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DESOTO, Texas — It’s time for voters to, once again, head to polling sites across North Texas. Early voting for Texas primary runoff races began on Monday, May 16.
Candidates in the Democratic primary runoff races are working hard to get voters back out to polling sites. One of the most watched Democratic runoffs, right now, is between Jasmine Crockett and Jane Hope Hamilton for Texas’ U.S. House District 30 seat.
“I think that this is about public service. I keep saying that. I’m a public servant first. I’m not really big on politics and things like that. But what I am big on is fighting for the people,” Crockett said during a recent interview on Inside Texas Politics.
Crockett has been a Texas state representative for a year and a half.
Hamilton said she’s been working in public policy and fighting for voters for 23 years.
“What they tell me, literally, is keep hope alive. And what I tell them is Hope is on the ballot and help is on the way,” Hamilton said as she greeted voters outside the polling site at Disciple Central Community Church in DeSoto, Texas on Monday.
U.S. House District 30 was led by congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson since 1992. She recently announced her retirement.
District 30 covers a large portion of southern Dallas County and some of Tarrant County.
”Inflation. Jobs. The lack of opportunity in our areas. You know, when we look at South Dallas, Oak Cliff, Cedar Hill, Lancaster, Duncanville, DeSoto, Wilmer, Pleasant Grove, Joppa… are we proud about what we see? Do we feel like enough has been done? And the resounding answer that I’m getting at the doors I no. And that’s why I’m running,” Hamilton explained.
Representative Crockett also told viewers on Inside Texas Politics why she’s running.
“One of the things that we need in representation is someone who will speak up and speak out and make sure that these inequities are on the forefront of conversation. A lot of times we don’t even talk about it,” Crockett said.
Both Crockett and Hamilton believe they have the experience to take over the District 30 seat and fight for its residents.
“Having legislative experience, I’m in a position to be able to write legislation that I know will be able to provide some sort of equity in our district,” Crockett added.
Both candidates know it will ultimately be up to voters.
“When I tell them about my personal life, being a survivor of police brutality, at once being a single mother juggling housing, health care, and child care, and when I tell them that I was almost a statistic of Texas’ maternal mortality crisis, they understand that I know their pain,” Hamilton explained.
Convincing voters to return to the polls during a runoff election could be the main challenge.
Early voting in Dallas County is from May 16-20. Joint primary runoff Election Day is May 24. For more information about early voting in Dallas County, click here.
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2022 marks the 40th birthday of the Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon. Over the 40 years that the club has been serving local communities, the needs have changed and challenges have evolved, but the community support has been a constant. To celebrate and thank the community for this support, the club is hosting a free Birthday Bash on May 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The event will be held at the club’s Youth Center facility, 3333 Walnut Avenue in Coos Bay. There will be carnival games and prizes, live music by Def Cougar Mellencamp, Coos Bay fire and police vehicles, Elkhorn Barbeque and Pappa Dogs food trucks and free birthday treats.
Founded in April 1982, the Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon has been providing thousands of young people throughout Coos County with affordable, high-quality after-school and summer programs. This milestone is an opportunity for the club to share and celebrate a continued mission to empower all young people to achieve their full potential as caring, productive, responsible community members.
Formally known as Southwestern Oregon Youth Activities, the organization began as a youth sports program when local school districts cut elementary sports programs from their budgets. Shortly after the organization’s inception, the Club also began offering SeaBreeze Sports Camps during the summer months. While the sports program remains an integral part of its programming, it was the Board of Governors 1992 decision to join Boys & Girls Clubs of America that changed the scope of the organization forever.
In 1993, the club began offering educational enrichment classes ranging from watercolors to forensic science. In the early years, these classes were held after school and on the weekends in local schools. Continuing the expansion of program diversity, in 1995 the William J. Sweet Memorial Tennis Center opened and began offering tennis programs. That same year, the Pacific School of Dance joined the Boys & Girls Club and continues to provide high quality dance instruction to local young people.
In the year 2000, Gymnastics Plus joined the club and we began offering a gymnastics program to area youth, from toddlers to college students. Later that year, the F. Willis Smith Youth Center opened the doors to a new beginning for many of our members, providing year-round academic success, character and leadership and healthy lifestyles opportunities for those that need it the most.
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According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, high prices at grocery stores will continue to rise in 2022. Coupled with uncertainty about the ongoing availability of COVID-19 emergency allotments, which have boosted monthly food assistance for eligible households, keeping up with food costs could become even more challenging.
The Oregon Department of Human Services, in partnership with numerous community organizations, is hosting a town hall for Coos and Curry counties on Tuesday, May 17, to show residents how to get the most out of their food budgets. The online event, held from 6 - 7:30 p.m., is free. Register in advance at https://oregonstate.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAsdOiqqDIpE9SE3g1KrqVQbG-G-0pkVVXi
"As Oregon continues to be impacted by COVID-19, we know that many individuals and families in our communities depend on SNAP and the temporarily increased emergency allotments to get enough healthy food for themselves and their families," Starla Paris, community partnership coordinator at Oregon Department of Human Services, told the World.
Nearly 400,000 households in Oregon receive Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program benefits, and most also receive the extra COVID-19 emergency payments, according to Jake Sunderland, the department's press secretary.
In January 2022, the average SNAP benefit per household was $290 per month. The average emergency allotment for most of those households was $174, bringing the average monthly food benefit for qualified households to $463 per month, Sunderland said.
The COVID-19 emergency food benefits have been in place every month since March 2020. As of the writing of this story, the emergency funds are only approved to continue through May (with payments coming in June 2022), and it is not known if additional months will be covered.
Paris said the town hall is meant to help families cope with the double pressures of rising food costs and a possible reduction in food benefits.
"Eventually these temporary emergency food benefits will end, and we know that this will impact people's food budgets. The goal of this townhall is to help individuals and families plan and prepare by helping them learn about food and ways to eat quality nutritious meals while making their food budgets go farther," Paris said.
In its most recent Food Price Outlook, the USDA said the conflict in Ukraine and rate increases from the Federal Reserve are expected to further impact food prices. The report predicts grocery costs will increase between five and six percent in 2022, above the price increases already experienced earlier this year.
According to a program flier, attendees at the food town hall will learn about couponing, free food programs, and get tips for eating well within their budget.
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August 10, 1938 – April 4, 2022
Blair Adams Holman, 83, passed away unexpectedly at his home in Beaverton, Oregon on April 4, 2022.
Blair was a fifth-generation native Oregonian, born August 10, 1938 in Portland, Oregon; the first child of Dr. Charles and Dorothy (Everhart) Holman. After graduating from Grant High School, he attended Oregon State University, becoming a proud lifelong Beaver. He graduated from OSU with a Bachelor of Science in Forest Management.
Following two years of active duty in the US Army, Blair entered the forest management industry in Toledo, Oregon as a forester. He continued to work for the Georgia-Pacific Corporation for 38 years, mainly in the Coos County area as a Resource Manager. He was ultimately responsible for Georgia-Pacific’s Oregon timberlands consisting of 300,000 acres until his retirement in October, 2001.
In addition to his forestry work, he served as an active member of the US Army Reserve for over 33 years retiring at the rank of full Colonel.
In his retirement, Blair enjoyed traveling, gardening, volunteering countless hours and resources to community organizations including Coos County Master Gardener Association, Oregon Coast Music Association, and the Coos Bay Visitor Information Center. He also made significant financial contributions to Southwestern Oregon Community College and Charleston Marine Life Center.
A private burial service for the family was held April 12, 2022 at the historic Adams Cemetery in Molalla, OR.
Blair is survived by his wife of 19 years, Ginny Tabor; brother, David Holman and wife, Maryanne of Lake Oswego, OR; sister, Jeanne Newman of Hamlin, NY; daughter, Carrie Fagan and husband John of Corvallis, OR; stepson, Andrew Ehlen of Beaverton, OR; and two grandchildren, Brian Fagan of Corvallis, OR and Kate Fagan of Portland, OR.
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Rachel M. O'Leary, 106, of Mesa, AZ, formerly of North Bend, died April 29, 2022 in Mesa. Arrangements are under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com.
Abilena "Abbie" E. Sullivan, 85, of Madras, Oregon (formerly of Coquille and North Bend), passed away on May 3, 2022, in Madras. Arrangements are under the care of Bel-Air Colonial Funeral Home, https://www.bel-airfuneralhome.com/obituary/Abilena-Sullivan, 541-475-2241.
Wilma Jane Meline, 79, of Coos Bay, passed away May 6, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Donald L. Ledbetter, 89, of Port Orford, passed away May 6, 2022 in Roseburg. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Elwyn R. Russell, 63, of Coos Bay, passed away May 11, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Lyn M. King, 65, of Myrtle Point, passed away May 12, 2022 in Myrtle Point. Arrangements are pending under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Brenda Lee Morgan, 58, of North Bend, passed away May 5, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Mary E. Rosevear, 65, of Coos Bay, passed away May 5, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
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A private family inurnment will be held for Rachel M. O'Leary, 106, of Mesa, AZ, formerly of North Bend, at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com
A memorial service for Katelynn E. Benson, 21, of Coos Bay, will be held at 2 pm, Saturday, May 21, 2022 at the Harbor Assembly of God, 2050 Lincoln Street in North Bend. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
A memorial service for Jacquelyn “Jackie” Crowder, 71, of Coos Bay, will be held at 11 am, Saturday, May 21 at the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 400 Highland Avenue in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
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August 18, 1931 – April 13, 2022
Wayne Calvin Thompson, 90, passed away April 13, 2022. Wayne was born August 18, 1931 in Marshfield, Oregon to Calvin Thompson and Ione Merritt Thompson. He was one of six children. He grew up in a big, loving, idyllic family. Wayne lived all of his life in Coos Bay. He married his high school sweetheart, Barbara Jean Costelloe in 1950. Together they had four children, Bruce (Jan) Thompson, Kelly (Scott) Thompson-Poore, Blake (Carolyn) Thompson, and Amy (Mark) Ramsden. Wayne and Barbara divorced in 1974, but maintained a special friendship until his death. Wayne married Mary Gray, which ended in divorce a few years later. With her persuasion and insistence, he had two knee replacements, which was a feat for a guy who didn’t go to the doctor! That kept him walking and biking until his passing.
Wayne had a single minded determination that set him apart from all others. When Pete Susick, his high school football coach, told him that to play the position of fullback, he needed to work on neck exercises, Wayne returned for summer practice with a 19 ¾’’ neck! He wasn’t known as a fast runner but he could hit ‘em hard!
Anything he was interested in was always attacked by the same determination. As a young man, he wanted to be a machinist. He read the Machinery’s Handbook from cover to cover. For the average person that would be like watching cement harden. Wayne’s oldest son Bruce learned the trade from him and they went on to work together for 25 years. Men under his guidance learned a great deal from his leadership. He was exceptional at the marine trade, excelling in boat shaft work. Wayne would sit and look at a difficult job and figure out a way to get it done. As foreman of Koontz Machine, he was a remarkable teacher and mentor to his crew. He was greatly respected by those who worked under him.
Wayne always had a love for outdoor activities. He involved his kids in those activities, instilling a lifelong love for the outdoors in each of his children. He liked to explore and knew every back road in the state of Oregon. He spent summer weekends camping with the family, backpacking the Kalmiopsis and Rogue River trails, fishing, picnicking, bicycle riding, exploring hot springs, fly fishing for summer steelhead on the North Umpqua, hunting in the fall with extended family and taking drives in the woods.
Wayne’s daughter Kelly shared his love for backpacking and camping by creating experiences with many friends and family, as well as her own children and grandchildren throughout the years.
Wayne was known to spend a lot of time thinking and studying before making a move. He was fishing with his two sons on the Rogue River in 1966. He observed for a long time before they even put their fishing lines in the water. His determination always came into play, as the three of them caught 11 spring Chinook in two days! Bruce was 14 and Blake was 10 years old.
Bruce remembers a boat moved in on Blake’s fishing spot. Wayne tossed a large rock near the boat and told them the next one would land in the boat. Well, they decided to give the young kid his spot back. He never said much, but they got the message!
In 1980, Wayne was fishing alongside Bruce in their boats. Wayne commented that he was tired of the slow fishing and he was done for the year. Bruce and his buddy told him they were coming back the next weekend. The next weekend rolled around and the friends’ keen ear recognized Wayne’s Evinrude coming up the river. Surprised, they asked him why he came this week after all. He replied, “Well, my wife said I can’t go fishing.” He was a man of few words. That was all he said.
Wayne loved bicycling with untold miles. He had several favorite rides on back roads in wide open country. One of his preferred rides was from Powers Junction to Camas Valley and back, 78 miles round trip. Bruce accompanied him on one of those rides when Wayne was 62 years old and recalls being four miles behind him on the way home. Wayne Thompson wasn’t fast, but he was steady! He was known for his patience and quiet demeanor. He was one to listen more than talk. He believed that we were born with two ears and one mouth for a reason, and he lived by that.
He taught Amy to tie her shoes and write many letters in the alphabet at two years old. She was able to tell time at a young age because of his persistence and well-timed teaching moments. He encouraged his children to think through decisions and not to react. One of his sayings was, “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.”
Wayne took a lot of pride in his fitness and dietary routine. He was involved in “the Fat Man’s Club” playing basketball at Marshfield High School in his middle age, rode a bike for decades, and walked miles a day into his 90th year. He set a strong example. He finally quit riding a bicycle after many accidents landing him in the hospital. He had multiple fractures over the years that required intensive care and immobilization. His daughter in law, Jan Thompson, was always there to take him in and nurse him back to health.
It was always good to have Wayne in your corner with any technical difficulties. He had a keen eye and was mechanically inclined. Wayne, Bruce, and a group of family and friends owned old motorcycles for decades. They would tour many western states for a couple of weeks each summer, camping along the way. He would take the challenge of all the attending problems that go along with an antique vehicle. Wayne actually rode his 1944 Indian 230,000 miles! He and Bruce did many rebuilds on the Indians in the time they owned and rode them.
Wayne is survived by his children, Bruce (Jan) Thompson, Blake (Carolyn) Thompson, and Amy (Mark) Ramsden; his sister, Gayle Gaer; 12 grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his daughter, Kelly Thompson-Poore; son in law, Scott Poore; parents, Cal and Ione Thompson; sisters and brothers in law, Vivian (Frosty) Mulkins, Tommy (Louie) Caranchini, Ardis (Bob) Banry; brother, Keith Thompson and brother in law, Frank Gaer.
Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131. Family and friends are invited to sign the online guestbook at www.coosbayareafunerals.com
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Dropped: Sarasota removes potential for taller buildings from affordable housing proposal
After more than three hours of public comments involving about 50 speakers, the Sarasota City Commission severed building height limitations from a proposal aimed at increasing affordable housing inside city limits.
The remaining parts of the proposal — creation of a future land use designation along the city's major traffic corridors, allowance for higher density for more affordable housing units, staff approval for projects that contain affordable housing and a new zoning district in the East Park downtown neighborhood — passed on a 4-1 vote after the potential for taller buildings had been removed from the discussion.
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The vote at Monday's meeting only transmits the proposals to state officials as changes to a municipality's growth plan requires state approval. City staff expects state approval of the changes during the summer, with the revisions returning for city consideration in late summer or early fall.
Building taller buildings sparked intense opposition from some Sarasota residents
The possibility that the city would make it easier for developers to build taller buildings sparked intense opposition from some city residents. The staff had suggested removing building height consideration from the city's long-range growth planning process, a move that could have lifted a requirement for a super majority — a majority plus one of the City Commission — to increase downtown buildings' height limits.
City Manager Marlon Brown informed city commissioners at the beginning of Monday's meeting that because of those concerns, the planning department had proposed to keep building heights in the growth plan, but allow for properties zoned Downtown Core to have up to five stories of additional height and properties zoned Downtown Edge to have up to two additional floors of building height.
Properties along Sarasota's bayfront would have remained at 18 stories, with no proposals for affordable housing "bonus" floors in those properties, maintaining the current height limit for downtown property of 18 stories.
However, that proposal failed after two motions from the City Commission to move it forward did not gain four of five affirmative votes.
City Commissioner Hagen Brody called the building height issue a "poison pill" that needed more buy-in from the community before it was passed by the commission.
He then made a motion for city staff to host a community workshop on the topic of building heights at a future date, which passed 5-0.
This story is a breaking news story that will be updated.
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PHOENIX -- Less than two months after censuring her, state senators voted Monday to once again investigate Sen. Wendy Rogers to see whether she violated ethics rules by suggesting that the gunman who killed 10 people in Buffalo was really a federal agent.
But they refused to immediately expel her.
The 24-3 vote to refer the matter to the Ethics Committee came on a motion by Senate Majority Leader Rick Gray. The Sun City Republican pushed that in hopes of precluding a separate motion to expel.
That, however, did not stop Democrats from pursing that option.
Sen. Victoria Steele, D-Tucson, said Rogers already got a warning.
"In March, our state Senate voted to censure her because of hateful anti-Semitic comments," she said. "Our sincere hope was that the senator from District 6 would have gotten her things together and moved forward to do better. What happened over this weekend was not doing better."
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That motion, however, gained just 11 votes, far short of the 20-vote margin required for expulsion.
Sen. J.D. Mesnard, R-Chandler, called the investigation the appropriate way to go. He said expulsion is "the equivalent of a legislative execution."
"If we just forego that, we are no better than a mob," he said. Mesnard said.
What has triggered the new investigation was a social posting by Rogers that said "Fed boy summer has started in Buffalo," a comment that was widely interpreted to mean that the 18-year-old who killed 10 at a grocery store and wounded two others, most of whom were Black, actually was a federal agent. That is in line with other conspiracy theories claiming that mass shootings actually are "false flag" operations by the government as part of a bid to restrict the freedom of individual senators.
All this despite the fact that police said they found what appears to be a manifesto of sorts with racist views and reference to the "great replacement" conspiracy theory that people of color are replacing white Americans.
Senate Minority Leader Rebecca Rios called Rogers' post a "racist dog whistle ... perpetuating a grotesque conspiracy theory."
"We need to ask ourselves as a body, when is enough enough?" the Phoenix Democrat said. "When will we no longer be willing to allow one senator to jeopardize the reputation of each and every one of us, of the Senate, of the entire institution, because we know this person, through their tweets, has been actively enabling and supporting white supremacist replacement theory?"
Rogers made no comment other than voting against the investigation and against expulsion. She also declined to speak with reporters. Later in the afternoon she issued a statement decrying the attempt to expel her.
"Sadly, my comment was taken completely out of context and became a false narrative that's now the focal point of a firestorm created by certain race-obsessed members of the media," Rogers said. "Unfortunately, our Democrat members of the Senate are now turning this issue into a political tool and are continuing to perpetuate this erroneous message in an effort to foment division within our party."
The other two votes against doing an inquiry came from Sens. Warren Petersen, R-Gilbert, and Kelly Townsend, R-Apache Junction. Petersen said he didn't even know what Rogers had posted.
Townsend, who will be Rogers' foe in the Republican primary because of redistricting, took some verbal slaps at the Flagstaff senator.
"I can only imagine additional pain brought to those families by the dismissive comments that were made," Townsend said, saying that Rogers "became the face of the Alt-Right movement."
"But, at the same time, I have to defend person's right to say ugly things," Townsend added . "That's why the First Amendment exists."
The other senators, however, said there should at least be an investigation, though their reasons varied.
Sen. Sonny Borrelli, R-Lake Havasu City, said he has "no idea" what Rogers' comment actually means. And he said he believes an investigation by the Ethics Committee will clear Rogers. As proof, he read a posting that Rogers made Monday morning.
"Of course I condemn the violence in Buffalo, who doesn't," the posting said.
"I also condemn the #FakeNews and the government promoting violence and then blaming it on regular patriotic Americans as if regular Americans share those despicable views," it continued. "Everything is not what it seems."
"So, obviously, she does not condone the heinous acts by a deranged 18-year-old," Borrelli said of Rogers.
Others, however, said there is more than enough evidence not just to justify an investigation but, ultimately, result in an expulsion vote.
It starts with that March 1 vote to censure Rogers for "conduct unbecoming of a senator. The specifics of that vote included "publicly issuing and promoting social media and video messaging encouraging violence against and punishment of American citizens."
Rogers had spoken to a white supremacist group in February, calling for public hangings. And she followed that with a last-ditch effort to avoid censure by making political threats to fellow Republicans.
On Monday, Sen. Theresa Hatathlie, D-Coal Mine Canyon, reminded colleagues of that March 1 vote. She said that was designed to be "a teaching moment."
"How many times do you allow your children to get out of hand before you provide that opportunity for discipline?" Hatathlie asked.
Sen. Sally Ann Gonzales, D-Tucson, called Rogers' statements "racist and bigoted."
And Sen. Martin Quezada, D-Glendale, who also voted for the investigation, said further inquiry is not necessary.
"What this does ultimately is it kicks the can down the road," he said, saying the Senate "has all the evidence that it needs to make a decision right now."
But Senate President Karen Fann said more inquiry is merited.
