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The regional agency responsible for distributing $50 million in state grants designed to maintain and accelerate Indiana's economic growth didn't have any formal proposals to present at its meeting Tuesday.
But that doesn't mean proposals aren't in the pipeline.
The state awarded the Northeast Indiana Regional Development Authority the money through the Regional Economic Acceleration Development Authority program, also known as READI.
Michael Galbraith, the regional development authority's consultant, said agency has received proposals for six projects vying for $17.9 million. Six more proposals have turned up recently, he said.
"We receive them almost daily," he said.
Galbraith said he could not identify the projects by name. That information will become public when a formal presentation is made.
But three are outside Allen County, he said, and most are from public/private partnerships or nonprofit organizations, as opposed to government projects.
The projects undergo extensive vetting before they are formally presented "to make sure they are robustly supported by their counties" and their local economic development groups, Galbraith said.
"We encourage projects to apply with all deliberate speed" because the state "is committed to speeding the process along," Galbraith said.
Projects awarded money must be completed -- or planned to be completed -- by the end of 2026, he said. Money must be committed from the regional development authority by June of 2023.
Projects already conditionally approved are in Allen, Huntington, Noble and Wabash counties.
Fort Wayne projects are the Gateway West expansion at Fort Wayne International Airport, Phase 2 of the riverfront project and Village Premier, a mixed-income, mixed-use neighborhood on the city's southeast side.
Legacy Heights, a 52-unit workforce housing development in Wabash; Rivergreen Housing, the renovation of a 48-unit apartment complex in Huntington and Industry 4.0: ismart Factory Lab, a training program at the Community Learning Center in Kendallville, also have conditional approval for READI grants. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/regional-development-authority-expects-more-readi-proposals/article_ffb2eb40-1824-11ed-92d9-9f784bf10323.html | 2022-08-09T23:17:06 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/regional-development-authority-expects-more-readi-proposals/article_ffb2eb40-1824-11ed-92d9-9f784bf10323.html |
A 30-year-old Kenosha man is facing numerous criminal charges for allegedly possessing and delivering drugs and maintaining a drug trafficking place.
Jeffrey J. Salituro was charged Monday in Kenosha County Circuit Court with felonies of possession with intent to deliver THC of over 2,500 grams, possession with intent to deliver psilocybin of more than 100 grams, possession of narcotic drugs and maintaining a drug trafficking place. He’s also facing misdemeanors of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Salituro made his initial appearance at Intake Court Monday where Court Commissioner imposed a $5,000 cash bond. Salituro posted the bond Tuesday, according to court records, and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Aug. 12.
In late July Kenosha Police received tips from a concerned area resident in regards to alleged drug dealing occurring at a residence in the 4000 block of Seventh Avenue, according to the criminal complaint. Salituro was identified as a primary resident
Members of the department’s special investigations unit conducted surveillance of the residence in question and reportedly witnessed multiple people enter the residence and then drive away with drugs.
Investigators later reportedly found drug paraphernalia in his garbage that was collected.
On Thursday investigators executed a search warrant on the residence. Inside the residence they reportedly found the following: 3.9 pounds of leafy marijuana; 1.75 pounds of a THC product; 130 grams of mushrooms; 3.5 grams of fentanyl; more than $4,000 in cash; Adderall and Vyvanse pills and a digital scale and smoking devices. Ten guns and ammunition for the guns were also found inside the two-story residence.
After his arrest Salituro was questioned by investigator and reportedly admitted to selling drugs.
“Jeffrey stated he knew police contact was coming because he knew people were stopped leaving his house, however it didn’t deter him,” according to the complaint. “Jeffrey stated it is his belief that mushrooms and marijuana come from ground so he’s O.K. with it.”
Three months after pleading guilty to drug dealing charges and still with three months until his sentencing, one of the Huffhines brothers was arrested after being accused of driving while inebriated.
On Tuesday, Racine Police Department officers, Kenosha Police Department officers and FBI Milwaukee Area Safe Streets Task Force reported that they executed a search warrant on Thurston Avenue.
A crash early Sunday morning involving a wrong-way car on Interstate 90 in northern Illinois left seven people dead, including five children, authorities said.
A man was arrested after a boy shot a girl in the leg, and the incident remains under investigation, Poynette Police Chief Adam Rogge said at a news conference on Tuesday. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/kenosha-man-facing-numerous-felonies-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-operating/article_2b0d43c0-1812-11ed-bbc6-f7946f2b3abc.html | 2022-08-09T23:20:44 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/kenosha-man-facing-numerous-felonies-for-alleged-drug-trafficking-operating/article_2b0d43c0-1812-11ed-bbc6-f7946f2b3abc.html |
Shooting near Bossier school leaves one dead and another injured
One man is dead while another is injured after a shooting near RV Kerr Elementary School.
Around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Bossier City Police Department was called to the 1600 block of Airline Drive. Upon arrival, officers located two victims.
Sgt. B.J. Sanford with Bossier Police Department said three men were involved in this shooting. Two of the men were driving in a gray car when the third began shooting. The car came to a stop on the lawn of a house on Oliver Street.
The two victims were transported to a nearby hospital, and police have confirmed one is dead. The shooter surrendered himself to police.
The motive is under investigation.
Bossier Parish Schools start classes on Aug. 10. No children were on RV Kerr's campus, but teachers and faculty were there.
Mario Villafuerte contributed to this story.
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/08/09/airline-drive-bossier-city-la-shooting-oliver-street/10281744002/ | 2022-08-09T23:29:31 | 1 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/08/09/airline-drive-bossier-city-la-shooting-oliver-street/10281744002/ |
DES MOINES, Iowa — EDITOR'S NOTE: The above video is from June's primary elections
Iowa’s Democratic candidate for governor pressed Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Tuesday to commit to debates ahead of the November election.
Democrat Deidre DeJear said she has asked Reynolds for three debates but has received no response to multiple invitations with about 90 days to go until the election.
“The people of Iowa have a right to hear from my opponent and I on key issues impacting our state and the respective direction we intend to move Iowa in, " DeJear said.
DeJear said third-party sponsors have reached out to Reynolds to schedule debates but have not received a response.
“The governor’s happy to debate. We’ll iron out those details as we approach the fall,” Reynolds' campaign spokesman Pat Garrett said.
Reynolds has curtailed news conferences and public schedule events since the Iowa Legislature adjourned in May and she began campaigning.
The conservative Republican endorsed by Donald Trump has a multimillion-dollar fundraising advantage; Reynolds' campaign reported $5.2 million to spend in July and DeJear just over $418,500.
A Des Moines Register Iowa Poll published in July indicated a Reynolds lead of 17 percentage points with Reynolds at 48% support and DeJear at 31%.
Reynolds won her first election in 2018 by a narrow 2.8% margin over Democratic businessman Fred Hubbell. She is seeking a second full four-year term.
This is the second time DeJear, who was a campaign organizer for President Barack Obama, has run statewide. In 2018, she became the first Black candidate to win a major party nomination for a statewide office in Iowa when she became the Democratic nominee against Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate. She was defeated in the general election. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/deidre-dejear-challenges-kim-reynolds-to-debate-2022-governor-campaign/524-6fc783bc-3a85-4843-901e-2f34e13dbdaa | 2022-08-09T23:30:04 | 1 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/local-politics/deidre-dejear-challenges-kim-reynolds-to-debate-2022-governor-campaign/524-6fc783bc-3a85-4843-901e-2f34e13dbdaa |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Multnomah County couple is suing Do Good Multnomah, a local non-profit, for allegedly kicking them out of their residence based on familial status.
Megan and James Vanness were participants in Do Good Multnomah’s (DGM’s) “Motel Based Emergency Shelter Program,” according to the lawsuit filed in early August, which says DGM describes the program as a shelter that “has transitioned into a long-term model for alternative sheltering.”
In September 2020, Megan Vanness discovered that she was pregnant, a fact which she says was shared with her DGM caseworker in late September, according to the lawsuit.
In December 2020, the Vannesses moved into DGM’s Barbur Boulevard location, the suit says. The Vannesses claim in the lawsuit that throughout their time living there, they were never issued any warning or complaints for violations of DGM’s policies until Megan Vanness was near her due date.
The Vannesses claim that around May 21, 2021, they were kicked out of the Barbur location by DGM, with the non-profit saying that the Vannesses stating they could not be a part of the program because of the forthcoming birth of their kid.
The lawsuit claims “DGM told them that it was against DGM’s policy to have their child at the residence, stating among other things that it was a ‘legal issue’ because DGM was ‘not a family shelter.’ In response, the Vannesses asserted their rights to be free from discrimination based on familial status, which DGM ignored or denied.”
The lawsuit further says “DGM also represented to the Vannesses that they could not live at the Barbur location with their child because the location could potentially house residents who were convicted of sex offenses.”
The Vannesses reported the believed wrongdoing by creating a post on Craigslist alleging DGM’s violations of the Fair Housing Rights Act. They also reached out to a nearby school, alerting them of DGM’s statements on sex offenders potentially living at the Barbur location.
The Vannesses claim this Craigslist post as well as the fact that they reached out to the school were also used against them and they were forced to leave the residence they had been living in for many months.
The lawsuit seeks the Vannesses suing Do Good Multnomah for Discrimination Based on Familial Status, because they were going to have a child, and did have a child after being evicted from their home.
According to the lawsuit, the Vannesses are seeking $450,000 plus damages as well as other equitable relief “to restrain Defendants from engaging in existing and future violations of fair housing laws.”
KOIN 6 News reached out to Do Good Multnomah, who says they have not been served yet. KOIN 6 is waiting for a response regarding their policy on sex offenders living at the shelter.
KOIN 6 News also reached out to the lawyers for the Vannesses but did not hear back.
The shelter is also close to the playground at Markham Elementary. KOIN 6 News reached out to the school district about the shelter’s proximity to the school and have not heard back.
Meanwhile, the county is named in the lawsuit, but does not have a comment. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/multnomah-county-couple-kicked-out-of-motel-shelter-due-to-pregnancy-lawsuit-alleges/ | 2022-08-09T23:32:34 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/multnomah-county-couple-kicked-out-of-motel-shelter-due-to-pregnancy-lawsuit-alleges/ |
HERKIMER, N.Y. – Demolition started Tuesday on the Herkimer building that collapsed last week, leaving one woman hospitalized when debris fell on her vehicle below.
According to Herkimer Fire Chief Mike Moody, the demolition process will be completed by Utica-based contractor Ritter & Paratore and could take up to a month to complete.
"The Mayor and the Village Board of Trustees chose to do a total demolition and a cleanup. So, basically, when Ritter-Paratore is done, the site will be cleaned and graded. The initial estimate we got as far as a time frame are somewhere between four and five weeks to complete everything" Moody said.
Moody emphasized that the story could have been very different had the building fallen differently. According to Moody, "any commercial building like that, four-story building, along the public way, the sidewalk, parking lot, residential building on the other side of it. If the collapse was any worse than it was, there was a chance it could've been much more serious than it was."
The Park Avenue building was one of many in the Village of Herkimer in a state of disrepair.
According to Moody, plans are already being developed by the Mayor and Village Board to address these issues.
"There are buildings in the community that obviously because of content load, occupancy type, age, things like that are deemed higher risk than others,” he said. “That's inherent to any community. I believe the village is in the process of developing some sort of a plan to deal with some of the things that need to be dealt with sooner rather than later. So, it remains to be seen what they come up with and how they move forward with that."
According to Chief Moody, the woman who was injured was released from the hospital. He had no further details on the extent of her injuries. | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/demolition-begins-following-roof-collapse-at-herkimer-building/article_adf06c1c-182c-11ed-acae-67669c8c84cf.html | 2022-08-09T23:33:53 | 0 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/demolition-begins-following-roof-collapse-at-herkimer-building/article_adf06c1c-182c-11ed-acae-67669c8c84cf.html |
The president of Mohawk Valley EDGE has traveled the globe, in an attempt to lure chip fab plants like Wolfspeed to the Marcy Nano site. Now, the federal government is offering $52 billion to entice tech titans to build in America. EDGE President, Steve DiMeo, hopes some of those big bucks will bode well for Marcy.
"It's put us in the conversation with several prospects who are evaluating expansion options, looking at locations across the U.S.," says DiMeo. "Now that the CHIPs has passed, they are solidifying their evaluation process, looking at timelines and making decisions in terms of what makes the most sense for them."
And there's even further incentive to build that chip fab plant in New York State.
"On top of that, the state of New York did put in place a companion piece to supplement what the CHIPs act does. They've increased their incentive funding under the Green Chips Act, which passed in the ast 48 hours of the state legislative session. Governor will be signing that into law this week," says DiMeo.
And while we're not all scientists and engineers, DiMeo says you don't have to be, to earn a decent living working in a chip fab plant.
"Well, first of all, most of the jobs located in a semiconductor manufacturing facility are technician jobs, which require as much as a two-year college degree. So, they're not all scientists and engineers, so basically this is the backbone of building a middle-class economy," says DiMeo.
And if our first fab feels lonely....
"Wolfspeed has room on their site for a second fab. The balance of the site can support about another million square feet of clean room manufacturing so yeah there's plenty of opportunities for additional growth," says DiMeo.
Asked if we could see some action by the end of the year, DiMeo replied, "We're hopefull. We've had multiple discussions with companies for a period of time and it's possible some of it could happen..." | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/president-biden-passes-chips-science-act-mv-edge-hopeful-for-local-prospects/article_ba2aa7b6-1824-11ed-9e88-1ff0281ffd20.html | 2022-08-09T23:33:59 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/president-biden-passes-chips-science-act-mv-edge-hopeful-for-local-prospects/article_ba2aa7b6-1824-11ed-9e88-1ff0281ffd20.html |
CORONA, Calif — A single-engine airplane landed and caught fire Tuesday on a Southern California freeway and the pilot and a passenger were able to escape safely, authorities said.
The Piper PA-32 was flying to Corona Municipal Airport when the pilot reported engine trouble and landed in eastbound lanes of State Route 91 in Riverside County, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Local TV news showed footage of the plane upright but engulfed in flames on the freeway near Corona. No injuries were reported.
The pilot, Andrew Cho, told the Southern California News Group that he and his passenger had time to get out before the flames spread.
Cho, 54, said they had taken off from Corona airport about an hour earlier and were planning to return when the engine suddenly lost power.
“There was an empty spot (on the freeway) so we went for that,” Cho said. “Thank God we really didn’t hit anybody.”
The plane clipped the left-rear of a Toyota Tundra pickup.
Cho said he is the co-owner of the Piper.
The FAA said it was investigating.
Watch more from ABC10: Sacramento City Council debating misdemeanor charges for sidewalk encampment | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/plane-lands-on-southern-california-freeway/103-d2cc14f3-428f-479b-8436-fde7afbc3f49 | 2022-08-09T23:34:10 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/plane-lands-on-southern-california-freeway/103-d2cc14f3-428f-479b-8436-fde7afbc3f49 |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A early morning crash in Elk Grove left one person dead and one with major injuries.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the crash happened Tuesday morning around 2:24 a.m. on Sheldon Lake Drive, south of Grant Line Road.
CHP says the driver of a 2021 Honda was driving southbound on Sunrise Boulevard at a high rate of speed, approaching Grant Line Road.
Officers say the driver of the vehicle failed to negotiate the curve, sending it off the roadway into a drainage ditch. According to CHP, the car overturned several times before crashing into a wooden fence and a parked car at 11700 Sheldon Lake Drive. The Honda eventually came to rest on it's wheels in a vacant lot, south of the home.
According to CHP, the female passenger, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle. The driver was pinned to the driver's seat of the vehicle and had to be removed by fire crews.
Both the driver and the passenger were taken to Kaiser South Hospital with major injuries. The woman suffered major injuries as a result of the crash, but the driver was pronounced dead at the hospital around 4:05 a.m.
CHP officers say alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.
Watch more from ABC10: Kiely Rodni, 16, still missing from Truckee as friends and family continue search | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/elk-grove/elk-grove-rollover-crash-sheldon-lake-drive/103-85a6ca1b-7cdb-4114-a08f-ad1d586e7b54 | 2022-08-09T23:34:16 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/elk-grove/elk-grove-rollover-crash-sheldon-lake-drive/103-85a6ca1b-7cdb-4114-a08f-ad1d586e7b54 |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Our region is a perfect place to get outdoors and a festival dedicated to all activities outside is happening soon in Johnson City.
Meet the Mountains Festival Director Ashley Cavender sat down with Kelly Grosfield to touch on what this year’s festival will have to offer. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/first-at-four/meet-the-mountains-festival-returning-to-johnson-city/ | 2022-08-09T23:36:10 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/first-at-four/meet-the-mountains-festival-returning-to-johnson-city/ |
CARBONDALE, Pa. — Two people are under arrest after a man was gunned down in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Lackawanna County Monday night.
On Tuesday, police arrested Taaj Blan, 21, and his mother, Margaret Del Castillo, 46, both from Moosic.
Blan is charged with criminal homicide and aggravated assault.
Del Castillo is accused of trying to help her son cover up the crime.
According to state police, Pernell Simmons, 35, was shot and killed around 11:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Fallbrook Street Apartments in Carbondale.
Court paperwork indicates Simmons and Blan got into a dispute over a meeting for a drug deal, and Blan shot Simmons.
Want to see what was in news in 1983? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/police-arrest-suspects-in-deadly-carbondale-shooting-pernell-simmons-taaj-blan-criminal-homicide/523-6861339a-f610-434c-9e68-9722f4d488c6 | 2022-08-09T23:45:18 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lackawanna-county/police-arrest-suspects-in-deadly-carbondale-shooting-pernell-simmons-taaj-blan-criminal-homicide/523-6861339a-f610-434c-9e68-9722f4d488c6 |
MONTROSE, Pa. — In Montrose, one issue has been pecking at members of the borough council raising chickens in the neighborhood.
Something Zoning and Code Enforcement Officer Roy Williams says, is not feasible for many people due to the current ordinance.
"The size of the lots in town other than a handful of them makes it difficult with the way it's written now for them to be able to have chickens," said Williams, Zoning and Code Enforcement Officer.
The ordinance allows people in Montrose to have chickens at their homes if there is a minimum of fifty feet between property lines.
Now, people want to change it.
Over the past few weeks, the council met with community members about adjusting the property line requirement to allow more people to have chickens in residential neighborhoods.
Council Vice President Edward Reed is on board with updating the ordinance.
"Instead of fifty feet, maybe ten feet, ya know, something that would allow the common properties in town to have chickens as well, which I see," said Edward Reed, Montrose Council Vice President.
Now one of the main reasons people want to bring chickens into residential homes is to provide economic relief, but one business says that even starting up can get costly.
"Fence, coop, chickens, buying the chickens, buying the animals, buy the feeders, buy the waterers. There is an initial cost to that; that is a fair amount," said Guy Parrish, owner of Montrose Feed & Supply.
Montrose Feed and Supply owner Guy Parrish dealt with these startup costs when his family got their chicken coop.
Although it helped lighten the grocery bill a bit, his daughter Katie Lamphere believes owning animals like chickens needs to mean more than just saving a couple of bucks.
"Like having animals is not get rich quick it's an investment and you kind of do it because you love it. You love the animals. You love knowing where your food comes from," said Katie Lamphere, Montrose Feed & Supply Manager.
The decision of whether to ease regulations on chicken ownership in the borough of Montrose has yet to be decided.
The issue will be brought up at the next borough council meeting on August 15th.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/susquehanna-county/debate-over-montrose-chicken-ordinance-roy-williams-edward-reed-guy-parrish-katie-lamphere-montrose-feed-and-supply/523-0af22515-031f-4cbd-93f5-b9e1e487650d | 2022-08-09T23:45:24 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/susquehanna-county/debate-over-montrose-chicken-ordinance-roy-williams-edward-reed-guy-parrish-katie-lamphere-montrose-feed-and-supply/523-0af22515-031f-4cbd-93f5-b9e1e487650d |
New owners have taken over Loven Over Pizzeria, a longtime pizza place in Lowell.
Lifelong Lowell resident John Butor and his fiance Lea Glines acquired the pizza restaurant at 1000 E. Commercial Ave. for an undisclosed sum. Butor is a former director of operations for nursing home facilities and Glines, also a lifelong resident of Lowell, is a former manager of corporate retail operations.
The business has been an institution for decades.
Loven Oven was founded in Northwest Indiana in 1977 by a mother who sought to make "Da Best Pizza in Da Region" after people who tried her homemade pizza kept telling her she should open a pizza place of her own. It opened a location in Lowell in 1994, where it's become a major caterer and sponsor of local nonprofits.
The menu includes thin crust, deep dish, Hawaiian Loven, Meat Loven and Taco Loven pizzas, along with the signature Loven Pizza that features crumbled sausage, pepperoni, green peppers, mushrooms and onions.
Both Butor and Glines worked at Loven Oven as teens, first meeting there. He eventually managed the restaurant and remained close with the restaurant's previous owners over the years.
They think they are a natural fit to lead Loven Oven and keep it a part of the Lowell community in the future.
“Lowell is our home and we’re proud to remain active in the community,” Butor said. “Our business is connected to a lot of happy memories and new beginnings for many people — my fiancé and I even met while working here a decade ago. And there are so many other great stories like ours connected to Loven Oven. We’re going to be honoring this tradition by continuing to deliver great service for our customers and strong support for local activities.”
The new owners plan to keep the current menu, which includes sandwiches, wings and appetizers like cheesy bread and garlic bread. They also plan to add several new menu items.
Joseph S. Pete is a Lisagor Award-winning business reporter who covers steel, industry, unions, the ports, retail, banking and more. The Indiana University grad has been with The Times since 2013 and blogs about craft beer, culture and the military.
The Michigan-based movie theater chain completed the first phase of its two-phase renovation plans to add amenities like faux-leather recliners and brick oven pizza.
Historic Maplewood Cemetery Sexton Tom Hawes has been digging up the old Crown Point Mausoleum more than a half century after its demise at the cemetery at 347 Maple Lane.
The International Union of Operating Engineers Local 150 filed unfair labor practice charges against California-based SOLV Energy and recruiter Aerotek charging they are recruiting workers from outside Indiana for the Mammoth Solar Farm Project and paying them "substantially lower than Indiana standards."
Steelworkers will take home bonus checks of upwards of $14,000 for the three-month period that ended on June 30, U.S. Steel Media Relations Manager Amanda Malkowski said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/longtime-pizzeria-loven-oven-has-new-owner/article_f597ddf0-30fb-5102-98b6-9b789db2691c.html | 2022-08-09T23:45:58 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/longtime-pizzeria-loven-oven-has-new-owner/article_f597ddf0-30fb-5102-98b6-9b789db2691c.html |
HAMMOND — A Gary car wash owner has come clean about murderous drug crimes federal authorities have long laid against him.
Teddia “Teddy” Caldwell, 47, of Gary, walked into U.S. District Court on Tuesday afternoon in a bright orange jail uniform to admit he ran a large-scale cocaine distribution network.
Caldwell formally pleaded guilty to two of the 20 felony counts he faces — conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine between 2016 and 2018 and ordering a fatal 2017 robbery of a rival business.
It comes four years and five months after the government first charged Caldwell, the estranged husband of Gary Councilwoman Linda Barnes-Caldwell.
Caldwell and eight alleged partners-in-crime were accused of buying and selling large quantities of cocaine out of Caldwell’s business, his home and other Gary locations.
While five of his co-defendants have pleaded guilty, Caldwell had maintained his innocence as the government deliberated and eventually declined to seek the death penalty against him, and pandemic-related court shutdowns delayed his trial until now.
He was finally set to have his day in court later this month where he would face a federal jury and the risk of receiving a life sentence if found guilty.
But Caldwell twice told court officials at his arraignment and guilty plea hearings Tuesday that he was giving up his right to make prosecutors prove the charges against him.
In return, federal prosecutors have agreed to drop all the remaining counts against him, including the most recently filed drug charges that stunned Caldwell and his girlfriend, Paronica Bonds.
They were accused last month of an elaborate conspiracy to smuggle a synthetic marijuana-like chemical into Caldwell’s jail cell.
A conviction could have resulted in serious prison time for Bonds.
Barnes-Caldwell told The Times four years ago that she and Caldwell have been separated for years.
Caldwell told U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon during his change-of-plea hearing that he bought the cocaine his confederates sold around Gary.
He also admitted that he hatched a plan to rob Kevin Hood and split the proceeds with co-defendants Taquan Clarke, Devontae Martin and at least one other unnamed co-conspirator.
Caldwell told the judge that someone had told him Hood had large amounts of cocaine and cash at his business, “Shine On,” another Gary car wash.
Caldwell said he asked Martin to commit the robbery. Caldwell said that he arrived at Hood’s business while the robbery was in progress and saw Hood “wrassling” with Martin and that just as Hood was getting the better of the fight, Clarke ran up and fatally shot 43-year-old Hood, a father of five.
Members of the Hood family were in court Tuesday to hear Caldwell describe the crime. They later conferred with prosecutors about what happens next in the case.
Simon has yet to schedule Caldwell’s sentence or the trial of the three remaining co-defendants, Clarke, Martin and Devonte “Lil Bro” Hodge, 30, of Gary, who are maintaining their innocence.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Samuel Hill
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206626
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Armaun McKenzie
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206525
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Ciserella
Age : 34
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206650
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyon McNeil
Age : 47
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206687
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dale Rollins
Age : 61
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206707
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Andre Ruff
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206664
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Aubuchon
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206592
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Colin Westbrooks
Age : 32
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206624
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gregory Swiontek II
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206590
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mitchell Pritchard
Age : 42
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206747
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dakar Brown
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206741
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Louise Dagnillo
Age : 59
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206669
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Fandl
Age : 33
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206539
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alijah Williams
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206562
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Maurishia Brown
Age : 28
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206521
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leroy Blackwell
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206619
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: CHILD MOLESTATION - STATUTORY RAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devon Dunbar
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206714
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - USING A DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Fair
Age : 57
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206657
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Allen Pick II
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206673
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javyon George-Boatman
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206595
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Hollis
Age : 46
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206713
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Nichols II
Age : 38
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206545
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE IV
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brooke Elrod
Age : 29
Residence: N/A
Booking Number(s): 2206654
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angelos Lujano
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206731
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION - STALKING VIOLATIONS; RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT; ROBBERY; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Renee Rodriguez
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206556
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Laron Hudson
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206608
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Gawlinski
Age : 53
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206512
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devante Winters
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206614
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Frederic Dellenbach
Age : 64
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206686
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amador Santos
Age : 49
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206696
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jose Rios
Age : 37
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206752
Arrest Date: Aug. 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jerry Boyd
Age : 23
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206570
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lilia Hernandez-Cervantes Beltran
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206695
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Freeman
Age : 47
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206710
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Duane Jackson
Age : 53
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206698
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: HABITUAL TRAFFIC VIOLATOR - LIFETIME
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyata Williams
Age : 32
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206247
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Aguilar-Tapia
Age : 26
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206573
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michal Skrzyniarz
Age : 37
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206685
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Aaron Collins
Age : 28
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206629
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Francesca Brown
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206746
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Steven Galecki
Age : 52
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206653
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Russell III
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206661
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; POSSESSION - COUNTERFEITED SUBSTANCES
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Raynold Gore
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206551
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ivan Torres
Age : 35
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206723
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Genardo Diaz
Age : 35
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206667
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POSSESSION - STOLEN PROPERTY; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Christopher Swan
Age : 48
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206697
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandt Guzman
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206706
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON; CONFINEMENT; CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Charles Roy Sr.
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206563
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Denise Johnson
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206582
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 32
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206625
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Gutierrez Delgado
Age : 30
Residence: Greenfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206655
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Austin Click
Age : 23
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206568
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Otis Marshall
Age : 34
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Booking Number(s): 2206745
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Kirincic
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206630
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Deidra Merritt
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206726
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Melissa Carraway
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206724
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Guzman
Age : 26
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206538
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lakeisha Walker
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206754
Arrest Date: Aug. 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tony Vitaniemi Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206712
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: COMMON NUISANCE - MAINTAINING - LEGEND DRUGS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Alexander
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206577
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jack Fiorio
Age : 19
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206670
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edgar Murphy Jr.
