubes start to go dry, the dam could deliver less than half of the Southwestern states' normal entitlement.
If drought worsens, the risks will grow
That entitlement already took a hit due to the shortage in Lake Mead this year. It was expected to shrink further next year, even before Reclamation’s commissioner announced in June that the states throughout the river basin need a plan to forego up to another 4 million acre-feet, which is about a third of what the river has produced most years during the drought.
The rapidly shifting mandates from the Bureau of Reclamation demonstrate the increasingly dire outlook, said Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council. States were given just two months to plan dramatic cuts before the government sets 2023 shortage levels later this month.
“For an agency that normally moves at a glacial pace,” he said, “that’s pretty remarkable.”
Fast action is imperative, according to the report by Frankel and colleagues. In their analysis, a continuation of the weather and resulting flows that the Colorado experienced from 2017 to 2021 would push Lake Powell too low make its obliged water deliveries by 2027.
They studied that timeframe, they said, because it fairly represents the 21st century’s reduction in flows, about 20% below last century’s. If, however, the coming years look more like the exceptionally dry stretch that occurred from 2000 to 2004, they projected the dam could lose its ability to move any water as soon as 2025.
Brandon Loomis covers environmental and climate issues for The Arizona Republic and azcentral.com. Reach him at brandon.loomis@arizonarepublic.com or follow on Twitter @brandonloomis.
Environmental coverage on azcentral.com and in The Arizona Republic is supported by a grant from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust. Follow The Republic environmental reporting team at environment.azcentral.com and @azcenvironment on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
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GREENSBORO — The U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded N.C. A&T a $23.7 million grant as part of the American Rescue Plan's Good Jobs Challenge.
The grant, which will be used to create a clean energy workforce training program, is the single-largest award the university has received for research.
Gov. Roy Cooper was among those gathered on the university's campus Wednesday to celebrate the achievement.
“North Carolina is quickly becoming the center of our country’s emerging clean energy economy,” Cooper said. “This transformative grant will invest in our state's diverse workforce as we continue to create high-paying clean energy jobs and bolster N.C. A&T's reputation as a national leader preparing students for the economy of the future."
The grant was among 32 awarded from the $500 million jobs challenge administered by the Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration and will enable communities across the country to invest in innovative approaches to workforce development.
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U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo said it was the first job training initiative implemented by the U.S. Commerce Department. She explained that it's important everyone have an opportunity to get "family-sustaining jobs" with the right resources.
A&T's project, called STEPs4GROWTH, will train workers by using mobile units in certain counties, according to information provided by the university.
The program, which will start in high school and continue through college, will allow participants to earn certificates and build skills all the way to a bachelor’s degree. It will set up partnerships in four areas — energy efficiency, renewable energy, clean vehicles and grid and storage — while establishing regional training centers.
More than 40 employers — including Duke Energy, Strata Clean Energy and Blue Ridge Power — have committed to hiring 3,000 STEPs4GROWTH trainees over four years, then 1,500 trainees every year afterward, according to A&T.
The program can be a model for providing training for the growing clean energy sector across the U.S., officials said.
“Through this important project, North Carolina A&T will play a leading role in preparing well-trained workers to fill the many skilled jobs in America’s rapidly growing clean energy sector,” A&T Chancellor Harold L. Martin Sr. said in a statement.
A&T recently celebrated 40 high school and 20 college students’ completion of the 2022 N.C. Clean Energy pre-apprenticeship and internship program at the university. That program served as the pilot for STEPs4GROWTH.
Business leaders from Duke, Piedmont Services Group and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers attended the announcement Wednesday on the A&T campus.
“We are on a mission to make sure that every American — regardless of where they live or the color of their skin, how old they are, whether they are in recovery, formerly incarcerated — has a chance to get a real job,” Raimondo said. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/transformative-n-c-a-t-awarded-23-7-million-grant-for-job-training-project/article_f5eb3400-131a-11ed-a87c-ff26ebe26e19.html | 2022-08-04T00:37:12 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/transformative-n-c-a-t-awarded-23-7-million-grant-for-job-training-project/article_f5eb3400-131a-11ed-a87c-ff26ebe26e19.html |
GREENSBORO — The public has spoken, and they want to see Anna Vtipil during the North Carolina Folk Festival in September.
