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NEVADA CITY, Calif. — A bear wandering around people's backyards in Nevada City caused a short lockout at two schools Wednesday.
Nevada City School District Superintendent Monica Daugherty said the lockouts happened at Seven Hills Middle School and Deer Creek Elementary School. She took action after she was told just before 11 a.m. that a bear was near their schools and heading in their direction.
Daugherty told ABC10 that the bear even came onto the campus of Seven Hills Middle School, walking onto their field. The bear didn't walk onto the campus of Deer Creek Elementary. The lockouts kept all students indoors while instruction continued.
Animal control and law enforcement were called in to track it down.
Sgt. Sean Mason, spokesperson for Nevada City Police Department, said the bear prompted calls from residents saying they had seen a bear walking through their residential area and through backyards.
Daugherty said the bear was tracked down after roughly an hour when it was seen crossing a creek away from the school. The lockouts were lifted and, with Wednesday being an early day, students were allowed to go home as normal with personnel keeping watch outside.
Sgt. Mason said the bear didn't come into contact with anyone and that there were no reports of damage.
While neither official said bear sightings were rare for the area, Daugherty said it is rare to see them out during the day. Sgt. Mason added that residents are used to seeing bears during the evening, usually during trash days during the late nights and early mornings.
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OAKDALE, Calif. — The Oakdale Chamber of commerce is gearing up for its 30th annual Chocolate Festival being held this weekend at Williams Meyer Park in Oakdale.
This family-fun event will be held May 21 and 22 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and will feature a massive amount of sweet chocolate treats to enjoy including fudges, truffles, chocolate ice cream, chocolate cheesecake and much more.
There will also be a variety of other unique food to satisfy every palate from at least 107 total vendors, according to Oakdale Chamber of Commerce CEO Trish Brown.
“It's always been a chamber event used as a way to produce economic development using chocolate as something that is frequently manufactured here,” Brown said.
According to Brown, this year's festival will feature a number of new features, activities and performances.
“We incorporated a cornhole tournament that we had one day last year and this year we’ll have it both days,” Brown said. “We also incorporated motorcycles to our classic car show.”
Along with the exciting new activities, Valley music institute out of Modesto will be bringing 50 bands to come perform at the Oakdale Chocolate festival for the first time on Saturday.
A 5K and 1 mile fun runs will also be open to participation, pre-registration, and will begin at 8 a.m. both days.
Brown says the Oakdale Chamber of Commerce is ready to be fully back in action after two long years of pandemic restrictions.
“The chamber is just excited to get back into the community and bring a sense of some normalcy back to our city,” Brown said. “We just want to give the community and vendors the opportunity to show their stuff and make a living.”
Visit the event webpage for additional information on fun run rates and registration, admission tickets, food options and more.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — A new program coming to Stockton soon will give youth access to computer hardware, software and training for careers in technology fields.
Digital NEST, a nonprofit founded in Watsonville in 2014, has announced that they will be expanding their program for the first time outside of the Central Coast by opening a center in Stockton.
"We're really enthusiastic about Stockton," said Jacob Martinez, CEO and founder of Digital NEST. "This is the first time we're venturing out of this region."
Martinez' excitement has been years in the making. Planning to expand the program beyond its locations in Watsonville, Salinas and Gilroy has always been a goal of Martinez and his team.
"We have aspirations to open up a total of nine throughout the Bay Area and really surround Silicon Valley and put pressure on the valley to make investments in these communities that they are impacting," Martinez said. "They say they all want diversity, they say they all want local. Well, these communities have it. They're just not looking."
With the goal of placing local youth in technology-related jobs, the center acts as a free technology hub and resource center for those ages 14 to 24.
Teens and young adults can become members of the program for free, then schedule times or walk in to the center to access its free resources.
"If you just need a place to study and sit down and work, you got that. You need a computer, or you could check one out? You could check them out for up two weeks," Martinez said. "You need an Adobe Creative Cloud license? We got you on that, and then we'll start engaging you on taking courses because we want to get you on a pathway to a career."
According to data provided by Digital NEST, more than 100 young adults have landed jobs, internships or school placements due to free courses and resources offered at their sites.
The average starting annual income for a Digital NEST alumni is $45,760, according to the program's data.
"The approach has been, how do we invest in young people the way Silicon Valley invest in their employees," Martinez said. "That means the best learning, the best environments to work. That means the best technology at your fingertips. That means the best mentorship. That means the best everything. And so we've taken that approach."
That approach of bringing Silicon Valley offices to youth has been embedded in even the small details about Digital NEST centers, Martinez says.
"We have top of the line furniture. You know, we get everything wired up so it's good internet," Martinez said. "Our job is really just to help connect the dots for (youth), and help guide them. But really, they have all the brilliance already; it's just us giving them the tools for it to be unleashed."
Designing and acquiring the tools needed to empower those skills is a costly and time-consuming process, which is why Martinez says at this point, they are looking to open their Stockton site in early 2023.
"Right now, we're kind of in the early stages of finding where the best place to put a Digital NEST in Stockton would be," Martinez said. "We build all the technology, so it takes some time to build up the centers, especially depending on the condition of the building."
While still months away from opening their doors and turning on monitors and screens, Martinez is hopeful that his expansion will positively benefit the youth in Stockton while diversifying the technology industry.
"The young people have been the most inspirational thing about this whole journey, and they know that their peers are smart," Martinez said. "They know that their peers have talent and ambition and drive, but they just don't have those opportunities in our community."
Watch More from ABC10: Californians continue to overuse water despite shortage, suggested cutbacks
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BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. — A fire evacuation warning was lifted at 4:31 p.m. on Wednesday by Butte County officials less than an hour after issuing one for the following areas:
- Wyandotte Creek, east to Railbridge Rd/Crestmont Ave.
- Mackintosh Ave, south to south of Nora Way
The warning had been issued due to the so-called Evita Fire in the area.
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According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and know your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
Some counties use Nixle alerts to update residents on severe weather, wildfires, and other news. To sign up, visit www.nixle.com or text your zip code to 888777 to start receiving alerts.
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TAZEWELL, Va. (WVNS)–In Virginia, the Tazewell County Sheriff’s Office hosted a cookout for residents in the community.
Deputies gathered around the Tazewell County Courthouse with hotdogs, hamburgers, and all the fixings. The food was donated by members of the community and deputies volunteered their time to help serve.
Sheriff Brian Hieatt said he loves living in an area where residents jump at the chance to help their fellow first-responders.
“It’s great to be an area where we have so much community support and when we put something out like this, we have so many members of the community who will take their time to come out, see us, talk with us and help us out with any project we need,” Hieatt said.
The sheriff’s office also collected donations for the Teen Venture organization located in Richlands which helps provide a safe, fun afterschool space for teenagers.
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BOISE, Idaho — After a late primary election night in Idaho, members of the Idaho Republican party rallied on the Statehouse steps as a part of the traditional GOP ‘Unity Rally.’ The tradition is meant to unify the Gem State GOP after the heated primary season that pitted Republican against Republican.
The rally is designed to include winners and losers from the primary as a show of unity to prepare for the November general election. Major winners from primary night spoke to a crowd from the Capitol steps, including Governor primary winner, Gov. Brad Little; Lt. Governor winner, Rep. Scott Bedke; Secretary of State winner, Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane; AG winner Raul Labrador; and Superintendent of Public Instruction winner Debbie Critchfield.
Some notable names that fell short on election night were not spotted at the rally, including Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin who failed to beat Little, Rep. Priscilla Giddings who lost to Bedke, Rep. Dorothy Moon who fell short of McGrane, current Superintendent of Public Instruction Sherri Ybarra who lost re-election to Critchfield, and longtime AG Lawrence Wasden, who was defeated by Labrador.
After the event, there were still some questions, like just how united is the Idaho GOP after a contentious election and how can party leaders unite the party?
House Speaker Scott Bedke, projected to be the next Lt. Governor, says there is more the GOP agrees on than not.
“I think the last thing that we want to do is engage in a war of attrition. I think that's counterproductive. The things that bring us together are our love for the state and the opportunities that all of us have had here. I think that we all agree that we have something special, the best place to live, to work, and to raise a family I think everybody wants to keep it that way," said Bedke.
Did the Idaho Democrats hold a unity rally today?
No, Idaho Democrats Party Chair, Rep. Lauren Necochea, tells KTVB that the Idaho Dems do not need a rally to unify, they already feel that way.
Democrats mostly had uncontested races on primary election night, so not a lot to follow on their side.
However, Dems are keeping a close eye on GOP winners heading into November. Necochea says the party believes extremist candidates for major statewide offices were defeated in the GOP primary, but there are still concerns over other races.
"The Republicans had a candidate who cozies up to white nationalists. They had a candidate who doxed a rape victim and lied about it. These people don't meet the basic ethical standards for holding public office. I'm glad to see that those people were rejected. At the same time, we see a difference. It's more style than substance. We have, you know, Governor Little wringing his hands, but then still enacting laws that provide cash rewards for family members of rapists," she said.
Another major theme after the primary, huge turnover in the state legislature.
A group of GOP incumbents lost on primary night, meaning the legislature will look and likely operate differently than this past year, or recent years in general. Members of the powerful legislative budgeting committee, as well as a handful of committee chairs, lost. Idaho political expert, Boise State Professor Dr. Stephanie Witt provided insight on what that means going forward.
"I think when you bring that many new people in, you get a new sense of the direction of the two chambers. In the most recent sessions, we've seen the Senate serving as kind of a backstop to the right-wing of the parties, bills they would pass in the House, come over to the Senate and not get anywhere. I don't know if that's going to be the same. It looks like the makeup of the Senate is going to be a little more conservative. So we may see a more hospitable landing place for those House bills. That in the last couple of sessions didn't make it through the Senate," Witt said.
As a reminder, vote leaders on primary night are projected winners until the vote is certified officially by the Secretary of State’s Office in the coming weeks.
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KETCHUM, Idaho — An important step towards alleviating some of the housing crisis crunch in Ketchum took a back seat Tuesday night.
While voters approved a local option tax in Bellevue for road repair, a local option tax increase for affordable housing fell short, by just 7 percent.
"This has been an issue for where we live for decades literally and one of the biggest problems has been the lack of funding in the state of Idaho,” said Michael David, President of Ketchum City Council.
The local option tax failed to meet the 60 percent bar it needed to meet in order to pass. The results were 53 percent of voters in favor, and 47 against.
“We have this one tool in the resort cities, the lot tax, but previously you couldn't use it for affordable housing, so there was a move to get this on the ballot to one, allow these funds to be used for affordable housing and two, increase the amount of the lot so we could have some consistent annual revenue to help with this crisis,” David said.
But now that the tax increase was not approved by residents, the city council is left to come up with a different solution.
“We are kind of back at square one and it's really disappointing, we had a lot of momentum," he said.
The additions to the local option tax would have resulted in raising the retail sales tax from 2 to 2.75 percent, increasing the tax on liquor by glass by 2 percent, adding 2 percent on lodging, and a one percent increase on building materials brought into the city.
"I think there is a hesitancy by a lot of people who have been in this community for a while that if we give this money to the city council and county commissioners, are they going to do the right thing with it," David said.
"This isn't just a government body trying to dig into the pot of gold and get some more money out of people's pockets, this is a last-ditch effort to try to build houses and it’s all we have got really at this time don't he revenue side of things."
David said the estimated cost to fund housing projects and financial aid programs for locals is between 5.5 and $7,000,000 a year. He says the added tax would have provided about 3 million annually towards that cost.
David has been trying to find a solution to Ketchum’s housing crisis for almost 20 years and says this obstacle won't stop him.
"We are going to see more businesses closing their doors and more workers getting forced out in the months to come and it just makes that whole bigger for the community,” David said.
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An EMT was shot in the back of an ambulance Wednesday evening by a man being transported to the hospital on Staten Island, three senior law enforcement sources tell News 4.
The suspect had been unconscious, and was loaded on a stretcher into the back of the ambulance. During transport, the sources said, the man woke up -- and allegedly pulled out a gun and shot the EMT.
He then got out of the ambulance and ran away, but was tackled by a retired police officer, the sources said.
The suspect, who was apparently intoxicated, is now in custody.
The EMT works for Richmond University Medical Center; the hospital said he is in stable condition in the trauma department after being shot in the back.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. — Arkansas Game and Fish have confirmed that a 52-year-old man has died following a boating accident.
According to reports, the man who was the sole passenger of the boat, was ejected without wearing a life jacket.
The accident reportedly happened at Lake Hamilton at the Bayou Point.
Authorities have not released the name of the victim.
There is no other information at this time. We will update this article as more information becomes available.
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PINE BLUFF, Ark. — Police in Pine Bluff are actively trying to find ways to curb theft at businesses in the city.
Leaders have even rolled out a new plan to make it happen.
Business owners apart of the program now have the ability to keep a watchful eye out for each other's workplaces and report anything suspicious to police.
Like any place you visit, businesses are the backbone to the city.
"We have a lot of business in Pine Bluff [and] we want business to keep moving in Pine Bluff," Chief of Police Lloyd Franklin Sr. said.
He said the city continues to deal with theft on commercial properties.
"We have, like many other cities, theft [and] we have people openly in the daylight stealing," Franklin said.
But this new initiative could add some extra protection for those business owners.
"We want an alert system where when they see someone hanging around another business, they can call us or make us aware of it and make that business owner aware of it," Franklin said.
One of the benefits to the Business Watch program is that it will really help police pinpoint who is responsible for crime.
This is all with the help of reports from business owners.
"If they talk and they exchange information, they'll find that those [people] are the same people that are doing it in most of the businesses," Franklin said.
As the list of people involved continues to grow, Franklin said the department will also focus on teaching business owners how they can keep themselves and staffers safe.
"[We will] talk to the business about how they can protect their business, the type of locks they can use, the type of lighting that they need to have around their places of business," said Franklin.
A couple of businesses in the city have already signed up.
The Pine Bluff Police Department urges any other owners interested to contact them.
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No coal ash: Pickens County settles landfill lawsuit, will loan $3 million for completion
Pickens County officials said they have completed a settlement that will keep coal ash out of a 400-acre landfill site near Liberty and the county's commerce park.
The settlement also forces the completion of a private landfill and ends a six-year legal battle with landfill developers MMR Pickens LLC, a legal struggle that reached the South Carolina Supreme Court and has included lawsuits of $30 million against planning commissioners and expectations that the landfill would make $25 million over its lifetime.
More:SC Supreme Court justices question whether landfill operator near Liberty aims to take coal ash
The settlement calls for the county to loan $3 million to MRR to complete the landfill within a year and the money would be repaid when the landfill is completed and sold to a new operator. That sale is required to be within three years or MRR would have to pay hundreds of thousands a year for not selling and tens of thousands a month for finishing construction late.
The county is also buying a 93-acre plot of the original 400 acres of land from MRR at $3.5 million, said Alex Saitta, a council member who criticized parts of the settlement. He said the land may not be worth the price tag and the county should have gone to trial rather than settle in an effort to own the landfill outright.
Administrator Ken Roper said the land, next to the commerce park, could be used for economic development but that would be a decision for council members.
Chris Bowers, the chair of the county council, said the settlement met all of the county's goals and resolves a long-standing legal problem.
The settlement specifically prohibits coal ash, does not allow for a hazardous waste liner and has financial penalties if the landfill is not built or is not sold to another operator. The county will keep a plot of more than 160 acres that had already been deeded to the county by MRR.
The settlement also lifts a gag order that had stopped the county and the landfill operators from talking about the process. MMR Pickens did not respond to a phone call for comment for this story.
The landfill that will be built will be limited to construction and waste debris, a class 2 landfill which can accept a wide variety of construction-type materials including brush, bricks, concrete with rebar, dried paint cans and, with some stipulations, materials like asbestos.
Allowing for a liner allows for hazardous waste so a lack of a liner helps to ensure no hazardous waste, said Les Hendricks, the county’s attorney.
Coal ash is typically generated by coal power plants and can contain toxic heavy metals such as mercury, lead and arsenic, which can contaminate ground and surface water.
It is classified as "special waste" in South Carolina, and according to a previous court decision, coal ash is generally unsuitable for most landfills.
The legal case spanned six years and has landed on the desks of three county administrators and an interim administrator. It has likely cost the county around $750,000 in legal fees, said Roper, the current administrator.
The settlement waived a $6,000 legal fee that MRR was supposed to pay the county for a December hearing, but it largely means both sides pay their own legal bills, Hendricks said.
Previous coverage:SC Supreme Court issues ruling on Pickens County landfill that could accept coal ash
The lawsuit, which made it up to the state Supreme Court, was on technical grounds.
It was largely about whether adding a liner to the landfill design was most properly classified as a major or minor design change and because of that distinction, it's also about whether Pickens County and nearby landowners were required to be formally notified of the potential changes.
But, as several state Supreme Court justices said during oral arguments in 2021, the case was really about whether the site will take coal ash and whether county staff and residents are able to be heard if the landfill operators seek to take coal ash in the future.
A December decision by the justices sent the case back to an administrative hearing and led to the settlement agreement that was announced Wednesday.
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The Niskíthe Prayer Camp is gone, but the people who erected the seven tipis on land where a disputed housing development is planned are not — and they promised Wednesday they are here to stay.
“We’re here to ask you to stand with us, to continue to walk with us as we strive for a better city that is respectful of our land, respectful of our water and respectful of the Indigenous stewards of this land,” said Erin Poor, as she and others who took down the last tipi early Wednesday morning gathered in front of City Hall.
The tipi — one owned by Native leader Leo Yankton, who died of cancer last year — came down at a sunrise ceremony, and the group that spent two weeks there began a trek from the development site near First Street and Pioneers Boulevard to City Hall, past the state Capitol, then on to the Catholic Diocese of Lincoln headquarters and finally, to Yankton’s home.
At City Hall, about 40 people set up the tipi they carried with them, along with flags, a prayer camp sign, sage, water and snacks.
They had invited city leaders to join them in a Chanupa ceremony with a medicine pipe — a way to signal a connection with another group, to make peace, said Kevin Abourezk, one of the group's leaders.
Not long after they arrived, Police Chief Teresa Ewins and Capt. Don Scheinost shook hands with several people in the group. Mayoral aide TJ McDowell also spoke with group members and watched the proceedings, as did city ombudsman Liz Quenzer.
City Councilwoman Sändra Washington also attended, and was the only city official who joined Native leaders in the tipi for the ceremony.
Just as the group was leaving, Councilman Tom Beckius and Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird came outside and spoke to a few of the leaders.
“I wanted to say hello and renew my commitment to a continuing dialogue with Native leaders,” Gaylor Baird said.
After setting up the tipi, Poor urged city leaders to include Indigenous leaders when making decisions about land.
“We ask that you include us in the conversations,” she said. “There is sacred, Indigenous knowledge, ancestral ecological knowledge that is held in these bodies, in these spirits, and they deserve a voice in all parts of this city.”
The Native leaders and other supporters set up the prayer camp a week after the City Council approved ordinances that allowed the annexation and zoning changes needed for the Wilderness Crossing development to proceed.
Manzitto Construction plans to build more than 500 single-family homes, townhomes and apartments on about 75 acres of land the Catholic Diocese is selling.
The Native activists had hoped to stop the development, but the mayor signed off on the ordinances, allowing the development to move forward, and a Manzitto spokeswoman has said the company has no plans to make any further concessions.
Wilderness Crossing faced opposition from the beginning from those who fear the development will cause flooding problems, and light, noise and traffic will hurt the native habitat and wildlife in Wilderness Park.
Before the council's public hearing, another concern came to light: the effect the development would have on a nearby Native sweat lodge. Located across the street, it is one of Lincoln’s oldest and most-used sweat lodges.
Manzitto made several changes to the initial plan to try to address concerns, including moving First Street into the development, behind a 6-foot fence, though those changes didn’t satisfy opponents, especially members of the Native community, who felt their concerns hadn’t been acknowledged.
Las Voces of Nebraska, an advocacy coalition, wrote a letter this week to the mayor and City Council in support of the Niskíthe Prayer Camp and in opposition to the action by the city.
Abourezk said the group submitted a plan for a park that could be built on Snell Hill, which would save a Dakota sandstone outcropping on the development site and keep houses from being built on the northeast corner of the property. The Catholic Diocese bishop has offered to advocate on its behalf, he said.
After taking down the tipi at City Hall, the group marched down Lincoln Mall to the Capitol, came inside the rotunda, then began its march toward the Diocese headquarters.
Standing outside City Hall, Renee San Souci, a Native activist and educator, said it is important to remember that they are the nation’s first people and have been taking care of the land for years.
“You are welcome to come talk to us, communicate with us, but do so in a positive way.”
Margaret Reist is a recovering education reporter now writing about local and county government and the people who live in the city where she was born and raised.
The Lincoln City Council Monday voted to allow a Lincoln couple — both veterans who suffer from PTSD — to keep their mini-pig for emotional support despite an ordinance that prohibits it.
A group that set up a prayer camp to oppose a planned development near Wilderness Park and a Native sweat lodge says it will dismantle the camp, but will continue efforts to protect the sweat lodge.
Ronald and Dee Baddorf didn't realize city ordinance prohibits residents from keeping pigs. They're asking for a waiver so they can keep Lucy, a mini-pig that changed their lives.
Hundreds of people rallied on the north side of the Capitol for the second time since a draft Supreme Court opinion striking down Roe v. Wade was leaked.
In a crowded field of Republicans, Jim Pillen surged to the lead for the first time in results updated at 9:35 p.m., and at 10:25, the Associated Press called the race.
The Associated Press called the race at about 10:30 p.m., and Pillen spoke to supporters gathered at the Embassy Suites in downtown Lincoln at about 11 p.m.
Kristi Egger, who in January retired from the defender’s office after 33 years and filed to run against Joe Nigro, will face Trevin Preble in November's general election.
Matt Schulte unseated longtime Lancaster County Commissioner Deb Schorr for the District 3 seat in a Republican contest that, with no Democratic contenders, will be decided in the primary.
The group wants a formal apology from the Lincoln City Council and for members to engage in a restorative justice process with them, and asks the mayor to veto the council’s action last week.
Autumn LaDeaux-Baxter (left) ties poles together while saying a prayer as leaders of the Niskíthe prayer group work to assemble a tipi during a protest outside City Hall on Wednesday. The group wants legal protections of a Native sweat lodge, which is on about 2 acres of private land surrounded by Wilderness Park and across the street from the planned Wilderness Crossing development near First Street and Pioneers Boulevard.
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Northern Arizona University (NAU) announced the final draft of its strategic road map, now called NAU 2025–Elevating Excellence, in early May. It will be presented to the Arizona Board of Regents at its June meeting.
The road map was first announced in August, with three sets of drafts and feedback sessions taking place over the course of the school year. Committees for each of the seven areas of focus narrowed down a list of big picture objectives, based in part on community feedback sessions.
University President José Luis Cruz Rivera said in NAU 2025’s announcement that the plan is meant to be “more aspirational than operational” and that it “sets the foundation for institutional accountability.”
“In advancing the priorities articulated in NAU 2025–Elevating Excellence, we will build on the momentum gained in the first year of our 17th presidency, propel economic mobility, enhance the public good and deepen our university’s social impact,” he said.
Each priority -- academic excellence, student success, commitment to Indigenous peoples, impactful scholarship, mission-driven and diverse faculty and staff, community engagement and sustainable stewardship of resources -- has three to five components listed under its overview statement. These are broad goals for the university that are expected to be achieved through more defined programs and efforts.
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For example, the third component under its impactful scholarship priority is that its research “will advance knowledge and innovation to help solve issues of regional, national and global relevance.”
Other goals are more specific. The first two components of the sustainable stewardship of resources priority involve developing and implementing a climate action plan and “sustainable smart campus master plan.”
The draft describes the first as “responsibly [achieving] carbon neutral operations by 2030 and provides educational, research and community engagement opportunities for our students, faculty and staff.”
Cruz Rivera said the university had been working to advance the road map’s goals as it was being developed through efforts such as the new NAU workplace, the Access2Excellence initiative and its admissions pilot program.
“We will carry this momentum forward into the future,” he said.
The announcement of NAU 2025 also included that $4 million in one time funding had been allocated for projects relating to NAU 2025. Half will go toward impact projects developed by the president’s cabinet and implemented over the summer and the other half will fund a round of competitive proposals from the NAU community.
More about NAU 2025, including the complete draft, can be found at nau.edu/legacy/strategic-road map.
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Northern Lights Alliance for the Homeless (NLAH) lends a helping hand to men, women, children and veterans throughout North Iowa.
Covering nine counties, NLAH provides emergency shelter for people experiencing homelessness. NLAH helps people find jobs, insurance, housing and more for homeless people without self-help options available to them.
NLAH also provides long-term transitional housing for those who need it. Their vision states "Because of our economy today we feel the obligation to support all those in need, for someday they will be able to give back to our community as responsible citizens."
NLAH has recently set up a can and bottle redemption trailer to raise funds for their services. This trailer can be seen in the parking lot by Planet Fitness.
"(Ashley Furniture) was gracious enough to give us permission to do that" said Executive Director Jesse Germundson.
Ashley Furniture owns the parking lot where the trailer now sits, and Germundson said he was grateful for the opportunity to place the trailer in a convenient location for Mason City residents.
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Germundson got the idea to set up a can donation from his father, who runs a redemption center in Manly.
"Hundreds of thousands of cans and bottles end up in the dump" Germundson said. The can and bottle donation trailer will be effective in both raising funds for NLAH and reducing waste in landfills.
NLAH will be doing daily pickups at the trailer, and Germundson noted that for people with large amounts of cans that may have trouble fitting in vehicles, NLAH would be willing to come pick up from time to time.
For those who would be interested in this service, Germundson asks they call 641-423-5920 to work out a time to pick up cans. All proceeds go to the North Lights Alliance Shelters.