Age : 63
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206579
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darlene King
Age : 49
Residence: Country Club Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206704
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Leonard Johnson
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206578
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - USING A DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gloria Blue
Age : 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206709
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Featherston
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206609
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dana Stevens
Age : 41
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206507
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Coleman
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206569
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Andres
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206662
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Veela Morris
Age : 52
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206611
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Famous McKenny
Age : 45
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206647
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Emmett Williams Jr.
Age : 46
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206739
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Safa Alrub
Age : 36
Residence: Orland Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206564
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Darrick Royal
Age : 47
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206601
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Demarco Gillis
Age : 25
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206622
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Goodpaster Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206721
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jourdan Castellanos
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206529
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Junice Stewart
Age : 64
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206516
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Igras
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206543
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ulysses Perry
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206627
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cedric Higdon Jr.
Age : 25
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206692
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Cruz-Lopez
Age : 31
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206580
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luis Rangel Sanchez
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206693
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rodney Youngblood
Age : 32
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206742
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Badovinac
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206640
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kamari Stephens
Age : 29
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206591
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Stoddard
Age : 38
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206523
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Bogard
Age : 47
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206555
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Johnny Peluyera
Age : 41
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206524
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS (AGGRESSIVE DRIVING/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hailee Newell
Age : 29
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206588
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Donald Collins Jr.
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206520
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Porter Jr.
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206638
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Idubis Nash
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206743
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tywoun Nixon
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206530
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyrone Dabney
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206576
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vernell Hemphill Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206631
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Marta Rodriguez
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206711
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Rodriguez
Age : 75
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206641
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Wardell Sanders
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206651
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
William Lipsey
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206535
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carl Hopkins Jr.
Age : 41
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206668
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sade Boyd
Age : 36
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206644
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jacob Stewart
Age : 36
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206602
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shaun Brame
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206561
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kori Arguelles
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206603
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jimmie Lee
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206733
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ria Swelfer
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206617
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesse Duque
Age : 29
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206506
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rick Thang Ngo
Age : 26
Residence: Key Largo, FL
Booking Number(s): 2206722
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keith Price
Age : 51
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206552
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leobardo Costilla
Age : 22
Residence: Shelby, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206674
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Vasquez
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206528
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leon Elliott Jr.
Age : 50
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206575
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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The musical, Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations, will kick off the new season of Broadway Dallas, formerly known as Dallas Summer Musicals. One of the performances in September will be exclusively attended by 3.400 Dallas ISD students.
"There's nothing like that anticipation that happens when you're in the theater waiting for your Broadway show to start," Ken Novice, Broadway Dallas president and CEO, said. "Our intent here is to demonstrate to students who are interested in the arts that there are many pathways to careers in this field besides performing on stage or playing in the orchestra pit."
Theater students at all 25 of DISD's high school campuses will have the opportunity to go through a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) curriculum that relates to the theater. They will work on lighting, audio, and video projects. At the end of the day, they will fill all 3,400 seats at Broadway Dallas to see a performance of the musical.
"It's obvious to see the very unique opportunity that's going to open a door for students to access theater and music in a way they've never been able to before," Shannon Trejo, DISD Chief Academic Officer, said. "This is a project in equity."
Last year, DISD students in the same program went to see the musical Hamilton thanks to a partnership with the Mavs Foundation and the T.D. Jakes Foundation. The Moody Foundation is also a benefactor.
"It was amazing," Bishop T.D. Jakes said. "It was amazing to see their enthusiasm, how seriously they took the opportunity, how grateful they were to have the chance."
The goal is to open their eyes to the possibilities for future careers in theater.
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"It starts at this stage," Jakes said. "These are the seeds of tomorrow." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/broadway-dallas-to-promote-arts-education-with-dallas-isd-show/3044201/ | 2022-08-09T23:47:56 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/broadway-dallas-to-promote-arts-education-with-dallas-isd-show/3044201/ |
Man dies in collision while fleeing Border Patrol, local authorities in Benson
A man died in a traffic collision July 28 in Benson while fleeing Border Patrol and local authorities, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The driver and two undocumented migrants also sustained injuries in the crash that occurred near the intersection of State Route 90 and South Village Loop, authorities said.
The pursuit began shortly after 1 p.m. when a Cochise County sheriff’s deputy attempted a traffic stop on the vehicle, which had a temporary license plate, on Davis Road near mile marker 18 between Tombstone and McNeal, according to CBP.
After the vehicle didn’t stop, the sheriff’s deputy discontinued the pursuit because of the driver’s erratic driving and issued a bulletin for the vehicle to countywide law enforcement agencies.
About 3:40 p.m., two Border Patrol agents in separate vehicles saw the vehicle traveling north on SR 90. The agents began to follow, with one agent passing the vehicle in order to prepare a vehicle immobilization device in case the vehicle failed to stop.
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A short time later, as the second agent continued to follow the vehicle, a third Border Patrol agent in an unmarked vehicle began to follow the two vehicles. After the agents attempted to stop the vehicle by activating their emergency lights, the vehicle didn’t stop and began to flee near mile marker 294 on SR 90.
The first agent, who initially drove ahead in order to wait for the suspect vehicle, then deployed a vehicle immobilization device that successfully contacted the suspect vehicle, CBP said. Despite contacting the immobilization device, the driver continued driving north on SR 90.
The primary agent pursuing the vehicle then had to drop out of the chase after a tire was damaged from inadvertently contacting the immobilization device. The third agent took over the pursuit with his emergency lights and siren activated before a supervisory Border Patrol agent terminated the pursuit at 3:47 p.m. because it was approaching the city of Benson, according to CBP.
The pursuing agent deactivated his emergency equipment before seeing an unmarked Benson Police Department vehicle ahead of him activate its emergency lights in an effort to stop the suspect vehicle. As the Border Patrol agent reactivated his emergency lights, the vehicle collided with a GMC Yukon SUV near SR 90 and South Village Loop
The Border Patrol and Benson Police Department vehicles stopped, and officers provided assistance and requested emergency medical services. A short time later, the Benson Fire Department and the Arizona Department of Public Safety arrived.
A male passenger in the suspect vehicle was declared dead at the scene. The driver was taken via air ambulance to the Banner University Medical Center in Tucson. Two undocumented migrants were taken to the Benson Hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries and then released to the Willcox Border Patrol Station.
This incident was being investigated by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations. It was under review by CBP’s Office of Professional Responsibility, and the DHS Office of Inspector General was notified, according to CBP.
Contact the reporter at jcastaneda1@arizonarepublic.com or connect with him on Twitter @joseicastaneda. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/08/09/1-dead-3-injured-arizona-crash-after-border-patrol-chase/10277721002/ | 2022-08-09T23:48:04 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/08/09/1-dead-3-injured-arizona-crash-after-border-patrol-chase/10277721002/ |
A Dallas County grand jury handed down seven indictments Tuesday against the man accused in the May attack at an Asian-owned hair salon in Dallas, prosecutors say.
Jeremy Smith, 37, faces seven indictments of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in the May 11 shooting at Hair World Salon, Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot announced Tuesday.
Smith is accused of shooting three women of Korean descent in an attack authorities have investigated as a hate crime. Four others were present at the salon but were not injured.
The grand jury found Smith committed the shooting with racial bias, which carries the potential punishment of 99 years to life in prison.
Smith remains in custody with bail set at $700,000.
Dallas police previously said they were investigating whether Smith was connected to two other shootings targeting Asian-owned businesses. Creuzot said Tuesday that those investigations are continuing.
The shooting at the salon, located in the heart of Dallas' Koreatown, triggered a wave of security measures in other areas with Asian-owned businesses and churches. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-grand-jury-indicts-accused-shooter-in-asian-owned-salon-attack/3044078/ | 2022-08-09T23:48:04 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-grand-jury-indicts-accused-shooter-in-asian-owned-salon-attack/3044078/ |
Arizona lottery numbers, August 8
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These Arizona lotteries were drawn Monday:
Pick 3
0-7-4
Fantasy 5
03-31-33-40-41
Estimated jackpot: $144,000
The Pick
09-20-25-33-38-43
Estimated jackpot: $1.2 million
Triple Twist
01-20-21-22-36-37
Estimated jackpot: $275,000
Mega Millions
Estimated jackpot: $52 million
Powerball
32-45-51-57-58, Powerball: 12, Power Play: 2
Estimated jackpot: $35 million | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/08/09/arizona-lottery-numbers-august-8/10273389002/ | 2022-08-09T23:48:10 | 1 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2022/08/09/arizona-lottery-numbers-august-8/10273389002/ |
Fort Worth police were dispatched to an investigation call on the 3500 block of Littlejohn Avenue Sunday at about 8:00 p.m. Details stated that several children were inside a vehicle at this location.
Once officers arrived, they observed an adult male in the yard and checked his vehicle that was parked with the engine running. Officers say they saw several children inside that appeared to be either sleeping or passed out.
"Even though the vehicle was on, once they made entry they realized that the A/C was not on or not working inside this vehicle," said Fort Worth Police Department public information Officer Brad Perez.
The children were immediately taken out and placed inside air-conditioned police cars.
When MedStar arrived on location, they determined the children needed to be transported to a local hospital due to suffering from heat exhaustion, police say.
The five children, ages one, two, four, five and six years old were transported to a local hospital for evaluation and treatment. The children's current condition is unknown.
The father, Jose Leal, 29, was arrested on five counts of abandonment, endangerment to a child, and bodily injury and transported to jail.
As of this writing, MedStar reported it had responded to 14 incidents of kids who were left in hot cars since May 1, within their Tarrant County service area.
Kids in Hot Cars
Hot Car Safety
According to the National Safety Council, if it's 95 degrees outside the internal temperature of a car could climb to 129 degrees in 30 minutes. After just 10 minutes, temperatures inside could reach 114 degrees.
A child's body temperature heats up three to five times faster than an adult and heatstroke can begin when a person's core body temperature reaches 104 degrees. A core temperature of 107 degrees is lethal, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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Hollywood has the Oscars, and Broadway has the Tonys. Dallas? It has the Big Tex Choice Awards.
The State Fair of Texas will announce the 10 finalists for the 2022 awards on August 10.
Thirty-six semifinalists are competing for best taste in the savory or sweet categories, and all the dishes are going head-to-head for most creative.
The State Fair started awarding the Big Tex statues nearly two decades ago, and the competition is fierce.
In 2021, the Armadillo took home 'Best Taste - Sweet.'
Deep Fried Seafood Gumbo Balls snagged the other two titles for 'Best Taste - Savory' and 'Most Creative.'
Fletcher's wasn't in the running for the awards, but they rolled out a spicy twist on their classic corny dog: The Dallas Hot Bird Dog. It's a stick-less creation smothered in mac and cheese and topped with fried jalapeños and hot sauce.
The Big Tex Choice Awards took the year off in 2020, when the pandemic canceled the fair. Instead, we learned how to make a Fried PB&J at home.
Fried PB&J from “Fry King” Abel Gonzales, Jr.
Ingredients:
Creamy peanut butter
Jelly
Pancake mix
Powdered sugar
White bread
Vegetable or corn oil for frying
Supplies:
Deep pot for frying or a fryer
Thermometer that measures to 375 degrees
Tongs
Cutting board
Steps:
Assemble PBJ sandwiches and freeze overnight
Day of Preparation:
- Heat oil in pot to 375 degrees
- Prepare pancake mix with batter slightly thicker than needed for pancakes
- Dunk frozen PBJ sandwiches into batter and cover in a thick coat
- Using tongs, place coated sandwich in hot oil
- Fry on one side until golden, then flip
- Put fried sandwich on a plate with paper towels
- Move to cutting board and slice diagonally
- Rest four triangles on a serving plate, crust side down
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar
- Squeeze another layer of jelly on top of sandwiches
- Eat and enjoy! | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/state-fair-of-texas/cravings-ahead-a-look-back-at-some-of-the-top-state-fair-foods/3043857/ | 2022-08-09T23:49:16 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/state-fair-of-texas/cravings-ahead-a-look-back-at-some-of-the-top-state-fair-foods/3043857/ |
The four people killed in a weekend golf cart collision in Texas were a grandfather, two of his grandchildren and a niece who were visiting Galveston for a quick vacation before school began, police said.
The crash happened Saturday after a driver accused of being intoxicated ran a stop sign and crashed into a pickup truck, which then hit the golf cart that was carrying six people.
Police on Monday identified the four killed as Felipe Bentancur, 49; his niece, Destiny Uvalle, 25; and two grandchildren, Kaisyn Bentancur, 4; and Brailyn Cantu, 14.
All four were from Rosenberg, a Texas city about 30 miles southwest of Houston, police said.
Two others on the golf cart were critically injured, authorities said.
The driver of the SUV, Miguel Espinoza, 45, has been charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter. He remained jailed Tuesday on $400,000 bond, and it wasn't clear whether he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf.
Golf carts are a popular way to get around the island resort area, which is on the Gulf of Mexico. Police have said they believe the golf cart was operating legally at the time of the collision. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/grandfather-grandkids-among-four-dead-in-galveston-golf-cart-crash/3043827/ | 2022-08-09T23:49:24 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/grandfather-grandkids-among-four-dead-in-galveston-golf-cart-crash/3043827/ |
Richmond-based CarLotz, a former startup that went from selling vehicles on consignment 11 years ago in Chesterfield to a publicly traded company with national expansion plans, will merge with a California firm under an agreement announced Tuesday. The business has faced ongoing challenges recently.
The deal is with used-vehicle retailer Shift Technologies, with the two entities combining in a stock-for-stock merger. The new company, to be headquartered in San Francisco, will trade on the Nasdaq as SFT.
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“The Shift and CarLotz teams have admired each other and our respective businesses for quite some time. We’ve always seen a considerable amount of strategic and cost synergies with a combined entity,” said George Arison, Shift’s co-founder and CEO. “We are strongly convinced that the merger will put us in a position to pursue a profitable future."
CarLotz opened its first store off Midlothian Turnpike in Chesterfield in 2011 using a business model of getting inventory from those wanting to sell a vehicle. The company would then handle the marketing of the vehicle and getting it inspected, cleaned and listed for sale for a flat fee.
"We want to offer the benefits of the for-sale-by-owner car market but without having to deal with all the hassles," Michael W. Bor, founder and CEO, told The Times-Dispatch in 2019.
A Henrico County location opened in 2012, and plans were eventually underway for locations in North Carolina, Florida, Illinois, Tennessee, Texas, Washington, California, Colorado and Missouri.
By 2018, CarLotz made Inc. magazine’s annual list of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies, which it repeated in 2019 and 2020, the same year it went public.
In announcing that 192 jobs would be created by the company moving into the Handcraft Building in Scott’s Addition in June 2021, then-Gov. Ralph Northam said: “CarLotz has experienced tremendous success since its founding in Richmond a decade ago, and we are excited to see this homegrown company deepen its roots in the Commonwealth."
But in recent years, the company faced ongoing supply chain issues and skyrocketing used vehicle prices. Bor was replaced in March. Plans were announced in June to shutter 11 dealerships and cut up to 30% of the workforce “as part of a strategic review of the business, with cash preservation and future profitable growth as key determining factors."
CarLotz spokeswoman said Leslie Griles said the company currently has 289 employees whose status at the merger announcement remained unchanged.
“We have not had time for the Shift and CarLotz teams to thoroughly evaluate the organizational structure of the combined entity,” she said.
Unlike CarLotz, which has many brick and mortar locations, Shift is largely an e-commerce retailer, acting as an online marketplace for buying and selling used vehicles. It was founded in 2014.
“The combined company will be headquartered in San Francisco. We will be evaluating our combined needs over the coming weeks and will provide updates regarding our presence in Central Virginia beyond the hub level,” Griles said.
Arison will step down as CEO role on Sept. 1, but will continue as the Shift chairman. Shift President Jeff Clementz will become CEO.
In announcing the agreement, the companies said the new entity will have a cash position of about $125 million once the transaction closes in the fourth quarter. CarLotz shareholders are expected to receive about 0.692158 shares of Shift common stock for each share of CarLotz common stock, the companies said. | https://richmond.com/business/local/update-carlotz-merging-with-california-firm-to-be-headquartered-in-san-francisco/article_d63cba0b-561f-56cc-b363-6525b4b3264f.html | 2022-08-09T23:50:09 | 1 | https://richmond.com/business/local/update-carlotz-merging-with-california-firm-to-be-headquartered-in-san-francisco/article_d63cba0b-561f-56cc-b363-6525b4b3264f.html |
PLANO, Texas — The pregnant Plano woman fighting a ticket for driving in the HOV lane has given birth to her “second passenger” over the weekend.
Brandy Bottone made the announcement via her Instagram page on Sunday, Aug. 7. “My second passenger has arrived!” Bottone wrote. “We are so in love and will be spending all out time loving on baby girl.”
In early July, Bottone was pulled over when she alone took the high occupancy lane (HOV) on Central Expressway in Dallas County.
The officer asked Bottone why she was traveling in the lane alone.
"I was like, 'Uh, this!,'" Bottone said, pointing to her belly.
She felt it was right to think the child she was carrying was a passenger in a lane designed for vehicles with two or more passengers.
But the officer didn’t pay Bottone’s explanation and issued her a $275 ticket for an HOV violation.
The Texas Department of Transportation's (TxDOT) online description of the HOV rule isn't entirely clear. It reads simply, "A vehicle occupied by two or more people."
Even the officer admitted she could fight the ticket and hundreds, even thousands, of people on social media feel that, too – which put her squarely in the middle of the abortion debate.
Bottone of Plano told WFAA that in the moment she wasn't trying to take a stand but only trying to fight a ticket. For context, Roe v. Wade had just been overturned several days before, and Texas has an impending ban on abortions.
"One law is saying that this is a baby and now he's telling me this baby that's jabbing my ribs is not a baby. Why can't it all make sense?" Bottone posed rhetorically.
During a July 10 interview, Bottone told WFAA that she was taking a neutral stance politically. In the last month, she’s heard from both sides of the abortion debate.
But, she did say, "If there's a pro-women category, that's my stance."
In a July 20 traffic court hearing, Bottone's case was postponed.
Court records showed her court hearing was moved off the general populate docket and onto an attorney's docket, meaning she hired an attorney for her case.
We’ll see how her case plays out in the future. But for now, Bottone will be enjoying her new baby girl in her arms. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/plano-woman-fighting-hov-lane-ticket-gives-birth/287-a37c0a38-be19-4283-84ef-b8b0bdcd9965 | 2022-08-09T23:52:13 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/plano-woman-fighting-hov-lane-ticket-gives-birth/287-a37c0a38-be19-4283-84ef-b8b0bdcd9965 |
ATLANTA — A nonprofit is going door-to-door in Mechanicsville offering trauma support after six people were shot in a southwest Atlanta park – with two killed and a child among those hurt.
“I sat on my porch and cried because I was like, 'What else can I do?'” Neighborhood leader and Neighborhood Planning Unit V chairperson Stephanie Flowers said.
Flowers said the shooting Sunday night at Rosa L. Burney Park that killed two people and injured four others including a 6-year-old girl shook their entire community.
“Because we as a community have been working so hard to address gun violence and violence in our neighborhood,” Flowers said.
She said just five days before the shooting, they held a National Night Out against crime at the same park.
Cure Violence Atlanta will be hitting Mechanicville’s streets again Tuesday evening to canvass the entire neighborhood and try to offer assistance.
“We’re gonna start at the Dunbar Center and work our way through Mechanicsville, joined by the Chris 180 Trauma Response Network, as well as Mechanicsville Civic Association and The Urban Advocate,” Chris 180's Community Initiatives Director Janikqua Cutno said.
She added they expect to knock on at least 100 doors starting at 5 p.m.
“Asking community members and residents – 'Are you ok? We know something happened in our neighborhood. How can we support you? What do you need? What can we do to make you feel safer here?'” Cutno said.
A way to connect those who are hurting with resources like therapy to heal as a neighborhood.
“It can be defeating, it can be disheartening and can cause a lot of trauma and harm we have to repair,” Cutno said.
After Cure Violence canvasses the neighborhood, they will hold a peace rally at Windsor Plaza that will start at 6:30 p.m. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/trauma-support-mechanicsville-rosa-l-burney-park-shooting/85-b2234702-eb99-4144-9e5f-22c1e6df76a2 | 2022-08-09T23:52:19 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/trauma-support-mechanicsville-rosa-l-burney-park-shooting/85-b2234702-eb99-4144-9e5f-22c1e6df76a2 |
The Iowa Community Action Association recently honored state Sen. Amanda Ragan of Mason City for her bipartisan work to help Iowa families and communities.
The Iowa Community Action Association, based in Des Moines, is an organization that helps provide a wide range of services to empower low-income citizens to become self-sufficient, according to its website. The nonprofit group helps citizens in all of Iowa's 99 counties.
At a statewide conference last month, Ragan was one of three state legislators named a “Friend of Community Action.” The annual award is given to individuals who champion causes that benefit individuals and families served by the Iowa Community Action network. Rep. Jacob Bossman, R-Sioux City, and Rep. Dr. Tom Jeneary, R-Le Mars, were recognized with Ragan.
“Community Action could not execute its mission to serve individuals facing economic hardship without the involvement of community leaders such as Representatives Bossman and Jeneary and Senator Ragan,” said Executive Director of Iowa Community Action Association Katherine Riley Harrington in a statement. “These three legislators were instrumental in advocating for an increase in funding to the Family Development and Self Sufficiency Program (FaDSS) in the 2021 Legislative Session.”
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"I deeply appreciate this award. In my time in public service, I have always believed the mission of government, at all levels, is to help our fellow citizens and make their lives better. Helping families dealing with challenges become successful and independent makes Iowa better place for all," said Ragan in a statement.
Abby covers education and entertainment for the Globe Gazette. Follow her on Twitter at @MkayAbby. Email her at Abby.Koch@GlobeGazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ragan-recognized-by-iowa-community-action-association-for-helping-iowa-families/article_b59bb2a7-2385-575f-921d-c0bc238e4181.html | 2022-08-09T23:55:58 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/ragan-recognized-by-iowa-community-action-association-for-helping-iowa-families/article_b59bb2a7-2385-575f-921d-c0bc238e4181.html |
TWIN FALLS — An air show being planned for next year will be a salute to Joslin Field.
It will be a celebration of the airport's 75th anniversary. Included in the plans are showing vintage aircraft that have ties to Magic Valley, giving insight into the airport's role in firefighting efforts, and perhaps providing free airplane rides to children.
The show is planned for June 17, 2023.
"Part of the air show is to remember the airport's 75th year and we will have aircraft that span from World War II to the present," planner Jim O'Donnell said. "It will showcase the aviation history of Twin Falls County."
Joslin Field, also known as Twin Falls Regional Airport, is named after Sgt. Raymond Ralph Joslin, the first airman in Twin Falls County killed during World War II. He was part of a B-17 crew that was shot down in 1942 over the Solomon Islands, said O'Donnell, co-chair of the group Joslin Field Celebration Inc. The group has been planning the show for several years and O'Donnell recently joined after recovering from some health issues.
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A lot has happened at the airport since it was dedicated in 1948. During that time period, "it was pretty empty," O'Donnell said. West Coast Airlines, flying Douglas DC-3s, began providing commercial service to Twin Falls that year, he said.
And because of that connection, O'Donnell said the group is trying to locate a DC-3 to be on display at the show.
Joslin Field visitors pass by a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star, displayed on a pedestal, as they enter the airport property. Appropriately, Greg Colyer, a pilot from San Francisco, is expected to fly to Twin Falls with his T-33, O'Donnell said.
"And we're trying to get a B-17, of course with the connection to Sgt. Joslin," O'Donnell said, adding that he is seeking aircraft from World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War and Desert Storm for the show. O'Donnell said several exhibits will honor veterans.
A water drop from an aircraft might take place to highlight the role Joslin Field has in fighting wildfires in the region. It will be either hundreds or perhaps thousands of gallons, depending on the size of the aircraft, he said.
To give a thrill to children, O'Donnell said talks are underway to offer them free airplane rides.
"A lot of kids haven't had that experience," he said.
While air show planning is still in the works, "we are making progress," O'Donnell said. The air show will be free, with the purchase of a parking pass.
"The show will be paid for by local sponsors," he said.
"The air show's planning is really getting some traction," Jim Carberry, airport manager. The airport is supporting the air show but is not leading the efforts.
O'Donnell, who was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War, has been involved with Twin Falls air shows since the 1990s.
The first air show at the airport, at least in recent memory, was in July 1998, which marked the 50th anniversary of Joslin Field. Airplane rides to Shoshone Falls and back were offered for $5.
"We have had great success with the shows," O'Donnell said.
The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels performed in 2012. While next year's show won't have an act as well-known as the Blue Angels, O'Donnell said it will be entertaining.
"In some ways, it will be low key," he said, "and in some ways, it won't." | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/2023-air-show-to-celebrate-joslin-field-in-twin-falls/article_ebb5e8c2-180b-11ed-8bc2-6fc3483f9c06.html | 2022-08-09T23:58:35 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/2023-air-show-to-celebrate-joslin-field-in-twin-falls/article_ebb5e8c2-180b-11ed-8bc2-6fc3483f9c06.html |
Amica Mutual Insurance Co. in talks for naming rights to The Dunk
PROVIDENCE — Amica Mutual Insurance Company is in negotiations for the naming rights for the arena commonly called The Dunkin' Donuts Center, as well as the adjoining Rhode Island Convention Center, according to a company spokesman.
Often called The Dunk for short, the arena's legal name is the Providence Civic Center.
The naming rights belonging to Dunkin' expired June 30, but the Convention Center Authority, the state agency that controls the Civic Center, the Convention Center and Veterans Memorial Auditorium, allowed the arena to continue to be called Dunkin' Donuts Center while a new deal was negotiated.
It seems that new deal may not be with Dunkin'.
Amica 'excited about the potential opportunity'
"We’re in active discussions with the Rhode Island Convention Center Authority about securing the naming rights to the Convention Center and Civic Center," Amica spokesman Brendan Dowling said Tuesday evening in an email to The Providence Journal. "While nothing has been finalized yet, we’re excited about the potential opportunity."
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In the first half of this year, the Convention Center Authority sought bids from companies interested in buying the right to attach their brand to the 14,000-seat basketball and hockey venue.
Last month, Daniel McConaghy, executive director of the Convention Center Authority, said he doesn't expect to unveil a new sponsorship agreement until September.
"An announcement will not be made until successful negotiations of an agreement are concluded. We don’t expect that until possibly 9/1," he wrote in an email.
The Journal made several calls to McConaghy and left messages Tuesday, but was not able to speak to him.
The Providence Civic Center opened in 1972. Dunkin' Donuts first signed the $8.65-million naming rights deal in 2001.
Patinkin:Will Iggy's, Del's or the Big Blue Bug take on naming rights for The Dunk? | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/09/amica-negotiating-to-name-the-dunkin-donuts-center-in-providence/10282223002/ | 2022-08-09T23:59:49 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/09/amica-negotiating-to-name-the-dunkin-donuts-center-in-providence/10282223002/ |
BRYANT, Ark. — Officers with the Bryant Police Department were called to the scene of a fatal accident which they believe is a possible hit-and-run on Tuesday afternoon.
According to reports, when officers arrived they found a male lying inside a ditch close to the Bryant Parkway overpass.
Police have identified the victim but his name will not be released until all their family members have been notified.
If you have any information officers ask that you please contact the Bryant Police Criminal Investigation Division at (501) 943-0943.
