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Kenosha County officials and the widow of a sheriff’s department jail supervisor who died from COVID-19 reached a settlement agreement Thursday in the case of his death.
The Finance and Administration Committee voted unanimously in open session on the agreement following a closed session discussion with the county’s legal counsel. The terms of the tentative settlement in the death of Cpl. Christopher Basina, 55, of Kenosha, a 23-year-veteran of the department who died Oct. 8, were privately negotiated and were not disclosed, following the meeting.
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“We have an agreement in principle with the Basina family and (Cheryl Basina’s) attorneys,” said Kenosha County Corporation Counsel Joe Cardamone. “It is my expectation, hopefully, next week, everything will be signed and finalized.”
Cheryl Basina, who attended the meeting, said her attorney Kevin Miller was out of the country and could not be present. In January, she had asked that her husband’s death be recognized as one that had occurred “in the line of duty.”
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Such a declaration would entitle her to benefits, under state law, including the county’s continued payment of health insurance premiums for the surviving spouse of an officer who dies in the line of duty, among others. Jailers under the direction of a sheriff are considered law enforcement officers.
Cheryl Basina then filed a notice of claim against the county on Feb. 2 after county officials declined to make that declaration. The notice is the first step toward the filing of a lawsuit. The matter went before the Finance Committee on March 10, however, the committee agreed to delay action for 60 days until it could collect more information.
During the committee’s May 12 meeting she asked again that her husband’s death be classified in the “line of duty” based on his contracting COVID-19 through his job in corrections. She said her husband also had contact with “every employee and every inmate” who was housed in the corrections center.
While he and other jail employees were required to wear N95 masks, inmates were not, she said. She said her husband had told her sometimes jailers did not have gloves because they had run out.
The family’s attorney has said Basina’s only known exposure prior to his death due to COVID-19 was at work and that no other coexisting illnesses were listed on Basina’s death certificate as having contributed to his death. His doctor concluded his exposure to COVID-19 had occurred while “in the line of work,” according to Miller.
At Thursday’s meeting and prior to the committee’s vote, Cheryl Basina also presented paperwork that would allow for accessing her husband’s pension, which she said she needs in order to pay her bills.
“Right now, my savings is exhausted and I lost my job in January and I need his pension to be able to pay bills because as of next month, I won’t have any funds to do that,” she said, while walking out of the room as the committee went into closed session.
She said she could not comment further on negotiations for the settlement and referred additional questions to her attorney.
Cardamone also said he could not comment on the specifics of the settlement until it was finalized, including whether it incorporated any of the earlier demands to declare Basina’s death as one that occurred in the line of duty.
“What will say is I think that both sides are satisfied with the settlement,” he said. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/watch-now-widow-kenosha-county-finance-committee-reach-settlement-in-covid-19-death-of-jail/article_936e9fa6-19e6-11ed-8626-37d951bd59f6.html | 2022-08-12T06:47:56 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/watch-now-widow-kenosha-county-finance-committee-reach-settlement-in-covid-19-death-of-jail/article_936e9fa6-19e6-11ed-8626-37d951bd59f6.html |
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif. — Educators who are molding the future for children are now in a fight locally for better wages.
Hundreds protested at the Folsom Cordova Unified School (FCUSD) Board of Education meeting, drawing attention to what they're calling a 'revolving door.' The educators dressed in their red shirts, expressed their concerns and frustrations.
Many of them say they just want to feel valued after putting in numerous hours of work every single day.
"Tonight, let me demonstrate how a teacher like myself needs the salary ask you refuse to give us," said one educator addressing the board.
In a packed room full of Folsom Cordova Unified School District educators, one after another gave an earful to their Board of Education. Each shared their own unique story.
"As a special education teacher, you put in so many hours and hours," said Lori Wilkin, who is a Resource Specialist at Oak Chan Elementary School.
For Lori Wilkin, having an autistic son makes her even more passionate about being a resource specialist.
"I just want people to understand that the teachers in this district put forth so much of (themselves) into their jobs and how much we love it. That's why we do it," said Wilkin.
But she says at times, they're having to work long hours and on weekends. Some say the number of educators leaving the district is concerning.
"Like a lot of industries, there's a labor shortage. Certainly, we have lost some teachers to some things that we just don't have any control over. So for instance, some teachers have retired. Some teachers have moved out of state," said Angelica Griffin Ankhelyi, who is the Director of Communication and Community Engagement with FCUSD.
The district says it's working to hire 21 classroom teachers.
During that wait time, the Folsom Cordova Education Association is demanding better pay and benefits.
"We're hoping for a fair compensation package that would entice teachers to come to our district and retain the teachers that we currently have. So that we're not losing them to other districts. I mean we have tremendous talent and we want to keep it here in-house," Angelica Miklos, president of the Folsom Cordova Education Association.
Wilkin says they all want to stay, but they need to feel valued and compensated in some way.
"It's kind of like when you're on that airplane, and they always tell you when you're with your child make sure you put your mask on first so you can help the child. Well us teachers, we need a mask. We need the appropriate kind of mask to be able to best assist all of our kids," said Wilkin.
The district says it absolutely wants to be competitive and make sure its teachers are satisfied.
Griffin Ankhelyi also says their Human Resources team and the bargaining groups meet on a regular weekly basis, and through conversations, they talk about resolutions that work for everyone.
WATCH ALSO: | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/rancho-cordova/folsom-cordova-educators-protest/103-6c728a9e-e38e-4277-a3ea-75ac26df3659 | 2022-08-12T07:22:42 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/rancho-cordova/folsom-cordova-educators-protest/103-6c728a9e-e38e-4277-a3ea-75ac26df3659 |
Jadyn A. McFarling, 14, of Twin Falls died Aug. 10, 2022, at her home. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome.
Rosalind F. Cox, 81, of Jerome died Aug. 10, 2022, at a local hospital. Arrangements are under the care of Farnsworth Mortuary & Crematory, Jerome. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/death-notices/article_5f43cb22-19b7-11ed-ab84-4bcc0493dbff.html | 2022-08-12T07:53:21 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/death-notices/article_5f43cb22-19b7-11ed-ab84-4bcc0493dbff.html |
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. — Editors note: The above video is from Aug. 17, 2021.
Cumberland County will be conducting an adult mosquito control spray the night of Thursday, Aug. 11 from dusk through 11 p.m.
The spray will be conducted in portions of Carlisle Borough, North Middleton, and Middlesex Townships. The measure follows an announcement by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) that West Nile Virus positive mosquitos have been located in three municipalities within the past week.
“Our recent collections have revealed high populations of adult mosquitoes, some of which were determined to have West Nile Virus,” John Bitner, Cumberland County Vector Control Chief said.
Here are the best practices to prevent the disease's spread by mosquitos:
- Using mosquito repellants, wearing longs sleeved shirts and pants.
- Taking extra precautions around dusk, the peak of female mosquito feeding.
- Securing window and doors screens, so mosquitos can’t make it into your home.
- Eliminating stagnate water around your property.
- Treating water sources that cannot be drained, mosquito dunks or bits that contain Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti), which kills larvae. These products are safe for use around humans and pets, and can be found at hardware stores and other local retailers.
Mosquitos transmit WNV by feeding on infected birds and transmit the disease when biting another bird, animal, or human.
The virus is not spread by person-to-person contact. One in five people infected with WNV develop a mild infection called West Nile Fever; aches, fever, skin rash, and swollen lymph nodes are symptoms of this infection. With rest and fluids, most people recover in a few days.
Less than 1% of infections develop into the life-threatening West Nile Encephalitis. Symptoms in severe cases include a high fever, headache, neck stiffness, muscle weakness, disorientation, tremors, and convulsions. This infection requires immediate medical treatment.
Residents can submit mosquito complaints here. For more information, visit www.ccpa.net/vector. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cumberland-county-officials-to-conduct-mosquito-control-spray-pennsylvania/521-11a96498-4a5d-4cd9-9519-3ba2e97d394f | 2022-08-12T08:15:39 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cumberland-county-officials-to-conduct-mosquito-control-spray-pennsylvania/521-11a96498-4a5d-4cd9-9519-3ba2e97d394f |
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Pa. — Franklin County officials celebrated the expansion of a cage-free egg farm on Thursday.
Officials and business leaders were part of a ribbon-cutting ceremony to introduce the expansion of Herbruck's Poultry Ranch at the Blue Springs Egg Farm facility in Montgomery Township.
The expansion project was coordinated by the governor's action team, who works with businesses that are considering locating or expanding in Pennsylvania.
Officials and workers at the farm are looking forward to getting operations underway.
"This is a big step for us, we are finally getting to where birds were scheduled to arrive and eggs will be processed, and then we can start ramping up our flock sizes, so it's an exciting day for us," GregHerbruck, the CEO of Herbruck's Poultry Ranch said.
Phase one of the new $100 million sustainable cage-free egg laying facility is now complete, egg processing will begin in late August.
Blue Spring Egg Farm will employ nearly 200 people when fully operational. Herbruck's is also committed to hiring local residents to fill positions, anyone who wishes to apply can do so here.
The plant will supply eggs to Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and New York. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/franklin-county-officials-cage-free-egg-farm-chicken/521-0893d644-f3e3-472b-a28d-67d5b2179463 | 2022-08-12T08:15:45 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/franklin-county-officials-cage-free-egg-farm-chicken/521-0893d644-f3e3-472b-a28d-67d5b2179463 |
The free Roaring Youth Jam is open to kids and the young and heart to unleash their creativity. The Youth Jam begins 10 a.m. today and Saturday at the Idaho Falls River Walk.
Both kids and adults can paint and create crafts. Some of the crafts include painted rock dragon eggs, paper tube fairy houses and craft stick wizard hats.
There will also be live performances each day at the Greenbelt Stage from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Performances today include the Motion Dance Academy at 11 a.m. and the Stasia Acrobats at noon.
Country singer Dwight Yoakam to perform in Pocatello
Grammy award-winning country musician Dwight Yoakam will play a show at 7 p.m., with doors opening 6 p.m., today at the Portneuf Health Trust Amphitheatre, 2375 Olympus Drive in Pocatello. Yoakam has a successful career, with more than “25 million albums sold worldwide (nine of which are certified platinum or multi-platinum),” countryconcertseries.com said. He also performed in films, such as Clint Eastwood’s “Cry Macho.” Tickets range from $40 to $60. To purchase tickets, go to countryconcertseries.comLarry the Cable Guy to perform in Fort Hall
Entertainer Larry the Cable Guy is scheduled to perform 8 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel, 777 Bannock Trail in Fort Hall. Larry is a Grammy nominee and “Billboard’s 2005 Comedy Artist of the year and Comedy Album of the year,” according to shobangaming.com. Tickets are $49, $59 and $69. Tickets can be purchased by going to shobangaming.com. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/arts-music-briefly/article_17d99890-90a6-5dcb-9e55-89057a34ed97.html | 2022-08-12T08:42:46 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/arts-music-briefly/article_17d99890-90a6-5dcb-9e55-89057a34ed97.html |
Kenosha County officials and the widow of a sheriff’s department jail supervisor who died from COVID-19 reached a settlement agreement Thursday in the case of his death.
The Finance and Administration Committee voted unanimously in open session on the agreement following a closed session discussion with the county’s legal counsel. The terms of the tentative settlement in the death of Cpl. Christopher Basina, 55, of Kenosha, a 23-year-veteran of the department who died Oct. 8, were privately negotiated and were not disclosed, following the meeting.
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“We have an agreement in principle with the Basina family and (Cheryl Basina’s) attorneys,” said Kenosha County Corporation Counsel Joe Cardamone. “It is my expectation, hopefully, next week, everything will be signed and finalized.”
Cheryl Basina, who attended the meeting, said her attorney Kevin Miller was out of the country and could not be present. In January, she had asked that her husband’s death be recognized as one that had occurred “in the line of duty.”
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Such a declaration would entitle her to benefits, under state law, including the county’s continued payment of health insurance premiums for the surviving spouse of an officer who dies in the line of duty, among others. Jailers under the direction of a sheriff are considered law enforcement officers.
Cheryl Basina then filed a notice of claim against the county on Feb. 2 after county officials declined to make that declaration. The notice is the first step toward the filing of a lawsuit. The matter went before the Finance Committee on March 10, however, the committee agreed to delay action for 60 days until it could collect more information.
During the committee’s May 12 meeting she asked again that her husband’s death be classified in the “line of duty” based on his contracting COVID-19 through his job in corrections. She said her husband also had contact with “every employee and every inmate” who was housed in the corrections center.
While he and other jail employees were required to wear N95 masks, inmates were not, she said. She said her husband had told her sometimes jailers did not have gloves because they had run out.
The family’s attorney has said Basina’s only known exposure prior to his death due to COVID-19 was at work and that no other coexisting illnesses were listed on Basina’s death certificate as having contributed to his death. His doctor concluded his exposure to COVID-19 had occurred while “in the line of work,” according to Miller.
At Thursday’s meeting and prior to the committee’s vote, Cheryl Basina also presented paperwork that would allow for accessing her husband’s pension, which she said she needs in order to pay her bills.
“Right now, my savings is exhausted and I lost my job in January and I need his pension to be able to pay bills because as of next month, I won’t have any funds to do that,” she said, while walking out of the room as the committee went into closed session.
She said she could not comment further on negotiations for the settlement and referred additional questions to her attorney.
Cardamone also said he could not comment on the specifics of the settlement until it was finalized, including whether it incorporated any of the earlier demands to declare Basina’s death as one that occurred in the line of duty.
“What will say is I think that both sides are satisfied with the settlement,” he said. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/watch-now-widow-kenosha-county-reach-settlement-in-covid-19-death-of-jail-supervisor/article_936e9fa6-19e6-11ed-8626-37d951bd59f6.html | 2022-08-12T08:53:42 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/watch-now-widow-kenosha-county-reach-settlement-in-covid-19-death-of-jail-supervisor/article_936e9fa6-19e6-11ed-8626-37d951bd59f6.html |
Stunning new surveillance video shows the moment of impact when a driver trying to escape police in Queens plowed his SUV into three people, including a mother pushing her toddler in a stroller.
The impact from the hit sent the mother flying into the side of a nearby parked car, and left another man with a nasty leg injury, as the driver took off from the Ridgewood intersection where he had been stopped by NYPD officers just minutes before the incident.
The dark-colored SUV was pulled over Wednesday afternoon near Wyckoff Avenue and George Street, according to police, who said the driver had a suspended license. When the officers when to arrest him, the driver accelerated quickly, abruptly taking off from the scene.
After they were struck by the vehicle, both the 28-year-old mother and child were taken to a nearby hospital with minor injuries. The 35-year-old man was taken to Wyckoff Hospital after suffering a more serious leg injury.
Witnesses said the man is a beer delivery worker who is not related to the other victims.
"He actually pushed the child out of the way...he's a hero, the guy who got hit," said witness Carlos Lopez, who took video of the incident. "He was very concerned about the child."
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Surveillance video showed the chaotic scene, as officers tried to chase down the driver while it sped away.
The vehicle did not stop and sped away from the scene. The officers did not pursue the vehicle immediately after it took off, choosing to attend to the victims instead.
The car was later recovered in Bushwick, but had been abandoned. No arrests have yet been made, with whoever was behind the wheel still on the run.
An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jarring-video-shows-driver-jolt-forward-to-flee-nypd-hitting-woman-tot-in-stroller/3821828/ | 2022-08-12T08:58:15 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/jarring-video-shows-driver-jolt-forward-to-flee-nypd-hitting-woman-tot-in-stroller/3821828/ |
Police are searching for a group of 10 masked individuals who carried out a coordinated robbery at a jewelry store in the Bronx, using bear spray to blind the workers as they allegedly swiped $800,000 in merchandise.
Video exclusively obtained by NBC New York showed the panic on East Fordham Road after the employees inside the store near Elm Place struggled to see and breathe, as horrified witnesses rushed to give them water.
The robbery took place just after 7 p.m., as many shops and businesses are getting ready to close. The group pushed their way into the store, which is when detectives said that one flashed a gun while others sprayed. Other members of the group smashed the display cases, stuffing bags with of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of jewels, and leaving glass all over.
The surveillance video showed workers and others scrambling into nearby stores, as a security worker grabbed his face in pain. People who were walking by on the street were also hit by the spray, as a street vendor said he had to use milk to flush his eyes.
“It was really painful, I couldn’t even see," said Bassir Sow.
The jewelry store was still closed as of Thursday evening. An owner of the store declined to comment.
“People were coughing and covering their eyes because most of the people who got sprayed were inside the store," said witness Nicholas Lassi. "They were messed up pretty bad. Eyes were puffed up seemed like they got sprayed head-on, in the face. It’s crazy.”
NYPD statistics show robberies in the precinct where the robbery occurred are up five percent. Another recent case from Aug. 5 involved another jewelry store on Webster Avenue, Rocco's, in which police said three people used hammers to destroy display cases and got away with more than $2 million in merchandise.
Detectives have not yet said if they believe that incident could be connected to the terrifying bear spray attack.
"I’m working in this place 13 years I’ve never seen it like this. Pandemic made it worse and worse," said Mojib Ullah, a manager at a nearby clothing store. "To be honest with you, this area is getting by worse and worse everyday. They robbed the corner store, three times. Across the street, robbed last week.”
One witness told NBC New York that he got a decent look at the guy who was holding the door open, saying he was a heavy-set man dressed in all black. Police said the group got away in a couple cars and on some motorcycles. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/thieves-use-bear-spray-on-workers-in-800k-smash-and-grab-robbery-at-nyc-jewelry-store/3821824/ | 2022-08-12T08:58:21 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/thieves-use-bear-spray-on-workers-in-800k-smash-and-grab-robbery-at-nyc-jewelry-store/3821824/ |
After video showed a horse collapse as it pulled a carriage along a street in Manhattan, animal rights advocates are now renewing their push to ban horse-drawn carriages in the city.
The incident occurred Wednesday evening in Hell's Kitchen, with the horse, named Ryder, pulling the cart up Ninth Avenue when it suddenly fell to the ground, witnesses said. Another witness said that after the horse went down, the man driving the carriage started to hit the animal with a small whip, hoping to get it back on its feet.
The driver had no choice but to let the horse lay there, while the NYPD doused it with water and ice, assuming it had suffered from heat exhaustion. Ryder stayed resting on the hot pavement for some time, but eventually got back up on its own.
The horse was doing much better Thursday, resting and eating at the stables and hopefully putting on some weight, after it did appear noticeably thin. Ryder will be off the streets for the foreseeable future, due to a neurological disease that affects the brain. The union that represents horse carriage drivers said that a veterinarian ultimately made a preliminary diagnosis of EPM, or Equine Protozoal Myeloencephalitis — an infection caused by possum droppings.
"The neurological effects of the EPM caused the horse to stumble and fall as the carriage driver is trying to change lanes and turn here on 45th street on the way home," said Christina Hansen, a spokesperson for the carriage drivers' union. "And once he was down, he had difficulty getting up again from the neurological symptoms of EPM."
Hansen said that the video of Ryder on the ground is being weaponized by activist groups, and that he was in "rough shape" when he came into their program after being used as a buggy horse for a Pennsylvania farmer. She also said that the horse was not overheated or dehydrated.
Whether Ryder collapsed as a result of EPM or if was heat-related doesn't matter much to critics, however. The incident has reinvigorated their calls to end horse-drawn carriages in the city for good.
"They don’t belong in the city! It has to stop," said Rachel Ejsmont, an animal rights activist. "We’re fed up, it's traumatizing for us."
There are 200 licensed carriage horses in NYC, an industry that includes 130 active drivers. The industry could face a seismic shift, all thanks to a bill by Queens City Councilmember Robert Holden that would force carriage drivers to switch to electric carriages — a move that can cost anywhere from $20,000 to $30,000.
"Where they have the electric carriages now, the drivers love it because they work in the heat, they can work in the cold," Holden said. "This is 2022, not 1822. We need to look at how we treat our animals, and we’re not doing a good job."
But the drivers, and their union, disagree. Hansen worries that no horses will mean less business from tourists, and wonders who is going to pay for the new electric carriages.
"I’m a horse person through and through. I’m not a golf cart driver ... There’s no evidence that they’ll make enough money to support their families with it," she said. "(Ryder) would have been disposed in the slaughterhouse, except that he became a carriage horse."
Then there's the question of where the out-of-work horses would then go, and how would their veterinarian bills get paid. But People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and political action group NYCLASS said that wouldn't be an issue.
"We can make sure that a home is available to every single horse being used by this industry," said Ashly Byrne, a member of the group. "We have safe loving homes that they can be retired to so again there’s no excuse."
Holden is working on getting more councilmembers to sign on to his bill. He says he’s spoken with Mayor Eric Adams about this bill, who Holden said is open to suggestions and more information. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/this-is-2022-not-1822-advocates-want-nyc-horse-carriages-replaced-by-electric-ones-ny-only-spec/3821813/ | 2022-08-12T08:58:27 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/this-is-2022-not-1822-advocates-want-nyc-horse-carriages-replaced-by-electric-ones-ny-only-spec/3821813/ |
Beating the heat is not only essential for your own comfort, but also for your health – Here’s how you can stay cool and safe all summer.
In the midst of the dog days of summer, and with heat waves becoming more frequent and intense over the years. it’s important to protect yourself.
Catherine Roberts with Consumer Reports explained why staying safe in the heat is so important.
“Heat-related illnesses, especially heat stroke, can be dangerous, so everyone should take the proper precautions when it’s hot out,” Roberts said.
If you suspect a heat stroke in yourself or someone else, Consumer Reports said to call 911 and quickly get yourself, or the person, into an air-conditioned room, cold shower, or cold bath.
To help prevent ever getting into a dangerous heat-related situation, first think about what you’re wearing. Choose loose-fitting, light-colored clothes that can help you keep cooler. And don’t forget your wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses.
Once dressed, apply sunscreen on all exposed skin.
“Not only do sunburns hurt, they can also raise your risk of skin cancer and heat-related illnesses,” Roberts said.
Consumer Reports said it’s also important to stay hydrated.
Try filling up a pitcher or large water bottle with ice and water, and aim to finish it by the end of the day.
And to cool off all over, drink that water inside of an air-conditioned room, especially during the hottest parts of the day: between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/how-to-beat-the-dog-days-of-summer/ | 2022-08-12T09:33:28 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/how-to-beat-the-dog-days-of-summer/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke will be able to better serve animals in need thanks to a local teenager.
Matthew Danco started building a mammal enclosure last October and on Thursday, he revealed the final project.
This was part of his final public service project to officially become an Eagle Scout.
“I was able to accomplish something not many other people do you know throughout their high school career. It was nice to be able to actually go out and build something,” Matthew said.