"This isn't just to benefit us financially for the shelter, but to help keep cans out of the landfill." Germundson believes this can and bottle donation drop-off will be a great opportunity for Mason City residents to donate what would have gone into the trash for a good cause.
Rae Burnette is a GA and Crime & Courts Reporter at the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by phone at 641.421.0523 or at Rae.Burnette@GlobeGazette.com
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KELLER, Texas — No work on a Friday? Sign us up!
One North Texas city working to make this a reality.
The City of Keller has announced a trial period for a four-day work week for its city employees in certain departments -- including employees at Keller Town Hall, within its municipal services and in the records department of the Keller Police Department.
The city says its hours will change beginning May 28, when the trial begins.
In its announcement, Keller officials said some of their city employees are actually already in four-day work schedules, in areas like public safety, IT and community facilities.
The trial period is set for four months. The city says, during that time, it will be looking at retention and staff productivity, and will also ask employees where they think a four-day work week could be successful long-term.
The city says the goal of the initiative is to improve work-life balance for its staff, citing additional fuel and utility savings as bonuses for employees.
“We’re competing for employees just like everyone else against both the public and private sector, and as an organization, we need to continue to adapt to the needs of the modern workforce,” City Manager Mark Hafner said in a tweet Tuesday.
Hafner said he hopes the four-day work week move will also improve “efficiency in areas like public works and park maintenance.”
Keller City Council will hold a meeting on Oct. 2, 2022, to provide feedback and determine whether to continue with the new work schedule.
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An investigation is underway after the decomposed bodies of a man and woman with their throats slashed were found inside an abandoned home in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood on Wednesday.
Police and paramedics responded to a call reporting two bodies inside a property along the 3000 block of North Ruth Street shortly after 7 p.m. Police and medics entered through the back of the home and found a man and woman lying next to each other inside a bedroom on the second floor.
Police said both victims had large lacerations on their necks. They were both pronounced dead at the scene at 7:26 p.m.
“It appears both of them had their throats slit,” Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
The two victims have not yet been identified but both appeared to be in their 30’s or 40’s, according to Small. Police also found a bag of clothing that may have belonged to the woman.
Investigators said both victims appeared to have been dead for at least one day.
“According to the fire department, paramedics, these bodies have been here longer than one day because they’re already starting to decompose,” Small said.
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Police also found surveillance cameras outside along the 3000 block of Ruth Street.
“Although they won’t capture the incident inside, it may have captured someone entering or exiting this property where we found both dead bodies,” Small said.
Investigators also discovered drug paraphernalia throughout the property.
“This location is used by squatters or individuals to use the drugs, do drugs, sell drugs,” Small said. “Clearly a lot of drug paraphernalia inside of the property.”
No arrests have been made and police have not released information on any suspects.
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74-year-old hiker found dead after going missing on Mingus Mountain trailhead in Arizona
The remains of Donald Hayes, 74, were found Wednesday after he went missing on the Wood Chute trailhead on Mingus Mountain on Friday.
Hayes was found in a rugged area difficult to reach by searchers, the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said in a release. His dog, Ranger, who also went missing with him on the hike, was found alive and was taken to a local animal hospital for treatment, Sheriff's Office spokesperson Kristin Greene said.
Search and rescue teams from various local agencies searched on land and air for days trying to locate Hayes, but ultimately had trouble due to the difficult terrain and the amount of area needed to be searched, Greene said.
“I thank all the volunteer search and rescue teams and others who gave of their time for six days to locate the victim and bring him home. Our searchers utilized every tool at their disposal to find Mr. Hayes and never gave up," Yavapai County Sheriff David Rhodes.
According to YCSO, the Forest Patrol was able to contact Hayes on Friday about 2 p.m. on his cellphone. Hayes said he did not want to wait for a rescue and he was "continuing down a ravine," and said he would be turning off his phone to save the battery.
Hayes was able to contact his wife as well that afternoon to say that he and his dog, Ranger, were lost, YCSO said.
"Our condolences go out to Mr. Hayes’ family, and we wish the outcome could have been different. YCSO also thanks everyone in the community who offered help with the search,” Rhodes said.
Reach breaking news reporter Amaris Encinas at amaris.encinas@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @amarisencinas.
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Man extradited to Arizona in connection to Casa Grande double homicide
Terrance Xavier Santistevan, 18, was extradited from Texas to Arizona after he was arrested in connection to the death of two teenagers in Casa Grande.
Santistevan was located in Pflugerville, Texas, with help from the U.S. Marshals Service and was arrested on April 30 without incident. He was extradited to Pinal County on Tuesday, according to the Casa Grande Police Department.
Danielle Murrieta, 17, and Leslie Cota, 18, died on April 24 in a shooting at The Sonoran Apartments near Florence Boulevard and Pottebaum Road, according to Casa Grande police.
When officers arrived on scene, they found both had multiple gunshot wounds and detectives found almost 30 handgun casings in the area, police said.
Cota was pronounced dead at the scene and Murrieta was taken to a hospital where she died. The two were friends, police said.
Santistevan was arrested after police learned he was there the night of the homicide and owned the Chrysler 300 vehicle officials believed a suspect may have fled in, according to a news release.
Two charges of first-degree murder for Santistevan will be reviewed by the Pinal County Attorney’s Office.
"Our detectives and other members of our department worked together around the clock to develop leads and simultaneously follow up on numerous tips presented during this investigation ... I would like to thank members of the victims' families and our city leadership for not engaging in the social media frenzy involving this case and having the faith to allow our detectives to do their job," Casa Grande Police Chief Mark McCrory said.
Santistevan was booked into Pinal County Jail on Tuesday and faces charges of first-degree murder. His bond has been set at $750,000.
Detectives were still searching for a 2006 silver Chrysler 300 with the Arizona license plate 9DA2MG.
Police are asking anyone with information on the vehicle or the shooting to contact detective T. Ellsworth at Tellsworth@casagrandeaz.gov or 520-421-8711 ext. 6294. People can also make an anonymous report to Silent Witness at 520-836-2100.
Republic reporter Angela Cordoba Perez contributed to this article.
Reach breaking news reporter Amaris Encinas at amaris.encinas@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @amarisencinas.
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MCSO: Armed man killed during standoff with SWAT teams in Guadalupe
Maricopa County sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man on Wednesday afternoon in the town of Guadalupe.
Sgt. Calbert Gillett, a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, told The Arizona Republic that deputies were dispatched about 1:30 p.m. to the area near Avenida Del Yaqui and Calle Pitaya after receiving a call about a man acting erratically, firing a gun near a school.
When deputies responded, the man took a "stationary position" at the front porch of a nearby residence, which was adjacent to the north fence of the grade school.
Gillett said the Arizona Department of Public Safety and Tempe police supported deputies as law enforcement used a drone to get a visual of the man, who then began shooting at the drone.
Gillett said MCSO and Tempe police called their respective SWAT teams to establish a perimeter around the residence. According to Gillett, the man shot at members of the MCSO SWAT team, who returned fire, striking him.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene and remained unidentified as of Wednesday evening, Gillett said. No deputies were injured, Gillett said.
"The area is secured as a fluid investigation, yet stable and safe," Gillett said in a written statement. "We want to extend our appreciation to our dispatchers, Tempe PD and DPS for supporting our deputies during this stressful situation."
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — "I've lost people to gun violence in my life...and it's just crazy because you live with people and you never suspected that to happen," said Kayla, a tenth grader at Harrisburg High School SciTech Campus.
Amid ongoing gun violence in the capitol city, she says she doesn't feel safe in her own community.
"Sometimes you don't feel safe because you feel like you can't go out 'cause you don't know if your friends or younger might have a gun," she explained.
Young people in Harrisburg like Kayla are seeing the impact of gun violence daily. They shared their raw emotions in a teen summit called "Our Lives Matter" on Wednesday night.
"We used to go out to the park and play manhunt outside for hours, even after dark," said Brianna Wilkerson, an 11th grader at the SciTech campus. "Now, no one's at the park. The parks are empty."
The youth forum was organized by Harrisburg Councilwoman Jocelyn Rawls and the Kappa Omega Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc., at Camp Curtin Academy in Harrisburg.
"If we don't care what they think and how they feel, then our solutions will never really meet the course that it's suppose to go. The goal will never be met," Rawls said.
The teens also discussed the change in behaviors between students at Harrisburg High School and the SciTech campus, an issue they said comes from a lack of positive feedback.
"It really takes time and patience to build a child. If you're just feeding them negative energy, that's all that they feel they are," Wilkerson said.
Meanwhile, another teen said, "They don't have the teachers that are willing to push the issue of them bettering their lives."
Harrisburg Mayor Wanda Williams and Police Commissioner Thomas Carter were also in attendance to hear the dialogue and come up with solutions.
"If we want to make a change we gotta love each other," Commissioner Carter said.
Rawls also said she hopes to have these summits often, as change can't happen overnight.
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YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Harley-Davidson officials say the company is suspending production at its York County plant for the unforeseeable future.
The company says it's temporarily halting all vehicle production and shipments at the vehicle assembly plant in Springettsbury Township due to a supply chain related matter.
The production suspension excludes Harley-Davidson's new LiveWire electric bike.
As of May 18, it's unclear how many employees will be impacted and for how long.
A Harley-Davidson spokesperson commented on the suspension in a statement Wednesday night, writing, "the company is committed to finding a solution and resolving this situation in a matter of urgency."
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Wednesday’s high temperature didn’t reach the 105 degrees like the National Weather Service expected.
That’s about the only break Midlanders have received during the run of hot temperatures this week that has baked Midland.
The high temperature at Midland International Airport did reach 101 degrees, which wasn’t record-breaking but did give Midland its seventh day of 100-degree weather in May. That total is already more 100-degree days that during all of 2021.
The 101-degree day was also the fifth-straight in Midland and was 12 degrees warmer than the average for May 18 (89 degrees). The National Weather Service on Wednesday afternoon was calling for a high temperature of 103 on Thursday and a high temperature of 98 on Friday.
“Very hot conditions will continue for Thursday with most places experiencing highs in the triple digits,” the NWS Midland office reported on its website Wednesday. “Some daily record high temperatures are likely to be tied or broken. Make sure to limit time outdoors especially during the afternoon hours and drink plenty of water.”
Temperature relief will come in the form of cooler temperatures – even 25-plus degrees cooler – this weekend. The NWS forecast for the weekend showed high temperatures of 89 on Saturday and 75 on Sunday. The next chance of showers is expected Sunday night and Monday, according to the NWS.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – After a national recruitment search, the City of Vancouver has appointed a new police chief after former Police Chief James McElvain stepped down in January.
With 29 years of law enforcement experience, Jeffrey Mori will serve as the city’s next Chief of Police effective 5 p.m. June 30. Mori recently served as Assistant Chief of Vancouver Police Department for three years and Washington County, Oregon Undersheriff for nine years.
“I am tremendously honored and excited to be able to serve the Vancouver Police Department as its next Chief,” said incoming Police Chief Jeff Mori. “The Vancouver Police Department is a premier agency in Washington thanks to the professionalism and service of the men and women who show up each day to do the work to keep our community safe. I look forward to leading the Vancouver Police Department in our continued efforts to expand community partnerships and relationships, grow the agency and increase transparency and trust.”
Mori graduated from the Police Executive Research Forum’s Senior Management Institute for Police, the FBI’s National Academy, the Oregon State Sheriff’s Associated Command College and the Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executives in State and Local Government program. He also has a Bachelor’s degree from Oregon State University and is working towards a Master’s degree in public safety from University of Virginia, Vancouver Police Department said.
“Assistant Chief Mori’s experience and background, teamed with his proven ability to build and maintain meaningful relationships in the community, has prepared him well for this role,” said City Manager Eric Holmes. “His clear vision for the future of community safety in Vancouver helped him emerge as the top candidate in a very competitive pool. I am confident in his ability to lead our Police Department in its next chapter.”
“The NAACP is proud of the decision the city made. Jeff Mori has shown consistent commitment in navigating difficult and systematic issues within our community,” said Vancouver NAACP President Jasmine Tolbert. “Jeff has a healthy commitment to racial equity, and we hope to continue to partner with him on that journey. Ultimately the NAACP of Vancouver is here to hold the Vancouver Police Department accountable, but we are excited to work with Jeff.”
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FORT MYERS, Fla. — A developer was chosen by the City of Fort Myers council to move ahead in the process to redo the downtown Yacht Basin.
The council voted and chose to start negotiations with marina developers Suntex Marinas, ahead of six other developer firms that submitted proposals during the RFP process.
Suntex owns and operates dozens of marinas all around the country, with more than 3 thousand slips in Florida at marinas in Sarasota, Fort Lauderdale and Fort Myers Beach and more.
Suntex’s plans for redeveloping the Yacht Basin include rebuilding the docks for boaters, adding an activity center for residents and opening to more visitors, additional landscaping, green space and adding a pier, as seen by this rendering from Suntex’s proposal to Fort Myers Council.
The activity center, according to the plan, can house Watersport rentals, a lounge space and retail.
Additionally, the company wants to add more shops and restaurant space in order to bring people to the waterfront.
The project, under Suntex’s proposal, could cost roughly $45 Million to complete and would take about 30 months to build.
Still, some residents of the Yacht Basin tell NBC2 they’re still not on board with the refresh.
“This is a good size construction project, I think this would be the biggest that Suntex has ever done,” said Bill Westberry, who has been outspoken against developers coming into the Basin. “We would all like new marina facilities but at what cost? Triple the rates, potential of poisoning the water downstream.”
Westberry and other residents have raised concerns with Fort Myers Councilmembers about rising slip rental costs and the environmental aspect of digging into the Basin’s floor.
“We were shocked and disappointed that somebody didn’t introduce a resolution requiring the city to have the bottom city floor of the marina tested,” said Westberry.
Some councilmembers said they still want to see an environmental report as contract negotiations continue.
They also plan to check on Suntex’s other marinas to further see the prices they set and how they work in the community.
Suntex has laid out plans for how it will work with residents of the Basin in phases and provided how it sees parking working downtown around the waterfront.
Additional meetings are in the works for community members to hear and see more of the possible coming plans Suntex has for the Yacht Basin.
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OREGON, USA — Voter turnout for Oregon's May primary election has jumped to just over 33% as of Wednesday, with more ballots yet to be counted thanks to the state's new law allowing ballots to be postmarked on election day as well as delays in Clackamas County.
That level of turnout is typical for a primary election in a midterm year; in May 2018, 34% of registered Oregon voters turned in a ballot.
Like many other issues in Oregon, there is an urban-rural divide: voter turnout in Oregon's rural counties tends to be much higher than urban ones.
The top three counties for voter turnout were Grant, Harney and Wheeler Counties; all three counties had turnout over 50%. Meanwhile, Oregon's two largest counties, Multnomah and Washington, saw just over 33% and 34% turnout in this election, respectively.
Of course, Grant, Harney and Wheeler Counties have significantly fewer voters — there are just over 5,000 registered voters in Harney County, for example — but more than half took the time to vote and return their ballot.
Why is turnout higher in rural counties? Harney County Clerk Dag Robinson said people living in rural areas care a lot, but often don't feel heard.
"Historically, Harney County's always had a high turnout, even [before] vote-by-mail. I push voter participation each election and I think that pays off, but I think over the last 35 years there's been an incredible deindustrialization in rural Oregon, and that economic deterioration has led to resentment and even grievance-style politics," said Robinson. "I believe rural Oregon tends to be registered pretty Republican and I've heard over and over this election, they want new direction. I hear every election, rural voters feel unheard in Salem and in Washington D.C. I truly believe that's the reason behind the high turnout. They typically feel unheard in Salem and I think they see this as their way to be heard."
Robinson said officials use social media to talk about voting because they don't have much local news media, and while there are drop boxes located throughout the county, most voters return their ballots in the mail. Despite the narrative that many conservatives don't trust mail-in voting, Robinson said that is not the case in Harney County.
"Folks in rural Oregon have elected their county clerk, and I think they have trust in their own elections office," Robinson explained. "I hear that a lot... 'Well, we trust what you're doing, and we completely understand that it's taken care of correctly here, but we don't know about what it's being done in other states or in other counties across the state. Together, the Oregon Clerks Association has tried really hard to help fight misinformation and disinformation."
Robinson said he has worked hard to make the election process as transparent as possible.
"When we do our public certification, we had a pretty good turnout of folks here to see how that process works, and I did a pretty lengthy demonstration of Oregon's elections process in a small county from start to finish, and it was very well received. I think that helps the more we can get folks to see how accurate and transparent and hard we work to make sure everyone's vote is counted accurately, I think that really pays off as well. That puts a lot of trust into our system."
Wheeler County saw the highest statewide voter turnout percentage at 52%.
"Voters in Wheeler County seem to take their right to vote very seriously. We typically have one of the highest turnouts in the state. It gives me pride to know our citizens care," said Wheeler County Clerk Brenda Snow Potter.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Washington County Schools presented its budget proposal to the county budget committee on Wednesday.
The $83 million budget would increase the starting pay for teachers by $2,000.
Teachers are eligible for raises after 10 years with the district with additional raises every five years after that.
According to Superintendent Dr. Jerry Boyd, the move will make the district’s pay more competitive with other area districts.
“It’s a very significant increase, and it really puts us in a better place as far as being competitive with our closest neighbors,” Boyd said. “Prior to this move, we were really at a huge disadvantage.”
Boyd said the school district is expected to receive $8 million more from the state next year under Tennessee’s new school funding model.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — A vehicle crashed into a building in Fort Smith.
According to Fort Smith Police, the driver of the vehicle was taken to the hospital with what is believed to be non-life-threatening injuries.
Police do not believe anyone else was injured.
Emergency crews and firefighters were originally called to the scene but did not stay long since only one person was transported.
police are investigating to learn more details on what happened.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Fort Smith Regional Airport conducted its triennial airport emergency exercise on Wednesday.
The Federal Aviation Administration requires airports to conduct an FSE or full-scale exercise every 3 years.
“It’s so important for this to be tested so that way if it actually were an actual incident out here, not only is the airport response ready to go,” said airport director Michael Griffin. “But all the off-airport and supporting agencies are prepared for an aircraft incident.”
The full-scale exercise had more than 10 agencies involved in the training.
According to a press release, they included:
- Fort Smith Regional Airport
- Arkansas Air National Guard 188th Wing Fire Services
- Fort Smith Fire Department
- Fort Smith EMS, Sebastian County EMS
- Fort Smith Police Department
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Health Sciences Academy at Darby School
- Sebastian County Office of Emergency Management
- Local hospitals
“There have been aircraft incidents out here,” said Griffin. “This is measuring that preparedness and making sure that we are prepared”
Officials stated that the airport gathers at least once a year to review emergency plans. For Wednesday’s training, Griffin said they met multiple times to plan. He said the event typically only lasts a few hours, despite all the preparation.
The FAA also requires airports to provide aircraft firefighting. The Fort Smith regional airport said they can rely on the neighboring guard members.
“Fortunately with the 188th wing providing the fire services here at the airport,” said Griffin. “We are fully staffed 24/7 in the event that an actual incident were to occur.”
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Residents at the High Point Apartment Complex in Fayetteville say they have been dealing with unaddressed sewage and cannot get a hold of management.
"This is like the 5th one. Only this is the worst. Flooding...from the toilet,” said Debbie Mendoza has been living in the High Point Apartments for nearly four years.
She says the sewage flooding has never been as bad as it was in March 2022.
"It just boiled, raw sewage everywhere,” Mendoza said. “Clear out into the hallway."
She claims the water was ankle deep and when she complained about it, she says nothing was done.
"I tried to call for help,” Mendoza said. “Couldn't get no manager, nobody from maintenance."
Dallas-based Antelope Exclusive Properties LLC is listed as the company over the apartments. According to them, they took over in November and residents say it's been hard to contact them, but once Mendoza did get someone on the phone, she got someone from North Carolina.
"He gotten the phone call that we needed help,” Mendoza said. “I said, yeah but you’re in North Carolina and I'm in Arkansas. He says ‘sorry ma'am. But I can't help you.’ And that was the only one that contacted us.
Since then, Mendoza has had to stay at hotels and her apartment is left with several half-finished jobs and open nails.
"So, we're kind of in a mess,” Mendoza says.
5NEWS spoke with management at Antelope Exclusive Properties LLC over the phone. It says it never knew about the problem until 5NEWS told them about it. Adding that it is asking regional management to take care of it immediately. However, residents say this problem should've been taken care of months ago.
RELATED: 'Walk a Mile in My Shoes' campaign brings awareness to children in foster care in Sebastian Co.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Sebastian County ranks second in the state for most kids in foster care and advocates are calling the situation a crisis. Local organizations are teaming up to help find families for waiting kids.
"We saw a need and we thought 'let's just step in there and fill it as best we can,'" said Krista Morland, foster parent.
Just within the last few years, Sebastian County led the state in the number of kids in foster care with close to 800. Today, the number of kids in foster care in the county is down to 481.
“That's more than what's in my daughter's public school," Morland said. "So, if you think about your child's entire school in foster care, that's what we're facing here in Sebastian County."
Eight years ago, Krista Morland and her husband became foster parents. During that time they have helped nearly 60 kids in the foster care system in Sebastian County.
Morland says fostering is rewarding but isn't without its challenges.
“It's hard but none of it's wasted time. Anytime you can step into the life of a child who is suffering and hurting and then love on them and give them a safe place to stay and then also love on their families, none of that's ever wasted no matter how hard the work is," said Morland.
The Arkansas Family Alliance and the State Division of Child and Family Sevices teamed up in Fort Smith on Wednesday, May 18, for the Walk a Mile in My Shoes event.
481 pairs of shoes were laid out across the grass on the corner of Rogers Avenue and Free Ferry- each one representing a child in foster care.
“This is a community crisis and when we realize that, when we're aware of that and we stand shoulder to shoulder together to try and make a difference, all hands on deck, you see the decrease in the number of kids that enter foster care," said Matt Whitson, Executive Director at Arkansas Family Alliance.
Organizers say a portion of the shoes will have a global impact by being sent to kids in Togo, Africa, and another portion will go to children in foster care in Sebastian County.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark — Walmart announced Walmart+ Weekend, which will be an online savings event exclusively for Walmart+ members that stretches over three days.
The sales will be on Walmart's website at 12 p.m.on Thursday, June 2, and the deals end at 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 5. Only Walmart+ members will have access to the deepest discounts.
“Our Walmart+ members loved early access to our Black Friday events, so we were inspired to create an entire weekend dedicated to the best deals,” said Chris Cracchiolo, senior vice president and general manager at Walmart. “Giving members more of what they want with exclusive, unprecedented Black Friday-like savings allows us to celebrate our members in a fun, new way.”
While supplies last, the deals during Walmart+ Weekend provide savings on brands including:
Electronics
- Gateway R7 Laptop was $449, will be $399 – $50 off
- Hisense 43-inch 4K TV was $258, will be $198 – 23% off
- Samsung A50 Soundbar was $179, will be $129 – 28% off
Apparel
- Champion Women’s Lightweight Tee was $30, will be $15 – 50% off
- Burnside Men’s Board Short was $42, will be $19.95 – 53% off
- Michael Kors Tote Bag was $197, will be $146.52 - 26% off
- Levi’s Boys 2-piece Outfit was $44, will be $22 – 50% off
For the Home
- Keurig K Compact Black was $89, will be $49 – 45% off
- Gourmia 8QT Air Fryer was $99, will be $59 – 40% off
- Anchorage Queen Upholstered Bed was $279, will be $199 – 28% off
- Larissa Sofa was $449, will be $349 – 22% off
Toys
- Hover-1 Blast Hoverboard for $79 – Exclusive to Walmart+ Weekend
- LEGO City Stuntz was $23.97, will be $14.97
- Krazy Kart Shift Go-Kart was $298, will be $198 – $100 off
School and Art Supplies
- 60 count of Sharpie Fine Point Permanent Markers was $38.26, will be $20 – 48% Off
- 60 pack of Elmer’s glue sticks was $19.13, will be $13.78 – 28 % off
Appliances
- Pit Boss Pellet Grill was $427, will be $327 – 23% off
- GE 10,000 BTU Portable WiFi A/C was $447, will be $326 – 27% off
- Shark Auto Empty Robot Vacuum was $499, will be $299 – $200 off
Backyard & Summer Fun
- Coleman 20' Oval 48" Deep Metal Frame Above Ground Pool was $698, will be $598
- Licensed Disc Swings (Paw Patrol, Minnie, Mickey, Spider-Man) was $79, will be $34.44
At the end of April, Walmart+ increased its fuel discount, giving members up to 10 cents off each gallon they pump at more than 14,000 stations nationwide. Walmart+ membership also provides unlimited free grocery deliveries from stores, Scan & Go capabilities and six months of free Spotify Premium.
Walmart+ is $12.95 a month or $98 a year and members always have access to free shipping, no matter how big or small the order is.
For more information about Walmart+ or how to become a member, click here.
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COOKSVILLE — A driver was killed Wednesday in a two-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 9 about 6 miles east of Bloomington, Illinois State police said.
Troopers were called about 6:22 p.m. to the intersection of Illinois Route 9 and McLean County Road 2600 East, which also is the LeRoy-Lexington Blacktop. The crash involved a commercial motor vehicle and a passenger vehicle, police said.
The driver of the passenger vehicle was dead at the scene, police said. The driver's name was withheld pending next-of-kin notifications, police said.
The investigation is ongoing, police said, declining to release additional information.