The investigation into this incident remains ongoing and we will update with more information as soon as it becomes available. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/investigation-man-found-dead-possible-hit-and-run-bryant/91-2420dec4-3937-499a-ad1c-1e9fe2e499b6 | 2022-08-10T00:00:11 | 1 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/investigation-man-found-dead-possible-hit-and-run-bryant/91-2420dec4-3937-499a-ad1c-1e9fe2e499b6 |
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Veterans in the United States can lose thousands of dollars each month due to not accessing their benefits.
In order to help Veterans learn more about their benefits, Pulaski County Veteran Sevices will be hosting a Veterans picnic.
The event will be taking place on Saturday, August 13 beginning at 9:00 a.m. and ending at 1:00 p.m.at 501 W. Markham St in Little Rock.
The event is free and is open to the public, and Veterans will be able to learn about various benefits and services that range from disability to transportation.
It will be a great opportunity to learn more about Veteran's benefits, all the while you enjoy food alongside the local community.
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BLOOMINGTON — As she went through papers belonging to her late brother, a former teacher at a prestigious New York prep school, one name jumped out to Becky Leach O’Donnell.
One of the essays her brother had saved was written by John F. Kennedy Jr. when he was an eighth grade student at the Collegiate School in New York City. O’Donnell’s brother, Blake Leach, taught at the school for years, and Kennedy was one of his students.
“I was just kind of in shock when I found that,” O’Donnell said.
The topic of the essay Kennedy wrote also raised O’Donnell’s eyebrows. He wrote about being accident-prone.
“That was the irony in the whole thing, (...) as a poet and as a writer myself, I’m trained to recognize irony in life,” O’Donnell said.
The essay follows a format that will be familiar to many who remember their grade school assignments, with a thesis statement and then evidence to support it. For evidence of his clumsy nature, Kennedy described a time falling into a campfire, putting his foot in the spokes of a bicycle and falling off a cliff. The only thing that kept him from being “splattered” was a “five-inch deep puddle,” Kennedy wrote.
“I could go on for pages about accidents but I’ll spare the reader the pleasure,” he wrote toward the end of the essay.
The original of the essay is going up for auction in September through One of a Kind Collectibles in Florida. A note from Kennedy’s mother, then Jackie Onassis, that was in Leach’s papers is also being auctioned.
Leach scored the essay as a 79, with many of the missing points from spelling errors. He also left notes asking Kennedy to write out numbers; Kennedy appeared to have used the bottom of the last page to try out potential spellings of “exist.”
Leach died in 2000 at the age of 59. He and O’Donnell were born and raised in Bloomington-Normal. Both left, with Leach going to New York and then Florida. O’Donnell has lived in St. Louis and Florida, before moving back to Bloomington-Normal in 2019.
Both of the siblings worked in education. For O’Donnell, it was her career, but for Leach, his real focus was playwriting. He acted in local productions and while getting his bachelor’s degree at Northwestern. He later earned a master’s from the University of Iowa (CHECK) and a doctorate from New York University. While in New York he wrote several plays that were produced off-Broadway.
“He just was born to be an actor, to be in the field of drama,” O’Donnell said.
One of the plays Leach wrote also has a Kennedy connection. The play, titled “Petticoats and Union Suits,” tells the story of Mother Bickerdyke, a prominent nurse from Galesburg during the Civil War. Kennedy played a young soldier who died onstage during the play. Leach later wrote in his 1999 Pantagraph column that he did not think about how that could relate to the president’s death.
“So involved was I that it didn’t occur to me that people would relate this onstage death to the real death of his father 13 years before. The moment was electrifying and perhaps very sad for Mrs. Onassis, who, nevertheless, came night after night to see (Kennedy) in the play,” Leach wrote.
Judge Jennifer Bauknecht speaks to potential jurors in Livingston County court at the start of Clifford Brewer's jury trial Monday. Brewer is accused of killing three people on Christmas 2019.
Clifford Brewer, 55, of Cullom appears in Livingston County court at the start of his jury trial Monday, accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor on Christmas 2019.
Clifford Brewer, 55, watches potential jurors answer attorney questions at the start of his murder trial Monday in Pontiac. Brewer is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor on Christmas 2019.
Attorneys Joshua and Stephen Richards of Chicago appear in Livingston County court Monday with their client Clifford Brewer, center, who is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
Defense attorney Joshua Richards asks potential jurors questions at the start of the Clifford Brewer's trial. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor
Assistant State's Attorney Mike Regnier speaks to potential jurors at the start of Clifford Brewer's trial. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
Defense attorney Stephen Richards speaks to potential jurors Monday at the start of the trial for Clifford Brewer, left. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
State's Attorney Randy Yedinak speaks to potential jurors at the start of Clifford Brewer's trial Monday in Livingston County. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
Clifford Brewer's murder trial begins with jury selection in Livingston County triple homicide
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Judge Jennifer Bauknecht
Judge Jennifer Bauknecht speaks to potential jurors in Livingston County court at the start of Clifford Brewer's jury trial Monday. Brewer is accused of killing three people on Christmas 2019.
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Clifford Brewer
Clifford Brewer, 55, of Cullom appears in Livingston County court at the start of his jury trial Monday, accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor on Christmas 2019.
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Clifford Brewer
Clifford Brewer, 55, watches potential jurors answer attorney questions at the start of his murder trial Monday in Pontiac. Brewer is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor on Christmas 2019.
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Attorneys Joshua and Stephen Richards of Chicago appear in Livingston County court Monday with their client Clifford Brewer, center, who is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
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Defense attorney Joshua Richards asks potential jurors questions at the start of the Clifford Brewer's trial. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor
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Assistant State's Attorney Mike Regnier speaks to potential jurors at the start of Clifford Brewer's trial. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
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Defense attorney Stephen Richards speaks to potential jurors Monday at the start of the trial for Clifford Brewer, left. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
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State's Attorney Randy Yedinak speaks to potential jurors at the start of Clifford Brewer's trial Monday in Livingston County. Brewer, 55, is accused of killing his wife, son and neighbor.
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OCALA, Fla. – A four-legged pup named Albi is the newest member of Marion County Sheriff’s school resource officer division.
The German short-haired pointer has one job: track down guns inside Marion County Schools.
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“I wanted this since about six years ago, when I became an SRO,” said Cpl. Erik DeAngelis, K-9 Albi’s handler. “I wanted a way I could make a difference in the schools, and I knew a dog would always make a difference.”
Deputy DeAngelis’ dream was made possible by Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods and a group of community business owners, who raised the $14,000 needed for Albi and her training.
“I’d rather her not find a single gun, to be frank with you,” Sheriff Woods told reporters during a news conference on Tuesday. “If she goes through the whole school year and does not find a gun because they were too afraid to bring it on campus, then that is the goal. That is the purpose. But I am also realistic. She will find a gun. She will find ammunition.”
And she did find them. Albi picked the knapsack with the gun inside every, single time during the demonstration on Tuesday.
While Albi’s main purpose is to sniff out guns and gunpowder, she has found another secondary purpose. Albi has already begun interacting with students and Marion County deputies realized Albi can sometimes reach kids in ways they cannot — almost like a service dog.
“She has the informal capability of being basically like a therapy dog. Once you meet Albi, you fully understand why her personality has been able to reach out to these kids,” said Woods, smiling.
As students, teachers, parents and SROs gear up to get back to school, Woods and his new K-9 Albi have a back-to-school message: “To the would-be criminals that are viewing right now, know Albi is coming. If you carry a gun on campus, she will find you and we will arrest you.” | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/09/sheriffs-new-k9-will-patrol-marion-county-school-campuses-in-search-of-guns/ | 2022-08-10T00:04:21 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/09/sheriffs-new-k9-will-patrol-marion-county-school-campuses-in-search-of-guns/ |
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A 24-year-old woman from Titusville was killed in a crash Tuesday afternoon in Mims, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
The wreck occurred along U.S. Highway 1 and Wiley Avenue when a 2013 Chevy Malibu and a Ford F-150 crashed into each other, troopers said.
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FHP said the 36-year-old Titusville man who drove the Chevy and the 58-year-old Maine woman who drove the Ford were not taken to the hospital and remained at the scene following the crash. The woman who was transported to the hospital, where she later died, was a passenger in the Chevy, troopers said.
Troopers said there is currently a roadblock in the northbound outside lane of U.S. Highway 1 as investigators look into the crash.
No further information has been released about the crash.
This is a developing story. Check back with News 6 for updates.
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Ben Ysursa speaks at a press conference announcing five campaign co-chairs for Tom Arkoosh's campaign for Idaho Attorney General on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise.
BOISE — Longtime GOP Idaho Secretary of State Ben Ysursa has never before publicly endorsed a Democrat against a Republican — but he did so on Tuesday.
“The rule of law is under attack,” Ysursa told the Idaho Press, after endorsing Democratic nominee Tom Arkoosh for Idaho attorney general against GOP nominee and former Idaho Congressman Raul Labrador. Ysursa was one of five state campaign co-chairs Arkoosh announced Tuesday at a press conference – two Republicans, two Democrats, and one independent.
Afterward, Ysursa said, “If Lawrence Wasden won the primary, you wouldn’t see me here, obviously – nor Tom. It’s a matter of what’s best for the state.”
The other Republican co-chair is former longtime Idaho state Treasurer Lydia Justice Edwards, who served 12 years in that post and also served in the Legislature. The independent is former state Sen. Judi Danielson, R-Council. The two Democrats are former Idaho Attorney General Tony Park and former longtime Idaho Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb, D-Boise.
Labrador campaign adviser Brent Littlefield responded via email, “The guy who claims he is not a politician has surrounded himself with a pile of old politicians.”
Labrador has no campaign chairman or co-chairs listed on his campaign website, but has posted endorsements from three people: U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah; former U.S. Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo, who served in Congress with Labrador when Pompeo was a GOP representative from Kansas; and D. Colton Boyles, a Sandpoint attorney who initially filed to run for attorney general in the GOP primary this year, but dropped out and endorsed Labrador instead.
After Arkoosh’s campaign treasurer, former Idaho Supreme Court chief justice and GOP Attorney General Jim Jones, said of the group assembled at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial that there were “probably … more Republicans than Democrats,” Park joked that the late former four-term Democratic Idaho Gov. Cecil Andrus would “roll over in … (his) grave.”
Park said, “Folks, this election is about stopping extremism. That’s what it’s about. We cannot afford to play silly little games with the office of attorney general.”
Buckner-Webb told the crowd, “Tom Arkoosh is a seasoned attorney with a wealth of expertise and knowledge about the state of Idaho. … Raul Labrador is first and foremost a politician.”
Ysursa said, “We’re talking about good government, and we’re talking about a great candidate.”
Ysursa, who served 12 years as Idaho’s secretary of state and nearly three decades as chief deputy before that, said, “I see the role of the Attorney General exactly like my good friend Lawrence Wasden,” whom Labrador defeated in the GOP primary in May. “The attorney general is a neutral arbiter who sits as an umpire,” Ysursa said, “calling balls and strikes fairly and interpreting the law, telling agencies and the Legislature what they need to know, not what they necessarily want to hear.”
“Being a life-long Republican, it is not easy to endorse a Democratic attorney general candidate,” he said. “But the rule of law is under attack, constant attack, both at the national level and the state level. As a person who worked in elections for 40 years, I am especially chagrined by those who espouse the ‘big lie,’” former President Donald Trump’s assertion that he actually defeated current President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, despite all evidence to the contrary.
“Make no mistake about it, this will be a very difficult race against a well-known and well-financed opponent,” Ysursa said. “But I sincerely believe Tom is up for the task, and am encouraged by his early fundraising totals. Idahoans deserve and expect in their attorney general a good lawyer, not a good politician. That is why I’m endorsing Tom Arkoosh as attorney general.”
Arkoosh is a longtime Idaho attorney and former Gem County prosecutor who is making his first run for statewide office. He long was an independent before briefly registering as a Republican this year, then switching to Democrat before he was named the nominee for attorney general.
“These individuals have a long and distinguished history of service to the people of Idaho,” he said. “They’re not standing up here today out of partisanship, obviously, but because they care about a competent attorney general and they worry the other candidate in this race will do real and lasting damage to the office.”
“My promise is to run a law office, not a campaign headquarters for the next political office,” Arkoosh said. The crowd greeted that with cheers and applause.
Labrador ran for governor in 2018, losing in the GOP primary to current Gov. Brad Little. He previously served four terms in Congress representing Idaho’s 1st District and two terms in the Idaho House as a Republican from Eagle, and is a former chairman of the Idaho Republican Party.
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FOLSOM — Traffic will be barred from passing over the borough's Eighth Street bridge due to emergency repairs beginning Monday, Atlantic County officials said.
The road closure is expected to last until Sept. 14, officials said Tuesday in a news release.
After the repairs are finished, the bridge will reopen to local traffic. Weight limits will be enacted for heavy trucks while a replacement bridge's design is completed, officials said. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/eighth-street-bridge-in-folsom-closing-for-emergency-repairs/article_71522638-1827-11ed-9852-3fdce67a0e73.html | 2022-08-10T00:13:37 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/eighth-street-bridge-in-folsom-closing-for-emergency-repairs/article_71522638-1827-11ed-9852-3fdce67a0e73.html |
MARICOPA COUNTY, Ariz. — Walking down to Sheep Crossing on the Salt River, Connie Wickstrom and her crew are carrying a lot.
Between the kayaks, paddleboards, coolers, and scuba gear, it's easy to tell they're in for quite the trip.
Wickstrom and Sea 2 Sea divemaster Joe Sheehan, gear up with their oxygen tanks and diving fins and begin walking upstream.
"When we started, this was a workout routine out here," Wickstrom said.
They started diving here in October, Wickstrom said.
"As I was going down to the bottom, I noticed that there was a lot of stuff down there that people have dropped," Wickstrom said.
Since the tubing season started in May, Wickstrom and her friends have spent a lot of time underwater.
"Every time you go down, you end up with something coming out," Sheehan said.
Between what they've found on the Salt River's riverbed via scuba diving and what they've spotted and been able to pick out by simply reaching in shallow spots with their hands, Wickstrom estimates they've been able to reunite about 30 phones to their rightful owner.
Wickstrom then takes the items, charges the electronics up and posts them to her social media in hopes of finding to whom they belong.
Lost and found
Others, like one phone Wickstrom and her crew found on Monday, she's able to power on, and call the information the medical ID the phone had and get it back to the owner.
"The thought that somebody's losing memories is what was really important to me," Wickstrom said. "Because my thing is, if my house burns down, I just want my pictures. And so I think it's the same thing with phones I don't know that anybody cares too much about the actual phone. But if you have pictures in there that are lost forever."
The crew travels down the river on kayaks and paddle boards, keeping vigilant eyes on the water to see if anything catches their eye they can pull out.
During the deepest, most challenging spots, and places where tubers and others are known to lose items, Wickstrom will dive, cruising along the bottom searching for anything of note.
On Monday's search, between Wickstrom and her crew, they pulled out several vapes, five total phones, a car key, and a few pairs of sunglasses.
Wickstrom carries down with her on the tough workout 60 pounds of gear and 26 years of experience.
"I tell you what, by the end of the season I should be pretty trim," Wickstrom said.
In addition to reuniting items she finds, Wickstrom has people message her to search for items they've lost.
One story Wickstrom shared included helping to recover a woman's sentimental medal, which was given to the woman before her husband died. Wickstrom was able to dive into the location where it was lost and return the medal to its owner.
Cleaning up the environment
While she's not always finding someone's memories, she does notice the trash and glass bottles littering the bottom.
"I did see some beer bottles, which, despite the number of warnings about not bringing bottles down there, there are a ton of bottles. So I would really like to see a change in that," Wickstrom said.
"Anything with a lithium battery we try to definitely scoop out," Sheehan said.
Wickstrom said she's planning a river clean-up for the end of the season to try and get more of the trash picked up.
Still hoping the time on and under the water will help catch the eye of the long-lost owners.
"I mean, paying forward, giving back, working out: Win, win, win," Wickstrom said.
Wickstrom said if you lose or have lost something on the Salt River, private message her on her social media sites, as people can troll the comments and try and find the items first and sell them instead.
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GILBERT, Ariz. — A 79-year-old woman was found deceased Monday afternoon after she allegedly walked out of a memory care facility in the East Valley.
Ina Jenkins was last seen Monday morning at about 6 a.m. at the Silver Creek Inn Memory Care Center, which specializes in treating residents living with dementia.
Gilbert police say they were notified at about 9 a.m. of Jenkins' absence from the care facility and officers made efforts to locate her.
Jenkins was later found deceased at about 3 p.m. in Mesa near Southern Avenue and 58th Street, which is about a 1.5-mile walk from the care facility.
Police say investigators are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine how Jenkins died.
Representatives of the care facility told 12News they're not sure how Jenkins got out of the facility and they're cooperating with the police investigation.
Public records show the East Valley facility was issued a $1,000 fine last summer for failing "to ensure service plans were established and documented for two residents," according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The father of a Salem teen who died in a 2020 crash is suing the city of Salem, saying it could have done more to make its road signs more visible and should have placed more signs along the roadway where his daughter was killed.
Douglass Schumann, father of Sara Elizabeth Schumann, filed the complaint Thursday and is asking for $2.8 million in damages.
According to the Salem Police Department, Sara Schumann, 17, was the passenger in a Subaru Impreza being driven by 19-year-old Tristan Isaac Goodwin, of Newberg on August 7, 2020. At 10 p.m. that day, Goodwin was speeding while driving west on Mildred Lane Southeast. Police say he didn’t stop at a stop sign at Liberty Road South and collided with a driver traveling southbound in a Saturn Ion.
Sara Schumann died at the scene.
The driver and the passenger in the Saturn were critically injured in the crash, but survived.
According to KOIN News’ partner Pamplin Media, Goodwin pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced to three years in prison on September 4, 2021.
In the lawsuit Douglas Schumann filed Thursday, he says Goodwin isn’t the only one to blame for the crash and that the city of Salem is partially responsible.
The lawsuit states that Goodwin didn’t slow, stop or maneuver away before he crossed into the path of the Saturn Ion because he did not receive adequate warnings by traffic control devices on his approach to Liberty Road South. It also says he was unable to see the approaching vehicle.
“If the City of Salem had enforced their rules and caused property owners to maintain their vegetation near the roadways, and if the City of Salem had followed through with their duties to cut down vegetation along the roadways, Mr. Goodwin and the driver of the other vehicle heading southbound on Liberty Rd. SE (sic) would not have had an obstructed view,” the lawsuit states.
The city of Salem is also accused of not placing correct signage on the roads. The lawsuit says the city should have posted the correct speed on Mildred Lane Southeast and should have provided curve ahead, road ahead, crosswalk ahead and stop sign ahead signs, more lighting on the road, and a flashing light or traffic signal at the intersection.
The lawsuit argues that if these signs and features had been in place, then “Mr. Goodwin would have had more warning and been able to change his behavior as he approached the intersection.”
Douglas Schumann says he and family members suffered as a result of the city’s negligence and are therefore requesting $2.8 million in damages.
The city of Salem sent the following remarks to KOIN 6 News in response to the lawsuit:
“The City takes any loss of life very seriously and of course our deepest sympathies go out to all of those that were involved in that tragedy. Due to the fact that this is ongoing litigation, we cannot comment on the details of the incident or the complaint. | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/family-of-teen-killed-in-2020-crash-sues-city-of-salem-oregon/ | 2022-08-10T00:21:55 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/marion-county/family-of-teen-killed-in-2020-crash-sues-city-of-salem-oregon/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a model for predicting how regional infrastructure will fare in a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake and how long it could take communities to recover.
The new research involved transportation networks, but the university said it can be used in other networks as well, such as water and electrical power networks. The study focused on 18 communities along the Oregon coast, from Astoria to Brookings.
“Our work looks at the connectivity of Oregon communities after ‘the really big one’ and how long it might take the transportation network to recover from the damages due to a magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami,” said co-author Dan Cox, professor of civil and construction engineering at Oregon State.
He said researchers looked at connectivity from two perspectives: a local index related to getting around within a community, and a regional index related to going from the community to other locations.
The study showed that without regional considerations, recovery time may be severely underpredicted.
Cox said his team plans to take its results to the 18 Oregon communities it studied.
The researchers analyzed the communities individually and together as a regional network and considered factors such as earthquake ground shaking, tsunami inundation depth and proximity to airports and to highway and bridge maintenance facilities.
“In some instances, regional recovery happens faster than local recovery, such as North Bend and Coos Bay, whereas in other communities, such as Toledo, the local recovery is faster than the regional,” said College of Engineering doctoral student Dylan Sanderson.
For some communities, such as Rockaway Beach and Lincoln City, the regional and local recoveries are predicted to happen at about the same pace, he said.
“By comparing our results to other work in which the regional network was not considered, the time to recover for a single community was shown to be four times longer than previously estimated,” Sanderson said.
The communities the study predicted would recover fastest had access to roads that were identified as higher priority for restoration and also access to roads in areas with smaller hazard intensity measures. Communities that recovered quickly locally did so because of their access to maintenance facilities.
“We showed that adding additional maintenance facilities helped some communities, but others saw little to no improvement in local recovery time,” Sanderson said. “Communities that are more rural saw improvements in time to recover when an additional maintenance facility was added in the region, but communities closer to metropolitan areas experienced only minimal improvement.”
The study highlights some disparities in the recovery rate for coastal communities following large disasters. It shows that more work is needed to solve the issues.
Researchers hope this study can be used to support decision-making by different state or federal agencies.
The findings of the study were published in the Journal of Infrastructure Systems. | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/osu-models-how-coastal-cities-might-recover-after-the-big-one/ | 2022-08-10T00:22:01 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/osu-models-how-coastal-cities-might-recover-after-the-big-one/ |
BOISE, Idaho — National conversation continues to center on the Inflation Reduction Act, depending on what side of the aisle you are on you may hear very different conversations. A major question about the act, does it keep the promise of President Joe Biden, who said the act would not raise taxes on people making less than $400,000. Critics say no, supporters say yes.
For analysis on the act, KTVB spoke with Boise CPA Jeff Beebe, who operates Beebe & CO CPA Firm, he says he expects calls and questions soon from clients.
“I will this week. Once it really starts getting into the press all. I hope people start to call me,” Beebe said.
A major question he will likely get, how will the act impact taxes? Beebe explains the language in the act.
“Tax rates aren't changing as part of the Act, but there are some things for corporations, they are raising taxes which they'll end up passing through to consumers. So, while you may not be paying taxes directly, you'll be paying more for it,” Beebe said.
While the individual tax rates for those making less than $400,000 doesn’t change, the act does include a new 15% minimum tax on corporations that earn more than $1 billion in annual profits. The tax works to focus on some 200 U.S. companies that avoid paying the standard 21% corporate tax rate, including some companies that end up paying no taxes at all due to clever maneuvering. Experts say do not expect the major corporations to bite the bullet on paying new taxes.
“You take Amazon as an example. Very early on, Amazon didn't make any money for years, but they had a big net operating loss carryover that they've been using up now that they're profitable. But it still is an offset that was legal to use but very unpopular politically. So, it's focused on companies like that or that they're reinvesting large amounts of their income into other things that are deductions they don't want all these deductions getting away,” Beebe said “They're not going to just take a hit to the bottom line. They're going to pass that through to consumers.”
So, what could that look like?
“Usually it would be a price increase. It might be lowering the rate of wage increases, although with our current environment of tight unemployment, you can't mess with people's wages too much. That's going to be in price increases,” Beebe said.
So, while tax rates might not change, low and medium earning Americans could see a cost associated with the new act, but tax credits built into the act for things like green energy and electric cars or Medicare benefit extensions are supposed to offset the costs.
Beebe says he is also watching another part of the act, an $80 billion investment into the IRS. The goal is to crackdown on dishonest tax fillings that cost the country millions of dollars.
“Well, they're talking about hiring up to 80,000 employees, which is almost doubling the size of the IRS and which will make a big impact on IRS audits. The IRS has kind of a tough job. They enforce a very unpopular law. Everybody understands that the government needs money to operate. They just don't want it to be their money. They want it to be somebody else's money,” Beebe said.
If the IRS has more resources, it’s fair to assume there will be more audits done to cut down on lost IRS tax collections.
“They'll go after that underreporting from individuals is $250 billion. It's much larger for some individuals and corporations or payroll taxes. And who's that going to go to? It's mostly going to be people that make under $400,000 a year. Again, that's not a tax increase because that's tax law that exists. People aren't paying it and the IRS is going to try and collect it. It'll be focused on people making under $400,000 because there are more of those people than there are over $400,000,” Beebe said.
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BOISE, Idaho — The Southwest District Health Department added Hells Canyon Reservoir to the list of regional water bodies with potentially hazardous levels of toxins from cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae) Tuesday.
The health department discourages swimming, drinking, wading, or taking part in activities on the lake. Boiling or filtering water from the lake will not remove toxins, and can also accumulate to unhealthy levels in fish caught for consumption on the lake.
Symptoms of cyanobacteria exposure include rashes, hives, diarrhea, vomiting, coughing, and wheezing. More severe symptoms affecting the liver or nervous system may result from direct consumption of the water. Children, pets, livestock, and those with liver or kidney damage are particularly at risk of illness after exposure.
While recreating near the lake with dogs or pets, Southwest District Health encourages cleaning and washing the coats of pets which swam in the water to prevent any further exposure.
According to Southwest District Health, blue-green algae (which naturally occurs at lower levels in Idaho's bodies of water), blooms in high temperature weather. Blooms vary in appearance and may appear on the lake as mats, surface scum, or foam, and may emit a foul odor. In the past month, Southwest District Health also released a similar warning for Brownlee Reservoir and CJ Strike Reservoir, which are experiencing the same bloom of cyanobacteria.
For more information about harmful algal blooms, visit DEQ’s website or IDHW’s website.
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Proposed Oregon police conduct standards omit discipline for connections to hate groups
In an effort to better hold Oregon law enforcement officers accountable when they are the ones who commit egregious or criminal acts, the Commission on Law Enforcement Standards of Conduct and Discipline has proposed a set of standards for law enforcement agencies statewide.
The proposed standards are the result of state House Bill 2930, which passed in 2021. Among the proposals are disciplinary measures for officers who use excessive force, commit sexual assault or target a person of color or someone from a protected class.
What didn't make the proposed standards?
But some of the behaviors considered didn't make the final draft. Among them was repercussions for officers who join hate groups.
John Teague, chief of the Keizer Police Department and a member of the commission, said he has “no doubt” this guideline and others will be brought up again.
“The legislation is open-ended. This can move as wide and as deeply as the commission feels it should,” Teague said. “I don't know at the moment where it’s going to go.”
The 13-member commission is made up of members from throughout the state, including police chiefs, a sheriff, a defense attorney representing police and lawyers representing police unions. Public hearings for the commission's proposed standards are being held through mid-September. The rules go into effect Oct. 1 and public opinion will be considered until then.
Former NAACP chapter leader Benny Williams 'disappointed'
Benny Williams, one of the commission members and a former president of the Salem-Keizer chapter of the NAACP, said he was “disappointed” that the standard on hate groups was not in the draft.
During the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Williams said, there were instances in which officers were seen being more aggressive toward peaceful protesters than they were toward “agitators.”
A video of a Salem Police officer speaking with armed men standing outside downtown businesses about what they could do to avoid violating curfew went viral. Critics at the time said the police were showing favoritism by giving them tips on how to avoid arrest while being quicker to tear gas and arrest those associated with the George Floyd protests.
“We’re doing the best we can in avoiding a situation like a George Floyd or frankly to lessen the occurrence of overuse of force by law enforcement,” Williams said.
Williams said while the group is a good mix, it makes it difficult at times when it comes to discussion.
“It was both difficult and necessary at any given moment to remind all of the members why we were there,” Williams said. “I say it aloud on several occasions, like ‘Wait a minute.’ Discussion tends to be trying to protect law enforcement, and that's not the basis of what this commission is all about.”
What the proposed standards say
Williams was disturbed the commission chose a less forceful direction for accountability for law enforcement and that some standards like the one for participation in a hate group could not get a majority support.