Matthew raised funds through a silent auction, and through community support, he surpassed his original goal.
The money he raised helped to cover an unexpected increase in materials. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/local-teen-completes-service-project-helps-animals-at-sw-virginia-wildlife-center/ | 2022-08-12T09:33:35 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/local-teen-completes-service-project-helps-animals-at-sw-virginia-wildlife-center/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – A suspect is now in custody after a shots fired incident in downtown Roanoke, according to the Roanoke Police Department.
Authorities say they were called to the 100 Block of Elm Ave at about 11 p.m. Thursday for the report of possible shots fired.
After arriving, officers entered an apartment building to conduct a well-being check. Not long after, they encountered a suspect inside who began firing shots at them, the department says.
That’s when at least one Roanoke Police Officer returned fire as officers took cover outside of the building, Roanoke Police report.
We’re told no one was hurt in the incident.
According to Roanoke Police, there are no additional suspects and there is no threat to the public at this time.
Officers say the 100 block of Elm Avenue SW is now open to traffic after being closed for some time.
Virginia State Police and regional partners assisted with the incident.
10 News is working to learn more and will update this story as we get updates. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/police-asking-community-to-avoid-elm-ave-sw-in-downtown-roanoke-2/ | 2022-08-12T09:33:41 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/police-asking-community-to-avoid-elm-ave-sw-in-downtown-roanoke-2/ |
BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. – A tractor-trailer crash on I-81N in Botetourt County is causing delays, according to VDOT.
Officials say the crash happened at the 164.3 mile marker and has led to all north lanes being closed.
We’re told a detour is in place.
Stay with 10 News for the latest updates on this crash | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/tractor-trailer-crash-closes-all-northbound-lanes-on-i-81-in-botetourt-county/ | 2022-08-12T09:33:47 | 0 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/12/tractor-trailer-crash-closes-all-northbound-lanes-on-i-81-in-botetourt-county/ |
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Two Lancaster County police departments teamed up for an event to connect with the community Thursday night.
The Elizabethtown and Northwest Regional police departments held their "Cones with a Cop" event at Udder Bliss Creamery in Mount Joy Township. Local families spent the evening eating free ice cream while breaking the ice with their community officials.
Police hope the event will bring Lancaster County residents and law enforcement closer together by getting to know cops in non-emergency situations.
"The big thing we want people to take away from is that we are human beings, and we are 100% approachable," Sgt. Michael Bryant of Northwest Regional Police Department said. "We're eager to work with our communities to really accomplish anything."
Officer Joshua Cook, Elizabethtown Police Department, agreed.
"The community showing their support for us by coming out," he said. "It just goes hand in hand, right? They work with us. We work with the community. It's knowing the person behind the badge."
Elizabethtown police plan to hold a similar event in September when they host their "Pizza with a Cop" night at Elizabethtown Area High School. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cones-with-a-cop-lancaster-county-police-departments-connect-with-community/521-cc20a6ba-0ce1-4095-b20d-e78ed9807d3e | 2022-08-12T09:42:58 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cones-with-a-cop-lancaster-county-police-departments-connect-with-community/521-cc20a6ba-0ce1-4095-b20d-e78ed9807d3e |
LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — The first cases of Monkeypox have been confirmed in Lancaster County.
Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health confirmed that they are actively evaluating and treating current and suspected cases of the virus.
WellSpan Health spokesperson Ryan Coyle also confirmed that there are cases within the health system, but could not share specific case counts by health system at this time.
WellSpan Health has eight local hospitals through Adams, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York Counties.
It was emphasized that at this time, case numbers remain low, but exact numbers were not provided.
According to the CDC, there are nearly 300 cases of Monkeypox in Pennsylvania. You can see a state-by-state map here.
This is an developing story that will be updated as more information is revealed. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/first-cases-of-monkeypox-confirmed-in-lancaster-county-pennsylvania/521-f4c81855-fc7c-48ec-a7b7-ce22f7e7fcea | 2022-08-12T09:43:04 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/first-cases-of-monkeypox-confirmed-in-lancaster-county-pennsylvania/521-f4c81855-fc7c-48ec-a7b7-ce22f7e7fcea |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Bob Casey was in Harrisburg on Thursday to praise the Inflation Reduction Act.
Joined by state and local officials on the steps of the Capitol, Sen. Casey said the legislation will lower health care and prescription drug costs. It is also said to ensure American manufacturing is at the forefront of the clean energy industry.
He says it will reduce energy costs and lower the deficit by imposing more taxes on big corporations as well.
"In just one bill: reducing the cost of prescription drugs, combating climate change, helping coal miners, helping our farmers, helping those who live in communities that have been left out of environmental justice for too long—all of that is an achievement," Sen. Casey said.
Above all else, he says the legislation will help American families currently struggling amid persistently high inflation.
Pa. Dems Chair and Pennsylvania State Senator for the 3rd District Sharif Street, Pennsylvania State Representative for the 103rd District Patty Kim, and Pa. Dems Black Caucus Chair Lisa Rhodes all spoke at the conference alongside Sen. Casey. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/sen-bob-casey-inflation-reduction-act-harrisburg-press-conference/521-9d262bd5-1114-480b-a1b2-48e71b3d3115 | 2022-08-12T09:43:10 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/sen-bob-casey-inflation-reduction-act-harrisburg-press-conference/521-9d262bd5-1114-480b-a1b2-48e71b3d3115 |
As opioid epidemic rages on, Delaware and local groups will honor those lost to overdoses
When MaryBeth Cichocki's son died from an accidental overdose in 2015, all she wanted was a community that understood her grief.
There was no local support group specifically for parents who lost children to substance use disorder at the time, so Cichocki tried a general nonprofit-led group for grieving families. But whenever she tried to talk about her son Matt, all she got was judgment. Unlike the deaths of other parents' children who died of cancer or in car accidents, an OxyContin overdose was not seen as an "acceptable form of death," Cichocki said.
As the mother put it, "nobody brings casseroles" when someone loses a loved one to addiction.
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Eventually, Cichocki stopped attending the support group. And then, at her husband's suggestion, she started her own: Support After Addiction Death. The group initially met in person each month at her church in Bear. Then, when meetings moved online because of the pandemic, Support After Addiction Death grew into a national support network.
But on Aug. 31, Support After Addiction Death will once again focus on the local community with an Overdose Awareness Day vigil in Cichocki's son's memorial garden outside Faith Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. Like in past years, parents can bring pictures of their children who died from overdoses and share their stories. The pastor will lead the group in prayer and play the guitar, and once it's dark out, attendees can light luminaries with their children's names on them.
"You just can stand there and feel like you are among parents who know your grief," Cichocki said.
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Delaware officially designated Aug. 31 as Overdose Awareness Day last year, though the day has been recognized internationally since 2001. All flags in the state will be lowered to half-staff in honor of the lives lost to substance use disorder. Delaware consistently has one of the highest rates of fatal overdoses in the nation.
Despite the ever-rising death toll of the opioid epidemic, the stigma is still strong.
Substance use disorder and overdose prevention is still a "taboo discussion" in most settings, according to Delaware Community Response Teams co-chair Jackie Tomasetti. The organization works to spread awareness and share resources for overdose prevention.
However, the stigma and related "not in my community" perspective on addiction make a formidable barrier. Tomasetti said this makes it hard to even give out naloxone, the life-saving medication more commonly known as Narcan that can reverse an overdose.
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"We all play a large part in our community, and our community is struggling," Tomasetti said. "Whether (people) know it or not, they've been affected."
This year, Delaware Community Response Teams is helping the addiction support group Face the Facts with its annual Overdose Awareness Day event on Aug. 26. Face the Facts was founded by Penny Rogers, who lost her son Vincente Tambourelli to a fatal overdose in 2017.
"The stigma is alive and well," Rogers said. "You think you're the only person in the whole world whose kid ... or spouse has this disease."
In reality, though, Rogers said that's not the case. She's built a community of people affected by addiction through her organization Face the Facts. At her third Overdose Awareness Day event on Aug. 26, she hopes to expand that support network even wider.
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Members of the public — both those directly impacted by substance use disorder and those seeking to educate themselves — can come to Delcastle Park from 5-7:30 p.m. to learn about over 50 community resource organizations, including hospitals, outpatient resources, support groups and sober houses, according to Tomasetti. There will also be activities for children; food trucks; and keynote speakers, including U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester and professional skateboarder Brandon Novak, who is in recovery from substance use disorder.
"It can't just be about the ones we've lost," Rogers said. "It has to be about the ones we're trying to save."
How to find help
Delaware Hope Line: 833-9-HOPEDE for free 24/7 counseling, coaching and support, as well as links to mental health, addiction and crisis services. Resources can also be found on the Help is Here website.
Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: 988
SAMHSA National Helpline: 800-662-HELP (4357) for free 24/7 substance abuse disorder treatment referral services. Treatment service locators are also available online at findtreatment.samhsa.gov or via text message by sending your ZIP code to 435748.
Send story tips or ideas to Hannah Edelman at hedelman@delawareonline.com. For more reporting, follow them on Twitter at @h_edelman. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/delaware-overdose-awareness-help-honor-pandemic-epidemic-face-the-facts/65397670007/ | 2022-08-12T10:09:31 | 0 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/delaware-overdose-awareness-help-honor-pandemic-epidemic-face-the-facts/65397670007/ |
Parking at the beach: Everything you need to know from hourly rates to free travel options
Everyone knows that feeling. You're only a handful of miles from the beach, dreaming about that moment when you sink into the sand and lean back in your beach chair, but you're stuck in traffic.
Or, maybe you arrive in downtown Lewes or Rehoboth Beach, eager to get to dinner reservations, and you're trying to calculate in your head how much this trip is going to cost you in parking fees.
Allow us to remove one stressor from your next beach trip. Here is everything you need to know about the latest parking rates and tips on avoiding traffic or expensive parking spots.
Beach parking and transportation
All resort towns from Lewes to Fenwick Island have their seasonal parking rules in place for the summer.
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Most towns have the option to pay for parking on your smartphone, so it may be wise to download the ParkMobile app before you reach your destination.
Rehoboth Beach now has a universal $3 per hour rate throughout the city, and Lewes is charging $1.50 downtown and $2.50 at the beaches.
Lewes has several free non-metered parking lots listed on its website, as well as metered lots and spaces on side streets.
When visiting Delaware State Parks like Cape Henlopen, parking is included in the entrance fee. However, it's wise to check the parks' Facebook pages where staff will post whether the park is closed due to full parking.
In Dewey Beach, parking is free in all permit-only and metered spaces Monday through Wednesday, but only 5 to 11 p.m. All other days and times, you must pay to park on public streets.
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(These free parking times coincide with family-friendly movie nights and bonfires in Dewey, events that continue throughout the summer).
Fenwick Island and South Bethany mostly require permits to park, but Fenwick offers free parking on its side streets after 4 p.m.
In Bethany Beach, all spaces are either metered or require a permit through Sept. 15.
Many of these towns and cities offer payment through the ParkMobile app.
For more about parking (or State Park fees), visit each beach town's website:
Consider taking the Beach Bus
Want to forget about parking or paying for gas? Take a bus to the beach. Parking is free at the park and rides in Lewes and Rehoboth Beach.
The Beach Bus has already started its routes and will continue seven days a week until Sept. 11. The stops include Rehoboth Beach and the Boardwalk, Lewes, Long Neck, Dewey Beach, Bethany Beach, South Bethany Beach, Fenwick Island, Ocean City in Maryland, Millsboro and Georgetown.
The cost to ride the bus is $2 per trip, $4 for a daily pass, $16 for a seven-day pass or $60 for a 30-day pass.
Traveling from northern Delaware or Kent County? The 305 Beach Connection from Wilmington to Rehoboth Beach runs Saturdays, Sundays and holidays through Sept. 5.
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Riders taking this bus will pay $6 for one-way trips from Wilmington, Christiana Mall and Odessa and $4 from Dover and South Frederica. A daily pass is $10 from New Castle County and $8 from Kent County.
If traveling around Bethany Beach, the town also offers a trolley with a single route that runs from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and costs 25 cents per trip.
In Lewes, the new seasonal transit option Lewes Line cost $1 per ride. Stops include the two municipal beaches, downtown locations, the library and more. To learn more, visit www.ci.lewes.de.us/363/Lewes-Line.
Emily Lytle covers Sussex County from the inland towns to the beaches, with a focus on health-related issues. Got a story she should tell? Contact her at elytle@delmarvanow.com or 302-332-0370. Follow her on Twitter at @emily3lytle. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/parking-at-the-delaware-de-beaches-rates-traffic-free-options/65398696007/ | 2022-08-12T10:09:43 | 1 | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/parking-at-the-delaware-de-beaches-rates-traffic-free-options/65398696007/ |
PLEASANTVILLE — An esteemed diversity-and-inclusion initiative in the district could be in jeopardy of losing its leader unless the state takes action.
The Pleasantville Board of Education entertained a resolution Tuesday to end a partnership agreement with the state Amistad Commission and terminate AMHOTINO Program Specialist Tamar LaSure-Owens. The vote to end the agreement was 4-2 — failing, because it fell one vote short of the five needed for the nine-member board to take such action on personnel.
The agreement had LaSure-Owens work to diversify the district’s curriculum and implement the state’s inclusive learning standards. She also worked to have the district’s curriculum serve as a model to other school systems across New Jersey as they work to implement state standards. The Amistad Commission, which is an autonomous state body within the Department of Education, would in turn reimburse the district LaSure-Owens’ salary.
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The district has yet to be reimbursed for LaSure-Owens’ salary, acting Superintendent Karin Farkas said at the Tuesday school board meeting.
Farkas said the district had reached out multiple times in the intervening five months, but the Amistad Commission has yet to execute its part of the agreement.
“It is a valued program, we appreciate the hard work and being a model program for the district,” Farkas said. “We’re hoping that the Amistad Commission will work with the (New Jersey Department of Education) and execute the agreement for the 2021-2022 school year and the upcoming 2022-2023 school year.”
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A Department of Education spokesperson said in an email to The Press of Atlantic City on Thursday that it would research the situation.
LaSure-Owens said the Amistad Commission had recently undergone a change in leadership and that it was holding its next meeting at the end of August.
“Why is it all going to end?” LaSure-Owens asked, citing the praise the program had received.
LaSure-Owens also challenged the potential action on procedural grounds. She said she did not receive a Rice notice about the possible action until Monday, one day before the school board meeting — short of the 48-hour notice required by state law.
Pleasantville Education Association President Joe Manetta spoke at the meeting against LaSure-Owens’ release. He noted she is a tenured teacher and a PEA member, and argued that as such, LaSure-Owens was entitled to a position in the school district.
The board resolution did encourage LaSure-Owens to reapply for any vacant position for which she qualifies.
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The district’s Amistad, Holocaust and Latino program, or AMHOTINO, is designed to incorporate lessons about history, tolerance and diversity in different school subjects. It places a special focus on the histories of African Americans, Native Americans and Hispanic Americans; the legacy of slavery in North and South America; and the events of the Holocaust and other genocides in world history.
The state Legislature passed a law in 1994 requiring schools to teach students about the Holocaust and other genocides. It then created the Amistad Commission in 2002 and mandated schools across New Jersey to incorporate African American history into their curricula.
In January 2021, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill strengthening the Amistad Commission, requiring the state Legislature to give the commission its own budget, separate from the Department of Education.
Murphy signed a separate law this January requiring that schools teach the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. In 2019, he enacted a law requiring that schools teach students about the history of the LGBTQ community and that of people with disabilities.
Farkas said the AMHOTINO program would continue regardless of whether LaSure-Owens stays on as AMHOTINO coordinator and would meet state diversity standards. LaSure-Owens, noting the multiple accolades she has received for her AMHOTINO work, argued she was a critical part of the program’s success.
The New Jersey Education Association selected LaSure-Owens for its Urban Education Activist award in December due to her work creating the AMHOTINO program at Pleasantville. The Atlantic County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution in March similarly honoring LaSure-Owens for her contribution to education in the area.
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LaSure-Owens received significant community backing Tuesday. Mainland-Pleasantville NAACP President Olivia Caldwell spoke in support of LaSure-Owens. She said LaSure-Owens had been doing important work to advance equality in education and argued she was well worth keeping in the district. Caldwell encouraged the board to give more time to the state, saying she knew from experience that working with bureaucracy in Trenton requires an abundance of patience.
“It is very difficult to get things out timely,” Caldwell said. “So perseverance is going to be key.”
Former Amistad Commission Director Stephanie James Harris said delays in the process were only procedural, as the commission had already appropriated funds to reimburse the district LaSure-Owens’ salary and acting Commissioner of Education Angelica Allen-McMillan only had to process the payment. As the Amistad Commission has budgetary independence, the Department of Education lacked the authority to stop the payment outright.
James Harris, who left the Amistad Commission in June, said it would be particularly important for the district to keep LaSure-Owens as AMHOTINO grows.
“She’s done exemplary work for furthering the implementation of all these state mandates,” James Harris said. “To stop it midway would be a travesty.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/pleasantville-at-risk-of-losing-diverse-curriculum-leader/article_fbb80294-1984-11ed-b81f-fbc21b665b87.html | 2022-08-12T10:23:18 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/pleasantville-at-risk-of-losing-diverse-curriculum-leader/article_fbb80294-1984-11ed-b81f-fbc21b665b87.html |
WATERLOO — A Memphis, Tenn., man has been found guilty of opening fire inside a crowded convenience store in April.
Jurors deliberated for part of Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning before finding Tony Cecil Orr Jr., 18, guilty of intimidation with a weapon, carrying weapons and going armed.
Intimidation is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, and going armed has a maximum sentence of five years. Sentencing will be at a later date, and Orr will remain in custody until then.
Authorities said Orr, wearing a ski mask, fired three shots toward the clerk at Logan Convenience Store on April 20 as his brother was arguing with the employee. The clerk said the argument was the continuation of a complaint over the price of disposable lighters a few days earlier.
When the shots rang out, the clerk dived for cover and retrieved a store revolver from behind the counter. Patrons ducked, hid in the walk-in cooler and bathroom and darted for the emergency exit.
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No injuries were reported.
During trial, the defense claimed Orr wasn’t the shooter and had remained outside in the car.
The shooting was captured on video, and the clerk identified Orr as the gunman.
A friend of the brothers testified she had driven Orr and his brother to the store. She said the brother was carrying a gun when he and Orr entered the shop, and after the shooting Orr was holding the weapon when they returned to the car.
Police said they searched an East Second Street home where the brothers were staying and recovered clothing and shoes matching what the shooter was wearing. They also found ammunition and handgun magazines but no firearms. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-convicted-in-waterloo-convenience-store-shooting/article_1ba01f14-97eb-5843-98bf-7705ed8fe5b6.html | 2022-08-12T10:26:09 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-convicted-in-waterloo-convenience-store-shooting/article_1ba01f14-97eb-5843-98bf-7705ed8fe5b6.html |
CEDAR FALLS — Laura Sohl-Cryer has had a “sonnet in her soul” since she was a child.
“My soul sings with the rhyme and meter in sonnets,” said the award-winning Christian poet and storyteller from Cedar Falls. She is author of the newly published book, “Remembering the Home Place: Sonnets and Stories From Our Family Farm.”
Sohl-Cryer will share her work on Sunday in the Community Room at Hartman Reserve Nature Center in Cedar Falls. The 2nd Sunday Speaker series begins at 2 p.m. There is no cost; registration is not required. During the hour-long program, the author will read from her book, share adventures on her family farm and help participants share their own stories and remembrances.
Growing up on a century farm in Northeast Iowa that had been home to five generations of her family, Sohl-Cryer began writing as a child, weaving stories of her life and experiences on the farm into sonnets.
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“I was born on a farm in a blizzard,” she said. “Chores time – 4:45 – is ingrained in my soul. Now, looking back, I realize that growing up on the farm was a blessing. Small family farms are nearly extinct, and a lot of us have shared experiences that draw us closer to those roots. We need to share our stories of faith, family and life on the farm.”
Sohl-Cryer left the farm at 18 for college at the University of Northern Iowa, graduating with a master’s degree in communications. She started her career, married and became the mother of two children, Emma, now 20, and Colby, 17. She worked as a communications professional, taught college courses in speech and writing and lived her faith. Recently she became a lay minister at Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd in Waterloo.
The first sonnet she published about life on the farm, “The Best Things,” won first place from the Iowa Poetry Association in 2015 and was published in Lyrical Iowa. Since then, her work has appeared in numerous publications and has received awards.
“Remembering the Home Place” was written as she coped with grief after losing her mother in October and the stress of handling the estate. “The grief still comes unexpectedly, in unexpected places and it comes in waves,” she said.
She took a break from working. “I thought the estate would take all my time, but it has turned out to be ‘fill out this form, mail it and wait.’ I started writing this as a way to manage my grief I put hands up and asked God for help. My faith is very strong and very important to me.”
Sohl-Cryer described her process as “a flurry of tears and typing.”
In her book are tales and poems about tire swings, creeks, picking green beans, vengeful roosters, building straw forts in the haymow, as well as narratives about how her faith has helped her find joy and peace and guide her through sometimes dark and overwhelming places.
“From January to May I was remembering stories and adventures about life on the farm and writing. One story would lead to something I’d forgotten. I’d have to call my brothers and ask if I was remembering something correctly, if it really happened,” she said, smiling.
Readers tell Sohl-Cryer that her stories remind them of their own stories. She encourages them to share those remembrances. “That’s how you make connections. Farm kids need to share their stories because it’s a way of life that is disappearing.”
“Remembering the Home Place” also includes pages for reflection and discussion to engage readers and encourage them to delve deeper into their memories and strengthen faith.
Sohl-Cryer said, “Writing became almost like a devotional. The goal was to remember that God is with me. ‘I know you’re grieving, I know you’re sad, but sharing these stories will help.’ Writing released some of the sadness.”
Copies of “Remembering the Home Place” are available at area Christian book stores and through amazon.com. For more information about Sohl-Cryer, visit www.sonnetinmysoul.com. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/former-farm-kid-to-share-stories-poetry-about-the-home-place-in-hartman-reserve-workshop/article_68fb463b-2085-5052-8386-d51266e44387.html | 2022-08-12T10:26:15 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/former-farm-kid-to-share-stories-poetry-about-the-home-place-in-hartman-reserve-workshop/article_68fb463b-2085-5052-8386-d51266e44387.html |
WATERLOO — A total transformation of La Porte Road can more forward after funding were received from the U.S. Department of Transportation.
