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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — One of the biggest attractions for younger fans at the Little League World Series is sliding down the famous big hill.
There are many traditions at the Little League World Series. Some folks enjoy trading pins; others enjoy a game of catch. But one of the most iconic traditions is sliding down the hill overlooking Lamade Stadium.
"It is really fun. It is my first time ever doing it, so I have always seen it on TV and have always wanted to do it. So, it's my first time, and it is a lot of fun," Easton Miller said.
"It is really fun going down," Reed Hanson said. "It is kind of fast."
Luccia Gustafson from Connecticut came prepared. She made her own sled out of cardboard. She even named it the Luccia-mobile.
"It has been really fun, but I have been falling over a bunch, and it is not going so well, but I am going to keep trying to go down the hill."
The hill is not just for smaller kids; 17-year-old Alexandria Chilson is enjoying the hill with her cousin.
"This is my little cousin's first time here, and they have been talking about the hill all week, so I am going to try and help them have some fun," Chilson said.
It is the Neghandi brothers' first time at the Little League World Series. They have been in South Williamsport all week, but they finally got to go down the hill on Wednesday.
"Monday, our dad didn't want us to because we would have been drenched in mud. He said today we can," Brandon Negandhi said. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lycoming-county/fun-on-the-hill-at-the-little-league-world-series-lamade-stadium-baseball-south-williamsport/523-d06c0b4e-f4c5-4f9e-88e3-2fd1d47eecf2 | 2022-08-24T23:03:47 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lycoming-county/fun-on-the-hill-at-the-little-league-world-series-lamade-stadium-baseball-south-williamsport/523-d06c0b4e-f4c5-4f9e-88e3-2fd1d47eecf2 |
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The boys from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, are still very much alive in this year's Little League World Series. They're set to play again Wednesday night, and a win would put the Mid-Atlantic squad into the American bracket of the semifinals.
It has been a wild ride for the Mid-Atlantic champions. They have played a total of ten elimination games this summer to get to this point. Their backs are against the wall yet again.
Hollidaysburg squares off against a familiar opponent — the team from Pearland, Texas. Pennsylvania played Texas in its opener of the Little League World Series and lost that game by the score of 8-3.
That loss sent Hollidaysburg to the elimination bracket, and the boys haven't lost since. The team is coming off wins against Massachusetts, New York, and Indiana.
They will aim for some revenge on Wednesday night. The Mid-Atlantic champions are now 10-0 in elimination games this summer.
Fans from all over the state have made their way to South Williamsport to cheer the boys on. They are hoping for a big win.
"To be able to come and support someone, even though they might be halfway across the state, is still awesome. It shows how Pennsylvanians can get together and cheer on our locals," said Dunmore resident Debbie Barkley.
If Hollidaysburg wins, they will face Tennessee or Hawaii on Thursday. The winner will then play in the United States championship game. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lycoming-county/pennsylvania-team-looking-to-advance-in-little-league-world-series-lamade-volunteer-stadium-baseball/523-e3593ddd-bb0c-4a68-b317-cc06d414e513 | 2022-08-24T23:03:53 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/lycoming-county/pennsylvania-team-looking-to-advance-in-little-league-world-series-lamade-volunteer-stadium-baseball/523-e3593ddd-bb0c-4a68-b317-cc06d414e513 |
COOLBAUGH TOWNSHIP, PA — John Scifo of Coolbaugh Township and his family are looking for closure. His beloved 6-year-old pup Petey was shot and killed nearly two weeks ago on Ryan's Road, just off Route 196 near Tobyhanna.
"I've had dogs for 45 years, and everyone will say their dog is the sweetest, most gentle, kindest dog in the world. Petey truly was. Petey won your heart the moment you saw him, sweet, lick you to death," Scifo said.
Scifo says he was making dinner for his two dogs on August 12. When he called for the dogs to come inside from the backyard, Petey didn't show.
"I went to where he normally sits, and he wasn't there," Scifo said. "So I looked around. I called out, 'Petey, Petey dinner, Petey dinner,' and then I started to look around the backyard. That's where I found him, right by our horseshoe pit."
Scifo says he worked on the Labrador/rat terrier mix for 15 minutes performing CPR, but Petey was gone.
He brought the dog to a vet whose report said Petey died from a gunshot wound.
Scifo then called the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department and filed a report.
"The person's out there. Who's to say it won't happen again to another animal or even to a person? It's unconscionable, in my opinion, to let something like this go. Animal or not, there's a shooter out there who can do this again," Scifo said.
He says he's taking matters into his own hands, hoping to find the person who did this.
"We have a $5,000 reward out. We have a GoFundMe page now for hiring a private investigator because the police are not doing what they're supposed to be doing," Scifo said.
The department is still investigating.
If you have any information on who killed Petey, contact Pocono Mountain Regional Police at (570) 895-2400 or Petey's owner John Scifo at sepc@scifo.com.
See more pets and animal stories on WNEP’s YouTube playlist. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/pocono-family-searches-for-answers-after-dog-was-shot-and-killed-petey-coolbaugh-township/523-72812015-3101-49e5-a463-526563406092 | 2022-08-24T23:03:59 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/monroe-county/pocono-family-searches-for-answers-after-dog-was-shot-and-killed-petey-coolbaugh-township/523-72812015-3101-49e5-a463-526563406092 |
ORWIGSBURG, Pa. — Motorcycles throughout Schaeffer's Harley-Davidson near Orwigsburg are now decorated with pink ribbons to promote the upcoming cancer awareness weekend.
Employee Donna Dukemen came up with the idea for the benefit 14 years ago. She worked at a hospital at the time and went through her own fight with cancer.
"Unfortunately, when I was diagnosed, this program was not around. I was diagnosed in 2002 with an extremely rare cancer. And most patients don't live beyond three years," she said.
But this wasn't Dukemen's first experience with cancer.
"My father passed away from cancer, my oldest brother had cancer, my youngest brother had cancer. It's in our family history, so I want to give back to the community and to those patients to make it a little less stressful," Dukemen added.
" I lost my mother to esophageal cancer about six years ago. We all know of a survivor or a loved one that we have lost, and I think part of our fundraising efforts and charity is to reach out to those and touch them in different ways," said Geoff Bogotuik, Schaeffer's general manager.
Throughout Friday and Saturday, Schaeffer's Harley-Davidson will raise money through raffles, food vendors, and luminaries in memory of those who have lost their lives to cancer.
Having this every year has allowed them to raise over $45,000 to help the Lehigh Valley - Schuylkill cancer program.
"We've been able to fund their gentle yoga class so the patients and their caregivers can go for free. And we also started giving money to the patients receiving cancer treatments since the pandemic and helping them ease the cost of gas being so expensive," said Dukemen.
The cancer awareness weekend will kick off this Friday at 5 p.m. at Schaeffer's Harley-Davidson, off Route 61 near Orwigsburg.
Check out WNEP’s YouTube channel. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/schuylkill-county/schuylkill-county-hosts-cancer-awareness-weekend-schaeffers-harley-davidson/523-320565a1-65e1-42af-b4bf-4e41a9f9e32b | 2022-08-24T23:04:06 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/schuylkill-county/schuylkill-county-hosts-cancer-awareness-weekend-schaeffers-harley-davidson/523-320565a1-65e1-42af-b4bf-4e41a9f9e32b |
WATERLOO — Outfitted with rifles and ballistic shields, police searched a Waterloo home for a wanted person on Wednesday afternoon.
Neighbors gathered to watch the excitement in the 400 block of Adams Street until officers determined no one was home.
Officers declined to identify who they were looking for, only saying they were searching for a person with a warrant and they had a tip that person was at the house.
Police are currently investigating a number of shootings from the weekend.
One man was shot and killed while walking on West Fifth Street on Sunday night. No arrests have been made in the homicide.
Another was shot in the hand in a nightclub parking lot on Sunday morning, and yet another was shot in the foot when people opened fire on a house on Sunday afternoon.
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Police arrested one person in connection with the house shooting, but other suspects in the attack remain at large, and the investigation is continuing. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-police-search-home-for-wanted-suspect/article_cd1a03ad-f478-5ca1-a7e7-7d4c5e2764fc.html | 2022-08-24T23:07:37 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/watch-now-police-search-home-for-wanted-suspect/article_cd1a03ad-f478-5ca1-a7e7-7d4c5e2764fc.html |
CLARKSVILLE — The final concert of the season at Reading Park Sunday will feature SaltLight, a six member band that performs gospel-centered music.
The evening concert will begin at 7 p.m. in the bandstand at the park, which is near downtown adjacent to the Clarksville Public Library. Those attending should bring lawn chairs. A smoked pulled pork sandwich meal will be available starting at 6 p.m. as a fundraiser for the Relay For Life team “Immanuel’s Answer For Cancer.”
A portion of Greene Street adjacent to the park will be closed to accommodate additional seating. No admission is charged, but free-will donations will be accepted for both the meal and the concert.
In case of rain, the event will be held at Immanuel Church in Clarksville.
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Residents called 911 shortly before 10:20 p.m. Sunday after hearing gunshots in the 1000 block of West Fifth Street, where police found the person dead on the sidewalk.
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship announced Friday that it had immediately suspended the warehouse and grain dealer licenses for the Jesup-based store. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/saltlight-featured-in-final-summer-reading-park-concert/article_1b3e87e4-f32c-5e24-9f41-882a2427148d.html | 2022-08-24T23:07:44 | 0 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/saltlight-featured-in-final-summer-reading-park-concert/article_1b3e87e4-f32c-5e24-9f41-882a2427148d.html |
A Pima County jail inmate died after he was shocked with Tasers multiple times by corrections officers.
On Aug. 16 just after 7:30 p.m., Pima County corrections officers attempted to move Wade Welch, 37, from one housing unit to another. While they were moving him, Welch refused to enter his assigned cell, a Pima Regional Critical Incident Team news release said.
When officers attempted to restrain Welch physically, one of the officers discharged their department-issued Taser, firing both cartridges with little effect, the news release said. Welch continued to be combative and grabbed the officer’s Taser before being taken to the ground.
While Welch was on the ground, he refused to place his hands behind his back, and a corrections sergeant discharged his Taser and fired both cartridges, which deliver an electrical shock when they contact a person. Since it had little effect again, an officer placed the Taser directly on Welch’s skin and activated it, the news release said.