The proposed standards do include:
- Termination for use of unjustified or deadly force that results in death or serious injury.
- Termination or a mitigated penalty for use of unjustified or excessive physical force that results in death or serious injury. Mitigating penalties could include suspension without pay, salary reduction, demotion or a written reprimand.
- Termination or a mitigated penalty for sexual assault.
- Termination or a mitigated penalty for intentionally targeting a protected class, such as targeting someone based on their race or gender.
Teague said he believes the impact of the new standards on the community will be minimal because of the way policing is handled in Oregon.
“If it is obvious, it will probably be at a very local level … but I don't think we'll see a real change," Teague said. "Generally speaking, policing in Oregon, and frankly, in the Northwest in general, is rather self-disciplined.”
Williams disagrees.
He thinks these guidelines will be a “wake-up call” for officers to be more accountable.
Williams called on law enforcement to also focus on diversity efforts to match the areas they serve.
"When you look at Salem right now, at this very moment in time, it is more diverse in the last 10 years than it's been in its history,” Williams said. “Yet many institutions here do not reflect that diversity. Law enforcement has to do that.”
How to comment
To send comments, email ORLawEnfCommission@doj.state.or.us.
Hearings will be both in person and virtual from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. on Aug. 30, Sept. 1, Sept. 7 and Sept. 14. The public is allowed to attend but cannot speak unless they sign up to testify.
The locations of the hearings are:
- Aug. 30: 150 NW Pacific Park Lane, Suite 100, Bend
- Sept. 1: 100 SW Market St., Portland
- Sept. 7: 700 SE Emigrant, Suite 100, Pendleton
- Sept. 14: 1555 SE McAndrews Road, Suite 200, Medford
Zoom meeting information and the sign up form can be found on the department's website. The last date for public comment is Sept. 16 at 5 p.m.
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Condemned apartment complex in northeast Salem leaves dozens scrambling for housing
Olga Cibrian has lived in the same one-bedroom apartment with her husband and 12-year-old son, Adrian, for 10 years.
The apartment has had plenty of problems, Cibrian said: mold, rats, cockroaches. The ceiling in the bathroom leaks. The refrigerator broke and leaked all over the carpet.
Still, absent other options, Cibrian and her family stayed. They have looked at other places, but they are limited by their son’s disability. He requires constant care and a ground-floor unit.
The family is among an estimated 65 people looking for new homes after the city last week condemned half of the two-story, 32-unit Cardinal Village complex on Hawthorne Ave. NE built in 1969.
“Are we afraid? Of living under a bridge? Yes,” Cibrian said, gesturing toward the overpass down the street.
Half of the complex residents were given orders to vacate the property. They have until Oct. 14 to leave, and are stepping into a nearly impossible situation.
Salem is facing one of the worst housing shortages in the nation and has become even less affordable than Portland due to lower wages.
Rents are at record highs in the Mid-Valley. High housing costs and low vacancy rates mean rentals are quickly filling up at higher prices. Apartments.com lists the average rent for a one-bedroom unit in the city at $1,128.
Court records list the 2020 rent at this complex at $900.
Landlords' history of problems
According to court records, the building is owned by siblings Laura Febres and Michael Febres and their mother Micaela Caballero, who are all based out of Klamath River, California.
The family did not respond to a request for comment when contacted by the Statesman Journal.
Court records indicate the family almost lost the property in 2015 after failing to make several payments to the bank.
Property records show they have owned several rentals in Oregon and California. The 2015 foreclosure case on Cardinal Village was dismissed after the family agreed to resolve all their defaults by selling another property in California.
This is not the first time one of their properties has been condemned.
In a legal answer filed in a case involving their Salem complex, the family blamed their economic problems on being "victims of discrimination" by the City of Coos Bay and two city inspectors involving an apartment complex they owned in Coos Bay.
After discussing needed electrical and structural work on the 18-unit Coos Bay complex, Caballero said inspectors then came six months later and posted, without warning, "danger and eviction" notices to all of her tenants.
A city report found mildew, a leaking roof, decay issues and soft spots compromising the structural safety of the building, dripping ceilings, bedrooms without heat, sinks that didn't drain, exposed wiring, non-working smoke alarms and missing water heaters.
All the tenants were forced to leave.
Caballero said in a motion that she later borrowed $75,000 to fix all the electrical problems, add smoke detectors, install water heaters and fix plumbing issues. She said she used rent checks from her Salem tenants on Hawthorne Avenue to fund further work at the Coos Bay complex, which resulted in the late payments on their mortgage.
At one point, she said, they owed $500,000 to the bank.
Court records indicate the apartment was allowed to reopen.
Pattern of neglect in Salem
Court records indicate a similar pattern of neglect in Salem.
A tenant at their Hawthorne Avenue complex sued Laura Febres, Michael Febres and Micaela Caballero in 2020 for not keeping her apartment in "habitable condition." The lawsuit filed in Marion County Circuit Court details water leaking through the drywall and warping the bathroom floor.
"The defendants have taken no steps to fix this dangerous condition," an attorney for the tenant said in court records.
Appliances like the stove and refrigerator also allegedly didn't work, which spoiled the tenant's food and leaked water onto the kitchen floor.
Despite being told about the issues, the landlords never fixed them or offered replacements, according to court records.
The tenant also accused the owners of charging her late fees and trying to evict her during the pandemic's eviction moratorium. Despite previously coming up with a payment plan for missing rent for her $900 unit, the tenant was served with an eviction notice on July 18, 2020, according to court records.
City staff said they've been in contact with the owners of the Cardinal Village Apartments on Hawthorne for several years.
Multi-family complexes in the city are required to have annual licenses and inspections every five years through the Multi-Family Inspection Program.
The city maintains a list of derelict properties in violation of city code. Eight properties are on the list of dangerous buildings unsafe to enter. Seven are listed as derelict. Most are single-family structures.
The condemnation of an apartment complex is not common in Salem.
"We very rarely declare multifamily properties unfit, as most property owners maintain their properties," city spokeswoman Courtney Knox Busch said.
She said inspectors discovered unsafe living conditions at the property on July 20 that raised significant habitability, public health and safety concerns.
During the inspection, staff found severe cockroach and mice infestations in every unit; leaks damaging flooring, walls and ceilings throughout the property; failed windows causing dry rot; and no operational smoke alarms.
Appliances and heaters were in disrepair, and inspectors noted several fire safety violations including past due fire inspections and lack of fire exits.
They also found an abundance of shoddy and unpermitted repair work.
Knox Busch said the city reached out to ARCHES, the Salem Housing Authority and Mano a Mano prior to issuing the order to vacate the complex so the groups could assist residents in relocating. Many of those service providers were present when the city posted the order at the complex Aug. 2.
The order allows for 60 days to help residents put in danger by the property relocate.
Due to the state of disrepair, it is unlikely the property could be made habitable during that time, city staff said.
"It is unlikely that the many structural repairs necessary to make the building safe to inhabit can be made quickly," Knox Busch said.
Who lives there?
ARCHES outreach teams counted 65 people living in the 16 condemned apartments. Almost all are farmworkers.
In several units, up to seven people are living in a one-bedroom unit.
Some residents said they settled there because it was the only apartment that didn’t ask for documentation status or that would accept their application with so little paperwork. Some found it through a referral from employers.
Several had moved into already-crowded units with their coworkers or family members.
Carolina Lazos is pregnant. Her baby is due in October — the same month she, her husband, and their cousin will have to leave. This was the only apartment complex that approved her family’s rental application, she said.
On Monday afternoon, residents of one apartment were already moving out. Jose Luis, a friend of the residents, was lending his truck and his hands.
“It’s an injustice,” Luis said. “They [landlords] just collect rent. They don’t care about the people.”
Seven people shared the one-bedroom apartment, and most slept on the floor in the living room. By Monday afternoon, all that remained were packed duffel bags, a bag of trash and curtains hanging from the ceiling separating the living room into two spaces. Cockroaches crawled on the walls.
Luis spoke on behalf of his friends while they carried their belongings to his truck.
“The owners wouldn’t live like this,” he said.
These residents will find friends and family to live with, for now. Not everyone has that option.
“It’s a dilemma,” said Rosendo Tzopitl, who lives in a one-bedroom unit with five other people. “We’re between a rock and a hard place. We could go somewhere else, but how?”
Groups offer help
If there is a small silver lining, it is the 60-day window residents have to vacate, said Ashely Hamilton, chief program officer for the Mid-Valley Community Action Agency. The window gives organizations like hers, which oversees ARCHES, more time to assess residents’ needs so they can help.
“Every household is going to need a different approach to housing stability,” Hamilton said. “Once we know more about their current situation and where their desired living situation is, we’re going to work with them to help them achieve it.”
ARCHES’ immediate goal is to learn and to make the program known to each resident. From there, staff will work with each household to help them figure out their next steps.
“This isn’t cookie-cutter, by any standard,” Hamilton said. “We’re answering the call, just in a different way when it comes to housing stability and homelessness.”
For questions, comments and news tips, email reporter Whitney Woodworth at wmwoodworth@statesmanjournal.com, call 503-910-6616 or follow on Twitter @wmwoodworth
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Power restored after tree damage knocks power out for 2,400
About 2,400 Salem Electric customers in West Salem were without power on Monday night after a tree fell on a power line.
According to Salem Electric, a large tree fell on Glen Creek Road and hit a primary overhead line, causing the outage and the tops of several poles to snap. It was not immediately clear what caused the tree to fall.
Jacob Knudsen, member services manager for Salem Electric, said Tuesday afternoon power had been restored to all remaining customers after around 200 were still without power Tuesday morning. Glen Creek Road was reopened Tuesday afternoon after crews finished most repair work. Some crews will continue work until permanent repairs can be made.
Knudsen said the first call about the power outage came in around 9:56 p.m. Monday night. Crews arrived on scene around 10:30 p.m. and began repair work.
Salem Electric rerouted power from their substations in an attempt to restore power to several hundred customers, but about 500 were still without power at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday. Most customers had their power back early Tuesday morning and about 200 remaining customers had their power restored by Tuesday afternoon.
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AVON, Ind. — A statewide Silver Alert has been canceled for a 13-year-old boy from Avon.
The Hendricks County Sheriff's Department had reported Shane Hommel went missing the afternoon of Monday, Aug. 8.
There was concern he could be in extreme danger or requiring medical assistance.
Police tell 13News that Hommel was located safe and is back with his family.
Amber Alert vs. Silver Alert: What's the difference?
There are specific standards a person's disappearance must meet in order for police to declare an Amber Alert or a Silver Alert.
Amber Alerts are for children under the age of 18 who are believed to have been abducted and in danger. Police also need to have information about a suspect and their car to issue an Amber Alert.
Silver Alerts are for missing and endangered adults or children. They are much more common for missing people. It was not until last year when the standards for Silver Alerts were expanded to include children.
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At least one person died and more than a dozen others were injured when a bus overturned in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, according to state police.
The incident occurred just before 7 p.m. Tuesday evening in Woodbridge Township, on the Thomas Edison Service Area entrance ramp from the outer roadway, New Jersey State Police said. One person had died, police confirmed, and there were multiple injuries, with more than a dozen hurt.
Two of those who were injured in the crash were airlifted to the hospital. Their conditions were not immediately available.
It was not clear what may have caused the bus crash. The outer lanes near the incident were still shut down as of 8:30 p.m.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – In honor of National Book Lovers’ Day on Aug. 9, 2022, we’ve compiled a list of ten authors who were born right here in the Mountain State.
National Book Lovers’ Day is celebrated every August 9 to promote and celebrate reading and literature.
Stephen Coonts:
Stephen Coonts, a spy-thriller and suspense novelist, grew up in Buckhannon, West Virginia. After high school, he went on to West Virginia University where he received a degree in political science, and then joined the Navy. Coonts became a Naval Aviator in 1969, serving in the Vietnam War. His first novel, “Flight of the Intruder,” was published in 1986 and became a movie in 1991.
Some of Coonts books include: The Jake Grafton series, the Tommy Carmellini series, the Deep Black series, “Fortunes of War,” “The Cannibal Queen,” and “The Sea Witch”
Jennifer L. Armentrout:
#1 New York Times and #1 International Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia and currently lives in Shepherdstown, according to her website. Her books range from a variety of genres including young adult paranormal, contemporary romance, science fiction and fantasy. She also tells her fans on her website: “All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true.”
Some of Armentrout’s books include: The Lux Series, the Origin Series, the “Blood and Ash” series, the Flesh and Fire series, “Don’t Look Back,” “Cursed,” and “If There’s No Tomorrow.”
Homer Hickam:
Homer Hickam was born in Coalwood, West Virginia. The Vietnam Veteran and former NASA engineer has written multiple books, and is best known for his second book “Rocket Boys: A Memoir,” published in 1998, which was adapted into the 1999 film “October Sky.”
Some of Hickam’s books include: “Rocket Boys” and the rest of the Coalwood series, The Josh Thurlow series, “Back to the Moon,” “The Dinosaur Hunter,” “Paco: The Cat Who Meowed in Space,” and his first book “Torpedo Junction.”
Pearl S. Buck:
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American novelist born in Hillsboro, West Virginia June 26, 1892. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is known for her best-seller “The Good Earth” and also became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Her parents were missionaries who moved to China when she was only four months old. After returning to the United States to pursue her education, she returned to China to serve as a missionary, but later moved back to the US and continued her writing career while becoming an activist for women’s rights and racial equality. Buck died in Vermont in 1973.
Some of Buck’s books include: “The Good Earth,” “Pavilion of Women,” “Imperial Women,” “East Wind: West Wind,” “Sons,” “A House Divided,” and “Peony.
Henry Louis Gates Jr.:
American literary critic, professor, historian and filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was born in Keyser, West Virginia and grew up in Piedmont. He studied at Yale Law School before joining Yale’s Afro-American Studies department, eventually becoming an associate professor. He later became the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He also hosts the PBS show “Finding Your Roots.” Throughout his literary career, Gates became an advocate for Black literature that draws “from its culture of origin” rather than Western influence.
Some of Gates’ books include: “Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow,” “The Classic Slave Narratives,” “The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” and “Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow.”
Denise Giardina:
Award-winning American Novelist Denise Giardina was born in Bluefield, West Virginia and grew up in the Black Wolf coal mining camp in McDowell County. While a political activist who has openly criticized coal companies, Giardina, an ordained Episcopal Church deacon, has called her works “more theological than political.” She also ran for West Virginia Governor in 2000, coming in third in the race.
Some of Giardina’s books include: “Storming Heaven,” “Emily’s Ghost,” “The Unquiet Earth,” “Saints and Villians,” and “Thunder on the Mountain: Death at Massey and the Dirty Secrets behind Big Coal.”
Keith Maillard:
Keith Maillard is a Canadian-American novelist as well as a poet and professor. He was born in Wheeling, West Virginia and has written 13 novels and one poetry book. He moved to Canada in 1970 and became a Canadian citizen in 1976. Maillard began teaching at the University of British Columbia in the 1980s. His hometown of Wheeling became the inspiration for the town of Raysburg, where many of his novels are set.
Some of Maillard’s books include: “Gloria,” “The Clarinet Polka,” “Twin Studies,” the “Difficulty at the Beginning” series, and “Two Strand River.”
Ann Pancake:
Ann Pancake was born and raised in the Romney and Summersville areas of West Virginia. She published her first novel, “Strange as This Weather Has Been,” in 2007. The book, which is about a southern West Virginia family devastated by mountaintop removal mining, won two awards, and her short stories and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies in recent years. She currently teaches Appalachian fiction at West Virginia University.
Some of Pancake’s books include: “Strange as This Weather Has Been,” “Given Ground,” “Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley,” as well as multiple anthologies in which her work has been featured.
Pinckney Benedict:
Pinckney Benedict was born in the Lewisburg area of Greenbrier County, West Virginia. He is a short-story writer who has won literary fellowships and awards for his work. His work has also appeared in many publications including “Appalachian Heritage,” “StoryQuarterly,” and “Esquire.” His works often reflect his Appalachian background, where he grew up on a dairy farm.
Some of Benedict’s works include: “Miracle Boy and Other Stories,” “HACKBERRY,” “Give Us a Kiss,” “Town Smokes: Stories,” “Dogs of God,” and “Wrecking Yard.”
Carlene Thompson:
Carlene Thompson is a suspense thriller novelist who was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia and has also lived in Point Pleasant, West Virginia at multiple points throughout her life. She received a degree in English from Marshall University and a Master’s degree and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. She taught at the University of Rio Grande in Ohio before quitting her job to write full-time. Her first book, “Black for Remembrance,” was published in 1990. An avid animal lover, Thompson also features animals she has known throughout her life in her books.
Some of Thompson’s books include: “Black for Remembrance,” “Can’t Find My Way Home,” “Praying for Time,” “Just a Breath Away,” “Last Seen Alive,” and “All Fall Down.”
Editor’s Note: The names that appear on this list were chosen at random and there are many more authors who were born in West Virginia besides those that appear on this list. For more novelists who were born in the Mountain State, click here. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/10-authors-who-were-born-in-west-virginia/ | 2022-08-10T00:45:07 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/10-authors-who-were-born-in-west-virginia/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The debate continues over the controversial Inflation Reduction Act spending bill in Washington, but one West Virginia group is very happy.
For years, advocates have argued that Medicare should be able to negotiate with drug companies to get lower prices. The VA is already allowed to do that for veterans.
Under the act that was just passed by the U.S. Senate, Medicare would be allowed to negotiate prescription drug prices.
Out-of-pocket drug costs for seniors would be capped at $2,000 per year. Insulin for people on Medicare would be capped at $35 per month.
“We believe that the provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are going to make a difference, particularly to the medicare program. You know, it’s estimated that medicare will save about $300 billion dollars over the next ten years, as a result of Medicare negotiation,” said Gaylene Miller, State Director of the West Virginia AARP.
There will be other cost savings as well.
“The legislation also includes the elimination of the co-pays for needed vaccines for Medicare beneficiaries. Things like the Shingles vaccine which currently could cost $350 dollars,” said Miller.
Now the prescription drug legislation is not a done deal yet. While it passed the Senate, it still faces a close vote in the U.S. House, but that could come Friday.
If the House and Senate agree, President Biden promises to sign the bill. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/aarp-west-virginia-cheers-proposed-prescription-drug-negotiations/ | 2022-08-10T00:45:13 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/aarp-west-virginia-cheers-proposed-prescription-drug-negotiations/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — We have all heard the nursery rhyme, “Don’t let the bed bugs bite,” but what happens when that becomes your reality?
For Charleston-Kanawha Housing residents like Chad Robinson, it so happens that bed bugs are real, and they have taken over his own home.
“They jump on you, and they stay on you,” said Robinson, who lives at Carrol Terrace. “They attack you. They prey on you, and also, they suck your blood and they won’t stop.”
Robinson said he went to the hospital after a bed bug dug into his leg. Now, he is asking that management does something to permanently squash the problem.
“We do have a number of cases of bed bugs from time to time in our units that we have to address,” said Jeff Knight, Chief Operations Officer of Charleston-Kanawha Housing. “So, we try to do our best, but we got to know about it before we can deal with it.”
Knight says they see the most issues in their high-rise apartments, like Carroll Terrace, located on Kanawha Boulevard.
“In our lease agreement, we place the requirement on the family to inform us so that we can treat because obviously, unfortunately, bed bugs can move from unit to unit if it’s not quickly treated,” he said.
Carroll Terrace residents said that is not good enough.
“It has been an ongoing problem,” said Melissa Cagle, Carroll Terrace resident. “In one apartment I was in here, I was sprayed at least three times.”
Cagle said she has lived there for 13 years, and no matter how many times they spray, it never gets better. She said there is only one solution.
“You have to get rid of furniture because spraying isn’t good enough, and it’s really awful,” Cagle said. “The best thing to do is tear down the building and build it back up.”
Other residents, who have no where else to go, are wishing for something less drastic.
“I just wish and pray that we can get the solution solved because it scares me to stay here, and this is the only place that I got to stay,” Robinson said.
Knight said they already have a protocol in place to remove bed bugs, which includes residents having to remove all of their belongings from their apartment before it can be inspected and treated. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/bed-bugs-take-over-public-housing-complex-in-charleston/ | 2022-08-10T00:45:19 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/bed-bugs-take-over-public-housing-complex-in-charleston/ |
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — Two separate crashes happened on I-79S just past the Elkview exit.
Metro 911 officials say one crash was at the 11-mile marker and the other was at the 12-mile marker.
One person was taken to the hospital from the 11-mile marker crash. At least two people were taken to the hospital from the 12-mile marker crash, dispatchers say.
They say all lanes are open at this time.
The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office is on scene. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/two-crashes-only-one-mile-marker-apart-on-i-79s/ | 2022-08-10T00:45:25 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/two-crashes-only-one-mile-marker-apart-on-i-79s/ |
Bloomington police are investigating after a person was found dead in a parked vehicle Tuesday.
In a statement, the Bloomington Police Department said officers were notified at 12:47 p.m. about a dead person inside a parked vehicle in the 1100 block of West Front Street.
A team of officers and detectives went to the scene, the department said.
Police said more information would be released Wednesday.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact Det.
Raisbeck, 309-434- 2593, Det. Law, 309-434-2527, or the Bloomington Police Department, 309-820-8888.
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A fan of Brazil's Atletico Mineiro soccer team cheers as he waits for the start of a Copa Libertadores quarter-final first leg match against Brazil's Palmeiras at Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Thomas Santos)
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Attorney General Merrick Garland with Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke for the Civil Rights Division, speaks during a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. The U.S. Justice Department announced civil rights charges Thursday against four Louisville police officers over the drug raid that led to the death of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman whose fatal shooting contributed to the racial justice protests that rocked the U.S. in the spring and summer of 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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New Zealand's Havana Rosalie Hopman during the Rhythmic Gymnastics, Team Final and Individual Qualification - Sub Division 1 during the Commonwealth Games at Arena Birmingham, Birmingham, England, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (Zac Goodwin/PA via AP)
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Advait Page of India stretches before starting in the Men's 1500 meters freestyle final during the swimming competition of the Commonwealth Games, at the Sandwell Aquatics Centre in Birmingham, England, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Fans light flares during the first half of a Leagues Cup soccer match between the Los Angeles FC and the Club America Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in Inglewood, Calif. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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United States' Jennifer Kupcho plays her tee shot from the 13th, during the first round of the Women's British Open golf championship, in Muirfield, Scotland Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
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A person wears protective gear as they stand close to the lava flowing from Fagradalsfjall volcano in Iceland on Wednesday Aug. 3, 2022, which is located 32 kilometers (20 miles) southwest of the capital of Reykjavik and close to the international Keflavik Airport. Authorities in Iceland say the volcano in the southwest of the country is erupting just eight months after its last eruption officially ended. (AP Photo/Marco Di Marco)
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A young Kashmiri boy watches a Muharram procession in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Muharram is a month of mourning in remembrance of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Mohammed. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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A woman walks past an electoral mural calling for peace, in the low-income Kibera neighborhood of Nairobi, Kenya Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Kenya is due to hold its general election on Tuesday, Aug. 9 as East Africa's economic hub chooses a successor to President Uhuru Kenyatta. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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Italy's former Interior minister, Matteo Salvini and Leader of The League party, center, visits the migrant reception center in the Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Salvini is making a stop Thursday on Italy's southernmost island of Lampedusa, the gateway to tens of thousands of migrants arriving in Italy each year across the perilous central Mediterranean Sea. (AP Photo/David Lohmueller)
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WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner, center, is escorted in a court room prior to a hearing, in Khimki just outside Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Closing arguments in Brittney Griner's cannabis possession case are set for Thursday, nearly six months after the American basketball star was arrested at a Moscow airport in a case that reached the highest levels of US-Russia diplomacy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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A man exercises in a park in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Community members stand around an injured illegal gold miner near Krugersdorp, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Community members beat suspected illegal miners with sticks and set fire to their camps following the alleged gang rapes of eight women by miners last week. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)
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Community members burn materials abandoned by illegal miners in Krugersdorp Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. Community members in the South African city of Krugersdorp beat suspected illegal miners with sticks and set fire to their camps on Thursday in an outpouring of anger following the alleged gang rapes of eight women last week by more than 80 men suspected of being miners. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A new principal has been selected at the Magic City Acceptance Academy in Birmingham.
On Tuesday, the school announced that Patton Furman had been principal of the new school. She will officially start Aug. 22. Michael Wilson, the school’s founding principal, will subsequently assume the role as superintendent of the school.
Furman had previously served as student services supervisor for Shelby County Schools, where she had also serve as principal of the Shelby County Schools Alternative Programs since 2018. Furman had also spent 12 years teaching French at Oak Mountain High School and also served as assistant principal for a time.
Furman received her master’s degree in French education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2000. She received her doctorate in Educational Leadership from the University of Alabama in April 2020.
“As we enter our second year of curriculum, we are thrilled that we continue to grow and foster a learning environment surrounded by a staff that is supportive and welcoming to all as well as continued support from throughout the community,” school staff stated in a press release. “With the continued leadership of Dr. Wilson in the role of Superintendent and Dr. Furman in the role as Principal, we know that the future is bright at MCAA.” | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/former-shelby-county-educator-named-principal-at-magic-city-acceptance-academy-in-birmingham/ | 2022-08-10T00:56:48 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/former-shelby-county-educator-named-principal-at-magic-city-acceptance-academy-in-birmingham/ |
BEAVERTON, Ore. — Dozens of school districts across the country have eliminated their school resource officer (SRO) programs amid heated debate over how effective they are at keeping students safe.
Oregon's two largest districts — Portland Public Schools and Salem-Keizer School District — both did away with SROs within the past couple years. Now the third-largest district in the state, Beaverton School District, is taking a closer look at its own SRO program.
Monday morning, the Beaverton School Board went through findings of a 120-page report on the program, jointly commissioned by the city of Beaverton and the district. The report is based on input from more than 8,700 parents, students, school staff, SROs and community members.
According to the report, 43% of students surveyed supported having SROs in schools, and nearly a third said they didn't know anything about SROs.
On the other hand, the majority of staff and parents said they did support SROs.
Here's what one of the people involved with the report had to say at Monday's school board meeting:
"Many people said they really support SROs in part because they believe or want to believe that SROs stop school shootings from occurring, and the evidence simply does not support that perception," she said. "There have been decades of research on this that have not been able to quantitatively prove school shootings are prevented by SROs."
She said recent research found that school shootings where an armed officer was present resulted in a death rate that was nearly three times as high as schools at which there was no officer.
Meanwhile, the report found less than 20% of students, staff and parents actively opposed SROs in schools. Those who were more likely to oppose them included students who are nonbinary, LGBTQIA+, people of color or disabled.
The report also referenced disproportionate discipline, arrests and referrals, For instance, Black students make up just 3% of Beaverton's student population, but 14% of arrests and referrals by SROs involved Black students.
Still, there are differing opinions on whether police have a place in schools.
For example, school staff including counselors, social workers and psychologists found value in partnerships with police
Recommendations in the report included things like expanding access to mental health and wellness service and redefining the district's relationship with law enforcement to make it more limited in scope.
Beaverton's SRO program costs more than $1.5 million a year and is largely paid for by the city and Washington County Sheriff's Office rather than the district.
There are 11 SROs from three agencies that cover the Beaverton School District's 54 schools.
The school board did not make any decisions regarding SROs at Monday's board meeting. The superintendent and staff will review the report before making further recommendations.
As of now, the district still plans to have SROs in schools when the school year starts up again in September.
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CLIVE — A Waterloo man has won a $50,000 Powerball prize.
Michael Harper matched four of five white balls and the Powerball in the July 30 drawing. He was one number away from winning that night’s $178.8 million jackpot.
Harper purchased his winning ticket at Guddi Mart, 306 Byron Ave. in Waterloo, and claimed his prize Friday at the lottery’s Cedar Rapids regional office.