The DOT awarded the city of Waterloo $20.5 million for the 2.7 mile stretch, starting from the off-ramp on U.S. 218 until the street becomes Hess Road, near the Lost Island Waterpark. The city applied for a grant through the Critical Road Project. That funding stream is a component of the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity – a part of the larger infrastructure law signed by President Joe Biden.
U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley announced the grant this week in a news release along with funding for smaller road projects in Dubuque and Muscatine.
The overall estimated cost of the project is $28,479,396. The city plans to provide a match of $8,494,732 – $312,404 in city funds from fees and revenues, $8,030,000 in SWAP funding and $151,328 in TAP funding. SWAP funding is similar to money from a federal aid contract, but it doesn’t have as many rules and regulations, according to city engineer Jamie Knutson. TAP funding is money for alternate forms of transportation.
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Construction is expected to start after July 1, 2023, and be finished in phases. Along with La Porte Road, it will include a portion of Shaulis Road and go north towards U.S. Highway 20. Dates and details of the phases are unknown, but work is expected to be complete in the next four to five years.
The project will reconfigure the roadway by eliminating certain lanes and, in turn, create a separate bike and pedestrian path along the sides of La Porte Road. Turn lanes will also be added to stimulate traffic movement.
The north end of the project, near the frontage road between East Mitchell and Cornwall avenues, will have its traffic shifted west. That road will be removed and replaced with a slip ramp that connects La Porte Road to U.S. Highway 218. The grant proposal states a study shows the new alignment will be able to accommodate traffic.
The northern end of La Porte Road will be converted from an undivided four lanes, to three lanes – one northbound, one southbound and the center lane will be a turning lane.
At the intersection with East Ridgeway Avenue, the three-lane road will widen to five lanes, which will continue until Bopp Street. Between Bopp to Grimm streets, La Porte Road will return to three lanes.
After Grimm Street, La Porte will be reduced to a two-lane undivided road with added left-turn lanes at proposed intersections.
Improvements to turn lanes are planned at other intersections, such as East Mitchell Avenue and East San Marnan Drive. Near the end of the corridor, where La Porte Road turns into Hess Road, a roundabout may be added.
As for pedestrians and bicyclists, there currently is not a safe way for them to travel. The project plans to address inequities of bicycle and pedestrian infrastructure to connect areas of poverty to areas with commercial and recreational centers.
Along with a separate added sidewalk, the MET transit service plans to add multiple stops on both sides of La Porte Road. There will be four stops with benches on the road at Mitchell, Howard Avenue, San Marnan and Shaulis. There will be a stop with a shelter along the road at Ridgeway. The city states in the application that all of the stops will be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Waterloo’s average Walk Score is 37 on a 100-point scale where 100 is the most walkable, according to the application. The score of 37 indicates that a vehicle is needed for most trips.
To enhance walkability, the city is also adding lighting, trees and native pollinator plants. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waterloo-receives-20-5-million-to-transform-la-porte-road/article_71491463-c1f0-576c-b466-ed9481914c45.html | 2022-08-12T10:26:21 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/waterloo-receives-20-5-million-to-transform-la-porte-road/article_71491463-c1f0-576c-b466-ed9481914c45.html |
MIDLAND, Texas — The 20th annual Bustin' Clay for United Way sporting clay shoot will be taking place on August 19 at 7:00 a.m.
The event has become the largest fundraising event for the United Way of Midland. This year, the event is sponsored by XTO Energy and open to the public.
Tickets are $200 per a shooter. This includes breakfast, lunch, shooting and door prizes. At least 1 in 6 participants will win a door prize, and there will also be prize boards and raffle tickets.
People can register by clicking here and for more information on the event, people can go to the United Way of Midland website. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/20th-annual-bustin-clay-for-united-way-sporting-clay-shoot-event-to-take-place-on-august-19/513-c270d2dc-ef3d-49a7-ba04-8e22ecb66cb4 | 2022-08-12T10:32:50 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/20th-annual-bustin-clay-for-united-way-sporting-clay-shoot-event-to-take-place-on-august-19/513-c270d2dc-ef3d-49a7-ba04-8e22ecb66cb4 |
ODESSA, Texas — The Ellen Noel Art Museum will be holding its 'Movie Under the Stars' event on August 26.
The museum will be showing 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' in the Museum Garden at 8:45 p.m. Snacks will be provided, but the event has said there will be no pets allowed. It will also be an 18+ event.
For more information, people can contact the museum at 432-550-9696. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/ellen-noel-art-museum-to-host-movie-under-the-stars-event-on-august-26/513-d5922ceb-8ab8-4d61-8199-f78926bcfd56 | 2022-08-12T10:32:52 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/ellen-noel-art-museum-to-host-movie-under-the-stars-event-on-august-26/513-d5922ceb-8ab8-4d61-8199-f78926bcfd56 |
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force will host a traveling tribute to Vietnam War veterans in coming days — and a B-52 flyover is also on its slate of events.
The museum will host the American Veterans Traveling Tribute Vietnam Memorial — an 80%-sized replica of the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C., bearing the names of more than 58,000 service members killed in Southeast Asia. — Aug. 18 to 21.
The museum said it will also host an Aug. 19 B-52 flyover, Air Force Flight One pop-up concerts, historical displays, veteran presentations and more.
Also, the museum will have Panel 44 on display in its 4th building from Aug. 16 to 24.
Panel 44 is a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial containing the names of 337 American service members who died between March 9 to 16, 1968. The panel was originally produced in 1982 to go on display in Washington D.C., but was ultimately not placed because of a crack.
The B-52 Stratofortress flyover is scheduled for 1 p.m. Aug.19. It is weather-dependent.
The mighty B-52 has been in service since 1954. The Air Force describes it as the “backbone of the strategic bomber force for the United States.”
The bomber can drop or launch the widest array of weapons in the U.S. inventory, the Air Force says, including gravity bombs, cluster bombs, precision guided missiles and more.
The Vietnam Memorial will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 18 to 21, located outside the museum near the flag pole.
Sept. 18 this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Air Force. A complete schedule of events and exhibits is available at https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Upcoming/Events/75th-anniversary/.
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'Cosmic connection': Singing, dance, martial arts to honor Africans lost in slave trade
On Friday night, a "cosmic connection" will be made on Warwick's Oakland Beach.
That's how Silas Pinto described the scene, which will be transformed into a memorial to Africans who perished in the transatlantic slave trade. Through a ritualistic series of performative arts, Rhode Islanders will honor lives lost.
But not only those in Rhode Island will gather. Pinto, Providence's first-ever director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging, has reached out to contacts in Cape Verde and Brazil, who will take part from afar.
Pinto's municipal post is not the only hat he wears. He also teaches Capoeira, which will be on display on the shore that night.
Joshua Amarelo, who owns a Fall River gym called AMP Academy, which teaches the art, describes it as "an Afro-Brazilian martial art that incorporates music, dancing, acrobatics and self defense."
It originated centuries ago with Africans enslaved in Brazil who combined creativity and a bit of trickery to develop their craft.
"The slave masters wouldn’t allow them to train [in] any kind of martial art, but they would allow them to … practice their religious ritual or their cultural rituals," explained Amarelo, who will be part of the ceremony on the beach. "So what the enslaved people did is they pretended they were doing dance and religious rituals, and they were actually practicing … what became known as Capoeira."
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With help from his friends abroad participating in the evening's events, Pinto said they'll be "lining the coast of the Atlantic Ocean together around the same time and we’re playing and reflecting at the same time."
Participants will also engage in a sonoras — a form of singing that will emit sound waves across the water to honor the dead.
Pinto's partner, Nicole, a Capoeira instructor with Grupo Ondas, which will be performing, noted that unlike other forms of combat, the art does not often use the hands.
"That’s because back then they were shackled with the feet and the hands," she said. "However, their hands were for building, and the feet were for destroying, so that’s one of the reasons why the art has more kicks than strikes."
Those movements take the form of a language.
“If I throw a kick, that’s my question to you," Nicole said. "And then your response is the way you move with the kick, whether you do an acrobatic movement, or a dodge or if it's a fighting game, you might come in and try to sweep my leg out from under me."
For those interested in seeing it all play out, Pinto has some advice: Pay attention.
"The idea behind it is that that becomes our little world for a little while, and everything behind us just has to wait until we turn around and face them because we want people to be fully present in those moments."
The Oakland Beach event takes place Friday from 6 to 7 p.m. and is open to the public. Attendees can see more Capoeira at the next WaterFire lighting on Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/oakland-beach-event-honor-africans-lost-slave-trade/10295713002/ | 2022-08-12T11:12:17 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/oakland-beach-event-honor-africans-lost-slave-trade/10295713002/ |
Providence Journal announces key managing editor positions
The Providence Journal has announced two major appointments.
Whitman Littlefield was named the new managing editor of digital and Eryn Dion was named the new managing editor of content. David Ng, executive editor of The Providence Journal, announced the appointments to the staff on Thursday.
“Whitman and Eryn are two of the most talented journalists that I know, but more importantly, they’re fun to work and have a vision for the future of journalism,” Ng said.
Littlefield, 34, who lives in Providence, has been with The Journal for nearly eight years. Most recently, he was The Journal’s digital editor and previously served as assistant managing editor of social media and innovation. In his new role, he will oversee and supervise the organization’s strategy in growing its digital subscriptions, identify new audience opportunities and enhance The Journal’s digital brand.
Dion, 32, who lives in Coventry, joined The Journal's parent company, Gannett, in 2015 and was most recently co-director of the Gannett New England Planning Desk, which coordinated most of the content produced in the New England region by Gannett papers, not including The Journal. As the managing editor of content, she will be responsible for developing and executing content strategy, retaining audiences and executing newsroom projects.
Littlefield and Dion will report directly to Ng.
After graduate school at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communication, Littlefield returned to his native Rhode Island and began working at the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper.
"It's been a lifelong dream to work at The Journal,” he said. “Growing up, we'd sit down to lunch after finishing up the morning chores on the farm and pass around the sections of The Journal as we ate. During those meals, I learned about issues facing the state, politics, business, even what antics Garfield was up to.”
Dion graduated from Roger Williams University in Bristol with a degree in communications.
"Working with The Journal is what brought me back to New England from Florida a few years ago, and while I moved away from that newsroom, I've stayed invested in them as the local paper," she said. "Coming into the fold, and finally working at a paper my family actually reads, is exciting and humbling. I truly believe in what The Providence Journal can be, and I truly believe in having The Journal be a paper for all Rhode Islanders." | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/providence-journal-announces-key-managing-editor-positions/10301473002/ | 2022-08-12T11:12:23 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/providence-journal-announces-key-managing-editor-positions/10301473002/ |
Night work starting Sunday on Interstate 295 in Cumberland to mill, repave highway
Repaving badly deteriorated sections of Route 146 in Lincoln/North Smithfield started Aug. 10
- The project will cost $36 million
- A small portion of Route 95 will also be repaved
- The work will mainly be done from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., Sunday to Friday
CUMBERLAND — Starting on Sunday night, road crews will start milling, and then repaving, Interstate 295 starting at the Massachusetts line in Cumberland.
The work to resurface the interstate will be done mostly at night, from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m., six days a week, Sunday to Friday, Department of Transportation spokesman Charles St. Martin said.
The repaving project will consist of two phases moving north to south and not include on- or off-ramps. The first phase will resurface from the Massachusetts state line to the interchange with U.S. 44 at Exit 12.
The second phase will go from U.S. 44 to Interstate 95. In all, it will be 40 miles of paving.
Repaving the on- and off-ramps on I-295 will be done in the spring of 2023, St. Martin said.
The work will bring lane closures, ramp closures and minor delays, and some work will be done during the day.
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The repaving of I-295 should end by the summer of 2024 and will include improvements to storm water infrastructure, St. Martin said.
This $36-million repaving is part of a $492-million repaving effort over the next five years, partially funded by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law in November 2021. In total, the state will spend $92 million on repaving projects this year.
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Stretch of I-95 to be repaved in Pawtucket
Two "small" sections of I-95 will also be repaved in Pawtucket between Lonsdale Avenue and Walcott Street. The project will go about a mile in each direction, except for the length of bridge over the Seekonk River.
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Milling and repaving has begun on Route 146
Work to mill, and then repave, the badly deteriorated and sunken sections of Route 146 in North Smithfield and Lincoln started on Wednesday night. The repaving work will be done at night.
The first phase of work will focus on the section between Route 99 in Lincoln to Route 146A in North Smithfield and will be done by the end of August.
The second phase will go from Route 146 South at Central Street to Route 146A in North Smithfield and will be finished by the end of September.
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That work is part of a larger project to repave and reconfigure Route 146, which includes building an overpass above Sayles Hill Road for Route 146 in North Smithfield and eliminating the traffic light at that intersection. The light causes an estimated 85 crashes a year, DOT officials previously said.
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In all, eight miles of roadway will be repaved, the overpass will be added and the state will repair or replace five bridges along the Route 146 corridor. Plans are for Route 146 to be repaved from the I-295 interchange to the Massachusetts state line.
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A woman’s death was nearly overlooked. Until her community rallied to remember her life
Ka Xiong stood no more than 5 feet tall. Her garden hoe matched her height.
At 79 years old, she would churn the soil at Elmwood's Peace & Plenty Community Garden where she tended to a plot of land, growing winter melon, lemongrass, hot peppers, squash, eggplant, castor bean and lilies.
Carrying a straw backpack, she would pluck the vegetables and stow them away. Sometimes she would give them to others, like Emily Ferrier, who shared her own freshly cut flowers in exchange.
Friendly face becomes Jane Doe
On Saturday, Aug. 6,around 1:30 p.m. Xiong was struck by a Dodge Durango while crossing Potters Avenue at Baxter Street, eight blocks from her plot of land and some five blocks from her home. She was brought to Rhode Island Hospital in critical condition, but because she had no identification and did not speak much English, the community garden's familiar face suddenly had no name, becoming instead Jane Doe.
The Providence Journal on Thursday obtained a police report offering the first set of official details on her death.
According to the report, the 27-year old driver said he did not see Xiong and was not even sure he had hit her. Police in the report said they “saw a smudge mark" on the hood of the car, indicating he had indeed hit Xiong. Two witnesses composed written statements to confirm the events. Police issued the driver a summons for failing to drive with care.
No media coverage of the death ran that day. One of her fellow gardeners felt that because of her identity, her death was overlooked.
“If she were a white person from the East Side, I think this would be all over the news," said Doug Victor, a coordinator at the garden. "But she wasn’t."
Who was Ka Xiong?
Xiong was a Hmong refugee who first lived in Laos, where she was married, had one daughter, and later lost her husband. In 1988, she moved to Thailand, then in 1990 she came to Providence, utilizing resources at Dorcas International Institute, which helps migrants to settle, find work and obtain citizenship. Such details were shared by her brother, Shoua Leng, whose daughter was able to translate as a reporter posed questions.
Small acts of generosity, especially at the community garden, were Xiong's way. When COVID-19 consumed the world in sickness and fear, Xiong gave Ferrier seeds to grow bitter lemon, an immune boosting crop.
On one occasion, Xiong's problem-solving nature led her to battle a tree blocking the sunlight from her plot.
"One time, I went to the garden and she had assembled every bench and table in the garden, stacked them on top of each other so that she could climb the tree, and was up in the tree cutting branches off." Ferrier said. "I just arrived and she was dangling from this tree."
So memorable was Xiong that Ferrier would routinely relay the stories of the woman she called "a background character of my life since I moved to Providence."
"I think I’ve told every person I’ve talked to about the garden about her," Ferrier said.
Victor recalls that Xiong, in her interactions with gardeners, was able to teach them how to plant seeds and care for their crops without words.
"I think this is a story that also tells another story," Victor said. "It tells a story about immigration. It tells a story about dominant culture. It tells a story about historical legacies. But it is a story about Ka, and the impact that one woman sort of quietly has on a whole community."
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Knight Memorial Library:It's all things to all people, but now it needs help, Amy Russo finds | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/womans-death-nearly-overlooked-until-friends-rallied-remember-her-life/10295817002/ | 2022-08-12T11:12:35 | 0 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/womans-death-nearly-overlooked-until-friends-rallied-remember-her-life/10295817002/ |
YORK, Pa. — Four fresh faces joined the City of York Department of Fire and Rescue Services on Thursday; the probationary firefighters were sworn in during a ceremony on Aug. 11.
New member Connor Caruso is eager to be there for his community.
“My dad, he’s been a firefighter for 20 years,” Caruso said. “I just figured that would be the best place for me to go. I just want to help out the community. I just want to be there for the people in York City and just help however I can.”
Congratulations to Caruso, Christopher D’Onofrio, Ryan Bowman, and Shane O’Malley for joining the force.
“It’s really rewarding to finally get here and just be able to come to work every day and know that I’m going to go out and just help the community,” Shane O'Malley said. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-city-swears-in-four-new-firefighters/521-21561e26-399f-4f68-ba38-bb920dc93fc8 | 2022-08-12T11:17:54 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-city-swears-in-four-new-firefighters/521-21561e26-399f-4f68-ba38-bb920dc93fc8 |
CAPE CORAL, Fla. — A Great Blue Heron was rescued Monday, August 1, after it was found entangled in fishing gear in Cape Coral.
Staff with the Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife (CROW) rescued the adult heron. The heron was thin, warm, stressed, quiet, unable to stand, and open mouth breathing upon admission.
A hook was removed, which wasn’t embedded but had created a wound.
The wound was bandaged, and hospital staff then placed an IV catheter to help administer medication and fluids, according to CROW.
Fortunately, the heron has been improving and will continue to be monitored under supportive care.
CROW urges everyone to please properly throw out all non-biodegradable materials. If you accidentally hook a bird, do not cut the line.
“Reel them in, secure them, and call your nearest certified wildlife professionals!” CROW posted on Facebook. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/12/crow-rescues-great-blue-heron-entangled-in-fishing-gear-in-cape-coral/ | 2022-08-12T11:20:32 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/12/crow-rescues-great-blue-heron-entangled-in-fishing-gear-in-cape-coral/ |
100 years ago
Aug. 12, 1922: Fire Chief Henry Mayer yesterday turned down a proposal from a moving picture concern to have a movie made of the Bloomington fire department in action. The company evidently sought to have the picture shown in Bloomington, but the fire chief was opposed, saying the public is "jazz mad" and not interested in firemen.
75 years ago
Aug. 12, 1947: The mystery of a sword in a Bloomington sewer remains after the weapon's 13-year-old owner brought it to be examined by the McLean County Historical Society. A boy first found the sword about 3 feet below the surface of sewer excavations at Market and Lee street. He sold it to another neighbor, who traded it to current owner Jack Turpin for 500 marbles.
50 years ago
Aug. 12, 1972: "The Squire of Pontiac" is the name given a new men's and students' clothing store slated to open in Pontiac on Sept. 1, according to Frank Panno, president of the recently formed corporation. Other officers are Martin D. Parsons, vice president and store manager, and Richard Koehler, treasurer. "The Squire" will be located in the old Clevenger store building.
25 years ago
Aug. 12, 1997: The Vespasian Warner Library in Clinton now has Internet services available, and has opened its own Web page. The page includes a tutorial on how to use the Internet. People may use the library computers to access the Internet but must follow library computer rules that limit sessions to a half-hour for games and one hour for other uses.
Compiled by Pantagraph staff | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/100-years-ago-bloomington-fire-chief-turns-down-movie-deal/article_13a8a9e8-185f-11ed-9c09-cfe6574dceeb.html | 2022-08-12T11:31:57 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/history/100-years-ago-bloomington-fire-chief-turns-down-movie-deal/article_13a8a9e8-185f-11ed-9c09-cfe6574dceeb.html |
CROWN POINT — Friends Kaitlin Kovach and Kristine Greene waited most of the day to go up, up and away.
The two women, both part of the first group to go airborne, got the chance to go up in a tethered hot-air balloon ride offered through the Midwest Balloon Rides at the Lake County Fair on Wednesday night.
Kovach, a Munster resident, and Greene, a resident of Crown Point, alighted from their first balloon ride with huge smiles on their faces.
Both said the wait was worth it even for Greene who said the hot-air balloon ride completes her bucket list of adventurous undertakings which includes paragliding and skydiving.
"We've been here at the Lake County Fair since noon because this was on our bucket list. Now I can cross it off my list," Kovach said.
The balloon ride was launched at the Lake County Fair in 2018 with a return this year after a four-year absence, Lake County Fair publicity director Arlene Marcinek said.
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Weather always plays a role in the balloon rides and Midwest Balloon Rides owner Tony Sandlin said Wednesday night's conditions were perfect.
Sandlin's company, based in Fishers, was started 20 years ago and offers a wide range of options, including private rides, group rides, multi-balloon rides and tethered rides, as well as school programs and corporate events.
In addition to the tethered balloon rides, fairgoers had the chance to walk inside a still flattened hot air balloon or take photos of themselves standing in a real balloon basket with a backdrop simulating a launched balloon.
The fair event concluded with the display of five glow-in-the-dark tethered balloons.
Participants in the hot-air balloon walk-through included Kelli Perez, of Gary, who brought her two daughters, A'niylah Perez, 9, and Amora Davis, 8 months old.
The three stepped into the multi-colored balloon that was spread out on the ground, with A'niylah throwing around a ball she brought with her while her mom took photos of the baby.
Perez, who later got the chance to go up in the balloon with both daughters, said she was hopeful about going on the ride but also apprehensive.
"I have a fear of heights and I hope to overcome it by doing this," Perez said, adding, "She (A'niylah) is the brave one."
After the ride Perez said: "I wasn't scared at all. I'd do it again."
The Arias family, who live in Frankfort, Illinois, said they have been traveling to the Lake County Fair every summer for the last 12 years and wanted to try the hot-air balloon ride.
"It's something fun to do," Juan Arias said.
He and his wife, Maria Arias, posed for photos inside the balloon basket, including a romantic one of the two kissing.
Daughter Veronica Arias, who snapped photos of her parents with her iPhone, said her parents and brother, Jonathan Arias, all planned on taking a real balloon ride later at a cost of $10 per person.
Peggy Phiri, who was born in Zambia and lives in Chicago, came to the fair with her son, Michael, to ride the hot air balloon.
Both said they thoroughly enjoyed the ride after going up, up and away.
Rebecca Zirzo, who rode with daughter Janaiya, 10, said she could cross riding on a hot-air balloon off her bucket list.
"It was really warm but really cool," Zirzo said at the completion of the ride.
Michelle Bruner, of Crown Point, said riding in a hot-air balloon was something she also wanted to cross off her bucket list even knowing the ride would be just a few feet into the air.
"I've always wanted to go up. ... Maybe it will be like Dorothy in the 'Wizard of Oz' and it will ship off," Bruner said.