The Raleigh performer backed by an ensemble was the top vote getter during the July 5-22 voting period for the 2022 Not Your Average Folk Contest as part of the free annual outdoor festival with multicultural music, dancing, storytelling, crafts and food.
"Anna and her ensemble are an innovative voice from the homegrown music scene emerging in North Carolina, and we are honored to host an early step in their bright future as performing artists," Amy Grossmann, the group's president and CEO, said in a news release.
A pianist and vocalist, Vtipil was accompanied on her original songs by Lora Mouna and Clara Lampkin on vocals, Hanna Fishastion on cello and Gracie Zielinski on violin. The group formed at UNCG.
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Vtipil, along with the The Zinc Kings from Greensboro, Discount Rothko from Winston-Salem, and The Travis Williams Group from Pfafftown, had all advanced to the public voting phase from a pool of 42 North Carolina-based musicians whose applications were reviewed by a panel of experts from across the state.
Videos of each act were posted online with the top vote getter receiving the chance to perform on one of the main stages at the annual folk festival, which will be held downtown from Sept. 9 to 11.
Lorena Guillén Tango Ensemble of Greensboro won the inaugural contest last year.
Vtipil describes her music as coming from a vast range of styles including traditional Irish jig.
"A lot of my personal inspiration this year has come from the song-writing community in Greensboro and witnessing the talent of local artists while at school, music venues, and open mics," Vtipil said in the release.
Vtipil also receives eight hours of recording time at Black Rabbit Audio in Greensboro. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/watch-now-innovative-voice-to-perform-at-nc-folk-festival-see-who-voters-picked-in/article_24c1fb9e-12ba-11ed-81ed-7fc558bfe94e.html | 2022-08-04T00:37:18 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/watch-now-innovative-voice-to-perform-at-nc-folk-festival-see-who-voters-picked-in/article_24c1fb9e-12ba-11ed-81ed-7fc558bfe94e.html |
15-year-old in Litchfield Park dies from gunshot wound
Gloria Rebecca Gomez
Arizona Republic
A fatal shooting killed a 15-year-old in Litchfield Park on Tuesday morning.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Calbert Gillett said officers received a call about a shooting near El Mirage and Bethany Home roads around 5 a.m. and found the teen with a gunshot wound.
He was taken to a hospital where he later died from his injuries.
No other information was provided. It is unclear what caused the shooting. The case is still under investigation, Gillett said.
Reach criminal justice reporter Gloria Rebecca Gomez at grgomez@gannett.com or on Twitter @glorihuh.
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A popular soap opera won’t be available on NBC’s network anymore.
On Wednesday, NBC announced that they are removing “Days of our Lives” from their network and moving it to stream exclusively on Peacock, our sister station reported.
NBC said that “NBC News Daily” will air in the show’s former network slot beginning on September 12, according to KPRC.
KPRC said that “NBC News Daily” is a one-hour-long news program to provide viewers with breaking news and the latest news, featuring Kate Snow, Morgan Radford, Vicky Nguyen and Aaron Gilcrest.
The “Days of our Lives” will be available to stream starting on September 12, KPRC said, and all-new episodes will debut on the streaming service daily.
Now, users will be able to access the new episodes in addition to the already existing library of episodes on Peacock, available to premium users, and the Peacock Original “Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem” all on one platform, according to KPRC.
If this drama is one of your favorites, you can learn more about Peacock streaming here. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/days-of-our-lives-to-move-off-of-nbc/ | 2022-08-04T00:44:45 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/days-of-our-lives-to-move-off-of-nbc/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Family and friends of Eastern Dominican Christian Mission are going “over the edge” to raise awareness and funds to build a medical clinic in the Dominican Republic.
