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PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — Law enforcement agencies in Paulding County took to social media on Saturday to dispel a rumor of a serial killer in the area.
The Paulding County Sheriff's Office highlighted a post that had evidently been posted to a popular area marketplace page, stating there was a "serial killer or abductor who is currently hunting in Paulding."
The post claimed that someone would hit cars with women alone in them and then, once they pulled over, abduct them - adding that there had allegedly been "multiple disappearances."
"Have you seen this Facebook post on a local Paulding County yard sale page? If so, please stop sharing this information as we do not have anything to substantiate its truth," the Paulding County Sheriff's Office posted.
That post was also endorsed by the Dallas Police Department, which wrote: "Please read this information post from the Paulding County Sheriff's Office."
The sheriff's office added: "Please always rely on the Paulding County Sheriff’s Office for your source of reliable and true information about things occurring in Paulding County. #FakeNews #PauldingSheriff #PleaseVerifyBeforeYouShare." | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/paulding-county-law-enforcement-dispel-serial-killer-rumor/85-6aac8bb5-b9af-4104-a9f7-1bff79667eb2 | 2022-08-13T19:07:27 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/paulding-county-law-enforcement-dispel-serial-killer-rumor/85-6aac8bb5-b9af-4104-a9f7-1bff79667eb2 |
Blake Wamb and Katarsha White, Elvis Presley Birthplace staff, unveil a bench dedicated to Sam Bell, a childhood friend of Elvis, during the Elvis Fan Appreciation Day on Saturday morning in Tupelo.
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TUPELO • The Elvis Presley Birthplace unveiled a bench in memory of Sam Bell, a childhood friend of Elvis, during the museum's annual Fan Appreciation Day on Saturday morning.
"We are slowly losing those who grew up knowing and playing with Elvis, the boy," Roy Turner, executive director of the Birthplace, said.
Bell died September 6, 2021, at 85 years old.
Turner recalled some of the times Bell and Presley, whom Bell referred to as "EP," shared.
Growing up in the era of segregation, the two shared a unique bond.
The boys crossed barriers sharing meals together, spending the night and one another's house and going to the movie theater to see Westerns together, Turner said.
"Once inside, although they had to enter through separate entrances, Elvis would hop over and sit in the section designated as 'colored' with Sam," Turner said. "And Sam said 'Nobody ever bothered us.'"
Recollections of Bell's childhood with Elvis are included in the Birthplace's story wall along the side of the building.
"Today, we dedicate this bench to the memory of Sam Bell," Turner said, as staff lifted a covering to unveil the bench, which sits outside between between the museum entrance and the fountain.
Its inscription reads: "Sam Bell, Childhood Friend of Elvis."
Prior to his death, Bell spent hours talking with Baz Luhrmann, writer and director of the new "Elvis" film, about his relationship with future King of Rock and Roll and what it was like for the boys growing up.
Much of what Bell told Luhrmann ended up being used in the film, Luhrmann told the Daily Journal.
Bell's memory continues to live on at the Birthplace and on the big screen, alongside his childhood friend.
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INGLESIDE, Texas — "Anthony Templet shot his father and never denied it. But why he did is a complex question with profound implications that go far beyond one family."
That is how Netflix describes one of their newest true crime docuseries called "I Just Killed My Dad." It explores why a 17-year-old would be driven to kill their father, and immediately confess to it.
Anthony's mother, Teresa Thompson, lives in Ingleside and the small South Texas town was heavily featured in the series.
Here is what the series is about:
It was Monday, June 3, 2019 when Anthony, then 17, shot and killed his father Burt Templet at their home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Anthony called 911 and immediately confessed to the shooting when he told the dispatcher, "I just killed my dad." He was then taken into custody and interviewed by police.
The police interview, featured in the series, is chilling. Anthony calmly states that he and his father did not get along and he shot him during an argument. He told police his father physically attacked him, but investigators said Anthony showed no signs of having been attacked.
"The scariest thing about Anthony is he is just kind of like a blank slate," the district attorney who worked his case said in the trailer. "I don't know if he has empathy."
But when Anthony is jailed, a curious acquaintance who worked with Anthony begins to realize that there are more questions raised than answers after his arrest. Where is his mom? Why did he not seem to be educated in any way? Why was he so withdrawn? And the biggest question of all... why would he kill his dad?
These questions led the acquaintance to a DNA expert who was able to track down Anthony's mother in Ingleside, Texas. She had apparently been searching for Anthony since he was taken from her Ingleside home by Burt when Anthony was just 5-years-old, she claimed. She even made missing person posters.
She did not know where Anthony was for 11 years, she said, and was desperately trying to find him.
The series, which is only three episodes, follows Anthony's legal battles and asks the question, was this shooting justified? Was Anthony kidnapped and abused by his father for years and kept from his biological family?
You can watch the trailer in full below and the full series on Netflix now. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/netflix-docuseries-i-just-killed-my-dad-focuses-on-ingleside-child-custody-case/503-c2982579-93da-4a71-a890-0eba464f6654 | 2022-08-13T19:12:18 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/netflix-docuseries-i-just-killed-my-dad-focuses-on-ingleside-child-custody-case/503-c2982579-93da-4a71-a890-0eba464f6654 |
When she thinks about her job running the Camden public school system, state-appointed Superintendent Katrina McCombs quotes Scripture: "To whom much is given, much is required."
As a new school year is set to begin, McCombs is embarking on her second contract at the helm of the troubled South Jersey school district, and the veteran educator says she is up to continue the biggest challenge of her career: turning around the struggling district that's been under state control for nearly a decade.
"It's a humbling experience," said McCombs, 52, during an interview Thursday. "I'm just looking forward to what's ahead for the district."
McCombs signed a three-year agreement with the state last month to remain Camden's school chief through the 2024-25 school year. Her salary will be $224,726 the first year, with modest increments the remaining years, making her among the highest-paid superintendents in the tri-county area.
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"I think it's great for our district," said Minister Wasim Muhammad, president of the Camden Advisory School Board. "Now more than ever, it is extremely important for our district to retain stable leadership as we navigate the realities of a post-pandemic educational environment."
McCombs has spent her nearly 30-year career in the district, starting in the classroom as a kindergarten teacher before climbing to administrative positions as a vice principal and principal.
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She became superintendent in 2019, replacing Paymon Rouhanifard, who was brought in by Gov. Chris Christie to transform the failing district after a state takeover in 2013. She served in his administration as a deputy superintendent for four years.
During her tenure as superintendent, McCombs has led the district through a budget deficit crisis, made an unpopular decision to close three schools because of declining enrollment and ordered the shutdown of schools during the pandemic longer than any other district in the region.
"We were bleeding financially," McCombs recalled of her first year. "There were times we didn't even know if we would make payroll."
McCombs inherited a district that had been plagued for years by poor test scores, a low graduation rate and a high dropout rate. It is unclear when the state will relinquish its control over the school system.
"I knew it would not be a cakewalk," McCombs said. "There have been many challenges along the way."
McCombs said the district has improved in the five areas evaluated by the state to determine when local governance will resume: instruction, programs, finances, governance and personnel. The district received an 80% score in the personnel category, the minimum needed, she said.
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"We still have a long way to go," McCombs said. "I do see light at the end of the tunnel."
There have been other improvements since the takeover. The graduation rate increased from 49% just prior to the state intervention to 70% for the 2019-20 school year — before the pandemic upended education. This year, the district also had its first clean unmodified audit since 2015, McCombs said.
Some critics, however, say McCombs, like her predecessor, has focused too much on the city's Renaissance and charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently run. Thousands of students have fled the traditional public schools, and the 21% dropout rate is among the highest in the state.
For the 2021-22 school year, the district enrolled 6,171 students in the city's traditional public schools, 4,048 in charter schools and 6,237 in Renaissance schools.
Camden Education Association President Keith Benson said he wants to stem the exodus from traditional public schools. He wants the district to keep its remaining schools open and beef up career and technical offerings so city students aren't forced to go elsewhere.
"My concerns always stay the same: protecting our schools and growing them," said Benson. "I'm trying to be hopeful. Hopefully, time will tell."
After focusing on the district's finances in the first years of her tenure, McCombs said she now plans to prioritize luring back some of the families that left the traditional public schools. She hopes to increase overall district public school enrollment by 6.6% and has set benchmarks for every school.
The district also hopes to reengage thousands of Camden students who were chronically absent during the pandemic, either not showing up at buildings or failing to log in for remote learning, McCombs said. Chronic absenteeism, which is defined as missing 10 or more school days, jumped to 57% during the 2020-21 school year, according to the annual New Jersey School Performance Report.
The district held enrollment fairs with games, food, and prizes last week to encourage students, especially high schoolers, to return "with no judgment," McCombs said. The fairs were only for district schools.
As the district looks to the new school year starting Sept. 8, McCombs said the district still needs to fill about 45 teacher vacancies. A decision has not been made on whether a mask mandate and quarantine rules will continue in light of last week's new guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"The journey continues," she said. "I'm pumped up and ready to go." | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/camden-superintendent-gets-new-3-year-contract/article_3f286d8e-1b1a-11ed-bbee-17104dbdbf08.html | 2022-08-13T19:16:12 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/education/camden-superintendent-gets-new-3-year-contract/article_3f286d8e-1b1a-11ed-bbee-17104dbdbf08.html |
In 2019, birders spotted a dozen distinctive white ibises — marked by snowy bodies and bright orange bills and legs — at the rookery at the Ocean City Welcome Center.
The bird normally makes its home in Florida and the southeast, feeding in salt marsh shallows, probing the bottom with a sweep of its bill.
Seeing a few birds feeding out of their normal range isn't that unusual, but what happened next was: The white ibis spread along the shore and began nesting. Now, it's likely a permanent New Jersey resident numbering in the hundreds, some believe, because of climate change.
"It's really important to recognize what's going on and try to understand why," said Devin Griffiths, a birder and spokesperson for the Wetlands Institute in Middle Township. "Whenever you have an expansion like this, it doesn't happen in a vacuum. If a bird is expanding into a new territory, the first question is why?"
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Four nests were spotted in 2020, followed by up to 20 in 2021, raising at least 43 young birds.
"This year, it's more than doubled," said Griffiths, who wrote an article on the expansion for the Seven Mile Times, a Jersey Shore publication.
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Now, it's believed there are at least 350 of the birds in the salt marshes of New Jersey.
Griffiths said other species now common in the area settled after they expanded their range, such as cardinals and mockingbirds during the early and mid-20th century. Carolina wrens and glossy ibis followed, as did red-bellied woodpeckers.
But, he said, those migrations took decades. The white ibis has apparently expanded its territory into New Jersey within two or three years. A similar phenomenon occurred with the bird's expansion into Virginia.
Griffiths said it's difficult to know why the bird is expanding here. Loss of habitat in Florida, for example, could be pushing the bird to look elsewhere. But the belief is that climate change is a driving factor. The bird's habitat could be changing because of warming of the air and water in New Jersey.
"Birds are literally the canary in the coal mine," Griffiths said. "It means there is something strange going on, and there are broader implications. At the end of the day, anything that affects them, eventually affects us. We are not insulated."
According to the Audubon Guide to North American Birds, Florida's population of the white ibis has been declining for decades. The bird's range, meanwhile, has increased, spreading north up the Atlantic Coast. The guide lists southern Delaware as its northernmost range.
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Griffith said that while birders might greet the birds with delight, they could eventually be to the detriment of other smaller native species by pushing them to fringe areas, or pushing them out altogether.
The white ibis typically feeds on crayfish, crabs, frogs, snakes, small fish, insects and marine worms, many of which are in abundance along New Jersey's coast.
The birds migrate, but their range had not been this far north. Now, they start appearing in New Jersey in mid- to late April and are building nests by early May. They mate by the end of May or early June, then lay eggs shortly after that. The chicks start hatching in early July. By October, they head back south.
Though the Audubon guide does not currently include New Jersey as within the current migratory range, its climate change modeling suggests it would arrive sooner or later. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/why-has-this-exotic-bird-suddenly-made-its-home-at-the-shore-some-think-climate/article_c00d8a6a-1b1a-11ed-a052-fb73176ef850.html | 2022-08-13T19:16:19 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/why-has-this-exotic-bird-suddenly-made-its-home-at-the-shore-some-think-climate/article_c00d8a6a-1b1a-11ed-a052-fb73176ef850.html |
Alliance native, Pro Football Hall of Famer Len Dawson enters hospice care
KANSAS CITY, Mo. − Len Dawson, the 87-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback who led the Kansas City Chiefs to their first Super Bowl title, has entered hospice care in Kansas City.
KMBC-TV, the Kansas City station where Dawson began his broadcasting career in 1966, confirmed Dawson is in hospice care through his wife, Linda.
The MVP of the Chiefs’ 23-7 Super Bowl victory over Minnesota in January 1970, Dawson was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1987 and received the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award in 2012.
A native of Alliance and graduate of Alliance High School, Dawson starred at Purdue and was selected fifth overall by Pittsburgh in the 1957 NFL draft. After seeing limited time in the NFL in three seasons with the Steelers and two with Cleveland, he joined the Dallas Texans in the American Football League in 1962, reuniting with former Purdue assistant coach Hank Stram.
Dawson moved with the team to Kansas City the following season and remained the Chiefs' starting quarterback until retiring in 1975.
In addition to his work at KMBC where he was the station's first sports anchor, Dawson was a game analyst for NBC and the Chiefs' radio network and hosted HBO's “Inside the NFL” show. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2022/08/13/hall-of-famer-len-dawson-enters-hospice-care/65402728007/ | 2022-08-13T19:20:50 | 0 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/2022/08/13/hall-of-famer-len-dawson-enters-hospice-care/65402728007/ |
Massillon's Fun Fest brings free games, activities to families
MASSILLON – Music, crafts and games, oh my!
Hundreds of youngsters and their families headed to downtown Massillon Saturday for Fun Fest, an educational and entertainment event geared for children that offers free activities and giveaways. It is hosted by MCTV, Massillon Museum and Downtown Massillon Association.
More than 80 businesses, organizations and agencies ran tables with games such as basketball and cornhole and gave away coloring books, crafts, school supplies and more. Costume characters like SpongeBob SquarePants and Where's Waldo took pictures with children, and the Stark County Humane Society had a pen of puppies they could play with.
Fun Fest organizer Liz Gessner McAllister said a smaller version of Fun Fest was held in 2021, but this year's festivities were about double in size. The event was advertised throughout Stark County this year instead of only in Massillon, she said, so she didn't know what to expect in terms of turnout.
"I think people are really excited to be back," she said.
Gessner McAllister, who has organized the event for 25 years, said it's a great opportunity for children and families to get together and have fun for little to no cost. | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/massillon/2022/08/13/massillons-fun-fest-offers-games-crafts-for-families/65401512007/ | 2022-08-13T19:20:56 | 1 | https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/local/massillon/2022/08/13/massillons-fun-fest-offers-games-crafts-for-families/65401512007/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Condors, bald eagles and flamingos are among the birds temporarily moved out of view at the Oregon Zoo due to recent reports of wild birds infected with the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) or "bird flu" in Multnomah and Clackamas counties, according to zoo staff.
The bird flu has rapidly spread across the country in recent months and has currently infected wild birds in 44 states, including states in the Northwest.
"This basically means that most of the birds that were in exhibits, now are indoors in order to be protected from this virus that is circulating in the wild," said Dr. Carlos Sanchez, the zoo's head veterinarian.
The bird flu can be deadly for birds and the Oregon Zoo has taken measures to protect and prevent any possible contact with migrating waterfowl.
"Unfortunately, we had to move some of these birds indoors and people that are coming to see the flamingos or the bald eagles unfortunately won’t be able to see it," Sanchez continued. "But, we want to assure you that the birds are well taken care of. They have access to pools, and food and enrichment just like they are in their exhibit — they’re just not available for the public to see you at this point."
No cases of bird flu have been reported at the Oregon Zoo so far.
County and state fairs are also taking precautionary steps. The Clark County Fair follows recommendations from the state veterinarians — so you won't find live chickens on display. Oregon State Fair officials also report that they're cancelling their year's Poultry Show. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-zoo-fair-bird-flu-relocates/283-85ce0a36-f1d7-4119-9b26-8ef42ff3dc1d | 2022-08-13T19:24:14 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/oregon-zoo-fair-bird-flu-relocates/283-85ce0a36-f1d7-4119-9b26-8ef42ff3dc1d |
The 22-year-old woman who died last week in a shooting in Highland Springs was a rising senior at the College of William & Mary and a budding business owner, the university said Friday.
Zhykierra Guy was found fatally shot in an SUV not far from North Airport Drive in the early morning of Aug. 5. Ms. Guy lived in the area where she died, police said.
At William & Mary, Ms. Guy majored in government and minored in business. She planned a career in either law or business, said Ginger Ambler, the school's vice president for student affairs.
Last year, Ms. Guy started her own online retail hair business called "Lavish Hair Zesty Girls." She also loved to dance.
"She was dedicated to giving all her love to family and friends," said her mother, Lakisha Hamlett. "Her energy and soul touched many students there, and we are grateful as parents for the time she was given to us on earth."
Eric Kolenich writes about higher education, health systems and more for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He joined the newspaper in 2009 and spent 11 years in the Sports section.
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In June, the General Assembly allocated $100 million of the state budget toward seed funding for the establishment of lab schools, an alternative form of public K-12 education that's allowed greater autonomy and is funded through a separate budget.
The case, which had been watched nationally, tested the constitutionality of a "geofence" warrant that allowed Chesterfield County police to obtain Google location records of 19 cellphones near the bank at the time of the heist.
The overall number of people experiencing homelessness in the Richmond area has decreased since last summer, but more people are living on the street than ever before, according to the region's shelter and homeless services coordinator. | https://richmond.com/news/local/22-year-old-woman-shot-in-highland-springs-was-william-mary-senior-entrepreneur/article_fd37adfd-7913-51b1-8286-72cdb6f6b991.html | 2022-08-13T19:25:17 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/22-year-old-woman-shot-in-highland-springs-was-william-mary-senior-entrepreneur/article_fd37adfd-7913-51b1-8286-72cdb6f6b991.html |
One bicyclist was killed and another injured on Saturday morning in a crash involving an SUV at the intersection of Osborne Turnpike and Village Field Lane in eastern Henrico County.
Two bicyclists and a Ford Explorer were traveling south on Osborne Turnpike near the entrance to the Village At Osborne when the cyclists, both women, were struck by the SUV about 7:15 a.m., according to Henrico County Police.
One cyclist was transported to VCU Health with critical injuries. The second, identified as Carla Holland, 49, of Richmond, died at the scene. Both cyclists were wearing protective cycling equipment, police said.
The driver, Jeffrey Brooks, 18, of Richmond, remained on the scene. He was charged with driving under the influence and manslaughter. He is being held without bond.
In June, the General Assembly allocated $100 million of the state budget toward seed funding for the establishment of lab schools, an alternative form of public K-12 education that's allowed greater autonomy and is funded through a separate budget.
The case, which had been watched nationally, tested the constitutionality of a "geofence" warrant that allowed Chesterfield County police to obtain Google location records of 19 cellphones near the bank at the time of the heist.
The overall number of people experiencing homelessness in the Richmond area has decreased since last summer, but more people are living on the street than ever before, according to the region's shelter and homeless services coordinator. | https://richmond.com/news/local/cyclist-killed-in-henrico-crash/article_a2ebddef-5f09-5b90-8e07-acf21f5f1613.html | 2022-08-13T19:25:24 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/cyclist-killed-in-henrico-crash/article_a2ebddef-5f09-5b90-8e07-acf21f5f1613.html |
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – A 13-year-old student of Greenwood Lakes Middle School was arrested on campus Friday in a physical struggle between the teen and a school resource deputy, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.
In an arrest report, the deputy said he was notified by the school’s dean around 4:09 p.m. of an “uncontrollable” student she was attempting to supervise. He said the dean requested his help, at which point he tried to talk to the student who then “walked into” and bumped the deputy instead of responding verbally.
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After the deputy attempted to redirect the student away from him “with a slight push,” the student allegedly shoulder checked him, the report states. The deputy said he immediately grabbed the boy’s left wrist to spin him toward a wall in an effort to gain control before the teen pushed back to swing his free hand into the deputy’s chest.
According to the report, the deputy gave loud verbal commands for the student to stop, at which point the teen allegedly spun to face the deputy and “kneed (him) in the groin area.” The deputy then used an arm bar takedown to put the student on the ground, where the boy pushed and pulled “to defeat (the deputy’s) efforts to place him in handcuffs,” the report states.
The student, who News 6 will not identify, was cleared of injuries by Seminole County Fire Department personnel and was transported to a juvenile assessment center, the deputy said.
The 13-year-old faces charges of battery on an officer and resisting an officer without violence, the report states.
Breezi Erickson, Greenwood Lakes’ principal, notified students’ families via email of the teen’s arrest, sending out the following message:
It saddens me to report at the very end of the day we had a student make a verbal threat towards an adult. Administrators and staff responded to the situation. Unfortunately, that student continued to make poor choices with adults which led to resource officers arresting the student. Please encourage your students to follow our SOARing Behaviors each and every day!
Have a great weekend! As always, Let’s SOAR Eagles!
Breezi Erickson; Email provided to News 6 on Saturday, Aug. 13, by Seminole County Public Schools
No other details have been shared at the time of this report.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – On Saturday, kids had the chance to get ready for the school year at OJ Watson Park at the 4th annual Food and Back to School drive.
This event is put on by The Freeman Bail Bond Agency and Reverse Mindset. They offered school supplies, clothing, food, and end-of-summer fun.
“It’s not talked about how essential items like we are providing today can affect the kid’s mental health. You known mental health is talked about a lot more now, but not talked about for the kids. So like I said we just wanted to give the kids the resources they need so they can go to school and focus solely on education and they can have a great school year ahead,” said the Owner of The Freeman Bail Bond Agency, Frederick Freeman Jr..
Usually, this is held for the homeless with food and clothing, but this year they wanted to help kids get ready for the new year. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/4th-annual-food-and-back-to-school-drive/ | 2022-08-13T19:27:43 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/4th-annual-food-and-back-to-school-drive/ |
Canton police seek information on missing man's whereabouts
Canton — The Canton Police Department is seeking information on the whereabouts of a 21-year-old Canton resident who has been missing since Thursday.
Kameron Terry was last seen at 4 a.m. leaving his home on the 3900 block of Timberline Court, police said in a press release Saturday.
Police ask anyone who may have seen Terry or have information on his whereabouts to contact them at 1 (734) 394-5400. If anyone wants to report information anonymously they can call CrimeStoppers of Michigan at 1 (800) SPEAK-UP.
Terry weighs approximately 150 pounds and stands at 5 feet, eleven inches tall. He has brown eyes and black hair and was wearing a black sweatshirt and black sweatpants before going missing.
Terry's family members are concerned for his well-being, police said.
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@hmackayDN | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/13/missing-man-canton-police-seek-information-whereabouts/10318913002/ | 2022-08-13T19:45:32 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/13/missing-man-canton-police-seek-information-whereabouts/10318913002/ |
UPDATE — August 13 8:30 A.M:
According to USCG, the doctor’s boat has been towed in. It is unknown where the boat has been taken at this time.
UPDATE 4: Coast Guard Cutter Crocodile searched through the night. Station Fort Myers Beach and a HC-144 Sentry aircrew from Miami will begin today’s searches. pic.twitter.com/Gn2EK18UYu
— USCGSoutheast (@USCGSoutheast) August 13, 2022
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA – Search and rescue efforts for a missing Naples doctor continue in the Gulf of Mexico as U.S. Coast Guard crews expand their search into Friday.
According to USCG, the 33-foot “Vitamin Sea” vessel was found 26 nautical miles away from the shores of Naples and 12 miles off the coast of Sanibel area.
USCG officials said crews are keeping Dr. Chaundre Cross’s boat anchored where it was found while the investigation is on going.
The boat had no “obvious damage” and no one was found on board the boat.
Officials said this is currently a “search and rescue for person in water” and not a recovery.
USCG crews will be back out searching the Gulf into Friday night.
For more than two days, USCG crews have launched from Fort Myers Beach to search for 49-year-old Cross, saying finding someone in the water can be difficult.
“Looking for a person in the water is very difficult cause it’s almost like looking for a coconut in the water,” said Petty Officer First Class Ayla Hudson. “For searching in the water we do have models that take into account the tide and currents, weather and the direction of the wind.”
The Oncologist left Naples Bay Marina early Wednesday morning. According to law enforcement, his wife reported him missing when he never came back.
“The goal is to always have more than one asset in the water searching,” said Hudson speaking to the rescue operations. “So often it will be a boat station and a helicopter or plane. So you have a down low and up high look at things.”
Cross’s wife declined to comment on his disappearance while crews are still searching.
Cross works for Genesis Care as an oncologist in Naples. His office sent NBC 2 this statement:
“Our first priority is the safety and well-being of our employees and patients. We are concerned for the well-being and safety of Dr. Cross and are here to support all of our employees and to ensure the continuation of care for our patients.”
Deputies with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) are also assisting with the investigation.
USCG said anyone with information about Dr. Cross’ location can contact the Coast Guard Command Center at (727)824-7506 or contact the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 239-252-9300. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/13/coast-guard-continues-search-and-rescue-for-missing-naples-doctor/ | 2022-08-13T19:47:35 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/08/13/coast-guard-continues-search-and-rescue-for-missing-naples-doctor/ |
Note: District 6 includes Guilford County and part of Forsyth County; District 10 includes all of Yadkin, Surry, Stokes, Rockingham, Lincoln, most of Catawba and Iredell and part of Forsyth counties; District 13 includes all of Davie, Davidson, Rowan, Randolph, Alamance, Caswell, Person and parts of Chatham and Lee and a small section of Iredell counties. These boundaries will change with the new Congress after the 2022 election.
WASHINGTON — Here’s a look at how area members of Congress voted recently.
There were no key votes in the House this week.
U.S. Senate
Malta ambassador: The Senate has confirmed the nomination of Constance J. Milstein to be the U.S. ambassador to Malta. Milstein, an executive at Ogden CAP Properties, a New York City real estate company, was an aide to the Army secretary in the Obama administration. The vote on Aug. 6 was 57-34.
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Yeas: U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C.
Not voting: U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C.