Bruner came with her cousin, Meghan Miller, of Lowell, and both their children, Mark Marley, 8, and Scarlett Miller, 7.
Miller said she wanted to take the ride because "you are just floating and it looks so peaceful."
Bruner, who got to go up in the hot-air balloon, said it was fun even though one of the children, Scarlett, decided not to do it.
"I loved it. He (Mark) was scared at first but then liked it," Bruner said.
Danielle and Kevin Brown, of Crown Point, said it was their first time riding in a hot-air balloon.
"I just wish it would have been higher," Danielle Brown said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/its-up-up-and-away-at-lake-county-fair-balloon-ride/article_e214eae2-8056-54e6-bf1e-f304d6cf5385.html | 2022-08-12T11:38:47 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/its-up-up-and-away-at-lake-county-fair-balloon-ride/article_e214eae2-8056-54e6-bf1e-f304d6cf5385.html |
The Fort Worth Public Library is doing something good to help teachers get ready for back to school and beyond.
Teachers have access to a special educator card that helps them enhance their classrooms with a steady supply of books and materials in a wide range of subjects and reading levels. According to the library, those cards can be used to check out 100 items at once for nearly two months.
If a school district has a school within the City of Fort Worth, then the entire staff of that district is eligible for the educator card.
The help isn't just for teachers though. Students who have a library card with the Fort Worth Public Library can get unlimited access to databases filled with homework help and research tools. Those databases are divided by grade levels.
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Thursday at Community Health Center in Mason City to celebrate the Building CommUNITY mural that was completed by more than 100 volunteers during July.
The Mason City Chamber of Commerce’s goal was to have the mural completed before RAGBRAI visited Mason City. More than 100 volunteers from local businesses, daycares, organizations, and citizens assisted in painting the mural - each leaving a signature thumbprint on the wall. .
According to a press release Building CommUNITY is an initiative of the Mason City Chamber of Commerce to highlight the inclusive spirit of North Iowans. According to the 2020 US Census, the diversity of Mason City’s population stands at 93.17% white. But, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (commonly referred to as DEI) impact more than race and ethnicity.
The Chamber’s DEI program is positioned as a workforce attraction and retention strategy and Anderson said they would like to get community employers on board . The community mural and the companion billboard campaign were intended to launch this program.
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The Community Health Center, located at the north gateway to downtown Mason City, provided the perfect backdrop and CHC was excited about the mural request.
Mary Loden covers city and county government for the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by emailing Mary.Loden@globegazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/mural-ribbon-cutting-held-in-mason-city/article_53142e2f-2946-5b64-a4cf-29f654866eb7.html | 2022-08-12T11:52:33 | 0 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/mural-ribbon-cutting-held-in-mason-city/article_53142e2f-2946-5b64-a4cf-29f654866eb7.html |
Federal work-safety investigators are looking into the death of an Amazon worker and an injury that potentially led to the death of another employee, adding to a probe already underway following a third fatality during the company's annual Prime Day shopping event in mid-July.
All three Amazon workers died within the past month and were employed at company facilities in New Jersey.
The new Occupational Health and Safety Administration investigations are putting fresh scrutiny on Amazon's injury rates and workplace-safety procedures, which have long been criticized by labor and safety advocates as inadequate.
Department of Labor spokesperson Denisha Braxton confirmed Thursday that the most-recent fatality took place last week at an Amazon facility in Monroe Township, about 20 miles (35 kilometers) northeast of Trenton. The second probe is looking into a July 24 accident at an Amazon facility in Robbinsville. The worker involved in that accident died three days later, according to Braxton.
In a statement, Robbinsville Police Chief Michael Polaski said police responded to the warehouse, called PNE5, on July 24 after receiving a report that a worker fell from a three-foot (one-meter) ladder and struck his head.
Polaski said the worker was conscious and alert when police arrived. But police were told CPR was conducted on the person by other workers prior to their arrival, he said. The person was transported to a hospital and OSHA was notified of the incident on the same day, he added.
Police in Monroe Township didn’t immediately reply for a request for comment on the incident there.
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The two most recent deaths were first reported by the USA Today Network.
OSHA officials declined to provide additional information about any of the deaths, citing the open investigations. The agency has up to six month to complete each probe.
Sam Stephenson, a spokesperson for Seattle-based Amazon, said in a statement the company was “deeply saddened by the passing of our colleagues and offer our condolences to their family and friends.”
“Our investigations are ongoing and we’re cooperating with OSHA, which is conducting its own reviews of the events, as it often does in these situations,” Stephenson said.
Last month, OSHA launched another investigation into a worker fatality at an Amazon warehouse in the New Jersey town of Carteret during the company’s Prime Day shopping event, which turned out to be the biggest in the company's history. Federal officials haven't released additional details about the death, but news reports have identified the worker as 42-year-old Rafael Reynaldo Mota Frias.
A spokesperson for Amazon said the company’s internal investigation into the Carteret death shows it “was not a work-related incident, and instead was related to a personal medical condition.”
“OSHA is currently investigating the incident, and, based upon the evidence currently available to us, we fully expect that it will reach the same conclusion,” the spokesperson said.
News of the deaths comes amid broader scrutiny into the company's operations. In late July, OSHA officials inspected Amazon facilities in New York, Illinois and Florida after receiving referrals alleging health and safety violations from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. The civil division of the U.S. attorney's office is also investigating safety hazards at Amazon warehouses and “fraudulent conduct designed to hide injuries from OSHA and others," according to a spokesperson for the office. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/osha-investigates-deaths-of-3-amazon-workers-in-new-jersey/3822019/ | 2022-08-12T12:01:04 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/osha-investigates-deaths-of-3-amazon-workers-in-new-jersey/3822019/ |
PEARLAND, Texas — A baseball team out of Pearland is making its way to Williamsport, Pennsylvania to compete in the Little League World Series!
The Pearland team, known as Texas East, is hopping on a plane Friday morning to play in the biggest games in Little League.
The team's pitcher, righthander Kaiden 'Bubs' Shelton, made national headlines earlier this week after accidentally hitting a batter, who also happened to be his friend, in the head with a pitch.
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The batter, Isaiah Jarvis of Tulsa, Oklahoma, fell to the ground after the pitch slammed into his helmet. Jarvis fell to the ground clutching his head as his concerned coaches ran to his aid.
After a few moments, Jarvis' head cleared enough for him to walk unaided to first base. Meantime, Shelton stood on the mound staring at the ground in tears over what happened.
After a moment, Jarvis walked to the mound and put his arms around Shelton, telling him, “Hey, you're doing great. Let's go.” Shelton's teammates and coach gathered around the pair to join in consoling the young righty.
The gesture drew a standing ovation. Pearland went on to beat Tulsa 9-4 and advance to the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, starting next week. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/pearland-little-league-world-series/285-3ab880b5-d050-4450-aa13-348c1e9193aa | 2022-08-12T12:13:06 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/pearland-little-league-world-series/285-3ab880b5-d050-4450-aa13-348c1e9193aa |
Mary Jean Hrbacek traveled to Bethlehem recently from her home in Lacey, Washington, on a matter of unusual significance. She came to look for a collection of rare, heirloom books her family donated to Moravian University four decades ago.
From the outside, the collection appears humble and undistinguished: eight small, leather bound volumes without any eye-grabbing markings or features. However, as predicted by the old adage, their covers do not reflect the rare and valuable texts within.
The collection contains centuries-old religious texts from the fallen empire of Moravia — composed of the present day territories of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Ukraine — from which the Hrbaceks originally hail.
Four of the texts are Protestant hymnals, devotional and prayer books. Two are sermonic commentaries. The seventh book is a rare 1745 Czech Bible, printed by Czech exiles in Poland. And the final, eighth volume, which appraiser Henry L. Williams called “the gem of this collection,” is a Czech hymnal of the Moravian Church, printed in the town of Kralice in 1618.
“It was one of the last books printed on the Kralice press before the suppression of the Moravian Church in 1621,” Williams wrote in an appraisal of the collection. “The press at Kralice is of first importance in Czech cultural history as well as Moravian history. It is of great value ... a great prize.”
The book collection is a heirloom that passed through multiple generations of the Hrbacek family, traveling across empires, continents and seas. In 1980, it was in the possession of Billy Hrbacek, Mary Jean’s husband, who died in 2018. Mary Jean Hrbacek saw that the 300-400-year-old books were extremely fragile, and worried that they would deteriorate without proper care. She encouraged her husband to donate the collection to an institution equipped to store such texts, one with antiquities facilities, such as a temperature- and moisture-controlled rare books room.
Moravian University fit the bill, and the Hrbaceks thought it fitting to donate the collection to a school that bears its provenance’s namesake.
In 1982, Billy donated his heirloom to the university, comforted by the fact that it would be properly preserved for posterity, Mary Jean Hrbacek said.
That year, the then-president of the university, Herman E. Collier Jr., had the collection appraised by Williams. Williams gave the collection a “modest” valuation of $1,250 in February 1982.
The family returned to Moravian to view their collection in 1984, only to discover the university would not tell them its display or storage location.
“They insisted that it was there at the school, in storage elsewhere, but they wouldn’t show it to us,” Hrbacek said.
This interaction repeated each time the Hrbaceks visited Pennsylvania for the next 40 years. The couple made around 10 visits to attempt to see the collection while Billy was alive, and each time the school would not produce the heirloom. However, the administration was adamant that the collection was being stored somewhere on the campus.
When the Hrbaceks inquired into the specifics of the collection’s storage, administrators brushed them off, Hrbacek said.
“The librarians admitted that they had never seen a collection of books that fit our description, but said they must just be in a different location,” Hrbacek said. “Once, the director of development told me that professors might be using them to decorate their desks, which alarmed me because 400-year-old books are not meant to be desk decorations.”
The Hrbaceks’ daughter, Genevieve Christensen, who was 2 when her father donated the collection and has never seen it, also made multiple trips to try to view her family heirloom, to no avail.
Now, on the four decade anniversary of the donation, Hrbacek is making a renewed effort to find the heirloom. She wants to try every avenue of locating it while she is still in good health, she said.
Billy died in 2018, and never saw the heirloom again after 1982. Hrbacek regrets encouraging him to donate the books, although he never placed any blame for the situation on her, she said. She also wants to find the books for the sake of her daughter.
“[Christensen] never saw the books, she doesn’t remember them at all, even though it’s part of her heritage,” Hrbacek said. “I’m also doing this for my husband, and for my own guilt, to be honest.”
After Billy’s death, Hrbacek hired a private investigator to find the collection. But Bruce Williams, director of executive protection at Echelon Protection and Surveillance and a retired state policeman, could find no leads on the collection.
“I called a lot of now retired law enforcement people associated with the college, asking them to dig up records on this,” Williams said. “They all came back and determined that the school did not keep such records. So there was really no avenue to go on. Those books could be there, I tend not to think so. They could have been stolen, transferred or lost. ... I think that there was just no responsibility on the school’s end.”
Hrbacek reached out to The Morning Call for help last month.
Moravian University Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Communications Michael Corr said the university’s Reeves Library employs a full-time archivist and cataloger.
But neither Hrbacek nor Corr could find the name of the archivist who collected donations in the 1980s, and Hrbacek believes the individual died.
Cory Dieterly, the current Reeves Library archivist, conducted a search of the library’s rare books room and did not find the books or any information on them.
Three Moravian employees declined to provide or could not obtain the name of the Reeves Library cataloger. The Moravian Collection policy webpage does not include any mention of cataloging practices.
Janet Ohles, director of Reeves Library, said she collected library materials for Corr’s internal investigation, but Corr declined to share these.
Corr said that he contacted the faculties of “relevant departments” including history and religion, and nobody was familiar with the collection. He also said a current employee was present for a 2005 search for the books, but declined to provide her name. Corr said he spoke to her and “she vaguely remembers someone asking her to look around, but doesn’t know anything more than that.”
Eventually, Corr admitted to The Morning Call what Hrbacek had feared: The school has lost the collection.
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“It’s really tough to speculate what went wrong,” Corr said in an email. “I have learned that many departments, faculty and staff members across campus have been contacted over the last week, in addition to the Moravian Archives, to inquire about the books. Unfortunately, we’ve not come across anyone with any knowledge of the book’s whereabouts today.”
He said the library has policies in place now that would prevent another such loss.
“Today, any donation to the University and/or special collections that we wanted to include in our archives would be cataloged immediately then stored in our rare books room,” Corr said in an email. “If the University receives a rare book collection today we would contract with an outside appraisal expert before cataloging and then storing the books on campus.”
However, a Moravian Collection Development Policy document, which Corr sent to The Morning Call, states that “Reeves Library does not have the staff required to accept donations of books for the general collection from individuals outside of Moravian University.”
Hrbacek said she was dismayed by the college’s admission.
“[Moravian] betrayed the trust that our family gave them,” she said. “I’m seriously disappointed, and more than that, I’m upset that it took them 40 years to admit this. We’ve been asking about this for 40 straight years, 40 years of nothing. They’re only admitting it now because an organization with more clout than my family asked. The sad part is, other people have most assuredly lost things that they’ve donated too and just don’t know it.”
Hrbacek is still searching for her collection. Email her at hrbacek31@gmail.com with potential leads. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/bethlehem/mc-nws-moravian-college-hrbacek-rare-books-missing-20220812-nt4kje3n3faelb4xqhax7v4wuq-story.html | 2022-08-12T12:30:01 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/bethlehem/mc-nws-moravian-college-hrbacek-rare-books-missing-20220812-nt4kje3n3faelb4xqhax7v4wuq-story.html |
DeLand residents favor a traffic circle for the Voorhis Avenue streetscape project
DELAND — A centered roadway sandwiched between sidewalks of equal width and a traffic circle to help slow speeders could come to West Voorhis Avenue.
At least those were the options largely preferred by the two-dozen-plus residents who attended the latest meeting Aug. 3 on potential plans for the Voorhis Avenue streetscape project.
In the first option, the sidewalks are approximately 11 feet wide, but tree wells would account for nearly half of that.
The second option, which didn't receive support, showed the roadway shifted south, allowing for an approximately 16-foot shared-use path that, in reality, would be smaller when accounting for tree wells.
One of the challenges, according to Chad Gamble, the city's public services director, is "what type of improvements do we do that link the corridor to downtown?"
Gamble said that includes keeping in mind how to convey the area's history while also allowing for flexibility of different types of development.
In early 2021, the city posted an online survey asking residents to rank how they would like to see the Downtown Community Redevelopment Agency spend the approximately $600,000 in its coffers.
Options, and the estimated costs, included:
- Voorhis Avenue streetscape project for $500,000.
- Installing an interactive directory at Pioneer Park for $30,000.
- Paving the dirt parking lot between Rich and Church avenues for $200,000.
- Leveling pavers and sidewalk for $100,000 to $150,000.
- Renovating Sunflower and Painter's Pond parks for $65,000.
- Repairing stamped concrete at intersections for $500,000.
- Adding a smart-parking management system for $600,000.
The Voorhis Avenue streetscape project received the most No. 1 votes.
In March 2021, the Downtown CRA, comprised of members of the City Commission and two local business owners, largely agreed with the survey's results.
Since then, Mike Grebosz, assistant city manager, has been working with the engineering firm CPH, Inc., on potential design options for the streetscape.
The city held a workshop seeking community input in February.
Kurt Luman, senior vice president/associate and transportation division director at CPH, said during the Aug. 3 workshop that the options presented were reflective of input they received during the aforementioned meeting.
"We tried to incorporate some more traffic-calming elements, which was a key component," Luman said.
In addition to a traffic circle, the first option presented includes designated pedestrian crossings mid-block as opposed to just crossings at intersections.
Resident Denene Huffman, who owns two properties off Voorhis between South Florida and South Woodland avenues, asked that the city and CPH keep the mix of existing residential and commercial buildings in mind and avoid placing the crossings directly in line with driveways connected to those properties.
Another resident asked about the level of detail the crossings and intersections could have without potentially distracting motorists.
Gamble said it was a good point.
"I live downtown and I see the way people cross the street and it scares the heck out of me," Gamble said. "I think it's important and cool, all the stuff that we have downtown, but we do want to be careful; we don’t want that to be too cool and too distractive from the operations that are happening there."
A major part of the project is how it will impact what was once a thriving district for the Black community.
"It’s more than just a streetscape for us," said Al Bouie, a member of the historic Black Greater Union First Baptist Church.
The church is located at the northwest corner of the intersection of West Voorhis and South Clara avenues.
At the southeast corner of the same intersection is the historic J.W. Wright Building, which is owned by the nonprofit Greater Union Life Center Inc.
$500K grant:Spending plan for DeLand's historic J.W. Wright Building
For the past few years, Mario Davis, the nonprofit's executive director; Mark Shuttleworth, restoration expert and project manager; and Sidney Johnston, assistant director of grants, sponsored research and strategic initiatives at Stetson University, have worked on acquiring grants and putting the funding toward restoring the building from 1920.
"Our vision is to tie in that whole area, which includes the 140-year-old church, that includes an amphitheater and includes an African American Museum of the Arts," Bouie, a candidate for Volusia County School Board District 1, said. "We would like for that whole area, as well as its history, to be tied in with the city center." | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/08/12/deland-residents-get-look-new-voorhis-avenue-streetscape-options/10226444002/ | 2022-08-12T12:30:04 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/volusia/2022/08/12/deland-residents-get-look-new-voorhis-avenue-streetscape-options/10226444002/ |
It’s mid-August, but PennDOT officials are thinking about snow.
The state Transportation Department’s District 5, which includes Lehigh and Northampton counties, is holding a job fair next week in Berks County that includes same-day interview for winter positions, according to a news release.
The job event will be from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at PennDOT’s Berks County office, 4680 Fifth Street Highway, Temple.
PennDOT is looking to fill a variety of positions, including truck operators, mechanics, and trades helpers. Applicants should bring an updated copy of their resume. Drivers also should bring their current commercial driver’s license and medical card.
For more information, including current available positions, visit employment.pa.gov. Anyone requiring special accommodations is asked to contact the PennDOT Berks County office at 610-929-0766 before Wednesday.
Besides the Lehigh Valley and Berks County, District 5 also encompasses Carbon, Monroe and Schuylkill counties. | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-penndot-to-hold-job-fair-20220812-rtvgqc2fxzchdcm25i2rdlyk4a-story.html | 2022-08-12T12:30:07 | 0 | https://www.mcall.com/news/local/mc-nws-penndot-to-hold-job-fair-20220812-rtvgqc2fxzchdcm25i2rdlyk4a-story.html |
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A woman in her 60s was found stabbed to death inside her South Philadelphia home and a 16-year-old is being considered a person of interest in the killing, Philadelphia police said.
Officers arrived to the home along South 20th Street, near Wolf Street, just before 12:30 a.m. Friday to find the woman bleeding from a large laceration to her neck on the floor of a second-floor hallway, right by the front bedroom, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
The woman was unresponsive and pronounced dead on the scene a short time later, Small said.
About a foot from the woman's body was a bloodied 10 to 12-inch kitchen knife, Small said.
Several family members were in the home at the time, investigators said.
Police took in a 16-year-old relative, who lives in the home, as a "person of interest," Small said.
"He had blood on his hands," Small said.
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Police took the 16-year-old to a hospital because he also had cuts on his hands, Small said.
"We don't know what motivated this stabbing that escalated and turned into a homicide," Small said.
Investigators spoke with other people in the home about what led up to the stabbing.
No charges were filed as of Friday morning.
Entering Friday, at least 338 people had been killed in Philadelphia, according to police data. That's about 3% ahead of the homicide count on the same day last year, which wound being the deadliest on record in Philadelphia.
There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/south-philadelphia-woman-stabbed/3333460/ | 2022-08-12T12:33:35 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/south-philadelphia-woman-stabbed/3333460/ |
More than two weeks after a minivan driver struck and killed a motorcyclist in a hit-and-run crash, police in Delaware County have released photos that they hope help them track down the man behind the wheel.
In a series of tweets, Upper Darby police said Thursday they had identified the 2008 Chrysler Town & Country minivan with Pennsylvania plate KXN2813 that they believe struck the motorcyclist at West Chester Pike and Kenmore Road around 7:35 p.m. on July 27, 2022.
"The pictured male is believed to have been operating the minivan at the time of the accident," police tweeted.
Earlier, police said they expected the van would have damage to the rear driver’s side.
Police didn't name the man seen in the photos.
Police asked that anyone with information call them at 610-734-7693 or send a message. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/upper-darby-van-motorcycle-hit-and-run/3333549/ | 2022-08-12T12:33:36 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/upper-darby-van-motorcycle-hit-and-run/3333549/ |
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CEDAR FALLS — The city announced Wednesday that seven applications were received from people interested in becoming its police chief.
Initial interviews are expected to happen in early to mid-September following the civil service review process. Finalists could be announced in early October and a second round of interviews would follow in mid-October, according to a news release.
“The city will continue to provide updates to the community as the process moves forward,” the release stated.
Former police chief Craig Berte, who had served in the position since 2020, was confirmed as the public safety director in June by the City Council in a 5-2 vote. He was the replacement for Jeff Olson, who retired.
He leads the department of about 80 employees, some of which are cross-trained police officers and firefighters.
The pit bull allegedly attacked a Yorkie being walked by its owner along W. 8th Street in the area of Lincoln Elementary School.
Berte was recommended by Mayor Rob Green, Administrator Ron Gaines and a selection committee as the best candidate out of a pool of seven candidates, according to the city.
His new position started the hiring process for one of two assistants to the public safety director. Captain Mark Howard has been serving as chief in the interim since March.
One applicant already withdrew from the running, the city said in the release. Howard previously said he applied for the position and confirmed last week he is still interested in being considered for it.
The police chief job was posted July 13, and applications were accepted until Monday. It pays $91,203 to $148,218 annually depending on experience.
Berte, as public safety director, is earning $157,508 per year.
Supporters contend the new facility will have multiple benefits, from allowing more local kids to be adequately taught how to swim safely, to being capable of hosting larger competitions.
Green told The Courier last month in a statement that the hiring process, including the public’s involvement in it, will be “very similar” to the last one in 2020.
Berte and Howard were two of three finalists in 2020.
Green said the process will involve an in-person meet and greet with finalists. The public is welcome to attend and ask them questions.
“My preference is to always to give the public the chance to directly ask questions through conversation, and the meet and greet allows for that,” Green said July 15. “The plan is to have the entire process wrapped up within four months, so I’m looking at early November to send (my) appointment letter to the City Council for consideration and approval.”
I've covered city government for The Courier since August 2021. I'm a Chatham, NJ native who graduated from Gettysburg College in 2018 and previously worked for publications in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Waterloo submitted two traffic grants to help with safety at the East Shaulis Road and Hammond Avenue and the Mullan Avenue and Sycamore Street intersections.