The winning numbers in the July 30 drawing were 4-17-57-58-68 and Powerball 12. The Power Play number was 3.
Players in $2 Powerball choose their first five numbers from a pool of 69, and another number – called the Powerball – from a separate pool of 26. The Power Play option is available for an extra $1 per play.
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Plans for how to replace special assessments are headed to the Bismarck City Commission, but key officials on Tuesday expressed concerns that an election deadline next month might be too tight for a public vote on the issue this year.
The City Commission voted unanimously Tuesday at a joint meeting with the Special Assessment Task Force Subcommittee to move the issue to the commission for further discussion of a formula for a street maintenance fee and a public vote to amend the city's home rule charter so it could be implemented.
The Special Assessment Task Force has been working for more than a year to create a fee in place of special assessments meant to fund street maintenance. The action came after the 2021 Legislature passed a law that allows cities to levy street maintenance fees on all utility users.
Officials at Tuesday's meeting largely discussed concerns related to proposed parcel-based methodologies for street maintenance fee rate structures, including a tier-based system and a proportional system with minimum and maximum caps. The vote didn't endorse a particular formula. The full task force recommendation can be found at bit.ly/3OMNwZt.
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The Sept. 6 deadline to submit a measure for the November ballot sparked concerns about adequate time to present a fee plan to the public.
"I don't think we have enough time to both get this rectified and also be able to explain it to the public at this point," subcommittee member Dustin Gawrylow said. "It is complicated. It's going to take a lot more polishing to get it to the point where it is easy to present."
Mayor Mike Schmitz told the Tribune the issue doesn't appear likely to make the November ballot, but a proposal could come in the June 2024 election. A special election would be "too costly," he said.
Commissioner Anne Cleary echoed the timing concerns for "making sure that the public is understanding" a plan.
"I feel like we really only have one shot at this, and so we don't want to rush it through," she said. | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarck-city-commission-to-further-discuss-special-assessments-election-deadline-looms-for-issue/article_2a247b34-182d-11ed-a194-9b25be936a08.html | 2022-08-10T01:03:54 | 1 | https://bismarcktribune.com/news/local/bismarck/bismarck-city-commission-to-further-discuss-special-assessments-election-deadline-looms-for-issue/article_2a247b34-182d-11ed-a194-9b25be936a08.html |
PALMYRA, Maine — Having accessible health care is essential, and some communities in Maine are known to lack multiple health care options.
Hometown Health Center unveiled plans Tuesday for a new center that will provide medical, clinical, dental, and behavioral health care, along with wellness services in Palmyra.
"Increasing access to programs that treat the whole person and their lifestyle is what the new center is all about," Hometown Health Center CEO, Robin Winslow, said.
The facility will have eight doctors and two dentists on site. Along with health care, the center will have a recovery center for addiction, giving people in rural areas a nearby option for treatment.
The interior designer for the project who's adding the "wellness" aspect shouldn't be overlooked. It will provide fitness services, as well as a food bank for community members.
"The wellness center allows for the community to come together and participate in activities that provide whole body wellness," Peter Pinkerton said.
The facility will have indoor track and basketball courts and offer fitness programs like physical therapy, weight training, yoga, and racquetball.
Winslow and Pinkerton say they hope the $24 million facility will be up and running by the end of 2024.
When the time comes, Hometown Health Center's Newport offices will move to the new facility in Palmyra. Meanwhile, the office in Dexter will remain open. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/hometown-health-center-to-bring-new-health-and-wellness-facility-to-palmyra-maine/97-bd72aa2b-f828-458a-8c7a-796424af39e5 | 2022-08-10T01:04:27 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/hometown-health-center-to-bring-new-health-and-wellness-facility-to-palmyra-maine/97-bd72aa2b-f828-458a-8c7a-796424af39e5 |
SACO, Maine — With much of Maine in moderate to severe drought, farmers in Cumberland and York counties are reporting reduced water levels, with some forecasting tough harvesting decisions on the horizon.
Tim Leary with Leary Farm in Saco hasn’t checked on his water level in some time. He says he is trying to avoid the stress of knowing how low the level has gone down.
"If we run out of water, we will pick and choose what we can water and we will just sacrifice something... we are at the point where we are getting low on water," Leary said.
His son, Kevin Leary, says the water is down by 15 to 20 feet, and has only seen it this low once before.
Meanwhile, his father Tim says the month of July saw little to no rain, and whatever showers passed through missed their farm.
"July and August gets dry, but we haven't seen that big front come across... so it's hit or miss showers and a lot of it misses us. I've seen it go this way and that way but it missed here," Leary said.
The Natural Resources Conservation Service of Maine, a branch of the USDA, told NEWSCENTER Maine that resources are available for farmers facing water crises.
Luis Aponte is the district conservationist for York and Cumberland Counties, and says more than half of the counties' land is in severe drought, according to drought.gov.
"We've seen... this year, at least 15 to 25 calls for irrigation... it's been a lot these last couple years," Aponte said. "It's been growing these last couple years with the big droughts we've been having. The number is expected to grow, it's huge."
Aponte says farmers facing a water issue can contact the USDA branch in Maine and apply for financial assistance for the fiscal year of 2023. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-drought-conditions-forcing-farmers-to-make-tough-decisions-environment-agriculture/97-94a7ce82-1107-4305-9f09-4a33f2b3bd41 | 2022-08-10T01:04:34 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/maine-drought-conditions-forcing-farmers-to-make-tough-decisions-environment-agriculture/97-94a7ce82-1107-4305-9f09-4a33f2b3bd41 |
Lancaster County Election Commissioner Dave Shively on Tuesday determined initiative petitions to put the city’s so-called fairness ordinance on the November ballot were invalid, delivering what could be a fatal setback to a grassroots group hoping to put it to the voters.
The group, Let Lincoln Vote, started the ballot initiative in June, after the City Council rescinded an ordinance it had initially passed in February to broadly update city code, including extending protections to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
On Monday, Let Lincoln Vote turned in 11,013 signatures — nearly 20% more than the 8,846 it needed. Those signatures then went to the Election Commissioner's Office to be verified.
Shively said the petitions did not include a statement indicating whether petition circulators were paid or volunteer, as is required by state law, and as a result he cannot verify them.
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He returned the two boxes of signatures to the city clerk Tuesday, one day after Let Lincoln Vote organizers turned them in.
“That would mean their work really was for naught because they didn’t follow state law,” Shively said.
But Kay Siebler, who helped lead the grassroots effort that included more than 100 volunteers, said they have a plan they hope will keep the petition effort moving forward, but said she couldn't yet elaborate.
“What I can say is we’re not giving up,” she said. “We’re exploring different options, but we think we have a plan. We’re not in despair.”
State law says each sheet of a petition must say whether it is being circulated by a paid or volunteer circulator “upon its face and in plain view of persons who sign the petition a statement in letters not smaller than 16-point type in red print on the petition.”
This is the latest turn of events in the latest attempt to expand protections in Lincoln to include sexual orientation and gender identity, which began in February when the City Council passed a broad update to Title 11, the portion of city code dealing with equity in housing, public accommodation and employment.
While the flashpoint has been expanding protections to LGBTQ individuals — and the focus of opponents led by the Nebraska Family Alliance — the ordinance passed by the council, and the one put forward as part of the ballot initiative, are significantly broader.
Both would update language and reorganize the section to clarify the process of the Lincoln Commission on Human Rights, add active military veterans as a protected class and update and strengthen disability protections.
After the council passed the ordinance in February, opponents launched a successful referendum, and the council had to decide whether to rescind the ordinance or put the question to voters.
Some transgender advocates warned early on that they would be targeted by opponents and that supporters weren’t adequately prepared to launch a campaign to counteract the well-organized efforts by opponents should the issue go to a public vote. Those arguments took on more momentum after a transgender advocate died by suicide.
And they ultimately succeeded in convincing the council, by a narrow vote, to rescind the ordinance it had just passed.
That upset other supporters — some who had worked for decades to expand such protections — and they decided to launch the ballot initiative.
The time frame — even had the petition signatures been verified — was tight to get the question on the November ballot. Once the signatures are verified, they go back to the city clerk, and the City Council must pass a resolution to put the issue on the ballot. To get on the ballot, that language had get to the election commissioner by Sept. 1.
The initiative could also be considered for the city election ballot next spring. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-commissioner-tosses-petitions-to-get-fairness-ordinance-on-lincoln-ballot-as-invalid/article_7a0d3588-4f5c-5d68-ac22-9073dc5e9212.html | 2022-08-10T01:05:03 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/election-commissioner-tosses-petitions-to-get-fairness-ordinance-on-lincoln-ballot-as-invalid/article_7a0d3588-4f5c-5d68-ac22-9073dc5e9212.html |
Outside the Planned Parenthood clinic near 48th Street and Old Cheney Road, a crowd gathers.
Some are kneeling, praying the rosary. Others are dressed in rainbow colors and hold signs that read “Honk 4 Choice.” People dressed in blue vests hand out pamphlets. Clinic escorts shake tambourines and blare music.
While the grassy space outside the clinic has been home to prayer gatherings and protests in the past, Andi Curry Grubb, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Nebraska, said the Lincoln clinic has seen an uptick in peripheral activity since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Lincoln is a health center that has always seen quite a bit of protest activity,” she said. “We have seen a bit of an increase. … There's more people, and they're a little bit more amplified.”
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For years, abortion opponents from Lincoln Right to Life and various Catholic churches have been gathering outside the Planned Parenthood clinic to pray. Tuesday morning, more than 40 people recited a prayer to end abortion and sang “God Bless America.” Afterward, they convened at the nearby Women’s Care Center — a pregnancy center that offers ultrasounds but does not provide abortions.
Mike Davis, president of Lincoln Right to Life, said the group seeks to end abortion, and it does so through prayer and encouraging women to visit the clinic across the street.
He said the Women’s Care Center has seen an increase in visits in the past few weeks. Davis, one of five Lincoln Right to Life members who bought the building strategically located across the street from the Planned Parenthood location, said that's proof his group is helping women access health care.
“We’re reaching out to them to not make a terrible mistake,” he said. “They all regret it. They know that it's a child in their womb.”
But abortion rights activists are gathered, too. They began coming after the Supreme Court decision, and they hope their presence puts pressure on the anti-abortion group, which they believe is disruptive and uncaring toward women seeking affordable health care.
Judy King is one of the demonstrators who’s been active this summer. She said things aren’t always civil between the two groups. At times, hateful things are chanted and signs displayed that she believes could be upsetting.
“These protests are taking over a space that should just be quiet,” she said. “They come in, and they’re passing out flyers, and they're teaching lies.”
King called the police a week ago after she alleged someone threw salt on her, though Lincoln Police Department Assistant Chief Michon Morrow said officers did not pursue the charge because it was unclear whether it was intentional.
LPD Capt. Todd Kocian said officers were also dispatched to the clinic another time in July during a protest dispute.
On this Tuesday, Thia Hartley holds a sign that encourages drivers in support of abortion rights to honk. Horns blare as she waves and smiles.
She said she’s supporting women who might want to enter the clinic.
“It’s like a dragon has awoken since Roe,” Hartley said. “Women and men are pissed off.”
Mary Sand is one of the prayer group members, and she said she believes the abortion rights activists have been hateful, not her group. Things often get tense on the Planned Parenthood lawn when the other group chants explicit things, she said.
“We've been coming here for years, praying peacefully, and we continue to pray peacefully,” she said.
Curry Grubb said that while there have been abortion rights demonstrators at the clinic, it’s not something Planned Parenthood encourages or organizes.
Instead, the organization has clinic escorts outside the entrance to welcome those who attempt to enter. Curry Grubb said the escorts are necessary because anti-abortion demonstrators harass the women walking through the clinic doors.
“Our patients are the ones that should be able to make decisions about their own health care,” she said. “That's what we've always stood for. That's what we'll continue to stand for.”
One new tactic, she said, is for people with the anti-abortion group to pose as clinic escorts and appear as though they are associated with Planned Parenthood. Then, they direct women to the clinic across the street.
Lisa McInerney wears a vest, similar to the Planned Parenthood clinic escorts’ rainbow garments, except her vest is blue. But she doesn’t believe she’s deceiving women. Her vest says “sidewalk advocate."
Sidewalk Advocates for Life is an anti-abortion group that places volunteers outside clinics to pass out flyers and encourage women to visit centers such as the Women’s Care Center.
“We try to make sure that we have a posture of just offering help and not shoving information onto people,” she said. “We don't yell at people.”
But Curry Grubb worries about the effect activity outside the Lincoln clinic might have on patients. She never wants women or staff to avoid coming to the Planned Parenthood clinic because of a crowd outside. In response, a few more clinic escorts than usual are stationed outside.
“Our focus is always making sure that our patients and our staff are safe. That's our No. 1 priority,” she said. “No matter how many people are there, that's where our focus is going to be.” | https://journalstar.com/news/local/tuesday-turf-battles-outside-lincoln-planned-parenthood-pit-demonstrators-on-both-sides-of-abortion-issue/article_9c002b7d-6db1-5be9-a0a7-dd7a4d39979d.html | 2022-08-10T01:05:09 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/tuesday-turf-battles-outside-lincoln-planned-parenthood-pit-demonstrators-on-both-sides-of-abortion-issue/article_9c002b7d-6db1-5be9-a0a7-dd7a4d39979d.html |
State police in Fort Wayne said Tuesday they were investigating a two-vehicle crash that sent 10 children and two adults to the hospital.
Officers said David Mourey, 65, of Hoagland, was eastbound in a Dodge Dakota pickup on Hoagland Road about 7:15 p.m. Monday when he failed to yield to a Ford passenger van headed north on U.S. 27. The van slammed into the side of the truck at the intersection.
The crash's impact split the pickup in half, police said in a news release early Tuesday.
Emergency responders had to rescue several of the van's occupants and some of the youths – ages 6 months to 15 years – suffered minor injuries in the crash that left the vehicles in a nearby ditch.
The van's driver, 41-year-old Holly Mohr of Auburn, and her children were wearing seatbelts, officers said.
The Allen County prosecutor's office will decide whether to file charges in the crash, police said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/10-children-involved-in-allen-county-crash/article_6eb681be-17cb-11ed-8b61-771cec74f38d.html | 2022-08-10T01:05:48 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/10-children-involved-in-allen-county-crash/article_6eb681be-17cb-11ed-8b61-771cec74f38d.html |
MIDLAND, Texas — In the next coming months, Midland Utilities will be installing a new water line in the Quail Ridge Subdivision.
"That area of town has been developing rather quickly and we realized there’s only one water service serving that whole area," said Carl Craigo, Utilities Director.
This line will provide an additional water source and backup in case of a main break.
"So if that water service were to break for any reason that area would run out of water so this is taking new water service out into that entire area," said Craigo.
And why this area of Midland? Craigo said it's due to the development's continued growth.
"It’s really important, there’s 600 houses being built there and there’s a lot of businesses out in that area," Craigo said. "With one water main break all of that area would go out of water and it wouldn’t look well for the City of Midland so catching it early and bringing in a water service out there is great for the citizens in that area and the city,"
Water main breaks are much more frequent in the summer, so crews say now is the best time to get this line in place.
"Very important especially in times like this when it’s this hot we get a lot of water main breaks so we got to get in front of this one," Craigo said.
Construction on the new line is set to start around January and will take approximately nine months to be completed. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/new-midland-water-line-additional-water-source-developing-area/513-ebc3f2f2-02c2-4e86-a8ee-1347e9607c76 | 2022-08-10T01:05:54 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/new-midland-water-line-additional-water-source-developing-area/513-ebc3f2f2-02c2-4e86-a8ee-1347e9607c76 |
A 10-year-old boy was one of two shooting victims whose deaths were ruled homicides Tuesday, and Fort Wayne police continue to investigate a suspicious third death.
Two people were arrested, and the Allen County coroner’s office’s rulings put the county at 17 homicides for 2022. Last year’s total was 49, which tied the previous homicide record of 2016.
The coroner’s office has not identified a cause of death for the third fatality, which involved a man found dead about 9:05 p.m. Monday in a residence in the 1200 block of Stophlet Street. Police have not reported any arrests in that death.
The 10-year-old was Ray Dee One of Fort Wayne. Medics pronounced him dead from a gunshot wound to the head in an apartment the 2100 block of Carterton Drive. Police found the boy after responding to report of a shooting there about 5:54 p.m. Monday, Fort Wayne police said.
Officers located and arrested another juvenile male at a different location. According to the police press release from Sgt. Jeremy Webb, “the juvenile is cooperating in the investigation and is preliminarily charged with reckless homicide.”
In the other homicide, Jaiyvian Rashad Hamilton, 23, of Fort Wayne, died from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the coroner’s office. The shooting happened about 12:51 p.m. Monday.
After receiving a call “that a friend was shot” and other calls from people in the area who heard shots fired, police went to the 1400 block of Greene Street in the Villages of Hanna apartment complex. They found Hamilton inside suffering from gunshot wounds. He died at the scene, Webb said.
Police later arrested Michael Deshawn Glover, 19, on charges of murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of marijuana, Webb said. Online court files show only preliminary charges of felony unlawful carrying of a handgun with a prior felony within the last 15 years and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
However, a formal murder charge could come now that the corner’s report has ruled the death a homicide.
Police took Glover into custody about 4:41 p.m. after a traffic stop on a 2014 Buick LaCrosse at Hessen Cassel Road and Mono Gene Drive, about three miles south of the shooting.
Police saw the LaCrosse leave the 2500 block of Stardale Drive near the place Glover’s silver Impala, which was implicated in the homicide, was parked.
During the traffic stop, Fort Wayne Detective Geoff Norton saw the head of Glover in the passenger seat disappear and appear several times, according to the probable cause affidavit written by Fort Wayne Police Officer Darrin Strayer. Officers saw lose marijuana on the driver’s floorboard, a burnt marijuana cigarette between the driver and passenger area and a Glock 19 Gen 5 9 mm handgun under the passenger seat.
The gun was reported stolen Aug. 3.
In the third death, police were called about a man being unresponsive on Stophlet. They found the man inside, and Fort Wayne firefighters pronounced him dead.
The Fort Wayne Police Department’s homicide and death scene technicians were involved in investigation, according to a press release from the department’s public information officer, Anthony Krock.
Police, the Allen County prosecutor’s office and coroner’s office continue to investigate all three deaths. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/10-year-olds-death-ruled-homicide-one-of-three-suspicious-deaths-monday/article_09a791fe-1821-11ed-91a1-0f496627437a.html | 2022-08-10T01:05:54 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/10-year-olds-death-ruled-homicide-one-of-three-suspicious-deaths-monday/article_09a791fe-1821-11ed-91a1-0f496627437a.html |
Without making a commitment, the Allen County Redevelopment Commission Tuesday heard advice to extend a road-improvement study of Pleasant Center Road in Pleasant Township to include Thiele Road.
Jay Stankiewicz, engineering manager for GAI Consultants, Fort Wayne, said a roundabout is being considered at the intersection of Thiele and Pleasant Center instead of a stop sign or traffic light.
If the county wants the intersection in southwest Allen County to handle heavy truck traffic, Thiele Road’s condition is likely to be problematic, he said.
He showed photos of long cracks along the center line, horizontal cracks across lanes of traffic and deteriorating edges. The road, which is only about 21 feet wide, has no shoulders and drains stormwater water into a ditch or farm field, he said.
Stankiewicz said he “would strongly recommend” doing borings to determine what is under the road surface. He also said the road should be replaced with a 24-foot-wide concrete surface with curbs and gutters.
The price of such improvements has not been determined, Stankiewicz said, but quotes would probably be received by the end of the week.
The portion of Pleasant Center Road being studied is east of the Walmart dairy processing plant. The road is being improved to serve that and other possible industries, said Elissa McGauley, redevelopment director. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/county-redevelopment-investigates-road-improvement/article_23bf85f2-1825-11ed-a027-53c620443e32.html | 2022-08-10T01:06:00 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/county-redevelopment-investigates-road-improvement/article_23bf85f2-1825-11ed-a027-53c620443e32.html |
CAPE CORAL, Fla. – As students plan on returning to the classroom for the start of the new school year on Wednesday, police officers have been preparing to keep them safe.
The term “summer break” doesn’t apply to the 30 School Resource Officers that fill Cape Coral schools. While students enjoy a break from the classroom, these members of the Cape Coral Police Department (CCPD) hit the books, training with state-of-the-art technology to prepare for whatever might happen once those kids return to school.
One of those tools they use is a simulator. Think of an interactive video game. Officers stand in front of a huge projector with their controller being a replica gun that’s hooked up to the simulator. When the trigger is pulled, it uses pinpoint accuracy to show exactly where officers fired in real-life scenarios.
“We really want them to start thinking about how they’re going to respond to something before it happens, not after it happens or during it happens,” said Sgt. Brain Kearney of the Cape Coral Police Department. “In order to be able to handle that type of stress, you have to practice it many times.
Just like the old saying goes: practice makes perfect.
Oasis Middle School Resource Officer Jamie Bungard has years of experience under his belt; in training and in real life.
“Where’s he at,” said Ofc. Bungard during a scenario on the simulator. “Which room is he in? Which room is he in? Let me see your hands! Charlie 102 Cape shots fired. First floor. Oasis Middle.”
The actions, the movements and even the language are just as they would be in real life.
“We try to get them to deal with more than just an active threat,” said Sgt. Kearney. “We want them to deal with other victims that they’re going to come across in situations like this. You have to mentally prepare yourself, physically prepare yourself. You have to practice what you’re going to do is a situation like that arises.”
To really understand how in-depth this training is, they geared me up and put me in the shoes of a School Resource Officer.
Simulator: “Officer, there’s a guy with a gun in there and he’s in one of those rooms. My hands! My hands!”
Gage: “Which room? Which room?”
For about an hour, CCPD coached me through more than dozen scenarios that officers could face any day.
“You did good with the decision-making,” said Sgt. Kearney.
Just like with real police officers, they’re always looking for things to improve, making every action and every second count.
“We would want more verbal commands. We would want more moving around,” Sgt. Kearney said.
It’s preparation work these officers hope they never have to use in real life. However, if that does come, they’ll be ready to do whatever it takes to keep their students safe.
“They’re family and they want to protect their family, just like anybody else would,” said Sgt. Kearney. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/09/cape-coral-school-resource-officers-train-for-active-shooters-ahead-of-new-school-year/ | 2022-08-10T01:06:03 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/09/cape-coral-school-resource-officers-train-for-active-shooters-ahead-of-new-school-year/ |
Costs of an elementary school expansion are about $3 million over budget, but the Fort Wayne Community Schools facilities director said the referendum-supported project isn’t jeopardizing other improvements funded by the same ballot measure.
The school board on Monday approved two items related to the work at Levan Scott Academy. An amendment increased the contract with Weigand Construction to almost $14.8 million, and a $329,000 contract with Automated Logic was awarded for temperature controls. Together, they totaled about $15.1 million.
Darren Hess, facilities director, said that’s about $3 million over budget.
FWCS is turning Scott into a five-section school, meaning each grade level will have five classrooms. The expansion, which is expected to be done by January 2024, addresses population growth in the district’s southeast side.
Voters approved the project in 2020 as part of a $130 million referendum that also included major renovations to Wayne High School and Blackhawk and Miami middle schools. The third phase of Repair FWCS also called for an addition to Franke Park Elementary School and work at various buildings, including lighting improvements, secure entrances and accessibility upgrades.
Board member Julie Hollingsworth asked whether being over budget on Scott affects the other projects.
Not yet, Hess said. That’s because federal coronavirus emergency relief dollars have helped defer some costs.
Hess didn’t provide specific examples to the board. However, Kathy Friend, chief financial officer, previously shared this example to The Journal Gazette: Using the federal COVID-19 money to pay for Wayne’s ventilation upgrades gave officials more flexibility with referendum spending.
“Unless escalation continues,” Hess said Monday, “we should be able to still hit all the scope items that we want to accomplish with the Repair 2020 bond.”
The items approved Monday will be funded from a combination of referendum dollars and nutrition services funds.
In other business, the board approved spending federal emergency funds on a $93,668 contract amendment with Michael Kinder & Sons regarding renovations at Arlington and Lincoln elementary schools. There are industry-related delays in the shipment of permanent HVAC units, and this established the additional cost to provide heating, cooling and ventilation for this academic year. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-community-schools-project-over-budget/article_3f5f7644-1813-11ed-b5bf-f39adbb5d6e7.html | 2022-08-10T01:06:06 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-community-schools-project-over-budget/article_3f5f7644-1813-11ed-b5bf-f39adbb5d6e7.html |
ORANGEVALE, Calif. — Police have identified the vehicle they believe is connected to a deadly Saturday hit-and-run involving a 56-year-old woman.
According to California Highway Patrol – East Sacramento, officers responded to a crash involving a pedestrian on Greenback Lane around 10 p.m. Saturday.
The woman was hit and fatally injured while crossing the road.
CHP says the driver left the scene and they now believe the driver was in a dark maroon or brown 2007-2008 Honda Element. The left front corner of the vehicle was likely damaged in the accident.
Anyone with information on the driver or the vehicle can call the East Sacramento CHP office at 916-464-1450.
The photo CHP released below is of a similar vehicle.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A early morning crash in Sacramento County left one person dead and one with major injuries.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the crash happened Tuesday morning around 2:24 a.m. on Sheldon Lake Drive, south of Grant Line Road.
CHP says the driver of a 2021 Honda was driving southbound on Sunrise Boulevard at a high rate of speed, approaching Grant Line Road.
Officers say the driver of the vehicle failed to negotiate the curve, sending it off the roadway into a drainage ditch. According to CHP, the car overturned several times before crashing into a wooden fence and a parked car at 11700 Sheldon Lake Drive. The Honda eventually came to rest on it's wheels in a vacant lot, south of the home.
According to CHP, the female passenger, who was not wearing a seat belt, was ejected from the vehicle. The driver was pinned to the driver's seat of the vehicle and had to be removed by fire crews.
Both the driver and the passenger were taken to Kaiser South Hospital with major injuries. The woman suffered major injuries as a result of the crash, but the driver was pronounced dead at the hospital around 4:05 a.m.
CHP officers say alcohol is believed to be a factor in the crash.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — One couple's diamond anniversary celebration was made extra special thanks to the staff at Baptist Health Jacksonville.
After 60 years, Maximillian had never missed an anniversary celebration with his wife and the staff at Baptist said there was no way a hospital stay was going to stop him.
"Nurse Stacey Arnold made sure this anniversary was extra special for the couple and came in before her shift to decorate the hospital room, set up dinner and desserts, and make a custom playlist with the couple's favorite songs," said Baptist in a Facebook post.
Maximillian was able to pull off surprise and continue his streak of never missing an anniversary.
"The biggest and most heartfelt thank you to her and the many outstanding individuals from whom we received care from at Baptist," said the couple's family.
"The compassion Stacy exhibited to my parents and family through her generous and heartfelt act of helping them celebrate another year's milestone can only be described as "A God Thing." It gave my mom the first full moment to let go of some of the emotions that had been building and the whirlwind of change. It also ultimately gave them a time to celebrate the gift of another year together." | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/jacksonville-couple-celebrates-60-years-of-marriage-from-hospital-room/77-d19fceca-0106-4203-b8b0-aec906ad9208 | 2022-08-10T01:14:17 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/jacksonville-couple-celebrates-60-years-of-marriage-from-hospital-room/77-d19fceca-0106-4203-b8b0-aec906ad9208 |
COLUSA COUNTY, Calif. — One person is dead after a plane crash in Colusa County.
The Colusa County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported plane crash near McDermott Road and the Glenn-Colusa County line in Maxwell just after 11 a.m.
Arriving first responders found the crash and confirmed that the pilot was dead at the scene.
The cause of death has not been determined at this time, and the investigation into the crash is ongoing. The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the crash.
Anyone with information regarding the crash can call Lt. J. Ruiz at (530) 458-0200.