"Things that happen over the weekend, sometimes our members don't even know that they've happened," the Prescott Republican said of the earlier post. "The best way to handle it is through a due process. Let's find out what happened, how it happened, who actually did it, what was the intention behind it and then we can make an informed decision at that point."
Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, also voted for the investigation, But she made it clear she believes the inquiry should die there and that she would not support additional action against Rogers.
"This is not an expellable offense," she said, saying what Rogers wrote is outside the realm of what is within the purview of the Ethics Committee.
"It's for the voters to decide," Ugenti-Rita said, referring to the Aug. 2 Republican primary between Townsend and Rogers. Whoever survives will face off against Democrat Kyle Nitschke in the heavily Republican district.
And she said it would be a "very, very dangerous precedent" that could lead to inquiries into what people post on social media, send in emails and even statements made at public events.
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Thoughts of an early spring are intoxicating during a cold, harsh winter, but increasingly early springs due to climate change can be catastrophic because of phenological mismatches.
Phenology is the study of periodic biological events such as the yearly flowering of plants, annual migration, and seasonal breeding. It’s a hot topic right now in scientific circles. The massive changes in the timing of biological events across many species means the synchronization is off between many species whose success depends on their interactions with one another.
According to a study of 406 species in the UK, plants are flowering an average of 26 days earlier than 35 years ago. Their insect pollinators such as bees are less responsive to the warmer temperatures causing this change, so there aren’t sufficient insects around that early to pollinate the plants. With low pollination rates, yields of seeds and fruit are low. When the insects do emerge, they suffer from the lack of nectar and pollen, going hungry and suffering low survivorship.
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Many birds feed caterpillars to their nestlings, but the timing of this food source and of bird breeding are out of sync in lots of areas. Due to climate change, caterpillars are emerging so early they are already sparse by the time nestlings need them for their growth and maturation. Without this protein-rich food source during critical periods, they fail to develop properly, or even starve, and scientists fear the extinction of numerous bird species is a real possibility due to this phenological mismatch.
Phenological mismatches caused by climate change may also threaten the survival of migrating birds. The birds affected most by this belong to species with long migration routes or are juveniles embarking on their first migration. Many birds have historically synchronized their migratory flights with the availability of food sources before and during their journey.
Prior to leaving the breeding grounds in the fall, birds consume enormous amounts of food to increase their fat stores. The stops they make for refueling allow them to take advantage of areas with lots of food. If those areas no longer offer abundant food resources at the time the birds come through, they can’t replenish their energy stores properly. That can mean heading into winter in poor condition and a greater likelihood of failing to survive until spring.
For a successful spring migration to return to the breeding grounds, birds must fuel up before departure. They are constrained by food sources where they overwinter, which aren’t typically shifting earlier as much as those in the breeding grounds. So, even if they leave a little earlier than they used to, it is not enough earlier to take advantage of the peak of food availability where they breed.
Thanks to climate change, spring keeps arriving ahead of schedule. The problem is not so much being early as it is being out of sync. If you have any room left in the part of your brain devoted to worry, now’s the time to be distressed about phenological mismatches.
Karen B. London, Ph.D. is a Certified Applied Animal Behaviorist, Certified Professional Dog Trainer, and an author of six books on canine training and behavior, including her most recent, Treat Everyone Like a Dog: How a Dog Trainer’s World View Can Improve Your Life.
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Lenny is a special boy looking for a forever home with lots of love! Lenny loves kids and other dogs, he is such a good boy! He's potty trained, leash trained, and is such a huge cuddle bug. He will keep you warm all night long!
Now you're probably asking why such an amazing dog hasn't been adopted already. To put it simply, Lenny stress vomits. When he's in a new environment and adjusting, he vomits frequently until he gets comfortable. This can be unsettling to a new adopter, but our Veterinarian has done X-rays, bloodwork, the works! We feel that with a healthy, structured routine Lenny will do well in a home. He just needs to find the perfect, patient family!
As with all High Country Humane's animals, Lenny is current on his vaccinations, neutered and microchipped. To get in touch with his foster mom, call/text at (928) 607-2813, or email at suzypalmer97@gmail.com! Check out more info, all our adoptable animals, and more on our website at highcountryhumane.org.
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Are you looking for a dog that is mature and will always be on the alert as a watch dog? Rae could be the one. She is a 6-year-old shepherd mix, part hound and has a big bark. No strangers will sneak up on her! She is an affectionate girl who loves laps, walks and taking care of her people. You can meet Rae at the Coconino Humane Association or see other adoptable pets online at coconinohumane.org
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On Sunday, May 1, The Arboretum at Flagstaff opened its 41st season with a new executive director at the helm. Nathan O’Meara, with degrees from both the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University, was recruited to head up the organization after Dr. Kristen Haskins resigned from the position in December 2021.
Nate says he is thrilled to get “my dream job,” which uses his combined skills of horticulture, landscaping and management in the town where he went to school and where several of his family members now live.
His career has come full circle as he moved from Flagstaff to Tucson to Bend, Oregon to Flagstaff. Working as an ethnobotanist, Nate has conducted farm restoration projects on tribal lands. He’s documented traditional plant knowledge among Native American and Hispanic communities. As the Curator of Horticulture at Tucson Botanical Garden, Nate shared his skills with that community. Most recently, he served as a landscape manager and designer and oversaw the planting and care of the 300-acre Old Mill District along the Deschutes River in downtown Bend.
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In his free time, Nate plays the Scottish bagpipes and blogs about his garden with his wife April, who works as Development Director for Creative Flagstaff.
Nate has changes in mind for The Arboretum, starting with an Arboretum Nursery that opened May 8 where visitors can buy native plants throughout the open season. He’s excited to share his knowledge of high altitude horticulture with Flagstaffians: “We have a full season of educational programs and special events planned for this year, including a new Topics in Sustainable Gardening series. The series kicked off on May 7th with a discussion about growing fruit trees at home. For a complete schedule and details about all of our classes, check out our website, www.thearb.org.”
Nate has reached out to longtime friends of the Arboretum, including Mike Loven, who in 1997 famously engineered the relocation of the McAllisters’ 1936 Log House from its original location on West Route 66 to the grounds of the Arboretum, four miles down Woody Mountain Road. This summer, Loven Contracting will start on historic preservation of that building.
Perhaps one of Nate’s biggest goal is the improvement of Forest Service Road 231. To that end, he’s hoping to form a “Woody Mountain Road Association” of landowners who will contribute and/or lobby for better maintenance of the notoriously bumpy, dusty and/or muddy road.
For more information, visit https://thearb.org or https://omearagardens.com.
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The 1/10th acre Wilson Fire was reported at 1:30 a.m. Monday by an overhead aircraft. The fire is located 2.5 miles north of downtown Sedona in the Wilson Tank area. Forest Service deployed air attack, an engine, and a helicopter in response. There are no closures at this time.
According to a Forest Service release, the fire is “minimally creeping and smoldering,” on a mesa within the Brins Fire scar. Officials have determined that the fire has “low spread potential” due to light southwest winds.
As of late Monday afternoon, the fire was at a quarter acre and up to 50% containment.
Smoke is expected to be visible from Sedona, Oak Creek and Munds Park. The fire cause is under investigation.
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AVOCA, Ark. — An investigation is underway in Benton County after 149 dogs were removed from a home during a fire.
According to Avoca Fire Department Chief Brian Ervin, the department received a call Saturday morning, May 14, to a home on Deason Road of a fire taking place in the Avoca area.
Ervin says when crews arrived on the scene, they saw heavy smoke and the homeowners trying to get dogs out of the house. He says firefighters joined efforts to get dogs out of the house including doing search and rescue.
Ervin says some of the dogs rescued received breathing treatments using special masks. He also says the family of 5 or 6 made it out safe and are being assisted by the Red Cross.
Firefighters from Rogers, Beaver Lake, Little Flock, Nebco and Pea Ridge responded and helped attempt to rescue the dogs.
The Benton County Sheriff's Office says a total of 149 dogs were removed from the home.
“149 dogs that needed to be removed. Only 73 survived and were taken to the Rogers Humane Society," said the Benton County Sherriff's Office. "The Benton County Fire Marshall is investigating “
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating as well due to the number of dogs removed from the home.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — By now, you’ve probably seen several pictures and videos of a man inside Baum Walker grabbing a raccoon by the neck. His name is Grant Harmon and he is from Fayetteville.
“I believe it was the middle of the seventh inning,” Harmon said. “If I’m not mistaken.”
He heard a lot of commotion going on in the lower levels of the stadium but he wasn’t sure what was going on.
“The next thing that I knew, it was at my feet and the rest just kind of wrote itself from there,” Harmon said.
He recalls sitting face-to-face with the raccoon. “My redneck instinct just kind of kicked in,” said Harmon.
Later picking up the raccoon and those in section 117 screaming at the moment.
Harmon, later pulls out his phone to catch it on camera. “I knew my buddies wouldn’t believe me if I told them I picked up a raccoon at a baseball game.”
An officer then comes to Harmon as they walk outside the stadium to release the raccoon.
“That’s when it actually bit me,” Harmon said. “That’s what he had enough leverage to reach around and get me on the hand.”
Harmon later went to the ER to get a rabies shot.
“The bite itself did not hurt,” Harmon said. “What really hard was it was the rabies that I had to go get after.”
Over the next two weeks, he will be taking more rabies shots.
Harmon says since getting that shot, he’s been doing interviews for national outlets like the SEC Network and Inside Edition.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A USPS mailbox stolen from its spot in the Eastmoreland neighborhood is not only being investigated by federal agents, it also put Multnomah County election officials on alert.
The collection box at SE Reed College Place and Woodstock Boulevard was stolen May 4, Multnomah County officials said. The last pickup at that box was 11:35 a.m. that day.
But anyone who used that specific mailbox after that time to mail their ballot may not have had their ballot counted. A voter should contact Multnomah County Elections at 503.988.8683 to check the status of their ballot.
Authorities said at least one voter who used that mailbox notified the county elections office when they didn’t hear from the Track Your Ballot service a week after mailing it in. Elections staff confirmed the ballot had not been received and they issued a replacement ballot.
There is still time to get a replacement ballot, officials said, but needs to do so immediately. Any voter whose ballot was not received at the Multnomah County elections office can go online to ask for a replacement: multco.us/orderahead or by calling the elections office.
Voters can also track the status of their ballot: multco.us/trackyourballot
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark — This weekend's mass shooting in Buffalo has Black community leaders and activists in Arkansas reacting to the racist motive behind the shooting.
Officials named 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron as the accused shooter, who also left behind a white supremacist manifesto. Out of 13 people shot, 11 people were Black.
"Here we go again. Unarmed Black people getting murdered because of white supremacists," said Barry Jefferson, Jacksonville's NAACP president. "Then, I think about here in the state of Arkansas where we don't have a hate crime law. A real hate crime law that we deal with on a regular basis all the time."
Lawmakers passed a "class protection" bill in April 2021, which requires a criminal convicted of a hate crime to serve 80% of their sentence before parole eligibility.
Critics like Jefferson have called it a "watered-down" version of a hate crime la.
"It doesn't focus on specific groups. They want to just put everything in the same category, because they feel that hate is hate. Hate is not hate. People are killing people because they are Black. So, we want a real hate crime bill here in Arkansas," said Jefferson.
He used February's bomb threats of Historically Black College and Universities as an example of current white supremacy manifesting in the state.
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Little Rock activist and organizer, Osyrus Bolly said just because the massacre happened in Buffalo doesn't mean it doesn't affect Arkansans.
Bolly pointed out the accused shooter's age when addressing anti-racist education being essential now more than ever. It's time to re-evaluate what is taught in the public school system.
"Especially with all the recent attacks on how Black history is taught. The bans on books, the bans on the civil rights movement, and the fact that this 18-year-old man was actually learning things about Nazi, eugenics theories," said Bolly.
The Buffalo shooter's manifesto talked about the "Great Replacement" conspiracy theory.
UA Little Rock history professor, Dr. Brian Mitchell explained that the theory is a fear of the white majority becoming the minority over time. The conspiracy theory also claims that non-white people are being brought into the country to "replace" white voters "to achieve a political agenda," according to a report by NPR.
"There's a lot of fear in certain communities when that majority is no longer there, that there'll be some dramatic change, some shifts in the way we think," said Dr. Mitchell.
He added that he doesn't think Arkansas in particular would have to worry about rhetoric like this causing incidents like the shooting.
For leaders like Jefferson, he said at the current time he's worried about racism killing more Black people.
He plans on addressing state capitol leaders at the next session.
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JACKSONVILLE, Ark. — The Jacksonville Police Department is asking for the public's help finding a missing 11-year-old girl last seen on May 13.
According to police, Nimareah Jones has been missing since that morning after getting picked up in a grey or silver SUV.
She has not been heard from since.
If you have any information you are asked to contact police at 501-985-2802 and reference report 22-02465.
We will update this article with more information as it becomes available.
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An 11-year-old girl is fighting to survive at the hospital after she was the unintended victim of a drive-by shooting in the Bronx, law enforcement sources told NBC New York
The girl was shot while on Westchester Avenue in the Foxhurst neighborhood, by two suspects on a moped, two law enforcement sources said. The two fired at a group of men on a street corner, and it the girl was not believed to be the intended target.
The girl was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where she was said to be in critical condition after suffering life-threatening injuries, according to law enforcement sources.
The two men on the moped, both wearing dark-colored sweatshirts, immediately fled from the scene of the shooting, heading north on Fox Street.
An investigation is ongoing.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Despite announcing a record-smashing budget surplus of nearly $100 billion on Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom's plan to spend that money would likely push the state toward a “fiscal cliff” next year that could require billions of dollars in budget cuts, a state analyst said Monday.
Newsom's latest budget proposal, known as the “May Revision,” would leave the state $3.4 billion over a constitutional limit on spending this year and more than $20 billion over the limit next year, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office.
“The Governor's May Revision does not have a plan to address this roughly $25 billion requirement,” the Legislative Analyst's Office wrote in a report released Monday. “As a result, the state would very likely face a significant budget problem next year, which could require reductions to programs.”
Newsom boasted during a news conference on Friday that his spending plan would leave the state with $37.1 billion in reserves. But the LAO notes nearly $10 billion of that money is in a special public education account that can't be used to help solve budget problems. The state's primary savings account would have about $23.5 billion in it, or less than the $25 billion requirement projected by the LAO.
The LAO “strongly” urged lawmakers to put more money into savings than Newsom had suggested. They also recommended rejecting some of his budget proposals to keep the state beneath the spending limit this year.
The Newsom administration believes the governor's budget proposal “well positions” the state to withstand that potential crisis, according to H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the California Department of Finance. In addition to the billions of dollars in reserve, Newsom's budget proposal would spend 95% of the state's surplus this year plus another $15 billion in future years on projects that don't require recurring funding.
“That can be dialed back if needed,” Palmer said, describing the one-time spending as an “insurance policy.”
California's potential budget problems are the result of a unique California law that limits how lawmakers can spend money above a certain limit, known as the “Gann Limit” after conservative political activist Paul Gann who helped convince voters to approve it in 1979.
The limit is re-calculated each year based on growth in inflation and population. For decades, California didn't have trouble staying under the limit. But that changed in recent years as the state's population declined slightly while revenues soared at an unprecedented pace — the result of a surging stock market making wealthy people even richer in a place that taxes them more than other states.
There's only a few things lawmakers can do to get back under the limit. They can cut taxes, spend money on things that don't count toward the limit like roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects; or they can give the money back to taxpayers.
The limit this year is $136 billion. California has $252 billion in revenue impacted by the limit. Newsom's budget proposal spends $113 billion on things excluded from the limit — including a $5.5 billion tax cut for businesses, $39 billion of the state's surplus for transportation and environmental projects and $11.5 billion in rebates to taxpayers who own cars.
That leaves the state about $3.4 billion over the limit, according to the LAO.
The law gives Newsom and the Legislature two years to figure out how to get under the limit. But the Legislative Analyst Office notes the state can't “grow its way out” of the problem.
Other voter-approved constitutional rules require lawmakers to spend a certain amount of money on public education while setting aside enough to pay down debts and replenish the state's reserves. That means for every $1 the state goes over the limit, it must spend $1.60 to get back under it.
“This means if revenues are higher than the Governor's budget anticipates, the state will be in an even worse fiscal position,” the LAO wrote.
Democrats in the state Senate have proposed a constitutional amendment to “ harmonize and modernize” the Gann limit “to ensure core programs like health care, higher education, and public safety can continue to be funded and not artificially constrained by the out-of-date Gann Limit.”
Voters would have to approve that change, a proposal that likely would not make it on the ballot until 2024. Senate Democrats believe that timeline still gives them enough time to avoid budget problems.
Newsom said Friday he supports that amendment, calling it “long overdue” while remarking on the irony of the state having the state having so much money it could require budget cuts.
“It's a remarkably high-class problem, isn't it?" he said.
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PLACERVILLE, Calif. — The stepmother of Roman Lopez, whose murder she has been charged with, has changed her plea from not guilty to no contest during a hearing on Monday, the El Dorado County District Attorney's Office told ABC10.
Father Jordan Piper, 36, and stepmother Lindsey Piper, 38, face murder and child abuse charges in the death of the Lopez, whose body was found in January 2020 in the basement of their home.
Lindsey Piper, who initially plead not guilty to second-degree murder charges, has changed her plea to no contest. She is now set to be sentenced on July 8 following her new plea, through she has not yet made a deal with the court.
Jordan Piper, who has maintained his not guilty plea, is awaiting his next preliminary hearing on July 24.
Lopez was just 11-years-old when he was found dead in the Pipers' basement.
He was reported missing in January 2020 just two months after he, his father, his stepmother and their seven other children moved into the Placerville home.
Placerville police initially investigated the case as a suspicious death following a search of the family's home where police did not find anything. However after a second search, police found the child's body in a storage bin hidden in their basement.
An autopsy following Lopez's death revealed he had been severely starved and dehydrated at the time of death.
John and Lindsey Piper were arrested and charged with multiple criminal charges including child abuse, poisoning, torture and over a year later, murder.
The hearings for this case are still ongoing.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — Stockton resident Dorothy Wyatt met for the first time on Monday with the first responders who happened to spot the smoke from an apartment fire that almost claimed her life.
Representatives with the American Medical Response (AMR) said they were honored Wyatt reached out to them following the Feb. 17 fire.
As it turns out, she wasn't able to catch a glimpse of the people who saved her.
"I've been waiting, trying to visualize their faces because I haven't seen them," Wyatt told ABC10. "Now I can see them and it's awesome—to see the person who saved your life."
After an on-duty ambulance with the AMR went into Wyatt's apartment despite not having protective equipment, EMTs were able to drag her out.
The ambulance crew was able to treat a severely-burned Wyatt and send her to San Joaquin General Hospital for stabilization. She continued to recover in the burn unit at UC Davis Medical Center.
Now, first responders honored her story with a commemorative plaque and other ceremonial awards for those involved in saving her.
"I kept pounding and pounding (the door). I wasn't quite sure if somebody was in there, but something guided me from above saying, 'Come here. Come help out,'" said Dennis Smallie of Calidad Services Security.
Wyatt said on Monday she was glad the ambulance crew didn't wait for firefighters and instead acted on their own volition.
"It's a job, but they took it upon themselves—because they didn't have to do it," she said.
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Normal native Leah Marlene is set to make a return to her hometown Tuesday as part of filming for the “American Idol” finale.
Leah Marlene is coming home to Normal to film an outdoor performance for "American Idol." Details:
“This is an institution,” said Pamela Cather, who lives down the road from Green Gables with her husband, Bruce. “It cannot be replaced.”
The Spring Fling Carnival at Eastland Mall will be open Thursday through Sunday. Details:
A teenager was arrested on a felony aggravated battery charge, Normal police said.
A Decatur man remains jailed in McLean County on child pornography charges.
Police encourage anyone with information to contact Det. Jesse Lanphear at 309-434-2369 or jlanphear@cityblm.org.
Market and Locust streets were blocked at White Oak as crews worked to clear the scene.
Search effort spanned 24 hours off Bo Woods Campground in Sullivan.
The new complex will be located on land north of West Hamilton Road and west of South Main Street, across the street from the Huck’s gas station.
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BOISE, Idaho — On the southern edge of the Nez Perce reservation, right at the confluence of two rivers, sits the city of Kooskia.
The town was first established back in 1895 but was initially called Stuart, Idaho. It was changed to Kooskia in 1902 in order to coincide with the Kooskia Train Depot which was located there.
The name originates from the name used by the Nez Perce for the Clearwater River: Kooskooskie. That was also the name used by Lewis and Clark during their expedition west and was noted by Seargent John Ordway, who part of the expedition's Corps of Discovery.
On June, 1, 1806, Ordway wrote, "towards evening we came down the river hills to a large village above the forks on Kooskooskie river."
The town's population currently sits at just 578. There is just one grocery store and no stoplights in the little town.
Kooskia is also known as the gateway to Idaho's wilderness and offers fishing, hunting and all kinds of outdoor activities year-round.