The cities with the most break-ins and burglaries
Cities With the Most Break-Ins / Burglaries
Despite perceptions of rising crime, theft has become far less common in recent years than it used to be, and property crime rates declined even more sharply during the pandemic. That said, there are still hotspots where break-ins and burglaries are far more common than the typical American neighborhood. While approximately 400 burglaries and 1,700 larceny-thefts per 100,000 people annually have been the national norm over the past five years, there are cities in the United States that report rates double or even triple those numbers.As with anything, an understanding of what burglars are after and where they are active can help keep the trend heading lower. Over the last decade, the number of larceny-thefts fell nearly 20% from 6.3 million to 5.1 million, and the number of burglaries were cut in half from 2.2 million to 1.1 million, according to FBI statistics from 2015 to 2019. And it’s not a new trend. Since 1993, property crimes declined dramatically—55% to 71% depending on which source of stats you look at, Pew Research found.
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Over the past decade burglary and larceny rates have declined
Looking at the past five years of crime data, burglars were about twice as likely to target a home than a business or other building, and nearly half of all burglaries occurred during broad daylight. Once in, thieves were often after two items in particular: money and jewelry. Together, those valuables were worth more than the remaining top categories of stolen goods combined. Of those other items, office equipment, electronics, and clothing were common targets.
Daytime break-ins of homes are most common
Protecting your home and taking initiatives to deter potential burglars are obvious steps to fight crime, but choosing a safe location to begin with is one of the most important factors. For example, burglaries occur in New York, New Hampshire, and Virginia less than half as many times as the national average, while residents of New Mexico, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana are burglarized nearly twice as often. In general, states in the South have higher-than-average property crime rates, and the states in the Northeast enjoy the lowest theft rates of any region in America.
Southern states experience the most property crime
To find out which cities were hotspots for theft, researchers at Porch analyzed data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program between 2015 to 2019 and then calculated the average number of burglaries and larceny-thefts per 100,000 residents. For comparison, cities were divided into three groups based on population. Here are the 15 U.S. cities with the most burglaries.
Small and midsize cities with the most burglaries
15. Dallas, TX
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 752 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 1,925 Average annual burglaries total: 10,044 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 25,729
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14. Houston, TX
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 763 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,931 Average annual burglaries total: 17,762 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 68,295
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13. Las Vegas, NV
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 782 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 1,608 Average annual burglaries total: 12,618 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 26,052
12. Columbus, OH
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 782 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,558 Average annual burglaries total: 6,833 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 22,374
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11. Minneapolis, MN
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 818 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,950 Average annual burglaries total: 3,445 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 12,438
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10. Milwaukee, WI
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 828 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 1,794 Average annual burglaries total: 4,943 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 10,710
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9. Wichita, KS
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 841 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 3,935 Average annual burglaries total: 3,289 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 15,381
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8. Kansas City, MO
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 872 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,592 Average annual burglaries total: 4,216 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 12,577
7. Oklahoma City, OK
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 918 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,532 Average annual burglaries total: 5,936 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 16,364
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6. Bakersfield, CA
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 1,014 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,471 Average annual burglaries total: 3,869 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 9,425
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5. Seattle, WA
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 1,064 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 3,583 Average annual burglaries total: 7,669 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 25,807
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4. Baltimore, MD
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 1,132 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,772 Average annual burglaries total: 6,927 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 16,942
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3. Detroit, MI
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 1,168 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 2,161 Average annual burglaries total: 7,825 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 14,471
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2. Tulsa, OK
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 1,314 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 3,351 Average annual burglaries total: 5,302 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 13,518
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1. Memphis, TN
Average annual burglaries per 100k: 1,384 Average annual larceny-thefts per 100k: 4,070 Average annual burglaries total: 9,056 Average annual larceny-thefts total: 26,609
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Family and friends of a beloved Sacramento DJ - slain in an attempted robbery turned double homicide - took action to keep his memory alive.
Giovanni Pizano, who went by the name DJ Gio, was killed April 10. His loved ones created a billboard hoping it could keep him in people's thoughts.
"The purpose of it is to keep my son's memory alive," said Anita Razo, DJ Gio's mother. "I don't want him to be forgotten. He's a Sacramento DJ, and we wanted to keep his memory alive here in Sacramento and in the Bay Area because he meant a lot to a lot of people."
The billboard shows DJ Gio smiling and performing in front of a large crowd with the words "Long Live DJ Gio" and "Forever in our hearts".
DJ Gio started deejaying at 11 years old after walking down K Street in Downtown Sacramento and discovering DJ lessons at a record shop called Marsupial Records.
"His teacher shared with me that Gio was his very first student, and that it was unusual for the student to surpass the instructor but Giovanni did," Razo said. "It was his passion; this is what he wanted to do. He pursued it, and he was good."
From there, he deejayed for crowds of more than 120,000 people, opened for and toured with various artists and musicians and traveled around the United States performing in different states and cities.
After this tragedy involving her own son, Razo said her heart goes out to people that have lost loved ones because it is the worst feeling in the world. She also believes her son didn't realize how much he was loved.
As for the case, the Sacramento Police Department told ABC10 that the homicide investigation remains active and detectives are following up on the circumstances of what occurred.
The shooting also took the life of a man named Vernon Mulder, who was with DJ Gio at the time.
"In his short life, he lived a good life," Razo said. "Gio has this Instagram post that says, 'When I die, look through my camera roll. I had a great life.' He wrote that last year, and he really did."
The billboard comes shortly after a mural was painted by friends and family members on the walls of Jazz Alley in Sacramento. It shows DJ Gio sitting down and holding his phone with the words "Long Live DJ Gio" at the bottom.
There is also a website at the bottom of the billboard, www.DJGioOfficial.com, where you can click on the different tabs to read about his life story, memories shared and posted by friends and family members. You can also order merchandise that will go to the DJ Gio Foundation, which helps fund young and upcoming artists as well as raises awareness to end gun violence.
WATCH MORE ON ABC10: Community mourns the loss of popular Sacramento entertainer 'Dj Gio'
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CERES, Calif. — A double-sided racist sign was seen dangling from a well-traveled overpass in Ceres this past weekend.
It was seen around 8 a.m. above S. Seventh Street at E. Hatch Road and Highway 99 on Saturday with words threatening Mexicans and using derogatory words connotating hate.
"It's unfortunate that this type of hate that used to be kept hidden or not necessarily out in the open has now gone mainstream that people feel very comfortable putting these types of signs out there," said Jose Rodriguez, president and CEO of the community non-profit El Concilio California.
According to the Latina viewer who recorded the sign with her cell phone and who wanted to remain anonymous, a crane was used to quickly take the sign down.
No one knows who put it up.
"You know, especially when we just had a shooting in Buffalo, you think about the shooting we had in Arizona - I mean, there's a lot of hate out there, and these signs certainly don't help," Rodriguez said.
"This is barbaric. This is dangerous," said Stanislaus County community advocate Yamilet Valladolid.
She said whoever created the sign is in a "dark mental state" and needs help. She also said local government and law enforcement leaders need to crack down on hate messages.
"We have seen, more than ever, too much violence fired up by racism," Valladolid said.
She also said people need to encourage community equity and inclusion.
"Whether its our work spaces, whether its our social spaces, we need to call it out if we hear people comment on something that is racist," Valladolid said.
The Modesto-area California Highway Patrol said it had no reports regarding the racist sign. A message left this afternoon with the Ceres Police Department was not immediately returned.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Amanda Mendoza sat in her car and took a deep breath.
It was the start of an arduous mission she has repeated day after a day for more than a month: driving to several stores in search of her 7-month-old daughter’s formula.
“It’s been stressful,” Mendoza said.
The national baby formula shortage has forced her to search across the entire Dallas-Fort Worth area. At least four times a week, the Fort Worth mom drives from one store to another in hopes of finding at least one can to feed her daughter, Aubriella.
“It’s starting to become harder and harder,” Mendoza said. “I went to over 20 stores in one day.”
After driving to 20 stores burning through half a tank of gas, she found a couple of cans to get her through the week.
Retail tracking group Datasembly found, in Texas, more than 50% of the baby formula supply is out of stock. Nationwide, the out-of-stock percentage was 42% in the week ending May 8.
This week, baby formula maker Abbott reached an agreement to reopen its formula plant, but it’ll be well over a month before any new product hits stores.
Mendoza described the feeling of finding her daughter’s formula as if she won the lottery.
Her daughter can only drink one type of formula, others make her vomit.
Tuesday, she was down to her last can. Mendoza grew increasingly worried as she saw empty shelves at every store she checked.
“Sometimes I wanna [sic] cry when I don’t find it,” Mendoza said. “'Cause I don’t know if she’s gonna eat.”
She broke into tears behind the wheel of her car. It was the face of mothers across the country who worry that things will only get worse.
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NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark — A day after a shooting that took place following North Little Rock High School's graduation, families in the area are now worried about their safety, along with what this could mean for future graduations and events.
Graduates had just left Simmons Bank Arena with tassels turned diplomas in hand, only to hear shots ring out sending many and their families to run for cover.
"We were at the top of the tunnel at the box office. All I could see was just crowds of students. You couldn't see the ground," said Caiya Robinson, an attendee.
"All I heard was tires shredding," Robinson said. "Kind of like somebody speeding off, and then just out there in the crowd I could see just everybody running."
Robinson and her niece, one of the graduates, were trying to leave the arena. They said that they knew it would be a while before they were able to exit the building due to the line of people.
"I guess maybe five minutes after that, security came rushing out and they were like 'everybody back outside! back outside,' she said.
North Little Rock police said someone started firing outside the Simmons Bank Arena shortly after 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Robinson said it's shocking that for a day of celebration, it would end for students in such a terrifying way.
Police even decided to up their police presence for the graduation. The inspiration behind the decision was the Hot Springs shooting that happened roughly 5 days prior.
"You go from being very happy and ecstatic with your friends and family to fearing for your life within a few moments," said Darius Walton.
He was at the graduation to support his niece. He was outside after the graduation and overheard a man talking about shooting near the arena.
Walton said he told North Little Rock police 45 minutes before the shooting happened.
"I'm personally disappointed in our security plan. With several shootings happening recently, I felt like there should have been a better plan and a better presence," said Walton.
With what he knew, he told local law enforcement but doesn't know if they acted on the tip or not.
With more graduations around the corner, Simmons Bank Arena gave a statement to THV 11:
'We want everyone attending to feel as safe as possible as they watch their loved ones graduate. Walk-through magnetometers are at every door and all bags will be searched. We have increased security and increased our staffing.'
No injuries were reported and the incident is still under investigation.
The department is encouraging anyone with information to contact police and remind those with information that they can remain anonymous.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Three years after Arkansas lawmakers authorized 75 mph speed limits on certain highways, the state highway department said they have posted the required signs in most places where they are allowed-- all while continuing to study other roads that remain at lower speed limits.
"A majority of, if not all, of the rural highways have been raised to 75 miles an hour," said Dave Parker, spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Transportation.
With 75 becoming such a norm, it's important for many drivers to remember where the faster pace is allowed.
The key word is "rural." Most drivers have to travel far from city centers if they want to legally step on the gas that much harder.
"We knew 75 miles an hour was coming 5, 6, 7, 8.. 10 years ago," Parker said.
But three years ago is when the General Assembly declared in Act 784 that "the maximum speed limit for a motor vehicle operated on a controlled-access highway is seventy-five (75) miles per hour."
Before Act 784, the fastest legal limit was 70.
The law cleared up some language about studies and research, but it also set two qualifications.
The first being that the road has to be "located outside an urban area," and the second being that it has to have at least four lanes with a median strip.
So now that signs have been posted, there are questions about why highways in the suburbs are still stuck at 70 or slower?
"It's because of safety reasons," Parker said. "The road can handle it, but for motorists safety, we have not increased."
Specifically, there is an area between the Lonoke and Pulaski County lines where US 67/167 goes from 75, down to 65 before down further to 60.
It's the same kind of freeway with on-ramps and off-ramps, but Parker said ARDOT is concerned about construction in the area and traffic volume.
That's not all, there's also US-70 through Saline and Garland Counties, which was notoriously unsafe with numerous deadly crashes before it was expanded to four lanes on either side of a center lane. The speed limit on that stretch is capped at 60 mph.
Parker said it [US-70] is being studied along with the US 270-B bypass that it links with in Hot Springs.
They need to decide the merits of raising the rate on a road with an intersection with a traffic signal as well as numerous private driveways along the route.
It prompts the question what the difference is using an on-ramp to get to 75 miles per hour versus turning left into traffic going 60 miles per hour.
Well, those questions will all be a part of the review according to Parker.
"The roads are built to handle 75 miles an hour," he said. "Those particular roads we're talking about, it's where the drivers are ready for 75 miles an hour."
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Community members gather in Phoenix to mourn, honor Buffalo shooting victims
A few dozen community members gathered at Eastlake Park in Phoenix on Wednesday evening to honor and remember those whose lives were cut short during a racist, hate-filled mass shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Phoenix Councilmember Carlos Garcia lamented that yet another mass shooting born from racist ideologies occurred.
"At this time it's important for Black and Brown unity to be stronger as ever," Garcia said. "I'm here to support you all. I know these families will never see their loved ones and — having experienced El Paso — I've seen the trauma that happens beyond those folks that were impacted."
The vigil comes several days after the Saturday shooting at a Tops grocery store in a predominately Black neighborhood where ten people were killed and three others injured. Of those shot, 11 were Black.
The suspect, 18-year-old Payton Gendren, allegedly posted a 180-page document espousing a racist conspiracy theory that white Americans were being systematically replaced by minorities and immigrants. Gendren is suspected of planning the mass shooting for months while collecting weapons and ammunition that he hid from his family.
Rolando Rhymes with the non-profit organization Chicanos Por La Causa, asked for a moment of silence for the families who lost their loved ones in the attack.
"White supremacy is a poison," Rhymes said.
A prayer was offered in remembrance of the victims by religious leaders. The crowd later released balloons into the air as Stevie Wonder's Love’s in Need of Love Today played.
A 'murderous, racist rampage'
Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said Gendren arrived Saturday afternoon at a Tops Friendly Markets grocery store on the city's Near East Side armed with an assault-style rifle and tactical gear and shot four people in the parking lot — three of whom died. He then entered the store and continued the violent rampage while wearing a camera and streaming on the live-streaming site Twitch.
A Twitch spokesperson said in a statement that it ended the live stream “less than two minutes after the violence started.”
Victims identified, remembered:'A beautiful soul': Loved ones of Buffalo shooting victims mourn losses
A retired Buffalo police officer identified by authorities as Aaron Salter, working in the store as a security guard, confronted the shooter and shot him. Those bullets struck the attacker's tactical vest, preventing injury, Gramaglia said. The gunman returned fire and fatally shot Salter.
The shooter "worked his way through the store" firing at others, and in the store's lobby was confronted by Buffalo police, Gramaglia said. Then the suspect pointed his own gun at his neck before officers talked him down and arrested him.
The massacre sent ripples throughout the country, which has continuously seen mass shootings in cities like Charleston, South Carolina, and El Paso, Texas, with young, white men targeting minority communities.
President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited a memorial outside the grocery store where they laid a bouquet of white flowers before meeting with families, first responders and law enforcement officials.
Biden condemned the attack, calling it a "murderous, racist rampage" and an act of "terrorism" steeped in white supremacy.
"Hate will not prevail, and white supremacy will not have the last word," Biden said. "But evil did come to Buffalo. It's come to all too many places, manifested in young men who massacred innocent people in the name of hateful and perverse ideology rooted in fear and racism."
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"White supremacy is a poison," he added. "It's a poison running through our body politic that's been allowed to fester and grow right in front of our eyes."
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called the gunman a white supremacist who terrorized New York's second-largest city in a "cold-hearted," "military-style execution" as people were buying groceries.
"It strikes us in our very hearts to know that there's such evil that lurks out there," she said. "This individual – this white supremacist – who just perpetrated a hate crime on an innocent community, will spend the rest of his days behind bars. And heaven help him in the next world as well."
Authorities have charged Gendren with first-degree murder, though John Flynn, Erie County's district attorney, said along with the murder charge, his office and federal authorities were pursuing others, from terrorism to hate crimes.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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Bicyclist dies after being struck by vehicle near 51st Avenue, Camelback Road in Phoenix
A bicyclist struck by a vehicle Tuesday evening in northwest Phoenix died from his injuries, according to police.
The Phoenix Police Department said 60-year-old Ernest Keister was riding his bicycle on 51st Avenue near Camelback Road at about 7:45 p.m. when he was struck by a sedan traveling southbound on the same street.
Keister was taken to the hospital where he died from injuries sustained during the crash, police said.
The driver of the sedan remained at the scene after the crash. Initial reports suggest impairment was not a factor in the collision. However, police said the investigation was ongoing.
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TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) – State Sen. Jon Lundberg (R-Bristol) said Northeast Tennessee won’t be affected by a Tennessee Supreme Court ruling that school vouchers in other parts of the state are constitutional.
In a major victory for Gov. Bill Lee’s legislative agenda, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled in favor of the state Department of Education in a court battle against school districts in Davidson and Shelby counties.
The ruling means school vouchers in those counties are constitutional, which provides $7,000 for low-income families and students at under-performing schools to instead pay for tuition at charter schools.
Lundberg said the under-performing schools in Davidson and Shelby Counties were designated as priority schools under the Education Savings Account Act passed in 2019.
“Guess what the best potential outcome is for your child, it’s almost criminal,” Lundberg said. “To give them a chance to send their child to another school of their choice, I think is the right thing to do.”
He said schools in Northeast Tennessee are providing much higher quality education, so the need for charter schools is not present.
Court clears path for long-blocked Tennessee school vouchers
“We don’t have any that are even tracking toward the priority school list, so that’s really good,” Lundberg said. “A lot of educators say, “Well this is terrible. This is going to change everything.” No, it’s not. It’s not going to have an impact in Northeast Tennessee.”
Daniel Suhr, a managing attorney for the Liberty Justice Center, represented a charter school in the Tennessee Supreme Court case.
Suhr said the court’s ruling affirmed the state government sets education policy. He said that means voucher programs could be expanded.
“It opens the door for the General Assembly to provide additional educational options if it chooses to,” Suhr said.
But the ruling has some local school officials concerned.
Johnson City School Board Chair Kathy Hall said her board had passed a proclamation disapproving of charter schools and vouchers in the past.
She had concerns about voucher programs using public money to fund private charter schools.
“Public school dollars are very important to all public schools, so anytime you’re taking money away from our schools or school across the state, I think the students suffer,” Hall said.
Washington County Superintendent Jerry Boyd said charter schools would create a competitive education marketplace.
He said public schools in Northeast Tennessee are still the best option for parents and students, but the ruling would force his district to adjust, perhaps for the better.
“We can’t just sit back and just expect that we won’t be facing those challenges,” Boyd said. “Parents make choices and we want to be able to put ourselves as a school system serving all public school students in the best position for parents to believe we’re the best choice for them, so the competitiveness is not such a negative thing.”
Suhr said Tennessee’s charter schools could open in the fall.
After that, a three-year study to be presented to the Tennessee General Assembly will be conducted detailing the performance of those schools.
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BOISE, Idaho — Last month, the median sale price of a home in Ada County reached $595 thousand. A record high, and a nearly 24% increase from this time last year.
For decades, houses in Boise and the rest of the Treasure Valley were considered affordable. Many Idahoans can recall a time, not that long ago, when an affordable house could be bought for around $150 thousand, which got us thinking, how far from Boise would someone have to travel to find a house for that price?
“We probably haven't seen that price point since 2012,” said Becky Enrico Crum, the president of Boise Regional Realtors.
Crum said finding a single-family home at that price point in Treasure Valley is no longer realistic. In fact, on May 5, there were zero listings for single-family homes available on the Intermountain MLS within hours of Boise.
Overall, in Idaho, we found: one home listed at $140 thousand in Kamiah, a four-and-a-half-hour drive from Boise; another in Cottonwood, also four hours away; and a few listings in Twin Falls and Hagerman, which are a little closer.
The closest listings for that price point were in Ontario. For just under $150 thousand there are two houses in Ontario, both complete with two bedrooms, one bath, and less than 900 square feet. Both are less than an hour away from Boise.
Crum said if we bumped up the price to $200 thousand, we could find a handful of properties. But again, not in Boise.
“The closest I could find to Boise was Mountain Home for 199,” Crum said. “And then you start stretching out to like Kamiah, Idaho and Twin Falls, Idaho and you have to kind of start stretching out.”
And if someone does find a home in the Treasure Valley at that price point, it likely will not be the single-family home most people envision, but instead a manufactured home or mobile home. However, then the family would not own the land their home is on.
“The housing market in the housing crisis has pushed military families out,” said Vanessa Zink, a real estate agent whose husband is on active duty in the military.
When Zink and her husband moved to Mountain Home less than a year ago, they lived in an RV off base, something she says a lot of military families are doing because it’s an affordable way to live.
Now, her family is living on the base in Mountain Home, something a number of her clients are also doing, and those who are not living on the base, they are moving farther out so they can afford a place of their own.
“Going further out to Glenns Ferry, or Twin Falls, that's costing money and gas. So it's kind of like you're trying to figure out the lesser of two evils,” Zink said. “There really is no options. I mean, the options are where the housing is, right? So, I mean, if you need to buy a house and that’s the price point, you're really going to have to just look at the options that are available to you no matter where they are, because we can't just magically, you know, make those price points appear.”
KTVB reached out to several real estate agents, all of which suggested increasing the search price to $250 thousand, but they said even that might not be enough.
“To be in Boise, I think you're gonna get closer to 299, for that to be more reasonable,” Crum said. “And at that price, you can get into a two-bedroom, one bath, and you can be in Boise, and it might be a condo or a townhouse.”
So then just how close to Boise can someone get for $250 thousand? Well, it depends on the type of home they are looking for. If we focus specifically on single-family homes, condos, and townhomes, there are options, but not a lot.
A person looking to buy a house under $250 thousand could find a 600 square foot home in Nampa, Emmett, Ontario, and Wilder.
“As long as we have a low supply, you know, and we have this high demand, it's just going to be something that's going to continue,” Crum said.
As people move farther and farther from Boise to obtain the American dream of owning a house, Crum wants them to think about the long-term picture.
“If they can find a house that they can get in the market right now, it would be a good idea even if it's not in the ideal location because at least they can start building equity. And this you know, know that it's not a forever home, but at least they've got a house.” Crum said.
Then later down the road the new homeowner can sell that house and use that equity to move. As for Zink and her family, they're weighing their options right now.
“We're going to retire. So, we're not sure if we're gonna stay here or not,” Zink said.
Because she says this area is just not affordable.
For those at this price point who cannot find anything, Crum recommends waiting and saving more money to put towards a down payment so that they might be able to step up in price. Right now, there are about three weeks of inventory, and she says it's going to take about a year and a half to get enough inventory to sell so this challenge will continue for a while.
Additionally, Idaho Governor Brad Little has also created a tax-free savings plan for first-time home buyers.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
California’s pockets are deeper than ever.
The state now has a $97.5 billion budget surplus, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently announced. About half of that amount is up for grabs — lawmakers will now duke it out to see their pet projects and priorities funded before a June 15 deadline. CalMatters readers can get in on the action, too, with the second edition of our budget game: How would you spend California’s surplus?
The game isn’t scientific — but it’s fun all the same. Users can alter the state’s taxing and spending according to what they care about most. Readers are tasked with using up the budget surplus while maintaining a balanced budget.
CalMatters learned a few things from last January’s submissions, when Newsom first released his budget. There were none supporting universal basic income or Medi-Cal for all. About three quarters of the 2,050 submissions supported waiting until May 2021 before greenlighting, or scrapping, another round of stimulus checks.
On the taxing side, nearly 1,000 submissions supported higher taxes on the ultra-rich. And just 21 submissions called for eliminating the state sales tax.
We checked in with several readers who played the game last year. Here are their spending plans, in their own words.
(Comments have been edited for length and clarity)
Lexi Purich Howard, 55, Sacramento, attorney
Spending priorities: Reparations, state courts, electronic court document access
I grew up in a fairly middle-class lifestyle in Southern California, and I did not fully appreciate how easy I had it. It wasn’t until I became an adult that I really had a sense of how charmed my life was. At every point in my career, there has been a common theme where I have been involved in talking about racially restrictive covenants that have kept African-American people out of homeownership.
We’ve established systems that unfairly exclude a large part of the population. In so many cases, those are systems that we don’t think about. The train just keeps going, unless we say ‘This will stop,’ and we make meaningful investments to do things differently.
I also understand it’s human nature for many people to think that reparations mean that if you get something, then I have to give up something for you. The concept is not right.
If we lift up populations, particularly those who have been historically excluded and denied the opportunities that many of us have taken for granted — and many don’t even realize they have — doing that…lifts everyone.
Thoughts on the game: I think the game made the budget process palatable, and understandable and fun. I’m sure we all had more fun with the game than the Legislature and the governor are having right now.
Matthew Fidler, 42, Chico, public radio producer
Spending priorities: Fire prevention and ecosystem restoration
My dream, and this is not an original idea, is that they expand the California Conservation Corps. If we spent 10% of the money that we spend on firefighting on fire prevention and ecosystem restoration, we could have solved this problem 20 years ago.
I was born and raised in California, and between 2013 and 2017, I lived in New York City. I came back in the summer of 2017 to all these wildfires just happening all over California from the very north to the very south.
And then my nearest neighboring town, Paradise, completely burned down. Now, there’s currently neighborhoods being built throughout the entire state that are built exactly like Paradise, that will burn. These are areas that naturally burn every five or 50 years depending on the ecosystem.
I was already kind of working on a public radio project about California fires at the time that happened, but [the Paradise fire] kind of solidified the focus of it. I just started talking to whoever would talk to me about the issue, from forest managers and park rangers to timber managers and ecologists. It blew my mind that the state keeps on doing the same thing and it’s really not solving the problem.
I feel like there’s this feeling that, ‘Oh, when humans settle an area, they tend to destroy it,’ and that humans are a cancer on the earth, but then I learned that’s actually not true at all. Native populations, indigenous populations have actually been helping the planet. The problem is people not understanding the land. It was a big moment for me, realizing that we actually can do the right thing and populations that have lived and learned areas for generations on generations can learn the right way to treat our land.