Immigration and asylum claims: The Senate has rejected a motion to waive a point of order applied to an amendment to a tax and spending bill. The amendment would have required the Surgeon General to develop a plan for handling changes in immigration levels that would result from ending a suspension of asylum claims due to the federal government's declared COVID-19 emergency. The vote on Aug. 6 was 56-44 nays, with a three-fifths majority required for approval.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Taxpayer audits: The Senate has rejected an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would have barred the Internal Revenue Service from using the bill's increase in agency funding to audit taxpayers with annual taxable incomes below $400,000. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding no vote.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Drug prices: The Senate has rejected an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would have excluded certain Medicare Part D prescription drugs and breakthrough therapy drugs from the bill's drug pricing provisions. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding no vote.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Energy project permits: The Senate has rejected a motion to waive a budgetary point of order against an amendment to a tax and spending bill. The amendment would have streamlined permitting for infrastructure and energy projects such as natural gas pipelines. The vote on Aug. 7 was 49-50.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Offshore oil and natural gas production: The Senate has rejected an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would have required the Interior Department to hold at least 10 sales of leases, over the next five years, to produce oil and natural gas in offshore waters that are part of the Outer Continental Shelf. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding no vote.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Expanded IRS: The Senate has rejected an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would have removed the bill's increase in funding for the Internal Revenue Service. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding no vote.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Insulin subsidies: The Senate has rejected an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would have reinstated a federal government rule, repealed by the Biden administration, to authorize health centers funded by the government to provide deeply discounted supplies of insulin and epinephrine to patients at the centers. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50 nays, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding no vote.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Border security: The Senate has rejected an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would have provided $500 million for building pedestrian fencing and barriers on the border with Mexico. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding no vote.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Small business taxes: The Senate has passed an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would exempt aggregations of businesses that are owned by a single entity from the bill's minimum corporate book tax, and extend by one year a cap on the allowable state and local tax deduction for federal income tax payers. The vote on Aug. 7 was 57-43.
Yeas: Burr, Tillis
Business taxes: The Senate has passed an amendment to a tax and spending bill that would strike the one-year extension of a cap on the allowable state and local tax deduction for federal income tax payers and replace it with a two-year extension of the cap on excess business losses. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding yes vote.
Nays: Burr, Tillis
Tax, spending programs: The Senate has passed a tax and spending bill. The bill's spending measures include changes to Medicare prescription drug programs and various subsidies for non-fossil fuel sources of energy and energy efficiency programs, while its tax policy changes include a 15% alternative minimum tax on large companies and about $80 billion of increased funding for the Internal Revenue Service. The vote on Aug. 7 was 50-50, with Vice President Harris casting the deciding yes vote.
Nays: Burr, Tillis | https://greensboro.com/news/local/how-the-local-n-c-delegation-to-congress-voted-recently/article_50ae993e-1a61-11ed-95a6-8326a7254d43.html | 2022-08-13T19:55:22 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/how-the-local-n-c-delegation-to-congress-voted-recently/article_50ae993e-1a61-11ed-95a6-8326a7254d43.html |
Missing 6-year-old boy from Phoenix found in Las Vegas
A missing 6-year-old Phoenix boy is being reunited with family after having been found Saturday in Las Vegas.
The boy, Gerardo Barrera, was located by Las Vegas-area police when the 2020 white Chevrolet Avalanche he was suspected to have been taken in was seen at a fast food restaurant early Saturday morning after going missing Friday, according to Phoenix police.
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Gerardo was thought to be with his uncle, and the two were found safe inside the restaurant, according to police.
As of Saturday morning, Gerardo was in custody of Nevada Child Protective Services awaiting a reunion with family, according to Phoenix Police Sgt. Philip Krynsky.
Gerardo had gone missing from a residential area in south Phoenix and the Avalanche had been tracked down near Las Vegas, police had previously said.
"At this time, there is not a reason to believe the child is in danger, however there is a concern for his welfare," read a Friday evening statement from Phoenix PD.
Police did not immediately respond to whether the uncle, who has not been identified, faced any charges. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2022/08/13/missing-6-year-old-phoenix-boy-found-las-vegas/10318059002/ | 2022-08-13T19:59:34 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2022/08/13/missing-6-year-old-phoenix-boy-found-las-vegas/10318059002/ |
CHARLES CITY — A Charles City man has been arrested following his involvement in a deadly crash late last month.
Police say Timothy James Hoy, 58, was intoxicated on July 25 when he drove his 2013 Nissan Altima across the center line near the intersection of Yarrow Avenue and 265th Street in rural Cerro Gordo County, striking a vehicle driven by 41-year-old Stephen John Miles of Mason City.
Miles was killed in the crash, and two others were injured. Authorities at the scene obtained a warrant for Hoy's blood alcohol level.
The Cerro Gordo County Sheriff's office issued a warrant for Hoy's arrest on Thursday, and he was subsequently charged with vehicular homicide.
A preliminary court hearing for Hoy is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. Aug. 31, according to court documents. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/charles-city-mab-faces-vehicular-homicide-charges/article_036628c3-fdb8-5b21-9bce-f4856c4695a7.html | 2022-08-13T20:22:00 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/charles-city-mab-faces-vehicular-homicide-charges/article_036628c3-fdb8-5b21-9bce-f4856c4695a7.html |
MERRILLVILLE — A Friday night shooting on Harrison Street left one wounded, police said.
Officers were sent to Harrison Street between 70th Avenue and 70th Place to investigate a report of shots fired, according to an email sent by Merrillville police Detective Cpl. Sean Buck.
"Upon arrival, it was determined that one person had been shot and was subsequently transported for medical evaluation and care at a local hospital," Buck said.
Buck declined to provide the age and gender of the wounded individual.
"This is believed to be an isolated incident," he said in the email.
Buck asked anyone with information about the shooting to call him at 219-769-3733, ext. 348.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Samuel Hill
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206626
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Armaun McKenzie
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206525
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
John Ciserella
Age : 34
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206650
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyon McNeil
Age : 47
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206687
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dale Rollins
Age : 61
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206707
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Andre Ruff
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206664
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Nicholas Aubuchon
Age : 26
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206592
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Colin Westbrooks
Age : 32
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206624
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gregory Swiontek II
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206590
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mitchell Pritchard
Age : 42
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206747
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dakar Brown
Age : 19
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206741
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Louise Dagnillo
Age : 59
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206669
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Fandl
Age : 33
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206539
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATING A VEHICLE AFTER DRIVING PRIVILEGES ARE SUSPENDED
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alijah Williams
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206562
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Maurishia Brown
Age : 28
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206521
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leroy Blackwell
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206619
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: CHILD MOLESTATION - STATUTORY RAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devon Dunbar
Age : 22
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206714
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - USING A DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Fair
Age : 57
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206657
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Allen Pick II
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206673
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Javyon George-Boatman
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206595
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: SEXUAL MISCONDUCT WITH MINOR/FONDLING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Hollis
Age : 46
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206713
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Nichols II
Age : 38
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206545
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE IV
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brooke Elrod
Age : 29
Residence: N/A
Booking Number(s): 2206654
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Angelos Lujano
Age : 21
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206731
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION - STALKING VIOLATIONS; RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT; ROBBERY; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Renee Rodriguez
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206556
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Laron Hudson
Age : 34
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206608
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Gawlinski
Age : 53
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206512
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devante Winters
Age : 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206614
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Frederic Dellenbach
Age : 64
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206686
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amador Santos
Age : 49
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206696
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jose Rios
Age : 37
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206752
Arrest Date: Aug. 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jerry Boyd
Age : 23
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206570
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Lilia Hernandez-Cervantes Beltran
Age : 33
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206695
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Anthony Freeman
Age : 47
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206710
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Duane Jackson
Age : 53
Residence: Wheatfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206698
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: HABITUAL TRAFFIC VIOLATOR - LIFETIME
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenyata Williams
Age : 32
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206247
Arrest Date: July 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Aguilar-Tapia
Age : 26
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206573
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michal Skrzyniarz
Age : 37
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206685
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Aaron Collins
Age : 28
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206629
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Francesca Brown
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206746
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Steven Galecki
Age : 52
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206653
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Russell III
Age : 21
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206661
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; POSSESSION - COUNTERFEITED SUBSTANCES
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Raynold Gore
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206551
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ivan Torres
Age : 35
Residence: South Holland, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206723
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Genardo Diaz
Age : 35
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206667
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POSSESSION - STOLEN PROPERTY; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Christopher Swan
Age : 48
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206697
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brandt Guzman
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206706
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON; CONFINEMENT; CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Charles Roy Sr.
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206563
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Denise Johnson
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206582
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 32
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206625
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Juan Gutierrez Delgado
Age : 30
Residence: Greenfield, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206655
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Austin Click
Age : 23
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206568
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Otis Marshall
Age : 34
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Booking Number(s): 2206745
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Kirincic
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206630
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Deidra Merritt
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206726
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Melissa Carraway
Age : 37
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206724
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Guzman
Age : 26
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206538
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Lakeisha Walker
Age : 32
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206754
Arrest Date: Aug. 3, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tony Vitaniemi Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206712
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: COMMON NUISANCE - MAINTAINING - LEGEND DRUGS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Alexander
Age : 37
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206577
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jack Fiorio
Age : 19
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206670
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Edgar Murphy Jr.
Age : 63
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206579
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darlene King
Age : 49
Residence: Country Club Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206704
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY; COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Leonard Johnson
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206578
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - USING A DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gloria Blue
Age : 51
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206709
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Featherston
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206609
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POCKET-PICKING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dana Stevens
Age : 41
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206507
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Mark Coleman
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206569
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/PERMANENT INJURY OR DISFIGUREMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Andres
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206662
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Veela Morris
Age : 52
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206611
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Famous McKenny
Age : 45
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206647
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Emmett Williams Jr.
Age : 46
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206739
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Safa Alrub
Age : 36
Residence: Orland Park, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206564
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Darrick Royal
Age : 47
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206601
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - OBTAINING PROPERTY - BY CREDIT CARD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Demarco Gillis
Age : 25
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206622
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Goodpaster Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206721
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jourdan Castellanos
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206529
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Junice Stewart
Age : 64
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206516
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jonathan Igras
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206543
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Ulysses Perry
Age : 41
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206627
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cedric Higdon Jr.
Age : 25
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206692
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Cruz-Lopez
Age : 31
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206580
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luis Rangel Sanchez
Age : 28
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206693
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rodney Youngblood
Age : 32
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206742
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Badovinac
Age : 26
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206640
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kamari Stephens
Age : 29
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206591
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Stoddard
Age : 38
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206523
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - DECEPTION - IDENTITY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gerald Bogard
Age : 47
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206555
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Johnny Peluyera
Age : 41
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206524
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS (AGGRESSIVE DRIVING/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY)
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Hailee Newell
Age : 29
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206588
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Donald Collins Jr.
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206520
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Porter Jr.
Age : 39
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206638
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Idubis Nash
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206743
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tywoun Nixon
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206530
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tyrone Dabney
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206576
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - W/PRIOR CONVICTION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vernell Hemphill Jr.
Age : 19
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206631
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Marta Rodriguez
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206711
Arrest Date: Aug. 1, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Rodriguez
Age : 75
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206641
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Wardell Sanders
Age : 20
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206651
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
William Lipsey
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206535
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carl Hopkins Jr.
Age : 41
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206668
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sade Boyd
Age : 36
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206644
Arrest Date: July 30, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jacob Stewart
Age : 36
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206602
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Shaun Brame
Age : 51
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206561
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: SEX OFFENDER REGISTRATION VIOLATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kori Arguelles
Age : 26
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206603
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jimmie Lee
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206733
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ria Swelfer
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206617
Arrest Date: July 29, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jesse Duque
Age : 29
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206506
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rick Thang Ngo
Age : 26
Residence: Key Largo, FL
Booking Number(s): 2206722
Arrest Date: Aug. 2, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - COUNTERFEITING AND APPLICATION FRAUD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keith Price
Age : 51
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206552
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Leobardo Costilla
Age : 22
Residence: Shelby, IN
Booking Number(s): 2206674
Arrest Date: July 31, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- INVASION OF PRIVACY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Timothy Vasquez
Age : 25
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206528
Arrest Date: July 27, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leon Elliott Jr.
Age : 50
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2206575
Arrest Date: July 28, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joseph Hosey is the executive editor of The Times of Northwest Indiana.
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Whether you went to see animals, vendors, spend some time outdoors or just to tickle your taste buds with some fresh corn on the cob, crowds turned out Saturday for the 12th annual Sweet Corn Festival.
Jerry Smith Produce and Pumpkin Farm, 7150 18th St., is hosting the free event, which continues Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Andy and Gina Wiseman, of Indiana, came to the Kenosha area this weekend to visit their son and grandchildren, who accompanied them at the festival Saturday. Originally from Winthrop Harbor, Ill., Gina said they used to bring their own kids to Jerry Smith Farm around 30 years ago.
“It was much smaller then,” Gina Wiseman said.
Co-owner Joe Smith said he sees multiple generations come back to the festival and the farm every year. People who visited the farm when they were children now bring their own kids and grandchildren.
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“The best part is seeing grandparents bringing their grandbabies,” Smith said.
Nine artisan vendors set up booths and tents at the festival Saturday, along with four food trucks, in addition to produce and other goods straight from the farm, and two musicians.
Sarah Indlecoffer used to come up to the farm as a child, but she made the drive from Gurnee, Ill., this year as a vendor for the first time. Sarah and her mother, Kellie Indlecoffer, set up a booth for Sarah’s jewelry business, Rooted.
“We love coming here, obviously, for the pumpkins,” Sarah Indlecoffer said.
The Sweet Corn Festival is the second event she's has attended as a vendor selling her jewelry, she said.
“It’s fun to be a part of something,” Kellie Indlecoffer said.
Nearby at the featured corn tent, farm employees prepared and sold freshly-picked corn, with options for corn in a cup or on the cob, street style or plain. Noah Kraus, who has worked with the farm occasionally for about six years, said he likes meeting new people when he works the festival.
“We get a lot of interesting people out here, and a lot of interesting venues too,” Kraus said. “You got the deep fried (food), the horses, the goats ... they have a lot of stuff for people to do. So it's fun to be out here, just talking to people.”
Wagner, an employee of the farm for about nine years, said he likes being able to work with and serve good people at the festival.
“There’s just good people (here) all around,” Wagner said.
Michele Love, who recently moved to Kenosha and is originally from South Africa, said she didn’t know there was a festival today until she got to the farm.
“I came for the vegetables, so this was a nice surprise,” she said.
Love said she enjoyed getting to meet and feed the animals, which she hadn’t had an opportunity to do since she was a child.
“It’s nice to know that it’s not just for kids,” Love said.
Suzanne Warwick, who came to Kenosha to visit friends, said they found out about the Sweet Corn Festival and thought it would be a good family-friendly activity. Her children, ages 3 and 5, were having fun feeding and interacting with the sheep.
Ponies were also featured at the festival, brought by New Beginnings Ranch of Caledonia. Ranch employee Ashley Hubrick said they bring the rescued ponies to many festivals and fairs to give rides to kids and let people meet and pet them.
“I always tell parents, I feel like kids remember experiences more than they do carnival rides or games or stuff like that,” Hubrick said.
The four ponies at the festival Saturday were available for small children to ride on in a circle inside of a pen, and are typically a big attraction at the festivals they attend, Hubrick said.
The family-friendly Sweet Corn Festival and the farm itself is the “best kept secret east of the I,” co-owner Amy Smith said.
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Phoebe Family members celebrate as Jorge Torres, 36, is discharged after spending 206 days in the hospital – a longer stay than any other COVID patient at Phoebe.
ALBANY -- The Phoebe Family celebrated a patient’s amazing recovery from COVID on Thursday.
Jorge Torres, 36, was discharged after spending 206 days in the hospital – a longer stay than any other COVID patient at Phoebe. Torres had no history of medical problems when he was admitted with COVID in January. Nevertheless, he suffered critical illness from the virus and spent more than four months on a ventilator. In March, Phoebe’s critical care team even brought him back to life when his heart stopped.
“I am happy. I thank everyone who took care of me. The nurses who took care of me, who were in charge of my care – I thank you very much,” Torres said through a translator.
Dozens of Phoebe Family members gathered to celebrate his discharge Thursday, lining the hallways as Torres left his hospital room. Several of his nurses presented him with a framed picture of him with members of his care team, and an environmental services worker sang “Amazing Grace.”
“Mr. Torres’s will to survive and recover is a triumph of the human spirit," Phoebe Putney Health System President and CEO Scott Steiner said. "He became a beloved patient to the nurses and other team members who cared for him, and many of them describe his recovery as a miracle.
"We celebrate his incredible recovery, and we are grateful for the dedicated Phoebe Family members who continue to provide outstanding care to COVID patients 2 1/2 years into the pandemic.”
Members of Torres’s family were there for the celebration and will help him continue his recovery at home.
As Torres left Phoebe to continue his recovery, Phoebe officials announced an uptick of 28% in cases over the last week at the hospital system's facilities in Albany, Americus and Sylvester.
“While we do not think that increase is an indication that a major surge is imminent, it is more evidence that the pandemic is not over, and we must continue to take the threat of the virus seriously,” Health System Chief Medical Officer Dr. Dianna Grant said. “We know masks are no longer required at school, but we encourage parents to make sure their children wear masks as they return to class, and we hope parents will get their children vaccinated to help prevent COVID illness."
Vaccines are available for everyone six months of age and older. Vaccine appointments at Phoebe can be scheduled by calling (229) 312-MYMD.
Phoebe reported Friday that 30 COVID patients were being treated at its Albany facility, nine in Americus and two in Sylvester.
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After increasing rates in June, Pennsylvanians across the state are about to get hit with yet another double-digit hike as unprecedented heat waves and inflation push energy production costs higher for electricity suppliers nationwide.
According to the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC), the increases are set to take effect September 1, 2022.
If you're a PECO customer, for example, your "Price to Compare" charge is going up 11.4%.
For Penn Power customers, users will see an 19% increase in their Price to Compare charge, from 8.7 cents per kWh to 10.35 cents.
Customers of Penelec and Met-Ed, which serve parts of central, north and south Pennsylvania, can expect to pay around 18% more.
Here's the full list:
- Met-Ed: up from 7.936 cents to 9.397 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) (18.4%);
- PECO: up from 7.637 cents to 8.508 cents per kWh (11.4%);
- Penelec: up from 8.443 cents to 10.021 cents per kWh (18.7%);
- Penn Power: up from 8.694 cents to 10.348 cents per kWh (19%); and
- West Penn Power: up from 8.198 cents to 8.306 cents per kWh (1.3%).
There are several ways to conserve energy and shave a few bucks off your electric bill. One option consumers may want to explore is their utility’s voluntary Standard Offer Program.
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LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — On Friday, John (Jack) Davis, 72, of West Pittston, was arrested for aggravated indecent assault of a child less than 13 years of age.
Police made the arrest after a multi-jurisdictional investigation concerning the sexual abuse of a child that happened several years ago in Jackson Township and Hanover Township.
Authorities say the abuse took place on more than one occasion.
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PHOENIX — Even though football is his game, it looks like the diamondbacks are interested in J. J. Watt... The actual snakes, that is.
The football star took to Twitter asking locals for advice after finding a baby rattlesnake in his bathroom.
Responses ranged from a phone number for the Phoenix Herpetological Society to suggestions for Watt to request a trade.
Although it's true that rattlesnakes in the bathroom aren't a problem for the Green Bay Packers or the Houston Texans, we'd still hate to see Watt go.
There's a huge number of venomous creatures that call Arizona home just like us, including our rattlesnakes. If you find a rattlesnake in your home or yard, you can call 602-550-1090 to have it humanely removed.
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While it's not as extreme as the recent 'Donutgate' feud, it's always fun to hear about Watt's experience in our state since he signed on with the Cardinals in 2021.
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LINCOLN — The apartments above Deep Roots Bakery and Café in Lincoln are quiet as fall approaches. That is rare, as they normally have college students returning to town at this time.
Deep Roots owner Tim Boerma said the loss of Lincoln College has meant a loss of tenants, customers and workforce in downtown Lincoln.
“It’s definitely hurt our little downtown,” he said.
This fall will be the first in 157 years that Lincoln College students will not return to campus. The college closed May 13 at the end of its spring semester.
At the same time, the community is losing students from Lincoln Christian University, which is drastically changing how it operates, with plans to end most of its bachelor’s degree programs by winding them down over coming years.
The school is shifting its focus toward its seminary and graduate programs instead. Those are also changing, but less drastically than the undergraduate programs, of which only two will remain: a Bachelor of Arts in Bible and theology and a Bachelor of Arts in Christian ministry.
Last fall, LCU had 537 students, including 250 graduate and seminary students. That total was around half of what it was in 2012. Enrollment dropped further in the spring of 2022, President Silas McCormick has previously told The Pantagraph. He anticipates total enrollment going forward to be around 300 students, including around 50 undergraduates.
McCormick told the Christian Standard earlier this year that the school anticipates to keep about a third of its current staff level, ending with around 30 positions.
'It breaks my heart'
Lincoln College had about 565 full-time traditional students at its Lincoln campus when it closed in May. The closure was announced at the end of March and took much of the community by surprise.
“I think the majority of us were in shock, it kind of happened overnight,” Boerma said.
The college's Illinois WARN report, required for layoffs of a certain size, says 259 employees at the Lincoln campus and 36 employees at the Normal campus were affected.
“Shocked” was also the word used by Alice Roate, executive director of the Logan County Tourism Bureau.
“I think as a whole, the whole community felt that way,” she said.
Months have passed since the college broke the news, but feelings of shock and surprise remain among area business owners and community members. Many interviewed by The Pantagraph last week said they did not see the closure coming, and they felt there was a lack of transparency in the period leading up to the closure.
Barbara Lolling, one of Boerma’s customers Tuesday morning, was the comptroller at Lincoln College until she retired around 20 years ago. She has a brother who graduated from the college, and aunts who were students back around 1930.
“It just really breaks my heart,” she said. “(…) I don’t want to believe it.”
The closure led to an ultimately unsuccessful effort by alumni, students, employees and the community to find a wealthy donor to contribute enough to keep the school going.
Illinois State University's Board of Trustees is expected to vote Monday on a proposal to buy the location of Lincoln College's campus in Normal. No plans for the Lincoln campus have been announced, though the Lincoln Heritage Museum has so far remained open despite the closure.
Lincoln College's absence, and the dwindling down of Lincoln Christian University, will have a local economic impact due to the loss of students and any employees who are moving elsewhere for work.
“When you live in the community, you spend money here, visit coffee shops and restaurants,” Roate said.
Impact on tourism, diversity
The changing landscape of higher education in Lincoln means changes for the community as a whole, and some people will have a hard time with that, said Marcia Wells, the children’s minister at Lincoln Christian Church.
The church has close ties to LCU, so the changes there are more noticeable for the congregation than for others in town. Most of the church's student attendees were enrolled at LCU, Wells said.
She hopes the church can find ways to adapt to and even embrace the changes.
“At the same time, I think our call as Christians, for us as a faith community, is to push forward. Our faith calls us to do that,” she said.
Among the church members are employees from both LCU and Lincoln College, Wells said. She believes most have found other employment, but knows it has been a hard time for them and the community broadly.
"It's a time of grieving," she said.
The community is not just losing out on the people a college brings to town, but also events, like athletics and music events, Lolling said. She feels the loss of Lincoln College will have a “terrible” impact on the town; LCU also is ending its athletic programs.
Jason Hoffman, a local artist who was a wrestling coach at Lincoln College from 2005 to 2018, said he had gotten to know some of the music students at the college over the past few years through programs hosted at the Lincoln Arts Institute, which he owns with Marcia Cook.
"I feel like we started to form a bond not just with (music professor) Denise (LaGrassa), but the music students, too," he said.
Hoffman also taught at Lincoln College for a year before starting at Lincoln High School, where he taught through 2018. He is glad to see Eureka College has adopted Lincoln College's wrestling coach and team members.
Still, it might be some time before the full effect of the school's closure sinks in, he said.
"I don't think it's set in yet," Hoffman said. "(...) We'll see at the end of August."
Roate said it could take a full school year before the impact on local tourism is clear. Logan County has a steady stream of people coming through, she said, in part due to its location along Route 66. What might be missing are the families that would be in town for graduation and the people who are visiting for athletic events, Roate said.
She thinks the community will also notice the absence when hosting events or looking for volunteers. Lincoln College had clubs that would volunteer in town.
Lincoln College had been considered a Predominantly Black Institution since 2010. It brought in students from Chicago and other metro areas, as well as international students. The town of Lincoln itself is about 90% white, according to the Census Bureau, and Boerma and Hoffman both noted a loss of diversity for the town. Additionally, fewer than 20% of residents hold a bachelor's degree.
“No. 1 is the diversity, not only the student body, but the faculty as well,” Hoffman said.
Boerma had the same sense.
“I feel like our community as a whole lost a little bit of diversity,” he said.
Adapting to changes
Eileen Mullins owns and runs Sir Renna Tea, a tea and gift shop, with her sister. She has already noticed the lack of students in town, but said businesses will learn to roll with the changes.
Boerma said Deep Roots will feel it this fall when they would normally have students coming back to town, but he thinks things will level out in the long run.
Allison Carter, who operates as Allie Oop the Barber, said she lost about 10 student clients who are not returning to LCU. She had gotten to know a group of men from one of the residence halls who would all come over together.
“They’re all scattered to the wind now,” Carter said.
LCU students enrolled in majors that will no longer be offered will be able to complete their degrees at the school, but have been warned that they may find class sizes dwindling and may need to use online courses or independent studies after the 2022-23 school year. Students will be on campus at least through this coming year, but parts of it have been leased or bought as the school moves forward with the new model.
Still, there is some optimism in the community when it comes to LCU's revamp.
Wells, an LCU alumna herself, thinks the changes could bring new opportunities. Her church will continue to support students as needed, she said, including offering chances to serve.
“We’re excited about the possibilities for that future,” she said.
She is also encouraged by the fact that rather than closing, LCU is trying out a new model to address its financial difficulties.
Every fall, Lincoln Christian Church holds a meal for the students at Lincoln College, Lincoln Christian University, and the Heartland Community College campus in Lincoln. This year, despite all the changes for higher education in Lincoln, the event will still take place at noon Aug. 28. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-lincoln-sees-fewer-students-but-some-optimism-in-first-fall-without-lincoln-college/article_ed0df506-1988-11ed-93cc-abcaebca1d58.html | 2022-08-13T20:40:11 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/education/watch-now-lincoln-sees-fewer-students-but-some-optimism-in-first-fall-without-lincoln-college/article_ed0df506-1988-11ed-93cc-abcaebca1d58.html |
METAMORA — The last year Emily Cottone ran through the S’mores Mud Run at Metamora’s Camp Tapawingo, she lost a sock.
On Saturday, she and her friend Zoe McKittrick, both of Normal, returned to the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois’ third mud run with a new trick up their sleeves — or rather, their ankles.
The two Girl Scouts of Normal Troop 1386 had wrapped their shoes and ankles with duct tape. And it worked.
The pair of seventh-graders from Chiddix Junior High School arrived at the finish line, nearly covered head to toe in mud, still wearing their shoes.
The Pantagraph caught up with Cottone and McKittrick about halfway through the 5-kilometer, 14-obstacle course, which included several mud pits and piles, large drainage tubes, slippery balance beam logs, rope spider webs and a steep, boggy hill to climb. A new addition this year was the foam pit at the start.
The two girls were too tired to run the course by the halfway point. However, this year they had challenged themselves with running the adult course with their parents, which was about a mile longer than the junior one.
Zoe’s mother, Jennifer McKittrick, said they were having a great time raising money for the Girl Scouts, and “getting muddy.” She added Zoe’s brother and Cottone’s brother were there too and ran ahead of them on the course.
Dad John McKittrick followed the girls through the course with his wife, Jennifer. He said last year, their family’s goal was to get as muddy as possible.