On Saturday, they will hold a fundraiser where participants rappel off the Roanoke Higher Education Building.
“We have a very small clinic in a very impoverished area of the Dominican Republic. We’re trying to expand that clinic and build a full building that will offer a lab, ultrasound, some psychology, and dental work,’ explained Executive Director Ryan Vandelinde. “All of your basic medical needs to serve this community.”
Eastern Dominican Christian Mission exists to fulfill the Great Commission of Jesus Christ by making disciples and forming those disciples into congregations. Since the founding of the mission in 2003, EDCM has had a goal of planting churches in the eastern part of the Dominican Republic and helping lead those churches to self-sufficiency, according to their website.
The goal is to raise $100,000 for the project and they want to start construction immediately.
You can click here to register and donate. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/rappel-over-the-edge-of-a-roanoke-building-for-a-cause-on-saturday/ | 2022-08-04T00:44:51 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/rappel-over-the-edge-of-a-roanoke-building-for-a-cause-on-saturday/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – No matter what time of year it is, the Blue Ridge Parkway draws visitors from both near and far.
Visitors come by to go bike riding and hiking, and others like parkway visitor Keith Simon enjoy fishing.
“I like fishing, but no, just trail walking out in nature, just enjoying nature,” Simon said.
Simon was able to enjoy his fishing spot near the Roanoke River Bridge after over a year of detours and closures – which have hurt the region’s tourism efforts.
“We’re very grateful that Congress funded what was needed in order to keep the bridges and various sections up and running and paved,” Visit Virginia’s Blue Ridge President Landon Howard said. “And that is something that has to happen for the safety of our visitors.”
The scenic bridge was closed so crews could repair bridge piers, fix drainage, and more.
“There are many other things to do on the parkway that will make it easier to access, so we’re excited about getting it totally open,” Howard said.
The project was scheduled to be completed back in June but leaders faced delays.
But now, Visit Virginia’s Blue Ridge is ready to unveil the finished product.
“It’s going to be like a brand new, grand opening, ribbon cutting opportunity, and I think we’re going to see huge visitation as a result of that,” Howard said.
“It just opens up opportunities for people to get out more, you know dealing with Covid, it’s time to get out, walk the trails, fish, sightsee,” Simon said.
The re-opening comes in time for summer travel and fall when the foliage draws in tourists, which is when the parkway is the busiest.
“People travel all around just to come and see the little valley that we’re in, that’s a beautiful place,” Simon said. “I think people will come around and check it out.”
The parkway still has a closure on Bent Mountain due to a slope failure, but the hope is that it will be fully open by the end of September. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/roanoke-river-bridge-reopens-after-over-a-year-of-repairs-on-blue-ridge-parkway/ | 2022-08-04T00:44:58 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/03/roanoke-river-bridge-reopens-after-over-a-year-of-repairs-on-blue-ridge-parkway/ |
Taking steps for change: Lubbock's MADD hosting walk against drunk driving
The impact of the choice to get behind the wheel while intoxicated is one that not only affects individuals driving but also the other drivers on the road and their families.
According to the Texas Department of Transportation, 962 people were killed last year in crashes involving drunk driving. Kendra Sellers' son was one of them.
That's why for her, and Lubbock's chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, it's a sign that more awareness is needed, and why MADD is hosting its Run like MADD fundraiser event on Saturday, where individuals can participate in a free 5K to raise awareness.
Lubbock's MADD hosts Memorial Walk against drunk driving
According to organizers with the non-profit in Lubbock, the funds raised at the event will help to support MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving which advocates for high-visibility law enforcement, in-car breathalyzers for all convicted drunk drivers and support for turning cars into the cure for drunk driving through the development of technology.
For some participants, like Kendra Sellers from Seagraves, it strikes a more personal tone.
Sellers lost her son, 22-year-old Case Clark, on March 11, 2021.