He’ll be the lead speaker Aug. 20 at the second annual Bremer County Republican Party’s “Summer Grill and Chill” at the Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School, 501 Heritage Way. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/7-apply-for-cedar-falls-police-chief-job-interviews-slated-for-next-month/article_33bee5de-1f1d-595a-8a2f-1cb76b64f522.html | 2022-08-12T12:34:15 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/7-apply-for-cedar-falls-police-chief-job-interviews-slated-for-next-month/article_33bee5de-1f1d-595a-8a2f-1cb76b64f522.html |
Thursday evening in the warm evening with a gentle breeze, the mellow jazz music of a saxophone was relaxing and mesmerizing as recognizable old songs were played.
August 4, the first of a Thursday series of musical evenings was kicked off by Coquille’s very own Shawn Bridges. Bridges is the Coquille Schools’ band director. He started playing music on guitar but took up saxophone in the last five years and enjoys playing reed instruments. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/music-fills-sturdivant-park/article_d7c0dfb6-18e7-11ed-a5de-dbc5ab9dd98e.html | 2022-08-12T12:39:09 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/music-fills-sturdivant-park/article_d7c0dfb6-18e7-11ed-a5de-dbc5ab9dd98e.html |
The Elkhart man accused of throwing an explosive device at a state trooper during the racial injustice protests in downtown Fort Wayne two years ago was found not guilty Thursday of all charges against him.
Juan Pablo Gonzalez, 43, wept after the jury returned its verdict, wiping his eyes with a handkerchief. His weeping became more profuse after Allen County Superior Judge Fran Gull pronounced him free and security guards unlocked the leg irons on him.
He faced up to 30 years in prison on the highest felony he was charged with – detonating a destructive device or explosive.
Allen County Chief Deputy Prosecutor Mike McAlexander said he was disappointed with the verdicts but respected the jury’s decisions.
“In this particular situation, there was a lot of chaos going on, and we couldn’t prove what every person in downtown Fort Wayne was doing,” McAlexander said. “That’s what we have jury trials for.”
The racial injustice protests happened May 29-31 in 2020, and local officials said people from out of Allen County instigated violence into what had been peaceful protests. About 100 protestors were arrested over the three days, although some cases didn’t proceed to court.
On Nov. 4, the prosecution dropped two misdemeanor charges against Gonzalez, rioting and disorderly conduct.
Gonzalez was still accused of throwing a water bottle with two objects attached to it, one to the bottom and one on the side. The device exploded, injuring Indiana State Trooper Tyson Waldron and leaving chemical burns on his pants, according to court documents. The documents state it was consistent with an “overpressure device.”
Court documents filed in 2019 for a separate case in Elkhart County said Gonzalez was convicted of murder in California, supporting local contentions of outside instigators. He has been in Allen County Jail since June 2020. Allen County Magistrate John Bohdan ordered him held in lieu of $25,000 bond for each of the four felony charges.
Defense attorney Ryan Gardner said Gonzalez was charged with the highest level felony of anyone arrested through the protests and riots. The other charges the jurors found him not guilty of were possession of a destructive device battery with bodily injury to a public safety officer and battery against a public safety official.
Gardner said he preferred to not let Gonzalez talk to the media after the emotional moment on the verdicts.
“The tears said it all,” Gardner said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/elkhart-man-accused-of-throwing-explosive-in-riots-found-not-guilty/article_8346bf02-19a8-11ed-815e-4f3946f43e67.html | 2022-08-12T12:39:09 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/elkhart-man-accused-of-throwing-explosive-in-riots-found-not-guilty/article_8346bf02-19a8-11ed-815e-4f3946f43e67.html |
Dawann L. Martin Jr. turned 18 in March, and he’ll likely spend most of his adult life in prison for a murder he committed when he was 15.
After eight hours of deliberation, a jury late Thursday night found him guilty of murder in the Dec. 22, 2019, death of 18-year-old Dominique Taylor at Villa Capri apartments. In addition to the punishment for committing murder, Martin was also eligible for a sentence enhancement of up to 20 years for using a gun to commit the crime.
Martin faces up to 85 years in prison when sentenced at a future date.
Both sides in the trial agreed that Taylor was shot while alone in a 2014 Chevrolet Sonic about 10:25 p.m., driven to the apartment complex by a friend who was buying “edibles” – or food laced with THC, the psychoactive substance in marijuana.
The sale was a set up because of a confrontation that happened earlier in the day when Taylor accompanied the friend to another apartment. The friend’s former roommate refused to return property, and a fight broke out.
During the fight, Taylor pulled a handgun on a woman there who was related to both the former roommate and Senaca James, who was sentenced on Dec. 3 to 80 years in Taylor’s slaying.
James and Martin were both charged with murder, and James pleaded guilty mid-trial on Oct. 20, 2021.
While the friend was in an apartment building, a group surrounded the Sonic and tried to get Taylor out, pulling at door handles and hitting the car. The friend testified that she saw Martin in front of the car, his face made visible by the headlights, pointing a gun at the windshield and shooting.
Allen County Deputy Prosecutor Tom Chaille in his closing arguments gave two ways for jurors to find Martin guilty of murder – either by finding that he fired the bullet that killed Taylor or through accomplice liability, being involved in a crime and its planning. Under Indiana law, someone instrumental in committing a crime that leads to murder is guilty of the murder even if they didn’t do the actual killing.
Chaille said the ambush at the apartments was the result of planning. At the first confrontation that day, police were called and defused the conflict, then called again when the former roommate began to escalate the situation on social media and around friends.
The edibles deal was supposed to happen elsewhere, but the man selling the edibles was part of the plot and had Taylor’s friend come to the apartment complex, Chaille told the jurors, reminding them of testimony. The plot was to rob Taylor’s friend of the edibles and her car.
James shot through the driver’s side window, hitting Taylor in the left chest and through her aorta, a fatal shot, Chaille said. Martin shot through the windshield and into her jaw, which testimony indicated would have been fatal by blood loss.
Under accomplice liability, it doesn’t matter which bullet killed Taylor, Chaille said.
Two shells were found at the scene, and they both were from a gun later found hidden in a duct in the basement where Martin lived, Chaille added during closings.
He also noted that during a hearing before the trial, Martin had walked by Taylor’s mother, Brandy Parrish, and told her he was sorry. Parrish testified it seemed like he was sorry for killing Taylor, not for her loss.
In the defense’s closing, attorney Robert Scremin portrayed Martin as a 15-year-old kid curious about seeing two girls go at it.
“He was going to an apartment complex to see two girls pull each other’s hair in a fight,” Scremin said. “He was an accomplice to nothing.”
There was no evidence he helped plan anything or knew the people involved in the conflict, Scremin said.
Although two shell casings were both from the same gun, the one in front of the car was found 40 feet down the road. Scremin said James turned and fired the second shot as they ran off. That was the one that shattered the windshield, he argued.
James had a different story when he sent a letter to the judge on his case, Allen County Superior Judge Fran Gull, before he was sentenced. He wrote that he fired into the air while Martin shot Taylor.
He also called Martin a “highly known person in Fort Wayne for shooting at people” and said that Martin had threatened his life if he snitched.
In closings, Scremin also portrayed Taylor’s friend as a schemer who got Taylor involved in a fight and in a drug deal, then lied to police until she had a story that made her look good.
He also shared photos from the apartment stairway where the friend was and said there was no way she could have seen the parking lot and whether Martin was pointing a gun. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/man-18-found-guilty-of-murder-in-fort-wayne/article_b2fbb7f2-19c6-11ed-835f-ef418b171eb5.html | 2022-08-12T12:39:15 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/man-18-found-guilty-of-murder-in-fort-wayne/article_b2fbb7f2-19c6-11ed-835f-ef418b171eb5.html |
ORANGE, Texas — Firefighters have contained the fire that destroyed the home of former National Football League player and Southeast Texas native Earl Thomas.
The home is located at FM 1130 and Bear Path Drive in Orange.
Chief Matt Manshack with Little Cypress Fire and Orange County ESD 3 says they got the call around 5:15 p.m. Thursday.
First crews on scene noticed heavy smoke and flames at the Southeast corner of Thomas' house.
When they tried to get in, the smoke was too thick so they had to pull back and go into what he called "defensive mode."
The cause of the fire is not confirmed, but officials are not ruling out lightning as a possible cause.
The 12news StormTrackers reviewed radar data and found a lot of lighting with the storms that moved through Orange Thursday afternoon.
Chief Manshack says they're investigating to see whether lighting could be to blame, but he confirms to 12news that no one was hurt in the blaze.
He also says, Thomas' home is at a total loss.
"When we arrived on scene the guys, the firefighter crew went in found heavy fire conditions in that corner. We're unable to get it under control quickly. With the size of the structure the choice was made by them to go ahead and pull out and just go defensive with it," he said.
Orange Fire Department Fire Marshal Randy Ener says firefighters that were first on scene spoke briefly to Thomas. Thomas then got into a car with who officials believe was his mother and drove off.
Ener says he heard Thomas' mother frequently came to the home to look after Thomas' kids.
One official told 12News he doesn't have any reason to believe the fire was set on purpose, but they're waiting for the state fire marshal to arrive Friday and investigate the cause.
This is a developing story. We will update with more if and when we receive more confirmed information.
On May 14 2022, Thomas was arrested at Spanky’s Bar and Grill in Orange on a warrant out of Austin for a violation of a court protective order, stemming from him allegedly sending threatening messages to his wife about her and their children.
Thomas was booked into the Orange County Jail and soon bonded out. His bond was set at $15,000.
The Austin American-Statesman reports Thomas owns a home in West Austin with his estranged wife and also spends time in Orange, where he grew up.
A warrant on April 27 accused Thomas of violating the protective order two or more times within 12 months, which a third-degree felony.
Thomas’ May 2021 protective order requires him to communicate with the woman only through a co-parenting phone application. The woman told police Thomas refuses to download the application and shows up unannounced to places she visits, according to the police affidavit.
She said Thomas recently began sending threatening text messages.
Thomas allegedly sent a text on April 18 claiming he had two handguns, saying, “Waiting on hand in foot is why I’ll kick ur ass.”
He also allegedly threatened to poison the children. Police say he later texted, “I hope u in the car with him and the kids and yall drive off the road.”
In May 2020, police arrested Thomas’ wife after she was accused of pointing a loaded pistol at his head after breaking into a vacation home and finding him with another woman. She filed for divorce that November.
The seven-time Pro Bowl safety has not played since 2020 when the Baltimore Ravens released him after he punched a teammate during a preseason practice. He played for West Orange-Stark High School and graduated in 2007. He also played for the University of Texas from 2008 to 2010. On April 22, 2022 he told an ESPN reporter he hopes to return to the NFL.
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PLEASANT PRAIRIE — A two-vehicle collision injured four motorists in the crash that occurred in the 10000 block of Highway 165 (104th Street) Thursday.
The crash was initially reported at 2:54 p.m. with a total of nine people involved, according to Sgt. Brianna Gates of the Pleasant Prairie Police Department. Village fire and rescue personnel transported to the hospital some of the individuals with injuries, but they were not severe, she said.
Their conditions also were not immediately known. Authorities re-routed traffic around the scene for nearly two hours. Details on how the crash occurred or whether citations were issued were also not immediately known as an investigation into the incident continues, she said.
IN PHOTOS: EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc.'s 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony
Taking time to reflect
Pleasant Prairie Fire Chief Craig Roepke, left, and Pleasant Prairie Police Chief David Smetana, right salute as Taps is played during EMCO Chemical Distributors 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday at the company headquarters, 8601 95th St. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of that day 20 years ago, and to honor the first responders who protect us daily. This year’s event featured a fly-over by a vintage P-51 Mustang and a A-1 Skyraider, music, and speeches by Paul Truess, regional director for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, State Rep. Samantha Kerkman, and EMCO President Edward Polen.
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EMCO President Edward Polen speaks during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc. 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, September 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of that day, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
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EMCO President Edward Polen speaks during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc. 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, September 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of that day, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
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EMCO President Edward Polen looks up at the American Flag as the National Anthem is played during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc. 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, September 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of that day, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
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Pleasant Prairie first responders listen to the National Anthem during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc. 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, September 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of that day, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
© Gregory Shaver for the Kenosha News
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A P-51 Mustang and an A-! Skyrider, perform a fly-over during EMCO Chemical Distributors 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, September 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of that day, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
© Gregory Shaver for the Kenosha News
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EMCO President Edward Polen watches the a P-51 Mustang and an A-1 Skyraider, perform a fly-over during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc.'s 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
© Gregory Shaver for the Kenosha News
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A 9/11 Remembrance flag flies during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc.'s 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
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Kelly Ward listens as Taps is played during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc.'s 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie.
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Pleasant Prairie Police Chief David Smetana salutes as Taps is played during EMCO Chemical Distributors Inc.'s 19th Annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony on Friday, Sept. 10, 2021, at the company's facility at 8601 95th Street, in Pleasant Prairie. Employees and invited guests took time to reflect on the tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001, and honor the first responders that protect the community daily.
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Happy Middle Child Day ... now show us some respect for a change!
The Holy Rosary Catholic Church Festival starts open on the church grounds, 2224 45th St. Live music today is the Doo Wop Daddies, performing from 6:30 to 10 p.m. The festival is open 5 to 10 p.m. today (and Saturday and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday). All the festival food favorites are back, too, including fried dough.
Prost! The Biergarten in Petrifying Springs County Park is open seven days, serving up cold beverages and warm pretzels. For more details, check the Biergarten’s Facebook page.
Also in Petrifying Springs Park tonight, the 1984 movie “Gremlins” will be show at dusk. Admission is free. The movie is on the south end of the park, 5555 Seventh St.
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It’s time for cream puffs, fried foods on sticks and that giant yellow slide! The Wisconsin State Fair is open at the fairgrounds in West Allis. Daily highlights include free Kids From Wisconsin shows at the Amphitheater, the ever-popular Racing Pigs and talented canine performers in the K-9 Sports Arena. For more details, go to | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-friday-aug-12/article_279ec1a8-18f0-11ed-b473-2b2f0b8a964b.html | 2022-08-12T12:48:35 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/todays-events-for-friday-aug-12/article_279ec1a8-18f0-11ed-b473-2b2f0b8a964b.html |
For almost a century, it’s been time to make the doughnuts at Paielli’s Bakery ... along with bread, rolls, genetti, biscotti, kringles and cakes.
The Kenosha business was started in 1923 by Santé and Matilda Paielli and is still run by the Paielli family, stretching into the third and fourth generations.
“It’s a family environment, and it’s always been that way,” said Dave Paielli, who started working in the family bakery in the mid-1970s. “We have lots of family members who all work together here, and we like to keep it like a family.”
His brother, Mark Paielli, has been at the bakery since 1974 and their father, Dino Paielli, still comes to work, too — especially when it’s chocolate eclair season (That starts in the fall, so don’t get too excited yet. “We use real egg custard,” Dave Paielli said, “so you don’t want anyone eating it in 90-degree heat.”)
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The bakery will mark its 100th anniversary on Jan. 14, 2023, and the planning has already started.
That’s where you come in — if you’ve ever worked at Paielli’s.
Present and former employees are invited to gather at the bakery, 6020 39th Ave., from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 13) to help create a 100th anniversary video.
“We’d also like people to bring in any photos they have,” said Ellen Paielli, Dave’s wife and the bakery’s cake decorator.
“There could be hundreds of people here Saturday,” she said. “We’re hoping for a good turnout.”
Over the years, the bakery — which today has about 70 people working in production, delivering and selling of their products — has employed hundreds of local residents “and we really want to honor those employees,” Ellen Paielli said. “We have people who have worked here for more than 40 years. Mario Covelli worked here 47 years before he retired.”
Ellen Paielli — who’s worked at the bakery for 31 years — is hoping to create a collage of historic photos on a wall inside the bakery. (Can’t make it Saturday but want to send in your Paielli’s Bakery photos? Email them to: paiellisbakeryinc@tds.net. Put “photos” in the subject line.)
Already, there’s a new lighted sign and photos from past years on the brick wall behind the bakery service counter, filled with pastries and kringles on a bustling Thursday morning.
“We’ve been working on remodeling the inside,” Dave Paielli said, “but it’s difficult to do when you’re open all the time.”
On ‘Paielli Avenue’
Another change will take place outside the building, on 40th Avenue, which is on the west side of the bakery.
On Aug. 17, that section of 40th Avenue will be renamed in honor of Dino Paielli, just weeks ahead of his 90th birthday.
“We were trying to keep it a secret,” Dave Paielli said, “but he heard it mentioned on WLIP — the one time they mentioned it on the radio — so when he came into work that day, he knew about it.”
The soft-spoken Dino Paielli “is excited about it but also very quiet about it,” Dave Paielli said. “He’s getting excited about the 100th anniversary celebration too, since this was all started by his parents.”
Cyclops love
As for what’s popular at Paielli’s Bakery, the Cyclops doughnut continues to reign supreme.
The doughnut — named for the one-eyed giant Cyclops in Greek mythology — comes covered in chocolate and packed with a rich creamy filling (the “eye”) in the middle.
Also popular each fall are the pumpkin spice cake doughnuts.
Dave Paielli, however, is more partial to the bakery’s danish, almond horns “and our butter cookies at Christmas. It’s so easy to keep eating those.”
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MIDLAND, Texas — The Midland Police Department has issued a warrant against a suspect involved in a shooting incident on August 11.
The warrant was for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon and the suspect has been identified as 29-year-old Isabel Arlene Losoya.
The initial investigation revealed that there were two victims shot near the 800 block of S. Midkiff Road. The victims were a 29-year-old female and her 2-year-old daughter who both had non-life threatening injuries. On August 11 at 9:00 p.m., Midland Police responded to a call from Midland Memorial Hospital where the two gunshot victims were at.
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CLERMONT, Fla. – A former Clermont cheerleading coach accused of sexually abusing children who attended his gym has been indicted on federal charges.
According to the Department of Justice, Vigiland D’Haiti, 40, molested an underage teen and recorded the abuse.
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The department announced the indictment on Thursday charging D’Haiti with one count of possessing images and videos of children being sexually exploited, one count of production of child sexual abuse images and videos, and one count of enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.
Clermont police said D’Haiti was arrested by Winter Garden police at his home in March on a Lake County warrant for his arrest for multiple counts of lewd and lascivious molestation on victims aged 12-15 years old.
Investigators said they found sexual pictures and video of D’Haiti abusing children who he knew through his Clermont gym, Rush Allstars. He is also accused of molesting another underage teen in 2014.
Anyone who believes they may be a victim is asked to call 911.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A former Oviedo High School teacher was found guilty of trying to meet with a minor sex, according to the Department of Justice.
Dennis Lee Line, 51, was arrested in February by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. He was found guilty of one count of attempting to coerce or entice a minor to engage in sexual activity.
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Prosecutors argued the 51-year-old made arrangements to try and meet a teen at an Orlando restaurant. According to an arrest affidavit, Line used the online alias “Stephen” when he began exchanging messages with a detective posing as a 15-year-old girl.
The detective made clear to Line the girl they were portraying in the messages was 15 years old, according to the affidavit. Line told the detective he was “absolutely okay” with the age difference and said he was unhappy in his marriage, the affidavit said.
He was a teacher at Oviedo High School from July 2001 to May 2018 and he also worked at Universal Orlando Resort.
Line is scheduled to be sentenced in November.
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GARDEN CITY, S.C. – A beachgoer was killed Wednesday after a loose beach umbrella impaled her in the chest, authorities said.
The umbrella was blown from its anchoring by the wind around 12:40 p.m. and hit Tammy Perreault while she was at a Garden City beach, Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard told news outlets.
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Perreault, 63, died about an hour later at the hospital from chest trauma, Willard said.
Beach umbrellas have a spiked end to help push them into the sand and their wide canopy allows them to get caught up in a strong wind if they are not anchored properly, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
The federal agency estimates about 3,000 people are injured by beach umbrellas every year.
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WINDERMERE, Fla. – Windermere High School is mourning the death of one of its students, according to Orange County Public Schools.
The district said the principal of the high school notified families on Thursday, and grief counselors are at the school on Friday for students or staff.
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Principal Andrew Leftakis said in a message to families he learned of the death on Thursday.
“I know I speak for our entire Windermere High community when I express the grief we feel at the loss of one our own,” he said.
The name of the student has not been released, however, the Windermere Wolverines girls flag football team at the high school shared on Twitter it was heartbroken by the loss of “one of our seniors and team captain.”
Our program is heartbroken by the lost of one of our seniors and team captain today.
— Windermere Wolverines Flag Football (@WindermereFFB) August 11, 2022
Our thoughts and prayers go out the Simmons family. An amazing young lady, leader and role model who impacted the lives of many within our program and countless others across the campus. pic.twitter.com/PIuIhrHkNl
Students returned to school for the first day of classes on Wednesday.
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KATY, Texas — A Katy family of five was expecting to have their last child, but instead, they got the surprise of their lives. There wasn't just one baby, there were four.
Inside the Hagler home, feeding times are truly a sight to behold.
"It's not always this quiet," Gaby Hagler said. "I thought it was going to be crazy chaos with screaming babies."
Her four babies, Adam, Bennett, Coby and Dane, all get hungry at the same time. Handling it all takes teamwork and a game plan.
Luckily, there are a lot of hands ready to help.
"There are moments of chaos, but it's not what I expected," Gaby said.
Gaby and Patrick Hagler's journey has been anything but expected. They got married in 2018 as a blended family -- each with a child from a previous marriage. Those kids are Paxton and Kalleigh. It didn't take long to become a family of five with Sammy, their now almost 3-year-old son.
"Life was already hectic and busy and everything," Gaby said.
Gaby got pregnant again, but suffered a miscarriage. After healing from that loss, the couple wanted to try again.
"We decided we'll do one more. We'll be complete with one more, with a fourth," Patrick said.
After taking fertility medication, Gaby got pregnant again, and at their 12-week ultrasound, they got the surprise of a lifetime.
"She's just ecstatic with this counting and we're like are you counting limbs? What are we counting here?" Gaby said.
"She said, 'Wait there's four.' I said four what? She said, 'Four babies, did you know you're having four babies?'" Patrick said.
For the next five months, Gaby and Patrick navigated the high-risk pregnancy.
"It became this beautiful group effort where everyone believed these boys could make it to that day and we did," Gaby said.
At 34 weeks -- on June 22 -- Adam, Bennett, Coby and Dane were born.
"It's, like, wow, those are four babies at the same time," Gaby said. "It's such a blessing."
Three weeks after birth all the babies were ready to head home.
"The love in this house now is tangible," Gaby said.