A Pantagraph reporter who followed the Normal residents became partly mud-covered as well after falling down into a bog at the bottom of a hill.
Susan Knapp, manager of marketing and development for the Girl Scouts of Central Illinois, said their S’Mores Mud Run coincides with National S’Mores Day on Aug. 11. She said they modeled the event after a similar one that’s run in the Quad Cities.
Knapp said the event teaches Girl Scouts about team building, and it encompasses all of the things they build up for the girls. That ranges from building character to getting out into the great outdoors and going on adventures.
Both Cottone and McKittrick agreed they had bonded closer as friends from the experience.
Knapp reflected that they had the best weather yet this year, and attendees loved the course condition. She also said the turnout was good, with 306 attendees, and they’re going to try to hold a timed mud run next year to bring even more people out.
The mud pits were made possible with assistance from the Metamora Volunteer Fire Department, which trucked out water, according to Knapp.
Knapp noted that they open their event for the whole community. Courses were available for adults and families, including a separate “Li’L S’More” course for kiddos age 4 and under.
Germantown Hills mother Hillary Wasson said the course was awesome for her two kids, Sally and Daisy. The former tried the “Li’L S’More” course for her first time on Saturday.
“(Sally) was a little scared to do it last year, but this year she’s toughened up and given it a go,” Wasson said.
Wasson said they’re lucky to live close to Camp Tapawingo, and they look forward to the mud run every year.
“My 10-year-old (Daisy) was literally either smiling or laughing for an hour and a half out there,” Wasson said.
Check out this tour of Bloomington-Normal-area football fields
BLOOMINGTON HIGH SCHOOL: Fred Carlton Field
NORMAL COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL: NCHS Football Stadium
NORMAL WEST HIGH SCHOOL: Wildcat Stadium
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL Bill Hundman Memorial Field
UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: Hancock Stadium
PONTIAC HIGH SCHOOL: Williamson Field
PRAIRIE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL: Lewis Field, Fairbury
OLYMPIA HIGH SCHOOL: Olympia High Stadium, Stanford
TRI-VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: Viking Field, Downs
EL PASO-GRIDLEY HIGH SCHOOL: El Paso-Gridley Football Field, El Paso
HEYWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: Hornet Stadium
FIELDCREST HIGH SCHOOL: Veterans Park, Minonk
EUREKA HIGH SCHOOL: McCollum Field
DEER CREEK-MACKINAW HIGH SCHOOL: Jim McDonald Field, Mackinaw
LEROY HIGH SCHOOL: L.A. McKean Field
GCMS HIGH SCHOOL: GCMS Football Field, Gibson City
FLANAGAN-CORNELL HIGH SCHOOL: Flanagan-Cornell Football Field, Flanagan
TREMONT HIGH SCHOOL: William H. Poorbaugh Field
LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL: Handlin Field
DWIGHT HIGH SCHOOL: Oughton Athletic Field
RIDGEVIEW HIGH SCHOOL: Ridgeview High Football Field, Colfax
FISHER HIGH SCHOOL: Kellar Field
CLINTON HIGH SCHOOL: Sprague Field
BLUE RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL: Kenneth Rittenhouse Memorial Field, Farmer City
STREATOR HIGH SCHOOL: Streator High School Athletic Fields
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Brendan Denison is our breaking news reporter. Denison was a digital content producer for WCIA-TV in Champaign and a reporter for The Commercial-News in Danville. He can be reached at (309) 820-3238 and bdenison@pantagraph.com.
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From left, Zoe McKittrick and Emily Cottone, both aged 12 and of Normal, crawl through mud under log beams at the Girl Scouts S'Mores Mud Run on Saturday at Camp Tapawingo in Metamora.
Zoe McKittrick, left, and Emily Cottone, right, both aged 12 and of Normal, dash to the finish line after getting dirty during Girl Scouts S'Mores Mud Run.
Jennifer McKittrick, front left, traverses a log stump obstacle on Saturday at Camp Tapawingo in Metamora, followed by Katrina Metcalf, front right, of Taylorville. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/girl-scouts-get-messy-at-metamora-mud-run/article_7b994738-1b34-11ed-b2bd-cfa9041c2d41.html | 2022-08-13T20:40:17 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/girl-scouts-get-messy-at-metamora-mud-run/article_7b994738-1b34-11ed-b2bd-cfa9041c2d41.html |
VACAVILLE, Calif. — One man has died and another is in stable condition at a local hospital following a double shooting Friday afternoon, the Vacaville Police Department said.
Around 3:29 p.m. Friday, people who live in the 500 block of Markham Avenue in Vacaville began calling 911 reporting a shooting, police say. After arriving at the area near an apartment building, officers say they found two men who had been shot.
The two men were taken to area hospitals where one was later pronounced dead. The second victim is in stable condition, Vacaville officers say.
Officials have not released information on a potential suspect in the homicide or what led up to the deadly shooting Friday.
Those with information are asked to call detectives at 707-449-5206.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento Police Department is investigating a vehicle versus pedestrian crash that left one man dead in Sacramento Friday night.
The crash was reported around 10 p.m. near Jibboom Street and Railyards Boulevard, police say. Officers say they responded to that area and found an adult man with serious injuries.
The man was taken to an area hospital where he died from his injuries. The driver of the car involved was contacted by detectives who say they do not believe impairment was a factor in the crash.
The circumstance surrounding the deadly crash are still under investigation, officials say.
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25 people were rescued by several emergency crews in Bear Canyon Friday evening.
Pima County Search and Rescue, Tucson Fire and the Coronado National Forest performed a ladder rescue and saved 21 adults, three children and one infant at the low water crossing in Bear Canyon, which is part of the Sabino Canyon Recreation Area.
At its peak, the water was traveling over 3,000 cubic feet per second, the Coronado National Forest said. To safely cross the area on foot, the water should be moving no greater than 300 cubic feet per second.
One visitor sprained an ankle but is expected to make a full recovery. No other injuries were reported.
5:15 PM rescue of 21 adults, 3 children, & 1 infant Bear Canyon Pima County SAR, Tucson Fire - Rosemont and Pima Stations (engine 7 and ladder 4), & the Coronado NF worked together to perform a ladder rescue over the low water crossing. Great teamwork made this rescue happen. pic.twitter.com/7cJrFma8Lf
— Coronado NF (@CoronadoNF) August 13, 2022
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Pima County could wind up owning a few pricey addresses in the Catalina Foothills as a result of recent floods along the Finger Rock Wash.
The Pima County Regional Flood Control District has identified several homes in the path of the wash that are at significant risk of flooding and could qualify to be purchased and demolished.
The district is also scrambling to secure $2 million so it can replace an old culvert that carries Finger Rock Wash beneath Skyline Drive. The two-foot pipe there is so “woefully undersized,” it could lead to a catastrophic "dam-failure-type scenario," said Brian Jones, who heads up the district’s floodplain management division.
On Havasu Road about half a mile north of Skyline, at least 10 homes, including an assisted living facility, sustained damage in a July 31 flood along the wash.
Rural Metro firefighters had to evacuate 10 residents from the assisted living facility, after the residence filled with several feet of water.
Jones said at least three other houses also ended up with water inside of them, and at least four more had their garages flooded.
It was the second time since last year that a significant flood on the Finger Rock Wash has damaged homes in the Coronado Foothills Estates neighborhood at the base of the Catalinas.
Flashy monsoon flows on the normally dry wash have intensified since the Bighorn Fire burned through the upper reaches of the watershed in 2020, but problems there actually go back decades.
The subdivision was mapped out in the early 1960s, before the county established the flood control district and adopted regulations for construction in flood zones, Jones said. As a result, numerous homes were built in places where they would never be allowed today.
“In an ideal world, none of them would exist,” he said of the houses built along the wash. “They’re well within a known floodplain — and it’s a high-hazard floodplain.”
Not many options
Jones said the district is still considering its options, but Finger Rock Wash doesn’t easily lend itself to flood improvements. It’s a natural drainage flowing across private land, and the district is not allowed to spend public funds to make flood improvements on private property, he said.
The only place the district can work on the wash is where it flows over a public right of way, but the road crossings in Coronado Foothills Estates are too shallow and too narrow to accommodate significant flood-control structures.
“There just isn’t enough room to do anything,” Jones said. “Not having people living there is probably the best solution.”
The program was created in response to the devastating floods that hit Tucson in 1983. Since then, the district has purchased more than 14,000 acres, most of it vacant land to prevent future development in flood areas.
Jones said the district only buys from willing sellers and does not use eminent domain or other tactics to force acquisitions.
There are three or four properties on Havasu Road that are at significant enough risk to qualify for FLAP, he said. One homeowner there has already applied for the program, which enables people to sell their property to the district at fair market value, even if it has been flooded.
Jones said FLAP has access to up to $1 million a year to buy land at risk from floods, but that won’t stretch very far in the Foothills. Without an infusion of additional funds, he said, “we could probably buy one house, but not two.”
Any homes the district purchases would be torn down, Jones said.
Buying property in the flood zone would also give the county direct access to the wash so it can make more substantial improvements to the channel that might reduce the risk of flooding downstream.
“But there’s nothing practical that can be done to fully remove the flood risk for these properties,” Jones warned. “Even if there’s only one house left, it would still be in the floodplain. It would still be at risk.”
After last year’s flood, several Foothills residents pooled their money to pay for channel improvements where the wash crosses their properties. Jones said that work — done in consultation with the district — was partially destroyed on July 31, but it did help minimize some of the damage there.
The storm last month produced what he called a “deeper, faster flow event,” which plowed down the mountain with considerable force.
“Three- to four-foot boulders were getting pushed around and moved downstream by this flood,” he said. “We didn’t see anything like that during last year’s flood.”
Rare rain event
Lynn Orchard, a chief hydrologist for the district, said both floods were triggered by roughly the same amount of precipitation. Only the timing was different.
On July 23, 2021, the watershed was hit with about 2 ½ inches of rain over the course of three hours. On July 31 of this year, nearly that much fell in just 30 minutes.
“Very intense rainfall,” Orchard said.
Such a downpour is rare. He said there is only about a 3% chance of so much rain falling so quickly at that location in any given year, based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The surge of water from the July 31 storm eventually reached Skyline Drive, where a single, two-foot pipe carries the wash beneath an earthen berm that holds the road up.
The pipe was quickly overwhelmed, causing the area just upstream to fill to a depth of about 14 feet, high enough to send six inches of water rushing across the road and down the other side of the berm.
Jones said the water only overtopped the berm for about 30 minutes or so, but it still damaged the guardrail on Skyline and caused some erosion on the downstream side of the slope.
Had the flood lasted longer or crested higher, he said, it could have undercut the road or caused the berm to collapse altogether, potentially sending a 13-foot wall of water downstream. “That’s really our primary concern."
After the flood in 2021, the district applied for a federal emergency hazard mitigation grant to replace the old pipe with a four-cell box culvert that has “massively more capacity than what’s there,” Jones said.
The project is expected to cost about $2 million.
He was hoping a grant with the word emergency in its title might come through quickly, but the district’s application is apparently still under review, so Jones and company have turned to the state for help.
The district recently applied for money from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management’s Post-Wildfire Infrastructure Assistance Program, which was created last year with $10 million available for public and private landowners in need of emergency repairs.
Care home concerns
The flood on Finger Rock Wash might also spur changes to the way assisted living facilities are permitted in Pima County.
Jones said district officials are now reviewing their own procedures and those of other county departments in hopes of strengthening the review process for such facilities.
He said that review was already underway before the care home on Havasu Road flooded, but “that particular case really drove the point home.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency designates care homes as critical services — alongside things like hospitals, police and fire stations and utility providers — and only allows them to be placed in floodplains if they are built to withstand a 500-year flood event, Jones said.
According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, Catalina Foothills Adult Care on Havasu Road was originally licensed in 2003 for up to five residents. Its capacity was increased to 10 in 2009.
State records show the facility is licensed to provide “directed care services” to “persons who are incapable of recognizing danger, summoning assistance, expressing need or making basic care decisions.”
The facility’s current status is unclear. A message left with the home’s operator was not returned.
Jones said that to his knowledge the flood control district was not consulted before the care home received a license and was cleared to open on the bank of Finger Rock Wash.
“If we had been in the loop when this facility was permitted and we had the power to say no, we would have said no,” Jones said.
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Mud, rocks and debris outside of an overmatched culvert after a monsoon storm where Finger Rock Wash crosses under East Skyline Drive near North Columbus Boulevard. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/no-easy-fix-for-catalina-foothills-flooding-county-official-says/article_bfd17c08-18d3-11ed-be0c-77310f597faf.html | 2022-08-13T20:46:38 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/no-easy-fix-for-catalina-foothills-flooding-county-official-says/article_bfd17c08-18d3-11ed-be0c-77310f597faf.html |
When the widened stretch of Broadway finally reopens in a month or so, bicyclists won't be too impressed with the safety improvements.
Instead of a single line designating the bike lanes, there are now double lines..
In other words, despite all the arduous design work and construction money poured into Broadway between Euclid and Country Club, there are glaring imperfections.
Now, I acknowledge I was happier about Broadway back in March, when I wrote about how the widened two-mile stretch was going to have a great result. I still think it will be much better than before and will lead to a development boom. But the end result, delayed again by some last-minute sewer work, falls short of what it could have been.
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The unprotected bike lanes are one example of an old paradigm seaping into a new project. The sidewalks, too, should be wider, in my opinion, and better protected from the street. In short, Broadway will be good, but it should have been better.
This struck me this week after watching Mayor Regina Romero, Sen. Mark Kelly and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg announce a $25 million grant to help complete the replacement of the East 22nd Street bridge over the Union Pacific railyard.
It turns out that $25 million is only a part of the money needed for the bridge project, which covers the half-mile from South Tucson Boulevard to South Kino Parkway. The city, county and Regional Transportation Authority have cobbled together a total of $95 million for the bridge project, including the new federal grant, and even that will not be enough.
It will likely cost millions more, but where the rest will come from is unclear.
On Friday, when I spoke with her, Romero was still basking in the glow of winning the federal grant, which should allow preliminary work on replacing the bridge to begin in the next few weeks.
"At the end of the day, the City of Tucson is being a very good partner," she said. "We’re hustling big time. We know how urgent the need is."
As mayor, Romero is a member of the Regional Transportation Authority board, but she has often fought with the management of the authority and other board members over what she argues is poor treatment of the city of Tucson in the regional system.
Whatever additional money, beyond the $95 million, is needed for the bridge project, the Regional Transportation Authority should come up with, she said.
"What I’m trying to say is that the RTA, the staff at the RTA and the RTA board, need to come up with a solution," she said. "This shouldn’t be left at the feet of the city of Tucson alone."
Future widening unfunded
Then there's still another big project to come, further west on 22nd Street.
Under the plan passed by voters in 2006, there is still a major widening left to do on 22nd Street between Kino Parkway and Interstate 10. Like many of the authority's projects in Tucson, it was scheduled in the last years of the plan's 20-year span, and now money is short for those projects, as construction costs rise.
The deputy director of the RTA, Jim Degrood, noted to me Friday that the authority has been allocating money into its Transportation Improvement Project for the 22nd Street project, which is supposed to widen the whole stretch to six lanes under the ballot language.
But it's unclear when the full funding will become available for the project. It's scheduled to be completed by 2026 under the original plan.
Neighborhood residents met more than two dozen times between 2006 and 2010 as part of a citizens advisory committee, focused mostly on the interchange at East 22nd Street and South Kino Parkway, where the Bob Walkup Overpass was completed in 2015.
The city's work back in those early years of the RTA isn't likely to be very relevant anymore, sadly.
"The work that was done in the past shouldn’t be discounted," said Sam Credio, the city's transportation and mobility director. "In terms of the public outreach, some of the sentiment might still exist."
But any design work done back then can be forgotten. And as far as I'm concerned, that's for the better. Times have changed.
"I remember the old days when it was just widen, then you throw a bike lane down next to the sidewalk and you’re good," Credio said. "We have to shift away from the old mindset of widening at all costs."
Six lanes too wide?
We were in the midst of this shift in mindset when Broadway was a hot topic in the 2010s. Neighborhood residents and City Council member Steve Kozachik complained that the plan to widen the street to eight total lanes was far too big. It really was.
A similar critique is likely to arise when we talk about widening 22nd Street — that six lanes is unnecessarily wide in the narrower stretch west of Santa Rita Avenue.
And a huge complication will be separating the railroad tracks that cross 22nd Street near Santa Rita Park from the cars and pedestrians. It will be expensive but it has to be done.
On Broadway, after years of conflict and compromise, the City Council and RTA board agreed to a redesigned 6-lane street that curves between Euclid and Country Club, allowing more historic buildings to be saved.
Arriving at that compromise took years of debate. The result is good but not great, especially when it comes to bike infrastructure.
Bikes protected or rerouted
On these corridor streets, we really need to decide whether we want people to bike on them or not. If not, we should shunt them over to improved bicycle routes on parallel streets. If so, we need to build real, protected bike lanes on the busy corridors.
I was in the Netherlands for almost a week this summer. I'll tell you — that changes your perspective of what is possible. Amsterdam, famously, has bike lanes that are large and often more crowded than the car lanes, even though it is a densely populated city.
More rural areas of the Netherlands, too, have lots of separate bike paths passing among farms and woods, connecting towns. It opens your eyes.
In Tucson, we're fortunate to have the space to accommodate everybody and protect the vulnerable users of the roads, too.
As we proceed on projects like 22nd Street between Kino Parkway and I-10, we ought to strive for near perfection. Otherwise, what's the use of spending all that money on what is a functional road now?
The compromise on Broadway shows how close you can come without getting it completely right.
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Tucson City Council will decide in the coming months how to spend $150 million worth of extra funds to improve core services like public safety while addressing ongoing hiring challenges.
The city’s accumulated about $150 million above its general budgetary needs and savings fund and is now taking on the challenge of deciding how to spend the money over five years.
The council will dedicate the extra funds as part of a new two-part budgeting process introduced this year. Mayor and council approved a more than $2 billion budget on June 7 for basic operations, and now, the council will have to figure out where the lump sums written into the budget will go.
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City Manager Michael Ortega outlined nearly $90 million worth of recommendations for spending part of the extra money, or the supplemental budget, at city council’s Aug. 9 meeting.
Ortega recommended spending about $11.4 million on the city's staffing needs, including $3.6 million to hire 50 Community Service Officers, which will conduct non-emergency fieldwork for the Tucson Police Department. The city manager also suggests spending $4.7 million to hire 18 new employees in the Parks and Recreation Department to support park safety and renovations.
For the city's overall programming needs, Ortega recommended spending $500,000 to develop the city’s new 311 program set to launch in March to reroute nonemergency service requests and strengthen 911 response times. Another $1.5 million is set to go toward improving cybersecurity and IT support.
“It is all based on mayor and council priorities and what we have been hearing for years in terms of the needs that both departments have and the community has,” Mayor Regina Romero said. “The way I see it is that these investments are a direct investment into city services that will benefit our community.”
Other potential investments of the $150 million include:
- $18 million for public safety, including equipment upgrades for Tucson’s police and fire departments and building out the Community Safety, Health and Wellness Program.
- $10.7 million to complete a salary study and increase employee compensation.
- $9.5 million for transit upgrades, such as security cameras and mirrors on Sun Tran vehicles and traffic safety programs.
- $5.8 million for homelessness and housing, such as hiring workers for homeless camp clean-up, replacing Tucson House’s elevator, improving programming at the Wildcat House.
How did we get here?
After the 2008 recession hit, Tucson established a strategic reserve goal to wade the financial storm. Per city code, the reserve must save at least 17% of the city's revenues. But with high inflation and talks of a recession coming, how did Tucson get $150 million extra to spend?
According to Romero: years of financial planning.
“Mayor and council for the last 12, 13 years have worked really, really hard to get to this financial position that we're in,” she said. “It's cause to celebrate because we have been good stewards of taxpayer money that we find ourselves in this historic place where we could make decisions for long term transformative change.”
Anna Rosenberry, Tucson’s CFO, said city staff developed this year’s budget with current economic conditions in mind. Splitting the budget into two cycles of base and supplemental funding was part of the strategy to be fiscally cautious.
“Because of that uncertainty, we decided to go ahead and establish the base budget and then see how our revenue estimates are developing, see what happens with the economy and take a little bit more time to pass this supplemental budget in the summer,” Rosenberry said. “It was really kind of a response to the economic conditions and the volatility that was happening this spring. And, frankly, that volatility kind of continues to be with us today.”
Ortega presented the spending plan with cautious optimism, writing to mayor and council in a memo that “Years of strategic decisions” have put the city in “a strong financial position,” but that “We continue to be cautious about the potential for volatility in our revenues and sustained cost inflation that impacts the budget.”
During city council’s discussion of the spending plan Tuesday, Ortega offered more insight into this year’s extra funding. Federal COVID-19 relief packages like the CARES Act and American Rescue Plan put more money in the city’s coffers. Plus, voter approved initiatives such as Propositions 101 and 407, funded by sales taxes and bond packages, have put the burden to pay for things like road improvements and parks off the city’s general fund.
“I think those are important pieces, and they culminate over many, many years. I can tell you that to be sitting here and having this discussion is something that most people dream about having,” Ortega told the council. “But it's also a moment in time that we have to take advantage of in a very positive way to celebrate, but also not be reckless.”
The city manager will ask for more formal direction from the council on spending the $150 million at its Aug. 23 meeting. The supplemental requests are set to be approved by October.
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The Tucson Saguaros will attempt to win their third consecutive Pecos League title this weekend, when they host the Roswell Invaders in the best-of-three championship series.
The championship series, a rematch of last year's finals, will begin Saturday at 7 p.m. at Kino Stadium. The teams will Game 2 on Sunday night, with a winner-take-all Game 3, if necessary, booked for Monday.
Tucson won the Pacific Division title on Tuesday, beating the San Rafael Pacifics 5-4 in California. The Saguaros took a 5-1 lead thank in part to another home run from star third baseman Brock Ephan, who finished with a pair of RBIs. Patrick Music and Mike Hernandez finished with two hits apiece, with Hernandez adding an RBI.
Hunter Treece pitched five innings, allowing two runs on three hits while walking five and striking out four. Closer Brendon Rodriguez allowed the tying run to reach base in the ninth, but struck out three Pacifics to secure a spot in the championship series.
Roswell beat the Trinidad Triggers 7-5 on Thursday night to capture the Mountain Division title.
Photos: Tucson Saguaros sweep Bakersfield with a 6-4 win in Game 2 of the Pecos League playoffs
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Bakersfield's Jamie Carey (3) heads to the dugout as the Tucson Saguaros celebrate a come from behind 6-4 win to eliminate the Train Robbers two games to none in game two of their Pecos League playoff best of three series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' centerfielder Steve Joyner (12) charges in to snare a sinking liner by Bakersfield's Daryl Donerson (2) in the third inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' catcher Caden Ledbetter (36) slaps a sweeping tag on Bakersfield's Adam Mathias (13) nailing him at the plate in the fifth inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022. Bakersfield's Luke Kelley (16) dropped a blooper in the shallow right field gap that centerfielder Steve Joyner couldn't run down to score a run before Mathias was thrown out by right fielder Kendon Strachan.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' left fielder BJ Minarcin (17) has to get low to handle a sinking liner by Bakersfield's Daryl Donerson (2)) in the first inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Bakersfield's centerfielder Daryl Donerson (2), left, and right fielder Alex Cornell (12) narrowly avoid a collision bringing down a long fly ball from Saguaros' BJ Minarcin (17) in the first inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' Blake Garrett (48) shatters his bat grounding out to third against Bakersfield in the third inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' centerfielder Steve Joyner (12) just misses grabbing a looping RBI liner into no-man's land by Bakersfield's Luke Kelley (16) in the fifth inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' Patrick Music (21) just beats the tag from Bakersfield's second baseman Jamie Carey (3) for a stolen base in game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Bakersfield's right fielder Alex Cornell (12) goes sprawling but just misses a Saguaro fly ball that dropped foul in the fifth inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Bakersfield's shortstop Joe Curcio (24) can't believe Saguaros' Patrick Music (21) safely stretched a single into a double in the sixth inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' Brock Ephan (50) shatters his bat fighting off pitch against Bakersfield in the eighth inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022. Ephan eventually worked a walk out of his plate appearance.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' third baseman Brock Ephan (50) stretches out to snare a pop-up by Bakersfield's Jamie Carey (3) on a sacrifice bunt attempt that ended up being a double play in the seventh inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Bakersfield's Adam Mathias (13) reacts as he's called out at home trying to score the second run on an RBI hit from Luke Kelley (16) in the fifth inning of game two of their Pecos League playoff series against the Saguaros at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 5, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Photos: Tucson Saguaros open Pecos League playoffs with 13-4 win against Train Robbers
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaro's Steve Joyner (12) slides into second as Bakersfield's second baseman Jamie Carey (3) goes sprawling to knock down the errant throw in the first inning of their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022. The Saguaros opened the best of three series with a 13-4 win.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' second baseman Patrick Music (21) flips to first baseman Chris Caffrey (44) to retire Bakersfield's Jamie Carey (3) on a slow roller to the gap in to end the Train Robbers' half of the third inning of their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' Kendon Strachan (32) watches his hit clear the right field fence for a two RBI homer, his second homer of the night, for a 7-0 lead against Bakersfield in the fifth inning for their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' Mike Hernandez (35) warms up as the sun sets over Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium as the team prepares to face Bakersfield in the first round of the Pecos League playoffs, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' starting catcher Caden Ledbetter (36) stands with his team as the national anthem is played before the first pitch of the opening game of the Pecos League playoffs against Bakersfield at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' shortstop Sadler Goodwin (31) can't quite reach a shot back up the middle from Bakersfield's Joe Riddle (14) in the second inning for their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' second baseman Patrick Music (21) twists his way under the ball after ranging into right field to track down a blooper into no man's land by Bakersfield's Omar Ortiz (7) in the fourth inning for their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' starter Frank Dickson IV (30) throws against Bakersfield in their 113-4 win to open the Pecos League playoff series at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Bakersfield's second baseman Jamie Carey (3) crashes to the turf in front of right fielder Alex Cornell as the two can't get to looping fly ball down the line by Saguaros' Caden Ledbetter (36) for a single in the fifth inning for their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Bakersfield's third baseman Christian Harrington (8) gets the throw a second too late to stop Saguaros' Patrick Music (21) from advancing from first on an RBI single from Clayton Stephens (47) in the sixth inning for their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' John Kea (40) pitches in relief against Bakersfield in the seventh inning for their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
Tucson Saguaros vs Bakersfield Train Robbers
Saguaros' first baseman Chris Caffrey (44) ranges to his right to snare a grounder and throw out Bakersfield's Adam Mathias (13) to lead off the Train Robber eighth inning of their Pecos League playoff game at Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium, Tucson, Ariz., August 4, 2022.
Kelly Presnell, Arizona Daily Star
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CALDWELL — The Canyon County Commissioners will consider the tentative fiscal year 2023 budget at a meeting Wednesday, Aug. 17, at 5 p.m. in the public meeting room of the county’s administration building.
Residents of the county are invited to attend the meeting and offer comment, according to the county's website.