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Officers were able to put a spit hood on Welch and placed him in handcuffs. He was then walked from the upper level to the lower level of the housing unit in an attempt to put him in a restraint chair, the news release said. As officers put Welch into the chair, he became combative and refused to comply with verbal commands, resulting in an officer placing a Taser on his leg and activating it.
Welch then became unresponsive, and officers began life-saving measures. Despite the efforts, Welch was pronounced dead, the news release said.
Welch was initially booked into jail in Aug. 15 on domestic violence disorderly conduct and domestic violence threats and intimidation charges.
As part of the incident team, the Tucson Police Department has been assigned primary responsibility for the criminal investigation. The Pima County Sheriff's Department Internal Affairs will conduct a separate but parallel administrative investigation to examine the actions of their personnel.
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/pima-county-jail-inmate-dies-after-being-shocked-several-times-with-tasers/article_e5afb4ae-23f4-11ed-accc-c3764b1def92.html | 2022-08-24T23:12:08 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/pima-county-jail-inmate-dies-after-being-shocked-several-times-with-tasers/article_e5afb4ae-23f4-11ed-accc-c3764b1def92.html |
The University of Arizona police detained an armed man on campus Wednesday morning.
Around 9:40 a.m., UAPD received 911 calls reporting a suspicious man with a gun on campus. Officers arrived to the area and saw a man who matched the description of the suspect and attempted to make contact.
Hunter Paddlety, 22, who was identified as the suspect, ran from officers and was later found on the southeast side of the student union. Paddlety, who was observed by officers with a gun in his hands, tried to flee again, but was taken into custody after a short pursuit.
Paddlety was booked into the Pima County jail and faces charges of reckless display of a deadly weapon, disorderly conduct and interference or obstruction of an educational institution.
According to UAPD’s website, “Arizona Board of Regents policies 5-303 and 5-308 prohibit the use, possession, display or storage of any weapons, dangerous instruments, explosive devices, or fireworks, among other things, on The University of Arizona campus and on all land and in all buildings owned or under the control of The University of Arizona.”
Jamie Donnelly covers breaking news for the Arizona Daily Star. Contact her via e-mail at jdonnelly@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-id-man-with-gun-arrested-on-university-of-arizona-campus/article_b75a86da-23e3-11ed-80d7-f32a342b854b.html | 2022-08-24T23:12:14 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-id-man-with-gun-arrested-on-university-of-arizona-campus/article_b75a86da-23e3-11ed-80d7-f32a342b854b.html |
OAK HILL, WV (WOWK) – A man is facing charges after an investigation into a report of an alleged sexual assault.
According to Fayette County Sheriff Mike Fridley, detectives were contacted by a local school counselor regarding the allegations.
Deputies say through their investigation, they found enough probable cause to arrest Jody Blankenship, 37, of Oak Hill. Blankenship is charged with a total of six counts in connection to the alleged sexual abuse incident.
Anyone with any information regarding this investigation is asked to contact the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department at 304-574-3590 or through their Facebook page. Anyone with a tip can also contact Crime Stoppers of West Virginia at 304-255-STOP. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/fayette-county-west-virginia-man-charged-in-alleged-sexual-abuse/ | 2022-08-24T23:14:13 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/fayette-county-west-virginia-man-charged-in-alleged-sexual-abuse/ |
BIG CHIMNEY, WV (WOWK) – The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help searching for a missing teenager.
According to the KCSO, Marissa Peters, 16, was last seen Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, leaving the Hardee’s in Big Chimney. Peters is described as standing 5’0″ tall and weighing 200 lbs. with sandy blond hair and blue eyes.
Anyone with any information on Peters’ whereabouts is asked to contact the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office at 304-357-0169. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/missing-teen-sought-in-kanawha-county-2/ | 2022-08-24T23:14:19 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/missing-teen-sought-in-kanawha-county-2/ |
The settlement announced by the Virginia Attorney General’s Office is with JumpStart University Inc., Vasilios Supportive Housing Initiative and Carl S. Vaughan over violations of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act and the Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act.
The two groups, which Vaughan oversees, advertised as being able to help those with bad credit find housing, but failed to deliver support services and evicted renters, according to the lawsuit.
The suit said they falsely advertised programs to low-income tenants and misrepresented that they were entering into a housing program. The lawsuit also said the identity of the owner of leased premises in the subleases used was not disclosed.
Under the agreement, the groups have to pay $10,000 in restitution to consumers who entered subleases.
They also can’t collect on any judgments against tenants from January 2016 to this January. Over 175 judgments were obtained against tenants in Richmond and Chesterfield and Henrico counties.
More than 150 photos from the RTD archives
In August 1956, firefighters worked to put out flames at the Carter-Venable Grain Elevator at 12th and Canal streets in Richmond. The fire, which drew a crowd of hundreds, caused an estimated $100,000 in damage to machinery and supplies. Friction in a stalled conveyor belt sparked the fire.
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In May 1958, Richmond Mayor F. Henry Garber crowned Grace Jacqueline Allen as Miss Richmond during a ceremony at the Jefferson Hotel. In addition to winning a trip to the Miss Virginia contest in Roanoke the next month, Allen received a silver bowl, a $200 scholarship, jewelry and cosmetics. She was a student at the Richmond Professional Institute.
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In March 1962, Nancy Beth Heller took a break from her duties at the Wickham-Valentine House in Richmond to enjoy the garden. Westfield was a fine arts major at the Richmond Professional Institute; for school credit, the museum trainee spent about 12 hours each week conducting tours and helping with exhibitions.
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In November 1963, workers completed the first three of 10 tiers at the George Wythe High School amphitheater in Richmond. The 1,200-seat venue encircled a stage that was used for commencements, plays and concerts. The amphitheater’s roots were planted four years earlier, when the contractors who built the school excavated dirt from a nearby hill to fill in the school’s football field.
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In April 1967, jet cars approached 200 mph as they sped down the track at the Richmond Dragway in Sandston. In the lead was Fred Sibley, with Ted Austin close behind. The dragway was built in 1964 by the Weis family, which continues to operate it today.
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In May 1950, workers positioned steel plates during construction of a 2 million-gallon water storage tank on Cofer Road in South Richmond. The tank aimed to increase water pressure in South Side and protect against a river-crossing water line break.
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In January 1950, a worker put the final touches on the vault inside the Bank of Virginia’s newest branch at Fourth and Grace streets in downtown Richmond. It was the bank’s fifth local office. Paul Wright Jr. (far right) was the manager; with him were several staff members.
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In May 1963, farmer H.R. Beadles lamented his tomato plants, which suffered from a prolonged drought that had spread across Virginia. “I’ve never seen a drought as bad,” he told a Richmond News-Leader reporter.
In May 1963, farmer H.R. Beadles lamented his tomato plants, which suffered from a prolonged drought that had spread across Virginia. “I’ve never seen a drought as bad,” he told a Richmond News Leader reporter.
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This June 1988 image shows a quiet moment on the dance floor at the Pyramid Club, a bar on North Boulevard in Richmond. On Wednesdays, the club hosted House Night — which featured house music, a danceable electronic genre. Admission was $1, and several hundred patrons might fill the un-air-conditioned club.
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In December 1970, Broad Street Station in Richmond was quiet amid a nationwide labor strike by rail workers. City officials had taken measures to accommodate stranded passengers and take care of perishable items. The walkout, which centered on wages and work rules, was short-lived: Within a day, workers were returning after a federal judge threatened hefty fines against a key union.
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In January 1964, Jewell Mason, one of Richmond’s few female cab drivers, chatted with her husband, Otha, who also drove cabs. Mason, who started working for the Yellow Cab Co. in 1958, said she never had issues because of her gender. But she did note that female drivers were unjustly maligned: “Women are as careful as anyone else,” she said.
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In September 1980, East Grace Street between Fourth and Fifth streets in downtown Richmond was closed for a Sunday afternoon “dinner on the grounds,” hosted by Centenary United Methodist Church. The city permitted the street closure for two hours.
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In July 1959, Phyllis Grove (from left), Alta Strickland and David Fridley analyzed cigarette smoke using a gas chromatograph at Philip Morris in Richmond. A story about area laboratories and scientists noted that medical concerns about smoking had spurred the tobacco industry. It said, in part: “The cancer-cigarette link may be pretty poor science, as some say, but it is indirectly producing some very good research.”
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In April 1966, an announced crowd of 7,400 watched the Richmond Braves’ International League season opener at Parker Field. R-Brave Dick Kelley delivered the first pitch to Dave May of the Rochester Wings, who won 3-2. The R-Braves came to town that year as the AAA affiliate of the Atlanta Braves.
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In March 1943, workers unloaded tin cans into a storage container at the RF&P Railroad yards near Broad and Lombardy streets in Richmond. The cans were collected in the area as part of the “Win With Tin” campaign during World War II. The first day yielded 30,000 pounds of tin.
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In January 1958, traffic moved through the intersection of Grace and Belvidere streets in Richmond. At the time, police said it was the most accident-prone intersection in the city.
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In August 1957, postman William Johnson delivered mail using his Mailster (in the background) for the first time. Two months earlier, the Richmond Post Office received 18 of the scooters for use in suburbs and fringe areas of the city. They cost $900 each, and with 7.5-horsepower engines, the Mailsters could carry a quarter-ton of mail in the trunk.
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In June 1983, Carroll Alvis posed for a photo on her tractor-trailer. Alvis was the bookkeeper for John L. Ratcliffe Florist on East Grace Street in Richmond during the week, but on nights and weekends, she drove big rigs. Alvis had been driving trucks for five months and usually worked with Central Banana Carriers out of Richmond.
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In December 1990, hockey fans Billie Mottley (left) and Berny Parton tied the knot during intermission of a Richmond Renegades game at the Richmond Coliseum. As they walked down the icy aisle, the Renegade players gave them a high-sticking salute.
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In August 1976, at Glendale Drive and Henrico Avenue in western Henrico County, neighborhood boys showed off their handstand and skateboarding skills. From left were Robert Rice, Bill Robertson, Rusty Hamilton and Kenny Rice. The boys spent the summer practicing handstands, wheelies and other stunts.
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In September 1984, Bremmer Carter Jr. placed loaves of freshly baked bread on a rack for cooling and slicing at Weiman’s Bakery in Shockoe Bottom in Richmond. The bakery was opened in 1945 by Jacob Weiman and produced nearly 120,000 pounds of baked goods each month at its peak. After almost seven decades, Weiman’s closed in February 2013.