“He was very ambitious, very outgrowing,” she said. “One thing that describes his ambition or exemplifies his ambition is that he was the president of his chapter his motorcycle chapter.”
Sellers said her son was riding a motorcycle when a drunk driver hit him. According to a Texas Department of Public Safety report from the time, investigators believe Clark was struck by a pickup truck whose driver was travelling in the wrong direction on U.S. Highway 62/82. The pickup's driver, Paul Anthony Pinkston, 76, of Lubbock, was later arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter.
DPS: Pickup drove in wrong lanes ahead of deadly motorcycle crash in Hockley County
Through a local victim’s advocacy program, Sellers was put in contact with MADD who offered support after she lost her son.
After receiving support, Sellers said, she wants to give back and help other people who are going through a similar loss.
“All the materials that I've received, all of the, you know, the support that I've received has been free to me,” she said. “I want other people to receive that same type of support and so that's my goal.”
Registration for the event starts at 9 a.m. with the walk starting at 10 a.m. at the Lubbock County Courthouse, located at 904 Broadway.
Sellers said her son’s wrecked motorcycle will be on display at the event.
“My hope is that if someone can see his motorcycle or someone can see his story or hear his story, and if it can save one life or keep one person from getting behind the wheel, you know, impaired, that's the goal,” she said. “That's the goal is to stop impaired driving.” | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/lubbocks-madd-hosting-walk-against-drunk-driving/65387653007/ | 2022-08-04T00:44:59 | 1 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/03/lubbocks-madd-hosting-walk-against-drunk-driving/65387653007/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Virginia Children’s Theatre is hoping to bring people together through music.
August 6 will be opening night for their “Brand New Day” concert.
“Stories that celebrate racial diversity, but also queerness, gender identity and all of those things,” said adult lead vocalist, Isaiah Young.
The concert celebrates unique stories, like youth soloist, Olivia Brown.
“This show really resonates with me because I’m bi-racial,” Brown said.
Broadway musical favorites will be performed, many that you may recognize.
“I like ‘What Baking Can Do’ from the musical ‘Waitress.’ I just love the message of that song. It discusses how even when everything feels like it’s falling apart and when the walls feel like there is crashing down, there is always going to be something that grounds you and helps you get through a hard time,” said Brown.
Performers hope their message of acceptance will resonate with the audience.
“Theatre makes everybody happy. It brings people together. This is about unity and we want people to be together and see a little bit of themselves on stage,” said professional youth actress, Jai Isaac.
So our area can work to be a more accepting and inclusive place for everyone.
“There is a lot of division in our world and what we really need right now is unity and this is the perfect concert to do that,” said professional adult vocalist, Kimi Galang Villegas.
VCT’s concert premieres Saturday, August 6 in Elmwood Park. You can learn more on VCT’s website. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/04/virginia-childrens-theatre-concert-celebrates-diversity-through-musical-classics/ | 2022-08-04T00:45:04 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/04/virginia-childrens-theatre-concert-celebrates-diversity-through-musical-classics/ |
BLACKSBURG, Va. – First Responders in the coal mining industry are proving who is best regarding life-saving skills.
The Virginia Mining Institute held a competition in the New River Valley with eight different mining agencies from Southwest Virginia.
The competition consists of multiple groups of men working to save lives in a mine.
“It was a good problem,” Sidney Crabtree, a team member with Virginia Energy, said.
Crabtree said this was one tough competition.
“The problem they put out for us is always challenging. There were a lot of ventilation changes and things you would do in a mine underground,” Crabtree said.
Participants compete for three days sharpening and honing their skills with mine rescue operations or CPR in case of an absolute life disaster.
“They involve bad roof, toxic gases mixtures things of that sort,” Chris Whitt, a team member focused on training, said.
Whitt said the incident with the Giles County mine collapse in June was better suited for the fire department because it was an equipment accident, but mining crews would have gone if there was toxic gas.
“Had it come, we would have been working with the fire department,” Whitt said.