On Aug. 5, the commissioners approved the publication of the tentative operating budget in a split decision, with Commissioner Leslie Van Beek opposing its publication, citing the need for additional analysis on a proposed $12,000 pay increase for every county employee, according to the county’s website.
The total of the approved tentative budget is $137,454,141, according to the county's website. However, the final amount could be less than that if changes are made to the operating budget before the Aug. 17 meeting that lower it.
The budget has changed since Clerk Chris Yamamoto first presented it in July, said Joe Decker, public information officer for the county. At that point, it included a $4,000 pay increase for all employees, according to reporting from KTVB.
The budget also includes a $40,287,000 property tax ask, according to the budget document. That is $14 million less than what was levied for the current fiscal year, Decker said. However, in the initial proposed budget, Yamamoto proposed levying zero property tax dollars, citing a desire for the county to step in to curb the burden of property tax where state efforts have fallen short, according to KTVB.
The tentative budget anticipates $66,756,973 in non-property tax revenue in the coming fiscal year and using $30,410,168 from the county’s general fund. The projected balance for that fund for Sept. 30 of this year is $92,582,991, and by that date in 2023, it would be approximately $66,756,973.
The county would use approximately $5,180,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds under the tentative budget, compared with $6,169,045 for the current fiscal year.
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Texas’ associate commissioner for Child Protective Investigations has resigned after less than a year on the job. Robert “Rich” Richman’s brief tenure at the embattled agency was marked by two major headlines — a botched investigation into alleged sex trafficking at a foster care facility and Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to investigate parents of trans teenagers.
According to his resignation letter, Richman is leaving the Department of Family and Protective Services to “pursue an opportunity to continue my law enforcement career.” He thanked DFPS Commissioner Jaime Masters for the “opportunity to make positive changes throughout CPI during my time with the agency.”
Richman joined the agency at the end of September 2021, earning $150,000 a year. His last day is today, according to the letter. He did notreturn a request for comment. DFPS spokesperson Marissa Gonzales said the agency had no comment.
As associate commissioner for Child Protective Investigations, Richman oversaw the arm of the agency responsible for investigating allegations of child abuse and neglect, child care licensing investigations, special investigations and human trafficking.
His division came under fire in March when it came to light that employees of a licensed foster care facility had allegedly engaged in sexual misconduct with the residents. The Refuge in Bastrop specifically catered to young girls and women who had been sex trafficked.
DFPS did not remove all of the children from the facility for more than a month after the first documented report of sexual abuse, according to court records. Richman told the judge that the children weren’t immediately removed because investigators believed the person responsible for the misconduct had been fired.
In a hearing before the Texas Senate, Masters and Richman blamed poor communication from low-level staff. Justin Lewis, who worked under Richman as director of child care investigations, resigned after that hearing, telling the Texas Tribune he was “scapegoated” for systemic barriers to communication within the agency. Investigations into The Refuge are ongoing.
At virtually the same time that Child Protective Investigations was being criticized for its handling of the investigation into The Refuge, Richman’s agency was put in charge of investigating parents of transgender teenagers who receive gender-affirming care.
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Texas’ youth prison system urgently needs money to crawl out of its growing crisis, in which children are at times locked in cells 23 hours a day and nearly half of detained youth have been on suicide watch, the agency’s director has told lawmakers.
The Texas Juvenile Justice Department — currently under federal investigation for an alleged pattern of abuse and mistreatment — is severely understaffed, with agency officials saying last month it is nearing systemic collapse. After the Texas Tribune reported on dire conditions inside the state’s five youth prisons, the Texas House Juvenile Justice and Family Issues Committee called a legislative hearing last week to look for possible solutions.
“I think we can all agree this is cruel and unusual,” said state Rep. James Talarico, D-Round Rock, citing reports of children using water bottles as makeshift toilets while stuck in their cells and routinely hurting themselves to get attention from staff. “Is there anything between now and next (legislative) session that’s going to solve this?”
Talarico and 33 other House Democrats sent Gov. Greg Abbott a letter last week asking him to bring lawmakers together immediately in a special legislative session to address the emergency. Abbott’s office did not respond to questions about the letter.
TJJD sounded the alarm last month, when interim director Shandra Carter stopped accepting newly sentenced kids from county detention centers. The agency can’t guarantee the safety of the fewer than 600 youth already in its care, she said, because it can’t keep people on the job. Last year, the turnover rate for detention officers hit more than 70 percent, and most new hires quit within six months.
More than 160 children were waiting to be transferred from also understaffed county detention centers to the state’s five juvenile prisons, Carter told the committee at the hearing. For many children, the wait, which in some cases has been as long as three months, means more time in lockup since they are unable to begin and complete required programming.
“At the rate that I am recruiting and retaining staff, that waitlist will continue to grow,” Carter said. “With what we have in front of us, I think a further increase would help us stabilize quicker and absorb that waitlist.”
Last month, TJJD was able to make permanent an emergency 15 percent raise for officers by postponing reentry programs and using savings from unfilled positions. Carter said the new pay, bringing starting salaries up to $41,700, has shown promise, with more people applying for jobs. She said money isn’t the only solution to the department’s chronic problems, but it is the necessary first step.
“Our exit interviews are really clear. It’s overwhelmingly pay and difficulty of the work is the reason that people are leaving, and this prevents us from stabilizing,” Carter told lawmakers. “I can’t even guarantee they’re going to get a bathroom break on their shift.”
A spokesperson for Abbott, who alone can call lawmakers to the Texas Capitol outside of regular legislative sessions every two years, has said he will support TJJD’s request to increase salaries next session. The legislative session begins in January, and any budget decisions would largely not take effect until next September.
Talarico said more immediate action is needed.
In his letter to Abbott, he said a special legislative session must include measures to close “failed facilities” and restore and increase funding for anti-violence and rehabilitation programs. He also called for increasing salaries, prioritizing diverting children from incarceration and providing alternatives for children in suicidal crises or with other mental health emergencies.
“Waiting until the next session is a death sentence for incarcerated children,” the letter read.
Juvenile justice advocates have long urged closing state prisons and instead putting necessary mental health and rehabilitative resources into local communities. Others have proposed building smaller facilities closer to urban centers, which have larger labor pools than the rural areas where most prisons are located.
For state Rep. Gene Wu, a Houston Democrat who has long worked in juvenile justice, frustration with the state’s juvenile justice system comes from “getting the same answers and dealing with the same issues again and again and again, and there never seems to be any resolution.”
TJJD has been plagued by sexual abuse and mistreatment scandals for more than a decade.
In recent years, counties have shifted more toward keeping children closer to home and sending fewer to the state prisons, shrinking the population from thousands to fewer than 600. But the ones left often are the most difficult to manage because of violent behavior, severe mental health needs or both.
Aside from funding, Wu is pushing for sending even fewer kids to state facilities. A juvenile must have been found to have committed a felony to go to TJJD, but Wu said many smaller counties still send children to state prisons for low-level, nonviolent felonies.
While the majority of new admissions to TJJD last year were for violent offenses, 10 percent were for unauthorized use of a vehicle or possession of a controlled substance, according to data from Texas Appleseed, a social justice advocacy organization.
“Maybe we should … talk about not sending state jail felonies to TJJD,” he said in the hearing. “It seems like joyriding in a car seems like a bad offense to be sent to a state prison.”
Disclosure: Texas Appleseed has been a financial supporter of the Texas Tribune. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune's journalism.
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Enjoyed your article (July 30 on the Red Carpet club and restaurant) … Maybe you could tell us about the history of the Old San Francisco Steak House next. The girl on the swing and the blocks of cheese at every table are locked in my memory bank. I understand lawyer Michael Rizik may have been one of the owners.
— Robert Allen
Last Sunday’s column looked into an unrelated anecdote that came with this question, about a series of unfortunate events during the construction of the HemisFair Tower, culminating in a lawsuit. This week we’re circling back to the Old San Francisco Steak House, which was established in anticipation of increased tourism for the HemisFair ’68 world’s fair, like many other San Antonio hospitality businesses.
“My dad, Wallace L Boldt; Henry Reed; and Dan Anthony with silent partners opened the Old San Francisco Steak House during HemisFair,” said Teri Boldt Blond, whose father was primarily a contractor and builder. Anthony was a second-generation restaurateur who already had worked at downtown’s Manhattan Cafe with his father, Tom Anthony, and had gone on to found the Sea Island Shrimp House in 1965 with businessman Reed, a Manhattan customer.
According to the San Antonio Light, Sept. 21, 1969, the Old San Francisco Steak House was the realization of Reed’s “recurrent dream … to build in San Antonio the finest steakhouse anywhere.”
To achieve that end, he and Dan Anthony made a trip across the country and even up into Canada visiting fine restaurants, where they “pick(ed) up one idea here, another there. Many of the very best they found in San Francisco, so they hit upon the idea of calling the eatery here the Old San Francisco.”
When the partners returned, they came up with a concept built around a romanticized notion of San Francisco’s Barbary Coast, a late-19th-century red-light district that was toppled by the 1906 earthquake. Think Clark Gable and Jeanette McDonald in “San Francisco,” in which the city’s seamier side — opium dens, prostitution, pickpocketing and general lawlessness — was forgotten in favor of Gay Nineties glamour.
Anthony and Reed passed their vision for a high-end theme restaurant to acclaimed local Western artist Donald Yena, who rendered it visual, with deep red and green décor, old-timey millwork, a mezzanine floor and a cluster of period pictures on the walls.
Originally, the partners — by then including Boldt — “were going to lease in La Villita, where the Little Rhine Steak House was located for years,” Blond said. But the space at 231 S. Alamo St., across from the HemisFair grounds, “proved too small for the three guys’ ideas,” which include private dining rooms and a membership club to circumvent state laws against liquor-by-the-drink, which persisted until 1971.
When the Old San Francisco Steak House and Nob Hill Club had its gala opening May 31, 1969, north of Loop 410, 1023 Sahara Drive, a block off San Pedro Drive/U.S. 281, it was clearly inspired by an idealized golden West.
From the heavy, brass-fitted doors, to the flocked red wallpaper, plush carpets, ornate chandeliers and gilt-framed portraits, the high-ceilinged main dining room was a setting for luxurious fantasy. A 9-foot painting of a beautiful woman symbolized the legend of the restaurant: A Texas Ranger pursued an outlaw to San Francisco, fell in love with a dancer there and came home to build a dance hall for her on the site of the Old San Francisco — then in the middle of nowhere — but she died in a stagecoach ambush, so the broken-hearted Ranger disappeared.
Also of visual interest was a growing collection of period grocery and theatrical advertisements, including some for local brands and a poster for San Antonio’s own vaudeville stars, conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton.
Diners were escorted to their tables, topped with red tablecloths, where they were presented with a complimentary glass of wine and everybody’s favorite feature, an enormous block of Swiss cheese and a small loaf of bread. The cheese — 12 to 15 pounds of it cut out out of even more mammoth blocks — was to be shared by the table. (Leftovers, said Blond, were grated into the house salad dressing.) Although lobster was on the menu, the steakhouse majored in meat. There was a top sirloin, filet mignon, New York Strip, New York Sirloin, ribeye and a “famous ladies’ filet” — all charcoal-broiled — as well as chateaubriand and prime rib, served with a salad, baked potatoes and a vegetable.
The main dining room was on the ground floor, and the bar/club — “smokey and boozy,” Blond remembers — was upstairs, along with party or meeting rooms decorated in red- and green-flocked wallpaper. The Royal Frisco, St. Francis and Telegraph Hill rooms were booked for birthday and anniversary parties, corporate festivities and regular club meetings. Like the Red Carpet, the Old San Francisco Steak House was popular for special occasions, from marriage proposals to children’s birthday parties.
As a weekend nightclub, the Old San Francisco featured nationally known performers on weekend nights, such as comedians Morey Amsterdam, Phyllis Diller and Norm Crosby; and singers Patti Page, the New Christy Minstrels and Tiny Tim, who revived old-timey songs in falsetto. All were acts you might see on TV variety shows of the time.
But by far the most memorable and longest-lived entertainment was the Girl in the Red Velvet Swing. In its early years, the restaurant advertised for young women ages 16-22 to play the part; typically at least three female employees alternated in the role. Wearing a short, flirty red dress, heels and fishnet hose, the Girl would take her seat once every 45 minutes or so and swing out above the bar, at least 30 feet at the top of the arc, with the goal of kicking a cowbell attached to the ceiling. Children were allowed to try — they had to climb up on the bar — and the younger ones could sit and swing with the performer.
In its prime, the restaurant sold as many as 1,000 steaks a night and expanded into a small regional chain with additional locations in Austin, Dallas and Houston. Some of the original owners, with a board of directors that included Anthony, his sister Eula and attorney Mike Rizik, were in the saddle for close to two decades.
After the restaurant was sold in the late 1980s, there was some tinkering with the concept. Endless beef gave way to lighter choices, and there were refurbishments to give the Old San Francisco a new look. From the mid-1990s, the place changed hands several times — there were bankruptcies and reorganizations and abrupt closures.
Caterer Veronica Esparza first leased, then bought the building in 2008 and redeveloped it as an event venue. The restaurant is no longer open to the public, but the facility has kept the Old San Francisco name, and there is still a Swing Room.
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NJ Transit on Saturday afternoon reported the Atlantic City Rail Line is experiencing up to 60-minute delays in both directions due to signal issues.
The rail and bus agency had previously reported delays up to 90 minutes, and several trains were canceled during the day.
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MARGATE — The subject at the Margate Planning Board's July meeting was, yet again, third-story decks.
Like so many other shore towns, Margate is awash in new construction, much of it replacing older homes flooded during Superstorm Sandy, or just homes from another, simpler time. The new houses are meeting what seems like rampant demand for six and seven bedrooms and baths, backyard pools and, of course, those decks.
Especially those third-story decks. The new houses are typically higher than ones they replaced, built with as much as a 14-feet-above-sea-level base level for garage or crawl space, before the 30 feet of living quarters start, due to Federal Emergency Management Agency rules.
As a result, those decks in some cases now have views out over their neighbors to the ocean to one side and the bay on the other, even from the middle of the island. Neighbors have raised concerns over privacy, not to mention the way sound travels from those decks.
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But oh, the sunsets. It used to be third-story decks were allowed only on the ocean- and bayfront streets, because nobody else had a view to worry about. Now everyone wants that view.
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"These houses, some have seven bedrooms, seven bathrooms," said Richard Patterson, chair of the Margate Planning Board. "It's crazy, but I can't tell them how many bedrooms to put in their house. It seems like a status symbol." A status symbol that brings a lot of extra cars to the island.
"They pay cash for a $5 million home," Patterson said, citing one instance. "They're down maybe five weekends a year."
Ten years after Sandy, the Jersey Shore is being built back bigger, higher and much more expensively. A three-story house at 19 S. Knight Ave. in Margate rises above its neighbors. Builders obtained variances for reducing the front-yard setback and a third-floor deck to construct the home.
Realtors urged possible buyers to "Do New" in a sign. It's listed for $2.79 million. Federal flood insurance caps payouts at $250,000, though homeowners can purchase supplemental coverage.
There's always drama in Margate, whether about unwanted sand dunes or beach block parking. But lately, the attention has focused on the epidemic of building that has hit the shore towns and what, if anything, to do about it.
The Downbeach Buzz blog captured this debate in a few trenchant audio excerpts from the July Planning Board meeting, the place where the things that will truly bother people tend to be decided.
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At a recent meeting, Patterson colorfully assured another board member that the people who want third-floor rear decks were interested in the sunset, not seeing [Planning Board member] naked.
Suffice to say, there are a lot of requests for third-floor decks in Margate, about a dozen since January alone.
In July, the Planning Board recommended changing the zoning code to allow third-story decks throughout Margate, without the need for variances, but only in the front. They are currently now allowed only on the beach and bayfront blocks.
The board drew the line at rear third-floor decks, which would still require a variance.
Patterson argued in favor of allowing rear third-floor decks because if you're on the south side of the street and want to see the sunset, you're gonna need the deck on the back of the house.
"You can already see your neighbor from the second floor, with the houses 14 feet from the first floor," he said. "Your neighbor already doesn't have much privacy."
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At the July meeting, Realtor Brian Hiltner predicted a wave of coming requests for third-story rear decks, now that the new houses on the south side of the street are high enough to get that sunset view out the back looking toward the bay.
Hiltner said that because the board approved a request for a third-floor rear deck recently on Thurlow Avenue ― from which the elevated house now has lovely views of both ocean and bay — his clients feel it's OK to come and request one for their properties.
"Two years ago, it was always known, don't come, you're not getting [the variance]," Hiltner told the board. "It was common knowledge, don't even come in. Now we see over the past few years, you guys have been granting third-floor decks."
As to the issue of privacy for the neighbors below those decks, Hiltner said that privacy ship has sailed.
"Because the houses are built so high, you're looking into your neighbor's house regardless," he said. "I have three clients coming in here looking for them. I'd like to have one myself."
Along with the requests for third stories and decks, everyone wants a backyard pool, which has prompted complaints from Atlantic City Electric, since nearly all of them are too close to utility poles and the pools are interfering with access.
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And zoned air-conditioning. Some of these decks around town are actually built to house third-floor air-conditioning units, noted Roger McLarnon, Margate's zoning and planning official.
"They want a zone for each floor," said McLarnon. "They all want generators now. Pools are a whole other issue. We're getting flak from the electric company. They're threatening to move all the poles to the street."
Driving around town, it's easy to find new construction towering over older houses in Margate's midsection, a place where year-round families used to live in modest one- and two-story homes sending their kids to school and working as teachers, lifeguards and police officers.
The year-round community seemed to be flourishing, so much that a few years back, Margate was considering limiting third floors altogether in this section to preserve its (relative) affordability. The town even built another school, no longer needed.
"Before the pandemic, we were researching having a section of the city have no third floors, making it more family-friendly, because the craziness of prices hadn't reached that area," Patterson said.
It has now.
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Many of those families are selling their homes. "Every person that's held property here for 20, 30, 40 years hit the lottery in terms of property value," says McLarnon. "It's hard to turn down $1 million."
Patterson, who has lived all his 72 years in Margate, until recently in a house on Lancaster Avenue that was demolished after Sandy, does not want front-yard fences, in an attempt to keep the town at least a bit as it's always been.
Patterson also wants to ban third stories entirely in lots less than 40 feet wide. He calls the tall, skinny homes built on these undersized lots "lighthouses."
"Do I wish there weren't so many big houses?" Patterson said. "Sure. But I can't put my wishes above the rules. People say, 'Why do you allow these McMansions? Why do you allow them to tear down these beautiful old houses?'" | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/margate-homeowners-get-pushback-on-third-story-decks-and-seven-bedroom-plans-but-the-building/article_990819b2-1b1a-11ed-be4a-1f2a1c3decb2.html | 2022-08-13T21:00:12 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/margate-homeowners-get-pushback-on-third-story-decks-and-seven-bedroom-plans-but-the-building/article_990819b2-1b1a-11ed-be4a-1f2a1c3decb2.html |
PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — Heroism can often come in many shapes and sizes.
Six Rome High School football players displayed their courage on Friday morning after a woman, who a witness believed was in her 50s, was trapped in her car following an accident in the middle of an intersection, according to a viral Facebook post from Luis Goya.
Goya, an educator at Rome City Schools, said he heard a loud noise at an intersection while in front of the school on his morning duty. While running towards the intersection, he says he noticed a wreck involving two cars.
As the lady was trapped in her car, Goya noticed that she couldn't get out.
"Smoke started to come out of the car, and fluid started to spill everywhere in the intersection," Goya recounted in his Facebook post. "The door was jammed and in terrible shape."
While he was on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, Goya said he witnessed "something amazing."
A group of football players from Rome High School who had witnessed the incident ran to the car and started helping the lady, Goya said. He said that the players started using their strength to pry the door open so the woman could be released.
The students were named as Cesar Parker, Treyvon Adams, Antwiion Carey, Messiah Daniels, Tyson Brown and Alto Moore, according to the Rome City Schools' Facebook page.
After a few seconds of maneuvering the door back and forth, they were able to open the door and helped the woman get out of her car, Goya said. Although she was still shaking and panicked, Goya said that the players gave her comfort.
"The Rome High School football players really showed up today," Goya said on his Facebook post that now has over 6,000 likes and 3,000 shares. "They went above and beyond to help this lady without hesitation."
According to an incident report acquired by 11Alive, the accident occurred at Veteran's Memorial Highway at approximately 8 a.m. A 16-year-old was cited with a failure to yield while turning left after an officer reviewed surveillance video from the intersection's camera, the Rome Police Department said. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/high-school-football-players-pull-woman-out-smoking-car/85-de51f5c7-1053-467a-a74e-c4925cb3d57f | 2022-08-13T21:15:59 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/high-school-football-players-pull-woman-out-smoking-car/85-de51f5c7-1053-467a-a74e-c4925cb3d57f |
SAN ANTONIO — A man is in critical condition Saturday afternoon after being shot on the north side of town while he was working.
It happened around 12:30 p.m. on the 15600 block of Huebner Rd near Churchill Estates Blvd. in Shavano Park.
According to police, three or four men were laying carpet at a local business when one of the men pulled out a gun and shot another man multiple times, before fleeing from the location.
A witness to the shooting ran outside to call police after the shooting took place.
The victim was taken to University Hospital in critical condition.
Police say they believe to have identified the shooter but "are trying to determine his location."
The investigation is ongoing.
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FILER — A popular show mixing vibrant lights, lasers and choreographed animations is getting a new location when it returns to Magic Valley next month.
Lights and Lasers 2022 Remix, set for Sept. 22 through Sept. 24, will move to the Idaho Central Legacy Fields between Twin Falls and Filer.
The show, attended by thousands, was previously held at several venues in the Snake River Canyon.
“Keeping Lights and Lasers in the canyon was not feasible if we want the festival to continue to grow,” said Melissa Barry, Southern Idaho Tourism executive director.
In previous years, Lights and Lasers has focused on a historical theme with a timeline and themed music. This year's event, however, will feature DJ Eric Rhodes, a TikTok celebrity from Idaho with more than 1.1 million followers who will mix music choreographed to the lights and bring "a vibrant, live-performance feel," Barry said.
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Tickets for Lights and Lasers 2022 Remix can be purchased at visitsouthidaho.com. VIP tickets for the premier viewing area cost $75 each and include a meet-and-greet with DJ Eric Rhodes in the greenroom, gift, and VIP lanyard. General admission tickets are $25 for adults and kids ages 12 and younger are free.
The Idaho Central Legacy Fields are located at 21236 U.S. Highway 30, just east of the U.S. Highway 93 interchange near Filer. The show is in its fifth year. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/lights-and-lasers-show-gets-new-venue/article_300aa180-1a81-11ed-bf72-ff17c075ac82.html | 2022-08-13T21:19:52 | 1 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/lights-and-lasers-show-gets-new-venue/article_300aa180-1a81-11ed-bf72-ff17c075ac82.html |
The family of a woman who died of alcohol toxicity at the Sarpy County Jail in 2018 has lost its wrongful death lawsuit against the police, rescue workers and jailers after she was taken to jail instead of a hospital.
Danielle Harbison's blood-alcohol content was 0.34%, most than four times the legal limit to drive.
Attorneys for her estate and her children had argued the case should go forward because officials had been deliberately indifferent to her serious medical needs.
But Chief U.S. District Judge Robert F. Rossiter Jr. ruled that all except one defendant — the city of Bellevue — were shielded from civil liability under qualified immunity and dismissed the claims against them.
Because municipalities aren't protected in the same way, Bellevue remains the only party left being sued.
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It all started on the evening of June 23, 2018. Bellevue Police Officer Aaron Jezek was sent to Nebraska Medical Center about a woman who appeared to be passed out in a lane of traffic in a still-running truck, her foot on the brake.
When Jezek woke the driver, Harbison, she was lethargic and her speech slurred. A second officer who arrived, Matt McGinn, described her as "out of it" and mumbling.
Jezek detained her and called Bellevue EMS to determine if she needed medical help. EMTs Jason Weber and Erin McCormick talked with Harbison, who said she just wanted to go home.
They left, telling the officers she had refused to go to a hospital and was denying any medical care.
Though, Universal Patient Care guidelines used by their department say if a patient is deemed incompetent, the patient must be transported to a hospital. The standard operating procedures say that an incompetent individual includes someone who is intoxicated.
"While their medical evaluation certainly could have been more thorough, they simply did not observe many of the tell-tale signs showing Harbison’s medical need," Rossiter said in his order last week. "At most, their quick evaluation and failure to follow Bellevue Fire procedures was grossly negligent, but that is not enough."
After the EMTs left, Jezek and McGinn did a sobriety check, where Harbison smelled of alcohol and had difficulty walking a straight line and couldn't perform other tests at all.
When they arrested her for DUI, her BAC tested 0.34%, which McGinn said was higher than he'd ever seen. So they took her to jail, where staff came to believe she had been medically cleared.
She was put on a 15-minute watch but never was screened by the nurse. She was checked 28 times that night and into the next morning, with staff finding her asleep on the toilet, with spit coming out of her mouth, with vomit on her bed and the floor at different times.
In jail video, staffers said they weren't cleaning it up and joked about whether to take her to a hospital. One said she had never "been worried like this before," but never contacted the jail nurse.
When Harbison was found on the floor, snoring, Sgt. Mark Shiller instructed staffers to leave her there.
At 2:01 a.m., they found the 37-year-old unresponsive and performed CPR, but she died.
Rossiter said the jail employees who were sued knew of Harbison’s dangerously high BAC during her booking process, but Harbison was otherwise alert and able to answer questions. Jezek also told them she had been “medically cleared” by EMS.
The judge said viewing the circumstances together, he didn't believe a reasonable jury could find Shiller and the correctional officers acted with deliberate indifference.
"Though these defendants could have done more and certainly should have treated Harbison with more respect, the plaintiff has not established these defendants had 'a mental state akin to criminal recklessness,'" Rossiter said.
Now, if officers bring anyone to the jail whose BAC is above 0.2% — 2 1/2 times above the legal limit — those individuals need to be cleared by a hospital first. Before this, there wasn't a cut-off BAC. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/judge-dismisses-police-emts-and-jailers-from-lawsuit-over-womans-death-at-sarpy-county-jail/article_a2fce341-f445-532d-97de-7b428cceb09a.html | 2022-08-13T21:22:56 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/judge-dismisses-police-emts-and-jailers-from-lawsuit-over-womans-death-at-sarpy-county-jail/article_a2fce341-f445-532d-97de-7b428cceb09a.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — More than a year after a deadly mass shooting on Austin's Sixth Street, more than 60 Austin Police Department officers who responded to the shooting will be honored on Saturday night.
The Austin Police Association and the Austin Police Retired Officers Association have partnered to host an awards dinner for the 63 officers who responded to the June 12 shooting.
Austin Police Department Chief of Staff Robin Henderson will recognize each officer by presenting officers with service awards and medals.
On Saturday, June 12, 2021, shots were fired into a large crowd in the entertainment district on Sixth Street. One man died and more than a dozen others were injured in the shooting. Douglas John Cantor, 25, died as a result of his injuries. He was in town while visiting from New York.