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It's Your Business: Chamber encourages swift action on economic development initiatives
Last week the Bloomington City Council unanimously approved a 51% increase to the local income tax rate that applies to all Monroe County residents. The tax increase will generate about $14.5 million in new annual revenue to fund additional economic development initiatives proposed by Mayor John Hamilton that address climate change preparedness, equity and quality of life, public safety and essential city services. Under the new local income tax rate, Monroe County government will also receive a new annual influx of $9.5 million and the town of Ellettsville will receive roughly $1 million in new annual revenue.
While the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce did not support a 51% increase to the local income tax rate, we did support new revenue that would provide the needed resources to fully fund our public safety and law enforcement services as well as certain enhancements to public transit services. The Chamber calculated that these investments would cost Monroe County taxpayers $7 million or about half of the amount that the city of Bloomington ultimately approved.
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Now that the local income tax debate has been settled, the Chamber looks forward to working with local elected leaders to ensure that these investments deliver strong dividends for the residents, workers, and businesses of Monroe County.
Among the mayor’s newly proposed economic development investments that is of particular interest to the Chamber is the creation of an East/West express transit route that would serve the Park 48 education and employment hub located on West Third Street. Area employers such as Cook, Baxter, Tasus, KeHe and their employees would benefit greatly from these expanded transit options. Ivy Tech’s Bloomington campus and the students it serves would also benefit immensely. The Chamber encourages elected leaders to act swiftly with the new income tax revenue and commit to making an East/West express transit route a reality for our community.
The Chamber of Commerce also agrees that critical, new public safety investments must be made at both the city and county levels, and we strongly supported generating new revenue for this purpose. The most fundamental role of government is to provide for the safety and welfare of its residents. With an influx of new income tax revenue on the horizon, local leaders must commit to fully funding our public safety operations across the full spectrum of services. These public safety investments are essential to the welfare of our citizens and vitality of our businesses. The Chamber of Commerce looks forward to working with elected leaders and community members to support innovative solutions that will match existing public safety challenges with the trained experts who are best equipped to solve them.
Don't forget the convention center
While on the topic of new economic development investments for our community, let’s also not forget the tremendous untapped potential of an expanded downtown convention center and the economic benefits it will bring to our area and region. In 2017 a countywide food and beverage tax was passed for the purpose of expanding the existing Monroe Convention Center. Over $12 million has been collected to support the construction and expansion project, but sadly no progress has been made since. The Chamber of Commerce continues to advocate for meaningful progress on the convention center expansion plans, and we look forward to the transformative boost it will bring to our local economy. Let’s make this the year that local officials work together on the convention center expansion project for the benefit of the greater community.
Eric Spoonmore is president and CEO of the Greater Bloomington Chamber of Commerce.
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Lane closures planned for Third Street and College Mall Road
The Herald-Times
Lane closures are planned starting as early as Monday, May 23, at the intersection of Third Street and College Mall Road in Bloomington.
Contractor Crider and Crider will replace curb ramps and sidewalks. Crews will start on the west side of the intersection and then move to the east side, the Indiana Department of Transportation reported in a news release.
The $828,000 project is expected to be complete by June 30, 2022.
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Volunteer Bloomington: Help control pear trees, volunteer at parks or Boys and Girls Clubs
The city of Bloomington Volunteer Network is your source for information about volunteering locally. For a complete listing, visit BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org or call 812-349-3433. The inclusion of an organization in this list does not imply city endorsement or support of the organization’s activities or policies.
Information and registration information for the following opportunities can be found online at BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org.
Target Callery pears at Karst Farm Park May 21
Each year MC-IRIS chooses one invasive plant species on which to focus education and control efforts. Asian bush honeysuckle was targeted in 2019 and purple wintercreeper in 2020. For 2022 they have chosen Callery pear trees. Join them to help reduce the amount of this invasive tree in Monroe County. Two groups of 20 volunteers are needed to tackle this task 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 21, at Karst Farm Park. People and groups can sign up to stop the spread of invasive seeds and to protect the Karst Farm Park Nature Trail and Duckworth Pond area. Bring your own water bottle, snacks and bug repellent. Wear closed-toe shoes and long pants. Tools and gloves provided. Rain date 1-4 p.m. Sunday, June 5. All ages welcome. Sign up at https://tinyurl.com/CalleryPearTreeWrangle. Read more about this project at http://mc-iris.org/reduce-one-invasive-species-challenge.html. Contact Ellen Jacquart at mciris2010@gmail.com.
Event volunteering with Parks and Recreation
Bloomington Parks and Recreation has a season filled with fun events this summer. Volunteers are invited to take their pick of opportunities ranging from the kid-centered fun of Touch-a-Truck on June 8 to two celebrations at Switchyard Park: Get Outdoors Days on June 11 and the Summer Solstice Celebration on June 25. Volunteering for event support is a great way to get outside to explore and get to know the community. Register online at https://tinyurl.com/SummerParksVolunteering. Contact Emily Buuck at parksvol@bloomington.in.gov or 812-349-3739.
Boys & Girls Club summer volunteers
Activities at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Bloomington and Ellettsville don’t take a pause in the summer. The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Bloomington is to empower all young people, especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as caring, productive and responsible citizens. Every opportunity to get involved as a volunteer with a club supports the positive development of a child. Find out more about all of the upcoming summer opportunities for involvement, from program and playground activity support to one-on-one tutoring, to clubs within the club for chess, bike riding, dance, skateboarding and more at https://tinyurl.com/BGCvolunteering. Contact volunteering@bgcbloomington.org for more information.
Community Wish List Spotlight
Bloomington Housing Authority Resident Council
BHARC is a group of public housing residents who advocate for residents' concerns with the Bloomington Housing Authority. They also host a weekly food pantry and monthly non-food pantry. Donations will help individuals and families who live in public housing with non-EBT items. Contact Marta Hall, 812-360-3989, admin@bharcneighbors.org.
Featured Wishes: toilet paper, kitchen trash bags, dish & laundry soap, body wash, hydrogen peroxide, band-aids, Q-Tips, kitchen sponges, paper towels and napkins, hand soap, hand sanitizer, sandwich bags, toothpaste, toothbrushes, razors, deodorant and lotion. You can find current in-kind, material needs on the year-round Community Wish List at BloomingtonVolunteerNetwork.org/communitywishlist.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Washington County, Tennessee’s road superintendent has served the county highway department for 40 years total, 30 years spent in the department’s top seat.
After being appointed eight times to serve as road superintendent, serving alongside three county mayors and nine county commissions, John Deakins has decided to hang up his hat and retire.
Deakins has no doubt played an integral role in keeping Washington County roads safe for decades.
He says he has done every job at the county highway department except operate the paving machine.
“I’ve really enjoyed working for Washington County. It’s just been a privilege and an honor to do this for 30 years,” said Deakins.
Deakins has brought much improvement to the department since taking it over in the 90s.
He purchased the department’s first computers and diesel dump trucks.
“We just kept improving and basically coming into the 21st century. Now, we’ve probably got as good or better equipment than any highway department in the state,” he said.
Highway progress is a Deakins family affair.
When John Deakins took over the highway department he replaced his own father, John Deakins Sr., who served in the role for 10 years.
“Yeah, I learned a lot. He was a good teacher. He knew how to get your attention,” Deakins said with a laugh.
Deakins Sr. hired his son to be a mechanic with the department in 1983. The rest is history and hard work.
“I’ve just kind of worked my way up through the ranks. I don’t know if you’ve ever worked with your father, but he expects more out of you than he does anyone else.”
Deakins credits his father’s innovation and his own drive to turning the department into somewhere multiple employees have stayed for decades.
“When I came here, the highway department was basically the last place you would come to get a job,” he said.
As for his proudest accomplishment?
“That was leasing the Locust Mountain quarry. Getting out of the businesses where equipment self destructs. It was just costing us a fortune to manufacture rock,” said Deakins. “If we hadn’t leased the quarry at that time it was going to cost about $1.2 million to upgrade the quarry to be able to make state-certified stone.”
He is also proud of increasing the pay scale for employees to $15 dollars an hour.
Deakins believes he is in the business of saving, not making, money and his goal has always been to take care of the taxpayers by keeping their roads in good shape.
“I think we’ve got the best roads and one of the best departments in the state. We just have good people. The employees are the backbone of the highway department,” he said.
When it comes to his decision to retire, Deakins says after losing several friends to COVID-19 and his mother’s passing, it was time to focus on family.
“I just figured it was a good time to hang it up. I farm and build houses with my son. I’ve got plenty to do. Of course, my wife’s got a ‘honey do’ list about three and a half feet long so I think I’ll stay pretty busy,” Deakins said.
Deakins told News Channel 11 his appointed replacement is Richard Thompson, who also has nearly 45 years of experience in the highway department.
Deakins’ last day is May 31.
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KEMP, Texas — Highway Patrol Troopers are investigating a crash just outside Kemp involving a school bus carrying children, officials say.
Just after 5 p.m. Monday, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety say a Kemp ISD school bus was traveling east on FM 3396 near County Road 4045A and had stopped to let off two children, when a Chevy Silverado pick-up truck collided into it from behind.
The driver of the pick-up truck was taken to a Dallas hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, Texas DPS says. The bus driver and two remaining children on the bus were uninjured.
Police say the investigation is ongoing and no further information is available as of Monday night.
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Homelessness impacts Black Greenville residents more, report shows
Almost half of Greenville's homeless population is Black despite Black people making up just 18% of Greenville County's total population, according to the most recent data released by the Greenville Homeless Alliance.
GHA coordinator Susan McLarty attributes this to a lack of outreach and services for Black Greenville residents.
"Blacks are simply not being included," said GHA coordinator Susan McLarty.
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The median household income for Black residents in Greenville is $27,892, Census data show, and that's about half of the median income for Greenville's overall population.
This means that Black families must earn 127% of the local median income for their race to afford housing geared to the affordable market earning 50% of the overall median income.
McLarty said because of this, the median-income model for establishing affordable rates is outdated.
"Affordable housing and racial displacement are so important," McLarty said. "And unless we develop new policies, based on more precise measurements, providing the first will not prevent the second."
GHA shared the results of its report with Greenville County Council on April 28, the 54th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, which made housing discrimination illegal in the U.S.
The report also found that:
- At least 3,281 people experienced homelessness from 2019-20 in Greenville County
- Of those experiencing homelessness, 1,148 are school-aged children. (School-aged homelessness includes living in motels, couch surfing)
- In the Greenville County Schools system, 86 of 94 schools have children experiencing homelessness
- At South Carolina's minimum wage of $7.25 an hour, a person would have to work 81 hours a week to afford a modest one-bedroom apartment at Greenville's fair market rent of $826 per month
In Greenville County, there's a lack of affordable housing that's contributing to a growing number of homeless folks. Housing experts suggest investing in more emergency shelter, transitional housing and permanent housing as a solution.
GHA leaders also discussed solutions to problems Greenville County is facing, including investing in more emergency shelters as well as transitional and permanent housing options.
However, shelter success is hard to measure, Salvation Army social service director Lauren Stephens said, especially for those struggling with addiction, a notable problem in the homeless community.
"Coming inside is a big step," Stephens said. "Choosing sobriety, even if for a week, is a huge step forward toward success."
The biggest problem right now, she said, is figuring out where people can go after they exit shelters. The shelters are full and inflow should match outflow.
"If (the shelters) become empty, they're full that next night," Stephens said.
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Tish McCutchen, director of the Jolley Foundation that invests in nonprofit organizations to address community needs, said its a big step to even be talking openly about homelessness in Greenville.
"I think the fact that homelessness is now talked about, it's recognized as a problem we need to solve together it is no longer invisible," McCutchen said.
Read the full report here:
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Miss Lucy — the Juilana mini-pig who captured the hearts of her owners before they knew her presence in their home violated city code — gets to stay.
The Lincoln City Council on Monday voted unanimously to approve a resolution providing Ron and Dee Baddorf (the pig's owners) their request to waive the city code prohibiting swine in city limits.
The resolution — providing reasonable accommodation through the federal Fair Housing Act — applies only to the Baddorfs, their home and, of course, Lucy.
The couple had letters from their doctors confirming the emotional support Lucy offers and have provided documentation that they are disabled as defined by the federal Fair Housing Act.
“It seems Lucy is a very reasonable accommodation and it seems very reasonable to keep her in her home,” said Councilman Tom Beckius. “Lucy is one lucky pig. Mini-pig, excuse me.”
One can understand the confusion. Lucy, small enough to hold in Dee Baddorf’s hands when the couple bought her from a family in David City in February 2021, weighs 150 pounds now.
Dee Baddorf told the council Monday that’s in part because she didn’t read the directions on the pig food carefully, so Lucy willingly ate three times a day instead of the suggested once.
The Baddorfs, both military veterans, said Lucy has helped them both deal with post-traumatic stress disorder, and especially, helped Dee deal with severe depression and anxiety.
Dee was in the Army for 14 years and served tours in Iraq and Kosovo. Ronald retired from the Marines in 1995 but later spent time in Afghanistan training military personnel how to find explosive devices.
“You cannot understand how much joy she brings to me,” Dee Baddorf told the council. “I’m asking you because you’re my last hope not to take my Lucy away. I’ve had her since she was 4 weeks old. She doesn’t know anything else.”
The Baddorfs moved to Lincoln from Arizona in March 2020 when Ronald got a job at the veteran’s center. Sitting in an office all day reviewing claims didn't suit him and he and Dee now both work for Midlands Packaging Co.
The Baddorfs say they got a notice from Lincoln Animal Control after they took their son’s dog to the Humane Society after he snapped at Lucy.
At a pre-council meeting, council members had several questions about the resolution, primarily about whether it changes the ordinance or any other city regulations regarding animals (it doesn’t).
Several neighbors wrote letters in support of Lucy and letting the Baddorfs keep her — including one who spoke Monday at the council meeting.
One neighbor wrote in opposition, and Council member Sändra Washington considered modifying the resolution to include a requirement that the Baddorfs keep their fence in working order.
City Attorney Yohance Christie said he didn’t think any changes were necessary and recommended approval.
Councilman James Michael Bowers said he visited the Baddorfs' home over the weekend and met Lucy.
“I think in this instance voting to remove Lucy from the home would be cruel to Lucy because it’s the only life she’s ever known, but it would also be cruel to residents of our city who served their country and rely on Lucy and provide an excellent life for her."
Margaret Reist is a recovering education reporter now writing about local and county government and the people who live in the city where she was born and raised.
The Associated Press called the race at about 10:30 p.m., and Pillen spoke to supporters gathered at the Embassy Suites in downtown Lincoln at about 11 p.m.
In a crowded field of Republicans, Jim Pillen surged to the lead for the first time in results updated at 9:35 p.m., and at 10:25, the Associated Press called the race.
Ronald and Dee Baddorf didn't realize city ordinance prohibits residents from keeping pigs. They're asking for a waiver so they can keep Lucy, a mini-pig that changed their lives.
Kristi Egger, who in January retired from the defender’s office after 33 years and filed to run against Joe Nigro, will face Trevin Preble in November's general election.
The two state senators already are scheduled to meet in a special election on June 28 to fill the final six months of former Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry's remaining term in office.
Hundreds of people rallied on the north side of the Capitol for the second time since a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade was leaked.
Matt Schulte unseated longtime Lancaster County Commissioner Deb Schorr for the District 3 seat in a Republican contest that, with no Democratic contenders, will be decided in the primary.
A group that set up a prayer camp to oppose a planned development near Wilderness Park and a Native sweat lodge says it will dismantle the camp, but will continue efforts to protect the sweat lodge.
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GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. — South Carolina investigators believe they have solved the disappearance and murder case of Brittanee Drexel, who went missing 13 years ago while on a spring break trip to Myrtle Beach.
Multiple law enforcement agencies held a press conference Monday afternoon in Georgetown County to announce two major developments: that Drexel's body had finally been recovered and positively identified and that the man they believe killed her is in custody and charged.
Raymond Douglas Moody, 62, is charged with murder, kidnapping, and criminal sexual conduct first degree.
"Brittanee has been found and she can be with her family and at peace," said Susan Ferensic, the FBI Special Agent in Charge.
Drexel, a 17-year-old from Rochester, New York, had gone down to Myrtle Beach for spring break in April of 2009. She was reported missing on April 25.
Investigators now believe Moody kidnapped Drexel and took her to Georgetown County, where he lived. Not long after they arrived, they believe he sexually assaulted her, killed her, then buried her body hours later.
In the intervening years, it had been a mystery of what Drexel's ultimately fate was and there was no justice for who may have harmed her. In 2012, Moody was named a person of interest the case but was never charged.
"Every police officer has that one case that frequents their every waking thought," said Myrtle Beach Police Chief Amy Prock. "This was that case for many people in our team and several agencies throughout this state."
But on May 11, 2022, the critical break came: human remains were found in Georgetown County, about 30 miles from where she was last seen alive, and collected by the FBI. Investigators say she was first identified through dental records and then a subsequent DNA test conducted by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division confirmed her identity.
Multiple media outlets report a warrant states that Drexel died from strangulation.
Moody was charged last week with obstructing justice but his charges have since been upgraded. Georgetown County Sheriff Carter Weaver said Moody has an extensive sex offender history.
The officers all said the same thing: they hope this discovery, while tragic, gives the Drexel family peace. Her mother and father, Dawn and Chad Drexel, were there for the announcement Monday.
"This is truly a mother's worst nightmare," Dawn Drexel said. "I am mourning my beautiful daughter Brittanie as I have been for 13 years but today it's bittersweet. We are much closer to the closure and peace that we have been hoping for."
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TIJUANA, Baja California — Six people are in custody after investigators discovered a massive drug tunnel connecting a home in Tijuana to an Otay Mesa warehouse. The tunnel stretches 1,744 feet long, is 61 feet deep, four feet in diameter, and is located just 300 feet from the border fence.
As part of the investigation, 1,762 pounds of cocaine, 164 pounds of meth and three and a half pounds of heroine were seized, estimated to be worth $25 million.
“The tunnel was found because of good old fashion police work,” said United States Attorney, Randy Grossman.
Grossman said investigators were doing surveillance of a residence in National City, which had been used as a stash house in a separate drug smuggling case back in March.
They were watching the home on Thursday when they noticed people coming and going, which eventually led them to a warehouse in Via De La Amistad in Otay Mesa.
“We allege our defendants were driving into the garage and dropping off and loading boxes full of drugs to further the movement and distribution of drugs throughout the United States. Federal agents were watching the whole time,” said Grossman.
While it’s not known how long the tunnel has been here, investigators say it’s sophisticated with a railing system, steel shoring, electricity, and ventilation.
Six people have been arrested and charged with three counts of conspiracy to distribute drugs. Each charge carries a minimum 10-year sentence.
The defendants, who were set to be arraigned on Monday in San Diego federal court are:
- Mario Jaramillo, 55, of Huntington Beach
- Adrian Enriquez, 31, of Perris
- Manuel Perez, 49, of San Diego
- Juan Cruz, 48, of San Ysidro
- Vanessa Ramirez, 31, of San Diego
- Luz de Luna Olmos, 43, of San Diego
Since 1993, 90 tunnels have been discovered in the Southern California region. The last time it happened was in 2020.
The agencies who took part in this raid include Homeland Security, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department and the United States Border Patrol.
“I’m very happy to report that there is no light at the end of this narco tunnel. We and our agency partners will continue to work zealously to take down every subterranean route and other means that drug traffickers use to bring drugs into our community,” said Grossman.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Flames ripped through a Wilbur Way storage yard in South Sacramento Monday morning destroying several semi-trucks.
"I came at 4:15 a.m. in the yard," said Harvinder Pahal, who lost his truck in the fire. "I talked to the security guard, I said, 'What happened?' He told me we have a fire in the backside."
Pahal, a truck driver for more than 25 years, has parked his Volvo big rig in the lot since 2014. It was deemed a total loss in the fire. Pahal said he parked his semi-truck on Friday afternoon and was supposed to make a shipment to Chico on Monday morning.
"When I go there, I see my truck — I said, 'Oh my God!'" said Pahal. "Everything is running in the mind. There's two pickup trucks also — total five trucks."
As an independent contractor at the age of 65, Pahal is now out of a job and without an income to support himself. Despite his truck being paid off, Pahal said he has mounting bills, and the cost to fill up his gas tank was not cheap, running about $2,000 per week.
"All of the drivers, they were worried. They're out of jobs now. All four or five of them," Pahal said. "That's the only one truck I have, so I can't go to work now so it's hurting me."
Pahal is hopeful that insurance will cover the loss, but said that process could take several weeks. For now, he's relying on his kids to help him pull through.
"It's the hard part. Now, we have to look at the truck. I don't know how much it's gonna be, or how much we have to spend more money on it. It's a little hard for me," Pahal said.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation by the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
Photos: Semi-trucks destroyed in South Sacramento fire
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — After years of Pepsi products being sold on campus, Coca-Cola is in its final steps of negotiations to return to the University of Arkansas (U of A).
The U of A is in its final stages of negotiations to make Coca-Cola its exclusive non-alcoholic beverage sponsor.
The university's contract with PepsiCo will end on June 30, 2022, leaving room for Coca-Cola to start its planned 10-year deal.
Before its deal with PepsiCo, the U of A exclusively sold Coca-Cola on campus for decades.