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In March 1987, Tom Pivec, president of Master Clean Car Wash on Midlothian Turnpike in Richmond, showed off a new robotic washing system that used a 100 percent cotton cleaning curtain. Pivec said the operation could accommodate 1,200 cars per day. The location previously had been Hot Springs Car Wash, whose owner, Joseph Enning, was a familiar face through his television commercials.
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In September 1973, two Richmond women modeled fashions they created from their own recycled blue jeans.
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In March 1959, postal worker Sam H. Mellichampe delivered mail in a long line of boxes at a trailer park near Petersburg. He said the row of mailboxes was the longest on his route. Mellichampe previously was a sergeant for 10 years on the Prince George County police force.
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In May 1972, a Volkswagen Beetle made its way through deep water in South Richmond. Heavy rains the day before caused flash flooding and closed many roads in the Richmond area. The rainfall led to a local monthly record for May of 8.87 inches.
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In September 1985, Corey Green peeked out the school bus window on his way home after the first day of school at John B. Cary Elementary School in Richmond.
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This June 1964 image shows a section of North Boulevard between Marshall and Leigh streets in Richmond that offered more than 30 parking spaces in the median. The city was discussing a beautification program that, had it been approved, would have replaced the spaces with trees, shrubbery and grass.
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In July 1975, children sat around the small Statue of Liberty in Chimborazo Park in Richmond. In the early 1950s, the Boy Scouts of America erected about 200 mini-versions of the statue around the country as part of the organization’s 40th anniversary. The 8½-foot-tall, 290-pound copper statues were made in Chicago by the Friedley-Voshardt Co. The Richmond statue was erected on Feb. 11, 1951, and rose nearly 17 feet, including the base. The project’s cost was about $1,000.
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In November 1983, toppled mannequins on the sidewalk added an eerie element to the scene as firefighters responded to an explosion that damaged the Wise Fashions department store on East Broad Street in downtown Richmond. Eleven people were injured in the blast, which was believed to be a natural gas explosion. A six-block area around the store was evacuated during the response.
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In January 1980, musicians from Mississippi and Tennessee visited Richmond-area schools to play folk music and Southern blues on instruments including fifes, jugs and drums. The musicians (clockwise from the bass drum at back) were Abe Young, Calvin Jackson, Hammie Nixon, Jessie Mae Hemphill and Napoleon Strickland, who were led by musicologist David Evans of Memphis State University.
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In April 1949, men and women in Richmond collected money during a “pyramid club” party. The concept was a dollar gets you in, and 12 days later you could be more than $2,000 richer. Clubs spread quickly across the U.S. and into Canada, but interest was short-lived for many when the profits didn’t materialize as hoped.
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In May 1946, a young Randy Morris peered over a truckload of watermelons, which was en route to be sold at the 17th Street Farmers’ Market in downtown Richmond.
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In October 1982, two people ate lunch together at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond. A free-lunch ministry among downtown churches served about 150 people per meal, up from only about 25 two years earlier.
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Firefighter Frank Epperson manned a watchtower near Williamsburg in March 1954 and used an alidade device to locate fires. The winds of March were a sign of spring to Virginia foresters, which meant a higher chance of fires. If he saw smoke, Epperson could line up the device’s sighting bar with the smudge and identify the corresponding spot on the topographic map, which could approximate the fire’s location.
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In February 1961, the Nace quadruplets of Henrico County — Richard (from left), Judith, Patricia and Edward — celebrated their 10th birthday by enjoying cake. The family had moved to the area two years earlier.
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In August 1978, about 100 Elvis Presley fans gathered at the Regency Inn South on Midlothian Turnpike for a memorial service to “the King of Rock ’n’ Roll,” who had died a year earlier. The service — sponsored by the local Taking Care of Business Fan Club — included a meditation period that featured some of Presley’s gospel recordings, which brought an emotional response from fans.
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In November 1951, 5-year-old aspiring cowboy Johnny Rollins did his best Roy Rogers impression — albeit with a smaller hat, toy pistol and rocking horse — while visiting a toy store in Richmond.
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In December 1982, a group of Richmond school bus drivers modeled new uniforms, which included light blue shirts, navy slacks or skirts, berets or caps, and jackets and ties. There was no money in the school system budget for uniforms, so Julia Armistead (right) initiated the effort to get drivers out of plain clothes. The school system’s 180 drivers had the option of buying a uniform, which cost about $80.
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In November 1968, Richmond Mayor Philip J. Bagley Jr. (right) donated the first toy to the year’s Richmond Toys for Tots campaign. The mayor presented a doll to “Miss Toys for Tots” Dale Baker at a ceremony in the mayor’s office. Also present were E.B. Baucom (left) and F.X. Harrington of the Marine Reserve, which led toy collections at several shopping centers in the city.
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In December 1959, the Seventh Street parking garage in Richmond was the largest of 54 properties, valued collectively at about $1.2 million, that were slated for condemnation by the city as part of plans to build a civic center downtown.
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In March 1951, members of the Victory Garden Club planted a tree at Jahnke Road Chapel in Richmond. From left are Mrs. S.G. Snellings, Mrs. Randolph Byrd and Mrs. Martha Clements.
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In April 1992, some veterans at Sally Bell’s Kitchen in Richmond — Lucille Zimmerman (from left), Mary Newcomb, Dorothy Daniels and Anne Mulfinger — posed with one of the countless cakes they had prepared over decades of working together.
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In October 1990, Tim Finnegan, chairman of the Finnegan & Agee Inc. ad agency in Richmond, served customers at a McDonald’s in Mechanicsville. Finnegan’s firm had represented the fast-food restaurant for the previous 15 years. Finnegan’s shift marked the birthday of Ray Kroc, who developed McDonald’s into a global enterprise; Kroc died in 1984.
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In October 1971, Marvin Cephas delivered bills to Virginia Electric and Power Co. customers in Richmond’s West End. As postal rates rose, VEPCO introduced its own bill delivery service for about 90,000 local customers in densely populated areas. It said the cost was less than a nickel per bill, compared with a postal cost of 8 cents.
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In February 1953, employees at the Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles office in Richmond processed license plate registration forms, placing them in destination slots for bulk mailing. More than 1 million new orange and blue plate sets were expected to be sold in the state that year.
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In April 1977, a flying circus near Washington held tryouts in Fauquier County as it sought four new wing-walkers. Of the 28 applicants, one of the winners (shown here) was Nour Hzyan, a White House photographer who had seen a recruitment ad pinned to a board in the White House pressroom months earlier.
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In July 1985, Tom Thomas kicked back on his Harley-Davidson outside Newgate Prison, a bar in the 900 block of West Grace Street in Richmond. The bar was popular with bikers; other businesses in that stretch, including an adult theater, attracted a diverse clientele that could make the area a hot spot for police. The Newgate Prison site was later home to the Virginia Commonwealth University police headquarters for more than a decade.
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An image from January 1960 shows the Byrd Field Weather Bureau, which had been established at the airport in Henrico County in 1928. Over the decades, the station had various stints of closure or service — including during World War II, when Richmond’s airport was an Army airfield. The local weather office was closed permanently in 1996, and operations were moved to Wakefield.
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In November 1957, birds flew over the marsh at Presquile Island, located in the James River at the eastern tip of Chesterfield County. The largely untouched 1,329-acre island was designated in 1953 as the Presquile National Wildlife Refuge, which harbors wildlife, including bald eagles. The refuge may be visited, but only with advance reservations.
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In June 1985, Edward Harris lit the Virginia Special Olympics torch at the University of Richmond. The event drew thousands of disabled athletes, coaches and volunteers. The torch arrived on the campus at the end of a 20-mile relay from the state Capitol. The first International Special Olympics Games were held in July 1968.
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In July 1972, auctioneer Bernie Pleasants of Red Gate Horse Farm in Montpelier sold about 50 Assateague Island wild ponies at the annual auction in Chincoteague on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The Chincoteague Volunteer Fire Co. continues to host a pony auction to help control the herd’s size and to raise money for operations.
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In June 1976, 4-year-old Beth Vetrovec had a difficult time selecting a kitten for adoption at the Richmond SPCA. (An adoption advocacy poster on the wall behind her featured Morris the Cat, the popular advertising mascot for the 9Lives brand of cat food.)
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In August 1953, city workers trimmed trees along the 700 block of West Grace Street in Richmond.
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In May 1987, patrons at Regency Square in Henrico County filled the mall’s new food court, which included 11 eateries on the mall’s lower level between Miller & Rhoads and Sears. The dining space accommodated up to 450 people and was the first phase of a $5 million renovation at the mall.
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In August 1970, Richmond students waited for the buses at the corner of Westover Hills Boulevard and Forest Hill Avenue in South Side as the school year got underway.
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In April 1937, workers with the Works Progress Administration built riverfront dikes to protect Richmond from flooding. The James River was expected to reach a 26-foot crest after heavy rains, which had shut down major bridges and roadways. The WPA was a New Deal employment program, and this flood project involved about 200 workers.
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In February 1959, the parking lot was full at the new Food Fair grocery store on West Broad Street in Richmond, near downtown. The chain, founded in Pennsylvania, was one of the largest in the country at the time and was planning a half-dozen or more stores in the Richmond area. (The grand opening here was supposed to feature retired Army Gen. Omar Bradley, who was on Food Fair’s board of directors, but he instead had to appear as a witness at a trial.)
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In February 1942, a blackout test during World War II — in case enemy aircraft flew over the city — darkened the interior of many buildings in downtown Richmond. The one-hour exercise, which covered the Richmond and Tri-Cities areas, required that buildings and residences turn off lights or prevent light from being seen from the outside. Buses, ambulances and personal vehicles were also asked to stay off the roads.
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In July 1967, beauty queens and convertibles gathered on Interstate 64 to celebrate a new 9-mile stretch of highway from the Bryan Park area at Interstate 95 to Short Pump in Henrico County. In lieu of a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the $23 million project, the lead car drove over a traffic counter cable.
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This October 1988 image shows East Broad Street looking west into downtown Richmond from Church Hill. That month, radio stations WRVA-AM and WRVQ-FM announced plans to leave their Church Hill studio building after 20 years for new space in South Richmond.
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In March 1989, Willie Vance Harris of Smith Advertising Co. changed a billboard at the intersection of Wythe and West streets in Petersburg.
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In February 1971, James Herbert Bryant (left) and Paul Jackson assessed construction on their new McDonald’s restaurant on Mechanicsville Turnpike in Richmond. The city natives started Bryant-Jackson Corp. and invested about $300,000 to build the restaurant.