His family is expected to attend the awards dinner.
The suspected gunman in the case, De'Ondre White, faces a murder charge for Kantor's death and 14 counts of aggravated assault for the people injured that night in June. Another suspect in the case, Jeremiah Tabb, is accused of evidence tampering in the case.
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The Wayne County community continues to rally to support a critically wounded Richmond Police officer.
Officer Seara Burton remains in critical condition in a Dayton Ohio hospital after she was shot in the line of duty Wednesday.
(Note: The attached video is a previous 13News report on a vigil held Aug. 2 to pray for Officer Burton.)
There have been a number of fundraisers across the area, and another is set for Sunday.
Richmond Police shared information online about "Smiley's Pub 5th Annual Golf Scramble."
It's set for the Highland Lake Golf Course in Richmond Sunday, Aug. 14.
State police said Burton was assisting other officers with a traffic stop in the area of 12th and C streets around 6:30 p.m. Aug. 10. The Richmond Police Narcotics Unit was conducting an operation when they saw 47-year-old Phillip M. Lee stop at a detached garage and believed a drug transaction happened.
Lee's moped was stopped by officers and Burton was called in to assist with her K-9 partner, Brev. During an "open-air sniff" of the moped, police said the dog indicated the possible presence of narcotics. The stop was being recorded on video by a narcotics officer north of the stop.
According to court documents, while officers were speaking with Lee, he allegedly pulled out a concealed firearm and shot several rounds toward officers. Court documents claim video of the incident shows Lee aiming at the officers' "head and facial areas." Burton was struck by the gunfire.
Hundreds of people attended a vigil to pray for Burton Friday evening. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/sunday-fundraiser-set-to-benefit-wounded-richmond-police-officer-seara-burton-golf-scramble-wayne/531-c05b8645-c120-446e-8042-f130516ca7e1 | 2022-08-13T21:30:00 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/sunday-fundraiser-set-to-benefit-wounded-richmond-police-officer-seara-burton-golf-scramble-wayne/531-c05b8645-c120-446e-8042-f130516ca7e1 |
RICHMOND, Ind. — We've received an update on the K-9 whose police partner in Richmond was shot in the line of duty.
Richmond Police said Saturday Officer Seara Burton's partner, Brev, was taken to a local kennel the night someone shot Officer Burton during a traffic stop.
(Note: The attached video is a previous 13News report on a vigil held Aug. 2 to pray for Officer Burton.)
One of the department's former K-9 handlers is now caring for Brev at home with his family.
We also asked for an update on Officer Burton's condition but have yet to receive any updates. At last check, she remained hospitalized in critical condition.
State police said Burton was assisting other officers with a traffic stop in the area of 12th and C streets around 6:30 p.m. Aug. 10. The Richmond Police Narcotics Unit was conducting an operation when they saw 47-year-old Phillip M. Lee stop at a detached garage and believed a drug transaction happened.
Lee's moped was stopped by officers and Burton was called in to assist with her K-9 partner, Brev. During an "open-air sniff" of the moped, police said the dog indicated the possible presence of narcotics. The stop was being recorded on video by a narcotics officer north of the stop.
According to court documents, while officers were speaking with Lee, he allegedly pulled out a concealed firearm and shot several rounds toward officers. Court documents claim video of the incident shows Lee aiming at the officers' "head and facial areas." Burton was struck by the gunfire. An officer next to her was nearly shot in the head. Other officers on the scene returned fire, and Lee shot at them as he ran away.
“He just pulled the gun and fired. He was just so close to her. She didn’t stand a chance. It’s just not fair to her. It’s not fair to her family," said Michelle Partin, who is Lee's neighbor and witnessed the shooting. “He fired one shot and pop and there was a slight pause and then pop, pop, pop where [officers] returned fire and there was anywhere from 10 to 15 shots.”
Hundreds of people attended a prayer vigil at Richmond's Municipal Building Friday evening. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wounded-richmond-officers-k-9-partner-staying-with-former-handler-care-dog-police/531-967d13e7-bdb2-4388-9a4f-7733ee4a781f | 2022-08-13T21:30:06 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/wounded-richmond-officers-k-9-partner-staying-with-former-handler-care-dog-police/531-967d13e7-bdb2-4388-9a4f-7733ee4a781f |
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. — The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is looking for three people after a gas station in Tampa was robbed in the early morning on Tuesday, Aug. 9, according to a news release.
Deputies say in a statement that around 3:57 a.m the three individuals entered the Circle K located near the intersection of Ehrlich Road and Hutchinson Road with covered faces and wearing hoodies.
Per the sheriff's office, one of the individuals was carrying a sharp object and pointed it at the clerk, while the other two loaded up trash cans and a red container with tobacco products.
The agency says in the surveillance video three can be seen getting into a physical altercation with the store clerk.
"It is sickening to see these crooks take advantage of a business, and harm a clerk who's just trying to make an honest living," Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement. "We're asking our community to work with us as we investigate this robbery. We will not tolerate this illegal and violent behavior in Hillsborough County."
It is unknown which direction they went in when leaving the store.
Anyone with information about the incident or people involved is urged to contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office at (813) 247-8200. If you would like to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay at 1-800-873-TIPS (8477). | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/gas-station-robbery-tampa-three-men/67-411a7a5b-6643-49ed-86c4-4f6dc7e0f675 | 2022-08-13T21:33:55 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/gas-station-robbery-tampa-three-men/67-411a7a5b-6643-49ed-86c4-4f6dc7e0f675 |
TAMPA, Fla — Have you seen Leon?
The Tampa Police Department is searching for a missing 78-year-old man last seen leaving his home on Friday.
Around 11 p.m., Leon Iverson reportedly left his home located in the area of North Nebraska Avenue and East Ida Street.
According to Tampa police, he is 5-foot tall with grey dreadlocks and a grey mustache. Police say he was last seen wearing a light grey polo shirt with black and white stripes, grey pants and red and grey Nike sneakers.
The Tampa Police Department and the Iverson family are concerned for his
safety. Anyone with information is asked to contact our non-emergency number at 813-231-6130. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/leon-iverson-missing-tampa/67-b5d2655d-f094-4091-9c51-330ffa02739e | 2022-08-13T21:34:01 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/leon-iverson-missing-tampa/67-b5d2655d-f094-4091-9c51-330ffa02739e |
HIGHLANDS COUNTY, Fla. — A man and woman were arrested in the murder of a 3-year-old child Saturday, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.
Authorities say 33-year-old Monica Williams and Daquan Lindsey, 25, were the caregivers of Brandy Crews.
Police explained that Crews was brought to a hospital on Aug. 9 unresponsive and with severe head injuries. Police say the child had multiple cuts, burns and injuries all over her body in various stages of healing.
The 3-year-old died from her injuries on Friday.
Williams and Lindsey also face child abuse and child neglect charges for a young boy in their care, while that child's injuries are not life-threatening, he has been removed from the home, authorities wrote in a statement.
Police say two additional children under the age of 14 were also removed from the home. In total, there were four children living in the residence.
This is an ongoing investigation, according to authorities. Williams and Lindsey remain in the Pinellas County Jail, records show.
Police say due to the confidential nature of the case, no information that can identify the remaining children will be released, including the address of the victims and the relationship of the caregivers to the children. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/brandy-crews-monica-williams-daquan-lindsey-child-murder-st-pete/67-311c722c-874b-446f-ada2-500656067922 | 2022-08-13T21:34:07 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/brandy-crews-monica-williams-daquan-lindsey-child-murder-st-pete/67-311c722c-874b-446f-ada2-500656067922 |
It is back to school Monday for the third and final wave of Dallas ISD students.
800 of those learners are set to step foot into the newly renovated Franklin D. Roosevelt High School of Innovation. The campus received a nearly 64 million dollar facelift under a 2015 bond.
Excitement is building inside the new Franklin D. Roosevelt High School of Innovation from students present and past.
Yvonne Silver graduated from Roosevelt High in 1972.
“Hopefully with the changes being made, it’ll bring more people back in and back into the school, and be as excited as we were back in our days,” said alumna Silver.
The original campus was 75% demolished to make room for interior and exterior renovations. These additions include a new library and media room, a restaurant and storage space to support the culinary arts program and a new main secured entrance.
“It says something to the scholars when they come in and see the renovations. Because when we tell them we do what’s best for kids, they can walk into this building and see we truly do what’s best for kids,” said LaKisha Thomas, Principal of Franklin D. Roosevelt High School of Innovation.
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Alumni from years past were recognized inside the auditorium during the ceremony. Former Dallas ISD Superintendent Dr. Michael Hinojosa grew up and taught nearby. He championed the project that transformed the 58-year-old Oak Cliff campus into a modern learning complex.
“I’m really excited where the school district is going and I’m really proud of everyone for making this happen,” said Dr. Hinojosa.
There will be stepped-up security this school year and all employees have all gone through extra training in case of an emergency. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-isds-franklin-d-roosevelt-high-school-unveils-new-renovations/3047673/ | 2022-08-13T21:35:28 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-isds-franklin-d-roosevelt-high-school-unveils-new-renovations/3047673/ |
GREENUP COUNTY, KY (WOWK) — The Greenup County Coroner’s Officer announced they found the remains of a 30-year-old man in Russell, Kentucky on Thursday.
The man was identified as Christopher Thomas Del Rosario from San Pedro, California.
The Coroner’s Office says they were unsuccessful in numerous attempts to make contact with the family.
Anyone with information should contact Greenup County Coroner Neil Wright at (606) 473-9861 or director@zoominternet.net. Anyone with information can also contact Detective Joe Dixon of the Russell Police Department at (606) 836-3822 or joe.dixon@russellky.net.
No information will be provided by the Coroner’s Office at this time, as this remains an open investigation. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/greenup-co-coroner-finds-remains-of-30-year-old-man/ | 2022-08-13T21:42:59 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/greenup-co-coroner-finds-remains-of-30-year-old-man/ |
City council to vote on tenant discrimination, Community of Hope master plan
LAS CRUCES - The Las Cruces City Council will consider measures Monday to support renters against discrimination, to approve a master plan for a local homelessness assistance organization and to approve the issuance of bonds for fire department equipment.
At an Aug. 15 regular meeting, councilors will consider a resolution supporting legislation at the state level to prohibit landlords from discriminating against prospective tenants based on their income. The resolution wouldn't support a specific bill but rather calls on the state legislature to "develop landlord/tenant reform" that protects tenants from income discrimination.
The council will also consider the approval of a master plan for the future development of the Mesilla Valley Community of Hope. The plan defines an "ultimate buildout" for the city-owned property at 999 West Amador Avenue. The MVCH assists people who are unhoused or housing insecure, and its campus includes Camp Hope, a transitional community with temporary shelter for the unhoused; Amador Health Center, El Caldito Soup Kitchen, Jardin de Los Niños, a child daycare service; and Casa de Peregrinos, a food bank.
On June 6, the plan was reviewed and approved by the city's Development Review Committee, a workgroup consisting of representatives from the Las Cruces Public Works Department, Community Development Department, Las Cruces Utilities, Las Cruces Fire Department, Facilities, Metropolitan Planning Organization, Parks and Recreation Department and Transit.
The council will also consider an ordinance to approve the issuance and sale of $5 million in subordinate lien state-shared gross receipts tax improvement revenue bonds to fund the purchase of two fire engines and two aerial fire trucks for LCFD.
The council meeting will be held in council chambers at City Hall, 700 N. Main Street at 1 p.m. Aug. 15. It will also be broadcast live on Comcast cable channel 20 and in high definition on channel 298. It will be livestreamed on YouTube at YouTube.com/clctv20 and will be available at clctv.com.
Michael McDevitt is a city and county government reporter for the Sun-News. He can be reached at 575-202-3205, mmcdevitt@lcsun-news.com or @MikeMcDTweets on Twitter.
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Las Cruces Utilities Internship Program signs new student
The newest signee to the Las Cruces Utilities Internship Program, Jeremiah Avery, is moving to Las Cruces to continue to expand his college experience and to explore and cultivate his new career opportunities. On Friday, Aug, 12, Avery signed on for his full scholarship to Doña Ana Community College in the Water Technology Program, and to simultaneously gain work experience with LCU.
“I’m excited to get both the college experience and long-term career opportunities,” said Avery, a Socorro High School graduate who had already taken online classes from Socorro, New Mexico. He explained that he has not yet determined a preference between water or wastewater yet, but he is ready to work in both and learn more about the science.
Avery was recognized at a signing ceremony Friday afternoon, Aug. 12, at the LCU Administration Building. The competitive internships can be valued at up to $42,500 when considering housing, food, books, other fees associated with the program and certifications. In addition, Avery will work up to 20 hours of paid work a week, working on the same assignments as regular crews — pending certifications that he will receive through working and testing.
“We want to instill in our interns the importance of taking this commitment to school and work seriously, we take it seriously too and celebrate them for making the choice,” said LCU Assistant Director Adrienne Widmer.
With the internship, Avery already has a steady job lined up after graduation since interns commit to working with LCU after graduation. Interns work anywhere from six months to nine years with LCU after graduation, depending on how much financial assistance they receive from the internship program. The graduates work in one of the following lines of business: Water Operations and Maintenance; Wastewater Operations and Maintenance; or Utilities Environmental.
The LCU Internship Program has been operating for about four years and has developed a handful of graduates. The scholarships help to ensure the continuation of reliable, safe drinking water for the City of Las Cruces, and reliable wastewater service for the future. Since New Mexico passed a bill in March 2022 that waived tuition for students attending in-state public schools or tribal colleges, LCU now has the potential to give even more opportunities for students interested in the internship in the future.
“A new stipulation is that all applicants must take at least two classes within the Water Technology program to give them an idea of what they’d be getting into,” said Widmer. “We have instructors from LCU who also teach at DACC and can answer real-world questions about what the work is like and if the opportunity would be right for the student.”
For more information on the LCU Internship Program: https://www.las-cruces.org/1243/Internship-Program.
LCU – Your Utility Connection. Customer Central can be reached at 575-541-2111 from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. LCU provides clean, safe, and reliable services to Las Cruces residents and businesses. Learn more at las-cruces.org/180/Utilities. For emergencies, call Dispatch at 575-526-0500.
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First woman U.S. Marshal for New Mexico receives prestigious award
WASHINGTON, D.C. - United States Marshal for the District of New Mexico Sonya K. Chavez received the 2022 Women in Federal Law Enforcement Foundation President’s Award at the Women in Federal Law Enforcement 22nd Annual Leadership Training in Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday, Aug. 10.
WIFLE presented the award, given to individuals for outstanding achievement in government service, to Chavez for her multi-decade commitment to public service and advancement and influence of women in federal law enforcement. Chavez led the U.S. Marshals Service effort to increase diversity and the number of female deputy U.S. marshals through her appointment to the US Marshals Advisory Council.
"Marshal Chavez is an exceptional leader who has had a remarkable career as a public servant," said U.S. Marshals Service Director Ronald L. Davis, who attended the event. "She is an inspiration not only to those in the USMS, but those throughout law enforcement."
Since her appointment as U.S. Marshal in 2018, Chavez has overseen several statewide enforcement operations that removed more than 1,000 violent fugitives from the streets. Earlier this year, the multi-agency, USMS-led Operation Blue Crush resulted in the arrest of more than 300 offenders and removed approximately 100 guns and 119 pounds of fentanyl from New Mexico communities.
She also led the USMS pandemic response to safeguard the health of federal detainees in New Mexico from COVID-19 and supported the agency’s Operational Medical Support Unit in administering COVID-19 vaccinations to members of the Navajo Nation and other Indian tribes.
Chavez is responsible for the protection of 30 federal judges and the safeguarding of five federal courthouses and facilities, as part of the USMS’s overall mission to protect the federal judicial process.
Prior to her appointment, she worked 22 years as an FBI special agent in Chicago and Albuquerque, and served on the FBI’s Special Agent Advisory Committee as part of a team advocating for extended maternity leave and the continuation of a part-time program for special agents that provided more flexibility for female agents.
“I am honored to accept this award on behalf of the motivated and talented people who are incredibly committed to the Marshals Service mission,” Chavez said. “My job is to remind them of their value and their talent and to find innovative ways to motivate them and inspire them.”
Chavez uses unorthodox ways to boost morale in the office, such as “story time” for her employees, which started with reading a book about teamwork, service, building strong relationships and change. “Story time” became so popular with her staff that they developed their own schedule to read books together every year.
Chavez grew up in a small town in Torrance County, New Mexico, and graduated from Moriarty High School. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and mass communication from New Mexico State University, a Master of Public Administration degree from the University of New Mexico and completed post-graduate work in intercultural communication. She was recently named Distinguished Alumni for New Mexico State University.
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NJ Transit on Saturday afternoon reported the Atlantic City Rail Line is experiencing up to 45-minute delays in both directions due to signal issues.
The rail and bus agency had previously reported delays up to 90 and later 60 minutes, and several trains were canceled during the day.
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ALBANY — Of all things, businessman Milan Patel has found a measure of inspiration in his career from a song by punk rock band Green Day. The song? “Boulevard of Broken Dreams.”
“That was my life,” Patel, who with long-time business partner Umong Patel (no relation) and other business and investment groups in the region is one of the most active developers in Albany and southwest Georgia, said during a recent conversation. “Here I was having made my first million dollars by the time I was 25, believing the greatest thing in life was to be rich.
“That period of time, though, of putting all my eggs in one basket and building a lodging/hotel portfolio, turned out to be the worst thing I ever did and the best thing I ever did. It was the worst because I ended up losing pretty much everything I had; I went through the shame of having my house foreclosed on, my name in the paper. It was the best thing because it forced me to reset my life.”
Patel and his business partners have since had their names attached to some of the most well-known businesses in northwest Albany and southwest Georgia, as owners or landlords of businesses like Olive Garden, Newk’s, Edible Arrangements, Dairy Queen, Bottom’s Up, Lucky’s, Steak and Shake, Panera Bread, property at the Albany Mall, new locations for the Georgia Department of Revenue and Habitat for Humanity.
From survival mode in the wake of the Great Recession of 2008-2009, Patel’s vision now is focused on service, to his business partners, to the people who works in his establishments and to the community that has, at long last, become his home.
“Winston Churchill said, ‘Service is the rent we pay to live our lives,’” Patel said. “I found my way when I decided it was time to live a purpose-driven life, to not just build things, but to build relationships with family, with community, with friends. I’m at a position in my life where I want to make a positive difference.”
Patel’s ascension and position in life did not come attached to a silver spoon. Born in Edison, N.J., to immigrant parents, his family moved to Newnan, Ga., in the summer of ‘92 when Patel’s father realized the opportunity to own a hotel in the middle Georgia city. There, he learned some of the harsh realities of an undeclared caste system in his home country.
“I resented when I was younger the way we had to live,” he says. “I resented that we lived in a hotel room, that entrepreneurial way of life. But as I grew older I learned to appreciate it, to realize that often in life you have to make the most of what you have.”
After graduating high school, Patel applied to and got into the University of Georgia — “I love that movie ‘Rudy,’ the determination of the lead character. Like when he walked into that big football stadium determined to play for Notre Dame, I was determined to go to a Tier 1 school, and I realized that at UGA.”
In Athens, Patel met his long-time business partner Umong Patel in a weight room at the university, and together they started what would turn into — with a few bumps along the way — one of Georgia’s most successful grassroots business development groups.
The pair started with The Winery, a liquor store they bought from Ed Duffy — “He could have sold it to a lot of other people, but I think he wanted us to have it.” — and expanded into the hotel/lodging industry. Then came the Great Recession.
“It was unbelievable; I’d never seen a run on a bank before,” Patel said. “Every day I’d drive by seeing people waiting in line, trying to get their money out of banks. I think we can all say thank goodness for the strength of the FDIC.
“I just didn’t believe things would stay bad, and I kept feeding money into a system that was off 80%. I kept thinking things would get better.”
They didn’t. And one day a process server showed up and told Patel his properties were being foreclosed upon.
“I couldn’t believe it was happening to me, but there was nothing to do but walk away,” he said.
Patel went to a job fair and was offered a position managing a Waffle House restaurant, but his heart wasn’t truly in it.
“I went to the guy who offered me the job and said, ‘You’re going to hire me, but this is not the job for me. If I recommend someone, would you consider him?’” Patel said. “The guy said yes, and I introduced him to my brother, Vik, who’d started working at a McDonald’s when our businesses failed. They gave Vik the job, and he went from managing one to two to three to six to 10 restaurants. Now he’s the vice president of the company’s Birmingham properties.”
Patel was down, but he refused to concede to the foreclosure on his property.
“My mortgage was $2,600 a month, and I was only able to scrape together $1,000,” he said. “I was doing construction work, odds and ends, and both Vik and my wife were working. I went to see the lawyer of the company that owned the mortgage, and I told him, ‘I can’t let you take my house.’ He said there was nothing he could do about it; that he couldn’t refinance my mortgage.
“I asked him if he knew how much a bag of cement cost. He looked at me, puzzled. I told him if he tried to take my house, $20 bucks later I could fix it where he’d never be able to sell the house. He ended up putting the amount I was behind in arrears, and I was allowed to start over.”
Patel easily got into grad school at Emery University with a new plan: “I will never get involved in business again; I will work the rest of my life for someone else.”
But Patel was smart enough to know a business opportunity when he saw one, and when he got the chance to purchase a failing Holiday Inn in Albany for “20 cents on the dollar,” he took it. “We cleaned that property, spent all of our time there, working to upgrade it, and after about two months we got it re-opened,” Patel said. “We ran the hotel, but we knew the real value was the property.”
So Patel took a shot at giving Albany what it had been clamoring for: an Olive Garden restaurant.
“We were able to do a deal on that property, and that lifted us up,” he said.
Over the next several years, a large number of the high-profile business deals in and around Albany involved the Patels and other partners. And soon the slightly blighted northwest Albany property around the then-badly aging Albany Mall came alive with new, more upscale businesses.
“There are essentially two sides to our business: ownership and being commercial landlord,” Patel said. “We either get deeply involved in a property, or we use it as an incubator to bring in other investment dollars.”
There are developments on the horizon: Milan and Umong Patel either own outright or jointly 10 acres of land in the Albany Mall, they’re involved in the new Pop Shelf development behind the Panera Bread property, and they’re reaching out into other segments of the region.
Which begs the question: Are you always on the lookout for potential new development opportunities?
“I can honestly say at this point in my life and my career, I am not looking,” Patel said. “If something interesting comes our way, we’ll give it our best. But we’re not out actively looking. There will come a point in the next 10-15 years where I know I will be looking at a life with less responsibility. But I’m in the stage of my career where I’m going to do the things that interest me, and I’m at a point where I want to help the next generation of business owners.”
And, Patel admits, unless there is some golden opportunity that drags him away, he’ll be doing that work in and around southwest Georgia.
“I sold The Winery because I couldn’t wait to get out of Albany,” Patel said. “I planned on heading back home (to Newnan) and never looking back. But there is a word in the Indian culture, ‘nasip,’ that translates to ‘your fate.’ About a year after I started having some success with some developments here, my mother told me, ‘You need to quit fighting the fact that Albany is your home now.’
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VALPARAISO — Two hundred and forty eight acres of rolling farmland on the city's East Side will soon be transformed into Valparaiso's largest park.
The Valparaiso/Center Township Board of Parks and Recreation envisions a space full of recreational fields and walking trails.
Stretching from Vale Park Road on the south all the way to 500 North, the new park is part of the "Valparaiso for all Generations" parks department initiative announced in February of this year. Valparaiso for all Generations grew out of the parks department master plan that was released in 2020.
Using the focus group and survey responses received during the master planning process, the parks department crafted the Valparaiso for all Generations initiative. With the goal of serving residents of all ages, the initiative includes upgrading and maintaining the city's existing "Legacy Parks," completing the new skate park at Fairgrounds Park, creating an Adult Center for Enrichment at the former Whispering Pines Nursing Home and, of course, the Community Sports and Recreation Complex, which will be part of the 248-acre park.
During a Thursday night special meeting, the park board approved a $295,000 schematic design contract with Indianapolis-based Browning Day architecture firm. Browning Day has until Oct. 3 to complete the design, then the actual construction design will begin. Executive Director of Parks John Seibert said there will be opportunities for public input throughout the design process.
After the Valparaiso for all Generations project was unveiled, the parks department held multiple open houses to hear public feedback. While the design process is not done, Seibert said the outdoor complex will likely have softball and soccer fields, pickleball courts and natural trails that can be used for walking or cross country.
If the project receives all the necessary approvals, construction will go out to bid at the start of 2023 with a groundbreaking in March. The goal is to complete the construction by June 2024, before the 2024 summer season.
The Valparaiso Redevelopment Commission purchased the 248 acres from Polly Horton Hix and Patko for a total of just under $4.7 million. The American Rescue Act Plan spending plan the City Council approved in March included using ARPA funds to reimburse the RDC for the $4.7 million.
At the March City Council meeting at which the plan was approved with a 5-1 vote, multiple speakers opposed spending ARPA money on the land purchase, arguing all of the funds should instead go toward residents most negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
During a Thursday afternoon meeting, the RDC approved a reimbursement request to begin the process of receiving the ARPA funds.
Over the next two years, the vacant field that sits near I-65 and 109th Avenue in Crown Point will be transformed into UChicago Medicine's largest off-site facility.
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RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Teddy Ray, a comedian and actor who appeared on the HBO Max series “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” has died, authorities confirmed on Saturday. He was 32.
Entertainment companies and some of Ray’s fellow comedians reacted with sadness to the news of Ray’s death.
“Teddy Ray was a hilarious and beloved performer,” TV network Comedy Central said in a Twitter statement. “He’ll be deeply missed by the entire comedy community.”
All Def Digital, a multi-platform media company that Ray had collaborated with, tweeted that it was “heartbroken” about the news of Ray’s death. “We will miss him every day but we know he will have Heaven laughing,” the tweet read.
Ray appeared as the bailiff on “PAUSE with Sam Jay,” appeared in the digital series Cancel Court, and was a stand-up comedian.
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An 82-year-old man died when a Freightliner truck crossed the center median of Interstate 20 and crashed into another vehicle east of Midland on Friday afternoon, according to the Department of Public Safety.
DPS reported Saturday that Granvil Lee Oden of Lovington, New Mexico, died at the scene after a Freightliner Columbia collided with Jeep Laredo as Oden was traveling on I-20 east of Midland near South County Road 1150.
DPS reported that the Freightliner was traveling east on I-20 when the driver lost control of the vehicle, veered across the center median and into westbound lanes, striking the Jeep Laredo head on. A third vehicle avoided the Freightliner but was struck by debris, according to DPS.
The driver of the Freightliner, a Laredo man, was treated and released from Midland Memorial Hospital.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc. announced (Aug. 11) a collaboration with the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas that includes the Lowell-based carrier giving $1.5 million to its supply chain department and renaming it after the company.
According to a news release, the two entities are working together to make “Northwest Arkansas an epicenter for developing tomorrow’s industry and its leaders.” The money will be used to enhance the UA’s supply chain department, which has been renamed the J.B. Hunt Transport Department of Supply Chain Management.