We should be maintaining these areas and so when they do burn — because they will burn — they won’t burn catastrophically. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Susan Shields, 80, Santa Barbara, retired college professor
Spending priority: Financial support for families with young children
There is a lot of evidence showing that children who grow up in poverty-stricken households experience trauma. I have six children and four of them are adopted.
In the case of three of them, they grew up in really bad circumstances. So, even though we were able to give them a comfortable home, with all the amenities, and a good education, still, their lives have not been easy. It wasn’t suddenly a rose garden and suddenly everything fell into place. I have learned…that the circumstances in which a child grew up initially are with them their whole life.
I am afraid that the government, in general, doesn’t recognize the larger picture. They only look at the economic and financial situation from one year to another. When you’re talking about children, you have to look at the next 20 years because those children are growing up in circumstances that are going to determine their future.
I feel very strongly that families need both social and financial support. The situation of families with young children today is horrible. They can’t afford child care. Child care providers are not paid properly. They have an extremely difficult time keeping their businesses going. This is all counterproductive. And in the long run, in 20 years time, those children will have all kinds of problems.
Thoughts on the game: I was glad to know that there’s enough money in the budget to contemplate taking new actions and new projects.
John Robinson, 50, Pinole, Senior litigation docket specialist
Spending priority: Universal health care
When I was younger, before Covered California, before mandatory insurance, I worked as a temporary worker and I just didn’t have health care and I would have had to pay for anything out of pocket. That was just a bad experience and I just wouldn’t want people to go through that.
I just feel that we need some kind of universal health care for everyone. Even with Covered California, it’s not quite the same. This way, it would just ensure a basic bottom line health standard for everyone in California, and hopefully, that would include immigrants and undocumented people.
I feel like California is close to being on the league with that and single-payer health care is probably further along here than it is in a lot of other states, but unfortunately because of its cost — and the game really makes it clear — it’s just impossible to do. No matter how much you increase the budget, you just can’t pay for it.
Thoughts on the game: I thought that it gave the public, including myself, a way to see inside the budget process that’s kind of, like, confusing and opaque.
Luna is a fellow with the CalMatters College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — This story was originally published by Calmatters.
How much does experience as a controller count?
Ron Galperin is betting it counts for a lot.
The Democratic city controller from Los Angeles is running to replace Betty Yee, who has served as state controller for two terms and is ineligible to run for re-election.
He faces a crowded field in the June 7 primary: Malia Cohen, chairperson of the state Board of Equalization, who has the Democratic Party endorsement; state Sen. Steve Glazer, a Democrat from the East Bay; Democrat Yvonne Yiu, a city council member in the San Gabriel Valley who has poured nearly $6 million into her campaign; and Republican Lanhee Chen, an academic with national political experience.
But none of the other candidates have what Galperin calls the “golden ballot designation” — the title “controller” next to his name.
In a down-ballot race, he hopes that’s enough for voters to boost him into the top two, even though his time as L.A. controller hasn’t been an unqualified success.
“I’m the only one who’s running for this office who has spent the last nine years as a controller, and who’s actually done this day after day,” Galperin said in an interview with CalMatters. “I think what we need is somebody to step into this role, who actually knows what it is that they are doing.”
Here are five key takeaways from the conversation:
Housing is key
Galperin sees the controller post as a way to take on what he calls an “existentialist” and “humanitarian” crisis facing California: housing affordability and homelessness.
“It is a public health crisis. It’s also an economic crisis,” he said. “If we want people to come to California, if we want them to stay, if we want them to invest in California, we’ve got to much better address this problem.”
Taking it on means looking at state spending — specifically the $12 billion approved last year to address homelessness — and whether the money is achieving results.
Galperin cites his experience with Proposition HHH, approved by Los Angeles voters in 2016 to allow city officials to borrow as much as $1.2 billion to reduce homelessness by buying or developing property and remodeling supportive housing and facilities.
Galperin conducted audits and issued reports in 2019, 2020 and this year, flagging rising costs and sluggish development. Specifically, Galperin’s 2022 analysis found that projects were taking from three to six years to complete and costs had increased to an average of $596,846 per unit, with 14% of units exceeding $700,000 and one project topping $800,000.
If elected, Galperin says he plans to create a “strike team” to audit state, county, and municipal spending on homelessness within 60 days of taking office.
Transparency and accountability
Among Galperin’s notable accomplishments as controller in Los Angeles is the creation of a data dashboard itemizing all city expenditures for the last 10 years.
“You can search and filter every single item that we’ve purchased, every dollar that we’ve dispersed,” he said. “And I want to do the very same thing for the state of California.”
Such public information is the first step to transparency, as Galperin sees it. A similar state dashboard would allow him, as controller, to track spending not just on housing and homelessness, but education and local governments.
“We are at one of these moments in time where people do not feel very trusting in government at all … I think our very democracy is at stake right now, and we have to find ways to try and rebuild trust in government,” he said. “I think one of the most important ways that we do that is through the work that a controller does.”
While California does have FI$Cal, its financial management system, the state auditor says it is far over budget and behind schedule. That failure is “particularly shameful,” Galperin said, when California is home to Silicon Valley.
He blames a lack of understanding of how different departments would need to transition to the new software, and trying to make the system do too much. He says he would convene stakeholders to develop a priority list of what can be fixed immediately, and what issues need more expertise and time.
Having an open data dashboard allows stakeholders and activists to help a controller keep an eye on how money is being spent.
“Every day I’m getting emails from a whole variety of different folks saying, ‘Well, what about this expenditure? Can you explain this?’ Or ‘Does this make sense?’ Or ‘Did you know?”
Asked whether his open data approach may have prevented the estimated $20 billion in fraud in the state Employment Development Department during the pandemic, Galperin said that while COVID required quick payments to the jobless, audits done years ago had flagged some of the problems that emerged, but were “largely unheeded.”
“If many of these recommendations had been put in place earlier, you would’ve had a very different result,” he said.
On the economy and taxes
While the state controller doesn’t craft policy, he or she can make recommendations.
A controller might, for example, weigh in on whether it’s prudent to issue stimulus payments from the state’s massive surplus to ease the burdens Californians face from rising gas prices.
Galperin said he believes any relief needs to be more targeted. “We have so many deep and profound needs in this state at this moment that I want to make sure that monies that are distributed are going to those who really need it,” he said.
He also doesn’t support increasing taxes on the wealthy — but does think it’s worth reassessing the state’s overall tax structure to account for an economy based more on services than goods.
“How do we rearrange that tax burden?” he asked. “So we should look at ways that we can make sure that it’s as fair a system as possible.”
The controller also sits on the boards of the nation’s two largest public pension funds for teachers and employees. The state faces a significant shortfall in those funds: As of 2020, the state had just two-thirds of the money it had promised.
Galperin said the state should find ways to maximize investment returns, and also avoid creating a “two-tier” system with new employees receiving lower benefits than existing workers.
And while Galperin generally supports divesting from Russian assets due to the war in Ukraine, he approaches the question with caution:
“If you’re just going to sell it to a Russian oligarch, who’s now going to make a killing on the fact that you sold it at a very depreciated price, does that actually accomplish anything? Does that help the people of Ukraine? Does that punish the Russian government?”
Indictments and corruption in L.A.
Several scandals have rocked L.A. City Hall on Galperin’s watch. But he deflects any direct involvement or responsibility.
In 2020, then-L.A. City Councilmember José Huizar was implicated in an FBI probe, dubbed “Operation Casino Loyale,” for allegedly receiving payoffs in exchange for getting development projects approved. Also in 2020, former Councilmember Mitchell Englander pleaded guilty to trying to stop federal investigators from finding out about cash and other gifts he took. And in 2021, City Council member Mark Ridley-Thomas was indicted on allegations of conspiring with a former USC dean while serving on the county Board of Supervisors to provide his son with graduate school admission, a full-tuition scholarship and a paid professorship in return for county contracts.
“We can have a lot of laws in place. But somebody who wants to steal is often unfortunately going to find ways to do that,” Galperin said.
And all 15 council members have their own “fiefdom” in their districts, where power over lucrative development and construction lends itself to corruption, he said. Galperin says it’s important to hold elected officials to the highest standards. “I will say that for the two that were indicted while in public office, I exercised my power as controller to immediately cut off their pay,” he said.
Galperin’s office, however, was criticized in 2017 for being slow to investigate suspected fraud in the fire department related to potentially falsified inspections. Some alleged that was related to donations that the firefighters union was making to candidates.
But Galperin denied those allegations, saying there are no “sacred cows” and pointing to reports on overtime.
To Galperin, it’s not just about the numbers. He also sees the controller role as a way to increase equity in the state. He initiated the first equity index in the city of Los Angeles, tracking and grading measures such as how many people rent versus own property and how many people live close to toxic sites.
He notes that as a member of the LGBTQ community and the first in his family to be born in the United States, he takes equity seriously.
“My parents were both immigrants who came here, speaking no English, and thankfully were able to create a better life for themselves and for their kids. But we know that so many other individuals and so many other families are struggling,” he said. “So I feel a special responsibility.”
The ‘need to be bold’
Galperin was the first openly gay person to be elected citywide in Los Angeles. If elected controller, he’d be the second openly gay statewide official in California history, after Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, who was elected in 2018 but faces a tough reelection this year.
Galperin and his husband will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their commitment ceremony this year. “It wasn’t called a marriage back then. There was no such thing as marriage equality or as gay marriage,” Galperin recalls.
He was concerned that the activism for marriage equality was jumping ahead of voters and that there might be backlash – which there was, in the form of Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage, but was later overturned in court.
The lesson he learned, he says, was that the American public moved a lot quicker than he expected.
“What I really walked away with is the need to be bold and the need to sometimes make people feel uncomfortable. And my husband, who’s a rabbi, often describes what his job is…to comfort the afflicted and to afflict those who may sometimes be too comforted. And I think that’s also what the job of leadership in the public arena is.”
For the record: This story has been updated to clarify the corruption case involving former Los Angeles City Councilmember Mitchell Englander.
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CARMICHAEL, Calif. — After a nail-biting end to a Monday Division lll Sac-Joaquin Section baseball playoff game between Del Campo and Buhach Colony, which included a game-winning slide into home base, parents were caught on video attacking the umpires who made a controversial call at the plate.
"Our guy slides in safe, which I like to call the 'slide heard around the section,'" said Del Campo High School Baseball coach Kevin Dawidczik.
Dawidczik blamed Buhach Colony High School parents for the scuffle as Del Campo players and fans celebrated their win. Now, he said Del Campo fans are paying for it.
"Buhach Colony is not taking responsibility for those actions," Dawidczik said.
"What happened with the fight was tragic, and we thought we were going to be dealing with the assault on the umpires," said Del Campo Principal Greg Snyder, who reported the fight to CIF Sac-Joaquin Section.
However, Snyder said CIF Sac-Joaquin Section was concerned about the batting practice they had on the field during the school day being a competitive advantage.
The section penalized Del Campo for the illegal batting practice by having them forfeit their Monday game against Buhach Colony. To make matters worse, it also proposed banning fans from the following games in the series and moving them to a neutral site.
"The punishment to not be able to play at our own site and not have our parents there are because of them... and Buhach Colony," Dawidczik said.
Snyder said the school will appeal the decision to the CIF executive board Thursday.
"We need fans there; they have the right to be there. They haven’t done anything wrong. Our parents have a right to watch their children play baseball," Snyder said.
Snyder said the school will appeal the decision to the CIF executive board Thursday.
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KINGSLAND, Ark. — Kingsland, Arkansas has a real "Cash flow" problem this week.
Someone shot the water tower of Johnny Cash's birthplace in a sensitive area last week and it's turning out to be a pretty expensive prank.
Some residents are even calling the leak, "the biggest news in Kingsland."
The shot sprung a relatively small leak, but it's causing big problems.
Kingsland Mayor Luke Neal said the town is "losing about 30,000 gallons of water per day."
Now it's costing the town about $200 each day-- totaling about $1,200 so far.
"You kind of run on a tighter budget in small towns like this, because really all you've got to work with... things like this can set you back a little bit," Neal said.
And while Mayor Neal is frustrated, he's also, a little impressed.
"Just the placement of where it was at I mean it was, you could tell someone was trying to be funny," Neal said.
It appears this shooter set their sights on something a little more specific than just the tower, but right at the crotch of the Johnny Cash silhouette painted on it.
One resident exclaiming, "It looks like Johnny Cash is peeing on the grass."
But it certainly *walks the line* between comedy and vandalism. Some residents saying it's "ridiculous" and "sad" and that it's wasteful.
But it's not the first time this water tower has been shot. Mayor Neal saying it happened in 1993 as well.
And even though the town spent $300,000 in repairs less than a year ago, they'll have to go through the process again.
"We'll have to drain 50,000 gallons of water out of the tank, we'll have to run the city off of line pressure straight from the well," Neal added.
And despite some discoloration, the Mayor said the water still is and will continue to be safe to drink.
As the sheriffs office works to find out— who shot Johnny Cash.
"At the end of the day, you still gotta pay for things that you've done when you cause damage,' Neal said.
Mayor Neal said the last time this happened, it was a $10,000 fine and a felony charge.
Town officials expect to repair the water tower later this week.
As for who shot the water tower? Police announced that they have arrested Timothy Sled, who is now facing charges for criminal mischief and impairing a public utility.
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SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio family is suing Apple and its AirPods manufacturer, blaming the companies for their son's hearing loss.
"We don't want anybody to experience this terrible accident," Ariani Reyes, the 14-year-old's mother, told KENS 5. "It shouldn't happen. They haven't fixed that problem with loud noises and alerts."
During a 2020 road trip, Reyes says her son was watching a video at low volume using a single AirPods Pro earbud. The child's ear drum ruptured when an Amber Alert sounded at an "unexpected" and "dangerous" volume, the lawsuit claims.
"It was an extremely loud noise and he complained right away," Reyes said.
"He was a different boy... dizzy with nausea."
Reyes says her son became ill that evening and battled vertigo. Doctors treated his inner ear with steroid shots, but could not restore his hearing.
Two years later, the 14-year-old still wears a hearing aid in his right ear.
"He's a teenager, so he doesn't like to wear that," Reyes said. "It has impacted his life."
Family attorneys argue the Apple products are defective and dangerous, since they do not automatically adjust notifications' volume.
To bolster their case, plaintiffs cite numerous AirPods users who've asked for similar fixes on Apple's community forum.
"When a notification comes through, I want to rip my AirPods out," one user writes. "It is so loud... Why can't it just be a soft background noise like when I have used other head or ear phones?"
There is a method to reduce notification volume in the phone's settings, but some users complain the process is cumbersome and counter-productive.
"There is a solution... that will fix the loud alerts," another forum user writes. "But it also means, when you take out the AirPods, you will likely miss phone calls and alerts because the volume of the phone has been turned down in settings. It makes no sense at all."
The lawsuit alleges that Apple should warn users about sudden spikes in volume.
Attorneys filed the suit in the Northern District of California's federal court.
"It's something we feel we should do," Reyes said.
Apple did not respond to our request for comment.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Local fire agencies are preparing for an increase in calls as critical fire weather develops Thursday and Friday in Northern California.
It all comes on the heels of the first 100 degree temperatures of the year, which is continuing to dry out lower elevation fuels like grasses.
Late season rain in April and May helped slow the growing fire danger the valley was seeing after record dry conditions January through March, but Captain Keith Wade, spokesperson for the Sacramento Fire Department, said they are now seeing an uptick in calls for grass and vegetation fires as recent heat dries out fuels like grasses.
Wade said they are getting calls to respond to at least five to ten grass fires every day as the weather transitions to the dry season and warming weather blankets the valley.
A lot of these fires are human caused, and Wade said some of them are due to people experiencing homelessness but others are due to people who are trying to do an everyday activities outside, like mow their lawn. He said if the equipment hits a rock, it can spark a fire and grow out of control, resulting in a call to 911 for help.
Another activity that has been known to spark a fast spreading fire is barbecuing. Winds can carry hot embers to nearby dry grass or wooden fences. Wade said people should keep good defensible space around any open flame. They should also keep kids and pets at a safe distance.
He said even a tree fire with some underbrush that catches fire can quickly spread across someone's property or their fences, moving to their homes and leading to a fully involved structure fire. These are just some of the reasons Wade stresses to stay informed and away from activities that can spark a fire.
The increase in fire calls is happening just as firefighters are completing their annual wildland refresher training in preparation for the summer months. The training enables them to assist other agencies and Cal Fire when responding to larger fires that typically occur during the summer months.
Wade said, when staff is sent out to bigger fires, they start to feel the strain, especially since they are on duty for 48-hour shifts and still responding to all the EMS calls and other emergencies.
He said summer months tend to be a period when vacation requests are higher and staffing can be stretched. However, he said, when members join the fire service, they take the oath to be on call and ready to respond. That's how they are able to keep the doors open in fire stations.
However, Wade is seeing a decrease in numbers of potential new recruits. He they are looking at new methods to garner more interest, like a TikTok account, to bring the idea of firefighting to younger people.
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ESTERO, Fla. — A run in with a toxic toad left one Estero woman worrying for her dog’s life.
Christine Squires has lived on Rookery Drive in Estero for more than two years. She’s had her golden retriever Barkley for a little more than a year.
“He gets into everything. He chases lizards, he chases rabbits,” said Squires.
On a rainy night this weekend, Squires and her husband noticed their dog focusing on one part of their backyard.
“We saw our dog in the corner licking, licking, licking something,” said Squires. “I said to my husband-what is he licking? He said, oh I don’t know. He’ll be fine.”
They quickly realized Barkley was licking a baby bufo toad that Squires said was the size of her thumb.
“All of the sudden he was literally sick as a dog. He just was vomiting profusely for a couple of hours,” she said.
A veterinarian told Squires to wipe any excess toad venom out of Barkley’s mouth with a rag. Thankfully, Barkley was okay.
Taylor Hancock is a student at the Water School at Florida Gulf Coast University, he also studies bufo toads a few miles from Squires’ Estero home.
He said the toads secrete a toxic venom as a defense mechanism. He said the toads are invasive and are often spotted when the sun goes down in neighborhoods around Southwest Florida, especially this time of year.
“They breed year round but now that we’re getting more into the wet and rainy season starting up in May,” said Hancock. “They’re more and more abundant, there’s water everywhere they can breed in more places and can exist in more places.”
Since the toads are invasive, Hancock said it’s fine to humanely euthanize them. He said the best way to do that is to freeze them but he admits that’s not the preferred method by most.
“Most folks don’t want these big invasive toads in their freezer,” he said.
Hancock said they live near drains, sprinklers and anywhere away from the sun. Meanwhile, Squires is warning other pet owners to be aware of the toxic toads lurking around your neighborhood.
“If you see your dog going after something, reel them in because they are truly deadly,” said Squires.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Multnomah County elected its first female sheriff ever on Tuesday night, voting for Nicole Morrisey O’Donnell to take over the role.
No stranger to public service, she’s spent decades with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office, from corrections to her current role as undersheriff. However, as sheriff, she says gun violence will be one of her priorities, an issue that hits close to home for her.
“This is deeply personal to myself and my family,” said Morrisey O’Donnell. “At a very young age, my father was working one of his local businesses and a 15-year-old boy walked into his business and shot him in the chest.”
Her dad survived, but she says it rocked the community of her hometown of Clatskanie. As she’s since talked with other families and victims impacted by gun violence, she says it’s made her want to do more when it comes to community violence.
“When people don’t feel safe in our community, that is concerning to me,” said Morrisey O’Donnell. “I live and work in this community and I want to do everything I can to better our community and I want people to enjoy Portland and enjoy Multnomah County as a whole again and feel safe, wherever they are.”
Another issue raised by residents of Multnomah County is the homeless population. When asked for her plans, Morrisey O’Donnell says taking a service approach with the homeless community would be the best way to get them the resources they need — whether that’s housing, behavioral health services or addiction treatment.
“Building bridges with our houseless community members, breaking down those barriers, figuring out which resources do people need. Each person is unique and each individual has unique needs in how they can access safe housing,” said Morrisey O’Donnell. “I think it’s about looking at where we are today and where do we see the gaps. Filling in those gaps and the appropriate services and appropriate expertise to be able to help navigate mental health and addiction challenges, along with ensuring people have a safe place to live.”
Morrisey O’Donnell was endorsed by Sheriff Mike Reese, but says her tenure won’t necessarily be a continuation of Reese’s policies. Instead, she hopes to improve on areas that she feel is needed it. She says when it comes to fixing crime, they need enough deputies on the streets, and plans to not only use social media for national outreach but also community relationships to reach locals.
“Really connect with a large group of people and a diverse group of people,” said Morrisey O’Donnell. “Connecting with community groups such as WordIsBond to talk to youth that may not have thought public safety would be a profession they would explore, building those bridges with our local community as well as nationally.”
Becoming the first woman elected to the job in the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office’s 168-year history, Morrisey O’Donnell says she hopes to inspire others not to limit themselves and set high goals.
“I really feel like this is an opportunity to be able to connect with our youth, connect with our young women and young girls and really show that this is a journey, but set your goals high and you can achieve them,” said Morrisey O’Donnell. “I want to do that in our community and in our organization because I (want promotional opportunities and career development opportunities for everyone in our organization. I want people to feel like have access to those and that we are helping them build a path to be successful.”
Morrisey O’Donnell will officially take over as sheriff on Jan. 1, 2023, but in the meantime, says she plans to continue her work as undersheriff and hopes to use the next seven months to reach out to those in the community and build on those plans for tackling violence and other issues.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — Despite a rise in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said he is not re-implementing any mask mandates in the state.
“That’s not under consideration right now,” said Inslee, D-Washington.
Inslee said the vaccine mandate for state employees will remain in place.
“It’s the nature of the disease. We do not want our state employees to go to the hospital, or dying,” said Inslee.
He said an announcement could be made soon to exempt some state contractors from the requirement.
During a wide-ranging press conference Wednesday, Inslee said he would like to see an amendment passed in the state to protect a woman’s right to have an abortion, something he said could be prohibited nationally if Republicans have a majority in Congress, or in Washington state.
“I think that is clear and people need to be aware that risk exists,” said Inslee, who added getting an amendment passed, could be difficult.
It would require a super-majority of legislative support, a two-thirds majority and would require voter approval.
Inslee to review convicted killer's parole request
The governor also said Wednesday he is reviewing the case of Timothy Pauley, a convicted killer who could be released on parole in July. Pauley was convicted and sentenced to life, for the 1980 triple-murder at the Barn Door Tavern.
Employees Linda Burford, Robert Pierre, and Loran Dowell were all killed.
Sentencing laws changed in 1984, making Pauley’s life sentence up for review.
In April the state’s Indeterminate Sentence Review Board decided Pauley was eligible for release.
Governor Inslee can block the release, and Dowell’s family members met with the Governor to try and get Inslee to step in.
Inslee confirmed he is reviewing the “worrisome” crime and met with victims’ relatives.
“I understand the pain they have undergone and we hope to have a decision one way or another in the near future,” said Inslee.
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Carl Lee Ades
October 4, 1943-May 14, 2022
CLEAR LAKE-Carl Lee Ades of Clear Lake, Iowa, age 78, passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, May 14, 2022, near Lake Mills, Iowa.
A time to gather with friends and family (visitation) will be held Friday, May 20th from 5:30-8:00 pm at the Clear Lake Christian Church, 302 Hwy 18 West, Clear Lake, Iowa.
A Celebration of Life Service will be held on Saturday, May 21st at 10:00am at the Clear Lake Christian Church, 302 Hwy 18 West, Clear Lake, Iowa with Reverend Drew Rietjens officiating. A one-hour gathering of family and friends will be held prior to the service.
Carl and his wife Wilma were married, on August 29, 1964, in Webster City, Iowa. To this union, 4 children were born. Son, Jerry (Sheila) Ades, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and 3 grandsons; Carter, Dylan, and Brock. Daughter, Beth (Mike) Hanson, Lake Mills, Iowa, 2 grandchildren; T.J (Bethany Gentz), and Hannah (Carter Krichau). Son, the late Michael Ades (Jami), Garner, Iowa, 3 granddaughters; Sydney, Sadhna (Jaydon Launstien), Samara (Kaleb Phelps), and Great-Grandchildren Saphira Fitzgerald & Zoelynn Ades, twins Wade & Walker Launstein, baby Phelps to be born October. Son, Mark (Molly) Ades, and beloved grandbeagle Maxine, Primghar, Iowa. Brother and sister-in-law, Art (Carol) Ades of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Inlaws Keith McCollough, Don (Donna) McCollough of Webster City, Iowa, Jan Burnett of Cedar Falls, Iowa, and Kathy (Randy) Guhl of Green Cove Springs, Florida, and many beloved nieces and nephews.
He had many special lifelong friends and those who hold him, dear, to their hearts. He will be missed by all of his morning coffee buddies who will carry on his memory.
Carl was a teacher and coach for ten years prior to becoming an Iowa State Trooper from 1975-1998. He served as a trooper following his brothers Richard and Arthur Ades. During this time he refereed, officiated, and umpired many sports at many schools around the North Iowa area for several decades. He also was a Hunter Education instructor for 40 years. Carl was an avid outdoorsman where he enjoyed hunting, fishing, and just enjoying nature. Carl's greatest joy was following all of his grandchildren's activities and time with family.
Carl was preceded in death by wife Wilma, son Mike, parents Roy and Florence Ades, siblings Marion, Richard, Velma and Robert and spouses. Several brothers-in-laws and sister-in-laws and aunts and uncles.
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Patricia Wittenberg, 75, of Garner, died Monday, May 16, 2022, at Concord Care Center in Garner. Arrangements: Cataldo Funeral Home.