The family of nine is finally complete and ready for the journey ahead.
"The sibling love that we have been experiencing here ... there's no words for it," Gaby said.
"We're looking forward for what life has in store for these guys," Patrick said.
The Haglers recently purchased a van when Sammy was born, but now they are in need of a much larger vehicle. They are hoping to purchase a Ford Transit passenger fan to ferry their entire crew from Katy to the Medical Center for doctor appointments.
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Get ready to give these dogs a round of "a-paws:" it is almost time for the National Dog Show.
Tickets are now on sale for the annual Kennel Club of Philadelphia (KCP) event at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania this fall.
On Nov. 19 and 20, the expo center will be full of dogs, demos, trainers, breeders and families who want to catch a glimpse of all the action. The KCP says they are anticipating an entry number of around 2,000 dogs, featuring over 190 different breeds at the show throughout the weekend.
Before the pandemic, the event used to draw upwards of 15,000 people to Oaks. Tickets are $16 for adults, $7 for children between the ages of 4 and 11, and free for those under 4. Parking is free at the expo center.
This year's Saturday show will be recorded and televised across the country on Thanksgiving Day, keeping the yearly tradition alive. The National Dog Show is the most widely viewed dog show nationwide, according to the KCP.
On Sunday the 20th, families will be able to check out athletic dog exhibitions, canine competitions and family fun that includes interactive hands-on activities for dog lovers of all ages.
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The show, which airs on NBC, brings in an audience of nearly 20 million viewers annually, according to the KCP.
“Our attraction is wonderfully unique because the dogs are on hand all weekend long at benches for people to meet them and interact with their owners, handlers and breeders. It’s a rare opportunity to learn what kind of canine might be best-suited for their family," KCP President Wayne Ferguson said in a release.
For more information on the event and to grab tickets (and possibly discover the perfect breed for the family's next furry friend), visit the KCP website.
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Who's in the lead at the White Marlin Open with one day to go?
A white marlin and a blue marlin ended the drought of the marlins on Day 4 of the White Marlin Open in Ocean City Thursday.
Texas angler Keeley Megarity reeled in a 71.5-pound marlin aboard C- Student to earn himself a potential payout of $2.8 million.
Maryland angler Bill Britt brought in a monster 511-pound blue marlin to potentially end the tournament with a $960,000 check.
These were the only qualifying marlins to be brought to Harbour Island Marina scales, although not the only changes to the leader board with just one day left to fish. A whopping 59.5-pound mahi was brought in by Frank Sinito Jr. of Cleveland, Ohio, to claim the top spot in the dolphin category.
Here's the leader board after Day 4 at White Marlin Open
White marlin
71.5 lbs: C- Student, Southside, Texas; Keeley Megarity , Houston, Texas; $2,800,000
Blue marlin
511 lbs: Cabana, Fenwick Island, Del.; Bill Britt, Silver Spring, Md.; $960,000
Tuna
247.5 lbs: Southern C's, Ocean City; Jason Hersh, Maple Glen, Pa.; $940,000
246.5 lbs: Big Stick, Ocean City; Anderson Bowen, Suwanee, Ga.; $100,000
242.5 lbs: Komotose. Manteo, N.C.; Richard Hawse, Pasadena, Md.; $320,000
Wahoo
71 lbs: Jenny Poo, Palm Beach, Fla.; Chris Thompson, Mt. Airy, Md.; $20,000
54 lbs: WaterMarlin, Seaford, Del.; Hans Mulford, Seaford, Del.; $20,000
51.5 lbs; Irish Twin; Patrick Brown; Miami, Fla.; $18,000
Dolphin
59.5 lbs: Irene, Stuart, Fla.; Frank Sinito Jr., Cleveland, Ohio; $24,000
29 lbs; 10-4 Joker, Chincoteague, Va.; Vernon Merritt Jr., Chincoteague, Va.; $91,000
28 lbs.: JEB, Ocean City; Vince Piaccinini, Lutherville, Md.; $20,000
Swordfish
No leader
WHITE MARLIN OPEN DAY 4:White and blue marlins roll into the scales on day 4
PHOTOS:Big billfish finally roll in on day 4 of the 2022 White Marlin Open
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White Marlin Open catch of the day: A prized billfish, finally, on Day 4
After they remained elusive for anglers on the first three days of the 2022 White Marlin Open, billfish finally started to roll into the Harbour Island Marina scales Thursday.
Day 4 saw the first qualifying white and blue marlins, but one mammoth fish reigned above all others.
Aboard the C-Student, Keeley Megarity brought a 71.5-pound white marlin to the scales, making he and his crew the first boat to catch a qualifying white marlin at the 2022 White Marlin Open. Megarity's catch is currently valued at $2.8 million, and with only one more day of fishing left Friday, his catch will be the one every boat will be looking to surpass.
Here's Megarity at the scales with his monster catch.
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SAN ANTONIO — The CDC has announced major changes to their guidelines for COVID-19 Thursday.
First of all, if you’ve been exposed to COVID-19, the CDC says you won’t have to quarantine anymore. If you’ve been exposed, the CDC now recommends folks wear a high-quality mask for ten days instead of going into quarantine. They also recommend getting tested on the fifth day.
Regardless of whether you’ve received your vaccine, you should still isolate from others if you test positive. They still suggest staying home for five days, then if you test negative, you can take off your mask.
Another big change: the CDC says people no longer have to "social distance" or stay six feet away from each other.
Health experts now say 95 percent of Americans 16 and older now have some level of immunity, whether that’s from vaccines or getting infected.
The recommendations have also changed in time as millions of children head back to school.
"Because we are no longer recommending quarantine, we're no longer including a section on test-to-stay because the practice of handling exposures would involve masking rather than a quarantine and have to stay as an alternative to quarantine," said Greta Massett, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Here in San Antonio, the risk level for COVID remains high and steady. 925 new cases were reported on Thursday, for a total of 600,000 cases since the pandemic started. The seven day average is up from Wednesday at 844. 294 people are in the hospital, with 37 in the ICU. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/cdc-making-major-changes-to-covid-guidelines-san-antonio-texas-coronavirus/273-9b8a9639-de46-4de1-91db-ba63feb89e96 | 2022-08-12T13:15:39 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/cdc-making-major-changes-to-covid-guidelines-san-antonio-texas-coronavirus/273-9b8a9639-de46-4de1-91db-ba63feb89e96 |
SAN ANTONIO — Five men are in custody after police say they tried to steal an ATM on the northside of town early Friday morning.
It happened on the 5200 block of Blanco Rd. near Jackson Keller Rd around 4:30 a.m.
An officer was passing the free standing ATM when he noticed a group of guys trying to pull the cash machine off its base using a chain.
When the suspects noticed the officer, they took off, then abandoned their vehicle in a nearby apartment complex.
All five men, who police say were from Houston, were taken into custody.
A sergeant on the scene said this is the second time a group of men from Houston have attempted this very same thing, but also failed.
No charges for the suspects were clear at the time of the briefing and no injuries were reported.
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MINERAL WELLS, Texas — As the vibrant crossing guard helped children along the street at Mineral Well ISD’s Houston Elementary School, she wished students a good weekend.
It was Thursday.
Weekends at Mineral Wells ISD schools begin early after the district implemented a four-day school week for the new school year.
Students and teachers have school Monday through Thursday, and their three-day weekend begins on Friday.
A majority of parents of Houston Elementary students told WFAA they support the switch to a shorter school week.
Sheena Dow was among those who are celebrating.
“I love it,” Dow said. “I love every moment I get with my kids. An extra day with them makes me happy. Everyone needs more balance.”
Another parent, Gabriela Gonzalez, told WFAA she had to switch her work schedule to adjust to the new change.
“It’s something new, it’s different,” Gonzalez said.
Mineral Wells ISD Superintendent John Kuhn said during the last year multiple teachers in his district left, opting to teach at neighboring schools where districts offered a four-day week.
The loss of teachers led Kuhn and school leaders to re-evaluate how they would retain teachers, and it would take more than offering more pay.
“We found that [a four-day week] was a more popular option than we would’ve thought,” Kuhn said.
Of the district’s teachers, 87% supported a four-day week, Kuhn said.
“It’s really imperative for school districts to think outside the box,” Kuhn said.
That’s what he did, and the four-day school week became reality.
His district’s decision to switch comes as schools across North Texas and beyond are struggling to fill teacher vacancies.
This school year, Mineral Wells ISD is welcoming students back with zero teacher vacancies. It’s unclear if the four-day week can be directly attributed for attracting teachers, Kuhn said.
“I think it’s worth it,” Kuhn said. “My staff is really excited.”
He hopes the extra day off will help teachers manage their take-home workload. On Fridays, the district will also offer professional development opportunities for teachers.
To make up the school days lost, the district started the school year earlier and extended the year by a week. Additionally, school days are now around 30 minutes longer than they were before.
After some parents raised concern about finding child care when school is closed on Fridays, Kuhn and his district came up with a potential solution.
The district is offering an optional remediation day, or a catch-up day, on Fridays for students in fourth grade and under.
The district will provide students with meals at the Friday remediation. All students will go home with meals for the three-day weekend thanks to the Backpack Buddy program.
Parents who can’t find child care on Fridays have the option to sign their children up to attend school on Friday, Kuhn said.
“Ultimately, whatever we do, the goal is to do what’s best for kids ,” Kuhn said.
Kuhn said if the district’s STAAR test results improve at the end of the school year, the four-day week will stick around for good. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/mineral-wells-isd-launches-four-day-school-week-to-retain-teachers/287-4f7e700c-7761-4f00-8638-a1dda699ae1e | 2022-08-12T13:15:51 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/mineral-wells-isd-launches-four-day-school-week-to-retain-teachers/287-4f7e700c-7761-4f00-8638-a1dda699ae1e |
SAN ANTONIO — The search is on for a suspect who San Antonio police say shot an 18-year-old who was walking on the sidewalk.
It happened at around 10:45 p.m. Thursday night on Woodstone Dr. near I-10 on the north side.
Police say the man was walking on the sidewalk when a silver car pulled up and shots were fired at him, hitting him in the arm and buttocks.
The small silver car was occupied by four men, who sped off immediately after the shooting, according to the victim. Police say the man left a long trail of blood from the front of the complex, all the way to his apartment, where he was able to call for help.
The victim was taken to the hospital in unknown condition.
Police did not say whether the victim knew the suspects in the car, but they are currently searching for them to continue their investigation.
Police are still trying to figure out who was involved and exactly what led up to it.
This is a developing story.
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SAN ANTONIO — Two women had to be rescued from their vehicle after they were pinned inside following a rollover crash on the northeast side of town.
It happened around 3 a.m. early Friday on Bending Crest at Barton Rock Lane near O'Connor Rd.
Police responded for reports of a rollover crash and when they arrived found a vehicle on its side with two women inside.
Police say speed may have played a role in the vehicle hitting a parked car then rolling it onto its side. The two women were trapped and had to get cut out by the Bexar County Fire Department.
Both women were taken to the hospital in stable condition.
Police do not suspect alcohol was a factor.
Three other cars and some trash cans were also damaged in the wreck.
No word on whether any charges will be filed.
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KENS 5 has brought numerous firsts to South Texas television, including being the first local station with a helicopter, the first with its own Doppler radar and the first to air a local morning news program.
Over the years, KENS 5 has worked to transform local news. Our cameras have been the lens bringing history into local viewers' homes. We're proud of our legacy as we serve San Antonians today.
Today, KENS 5 continues to set the standard in local broadcasting and is recognized by its peers for excellence and innovation. The KENS 5 News team focuses on stories that really matter to our community.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The latest Consumer Price Index offered a welcome reprieve after months of increasing inflation, but experts caution that the good news is just an encouraging snapshot.
A closer look reveals mixed messages for our budgets, especially in the Twin Cities.
"Inflation is still with us," said Mark Bergen, marketing professor at the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management. "It's not rising, but not falling precipitously. We're still in high levels of inflation that we haven't seen for 40 years."
Bergen says the Consumer Price Index is still encouraging, especially after months of bad news. But the good news is largely concentrated in the energy sector — the national average of a gallon of regular gas has finally fallen back below $4 for the first time since March. Minnesota has mirrored that drop for weeks now, and the trend looks to continue.
"I do believe, for now at least, that the national average will continue to decline," said Patrick De Haan, head petroleum analyst for Gas Buddy. "We'll probably go down another 10, maybe 25 cents a gallon over the next couple of weeks, so the good news certainly doesn't end there."
But while those prices at the pump have fueled that leveling off of inflation, if you look at the prices we're paying at the grocery store, concern keeps climbing.
"If I'm a consumer and food is moving up enough to [negate] these energy savings, that means I have to start paying more attention to my food bill," Bergen said. "I've got to start paying attention to which categories are going up by more or less."
Unfortunately, those price hikes are even more pronounced locally. While prices for groceries have risen by 13 percent across the country in the last year, they are up by 15 percent in the Midwest region and 16 percent in the Twin Cities-metro area.
Looking closer, some of the biggest increases are on cereal and bakery goods. Prices for that category have increased 15 percent nationally since July 2021, while increasing by 16 percent in the Midwest and 17 percent in the Twin Cities.
Dairy products are up 15 percent nationally, 17 percent in the Midwest and 16 percent in the Twin Cities.
"That's a surprise and a puzzle," Bergen said. "We were higher than the national average in every aspect of the food categories, which I wouldn't have anticipated. You kind of think of us in the Midwest being closer to the food and the cost would be lower, and we have more farms and manufacturers and retailers."
Though it could be just a one month blip in the data, Bergen says the higher food prices locally are worth another look.
Bergen: "I think the best guess would be that food, maybe, is just a bigger part of our consumption and we're less price sensitive than maybe the coasts or down south. So if that's true, the sellers will pick that up and realize that they can pass more of the costs through. Whereas, in some of the other areas they might go, well if I raise that price, then I'm going to get such a big drop in demand it's not worth it."
Erdahl: "Does that mean that if you are watching prices and adjusting your lists accordingly, that it might not just benefit your own budget?"
Bergen: "It's a great point, yeah, if we're more attentive, and if we react to the places where the prices are going up, that will get picked up by the retailers, so we help everyone by being more attentive shoppers, and it will make markets move faster."
If you look beyond food, the metro and Midwest regions have fared better than the national average when it comes to another major part of our budgets: shelter. Year over year, shelter costs (rent and associated costs) are up nearly 6 percent nationally. It's up 5 percent in the Midwest and less than 4 percent in the Twin Cities.
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ENGLISH, Indiana — A statewide Silver Alert has been issued for a 74-year-old man from southern Indiana.
The Perry County Sheriff's Department said Kenneth Davenport was last seen in English, Indiana, Thursday, Aug. 11 shortly after 8:45 p.m.
Davenport is described as 6 feet 1 inch tall, weighs 225 pounds, and has blonde hair and blue eyes. He was last seen driving a black 2011 Chevrolet Silverado with an Indiana license plate number FL228Z.
Deputies said Davenport is believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
Anyone with information on Davenport's whereabouts is asked to call the Perry County Sheriff’s Department at 812-547-2441 or 911.
English, Indiana, is roughly 115 miles south of downtown Indianapolis.
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.
In both situations, these alerts must be issued by police.
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- Suspect in Richmond police shooting claimed years earlier he 'was not going back to jail and would shoot any officer or agent that encountered him' | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/missing-74-years-old-kenneth-davenport-english-indiana-perry-county/531-34544a06-ee19-48bd-bd76-36e43c4ca728 | 2022-08-12T13:18:42 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/missing-74-years-old-kenneth-davenport-english-indiana-perry-county/531-34544a06-ee19-48bd-bd76-36e43c4ca728 |
Average daily flows
Snake River at Heise 9,539 cfs
Snake River at Blackfoot 4,181 cfs
Snake River at American Falls 10,840 cfs
Snake River at Milner 1,490 cfs
Little Wood River near Carey 153 cfs
Jackson Lake is 38% full.
Palisades Reservoir is 46% full.
American Falls Reservoir is 19% full.
Upper Snake River system is at 35% of capacity.
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3 arrested after leading Detroit police on car chase, shooting at officers
Detroit — Three people were arrested Thursday after police say they led a car chase in a stolen pickup truck and shot at officers.
Michigan State Police said they assisted Detroit police who were pursuing a black Dodge Ram pickup. Someone fired at police officers through the truck's rear sliding window, officials said.
Troopers joined the pursuit in the area of Interstate 75 and Schaefer in Detroit, they said.
State police executed a maneuver at about 10:10 p.m. to stop the truck on the northbound Southfield Freeway near Outer Drive in Allen Park.
They said the people who were in the truck got out and ran but troopers and police chased and took three into custody.
Police searched the truck and found an AR-15 inside, authorities said.
A state police canine unit was brought in and found a second weapon, a semi-automatic pistol, under a tree in front of a home on Snow Avenue about three blocks from where the truck was stopped. Investigators said they believe one of the people left the weapon there.
Police said the suspected driver of the stolen truck is wanted for a double homicide. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/08/12/3-arrested-after-leading-detroit-police-state-police-car-chase-thursday/10306510002/ | 2022-08-12T13:30:32 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2022/08/12/3-arrested-after-leading-detroit-police-state-police-car-chase-thursday/10306510002/ |
The discovery of a body in a trash compactor in Brooklyn early Friday prompted a police investigation, but authorities say they don't believe, at this point, any criminality was involved.
NYPD officers responding to a privately-owned "large" apartment building on Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 4 a.m. confirmed the grisly find, which was just inside the building's front door.
They say it appears a man in his 50s climbed into the chute himself -- maybe to reach for something -- and was killed by the compactor.
No other details were immediately available. The investigation is ongoing.
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A WNBC feature on a touching, yet tragic, 9/11 photo has won a national Edward R. Murrow award for large market local feature reporting.
Administered by the Radio Television Digital News Association since 1971, the Murrow is considered among the most prestigious awards in broadcast journalism. The large market local feature category takes in the reporting of all the TV stations in the 50 largest U.S. markets.
The piece by photojournalist Michael DelGiudice and reporter Adam Harding tells the story of Jaime Amoroso, who lost her Port Authority Police officer husband at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. A photograph showed him rescuing a woman that day, but her identity remained a mystery for decades - until WNBC's team found her halfway across the world and connected her with Amoroso.
The award-winning video will play in the window at the top of this story, and the original text version follows:
Jaime married Christopher Charles Amoroso on Nov. 26, 1999. Together they had a daughter. When asked what she remembered the morning of 9/11, the widow said, "it was a beautiful day."
"I remember he left and he said I'm working at the World Trade Center," she said, recalling that she told him to be careful. "He goes, 'what's going to happen?'"
"I knew when the second tower fell. I had a feeling that it wasn't going to be good. I just knew."
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Christopher loved his job, Jaime said. In her husband's finals moments, she was able to see his heroism in action --- thanks to Daily News photographer Todd Maisel who snapped a photo of the officer appearing to escort a woman away from danger following the terror attack.
"[The photo] was given to me," Jaime said. "It was good and bad. We have the proof he was a hero. He saved this woman."
For two decades, Jaime waited to hear from the mystery woman. She often wondered if the woman made it out alive because no one had been able to identify her from the photo.
"As time went on, I started to think maybe he didn't save her, or get her far enough, because we had never found her or had anybody ever spoken to her," Jaime said.
The photo wasn't only important to Jaime, but Maisel as well. He keeps a print of it boxed up in storage, out of sight but never out of mind. Maisel says the selflessness portrayed within the image stuck with him. He now lives a quieter life in rural Massachusettes but he'll never forget what he saw that day.
"I know every detail. I remember it all like it was yesterday," Maisel said. "[Amoroso] was one of the first officers I saw. [The woman] was in distress and Chris was determined to help her. It was like the photo brought him back to life. For that moment, they were able to see Chris for the hero that he was. I took two frames, and then I lost them."
Maisel also never found the woman in his photo. But out of thousands of social media posts in tribute to 9/11 victims before the attacks' 20th anniversary, someone identified the woman as his mother.
"That woman Officer Amoroso is seen helping in this photo is my mother, Suman Dhamija. My mother has severe asthma so after running down the stairs of the 2nd tower and with all the debris and smoke in the air, she could not breathe," the commenter said. "Officer Amoroso helped lift her up and walk away from the towers. This photo was taken before the 2nd tower collapsed."
Dhamija was working in the tower at the time. She now lives in India and she still remembers what Officer Amoroso said to her that day 20 years ago.
"He said, 'Ma'am, relax. We are here to help,'" she said. "I wish the best for his family, for his loved ones. If he wasn't there, there is no way I could have made it."
Officer Amoroso got Dhamija to safety before going back to help others, she said. Dhamija says she never got a chance to thank the brave officer for saving her life. So every Sept. 11, her family light candles for her as they celebrate her second birth, thanks to Amoroso.
"I always felt bad because I have lived my life, and he was still so young," Dhamija said. She's now a grandmother and Amoroso is still on her mind.
In a message to Jaime, Dhamija said, "Tell her that she had such a wonderful husband and that I'm alive because of him."
Jaime broke down in tears once she finally learned the identity of that woman whose life her husband saved.
"I can't believe she's alive. I can't believe she has the same face," Jaime said. "She's the last person with him. He went in with a purpose, to want to save as many people as possible. The fact that I get to hear somebody say it."
Then a new relationship was born out of tragedy. Jaime finally got to meet Dhamija after nearly two decades, even if it's only through a video call.
"You look exactly the same. If I walked past you on the street, I would have known who you were because I've looked at that picture so many times," Jaime told Dhamija. "I'm glad he did his job that day, so you could be with your family."
"Did he seem scared?" Jaime asked.
Dhamija replied, "He wasn't scared, but I was scared."
It has been a long journey of healing for Jaime but she finally got the closure she was searching for. One day, Jaime plans to have her daughter meet Dhamija and they can create new memories.
"Life goes on," she told Dhamija. "Chapter's closed, I guess. Looking forward to starting new things. It's time." | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/wnbc-wins-national-murrow-award-for-touching-9-11-story-the-photo/3822141/ | 2022-08-12T13:32:19 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/wnbc-wins-national-murrow-award-for-touching-9-11-story-the-photo/3822141/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – Authorities are searching for a man accused of hitting at least three people and over 10 cars after a concert at Club Rodeo on Thursday night near K-15 and MacArthur Road.
According to Lt. Daniel Oliver, Sedgwick County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the location around 10:45 p.m.
When the call occurred, there was a fight at the club. A man left the club and made his way to a vehicle assumed to be his. The sheriff’s office believes the suspect intentionally ran into “numerous cars, probably upwards of 10,” circled the parking lot, and then came back to hit more vehicles.