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Sesame Place in Pennsylvania announced a series of actions Tuesday aimed at bolstering diversity and inclusion education among its employees on the heels of a viral video showing a character denying an interaction to two young Black girls at the park.
In a news release, the Langhorne amusement site said it will be conducting a “racial equity assessment” of the park including a review of park policies and practices to identify opportunities for improvement.
The park also said all employees will participate in anti-bias training and education to address bias, promote inclusion, prevent discrimination and cultivate a welcoming environment for all guests.
Employees are set to complete training by the end of September 2022, the park said.
“This training will be incorporated into the onboarding of all new employees and will become a regular part of our training and workforce development,” the park added.
Nationally recognized civil rights experts will also oversee the initiative and monitor the park’s progress toward its inclusion goals, with notable members to include Debo P. Adegbile, the Chair of the Anti-Discrimination Practice at WilmerHale LLP and a Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Joseph West, the current co-chair of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at DuaneMorris and Sadiqa Reynolds, the longtime leader of the Louisville Urban League and incoming CEO of Perception Institute.
In the now viral video posted last month on the mother’s Instagram account, two young girls are seen excitedly reaching out to the character Rosita, the first bilingual muppet on Sesame Street.
Although it appears that the performer had interacted with other children before reaching the girls, the video seems to show the character shaking their head “no” in the direction of the two young Black girls.
In response, Sesame Place Philadelphia said in a statement on Instagram that it the performer did not direct the “no” hand gesture, which was used more than once in the video, toward “any specific person,” but was instead gesturing that way in “response to multiple requests from someone in the crowd who asked Rosita to hold their child for a photo which is not permitted.”
It added that the performer "is devastated about the misunderstanding" and noted the costumes its performers wear “sometimes make it difficult to see at lower levels” and that sometimes “performers miss hug requests from guests.”
In a later statement, the park said "we are committed to making this right. We will conduct training for our employees so they better understand, recognize and deliver an inclusive, equitable and entertaining experience to our guests.”
Other videos have surfaced on social media claiming similar incidents at Sesame Place in the past. A separate family has filed a lawsuit against Sesame Place, seeking at least $25 million in damages from SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment – which owns Sesame Place – on behalf of all Black people who visited Sesame Place since July 27, 2018, and “suffered disparate treatment” from SeaWorld employees who ignored Black children “while interacting with similarly situated white children.”
"We are pleased to have this team of well-respected leaders joining us. We have already begun engaging with employees, guests, civil rights groups as well as community leaders, and instituted some interim measures at the park while the review proceeds,” Sesame Place Philadelphia President Cathy Valeriano said in a Tuesday statement.
“The actions we are taking will help us deliver on our promise to provide an equitable and inclusive experience for all our guests every day,” Valeriano added. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/sesame-place-to-ramp-up-anti-bias-training-after-controversy/3330742/ | 2022-08-10T01:16:36 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/sesame-place-to-ramp-up-anti-bias-training-after-controversy/3330742/ |
BAYTOWN, Texas — A Baytown family has been reunited with their dog who was stolen more than four years ago.
The dog, named Sheba, was found in the city of Borger more than 600 miles away in the Texas Panhandle. An animal control officer found the dog on a sidewalk last week.
The officer scanned her microchip, which led him to the dog's family. Sheba was flown back to Baytown on Sunday.
The Malmstrom family was thrilled to have their furry friend back.
"I remember just searching every day, every night. It was really sad when we had to keep searching for her but we never found her," Anniston Malmstrom said.
We're told the family immediately started making up for the lost time. They spent the rest of the day grilling, swimming in the pool and playing with Sheba. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/baytown-dog-returned/285-840171dd-2995-4422-85ec-47ed574e89cc | 2022-08-10T01:17:08 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/baytown-dog-returned/285-840171dd-2995-4422-85ec-47ed574e89cc |
Sonic is bringing back two menu items featuring pickles, as the "Pickle Juice Slush" and "Big Dill Cheeseburger" return to drive-thru menus for three weeks this month, good news for a San Antonio market that loves its pickles.
The promotion, which started Monday, sees the return of the two former menu items as well as Sonic's pickle fries, which are dill pickle spears cut into a fry shape and then fried. The promotion will run through Aug. 28, while supplies last.
The Pickle Juice Slush was first released temporarily in June 2018 and the Big Dill Cheeseburger was first released in April of this year before selling out, Sonic wrote. The Pickle Juice Slush is one of the "most frequently requested menu items on social media," the Oklahoma City-based chain wrote.
The Pickle Juice Slush can be ordered for half price any time a customer orders on the Sonic app and pickle juice flavoring can be added to any other beverages for an additional charge. Sonic says that the slush combines the "flavor of a salty dill pickle with a sweet slush." The slush costs $2.79 for a medium-sized drink.
The Big Dill Cheeseburger comes with pickle fries, crinkle-cut pickle slices and ranch on a beef patty with chopped lettuce and American cheese. The Big Dill Cheeseburger costs $4.49 while the pickle fries are offered at $1.89.
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"Our pickle-forward menu innovations have become some of our most popular," Mackenzie Gibson, vice president of culinary and menu innovation at Sonic, said in a statement. "They've often sold out quicker than we anticipated."
"The Pickle Juice Slush and Big Dill Cheeseburger are perfect for those who can't get enough pickles this summer," Gibson continued.
Sonic has multiple locations around San Antonio, which can be found at Sonic's website. A portion of proceeds from each drink sale is given to support local public schools through the "Limeades for Learning" program.
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A forum about immigration started with the grim reality many who try to enter the country face at one point in their journey: a 911 call.
“We need help,” a man repeats in Spanish, shouting in a winded voice.
“I need the directions,” the operator replies.
The recording continues with a brief, inaudible response, then the man’s voice goes quiet, and the call ends with the sound of a busy signal.
The message set the tone for Monday evening’s town hall meeting, which was organized by Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar and led entirely in Spanish by hosts Antonio Guillen with Univision and Jessica Montoya of Telemundo. The two stations that dominate Spanish-language news in San Antonio hosted the forum out of the University of Texas at San Antonio’s downtown campus and streamed footage of it on their respective social media pages.
Editorial: Without reforms to immigration, horror will go on
In the blue hue of the theater lights at the Buena Vista Theater downtown, the panelists sat in black chairs as the hosts tossed the panelists questions prepared both beforehand and taken from members of the audience. The crowd of more than 100 people included both political figures and candidates, as well as people who wanted to learn more about efforts to help immigrants.
And much like the nation’s long-running immigration debate, it also included vocal opponents.
People critical of illegal immigration heckled the hosts. One woman who kept interrupting the panelists was escorted from the room by a deputy.
An hour later, more people who said that English should be spoken because “this is America” engaged in a few brief, hushed arguments with other attendees who were interested in hearing what the panelists had to say.
The rabble-rousers left the hall to the sound of applause and cheers from other attendees.
County Commissioner Rebecca Clay-Flores detailed efforts by the county to help undocumented immigrants facing deportation. She said that although the county does not have the authority to set its own laws and policies regarding immigration, the commissioners voted last month on a $1 million immigrant defense fund to help organizations that offer legal and other services.
Later in the forum, an audience member confronted Clay-Flores over the efforts put into helping people who come to the country illegally.
The commissioner was firm in her response.
“How easy it’s been for you to forget that this is a country of immigrants,” she said, saying that many in the audience have blood of immigrants running through their veins.
She said the defense fund might seem like a lot of money, but it’s only a “drop in the bucket” compared to the $2.8 billion budget approved in the Commissioners Court last year.
She jousted momentarily with an audience member who said that his parents came to the United States legally.
Clay-Flores, who is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Mexico, asked, “What kind of misery are people fleeing that they risk dying in a trailer?”
She was referencing the deadly smuggling incident that left 53 migrants from Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras dead in June in South Bexar County, one of the many horrific incidents undocumented immigrants have faced that also spurred Monday night’s discussion.
She recalled the 13-year-old boy as the youngest who died among the migrants, saying that children don’t understand the risks of coming to the U.S.
“For me, it’s a humanitarian issue,” she said.
The commissioner also reiterated a portion from one panelist, Erica B. Schommer, a law professor at St. Mary’s University, saying that there are racist laws, such as those in Africa and the Caribbean, that prevent people from obtaining a legal visa.
Schommer earlier said it’s difficult for refugees to seek political asylum as people have to demonstrate that their lives were in danger from religious, political or LGBT persecution. That process takes years.
Asylum seekers may also ask for a work permit in the meantime, but that can be complicated and time-consuming, too, she said.
The professor said the U.S. has not seen any changes in immigration laws for many years, and that there’s a lot of injustice in the process itself.
“The reality in San Antonio is totally different now than what it was when the current immigration laws were passed,” Schommer said. “We need to make changes so there can be an appropriate response to what the international situation is now.”
State Sen. José Menéndez, D-San Antonio, fielded a question from Guillen, who said that immigrants are being sent to Washington and New York, shifting responsibilities to other communities. He asked Menéndez whether Gov. Greg Abbott has the authority to do so.
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Menéndez said Abbott, when he was lieutenant governor, used to complain about how the federal government would butt into state affairs, and now he’s pushing state issues back onto Washington.
“He’s doing it for political reasons,” he said in Spanish. “He wants political recognition for doing this; he’s not helping anybody.”
While attempting to detail efforts his office makes with Catholic Charities to help migrants, the senator was interrupted by hecklers asking for the forum to continue in English.
He later said that “people living in the shadows would love to pay their fair share of taxes just to live a normal life.”
One migrant interviewed by Telemundo on video said they don’t have the time or money they need to get to where they’re going. They’re held for three days until they’re deported to another state.
J. Antonio Fernandez, CEO of Catholic Charities, said they are trying to find a way the city can help buy tickets for them to get to where they need to go.
“It’s not fair for them to be here and having nothing to do,” he said. “They don’t have any notice of where they’re going to go or how they’re going to get there.”
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SAMMAMISH, Wash. — Residents within a quarter-mile of 244th Place and SE Klahanie Boulevard in Sammamish are being told to shelter in place due to police activity.
Police responded to a domestic situation around 3 p.m. Since then, one person has barricaded themselves inside a home, according to the King County Sheriff's Office.
Sergeant Corbett Ford told KING 5 that shots were reportedly fired from inside the home. However, it's unclear what, if anything, the suspect was shooting at.
Out of caution, SWAT and a crisis negotiation team were called to the scene, according to Ford.
It's an isolated incident, but people are being told to avoid the area and neighbors are being told to stay inside. Some of the surrounding homes have been evacuated, Ford said.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — What started as a pandemic pastime has turned into an obsession for Olympia’s Gretchen and Jeff Klein.
“This is definitely something that brought us together,” said Jeff Klein.
In June, the couple finished 90th in Spain's World Jigsaw Championship Tournament.
They were the eighth-best team from the United States.
Married in the summer of 2019, the Kleins were still honeymooners when the pandemic began in early 2020.
Rather than bake or binge-watch television shows, they started doing jigsaw puzzles together.
“I was not a puzzler before I met Jeff,” said Gretchen Klein.
However, the middle school math teacher said she enjoyed the challenge of a 500-piece puzzle.
“We were like, ‘Oh my gosh, we’re pretty good at this,’” said Gretchen Klein.
They wondered if there was a competitive league and learned the world championships were held annually in Spain.
In June, they paid the €25 entry fee and made it to the finals, finishing in the top half of 200 two-person teams.
“Gretchen and I did something weird and we lived,” said Jeff Klein, who said puzzles helped the couple survive the pandemic.
They enjoyed spending time together, with a goal. The puzzles were escape from what was happening in the world.
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SEATTLE — An ordinance that focuses on increasing police recruitment and retention passed out of committee Tuesday and will soon head to the full Seattle City Council for a final vote. The measure addresses the loss of more than 400 police officers over the last two-and-a-half years.
The latest numbers presented before the Public Safety and Human Services Committee show where Seattle's police staffing shortage stands now.
"There have been 109 separations in the first six months of 2022. That is about twice as much as the department originally expected,” said Greg Doss with Council Central Staff.
Those separations mean the department is projected to save more than $8 million in unneeded salaries and benefits, but at the same time, Seattle police are paying more in overtime. Interim Police Chief Adrian Diaz said it is impacting response times, and some officers are working double shifts in a department already stretched thin.
"We have had to say no to many special events that have requested our assistance,” said Chief Diaz.
That's where a new plan comes in to offer career advancement opportunities for existing officers. It also focuses on strengthening the department's recruitment efforts by offering incentives like hiring bonuses, as much as $7,500 for new recruits and up to $30,000 for lateral hires.
"This package brings Seattle in line to be more competitive with cities in our region,” said Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis.
The department estimates that just implementing the measure and offering hiring incentives over the next three years will cost more than $5 million dollars.
Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda said she does not support the ordinance at this time, noting an urgent need in the city for housing and behavioral health services.
"From the officers' own mouths, what they have said is what they need is not additional money, but a place to bring people. A PR firm for SPD won't help that. A hiring incentive approach won't help that," Mosqueda said.
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CROWN POINT — A woman at the center of a Lynwood man's homicide in July 2020 in Gary testified Tuesday that her children's father had a gun in his hand when he threatened to kill her and her kids if she didn't participate in a series of events that led to the man's shooting death.
Jazmin J. Garcia, 21, said she complied with her boyfriend Devin S. "Devo" Barron's orders because she was afraid of him.
Garcia took the stand during the first day of a two-day bench trial before Lake Criminal Court Judge Samuel Cappas for defendant Jason D. "Lafa" Hinton 26, of Chicago Heights.
Hinton has pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery charges in the July 1, 2020, homicide of Jacquice Baylock, 18, of Lynwood, in the 1900 block of Taney Place in Gary.
Lake County Deputy Prosecutor Infiniti Westberg said evidence would show Hinton and Barron shot Baylock to death July 1, 2020, after Garcia lured him to Gary under a pretense of picking up other women for a hotel party.
Garcia testified several other men also were involved in the killing.
Dwain E. "Gllizo" Cunigan drove one of two cars used in the homicide, she said. Laquan M. Tolliver, 20, of Chicago Heights, rode in one of the cars and provided a location in Gary, Garcia said.
Hinton's defense attorney, Patrick Young, said Garcia gave police Hinton's name only after detectives refused to stop interrogating her in November 2020 following her requests for a break and an opportunity to speak with an attorney.
"She is the only one who has implicated Mr. Hinton in this matter," Young said.
The state did not have a "mountain of cellphone evidence" showing Hinton's location, text messages or video footage of any suspects, he said. No murder weapons were found.
Garcia said the first time Barron caught her with Baylock was in May 2020, when he showed up at a hotel where she and Baylock had been staying and broke her jaw.
Garcia knew Baylock from elementary, middle and high school and reconnected with him in the months before he was killed. They had a "romantic relationship," she testified.
Despite Barron's alleged violent attack on her, Garcia continued to talk to Baylock in the months leading up to his death, she said.
On July 1, 2020, Barron took her to the hospital because she was still feeling pain in her jaw from her earlier injury, she said.
When Barron picked her up, they didn't talk much because she feared he already was angry and she didn't want to make it worse, she said.
They arrived at Barron's relative's home, and he handed her an iPad and told her, "Text him," Garcia said. She attempted to ask who, but he said, "You know who," she said.
Garcia said Barron had a gun and threatened to kill her and their children, so she reached out to Baylock. He told her where to pick him up, she said.
Garcia testified she drove in a silver Impala to pick up Baylock while Barron and the other co-defendants rode behind her in a black vehicle.
Jacquice Baylock, an 18-year-old from Lynwood, was fatally shot July 1, 2020, in the 1800 block of Taney Place in Gary.
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At one point, Baylock asked her to turn around because he forgot something, and Barron sent her a message asking what she was doing and warning she "better not (expletive) this up," she said.
When she finally pulled up at the location on Taney Place, Baylock got out to urinate, she said. Barron sent her a message ordering her to get out of the silver car, she said.
Garcia complied, and Baylock asked her where she was going. She told him to wait and entered a nearby alley, where she saw Hinton and Barron each holding guns, she said.
Garcia said she got into the black car, and Cunigan pulled it into the street near the silver car where Baylock was seated. She heard gunshots and saw Hinton shoot Baylock once in the back, she said.
She broke down in tears as she testified Barron stood over Baylock and fired about five shots.
Hinton began to pick up money Baylock had that went flying following the shooting, Garcia said.
Hinton and Barron fled in the silver car, and Cunigan drove her, Tolliver and another man back to Illinois, she said.
Garcia attempted to "act normal" in the days afterward because Barron was still around her children and she was afraid, she said.
She testified that a photo, which was posted to social media July 5, showed Barron flashing some of the cash he took from Baylock and her holding up two guns. One of those guns, which had a sticker on it, was the weapon Barron used to kill Baylock, she said.
In the months after the shooting, Barron and Tolliver each traded away the guns Barron and Hinton used to shoot Baylock, she said.
Young asked Garcia why she didn't make any plans after the homicide to protect her children from Barron. She didn't talk to detectives until her arrest in November 2020, and she wasn't initially truthful with them, she said.
"No matter where I go, he always shows up, and the police, they didn't help me," Garcia said.
She pleaded guilty in April to aggravated battery, a level 3 felony. If Cappas accepts her plea agreement, she could face three to 16 years in prison.
In exchange for her testimony, Lake County prosecutors agreed to dismiss a murder charge, which carried a possible penalty of 45 to 65 years in prison.
Garcia said she didn't like jail, but she denied Young's suggestion she "would give a man up" to be with her children.
"I'll tell the truth and see what happens to me," she said.
Garcia agreed as part of her plea deal that she would not be sentenced until each of her co-defendants' cases are resolved.
Barron and Cunigan each were being held at the Cook County Jail, prosecutors said at a previous hearing. The men's cases were expected to remain sealed until they're extradited to Lake County.
Barron is facing an unrelated murder charge secured by Chicago police, Cook County sheriff's police said.
Tolliver has pleaded not guilty to murder and robbery and does not yet have a trial date.
Testimony was expected to continue Wednesday.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Samuel Hill
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206626
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Armaun McKenzie
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206525
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Ciserella
Age : 34
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206650
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyon McNeil
Age : 47
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206687
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dale Rollins
Age : 61
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206707
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Andre Ruff
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206664
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Aubuchon
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206592
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Colin Westbrooks
Age : 32
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206624
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gregory Swiontek II
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206590
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mitchell Pritchard
Age : 42
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206747
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dakar Brown
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206741
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Louise Dagnillo
Age : 59
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206669
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Fandl
Age : 33
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206539
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alijah Williams
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206562
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Maurishia Brown
Age : 28
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206521
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leroy Blackwell
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206619
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: CHILD MOLESTATION - STATUTORY RAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devon Dunbar
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206714
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - USING A DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Fair
Age : 57
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206657
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Allen Pick II
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206673
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javyon George-Boatman
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206595
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Hollis
Age : 46
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206713
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Nichols II
Age : 38
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206545
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE IV
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brooke Elrod
Age : 29
Residence: N/A
Booking Number(s): 2206654
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angelos Lujano
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206731
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION - STALKING VIOLATIONS; RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT; ROBBERY; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Renee Rodriguez
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206556
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Laron Hudson
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206608
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Gawlinski
Age : 53
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206512
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devante Winters
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206614
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Frederic Dellenbach
Age : 64
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206686
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amador Santos
Age : 49
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206696
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jose Rios
Age : 37
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206752
Arrest Date: Aug. 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jerry Boyd
Age : 23
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206570
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lilia Hernandez-Cervantes Beltran
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206695
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Freeman
Age : 47
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206710
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Duane Jackson
Age : 53
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206698
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: HABITUAL TRAFFIC VIOLATOR - LIFETIME
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyata Williams
Age : 32
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206247
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Aguilar-Tapia
Age : 26
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206573
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michal Skrzyniarz
Age : 37
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206685
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Aaron Collins
Age : 28
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206629
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Francesca Brown
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206746
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Steven Galecki
Age : 52
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206653
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Russell III
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206661
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; POSSESSION - COUNTERFEITED SUBSTANCES
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Raynold Gore
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206551
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ivan Torres
Age : 35
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206723
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Genardo Diaz
Age : 35
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206667
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POSSESSION - STOLEN PROPERTY; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Christopher Swan
Age : 48
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206697
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandt Guzman
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206706
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON; CONFINEMENT; CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Charles Roy Sr.
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206563
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Denise Johnson
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206582
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 32
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206625
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Gutierrez Delgado
Age : 30
Residence: Greenfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206655
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Austin Click
Age : 23
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206568
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Otis Marshall
Age : 34
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Booking Number(s): 2206745
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Kirincic
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206630
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Deidra Merritt
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206726
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Melissa Carraway
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206724
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Guzman
Age : 26
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206538
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lakeisha Walker
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206754
Arrest Date: Aug. 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tony Vitaniemi Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206712
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: COMMON NUISANCE - MAINTAINING - LEGEND DRUGS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Alexander
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206577
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jack Fiorio
Age : 19
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206670
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edgar Murphy Jr.
Age : 63
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206579
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darlene King
Age : 49
Residence: Country Club Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206704
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Leonard Johnson
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206578
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - USING A DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gloria Blue
Age : 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206709
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Featherston
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206609
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dana Stevens
Age : 41
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206507
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Coleman
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206569
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Andres
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206662
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Veela Morris
Age : 52
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206611
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Famous McKenny
Age : 45
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206647
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Emmett Williams Jr.
Age : 46
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206739
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Safa Alrub
Age : 36
Residence: Orland Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206564
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Darrick Royal
Age : 47
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206601
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Demarco Gillis
Age : 25
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206622
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Goodpaster Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206721
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jourdan Castellanos
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206529
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Junice Stewart
Age : 64
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206516
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Igras
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206543
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ulysses Perry
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206627
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cedric Higdon Jr.
Age : 25
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206692
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Cruz-Lopez
Age : 31
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206580
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luis Rangel Sanchez
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206693
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rodney Youngblood
Age : 32
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206742
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Badovinac
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206640
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kamari Stephens
Age : 29
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206591
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Stoddard
Age : 38
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206523
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Bogard
Age : 47
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206555
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Johnny Peluyera
Age : 41
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206524
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS (AGGRESSIVE DRIVING/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hailee Newell
Age : 29
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206588
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Donald Collins Jr.
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206520
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Porter Jr.
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206638
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Idubis Nash
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206743
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tywoun Nixon
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206530
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyrone Dabney
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206576
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vernell Hemphill Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206631
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Marta Rodriguez
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206711
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Rodriguez
Age : 75
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206641
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Wardell Sanders
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206651
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
William Lipsey
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206535
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carl Hopkins Jr.
Age : 41
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206668
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sade Boyd
Age : 36
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206644
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jacob Stewart
Age : 36
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206602
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shaun Brame
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206561
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kori Arguelles
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206603
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jimmie Lee
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206733
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ria Swelfer
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206617
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesse Duque
Age : 29
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206506
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rick Thang Ngo
Age : 26
Residence: Key Largo, FL
Booking Number(s): 2206722
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keith Price
Age : 51
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206552
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leobardo Costilla
Age : 22
Residence: Shelby, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206674
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Vasquez
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206528
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leon Elliott Jr.
Age : 50
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206575
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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LAPORTE — Some LaPorte County residents will have the opportunity to vote in two separate congressional races at this year's general election.
Gov. Eric Holcomb issued an executive order Tuesday directing a special election be held Nov. 8, on the same day as the regularly scheduled election, to fill the vacancy caused by the Aug. 3 death of U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Elkhart.
Under Indiana law, a special election must be held when a member of the U.S. House dies or resigns more than 74 days before the general election to ensure the district is represented for the remainder of the former member's two-year term.
In this case, Walorski died in a head-on vehicle collision near Nappanee, Indiana, 97 days prior to Election Day.
A replacement congressman can't simply be appointed, however, because the U.S. Constitution mandates every person serving in the U.S. House be elected to the chamber.
As a result, voters in the 2nd Congressional District will choose one person on Election Day to take Walorski's place for approximately eight weeks, and another person, or possibly the same person, to represent the district for a two-year term that begins Jan. 3.
According to the Indiana Election Division, the Republican and Democratic parties have until Aug. 26 to convene a caucus of their 2nd District precinct leaders to nominate a candidate for the special election, and the Republicans have until Sept. 3 to select a replacement for Walorski, who won the May 3 GOP primary, on the general election ballot.
The Indiana Republican Party announced Tuesday both vacancies will be filled — potentially by the same person — during caucuses set for 10 a.m. Region time Aug. 20 at Grissom Middle School, 13881 Kern Road, Mishawaka.
The Democratic special election caucus so far has not been scheduled. Though, it's likely Paul Steury, an environmental educator from Goshen, will be the party's candidate in the special election since he already is the Democratic nominee for the general election.
The Libertarian Party also is entitled to nominate a special election candidate. In fact, any eligible Hoosier can run as an independent candidate in the special election if he or she submits 4,538 verified petition signatures from registered 2nd District voters no later than Aug. 26.
The Indiana Election Division currently anticipates the candidates for the full, two-year term will be listed first on the Nov. 8 ballot, followed by the candidates running in the special election.
But things will be a bit trickier in LaPorte County since it's split between the 1st Congressional District, represented by U.S. Rep. Frank J. Mrvan, D-Highland, and the 2nd Congressional District.
Moreover, this year's elections are the first following the General Assembly's once-a-decade redrawing of Indiana's congressional districts following the U.S. Census to ensure each has a nearly equal population, and several townships in LaPorte County were shifted between the 1st District and the 2nd District during the redistricting process.
That means LaPorte County voters living in eastern Galena, Hanna, Hudson, Johnson, Lincoln, Kankakee, Noble, Pleasant, Prairie, Union, Washington and Wills townships will vote in both the special election and general election for the 2nd District.
Residents of Center and Scipio townships also will vote in the 2nd District special election. But they'll vote on the same ballot in the general election for the 1st District, except for a tiny bit of the city of LaPorte that's in Center Township but remained in the 2nd District.
Voters living in Clinton, Cass, Dewey and western Galena townships only will vote in the 2nd District general election, since they currently are located in the 1st District.
Finally, voters from Coolspring, Michigan, New Durham, and Springfield townships only will see the 1st District general election on their ballot.
Kosciusko County also will have varying ballots due to redistricting shifts between the 2nd District and 3rd District, while eastern Cass County was added to the 2nd District and only will vote in the general election.
Residents in the remainder of the 2nd District, comprised of Elkhart, Fulton, Marshall, Miami, Pulaski, St. Joseph, Starke and Wabash counties, will vote in both the special and general elections.
Gallery: Indiana historical markers in the Region
First Physician
First Physician
Location: 2985 W. 73rd Place, Merrillville
Erected by Woman's Auxiliary, Lake County Medical Society
Henry D. Palmer, M.D. (1809-1877) located at this site in 1836. First physician in Lake County, he was also counselor to the pioneers for 40 years and member of the underground railroad aiding escaped slaves.
Great Sauk (Sac) Trail
Great Sauk (Sac) Trail
Location: Van Buren Street at West 73rd Avenue (Old U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway) on traffic median east of Calumet Cemetery and west of Broadway, Merrillville
Erected by Indiana Sesquicentennial Commission, 1966
Part of a transcontinental trail used by prehistoric peoples of North America, it passed through modern Detroit, Rock Island and Davenport in the Midwest. The trail was important into the 19th century.
St. John's Lutheran Church Tolleston
St. John's Lutheran Church Tolleston
Location: 2235 W. 10th Avenue at Taft Avenue, southeast corner, Gary
St. John's Church, the oldest surviving institution in Gary and north of the Little Calumet River, began with the work of the Rev. Henry Wunder in the early 1860's. He regularly came from Chicago by horse and buggy. Baptism records date from 1863; the first church was built on this site in 1868 or 1869; 1870 is celebrated as date of organization. The church served German immigrants to Tolleston (named for George Tolle who came in 1856). Tolleston was annexed to Gary in 1910.