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Patricia Wittenberg, 75, of Garner, died Monday, May 16, 2022, at Concord Care Center in Garner. Arrangements: Cataldo Funeral Home.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
Being a California resident can save you a lot of money at the University of California — about $30,000 in tuition per year.
At California State University, a non-resident student pays nearly $10,000 more than a California resident with the same 12-unit class load; at a community college, it can be up to about $7,500.
For more than 20 years, California has exempted many undocumented students from having to pay non-resident tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities. But gaps in the law mean that some undocumented students and visa holders still don’t qualify for in-state prices — even if they’ve lived in the state for more than a decade.
Now, state lawmakers are debating two bills that would make it easier for even more students to become eligible for in-state tuition. UC and Cal State could lose millions in revenue if one or both of the bills pass. But supporters say the bills would reduce equity gaps and increase access to an affordable higher education — especially critical, they say, when the state is enjoying a record budget surplus and students are recovering from a global pandemic.
Take the case of Sakshi Savale, a senior at San Jose State University. She didn’t have many options to choose from when she applied to college. Savale came to California in 2009, two years after her family immigrated to the U.S. from India.
California law allows undocumented immigrants and some others without legal California residency to be exempted from paying out-of-state tuition if they attended three years of a California high school, community college or adult school and received a diploma. Students eligible for the exemption can also qualify for the Cal Grant, the state’s main form of financial aid.
But Savale wasn’t undocumented. She was a dependent visa holder, which meant her stay in the U.S. was dependent on her father, a business consultant, who has a work-related visa. While many colleges considered her an international student, San Jose State allowed her to pay in-state tuition, saving her family tens of thousands of dollars. That changed this school year, however, after Savale turned 21 and had to switch to a student visa. Now the university says she has a backlog of about $1,500 in fees from the fall that she must pay before she can receive her diploma.
“Now I’m about to graduate and this might hold me back from getting my diploma, and it’s been extremely stressful,” said Savale, who hopes to stay at San Jose State for graduate school.
Senate Bill 1160, authored by Los Angeles Democrat María Elena Durazo, would help students like Savale by allowing students whose parents have certain long-term U.S. visas to qualify for in-state tuition if they meet the law’s other requirements.
At an April hearing of the Senate Education Committee hearing, members said a pathway should be provided for students who have been in the state for a long time, but some posed concerns about wealthy foreigners taking advantage of the bill. Savale and other visa holders organizing with a group called Improve the Dream nevertheless say they should be included.
“Some visa holders – they’ve generally had better benefits and access to resources, both in terms of income, education, status,” said Adrián Trinidad, a higher education researcher and the assistant director of community college partnerships at the University of Southern California’s Race and Equity Center. Still, he said, it makes sense to grant in-state tuition to students who have been a part of California for years and will continue to contribute to the state’s economy.
Another bill, Senate Bill 1141, would reduce from three to two the number of years undocumented students or others without legal California residency have to attend high school or postgraduate classes in the state in order to qualify for in-state tuition. Authored by State Sen. Monique Limón, a Santa Barbara Democrat, it’s co-sponsored by the California Community Colleges and Immigrants Rising, which advocates for undocumented students.
The Senate Appropriations Committee will decide the fate of both bills Thursday, along with hundreds of others on the committee’s suspense file.
Cal State and University of California officials have not expressed a position on the bills. Nonresident tuition makes up about 13% of UC’s budget, according to the California Legislative Analyst’s Office.
SB 1141 would likely increase costs for the state, because it would allow the newly eligible students to apply for the Cal Grant. Sen. Brian Dahle, a Lassen County Republican, posed a concern at a March Education Committee hearing that there’s a finite number of Cal Grants available. “There’s not enough money to go around,” he said.
The state has enough extra money in its budget this year, though, to offset much of the immediate cost, Trinidad said. “The surplus has been so strong, I think it’s more of a matter of whether folks think (college affordability for these students) is an issue,” he said.
Lowering the attendance requirement to two years could inspire more prospective students to attend the state’s community colleges, which are facing declining enrollment, said David O’Brien, vice chancellor for government relations for the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.
“We believe it closes a really critical gap in access, particularly for undocumented students in higher education in California who were locked out,” O’Brien said.
The bill would also remove a provision requiring eligible community college students to enroll in non-credit courses to meet the attendance requirement, which some students said causes them to waste time in classes that don’t help them progress toward a degree.
Limón said the bill could immediately help up to 900 students, and supporters of the bill believe the long-term impact would be much greater. Undocumented students don’t qualify for federal student aid, making access to state aid and lower tuition critical.
“There’s thousands of students that would be eligible,” said Nancy Jodaitis, director of higher education at Immigrants Rising.
Esther Ugwuezumba, an undocumented El Camino College student whose family is from Nigeria, applied for in-state tuition last winter but wasn’t approved, she said. As a high school graduate who attended school in California for two years, she would qualify under the bill.
Her mother foots the bill for her tuition by working two jobs, as a caregiver and a certified nursing assistant at a hospital. Ugwuezumba, who’s majoring in nursing, also works as a caregiver to help with the cost. The family will soon also have to pay more fees when Ugwuezumba’s brother starts attending a Cal State University this summer.
If Ugwuezumba’s application for in-state tuition gets approved, she said, “it’s going to reduce a lot of pressure on my mom.”
Shaikh is a fellow with the CalMatters College Journalism Network, a collaboration between CalMatters and student journalists from across California. This story and other higher education coverage are supported by the College Futures Foundation.
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Police are looking for two men connected with a robbery pattern in both the East and West Village.
Investigators say the first robbery happened on May 9th where the two men entered a store on Avenue B. They then threatened an employee and removed about $265 from the register before running away.
The second incident happened on May 11th, where investigators say the same two men entered a store on Christopher Street. One of the individuals pulled a gun on an employee, and the two then took $153 from the register and about $370 worth of merchandise.
Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this individual is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/ or on Twitter @NYPDTips. All calls are strictly confidential.
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The Board of Directors for Forest Bridges has appointed Denise Ann Barrett as its first full-time executive director. Founded in 2015 and based in Roseburg, Forest Bridges is a public charity nonprofit that brings people together in a collaborative to seek sustainable forest habitat management solutions for more than two million acres of O&C forest lands located in 18 counties of Western Oregon. Forest Bridges’ Board of Directors represents diverse views of groups traditionally on different sides of forestry issues.
Barrett holds a master’s in international administration, with a focus on sustainable development management, and comes to Forest Bridges following a 10-year stint at the city of Portland as managing director of the collaborative, consensus-driven Regional Disaster Preparedness Organization. There, she built and managed a complex, dynamic and inclusive structure and strategic process supporting dozens of cities, counties, special districts and regional governments, businesses and local organizations, to agree on and advance a unified mission, vision and program of investments to enhance disaster preparedness and resilience for a region of 2.4 million people.
Barrett’s work at the RDPO also included serving as manager of regional multi-agency disaster response coordination, which activated for COVID-19 and the Labor Day wildfire responses. Prior to the RDPO, Barrett served as executive director of the Southwest Virginia-Northeast Tennessee-based Appalachian Sustainable Development, whose mission focuses on advancing sustainable forestry and local food systems development. She helped the organization through a critical strategic change process to set them on a more solid organizational footing.
All told, Barrett brings more than 25 years of experience building and leading complex non-profit and public sector organizations.
“We see Denise helping us advance our model of bridging the ideas of the forest industry, conservation and recreation communities and tribal nations’ interests,” said Forest Bridges’ Board Chair Thomas McGregor. “The Forest Bridges Board is driven to advance an evidence-based collaborative of diverse voices to achieve active and climate-change mindful forest health and management.”
Barrett said what most attracted her to Forest Bridges was its mission, vision, collaborative nature, commitment to equity and inclusion, and thoughtful approaches to improving forest health, wildlife habitat and fire resilience.
“I am excited to help lead an organization daring to shift a paradigm,” said Ms. Barrett. “It’s more than just fixing a broken forestry management system. What Forest Bridges is attempting is whole system change, with everyone at the table working to find common ground to advance the best methods that modern science, traditional ecological knowledge and professional experience have to offer. I want to be a part of that effort. It requires commitment to equity and inclusion and building consensus. It’s win-win or we all lose.”
McGregor said Barrett’s first year will be focused with the board, policy advisors and Forest Bridges staff on building greater engagement of the public, the Tribes, governments and private sector groups, emanating outward from Douglas County to the other O&C counties.
“We’re at a stage where it’s time let more people know we are here and want them to be a part of us,” he said. He added that she will also be building on the foundation the staff and board have built to raise vital operating and program funds, build new partnerships, maintain others and oversee and strengthen systems and day-to-day operations.
The Oregon Community Foundation, The Collins Foundation, the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians and Douglas and Coos Counties have all contributed to the funding for this position.
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When bids for work to make needed repairs at the North Bend Municipal Pool came in above the funding budgeted by the city, the city council promised to find extra funding to cover all the needed repairs.
Last week, the council did just that, moving $500,000 in American Rescue Act Plan funding from the community building to pool repairs to cover the full costs.
Finance Director Jessica Terra asked the council to approve the change, saying the city would seek additional funding to make repairs at the community center.
“In December, the council adopted a plan to spend the ARPA money,” Terra said. “We have identified a number of changes. The first and most significant change is reallocating the $500,000 set aside for renovating the community center and moving that to the pool improvement fund. This would allow for all three phases of the pool improvement to be completed and address any other needed improvements that could arise.”
Terra said the city would seek grant funding or other revenue sources to complete the community building rehabilitation.
With the additional funding, all needed repairs to the pool can be made, with a goal of ensuring the pool is safe and operable for the next 30 years.
Work at the North Bend Pool has already begun after the council approved phases 1 and 2 and the renovation. Because those bids came in higher than expected, there was no funding left for phase 3.
“I think that’s money well spent,” Councilor Bill Richardson said.
The council also agreed to use ARP funs to purchase a new police vehicle for the captain and to fund a community services officer.
City Administrator David Milliron explained the captain is currently using a borrowed vehicle that will need to be returned.
He said the city is always looking for grant funding to help pay for aspects of the police department.
“We’re trying to help bring money in to help pay for these officers,” Milliron said. “At this point, taxpayers are paying the full amount. Only about 60 percent of our police money is paid by the public safety fee. We are moving things, but at this point it’s not impacting the budget and we’re using as much outside resources as we can in order to stretch the budget.”
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Waupun man found guilty in 2019 beating death of 75-year-old grandmother despite blaming cartel
FOND DU LAC - A Waupun man was found guilty in the 2019 homicide of his 75-year-old grandmother, despite his claims that the "cartel" was responsible.
Gregory A. Spittel, 33, was convicted of second-degree reckless homicide in addition to battery or threat to law enforcement, resisting an officer, disorderly conduct, and possession of both cocaine and drug paraphernalia, according to the Fond du Lac County District Attorney's office.
Following a neighbor's report the morning of Aug. 24, 2019, Waupun police found Carole Foreman beaten and in a pool of blood in her basement. She died at the hospital four days later.
Court records said the home that morning was in disarray, and Spittel was drinking and yelling at police after they arrived. According to the criminal complaint, Spittel attacked Foreman the night before because she provided information to police which caused Spittel to face drug charges and lose custody of his children.
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During the six-day trial before Judge Paul Czisny, Spittel's defense claimed the cartel was responsible for the murder, but the jury didn't agree, according to the district attorney's office
Fond du Lac and Dodge county sheriff’s offices, Fond du Lac police, the Wisconsin Crime Lab and the Fond du Lac County Medical Examiner assisted Waupun police with the investigation.
Sentencing is scheduled for July 20.
Contact Daphne Lemke at dlemke@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @daphlemke.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — Summer may not be here yet, but Saturday marks the start of National Safe Boating Week. For the first time ever, Tennessee State Parks and the Tennessee Chapter of the American Canoe Association are teaming up to offer low-cost kayaking instruction.
According to the Tennessee Chapter of the American Canoe Association, Tennessee has led the state the last two years in river drowning deaths, they want to change that.
“We have some of the best waterways in the country,” said Scott Fisher, NOLI, “Unfortunately, we’re seeing an increase in accidents and fatalities. In Tennessee, we’ve had the dubious kind of honor, if you will, of leading the country in fatalities the last couple of years.”
The ACA is the national accrediting body for paddle sports education. ACA-certified instructors will be hosting flatwater and river kayaking courses at 12 different state parks for just $15 on Saturday, May 21.
In Northeast Tennessee, a flatwater course will be offered at Warrior’s Path State Park and a river kayaking course at Davy Crockett Birthplace State Park.
Scott Fisher with Nolichuckey Outdoor Learning Institute will teach flatwater courses at Warrior’s Path.
“This weekend we’re going to talk about boat anatomy we’re going to a lot more detail on what to look for in different types of boats,” said Fisher. “But again just make sure it’s rated or suitable for what you’re going to paddle it or where you’re gonna paddle.”
Fisher said they will cover everything from personal flotation devices to proper technique to what to do if you fall overboard.
“Type three, or rating a 70 [PFD],” said Fisher. “That means it’s Coast Guard approved for use say on a water and a kayak… you want to make sure that when you lift up on your lifejacket, it’s not going to come off your waist.”
They will be providing the kayaks, paddles, and life jackets at no extra cost if you mark that you need them when you sign up and the supplies are available.
Fisher said the course won’t just be about educating, they will make sure it’s fun for participants.
The Warriors Path classes are sold out, but there are still slots available at Davey Crockett. The Appalachian Paddling Enthusiasts are leading the Kayaking 101 river class at David Crockett Birthplace State Park.
The classes will begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Registration can be done at this link.
If you are unable to take an in-person class, there is also a free online class available, however, the ACA strongly recommends in-person courses. Online courses can be found here.
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Grant funds to pay for interns to monitor water quality at Quad Parcels 're-wilding'
SARASOTA COUNTY – Sarasota Audubon recently received a $10,000 grant from the Gulf Coast Community Foundation for interns to test water quality at the 33-acre Quad Parcels near the celery fields.
The water quality monitoring is a feature of the “Re-Wilding of the Quad Parcels," an effort to transform the land into suitable wildlife habitat.
“Working with partners like Sarasota Audubon to improve our environment and include area students in the process is a win-win for our region,” Jon Thaxton, senior vice president of community leadership for Gulf Coast Community Foundation, said in a prepared statement. “We are grateful for organizations like Sarasota Audubon Society who conserve and restore our natural ecosystem, creating thriving opportunities for all.”
Related:Sarasota residents get fist look at plans for Quad Parcels
Previously:Celery Fields project is taking shape
The Quad Parcels, so named because they straddle the intersection of Palmer and Apex roads, are just east of Interstate 75 off Fruitville Road, east of downtown Sarasota.
The northwest parcel already contains Sarasota County's Apex Road fire station.
The Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast and Sarasota Audubon hope that transplanted native plants and trees will provide a haven for a variety of wildlife.
Water features in the Quad Parcels will undergo regular water quality testing – a huge benefit to wildlife that feeds and shelters at pond edges.
Best practices for stormwater pond management will be used to ensure maximum filtration of pollution from runoff as water enters the ponds.
Sarasota Audubon and the Conservation Foundation of the Gulf Coast are working with site engineers on the design.
“Our goals are to improve the water quality by following the Healthy Ponds Collaborative guidelines, to establish an internship program to monitor our changes, and to educate the public about the benefits and vital importance of healthy ponds for our birds, wildlife, and the community,” Sarasota Audubon President Jeanne Dubi said in the same statement. “The grant will enable us to monitor changes and share data with the public to show how healthy stormwater retention ponds improve water quality.”
Water from the Quad Parcels currently flows into Main C canal which then flows into Phillippi Creek and subsequently Roberts Bay.
“Safeguarding the quality of our water at the Celery Fields before it heads downstream has been a priority of re-wilding the Quad Parcels design,” said Dubi. “We are looking forward to creating demonstration ponds for our community.”
According to Dubi, students from area high schools and colleges accepted into the paid internship program will learn water quality monitoring techniques from sustainability leaders and academics with expertise in water flow and water quality. Based on the water analysis and data reporting, Sarasota Audubon will monitor the effects of the ponds’ improvements and make adjustments as needed.
Interns will also assist with carbon sequestration monitoring; public park management including the recruitment and managing of volunteers; coordinating with environmental agencies; working with Sarasota County and the academic community; and developing and managing education programs for the general public.
In 2019, the Sarasota County Commission dedicated a perpetual conservation easement on the northeast, southeast and southwest SW Quad Parcels to the Conservation Foundation, tasking Sarasota Audubon to manage the habitat and public access. To learn more about the re-wilding and concept design, visit https://www.SarasotaAudubon.org/quad.
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The North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra will present "Exquisite Musical Landscapes" featuring Jason Vieaux on the guitar this Saturday, May 21, at the Link Centre in Tupelo. A Grammy Award-winner, Vieaux will make his third appearance with the Orchestra this weekend. The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased online or at the door.
The Old-Time Piano World Championship will take the stage at Ole Miss' Nutt Auditorium starting Thursday, May 26 through Sunday, May 29. The competition will feature pianists performing ragtime, stride, honky tonk and novelty genres. All piano music played will be from the eras between 1890 and 1939. Admission starts at $10.
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The Velvet Ditch Gran Fondo is set to kick-off on Saturday, May 21, starting at 7 a.m. at Oxford Middle School. Once affiliated with Double Decker Arts Festival, the traditional bike ride has adopted a new name and date. The event will include a 70-mile ride, 45-mile ride and 20-mile ride for those interested in biking throughout Oxford's scenery. The ride's proceeds will benefit the Oxford and North Mississippi NICA Mountain Bike Team.
BROOKE BULLOCK BURLESON is a digital producer for the Daily Journal. Contact her at brooke.burleson@djournal.com.
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Megan Tillman will be relocating to Tupelo from Little Rock, Arkansas to serve alongside her husband as an associate director of Tupelo Academy of Dance Arts and Tupelo Ballet. An 8-year veteran of Ballet Arkansas, Tillman and her husband will begin their tenure at TADA on July 1.
A 12-year veteran of Ballet Arkansas, Paul Tillman will be transitioning to Tupelo alongside his wife, Megan, starting July 1 to join Tupelo Academy of Dance Art's staff as an associate director. The duo will provide instruction in ballet, contemporary, jazz and other dance genres. Both Paul and Megan have performed as guests for Tupelo Ballet in the past.
Megan Tillman will be relocating to Tupelo from Little Rock, Arkansas to serve alongside her husband as an associate director of Tupelo Academy of Dance Arts and Tupelo Ballet. An 8-year veteran of Ballet Arkansas, Tillman and her husband will begin their tenure at TADA on July 1.
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A 12-year veteran of Ballet Arkansas, Paul Tillman will be transitioning to Tupelo alongside his wife, Megan, starting July 1 to join Tupelo Academy of Dance Art's staff as an associate director. The duo will provide instruction in ballet, contemporary, jazz and other dance genres. Both Paul and Megan have performed as guests for Tupelo Ballet in the past.
TUPELO • Since 1976, Tupelo Academy of Dance Arts (TADA) has provided Northeast Mississippi with premier dance instruction in the forms of ballet, jazz, tap, musical theatre and other genres.
This summer, TADA will add two new instructors to join its nearly 50-year legacy.
Megan and Paul Tillman will relocate to Tupelo from Little Rock, Arkansas, to join the TADA staff as ballet instructors. Both were previously with Ballet Arkansas.
"I've been dancing with Ballet Arkansas for 12 seasons, and Megan has been there for eight seasons," said Paul Tillman.
While the husband and wife duo were working for Ballet Arkansas, they began guest performing with Tupelo Ballet.
"We've been coming here for quite a while and have developed quite the relationship with the community," he said. "We've fallen in love with it."
The couple said that one attribute that drew them to Tupelo was the warm and welcoming community. Besides the accepting atmosphere, they have enjoyed Tupelo's arts scene and the culture it provides the area.
Megan Tillman met her husband through their involvement with Ballet Arkansas. Both would eventually perform for Tupelo Ballet as guest dancers, the company branch of Tupelo Academy of Dance Arts.
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"Paul started bringing me to perform for Tupelo Ballet about six or seven years ago, and we've been teaching over the summer as well," said Tillman. "We love all the kids and are excited to be here all the time with them," she said.
TADA and Tupelo Ballet's longtime director Sharon Long said the ballerinas will serve as associate directors for the company and school for years to come.
For Long, entrusting the Tillmans with her pupils' dance instruction is an easy decision.
"They're like family to me," Long said. "The kids love them, and we're growing so much that it takes more than just one person. I feel like we're the perfect team," she said.
As for their long-term goals, the Tillmans hope to expand upon the great prestige Tupelo Academy of Dance Arts and Tupelo Ballet has established.
"I think our goal is to really just expand on what Sharon's already built and continue that legacy and enrich it as much as possible," said Paul Tillman.
In addition to TADA's continued success for more than four decades, Tupelo Ballet will be celebrating its 40th anniversary of "The Nutcracker" performance this December.
The Tillmans will begin their tenure with TADA on July 1.
BROOKE BULLOCK BURLESON is a digital producer for the Daily Journal. Contact her at brooke.burleson@djournal.com.
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Movies are coming back to the Castro Theatre in a big way, though its programming slate in the long-term is still unclear.
In a press release shared with media outlets and on Another Planet Entertainment’s website earlier this week, one of San Francisco’s last movie palaces announced a packed lineup of film programming spanning every decade from the 1920s to the 2010s in celebration of the venue’s 100-year anniversary.
The 10-day series will begin on June 2 with a number of classics from the silent film era, including the Buster Keaton-featured comedy “Oh Doctor!” and “Across to Singapore” starring Joan Crawford, and will conclude on June 12 with modern blockbusters like “Black Panther” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” A bill of San Francisco-set films, among them “Mrs. Doubtfire,” “Bullitt,” and of course, “San Francisco,” will be shown the following week on June 22, coinciding with the theater’s original opening date.
“It continues to be my family’s honor and privilege to own the Castro Theatre,” Steve Nasser of Bay Properties said in the press release. “After two years of COVID-forced closures, it is such a joy and a pleasure to reopen.”
David Perry, a spokesperson for Another Planet Entertainment, told SFGATE that three or four movies would be shown on 35mm, though he could not specify which, and said that several of the screenings would include a pre-show performance from the Castro’s longtime organist, David Hegarty, though they have yet to be determined. While Perry added that the theater’s post-renovation programming is “still very much in the planning stages,” the 46th annual Frameline Film Festival will screen from June 16 to 26, and Cinema Italia said it will host a 100-year anniversary retrospective on the famously contentious filmmaker and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, which is tentatively scheduled for September.
The news comes as more details surrounding the Castro Theatre’s refurbishment later this fall are unveiled. Last month, SF Heritage relayed information from a Feb. 25 meeting held between their projects and policy committee, Another Planet Entertainment, and representatives from Union Square-based firm Page & Turnbull and CAW Architects to discuss the architectural preservation of the near century-old theater.
New plans for renovation
The theater’s original proscenium, which was covered for wide-screen movie projection in 1954, and the rear curtain that appears to date back to the 1920s were among some of the interior features discussed, and Woody LaBounty, the vice president of advocacy and programs at San Francisco Heritage, said that APE hopes to bring both back into public view.
“The proscenium looked in remarkably great shape from what I saw. And the curtain is very in line with Timothy Pflueger’s over-the-top and gilded interior. We’re not sure yet, but it could have been there pretty much when the theater opened,” LaBounty told SFGATE on Monday.
Perry added that APE was excited by “the rediscovery” of the original proscenium and said they hope to use it as a backdrop for “ongoing special events.”
The wooden seats in the balcony, some of which are confirmed to date back to the theater’s opening date, will be retained, LaBounty said. He added that plans are still underway to remove the orchestra-level seats, which were implemented in the early ’90s and “probably don’t rise to any level of historical importance,” so it’s mostly a matter of figuring out how to repurpose them. (Perry told SFGATE that he does not anticipate any change to the seating in 2022.)
What’s most important to LaBounty is determining whether the proposed changes by APE, including the tiered sections of removable seating, could be reversed if necessary.
“If we want to make it back into a theater with the same rake and the traditional seating, could that happen? I think that’s something [SF] Heritage is likely to be a stickler on,” LaBounty said. “We don’t want to do anything to make that irreversible, and I think the architect heard that.”
Community concerns
But some feel more uncertain on whether the theater’s focus on film will be long-lasting and raised further questions over its commitment to LGBTQ-centered programming and transparency in its dialogue with the community.
Last month, a coalition of community stakeholders led by the Castro Merchants Association and the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District wrote a letter to APE’s chief executive officer, Gregg Perloff, to address some of these concerns. In a statement shared with the Bay Area Reporter, Aguirre said APE was "refusing to meet with us or respond with substantive answers to detailed concerns that we have presented to them privately and now publicly."
"I was cautiously optimistic in early February," the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District's manager Tina Aguirre told the Bay Area Reporter. "In the past two months, APE has not met with us despite multiple attempts on our part. I now fear that their commitment to dialogue was less than genuine."
However, Perry told the Bay Area Reporter that APE had held four meetings via Zoom, two with the merchants association and two with the cultural district, since assuming control of the theater, and that APE had since reached out to arrange in-person meetings.
Frameline Film Festival, the Leather & LGBTQ Cultural District, drag icons Peaches Christ and Juanita MORE!, activist Cleve Jones, the SOMA Pilipinas Filipino Heritage District, Friends of Harvey Milk Plaza, the Tenderloin Museum and SF Heritage were among the list of more than 20 signatories to the letter.
“I’m all for transparency, and we agree that the cultural heritage should be as much of the focus as the building’s preservation,” LaBounty told SFGATE. “And it’s important to build a bridge of communication.”
It appears that APE heard those concerns. A face-to-face meeting facilitated by District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was held at City Hall last Wednesday, with Aguirre and other stakeholders in attendance, Stephen Torres, the advisory board executive co-chair of the Castro LGBTQ Cultural District, told SFGATE.