In a Thursday event at the company’s headquarters, J.B. Hunt and UA leaders noted the company is the first to name a supply chain department and emphasized that Gartner recently ranked it No. 1 in North America. The department’s graduate program is ranked No. 2.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — Traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport is slowly recovering from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns in 2020, and Airport Director Michael Griffin estimates a new connection to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport or a major northeast hub could happen in 2023.
Enplanements at the airport in the first seven months of 2022 totals 35,427, up 24.8% compared with the same period in 2021. The total is down 52% compared with the same period in 2019, the year before the pandemic hit when enplanements totaled 95,670 for the year. July 2022 enplanements were 5,823, up 14.9% compared with 5,068 in July 2021.
U.S. enplanements through May totaled 76.108 million, the latest data available from the U.S. Department of Transportation, up 31.3% compared with the same period in 2021.
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GLENBURN, Maine — At least two-dozen seniors are displaced after a fire started on the second floor of Sunny Gables Senior Citizen's Home in Glenburn on Friday.
The Penobscot Regional Communications Center activated the first-alarm fire at approximately 11:00 p.m. at the building located at 961 Hudson Road. It upgraded the response to a third alarm fire due to the number of tenants and some had difficulty getting out of the building, according to the Glenburn Fire Department's Facebook post.
Glenburn Fire Department Chief Chris Lavoie said the fire started while a tenant was cooking. Grease caught fire causing smoke to spread throughout the second floor.
Firefighters were able to contain the fire and help at least a dozen tenants out of the building, added Lavoie. According to the Facebook post, first responders searched each apartment to ensure everyone was out safe.
Emergency workers are teaming up with the American Red Cross of Maine to help relocate the seniors because the building is closed until further notice.
Lavoie said there were no injuries.
The chief added, the living facility does not have sprinklers and he doesn't know when it will reopen. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/fire-at-glenburn-living-facility-displaces-at-least-a-two-dozen-seniors-glenburn-maine/97-1d6db877-179c-4f0b-a24f-56d86d1d6eac | 2022-08-13T22:30:33 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/fire-at-glenburn-living-facility-displaces-at-least-a-two-dozen-seniors-glenburn-maine/97-1d6db877-179c-4f0b-a24f-56d86d1d6eac |
ATLANTIC CITY — The Boardwalk was packed Saturday afternoon with thousands of people in cowboy hats, boots and daisy dukes waiting patiently in clusters for their chance to get on the beach.
Atlantic City police and LiveNation employees directed the thousands of out-of-towners to one of two beach stages, or the closest bar and bathroom. Public works and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority kept the Boardwalk and beach clean for the other passersby who weren't there to catch the TidalWave Music Festival.
Country music fans and people just looking for a good time were excited for the start of the inaugural three-day festival.
"The vibes are great. We like music and sitting on the beach, so this is the perfect setting for that," said Vicky Long, 28, who came to TidalWave with her fiancé, Alexis Borbor, 45.
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The couple from Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, came to TidalWave on the suggestion of a buddy of Borbor who is a big country music fan. They aren't big country music fans, but they're familiar with popular country songs that play on the radio. After Long looked at the lineup and saw some familiar names, like Luke Bryan, Blanco Brown and Dierks Bentley, they decided to buy tickets for Friday's show.
They then decided to come back for Saturday's show to enjoy the great weather, music and "chill vibes" on the beach.
"Everybody's here to have a good time. Nobody really cares about anything, just enjoying themselves," Long said.
There were plenty of stands selling cowboy hats, booze and handing out free merch. Long also liked that Dee Jay Silver played a variety of music between sets.
"For the first year having it, it's very well run," said Long, who was surprised he didn't have to wait a long time for food, drinks or a bathroom, as opposed to other concerts he's been to.
Lisa Stricker came down from Reading, Pennsylvania, with her husband and two neighbors for all three days of the festival. Stricker said she and her husband love country music, and the show had "lots of good artists" and a great lineup.
Stricker said she's a "beach girl," so having a country concert on the sand was a unique experience for her. It also brought an upbeat, positive energy to the festival, which is why she loves country music and concerts.
The "little village of neat stuff" from vendors was also a nice touch, she said.
Liquor companies had unique setups, including botanical gardens by Tangueray, blue crystals in stones on the beach by SKYY vodka and a green Jeep to complement Patron's stand. There was also cornhole, a body paint/glitter station, mini monster truck racing and other activities.
There also was a Rock the Ocean section, in which organizations like the Marine Mammal Stranding Center and the American Littoral Society educated people about marine conservation. Sharks4Kids and Rock the Ocean offered a 360-degree virtual reality shark dive.
"It's a really cool concept having so many artists in one place," said Stricker, who has been to other country music concerts and festivals, but none quite like TidalWave. "I'm a huge Luke Bryan and Morgan Wallen fan."
Plenty of people could be seen walking the Boardwalk with their Wallen shirts, American flag apparel and swimsuits with cowboy hats.
People could be seen on the beach enjoying the company of friends on the sand while holding coozies that kept their Miller Lite or Bud Light cold. The laughter mixed with shouts from rowdy drunk cowboys and shrills from excited cowgirls, all drowned out by loud country tunes. There were also plenty of boats, sailboats, personal watercraft and paddleboarders enjoying the show from the ocean.
Beverly Weaver, 51, was walking back from the bar with a margarita in hand to meet her sister Deborah Blosnich, 52. The two sisters from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, love country music and were only at the show because Blosnich's son forgot he ordered tickets a while ago. When the forgotten tickets came to Blosnich's house, she said, "Bev, lets go."
"We love country music and the beach, so it's a great combo," said Blosnich, who also mentioned her son wasn't mad that the two ladies went in his stead.
"There are all kinds of country fans here," said Weaver. "I like country music because it's not angry music, there's no curse words and it's very patriotic. I love my country, and it's literally 'I love my country' music they sing in their lyrics."
The ladies said they don't come to Atlantic City often, but they said listening to live music on the beach, while having the option to be "up there in the thick of it, or sitting back and enjoying everything" was a nice touch.
More than 30 artists performed on two stages over the weekend, including headliners like Bryan, Wallen and Dierks Bentley on the main stage. Other artists like Restless Road, Filmore and Dillon Carmichael played on the Next from Nashville stage.
Landon Parker was happy to be one of the artists who were able to pour their hearts out to the thousands on the beach Saturday afternoon.
Parker is a rising country singer and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee, who was at TidalWave performing three new songs, "Good Beer Drinkin'," "Up for Anything" and "Caught Me a Good Time," in preparation for his debut album coming out in March. Parker has recorded with artists like Dolly Parton, and mixes traditional country with modern lyrics for a new era of "honky-tonk twang" for the 21st century, he said.
"I have butterflies, but I'm excited to see the crowd," Parker said before performing his second festival show of the year Saturday.
When he performs, he tries to get people to sing along with him, clap or even join him on stage, which is why he loves country music. The sometimes rowdy and positive vibrations from crowd are also what makes performing for country fans fun, he said.
"It's a big crowd, so I'm going to put on the best show I can," said Parker, who went on the Next from Nashville stage about 4:20 p.m. Saturday.
Each day of the show started at 1 p.m., although artists didn't hit the stage until at least 2.
Blosnich and Weaver were there for Wallen and "everyone after 6 p.m." until the show's 11 p.m. ending.
"I would do it again, and we couldn't have asked for better weather this weekend," Long said.
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GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — The word "dodgeball" usually makes people think of a fun sport in grade school gym class, or maybe a 2004 comedy called "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story."
But dodgeball is a serious and growing sport with a U.S. National Team.
The USA Dodgeball Premier Tour held an event at Stockton University's Sports Center on Saturday. Six matches were sometimes being played at once. The event had about 150 players, all wearing colorful uniforms. Many players traveled hundreds of miles to be there.
It still seemed like fun, and nobody got mad about being hit.
Matches were 6-on-6 and lasted eight minutes. There were three divisions: Open 8.5 (mostly men. The ball is 8.5 inches in diameter.), Women's No-sting (with a smaller, softer ball) and Coed No-sting (three men and three women on each team). After round-robin play in the preliminary rounds in the morning, the divisions had single-elimination matches in the afternoon.
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The women's champion was Envy, and the Open 8.5 winner was Anarchy.
John Hillan, 34, and wife Leah Hankins, 33, play for Willows Wreck, a team of 15 players that made a 4.5-hour drive from Lexington Park, Maryland. Hillan was on the U.S. National Team in 2014.
"I think it's a lot of fun, but there's more to it than you might think," said Hillan, adding his team practices every Thursday. "It's a unique sport, and I've been playing it about 17 years. I've been to (Las) Vegas playing. Sometimes it hurts (playing 8.5) if you get hit in the face."
Hankins didn't mind the long trip.
"This is our first trip to Atlantic City. We're staying there right now," she said. "I'm looking forward to seeing the Boardwalk and going to the beach."
Brothers Daniel and Zach Fernald both played club dodgeball at the University of Maryland. They now play for DMV Grizzlies (DMV an acronym for D.C., Maryland and Virginia. Teammates were from different states on several teams.
"I played baseball (in high school), but there wasn't much opportunity to do that at Maryland," said Daniel Fernald, 22. "I took up dodgeball. It's club, but we played teams from all over the country, like Ohio State, Michigan State, James Madison, Penn State. It's a growing sport. There's about 30 schools that have it, and it's only going to get bigger."
Tama Anoai, 24, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, played for Goat, which consisted of seven players.
"I've been playing since 2014," Anoai said. "I played baseball four years in high school, and I started three years at catcher. That helps me at dodgeball because it helps me with the ability to see the ball slow down, and I'm able to throw. Dodgeball is difficult, not easy. It's not a (school) recess sport. It takes teamwork and hand-eye coordination.”
Kate Kerins, of Boston, and Sean McMahon, of Middletown, Connecticut, were the event’s co-directors, and both played on teams, too.
“People from many different sports backgrounds play this sport,” said Kerins, 34.
McMahon, 26, says he does what he can to grow the sport. In addition to his directing duties, he played for Shred.
"It's like a gift to do this, and to play too," McMahon said. "It's a very big sport, and unlike other sports, everyone on the team has just as much value. It's a like-minded sport where you make lifelong friends.
"The movie 'Dodgeball' was the best and the worst for the sport," he added. "The jokes weren't good, but it generated interest. You know what they say: No publicity is bad publicity." | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/usa-dodgeball-tournament-comes-to-stockton/article_e2f0fad4-1b3e-11ed-975c-6fbd4042eeb5.html | 2022-08-13T22:40:55 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/usa-dodgeball-tournament-comes-to-stockton/article_e2f0fad4-1b3e-11ed-975c-6fbd4042eeb5.html |
Although the cost of retail fuel continues to fall, the pain at the pump remains for those who use the diesel variety.
“At the end of the day, that’s the fuel we’re going to be using in all our equipment. So fuel prices are a legitimate issue of concern at this point,” said Gordon Dixon, vice president of the Virginia Transportation Construction Alliance, which tracks economic trends in the infrastructure industry.
As of Friday, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gas was $3.98 nationally and $3.70 in the Richmond area, according to AAA.
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This is the first month that prices have been below $4 since March, after the cost of oil spiked in reaction to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, AAA said. Overall, costs have fallen as oil prices have declined and demand has slumped amid concerns of a recession.
J. Ward Best, chairman of the Virginia Trucking Association, said he’s still fielding calls from concerned carriers about fuel prices and the impact on finances. Diesel fuel as of Friday was at $4.89 a gallon in the region, compared to $5.53 a month ago and a record $5.83 on June 13, AAA data shows.
“Really, a lot of this is out of our hands in the trucking industry,” Best said.
The nonprofit organization represents hundreds of carriers, industry firms and suppliers. Although fuel prices have gone down slowly, Best said some carriers are still getting hit harder than others.
“We’re seeing a little bit of a slowdown in cost, but these things are never a straight line,” he said.
Best, who operates his own carrier company and has 50 years of experience in the trucking industry, said the industry has always been reactive, not proactive, when it comes to the price of fuel.
Drivers may pay anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 just to fill up their tanks, Best said. While prices are high, he said carriers will have to determine which practices work best for themselves.
“There’s always going to be a certain level of demand for diesel,” Best said. “We just have to rely on our businesses’ fundamentals until the market changes.”
For Best, that means assessing the cost of truck repairs, materials and staffing levels. Best said that luckily, he hasn’t had to make any reductions thus far.
Dixon said he also appreciates leaders at the Virginia Department of Transportation who increased fuel and operations reserves to $24 million in July. VDOT also raised its asphalt and local assistance reserves as a part of this measure.
By doing so, VDOT increased funding reserves to over $129 million, which will go to the financial assistance of localities should the cost of fuel or materials impact individual or joint infrastructure projects.
“VDOT did its part in budgeting for some of these increases, but the amount and speed in which everything occurred is something else entirely,” said Dixon, remembering how quickly agencies reacted to the fuel market in March.
The U.S. also released crude from emergency reserves to help with supplies. That came after the average price hit a record $5.02 a gallon on June 13.
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Student's drowning in the Two Rivers High School pool was accidental with 'no evidence' of crime, police say
TWO RIVERS - The death of 15-year-old Zachary Benson at the Two Rivers High School pool in February was accidental, according to Two Rivers Police.
In a press release posted to Facebook Friday, Assistant Chief Ben Meinnert said the investigation has been concluded and there was "no evidence to substantiate criminal charges."
Benson died Feb. 8 after being found unresponsive in the high school pool. He was transported to a nearby hospital, where he later died.
"This was a tragic accident and our sympathies remain with the family of the deceased and the entire TRHS community," Meinnert wrote.
The press release stated Benson's cause of death was drowning.
Two Rivers Public Schools also issued a press release Friday that states the school district and Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will review the results of the police investigation and "make any further determinations regarding the accident."
The Two Rivers High School pool has been closed since Benson's drowning. According to the district, the pool will soon be reopened for both the community and the students with additional safeguards in place.
The Herald Times Reporter has submitted three requests to the Two Rivers Police Department for the records related to Benson's death.
Contact Alisa Schafer at aschafer@gannett.com. Follow her on Twitter at @AlisaMSchafer. | https://www.htrnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/two-rivers-high-school-pool-drowning-accidental-police-say/10312517002/ | 2022-08-13T22:56:00 | 1 | https://www.htrnews.com/story/news/local/2022/08/12/two-rivers-high-school-pool-drowning-accidental-police-say/10312517002/ |
Death results in conflict between police, Blackford coroner
HARTFORD CITY, Ind. — The death of a Hartford City woman has resulted in a conflict between Blackford County Coroner Zach Crouch and Hartford City police.
Crouch said Saturday that in the wake of the Thursday death, police were "unprofessional in front of family and there is obvious tension between them and my office."
One officer was reportedly asked to leave the scene and refused to do so.
Crouch said there were no indications the 66-year-old woman's death was the result of foul play.
She had recently been diagnosed with COVID-19. An autopsy conducted Saturday showed the woman had coronary artery disease "and had suffered a previous heart attack," the coroner said.
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"As of now, it will be a COVID-related death pending toxicology (tests)," he said.
Regarding the conflict with police, "further legal aid and counsel is being looked into," he said.
"Regardless of personal feelings we must work together for the better good of the family," the coroner said.
An effort to reach police officials for comment on Saturday was unsuccessful.
Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/08/13/harford-city-woman-death-blackford-county-coroner-police-department/65402828007/ | 2022-08-13T23:04:59 | 1 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/08/13/harford-city-woman-death-blackford-county-coroner-police-department/65402828007/ |
Take a walk on the Greenway to support landmark rail-trail
MUNCIE, Ind. — Cardinal Greenways will close out its 2022 Summer Series with the Cardinal Walk on Sept. 10. Featuring 5K and 10K routes in Muncie and Marion, the walk is a non-competitive event for people of all ages and abilities with a focus on family fun.
The Cardinal Walk will feature concurrent events in Muncie and Marion. Walkers in Muncie can choose between 5K and 10K routes, both of which will make a scenic loop along the White River and cross the recently-restored Kitselman bridge. Marion will offer a 5K and 10K loops through Beaner Park and wooded sections of the trail.
To learn more and register for the walk, visit cardinalgreenways.org/cardinalwalk. Pre-registration closes at noon Sept. 9, but participants also will be be able to register onsite the day of the event.
The 2022 Summer Series — including the Cardinal 5K in June, Cardinal Ride in July and Cardinal Walk — was designed to encourage people to explore Indiana’s longest rail-trail. This year’s Summer Series already has drawn hundreds of people to the trail, according to a release.
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“Our goal with the Summer Series is to show all that the trail has to offer: a great place to run, bike or walk for people of all ages and all abilities,” Angie Pool, CEO of Cardinal Greenways, said in the release.
While Cardinal Walk marks the end of the Summer Series, Cardinal Greenways still has a few more events through the remainder of the year. This year will be the 10th annual BikeTOURberfest, which features cycling routes ranging from 5 to 56 miles through Wayne County, as well as a 3-mile fun run/walk.
Also returning this year is the annual Turkey Trot, which invites walkers and runners to build up their appetites on Thanksgiving morning.
Funds from all events support care and maintenance for the trail. Information: cardinalgreenways.org.
Ball Brothers grant to help 'Meat' the Need for food banks
MUNCIE — Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry has received a $5,000 donation from the Ball Brothers Foundation to support its “Meat” the Need initiative.
Debra Treesh, executive director of Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry, said that the funds received will be used to pay processing fees on nearly 3,800 pounds of donated livestock and deer, with the meat being given to agencies serving more than 17,000 food-insecure residents within Delaware County.
According to Feeding America, an estimated 33% of Delaware County residents struggling with food insecurity make above the threshold to qualify for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. To make ends meet, many are turning to local hunger-relief agencies such as food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens.
“More than ever, families are struggling to buy groceries and hunger-relief agencies are seeing more demand for their services.” Katie DeForest, fund development director for Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry, said in a release. “Unfortunately, these agencies are experiencing the same diminished purchasing power that families are experiencing with their own grocery budgets and meat, especially, is difficult to obtain.”
Farmers, hunters, and 4-H members donate deer and livestock to the “Meat” The Need program. Donations are processed at local participating meat processors and the meat is distributed to hunger-relief agencies within the community where it was donated. Hoosiers Feeding the Hungry pays 100% of the processing fees so there is no charge to donors or agencies receiving meat.
To donate, farmers and hunters just need to take their livestock or deer to a local participating meat processor (call ahead to schedule livestock). After processing, local food banks and pantries are called to pick up the donation. There is absolutely no charge to the livestock and deer donors. For a list of participating meat processors, visit HoosiersFeedingtheHungry.org.
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MAYVILLE, N.Y. —
The man accused in the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder and assault charges in what a prosecutor calls a “preplanned” crime.
An attorney for Hadi Matar entered the plea on his behalf during an arraignment in western New York on Saturday. The suspect appeared in court wearing a black and white jumpsuit and a white face mask, with his hands cuffed in front of him.
A judge ordered Matar held without bail after the district attorney told her Matar took steps to purposely put himself in position to harm Rushdie. The renowned author of “The Satanic Verses” remains hospitalized with serious injuries.
Matar is accused of attacking Rushdie on Friday as the author was being introduced at a lecture at the Chautauqua Institute. Rushdie suffered serious injuries in the attack and remains hospitalized.
Matar, of Fairview, NJ, is being held without bail at the Chautauqua County Jail.
President Biden issued the following statement Saturday about the incident:
Jill and I were shocked and saddened to learn of the vicious attack on Salman Rushdie yesterday in New York. We, together with all Americans and people around the world, are praying for his health and recovery. I am grateful to the first responders and the brave individuals who jumped into action to render aid to Rushdie and subdue the attacker.
Salman Rushdie—with his insight into humanity, with his unmatched sense for story, with his refusal to be intimidated or silenced—stands for essential, universal ideals. Truth. Courage. Resilience. The ability to share ideas without fear. These are the building blocks of any free and open society. And today, we reaffirm our commitment to those deeply American values in solidarity with Rushdie and all those who stand for freedom of expression. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/suspect-in-attack-on-salman-rushdie-enters-not-guilty-plea/71-4af296a7-2d13-462c-98a8-c3fb1c669618 | 2022-08-13T23:07:02 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/suspect-in-attack-on-salman-rushdie-enters-not-guilty-plea/71-4af296a7-2d13-462c-98a8-c3fb1c669618 |
PAGE, Ariz. — Lake Powell stores an incredible amount of water. It snakes its way through sandstone canyons from Arizona far up into Utah, and has more coastline than the entire West Coast of the United States.
And it’s a crucial stop for water on its way to the Southwest, where Arizona, Nevada and California all draw on it for drinking and farming.
But Lake Powell reached its lowest point ever earlier this year and the Bureau of Reclamation is drawing on water from other reservoirs and limiting the amount of water released through Glen Canyon Dam to keep the lake at a safe level.
Some of those canyons have run dry, and beaches that led to the water now stop far above it.
See a nearly 40-year timelapse of Lake Powell's dry-up from Google Earth here:
Power generation through Glen Canyon Dam is also down, though the dam is still producing power. If the water level continues to fall, the dam could potentially stop producing power in the coming years.
So instead of moving water around, hoping to keep the lake level steady and the power plant running, what if Lake Powell just didn’t exist?
Could we drain Lake Powell?
“We're reaching a point where this structure might turn into more of a liability than an asset,” Eric Balken with the Gen Canyon Institute said, looking over at Glen Canyon Dam.
Balken thinks a radical solution may be the best solution.
If the lake was drained and the water was sent downstream to Lake Mead, it may end up saving more water in the long run.
“We need to start thinking about life beyond Lake Powell,” Balken said. “The Bureau of Reclamation is going to extreme measures to prop up this reservoir. Even with these extreme measures being taken, this reservoir is still going to be running a deficit.”
The plan is this: open all the valves at the dam and let the water run out. The lake would drain downstream through the Grand Canyon and end up in Lake Mead, which is also at its lowest level in history.
The water would fill Lake Mead, which is the last stop before it’s diverted to the Southwestern states.
Since Lake Powell is primarily sandstone, the lake actually leaks water into the porous rocks. Balken said depositing the lake’s water in Lake Mead, which isn’t made out of sandstone, would actually save water.
“The estimation is around 30,000 to 50,000 acre-feet per year,” Balken said.
That’s not a large amount of water in the grand scheme, though it’s the amount of water about 150,000 households would use in a year. It’s also about 10% of the water that Nevada gets from the lake.
The lake would also revert to its “natural state," the state it was in before the dam was built. Instead of a winding lake, there would be miles of winding canyons.
“This dam was built to harness excess water and there is no more excess water,” Balken said. “There's just not enough water in the system.”
'All ideas need to be on the table'
It sounds a little crazy.
However, experts say nothing is really crazy at this point in the West’s 22-year drought.
“When that idea was first being shopped, people thought that was like a way out there notion.” Sarah Porter with the Morrison Institute for Water Policy said. “But at this point, I would say that all ideas need to be on the table.”
Porter's reasoning is that all the other ideas to increase the amount of rain and snowpack are equally “out there."
“Wrangling clouds, towing icebergs, an intermittent floodwater pipeline,” Porter said. “Most of these are feasible from an engineering standpoint, but that doesn't mean that they are that they're a good option.”
There are definite downsides to getting rid of the lake.
For one, Glen Canyon Dam produces power for 5 million people. Without the dam, the power grid would need to make that up somewhere. The power plant also acts as a stopgap for high power demand.
The town of Page also gets its water from the lake, creating another problem that would have to be solved.
Balken admits there are hurdles to the idea and opposition from a lot of sources. But, the water levels continue to drop and there’s no silver bullet to fixing it.
“Regardless of whether you are for or against Glen Canyon Dam or Lake Powell,” Balken said, “it doesn't matter. These changes are happening and we need to make the most of it.”
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The Lansing, Michigan Police Department is investigating the disappearance of Vance Beasley, a 68-year-old white male, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds, gray hair with green eyes, and was last seen driving a blue 2010 Subaru Outback with Michigan license plate J8031
Vance is missing from Lansing and was last seen in Fort Wayne on Aug. 3, 2022, at 11:41 am. He is believed to be in extreme danger and may require medical assistance.
If you have any information on Vance Beasley, contact the Lansing Police Department at 517-483-7600 or 911. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/silver-alert-issued-for-lansing-man-last-seen-in-fort-wayne/article_297287c4-1b45-11ed-9ff4-b34b14fb5564.html | 2022-08-13T23:11:05 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/silver-alert-issued-for-lansing-man-last-seen-in-fort-wayne/article_297287c4-1b45-11ed-9ff4-b34b14fb5564.html |
Prism Health North Texas, an LGBTQ-focused health facility and community center, is set to host its first annual Texas Trans Pride event on Sept. 30.
The event is promised to be a celebration of transgender identity and an opportunity for transgender and gender non-conforming persons to come out and express themselves as they see fit, organizer Shalissa said.
“I feel like anytime we have trans holidays or trans events, [it’s] always in remembrance or awareness but never a full-out celebration,” they added. “We’re trying to create an event that is an opportunity to uplift and celebrate the trans community here in Dallas and across Texas.”
Major celebrations in the LGBTQ community of transgender folks are in the form of Trans Day of Remembrance or Trans Awareness Day. For Shalissa, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, they want this upcoming event to be joyous, especially at a time when transgender people, particularly in Dallas, face consistent attacks.
“People want to uplift us and talk about how great we are, but we’re not getting it while we’re alive,” they said. “So this is an opportunity for us as a community to come together and celebrate the trans community and help lift the folks in our area.”
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The event will be held at Station 4 in Dallas in the city’s historic Oak Lawn neighborhood. Recognized by the Texas Historical Commission for its significance, Oak Lawn is also known as “The Crossroads” or the “Gayborhood” and is a safe space for the LGBTQ community in North Texas.
Trans performers from across Texas and the country will perform live beginning at 7 p.m. Additionally, Kerri Colby, drag artist and contestant from RuPaul’s Drag Race will also perform and host a meet and greet. The show is free though Shalissa encourages attendees to bring tips for the performers.
Texas Trans Pride will also host a resource fair from 7 p.m. to midnight which will have a variety of free items and information including gender-affirming clothes and garments for trans and gender non-conforming folks. The event will also have STD testing on-site.
After the evening’s performances, the evening will conclude with a dance party. Food trucks will also be on site.
For Shalissa, organizing this event and having it accessible to everyone is important to them.
“We’re trying to make this as accessible as possible to as many people as possible,” they said. “We want this to be an event where anyone feels welcome to celebrate and welcome to attend. And then on top of that, we just want to create a space that’s affirming for anyone.”
For more information on the event or to donate, visit Prism's page for the event at TXTransPride.org. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-lgbtq-health-organization-to-host-transgender-pride-event/3047702/ | 2022-08-13T23:15:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/dallas-lgbtq-health-organization-to-host-transgender-pride-event/3047702/ |
BIRMINGHAM Ala. (WIAT) — A natural disaster response nonprofit team is setting up shop in Birmingham. They say Birmingham is the new epicenter for tornados and bad weather.
They call themselves Minuteman Disaster Response. The team consists of a base staff and several volunteers who work to provide immediate relief when natural disasters strike.
Executive director, Matt Payne, says Minuteman Disaster Response is working to duplicate their organization further east which includes Birmingham, Alabama.