As part of the contract, a variety of Coca-Cola cold beverages will be available on campus, including Coca-Cola, Coke Zero, Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta, Dasani, BodyArmor and Minute Maid. In addition, Dr Pepper and Monster brands, distributed in the region by Ozarks Coca-Cola, will be available as well.
These products will be available in campus dining facilities, vending machines and at all Razorback Athletics venues.
"It’s important to point out that this new agreement will also benefit our students in the form of internship opportunities and funding for student scholarships," said interim Chancellor Charles Robinson. "Funding will also support sustainability efforts on campus. I’m grateful to the evaluation committee and to all those at the university who have played a role in establishing this new partnership."
Gatorade will continue to be the official Isotonic Drink Sponsor of Razorback Athletics.
Once completed, the Coca-Cola agreement will consist of an initial fixed-length term and a series of annual renewal options through June 2032.
The contract’s total value, including ancillary benefits, will not be known until final negotiations have been completed.
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KINGSLAND, Ark. — Kingsland, Arkansas has a real "Cash flow" problem this week.
Someone shot the water tower of Johnny Cash's birthplace in a sensitive area last week and it's turning out to be a pretty expensive prank.
Some residents are even calling the leak, "the biggest news in Kingsland."
The shot sprung a relatively small leak, but it's causing big problems.
Kingsland Mayor Luke Neal said the town is "losing about 30,000 gallons of water per day."
Now it's costing the town about $200 each day-- totaling about $1,200 so far.
"You kind of run on a tighter budget in small towns like this, because really all you've got to work with... things like this can set you back a little bit," Neal said.
And while Mayor Neal is frustrated, he's also, a little impressed.
"Just the placement of where it was at I mean it was, you could tell someone was trying to be funny," Neal said.
It appears this shooter set their sights on something a little more specific than just the tower, but right at the crotch of the Johnny Cash silhouette painted on it.
One resident exclaiming, "It looks like Johnny Cash is peeing on the grass."
But it certainly *walks the line* between comedy and vandalism. Some residents saying it's "ridiculous" and "sad" and that it's wasteful.
But it's not the first time this water tower has been shot. Mayor Neal saying it happened in 1993 as well.
And even though the town spent $300,000 in repairs less than a year ago, they'll have to go through the process again.
"We'll have to drain 50,000 gallons of water out of the tank, we'll have to run the city off of line pressure straight from the well," Neal added.
And despite some discoloration, the Mayor said the water still is and will continue to be safe to drink.
As the sheriffs office works to find out— who shot Johnny Cash.
"At the end of the day, you still gotta pay for things that you've done when you cause damage,' Neal said.
Mayor Neal said the last time this happened, it was a $10,000 fine and a felony charge.
Town officials expect to repair the water tower later this week.
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AVOCA, Ark. — An investigation is underway in Benton County after 149 dogs were removed from a home during a fire.
According to Avoca Fire Department Chief Brian Ervin, the department received a call Saturday morning, May 14, to a home on Deason Road of a fire taking place in the Avoca area.
Ervin says when crews arrived on the scene, they saw heavy smoke and the homeowners trying to get dogs out of the house. He says firefighters joined efforts to get dogs out of the house including doing search and rescue.
Ervin says some of the dogs rescued received breathing treatments using special masks. He also says the family of 5 or 6 made it out safe and are being assisted by the Red Cross.
Firefighters from Rogers, Beaver Lake, Little Flock, Nebco and Pea Ridge responded and helped attempt to rescue the dogs.
The Benton County Sheriff's Office says a total of 149 dogs were removed from the home.
“149 dogs that needed to be removed. Only 73 survived and were taken to the Rogers Humane Society," said the Benton County Sherriff's Office. "The Benton County Fire Marshall is investigating “
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is investigating as well due to the number of dogs removed from the home.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — By now, you’ve probably seen several pictures and videos of a man inside Baum Walker grabbing a raccoon by the neck. His name is Grant Harmon and he is from Fayetteville.
“I believe it was the middle of the seventh inning,” Harmon said. “If I’m not mistaken.”
He heard a lot of commotion going on in the lower levels of the stadium but he wasn’t sure what was going on.
“The next thing that I knew, it was at my feet and the rest just kind of wrote itself from there,” Harmon said.
He recalls sitting face-to-face with the raccoon. “My redneck instinct just kind of kicked in,” said Harmon.
Later picking up the raccoon and those in section 117 screaming at the moment.
Harmon, later pulls out his phone to catch it on camera. “I knew my buddies wouldn’t believe me if I told them I picked up a raccoon at a baseball game.”
An officer then comes to Harmon as they walk outside the stadium to release the raccoon.
“That’s when it actually bit me,” Harmon said. “That’s what he had enough leverage to reach around and get me on the hand.”
Harmon later went to the ER to get a rabies shot.
“The bite itself did not hurt,” Harmon said. “What really hard was it was the rabies that I had to go get after.”
Over the next two weeks, he will be taking more rabies shots.
Harmon says since getting that shot, he’s been doing interviews for national outlets like the SEC Network and Inside Edition.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. — A popular pastime in Southwest Florida is kayaking and paddleboarding, but now some rental companies are concerned that a popular spot in Bonita Springs could be in peril. Over the weekend they say a strange sign, along with trail cameras turned up in a Mangrove tunnel through Big Hickory Island.
“You just don’t have too many areas, like this anymore. Especially for a free launch for the public or commercial.” said Kurt Bensmiller, the owner of Paddle Naples, a family business that routinely uses Big Hickory Island, and its public access launch site.
“We have the Mangrove tunnels to go through, obviously it’s all protected, we are trying to keep it that way” he said.
But over the weekend, he arrived to find the mangrove tunnel there blocked off with wire, along with cameras, and a new sign. All of them were tied to mangroves.
“If somebody was coming out here in the middle of the night on a kayak, wasn’t aware of the sign, not paying attention, it could have caused some injury to them.” he said.
So where did the sign and cameras come from? A few months ago, the Mangroves of Big Hickory Island were bought by the Bonita Conservation Authority, a company that recently incorporated back in December.
“He’s a big shot, big money from California, and he sees potential to start charging people for using this ramp.” Bensmiller added.
On Monday, Florida Fish and Wildlife said they are looking into the cameras and sign, while Bensmiller and the other Kayak rental companies vow to fight for their right to paddle Big Hickory’s Channel.
“I’m not gonna give him a dollar, I dont think its going to happen. It is navigable waterways and we have every right to use it, and we will continue to until we are told legally we cannot.” Bensmiller said.
On Monday, David Schie the Owner of Bonita Conservation Authority Inc, responded to NBC-2’s request for comment, saying:
“As you know in April of this year a kayaker drowned on the Estero river after renting kayaks from the types of outfits operating on our property. Some of these operators do not have insurance or licenses & have limited experience operating a vessel concession. As the property is private property we are liable if someone is injured on the property or if the environment is damaged by their activities,” Schie said.
“Our goal is to work with experienced operators to allow the public to continue using the property, while ensuring safety and protection of the environment. We are in discussions with several of the rental groups with the goal of reaching an agreement that will protect the public and the environment. Our efforts including the trail cameras are to maximize safety for the all and ensure protection of our unique environment,” Schie said.
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COPPELL, Texas — A student at Coppell ISD was held in a chokehold and was being bullied while other students were watching.
The video went viral, and the parents are demanding justice.
The parents told WFAA the school isn’t doing enough to protect their son.
“No, I’m not getting up. There is literally no one sitting here,” is what you can hear in the cellphone video.
The students you see in this video are Coppell Middle School North students.
The boy who was assaulted said he was sitting in the cafeteria where he normally sits, and was held in a choke hold, while everyone just watched.
His mom, Sonika Kukreja, was left feeling helpless.
Warning: The below video contains explicit language.
“It’s heartbreaking, I cried. I couldn’t sleep,” said Kukreja.
“His neck could’ve snapped, I wouldn’t have my son,” she said.
Kukreja says school officials weren’t transparent.
“They told us this is an altercation, vs, what you saw in the video," the mother said.
The school superintendent sent out a statement saying, in part:
Coppell ISD is aware of a video circulating on social media showing an incident at Coppell Middle School North involving a physical altercation between two students. Bullying, both verbal and physical, as well as physical acts of aggression are never acceptable and do not align with who we are at CISD and our core values.
Because of student privacy laws and this being an ongoing investigation, we cannot share any further specifics on this situation or student discipline matters. What we can say is that this incident is being investigated and addressed by the school and the district according to the CISD Student Code of Conduct.
Attorney Marwa Elbially says the student assaulting the 14-year-old only got one day of punishment.
“He could’ve potentially paralyzed or have killed him. No real action is taken against that kid,” said Elbially.
Kukreja is demanding school officials do more so children are safe in school.
“We trusted you with our kids. You’ve not done your job, you failed us,” said Kukreja.
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DALLAS, Texas — Wrapped in an arm sling and a cast, a member of Hair World Salon spoke before generations of Dallas Asian-Americans Monday night after she was shot multiple times in her business last week.
Through a police interpreter, the employee said she was feeling better at a public safety meeting held at the Korean Cultural Center.
The Dallas Police Department hosted Chief Eddie Garcia, council member Omar Narvaez, members of the Korean Consulate and dozens of other civic members of Dallas Koreatown.
Dallas police are working alongside the FBI to apprehend a suspect who entered the salon and shot three women. One of the women hit was an owner.
On April 2, a drive-by shooting happened in the same retail area of Koreatown. Another Asian-owned business was shot at last Tuesday in Oak Cliff.
Chief Garcia announced last week that the attacks all might be connected, and right now, the department is investigating the shootings as possible hate crimes.
The Dallas FBI Field Office said in a statement Monday night that it has opened a federal hate crime investigation into the shooting at the salon.
No one has been arrested yet, however. Police say a red minivan was used in at least two of the shootings.
The salon employee told the crowd that she had been shot three times and thanked everyone in the Koreatown community for attending the meeting.
She also hid her face and didn't want to announce her name.
She was accompanied by the salon's owner, who didn't speak publicly but was also shot.
"She feels really energetic now, and she feels really positive that this meeting is happening," the police interpreter said. "Right now, she said she's dealing with trauma and grief. But she's happy that we're all here and that the community is giving support. She's also asking for prayers, she's not asking for generosity but needs help. Her business is closed and hasn't been able to open, and she needs the support."
Garcia and Narvaez answered tough questions during the meeting and assured everyone that the department was doing everything it could to apprehend the suspect.
Right now, mobile camera stations have been placed in the shooting area and around Koreatown. Garcia has also added to patrols.
"Hate has no place in this city," Garcia said. "I cannot wait to stand before you and announce that we've made an arrest."
Caroline Kim, whose family owns the Korea House restaurant, told WFAA her mother has owned the restaurant for over 30 years, and it is one of the oldest running Korean spots.
The restaurant is blocks away from where the shooting occurred.
"It's certainly fearful for all of us," Kim said. "We're all being very cautious right now."
Kim grilled Garcia about being more proactive and less reactive.
For her, it's about a few things.
"We want to feel safer, and we want our families to feel safer."
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NORMAL — The Normal Town Council committed to supporting Connect Transit’s “one rate for all” initiative Monday night, approving a temporary annual payment of $200,000.
This funding, which was approved in the proposed budget for fiscal 2022-23 in March, will use American Rescue Plan Act dollars to support an even rate between fixed routes and the Connect Mobility bus service.
Trustee Karyn Smith said in the face of rising fare costs for those who use Connect Mobility, a group of community members “worked hard to try to get Connect Mobility riders to not be penalized for their circumstances.”
Connect Mobility provides direct, shared rides for people who are unable to use the fixed bus route because of disability, age or injury.
Those riders had been paying a higher price per ride compared to fixed route riders, but in February 2020, the Connect Transit board heard recommendations to make their fare even with fixed route riders. Following a suspension of fares during the pandemic, all riders now pay $1.25 per ride.
The community group also recommended a combined $500,000 increase in the combined contributions from the city of Bloomington and the town of Normal.
City Manager Pam Reece said the city has been paying its increased contribution of $300,000, but the town had delayed contributing because of economic constraints during the pandemic.
She noted that if the council voted against using the ARPA funds “and council still wanted to subsidize the one far for all program, then that would just come out of our general fund.”
Trustee Kathleen Lorenz spoke in support of funding the one rate for all program as part of the general fund “because it’s that important,” but also noted using ARPA funds now would allow the town to devote other funds toward getting ahead on capital projects.
While this vote approved using $800,000 of the town’s allocated $10.8 million from ARPA, after 2026 that funding source will not be available.
“These dollars have to be spent by December 2026,” Reece said. “That presents staff plenty of time between now and 2026 to prepare for a different source and budget accordingly, so that if we choose to continue that funding, … for long-term investment.”
Trustee Stan Nord cast the only no vote on the funding issue, in part because he believes the federal funds should be used for other needs.
“We’ve got a whole list of issues within the town that we know of,” he said. “We can use these monies to also invest in our water and sewer system. We know that our water and sewer system is aged” and has caused issues for residents.
“We should use these funds for that because we may not get another opportunity where the federal government gives us money to update our water system,” Nord continued.
Trustee Scott Preston said he believed the transportation system had done well responding and adjusting to riders’ and would-be riders’ needs, including in regards to Connect Mobility.
“It is unfathomable to me that we would not support one fare for all with Connect Mobility, especially in light of all that we’ve heard from all our residents in Normal about how valuable that is to keep it at that price,” he said.
In a presentation to the council, Connect Transit General Manager David Braun spoke on projects in progress, including:
- a new route for the west side that would stop at Rivian Automotive;
- a vanpooling service dedicated to helping commuters join the Bloomington-Normal workforce;
- An on-demand "microtransit" service to serve areas where residents might have difficulty accessing a fixed route;
- the downtown Bloomington Transportation Center that’s being studied to occupy site of the Market Street parking deck.
As part of the omnibus agenda, the council approved a resolution to contract with Peoria-based Carrier Corporation for the Community Activity Center’s chiller system renewal project.
The $119,450 bid was the lowest of two received.
An agreement with CDS Office Technologies was approved to replace the Normal Police Department’s Panasonic body-worn cameras for $105,312.
The contract will replace the department’s 76 cameras and include the newest version of hardware, according to meeting documents prepared by town staff.
Staff recommended waiving the formal bidding process for this contract after a review of three vendors found Bloomington-based CDS was the best pricing option.
The council also voted to waive the formal bidding process to authorize the purchase of waste containers from Schaefer Systems, which town staff says is the only provider with containers compatible with the town’s automated equipment.
The agreement includes the purchase of 501 garbage and waste containers that will “fulfill the anticipated needs for this fiscal year and will allow a surplus stock for next year,” according to council documents.
The cost of $35,565 exceeds the amount budgeted for this purchase by $2,065, requiring a budget adjustment as well to account for increased material costs.
Nord was the sole dissenting vote on the camera and waste container agreements, stating he believed the formal bidding process should not be waived.
Watch: Leah Marlene's 'American Idol' performances
'Separate Ways' - May 15
'I'll Stand by You' - May 15
'Electric Love' - May 8
'Sanctuary' - May 8
'When She Loved Me' - May 1
'Make You Feel My Love' - April 25
'Happy Together' - April 24
'Wisher to the Well' - April 18
'Heal' - April 17
'Call Me' - April 11
'She's a Self-Made Man' - April 4
Duet: "Locked Out of Heaven" - April 3
'Sk8ter Boi' - March 28
"American Idol" audition
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CARROLL COUNTY, Ark. — A Berryville High School senior was named as the victim in a fatal car accident that took place Sunday night, May 15.
Arkansas State Police say 18-year-old Matthew Jay Hausman was driving down County Road 601 in Carroll County when he lost control of the vehicle. The Police say the car went off the left side of the road, hit a tree and left the car overturned on its top.
Hausman was enrolled to attend North Arkansas College in Harrison and would've been a NAC pioneer in the fall.
Laura Cisco, Hausman's mother, says her son was interested in a variety of things like computers, music and gaming, whether it was playing or creating them. She says Matthew loved stories, mythology and wordplay, including puns. She says her son was creative with food and drinks, enjoying making new flavors but most of all her son loved helping people.
The Berryville School District expressed its condolences as it shared the news on Facebook and offered students and staff counseling if needed.
Matthew Hausman's obituary is available online with the option to share memories of Matthew through photos or videos, make a donation in Matthew's name, or plant a tree in his memory.
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ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Carter County Board of Education started its search for a new superintendent Monday night, a position they expect to have filled in a month’s time.
The position became open after Director of Schools Dr. Tracy McAbee was hired for the same job in Lewis County, Tennessee.
School Board Chair Tony Garland said the position will be filled in mid-June. That short time window is necessary to get the district ready for the new school year.
“The summertime is a very busy time for your central office staff, and so getting someone in here sooner rather than later is much more beneficial to the whole system,” Garland said.
Applications for the position open Wednesday after McAbee presents his formal resignation.
Candidates will be able to apply for two weeks from May 18 to May 31.
On June 6, the board will determine three finalists, who will then be interviewed by the board for one hour on June 14.
The finalist interviews will be open to the public.
On June 16, the board will vote for the district’s new superintendent.
Garland said that short timeline is not out of the ordinary, according to the Tennessee School Boards Association.
“We’ve spoken with TSBA and they said it was a very reasonable timeline,” Garland said. “They’ve had other systems actually even move more quickly on doing this.”
Applicants will be required to have a doctorate in education, and the board said it would prefer candidates with administrative experience.
But applicants must also present a vision statement for the future of the district.
“If we got two doctoral candidates with supervisor experience, that vision may be the determining part where we say that’s one we want to interview or not,” said board member Chris Hitechew.
The new superintendent will be entering at a time of growth for the district. Carter County Schools hopes to expand Hunter Elementary and increase its use of the Workforce Development Complex.
“We don’t want to lose any motivation, so someone coming in needs to hit the ground running to keep that going,” Garland said.
Garland also said the district stands to receive more in state education funding under the new TISA model, which would also be a consideration for the new superintendent.
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BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) — Hard Rock’s sports betting app can now be used in Virginia.
The company announced Monday that those 21 and older who are physically located in Virginia can now use the Hard Rock Sportsbook app.
Hard Rock plans to open a temporary casino at the former Bristol Mall site in July that will also feature a retail sportsbook.
“We can’t wait to welcome sports fans from across the region to our retail sportsbook location in Bristol,” Allie Evangelista, president of Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol, said in a release. “The Hard Rock Sportsbook mobile app will be an extension of our Bristol property, allowing sports fans to continue their legendary entertainment experience throughout Virginia.”
The temporary casino is expected to open on July 8. The permanent Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol is expected to open in the summer of 2024.
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Crews battle fire at recycling center in Mesa
Perry Vandell
Arizona Republic
Fire crews are battling a fire that broke out at a recycling center near Country Club Drive and Southern Avenue Monday evening, according to the Mesa Fire Department.
Details such as the cause of the fire were not immediately available. The fire seems to have started around 7 p.m.
This is a developing story. Check back with azcentral.com for updates.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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Longtime Lincoln Board of Education member Don Mayhew was elected president once again during the board's annual reorganization meeting Monday.
Connie Duncan, this year's board chair, will be vice president.
Mayhew, who served as vice president this past year, has represented District 7 covering west and southwest Lincoln since 2001 and won reelection to a sixth term in 2021.
The experience Mayhew brings will help incoming Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent Paul Gausman in his first year, board member Annie Mumgaard said.
"I think we have a year ahead of us of change, and it is with confidence that I elected you as one who has gone through this several times with a new superintendent," Mumgaard said.
Mayhew, the owner of the Havelock restaurant Boxcar BBQ, has served as board president four times, including when the board hired Superintendent Steve Joel.
Bob Rauner was elected president of the Education Service Unit, which oversees much of the district's evaluation and assessment work, while Lanny Boswell was appointed vice president.
Boswell was also reelected to serve on The Career Academy joint board between LPS and Southeast Community College.
The board also approved changes to its public comment policy that cuts down on the allotted time given to each speaker from five minutes to three.
Dozens of protesters opposed to the revisions lined O Street outside Lincoln Public Schools' district office, but did not have a chance to address the board since public comment was not on the meeting's agenda.
Zach Hammack, a 2018 UNL graduate, has always called Lincoln home. He previously worked as a copy editor at the Journal Star and was a reporting intern in 2017. Now, he covers students, teachers and schools as the newspaper’s K-12 reporter.
A federal judge dismissed much of a lawsuit alleging UNL officials acted with "deliberate indifference" in responding to reports of rape or sexual harassment by Husker athletes.
"We are dropping like flies, and it's not like no one knows, everyone is well aware," an Omaha Public Schools employee said. Since the pandemic began, student misbehavior has been steadily rising in OPS and other schools.
The 3.81% salary and benefits increase for four LPS associate superintendents is slightly lower than the 4.11% total compensation package increase slated for teachers.
The new focus program — a collaboration between LPS and UNL's College of Business that will start when Standing Bear opens in 2023 — is set to include dual-credit courses and pathways in areas such as accounting, finance, marketing, economics and supply chain management.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will hand out degrees to 737 graduate, professional and doctoral students on Friday, breaking the previous record of 698 set in May 2018.