“I would like to say that the collective concerns were assuaged. There were a lot of allusions to being supportive of the LGBTQ community and that film will somehow be a part of it. But nothing was in writing; nothing was definitive, and that’s been the problem with Another Planet this whole time,” Torres said. “That’s the point of frustration for a lot of folks. We were grateful for the meeting … and the anniversary and the restoration of the marquee are great things, and we don’t want to take away from them. But we’d like to see something more concrete.”
That said, Torres noted that Mary Conde, APE’s senior vice president who is overseeing the Castro Theatre’s renovation, “said she was looking forward to more meetings,” and that Mandelman’s office was “committed to making sure this conversation and dialogue continues.”
Perry echoed those sentiments, calling the meeting “incredibly productive.”
“We’re all in agreement: the Castro Theatre is a unique LGBTQ and cultural asset that requires sensitive programming and preservation,” he said.
Expanded landmark status
Last week, Mandelman introduced a resolution that would broaden the Castro Theatre’s landmark status, making it more inclusive to every detail from the historic features adorning the interior of the auditorium to the theater’s cultural interest and value at large. (At present, it covers only the theater's exterior features, such as the legendary marquee.)
Torres, who worked for the theater in 2008, was heartened by the proposed legislation, and said in the future, he hopes to see APE facilitate a walk-through of the building with local historians to catalog some of the lesser-known ephemera inside.
“There’s graffiti from silent movie actors, old movie posters … these things need to be preserved,” he said. “What we’re seeing now is a good step in the right direction. We’re just looking for concrete promises or some sort of [memorandum of understanding] that will lay out their plan to retain all of the legacy aspects that make the Castro the jewel that it is. This is a direct line of continuity of our queer and San Francisco culture that cannot be replicated.”
Tickets for the Castro Theatre’s 100-year anniversary are $10 to $18 for adults and $6 for youth up to age 12 at matinee screenings. View the full lineup at Another Planet Entertainment's website.
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A judge has ordered a temporary halt to Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to toll as many as nine major bridges on interstates in Pennsylvania, siding Wednesday with Cumberland County and a handful of municipalities that are challenging the process as both illegal and unconstitutional.
Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler ordered the halt, saying the state Department of Transportation must stop all studies, right-of-way acquisitions, construction or work under any contracts, and put off any planned hearings, meetings or spending.
Wolf’s push for tolling comes as states increasingly look to user fees to make up for declining gas tax revenue that is not keeping up with the demands of fixing highways and bridges. However, it has spurred opposition from some communities and Republican lawmakers, who say it will be costly to locals and businesses and create congestion.
It also comes amid rising gas prices. Wolf himself only has eight months left in office, and neither of his potential successors in November's election support it.
Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who won the GOP's nomination in Tuesday's primary contest to run for governor, has backed legislation to effectively put a stop to the plan.
Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro also opposes it, his campaign said, pointing to his comments last week to the Courier-Express newspaper that he would look to other state and federal dollars to put toward the bridges.
The lawsuit was filed in March by Cumberland County and seven municipalities.
PennDOT could appeal the preliminary injunction to the state Supreme Court. A PennDOT spokesperson would only say Wednesday that the agency was reviewing the decision, giving no response to questions about what work was ongoing that must stop and how the decision will affect the timeline in carrying out the tolling projects.
PennDOT last year named nine bridges on six interstates that it said needed upgrades and that it will consider for tolling to help generate the cash. The concept was approved in 2020 by the Public-Private Transportation Partnership board, the first time it had approved a plan involving user fees, and requires no legislative approval.
In the lawsuit, lawyers for Cumberland County and the seven municipalities argued both that the process followed by PennDOT and the Public-Private Transportation Partnership Board violated the 2012 law that created the board.
In part, they said that residents of the county and municipalities had not had a legitimate opportunity to express their views on one of the bridges that might be tolled — I-83′s South Bridge across the Susquehanna River between Cumberland and Dauphin counties — before the board gave PennDOT permission to pursue it.
The lawyers also argued that the law itself violated constitutional prohibitions against the Legislature delegating its taxation authority, in this case to the board.
In her decision, Ceisler wrote that the 2012 law contained no limits that courts usually look for in cases where the Legislature has delegated its authority.
In addition, the scale of the plan and how the board approved it “greatly heightens the court’s delegation concerns,” Ceisler wrote. “The board essentially approved a massive multi-billion dollar infrastructure initiative on an admittedly meager record, consisting of a 4-page recommendation from DOT, a presentation, and minimal discussion, and without understanding which, or how many, pieces of public infrastructure the initiative would affect.”
The other bridges under consideration for tolling are I-78′s Lenhartsville Bridge in Berks County; I-79′s bridges over State Route 50 in Allegheny County; I-80′s bridges across Canoe Creek in Clarion County, Nescopeck Creek in Luzerne County, North Fork in Jefferson County and the Lehigh River, near Wilkes-Barre; I-81 over the Susquehanna River in northern Pennsylvania; and Girard Point Bridge in Philadelphia.
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Double Play Arcade to remain open until Carnation Mall sells
ALLIANCE – Double Play Arcade will remain open in Carnation City Mall for the foreseeable future.
Mike Ford of Double Play Arcade said he does not plan to move the facility until the mall property sells.
Customers will receive notice before the arcade leaves Alliance, he said, so they have an opportunity to redeem any tickets they may have.
"It won't be lights out," Ford said.
Alliance:What's next for Carnation City Mall amid decline of traditional shopping centers?
Double Play will eventually head to Steubenville, becoming part of a new family fun center called 2021 Entertainment. The facility will be in the former Sears department store at the Fort Steuben Mall.
Ford said 2021 Entertainment will have arcade games, ax-throwing, virtual reality, party rooms and other entertainment options.
"There's a lot of people who are actually willing to make that drive down there," he said. "It's about an hour and 15 minutes. ... There's a lot of people saving their tickets and credits and stuff to go down there and play."
Ford said the goal is for 2021 Entertainment to open "early next year," but that it has been delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The mall property at 2500 W. State St. has not been sold. The city is in the process of finalizing a tax incremental financing (TIF) program that will exempt the owners from real property taxes for 30 years.
Mayor Alan Andreani previously said this is a "complicated" TIF setup that requires the city, developer FP Alliance LLC and property owner D&L Ferguson LLC to sign an agreement transferring the mall from the property owner to the city and then back to the property owner before it is finally taken over by the developer.
City Council adopted an ordinance in April authorizing Andreani to pay $1 for the city to take temporary ownership of the mall.
Double Play Arcade's hours are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
For updates on the status of the arcade, visit its Facebook page.
Reach Paige at 330-580-8577 or pmbennett@gannett.com, or on Twitter at @paigembenn.
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The NYPD is asking for the public's help finding a 10-year-old Queens boy who was reported missing a day ago.
The boy, Marvin Bonilla, was last seen around 5:40 p.m. Wednesday leaving his Chandler Street home and walking east on Chandler Street toward Nameoke Avenue, authorities say.
He's described as being about 4 feet tall and 100 pounds with a thin build, black hair and brown eyes. Bonilla was last seen wearing a red shirt and black pants. He was carrying a gray backpack at the time.
Anyone with information on Bonilla's whereabouts is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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TEXAS, USA — For decades, scientists warned that human-induced climate change could put communities in danger around the world.
More intense climate and weather events beyond natural climate variability have already damaged people and nature. Those threats are becoming increasingly evident in Texas. The ongoing heat wave, which brought unseasonably high temperatures and once again raised concerns about the capacity of the state’s power grid, is just one example.
Here’s how climate change is already affecting Texans.
Texas is getting hotter — even at night
Sundown isn’t providing as much relief, according to a 2021 report published by the state’s climatologist.
The average daily minimum and maximum temperatures in the state both rose by 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit from 1895 to 2020, according to the report. The biggest changes in average temperatures were reported in urban areas, where buildings and roads absorb more of the sun’s heat, but every Texas county saw an increase. Even minor shifts in average temperatures require more electricity from the power grid, endanger the health of people who work outdoors, and can alter climate patterns and ecosystems. Heat also increases the prevalence of ground-level ozone pollution, or smog, making it harder for people with asthma and other health concerns to breathe outdoors in major Texas cities.
This year, cities across Texas have seen record triple-digit temperatures amid a prolonged spring heat wave that officials warned could lead to heat exhaustion and illness.
Hurricanes that hit the Texas coast are getting more powerful
Warming oceans fuel hurricanes, increasing the amount of precipitation, strengthening winds and resulting in more flooding on land, scientists have found.
Climate change increased the intensity of Hurricane Harvey in 2017, multiple studies found after the storm. Harvey could not have produced so much rain without human-induced climate change, scientists concluded.
Harvey, the costliest U.S. disaster that year, caused $125 billion in damage, and more than 100 people died from direct causes such as flooding and indirect causes such as disruption to medical services, according to a report from the National Hurricane Center.
Sea levels are rising along the Texas Gulf coast
Sea level rise will also make communities more vulnerable to storm surge during hurricanes, the 2018 National Climate Assessment warned. Already, scientists have observed increases in the number of tidal flood days in areas like Texas’ Port Isabel.
Between 2000 and 2019, rising sea levels caused the Texas coastline to retreat, on average, about 1.25 meters, or about 4 feet, per year, according to a 2021 University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology report for the Texas General Land Office. A 2021 report by the state’s climatologist found that a 1-meter relative sea level rise produces a doubling of storm surge risk.
“The places along the Texas coast with the largest rates of sea level rise may have a doubled storm surge risk by 2050 relative to the beginning of the 20th century, purely due to relative sea level rise itself,” the report said.
Other extreme weather events in Texas could get worse
Winters are generally becoming milder, but some emerging science suggests that global warming could play a role in arctic changes that cause southerly cold snaps like the one that devastated Texas in February 2021.
The 2021 freeze caused as many as 700 deaths, according to a BuzzFeed News analysis, and up to $129 billion in economic damage, according to The Perryman Group, an economic firm.
The state will need to upgrade its infrastructure, including the power grid, to withstand extreme weather while cutting back on carbon emissions to help slow climate change, experts have said.
Water is becoming scarce
Global warming enhances droughts by increasing water evaporation and reducing snow, which can serve as a water source and retain moisture in the ground.
In Texas, some experts fear a drier-than-usual winter and less rainfall this spring could put parts of the state in a drought similar to the one Texas saw in 2011, the driest year recorded in the state.
In West Texas’ Big Bend National Park, the Rio Grande has stopped flowing in recent months, and experts there worry the river could dry up more frequently, Marfa Public Radio reported.
In the second half of this century, Texas could see “megadroughts” worse than any previously recorded, according to a 2020 report from Texas A&M and University of Texas at Austin scientists.
The projections are of particular concern for communities like Dallas, which relies entirely on surface water — which is more vulnerable to evaporation — and farmers and ranchers, who rely on rainfall for crops and livestock.
Severe droughts could limit forage growth needed to raise cattle for beef, for example. Droughts, along with disruptions from natural disasters, could strain the state’s food supply chains and drive prices up.
The risk of illnesses is growing
Warmer waters with reduced flow are more susceptible to pathogens, such as a brain-eating amoeba found in Lake Jackson in 2020, posing risks for recreational use and consumption.
Texas’ warming temperatures are also more inviting to insects that carry and transmit diseases historically seen in the tropics. That’s what experts say happened in 2012, when hundreds of Texans in the Dallas area were diagnosed with the mosquito-transmitted West Nile virus after a warm winter.
Dengue fever and the Zika virus, also transmitted by mosquitoes, are expected to become more common in warming climates.
Climate change is driving more migration
As communities around the globe increasingly feel the impacts of climate change, more people could head to Texas.
Last year, Politico documented how states along the U.S.-Mexico border have become destinations for thousands of people fleeing Central America because of climate change, food insecurity and poverty.
And with sea levels rising along the U.S. coast, about 1.5 million Americans could relocate to Texas by 2100, according to a 2017 study. The Austin-Round Rock area would be the top destination, according to the study, but the Houston and Dallas areas could also see a large influx of climate migrants.
This story was originally published by The Texas Tribune.
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TEXAS, USA — Every morning for the past year, Emilsa and her two American-born daughters wake up on a mattress in a storage room inside a migrant shelter in Ciudad Juárez. For breakfast, they usually eat eggs and potatoes or whatever food people donate to the shelter.
After eating, the 39-year-old from Guatemala will read to her daughters and teach her 8-year-old addition and subtraction and her 11-year-old multiplication and division. For the rest of the day, the girls play with other children while Emilsa socializes with the hundreds of other migrants in the crowded shelter. On Saturdays, she attends Bible studies and a religious sermon at the shelter.
Since the family arrived at the shelter in May 2021, they have been waiting for the Biden administration to lift Title 42 so they can migrate together to the U.S.
Immigration officials have used the public health order nearly 1.8 million times since March 2020 to expel migrants from entering the country, including asylum-seekers.
The Trump administration invoked Title 42 at the start of the pandemic to close the northern and southern borders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But now some lawmakers want to keep it in place as a tool for immigration control.
“I just want someone to help me get out of here so my daughters can attend school and make something of themselves,” Emilsa said last week as her daughters ran toward her with a box of chocolates and flowers, a Mother’s Day gift.
While her daughters, who are U.S. citizens, can cross the border anytime, Title 42 has blocked Emilsa from requesting asylum in the U.S. She said she fled the Mexican state of Michoacán after local drug cartel members began demanding extortion payments from her while she worked at a water purification plant.
Emilsa, who asked to be identified only by her middle name because she fears that cartel members could find her, is one of hundreds of thousands of migrants living in limbo in Mexican border towns who had anxiously been waiting for May 23 — the day the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced it would lift the health order, allowing migrants to once again cross the border and request asylum.
But a federal judge in Louisiana could soon halt the CDC’s move and keep Title 42 in place indefinitely.
After Arizona and more than 20 other Republican-controlled states filed a lawsuit last month in federal court asking District Judge Robert R. Summerhays to block the Biden administration from lifting Title 42, the Trump appointee indicated in court documents that he plans to rule in favor of the states. That would likely spark a monthslong legal battle if the Biden administration appeals the ruling to a higher court.
In court documents, Department of Justice lawyers representing the administration have said Title 42 was meant to be a temporary health order.
Democrats and immigrant rights advocates argue that Title 42 should be lifted because it is inhumane and forces asylum-seekers to live in Mexican border towns where they make easy targets for criminals looking to exploit them. They also say Title 42 violates migrants’ right to seek asylum.
“Every day this policy continues, we deny displaced human beings — the majority of them Black, Indigenous, and brown — the right to seek asylum by summarily kicking them out of the U.S. and putting them in harm’s way,” said Karla Marisol Vargas, a senior attorney at the Texas Civil Rights Project. “An immediate end to Title 42 is necessary to restore access to asylum and fulfill the administration’s promises to welcome all people with dignity, no exceptions.”
The states argued that lifting Title 42 could create chaos at the U.S.-Mexico border by attracting even more migrants and force the states to spend taxpayer money providing services like health care to migrants. Texas, which had filed a separate lawsuit, joined the Arizona-led lawsuit earlier this month.
“The removal of Title 42 will surely exacerbate Biden’s border crisis. Law enforcement officials have been spread thin arresting violent, illegal aliens who have been incentivized to cross our border by Biden’s reckless policies,” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement last month.
It’s unclear when the judge will issue a ruling but it’s expected before May 23.
Meanwhile, in Juárez, Emilsa waits with her daughters because they don’t want to be separated.
“For right now, I don’t have anything planned,” she said. “I’m just waiting for a miracle from God.”
Grissel Ramírez, director of the Esperanza Para Todos shelter where Emilsa and her daughters are staying, said the shelter is well beyond its capacity of 180 people. Currently it’s hosting 240 people from countries like Haiti, El Salvador, Honduras and other parts of Mexico.
“There are people who arrive at night, and the city can be dangerous at times,” she said. “I don’t kick them out, even if it makes things complicated for us here.”
“I felt like my whole world had ended”
Emilsa said she has sought refuge in the U.S. twice.
The first time was 21 years ago, when she left Guatemala for Minnesota, where her brother was living, because her ex-boyfriend beat her and threatened to kill her with a knife. She said she walked through the Chihuahuan desert into Texas as an undocumented immigrant.
In Minnesota, she found work at a Mexican restaurant as a cook. After two years, she met a Mexican man who she began dating before they moved in together and had two daughters.
But as the years went by, the couple disagreed on the direction of their relationship and her boyfriend would hit her during arguments, she said. They split up and he moved back to his home state of Michoacán and found a job cutting and hauling lumber.
Six months after he moved back to Mexico, a tree rolled off a trailer and fell on his chest, damaging his heart and lungs, Emilsa said. A doctor told him that if they couldn’t find a donor for a heart transplant, he would die.
He called Emilsa and told her he wanted to see his daughters one last time. Emilsa knew if she went to Mexico, she couldn’t come back to the U.S. because she was undocumented. But she also didn’t want her daughters to miss seeing their father one last time, she said.
She quit her job, packed some clothes for her and the children, and a friend drove her to El Paso, where an immigration officer asked her if she was sure she wanted to cross because she wouldn’t be able to come back, she said. After she crossed a pedestrian bridge into Juárez, her father-in-law picked her up and drove her to Michoacán — a hot spot for drug cartel violence — to rejoin her boyfriend.
“I forgot about all the blows he’d given me and all the problems we had,” she said. “I just wanted him to be happy with the girls in his last moments.”
In Mexico, Emilsa and her boyfriend got married, mainly so she could get Mexican citizenship and legally work. She said they gave up on the process to get Mexican citizenship because Mexican government officials told her she didn’t qualify.
Three years later, in April 2018, Emilsa’s husband died in his bed after his heart stopped.
“I had already felt guilty,” she said. “But at that moment, I felt like my whole world had ended.”
She decided to stay in Michoacán, where she lived with her husband’s family and worked at a water purification plant while her girls attended school. Emilsa said they felt safe at first.
One day after work in 2019, Emilsa said she was walking home through a forested area when she was approached by a group of men who asked if her boss pays the monthly quota. Emilsa said she knew who they were — members of Los Correa drug cartel, which controlled illegal logging and grew marijuana in Michoacán’s eastern forests. She said she pleaded ignorance and the men let her pass.
Weeks later, the same group of men again approached her and said they knew she and her daughters were not Mexican and if they wanted to continue living in the area, Emilsa would have to pay $50 a month — half of her monthly salary.
“If you don’t want to pay to live here, then your daughters are going to pay,” Emilsa said one of the men told her. “If you don’t pay, we’re going to kidnap them — we know they’re American.”
She said she paid them a few times but knew she couldn’t continue for long because she had no money left for her daughters’ school materials.
When Emilsa heard that a local family planned to travel to Juárez so they could cross the border and ask for asylum, she decided to escape. One of her brothers-in-law gave Emilsa $250 to make the bus trip to the U.S.-Mexico border with the other family.
Turned away at the border
When she arrived at the shelter, Emilsa began to call immigrant rights advocacy groups in El Paso, hoping advocates could provide her with legal assistance so she could cross the bridge legally. But after three months, she said she never got a call back.
She said she feared that if she tried without a lawyer, immigration officers would separate her from her daughters. But by August, she was running out of patience and decided to try anyway.
She explained to immigration officers why she fled Guatemala and Mexico and how her daughters are U.S. citizens. The agents said they couldn’t do anything for Emilsa and her daughters because of the pandemic, she said.
Discouraged, they returned to the shelter.
There’s not much for them to do in Juárez, she said. She doesn’t work because she doesn’t have a permit. She worries her daughters have fallen behind in school because she can do only so much and the shelter doesn’t offer classes for children.
In the year she’s been there, she’s made friends with other migrants. Some of them have managed to enter the U.S. because they have medical conditions that fall under an exemption for Title 42. She said others, tired of waiting, decided to enter the U.S. illegally or settle elsewhere in Mexico, and now she and her daughters have been at the shelter longer than anyone else.
She said they feel safe for now but they depend on donated food, clothing and hygiene products.
So they wait, hoping Title 42 will be lifted so she can make an asylum claim, or that an advocacy group can help her find a way to legally cross with her daughters.
“Maybe if it was just me, I wouldn’t be worried about being stuck here,” she said. “But what does worry me the most is that my girls aren’t going to school and learning.”
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TEXAS, USA — Some Instagram face filters that were suspended in Texas last week have been reenabled.
Meta, the parent conglomerate of Instagram and Facebook, temporarily disabled augmented reality filters —3D overlays that change a user’s appearance or add accessories such as hats, facial hair, or cartoonish dog ears and snouts — on its platforms across the state last week. Meta said at the time it would provide a way for Texans to reactivate the blocked features. Other Instagram filters that change only lighting or add hues to photos remained available to use.
The move came two months after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the California-based company, saying some of the company’s practices and features violated Texans’ privacy. The lawsuit is part of the ongoing conflicts between Texas officials and social media companies.
On Wednesday, the filters were back online, but only after Meta added an option that asks users to agree to the use of the features, which it said "estimate the location of parts of your face." Meta spokesperson Jennifer Martinez told The Texas Tribune that users will need to upgrade to the latest version of the Instagram app to access the opt-in experience.
According to Paxton's lawsuit, around 20.5 million Texans used Facebook as of last year. Paxton's lawsuit says Meta violated a Texas law that prohibits the way certain biometrics — physiological characteristics such as fingerprints, eye identifiers and, in this case, facial features — are collected. The attorney general said the suit could result in hundreds of billions of dollars in civil penalties for Meta. The lawsuit also accuses the company of deceptive trade practices.
Meta officials said it stopped its face recognition program last year and planned to delete the data of over 1 billion users. The decision came after the Federal Trade Commission fined Meta in 2019 for a record-breaking $5 billion over consumer privacy rights violations.
Paxton alleged that the company used data from Facebook and Instagram filters to power its facial tracking software — a claim that Meta denies — and asked a state court to ensure that the company preserves relevant data for the suit, which has not yet reached trial.
Meta press representatives dispute that its facial recognition features have anything to do with its tagging software but said the move to temporarily suspend the filters in Texas and Illinois was done to “prevent meritless and distracting litigation” that is “based on a mischaracterization of how our features work.” The company emphasized that the Instagram filters it suspended in Texas do not use facial recognition software.
“The technology we use to power augmented reality effects like avatars and filters is not facial recognition or any technology covered by the Texas and Illinois laws, and is not used to identify anyone,” Meta said in a statement.
A group of attorneys in Illinois were the first to sue Facebook over its collection of biometric data back in 2015 in a class-action lawsuit. The group reached a settlement with the social media giant last month for $650 million. Users who participated in the class action will receive $200 to $400 after checks were sent out on May 9.
Paxton filed his suit in state court in Harrison County on the first day of early voting in the March primary as he vied for the Republican nomination to keep his position as attorney general. Paxton has been under indictment since 2015 and is being probed by the FBI into how he runs his office, but has denied any criminal wrongdoing. He will face Land Commissioner George P. Bush in a May 24 runoff election.
This isn’t the only arena in which Texas has targeted social media companies. One recent win for Republican lawmakers came Wednesday when a federal appeals court reinstated a Republican-backed Texas law that prohibits large social media companies from banning users over their political viewpoints, a reaction to what Republicans call anti-conservative bias.
Conservatives renewed criticism of social media companies and targeted them in legislation after former President Donald Trump was banned from Twitter for violating the platform’s rules on inciting violence during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Disclosure: Facebook has been a financial supporter of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism. Find a complete list of them here.
This story was originally published in the Texas Tribune here.
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DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa. — Multiple crews are on the scene of a fire in Grantville this morning, according to emergency dispatch.
Dispatch also confirmed that the location is a salvage yard along Jonestown Road in East Hanover Township, and that crews from both Dauphin and Lebanon counties are being pulled in to help quell the flames.
There is no word yet on the extent of any damage or if any injuries have been suffered.
This is a developing story. FOX43 has a crew on the way to the scene, and will provide updates as they become available.
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KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — A woman who had previously been reported missing was located and is safe, according to the Kingsport Police Department (KPD) on Thursday.
Crystal A. Carter, 45, had reportedly not been seen “for a few days,” a release from the department on Wednesday stated. A day later, she is no longer considered missing.
Detectives revealed they never had reason to believe any foul play was involved.
Carter had been reported missing the same day a Kingsport man was reported missing, according to police. The two cases are not related.
Dalton Ramey, 26, has not been seen since May 6. He stands 5’8″ and weighs 143 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. He has multiple tattoos on both arms.
The KPD did not release further information.
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See the Salisbury Zoo's new capybara as it's 'howdying' with new friend
As spring-like weather is finally here on Delmarva, so are new residents at the Salisbury Zoo, who keep arriving steadily.
The zoo's newest acquisition is a female capybara named Pecan, who comes from the Cape May Zoo. Pecan was born June 15, 2021, and will join Faith, a female capybara in the Salisbury Zoo's South American yard.
Zoo keepers are slowly introducing the two so they can get acquainted to each other, in a process called “Howdying” in the zoo world. During this method, the two capybaras will have a physical barrier between them so they will not be able to touch each other but can see and smell each other.
Zoo visitors may see the two separated for a while until keepers are confident they can be together safely.
Capybaras are the world’s largest rodents and are semiaquatic. Their feet are partially webbed and their eyes, ears and nostrils are located on the top of their heads to help them see and breathe while they swim. This makes them suited for the wetlands of South and Central America, where they are found.
The zoo's other new resident is hanging around
Stop by the Salisbury Zoo soon to meet its newest resident, who will be hanging around and moving ... but very, very slowly.
The Salisbury Zoo also recently acquired a female sloth, named Bayou, from the Audubon Zoo. Bayou was born in November 2020. Her parents, Buttercup and Raven, were residents of the Salisbury Zoo until they were transferred to the Audubon Zoo in October 2020.