Their current teams provide disaster relief services in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, and New Mexico.
Payne says the organization originated 11 years ago when four individuals responded to a deadly tornado in Joplin, Missouri. He says from there, a greater purpose was discovered.
“Four guys thought, ‘Hey, this in gonna be a onetime thing, we’re gonna help somebody out.’ But next thing you know, they’re having lunch and sitting their jotting down notes on a napkin on how they could make something to be more impactful,” said Payne.
Now with several deployments under their belt, Payne says their approach sets them apart. They train, forecast, track, respond immediately, and provide recovery.
He says most funding comes through grants, but they use non-disaster days to build relationships with communities, corporations, and government agencies at all levels, starting locally.
“Disasters, you know, they start and end at the local level,” said Payne. ”So, it’s important that we have those relationships when we go in. And we’re not there to freelance and do our own thing, but we’re there to integrate into the goals that they have and help meet those goals that they have for their community.”
Payne says the organization is fully self-sufficient and provides volunteers with housing, restrooms, showers, and an operations center during deployments.
For Birmingham, Payne says they have received volunteer interest, but are in need of 150 to 200 volunteers in total. He says they are simply looking for able-bodied men and women over the age of 18 who have a heart to serve.
Birmingham district coordinator, Randy Rogan, says the overall objective is to help affected individuals rebuild their lives.
“It’s not just picking up things and moving things that they own, but it’s also talking with them,” said Rogan. “You know, sometimes if they’re open to that we have been praying with them and just let them know we care for them and we’re here to help them recover.”
Payne says Birmingham operations will begin immediately, but they hope to have a fully duplicated team by 2026. To learn more about how you can become a minuteman volunteer, the Minuteman Disaster Response team encourages individuals to visit http://minutemanresponse.org/bham-interest . | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/minuteman-disaster-response-strives-to-duplicate-team-in-birmingham/ | 2022-08-13T23:23:03 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/minuteman-disaster-response-strives-to-duplicate-team-in-birmingham/ |
'It doesn't look like moisture is going anywhere': Monsoon season is at its peak this month
Storms have swept across the state this summer, bringing flash flooding, power outages, traffic, and lost homes for Arizonans.
More of it is expected to come this weekend into next week, the National Weather Service in Phoenix said.
Weekend weather:Rain to continue for Phoenix this weekend; closures in both directions on SR 143
In early March, the weather service had predicted a very wet and active monsoon season this summer. That weather pattern is expected to reach its peak this month, said Bianca Feldkircher, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix.
"Of course, it's August, which is usually the time we peak in the monsoon, so it doesn't look like moisture is really going anywhere," Feldkircher said.
As we get into the middle of the month, Arizonans can expect below-normal temperatures and heavy rain to remain an active pattern. Daily thunderstorm chances and high humidity are forecast for Sunday into next week, the weather service said.
Residents can anticipate more widespread heavy rainfall, strong winds and localized flooding for the next several days. Flood watches are also expected to remain in place for Yuma and Flagstaff through the weekend, Fledkircher said.
Severe thunderstorms, blowing dust, and flash flooding on Friday evening caused havoc in cities including Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tucson.
David Folio, a spokesperson for Scottsdale Fire Department, said between 4 and 10:30 p.m. Friday, Scottsdale Fire Technical Rescue responded to at least five storm-related rescues.
Feldkircher said although Saturday will likely have somewhat quieter weather, similar conditions were expected for Sunday.
"It looks like we'll have a pick up in activity again, very comparable to what we saw (on Friday)," she said.
Feldkircher said weather hazards can mostly affect drivers, and she advised residents to navigate roads cautiously.
Monsoon Rescue:Crews aid trapped woman after flash flood in Scottsdale
"Anyone that's driving, especially in the afternoon and evening, should be aware of the weather," she said. "If you're planning on making any type of commute just make sure that you're aware of thunderstorm chances and travel delays because it could really cause havoc."
Flooding caused road closures on Saturday afternoon, according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.
U.S. 89 was closed north of Flagstaff because of water on the road. While southbound lanes have reopened, northbound will remain closed at milepost 246 for an unknown period of time, ADOT said.
Folio cautioned people not to attempt to cross flooded roadways.
"Stay inside your vehicle and call 911," he said. "If you see downed power lines, stay away and always treat powerlines as if they are energized."
Reach breaking news reporter Laura Daniella Sepulveda at lsepulveda@lavozarizona.com or on Twitter @lauradNews.
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Man arrested after running over, killing Mesa resident in parking dispute, police say
Mesa police say a man killed an east Mesa resident by running him over with his vehicle Friday afternoon after the victim reportedly refused to allow the suspect to park near his home.
John Lagana, 61, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Christopher Heimer, 63, according to Mesa police.
Lagana, who was arrested without incident, told officers that Heimer had allowed him to park his vehicle in Heimer's driveway until six months ago, according to charging documents.
Lagana, who is homeless and lives out of his vehicle, told officers his former girlfriend told him she had been kicked out of Heimer's home because Lagana was parked in a vacant lot across from Heimer's residence, East Mesa Justice Court records show.
"The defendant explained he parked in the vacant lot and had fallen asleep when he heard his ex-girlfriend yelling at him," court records said. "The defendant stated she told him because he was near the victims (sic) home the victim had kicked her out."
Just after 12:30 p.m., police say they responded to multiple reports that Lagana used his vehicle near 64th Street and East Alder Avenue to run over Heimer, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
Witnesses told officers that Lagana was parked in a vacant lot, just northwest of Heimer’s home, and honked his horn repeatedly until the victim came out, according to police.
Multiple witness accounts and video surveillance cameras showed Lagana driving eastbound on Alder Avenue when he swerved off the street to strike Heimer as he walked on the north sidewalk, pushing him onto the landscaping of an apartment complex, according to police.
Police said Lagana continued driving on the sidewalk, damaging mailboxes and landscaping before turning around and hitting Heimer, who was on the ground, a second time. Lagana then walked out of his vehicle and stomped Heimer's head multiple times, police said.
A witness shot a firearm round into the ground to keep Lagana from fleeing before officers could take him into custody, according to police. Officers found skid marks from Lagana’s vehicle in the roadway and on the sidewalk where Heimer was killed, charging documents show.
Lagana was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
Lagana previously was convicted of first-degree arson, assault and DUI.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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LAPWAI, Idaho — A Lapwai man died Friday night after two vehicles drove off the road and down a steep embankment in Nez Perce County.
According to Idaho State Police, a 65-year-old man from Twisp, Wash., was traveling north on US 95, when he crossed over the centerline in a Buick Avenue and hit an oncoming Kia Sorento.
A 41-year-old woman from Warrenton, Ore., was traveling south in the Kia, with the 49-year-old Lapwai man as a passenger.
Following the collision, both vehicles went off US 95 and down the embankment. The Lapwai man was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene of the crash, Idaho State Police said.
The crash happened at 10:56 p.m. Friday at milepost 301, north of Lapwai.
According to Idaho State Police (ISP), the Kia passenger was not wearing a seatbelt when he was ejected from the vehicle.
The woman driving the Kia was wearing a seatbelt. ISP said she was taken to a hospital in the area by ambulance.
ISP is unaware if the 65-year-old driver of the Buick was wearing a seatbelt. The Washington man was also taken to the hospital by ambulance.
US 95 was blocked for around three hours Friday following the crash.
The crash is under investigation by Idaho State Police.
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CROWN POINT — As competitions go, the 4-H Cow Pie Throwing Contest isn't for those with weak stomachs — or a heightened sense of smell.
That's why the Lake County Fair tradition for about the last 25 years has been primarily open to 4-H kids only, said Amy Hein, 4-H General Livestock superintendent.
"It (cow pie throwing) is a good life skill if you are on a farm," Hein said.
Fortunately, all 10 competitors who signed up for the contest on Saturday at the Lake County Fair were 4-H kids who weren't afraid of tossing with a pitchfork some fresh cow pies or "manure deposits" from farm animals.
"I did it because it looked like fun," participant Blake Marshall said.
Marshall, 16, of Crown Point, is a member of the Shelby Ag 4-H Club for the last eight years and shows cattle.
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He was named first place in the champion "senior" division of the cow pie throwing contest.
Other winners were Tenley Neises, 12, of Crown Point, and a member of Eagle Creek Up & At 'Em 4-H Club, in the intermediate division and Garrett Neal, 12, of Winfield, and a member of the St. John Spitfires 4-H Club, in the junior division.
"They just got bragging rights for next year," Hein said.
Each of the contestants, who met in the back of the Dairy Barn, was instructed to scoop up a cow pie with a pitchfork and toss it into a straw-filled dumpster with one end opened for the throw.
"I suggest throwing it underhanded, which is the proper form," Hein said at the start of the toss.
Hein, who also serves as the Lake County Fair dairy superintendent, said she remembers as a 4-H youngster herself taking part in the competition.
She didn't remember winning but recalls that her brother won one or more contests in his youth.
Hein continued to coach and encourage each of the competitors as they stepped up for their turn.
"Olivia, show them how it's down," Hein told Olivia Duensing, 15, one of the first competitors.
Olivia Duensing, also a member of the Shelby Ag 4-H Club, threw her cow pie a good distance.
"So far you're first place," Hein said.
Duensing didn't win in the cow pie throwing contest but said she didn't mind since she just enjoys the fair in general and loves showing sheep and cows.
She said she definitely missed coming to the fair and showing animals the year COVID-19 caused events to be canceled.
"I miss this," Duensing said pointing to a table filled with her 4-H friends.
"I miss playing cards, eating snacks and the friends you make at the fair," Duensing said.
Hein said that in past years the cow pie throwing contest has attracted more young people but that this year many were getting ready for other 4-H events and skipped participation.
"In past years, we've had as many as 15 participants, but it's gotten smaller," Hein said.
The rules have also changed through the years with previous contestants asked to scoop up the cow pie and toss it with a pitchfork in a row of plastic barrels, a barrel at a time, from closest to farthest.
"More like a Bozo's Bucket competition," Hein said. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/4-hers-go-the-distance-in-cow-pie-toss/article_7f588dee-7543-5a49-80d3-850b9307e8c5.html | 2022-08-13T23:35:31 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/4-hers-go-the-distance-in-cow-pie-toss/article_7f588dee-7543-5a49-80d3-850b9307e8c5.html |
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It's never too late to carry out old passions. Just ask Jim Reynolds of Fishers.
Jim, who turns 100 later this year, was called to active duty in February 1943 as a navigation cadet for the United States Air Force.
He quickly become what he called a "very happy military pilot."
"The day I made 2nd Lieutenant, August 4, 1944 was the best day of my life," he said. "I didn't have to go back and milk cows at the farm anymore."
During his nearly 23 in the Air Force, Jim logged more than 10,000 flying hours.
"I don't know how many different airplanes I flew," Jim said. "My biggest assignment was flying transports at the end after World War II."
Jim's family in Fishers decided there was no better way to celebrate his upcoming 100th birthday than in the air.
Jim's brother, Jon, was in Noblesville Saturday when his brother took to the skies in a plane similar to the one he flew in the 1940s.
"I am really glad they are recognizing my brother," said Jon. "He has had quite a life, including being a World War II veteran and the greatest generation. These kinds of things are just really inspiring to see it done for him, and all of us are glad to not only see it, but to participate in it."
Jon, 84, also served in the military during the Vietnam era.
"Although if I were still in active duty, I would be in the space force, because I was not an aviator. I worked primarily in the space side of the Air Force and logistics," John said.
The brothers are the only two remaining of nine siblings. Jim said having his family together to celebrate the big day means the world.
That's coming from a man who has seen 51 countries.
"It's nice to have this recognition," said Jim.
Jim retired from the Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/air-force-veteran-from-fishers-celebrates-100th-birthday-in-the-air-noblesville-pilot-military/531-67dea18c-5a1b-455b-b472-813441f445bd | 2022-08-13T23:43:00 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/air-force-veteran-from-fishers-celebrates-100th-birthday-in-the-air-noblesville-pilot-military/531-67dea18c-5a1b-455b-b472-813441f445bd |
LAWRENCE, Indiana — On Saturday, the Lawrence community took advantage of the opportunity to have some fun and meet the first responders who keep them safe.
Lawrence police and firefighters hosted their annual Community Safety Day.
Besides the first responders, they had 50 different vendors come out this year, a chance for everyone to learn what they do and have some fun in the process.
"Getting to see those kids faces with smiles, I mean, that's what this is all about," said Fire Chief Dino Batalis. "And with a lot of the bad that's going on all over this country today, it's great to be able to see their smiling faces."
There was no fee to attend this event - and the food was free, too! | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/families-meet-first-responders-at-lawrence-community-safety-day-police-fire-ems/531-7016442c-53b0-4ae2-a68a-0821b38e76b8 | 2022-08-13T23:43:06 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/families-meet-first-responders-at-lawrence-community-safety-day-police-fire-ems/531-7016442c-53b0-4ae2-a68a-0821b38e76b8 |
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis International Airport hosted a big fundraiser Saturday for Special Olympics Indiana.
It was the 21st annual Plane Pull Challenge.
Teams of 15 people tested their strength in a tug of war against a Boeing 757 jet.
The event is for a great cause, as Special Olympics raised more than $147,000.
"This is just a great, awesome event, and it's been around for such a long time," said participant Bob Miller. "Everybody gets to come out, have a good day. They bring their families, we sit out at the tents, we just, you know, hang out, and then when it's time to get to business, we get to business."
More than 50 teams competed this year, making it the largest fundraiser for Special Olympics Indiana. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/plane-pull-challenge-raises-thousands-for-special-olympics-indiana-fundraiser-boeing-757/531-6c87bf10-7002-4c05-8768-5f5652354f83 | 2022-08-13T23:43:12 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/plane-pull-challenge-raises-thousands-for-special-olympics-indiana-fundraiser-boeing-757/531-6c87bf10-7002-4c05-8768-5f5652354f83 |
DENTON COUNTY, Texas — A Texas man on trial for child sexual assault who drank a mysterious liquid during his verdict died soon afterwards, according to the Denton County District Attorney’s Office.
Edward Peter Leclair, 57, was a Frisco man facing five counts of child sexual assault related to one victim. This offense happened in June and July of 2016, according to Denton County jail records.
Leclair was arrested in 2018 with a $30,000 bond, posting bond soon after. Jury selection had begun Monday at the Denton County Courts Building. The situation initially felt normal, according to First Assistant Attorney Jamie Beck from the Denton County District Attorney’s Office.
"The jury comes in and takes a seat," Beck said, describing how the incident started. "The defendant and his counsel stand. The jury hands the verdict to the judge, which she then starts to read."
Judge Lee Gabriel, who was sitting in for Judge Sherry Shipman in the 16th District Court, then started to read the verdict, which was that Leclair had been found guilty on all five counts of child sexual assault.
"It's during this process that he had a bottle of water with him at the counsel table, and he chugged it," Beck said. "It wasn't like he was just taking sips of water. He was literally throwing it back, so to speak."
Beck said Leclair hadn't been drinking from that bottle before that point.
While it was peculiar, Beck also said most of the people in the room didn't expect this to be a fatal situation, as it could have simply been nerves or the way Leclair decided to handle the situation.
Gabriel had Leclair taken back into custody and sent to a holding cell which Beck said is common practice. After that, the jury was escorted out of the courtroom so some paperwork could be taken care of.
It was then that one of the investigators in the courtroom told a bailiff that he go check on Leclair because of the unusual way he drank the water.
Leclair was found looking "gray," according to Beck, and was soon pronounced dead.
Beck said Leclair's water bottle has been taken in as evidence. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/texasman-trial-drinks-mysterious-liquid-hearing-verdict-dies-afterwards-denton-county/287-3ca64285-2200-4818-872f-881e8acac0d6 | 2022-08-13T23:43:18 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/texasman-trial-drinks-mysterious-liquid-hearing-verdict-dies-afterwards-denton-county/287-3ca64285-2200-4818-872f-881e8acac0d6 |
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland police and firefighters responded to a derailed train car near Union Station and the Steel Bridge early Saturday afternoon, with the response temporarily snarling traffic in the area.
The incident was first reported around 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Officials with Portland Fire & Rescue said it happened near Northwest Naito Parkway on the north side of the Steel Bridge.
The train car that derailed was a grain car on a freight train, PF&R said, and there are no reports of any injuries. A spokesperson said that the only hazards immediately identified were a broken hydraulic line and damaged rail.
"Avoid this area as traffic will be affected until this is clear," the agency said in a tweet.
Traffic was impacted for several hours on Northeast Naito Parkway from the Steel Bridge area north to roughly the 2900 block of Northwest Front Avenue, just north of Nicolai Street. Portland police tweeted before 2:45 p.m. that Naito was fully reopened.
TriMet noted that the MAX Green, Yellow and Orange lines were impacted by the derailment and police response, but they resumed regular service shortly after 1:30 p.m. There were still expected to be some short delays through 2 p.m. as service returns to normal.
Firefighters and police were working with Union Pacific on the response.
In 2018, six freight train cars derailed near the Steel Bridge, similarly prompting a recovery effort. In that case, there were no injuries, hazardous material leaks or reported damage to the tracks.
This is a developing story and will be updated with more details as they emerge. | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-train-derail-naito-steel-bridge-union-station/283-2be39cd6-40a7-43ac-bb48-ed50bfac645d | 2022-08-13T23:45:52 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-train-derail-naito-steel-bridge-union-station/283-2be39cd6-40a7-43ac-bb48-ed50bfac645d |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland man has been charged in connection with the death of a woman last month after the boat she was in was struck by another vessel on a river, authorities said.
Laura Slattery, 63, of Pasadena, and her husband were on a boat on the Magothy River on the evening of July 3, returning from watching fireworks. That’s when police said another boat struck their vessel from behind and left without stopping.
Slattery was critically injured and died a short time later. Her husband wasn’t injured.
“Our investigators and the state’s attorney’s office worked meticulously and diligently to make this arrest,” Natural Resources Police Superintendent Col. Adrian Baker said in a statement. It wasn’t immediately known if Edds has an attorney. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-man-charged-in-alleged-fatal-hit-and-run-boat-collision/2022/08/13/baaf8c4a-1b5a-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html | 2022-08-13T23:57:59 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-man-charged-in-alleged-fatal-hit-and-run-boat-collision/2022/08/13/baaf8c4a-1b5a-11ed-b998-b2ab68f58468_story.html |
PAULDING COUNTY, Ga. — An 11-year-old boy was struck by a car on Macland Road in Paulding County Friday evening.
Georgia State Patrol said the child was walking back from a convenience story with a friend when he decided to dash across the road.
They added that the child was transported to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and is currently in stable condition.
GSP also said no charges have been made.
News happens fast. Download our 11Alive News app for all the latest breaking updates, and sign up for our Speed Feed newsletter to get a rundown of the latest headlines across north Georgia. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/11-year-old-struck-by-car-paulding-county/85-1b9d091d-5e08-4075-9902-d56b34458fd8 | 2022-08-13T23:58:58 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/11-year-old-struck-by-car-paulding-county/85-1b9d091d-5e08-4075-9902-d56b34458fd8 |
ATLANTA — Taking back the community was the theme of the Mother's Against Gang Violence March in southwest Atlanta Saturday.
A group of activists, including mothers who lost their children to violence, gathered at the Juvenile Court to kick off the march to Cleophas Johnson Park.
One of the women in the crowd was Sherri Nole. She flew in from Chicago to join the March. Her son was killed in Jackson, Mississippi.
"Being a mother who lost her son, Alex...I felt it was imperative for me to find and support mothers to use," she told 11Alive's Karys Belger.
The group chanted sayings like, "Our kids deserve to live," as they made their way to the park. Drivers honked their horns in support along the way.
Also in the crowd was Takesia Shields. She founded the group Mothers Against Gang Violence. After losing a child to mass incarceration, she says it's crucial to pass along the knowledge she's gained from other families.
"A lot of these families, I saw their kids being born. But now within the violence perspective, I'm assisting with burial," she stated.
Along with the others, she's hoping this march will lead others to take action to better the community.
She added, "this is taking back our Black community. This is an accountability march." | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/community-march-mechanicsville-gun-violence/85-f6343b0b-c80a-4c20-b48c-4c784159da6e | 2022-08-13T23:59:04 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/community-march-mechanicsville-gun-violence/85-f6343b0b-c80a-4c20-b48c-4c784159da6e |
BRISTOL, Tenn. (WJHL) – Kingsport unveiled their new skate park just over a month ago, and there’s one currently in the works for Bristol, Tennessee.
Rooster Front Park in Bristol serves as a temporary skate park as the community awaits a bigger and better one.
Founder of Skate Bristol, George Linke, has been spearheading efforts to build the new park. He said skating is for all ages, he started when he was a kid and still continues today.
“I started when I was three years old,” Linke said. “It’s a totally different and liberating experience. You’re floating on the ground. That’s the best way to say it.”
Terry Napier, Director of Parks and Recreation for the City of Bristol, Tennessee, said his department is currently looking at locations for the permanent park, as well as funding options.
“We’re really in the planning phase,” Napier said. “The skate Bristol group has been doing a fantastic job gathering information.”
The park gives skaters a safe place to be that’s off city streets, which Linke said is especially a concern as Bristol grows to be more densely populated.
Karigan Hernandez practices his craft at the temporary park, and he’s in full support of the movement to expand Bristol’s skating options.
“Just opening up parks for the kids I think would just help keeping them out of trouble,” Hernandez said. “It gives them an escape from whatever’s going on in their life. You know, that’s what it was for me. It was a huge relief. It was a way to exert my energy after school.”
The skating community has high hopes for what is to come in Bristol over the next year.
“Just that it’s a progressive park,” Linke said. “Everybody can challenge themselves and have a good time.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/tri-cities-skate-scene-grows-new-bristol-park-in-the-works/ | 2022-08-13T23:59:07 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/tri-cities-skate-scene-grows-new-bristol-park-in-the-works/ |
A 45-year-old woman was killed and five others injured in an Osceola County crash on Saturday, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Troopers said a 2022 Toyota Camry was driving westbound on State Road 60 west of Mae Bass Road when it drifted into the eastbound lane and into the path of a 2017 Dodge Caravan.
The front right of the Camry collided with the front right of the Caravan, causing the Camry to collide with a wire fence, troopers said.
The woman, who was a passenger in the Camry, was pronounced dead on the scene, troopers said.
A 59-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman were transported to Orlando Regional Medical Center with serious and critical injuries, respectively, troopers said.
A 6-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl were taken to Arnold Palmer Hospital with minor injuries, and a 53-year-old man was transported to Lake Wales Hospital with minor injuries, troopers said.
The crash remains under investigation. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/13/1-dead-2-kids-among-5-hospitalized-after-crash-in-osceola-county-troopers-say/ | 2022-08-14T00:00:42 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/13/1-dead-2-kids-among-5-hospitalized-after-crash-in-osceola-county-troopers-say/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — It was a tasty time at Charleston’s Capitol Market on Saturday.
They were sizzlin’ up bacon, and chopping lettuce and tomatoes, for the first annual BLT sandwich-making competition, “Bring Home the Bacon.” The event coincides with “National Farmer’s Market Week” across the nation.
Contestants were judged on flavor, presentation and best use of locally sourced ingredients.
Dakota Farmer, of Charleston, took home the grand prize, with an Italian-influenced take on the classic bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.
“I just kind of tapped into my Italian heritage, you know, and tried to knock it out of the park,” Farmer said. “So, I made a homemade pesto aioli and also had a homemade tomato-Calabrian chili pepper jam that I think was probably the game changer!”
13 News Chief Political Reporter Mark Curtis was one of the contest judges, and he agreed on the winning BLT.
For Farmer’s efforts, the winning BLT-maker will receive free bacon for an entire year from Johnnie’s Meat Market at Capitol Market. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/blt-sandwich-contest-makes-for-a-tasty-saturday-in-charleston/ | 2022-08-14T00:06:12 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/blt-sandwich-contest-makes-for-a-tasty-saturday-in-charleston/ |
SAN ANTONIO — The Bexar County Legislative Delegation hosted a series of panels addressing school safety and security as families send their children back to the classroom this fall.
Judson ISD Superintendent Dr. Jeanette Ball and Northside ISD Superintendent Dr. Brian Woods joined the delegation to discuss campus security.
Following the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, districts have reexamined their protocols and procedures to best keep students and staff safe. Dr. Woods said this summer, there has been an increased emphasis on safety audits and checking exterior doors, especially.
At last count this week, NISD staff had checked roughly 29,000 interior and exterior doors across the campus. This year, Dr. Woods said the district will be doubling down on procedures.
Dr. Ball said JISD is preparing their community for "inconveniences" to be thorough with safety.
"People will have to wait a little bit longer to check in, they might not be easily allowed into our building, but those inconveniences are for a purpose," she said.
She also added the district would need more funding to better secure schools, such as fencing in open campuses and infrastructure for cameras.
Local law enforcement joined the summit to discuss training, collaborating with other agencies, and the sharing of resources.
Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar expressed his confidence in the agencies response if an active shooter situation were to happen at an area school.
"Absolutely we're trying to prevent that situation, but if it were to occur, I know exactly how all of these agencies up here were to respond, we're gonna get in there, we're gonna stop the killing, and we're gonna stop the dying," he said.
More funding for law enforcement was also addressed.
Edgewood ISD Police Chief Jesse Quiroga said the district would use extra funding to purchase reactive equipment to neutralize threats, but would also want to better secure schools and invest in prevention programs and mental health resources.
The full summit can be viewed here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/bexar-county-education-law-enforcement-leaders-discuss-school-safety-and-security/273-7636b669-39ef-4d82-ab65-2e84a714a2a7 | 2022-08-14T00:06:12 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/bexar-county-education-law-enforcement-leaders-discuss-school-safety-and-security/273-7636b669-39ef-4d82-ab65-2e84a714a2a7 |
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio has remained steady in Stage 2 watering rules since April as the city stays in persistent drought conditions, however first-time offenders can now receive a fine, according to a SAWS press release.
The San Antonio Water System says there are no foreseeable watering changes for SAWS customers, however, for those not complying with Stage 2 watering rules can now receive a citation and fine of about $150 dollars for first-time offenders, according to the release.
“We have been patrolling neighborhoods, including gated communities, in an effort to enforce compliance with Stage 2,” said Karen Guz, SAWS Director of Conservation. “We’re past the point of issuing warnings; anyone caught wasting water or breaking Stage 2 watering rules will receive a citation.”
In Stage 2 watering with a sprinkler, irrigation system or soaker hose is only allowed on your designated day between 7-11 a.m. and 7-11 p.m. More information on Stage 2 watering rules are on their website.
“We have been through this before and have not needed to go into Stage 3,” he continued. “We can manage this again together if everyone complies to the watering rules,” said Robert R. Puente, SAWS President and CEO.
Currently, San Antonio is in Exceptional Drought, the last stage on the U.S. Drought Monitor. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/citations-fines-saws-watering-rules-san-antonio/273-f245f113-0c41-4a17-bce1-c14bd061ad6d | 2022-08-14T00:06:18 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/citations-fines-saws-watering-rules-san-antonio/273-f245f113-0c41-4a17-bce1-c14bd061ad6d |
SAN ANTONIO — Volunteers filled the Medio Creek Elementary School gym Saturday morning to assemble supply kits for thousands of teachers in Southwest San Antonio. The United Way Write Start Project is an annual back to school initiative aimed at supporting educators.