After reading "Seedfolks," a book about a group of immigrants who bond over a community garden, English language learner students at Lincoln Northeast were inspired to discover their own green thumbs.
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Victim named in Monday morning homicide
Caddo Coroner’s Office has released the name of the Monday morning homicide victim.
Shreveport Police Department received a call at 3 a.m. May 16 to the 3100 block Regent Street. Upon arrival, officers located Larry Clark, 45, unresponsive due to a gunshot wound to his upper body.
Clark’s wife Charlene Henderson, 43, was identified at the crime scene by the investigators and was taken into custody.
Henderson was arrested and transported to Shreveport City jail in connection with the 2nd Degree Murder of her husband.
This slaying marks Caddo Parish's 25th homicide this year.
Plans to reduce crime::ShotSpotter technology and community responsibility discussed at Shreveport violence town hall
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Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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MODESTO, Calif. — Dave & Buster's is hoping to fill 170 jobs ahead of its latest opening in Modesto.
The location at Vintage Faire Mall will be the 18th Dave & Buster's in California when it opens May 30. It'll come with nearly 35,000 square feet of entertainment and dining space for arcade games, food, drinks and the D&B Sports Bar.
For now, the company is looking to fill front and back-of-house roles, including managers, servers, bartenders, hosts, line cooks, game techs and more.
“We’re ecstatic to bring a new restaurant and entertainment destination to the Modesto community,” said Beto Chavarria, general manager of Dave & Buster’s Modesto. “We are dedicated to cultivating a fun experience for our guests and looking for individuals to join our team who share that passion.”
Interested persons can apply online at daveandbusters.com/careers.
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Tuesday is a big day for giving in Midland and the Permian Basin.
Permian Basin Gives – a one-day event encouraging residents to create meaningful impact through nonprofits that serve the region – will take place Tuesday. The fundraising goal is $1.459 million.
“Permian Basin Gives started in 2020 at time when nonprofits were having to cancel or postpone their fundraising events,” Laurie Johnson, executive director of the Nonprofit Management Center, wrote. “Permian Basin Gives is the result of several nonprofit executive directors brainstorming about how to replace that lost revenue. Since its inception, the annual day of giving has generated $3.8 million in donations to our area nonprofits.”
Johnson stated 117 nonprofits are participating in this year’s event. She also said that the Permian Basin Gives online initiative has brought nonprofits together to support each other by sharing the same website, www.PermianBasinGives.org, which allows donors to find out about other nonprofits.
“When donors visit the website, they select each organization that they want to support and can also research other nonprofits,” Johnson said. “By working together during Permian Basin Gives, everyone is a winner.”
Kay Crites, executive director of Big Brothers Big Sisters, told the Reporter-Telegram in an email that Permian Basin Gives has resulted in donations of almost $40,000 to BBBS over the past two years.
“This is money that can be used to conduct background checks on volunteers to help ensure the safety of children in our program and to hold activities to help volunteers and children bond,” Crites wrote in an email. “It can also be used for more mundane, yet essential, expenses such as postage and utilities.”
In addition, Permian Basin Gives has allowed organizations to create new, individual connections in the communities for both future donations and possible volunteers, she said.
“Permian Basin Gives has brought in millions of dollars to help our local agencies thrive and fulfill their missions to support our communities,” Crites wrote. “This funding has been a lifeline during the past two years, when fundraisers have been cancelled and people’s attention has been focused on other matters.”
Autumn West of Midland Shared Spaces noted that even with $100 oil, many in Midland and across the region are feeling the effects of inflation, which Bloomberg recently reported is as bad in Midland as just about any other place in the country.
“Now, more than ever, every dollar has the power to make a difference for a nonprofit,” Vest wrote. “Nonprofits provide critical community services and touch our lives through emergency response services, health and wellness programs, education, entertainment and more.”
Permian Basin Gives is a day about the individual donation and the ability to be reminded about other opportunities in the non-profit sector. With nearly $4 million in donations over two years, it has been a nice complement to foundation donations and efforts by individual organizations.
“Every day Midland nonprofits make a difference for you and your neighbors,” Mark Palmer, executive director of the Abell-Hanger Foundation reported. “Help them continue to make that difference.”
Permian Basin Gives
Online: https://permianbasingives.org/
Participating organizations
3:11 Ministries
Agape Counseling Services
Alpine Christian School
Alpine Public Library
American Red Cross
Aphasia Center of West Texas
Archway Outreach
Arts Council of Midland
Backyard Midland
Basin Dream Center for Orphans
Basin PBS
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Permian Basin
Blackwell School Alliance
Buckner Children & Family Services
Bush Tennis Center
Bynum School
CASA of the Permian Basin Area, Inc.
CASA of West Texas
Child Evangelism Fellowship of West Texas, Midland Basin Chapter
Centers for Children & Families
Child Evangelism Fellowship of West Texas, Permian Basin Chapter
Chosen Ministry
Christmas in Action
Circle Six Baptist Camp
COM Aquatics
Communities in Schools of the Permian Basin
Community Children’s Clinic
Crime Stoppers of Midland, Inc.
Crisis Center of West Texas
Education Foundation of Odessa
Family Promise of Midland
First Priority Permian Basin
First Tee West Texas
Fix West Texas
Fostering Restoration
Friendship House
George W. Bush Childhood Home
Gifts of Hope
Girl Scouts of the Desert Southwest
Grand Companions
Greater Opportunities of the Permian Basin
Harmony Home Children’s Advocacy Center
Healthy City
Hillcrest School
Hospice of Midland
I-20 Wildlife Preserve and Jenna Welch Nature Study Center
Jesus House Odessa
Jubilee Center of Midland
Junior Achievement of the Permian Basin
Junior League of Midland
Junior League of Odessa
Keep Midland Beautiful
Making an Impact
Manor Park
Marathon Public Library
Marfa Open Arts
Midland Baptist Crisis Center
Midland Children’s Rehabilitation Center
Midland College Foundation
Midland Education Foundation
Midland Energy Library
Midland Festival Ballet
Midland Habitat for Humanity
Midland Humane Coalition
Midland Palette Club Art Center
Midland Project Graduation
Midland Rape Crisis and Children’s Advocacy Center
Midland Storytelling Festival
Midland Teen Court
Mission Agape Midland Center Adult Day Service
MSS
Museum of the Southwest
Nonprofit Management Center of the Permian Basin
Northeast Midland County Volunteer Fire Department
Odessa College Foundation
Odessa Links
One Accord for Kids
Opportunity Tribe
Permian Basin Adult Literacy Center
Permian Basin Be the Change
Permian Basin Honor Flight
Permian Basin Mission Center
Permian Basin Opera
Permian Basin Regional Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center
Petroleum Museum
Recording Library of West Texas
Reflection Ministries of Texas
Rope Youth
Safe Place of the Permian Basin
Samaritan Counseling Center
Seek First Midland
Senior Life Midland
SHARE
Sibley Nature Center
Something More to Explore Mobile Planetarium
Spectrum of Solutions
Starlight Therapeutic Riding Center
Sunshine House
Teen Challenge Adult Centers of Texas
Teen FLOW Youth Ministry
Texas Baptist Home for Children
TLCA Midland
The Attic Foster Network
The Field’s Edge
The H.O.R.S.E. Center
The Springboard Center
The WELL Hand of Grace
Thriving United
United Way of Midland
United Way of Odessa
Ward County Crime Stoppers
West Texas Counseling & Guidance
West Texas Food Bank
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U.S. Attorney: Former Palo Cedro CEO pleads guilty to retirement-fund embezzlement
A former Palo Cedro man has pled guilty to embezzling from the retirement funds of his former employees, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Maurice “Buddy” Shoe, 59, pled guilty to one count of embezzlement, U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert said.
Shoe was the CEO of Joined Inc., a now defunct corporation that was based in Shasta County that provided student recruiting and retention services to Christian colleges and universities across United States, according to court documents.
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The company provided a 401(k) retirement plan for its employees, and from February through November 2015, Shoe embezzled approximately $124,900 from the employee retirement benefit fund by failing to forward their paycheck contributions to the 401(k) plan, court documents showed.
Shoe is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 8 by U.S. District Judge William Shubb.
Shoe faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, Talbert said.
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Police say the alleged suspect in the Buffalo mass shooting that left 10 people dead wrote a manifesto that included racist and antisemitic messages, and also mentioned some New Jersey cities for one specific reason.
The hateful ramblings posted online sent shockwaves to Ocean County, as the vitriolic screed referenced Lakewood and neighboring Toms River — both home to large and growing Orthodox Jewish populations.
"It puts a shudder right down your spine," said Lakewood Township Committeeman Meir Lichtenstein. "That scares us."
Authorities said there are no known threats in the area, but nonetheless, the Lakewood Police Department has increased patrols and visibility in the community, especially around the township’s many religious schools and synagogues, to help ease concerns. They say they can’t take chances.
"We're always on the lookout for copycats and anytime you get a direct, direct link or connection, so we're always hyper vigilant right now in everything we do," said Police Chief Gregory Meyer.
Some residents were already on edge following a series of violent attacks on Orthodox Jews in Lakewood and Jackson Township in April. Investigators said the man who carried them out was motivated by hate.
"Something like what happened in Buffalo just serves as a reminder from a police perspective and safety perspective of how, on how high alert we have to be," Lichtenstein said.
Lakewood police are getting help with extra patrols from the Ocean County Sheriff’s Office, the prosecutor’s office and New Jersey State Police. The chief says he’ll ask for more resources if necessary.
"Who knows what this person could have done. It’s a real, it shakes us to the core," said Agudath Israel New Jersey Director Rabbi Avi Schnall. "We just once again are reminded that all you really can do ultimately is pray. Pray to the ultimate protector.”
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A man was stabbed to death inside a Brooklyn grocery store Monday afternoon, police said.
While inside the Navruz Supermarket on Macdonald Street in Midwood just before 2 p.m., the victim was got into an argument with another man, according to police. That other man then got a knife and stabbed the victim in the chest.
The victim, who has not been identified, was taken to Maimonides Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The suspect, who also has not been identified, was taken into custody, police said. It was not clear what charges that man would face.
An investigation is ongoing.
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Calif. — There were no dry eyes to be found after Cole Swindell took the stage at Country in the Park.
He sang his song "You Should Be Here," and opened the lyrics with a dedication to El Dorado County Deputy Austin Ramsey, who died of an apparent suicide last October.
"You Should Be Here" is a song about losing someone close to you and wishing they were there for life's amazing moments.
For the whole performance, Swindell also wore a bracelet with Ramsey's name on it. He even took the opportunity to talk to Deputy Ramsey's brother Coleton, his family and friends. Coleton said Cole Swindell was one of the most genuine people he ever met.
Ramsey's family and friends were in the crowd and videoed the moment as it happened in front of thousands of people. For Ramsey's family, it meant the world to know his story touched thousands of people at once.
Ramsey was 25 years old, and had served in Afghanistan. He was a former Army Ranger and combat veteran.
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Sarasota makes top 10 list of best places to live in U.S.
For its desirability, quality of life and cost of living, Sarasota was named one of the best places to live in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
The annual rankings, released this week by the media company, put Sarasota at No. 9 on a list of the 150 best places to live in the country, making it the only Florida city to land in the top 10.
U.S. News & World Report describes Sarasota as having "a distinct vibe that’s different from Florida’s relative coastal cities, with its own vibrant arts scene, beachy atmosphere, and burgeoning food culture."
"This metro area of just over 800,000 people has a renowned opera house, a number of rooftop bars and the popular beach of Siesta Key," the magazine wrote. "What makes the region special is its duality – downtown Sarasota boasts resorts and fine dining, but strolling Siesta Key Village or St. Armands Circle offers a more intimate, seaside ambience."
Last year's rankings:Sarasota named among ten best places to live by U.S. News & World Report
More:Sarasota-isms: An A-to-Z glossary of local sayings, places and people that make us
The rankings are determined based on several factors developed by the media company – quality of life; job market; desirability, which asks if people want to move to a place; net migration, which determines if people are actually already moving somewhere and value, which includes cost of living.
Home affordability and quality of life were also more important than ever this year in the rankings because of the voracity of the national housing market, according to U.S. News.
Related:10 best places to visit in Sarasota – and what to do when you get there!
That did have some impact on the ratings overall, moving Huntsville, Alabama, from No. 3 to No. 1 on the list, despite it having a lower desirability ranking on the lower side of the 150 places ranked.
Despite Sarasota's skyrocketing housing costs, it stayed in the same spot – ninth place – as last year.
More:Bucket list: 100 fun things to do in Sarasota County including restaurants, bars, beaches and more!
Other Florida cities on the list included Naples (No. 12), Melbourne (No. 20), Jacksonville (No. 24), Tampa (No. 39), Pensacola (No. 44), Daytona Beach (No. 68), Port St. Lucie (No. 78), Ocala (No. 91), Fort Myers (No. 100), Tallahassee (No. 110), Lakeland (No. 113), Orlando (No. 118) and Miami (No. 137).
Just last month, Sarasota was also ranked by the magazine as the No. 1 place to retire in the U.S. for the second year in a row. It's also the third fastest-growing place in the country, according to the magazine.
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Today is Election Day and many Idaho voters will take to the polls to vote in several statewide races and their legislative district and local elections.
According to the Bonneville County Elections Office, 1,871 early mail absentee ballots had been returned by Monday afternoon. The county sent out 2,379 absentee ballots. Another 1,774 voters turned in ballots during Idaho’s early voting period from May 2 to May 13.
Polling places will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters can cast their ballots at their local county elections office or their local polling place. Full polling place lists are available on county elections websites.
Here’s who’s in contested races in eastern Idaho:
Republican Party U.S. Senator
Brenda Bourn
Mike Crapo
Natalie M Fleming
Scott Trotter
Ramont Turnbull
United States Representative District 2
Flint L. Christensen
Daniel Algiers Lucas Levy
Chris Porter
Mike Simpson
Bryan Smith
Governor
Steven R Bradshaw
Ben Cannady
Edward R. Humphreys
Ashley Jackson
Brad Little
Lisa Marie
Janice McGeachin
Cody Usabel
Lieutenant Governor
Scott Bedke
Daniel J Gasiorowski
Priscilla Giddings
Secretary of State
Phil McGrane
Dorothy Moon
Mary Souza
Attorney General
Raúl R. Labrador
Arthur (“Art”) Macomber
Lawrence Wasden
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Debbie Critchfield
Branden J. Durst
Sherri Ybarra
Legislative District 30 State Senator
Jerry D. Bingham
Julie VanOrden
Legislative District 31
State Senator
Fran Bryson
Van Burtenshaw
State Representative, Position A
Karey Hanks
Jerald Raymond
State Representative, Position B
Rod Furniss
Darnell Shipp
Legislative District 32 State Senator
Kevin Cook
Keith Newberry
State Representative, Position A
Nicholas T. Christiansen
Stephanie Jo Mickelsen
Legislative District 33 State Senator
Dave Lent
Bryan Scholz
State Representative, Position A
Barbara Ehardt
Jeff Thompson
Legislative District 34 State Representative, Position A
Jason “JD” Drollinger
Jon O. Weber
State Representative, Position B
Ron Nate
Britt Raybould
Legislative District 35
State Senator
Mark Harris
Doug Toomer
State Representative, Position A
Kevin Andrus
Jon Goode
State Representative, Position B
Chad Christensen
Josh Wheeler
Bonneville County Prosecuting Attorney
H. Alayne Bean
Randy Neal
Bonneville County Coroner
Barrett Hillier
Rick D. Taylor
Libertarian Party Governor
John Dionne Jr.
Paul Sand
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It is a mostly clear, comfortable, and less humid morning across Central Alabama. Temperatures are in the 50s and 60s.
A ridge of high pressure will build over the Southeast U.S starting on Tuesday. We will be sunny and very warm with high temperatures in the upper 80s.
Tonight, it will be mostly clear, comfortable and cool-ish. Lows will be in the upper 50s to lower 60s.
Get ready for summer-like heat starting on Wednesday! The ridge of high pressure will sit over us Wednesday and Thursday. Each day will have plenty of sunshine and it will be hot. High temperatures will climb into the lower to mid 90s each day. There will be some dry air over us, so the humidity levels will not be too bad.
The ridge of high pressure will break down and move northeast of Alabama. This will bring back southerly winds and Gulf of Mexico Moisture. We will be mostly sunny and still hot with high temperatures in the lower 90s. This means it will be toasty for the first day of Lakefest in Pell City on Friday.
Weekend Outlook: A cold front and upper-level disturbance/wave will move into Alabama on Saturday. This will lead to scattered showers and storms. A few storms could be strong to possibly severe with gusty winds. Some downpours will be likely with the added moisture in the air. High temperatures will be in the upper 80s to lower 90s. The cold front will move through by Sunday with a better chance for scattered showers and storms. It will turn cooler with high temperatures in the upper 70s to lower 80s. The rain will linger into Sunday night and Monday as the front stalls along the coast. You might want to bring a rain coat with you to the Lakefest and Boat Show in Pell City.
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What was once a decrepit public housing project in Newark will soon be a massive film and TV production studio, following a $100 million deal announced Tuesday by a consortium of film companies and media investors.
Lionsgate, NJPAC and Great Point Studios will build a 300,000-square-foot facility with six production stages on the South Ward site of the former Seth Boyden housing project, which was abandoned in 2015 and demolished last February.
Great Point, whose founder Robert Halmi previously created the Hallmark Channel, will own and operate the studio. Lionsgate will be the anchor tenant and hold naming rights. (The two companies also collaborated on a studio facility in Yonkers.) NJPAC will manage public affairs and create programming for local students.
Construction is set to begin this summer, with a view to opening in late 2024.
Backers said the new facility, New Jersey's first purpose-built for film and TV production, would create about 600 jobs, with priority going to Newark residents.
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Cop's lies reveal gap in how KPD commanders review use of force incidents
Earlier this spring, Trinity Clark finished her sophomore year at Tennessee State University, halfway to her goal of becoming an occupational therapist. Every day, Clark wondered if she'd make it, consumed by worry her studies would be cut short because of a frightening encounter with a police officer who lied to cover up what he did to her.
In August, Clark was confronted late at night by Knoxville police officer Joseph Roberts. Clark was tackled, her top torn from her, kneeled on and handcuffed. She was exposed topless and terrifed in a front yard on Linden Avenue.
She told Knox News she thought she might die.
Police and prosecutors saddled her with six criminal charges, including a felony charge of evading arrest.
But the truth was on Clark's side. Roberts lied repeatedly, to other cops and in written reports, about his pursuit and arrest of Clark. In December, Judge Tony Stansberry dismissed every single charge, calling the whole encounter "disturbing."
The next month, in an eerily similar case, Roberts was criminally charged himself, accused of lying about starting a high-speed pursuit of 24-year-old Siara Davis. The chase reached speeds up to 100 mph during rush hour and ended in a crash that injured three people.
What’s more, three of Roberts’ supervisors reviewed his arrest of Clark, and none raised concerns about his conduct other than his raised voice and foul language.
It was the pursuit of Clark, however, that laid the foundation for exposing Roberts' pattern of behavior and ultimately forcing KPD to deal with it.
Now, as Clark is working to overcome the ordeal and making plans to sue the city, her attorney, Lance Baker, is asking why it took so long for police to act.
“I just find it appalling as someone who does these types of cases that it took until January and Ms. Siara Davis’ incident and not Ms. Clark’s, several months prior, to bring all this to the front," Baker said.
"I mean, you read the warrant that was filed in Ms. Clark’s case and there was a litany of lies that do not match up, similar to what (Roberts) was caught in in January.”
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‘Come here. I pulled you over.’
Roberts graduated from the Knoxville Police Academy in February 2021, but wasn't allowed to have his own beat until July under department policy for new cops. About a month into his solo policing beat, on Aug. 12, Roberts and a handful of officers pulled over a woman on Cherry Street around 11 p.m.
This happened to be right in front of Clark’s home, not an unusual place on a busy street for officers to pull someone over, she said. As she left her house on her way to a friend’s place, officers saw her and waved.
She got in her car and swung wide onto East Fifth Avenue because of the police cars in the right lane on Cherry. Roberts was standing at the window of the car he had pulled over as Clark turned on the road and drove off.
It’s unclear how fast she was traveling. Roberts later said she almost clipped him with her car, but this doesn't appear to be the case, according to dash and body camera footage.
Clark is always extra careful around police and actively works not to draw attention, she said.
“I feel like when you see a police officer (as a Black person) there’s a certain type of way we have to start acting,” she said. “We got to make sure we’re not in a car that’s being too loud, turning up in our own car, just giving certain type of attention. ...”
Staying low-key was her plan that night. She checked her mirrors and continued driving. Nothing was out of the ordinary.
Roberts can be seen concluding his conversation with the woman he pulled over as Clark drives by. He jumps into his cruiser and begins pursuing Clark at a high speed. Her car is barely visible ahead, his dash camera shows.
He activates his emergency lights only after Clark has already pulled over, and his siren for only a brief moment to alert a driver in a cross street. KPD policy requires officers to drive with lights and siren activated when they're in pursuit and exceeding the speed limit.