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In May 1959, Ronald Yaffe performed a levitation magic trick. Yaffe, a 19-year-old freshman at Richmond Professional Institute, planned to study optometry but enjoyed performing magic as a hobby.
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This October 1943 image shows a building near West Cary and South Nansemond streets in Richmond’s Carytown area. Built around 1851, it once served as a tollkeeper’s home but later became an office for Williams & Harvey Nursery. A shopping center is on the site today.
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This April 1955 image shows The Hauke Press, a commercial printing business at 6 E. Main St. in downtown Richmond. The firm, which printed everything from newsletters to stamps, was owned at the time by Heywood Hartley, who also was a dog breeder and served as president of the Virginia Kennel Club.
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In July 1966, master craftsman G.H. Boyer (right) gave apprentice Carl C. Spivey instructions on how to inlay wood at Biggs Antique Co. on West Marshall Street in Richmond. Biggs was a leading U.S. manufacturer of Colonial reproduction furniture, and its work could be found in private homes as well as the Hotel John Marshall and the Miller & Rhoads Tea Room. Biggs was purchased in 1975 by the Kittinger Co., which had a long association with Colonial Williamsburg.
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In September 1991, housekeepers Josephine Scott (left) and Joy Brown competed in a regional Super 8 Motel bed-making competition at a Radisson Hotel ballroom in downtown Richmond. Twelve finalists from the Mid-Atlantic states vied for three spots in the Super 8 national contest slated for the following February in New Orleans; the national winner would get a new car.
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In February 1971, the Boulevard “Nickel” Bridge got a new automated toll plaza with enclosed toll booths and a chute into which drivers could pitch their coins. With its four booths, the new plaza accommodated two lanes of traffic in each direction. The old booths are in the background.
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In February 1950, Shepherd “Shep” Walker carried 60 pounds of flour, meal and sugar in a bag on his head in Palmyra in Fluvanna County. Walker, 75, said he started using the technique when he was a boy, after seeing his mother carry a bucket of water on her head without spilling a drop.
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In March 1956, A.B. Buchannon ascended a fire tower on U.S. Route 60 near Sandston in Henrico County to begin his daily watch for forest fires. Virginia’s brush-burning law had just gone into effect, and through mid-May, trash or brush could be burned only between 4 p.m. and midnight.
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In August 1976, what is now known as the Weisiger-Carroll House was still in rough shape at 2408 Bainbridge St. in the Manchester area of South Richmond. That year, a new claimant on the title led to the discovery of the house’s historical significance. The 1½-story frame and brick dwelling was estimated to have been built in the 1760s and served as a private home as well as a hospital during the Civil War. The home is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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In February 1954, Norma Cook inspected and graded eggs at E.C. Alexander & Co. of Richmond. The staff would produce thousands of cartons per year that were sealed according to federal-state labeling guidelines; the company also handled a large volume of poultry.
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In May 1968, Barbara Yost, who was Miss Virginia 1967, reflected on her time as a beauty queen during a visit to the Executive Mansion in Richmond. The 19-year-old Roanoke native planned to attend Radford University. She said her favorite moments as Miss Virginia included attending the festivals throughout the state and participating in the March of Dimes telethon in Tennessee.
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In January 1978, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Miller assessed the damage done to their car by a tree that fell after a night of strong wind. The Chesterfield County couple had just purchased the car.
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In May 1977, A.S. “Slim” Mistr showed off his pick of the day at his strawberry field off Darbytown Road in Henrico County. Mistr and his family owned one of eight pick-your-own strawberry farms in the state at the time, and he and his 8,000 plants were expecting plenty of visitors in the upcoming weeks.
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In July 1963, riders boarded an “executive special” bus on Patterson Avenue at Three Chopt Road in Richmond. Virginia Transit Co.’s expedited service to and from downtown had limited stops, and the maiden voyage into downtown took 24 minutes. The morning bus left Three Chopt at 8 a.m., and the evening bus left at exactly 5:10 p.m. from 10th and Broad streets.
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In May 1952, Caesar Wilkins (right) passed the mail to Rudolph L. Cavan for rail transport from Broad Street Station in Richmond. The RF&P Railroad’s No. 16 train then took the mail to Washington. On an average day, nearly 3,000 sacks of mail and parcel post were handled by 270 railway mail employees working out of Richmond.
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In July 1978, Chris Trebour (in chair) worked on a custom skateboard in the company of friend Jeff Brongon. Trebour, a rising junior at Clover Hill High School in Chesterfield County, learned to make his own boards after realizing how expensive the hobby could get. So he started Zodiac Skateboards and sold his boards locally.
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In September 1989, former teacher Thelma Smith visited Bellevue Elementary School in Richmond to offer help on the first day of class: She pinned bus numbers on pupils as they arrived.
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In February 1957, pedestrians on East Grace Street at North Fourth Street in downtown Richmond endured some light snow during the afternoon.
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In May 1960, the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held its Be Kind to Animals Week. Here, the organization’s Mrs. Samuel B. Taylor accepted a 50-cent payment from Deborah, a 4-month-old chimpanzee.
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In May 1983, patrons of Stonewall Café on West Main Street in Richmond dined on the restaurant’s patio. The building was constructed in the 1880s and was used as an elementary school until 1962 — it was once Stonewall Jackson School and West End School, and earlier, it housed the Richmond Normal School. The building was sold to a developer in 1980, and today, the space houses the Baja Bean Co. restaurant.
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In August 1956, refuge manager John Walther checked fence poles that were part of a deer-prevention project on Presquile Island, located in the James River at the eastern tip of Chesterfield County. The largely untouched 1,329-acre island was designated in 1953 as the Presquile National Wildlife Refuge, which harbors wildlife, including bald eagles. The land was originally part of a peninsula before it was severed to create a channel for boats in the 1930s. Historically, the island was occupied by Native Americans.
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In July 1949, shoppers ducked into doorways or under awnings on Grace Street between Fourth and Fifth streets in downtown Richmond. Summer heat left the block unusually quiet for a Saturday afternoon.
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In April 1966, Richmond police officers (from left) Christopher Stokes, John W. Harris and H.L. Coleman reviewed items recovered from a series of North Side burglaries. There had been about two dozen residential break-ins in the Washington Park, Ginter Park and Barton Heights areas in the preceding two months. Police initially recovered about $1,700 in stolen property (equivalent to nearly $14,000 today) and arrested five 14- to 16-year-olds and a 19-year-old in some of the burglaries.
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In July 1952, workers were preparing to restore and convert a 115-year-old home into offices on the southwest corner of Franklin and First streets in downtown Richmond. Part of the project included removing the mansard roof.
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In March 1967, Richmond police officer Glenwood W. Burley took a moment away from his patrol work to play baseball with youths in the Fulton neighborhood. Burley turned up the volume on his car’s police radio so that he could still monitor calls. (In 2016, long retired from the department, Burley completed his efforts to relocate a neglected Richmond police memorial from downtown to Byrd Park.)
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In September 1956, children played in an alley on Harrison Street near Main Street in Richmond. An accompanying story noted that although there were 38 playgrounds and 22 athletic fields in the city, the space was limited and usually crowded. Several areas, particularly in the Fan District and west of Monroe Park, lacked playgrounds altogether, so youths played in the streets and alleys.
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In May 1971, as Amtrak consolidated passenger rail service in America, E.M.C. Quincy (left) of the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce presented a gift of Richmond tobacco products and a record about Virginia to Amtrak’s Teresa Cunningham at Main Street Station in downtown Richmond. A number of Virginia mayors, including Richard Farrier of Staunton (center), attended the ceremony, which welcomed Amtrak service on the former Chesapeake and Ohio Railway line from Newport News to Cincinnati.
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In August 1952, Ryland Wilkinson, 14, played with Kinky, the kinkajou he discovered at a used-car lot while helping make milk deliveries near Carytown in Richmond. The exotic animal, about the size of a cat, had escaped from the Cavalier Pet Shop on West Cary Street, about two blocks from the auto lot. Ryland returned Kinky and received a $5 reward.
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In July 1989, the Annabel Lee docked at Westover Plantation in Charles City County as passengers prepared for a tour. The reproduction paddle-wheeler offered dinner cruises and entertainment on the James River from 1988 through 2003. The boat had seating for more than 200 passengers, plus two full-service bars and two dance floors. After attendance declined, the owners moved the Annabel Lee to the Washington area at the beginning of 2004.
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In August 1976, former child movie star Shirley Temple Black visited Colonial Williamsburg as part of her duties as the first female chief of protocol of the United States. The president of Finland was visiting the area, though onlookers were more interested in spotting Temple. She previously served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana, and she later was ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
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In February 1968, members of the Virginia Federation of Women’s Clubs from Northern Virginia toured the state Capitol, Executive Mansion and General Assembly during a visit to Richmond. From left are Mrs. Earle Mountcastle, Mrs. William Walker, Mrs. Olin Bockes and Mrs. James B. Roberts.
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In May 1966, Richmond police officer Jesse W. Williams worked at the communications desk while nearly 400 people peered through a seldom-opened viewing window during a tour of police headquarters. The tours were arranged as part of National Police Week.
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In January 1967, professors Richard Terman (left) and Ian Callard (second from right) of the College of William & Mary biology department worked with students Steve Vore (middle) and Dick Friesen (right) on a lab research project related to population ecology.
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In May 1972, Charles Reuben styled a wig for Rhonda Johnson at Thalhimers in downtown Richmond. The department store had just introduced a line of wigs for African-American women; Reuben said short styles were in fashion for the upcoming summer months.
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In June 1970, Pizza Castle was among several areas that tempted customers at the new Giant Open Air Market along Maywill Street in Henrico County. The market, open 24 hours, included a series of smaller specialized stores — in addition to Pizza Castle, options included The Patio for prepared meals, The Marketplace for international foods and wines, and the Candy Circus with sweet treats. The Norfolk-based supermarket chain (no relation to the Giant chain in the Washington area) merged with Farm Fresh Inc. in the mid-1980s.
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In April 1941, a U.S. Navy dive bomber from Washington performed an exhibition over Hermitage Airport in Henrico County in which a two-way radio conversation with the pilot was broadcast on loudspeakers. At the exhibition (from left) were Dr. George Williams of the Naval Reserve Medical Corps, bomber pilot Lt. Thomas Wagner, Congressman Dave Satterfield Jr., Lt. Cmdr. Lewis Lee (who accompanied Wagner), and George Mercer of the West Richmond Business Men’s Association, which sponsored the exhibition with the Naval Reserve cadet training program.