Bayou is currently in quarantine, but will soon have access to her outdoor exhibit and will be viewable to the public.
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The zoo has a long history of exhibiting two-toed sloths, which have two toes on the front feet and three toes on the back feet. They are used to hang upside down from tree branches.
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For love of basketball: Hoops on the Ave aims to bring community together, kick off summer
A shared love for the game of basketball runs deep within the Eastern Shore's hoops community, and no event is a better example of that than the annual Governor's Challenge, the huge high school basketball tournament that brings more than 100 teams to the Shore each year.
For the last two years, however the Governor's Challenge had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and for Governor's Challenge Director and Wicomico County Recreation Superintendent James Simmons, the cancelation of the 2021 tournament was a particularly disappointing one.
But out of that disappointment grew a new opportunity to bring people together to watch and celebrate basketball on the Eastern Shore, a local family festival called Hoops on the Ave, coming to the Wicomico Youth & Civic Center on May 28.
"Honestly it was Dec. 26 and we were sitting in the arena, just totally disappointed that we had to cancel Governor's Challenge for a second year in a row," Simmons said. "With Rec and Parks we don't like to sit back and just accept that something couldn't happen. We're also trying to find ways to bring new things to the community, and it was a natural fit in my mind."
Hoops on the Ave is a basketball festival set to take place outside the civic center, where there will be multiple 3x3 basketball tournaments to celebrate basketball on the Eastern Shore.
"What I'd like to really build and highlight is that basketball on the Shore is unique," Simmons said. "It's an urban sport, but we're in such a rural area that it's such an interesting mix."
For Simmons, the idea came from a similar event that inspired him called the Spokane Hoopfest in Spokane, Washington, where the largest 3x3 basketball tournament in the world takes place outside in the streets. And when working together with the Mizzle House Foundation in trying to bring something like that to Salisbury, the people involved felt it was important to try to bring in the entire community.
Along with 3x3 tournaments with divisions for Elite Men's, Men's, Women's, High School and Middle School competitors, the festival will also feature live music and arts accompanying the basketball being played, with local bands and artists showcasing their talents.
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When it comes to the basketball tournaments, there will be multiple cash prizes for the winners of the Elite Men's, Men's and Women's divisions at the end of the day. Each team is guaranteed three games and can have up to four members, and basketball fans on the Eastern Shore may see some former local basketball stars taking to the court.
"We've got a wide variety of participants from all across the Shore and Delaware that are going to participate in Hoops on the Ave, some pretty good ones by the way," Simmons said. "There's some types that have registered in the Elite Men's division that there's a lot of people are going to be familiar with the names. Anyone from some standouts in high school in the area to current collegiate players, NCAA star players, current pros and former pros.
"We're going to see a really cool mix of current players, former players, younger and older players getting to intermingle. People that have kind of left a legacy on the Eastern Shore, we're going to get to see them compete against one another."
While this is the first year of Hoops on the Ave in Salisbury, Simmons hopes that this will become an annual event for the community. And if the community comes together to celebrate the local basketball and arts communities on the Eastern Shore, it'll be a success in Simmons' eyes.
"I think we're going to be able to bring some experiences to the Eastern Shore through this event that are not a normal thing for our area. Exposing people to new experiences and being able to celebrate basketball on the Eastern Shore, that's the end goal."
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Saturday is International Tea Day! But whether it’s herbal, chai or matcha you can always grab a cup of your favorite variety or explore some new flavors.
Kohr Harlan checked out Cup of Tea in Clackamas with more on making your perfect drink.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The next step in the I-5 Rose Quarter project is underway with an advisory committee seeking the public’s input on the project.
The project is geared toward improving traffic flow on that stretch of I-5 by the Rose Quarter.
The Community Oversight Advisory Committee is holding a meeting to talk about the project’s progress along with addressing concerns from the community. The public will have chances to comment during the meeting for up to two minutes at a time.
The virtual meeting is from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and will be livestreamed here.
The Historic Albina Advisory Board held a meeting on Tuesday which can be viewed here.
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PRESCOTT VALLEY, Ariz. — Authorities in Yavapai County say a missing hiker was recently discovered deceased and his faithful dog had stayed by his side until rescue teams found both of them.
Donald Hayes, 74, of Prescott Valley contacted the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office last Friday after became lost on Mingus Mountain.
YCSO informed the lost hiker to stay at his current location until a rescue team arrived. But authorities were not able to locate Hayes or his dog Ranger.
Rescue teams spent the next few days searching for the hiker on the ground and by air in rugged terrain.
On Wednesday, YCSO announced Hayes had been found deceased in an area that had been difficult to reach.
Ranger was found alive and had remained with Hayes. The dog was taken to an animal hospital for treatment, YCSO said.
The Sheriff's Office said a medical examiner will be determining exactly how Hayes died.
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SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio family is suing Apple and its AirPods manufacturer, blaming the companies for their son's hearing loss.
"We don't want anybody to experience this terrible accident," Ariani Reyes, the 14-year-old's mother, told KENS 5. "It shouldn't happen. They haven't fixed that problem with loud noises and alerts."
During a 2020 road trip, Reyes says her son was watching a video at low volume using a single AirPods Pro earbud. The child's ear drum ruptured when an Amber Alert sounded at an "unexpected" and "dangerous" volume, the lawsuit claims.
"It was an extremely loud noise and he complained right away," Reyes said.
"He was a different boy... dizzy with nausea."
Reyes says her son became ill that evening and battled vertigo. Doctors treated his inner ear with steroid shots, but could not restore his hearing.
Two years later, the 14-year-old still wears a hearing aid in his right ear.
"He's a teenager, so he doesn't like to wear that," Reyes said. "It has impacted his life."
Family attorneys argue the Apple products are defective and dangerous, since they do not automatically adjust notifications' volume.
To bolster their case, plaintiffs cite numerous AirPods users who've asked for similar fixes on Apple's community forum.
"When a notification comes through, I want to rip my AirPods out," one user writes. "It is so loud... Why can't it just be a soft background noise like when I have used other head or ear phones?"
There is a method to reduce notification volume in the phone's settings, but some users complain the process is cumbersome and counter-productive.
"There is a solution... that will fix the loud alerts," another forum user writes. "But it also means, when you take out the AirPods, you will likely miss phone calls and alerts because the volume of the phone has been turned down in settings. It makes no sense at all."
The lawsuit alleges that Apple should warn users about sudden spikes in volume.
Attorneys filed the suit in the Northern District of California's federal court.
"It's something we feel we should do," Reyes said.
Apple did not respond to our request for comment.
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Unity Park opens today in Greenville after decades of planning and months of work
Macon Atkinson
Greenville News
After decades of planning and months of construction, Unity Park opens today on South Hudson Street with an official ceremony beginning at 10 a.m.
The crown jewel of Greenville's civic projects, Unity Park includes:
- Restoration of the Reedy River and wetlands
- Renovation of Mayberry Field, the historic park built by the city in the 1920s for Black children during segregation
- Michelin Green, a 9-acre green space
- Four playgrounds, including the 4,100-square-foot Greenville Water splash pad
- The Prisma Health Visitors Center featuring a welcome center, gallery space and meeting space
- The Auro Bridge, a custom-designed wooden pedestrian bridge spanning the Reedy River in the heart of the park
- Meadowbrook Green, named for the historic Meadowbrook Park built on the site in 1938
- An extension of the Swamp Rabbit Trail and a network of walking paths
- The Lila Mae Brock Plaza in honor of Southernside missionary and advocate Lila Mae Brock.
Unity Park opens in Greenville: Here's what to know before you go
The park will also potentially have a 125-foot observation tower funded by tourism funds and private donations. City Council is set to vote on how it could pay for the tower May 23.
Unity Park is located at 320 South Hudson Street in west Greenville.
This story will be updated. Check back for more.
Macon Atkinson is the city watchdog reporter for The Greenville News. She's powered by long runs and strong coffee. Follow her on Twitter @maconatkinson.
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Four people attacked an MTA conductor when he opened his window to make an announcement as the afternoon rush got underway earlier this week, knocking him down and stealing his train keys before running off, authorities say.
The 40-year-old conductor opened his train car window as the northbound N he was working pulled into the Queensboro Plaza Station, at the corner of 27th Street, around 4:15 p.m. Tuesday. That's when four strangers approached him.
One of those strangers pushed the conductor, knocking him to the ground, according to the NYPD, while another looked into the open train car window and took the keys.
The four suspects then fled through an emergency door and left the station.
The conductor was taken to a hospital for treatment of his injuries and later released.
Police shared surveillance footage of the suspects (above). Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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Authorities have arrested a man in the case of a Queens pawnshop owner who died weeks after a beating so savage that cops initially thought he'd been shot in the head.
Rondolfo Lopez-Portillo, a 48-year-old from Queens, faces murder, robbery and criminal weapons possession charges in the March 28 attack on Arasb Shoughi at the 60-year-old's Global Pawn store on Jamaica Avenue.
The suspect, whose address is on the same street, was apprehended on Wednesday in the case. Attorney information for him wasn't immediately clear.
According to information previously released by the NYPD, the suspect, now identified as Lopez-Portillo, walked into the neighborhood staple just before 1 p.m. that March day and beat Shoughi in the head, repeatedly, with some unknown object.
It's not clear what he allegedly stole from the store before he fled.
A fellow business owner was the one to find Shoughi in a pool of blood.
"(I) rushed there, saw him there and then tried to get something to stop the bleeding," the other owner, who didn't want to be identified, said at the time.
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Many neighbors and customers stopped by the business to share their shock and grief after news of Shoughi's attack.
"I'm very hurt because he always looked out for me. I don't know about everybody else, but me personally. I just want to give my prayers to him," said Hasan Campbell.
He died a few weeks later, on April 17.
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A public hearing scheduled for this afternoon on the I-78 Lenhartsville Bridge Replacement Project has been cancelled after a judge put a temporary halt to Gov. Tom Wolf’s plan to toll some interstate bridges.
The meeting had been scheduled from 3:30-7 p.m. at Kempton Community Center.
As many as nine bridges have been targeted for tolling under the Major Bridge Public-Private Partnership Initiative, part of PennDOT’s Pathways Program. Pathways seeks potential alternative funding for transportation. Under the initiative, tolls collected would be used for the bridges’ construction, maintenance and operation.
A lawsuit opposing the plan was filed by Cumberland County and seven municipalities, which contended that residents had not had an opportunity to comment on one of the projects on Interstate 83 across the Susquehanna River. The suit also contended the law that started the process violated constitutional prohibitions against the Legislature delegating its taxation authority.
In her ruling putting the plan on hold, Commonwealth Court Judge Ellen Ceisler said PennDOT must stop all studies, right-of-way acquisitions, construction or work under any contracts, and put off any planned hearings, meetings or spending.
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Late-night rescue mission: North Canton police rescue trapped ducklings
NORTH CANTON – Being a parent isn't easy, especially if your 12 kids fall down a storm drain.
A mama duck needed police to help rescue her trapped ducklings from a drain on Glenwood Street NW near Linwood Avenue.
The rescue mission started around 1:50 a.m. Wednesday after neighbors reported a noise from small and yellow culprits.
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"It was a light-hearted service call, feel-good call," Police Chief Frank Kemp said. "It was not a high priority call but it was important for the people who called it in. They were concerned for the ducklings."
Police Sgt. Ron Mizner and officer Adam Knam and some residents lifted the drain grate and freed 12 ducklings from their predicament.
The entire rescue was caught on police body camera and uploaded to Facebook by the North Canton Police Department.
"The ducklings were turned over to their mother who appeared none too happy with her adventurous flock," Sgt. Matt Buzzard said on the department's Facebook post about the rescue mission.
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$25 million Phoenix campus offers one-stop shop for dementia support
A $25 million campus created to serve a fast-growing population of Arizonans with various forms of dementia has partially opened on 3.2 acres in Phoenix.
Once it's fully open, the "Dementia Care and Education Campus," operated by the nonprofit Hospice of the Valley, will serve as a one-stop shop for dementia support, hospice officials say.
The campus is on 44th Street just south of Indian School Road.
The campus' singular focus is on dementia, combined with the breadth of services it offers, makes the project stand out, said Kinsey McManus, programs director for the Alzheimer's Association, Desert Southwest Chapter. Hospice of the Valley has kept the Alzheimer's Association informed about the campus, McManus said.
"This certainly sets a precedent for dementia care moving forward," she said.
The campus is a place where members of the public may access dementia care resources and training and it will give people with dementia a chance to participate in social programs, including an adult day club, a "Memory Café" and a preschool that's expected to have opportunities for people with dementia to interact with young children.
"Having a day program that interacts with children going to school, that alone is really unique," McManus said. "The piece we're really excited about as well is the training center. ... Already they've done some trainings for first responders."
Lin Sue Flood, director of community engagement for Hospice of the Valley, said the education center is one of the programs the campus is operating. She described the education center as “the hub” of the campus. It provides free training in dementia care to both health care professionals and members of the public.
Dr. Gillian Hamilton, Hospice of the Valley medical director, said she believes the campus may be the first of its kind in the nation in terms of the level of emphasis it puts on educating people about dementia care.
'We’re really about to enter a crisis of care in the coming years'
Arizona has the fastest growth rate for dementia cases in the nation, McManus said. The number of Arizona residents with Alzheimer's disease alone is expected to reach 200,000 by 2025, according to an Alzheimer's Association report.
About 18.2% of Arizona's population, or 1.3 million people, is over the age of 65, compared with the U.S. average of 16.5%, according to a 2019 analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Arizona also is a destination for winter visitors, many of whom are retirees over the age of 65.
“We are already outpaced in the provider community to meet the current demand,” McManus said, “And we’re really about to enter a crisis of care in the coming years.”
Because of that, McManus said, it is important to increase the number of health care professionals with specialized training in dementia care.
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Hamilton, who originated the idea for the campus, said she got the idea because Hospice of the Valley had been trying to educate health care professionals about how to care for people with dementia. The only place they had to do that was in their inpatient hospice facility for dementia patients, which cares for patients in the advanced stages of dementia. Hamilton said she realized they needed a place where health care professionals could train in caring for people with all stages of dementia.
The campus is different from other dementia care programs in that it is a facility specifically focused on dementia patients that provides services for people with all stages of dementia, McManus said. It serves as a model for expanding programs that specifically focus on caring for dementia patients, she said.
"The reality is, this is a growing concern and a major concern for this state and we would really like to see expansion of services like this across the state," McManus said.
'Socialization is a critical piece of dementia care'
Flood said the other program the campus is operating is a child care center run by Prince of Peace Preschool. The purpose of having a child care center in the campus is to provide opportunities for intergenerational socialization between children and dementia patients, she said.
“Long-term memory is what dementia patients hold on to the longest, and children are part of that,” Flood said. "So they recall children and they’re uplifting and their laughter is contagious and it brings joy to them.”
Flood said the other parts of the campus will open in the coming months. Those are an assisted living facility that houses up to 12 residents in all stages of dementia, an inpatient hospice care home that provides specialized care for up to 10 patients with advanced dementia and an adult day club that provides socialization and activities like painting, dancing and yoga for people with dementia, according to a news release from Hospice of the Valley.
Part of the education center is a “Memory Café,” described in a brochure from Hospice of the Valley as a “dementia friendly place to gather, socialize and have a bite to eat.” Flood described it as a place where families can "breathe a sigh of relief," knowing they are in a place where dementia is understood.
“If you have a loved one where it's very difficult to take them out in public because their dementia is advanced or there might be behaviors or it's just too challenging and you just feel uncomfortable with that,” Flood said, “you can come to our campus and of course, nothing that ever happens there is going to be out of the ordinary."
Socialization is important for people with dementia, McManus said. As dementia patients find it more difficult to navigate social situations, they can become withdrawn, which can speed up the progression of the disease, she said.
"Socialization is a critical piece of dementia care," McManus said.
The Memory Café hosts support groups for caregivers of people with dementia, Flood said.
“There will be professional caregivers who are specially trained in dementia care to engage the person with dementia because you can't leave them at home, so you bring them with you,” Flood said.
“And then the care partners can go in another room in the Memory Café and there's a trained facilitator there that can help walk them through some of the challenges that they are experiencing as the dementia progresses and as they're trying to provide the best care for the person they love. And they also get to share with other people who are on that same exact journey.”
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Fundraising for the dementia campus is ongoing, officials say
Hospice of the Valley is raising funds to pay for the campus.
Hamilton said they hope the assisted living facility, the childcare center and the day club, which Flood said are private pay, as well as the hospice facility, which Flood said is covered by Medicare, will at least break even.
However, they expect to lose money because of the free training services provided by the education center, Hamilton said.
“This is really a gift from Hospice of the Valley to the community,” Hamilton said.
Flood said the dementia campus aims to provide dementia patients and their loved ones with both education and support in the same facility.
“I love that families don't have to go out and find all the different resources by themselves,” Flood said. "They're overwhelmed when they find out that someone they love has dementia and they become an instant caregiver, and to know that they're going to have education and support all in one place can give them such peace of mind.”
Christina van Waasbergen is a journalism student at Northwestern University and an intern covering health care at The Arizona Republic. Reach her at cvanwaasbergen@arizonarepublic.com.
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Algae could help fuel the future. But it's not easy being 'green'
On a patch of land between Riverview Park and the Red Mountain Freeway, two silvery metal domes tower over the Mesa wastewater treatment plant. The domes are called “anaerobic digesters,” and there are several hundred of them in the U.S.
Inside each dome, tiny organisms — bacteria — break down biological waste. But this story isn’t about bacteria. Because here in Mesa, there are some new microorganisms on the block.
Three oval-shaped ponds swirl with brilliant green water in a dirt lot below the domes. Floating in the lazy river-like current, swaths of tiny life forms glisten in the sunlight.
Algae.
Scientists in Arizona have been cultivating algae for several years, but this time, ASU researchers are working on a project with the city of Mesa in hopes of turning wastewater byproducts into fuel and other products. They want to harness the way algae naturally works to coax another use out of the gases that would otherwise be emitted as a result of the necessary process of breaking down human-produced wastewater.
The algae — more specifically microalgae, which are microscopic, single-celled organisms closely related to seaweed — take in carbon dioxide (the gas that humans breathe out) much the same way plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to create their own food.
“We’re taking advantage of that. We’re using waste as food for the microalgae,” said Justin Flory, the associate director of research in the Center for Negative Carbon Emissions at Arizona State University and the manager of the algae project.
Algae-based biofuels and products have been a dream for researchers and companies for several years, including for teams at ASU and the University of Arizona. In 2007, the Energy Independence and Security Act called for 36 billion gallons of renewable fuels, including microalgae-based biofuels, by 2022. Algae biofuels are not yet produced commercially, according to the EPA.
Now, as the need for energy independence and security grow more urgent in the U.S., algae still isn’t being produced at a scale large enough to power cars, planes or anything else that requires energy. Meanwhile, many scientists say we need to electrify everything, fast, to meet climate goals, with the potential for dire consequences if we don’t.
Flory and other Arizona researchers think algae will play an important role in the move to a sustainable future. In the uncertain zone between where we are now and complete decarbonization, they say algae-based biofuels offer solutions for some of the toughest problems of the energy transition. Those include, for instance, addressing the limitations of intermittent power sources like solar and wind, reducing the impact of heavy transportation like cargo ships and, of course, improving the sustainability of unavoidable emitting processes like treating wastewater.
But for algae to reach its potential, its cultivators are up against big challenges. There are biological hurdles: Much like growers of agricultural crops on dry land, algae farmers need to achieve ideal conditions to maximize yields (and some even want to use genetic modification). Then there’s the task of converting a pond of green gunk into fuel, a design problem that engineers, chemists and other scientists are still trying to perfect.
Algae projects are most sustainable when combined with other processes, like wastewater treatment, something big companies and investors aren’t always aligned with. And beyond biology or technology, there are problems of infrastructure and policy. For algae to work, leaders and companies need to care about it.
The team at ASU, working with the city of Mesa, think they have a start on a local level. But Flory acknowledged that continued efforts of science and investment, on a local and commercial scale, will be needed to make more progress.
“It’s not something you can just flip a switch and say, we’re going to get the answer, and we’re done,” Flory said. “It takes a lot of people trying, failing, learning, (and) trying again.”
Cultivation challenges
Margarita Acedo was one of those people who wanted to keep giving algae a try. When she moved to Tucson in 2010, she had two goals.
One was to learn English, a task that took her only a few months. But the other goal was much bigger. She wanted to find better ways to cultivate microalgae to create alternative forms of energy.
Acedo, who started as a volunteer and went on to earn her master’s degree and doctorate in chemical and environmental engineering at the UA, worked at Viridos (formerly Synthetic Genomics), a California-based company that recently partnered with ExxonMobil to develop algae biofuel.
Acedo thinks the hardest part of making algae biofuels a reality will be the “transition from the lab to the field.” Before researchers can do anything with algae, they have to grow it. So Acedo has worked on projects that study the effects of light, nitrogen, heat and more on algae yields, which will be critical to understand if algae is to be grown on a commercial scale.
It might grow in water instead of a field, but she sees algae as a crop. So does Everett Eustance, an assistant research scientist at ASU who has been working with Flory on the wastewater project.
“Here (on our project at ASU), they keep track of it, make sure it’s growing healthy. You have to make sure the fertilizers and everything is correctly done just like any other farm crop,” Eustance said.
And much like farmers, algae cultivators won’t be able to control the weather. That, Acedo says, is a gap that needs to be addressed between research and reality.
“All of what we (were) producing (was) at the R&D stage,” Acedo explained of her time at Viridos, “so most of the things (algae researchers are) producing is data."
Another decision for researchers growing algae, including Arizona teams, is whether to grow algae in environments that are open or closed to the outside world. To grow the vast amounts of algae needed to produce biofuels on a large scale, cultivators need big ponds. Smaller, closed systems tend to work well, but the size is limited, and they’re more expensive. When ponds are outside, wind could contaminate the algae or introduce dust.
“You can grow them in closed reactors, but they’re a lot more capital intensive. You need a ton of landmass to be able to cultivate enough algae to make a huge dent in your biofuels,” said Kimberly Ogden, professor and department chair of chemical and environmental engineering at UA. Ogden was Acedo’s Master’s and doctoral advisor while Acedo was a student and has been focused on biofuels and bioproducts for over a decade.
One solution to the space problem? Trying to increase the amount of oil the algae produces. Acedo says that’s a project other scientists have been working on at Viridos. Just as land-based farmers might use a genetically modified crop variety that produces higher yields, algae researchers are applying similar techniques to try to get more biofuel bang for their buck.
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In the meantime, bright sunny places like California and Arizona remain important for studying algae growth.
“Arizona is a great place for (algae cultivation) because of how much sunlight we have,” Ogden said. But in the desert, water usage is a big concern. “At some point we might get a water problem, because there’s a lot of evaporation off of there."
That’s something Flory and his team hope to address by working directly with a wastewater plant. Since the process already involves reclaimed water, it’s less of a burden on water systems.
“If you’re attaching them to wastewater treatment plants, that’s a good idea,” said Ogden, who was not involved with the ASU project.
But even with the right algae strains and the growing location set up, there’s more work to be done to make microalgae fuel viable.
Scaling up: The role of infrastructure and integration
At one of the ponds at the Mesa site, Eustance dips a gloved hand into the green water. He pulls out something that looks like a woven rug, or maybe old parchment: a square mat made up of long, white fibers connected at each end with a length of metal.
This is where the magic happens.
When the microalgae “eat” the waste from the anaerobic digesters, they do two useful things. They leave behind a purer form of methane (another type of gas) that can be pumped into existing natural gas systems as “renewable natural gas.” And they also grow more of themselves, creating “biomass,” which can eventually be converted into biodiesel or other products like fish feed or even synthetic materials used to make sneakers.
But to get that waste from the metal dome into the algae ponds, scientists need a go-between.
“They’re like little hollow drinking straws, but very small. And that lets the carbon dioxide … get delivered to the microalgae,” Flory explained. “What comes out the end of those drinking straws is the methane, which you can use as natural gas.”
The natural gas you're most familiar with is probably the kind that formed deep underground, as a result of plant and animal matter decomposing under pressure over millions of years. Extracting it often involves building deep wells or fracturing rock formations at high pressure in a process commonly called fracking.
This natural gas is different. It ultimately serves the same purpose as other natural gas, and it still emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere when it’s burned for fuel, but it didn’t take millennia to form. And in this particular case, because it’s attached to a wastewater plant, it’s getting two uses out of the same greenhouse gases that would be emitted no matter what as a result of the waste in wastewater breaking down.
“It’s a way of separating the carbon dioxide from the methane and using (the methane) for a productive purpose,” Flory said.
That separation is important because methane is a particularly harmful driver of climate change. Both carbon dioxide and methane are so-called greenhouse gases, which trap heat in the atmosphere and drive the warming of the planet. But methane is about 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide, according to an assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
If methane gets separated out and burned as fuel before being emitted, it breaks down and releases carbon dioxide (it’s not perfect, researchers say, but it’s a lot better than releasing methane). For that to happen, Flory says he and his team are working on making those special gas-delivery fibers more efficient. Going into the fibers, there’s about 40% carbon dioxide and 60% methane. Flory estimates that right now, by the time the algae is done with it, it’s closer to 85% methane.
Flory is aiming for an even better 97% methane.
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It’s all part of a plan to make their system as cheap and efficient as possible. That includes reducing the energy needed to create the current needed for the algae by using the paddle wheels attached to the ponds.
To tackle those infrastructure challenges, researchers need more investment that will allow them to fine-tune a relatively new process.
“One of the biggest challenges we have compared to corn ethanol or any other terrestrial (biofuel crop)? We don’t have the existing infrastructure,” said Eustance, noting that farmers on land already had everything in place they needed to cultivate plants like corn. “Right now, it’s tricky. There’s a lot of unknowns, too, because we’re still very much (on) the small scale.”