Clark was already getting out of her car when Roberts pulled up behind her on Linden Avenue, flashing his emergency lights as he parked. He yelled at her as he approached. Instead of coming to him, she stayed in the yard because she felt safer there, Clark told Knox News last month.
Without explaining what he wanted, Roberts grabbed Clark’s arm and took her to the ground. Clark was wearing only a sports bra and shorts – it reached 93 degrees that date – and her sports bra came off as the two tussled.
Clark kicked and screamed. Roberts later alleged she punched him in the face, though that's not captured on video. About a minute later, another officer arrived and Clark was handcuffed, facedown and topless. Seven officers are on the scene as Clark is held down, still topless before one of the officers finally gets her a shirt.
At Clark's preliminary hearing, Public Defender Joe Sandford told Stansberry, the General Sessions judge, that Clark reacted like anyone would in those circumstances.
“She struggled and did what she could to protect herself and her dignity as she was in a neighborhood getting tossed around by a police officer who had just taken her shirt off,” he said.
“There was no intent for her to harm this officer. She was doing what she had to do to protect herself and her dignity.”
Clark was worried she was going to be killed, she told Knox News.
“I was scared. I felt like I was out there by myself,” she said.
Almost immediately after Clark was detained, Roberts began lying to other officers about what had happened. At one point, one of the officers tells him not to talk about it in front of Clark and he stops.
But the pattern of lying would continue.
False statements in Roberts’ incident and use of force reports based on the video reviewed by Knox News:
- Roberts wrote Clark turned on East Fifth Avenue “at a high rate of speed causing the tires to squawk.” — This is false. She turned, but her tires did no squeal, according to the available video.
- Roberts wrote “I proceeded to catch up with the vehicle ...” — This is false. He never caught up to the vehicle until it stopped on Linden Avenue.
- Roberts wrote “Once I got behind the vehicle ...” — Again, this is false. He was never close to the vehicle until it stopped on Linden.
- Roberts wrote the car “accelerated ...” — This is false, or at the very least it is impossible to tell from his vantage point 100+ yards behind Clark.
- Roberts wrote “The vehicle was actively fleeing officers ...” — This is false. Roberts never turned on his emergency equipment , which is against department policy, and Clark had no reason to believe she was being pursued.
- Roberts wrote he had his emergency lights turned on when Clark got out of her vehicle. — This is false. Clark was already out of her car, parked on Linden Avenue by the time he pulled up and turned on his lights.
Beyond these statements in his report, Roberts repeatedly told officers on the scene the family inside began swarming him as he was attempting to detain Clark.
“Then the family’s coming out about to get on top of me and shit and I tell them to get back,” he tells a group of officers afterward. “I mean, they just started pouring out of the house.”
Two women were on the porch, away from the scuffle, yelling at Roberts to find out what was happening as he was wrestling with a topless Clark.
“Get in the house! How about that!” he yelled to the women.
Sandford said Roberts’ actions and lies were egregious.
“I was shocked by the inaccuracies in the affidavit of complaint Mr. Roberts filed against Ms. Clark,” he wrote to Knox News in an email. “His version of events did not reflect what I saw on the footage. It appeared to me that he fabricated parts of his narrative in an effort to justify his violent treatment of Ms. Clark.”
Stansberry tossed the entire case during the preliminary hearing, a rare decision at that point in a criminal case.
“I just don’t see the probable cause,” he said, according to audio of the hearing reviewed by Knox News. “To me, this is disturbing. I’m going to dismiss everything. Everything is dismissed.”
Roberts lost his badge during the scuffle. He went back the next day to look for it and never found it. It was a foreboding sign.
Supervisors viewed arrest footage
At least three of Roberts’ supervisors viewed camera footage as part of their standard use of force review. Lt. James Burrell and Sgt. James Cox viewed only the body camera footage, while Capt. Susan Coker viewed both the body and dashboard camera footage, according to the department’s use of force document.
Their only complaint? Roberts’ foul language to the women in the house and his continued cursing at Clark while attempting to handcuff her.
“During the arrest of this suspect, while she was actively resisting, I can understand the frustrations of being in the moment and emotions flaring up using harsh language to the suspect especially during a fight,” Burrell wrote.
“However, in this case he was directing that toward a family member who was not actively interfering with his arrest. Once other officers arrived to assist the behavior should have stopped but it continued until Officer Marasigan told him to take it easy and took over.”
The cursing, it turns out, was the only problem his superiors found. Roberts was given a plan for improvement and counseled on his language and other “issues and concerns,” though they were not detailed.
Police spokesperson Scott Erland said the supervisors who reviewed the arrest did not condone Roberts’ behavior. Their approval meant only that the force used in the arrest was within the parameters of the department's policy.
“To be clear, the supervisors and (internal affairs) are only reviewing the force itself, not the entirety of the circumstances that led to it,” he wrote in an email to Knox News.
Beyond that, Erland said, determining the legality of an officer's actions is up to a judge, like in Clark’s case, and the officers themselves, who are accountable to the department and the public.
“Sworn officers take an oath of office and, given that, they are expected to be as accurate and detailed as possible when reporting an incident and only swear to charges that they have the probable cause to pursue,” Erland wrote.
Sandford pulls no punches in his evaluation of Roberts' behavior. “I think anyone who saw how Mr. Roberts treated Ms. Clark should have been concerned about him carrying a badge and a gun.The footage clearly shows him engage in misconduct and then lie about it, yet he remained on patrol.
“It was not surprising that he was found to have engaged in further misconduct a short time later,” he continued. “It erodes trust in law enforcement when officers are not held accountable for their misconduct.”
Roberts, through his attorney T. Scott Jones, declined to comment for this story.
Sean McDermott, assistant Knox County district attorney, said prosecutors' role is to determine whether criminal charges are warranted. As such, the DA will not open an investigation into Clark’s arrest.
“We do not review cases to determine whether violations of civil law or violations of departmental policies and procedures occurred as those determinations would be outside the purview of this office," McDermott said.
"Reports of departmental policy violations or Internal Affairs complaints do not fall under the scope of the DA’s office unless those violations also include violations of criminal statutes, as evidenced by the prosecution of former KPD officer Roberts.”
Roberts' next chase ends in a crash
Seven weeks after Clark’s court hearing, during which all of the charges against her were dismissed, Roberts attempted to pull over Siara Davis, 24, for an expired tag along Oglewood Avenue in North Knoxville.
She took off, and Roberts lawfully pursued.
The chase went sideways from there.
Unlike in Clark’s case, Roberts attempted to cover up his pursuit by turning off his dash camera, according to the district attorney’s office. The ploy didn’t work – the cameras automatically turn on when certain speeds are reached.
Roberts followed Davis onto Interstate 640 and both exceeded 100 mph before Davis exited at Old Broadway, then was T-boned and flipped by a car traveling through the intersection.
When other officers arrived on the scene, they repeatedly asked Roberts if he was involved in a pursuit. Even though the chase lasted 3 1/2 minutes and covered more than four miles, he insisted he was not pursuing her, the DA report says.
When filling out the warrant requests for Davis and her passenger, he lied again, a felony falsification of an official record.
In all, four cars were involved in the wreck and three people were injured, including Davis and her passenger, Xavier Nolan, who had a warrant out for his arrest.
Roberts was suspended almost immediately as KPD investigated the chase. In April, he resigned from KPD and pled guilty to destroying or tampering with records.
“We may have gotten rid of Officer Roberts due to the Ms. Davis incident,” Baker said. “But what happens the next time when something similar happens like (Trinity Clark’s arrest) and it goes up to the superior officers and the same guys are reviewing it and they rubber stamp this behavior?”
The trauma lingers
Shortly after Clark’s arrest there was a report from local station WATE-TV describing, from Roberts’ point of view, what happened on Linden Avenue that night. The story included Clark’s police mugshot and has not been taken down or updated.
If you search “Trinity Clark Knoxville” on Google, her mugshot is the first thing that appears. It’s a painful part of her life and has her worried about her future.
“I didn’t know if my school was going to be able to see (the article) or anything,” she said. “So, I really just was staying in my room doing my work just trying to make sure my grades stayed up and all that.”
Since the arrest, Clark said she feels like she's about to have an anxiety attack every time she sees an officer. She wants to begin therapy to help her cope.
“An officer could just be standing outside his car and I get real nervous, sweaty and start breathing hard and all of that,” she said. “Like, I could be in my car and the officer don’t even have to be behind me, I’m still nervous. Like, I still want to get away from the officer. I feel like I’m running.”
Still, she is a confident woman, the same person who was runner-up for homecoming queen at Austin-East Magnet High School. Home for the summer, she’s planning on working before going back to school. She plans to file her lawsuit in the coming weeks.
“I want (Roberts’) actions to be brought to light. I want him held accountable for something,” Clark said. “Because I went through something and I just feel like he shouldn’t be able to be reinstated. I don’t think that’s the right field for him, to be an officer, I just don’t.”
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) – The weekend shooting in Buffalo is sending shockwaves through communities nationwide. Leaders in Alabama are devastated to hear about what happened.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is calling the events race terrorism. On Monday, the BCRI stayed past the end of the work day to start working on a response to the tragedy in Buffalo – getting ready to host a virtual panel later this week to address racial terrorism.
“This story started generations ago and unfortunately we still have work to do,” BCRI Vice President of Education Dr. Samantha Elliott Briggs said.
The news out of Buffalo motivated Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin to send out a tweet calling the events a result of festering hate of white supremacy saying, “Birmingham knows the consequences of this hate all too well. White supremacy is a grave threat that must be rooted out of our society.”
Alabama NAACP President Bernard Simelton said it’s a fight for basic rights in 2022.
“I should not feel that someone is watching me just because of the color of my skin,” Simelton said. “We have got to get beyond that in America.”
Retired Birmingham Police Department Chief Annetta Nunn who now leads the Vicarious Trauma Response Initiative housed at One Place FJC offered this comment:
“If we don’t learn from our history it will be repeated.”
Briggs said a big way to do that is through education.
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is hosting a virtual conversation on the effects of race terrorism this Thursday at noon on all online platforms. You can learn more about it here.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Gas prices hit another record high Monday.
Everyone is feeling the sting of these high prices at the pump. With gas prices reaching a new record high, buyers told CBS 42 that they are making do, but hope relief comes sooner rather than later.
“It’s crazy for real. You wake up one day and it’s a decent price, then you go to work and it’s 30 cents higher,” Willie Lewis said.
According to AAA Alabama, the average price for a gallon of gas in the state is $4.20.
“You know it’s tough on everyone’s household. But you know it ebbs and flows,” Gary Sheffer said.
Clay Ingram, with AAA Alabama, said he expects gas prices to continue to rise through Memorial Day.
“So, over the next couple of weeks, with our demand increasing, typically that results in our prices increasing as well and unfortunately I think that will be the same this year,” Ingram said.
The higher prices have people thinking twice before hitting the road.
“As far as picking up our son and dropping him off we have to plan better. And we do everything we can at one time so we can just get out of the car and cut it off and save gas,” Lewis said.
According to Gas Buddy, Costco has the cheapest gas in Birmingham at $3.69. However, if you are not a member, the Loves station in Moody and the Murphy USA in Leeds have gas for $3.99 a gallon.
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New charter school, apartments for seniors to come to Mauldin at BridgeWay Station
Green Charter Schools is adding a sixth campus this fall at BridgeWay Station in Mauldin.
To be known as Green Upstate High School, the campus is located in the former Samsung building at the corner of Holland and Bridges roads in Mauldin.
The school "brings a signature approach to education and is creating a robust elective cycle in order to give students the experience to explore different career clusters," according to a news release.
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The Upstate campus is the third location in Greenville County for the charter school. It has two campuses in Greenville, one in Spartanburg, one in Irmo and one in North Charleston.
"Our new campus at Bridgeway Station is an exciting next step in our efforts to serve more students in our personalized schools,” Green Charter Schools executive director Tom Cronin said. “We are also excited to have Chase Willingham leading those efforts as our founding principal."
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Independent senior apartments proposed in BridgeWay Station
Mauldin's planning commission and building codes departments approved a zoning change within the BridgeWay Station planned development to allow a 152-unit housing complex aimed at senior living.
City Council had a first reading of the ordinance Monday night.
The four-story building proposed by Buvermo Investments would consist of market-rate apartments for seniors 55 and older. Access would be from internal corridors and there would be 167 parking spaces, including garage space.
The current zoning of non-residential, intended for the failed Project Koala, allows for light industrial and office space. An independent senior living facility would generate less traffic than either of those options, the developer said.
Arden at Mauldin would be tucked behind Cooper's Lake on approximately seven acres and include recreational facilities and a dog park for its residents. While the Comprehensive Plan designates the parcel as an "employment center," properties in the immediate vicinity also include subdivision, retail, mixed-use and the new charter school.
If the project will generate more than 100 peak hour trips or is expected to increase the peak hour trips by more than 25%, the applicant will be required to provide a traffic impact study before the final development plan can be approved, according to city staff.
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KINGSVILLE, Texas — A young boy in Kingsville bit off a little more than he could chew after he ordered over 30 cheeseburgers from his local McDonald's.
According to Kingsville resident Kelsey Burkhalter Golden, her son Barrett took her phone and placed an order with DoorDash without her knowledge.
"My son was playing with my phone, I thought he was taking pictures but when I looked back on my thing it was ordered at the time he was playing with my phone," Golden said.
While some parents may have been upset at the situation, Golden decided to use the delivery as an act to to be generous. She took to Facebook to give the burgers away to anyone who wanted them, and ended up receiving some responses.
"There's somebody coming in ten minutes to pick some up, but I don't know how many she wants," Golden said.
Despite having offers to take some of the cheeseburgers off her hands, Golden said that she intends to take preventive measures to make sure the situation never happens again.
"I guess I need to hide the app or something because Door Dash is not protected," Golden said.
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The 11-year-old girl shot and killed when law enforcement sources say two people on a moped opened fire at a group of men on a Bronx street corner in broad daylight has been identified, authorities said Tuesday, as the hunt for the child's killers intensifies.
Kyhara Tay was with family members when she was shot in the stomach while on Westchester Avenue in Longwood Monday evening. She died at Lincoln Hospital.
Law enforcement sources say Tay doesn't appear to have been the intended target, No one else was wounded.
The girl, who was struck by a bullet in the stomach, was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where she died. She was with family members at the time of the shooting.
Surveillance video released by police shows a man running down nearby Fox Street, apparently being chased by the two moped riders. The man riding on the back opened fire, the video showed. The child was half a block away from where the gun was fired.
The two men on the moped, both wearing dark-colored sweatshirts, immediately fled from the scene of the shooting, heading north on Fox Street.
Witnesses described the horrifying aftermath.
"The girl, she just kept saying 'Ow, ow, ow' and holding her stomach. We were trying to figure out where she got shot at, we checked her leg there was nothing," said witness Maya Jones. "She kept holding different places, then she stopped responding."
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"When I heard her age I broke down, because it's like, she just came from school, and it's like, why her? Why it had to be her? Why y'all doing this?" Jones added.
The girl was at least the second young child to be shot in the Bronx in 2022. In January, an 11-month-old girl, just days away from her first birthday, was shot in the face while sitting in a car with his mother in the Bronx. That victim left the hospital just days ago after having to relearn how to eat and walk again on her own.
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Philadelphia police believe a love triangle led to a shootout on a West Philadelphia street early Tuesday morning.
Two men were shooting at each other on the 5400 block of Media Street around 1:30 a.m., Philadelphia police said.
Officers responded after receiving several 911 calls to find a man in his 30s lying in the street shot at least once in the chest, police said. He was unresponsive and later pronounced dead at the hospital.
Detectives spoke with a woman who witnessed the shooting and knew both men, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
Police said at least 14 shots were fired. The victim’s gun and a magazine were found at the scene.
The other gunman ran off, but police said they know who did it and expect to make a quick arrest.
Entering Tuesday, there were at least 178 homicides in Philadelphia in 2022. That's down 9% from the same time last year, which was ultimately the city's deadliest on record.
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TUPELO • The Lee County Board of Supervisors has approved spending $110,000 to make emergency repairs to the county jail’s locking mechanism, a decision that reignited discussion of the aging facility's future.
On Monday, county supervisors unanimously approved a $110,000 bid from Tupelo-based Prime Logic Inc. to repair the jail’s electronic locking system, which has been out of service since April 30. Jailers are currently using manual locks for all exterior doors, fence gates, the medical center and booking pods.
County Administrator Bill Benson said a broken control panel’s failure caused the malfunction, but the reason for its failure was unknown.
“There is no way to prove exactly what happened, but it does qualify for an emergency purchase because we need to have locks,” he said.
Under state law, most expenditures of more than $5,000 require the county to advertise for bids, a process that can take weeks. With emergency purchases, county officials can bypass that process and simply obtain quotes.
According to Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson, the jail’s locks have been a continual problem over the last decade. The county spent $80,000 to repair the lock system in 2018 when a broken control panel led to all interior doors needing to be manually activated.
Johnson told the Daily Journal on Monday that there was no estimated date for the repairs. Benson said the county was waiting on parts to make the repairs necessary to bring the locks back into working order.
Spending reignites discussion of replacement jail
The hefty expenditure to fix the jail’s aging lock system sparked the return of an ongoing discussion of the facility’s future.
On Monday, all board members seemed to agree construction of a new jail needed to be a priority, but differed on how to go about getting the work done.
District 5 Supervisor Billy Joe Holland said the county should hire an architect to give the board a more solid idea of what elements a new Lee County Jail would need and how much it would cost. It’s an idea he first floated in November.
District 3 Supervisor Wesley Webb agreed with Holland’s suggestion, noting that costly repairs like those to the locking mechanism were bound to crop up again and again.
“I just feel like we are throwing away money fixing this when we can solve the problem,” Webb said.
But Board President and District 1 Supervisor Phil Morgan said the board needed to move past studies.
“We’ve done study after study,” Morgan said. “When it gets down to the nitty-gritty of how we are going to pay for it, it falls apart.”
In April, supervisors unanimously voted to rescind their intent to issue an $85 million general bond obligation that would have largely been used to fund the construction of a new jail. The board originally approved advertising its intent to issue the bonds on July 6, 2021.
Board members said they wanted to delay issuing any bonds until “more concrete” figures can be provided for the jail project.
Morgan said he didn’t want to return to the discussion until the rest of his fellow supervisors were ready to move forward with the project.
“I am not spending any more money on (studies),” he said. “We know what we need.”
Board considering price hike for housing prisoners
The county board is also considering a price hike for housing inmates from Tupelo and other outside municipalities.
The county currently charges $25 per inmate per day to house prisoners from outside of Lee County. But according to the Lee County sheriff, the cost to actually house an inmate for a day is closer to $41.
Morgan asked Tupelo Mayor Todd Jordan, who attended Monday’s meeting, if the city could shoulder the increase, should it be enacted.
“I’d have to see where we are, but I think we’d be fine,” Jordan said.
Jordan said the city recently contacted officials in Itawamba County, which recently opened a new jail and has begun accepting inmates from outside the county, and was told they would house inmates at a cost of $25 per pay.
Jordan told the Daily Journal that the city was working on a contract with Itawamba County.
“We are just looking at other options because we are limited to who we can take to the jail,” he said, noting the city only had access to 10 beds in the county jail. “We need an alternative in case we need to put someone somewhere, and there is no space.”
Holland said he favored raising the cost of housing prisoners.
“If they can’t come up with the money, they can take them somewhere else as far as I’m concerned,” he said.
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A U.S. unit of one of the world's biggest insurers will plead guilty to a years-long fraud in its investment funds, worth billions of dollars, that affected New York City bus drivers and subway conductors among others.
The blockbuster plea from Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC (AGI US), a wholly owned subsidiary of the German insurer Allianz SE, includes $6 billion in forfeiture, restitution and fines.
According to a Statement of Facts that AGI US accepted as part of the plea deal, the company engaged in a scheme for at least six years to understate the risk being taken by its Structured Alpha Funds, overstate the level of supervision of those taking the risk, and conceal information about the risk.
When markets tanked at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, investors lost billions of dollars in the funds.
The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office said the fraud affected a number of NYC Transit employees, via their pension funds' investments in the Structured Alpha funds.
Concurrent with the plea deal, federal prosecutors also unsealed an indictment against Gregoire Tournant, the former chief investment officer of the funds, charging him with conspiracy, fraud and obstruction of justice.
Two of his colleagues, Trevor Taylor and Stephen Bond-Nelson, agreed in early March to plead guilty to a variety of charges, according to papers unsealed Tuesday.
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The family of a 24-year-old escort from New Jersey whose 2010 disappearance on Long Island sparked an investigation that led to the discovery of nearly a dozen sets of remains and a search for a possible serial killer is expected to speak Tuesday, for the first time in years, on the case following the release of her 911 calls last week.
Longtime family attorney John Ray is expected to hold a press conference where he'll dispute Suffolk County law enforcement claims that the death of Shannan Gilbert was a "tragic accident." He says he'll present new evidence to support she was murdered. One of her sisters, Sherre Gilbert, is also expected to speak.