Oliver said the car hit at least three people: two females and one male. Two of those were staff members of the club, and one was a customer. They were not critically injured. Instead, they received medical care and were transported via personal vehicle to a hospital. Oliver said that some other people were potentially hit but were not on the scene when they arrived and that they “would assume their injuries to be minor if they were injured.”
The building also was damaged during this time, specifically the awning support beams. Firefighters said there was no significant damage and ensured that a portion of the building would be structurally safe until a contractor could conduct a proper inspection.
Oliver says they are searching for a Hispanic man with a goatee. He is about 6 feet tall and wearing a white shirt with blue flowers and light-colored blue jeans. He was last seen on foot southbound on the railroad tracks toward the area of Clifton and K-15.
If you see this man, please call 911 immediately. Club Rodeo is closed on Thursday but was open for the concert. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/driver-hits-at-least-3-people-cars-at-club-rodeo/ | 2022-08-12T13:38:16 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/driver-hits-at-least-3-people-cars-at-club-rodeo/ |
TOPEKA, Kan. (KSNW) — Since 2016, a Kansas State High School Activities Association (KSHSAA) proposal has been in the works to change how private schools are classified. If passed, the proposal would provide big changes to how high school athletes across Kansas compete.
The KSHSAA held a public hearing on the issue Wednesday and will vote on the proposal this September. Essentially, the more championships a private school wins in a certain period of time, the more its enrollment numbers are artificially boosted, which could put that school in a different league altogether.
“Private/public discussion is always gonna be talked about,” Jeremy Holaday, assistant executive director of the KSHSAA, said.
Holaday says the new proposal could level the playing field between Kansas private and public schools.
“The success factor is the first gatekeeping factor,” Holaday said.
Betty Arnold with the Kansas State Board of Education (KSBE) says the proposal stems from a small handful of schools consistently winning state titles — none of those schools are in Wichita or the Wichita area.
“Why force this new rule on the entire state when you’re basically talking about Kansas City?” Arnold said.
Arnold says she’s seen no evidence private school wins impact public school students opportunities to earn athletic scholarships.
“What is the basis of our concern other than we have a small number of schools that seem to be dominating?” Arnold said. “If that’s all that’s stake, then I’m wondering, how do we justify all of this effort?”
Kapaun Mt. Carmel Athletic Director Marty Straub says this proposal could hurt several smaller schools in our area.
“When you get into large participation sports like track and field, like wrestling, like soccer and football, it does become a game of numbers … why hold those schools accountable for the errors or sins of, of the folks up in the Kansas City area?” Straub said.
If the proposal passes, the state legislature must amend a statute during its next session. If the proposal fails, Straub says it’s back to square one. The proposal has been in the works since 2016. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/kshsaa-officials-speak-out-on-private-school-multiplier-proposal/ | 2022-08-12T13:38:22 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/kshsaa-officials-speak-out-on-private-school-multiplier-proposal/ |
ANDOVER, Kan. (KSNW) – A magnetic energy-filled Prairie Creek Elementary School in Andover on Thursday as students and staff returned to the building for the first day of school.
It happened just months after an EF-3 tornado ripped through town, causing a lot of damage.
“We’re just so happy to be in our classroom and be together. So … just surreal,” said Bella White, fourth grade Prairie Creek teacher.
Students were excited to see old friends, teachers, and just be back in a familiar building. Kids filled the halls, and laughter filled the lunchroom for the first time since April’s tornado.
“It was a lot of hard work to make this happen and lots of hours for lots of people and to see the kids in [the] classroom already learning and working on making friends. Makes all that all [of] that hard work worthwhile,” said Shawn Springer, Prairie Creek principal.
Students are excited to be back after ending the school year across six different buildings.
“It felt kind of weird because then I couldn’t watch my brother because he does like a lot of mischievous things,” said Keith Barney, a fifth grader.
Many students are loving the new look of their school.
“It looks better, and it looks more brighter and welcoming,” said Lizzie Shultz, a fifth grader.
Many parents are thankful to have their kids return to the school they grew up in.
“I have a fifth grader there, so this is her last year in the building. She’s gone there ever since kindergarten, and starting [this year] there meant a lot to me as a parent,” said Tim Brunson, dad of two Prairie Creek students.
White says this experience reminds them all how fortunate they are.
“School, friends, it’s a gift, and it’s precious, and having our friendships and having each other it’s just almost priceless,” White said. “We’re very lucky to have each other and to be together again.”
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An armed man who died after attempting to breach the FBI Cincinnati Field Office and leading law enforcement officers on a chase that ended in a six-hour standoff in Clinton County has been identified.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed the suspect’s identity as 42-year-old Ricky W. Shiffer, of Columbus.
Law enforcement shot and killed Shiffer during a standoff that lasted more than six hours in Chester Twp. after he reportedly raised a firearm.
“The suspect then did raise a firearm toward law enforcement and shots were fired by law enforcement officers on the scene,” Ohio State Highway Patrol Lt. Nathan Dennis said during a media briefing Thursday. “At that point the suspect was deceased, he succumbed to his injures at the scene.”
Authorities now are investigating the motives of Shiffer, the case unfolding as the FBI warns agents to take extra precautions amid increased social media threats to its employees and facilities.
Officials reported a rise in threats against federal agents in the days following a search of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
Shiffer was believed to have been present at the U.S. Capitol on the day of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter told the Associated Press. Federal investigators are also examining whether Shiffer had ties to far-right extremist groups, including the Proud Boys, the official said.
Around 9:15 a.m. Thursday, an armed man, later identified as Shiffer, attempted to breach the visitor screening facility at the Cincinnati FBI office, agency spokesman Todd Lindgren stated Thursday.
“Upon the activation of an alarm and a response by armed FBI special agents, the subject fled northbound onto Interstate 71,” the statement read.
A trooper in Warren County spotted a white Ford Crown Victoria driven by Shiffer at a rest area in Turtlecreek Twp. around 9:37 a.m., according to OSHP. Once the trooper got behind the vehicle, Shiffer fled, resulting in a chase.
The pursuit continue north on the highway before Shiffer exited at state Route 73 and turned onto Smith Road. The chase ended around 9:53 a.m. on Smith Road near Van Trees Road, according to OSHP.
“Once the vehicle came to a stop, gunfire was exchanged between officers on scene and the suspect,” Dennis said.
Shiffer took cover behind the car for hours near a cornfield. Around 3:42 p.m., he raised a firearm and law enforcement fire shots, according to OSHP.
Multiple federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, including the Dayton Bomb Squad, responded to Clinton County. Houses and businesses within a one-mile radius of the intersection of Smith and Center roads were locked down.
Interstate 71 and other area roads were closed in Chester Twp. for hours during the standoff.
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Reentry support program meant to change lives of jail inmates once they're freed
MUNCIE, Ind. − The sign at the main entrance to the building holding local courts and the jail says "Delaware County Justice and Rehabilitation Center." Officials are working hard to put meaning behind the rehabilitation part.
State and local officials gathered Thursday at the Justice Center to discuss and provide an update on the Integrated Reentry and Correctional Support program that launched at the county jail late last month. The program provides peer coaching for inmates and, in conjunction with the Delaware County Manufacturers Alliance and Ivy Tech Community College, can provide job placement and continuing mental health and addiction treatment after release.
Delaware County is one five pilot sites for the program. Other counties participating are Blackford, Daviess, Dearborn and Scott. Delaware County has the largest population of any of the participants and therefore has a special responsibility to make sure the program is successful before it is enacted statewide.
"When they do end up in jail, we are working at helping these people, not just monitoring them," Delaware County Sheriff Tony Skinner said.
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In Delaware County peer coaches work with inmates while the offender is still serving their term behind bars. The coaches, who have been through the criminal justice system themselves, help assess an inmate, determine a pathway for them and prepare them to re-enter life outside incarceration.
Travis Jester, a peer supervisor with the Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition, which is contracted to provide peers in Delaware and Blackford counties, said that in the few weeks since the program began, 97% of eligible inmates have agreed to participate in the voluntary program in Delaware County.
Since July 21, when the program started in the county, 14 inmate-participants have been released. The peer coaches continue to "walk along beside them" and stay involved with providing support for at least 30 days after release. So far, four former inmates in the program have entered treatment facilities for addiction or mental health issues.
Kimbra Reynolds, who operates the Jay County Drug Prevention Coalition, said she was "very thankful" for the 10 new peer coaches who were recently hired to work with offenders outside of jail.
"It's one of the only jobs where felons are wanted," she said.
There are now six peer coaches working inside the Delaware County Jail, and so far that number has been adequate, she said.
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Skinner said that people arrested for extremely violent crimes, including murder, are not eligible for the program so as not to endanger the coaches and the volunteers involved in the program. Nonviolent offenders and those charged with drug crimes and crimes related to mental illness are the main targets for help through the effort.
In recent weeks, the sheriff said, the inmate population at the jail has been running about 300.
Mayor Dan Ridenour said the city initially dedicated $50,000 in Economic Development Income Tax funds to the program as it was developing. The issue was personal for him, he said, because he has lost family members to substance abuse.
Ridenour said that former inmates who have become employed at local manufacturers recently have shown a "better keep" rate for for staying employed than people hired off the street.
More:Delaware County enters agreement with Ivy Tech to place offenders at jobs with local manufacturers
Skinner said the county probation department has done a great job overseeing the employment component of the program.
Jayme Whitaker, vice president of forensic services at Mental Health America of Indiana, the architect of the program at the state level, said peers meet with inmates when they enter the jail to provide one-on-one support.
"Meeting someone where they're at can make all the difference," he said.
Changing incarceration: Officials say rehab coming to Delaware County Justice Center
The IRACS program is funded through June next year by Recovery Works, a state voucher-based system to support partnerships between the justice system and mental health and addiction treatment providers. Each of the five pilot counties received a $500,000 grant to build the program in their area.
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Muncie Civic Theatre opens season with 'Beauty and the Beast'
MUNCIE, Ind. — Muncie Civic Theatre's 2022-23 season opens this weekend with the musical "Beauty and the Beast."
The main stage production will be Aug. 12-14, 19-21 and 26-28 and Sept. 1-4. Performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday will begin at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday matinees will begin at 2:30 p.m.
“Beauty and the Beast,” based on the beloved Disney animated feature, tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince under a magic spell. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved before time runs out, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self. If he doesn’t, he will be doomed for all eternity.
Tickets/information: 765-288-PLAY or munciecivic.org.
Traffic to be restricted on I-69 starting Sunday
MADISON COUNTY, Ind. — The northbound and southbound lanes of Interstate 69 from mile marker 212 through mile marker 228 will be restricted to single lanes starting on or after Sunday, Aug. 14, through Aug. 27, for repair and overlay panel sign work, according to a release from the Indiana Department of Transportation.
This will not be a continuous closure; only locations where work is needed will be restricted to one lane.
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ARIZONA, USA — Two brothers from the Phoenix area are attempting something that no one in recorded history has tried: halfway through their journey of swimming in one lake in each of the 50 states in under 30 days, all for a good cause.
For brothers Joe and John Zemaitis, this is a dream come true.
“We've been in the water over 70 hours in the last 12 days,” said Joe Zemaitis. “So, it's been quite the schedule.”
That’s 10 kilometers, or a swimming marathon for each lake, usually twice a day. The pair started in Hawaii, then flew to Alaska, and now they are traveling across the continental United States, hitting one lake in each state.
The goal is to raise awareness and donations for USA Swimming Foundation and its efforts to teach water safety and prevent drownings.
“With August being Drowning Impact Awareness Month, I think it's kind of the perfect time to focus on water safety and support the USA Swimming Foundation,” Zemaitis said.
Though the goal is to raise money and awareness for water safety, Joe has found some self-discovery in this trip as well.
“I mean, sometimes you don't try to overthink things but when our alarm goes off and you’re just working on a couple of hours sleep, and it's time to get up and swim another marathon,” Joe said. “You get up and get going. In the first 10 to 15 minutes I feel real sore during one of these swims. But you know, after that time that just kind of loosens up and gives me a chance to enjoy my surroundings and swim strong.”
The brothers plan to finish their Swim-A-Thon in a few weeks at Lake Pleasant.
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Ross & Yerger Senior Vice President Joey Hutto can only grin as Dr. Glenn Thomas opens up this year's Good Samaritan Health Services Roast and Toast fundraiser with a few funny stories about Hutto on Aug. 11, 2022, at the BancorpSouth Conference Center in Tupelo. The event, which serves as the nonprofit clinic's sole annual fundraiser, made its return after a two-year hiatus.
Ross & Yerger Senior Vice President Joey Hutto can only grin as Dr. Glenn Thomas opens up this year's Good Samaritan Health Services Roast and Toast fundraiser with a few funny stories about Hutto on Aug. 11, 2022, at the BancorpSouth Conference Center in Tupelo. The event, which serves as the nonprofit clinic's sole annual fundraiser, made its return after a two-year hiatus.
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Hundreds of supporters fill the BancorpSouth Conference Center Thursday as this year's Good Samaritan Health Services Roast and Toast gets underway.
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Ross & Yerger Senior Vice President Joey Hutto, right, thanks guests for attending the fundraiser.
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TUPELO • A huge crowd gathered at the BancorpSouth Conference Center on Thursday night to point and laugh at a prominent Tupelo businessman ... all for a good cause.
The Good Samaritan Health Service’s annual fundraising Roast and Toast event returned Thursday night following a two-year, pandemic-forced hiatus. The event arrived just in time for the long-running event’s 20th anniversary.
This year’s event, the first one held since 2019, marks their 20th anniversary of the event and the 30th anniversary of the organization.
This year’s honoree was Joey Hutto, senior vice president of the Tupelo office of Ross & Yerger. Hutto’s friends, family and colleagues took to the stage at the BancorpSouth Conference Center to roast and toast … but mostly roast … the respected businessman.
Hutto was a childhood friend of Antone Tannehill, who was involved in founding the organization. Amy Fagan, executive director of Good Samaritan Health Services, said that makes him an appropriate honoree for the fundraiser.
“We are very excited to be able to honor someone who was so close to Dr. Tannehill,” Fagan said on Thursday morning.
Roasters included John Wheeler, David Carlisle and Robin McGraw.
The event also featured a social hour and live auction.
As of Thursday morning, before the first barb had even been uttered, the event had raised just under $140,000. Those proceeds will all go to Good Samaritan Health Services, a Tupelo-based nonprofit that provides professional medical and dental services to qualifying unemployed or uninsured Northeast Mississippians.
The event is open to the public, and they also have a list of generous sponsors who help fund it as well. The organization’s Board of Directors oversee the event, and they have a team of staff and volunteers that help set up and prepare.
Fagan said the event represents a lot of hard work of dozens of people.
“We have a lot of help from the community to make this possible,” Fagan said.
Roast and Toast is the lone fundraising event Good Samaritan Health Services holds each year. Fagan said its success is vital to the nonprofit organization’s success.
“Without it, we couldn’t fulfill our mission,” she said
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Summer isn't even over but a sure sign of summer is coming to an end.
Philadelphia Parks and Recreation announced in a news release that they would begin closing pools this week. The free public pools began closing on Thursday, Aug. 11, and will continue to be drained on a rolling basis through Sept. 7.
Public pools had a hard time opening in 2022 due to a lifeguard shortage, some didn't open until the second week of July, while others never opened at all.
Still looking to cool off? The city's free splash pads and spraygrounds remain open through Labor Day.
Here is the list of when pools will be closing over the next several weeks:
Thursday, Aug. 11
- Stinger Square (1400 S. 32nd St., 19146)
Friday, Aug. 12
- American Legion Playground (6201 Torresdale Ave., 19135)
- Awbury Playground (6101 Ardleigh St., 19138)
- Sacks Playground (400 Washington Ave., 19147)
Saturday, Aug. 13
- C.B. Moore Recreation Center (2551 N. 22nd St., 19132)
- Cherashore Playground (851-951 W. Olney Ave., 19120)
- Fox Chase Recreation Center (7901 Ridgeway St., 19111)
Sunday, Aug. 14
- Cione Playground (2600 E. Aramingo Ave., 19125)
- Hillside Recreation Center (201 Fountain St., 19127)
- Jardel Recreation Center (1400 Cottman Ave., 19111)
Monday, Aug. 15
- Athletic Recreation Center (1401 N. 26th St., 19121)
- Feltonville Recreation Center (4726-4700 Ella St, 19120)
- Jacobs Playground (4500 Linden Ave., 19114)
Tuesday, Aug. 16
- Barry Playground (1800 Johnston St., 19145)
- Lawncrest Recreation Center (6000 Rising Sun Ave., 19111)
- Mill Creek Playground (743 N. 48th St., 19139)
Wednesday, Aug. 17
- Murphy Recreation Center (300 W. Shunk St., 19148)
- Piccoli Playground (1501 E. Bristol Ave., 19124)
Thursday, Aug. 18
- Houseman Recreation Center (5091 Summerdale Ave., 19124)
- Scanlon Playground (1099 E. Tioga St., 19134)
Friday, Aug. 19
- Bridesburg Recreation Center (4625 Richmond St., 19137)
- Cobbs Creek Recreation Center (280 Cobbs Creek Pkwy., 19139)
- Lackman Playground (1101 Bartlett St., 19115)
Saturday, Aug. 20
- Christy Recreation Center (728 S. 55th St., 19143)
- Kendrick Recreation Center (5822 Ridge Ave., 19128)
- Vogt Recreation Center (4131 Unruh Ave., 19135)
Sunday, Aug. 21
- James Finnegan Playground (6801 Grovers Ave., 19142)
- Northern Liberties Recreation Center (321 Fairmount Ave., 19123)
Monday, Aug. 22
- Ford Recreation Center (609 Snyder Ave., 19148)
Tuesday, Aug. 23
- Marian Anderson Recreation Center (740 S. 17th St., 19146)
Wednesday, Aug. 24
- Pleasant Playground (6720 Boyer St., 19119)
Thursday, Aug. 25
- Mitchell Playground (3700 Whitehall Ln., 19114)
Friday, Aug. 26
- Kelly Pool (4231 Landsdowne Dr., 19131)
- Max Myers Playground (1601 Hellerman St., 19149)
Saturday, Aug. 27
- Hancock Playground (147 Master St., 19122)
- O’Connor Pool (2601 South St., 19146)
- Tustin Playground (5901 W. Columbia Ave., 19151)
Sunday, Aug. 28
- Lederer Pool at Fishtown Playground (1219-25 E Montgomery Ave., 19125)
- Mander Playground (2140 N. 33rd St., 19121)
- Shepard Recreation Center (5700 Haverford Ave., 19131)
Monday, Aug. 29
- F.J. Myers Recreation Center (5800 Chester Ave., 19143)
- Simpson Recreation Center (1010 Arrott St., 19124)
Tuesday, Aug. 30
- Lonnie Young Recreation Center (1100 E. Chelten Ave., 19138)
Tuesday, Sept. 6
- Penrose Playground (1101 W. Susquehanna Rd., 19122)
- Samuel Recreation Center (3539 Gaul St., 19134)
Wednesday, Sept. 7
- Francisville Playground (1737 Francis St., 19130)
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The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
It’s well established that the deceptively mistitled Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has nothing to do with inflation, as the nonpartisan University of Pennsylvania/Wharton Budget model found. It’s really mostly a climate change bill. However, in his desperation to show voters that Congress could do something about their highest priority issue, inflation, rather than the lower voter priority, climate change, Sen. Chuck Schumer gave voters a title instead of substance.
Since the bill spends nearly $400 billion on climate change, it’s more surprising that this massive investment will reduce emissions by only about 16% and have no measurable impact on the climate.
Analyzing these impacts is complicated. It’s tempting, but wrong, to assume that since we cut 2020 CO2 emissions by about 17% from their peak in 2005, it can’t be that hard to cut emissions by another 23% to reach the president’s promised 40% reduction by 2030. The problem is that this past reduction was due almost entirely to the COVID-19 economic collapse and the relatively easy substitution of natural gas for coal in the generation of electricity.
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The next steps in emission reductions will be much more difficult.
Take off the temporary 10% emission reduction from the COVID-19 economic collapse and the emission reduction from today necessary to reach the 40% goal is more like 33%. Converting 100% of the few remaining coal-fired electric generating plants to natural gas would reduce emissions by only 5%. To get the other 28% reduction the president plans on a massive electrification of transportation and a switch to renewable electricity. The problem is that switching as little as 25% of the vehicle fleet to all electric (a nearly impossible task by 2030) would require a massive increase, 30%, in electric generation.
The even more difficult problem is the fundamental incompatibility between renewable electricity and electrifying transportation.
My wealthy friends who love their federally subsidized $100,000 electric car/toys are mostly switching from oil to coal. My 35 mpg hybrid emits about the same CO2 per mile as their electric cars. They use their vehicles during the day and recharge at night, when there is little renewable energy. Electric vehicles mostly using coal power. The photovoltaic system on my roof provides a lot of power from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., but nothing at night. Wind peaks in the late afternoon, but there is normally much less wind at night.
The unreliability and timing problems of renewable electricity place a fundamental limit on renewable’s share of electric generation.
Renewable electricity cannot reliably provide more than about 40% of electricity given existing use patterns. Germany, Texas and California all suffered major blackouts as their electric systems approached 40% solar and wind. Adding nighttime electric vehicle recharging makes the renewable limit more like 30%. Altogether, this means that the additional power needs for recharging electric vehicles must be mostly from fossil fuels or nuclear, and it’s too late to build nuclear plants that would be in operation by 2030. Because of these issues, the net additional emission reduction by 2030 available from electrifying transportation and shifting to more renewable electricity is only about 8%. Grand total, without another economic collapse, CO2 emissions might drop another 16% by 2030, not the promised 33% from today.
The really strange thing is that hugely expensive U.S. emission reductions, whether the promised 33% or the more likely 16%, are too small to have any noticeable impact on climate change. The increased emissions from coal plants already under construction in China, India and Africa will overwhelm our puny reductions. Even a reduction of the full 33% of U.S. emissions would reduce worldwide emissions by only 5%, leading to an immeasurably tiny change in world temperatures, less than .001 degrees Celsius per year.
Welcome to the Black Hole of climate policy: Throw in $400 billion and nothing happens.
As senior economist at Stanford Research Institute, Richard Carlson served on the first Federal Global Warming Review Panel in 1979 and co-authored the ground-breaking study Solar Energy in America’s Future both for the Department of Energy (then ERDA). He led the economic team in the then largest utility bankruptcy in U.S. history, the Washington Public Power Supply System. He lives in Tucson. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-the-inflation-reduction-act-wont-deliver-on-climate-or-inflation/article_c89d13d0-1994-11ed-9a27-b334b848daa7.html | 2022-08-12T14:06:53 | 1 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-the-inflation-reduction-act-wont-deliver-on-climate-or-inflation/article_c89d13d0-1994-11ed-9a27-b334b848daa7.html |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Step into the Farm Show Complex this weekend and you will be stepping back about 70 million years.