Acedo understands why companies like ExxonMobil might be necessary to transition from that small scale to commercial-scale projects. “We need the money of an investor,” she said.
But she isn’t necessarily convinced that oil and gas companies like Exxon will be interested in integrating algae infrastructure on a local level with projects like wastewater treatment, something that Arizona researchers, both on and separate from the ASU project, agreed would be important for the highest climate impact.
Acedo described how energy companies, similar to ExxonMobil, have been cultivating large algae ponds in Europe, with what she believes is the aim of diversifying an energy portfolio commercially rather than with a focus on sustainability.
“When you are actually integrating different processes, like wastewater treatment … that’s when you make it more sustainable,” Acedo said.
Casey Norton, a spokesperson for ExxonMobil, did not answer when asked about whether the company was working on integrating processes like wastewater treatment as part of its algae biofuel strategy. Instead, he described the work with Viridos on developing genetic tools for better cultivation, as well as other biofuel projects not using algae, which some scientists have pointed out have the potential to be land-intensive and inefficient.
“Algae is one part of our portfolio approach to researching, developing and deploying lower-emissions technologies,” he said in an email.
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A mindset shift
Even though some big companies might see financial green when they look at algae, Flory says he thinks most people, if they have heard of it at all, see algae as a nuisance, something that blooms in recreational areas, kills fish and generally makes life more difficult.
That hasn’t stopped scientists like him from communicating about the allure of algae as an innovative climate solution. “It’s pretty in some ways, it’s got beautiful colors to it. I think most people don’t really know much about what it is,” Flory said.
But with that beauty comes a reality: As literally green as algae may be, it will take a bigger paradigm shift for investments in algae energy to pay off, both economically and environmentally.
John Giles, the mayor of Mesa, is optimistic about the algae project, which he touts as an investment in innovation. And he thinks that innovation will be non-negotiable if climate goals are to be achieved.
“Last year, we adopted a climate action plan that is very aspirational, but also we want it to be achievable,” said Giles, noting that he believes Mesa’s plans are on par with those of cities across the world.
“We don’t know how we’re going to do this (attain climate action goals), but we’re going to set these goals and we’re going to hope the technology evolves,” he said, adding that “the technology we need to achieve these goals doesn’t exist.”
The lag between technology and implementation is a roadblock facing the energy sector as a whole and part of the reason Flory thinks biofuels will be needed to make the transition to cleaner energy sources possible.
“The reality is today we can’t easily go to 100% (renewables) because so far, we don’t have the capacity to really do that,” he said, citing technology challenges involved in storing intermittent power sources like solar and wind.
Ogden agrees that there won’t be one solution to the energy challenges of the future, and thinks “we’re a long way off from not using any carbon to do things” She noted that algae-based biofuels are of particular interest for airplanes and cargo ships, which have not yet been electrified.
Unless there’s a carbon tax or the market changes significantly, she says fossil fuels will continue to be too much cheaper than renewable sources for there to be any economic incentive for decarbonization.
That’s why Flory hopes that integrating their project with wastewater treatment, which he says has always been a burden for society as well as for the climate, will help the technology gain traction. Though wastewater treatment only accounts for 1% of Mesa’s overall carbon footprint as outlined in their climate action plan, it’s also something that society has already agreed needs to be paid for, an idea that’s been slower to catch on for carbon emissions.
“Ultimately, it comes down to, ‘is carbon dioxide emissions enough of a problem that we think we should pay for it in some regard?’” Flory said. “I think we’re going to need those (kinds) of policies and (a) mind shift to make (algae biofuels) really scalable.”
Independent coverage of bioscience in Arizona is supported by a grant from the Flinn Foundation.
Melina Walling is a bioscience reporter who covers COVID-19, health, technology, agriculture and the environment. You can contact her via email at mwalling@gannett.com, or on Twitter @MelinaWalling.
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NEW YORK — Wall Street headed for more losses at the open following the previous day’s rout amid persistently high inflation and its potential effect on corporate profits and consumer spending.
Futures for the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 0.9% Thursday before the bell.
Shares in Europe and Asia fell sharply following plunging U.S. markets.
Germany’s DAX was down 1.6% at midday, while the CAC 40 in Paris declined 1.7% and Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 2.1%.
On Wednesday, the Dow sank more than 1,100 points, or 3.6%. The S&P 500 had its biggest drop in nearly two years, shedding 4%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq fell 4.7%.
The benchmark index is now down more than 18% from the record high it reached at the beginning of the year. That’s just shy of the 20% decline that’s considered a bear market.
“The sentiment in the market is highly negative as traders and investors are largely concerned about an economic downturn and soaring inflation,” Naeem Aslam of Avatrade said.
Rising interest rates, high inflation, the war in Ukraine and a slowdown in China’s economy have caused investors to reconsider the prices they’re willing to pay for a wide range of stocks, from high-flying tech companies to traditional automakers.
The last bear market happened just two years ago, but this would still be a first for those investors that got their start trading on their phones during the pandemic. For years, thanks in large part to extraordinary actions by the Federal Reserve, stocks often seemed to go in only one direction: up. Now, the familiar rallying cry to “buy the dip” after every market wobble is giving way to fear that the dip is turning into a crater.
The Federal Reserve is trying to temper the impact from the highest inflation in four decades by raising interest rates. Many other central banks are on a similar track. But the Bank of Japan has stuck to its low interest rate policy and the gap between those benchmark rates of the world’s largest and third-largest economies has pushed the dollar’s value up against the Japanese yen.
Japan reported a trade deficit for April as its imports ballooned 28%. The shift reflects surging energy costs amid the war in Ukraine and a weakening of the yen against the U.S. dollar.
The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo lost 1.9% to 26,402.84 and the Hang Seng in Hong Kong dropped 2.5% to 20,120.60. In South Korea, the Kospi shed 1.3% to 2,592.34, while Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 gave up 1.7% to 7,064.50.
The Shanghai Composite index reversed earlier losses, gaining 0.4% to 3.096.96.
On Wednesday, retailer Target lost a quarter of its value after reporting earnings that fell far short of analysts’ forecasts. Inflation, especially for shipping costs, dragged its operating margin for the first quarter to 5.3%. It had been expecting 8% or higher.
The company warned that its costs for freight this year would be $1 billion higher than it estimated just three months ago.
The report comes a day after Walmart said its profit took a hit from higher costs. The nation’s largest retailer fell 6.8%, adding to its losses from Tuesday.
Target and Walmart each provided anecdotal evidence that inflation is weighing on consumers, saying they held back on purchasing big-ticket items and changed from national brands to less expensive store brands.
The weak reports stoked concerns that stubbornly rising inflation is putting a tighter squeeze on a wide range of businesses and could cut deeper into their profits.
Other big retailers also have racked up hefty losses.
The data are not entirely consistent. On Tuesday, the market cheered an encouraging report from the Commerce Department that showed retail sales rose in April, driven by higher sales of cars, electronics, and more spending at restaurants.
Investors worry the Fed could trigger a recession if it raises interest rates too high or too quickly. Worries persist about global growth as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts even more pressure on prices for oil and food while lockdowns in China to stem COVID-19 cases worsens supply chain problems.
In other trading, benchmark U.S. crude oil declined $1.27 to $108.32 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It dropped $2.81 to $109.59 on Wednesday.
Brent crude, the basis for pricing for international trading, slipped 71 cents to $108.40 per barrel.
The dollar fell to 127.92 Japanese yen from 128.20 yen late Wednesday. The euro strengthened to $1.0514 from $1.0464.
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YORK, Pa. — Editor's note: The above video is from Feb. 2022.
A car has overturned at York Hills Apartments, and crews are advising people to avoid the area due to a gas leak.
Both police and fire personnel are on the scene of the crash in the 1900 block of Queenswood Dr. in York Township.
It is unclear what occurred, but a car overturned and at least one person is inside the vehicle. The extent of their injuries, if any, is unknown.
Authorities also say there is a gas leak and are asking people to avoid the area. It is unclear if the leak was caused by the crash.
This is a developing story. FOX43 has a crew on the way to the scene and we will provide updates as they become available.
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OREGON, USA — This week, the Yamhill County Medical Examiner confirmed the remains found in the car recovered from the Willamette River last Friday belong to former Cornelius mayor Ralph Brown.
The first steps towards closure came after a year-long search for the 77-year-old. Brown's family enlisted the help of a special dive team with a unique mission called Adventures With Purpose (AWP).
What started as an environmental mission to clear debris out of water, turned into a search and recovery dive team with a massive following. On YouTube, more than two million subscribers tune in to follow the team, led by Jared Leisek and Doug Bishop.
"The growth over the last three years has been astronomical," said Bishop. "We understand what we do, the resource, and how powerful it has been."
The AWP team works to find and recover loved ones lost, sometimes, after many years. It's a job that requires so much sensitivity, in addition to their sonar technology and expert diving skills.
"Those talents, there's not really anyone else in the world that holds them in the way that we do, and we've organically taught ourselves. We didn't realize what this was going to turn into."
In just a couple of years, the team has recovered more than 150 vehicles and helped solve 23 missing person cold cases. The latest case - regarding the disappearance of Ralph Brown.
"It just kept nagging at me and we could not let that go, even though we have searched this area three times before," Leisek explained to reporters last week.
Brown's family thanked AWP for the team's persistence, which included 10 searches in all, to bring them answers.
"They never stopped thinking about my grandpa," said Megan Closson, Brown's granddaughter, on Friday. "That's the reason why he's been found today."
"It's also in a very bittersweet way, exciting. Understanding that we are doing something that nobody else can do," Bishop said, "We take it very seriously and it's an honor. It really is."
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UTICA, N.Y. – Part of the Arterial in Utica was shut down Wednesday night after a tractor-trailer hit a utility pole near Noyes Street.
The northbound lanes closed around 8 p.m. as Department of Transportation crews cleared the scene and replaced the utility pole, but have since reopened.
It is not clear what caused the crash or if anyone was injured.
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It’s going to take a long, long time for the watersheds damaged by the Museum Fire to heal fully, said Christopher Tressler, county engineer for the Coconino County Flood Control District.
“These high-desert landscapes are sensitive,” Tressler said while surveying an area within the Spruce Wash watershed.
He pointed to an outcrop of exposed bedrock high above the watershed and noted the thin soil.
“The flood flows that we saw last year are pulling out what little sediment and soil we have up here and washing it downstream,” he said.
In other places, well-developed soils and decent precipitation could allow stabilizing vegetation to grow back quickly after a fire.
But in the drought-stricken mountainous area outside Flagstaff, “disturbance is going to impact the land for a lot of years to come,” Tressler said.
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Tressler is just one of many county officials working alongside the U.S. Forest Service, Natural Channel Design and Tiffany Construction to implement flood mitigation and watershed recovery projects in the scar left by the Museum Fire. The need is dire.
During the 2021 monsoon season, post-fire flooding and debris flows from the Spruce Wash watershed within the scar overwhelmed storm drains and inundated Flagstaff neighborhoods downstream, causing millions of dollars’ worth of damage. The watershed itself was severely eroded. Deep channels cut through the landscape, dislodged massive boulders, and washed away hundreds of tons of sediment.
As a new monsoon season approaches, Tressler and others are working hard to restore the Spruce Wash watershed so that it adequately slows flood waters and allows sediment to “drop out” of the water before it reaches the neighborhoods below. They’ve got their work cut out for them. The land is slow to heal itself and the people living in the flood path below don’t have any time to wait.
One of the ways engineers like Tressler are working to speed up the watershed healing process is by restoring the function of alluvial fans in the area.
Alluvial fans are shallow, wide, triangle-shaped deposits of sediment that form where water drainages can spread out, much like a river delta. They occur naturally in the Spruce Wash watershed and when they’re functioning, they can significantly slow the flow of water. But many of the existing alluvial fans in the area have become “channelized” by encroaching forest and flooding.
To restore their function, engineers are using heavy machinery to clear the area, grade it, bury logs that cause water to spread out and create rock basins that catch sediment. As a final step, native grasses are seeded across the fan to encourage stabilizing vegetation growth.
In the Spruce Wash Watershed, engineers are also creating new alluvial fans, such as in the West Tributary where a gully ran through an area that had “potential” to be an alluvial fan.
“That becomes a pretty high priority,” said Allen Haden, ecologist for Natural Channel Design. “We can take something that is currently providing hundreds of tons of sediment per year to the Spruce Wash channel system and turn it in to something that could be potentially saving and storing a couple hundred tons a year. That's a pretty big deal for the sediment budget.”
The alluvial fan currently being constructed at the West Tributary is expected to be about 1,000 feet long and 300 feet wide. The process includes moving a lot of earth, and while heavy machinery scrapes through the rock and soil, a water truck follows, spraying down their tracks. Even though the crews are working to mitigate flood waters, it’s still fire that they have in mind.
“It's important that when they leave the site that they haven't left any anything hot, anything that could start a fire,” Tressler said.
Future fires are also the biggest concern of Wayne Anderson, a resident of the Mount Elden Estates within the Spruce Wash Watershed. His neighborhood is currently entangled by flood mitigation projects and temporary access roads for construction crews.
During the 2021 floods, he said, his street was “mayhem” as waters moved boulders large enough to shake the earth.
“You ever seen Oak Creek?” Anderson said. “It was like two of them, running either side of the house. You get trapped on the property.”
Anderson said he trusts the scientists and engineers who are working to protect his home and downstream neighbors from flooding this monsoon season. “We got a good handle on this summer,” he said. “But if more of the watershed burns, if we don't have proper management such as closures at the right time and fire restrictions at the right time, the neighborhood could go.”
“At this point it kind of feels inevitable,” Anderson said.
“We're on the reactive side of it,” Tressler said of the watershed restoration and flood mitigation efforts underway. “Forest restoration is the side of it that helps us be proactive.”
The current mitigation in the Spruce Wash Watershed has been tested through modeling conducted by JE Fuller. It’s been determined that for a storm that would drop 1, 2 or 3 inches of water in 45 minutes, the added mitigation should convey storm waters with “no adverse impact.” And while historically a 3-inch-in-45-minute storm is fairly rare, expected maybe once every 250 years, Tressler said times are changing with the climate.
“Those reoccurrence intervals change,” Tressler said. “As the volume of data that we have increases, they may adjust.”
Tressler said he has observed storms getting “flashier,” with a lot of rain over a small period of time.
Three inches of rain in 45 minutes may no longer be as rare as it has been historically. According to Haden, rain gauges in the Spruce Wash Watershed registered rainfall of that volume during last summer’s flooding.
“We're at the mercy of Mother Nature, and how much water is going to fall from the sky and hit this watershed,” Tressler said. “And while [the mitigation] is pretty significant and we're going be able to do some good things, we're not removing all of the flood threat.”
The hope is that all the mitigation work — the alluvial fans, the sediment basins — will control flooding and buy time and for the watershed to heal itself. Construction is on course for “significant completion” by July 1.
But for a full recovery of the burned watershed, “we just don’t know,” Tressler said. “The longer we can go with just moderate and light rains, to help vegetation grow, to help us get back, the better.”
Most likely, it’s going to remain “an altered watershed in our lifetime,” Tressler said.
The work within Spruce Wash Watershed is just one of many areas subjected to flood mitigation efforts following the 2021 flooding. At Killip Elementary School, flood water retention basins are currently under construction and on track for completion by July 1. Channel improvements and a new inlet structure between Cedar and Dortha avenues are also under construction and on track for completion before the monsoon season.
Upstream of the Linda Vista crossing, sediment basins are planned but currently delayed and likely to break ground in fall 2022.
Community taking action
The City of Flagstaff is hosting a volunteer cleanup day in areas downstream of the Museum Fire burn scar on Saturday, May 21. Volunteers will be assisting with clearing debris and litter from public infrastructure around Ponderosa Park and the Grandview Homes neighborhood.
Volunteers should meet at the Coconino County Health and Human Services building, located at 2625 N. King St. Shifts will be from 8 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. Volunteers are encouraged to wear sturdy shoes, pants, and sun protection, and bring a refillable water bottle and work gloves if available. Food will be provided. Volunteers should register online in advance at https://loom.ly/kYtSY4k.
For more information on Museum Fire flood mitigation efforts within the City of Flagstaff, visit www.museumfloodprojects.com. For information on flood mitigation projects within Coconino County, visit www.coconino.az.gov/2133/Museum-Fire-Flood-Area.
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Initial results from Coconino County’s May 17 special election show Proposition 438 is almost certain to pass.
If passed, the measure would reset the primary property tax rate for Coconino Community College, raising it to 0.7419 cents per $100 of limited property value. The current rate is 0.4394.
As of Wednesday morning, the county reported 11,200 votes in favor of the proposition and 6,536 against. All but eight precincts had reported their election day votes, and none had completed reporting.
The majority of votes were cast through early voting (16,794 compared to 951 on election day), with a 19.12% voter turnout.
More about Proposition 438 can be found at coconino.edu/prop-438. Information about elections in Coconino County is available at coconino.az.gov/195/Elections.
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Flagstaff High School senior Mayrin Soto is continuing a family legacy as she signed to play soccer at Webster University in the fall. She signed her letter of intent on Tuesday at Flagstaff High School.
Soto’s two older brothers, also soccer players in their days with the Eagles, attend the school in Webster Groves, Missouri. She felt the fact that her family found a home there, and that there was a spot on the team for her, made the selection an easy choice.
“When I visited the school they were very welcoming. The coach -- just the way he talked to me -- was really interested in having me there. And their program is very good,” Soto said.
Soto, an accomplished high school player and major piece of the Eagles’ 2020 state championship team, had a difficult time traversing through her varsity years, though.
She was named to the 4A All-Conference First Team as a sophomore, making significant plays during the state title run. Shortly after, she tore her ACL, rehabbing during the time many players start to pick up interest from colleges. She had always told her parents, even when she was little, that she wanted to play at the collegiate level.
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Holly Jones, formerly the head coach at Flagstaff and a longtime club coach for Soto, said she could see potential in Soto immediately. She said so to her parents before Soto even got to middle school.
“I remember telling them, ‘You know she’s going to be the best player in the family, right?’ and she’s definitely lived up to that,” Jones said.
But Soto’s high school career hit a snag with the knee injury. She missed the majority of her junior year, both with her club and high school teams. Even in her senior season, which saw the Eagles have an undefeated regular season and reach the state tournament quarterfinals, she was limited.
“I thought I wasn’t going to make it," Soto said. "I took a year and a half to get back, and I wouldn’t play many minutes or anything. I was scared that I wasn’t going to play. But I reached out to coaches and they said they were interested. And when I got back to club I played more, and I showed what I could do.”
She added: “I used to be a starter playing every game, and that changed. And I understand it; I got hurt and I had to make my way back. It was hard.”
But, signing at the ceremony in front of family and Flagstaff teammates, her dream of playing at the next level was realized.
Soto’s perseverance, along with her natural ability, stood out to her Flagstaff coaches.
“To say I’m proud of Mayrin is an understatement,” assistant coach Chris Barquin said. “Mayrin’s last play her sophomore season before getting hurt was a PK to win the state championship. To go from that to losing your junior year to fighting back was inspiring.”
“You experienced a major injury, one that’s unfortunately super common in soccer, but one that I’ve watched diminish plenty of athletes’ careers,” head coach Savannah Berry added during her speech at the signing ceremony. “It really didn’t define you. Your attitude has not changed.”
Now healed, Soto said she is soaking in her last few days at Flagstaff High School. She received training routines from the coaching staff at Webster so that she will be ready come the fall.
“I’m going to try to enjoy my last summer here and work out,” she said. “It’s humid up there, so I just have to keep working to get in shape.”
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The Lincoln Police Department is investigating what it is calling a homicide after a 57-year-old man died in a fight early Thursday morning in central Lincoln.
Officers responded to the 2800 block of F Street at about 6:30 a.m. Thursday on a report of two men fighting, according to a news release. When they got there, they found a 57-year-old man who was unresponsive. Officers attempted life-saving measures and the victim was transported to a local hospital, where he later died.
Police did not provide further details about the incident, which remains under investigation, and did not indicate whether any arrests had been made as of Thursday morning.
The death is being investigated as Lincoln's first homicide of the year.
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The girl told police she met the 19-year-old through social media and invited the man to her house after he posted and said he wanted to play video games with someone, police said in court filings.
"Despite legal protections, Nieveen, who suffers from mental illness, will lose her home of nearly 50 years based on today's ruling," Sandra Nieveen's attorney said.
"I want to be clear — there is no active threat at Southwest High School today," Principal John Matzen said in an email to parents after Lincoln Police investigated "disturbing comments and photos mentioning violence at Southwest."
Jury Commissioner Troy Hawk said they've always had people here or there not show up. But in the past three to six months more people have been ignoring the summons they're required by law to fill out.
The woman was smoking near 41st Street and Baldwin Avenue around 1 a.m. Monday when she told the man she didn't have any cigarettes left to spare, according to police.
Isaac A. Sanchez was charged with third-degree sexual assault of a child and felony child abuse for his alleged role in the incident, which occurred at a central Lincoln apartment April 29, police said.
Officers responded to the area of 56th and Fremont streets at around 8:45 p.m. Friday and found the victims, a 29-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman, according to police.
"We got justice for Ali, and we are really happy," Ali Al-Burkat's aunt, Dunia Al-Musa, said outside the courtroom after Majdal Elias was sentenced Wednesday.
Banks, a Lincoln High School and UNL graduate, officially took his seat in the captain's office on Monday, 15 years after first joining Lincoln's police department.
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CABOT, Ark. — The Cabot Police Department is asking for the public's help in searching for 14-year-old Semaj O'Neal.
He was last seen on Friday, May 13, leaving his home on Lassiter Lane in Cabot.
O'Neal was last seen wearing a light-colored shirt with a logo print on the front and long pants. He left the home carrying what appeared to be a plastic bag, containing clothes.
He is said to be around 6 feet tall and weigh 125-130 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
If anyone has any information on O'Neal's whereabouts, please call the Cabot Police Department at 501-843-6526.
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COTTER, Ark. — The Cotter Police Department has activated a Silver Alert in hopes to find Donald Dean Short.
Short is 88 years old and was last seen Monday around 10 p.m. on North Section Line Road in Cotter, Ark. near Cotter Crossing Apartments.
He is over 6 feet tall and weighs 225 pounds. He has short, white hair with blue eyes. Short was also last seen wearing gray jogging pants.
Police say he may be traveling in a 2001 Red Nissan XTerra SUV, with an Arkansas license plate 853WPF.
If anyone has any information, please contact the Cotter Police Department at (870) 425-2361.
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RIVERVIEW, Fla. — Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said it appears a man shot and killed his wife and stepdaughter before turning the gun on himself Wednesday morning at a Riverview home.
Deputies were first alerted when 64-year-old Thomas Schultz called 911 around 6:17 a.m. to say he was in an "impossible situation with no way out," the sheriff explained during an afternoon news conference.
Schultz went on to tell the dispatcher that he was planning to shoot himself, according to Chronister.
When deputies arrived at the home on Graham Yarden Drive, they say they found Schultz dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. After entering the house, deputies say they found Shultz's wife, who was in her 80s, dead. Chronister said the sheriff's office believes she was shot in her sleep.
Deputies then found Schultz's stepdaughter, who was in her 50s, shot and killed in her hospital bed where she was laying with a feeding tube, the sheriff explained.
The family reportedly told the sheriff's office that both the women were suffering from terminal illnesses.
“With May being Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re reminding everyone that there is no such thing as an impossible situation with no way out. There is always hope, there is always help," Chronister said.
While the case is still under investigation, the sheriff said there were no previous calls for service at the family's home or anything "out of the ordinary that would be a red flag to us."
“It’s OK not be OK. It’s just not OK not to ask for help," he said.
Anyone experiencing a mental health crisis is urged to reach out for help. You can contact the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay at 211 or call 911. The National Domestic Violence Hotline can be reached 24/7 at 800-799-7233. Anyone experiencing a mental health crisis can contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
You can watch the full news conference below.
Correction: A previous version of this article misspelled Schultz's name.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Firefighters in Birmingham worked to extinguish a house fire on Warrior Road Thursday morning.
According to Birmingham Fire, crews arrived on scene to find the home engulfed in flames. No one was injured in the fire and the cause remains under investigation.
Fire crews are still working to put out hot spots as of 7:30 a.m.
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7-hour wait times: Hasbro Children's Hospital facing 'perfect storm' in emergency room
PROVIDENCE — Those taking their children to the state's only pediatric emergency department can expect wait times of up to seven hours, depending on the patient's condition.
On Thursday, Hasbro Children's Hospital announced that its emergency wing has become overloaded, bogged down by a variety of crises from COVID-19 to influenza to mental health issues including anxiety and depression. At the time, 12 out of 42 patients in the emergency department had not yet been admitted.
It's been exacerbated by a staffing shortage, meaning kids with nonurgent needs are being asked to remain in the waiting room for lengthy periods.
By the standards of the National Emergency Department Overcrowding Score, which is used to rate overcrowding in emergency units, the department is often scoring 200, the maximum number, which indicates "disaster."
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Frank Overly, who serves as the department's medical director, told reporters that due to burnout and COVID-19 infections among staff, there have at times been staff shortages of about 25%, which employees attempt to abate by working overtime.
However, he noted that "it’s hard to put a percent on it because it actually changes day to day with the combination of people suddenly calling out."
Overly said overcrowding has been on ongoing issue for two months, though diverting patients is not on the table.
"We're really not in the business of diverting," Overly said. "I think we're better trying to make sure we get the appropriate patients walking through the door."
To ease crowding, parents are being asked to consult their child's doctor to see if an emergency room visit is necessary. Hasbro is also calling on primary care providers in the area to consider extending their hours.
Reflecting on the burnout staff have faced, Overly choked up.
"It's been a tough couple years," Overly said. "But people are stepping up and they're doing the best they can."
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