Dutch in the Calumet Region
Dutch in the Calumet Region
Location: 8941 Kleinman Road, Highland
Erected 1992 Indiana Historical Bureau and Lamprecht Florist & Greenhouse, established 1923
Dutch immigrants after 1850 began moving to this area because of its similarities to their homeland. They helped to locate ditches to drain water from the extensive marshes, leaving rich land to expand successful horticultural activities.
St. John Township School, District #2
St. John Township School, District #2
Location: 1515 Joliet Street (Old U.S. 30/Lincoln Highway), east of St. John Road at the St. John Township Community Center, Schererville
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau and Committee to Save Township School #2
Built, 1853, approximately one half mile south; closed, 1907; moved to this site and restored for educational and community uses, 1993-1994. One of twelve St. John Township schools; structure typical of early one-room school buildings in Indiana.
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
Location: Southeast corner U.S. 30 (Joliet Street) and Janice Drive, Schererville
Erected 1996 Indiana Historical Bureau, Northwest Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, Dyer and Schererville Historical Societies, Sand Ridge Bank, Welsh, Inc.
United States' first transcontinental highway, constructed 1913-1928, from New York City to San Francisco. Dedicated to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. Conceived by Carl G. Fisher to encourage building "good roads." Sponsored by Lincoln Highway Association and supported by automotive industries.
The Lincoln Highway/The Ideal Section
"Ideal Section" - 1.5 miles - of Lincoln Highway, completed 1923, designed and built as a model for road construction. Funded by county, state, and U.S. Rubber Co. Features included 100 foot right-of-way, 40 foot paved width, 10 inch steel-reinforced concrete, underground drainage, lighted, landscaped, bridge, and pedestrian pathways.
Froebel School - side 1
Froebel School - side 1
Location: 15th Avenue and Madison Street, Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Froebel Alumni Park Committee, and Northern Indiana Public Service Company
Froebel opened here, 1912, as many European immigrants and southern blacks moved to Gary for jobs in steel mills. An experiment in progressive education, it served students of diverse backgrounds and the local community. Despite early status as integrated school, black students were excluded from many extracurricular activities and facilities into 1940s. Closed 1977.
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Froebel School
Froebel School
Location: 15th Avenue and Madison Street, Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Froebel Alumni Park Committee, and Northern Indiana Public Service Company
After WWII, Froebel made national headlines when hundreds of white students walked out protesting "integration experiment" there. "Hate strikes" lasted several weeks in 1945 and reflected growing racial tension in North. In 1946, Gary school board adopted desegregation policy, but discrimination continued. Indiana state law desegregating public schools passed 1949.
Stewart Settlement House
Stewart Settlement House
Location: 1501 E. Massachusetts St., Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana Landmarks, and Christ United Methodist Church
Stewart House was organized during depression of 1921 to provide social services for Gary’s black community. A vital neighborhood center for unemployed WWI veterans and southern blacks who migrated for jobs in steel mills, it helped thousands adjust to urban life. Services included lodging and meals, as well as legal, medical, and employment advice. Moved here, 1925.
Stewart Settlement House
Stewart Settlement House
Location: 1501 E. Massachusetts St., Gary
Installed 2014 Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana Landmarks, and Christ United Methodist Church
U.S. Steel, with an interest in regulating its workers, helped fund the settlement house, designed by architect W.W. Cooke. The Methodist Episcopal Church and Gary’s blacks also donated funds. Rev. Frank Delaney guided its development as superintendent, 1920-1939, and made it a source of pride for blacks. During Great Depression, it aided hundreds daily. Closed 1970s.
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Location: 1927 Madison St., Gary
Installed 2019 Indiana Historical Bureau, KHEF, Inc., Atty. Junifer Hall, Atty. Jacqueline Hall, and Law Office of Deacon-Atty. John Henry Hall
Rep. Katie Hall (1938-2012)
Democratic leader Katie Hall was born in rural Mississippi and moved to Indiana in 1960. She taught in Gary before serving in the Indiana General Assembly, 1974-82. Hall became the first African American U.S. Representative from Indiana, serving 1982-85. During her tenure, she authored and sponsored the bill that made Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day a federal holiday.
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
Location: 1927 Madison St., Gary
Installed 2019 Indiana Historical Bureau, KHEF, Inc., Atty. Junifer Hall, Atty. Jacqueline Hall, and Law Office of Deacon-Atty. John Henry Hall
Origin of Dr. MLK Day Law
The struggle to make Dr. King’s birthday a federal holiday began soon after the civil rights leader’s death in 1968. Growing interest, publicity, and advocacy helped Representative Hall secure passage of a bill in 1983. President Ronald Reagan signed the bill into law that November, designating every third Monday in January as the holiday. Celebration began in 1986.
Bailly Homestead
Bailly Homestead
Location: Bailly Cemetery, U.S. 12
Marker no longer standing.
Home of Joseph Bailly, a French Canadian, who established a fur trading post here on the Detroit-Chicago road in 1822. It became a center of trade, culture and religion. The family cemetery is on the land near by.
Iron Brigade
Iron Brigade
Location: Eastbound U.S. 20 at southeast corner of Ind. 49 overpass, Chesterton
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau, Porter Co. Tour. Com., Indpls. Civil War Rnd. Tbl., Porter Cmp. 116, Dept. of Ind., Sons of Un. Vets. of Civil War
Composed of infantry regiments from Indiana, Wisconsin, and Michigan, the Iron Brigade fought with Army of the Potomac during the Civil War (1861-1865). Received name for valor at battle of South Mountain, Maryland (1862). Sustained combat fatalities among the highest in the Union armies.
Willow Creek Confrontation
Willow Creek Confrontation
Location: Southeast corner of Woodland Park, 2100 Willow Creek Road, Portage
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau
As railroad lines expanded through U.S., conflict occurred between competing lines. Michigan Central Railroad, with track in Porter County since 1851, briefly defied state militia and court orders (1874) to allow Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to cross its track. Crossing was built at Willow Creek Station.
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Ogden Dunes Ski Jump
Location: Kratz Field, 82 Hillcrest Road at Boat Club Road, Ogden Dunes
Erected 1997 Indiana Historical Bureau and Historical Society of Ogden Dunes.
Steel and wood ski jump with adjustable height and length was built here for Ogden Dunes Ski Club, incorporated in 1927 to promote winter sports. Five annual events with international competitors were held 1928-1932, with 7, 000 to 20, 000 spectators. Reputed to be the largest artificial ski jump at the time. Dismantled after 1932 event.
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Edwin Way Teale
Location: 285 E. U.S. Highway 20, Chesterton
Installed: 2009 Indiana Historical Bureau and Musette Lewry Trust
Born 1899 in Illinois, Teale became an influential naturalist, author, and photographer[ who won 1966 Pulitzer Prize for his book Wandering Through Winter. Teale wrote that boyhood summers and holidays spent near here at his grandparents’ farm inspired his interest in nature. Teale moved to New York City; employed by Popular Science Monthly 1928-1941.
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Edwin Way Teale
Location: 285 E. U.S. Highway 20, Chesterton
Installed: 2009 Indiana Historical Bureau and Musette Lewry Trust
Teale published his first critically acclaimed book, Grassroot Jungles, in 1937. In 1943, he published Dune Boy, recollections of time spent exploring the dunes and woodlands in this area. During his life, he wrote, edited, and contributed to over 30 books, which educated Americans about nature’s importance and beauty. He died in Connecticut in 1980.
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Legacy of Steel/Burns Harbor Steel Plant
Location: Burns Harbor Town Hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd., Burns Harbor
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau, ArcelorMittal, and the Town of Burns Harbor
In the early 1900s, steel plants were developed on southern Lake Michigan to improve access to growing Midwest markets. After purchasing 3,300 acres in Porter County, Bethlehem Steel built and began its Burns Harbor operations in 1964. The plant’s development spurred local conservation efforts leading to the creation of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in 1966.
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Legacy of Steel/Burns Harbor Steel Plant
Location: Burns Harbor Town Hall, 1240 N. Boo Rd., Burns Harbor
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau, ArcelorMittal, and the Town of Burns Harbor
The Burns Harbor plant was key to building the Port of Indiana and incorporation of the Town of Burns Harbor in 1967. Designed as a fully integrated plant, it relies on the port for transporting raw materials. Since 1969, Burns Harbor remains the newest integrated U.S. steel facility. Global steelmaker ArcelorMittal gained ownership of the Burns Harbor plant in 2007.
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Civil War Camps
Location: Ind. 2 W and Colfax Avenue, La Porte
Erected by the Indiana Civil War Centennial Commission, 1963
Two Civil War training camps: Colfax and Jackson, were located near La Porte. The 9th and 29th Indiana Volunteer Infantry regiments were organized and trained here.
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Old Lighthouse
Location: Old Lighthouse Museum in Washington Park, Michigan City
Marker no longer standing. Replaced by local marker.
Built on the water’s edge, 1858, by the United States Government. One of the first lights on the Great Lakes. Harriet E. Colfax was the tender from 1853-1903. Remodelled 1904, electrified 1933, discontinued 1960.
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Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railroad
Location: CR 250 and Ind. 39, south LaPorte
Erected 1995 Indiana Historical Bureau.
Proposed in 1905 as a 742 mile, straight-line, high speed route, without crossings; estimated ten hours travel time at a cost of ten dollars. Just under twenty miles, between LaPorte and Chesterton, were constructed, 1906-1911.
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Camp Anderson
Location: 2404 E. Michigan Boulevard at Carroll Street, Michigan City
Erected 1996 Indiana Historical Bureau and McDonald's Restaurant
One of three Civil War training camps in La Porte County. Site is one fourth mile west. Named for Colonel Edward Anderson. Used 1863-1864 to train Indiana Union volunteers of the 127th, 128th, and 129th regiments.
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Indiana Territory Boundary Line
Location: 213 Pine Lake Avenue, LaPorte
Erected 1999 Indiana Historical Bureau, the Hinton Family, and L Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Northwest Territory formed 1787; Indiana Territory formed 1800. Admission of Ohio 1803 and formation of Michigan Territory 1805 established Indiana Territory's northern boundary at southern tip of Lake Michigan. When Indiana became state in 1816, Congress moved boundary ten miles north giving Indiana part of Lake Michigan.
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Indiana Territory Boundary Line
Location: 213 Pine Lake Avenue, LaPorte
Erected 1999 Indiana Historical Bureau, the Hinton Family, and L Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Northern boundary of Indiana Territory established at southern tip of Lake Michigan when Michigan Territory formed in 1805.
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LaPorte County Courthouse
Location: 813 Lincolnway and Michigan Avenue, southeast corner of LaPorte County Courthouse lawn
Installed: 2001 Indiana Historical Bureau, LaPorte County Board of Commissioners, and LaPorte County Historical Society
County formed by Indiana General Assembly and LaPorte selected county seat 1832. Three courthouses built on this site: first 1833, second 1847-1848. Present courthouse constructed 1892-1894 of Lake Superior Red Sandstone; designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne in Richardsonian Romanesque Style. Incorporates cornerstone from 1848 courthouse.
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LaPorte County Courthouse
Location: 813 Lincolnway & Michigan Avenue, SE corner of La Porte County Courthouse lawn, LaPorte
Installed: 2001 Indiana Historical Bureau, La Porte County Board of Commissioners, and La Porte County Historical Society, Inc.
Features include open-arched central tower, stained glass window transoms, wood paneling, and gilded friezes. Goddess of Justice stained glass graces courtroom. Tower has 272-piece glass skylight; gargoyles decorate exterior. Included in Downtown La Porte Historic District, listed in National Register of Historic Places 1983.
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LaPorte's Carnegie Library
Location: LaPorte County Public Library, SW corner of 904 Indiana Avenue/US 35 & Maple Avenue
Installed: 2002 Indiana Historical Bureau and Friends of the LaPorte County Public Library
La Porte's first public library was established 1896. La Porte City School Board was awarded $27, 500 Carnegie grant 1916; by 1919 local support had been secured to meet grant requirements. Architect Wilson B. Parker designed the Neo-Classical style structure. Library opened in 1920 with 30, 000 volumes.
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LaPorte's Carnegie Library
Location: LaPorte County Public Library, SW corner of 904 Indiana Avenue/US 35 & Maple Avenue
Installed: 2002 Indiana Historical Bureau and Friends of the LaPorte County Public Library
Renovation and expansion designed by architect William Koster; building dedicated 1991. Original 1920 section retained. Library has played a major role in community's development. One of 1, 679 libraries built in U.S. with funds from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Indiana built more Carnegie libraries than any other state.
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The Rumely Companies
Location: NW corner of Madison Street & Lincolnway, La Porte
Installed: 2003 Indiana Historical Bureau and Rumely Historic Recognition Committee
Meinrad Rumely (1823-1904), a German immigrant, founded a blacksmith shop here 1853, which grew into a dominant company through reorganizations and acquisitions. Rumely companies in La Porte benefited from available rail transportation plus German and later Polish immigrant laborers. Products included a wide variety of agricultural machines.
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The Rumely Companies
Location: NW corner of Madison Street & Lincolnway, La Porte
Installed: 2003 Indiana Historical Bureau and Rumely Historic Recognition Committee
Rumely's prizewinning thresher later became one of the earliest powered by steam. Thousands of OilPull tractors sold worldwide 1910-1930. Rumely companies were at the forefront of mechanization of American and world agriculture and had significant impact on La Porte. Allis-Chalmers acquired the firm 1931 and closed La Porte plant 1983.
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The Lincoln Funeral Train
Location: 100 E. Michigan Blvd. (U.S. 12), Michigan City
Installed 2010 Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Assassinated President Abraham Lincoln's funeral was April 19, 1865 at the White House. The funeral train left for Springfield, Illinois April 21 directed by military; stops en route allowed the public to pay homage. From Indianapolis, train passed mourners lighted by bonfires and torches along the way; arrived in Michigan City by 8:35 a.m., May 1.
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The Lincoln Funeral Train
Location: 100 E. Michigan Blvd. (U.S. 12), Michigan City
Installed 2010 Indiana Historical Bureau and Indiana Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission
Residents decorated depot north of here with memorial arches adorned with roses, evergreens, flags, and images of Lincoln. Train stopped to switch engines and to allow dignitaries from Illinois and Indiana to board. Sixteen women entered funeral car to place flowers on casket. Train left for Chicago on Michigan Central Railroad; track was lined with mourners.
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LaPorte University/Indiana Medical College
Location: Lincoln Elementary School, SE corner of Clay St. and Harrison St., LaPorte
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau and the Healthcare Foundation of LaPorte
LaPorte University was established in the early 1840s to include law, literary, and medical departments. The medical department, later Indiana Medical College, began classes by 1842. Its distinguished faculty attracted students from across the U.S. Notable attendees included Dr. William W. Mayo, whose practice evolved into Mayo Clinic, and Dr. William H. Wishard.
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LaPorte University/Indiana Medical College
Location: Lincoln Elementary School, southeast corner of Clay Street and Harrison Street, LaPorte
Installed 2018 Indiana Historical Bureau and the Healthcare Foundation of LaPorte
Before the university’s founding, Indiana offered few opportunities for professional medical training. The medical college trained skilled doctors in the Midwest, preparing them for the region’s medical needs in surgery, anatomy, theory, and obstetrics. Classes ceased circa 1850; it consolidated with Indiana Central Medical College (1849-1852) in Indianapolis, 1851.
Source: Indiana Historical Bureau, www.in.gov/history/
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Gary Roosevelt High School
730 W. 25th Ave., Gary
Installed 2020 Indiana Historical Bureau, Lady Panthers & Supporters '63, Roosevelt Adult Booster Club, National Gary Theodore Roosevelt Alumni Assoc., Inc., and Indiana Landmarks
As Gary grew in the early 1900s, African American students were segregated within white schools or overcrowded into small, separate schools. To compensate, officials transferred some Black students to Emerson High School in 1927. After over 600 white students walked out in protest, the school board reinforced segregation by building a new school for the Black community.
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Gary Roosevelt High School
730 W. 25th Ave., Gary
Installed 2020 Indiana Historical Bureau, Lady Panthers & Supporters '63, Roosevelt Adult Booster Club, National Gary Theodore Roosevelt Alumni Assoc., Inc., and Indiana Landmarks
Theodore Roosevelt High School was dedicated in 1931 as an all-Black K-12 school. While many community members opposed segregation, they took pride in Roosevelt, and strove to make it equal to Gary’s white schools. It employed highly educated Black teachers, pushed students to excel in academics and sports despite discrimination, and produced many distinguished alumni.
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You want to know why the FBI searched Donald Trump's place at Mar-a-Lago Monday?
Just ask the candidates Trump endorsed who won primary elections in Arizona. They seem to know everything about it.
They immediately concluded via social media Monday that Trump was the victim of a politicized FBI carrying out a vendetta against the ex-president.
How do they know that? It's unclear.
In fact, maybe, just maybe, their knee-jerk reactions display a weird devotion to the former president that overrode their common sense and even their strategic wisdom about the coming general election.
Take Kari Lake, the GOP candidate for governor, for example. Like the others I'll mention, Lake benefited deeply from a Trump endorsement. Maybe she wouldn't have won without it, since she beat Karrin Taylor Robson by a pretty narrow margin, 47.8% to 43.3%.
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In a social-media post, Lake absurdly declared Monday "one of the darkest days in American history, the day our Government, originally created by by the people, turned against us."
She went on, "This illegitimate, corrupt Regime hates America and has weaponized the entirety of the Federal Government to take down President Donald Trump."
"As governor," she said, "I will fight these Tyrants with every fiber of my being."
Well, that's a platform for governor of Arizona, I guess.
The GOP candidate for attorney general, Abraham Hamadeh, was calm, cool and collected in his reaction.
Just kidding: Hamadeh completely lost it, too.
"Our justice system has been HIJACKED," he tweeted. "Our FBI has been CORRUPTED. It's time to restore LAW & ORDER."
It's bad enough for a candidate for governor to go off the deep end the way Lake did, but it means a bit more when someone wanting to be the state's top law-enforcement officer does so. It raises the question of what he knows about the judicial system and how prudently he would use the powers of the office.
U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters, who got a big boost from Trump's endorsement, quickly swung to the former president's defense, too.
"Everyone knows this was politically motivated," Masters tweeted. "And that should terrify us all."
He went on: "When street crimes go unsolved but opposition leaders are hounded by federal police, you're living in a third world country."
I suppose that's possible, but it's also possible that the search shows we live in a country where the rule of law applies even to the most powerful — rarely true in developing countries.
But who am I to question the candidates' judgment? We should probably trust the judgment of people like Mark Finchem, the state legislator from Oro Valley who has become a top Trump ally and the GOP candidate for secretary of state.
His assessment on Twitter: "The DOJ didn't just unite the Republican party, they united all Americans against their tyranny."
On Telegram he went even further: "The FBI just united the entire world behind President Trump."
The whole world! Finchem and many other Trump supporters tend to have an exaggerated view of Trump's popularity because they feel so strongly about him and surround themselves with others who feel the same way.
That's why the only way they can explain the fact that Trump lost Arizona is by saying he was cheated. They can't imagine an Arizona that did not feel the same way about him that they do.
But Tucson Republican Benny White and two fellow election researchers have proven conclusively why Trump lost the state by a narrow margin in 2020: People who otherwise voted for Republicans chose not to vote for Trump at the top of the ticket.
That's part of what makes the decision to needlessly rush to Trump's defense over the FBI search so puzzling.
Yes, these candidates likely required Trump's endorsement in order to win their primaries. The voters in the Republican primary apparently placed high value on Trump's endorsement.
But that is not a majority of Arizona voters. The voters who cast ballots for Lake in the primary amount to 9.4% of all Arizona registered voters. For Finchem, that figure is 7.8%; for Masters, 7.7%; for Hamadeh, 6.3%.
None of them even won more than 27% of registered Republicans' votes. And Republicans only make up 34% of Arizona's electorate. The remaining 66% is unlikely to include many similar Trump devotees.
Now, one could argue that the search of Trump's home raises unprecedented questions about the application of the rule of law in America. It does! But that argument cuts both ways: You can just as easily say that the search shows nobody is above the law as you can argue that it shows bias.
None of these candidates actually knew the reasons for the search when they opined about its supposed wrongfulness on Monday. In fact, it emerged Tuesday that the search was apparently part of an investigation into Trump allegedly keeping classified documents he was supposed to turn over to the National Archives.
Not exactly a bombshell political investigation.
This shows why the Trump endorsed candidates should have been more circumspect. I think we all understand their strong feelings of devotion about Trump, whose presidency they supported and who helped launch them to political success in the state primary.
But they all, especially Hamadeh, ought to show the patience to wait to see the legal and procedural justification for the search before they pass judgment.
They should do that not just because it's right and shows maturity, but also because it makes political sense in Arizona's general election.
Contact columnist Tim Steller at tsteller@tucson.com or 520-807-7789. On Twitter: @senyorreporter | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-trump-backed-candidates-flash-unwise-devotion-after-search/article_dfe57ec6-17fd-11ed-8e93-0771361c8dd2.html | 2022-08-10T01:32:33 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tim-stellers-column-trump-backed-candidates-flash-unwise-devotion-after-search/article_dfe57ec6-17fd-11ed-8e93-0771361c8dd2.html |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The Orange County Board of County Commissioners voted 4-3 Tuesday evening to put a rent control plan on the ballot for a public vote in November.
The plan, introduced by Comm. Emily Bonilla, calls for a rent hike cap of 5% or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. It would apply to any dwellings with 4 or more units. For example, if a tenants pays $1,000 per month for rent, the rent could not go up more than $50 per month. The cap would last for one year and would have to be approved by Orange County voters first.
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The plan has been criticized by consultants, experts and other members of the commission, who warned that it could drive up rental costs in neighboring counties, lower the amount of housing in Orange County and reduce the quality of housing in the county.
“If you look at the evictions, the number of children and families living on the streets, the rent increases, we have seen an extraordinary jump in those numbers,” Bonilla told News 6 at a previous meeting. “This rent cap will provide an immediate solution to the problem.”
An independent study that cost the county $60,000 found that the rent situation does not qualify for declaring an emergency and that a rent cap alone is among the least effective solutions.
The plan will go on the ballot in November for a public vote. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/10/orange-county-commissioners-vote-to-put-rent-control-on-november-ballot/ | 2022-08-10T01:36:35 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/10/orange-county-commissioners-vote-to-put-rent-control-on-november-ballot/ |
2 people in Gaston County have monkeypox, health department says
Two people in Gaston County tested positive for monkeypox last week, the first cases of the disease in the county, the Gaston County Health Department reported Tuesday.
The two people are thought to have contracted the virus outside of Gaston County, said Ellen Wright, the county's communicable disease supervisor.
No other information about those people was released.
Monkeypox is a viral illness that starts out with flu-like symptoms — a fever, headache, fatigue, chills, cough, sore throat and nasal congestion — but then it takes a turn. The majority of cases include swollen lymph nodes, and then a rash, bumps that fill with fluid but eventually scab over.
While the news of the cases might harken back to March of 2020, when COVID-19 began appearing, the situation is different. For one, there is an existing vaccine that protects against monkeypox, and Gaston County has asked the state for some but has not yet received it.
"I think we've had time to better prepare this time and we learned a lot of things from COVID," Wright said. "The big difference is the vaccine."
While the county health department has asked for the vaccine, medical care providers also can ask the state for some supply. Assistant Health Director Brittain Kenney said that the rollout of the monkeypox vaccine will look different than the rollout of the vaccines that protect against COVID-19.
"If you remember with COVID, the Health Department got a very small number of doses compared to the population that wanted to be vaccinated. And it was like a very slow trickle rollout," Kenney said, referring to the initial availability of the COVID vaccine. "This is going to look a lot different. Providers are already able to request vaccine, and so it'll be a lot easier for people to access that resource."
However, right now, who is able to get vaccinated against monkeypox is limited. Nationwide, many of those who are testing positive for the disease are men who have sex with other men.
The vaccine rollout reflects that, primarily targeting that demographic.
Right now, to be eligible for the vaccine, you must have had contact with someone else who tested positive within the past 14 days, or you have to be a man who has sex with other men or a transgender person who has been prescribed HIV prep, has an STI diagnosis, or has had multiple or anonymous sex partners, Wright said.
Another element that differentiates the situation now from March of 2020 is the existence of an antiviral treatment for monkeypox.
The decision to prescribe it will be left to the discretion of doctors, Kenney said, "so anyone who has tested positive or might be a presumptive positive should definitely talk to a provider about accessing treatment."
Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease. Rather, it is largely spread through close contact with the lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets of an infected person or animal, or with material contaminated with the virus, according to the World Health Organization.
The Gaston County Health Department has the ability to test people for monkeypox, but you are only eligible to be tested if you have a rash or lesions.
People who develop symptoms of monkeypox should isolate themselves, but if you haven't developed a rash within three days, it is likely not monkeypox, Wright said.
Those who do have monkeypox, however, must stay isolated for as long as it takes for the lesions to fully scab over, shed the scab, and heal with new skin, which can take as many as six weeks.
While monkeypox has been more prevalent nationwide among men who have sex with men, anybody can get it, Kenney said.
"There are starting to be some cases, some pediatric cases and other cases of folks who have come in contact with somebody who has it outside of those demographics," Kenney said. "We'll probably see more of that, but we're not seeing that in our state right now."
Gaston County officials do not yet know when they will receive doses of the monkeypox vaccine. Eligible people who wish to get on the waitlist for the vaccine can call the county health department at 704-862-5303. People who are interested in the vaccine also are encouraged to get on the waitlist to receive the vaccine in Mecklenburg County, Wright said.
However, the demand for the vaccine in Mecklenburg is huge.
Mecklenburg County is the "epicenter" of the disease in North Carolina, according to state health officials. On Monday, Mecklenburg County had 60 confirmed monkeypox cases. Gaston County's proximity to Mecklenburg means that the county will likely see more cases.
"I think Mecklenburg had shared that they're seeing at least some level of community spread of monkeypox locally, and with what the information we found out about our cases, we do not feel like we are that we are aware of community spread and Gaston County at this point," Kenney said.
But "it's a regional virus. What happens in our neighboring counties is going to impact us, so we likely will be seeing more cases," Kenney said.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Aug. 30 will mark the one year anniversary of U.S. troops withdrawing from Afghanistan. That withdrawal process sparked an uptick of Afghan refugees coming to the United States for help.
"It just feels like we're constantly putting out fires instead of being able to kind of get ahead of things," said Des Moines Refugee Support Founder and Director Alison Hoeman. "It's been frustrating."
According to Hoeman, a few families have received eviction notices, while others are struggling to navigate transportation, school enrollment and healthcare. For refugee families in Des Moines, the need for help and community support is far from over.
"Several families have been given eviction notices due to being over the occupancy limits," added Family Outreach Coordinator Sedina Traljesic. "And others are because housing just isn't affordable."
While Des Moines Refugee support worked alongside the local organization IMPACT to find rental assistance for these families, they say it's not a long-term solution.
"That's only for a few months," said Traljesic. "And their funds are running low and going fast. So I have no idea what we're going to do once those funds run out."
Then comes the issue of paperwork. Hoeman says many families are inching toward the one year deadline to complete key pieces of paperwork. However, she sees a lack of experts available to help them navigate these documents.
"If there are any lawyers listening, there are about 150 families who need to complete their immigration paperwork," said Hoeman. "And the Drake Law Clinic is trying to get that done, but they literally need 50 more lawyers to help with that."
And for some of the documents these families receive, it means a major loss if they don't complete them in time.
"There's no one officially assigned to helping them navigate that," said Traljesic. "And then they lose their food assistance, Medicaid, any services that they were receiving."
And with the school season approaching, families need to enroll their students. But most registration is only offered in Spanish or English, leaving families in the dark.
"If they aren't officially registered, if they haven't done the online registration, then they don't get busing," said Hoeman. "And they don't get pushed out the information that they need about, 'When is the first day of school?'"