"We know that every year teachers are spending their personal money for supplies for their students, supplies for their classrooms," said Brandyn Rodriguez, Vice President of Community Engagement for the organization.
According to a recent analysis, teachers spend an average of $459 on school supplies every year. Each of the kits assembled at Saturday’s event are valued at $468.
“This was just a small token of appreciation that we can give back to our teachers and community,” said Rodriguez.
Through the help of donors and sponsors, Brandyn said they collected nearly $80,000 worth of school supplies to give to teachers.
“We all know that teachers do amazing work for us and we also know they’re not paid what they should be paid,” she said.
United Way and other volunteers will be distributing 2,200 school supply kits to Edgewood ISD and Southwest ISD teachers Monday morning. Volunteer opportunities can be found here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/edgewood-isd-southwest-isd-teachers-san-antonio/273-4d84ae5e-873d-4c85-b46a-6a2558454156 | 2022-08-14T00:06:24 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/edgewood-isd-southwest-isd-teachers-san-antonio/273-4d84ae5e-873d-4c85-b46a-6a2558454156 |
MIDDLE TOWNSHIP — At the center of Rio Grande stands a crossroads, the intersection of two major routes, 9 and 47, through Cape May County.
The community itself is also at a crossroads. Drugs, homelessness and petty crime are on the rise, according to township officials, as are property values. According to police, methamphetamine sales are increasing, joining heroin and fentanyl as a major concern, and the number of people without permanent homes has increased in the area.
“It’s not new,” police Chief Christopher Leusner said. “The problem has increased. It’s always been something that we’ve had to deal with, but it seems to be getting worse.”
At the most recent meeting of the Township Committee, Mayor Tim Donohue said business owners want action and have complained that the township is not doing enough.
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“My response is that we’re doing what we can do within the law,” Donohue said. He pointed his finger at Trenton, saying the state is not doing enough to help municipalities address social problems, while arguing that state directives on bail reform and police policy have pulled tools out of the hands of local law enforcement.
“We need help with this,” Donohue said. “In my opinion, a lot of the issue has been generated by the state’s failure to address the mental health issue, to address the homelessness issue, while at the same time precipitating the conditions that cause these problems.”
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State officials say addressing homelessness is a priority.
A spokesman for Gov. Phil Murphy’s office declined to respond to Donohue’s comments, forwarding a request for an interview to Lisa Ryan with the state Department of Community Affairs. In an email Tuesday, Ryan addressed the state’s efforts on getting people in homes.
“A central part of DCA’s mission is to ensure that people who are living in New Jersey and facing homelessness can access housing that meets their needs and that they can afford,” she wrote. “We continue to collaborate with our partners on the shared goal of preventing homelessness in our state.”
That includes coordinating efforts with state and local governments and private organizations, she said. The department provides more than 40,000 vouchers for low-income families each year, she said, and cited other state programs aimed at addressing the issue.
Other changes cited in Middle Township, such as bail rules that keep most people charged with minor crimes out of jail to new rules on the use of force by police, have separate histories. The state Attorney General’s Office has undertaken sweeping changes to police procedures in New Jersey, which supporters say increases accountability and protects marginalized communities, while bail reform was approved by voters, with an aim of disconnecting how much money a defendant has from whether they spend time behind bars awaiting trial.
In Cape May County, many officials and residents see the efforts as interlinked and achieving one result, often described as handcuffing the police. On Aug. 9, Sea Isle City Mayor Leonard Desiderio slammed statewide changes, stating “law enforcement is being hindered by current state laws.”
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In Rio Grande, according to Donohue, state changes mean police sometimes cannot make an arrest, or that the person who was arrested is soon back on the same corner, creating some of the same problems.
At the same time, the commercial area of Rio Grande is one of the busiest in Cape May County. It is one of the few places in the county with multiple national brand outlets including Walmart, Starbucks and Lowe’s.
While other retail areas in in the county either cater to tourists, such as the boardwalks and downtowns of the beach communities, or struggle to fill large retail spaces, there appear to be few empty storefronts in Rio Grande.
Seeking solutions
On Tuesday afternoon, as temperatures climbed into the upper 90s, a few people found shade under trees or buildings in Rio Grande, while vehicle traffic was brisk.
Middle Township includes multiple distinct communities, each with separate histories and character. Decades ago, Rio Grande was almost rural, at least compared to what is there now, with several working farms and few businesses.
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When Township Committee member Jim Norris was growing up there, he said, he and his friends would ride bikes to a park on Railroad Avenue. There was a movie theater and a Kmart, along with family farms and produce stands.
“It was a safe area,” he said. Norris now lives in the township’s Del Haven section.
Today, there remain residential neighborhoods, along with a swath of large-scale retailers and a line of restaurants and other businesses.
Norris has proposed creating a Rio Grande Community Partnership aimed at tackling some of the challenges, bringing together residents, business owners, police, social service agencies and local government to approach what he described as quality-of-life issues in the area.
“I grew up in Rio Grande and the area has certainly changed in my lifetime,” Norris said in a statement. “Many of those changes have been positive, but we need to recognize that we face growing issues related to the social ills affecting our entire country. We must come together to seek smart and innovative solutions to the challenges presented by homelessness, petty crime, drug use and an ongoing housing shortage.”
Incidents of panhandling have increased in the area, he said.
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Norris plans to introduce a resolution forming the community partnership at the next committee meeting, set for Monday. Those interested in participating can email Norris at jnorris@middletownship.com.
Bigger than Rio Grande
Leusner said the drug issues appear to be a regional problem, but for southern Cape May County, Rio Grande sees the largest number of people without homes. In part, Norris cited the number of services available in the area, both through the county’s social service programs, many of which are located at the County Commons complex in the former Kmart and through organizations such as The Branches, an outreach organization that provides a safe place for the elderly, disabled people, homeless people and other marginalized communities.
But Rio Grande’s issues reflect national trends, local officials indicate. This month, Atlantic City police broke up a homeless encampment under Caesars’ Playground Pier, and in July, Atlantic County Prosecutor William Reynolds suggested the creation of mental health courts to reduce homelessness and crime in Atlantic City. Close to 10,000 people in New Jersey are without homes, according to a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report.
Pointing fingers
After the last meeting, when asked what specific state policies he was addressing, Donohue suggested speaking with Leusner. The police chief cited changes in drug enforcement, saying he has received calls from business owners complaining about used hypodermic syringes in front of a store.
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“We used to be able to make an arrest,” Leusner said. “Now, we tell the business owner we’re sorry. I understand there’s kids in the area and there’s needles, but due to the recent changes in state law we’re unable to take any action.”
Police and other agencies now routinely use the opioid overdose treatment naloxone, and have been directed to leave more naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, with people after it has been deployed. That appears to have eased the number of fatal overdoses, Leusner said.
“We’re still using Narcan on a regular basis, but we’re seeing an increase in meth,” Leusner said. Police recently evicted an encampment of about 15 to 20 tents in the woods in Rio Grande, at the request of the property owner. Leusner said advocates for those living in the tents had asked for more time before they moved on, and after that, officers and public works crews cleaned up the area.
Police don’t just want to arrest more people or hold them longer in county jail, he said, but he expressed frustration at the situation.
“We end up becoming the social services agency of last resort. At the end of the day, that’s a policy decision by folks higher up in government,” he said.
Spinning wheels
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Donohue said the township has reached out for help from county and state representatives, as well as U.S. Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-2nd. More specific requests are expected with input from the proposed Rio Grande Community Partnership.
The three members of the Township Committee are Republican, as are the five county commissioners and Van Drew, while Murphy and the majority of both houses in the state Legislature are Democrats.
In his public comments, Donohue described the changes to state law as well intentioned, but stated the impact is only beginning.
“It’s not that we don’t have compassion for these people. We do,” Donohue said. “We certainly don’t have all the answers. It’s a problem that I think is going to get worse based on the economic conditions that we’re in, based on the state of government policy where it stands.” | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/rio-grande-has-a-reputation-middle-township-wants-to-change-that/article_9e0dc4e0-182a-11ed-b7fd-e39821094b17.html | 2022-08-14T00:18:25 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/rio-grande-has-a-reputation-middle-township-wants-to-change-that/article_9e0dc4e0-182a-11ed-b7fd-e39821094b17.html |
QUESTION: I’m thinking about buying a business. Do you have any tips that will help me make this successful?
ANSWER: Buying a business is exciting. It can also be very lucrative or it can lead to financial disaster. Ensure your success by following the tips below.
1. Understand why the current owner wants to sell. Just after a group of Richmond- based entrepreneurs purchased AMF Bowling, the sport’s popularity in the U.S. increased significantly. This was followed by an expansion of the sport in Europe and then in Asia. With growth largely tapped out in all worldwide markets, the entrepreneurs sold the business for about $1 billion more than they had paid for it. Within a relatively short period after the sale, AMF Bowling filed for bankruptcy protection. The new owner didn’t understand that the worldwide expansion in bowling had reached a peak and that sales in the bowling equipment industry were about to decline precipitously.
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If you are going to buy a business, make sure you understand why the current owner wants to sell. Does he or she see troubled times in the future or is there some other legitimate reason for the sale?
2. Learn as much about the industry as you can before making the purchase. Make sure you understand the competitive landscape. Are there new or pending regulations that will affect industry profitability? If the business has been very profitable, are there barriers to entry that will prevent others from entering the industry and competing away most of the profit? Are their barriers to exit that will keep competitors in the industry even if they are unprofitable? Where is the power in the channel? Will suppliers and/or customers squeeze profits out of the industry? What will happen to demand for the product or service in the future?
3. Make sure you can answer the first question every business must answer. That question is, why should a prospective customer buy this business’s product or service rather than a competitor’s? If you can’t answer this question, it is unlikely that prospective customers will be able to answer it. Perhaps the best situation is one where you can answer this question in an aspirational way. That is, you can envision an answer to this question that the business doesn’t currently exhibit, but you can see a clear path to developing this capability.
4. Have a plan to improve the business. Presumably, the current owner of the business understands its value. In fact, current owners often think the business is more valuable than it actually is. There is no reason to believe that the owner would accept less than full value for his or her business as it has been run. Therefore, the purchase will be a good deal for you only if you can run the business better than it has been run. Perhaps you already own a business that will have synergy with the proposed acquisition. Maybe you know how to cut costs or grow sales significantly. Whatever the case, if you can’t figure out how to run the business better than it is currently being run, you are unlikely to be happy with the acquisition.
Buying a business can be very rewarding. Alternatively, it can be a nightmare. Following the four tips above will help to ensure that your venture lands on the positive side of the ledger. | https://richmond.com/business/local/ask-doug-polly-tips-on-buying-a-small-business/article_165e860c-21d5-518a-ba49-13b3f613dd6e.html | 2022-08-14T00:21:01 | 0 | https://richmond.com/business/local/ask-doug-polly-tips-on-buying-a-small-business/article_165e860c-21d5-518a-ba49-13b3f613dd6e.html |
The Kenosha Community Foundation invites local not-for-profit organizations to apply for 2023 grants from four Field of Interest Funds that it manages.
The Foundation is seeking proposals to be funded from the following endowment funds:
OMC Legacy Fund—Supports programs and activities that improve the general welfare and enhance the quality of life for youth in the greater Kenosha community.
LaFave Family Fund – Supports programs and organizations that promote understanding, communication and a sense of tolerance between individuals and groups through education, arts and humanities.
Women’s Fund – Supports programs that create opportunities for women and children through responsive philanthropy and community involvement.
Arts Fund – Supports non-profit organizations that offer arts programming with the purpose of enhancing the culture, economy, and quality of life in Kenosha County.
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As always, the Foundation hopes that organizations will respond to the questions in the grant application using the 3C’s of good grant writing – those being clear, concise, and complete.
Grant criteria, application forms and further advice on grant writing are available on the Foundation’s website www.kenoshafoundation.org.
Applications must be received by the Foundation no later than 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 6.
Committees of volunteers from around Kenosha County will help select award recipients. Grant awards will be announced in January 2023.
Applications for 2023 grants from the Foundation’s Unrestricted Funds will also be released in January.
In January 2022, the Foundation awarded 25 grants totaling $52,254 to non-profit organizations and projects that serve Kenosha County residents from these four funds.
For additional questions, contact email@kenoshafoundation.org, or call 262-654-2412.
The Kenosha Community Foundation, organized in 1926 as a tax-exempt public charity, actively manages permanent endowments established by individuals, families and business organizations.
The Foundation manages over $14 million in endowment funds and each year awards over $750,000 in grants and scholarships to Kenosha area not-for-profit organizations and students.
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This bear got into the wrong honey! Buzz60’s Keri Lumm reports. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-foundation-announces-2023-field-of-interest-fund-grant-opportunities/article_0a41b22a-198e-11ed-8d34-1f3d191f365e.html | 2022-08-14T00:23:17 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/community-foundation-announces-2023-field-of-interest-fund-grant-opportunities/article_0a41b22a-198e-11ed-8d34-1f3d191f365e.html |
SOMERS — Adventures in Lifelong Learning, an organization of mostly retired people ages 55 and older, offers a free lecture on Monday, Aug. 15, titled “Her League: Women in Professional Baseball” by Kate Bennett.
The presentation will explore the history and legacy of women in professional baseball, including Pleasant Prairie local Joyce (Hill) Westerman, and women of the Negro American League including Toni Stone, Connie Morgan and Mamie "Peanut" Johnson.
Bennett is the curator for the Pleasant Prairie History Museum, 3875 116th St. She received her B.A. in History with a minor in Museum Studies from Beloit College. She has worked with the Pleasant Prairie Historical Society since April, 2018 and helped open the Pleasant Prairie History Museum at the historic Dublin School in 2020. The museum is open to the public Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; and Saturdays noon to 3 p.m..
For more information, call the ALL office at 262-595-2793 or go to www.uwp.edu/aLL .
IN PHOTOS: Local photos of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League
Racine Belles
Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League pose for a photo. From left, Betty Trezza, LaVonne Paire, Margaret Danhauser, Sophie Kurys and Madeline English.
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Kenosha Comets vs. Racine Belles poster
A poster promotes a game between the Kenosha Comets and Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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Annastasia Batikis
A baseball card of Annastasia Batikis issued in 1995 by Larry Fritsch Cards, which was the official baseball card of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Players Association.
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Racine Belles
Sophie Kurys during her playing days with the Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
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Racine Heritage Museum
Racine Belles Team Photo
Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Photo courtesy of the Racine Heritage Museum.
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Racine Belles yearbook
Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Photos courtesy of the Racine Heritage Museum.
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Racine Belles historical photo
Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League> Photo courtesy of the Racine Heritage Museum.
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Local Belles Coach Murphy
Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Photo courtesy of the Racine Heritage Museum. Coach Leo Murphy
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Pepper Paire
Pepper Paire, Racine Belles of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Photo courtesy of the Racine Heritage Museum.
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KENOSHA COMETS ANNIVERSARY
Rockford Peaches’ Rebecca Tulloch pitches during the July 29 game on Simmons Island commemorating the 75th anniversary of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The Peaches played the Kenosha Comets; they were two of the original four teams in the league.
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Joyce Westerman, far right, an original All-American Girls Professional Baseball League teams member, joins the Rockford Peaches’ Jenny Hale, left, Kathy Suyko, and the Kenosha Comets’ Michelle Gnadt and Stephanie Gnadt for the Kenosha Comets women’s team 75th anniversary celebration in 2018.
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KENOSHA COMETS ANNIVERSARY
Joyce Westerman, left, an original All-American Girls Professional Baseball League member, signs an autograph for the Rockford Peaches’ Jenny Hale during the Kenosha Comets’ 75th anniversary celebration in July 2018.
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Sophie Kurys bobblehead
The Milwaukee-based National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has created bobbleheads honoring starters of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, including Racine Belles legend Sophie Kurys.
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Gateway Technical College will host The Buzz on Bees, a workshop focused on beekeeping and the importance of honeybees in pollination, 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, at its Center for Sustainable Living on its Kenosha Campus, 3520 30th Ave.
Beekeeping expert Stephanie Slater will talk about honeybees, beekeeping and how everyone can help support the honeybee population in our everyday lives.
The event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP to center manager Kallie Johnson at johnsonka@gtc.edu or phone 262-564-2196.
6 surprising facts about bees
1. Bees like to 'waggle dance'
Bees can communicate and make decisions by dancing.
When a honeybee scouts out and inspects a new nest it uses a waggle dance to advertise and debate its merits. The better the site, the longer and harder the bee dances. If another bee bumps into a dancing bee, she will go off to inspect the site and if she likes it, she, too, will waggle.
Eventually, the dynamics of the waggle dancing causes about 20 to 30 bees to agree on the best nest site, and they communicate their decision to the rest of the swarm by making high-pitched sounds and by buzzing their wings among the other bees.
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2. Bees can use tools
Honeybees in Vietnam and other parts of Asia are threatened by predatory species of giant hornet that attack bee colonies, killing the adults defending the nest and preying on the young bees. In particular, the voracious hornet species Vespa soror is capable of obliterating the hive within hours.
To ward off such attacks, the bees have been observed collecting fresh animal feces and smearing it around the entrance to their hive. The researchers, who published their findings last year, call it "fecal spotting." The study team believe the poop repels the predatory hornets (which are similar to murder hornets) from the nest by reducing time hornets spend attempting to breach the nest.
"Fecal spotting stands out as extraordinary for several reasons. It marks the first report of honey bees of any species foraging for materials that are not derived from plants or water-based fluids. It is also the first clear-cut example of honey bees using a tool in nature," the study said.
Honeybees also signal an imminent attack by making a chilling warning noise.
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3. Bee poop nearly caused a Cold War confrontation
In the 1980s, "yellow rain" -- tiny splotches of yellow found on jungle foliage in Laos and Cambodia -- were thought to be the residue of chemical weapons. Refugees said that the yellow rain caused illness and death. The allegations prompted the United States to accuse what was then the Soviet Union and its allies of chemical warfare.
Bee experts later found that the yellow dots were excretions by massive swarms of wild honeybees.
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4. Bumblebees get hangry
Plants produce dazzling flowers laden with nectar to attract pollinators but what's an impatient, hungry bumblebee to do when those flowers haven't yet bloomed?
When pollen is scarce, bumblebees damaged tomato and mustard plant leaves in a unique way that resulted in the plant flowering up to 30 days earlier than unnibbled plants, scientists in Switzerland and France found.
For bees, the pollen is a protein source they need to raise their young.
However, warmer temperatures as a result of the climate crisis means that bees are waking up earlier after hibernating for the winter to find the flowers they need for food haven't yet bloomed. Flowering time, which relies on exposure to light, is less affected by climate change. This creates a mismatch that can leaves bees short of food early in spring.
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5. Humans have been exploiting honeybees for thousands of years
A cave painting in Spain thought to be 8,000 years old depicts a human gathering honey from a ladder. Traces of beeswax on pottery also suggest that early farmers kept bees 9,000 years ago. Honey has also been found in ancient Egyptian tombs.
Honey was likely a rare treat in a prehistoric diet that had few sweet foods, and it could have had medicinal uses. Beeswax could have been used to make pots waterproof or as a glue.
Today, honey may offer fresh hope in the fight against antibiotic resistance. It contains natural antibiotics to help the body battle infection. Scientists are working on ways to make the sticky substance easier to apply on wounds, and it could be used in surgery, war zones and our own homes.
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6. Some bees eat meat
The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but some species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses for flower meadows.
Vulture bees in Costa Rica have guts rich in acid-loving bacteria similar to those found in hyenas and other animals that feed on carrion, scientists at the University of California-Riverside, Columbia University and Cornell University discovered last year.
Their research involved setting up 16 traps baited with 50 grams (1.8 ounces) of raw chicken dangling from branches about 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) above the ground. Though vulture bees feed on flesh, their honey is still sweet and edible, the researchers said.
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KENOSHA -- Grief Share, a faith-based 13-week support group program for adults grieving the loss of a death of someone close, sponsored by Piasecki Funeral Home, is being offered and is open to all adults.
GriefShare is a friendly, caring group of people who will walk alongside you through one of life’s most difficult experiences. It is facilitated by certified grief coach Pastor Charlie Hansen and assisted by Anne Wasilevich and Roger Rodriguez.
Register to attend starting Wednesday, Aug. 17, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Holy Spirit Community Church, 5900 11th Ave.. There is a $20 workbook fee. Register at https://www.griefshare.org/groups/150709
Contact Anne with questions at 262-658-4101 or anne@piaseckifuneral.com. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/grief-share-support-group-offers-help-for-those-grieving-the-loss-of-a-loved-one/article_2c9a460a-1b2f-11ed-ba5c-63217bb3311d.html | 2022-08-14T00:23:36 | 1 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/grief-share-support-group-offers-help-for-those-grieving-the-loss-of-a-loved-one/article_2c9a460a-1b2f-11ed-ba5c-63217bb3311d.html |
The third annual Habitat for Humanity Women Build Week in Kenosha united a host of volunteers, groups and sponsors to help build affordable housing in the community.
The event Aug. 1-6 was part of a global call on women to raise a hammer and shine a spotlight on the need for safe and affordable housing..
"Women Build Week raises funds to continue building Habitat homes in Kenosha while providing the tools for women to empower and educate themselves on skills used when building or repairing homes," Amanda Kurt, a site supervisor and Women Build Week leader for Habitat for Humanity of Kenosha, explained prior to the week's activities.
Organizers project that it raised just over $17,400 to help with ongoing local projects.
It also provided the opportunity for women to take a proactive step in serving their communities, specifically to support other women. They invited anyone who wanted to learn how to build and construct a home to join in, no experience necessary.
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Volunteers worked under the guidance of construction professionals, alongside other volunteers and future Habitat homeowners.
Habitat for Humanity of Kenosha is currently building four homes, two of them in the Wilson Heights Neighborhood. Before the end of the year, Habitat for Humanity of Kenosha intends to break ground on two more new homes in the Wilson Heights Neighborhood.
Angela Elliott, executive director for Habitat for Humanity of Kenosha, said the event united many volunteers to help advance the projects and raise funds for Habitat efforts.
The event featured seven build group sponsors which provided dozens of volunteers, including: Burn Boot Camp, with 20 volunteers; GoFelicia Realtor, with 10 volunteers; University of Wisconsin-Parkside Bold Leaders, with 10 volunteers; Country Financial, with 10 volunteers; BEAR Real Estate Group/BREG, with 30 volunteers; All Cut Up Salon & Kurk, Inc., with 20 volunteers; and InSinkErator, with 20 volunteers. There were also 20 volunteer slots open to the public as well.
Including site leaders, the planning committee, and the volunteers who helped with delivering meals and misc tasks, they had nearly 150 volunteers involved throughout the week.
Other sponsors for the event included: Local 118 Plumbers, as presenting sponsor; and LMI Packaging.
Three in-kind sponsors who provided materials and services included: Gleason Redi-Mix, who donated concrete for garages; Rob'd Arts, who donated photography services; and Art by Mia Hope, who donated photography services.
Meals were provided during the week's efforts from 10 sponsors including: Journey Church's Compassion Team, who served lunch on Monday; an anonymous individual who provided dinner on Monday; Valeo's Pizza, which provided lunch on Tuesday; TinCan Roadhouse, who provided lunch on Wednesday; Subway, who provided lunch on Thursday at the Salem location; Firehouse Performance, which provided lunch on Friday' Johnson Financial, who provided lunch on Saturday; Perrine's Gas & Grocery, which provided HoHo cake every day; Paielli's Bakery, which provided breakfast every morning; and EastView Coffee, which provided coffee every morning.
Donations can still be made at the event fundraising page online through the end of August at https://secure.givelively.org/donate/habitat-for-humanity-of-kenosha/wbw-2022. Individuals can also donate by mail in a check to the Habitat office with "Women Build Week" or "WBW" in the memo line. Office address is 6203 28th Avenue Kenosha, WI 53143.
Habitat for Humanity of Kenosha is also always in need of volunteers to work in their office at 6203 28th Ave., or at their build sites. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/third-annual-women-build-week-raised-over-17-600-for-habitat-for-humanity-projects-in/article_c16d6b8a-1a59-11ed-b421-5f356aa4834e.html | 2022-08-14T00:23:42 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/third-annual-women-build-week-raised-over-17-600-for-habitat-for-humanity-projects-in/article_c16d6b8a-1a59-11ed-b421-5f356aa4834e.html |
ROANOKE, Va. – You don’t have to travel to India to get a taste of the culture Saturday. Festival of India returns to Roanoke Valley for the 15th year.
Dozens of vendors line Elmwood Park selling savory foods and colorful traditional clothing.
Dancers capture the audience’s attention as children play at the arts and crafts table.
One booth wrote children’s names in different Indian dialects to teach the beauty of people speaking several languages in one country.
Padmaja Mallidi said seeing children’s eyes widen when she explains how India has 29 states and more than 19,000 languages is why she keeps coming back.
“It’s very meaningful because once we know each other better than we can understand each other better,” Mallidi said.
The festival ends at 8 p.m. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/13/a-taste-of-india-returns-to-roanoke-valley/ | 2022-08-14T00:25:25 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/13/a-taste-of-india-returns-to-roanoke-valley/ |
ROANOKE, Va. – Tudor House hosts a summer fun fundraiser Saturday to tackle mental illness.
Every year, the non-profit throws the annual Big Kahuna fundraiser with a swim meet. But this year, a new tournament was introduced.
Splashing around on alligator pool floats or diving to reach the finish line, 125 swimmers raced at the Hunting Hills Country Club to honor Louis Tudor.
Eleven-year-old Natalie Thorell said it’s a fun way to swim with her friends and give back.
“It was good,” she said. “It was very fun. I liked it.”
Tudor was a Roanoke swim coach who struggled with mental illness and ended up taking his own life two years ago.
“It means so much,” Tudor House Scholarship Chairperson Miki Smith said. “Lou was my swim coach and to be able to do this for him. It’s an honor.”
However, this year the non-profit added a golf tournament to the fundraiser.
Sixty-four golfers gave it their best swing to prevent mental health crises.
Last year, a donor challenged the non-profit to raise $100,000. The non-profit reached the goal and was awarded $50,000 by the donor.
The money will be used to create a health and wellness center and launch youth programs, according to Tudor House Executive Director Kathleen Thorell.
“We are also starting a teen ambassador program so we can educate teens and have them educate their friends,” Thorell said.
It’s gatherings like this that can help people recognize the shoulders they can lean on when days are tough, Thorell said.
“I think the more that we talk about it and the more that we have discussions within our family that hey you can have good days and bad days and that’s ok,” she said.
A silent auction and an adult social wrapped up the night. | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/13/tudor-house-annual-fundraiser-makes-a-splash-and-a-hole-in-one/ | 2022-08-14T00:25:32 | 1 | https://www.wsls.com/news/local/2022/08/13/tudor-house-annual-fundraiser-makes-a-splash-and-a-hole-in-one/ |
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