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In March 1977, Charlotte Swann, manager of the Williamsburg SPCA kennel, held a litter of puppies. She noted at the time that 7 of 10 dogs didn’t find a home in the first month after they were brought to the kennel.
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In April 1966, about 100 people waited in line outside the Division of Motor Vehicles headquarters on West Broad Street in Richmond to purchase 1966 license tags before the deadline. DMV reported at the time that about 1.3 million of 1.6 millions sets of 1966 tags had already been purchased.
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In September 1972, 11-year-old Todd Trimble of Richmond was one of the 101 players in the Virginia Chess Championship, held over three days at the Sheraton Motor Inn in Richmond. In the final, Williamsburg’s Charles Powell defended his title by beating Richmond’s Lev Blonarovych in a five-hour match.
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In March 1953, a bus enjoyed a clear path to pick up passengers at a stop on Broad Street in downtown Richmond. A new parking ban on Broad and some surrounding streets aimed to relieve downtown traffic during the business day.
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In March 1953, a bus enjoyed a clear path to pick up passengers at a stop on Broad Street in downtown Richmond. A new parking ban on Broad and some surrounding streets aimed to relieve downtown traffic during the business day.
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In June 1957, a boy rode his bike along a sidewalk on a summer day in Richmond’s Oregon Hill neighborhood.
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In June 1984, actress Mary Tyler Moore had her makeup touched up between takes at Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond on the set of “Finnegan Begin Again.” The HBO romantic comedy film was shot all over Richmond and co-starred Robert Preston and Sam Waterston.
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In October 1965, North American forestry experts visited the Virginia Division of Forestry in Sandston and examined a pile of pine cones, which were being dried for seeds to use at the state tree nursery. The officials, in town for a two-day tour in Virginia, came from all over the United States, Canada and Mexico to discuss conservation and tree production.
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In June 1949, a worker carried potatoes from a field on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. An accompanying article said about 14,000 migratory workers reached farms on the Shore for the harvest season; some journeyed from Florida, to which they would return in winter. Fast workers could fill 125 hundred-pound bags in six hours.
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In March 1942, members of the Henrico Red Cross Motor Corps participated in a test drill in uniform. The women had completed courses in basic and advanced first aid, motor mechanics and blackout driving. The motor corps was established by the American Red Cross in 1917 during World War I to transport wounded soldiers to local hospitals and deliver supplies.
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In September 1944, Richmond city employees hurriedly made preparations for a James River flood by filling and loading sandbags. The James ultimately rose to 24.2 feet in the city after heavy rains throughout the river’s watershed.
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In September 1944, Richmond city employees hurriedly made preparations for a James River flood by filling and loading sandbags. The James ultimately rose to 24.2 feet in the city after heavy rains throughout the river’s watershed.
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In July 1985, Farm Fresh Inc. prepared to open a grocery store on Brook Road in Henrico County. This was the fifth store in the Richmond area for the Norfolk-based grocer. The Brook Road location, which was open 24 hours a day, totaled 93,000 square feet and had 18 checkout lanes. In addition to groceries, the location had a bookstore, delicatessen, post office, cheese shop, restaurant, video entertainment center and bulk sales department.
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In June 1976, an automobile (minus its tires and gas tank) was fed into a fragmentizer, which could crush the vehicle in less than a minute using an array of hammers weighing nearly 400 pounds each. The fragmentizer was in Richmond’s Deepwater Terminal area and was used by Peck Iron and Metal Co. Inc. to crush vehicles into fine chunks of metal. Peck Iron estimated that the fragmentizer “ate” 100,000 autos during the previous year.
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In October 1967, Mark Thacker of Ocean City, Md., a freshman at Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University), leapt over a hurdle during an RPI skateboarding championship. Thacker finished second in the competition, which involved about a dozen students. The contest, held according to U.S. Skateboard Association rules, included required and freestyle maneuvers.
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In April 1972, J.J. Phaup, a 92-year-old farmer in Buckingham County, plowed his 550-acre farm. Although farming technology had improved over the years, Phaup preferred his horses over a tractor — even if he could cover only about 8 acres per day. He said he had been working since he was 10 years old.
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In December 1972, 16-year-old auto mechanics student Linda Turner practiced her trade at the Richmond Technical Center. Turner was the first female in the program. “If I ever got stranded,” she said, “I wouldn’t want to wait two days for somebody to come help me.”
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In September 1984, a crowd of almost 6,000 watched the Richmond Braves play their final Triple-A baseball game at Parker Field on the Boulevard. Days later, the stadium was leveled to make way for the Diamond, which debuted the following year and is now home to the Double-A Richmond Flying Squirrels.
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In January 1950, postal officials inspected a new highway post office bus that would operate between Richmond and Sanford, N.C. The privately owned and operated service would transport and sort mail while in transit.
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In September 1981, newlyweds Judy Meese and Branch Carpenter got married life off to a flying start: They took a hot-air balloon ride after exchanging vows in a field in Hanover County’s Montpelier area. The ride would take them to Hanover County Airport, and family and friends would await them at a reception in Richmond.
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In August 1963, magician Mark Wilson performed a levitation trick on Terry Bryant at the Hotel John Marshall in Richmond. Wilson created and starred in a nationally televised Saturday morning show, “The Magic Land of Allakazam,” and was in Richmond as a featured guest at a magician conclave. The gathering brought together almost 200 magicians for two days of training.
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In April 1966, professor Robert Gay adjusted equipment in a newly air-conditioned and heated laboratory at Richmond Professional Institute (Virginia Commonwealth University today). The temperature-controlled lab for engineering technology students was believed to be one of the most advanced in the country.
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In February 1966, off-duty Richmond police officers Walter Reid (left) and Robert Mallory played pool in a new recreation facility in the basement of the Safety, Health and Welfare Building in downtown Richmond. The lounge featured three pool tables, six game tables, two large sofas, four lounge chairs and a television.
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In February 1986, an explosion rocked a row of houses on Davis Avenue in Richmond’s Fan District. The blast inside one home blew out bricks, windows and a back wall. Police and fire officials also discovered a fire in the home’s basement, but the cause of the fire and explosion was not immediately known.
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In September 1965, the El Rancho, an Italian cattle ship, loaded 88 tons of hay at Richmond’s Upper Terminal shipping yard on the James River. The mountain of hay would feed a herd of about 400 mostly dairy cattle from Virginia that would make the trans-Atlantic journey to Italy. The cattle shipment was the first of its kind for Richmond.
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In October 1986, a plaque dedication ceremony marked the addition of Richmond’s Fan District to the National Register of Historic Places. The event, which included songs from the Fox School choir, capped a two-year effort by the Fan Woman’s Club in cooperation with state landmark officials. More than 3,000 buildings in the Fan were photographed and surveyed in the campaign.
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In August 1950, Richmond police officer J.T. Parks studied a set of fingerprints. The police force had amassed 80,000 sets starting in 1915, and officials were discussing plans to expand space for fingerprint files.
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In June 1967, students at the Richmond Professional Institute (the predecessor of Virginia Commonwealth University) walked outside the school library. At the time, the library’s collection had grown to about 85,000 volumes but was still well short of what a college accreditation council said was appropriate for a school of RPI’s size.
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In September 1961, T.W. Redmond of the State Highway Department assessed the stock of anti-snow chemicals in a Richmond-area department storage shed on Midlothian Turnpike. Although the chance of snow was months away, preparations for winter weather were made far in advance.
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In January 1943, William H. Haskins beheld what was left of his Health Centre Inc. bowling alley at Hermitage Road and Meadow Street in Richmond after a fire. The sprawling brick building, which opened in 1928 and had 36 lanes, was destroyed.
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In June 1982, a peacock checked out the Italian Garden at Maymont. Peacocks roamed free in the Richmond park for many years until the early 1990s. Maymont has not had peacocks in its animal family since 2013.
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In February 1981, Richmond Mayor Henry L. Marsh III operated a backhoe to kick off Project One, which included the construction of the Greater Richmond Convention Center. The project was part of a deal between Marriott Corp. and the city housing authority to finance and build a hotel/convention center in downtown Richmond.
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In January 1946, these overflowing trash cans typified the conditions of Richmond’s yards, alleys and back porches at the beginning of the year. Because of the holidays, illness, bad weather and manpower shortages, the city was far behind on trash collection. Pictured is an alley between First and Foushee streets near Grace Street downtown.
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In September 1976, seven former Prince Edward County residents reunited on the lawn of the former R.R. Moton High School (later Prince Edward County High School), from which they were bared in the 1960s during the state’s Massive Resistance to integration. From left are Frank Early, Betty Ward, G.A. Hamilton, Hilda Thompson, LaNae Johnson, Bessie Shade and Douglas Vaughan. Hundreds of former county students from the era attended the reunion.
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In October 1957, Loxelley Cashion Jr. of the Richmond Public Works Department operated a heating and planing machine to smooth pavement over a portion of Broad Street.
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In December 1973, Richmond police bicycle patrolman William W. Fuller Jr. stopped for a downtown chat with policeman Glen A. Brinson of the mounted unit.
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In October 1958, chemists Owen R. Blackburne (left) and Bill Simmons distilled volatile acids at the Richmond Sewage Disposal headquarters near Rocketts Landing.
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In January 1965, librarian Jean Bear scanned the Richmond Public Library’s new paperback rack. The soft-covered books were associated with mystery, sex and lesser forms of literature, with a reputation of being found at drugstores and wearing down after a few reads. Though cheaper for libraries to acquire, paperbacks were not preferred by patrons at the time, according to several Richmond librarians. The main library had only about 200 volumes available.
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In June 1957, a boy and girl sat outside the fire station at Cumberland and Laurel streets in Richmond’s Oregon Hill neighborhood. The station, built in the late 19th century, housed two fire companies by the mid-1960s, when it was slated to be replaced by two new stations elsewhere.
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In September 1978, plastic drain pipe was shaped into a 60-foot “serpent” in the Yeocomico River near Kinsale on Virginia’s Northern Neck. Richmonder John Tighe created it to surprise fellow members of a Richmond boating group that was gathering for its annual fish fry. The sculpture mimicked a giant serpentlike creature – later nicknamed “Chessie” – that some people claim to have spotted nearby that summer.
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In November 1948, traffic moved through the intersection of Cowardin Avenue and Hull Street in South Richmond. The city was planning several pedestrian safety upgrades at the busy intersection, including painted crosswalks, new signage and a fence along Hull.