Shannan Gilbert disappeared in Oak Beach, a quiet gated community off Suffolk County's Ocean Parkway, on May 1, 2010, after meeting with a client. Three 911 calls were made that night, including a near-22-minute one from Gilbert herself. All three calls were released Friday, years after a court order to do so.
In sharing the never-before-heard calls in their entirety, Suffolk County authorities offered an explanation of their analysis -- and reiterated a theory that has riled Gilbert's family and advocates ever since her remains were found in a thick marsh not far from where she was last seen.
Their prevailing theory is that Gilbert's case is separate from the bodies that were found in the search for her. While 10 sets of remains were discovered between December 2010 and April 2011, investigators believe the first four -- all missing escorts who had advertised their services on Craigslist, all strangled, wrapped in burlap sacks and dumped within a quarter-mile stretch of Ocean Parkway -- were killed by one person.
Suffolk County law enforcement has said they don't believe Gilbert was killed by a person at all. They believe she got disoriented and succumbed to the elements. Her skeletal remains were found about a year and a half after she vanished.
An autopsy proved inconclusive as far as her cause of death. A private pathologist hired by the Gilbert family also found insufficient evidence to determine how she died. But the pathologist, the noted Michael Baden, who has been hired to do independent autopsies by George Floyd's family and others, did say Gilbert's remains showed signs that could be consistent with manual strangulation as a potential cause.
Details on the report were previously reported by News 4. Read it here.
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Gilbert's family, especially her mother Mari, kept her case in the public eye until Mari Gilbert was brutally killed by another one of her daughters, a schizophrenic, nearly six years ago. Mari Gilbert often appeared alongside Ray at press conferences where she pushed for her daughter to be considered as a Gilgo Beach serial killer victim.
No arrests have been made and no suspects have ever been identified in the cases of the victims found amid the search for Gilbert. Investigators believe the so-called "Gilgo Four" -- Megan Waterman, Maureen Brainard-Barnes, Amber Lynn Costello and Melissa Barthelemy -- were all likely killed by the same person given the forensic evidence.
Authorities have said another killer -- or other killers -- could be responsible for the deaths of the other people found in the area in the time after Gilbert disappeared.
A $50,000 reward is being offered for information in the case that leads to an arrest. Anyone with tips about the victims or a potential suspect or suspects is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-220-TIPS (8477).
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Prosecution and defense are presenting jurors with dueling portraits of a former Philadelphia police detective accused of having sexually assaulted male suspects and witnesses over his long career.
Assistant District Attorney Brian Collins said in his opening statement Monday that the case against 55-year-old Philip Nordo was about “power and corruption,” The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Nordo, he said, was a detective who “had all the power to do what he wanted.”
Defense attorney Michael van der Veen, however, called his client a dedicated officer who won awards and praise from superiors. He dismissed those accusing Nordo of wrongdoing as “criminals, and liars, and thieves” whose accounts were inconsistent and lacked corroborating evidence.
Prosecutors last week dropped more than half of the charges originally filed, citing an inability to locate one of his accusers. Nordo has denied wrongdoing and last week rejected an offer to plead guilty to four charges, the newspaper reported.
The 2019 grand jury presentment accused Philip Nordo of rape, sexual assault, intimidation and the theft of city funds. The investigation led to a review of his police work and contributed to the reversal of several homicide convictions, including one involving a special needs athlete killed over his headphones.
Authorities alleged in the grand jury report that Nordo used his position to intimidate and groom male suspects and witnesses into sexual acts. The report said the meetings took place in hotel rooms, interview rooms and police vehicles, sometimes after Nordo displayed his firearm. The theft charge involves allegations that Nordo filed false claims for $20,000 in city reward money and other funds to give to victims.
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Orphaned coyote pup mistaken for dog becomes foster brother of rescued RI pup
A coyote pup rescued in Rhode Island this spring is "getting along swimmingly" with her foster brother, a pup rescued in Massachusetts, according to a wildlife rehabilitation agency on Cape Cod.
Wildlife rehabilitators brought the orphaned pups together to help them "maintain their wild instincts," the Cape Wildlife Center said in a Facebook post.
The Massachusetts coyote was mistaken for a lost puppy dog when a Massachusetts family found him "wandering and distressed by the side of a busy road," the Cape Wildlife Center said.
The family took him home before realizing their mix-up.
More:With owls dropping from trees and orphaned fox pups, spring is busy for animal rescuers
The Rhode Island coyote pup was found on the side of a busy road in Smithfield in late April and brought to the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island. About two weeks old, her eyes were just starting to open and she was being fed by bottle.
"My assumption is something happened with mom and this little girl got dropped," Kristin Fletcher, executive director of the Wildlife Rehabilitators Association of Rhode Island said in April.
Rhode Island rescuers later transferred the pup to the Cape Cod agency in Barnstable, and the pair are being brought together gradually.
"It was a little slow at first, but once they felt each other out they quickly began to bond," Cape Wildlife said in a Facebook post. "Before long they were wrestling and playing with each other, which is a crucial to their normal development."
Rescuers took a little extra time to introduce the pair because the female rescued in Rhode Island is about two weeks younger and is smaller than the male.
More:Expert: Would-be coyote trapper making Newport coyote problem worse
"Due to the size discrepancy we are not leaving them together full time yet, but they will spend a couple hours a day together so that they continue to bond," Cape Wildlife said. "Once the female is a little larger they will move into a larger cage together where we will provide natural climbing items, enrichment activities, and regular health checks."
Human contact is limited.
"Our primary goal is to raise the pair as naturally as possible. When it comes time for release it is critical that they have the skills they need to survive and have a healthy fear of humans," Cape Wildlife said. "Having a sibling to model behavior from goes a long way towards maintaining their wild instincts and we are so grateful that these two bonded so quickly."
Fletcher said previously, "They're raised together, and they're released together."
As rescuers prepare the pups for life in the wild, each will need about 300 pounds of "specialty food," along with regular veterinary checks and preventative medications and vaccines, Cape Wildlife said.
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ROCHESTER, Minn.-Gov. Tim Walz signed the Opioid Response Bill into law on May 11, kickstarting the disbursement of funds from the $26 billion dollar national opioid settlement.
Attorney General Keith Ellison's website states Minnesota will receive more than $222 million dollars from the national settlement, with more than $4 million dollars going to Olmsted County and $1.6 million dollars going toward the city of Rochester.
Ellison's website said payments will be made from opioid giants McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen and Johnson and Johnson.
The Minnesota Department of Health lists opioids as the most used drug in 2020 associated with fatal and non fatal overdoses in Olmsted County in nearly 20 years.
MDH data shows that 16 people died from opioids in 2020, with another 48 becoming hospitalized.
Zumbro Valley Health Center Director of Substance Use Programs, Corey Kanz, said he hopes the funds are used to promote opioid education, as well as the hiring of professionals to help with rehabilitation and treatment.
"We are constantly in collaborative efforts with the emergency room and with those collaborative efforts we are trying to try to cut down on the individuals that are falling into this pattern over and over again and I think that money would be very well spent trying to reduce that recidivism rate and how to get warm handoffs to placements around the area or the state," Kanz said.
The City of Rochester tells KIMT amounts from the opioid settlement could change due to legal fees and other expenses.
The City has not yet disclosed how it will utilize the funds.
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WACO, Texas — The Baylor community is mourning the loss of one of its own following the deadly church shooting that happened in California over the weekend where one died.
On Monday, Baylor University tweeted that Dr. John Cheng, 52, died on Sunday after he was shot and killed by the gunman who opened fire at Geneva Presbyterian Church in Orange County, Calif.
"... literally taking the bullet for fellow congregants while heroically tackling the gunman at an Orange County church," BU tweeted.
The university added that he was also a Baylor Bear who graduated with the Class of 1991.
The Orange County Sheriff, Don Barnes, hailed Cheng as a hero, saying the shooting could've been more devastating if he didn't tackle the gunman and allowed other church-goers to tackle and take the man down. Cheng was fatally shot in the process.
"Without the actions of Dr. Cheng, it is no doubt that there would be numerous additional victims in this crime," Barnes said. ".... He saved the lives of probably upwards of dozens of people the way this individual was prepared."
Cheng was the only person who died from the shooting. Five other people were also injured.
Cheng was known as a highly-regarded sports physician with South Coast Medical Group. He was also a parent of two children, according to the biography posted on the group's website.
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AUSTIN, Texas — On Monday, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced its summer predictive models for electricity supply and demand. ERCOT said there will be enough power throughout the summer months.
Experts with Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy and Austin Energy say diversity in power generating sources will be key.
"It's not just about having a power plant around that is available to produce 24/7, 365 [days a year]," Dr. Melissa Lott, the director of research at Columbia's Center on Global Energy Policy, said. "It's about having a mix of technologies that keeps our power bills low."
Lott, who lives in Austin, added each energy producer has trade-offs.
"Every single one of our types of power plants can unexpectedly trip offline, especially if they're not maintained properly," Lott said. "If we're going to have hotter summers moving forward more consistently, how can we be building on a system that can handle those things and do it at the same time, keeping power prices low?"
Lott outlined solar power does really well this time of year because of longer sunnier days, while wind power operates below 100% capacity because it's not as windy this time of year, especially during the day. Her main tradeoff for fossil fuel and natural gas come at the expense of environmental concerns.
"I have a lot of confidence in our ability – the technology exists," Sara Norris, who heads Austin Energy's Customer Renewable Solutions Programs, said. "It's about being smarter about how we implement it, deploy the technology."
According to Norris, at any given time on any given day, Austin's power production comes from a variety of resources.
"We're not putting all of our eggs in one basket in terms of doubling down on natural gas or going all in on wind and solar," Norris said. "We're trying to diversify."
Both Norris and Lott argue using different power generators helps keep prices low as the demand for electricity changes.
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SAN ANTONIO — Personal information, including Social Security numbers, was accessible on the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) website for three years.
As many as 1.8 million people were at risk for identity theft between March 2019 and January 2022, a state audit finds.
A coding error made public Social Security numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and certain medical records. The data should've only been accessible to Texas Department of Insurance workers.
The problem has been corrected, the department says.
"TDI worked with a forensics company to search the web for evidence of misuse of the information and no evidence has been found to date," a department spokesperson told KENS 5 Monday. "Because the forensic investigation could not conclusively rule out that information may have been viewed outside of TDI, we took steps to notify those who may have been affected."
The department will send letters to the 1.8 million workers who filed compensation insurance claims during the three-year window. The state is offering those Texans free access to credit monitoring and identity protection services for a year.
People who do not get a letter may also be eligible for free services, as long as they filed a workers' compensation claim after 2006. Texans can confirm whether their data was on the web application by calling 855-248-7100 on weekdays between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
"My best advice is to freeze your credit," said Ted Rossman, Bankrate.com's senior industry analyst. "This is really impactful because it prevents lenders from seeing your credit report. If they can't see it, they won't issue credit. The bad guys can't open a loan or a credit card in your name."
Those who freeze their credit will need to undo the move before they apply for a loan or open a new account.
Texans should also regularly monitor their credit reports, Rossman said.
Because data breaches are increasingly common, Rossman added that Americans should assume their data is publicly available and take steps to secure their accounts.
The Texas Department of Insurance says "it's reviewing and enhancing policies, procedures, and security efforts" to prevent another breach.
The department offers more resources for potential victims here.
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A 51-year-old Lincoln man shot himself in the foot after driving to another man's house and sending threatening text messages to the man and his own wife, police said in court records.
Paul Meder was arrested and charged with terroristic threats, a felony, after an ongoing dispute with his wife and a 50-year-old man who lives nearby ended with a self-inflicted gunshot wound Thursday afternoon, Lincoln Police Sgt. Tu Tran said in the affidavit for Meder's arrest.
Meder left his house, near 37th Street and Sheridan Boulevard, around 3:30 p.m. Thursday after a "heated argument" with his wife over the 50-year-old man, Tran said in the affidavit.
Minutes later, Meder sent his wife a photo of the man's house, and she later told police Meder had threatened to beat and shoot the man before taking his own life, Tran said.
A short time later, though, Meder texted his wife and said he had shot himself in the foot, according to police.
He was transported to a local hospital and treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Police confiscated the firearm, Tran said.
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The next day, police arrested Meder at his parents' house and took him to the Lancaster County jail. He paid $3,500 to be released on bond Monday afternoon.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
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Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
Reach the writer at 402-473-7223 or awegley@journalstar.com.
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A Hickman man is suing the Norris School District for $100 million — more than three times its annual budget — claiming he missed his child's first grade school year because of the district's mask mandate and a no-trespass order.
In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Monday, Conan Thomas alleges Norris violated his constitutional rights by requiring masks last August before the Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department established its own mandate.
Thomas, who does not list an attorney, also claimed a no-trespass order handed down to him from the district in September prevented him from experiencing his child's first grade year. The order, which barred him from school property, came after Thomas was denied a religious exemption from the district's mask rules and communicated his disdain through letters, emails and phone calls to school board members.
According to a letter sent to Thomas from Brian Maschmann, the district's associate superintendent, the messages became "increasingly hostile and threatening towards the District and its staff members."
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Officials determined that Thomas posed a threat to the district and barred him from Norris property and school-sponsored activities during the 2021-22 school year.
Thomas, who says in the lawsuit that he is a combat veteran and volunteer firefighter, claims the district aggravated his post-traumatic stress disorder and cast him in a "bad light" in the Norris community.
"A percentage of my community which I selflessly serve deem me a violent threat to my (child's) school," he wrote in the suit.
He also said the district refused to comply with a records request and violated the Open Meetings Act by not allowing him to attend board meetings. Through a Freedom of Information Act filing, Thomas sought emails between Norris administrators and the board concerning him. The district determined it would cost more than $17,000 to complete the request.
Thomas, who is also running for Lancaster County sheriff on the Libertarian ticket, is asking for $100 million in damages for the lost school year. The annual budget for Norris, located 12 miles south of Lincoln, is just more than $30 million.
Superintendent John Schwartz said the district does not comment on pending legal matters.
Contact the writer at zhammack@journalstar.com or 402-473-7225. On Twitter @HammackLJS
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Town leaders are calling on food trucks and vendors to make their good eats available to festival-goers during Jonesborough Days on July 2-3, 2022.
Concession hours will run from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. that Saturday and from 12-10 p.m. on Sunday. Food vendors can snag a 10×10 space for $250, with additional footage available in 5-foot increments for $125. Those that need electricity will see an additional $50 fee, and there is a $25-non-refundable fee to apply. However, festival organizers will return application fees for vendors that are not selected.
Food vendors can apply to add their menu to the mix by submitting an application available on the Jonesborough Days website here. Friday, May 27 marks the deadline for submissions. Other vendor options include those for crafts. Groups or organizations that wish to march in a parade that travels down Main Street to kick off the festival can apply here.
The decades-old tradition attracts thousands of people over the Fourth of July weekend, bringing them to the heart of Tennessee’s oldest town on Main Street and the surrounding area to enjoy a weekend of games, local shopping, live music, storytelling, a parade, fireworks, local eats and more.
The festival, according to the Jonesborough Days website, has garnered national recognition as one of the top events in the Southeast. It is known for its celebration of patriotism and airs a nostalgic atmosphere as families experience a bustling Jonesborough jam-packed with activities.
Over 70 local artists will display crafts and wares available for purchase, such as jewelry, apparel, hand-made toys for children and adults, household decor and more. To read more about Jonesborough Days and what to expect from the 51st annual festival, click here.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Students will have more opportunities to gain career-ready skills inside the classroom after Kingsport City Schools (KCS) launched a partnership with an organization that provides profession-based learning programs to students.
The Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) Network provides a classroom setting that immerses students in professional cultures to prepare them for the workplace and help them achieve both high school and college credits.
On Tuesday morning, KCS leaders signed an agreement with the network to jumpstart a partnership that will give students more resources to excel after graduation.
“We are thrilled to enter into a partnership with such a well-established, innovative support network that will assist in providing our high school students opportunities to develop career-ready skills,” said KCS Superintendent Dr. Jeff Moorhouse. “Working along with our current established community partners, this is the next step in ensuring our students have the skills they need to be successful in a wide range of career opportunities after graduation.”
Each CAPS course works around five core values, including the following:
- Profession-based learning
- Professional skills development
- Self-discovery and exploration
- Entrepreneurial mindset
- Responsiveness
A news release detailed that CAPS acts as “an example of how business, community and public education can partner to produce personalized learning experiences that educate the workforce of tomorrow, especially in high-skill, high-demand jobs.”
According to the CAPS website, the network helps students identify their strengths while supporting them as they develop new skills.
Its partnership marks the second of its kind in Tennessee and the only current alliance with a Tri-Cities school system. To learn more about the program, click here.
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First-ever Drag Queen Story Hour a 'resounding success' at Taunton Public Library
TAUNTON — Not even the organizers of Taunton’s first Drag Queen Story Hour expected the level of attention they received on Saturday, May 14. Roughly 65 to 70 people — families, parents, and children — filled the lower auditorium of the Taunton Public Library, almost exceeding capacity for that venue.
“It’s a resounding success,” exclaimed Mija Almeida, a member of the SouthCoast LGBTQ+ Network in charge of organizing and expanding programs and events into Taunton.
Despite the controversy and negativity expressed through social media in the days prior, Drag Queen Story Hour — where drag queens read heavily illustrated books to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores — happened smoothly with no issues or public uproar.
Drag queen Monica Moore read three age-appropriate stories to the children: "Worm Loves Worm"; "Strictly No Elephant"s; and "Pete the Cat." All these stories carried messages of diversity, inclusion, and individuality.
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“I feel it’s so important for kids to grow up with and be around different types of people in the world,” said Moore, who did a good job at keeping the kids engaged and inquisitive.
In addition to stories, there was also assorted arts and crafts for kids, as well as a raffle for toys at the end of story time.
Eileen Dugas, executive director of SouthCoast LGBTQ+ Network, stated that based on its success, they intend on having more drag queen story hours in Taunton.
The event is part of the SouthCoast LGTBQ+ Network’s efforts to expand across the region, such as the upcoming Taunton Pride Festival, which is happening Saturday, June 11, from noon to 5 p.m. at Hopewell Park.
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The Taunton Pride Festival will have music, drag queens walking around and performing all day, assorted food and product vendors and many different health and wellness organizations in attendance.
There will also be a children’s area which will provide such activities as face painting, arts and crafts and life-sized interactive versions of games Connect Four and Jenga.
To learn more about or volunteer with the Taunton Pride Festival, contact the SouthCoast LGBTQ+ Network.
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BEAVERCREEK — Lima-based Midwest Shooting Center is bringing an indoor shooting range to the old Lofino’s Market in Beavercreek.
The company’s new location, located in the Beaver Valley Shopping Center off of North Fairfield Road, is one of four new locations the company plans to roll out later this year, the other three being Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Twinsburg, near Cleveland.
“It’s been a phenomenal business for us. It speaks volumes to taking this more beginner-centric more inviting approach within this industry,” CEO David Sabo said. “This is going to be a beacon inside this industry once we’re open. We spare no expense in terms of modern technology, everything from our bullet traps to range HVAC.”
The 35,000 square foot facility in Beavercreek will include 22 indoor lanes, comprised of two bays, a gunsmith department, and between $1.3 million and $1.5 million in retail. The company also offers classes and semi-private firearms training, including beginners training and CCW courses.
The Beavercreek center will create 25 jobs in the first year, Sabo said, with room for expansion, and each of their locations has typically opened with 1500 members. Each Midwest Shooting Center averages between 2500 and 3000 members per location, and serves 6,000-8,000 customers per week.
Sabo and co-owner Jeff Swinford, both former U.S. Marine Corps Officers, started off in retail-only gun sales, opening their Lima location in 2019. The pandemic saw a run on guns, but didn’t affect Midwest’s firearm sales that much, Sabo said.
“Really the long-standing benefit of pandemic is that it brought a lot of new shooters to the industry,” Sabo said. “As a trend it’s been happening since the year 2000. It’s an extremely steady growth rate in this industry.”
At least 5.4 million people purchased a firearm for the first time in 2021, according to a retail study by the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Nearly 30% of all firearm purchases last year went to new gun owners, down from 40% in 2020.
The old Lofino’s Marketplace is currently in a “dilapidated” state, Sabo said, and has been vacant for six years, per city records. The renovation and purchase cost of the Beavercreek property was $7.5 million, with the total development project upwards of $10 million, Sabo said. The company is anticipating a five-month construction period, which includes tearing down the old Lofino’s gas station, repaving the parking lot, as well as complete exterior and interior renovation to look “virtually brand new,” Sabo said. The goal is to be open before Black Friday.
“The pre-marketing enthusiasm that we’re getting out of Beavercreek, it’s been pretty unique. I think it’s going to be a great location for us,” Sabo said. “With the last round of expansion, we didn’t have the name recognition in those markets. What sets Beavercreek apart is it’s right down the road.”
The company currently operates four locations in Lima, Fort Wayne, Sylvania and Pittsburgh.
The company’s Lima location already draws a significant customer base from Dayton and surrounding suburbs, he added.