Crews at the competition had about two hours to rescue people in distress and effectively communicate with the team. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/04/virginia-mining-institute-holds-competition-to-sharpen-skills-in-real-life-situations/ | 2022-08-04T00:45:10 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/04/virginia-mining-institute-holds-competition-to-sharpen-skills-in-real-life-situations/ |
BAYTOWN, Texas (KTRK) -- A Baytown family is stunned after receiving a message that their dog who was stolen five years ago was found more than 600 miles away.
The Malmstrom family still can't get over the video that recently arrived on their phones.
"We were all crying," Stephanie Malmstrom recalled. "Me and my girls were just boohooing."
The excitement was triggered by a mysterious text message.
"I was like, 'No way,'" Malmstrom recalled. "This is insane. Like I won $1 million and a cruise also."
Five years ago, the family's home surveillance captured what happened to their German Shepard named Sheba.
As she slept outside, cameras caught how Sheba went missing.
"She runs from underneath the porch, they scoop her up, walk around the back side of the truck, load her up and take off," Malmstrom explained.
A story ABC13 highlighted five years ago remained a mystery until Monday.
An animal control officer more than 600 miles away in Texas' Panhandle spotted the dog on the street.
"Her behavior just showed me this isn't the normal dog running loose," Borger Animal Control Officer Jared Harper said.
Harper doesn't know who had the dog, or how it ended up more than 600 miles away. He does know though who the real owners are.
Since finding the dog, he's shared images and done virtual video calls with the Baytown family.
"It's unbelievable, Jared," Malmstrom said. "Thank you so much."
"Of course," Harper said. "I mean for me. I'm just doing my job."
The officer isn't the only one who the family wanted to thank. Former ABC13 reporter Deborah Wrigley covered the original story. She was called during our interview with Malmstrom to learn the good news.
"I wanted to reach out to you and tell you, 'Thank you for covering our story five years ago,'" Malmstrom said to Wrigley.
It's an appreciation with an almost perfect ending, which could be only days away. The family is working with organizations to fly Sheba home.
"We had steak night once a week," Malmstrom recalled. "Dad cooks the best steaks, so we already have steak night planned for when she gets home."
A weekly ritual revived after the video they never expected to receive arrived on their phones.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Kids enjoying their summer might hate to hear it, but the school year is right around the corner. And that means families will be stocking up on school supplies.
After dealing with rising costs on everything from gas to food, inflation has a new target—the classroom. Many Iowans will find themselves spending quite a bit more when they're shopping around this summer.
"As a teacher myself, I know it's hard for a lot of families just to get all the basic needs that we need for the kids throughout the school year. So you know, we've seen it impact a lot of families," said Suzanne Vandekamp, who was back-to-school shopping for her two kids.
According to retail analytics firm DataWeave, a basket of about a dozen school supplies increased in price by an average of nearly 15% for the 2022 back-to-school season, compared to a year ago. One example: the price of backpacks are up nearly 12% to an average of $70.
"We have lots of people donating extra school supplies and get extra stuff for all the kids so everyone's always taken care of, but it's taken a toll on some people," Vandekamp said.
Let's take a look at some more local numbers. Local5 grabbed a list of supplies that a 5th grader would need at Des Moines Public Schools. After filling up a cart with everything, we found that it would cost around $86 to get just one student ready for class.
That list also doesn't account for things like clothes or backpacks, so many families could find themselves spending much more than that. According to the National Retail Federation, the average household is expected to shell out $864 in total, and nationwide spending on school clothes and supplies this year is on track to match 2021's record of 37 billion dollars. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/iowans-facing-high-prices-on-back-to-school-shopping-classes-classroom-inflation-sales/524-b7816fdf-56a2-43ce-a9d1-64e0502a4c6d | 2022-08-04T00:50:07 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/iowans-facing-high-prices-on-back-to-school-shopping-classes-classroom-inflation-sales/524-b7816fdf-56a2-43ce-a9d1-64e0502a4c6d |
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