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In July 1942, manpower and a cart were a means of transporting new books to the Rosa D. Bowser Branch of the Richmond library during the gas-rationing days of World War II. Bowser was a prominent African-American educator and social activist in Richmond from the 1880s to the 1920s. The branch was the city library’s first that was open to African-Americans.
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In October 1963, Sussex County peanut farmer J. J. Lilley Sr. highlighted how that year’s severe drought had impacted his crop. At left are damaged vines from that season, compared to normal ones at right. The first commercial peanut crop in the U.S. was grown in Sussex in the 1840s, according to an industry marketing association.
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In April 1969, the Brook Hill mansion on Richmond’s North Side was part of a Ginter Park home tour. Dating to the early 18th century and known for its blend of Gothic Revival and Italianate architecture, the original structure was masked by 19th-century additions.
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In September 1954, Richmond Mayor Thomas P. Bryan cut the ribbon at the opening of the F.W. Woolworth Co. department store at Fifth and Broad streets in downtown Richmond. The $1 million building housed several departments for the nearby Miller & Rhoads, which had an earlier store on the site in the late 1800s.
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In March 1988, Helene Kahn stood in her GiGi Hats shop on East Grace Street in downtown Richmond. Kahn, who opened the store in 1950 and operated it until her death in 1996, offered hats, wedding veils and other millinery. In 1968, she was the first woman to lead the Downtown Retail Associates trade group.
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In March 1957, a barge was being filled with grain at the Upper Terminal shipping yard on the James River in Richmond.
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In July 1988, 15-year-old John Moncure — who was 5 feet, 9 inches tall — was dwarfed by the roots of a tree that fell through his neighbor’s house on Lakeside Avenue in Henrico County during a storm. The teen’s father estimated that the tree was 150 feet tall.
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In July 1988, 15-year-old John Moncure — who was 5 feet, 9 inches tall — was dwarfed by the roots of a tree that fell through his neighbor’s house on Lakeside Avenue in Henrico County during a storm. The teen’s father estimated that the tree was 150 feet tall.
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In November 1964, the Richmond Planning Commission was considering proposals, including a tobacco exhibition center, for the former Libby Prison site from the Civil War. At the time, a junkyard occupied the block bounded by 20th, 21st, Cary and Dock streets downtown.
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In December 1991, wrestlers Hulk Hogan (left) and Ric Flair battled in front of a huge crowd at the Richmond Coliseum. During the match, Flair snuck in brass knuckles and got on the bad side of referee Earl Hebner.
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This March 1985 image shows a hillside in South Richmond’s Woodland Heights neighborhood, near 27th Street, where homes would be built. The builders planned two-level houses with the living room, dining room and kitchen on the upper level and bedrooms and a sitting room downstairs. Both levels would have decks overlooking Riverside Drive.
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In February 1962, the third annual City Women’s Bowling Tournament was underway at Sunset Bowl in Richmond. The two-day competition, organized by the Greater Richmond Woman’s Bowling Association, drew almost 80 teams. The Security Industrial Loan team won.
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In January 1991, Chamberlayne Co. Inc. workers Wesley Boyette and Craig Simpson put finishing touches on a parking garage in Richmond’s Carytown area while the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Crenshaw Avenue facility was held at street level.
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In May 1987, Larry Ingram, president of Neighbors of Chimborazo Park, stood at a contaminated spring along slowly shifting land on Chimborazo Hill in Richmond’s East End. The Church Hill group had expressed concerns about the hill; city officials said the issue was being studied as part of a multiyear improvement program.
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In April 1982, instructor Noel Baebler (left) guided students in the use of video equipment during a visual literacy program at George Mason Elementary School in Richmond. With him are students (from left) Darrell Quarles, Rodrecus Robinson, Vernon Taylor, Freeman Coley and Carolyn Burchett.
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In June 1966, a woman picketed in front of a Western Union office in Richmond. Members of the Commercial Telegraphers Union, including about 50 locally, walked off the job for several hours to dramatize their demands for pay raises. On the same day, the union and Western Union agreed to a one-week contract extension to avoid further disruptions while negotiations continued.
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Virginia Commonwealth University is projecting an $11 million budget shortfall for the 2022-23 school year, the result of enrollment not meeting expectations.
Departments across the school will be forced to leave open positions unfilled and hire fewer adjunct professors, Karol Kain Gray, chief financial officer for the university, told a board of visitors committee Wednesday. The number of affected positions is unclear, and the school does not plan to lay off any employees.
"It is important to keep in mind that the numbers are preliminary," Gray said. "The amount is manageable. Some departments will be responsible for a larger share of any shortfall than others."
VCU expected its enrollment to grow slightly this year - it planned for an increase of less than 1%. In reality, VCU's enrollment, which totaled about 29,000 students last year, likely will be flat this fall, said Tomikia LeGrande, vice president for strategy, enrollment and student success.
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Exact enrollment and budget figures won't be available until later this fall, as some students will choose to drop out or take fewer classes in the next few weeks. Tuesday was the first day of classes.
In the long term, VCU plans to grow its enrollment by 9% by 2026.
Each unit across the university was given a budget, and it's up to those units to determine how to save money, Gray said. Departments that didn't meet their enrollment projections will have to cut more than departments that did.
The vast majority of the university's education budget is spent on employees, which means job openings must bear the brunt of the shortfall.
VCU kept tuition flat for in-state undergraduates this year, which will cost the university almost $7 million. It reallocated $1.7 million toward the cost, and the Monroe Park campus and MCV campus, where the health system resides, will split the other $5 million. But these are one-time cuts, not a permanent reduction to the budget.
One year of tuition, fees and room and board for in-state undergraduates costs roughly $27,000. The school's acceptance rate for freshmen was about 80% this year.
The university is planning to raise tuition 5% in the fall of 2023, but a final decision will depend on whether VCU gets extra funding from the state.
In recent years, elite colleges have boomed in popularity, while schools that service lower- and middle-income students have struggled to keep their student populations level.
The University of Virginia received a record 51,000 applicants this year, and Virginia Tech got an all-time high of 45,000.
But on the other side of the spectrum, Radford University contracted 23% in four years, and Longwood University's enrollment dropped 22%. During that time frame, VCU's student body shrank 9%.
VCU is pushing to increase its share of students who come from out of state, which is relatively low. While UVA and William & Mary have student populations that are about 40% out of state, just 14% of VCU students come from beyond Virginia.
The newest class of students shows growth in the out-of-state population, LeGrande said. The university has set a goal of bringing 20% of its students from outside Virginia.
Out-of-state students are a financial boon to public universities because they pay about double the cost to attend. But VCU offers an incentive, too. Out-of-state students with a grade-point average of 3.3 or higher automatically receive a scholarship of at least $10,000.
"It is guaranteed," LeGrande said. "That has helped us garner attention from students we would not have typically."
Most of VCU's out-of-state students historically come from Maryland, Washington D.C., New York and the greater Philadelphia area. Now VCU is attempting to broaden its reach beyond those regions.
But other states are experiencing a decline in high school graduates as demographics shift, meaning VCU will be competing with other schools for a smaller pot of students.
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PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court said Wednesday that a warrant of execution for death row inmate Murray Hooper could be issued in two months.
A briefing schedule issued by the state’s high court shows the state’s motion for an execution warrant must be filed by the end of the week. Hooper’s lawyers will then be able to respond.
If the motion is granted when the court considers it on Oct. 12, Chief Justice Robert Brutinel’s order says the court anticipates the warrant will be issued that day.
The 76-year-old Hooper could be the third inmate put to death this year after Arizona recently resumed carrying out executions.
Hooper and two co-defendants were sentenced to death for the New Year’s Eve 1980 murders of a Phoenix man and his mother-in-law during a home robbery.
The other two men died before their sentences could be carried out.
The state hadn’t executed anyone for nearly eight years before Clarence Dixon died by lethal injection on May 11 for the 1978 murder of a 21-year-old Arizona State University student.
Frank Atwood was executed June 8 at the state prison in Florence for the 1984 killing of an 8-year-old Tucson girl.
The Attorney General’s Office said there are 111 inmates on Arizona’s death row and 22 have exhausted their appeals.
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PHOENIX — A motorist crashed their car into a restaurant Wednesday near 32nd Street and McDowell Road, resulting in them getting transported to the hospital.
The Phoenix Fire Department said the driver had to be extricated from their car after it crashed into Sushi Sonora, a restaurant south of the intersection. Another individual had to be taken to the hospital for injuries sustained in the collision.
Authorities say two men inside the restaurant were also struck and sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Police say the crash is under investigation and impairment may have been a contributory factor.
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PONTIAC — The Pontiac Public Library was one of 18 libraries across the state to have been awarded a Live and Learn construction grant in the 2022 fiscal year.
These grants were awarded by Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Jesse White for essential capital improvements. In total, $870,800 was awarded to Illinois public libraries this fiscal year.
“I am pleased to award these grants to help maintain our public libraries so that they remain open and the best information resource available to residents,” White stated in a news release. “Many of our public libraries simply do not have sufficient funds to pay for these structural improvements on their own.
The Pontiac Public Library received $15,000 for upgrades to its emergency exit doors.
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A San Antonio man — whose family was ousted from its annual Easter Sunday celebration at Rodriguez Park in 2019 by disgraced ex-Bexar County Constable Michelle Vela — admitted in court Wednesday that he unknowingly violated a parks regulation that may have led to their confrontation.
Vela’s defense attorney, Jason Goss, pressed Jesus Reyes Jr. on whether he had complied with a then-new county rule requiring him to contact county constables to pay for additional security officers after reserving a park pavilion if he knew more than 50 guests would attend the party or consume alcohol.
Reyes, a FedEx truck driver who had reserved the same spot at Rodriguez Park on the West Side for more than 30 years of Easter celebrations, didn’t notify the constables. He said he was surprised and irritated that Vela and her deputies showed up that morning to demand $300, in addition to the rental fee.
The scrutiny of Vela’s behavior at Rodriguez Park has become a key element of the prosecution’s case against her. She is on trial in state court charged with two felony counts of tampering with or destroying evidence.
Her scandal-plagued 33 months in office were marked by federal discrimination lawsuits against her, FBI raids of her office, her baseless charges leading to the arrest of a fellow deputy, her evidence-free claims that a county commissioner was involved in child abuse and another alleged “shakedown” case in 2018 involving a family in Rodriguez Park that was settled out of court.