Hoeman says the organization recently held an event helping families register, but knows there's more that need help.
The agency says there's also been difficulties in finding dentists who accept Medicaid, adding that many of the children still need major dental work.
Transportation is also proving difficult for families. Even for those who can secure a vehicle, the issue of obtaining a license and insurance come with their own group of challenges. | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/des-moines-refugee-support-afghan-families-resources-housing-education/524-de565bc6-9b96-496f-9ec1-72c54b4e7b3f | 2022-08-10T01:41:15 | 0 | https://www.weareiowa.com/article/news/local/des-moines-refugee-support-afghan-families-resources-housing-education/524-de565bc6-9b96-496f-9ec1-72c54b4e7b3f |
ATLANTIC CITY — The 56th Around The Island Swim was rescued Tuesday by four high school boys, plus four masters swimmers averaging 50 years old.
Team Thunderdome — namely James Haney and John Sahl of Atlantic City High School and Patrick Armstrong and Gavin Neal of Ocean City —won the 22.75-mile race’s only division, the four-person relay, in 8 hours, 2 minutes, 51 seconds.
Spectators at the Atlantic City Boathouse start-finish line (near the Albany Avenue Bridge) cheered as the four swam together to the finish line. The Queen song “We Are The Champions” played over the P.A. system.
Neal, Saul, Haney and Armstrong took turns swimming in 15- to 30-minute intervals and rode in an accompanying boat when not in the water.
“We each swam about 5 1/2 miles, and that’s the longest I ever swam,” said Haney, a 16-year-old rising junior. “I swam 2 miles straight once, that was the most before. The conditions were brutal. There was a big mental aspect to it. You had to keep going. I threw up a couple times, and I passed out briefly once when I got back to the boat. I swam better in the bay, and the other team swam well.”
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The Tortuga Golden Striders —Daniel Killinger, 52, Rob Montgomery, 54, Frank Geraci, 37, and Bobby Pugh, 59 — are a talented masters team that trains and swims together. Fittingly, “We Are The Champions” kept playing at least three times, and the song was still going when the Striders came to the line after 8 hours, 8 minutes, 49 seconds.
The race’s two individual swimmers, John Ziegler, of Pennsylvania, and Robert Gatto, of New Jersey, who would have gotten most of the attention by going around Absecon alone, but they failed to finish.
The water temperature in the ocean was 55.53 degrees, and Ziegler took himself out of the race at Mississippi Avenue, about halfway through the clockwise race. Gatto made it through the first inlet near Brigantine but didn’t continue after New Hampshire Avenue entering the ocean leg.
The two relay teams were neck and neck in the ocean, and Team Thunderdome finally led for good after the final turn into the Longport intracoastal waters.
“We do a lot of masters swims together,” said Pugh, a former Ocean City lifeguard who now lives in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. “We passed them (Thunderdome) right before the Longport jetty. It was back and forth in the ocean before that. It was 56 degrees then, and we could handle the cold better than the young guys. Then we made the turn into the bay, and the waters warmed up and they swam past us.”
As a member of the Ocean City Beach Patrol in 1997, Montgomery finished eighth in the Around The Island Swim.
“We needed to open up more space in the ocean in order to win,” said Montgomery. “I got to hand it to the young guys. Once we got into flat water, they were faster than us.”
Saul, of Team Thunderdome, said it felt pretty special, too.
“This will go down as one of the biggest things I’ve ever done, and I’m excited to be part of it,” Saul said.
Armstrong said he was ready for a hot shower and a good nap.
Neal, a 17-year-old rising senior, also complained about the cold too, but added, “I feel on top of the world.”
Last year, none of the race’s 11 individual swimmers and none of the relays made it around the island in the race’s 10-hour time limit. The tide and currents in the 2021 race weren’t favorable as they were in previous years.
At its peak, the swim was an international event, with accomplished open-water swimmers coming from all over the world. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/local-high-school-boys-win-around-the-island-swim/article_fa8772b8-1828-11ed-b744-9f482bb5e370.html | 2022-08-10T01:44:54 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/local-high-school-boys-win-around-the-island-swim/article_fa8772b8-1828-11ed-b744-9f482bb5e370.html |
BRISTOL, Va. (WJHL) — The Bristol, Virginia City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance making it illegal to camp on public sidewalks and rights-of-way.
The ordinance makes it “a Class 4 misdemeanor for any person within the city to camp on any city-owned street, sidewalk, alley, or other public rights-of-way.”
City leaders hope the measure will help address the city’s growing homeless population.
“The answer to solving our homeless problem is you need a holistic approach that does address mental health, substance abuse, those type of things, and that’s a larger discussion to have,” Vice-Mayor Neal Osborne said. “But in the interim, it is incredibly important that our residents feel safe and that our businesses are able to thrive and do business without concern for their customers being runoff or being in danger.”
Osborne said passing the ordinance was the “right move to make.”
“We can’t let this problem go on the way it has and the way it’s escalated in the past six months,” he said.
Council members Bill Hartley and Kevin Winguard said it will take the community coming together in order to address homelessness in the long term.
City Manager and Attorney Randall Eads said the ordinance will not take effect for 30 days per the city’s charter. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bristol-va-city-council-passes-ordinance-banning-camping-on-public-sidewalks-rights-of-way/ | 2022-08-10T01:47:09 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/bristol-va-city-council-passes-ordinance-banning-camping-on-public-sidewalks-rights-of-way/ |
PHOENIX — With jury selection complete, the trial for a Valley man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend is underway.
In September 2018, 19-year-old Kiera Bergman's body was found on the side of a West Valley road. Now, four years later, the trial for her murder has officially begun in Maricopa County Superior Court.
At the center of the trial is the victim's on-and-off-again boyfriend, Jon Christopher Clark, who was allegedly the last person to see Bergman.
Clark is accused of killing her after an argument, then dumping her body near State Route 85 and Hazen Road.
On Tuesday, attorneys presented their opening statements and prosecutors gave a timeline of events including how suspicious activity on Bergman's cell phone after her death allegedly links Clark to the case.
"Kiera was just starting to write a new chapter," said one of the attorneys. "Jon Clark ended it. This was not an accident, this was not a suicide, Jon Clark is the one who ended Kiera's life story."
Clark's defense lawyers though argue otherwise. They say the state is only presenting possibilities and insisted their client was not responsible for Bergman's murder.
"Jon is cooperating, he's the one who called 911 on the morning of August 6th, he's doing the things you would do to locate a missing person," said his attorney.
Clark sat quietly through the first day of proceedings, including as Bergman's sister testified about the unusual circumstances surrounding her disappearance.
"From the beginning, I felt uncomfortable by him," the sister said. "Just the way he put himself out there made me very uncomfortable so I would limit what I would say to him."
Clark has previously denied any involvement in Bergman's disappearance.
"I love Kiera with all my heart and would never do anything negative to her or put her in harm's way," Clark told 12News in 2018.
This trial is expected to last several weeks. Be sure to stay with 12News as we follow the developments ahead.
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GREENSBORO — County Commissioners Chairman Melvin "Skip" Alston vowed Tuesday to look for a way to give more money to a group of school construction projects now expected to cost more than 50% above what the county had planned.
One option he suggested: using some of the $1.7 billion that voters approved in May for a much larger slate of school construction projects, which are expected to follow the work included in a 2020 bond referendum.
The 2020 bond projects aim to address some of Guilford County Schools' biggest facility challenges and to replace the district's schools that are in the worst condition for student learning.
The $300 million that voters approved that year was expected to be enough to cover eight major school construction projects, plus land acquisition and design work for two more schools. Instead, school leaders estimate they need another $170 million to complete the projects as planned, for a total of $470 million, or a cost increase of nearly 57%. And that estimate is still far from a finalized figure.
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School district leaders have spoken several times in their own meetings the last six months or so about soaring construction costs seen across the country and expectations for major cost increases for some of the projects.
Tuesday, however, was the first time that members of the Guilford County boards of education and commissioners gathered together to discuss the challenge. Alston plans for this joint facilities committee to meet monthly.
Being able to issue those 2022 bonds still requires the county get the go-ahead from North Carolina's Local Government Commission in September. The county must convince the commission that it has a fiscally responsible plan for managing the debt. The county went through the same process for the 2020 bonds.
Taking money from the 2022 package to help pay for the 2020 projects would mean less money for that second round of projects. Still, Alston said it could be eight years or so before the county would have to grapple with running out of bond money for school construction.
The projects are ranked by priority based on a study of district facility conditions conducted by consultants. The projects in the 2020 bond package are the district's top priorities to tackle first.
During Tuesday's meeting, school district leaders gave a detailed presentation about construction costs, school design choices, and progress on the projects that won kudos from commissioners attending the meeting.
That presentation did not, however, fully clarify what portion of the expected increase is tied to widespread rises in construction costs and what part is related to the district's design choices or other factors.
During his part of the school district's presentation, Ken Grube, the regional vice president for Greensboro-based Samet Corp., shared that the industry was in an unprecedented situation. On average, non-residential construction bid prices nationwide are expected to have risen by about 30% by the time the district's 2020 bond projects will go out for bid, he said. That's compared to mid-2019, when the bond referendum was put together.
School officials said costs in the Southeastern United States are most likely higher due to a construction boom in North Carolina, Georgia and other places. The Greensboro area, they said, also has a number of new industry builds on the horizon, from the new Toyota battery plant to a production facility for airplane manufacturer Boom Supersonic.
The cost estimates also came before the COVID-19 pandemic and the "growing number of safety concerns," a district spokeswoman said in an email after the meeting.
"For example, school shooting incidents have more than doubled over the last two years, according to the Center for Homeland and Security," spokeswoman Gabrielle Brown said. "We also know the negative impact COVID-19 school closures had on learning. As a school district, we have a responsibility to build new schools that allow us to keep schools open during a future pandemic and put the safety of our students and staff first."
In discussing their design choices, district leaders talked about a desire to create flexible learning spaces for students and to provide for enhanced ventilation to help ward against contagious airborne diseases, among other priorities.
Commissioner Kay Cashion asked whether the county could save money by using a "prototype" design that could be used for multiple schools, rather than having each school designed individually. School leaders told her that four of the new schools to be built from the 2020 bond package are magnet schools, which each have unique themes and programming needs, so it would not make sense to copy them.
However, they said they have been discussing replicating components of designs among multiple schools for the 2022 bond projects.
Groundbreaking ceremonies for six of the school construction projects for the 2020 bonds are planned for Aug. 22 and 23. The district had been planning to have them this week, but moved them back due to scheduling conflicts, according to a district spokeswoman.
Immediate plans include dirt moving and other preparatory site work, but not any major construction yet.
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County commissioners agreed Tuesday to spend more than $41 million of its federal COVID-19 relief money toward municipal projects.
The bulk of the funds involve water and sewer improvements, but three parks and recreation projects also received money.
Projects approved include:
• $15 million to the city of Greensboro for building the Windsor-Chavis-Nocho Community Complex. In last month’s city bond referendum, voters approved $50 million for the east Greensboro project. It will combine library and recreational activities under one roof in a new 65,000-square-foot facility and make improvements to Nocho Park. Commissioners trimmed $5 million from the original request of $20 million from the city.
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• $7.8 million to the town of Summerfield: $5.5 million for a feasibility study and initial implementation of a new water system and improved water access for fire services; and $2.3 million for the Bandera Farms Park master plan. The new 115-acre regional park will include equestrian and hiking trails and help protect Reedy Fork Creek, which feeds into Greensboro’s water supply.
• $5.9 million to the town of Gibsonville to build a new water tank to improve water pressure for fire services and the addition of a 12-inch waterline along N.C. 61 to improve water quality in northwest Gibsonville.
• $5.5 million to the town of Pleasant Garden to build four miles of water/sewer infrastructure serving the Pleasant Garden Business District.
• $3.1 million to the town of Stokesdale for a new water line for a secondary source. The town has one main water supply line, and “if there is a failure … we risk water supply to all of the town’s customers,” Stokesdale Mayor Pro Tem Derek Foy told commissioners last week.
• $200,000 to install fire hydrants along N.C. 62 in southwest Guilford County.
The board voted 8-0 in favor of the funding. Commissioner Carly Cooke was absent.
Commissioners received requests totaling more than $72 million from municipalities. They listened to pitches from various towns and cities last week.
Commissioner Kay Cashion expressed concern that Pleasant Garden might need its full $11 million request for water and sewer projects because of the town's proximity to the Greensboro-Randolph Megasite. Toyota is building a $1.2 billion electric car battery factory at the site and is expected to create at least 1,750 jobs.
“With the advent of the megasite, they’re going to need all the help they can get,” she said, adding that the board may need to revisit Pleasant Garden’s funding later on.
Chairman Melvin “Skip” Alston agreed, but said he’s been told the town will get federal money funneled through the state to make up the difference.
If not, Alston said: “I totally agree. We will try to make that happen for them.”
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GREENSBORO — Guilford County health officials have reported three cases of monkeypox among residents as of Tuesday while the statewide count continues to rise.
“All cases have been advised of proper isolation and quarantine guidelines and have been placed under mandatory isolation orders by the Health Department,” Kenya Smith Godette, a spokeswoman for Guilford’s health department, said in an email to the News & Record.
The first case of monkeypox in North Carolina was identified on June 23. Since then, a total of 114 monkeypox cases have been reported statewide as of about noon Tuesday, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. For comparison, the state’s total was 20 on July 19.
“It is important that everyone stay informed on what monkeypox is and how it spreads so they can take steps to protect themselves and others,” Godette said Tuesday, noting the health department’s ongoing efforts to provide education about the disease to providers and residents.
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Monkeypox symptoms are similar to that of smallpox but milder, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms can include fever, headache, muscle aches and backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion and a rash that can look like pimples or blisters.
“Monkeypox is not a virus that stigmatizes or discriminates,” Godette said. “Anyone who comes into contact with an infected person or materials that have been used by an infected person are at risk for contracting monkeypox.”
Dr. David Priest, chief safety, quality and epidemiology officer with Novant Health, emphasized that the primary ways monkeypox is spread are through prolonged skin-to-skin contact, or prolonged face-to-face contact during which it can be spread through respiratory droplets.
Nearly all monkeypox cases in North Carolina have been in men who had sex with men, DHHS reported on its website. However, local health officials cautioned residents not to think of monkeypox as an issue that only affects a specific group of people in the community.
“This is a community problem for all of us,” Priest said Tuesday during a call with local media.
For those who are most at-risk, health departments in Guilford and Forsyth now have supplies of vaccines to help protect against the virus. Initially, Forsyth was the closest county that received a vaccine supply and served as a vaccine hub for surrounding counties.
“It is because of the high demand, and very specific criteria required for a monkeypox vaccine that we are not reporting our exact dose counts” in Guilford County, Godette said. “The community, however, should be confident that if they qualify and are in need of a vaccine that we will be able to assist them at the Health Department.”
The Biden administration declared monkeypox a public health emergency last week in an effort to slow the outbreak that has infected more than 8,900 Americans, according to the Associated Press.
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FORT BENNING, Ga. — Two Fort Benning soldiers died Tuesday after a "weather-related" incident in north Georgia's mountains, according to a spokesperson for the Army.
Army officials have not yet released the names of the two soldiers but said they were part of the Maneuver Center of Excellence training program on Yonah Mountain near Dahlonega, Georgia.
Three other service members were also injured and were treated by Army medics, then taken to a hospital for treatment, Army officials said.
"More information will be released as more details become available," a statement from the Army said.
Back in July, another weather-related incident took place at a second Georgia military base. A lightning strike at Fort Gordon, a military base near Augusta, killed one and injured nine soldiers on July 20.
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BROOKHAVEN, Ga. — Brookhaven is making it easier for residents to adopt a pet.
During its regular meeting Tuesday, the Brookhaven City Council approved a memorandum with LifeLine Animal Project, in which the shelter will provide pets for adoption at no fee. LifeLife operates the DeKalb County Animal Shelter in one of Brookhaven's suburbs, a news release reads.
"The agreement is the first sponsorship of this magnitude with a municipality," officials said.
The initiative builds upon Brookhaven's dedication to emptying its shelters and helping animals find their forever homes.
"We promote animal adoptions from LifeLine at the beginning of every singly City Council meeting since I have been mayor," Mayor John Ernst said.
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CARROLLTON, Ga. — A Carrollton business is hosting a fundraising event for the community grieving the loss of a beloved 18-year-old woman whose life was cut short last month.
Anna Jones was supposed to start her freshman year at the University of West Georgia this week. She was killed the night of July 30 when then-UWG professor Richard Sigman shot in the direction of the parked car she was sitting in. Jones had just graduated from Mount Zion High School.
Leaving a small community grieving, SpinnerZ Family Skate Center is hosting an all-night skate on Aug. 13 with proceeds going to Jones' family.
SpinnerZ, which prides itself as a family-oriented rink, said they are closing the following day as the event will end that morning. The benefit will serve to honor Jones' memory and celebrate the community that watched her grow up.
"She was going to be a teacher," Stephanie Hodges said in a previous interview with 11Alive. Hodges taught the teen. "She would have been amazing because she was so good with kids."
Event organizers said the fundraiser will run from 7 p.m. through 7 a.m. It will cost $15 to skate from 7 p.m. to midnight and $25 to skate for the full 12 hours. Organizers said $5 from every admission will be given to Jones' family.
As Jones' death was sudden, loved ones organized a fundraiser to help her family cover funeral expenses.
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Driver crashes car into MOD Pizza in Gilbert
Jose R. Gonzalez
Arizona Republic
A car crash Tuesday left a MOD Pizza in Gilbert with a makeshift drive-thru.
The driver of a car hit the gas instead of the brake, leading to the vehicle crashing into the pizzeria located near Warner and Cooper roads, according to Gilbert police. There were no reported injuries, according to police spokesman Officer Levi Leyba.
When reached by phone Tuesday afternoon, restaurant employees forwarded questions to corporate, which did not immediately respond.
Police did not disclose whether charges would be filed in the crash.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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Vehicle stolen in Peoria located after owner shot in carjacking
Peoria police located a vehicle Tuesday morning that had been stolen from the parking lot of the Peoria Crossing shopping mall on Monday.
The carjacking left the vehicle owner with a gunshot wound to their leg that was not life-threatening and a possible head injury.
The vehicle, a gray 2004 Toyota 4-Runner, was found by Phoenix police unoccupied in the area of East Dunlap Ave between 18th and 19th streets about 6:45 a.m., according to Peoria police spokesperson Sgt. Brandon Sheffert.
A suspect had not been located as of Tuesday afternoon, Sheffert said.
On Monday about 11:30 a.m., police responded to the parking lot of the shopping mall after reports of a possible shooting. When they arrived, officers found a man who was possibly hit on his head with an object and who had a gunshot wound to his leg. According to police, the injured man owned the car that was stolen.
Police said after the suspect shot the car owner, the suspect stole the vehicle and left the area.
The Peoria Fire-Medical Department transported the injured car owner to a local hospital for medical treatment, according to police.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Sheffert said detectives were still investigating the stolen vehicle for evidence.
Reach breaking news reporter Sam Burdette at sburdette@gannett.com or on Twitter @SuperSafetySam.
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Phoenix police offer $2K reward in arrest of driver who caused crash, left 4 dead
Phoenix police on Tuesday announced a cash reward to find the driver of the car racing a Toyota Camry that crashed last month and left four dead, including three people traveling in a Lyft vehicle that burst into flames.
"Investigators continue to process and review all aspects of the investigation in order to make an arrest(s)," police said in a statement.
The Lyft driver, Terry Hill, 28, and his two passengers, British Conception, 39, and Sara Loustaunau, 37, died at the scene of the wreck near 43rd Avenue and Thunderbird Road. One of the six passengers of the Camry that crashed into the Lyft vehicle, Galexy Saunders, 19, died from her injuries at a hospital.
The racing vehicle still at large has been described as a dark sedan by police. There is no other information on the suspect.
The crash, according to police, occurred at approximately 1:51 a.m. when the stolen Camry going northbound on 43rd struck the rideshare car as it turned left onto Thunderbird from southbound 43rd. The rideshare car, whose make and model were not disclosed, erupted into flames, according to police.
Inside the stolen vehicle were six people ranging from teenage to young adult, four of whom were hospitalized after the crash, including two teen boys in critical condition, Phoenix police and fire said.
The wreck led to the 43rd and Thunderbird intersection being closed for several hours.
A $2,000 Silent Witness cash reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest or indictment of the fleeing racer. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call 480-WITNESS (948-6377), or 480-TESTIGO (837-8446) for Spanish.
"We are heartbroken by this incident. Our thoughts are with Mr. Hill, his passengers, and all loved ones impacted by this tragedy. We have been in touch with Mr. Hill's family to offer our support and assisted law enforcement with their investigation at the time," read a statement from a Lyft spokesperson.
Police did not immediately respond to whether the driver of the Camry has been charged for alleged racing.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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26-year-old killed in fatal motorcycle crash in Phoenix
Gloria Rebecca Gomez
Arizona Republic
A motorcycle crash killed a 26-year-old man in Phoenix on Monday morning.
Phoenix police officers responded to a report of a car collision near North 43rd and West Olive avenues around 10 a.m., according to a statement from Sgt. Vincent Cole.
A motorcycle and a pickup truck had crashed into each other. The driver of the motorcycle, David Hand, died from his injuries at the scene.
The driver of the pickup truck, who wasn't identified in the statement, received minor injuries. The investigation was ongoing, Cole said.
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BOISE, Idaho — There is a certain intersection in town where drivers seem to disregard the left turn red light, a lot.
State Street is one of the Treasure Valley's major streets for getting around. Tens of thousands of cars use this corridor on a daily basis and depending on the day, it may seem like other drivers are driving in the same direction, at the same time, as you.
The Ada County Highway District (ACHD) said the Glenwood State Street intersection sees around 20 thousand cars a day.
"Once the vehicle passes the stop line after the light turns red, that's an obvious violation," Sgt. Matt Konvalinka with the Boise Police Department said. "You get those heavy traffic times, it's not uncommon to see it at all of our intersections."
Sgt Konvalinka said complaints about speeding, aggressive driving, and running red lights are common. He has heard complaints specifically about the Glenwood/State Street intersection.
But what about during lighter traffic times, when it is supposed to be off-peak hours? On a Friday morning between 10 and 11, there were still a lot of left-turn, red light runners.
"It's yellow, people are still entering, and once it turns red, see that's kind of borderline," Konvalinka said. "Now the yellow is supposed to give you enough time to slow down and stop, but if you don't and you roll past the stop line on a red light, that's a failure to obey a traffic control device."
A violation that was observed a lot. So why do cops not just camp out and write a bunch of tickets?
"I've gotta see that light turn red. The time between that light turning red and I look down to the stop line to see the vehicle past the stop line," Konvalinka said. "I have to testify to that in court."
But is this a timing thing or is this a driver issue? Sgt. Konvalinka said it is both.
"Granted you shouldn't be entering the intersection or passing that stop line once the light is red, you shouldn't be entering that intersection," Konvalinka said. "But in order to prevent accidents, I'd like to see the timing extended to give everyone a chance to clear the intersection before the other side turns green."
The timing is controlled by ACHD, where they see red light runners as they happen on their 205 closed circuit cameras.
"We've noticed there are a few more red light runners throughout Ada county." Mike Boydstun, the Congestion Management Supervisor with ACHD for the last 21 years. "Over the past I'll say 2-3 years is that a lot of drivers have become a lot less patient."
Boydstun said the State and Glenwood intersection has 5-6 different timing cycles based on the time of day. How long lights are green or red is affected by an algorithm, a formula formed by one week's worth of traffic.
A cycle could take anywhere from two minutes to two minutes and forty seconds. The more cars needing to go in one direction, the longer the light is green.
"That westbound left turn gets 15 to 30 seconds of green time out of that cycle," said Boydstun.
We counted about 20 seconds, from going green, and then back to red, with about four seconds of yellow in between.
"We also put what we call an all red interval in there, so it's red for all movements at the intersection before the next conflicting green would be displayed," Boydstun said.
Boydstun said the solution may be as simple as adjusting that red light interval, giving cars time to clear the intersection.
"It might be something where adding a half second could make everything a little bit safer, that might steal a little green time from everyone but it might make it safer," Boydstun said.
Sgt. konvalinka agrees, it might be easier to stall the starts than stop the runners.
"People will still run the red light but at least it will prevent an accident which is what we really want to do, we want to stop the accidents," Konvalinka said.
So the ultimate goal is to prevent accidents and keep streets safe.
Boise police told us so far this year, well, half of this year, from January to June, they issued 60 red light citations.
Not at this intersection, but across the city.
Also at this intersection, over the same period of time, BPD responded to 135 traffic-related issues, 26 of them crashes, making State and Glenwood 8th on the list of intersections with the most crashes this year.
So, what about the solution?
Maybe you drive through that intersection during that same time of day we described and maybe you noticed those same issues we did two weeks ago, but you're not noticing them now.
That's because the day after we spoke with them, ACHD adjusted the timing of that cycle, increasing it from 120 seconds to 130 seconds.
And they added a half second to that red light interval, when all the lights are red in every direction to allow cars to clear the intersection.
And maybe you're thinking, 'well, they fixed the problem, why run the story?'
Because, like we learned in our discussion with ACHD, sometimes to solve a problem, all you have to do is bring it to someone's attention.
ACHD said they encourage anyone who sees a traffic problem to report it to them and they will do what they can to fix it.
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MERIDIAN, Idaho — Every two weeks, Sandy Maple and her 11-year-old grandson Charlie Cowan make a trip to the Cherry Lane Meridian Library.
"I think reading is becoming a lost art, almost," Maple said.
Not lost on her grandson, however. Cowan walks in the front door with a Percy Jackson novel tucked under his right arm.
"When you're just reading you get caught up and forget about things. You can picture the story in your mind," Cowan said. "It's relaxing."
Like Cowan, several kids wander the aisles of the library. The next adventure is right at their fingertips; that's where some are starting to draw the line.
"A little disappointing and shocking that this small but vocal group wants to take such a tremendous asset away from this community," Meridian District Library (MLD) Board Chair Megan Larsen said.
For the past couple meetings, community members have attended the board meetings to voice concerns about the content found in Meridian libraries.
A conservative group called the "Idaho Liberty Dogs" encourages their members to attend MLD meetings to oppose pornographic and LGBTQ content.
"Did you know that public libraries across Idaho, are being used as taxpayer funded 'Grooming Locations' to indoctrinate young children and teenagers into the LGBTQ lifestyles?" the Idaho Liberty Dogs posted on their Facebook page.
The same post outlines five books the Idaho Liberty Dogs find inappropriate:
- "Gender Queer," by Maia Kobabe
- "Sex is a Funny Word," by Cory Silverberg
- "Two Boys Kissing," by David Levithan
- "Big Hard Sex Criminals," by Mathh Fraction
- "Captain Underpants," by Dave Pilkey
Associate Librarian Nikki Kreiner works in the children’s department of the Cherry Lane Library.
"Captain Underpants" was the only book she could find in the children's section when KTVB asked her to point out where these books can be found in the library. "Captain Underpants" is low-brow humor often enjoyed by middle school boys, according to Kreiner.
"I find it nonsensical," Larsen said. "Yes, there are materials in the library that LGBTQ content. We are responding to what our community is interested, not every community member. But certainly, our community is interested in a diverse and inclusive collection. We provide that here at the library."
"Sex is a Funny Word" is also in the children's section; however, the book was checked out while KTVB was at the library. The book teaches children about how body development and changes, according to Kreiner.
No parent has ever voiced a concern to Kreiner about books in this section and whether they are appropriate or not.
"You should be monitoring what you children are reading," Maple said. "Not an easy job but you need to be on top of it. I think if you talk to your kids and they talk to you, that eliminates a lot of problems."
Larsen expects people from the Idaho Liberty Dogs to continue attending meetings and voice their concerns. The Board will continue listening to their concerns, Larsen said.
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