“We feel fortunate for where the business is right now,” Sabo said. “Whenever you start a business, it’s a process. You can’t do everything at once. When we opened Lima there were a lot of unknowns. Today, we are really synergistic.”
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Law enforcement officials from North Bend, the Coos Bay Sheriff’s Office, Oregon State Police and other agencies arrested a woman who broke into the Southwest Oregon Regional Airport in North Bend recently and stole an airport van.
The woman used the van to joy ride for close to an hour, most of it being followed by police, before wrecking the van and being taken into custody.
During the ordeal, airport operations were closed down, and there was no threat to either commercial or private flights coming to or leaving the airport.
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Flagstaff high schoolers gathered in front of city hall Monday morning to protest the leaked Supreme Court document indicating a potential overturn of Roe v. Wade.
About 20 students from BASIS Flagstaff left school from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and lined up on the sidewalk in front of city hall, holding handmade signs. Several cars honked as they passed, and every time, the students cheered.
These students are the latest in a series of protests against the potential decision, including a Bans Off Our Bodies March held Saturday.
Ninth graders Samantha Molengraft, Gretchen Faus, Nadia Wilson, and Ariel Gilmore had organized the protest as part of a civics project for an AP government and politics class. Molengraft said the students had been working with teachers and the school’s administration about the protest and handing out flyers over the past week.
“We’re protesting the whole decision, the leaked draft about overturning Roe v. Wade,” she said. “I guess we just hope to bring more attention about it and to try and fight for our rights.”
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She said they were hoping Roe v. Wade would not be overturned and that they could raise awareness of how important abortion–and access to it–really is.
She said it “felt like the right time” to hold the protest.
“It’s the most prevalent issue with us right now," she said. "…To bring the youth into it too felt important, because I know it can be harder to get youth involved in things.”
Eleventh graders Naomi Crowder, Alina Skrocki and Jenna Crumb and ninth grader Niya Crowder were among the BASIS students who showed up to the protest Monday morning. They said the potential overturn of Roe v. Wade meant it was “really important to advocate for it right now.”
“I just care a lot about the rights of women and I feel like everyone should have their own choice and have a chance to say over that,” Crowder said of her reasons for coming to the protest. “...I hope people’s eyes are opened to that it’s actually a choice and that they don’t have to have [an abortion] if they don’t want it, but that should be up to us and not to them at all.”
Skrocki added that people should better educate themselves on what abortion actually means.
“Abortion isn’t just a women’s issue,” Molengraft said. “It applies to anyone who can get pregnant. It is crucial to our rights and to our healthcare and to how we are represented in the community.”
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May 17 is World Hypertension Day, coming in the middle of Stroke Awareness Month. Flagstaff cardiologist Dr. Larry Gaul gave advice for prevention and warning signs of both conditions.
Gaul began his career as a college dropout, he said, later becoming a paramedic and then medical director of an ICU in Vail, Colorado. Afterward, he became the chief medical officer for the U.S. Olympic Ski Team for over a decade. He’s also a rock climber and ultra runner, participating in the Leadville Trail 100 and other long-distance running races.
He now works at Northern Arizona Healthcare’s (NAH) Cardiovascular Institute (CVI), seeing patients for things like consultation and follow-up appointments. This includes managing stroke-related conditions such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia (high cholesterol), he said.
“In the old days, meaning a couple years ago…[stroke] was called a brain attack and that’s really the way I look at it,” Gaul said. “It’s the same as a heart attack, basically, where the supply to the brain is interrupted.”
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Those most at risk, he said, are people who are overweight, have unmanaged cholesterol, high blood pressure or a family history of the condition.
Ways NAH recommended lowering risk factors for heart health and stroke is to have regular blood pressure readings and take steps to lower them, quitting smoking and reducing alcohol consumption, lowering cholesterol and managing diabetes with a healthcare provider.
“Everyone should be paying more attention,” Gaul said. “But if you’re overweight, have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, those are the big things.”
Stroke warning signs can vary. Gaul advised looking for “unusual things that are neurologically oriented–grasping, tripping, walking, suddenly not being able to do things. There are certain strokes that cause dizziness….Anything like that where you say, ‘Geez, I used to be able to do that and now I can’t and the question is why.”
Warning signs NAH listed include drooping on one side of the face, confusion, severe headaches and numbness as well as having trouble with speech, walking or vision.
“A stroke is an emergency and every second counts in reducing risk of death or disability–call 911 immediately if you suspect you are having a stroke,” according to NAH.
Knowing your blood pressure numbers is key to avoiding stroke and heart disease, Gaul said.
“There’s still an enormous number of people who have no idea what their blood pressure is and they remain undiagnosed,” he said.
He recommended people get their blood pressure checked by a professional at least a few times a year. This can be at a primary care physician’s office or a public health station in a mall, though he said automated blood presure machines are not always accurate. Those that have a home blood pressure machine should take them to their doctor to be recalibrated regularly, another cardiologist, Dr. Sanjiv Faldu added.
While, “there’s no question that prevention is the way to go” with stroke and hypertension, Gaul said, “doctors don’t do preventive medicine, patients do.”
Ways to lower blood pressure can be divided into pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic, he said– basically, whether they use medicines.
“Unequivocally, the most important thing I see these days is people with weight gain,” he said. “I personally have never seen a single person who lost weight whose blood pressure didn’t come down.
Stroke and hypertension prevention measures are similar to those for heart disease prevention. Methods Gaul mentioned included exercise, not eating too much and avoiding salt.
Even processed foods that claim to be low sodium contain “remarkable” amounts of salt, he said, so checking labels is important. He said the recommendation is to choose foods that have less than 200 milligrams of sodium per serving.
“No matter how much you eat [of those], you’ll be in good shape for the day,” he said.
CVI appointments can be made by calling 1-844-89HEART (894-3278). More about the Institute is available at nahealth.com/cardiovascular-services.
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Residents are on the lookout after police said a bear was spotted in a Montgomery County neighborhood Monday night.
Police in Hatfield Township received multiple calls about the bear in the area of Woodview Drive and Line Lexington Road – not far from Route 309 – the department said in a Facebook post.
Hatfield Township police posted two pictures of the bear, as well.
The Pennsylvania Game Commissioner has been notified, police said.
“Be mindful of letting your pets outside during the evening and keep your trash cans closed as best as possible,” Hatfield police advised.
Officers also said do not to approach the bear if you see it.
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Earlier this month, a bear on the loose in a heavily populated section of Delaware County. The Delco bear was safely captured after about a day and relocated.
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by: Austin Franklin Posted: May 17, 2022 / 08:29 AM CDT Updated: May 17, 2022 / 08:56 AM CDT SHARE BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Each week on CBS 42 Morning News we’ll break down the latest developments in the upcoming World Games 2022. Watch the segment from May 17 in the video player above.
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Group Therapy announces opening date for downtown Greenville location
Greenville's first interactive entertainment venue has set an opening date.
Group Therapy Pub & Playground announced on social media it will open on June 17 atdowntown Greenville's Camperdown Plaza.
Group Therapy will feature indoor entertainment in the form of wacky mini golf, axe throwing, curling and ping pong, along with Bingo and karaoke.
In addition to the immersive entertainment piece, Group Therapy will be a full restaurant and bar.
While owner Matthew Hubbard and his partners, Dustin Pelletier and Jon Cox, looked at several spaces, they ultimately chose the 19,000-square-foot-space at Camperdown.
Follow Group Therapy Pub & Playground on Instagram and Facebook at @grouptherapy.fun and find more details on the website at https://www.grouptherapy.fun/
Lillia Callum-Penso contributed to this report.
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Opponents cry foul as copper mining company begins work in the Santa Rita Mountains
Toronto-based mining company Hudbay Minerals surrendered a key operational permit and started mining operations for its Copper World project on the west slope of the Santa Rita Mountains near Tucson in what opponents say is an unorthodox and illegal move.
Hudbay has fought for years to keep three key federal permits needed to begin mining work in the Santa Ritas. But recent developments seemed to put those permits, for both the Rosemont mine and Copper World project, farther out of reach for the international mining firm.
Hudbay plans to extract copper ore in both locations. The Copper World project would sit mostly on private land and the Rosemont mine on a mix of private and public lands. Both mines require operational permits from federal agencies.
While it might be more common for a company to receive a permit and then start mining operations before a court rejects the permit, an attorney for some of the mine's opponents called the surrendering of a permit novel.
"There is no legal basis. It's totally manufactured," said Stu Gillespie, who represents several tribal nations trying to block the projects. "I mean, just imagine if a company could unilaterally surrender a permit, and then say it's no longer enforceable. That would eviscerate the Clean Water Act ... They know very well that there's no basis."
The three key permits consist of a permit to dump tailings, or mine waste, on public lands, granted by the U.S. Forest Service; an Endangered Species Act Section 7 take permit to potentially harm endangered species, authorized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; and a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit to discharge fill material, or soil, rocks and pollutants, into regulated waterways, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
An appeals court upheld a previous decision that one of those permits went beyond what was allowed, while another permit is still being reviewed in court. Hudbay surrendered the Clean Water Act permit earlier this month.
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Hudbay intends to mine on part of the east and west slopes of the Santa Rita Mountains. The company said its Rosemont mine on the east slope would produce over 5 billion pounds of copper and create up to 600 direct jobs and 2,500 indirect jobs for the 19 years it’s set to operate.
The company is still determining how much copper and how many jobs might come from its newer Copper World project, on the west slope of the Santa Ritas.
A key difference is that the Rosemont mine is partially located on federal land, and most of the Copper World project is on private land, which Hudbay bought in a series of purchases over the last few years.
On Thursday an appeals court upheld U.S. District Judge James Soto’s 2019 decision that the Forest Service acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in approving Hudbay’s entire mining plan of operations. In a 2-1 decision, the court said Hudbay has valid rights to mine on the land where its 3,000-foot deep and 6,500-foot wide pit would operate, private land that Hudbay purchased, but the 1872 Mining Law doesn’t give it permission to permanently dump mine waste on public Forest Service lands.
“Today's split decision is based on specific language used by the Forest Service in its Final EIS (2013) and Final ROD (2017) for the Rosemont Project,” Hudbay wrote in a statement to The Arizona Republic. “Hudbay is evaluating next steps for Rosemont with regards to this decision. In any event, the decision doesn't impact the company's plans to advance its Copper World project.”
Hudbay has also appealed a U.S. District Court’s rejection of its Fish and Wildlife permit. And earlier this month, Hudbay surrendered its Clean Water Act permit, arguing that it was then no longer subject to a court ruling.
“Because Rosemont has surrendered the Permit — rendering it void and without effect— Plaintiffs’ claims challenging the Corps’ actions in issuing that Permit are moot,” Hudbay’s attorneys wrote in a letter to the court. “Indeed, no effective judicial relief can be provided because there is no Clean Water Act permit to address.”
In that same letter, Hudbay’s attorneys referred to a previous case in which the judge ruled against an injunction to stop a power plant from polluting the Hudson River, since the plant had surrendered its discharge permit.
But the plant had also dismantled its station, so it couldn’t physically discharge any pollutants, said Gillespie, the attorney.
Company has started site work
Last year, the Army Corps determined Hudbay didn’t need a Clean Water Act permit after the Trump Administration ruled that ephemeral streams — or streams that flow only after rain — don’t count as “waters of the United States,” a legal description of a waterway.
The EPA criticized the Army Corps’ decision, classifying some streams as “intermittent,” meaning they flow seasonally, instead of ephemerally, according to the Arizona Daily Star. And in August 2021, a district court ruled that the Trump ephemeral streams regulation suffered from fundamental flaws and therefore had to be thrown out.
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According to drone images released in court filings, Hudbay has started filling streams that feed into the Santa Cruz River even without a Clean Water Act permit. The drone images, captured by a Center of Biological Diversity employee on four separate dates in April, show several dump trucks and bulldozers filling streams with what appears to be gravel.
Hudbay notified Pima County in late March that it would commence operations on its Copper World project. The company notified the Army Corps that it surrendered the Clean Water Act permit in a formal letter on April 28, according to company lawyers.
Gillespie, one of the attorneys representing the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe and Hopi Tribe in the suit against Hudbay and the Army Corps, maintains that Hudbay’s filling of streams and washes is illegal. They’re still awaiting a decision from the judge.
Hudbay is also fighting battles for permits at the state level, including for an extension of their certificate of environmental compliance from the Arizona Corporation Commission. The certificate will allow the company to build a utility corridor, but several environmental groups and tribal nations have opposed it.
Zayna Syed is an environmental reporter for The Arizona Republic/azcentral. Follow her reporting on Twitter at @zaynasyed_ and send tips or other information about stories to zayna.syed@arizonarepublic.com.
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Who is Frank Atwood? What to know about Arizona's next scheduled execution
The state's second scheduled execution, for Frank Jarvis Atwood, is scheduled for June 8. Atwood's execution will take place less than a month after the May execution of Clarence Dixon by lethal injection.
Arizona has now executed 39 people since 1992, Atwood being the 40th in the state's history.
Here is a look at his story:
Who is Frank Atwood?
Atwood is a 66-year-old prisoner on death row at the Florence state prison. He was sentenced in 1987 for the kidnapping and murder of an 8-year-old girl in Pima County, Vicki Lynne Hoskinson.
Atwood, originally from Los Angeles, was 28 years old in 1984 when he was arrested in Kerrville, Texas, in connection with the kidnapping of Hoskinson. He was arrested three days after her disappearance.
A month after Hoskinson's skeletal remains were found in what was then a remote desert area on Tucson's northwest side. Atwood was indicted for first-degree murder.
Previously, Atwood served three years of a five-year sentence in California for sexually assaulting a 7-year-old boy. He was deemed a "mentally disabled sex offender" in 1975 after a different California case involving child molestation.
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When was Frank Atwood put on death row?
Following his conviction in 1987, prosecutors sought the death penalty for Atwood.
Atwood claimed to be the victim of hysteria over the prominent case even after his conviction. The case caught the attention of the community in Tucson, so much so that finding a jury for the trial proved to be so difficult the trial was moved to Maricopa County.
In an interview given shortly after his sentence, Atwood continued to claim he was innocent.
"We're talking about whether a person took a life, a life of an innocent young child," he said. "That is probably the worst thing a person could do in this world. I'm not going to admit to anything I didn't do. I had no involvement in it whatsoever."
The judge presiding over the case, John Hawkins, ordered Atwood be put to death two months after he was found guilty in 1987.
In an interview with The Arizona Republic in 1987, a stunned Ron Hoskinson, father of the victim, said, "I thought it may be life because there wasn't an eyewitness. I wouldn't have been upset either way — life or death."
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Why have Atwood (and others) been on death row for so long?
Arizona's pause on executions came after Joseph Wood was put to death in July 2014. Wood was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over two hours. Witnesses to the execution say they saw Wood gasp for air for two hours.
This led to lawsuits from Wood's lawyers, suspending all executions and forcing the state to adopt a new lethal injection cocktail. The state suspended executions while it looked to revise execution protocols in compliance with court orders.
In an opinion piece with The Republic from 2019, the family of the victim have expressed their frustration with how long Atwood has remain on death row. The mother, Debbie Carlson, wrote, "His execution will not bring our precious daughter back, but it will fulfill what justice demands."
When is the execution of Frank Atwood scheduled?
The execution of Atwood is scheduled for June 8.
Since he was convicted before 1992, Atwood has the option to choose between the gas chamber or lethal injection as his method of execution.
He will need to make his decision before May 19. If he does not choose, he will be put to death by lethal injection.
Atwood's attorney, Joseph Perkovich, claimed the state has not provided enough to say whether the new lethal injection is safe and effective. The objection was echoed by lawyers for Dixon, who was executed May 11.
History of executions:What you need to know about Arizona's death row
Have a question you need answered? Reach the reporter at rromeroruiz@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @raphaeldelag.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. — Among the survivors of the mass shooting at Tops on Jefferson Avenue... is an eight-year-old girl.
She hid from the gunman in a milk cooler.
Londin Thomas was at the store with her parents Saturday when the shooting started.
"We all ran to the back where the milk freezes were at and he was shooting at the milk and the milk was leaking through the metal, but the bullet did not go through the metal. My dad was just trying to hide me."
Londin's mom says the moments when she was looking for her daughter were the most terrifying of her life.
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ROSEVILLE, Calif. — Roseville is planning for affordable housing for seniors in its downtown.
“Downtown Roseville has seen a significant transformation in the last decade. The addition of much-needed housing will further economic momentum in the area,” Economic Development Manager Wayne Wiley said in a statement.
Bridge Housing Corporation is planning to build about 70 units at 505 Royer St. The project site used to be owned by Placer County and was used as a courthouse. The former courthouse was demolished in February 2021 to make room for new developments.
The units will be age-restricted and for residents with income levels between 30%-50% of Placer county's median income. According to the Mountain Housing Council of Tahoe Truckee using data from the U.S. Department of Urban Development and California Department of Housing and Community Development, Placer County's area median income is $91,100 for 2021.
The parcel nearby will include a parking lot with 61 spaces.
This housing will help the city meet the state's affordable housing requirements which require a certain number of units in each community, according to a press release.
The city is in escrow with Bridge Housing Corporation and is estimated to close in 2023 or 2024.
View the proposed project design HERE.
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BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) — The Bristol Tennessee Police Department (BTPD) has a new member of the force with a nose for finding drugs.
According to a Tuesday release from the BTPD, K9 Nash has joined the department as Sgt. Joe Newman’s partner. Nash is a German Shorthair Pointer trained to detect narcotics like marijuana, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. The release states Nash started his police career in Indiana.
When Nash’s previous handler was promoted and transferred out of his police department’s K9 Unit, he started searching for a new place for Nash to work and use his energy.
The previous handler saw the BTPD’s announcement that K9 Scout — Sgt. Newman’s previous partner for the better part of a decade — had just retired. He decided to donate Nash to the BTPD, which the release says resulted in “tremendous savings to local taxpayers.”
BTPD Chief Matt Austin expressed gratitude to the Seymour Indiana Police Department for donating Nash and said he is optimistic about having the K9 unit at the department.
“K9s have unique skills that make them valuable members of any law enforcement agency, but there is a significant financial cost to acquiring a dog that is well suited for police work and a significant time commitment to complete the required training,” Austin said in the release. “We’re extremely fortunate that those within the Seymour Police Department made that initial investment and then allowed us to welcome Nash to our department. He and Sgt. Newman are still getting to know each other, but they’ve already demonstrated an amazing ability to work together that will serve this department and our community for many years.”
Nash and Sgt. Newman have already gained certification to work together as a narcotics detection team and currently patrol Bristol streets, assist in specialized traffic stops and visit schools “as a drug deterrent.”
When they are not on the clock, Nash resides with Newman and his family at their home.
Newman described Nash as “extremely energetic, friendly, and loves to work,” which is typical of German Shorthair Pointers who are most-often used for hunting purposes.
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KINGSVILLE, Texas — A young boy in Kingsville bit off a little more than he could chew after he ordered over 30 cheeseburgers from his local McDonald's.
According to Kingsville resident Kelsey Burkhalter Golden, her son Barrett took her phone and placed an order with DoorDash without her knowledge.
"My son was playing with my phone, I thought he was taking pictures but when I looked back on my thing it was ordered at the time he was playing with my phone," Golden said.
While some parents may have been upset at the situation, Golden decided to use the delivery as an act to to be generous. She took to Facebook to give the burgers away to anyone who wanted them, and ended up receiving some responses.
"There's somebody coming in ten minutes to pick some up, but I don't know how many she wants," Golden said.
Despite having offers to take some of the cheeseburgers off her hands, Golden said that she intends to take preventive measures to make sure the situation never happens again.
"I guess I need to hide the app or something because Door Dash is not protected," Golden said.
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A singalong, cellphones in the air and one magic moment. Here are three high-energy scenes from the "American Idol" watch party in support of Normal native Leah Marlene on Sunday night.
"American Idol" finalist Leah Marlene is back in her hometown of Normal today for filming with the show, and that'll include a free concert and parade tonight.
Here's what to know.
What are the parade details?
Leah Marlene will greet fans from a convertible as she makes her way to the stage during a procession along East Beaufort Street starting at 6 p.m.
What are the concert details?
The concert is at 7:30 p.m. in uptown Normal.
Primary entry for the concert will take place at the intersection of North Street and Uptown Circle, town officials said.
Attendees will be required to pass through security checks. Backpacks, purses and other non-essential bags are prohibited within the concert area.
North Street from Uptown Circle through the intersection at Broadway to Fell Avenue will be closed between 9 a.m. and noon, and reopened following the concert as soon as safely possible (estimated around 10:30 p.m.).
East Beaufort Street from Linden to Uptown Circle, and including Uptown Circle, will be signed No Parking after 4 p.m., closed at 5 p.m., and reopened following the concert as soon as safely possible (estimated around 9 p.m.).
The easternmost portion of Trail East Lot will be signed No Parking after 4 p.m., closed at 5 p.m., and reopened following the procession (estimated 7 p.m.).
When will the footage air?
The "American Idol" finale is at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 22. Marlene will be competing with two other performers, Noah Thompson and HunterGirl, for the top spot. Voting during the show will determine the winner.
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