At Dinosaur Adventure, kids can interact with and learn about dozens of dinosaur species. In addition to the large, animatronic dinosaurs, other activities include a fossil search, race in a Jurassic Jeep, prehistoric-themed obstacle courses, and mini golf.
“To bring that to the kids, to give them an experience that we’ve never experienced and that they haven’t either, just gives them something to look forward to,” Brandon Williams, event organizer and “dinosaur trainer" said.
Guests can expect the adventure to last about two to three hours.
The event runs Saturday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Tickets start at $25 for adults and $35 for kids.
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DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — A fire in Middletown broke out Thursday night at the Genesis Court Apartments that has left 24 people displaced.
According to Dauphin County 911 dispatch, 13 adults, 11 kids, and multiple pets were displaced as a result of the fire that impacted seven homes.
The Red Cross says that it is providing assistance and resources to those that were displaced.
There is no word on the extent of any damage or if any injuries were suffered at this time.
This is a developing story. FOX43 will provide updates as they become available. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/middletown-fire-displaces-24-people-dauphin-county/521-f7addc53-ba9f-4abd-bb61-b8ef0f86a671 | 2022-08-12T14:17:44 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/middletown-fire-displaces-24-people-dauphin-county/521-f7addc53-ba9f-4abd-bb61-b8ef0f86a671 |
Axe Rated, a mobile ax throwing business, is giving residents all around the Region the chance to hurl hatchets at targets.
U.S. Army veteran Caitlin Moisant, an intelligence specialist who deployed to Afghanistan, started the Portage-based business. She hauls a trailer with two wooden targets people chuck axes at from 10 feet away.
"I can move the targets up and down on a winch," she said. "I drag it around to fairs, festivals and corporate events."
Axe Rated recently made stops at Vet Fest in Valparaiso and the pop-up German Biergarten at Sunset Hill Farms County Parks in Valparaiso.
"We're booked through all the weekends in September," Moisant said.
Moisant said she went ax throwing at Bad Axe in Chicago and loved it. She talked to the owners of The Lucky Hatchet, an ax throwing business in Michigan City, asking them if they owned a franchise or were doing it on their own. They suggested she could easily build her own targets.
"I thought about it and decided to start a mobile truck," she said. "It fills in a niche."
Axe Rated will soon make appearances at First Friday Fest in Nappanee, Second Sunday at the Founders Square Amphitheater in Portage, the Beer, Bacon and Bourbon Fest in Crown Point and Veterans of Valor in Valparaiso.
At festivals, people pay per throw. It's 10 for $10, 20 for $15 and 30 for $20. Throwers have to follow rules like no horseplay, one ax per lane, no intoxicated people and throwers must always defer to the ax master.
Moisant hopes to build up a following around the Region. She's looking to launch more trucks and eventually open a brick-and-mortar business.
"We were looking for a brick-and-mortar spot and talked to our small business advisers about doing this at markets as proof of concept," she said. "They loved the idea."
Axe Rated will travel up to 30 miles around Portage for special events such as private parties or corporate functions. A surcharge for mileage is added to cover gas prices if it has to go farther. For now, it only serves Northwest Indiana.
"It's something new," she said. "Nobody goes out to go bowling anymore or to go to the movies. Outside of eating and drinking, there's nothing to do in Northwest Indiana entertainment-wise. It's a skill you can pick up. Most people have never thrown an ax."
It costs at least $250 to rent the Axe Rated trailer for a few hours. An employee will ensure people are safe while throwing the axes.
"Long-term goals are I'd like to have many more trailers to do private parties, weddings, festivals, fairs, all of it," she said. "This is the hot new entertainment thing. When people first stake an axe in the target, when it first, they're over the moon. They feel empowered, strong and confident."
For more information, find the business on Facebook or Instagram, email cmoisant@axe-rated.com or 219-384-8724.
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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 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.
The United Steelworkers union said it is continuing to work toward a new contract with both Cleveland-Cliffs and U.S. Steel, even as many of its negotiators left Pittsburgh to head west to the union's constitutional convention in Las Vegas. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/axe-rated-a-mobile-ax-throwing-business-cutting-path-across-region/article_ddd953aa-abf8-5baf-8e7e-6f918d77ed74.html | 2022-08-12T14:18:29 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/axe-rated-a-mobile-ax-throwing-business-cutting-path-across-region/article_ddd953aa-abf8-5baf-8e7e-6f918d77ed74.html |
PORTAGE — A 23-year-old Valparaiso man faces a felony count after being revived by emergency officials, who found him slumped over unconscious in a car with a syringe in his hand, Portage police say.
While working to revive a second man also found slumped over and hanging outside the driver's side door, police said they discovered a used glass smoking pipe and a bag containing a white rock that later tested positive as "cocaine base."
The Valparaiso man was identified by police as Blake Lesniak and he has been charged with a felony count of unlawful possession of a syringe and misdemeanor visiting a common nuisance, records show.
The second man was not identified by police.
The men were discovered unconscious in the vehicle around 6:30 p.m. Monday in the 5900 block of Sundance Trail, police said.
Police said they attempted to use the drug Naloxone to revive Lesniak, which neutralizes the effects of heroin and other opioids. Yet he did not respond until medics arrived and began to work on him.
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Teddia “Teddy” Caldwell formally pleaded guilty to two of 20 felony counts he faces — conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine between 2016 and 2018 and ordering a fatal 2017 robbery.
While officers were en route, the woman told dispatchers the man had broken out a window and she discharged her firearm but was unsure if she shot him, police said.
The man previously was arrested in Porter County in September 2018 after leading a sheriff's officer on a pursuit in a maroon 1993 Chevrolet Camaro, court records show.
"When asked about the concealed items by a store employee, the females fled the store, making no attempts to pay for the concealed merchandise," according to police.
The defendants are accused of fatally shooting Tyrae D. Hayes, 25, of Gary, who arrived at the Citgo gas station in the 900 block of East Fifth Avenue on July 31 as they were leaving in a gray Hyundai. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/valpo-man-charged-after-found-slumped-over-in-vehicle-with-syringe-in-hand-portage-police/article_7a729c3a-d8d7-5c3d-bbc3-71e1c651fc01.html | 2022-08-12T14:18:42 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/valpo-man-charged-after-found-slumped-over-in-vehicle-with-syringe-in-hand-portage-police/article_7a729c3a-d8d7-5c3d-bbc3-71e1c651fc01.html |
Stay salty RI: Outdoor showers shut at some beaches due to drought
After a dip in the ocean on a hot summer day, a beach-side shower serves for some as a divine completion of the ritual.
But swimmers won't be able to practice that rite at some state beaches for a while.
They can curse the drought.
To conserve water and comply with Narragansett's ban on outdoor water use, outdoor showers won't be available at five state beaches, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced Thursday. The beaches are Roger Wheeler, Salty Brine, East Matunuck, Scarborough North and Scarborough South.
With a hashtag that says "KnowBeforeYouGo," and a photograph of a vacant beach-side shower, the DEM announced the restriction on Facebook.
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On Tuesday, Gov. Dan McKee issued a statewide drought advisory based on the recommendation of federal, state and local experts who make up the state’s Drought Steering Committee.
The National Weather Service is forecasting a slight chance of rain today and tomorrow morning before the skies clear developing what should be nice beach days in Narragansett Saturday and Sunday. Then there's a chance of rain Monday night and Tuesday before rain is likely Tuesday night and Wednesday.
More news:To keep beaches safe, RI is making changes to lifeguard certification requirements
For now, Rhode Island beachgoers will be bringing home a little more salt and sand than usual.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A hearing in Orange County will discuss modifying pre-trial release conditions for former NFL player Zac Stacy, who is accused of attacking a woman inside a home in Oakland in November.
Zac Stacy faces charges of aggravated battery and criminal mischief.
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According to a motion filed on Aug. 2, Stacy’s attorneys are asking the court to allow him to travel to Florida to visit his child he shares with the woman.
Stacy was arrested after the mother of his child showed detectives a video of him physically attacking her in her home. He was arrested at Orlando International Airport after arriving on a flight from Nashville, Tennessee, according to Orlando police.
Oakland police said they were called to a home on a domestic violence investigation at 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 13. Investigators said Stacy had already taken off from the scene before they arrived. Oakland police said they notified the Orange County Sheriff’s Office about the search for Stacy. Deputies initially said the former pro football player had already left the state.
Surveillance video showing the attack was posted to social media. It shows a man hitting a woman and throwing her into a television, which then falls on her after she hits the ground. Police confirmed that this is the same video given to them by the victim and is being used in the investigation.
After Stacy bonded out of jail, the court ordered Stacy to not enter the state of Florida unless it was for scheduled hearings, according to the motion. In July, Stacy and the woman entered into a mediated parenting plan that gives him supervised time with the child.
The hearing on Friday is set for 10 a.m.
The Harbor House of Central Florida said anyone living in fear of domestic violence can call or text an advocate at 407-886-2856.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/12/orange-county-hearing-for-ex-nfl-player-to-discuss-modifying-pre-trial-release-conditions/ | 2022-08-12T14:30:14 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/12/orange-county-hearing-for-ex-nfl-player-to-discuss-modifying-pre-trial-release-conditions/ |
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Plea negotiations have reportedly broken down in the case of an Orlando man charged for his role in the Capitol Hill riot.
Grady Owens, a student at Full Sail University at the time, was arrested in April of 2021 after investigators said he hit a Capitol police officer with his skateboard during the attack on the Capitol.
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Owens has pleaded not guilty to 13 charges that were filed against him.
In court on Friday, federal prosecutors informed a judge that plea negotiations with Owens and his attorney have broken down.
The judge green lit his case to proceed to trial, which is set for Dec. 5 in Washington, D.C.
Owens’ father, Jason Owens, is also charged.
His attorney did not mention their status with a possible plea deal.
Owens is one of 30 Central Florida residents who have been arrested and charged in connection with the riot on Capitol Hill.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/12/plea-negotiations-break-down-for-orlando-man-facing-capitol-riot-charges/ | 2022-08-12T14:30:20 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/12/plea-negotiations-break-down-for-orlando-man-facing-capitol-riot-charges/ |
SANFORD, Fla. – Seminole County Fire Department personnel on Friday will suit up and roll out to deliver a care package of classroom essentials for teachers and students to use for free throughout the new school year.
With dozens of boxes of school supplies on hand — donated in a collection drive hosted at all SCFD stations and Seminole County public libraries — the firefighters will hand off the goods at 10 a.m. to Tools 4 Seminole Schools, located on Airport Boulevard in Sanford.
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Tools 4 Seminole Schools, operated by the Foundation for Seminole County Public Schools, seeks to alleviate the burden of school-related costs on teachers and low-income families by offering a place for students and educators to walk in, “shop” a bit, and leave without paying a dime.
Teachers often spend as much as $500 of their own money…some probably more…buying supplies for their students and materials for their classrooms. Over half of Seminole County’s student population qualifies for the free or reduced meals program. The need for help is district-wide.
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District 4 county Commissioner Amy Lockhart will attend the event, as well as Tina Calderone of the Seminole County School Board and Foundation for SCPS Executive Director Jean Van Smith, according to a news release.
Get today’s headlines in minutes with Your Florida Daily: | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/12/seminole-county-firefighters-drop-off-school-supplies-in-countywide-collection-drive/ | 2022-08-12T14:30:26 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/12/seminole-county-firefighters-drop-off-school-supplies-in-countywide-collection-drive/ |
No-swim advisories posted at 3 Sarasota beaches; new test results to come Friday afternoon
SARASOTA COUNTY – Sarasota County has posted no-swim advisories for Siesta Beach, North Lido Beach and the Lido Casino beach Thursday, after Aug. 8 water quality samples found the amount of enterococcus bacteria to exceed acceptable limits.
The Florida Department of Health in Sarasota County took new water samples at the three beaches Thursday and expects the results to be available Friday afternoon.
Earlier beach warning: Sarasota County posts no-swim advisory at seven beaches
No sewage spills have been reported within one mile of the posted beaches in the past two weeks.
The beaches remain open but water recreational activities are not recommended when the advisories remain in place.
Signs advising the public not to swim or engage in water recreation will stay in place until follow-up water testing results meet the EPA’s recreational water quality standards.
Enterococcus bacteria can come from a variety of natural and human-made sources. These include pet waste, livestock, birds, land-dwelling and marine wildlife, stormwater runoff, and human sewage from failed septic systems and sewage spills.
Local health officials emphasize that beaches remain open. However, residents and visitors are urged not to wade, swim, or engage in water recreation at these beaches until the advisory is lifted.
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In addition, you should not eat shellfish such as crabs and shrimp collected in the immediate area of any beach with a no-swim advisory in place. Finfish caught live and healthy can be eaten if fileted.
To help keep beach water safe for swimming and recreation, do not allow pets to roam on beaches and in park areas and pick up pet waste. Additionally, children in diapers and people of all ages with diarrhea should not go into the water.
For more information: visit ourgulfenvironment.net and click on water monitoring and then bacterial testing to check beach water testing results of area Gulf beaches.
You can also call 941-BEACHES (941-232-2437) or visit visitbeaches.org. Click on the same link to the mobile-friendly version of the beach conditions report.
Visit Sarasota County also provides extensive information about the Sarasota area and its beaches at visitsarasota.org.
The Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission offers twice-weekly red tide updates at myfwc.com/research/redtide/statewide/, including a sampling map that is updated daily.
NOAA has a Gulf of Mexico HAB forecast (updated twice weekly while the bloom persists) that can be found at tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/hab/gomx.html. | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/three-sarasota-florida-beaches-post-no-swim-advisories-after-bacteria-check/10302824002/ | 2022-08-12T14:47:43 | 1 | https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/three-sarasota-florida-beaches-post-no-swim-advisories-after-bacteria-check/10302824002/ |
CASEVILLE, Mich. (WJRT) - Police believe a 65-year-old man got swept in a rip current before he drowned in Saginaw Bay near Caseville on Thursday.
The Huron County Sheriff's Office says Kerry Atwell of Commerce Township near Detroit and another 65-year-old man were swimming on a sandbar in rough water conditions around 11 a.m. when a large wave knocked them over.
One of the men swam back to shore, but Atwell got swept out farther off shore. Investigators believe he got caught in a rip current, which pulled him out to sea.
Atwell eventually disappeared from view and was located 20 minutes later about 400 feet west of where he was last seen. Friends and two sheriff deputies performed CPR on Atwell until an ambulance arrived.
The ambulance rushed Atwell to Scheurer Hospital in Pigeon, where he was pronounced dead around 12:35 p.m.
Huron County Sheriff Kelly Hanson advises swimmers to use extreme caution in rough water on Lake Huron and Saginaw Bay.
"Beach goers are advised to always beware of rip currents when the water is rough, especially when northerly winds are in place," he said. | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/65-year-old-swimmer-dies-in-possible-rip-current-near-caseville/article_688aadd6-1a48-11ed-ac9f-ff826519bccf.html | 2022-08-12T14:50:45 | 0 | https://www.abc12.com/news/local/65-year-old-swimmer-dies-in-possible-rip-current-near-caseville/article_688aadd6-1a48-11ed-ac9f-ff826519bccf.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — A crash blocked all lanes of westbound Interstate 465 Friday morning near Carmel.
According to INDOT, the crash occurred between the Keystone Avenue and U.S. 31/Meridian exits before 10 a.m. and involved injuries, prompting police to divert traffic at the Keystone exit.
Investigators have not shared what caused the crash and police have not released the extent of the injuries.
The left three lanes were back open to traffic by 10:45 a.m.
Check back for updates. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/crash-blocking-i-465-near-carmel-westbound/531-8e0b7a5e-b969-4d7b-bcb8-833d49a85709 | 2022-08-12T14:51:51 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/crash-blocking-i-465-near-carmel-westbound/531-8e0b7a5e-b969-4d7b-bcb8-833d49a85709 |
ANTELOPE, Calif. — A man was wounded in a shooting on Thursday night at a Walmart in Antelope.
Around 11 p.m. deputies with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office responded to reports of a shooting at a Walmart on Watt Avenue. When they arrived deputies found a man with a gunshot wound lying on the ground. The shooter had left the area.
The man who was shot was taken to a local hospital and the sheriff's office said he is expected to live. Based on the initial investigation, the shooter and the person who was shot appear to know each other. There is no other information on a description of the possible shooter and the shooting is under investigation.
Watch more on ABC10 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/walmart-shooting-antelope/103-6f2926f0-9817-448c-a605-ae0801cf9b9e | 2022-08-12T14:59:11 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/walmart-shooting-antelope/103-6f2926f0-9817-448c-a605-ae0801cf9b9e |
FORT WORTH (KDAF) — A new next-generation Dunkin’ restaurant is coming to Fort Worth and they are inviting everyone to celebrate this weekend.
The new restaurant will be located at 76367 North Beach Street and Dunkin’ officials are inviting guests to its grand opening celebration on Saturday, Aug. 13 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Before the celebrations, at 5 a.m., the first 100 guests in the location’s drive-thru will receive Free Coffee For a Year Giveaways. From 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. the celebration will include Dunkin’-branded giveaways, Dunkin’s mascot (Cuppy), music and more.
At 10 a.m. there will be an official ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening by Dunkin’ franchisee Hank Huth. After the ceremony, Hank and the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation will present a check of $1,000 to The Help Center.
How do the giveaways work?
Those who receive the Free Coffee for a Year Giveaway will receive a coupon book containing four free medium hot or iced coffee coupons per month for 14 months. The coupons will only be accepted at the location where the coupon book was issued.
Here’s a sneak peek at what Dunkin’ Fans can expect from this new restaurant. | https://cw33.com/news/local/dunkin-hosting-grand-opening-for-next-gen-fort-worth-restaurant-this-weekend-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ | 2022-08-12T14:59:43 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/dunkin-hosting-grand-opening-for-next-gen-fort-worth-restaurant-this-weekend-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Hot off of his most recent breakup with Kim Kardashian, Pete Davidson joins the cast of a new A24 horror comedy. That film and more are hitting North Texas theaters this weekend.
So, if you want to sit back, grab a tub of popcorn and tune out the world for a couple of hours, here are some new films you can expect to see at the box office.
After a great limited release in Los Angeles and New York, Bodies Bodies Bodies is now available for theater audiences nationwide.
When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly in this fresh and funny look at backstabbing, fake friends, and one party gone very, very wrong.
This A24 horror comedy stars Pete Davidson Lee Pace, Amanda Stenberg and more.
You may know Aubrey Plaza for her role as April Ludgate in the hit television series Parks and Recreation; however, long gone are the days of her being an apathetic college intern.
Plaza stars in a new crime drama Emily the Criminal where she plays a woman down on her luck and saddled with debt. To overcome her debt she gets involved in a cred card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles.
For a feel-good experience at the theater, there’s Mack & Rita. The story follows a 30-year-old writer who spends the weekend in Palm Springs, but things take a turn for the worst after she finds herself magically transformed into a 70-year-old woman.
To find a showtime near you, click here. | https://cw33.com/news/local/weekend-at-the-movies-heres-what-movies-are-releasing-in-north-texas-this-weekend/ | 2022-08-12T14:59:49 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/weekend-at-the-movies-heres-what-movies-are-releasing-in-north-texas-this-weekend/ |
ATLANTA — A retired Atlanta Police officer who'd been working at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport through a "retired reserve" program was removed from the program after an "altercation" with a traveler earlier this month, APD said.
The case was referred to the Clayton County District Attorney's Office, though it's not clear if the former officer will face charges.
An Atlanta Police Department statement did not identify the retired officer. The department said the incident occurred on Aug. 2.
According to APD, the retired officer responded to a "call regarding an intoxicated male causing a disturbance" inside the airport.
"As the officer spoke with the man, an altercation began between the two," APD said. The department did not offer any further details on what happened during the altercation.
APD said a commander reviewed the incident and initiated an investigation through the department's Office of Professional Standards.
"The officer, a retired Atlanta Police Officer employed as a contract worker at the airport, was relieved of duty. Based on the findings of the investigation, the retired officer's employment contract with the airport has been terminated and he has been removed from the APD's Retired Reserve program. The incident has been referred to the Clayton County District Attorney's office," APD said. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/retired-atlanta-officer-altercation-traveler-airport/85-5ec637ba-228f-4fce-b40c-407d626bf102 | 2022-08-12T15:02:49 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/retired-atlanta-officer-altercation-traveler-airport/85-5ec637ba-228f-4fce-b40c-407d626bf102 |
A 27-year-old Lincoln man is in jail nearly nine months after Kik, an app-based messaging platform, reported he had displayed child pornography during a videoconference session late last year, Nebraska State Patrol investigators said in court records.
Investigators in November served a search warrant on Matthew Meyer's west Lincoln residence, where they found a device that contained at least seven child pornographic videos, Investigator Joey Fynbu said in the affidavit for Meyer's arrest.
In at least four of the videos, the victims depicted were under the age of 12, Fynbu said in the affidavit.
A Lancaster County judge signed a warrant for Matthew Meyer's arrest Wednesday. He was booked into the Lancaster County jail Thursday.
A Kansas City, Missouri, native, Andrew Wegley joined the Journal Star as breaking news reporter after graduating from Northwest Missouri State University in May 2021.
Narcotics investigators served the warrant around 7 p.m. Friday night at a house near 28th and Washington streets, where they found 193.2 grams of suspected methamphetamine, the authorities said.
Instead of finding flames at the reported fire scene, near Northwest 38th and Webster streets, officers found an unattended vehicle and 17 stolen laptops, according to police.
"The state believes he has crossed the Rubicon, that he has passed the point of no return, where there are irreversible consequences for his actions," Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Chris Reid said.
Narcotics task force investigators met with the 30-year-old woman Wednesday at a north Lincoln hotel under the guise of a drug deal, according to police.
Issa Augustino has been charged with sexual assault of a child and felony child abuse, but remains at large, with recent bank activity indicating he's now in Canada.
While on work release for a local construction company, a 37-year-old man began communicating with a 12-year-old girl in June, sending sexually suggestive messages. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-man-charged-with-possessing-child-porn-after-messaging-app-blew-whistle-police-say/article_51d3bcae-7123-51bc-b873-d179aa98aefb.html | 2022-08-12T15:03:17 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lincoln-man-charged-with-possessing-child-porn-after-messaging-app-blew-whistle-police-say/article_51d3bcae-7123-51bc-b873-d179aa98aefb.html |
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