She regularly feuded with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and Sheriff Javier Salazar, and often said she was being persecuted by an entrenched “good ol’ boy” establishment that couldn’t tolerate her unconventional management style.
What made the 2019 Easter incident even more unseemly to Reyes was that Vela intended to use Reyes’ reserved pavilion for her own personal Easter bash.
Reyes didn’t have enough cash on him at the moment and had to go to a Valero convenience store nearby to use its ATM.
“I didn’t have any choice. My family was already in the park,” he testified, explaining why he didn’t immediately dispute Vela’s demand.
Saying he felt intimidated, he added: “Vela could have talked to me by herself. She didn’t have to bring her whole entourage.”
Reluctantly, Reyes paid $300 for what Vela told him would be six more hours of security at $50 per hour — a higher rate than normal because alcohol was present.
After Vela left the park, Reyes said he flagged down some San Antonio police officers and made a formal report about what he thought may have been extortion by a public official.
The trial will continue Thursday in the Bexar County 226th District Court.
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A former Southside ISD teacher was sentenced to 20 years in prison on child pornography charges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
Mark Anthony Rodriguez, 56, was found guilty of one count of distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography and three counts of possession of child pornography, according to a news release. In addition to the prison time, Rodriguez was ordered to pay $70,000 in restitution to 14 victims, the DOJ said.
Rodriguez was a fifth and sixth grade biology teacher at Losyoa Intermediate from 2015 to 2017, MySA previously reported. He had been placed on administrative leave in December 2017 after the allegations surfaced. Previously, he was a special education aide and student support services worker at Southside High School from 2012 to 2014.
According to court records, when police executed a search warrant at his San Antonio residence in August 2018, they found three devices containing 4,700 images and more than 380 videos of child pornography.
At a bench trial in December 2019, District Judge Fred Biery found Rodriguez guilty of the charges against him.
“During his sentencing, Rodriguez acknowledged that his job was to be a protector, not a predator, of children,” Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Kristy Callahan said. “He failed. The justice system has now held him accountable.”
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President Biden’s ambassador to Mexico said Wednesday he has helped open more communication between the U.S. and its neighbor, improving relations between the two countries and investment along the border to help make it more secure.
“(T)here was essentially no relationship because there hadn’t been dialogue between the United States and Mexico for five years,” said Ken Salazar at a meeting with the Express-News editorial board. “We now have a very substantive dialogue underway.”
Part of the fruits of that dialogue has been Mexico’s willingness to bring more to the table, Salazar said, adding, “For the first time in history, we have the two countries investing significant resources in development on both sides of the border.”
Reducing the criminality surrounding unlawful paths into the United States requires pushing other countries to create opportunities for people so they can stay at home, Salazar said. It also requires fixing America’s “broken immigration system,” a task that has eluded Congress for 30 years, he said.
He declined to comment on the politics of Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing of migrants from Texas to Washington, D.C. and New York, except to say Abbott’s policy might make more Americans realize that immigration is “a 50-state problem.”
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“I will say this, the effort ought to focus on having the United States Congress bring us some solutions,” Salazar said.
Salazar was in San Antonio for a meeting at the North American Development Bank, established by the U.S. and Mexico to provide financing to develop and build infrastructure projects.
He said Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, widely known in Mexico by his acronym AMLO, committed to “a one-and-a-half billion dollar investment up and down the border.”
“They have to do a lot more. This is just the beginning,” Salazar said.
On the U.S. side, Salazar said, Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure package committed $3.4 billion for 26 construction and modernization projects at land crossings on the northern and southern U..S. borders. A large chunk of that is being spent on ports of entry in Texas, including between Laredo and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, Salazar said.
He views that as part of ensuring a safe border that will help make the flow of commerce and people more secure and efficient, he said.
U.S. lawmakers need to do more, Salazar said, but “the political dynamics that we have now … (are) essentially a barrier to the long-term solutions that we need on the border.”
“We need U.S. senators … to spend a lot more time understanding the realities of Mexico and the problems we face both at the border as well as the commercial issues that are so profoundly important to Texas, to the border states in both the United States and Mexico,” he said. “The whole border situation, which is a crisis situation, requires much more attention from the leaders in the Senate and the Congress.”
“We need to push further in creating opportunities for migrants where they live so they are not forced to get on the migrant trail,” he said, and also pointed to countries such as Panama and Costa Rica that he said could do more to enforce their own borders.
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The seventh annual World Heritage Festival will celebrate the history of all five mission sites in San Antonio with musical performances, a “junior ranger day” for children and other events Sept. 7-11.
The festival celebrates the 2015 designation of the Alamo and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park as the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Texas. The events are geared toward drawing people throughout South Texas to the site of historic Spanish-Indigenous mission communities along the San Antonio River that formed in the 1700s, with many of its descendants still living in the area today.
City Councilwoman Phyllis Viagran, whose Southeast Side district encompasses the national park, said the missions “showcase the history of several groups and communities that came together to create the foundation for the San Antonio we know today.”
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“We’re collaborating. We’re bringing people together,” Viagran said at a news conference Wednesday at the Alamo. “This belongs to the entire city of San Antonio.”
The long, collaborative process of having the mission inscribed as a World Heritage Site began with the Bexar County Historical Commission in 2006 and took nine years to achieve, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said. The effort got a major boost in 2012 when then-U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced during a visit to San Antonio that he would send the nomination to a committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
“That was magic. And after that, things began to fall into place,” Wolff said.
The nomination was approved by an international committee, putting the missions on par with other U.S. sites such as the Grand Canyon and Statue of Liberty. There are 24 in the United States.
Wolff said he’s enthused by the local Alamo makeover project, including a $140 million Alamo museum scheduled to open in March 2026. The county committed $25 million to the project on the condition that the Alamo “tell the whole story and tell the truth — from different perspectives, not just from one perspective.”
“That’s what culture’s about,” Wolff said.
Though widely known as the site of an 1836 siege and battle for Texas independence, the Alamo’s origin as the third site of the Mission San Antonio de Valero and the first permanent mission in San Antonio is often overlooked as a key part of the history.
“We want the whole story told…and I believe we’re going to do it right,” Wolff said.
Most of the festival events are free, starting with the Sept. 7 opening of a photography exhibit at Mission Marquee Plaza, which celebrates the 40th anniversary of San Antonio’s sister city relationship with Gwangju, South Korea. The Alamo will host a Sept. 8 symposium on historic acequias that provided river water to the missions for farming and daily life.
Other events include a Sept. 9 family movie screening at the Marquee Plaza, a Junior Ranger Day at Mission Espada on Sept. 10 and an outdoor community Mass led by Archbishop Gustavo Garcia-Siller at Mission Espada. The Tour de las Misiones Bike Ride, Walk and Run along the river’s Mission Reach and Mission San José is set for Sept. 10, with fees ranging from $25 to $55.
Visit worldheritagefestival.org for more information.
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While abortion is illegal in Louisiana, state leaders, activists, organizations speak out
On Aug. 12, the Louisiana Supreme Court denied an appeal that was filed to block the state’s abortion ban for the third time. The court’s decision marked a major blow for abortion-rights advocates.
“We should all be able to make decisions about our bodies,” said the Louisiana Coalition for Reproductive Freedom (LCRF). “Right now, in Louisiana, that right has been all but taken away with a cruel ban in place that broadly denies access to care.”
Since June, access to abortions in Louisiana has fluctuated, forcing the three clinics within the state to rely on rulings and temporary restraining orders and now permanent closures.
A Shreveport-based clinic, Hope Medical Group for Women, is currently searching for a new location. Kathaleen Pittman, administrator for Hope Medical Group for Women said in a prior interview with the Shreveport Times, "we are unable to continue abortion care in Louisiana and are actively searching for a new location."
Clinics in other states have taken action in relocation after the ruling of Roe vs. Wade. The Red River Women’s Clinic in North Dakota raised over $1 million to relocate to an abortion-friendly state.
Although, clinics across Louisiana are looking for new states to conduct business Louisiana Leaders are calling on activists to keep up the fight for abortion access in this state.
More:Shreveport abortion clinic plans to move after Louisiana abortion ban stays
Statements from Louisiana leaders
Louisiana Coalition for Reproductive Freedom
“In states like ours where abortion is banned, people are being forced to remain pregnant or, if they can afford it, travel hundreds — and sometimes thousands — of miles out of state to access care. That care can be delayed due to financial barriers and the need to navigate complicated logistical hurdles. The chaos, confusion, and devastation that this is causing is EXACTLY what extremists and anti-abortion politicians have worked for decades to create. Those who believe in the right to make decisions about our own bodies and futures have been fighting back and we will continue to do so. Whether it is stepping up for local clinic workers who are now without a job or providing the information and support for people who need abortions or continued advocacy to push back against barriers to our bodily autonomy and push for reproductive justice, our commitment and our calling remains the same: WE WILL CARE FOR US. We know this is a frightening and infuriating time, but you are not alone. We are in this together!” said Jessica Frankel, Coalition Coordinator.
National Birth Equity Collaborative
“The decision to close the clinics in Louisiana is one of the many decisions that will impact the lives of Black women not just in Louisiana but in the surrounding states as well. The restrictive conservative policies forced on poor, Black, Indigenous and other women of color will not cause folk to align with the religious right or increase the number of white women giving birth in any incremental ways. It will force a diverse group of women to find other ways to get their reproductive needs met. However, some women will be forced to carry pregnancies, endure adverse health issues and even lose their lives due to the absence of care in Louisiana. Losses due to the imposition of rigorous religious ideology being used to govern a people brought to the US for religious liberty. We must restore choice. We must restore the freedoms that created this nation,” said Rev. Deneen Robinson, State Policy Strategist.
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“Abortion access is essential to Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Nationally, one in three of our pregnancies end in abortion. For Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the south, choice is power and sovereignty,”said Jacqueline Thanh, MSW, Executive Director.
ACLU of Louisiana
“Everyone deserves the dignity and power to decide for themselves if and when they have a child. Those who are trying to take away this fundamental human right are counting on our silence and submission. But we cannot accept forced pregnancy as the law of the land. Our work ahead will require protecting each other from pregnancy surveillance and criminalization, donating to abortion funds that help people access critical care, taking to the streets, and committing to a renewed fight for bodily autonomy. The ACLU will continue to do everything in our power to ensure all people can access the care they need, when they need it. Politicians don’t get the last word. We do,” said Chris Kaiser, Advocacy Director.
Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast
“In light of the latest devastating news of Louisianans losing our only three abortion clinics, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast continues to stand proudly with the compassionate people who are now forced to uproot their lives to continue their commitment to providing safe abortion.
We are deeply disappointed state leaders have allowed Louisiana’s public health crisis to worsen. People and families around the country, and especially communities of color that have been systematically marginalized, are already struggling to make ends meet during an ongoing recession. Abortion is health care, and every person deserves access to the care they need. No one should be forced to leave their city or state for essential health care.
Even though we have never been able to provide abortion in Louisiana, we are here to connect and assist those in need to get access. This fight is not over and we are diligently working to ensure everyone has access to the care that is best for their body, their life and their future. Our health care centers remain open and it remains our mission to provide affordable sexual and reproductive health care to all in need,” said Petrice Sams-Abiodun, PhD, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships- Louisiana.
10,000 Women Louisiana
"Whether elective or medically necessary, safe abortion will always be part of the full range of reproductive health care. We know from our past that anyone wanting or needing to terminate a pregnancy will do so by any means possible. Those with resources will travel and those without may resort to unsafe methods. Roe was the end of septic abortion wards in our hospitals. The closure of our last three clinics leaves Louisiana with a bleak future," said Angela Adkins, Coordinator.
Read:New Orleans court blocks enforcement of Louisiana's trigger law outlawing abortion
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DALLAS — City leaders in Dallas officially adopted a new Racial Equity Plan. The plan is designed to help level the playing field in communities across the city.
City Council members voted to approve the initiative during their meeting on Wednesday. While some residents believe the plan is long overdue, there are some who believe the city and community need more time to include perspective from more residents, especially those who have experienced racial inequities.
Many neighbors in Dallas have long talked about perceptions of the haves and the have-nots, and the north-south racial and economic divide.
That’s been the case for long-time West Dallas residents like Dewonald Moffit and Rayella Boyd.
“If you drive around our neighborhood, you can tell that some things haven’t been done in a long time,” Boyd said.
The neighbors have been residents in West Dallas’ primarily Black and Hispanic Homestead community for more than six decades. They’re among residents who said the area has fought the City of Dallas for issues including better streets and sidewalks, affordable housing and environmental justice matters among other things.
“We need where we can be on the same page as North Dallas, Garland, or Richardson or Cedar Hill. You know, we need to be on the same page,” Boyd said.
A Racial Equity Plan is something some Dallas leaders have been pushing to adopt for more than a year. Some say it would address disparities that have negatively and historically impacted lower-income neighborhoods and communities of color.
“Today we have an opportunity to take the first step to re-establish trust with communities of color,” said Councilman Casey Thomas.
Dallas City Council voted on its Racial Equity Plan during a meeting that became controversial, at times, on Wednesday. After a record vote of its 15 members, the only person voting against approving the Racial Equity Plan was North Dallas Councilmember Cara Mendelsohn.
“Most of the items that are talked about in this plan are actually basic city functions that we should be already providing. That we have these deficiencies is a deficiency of City Hall,” Mendelsohn told her colleagues before the vote.
Some community members also shared comments before the vote. Several of them shared they would like to see more inclusion of the city’s Spanish-speaking residents, if equity is truly the city’s goal.
The City of Dallas is expected to host public meetings about the Racial Equity Plan on September 8 and September 10. To learn more about the City of Dallas Racial Equity Plan, click here. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/city-dallas-adopts-racial-equity-plan/287-cae45f60-d0c4-4202-853f-f993a581e38a | 2022-08-24T23:28:01 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/city-dallas-adopts-racial-equity-plan/287-cae45f60-d0c4-4202-853f-f993a581e38a |
INDIANAPOLIS — Some city advocates are pushing back against a new proposal that would require charitable groups to register with the city before passing out goods to the public, including food and clothing.
The city debated Proposal 256 during Wednesday night’s Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee.
It was first introduced in early July by Council President Vop Osili, Council Vice President Zach Adamson and Councillor Kristin Jones.
The proposal would require charitable groups to register for free with the Office of Public Health and Safety at least 48 hours before handing out any items to those in need. This would only apply in a public right-of-way or on city property when distributing items to more than 10 people.
If a group does not comply, the proposal says they could receive a written warning. After that, the fine would be $250 and $500 each time after that. However, there are no criminal penalties or need for a permit.
Osili said by doing this, it will allow the city to better collaborate with more community organizations and keep track of where resources are.
“It lets folks know where folks are,” Osili said. “It means you can wrap services around them and that we can actually work as a unit.”
The sponsors of the proposal also hope this will create some balance citing recent incidents of violence, littering and property damage during distribution events.
“Our homeless population deserves better. They deserve better than that and I think this is a step forward and doing that,” Jones said. “They deserve to be safe. They deserve to be healthy.”
However, some groups feel like this process would create another hurdle when it comes to helping the community.
“It basically creates barriers for mutual aid organizations to operate in Indianapolis and for neighbors to help neighbors,” said Stephen Lane with Indy Hope Packages, which helps those experiencing homelessness.
He said he worries this might make it harder for his team to deploy resources in a timely way.
“We think it would just really put a hindrance on how quickly we can mobilize to serve our neighbors,” Lane said.
Since the proposal was announced, councilors have been meeting with community partners to discuss ways to move forward. Osili said they plan to continue to discuss the proposal before making any decision.
“If we are going to do this and do it right, then we need to know how best to craft it and the people who know best are those who are doing the work every day,” he said.
Proposal 250 was also discussed Wednesday night. If approved, it would add funding for two new restrooms and cleaning services at Old City Hall and Babe Denny Park. Both locations are often hosting food distributions. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-proposal-charity-groups-must-register-before-handing-out-food-items-to-public/531-15c5a425-5785-4515-8ec4-c344d4401c7b | 2022-08-24T23:31:57 | 1 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-proposal-charity-groups-must-register-before-handing-out-food-items-to-public/531-15c5a425-5785-4515-8ec4-c344d4401c7b |
Police on Wednesday arrested an 18-year-old man who they say is responsible for stabbing a 39-year-old who was initially hospitalized with life-threatening injuries Tuesday evening.
Anthony Rouch was arrested less than 24 hours after the stabbing transpired amid a fight at a northwest Lincoln apartment complex.
Officers responded to the area near First and Belmont streets after callers reported a fight involving six or seven people, including one knife-wielding man, now identified as Rouch.
First responders found a 39-year-old Lincoln man who had suffered a single stab wound to his chest, according to the news release. The man, who police have not identified, has stabilized in the hours since the alleged stabbing, according to the news release.
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A 15-year-old girl from Lincoln was also taken to the hospital after she suffered a head injury when she was pushed to the ground amid the fight, according to police. Her condition is unclear.
Rouch, who was arrested around noon Wednesday near First Street and Garber Avenue, was taken to the Lancaster County jail. He has not been formally charged with a crime. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-arrest-18-year-old-in-stabbing-of-lincoln-man-officials-say/article_ea3df5f4-6bce-5038-b257-408452157150.html | 2022-08-24T23:32:01 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-arrest-18-year-old-in-stabbing-of-lincoln-man-officials-say/article_ea3df5f4-6bce-5038-b257-408452157150.html |
INDIANAPOLIS — The construction industry is projected to add 700 positions in Marion County over the next five years.
Right now, Indianapolis is recruiting with a paid training program.
YouthBuild Indy gives young people career preparation and life skills. They're targeting the estimated 30,000 young people in Marion County who aren't in college, but haven't entered the workforce either.
On an empty lot in Haughville, you can see the fruits of this program's labor. A crew of young people is not only building a new home in the neighborhood, but also laying the foundation for their future careers.
"We recruit young men and women to work in their communities, to give back, while teaching them both life skills and construction training," explained YouthBuild program manager Troy Turner. "It opens doors for them. But more importantly, they get to see and experience hands-on, the work."
YouthBuild Indy is recruiting for its next group of 18- to 24-year-olds to start the next program session in September.
Participants get hands-on construction training, can earn a GED or high school equivalency, get college credit and get paid at the same time.
Students earn up to $6,300 during the 18-week program.
"It's like getting paid to learn, basically," explained Daquan Ludy, who started with YouthBuild years ago as a teenager.
Ludy is now head carpenter for Turner's team, crafting better skills and people along the way.
"He's like a son to me. They all are," Turner said. "It took him some time, but now he's grounded."
"I mentor the guys when they first come on now," Ludy said. "So I can try to make sure they don't make the mistakes I did and guide them in the right way. I've grown, too. It's a really big difference, like not knowing nothing at all, not knowing how to measure to framing a whole house."
Students really do start from scratch - no experience necessary.
"We start with how to read a tape measure, how to perform work safely," Turner explained.
They leave the program with advanced skills for an industry in need of workers.
"That employer that's giving them that work experience has already said, 'You have a job with me,'" said Rodney Francis, chief program officer with Employ Indy. "With earn to learn, the young people have responded to that model as a way to get them in and get them connected."
But even if they don't choose a construction career in the end, organizers say YouthBuild Indy builds a positive future for young people.
"The skills they've gained, the experience they've gained, the work ethic they've gained will help them on any other career path that they choose to go on," Francis said.
"They are all fantastic young men and women. They need love and nurturing and if you put anything in the right environment, it's going to grow and prosper," Turner said.
If you're interested or know a young person who's interested in earning and learning in the construction industry, the registration deadline for the next training session is Sept. 9, with orientation on Sept. 12.
Learn more about YouthBuild Indy and apply for the program on the program's website. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/outreach/huntington-hometowns/youthbuild-indy-recruiting-young-people-construction-careers-paid-training-life-skills/531-3730b17b-ece3-4df7-8d1a-22f1f83d7ede | 2022-08-24T23:32:03 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/outreach/huntington-hometowns/youthbuild-indy-recruiting-young-people-construction-careers-paid-training-life-skills/531-3730b17b-ece3-4df7-8d1a-22f1f83d7ede |
The Lancaster County Board approved a $278.3 million budget this week, one impacted by big salary increases for corrections and law enforcement, an influx of federal stimulus money and slightly higher-than-expected property valuations.
All told, that resulted in a nearly 12% increase over the current year’s budget -- but also one with a slightly lower tax rate.
“I’m proud to see the levy marching in the right direction two years in a row,” said Commissioner Sean Flowerday. “We’ve done it while raising cash reserves, while creating a new road maintenance program and we've done it while staying competitive with law enforcement salaries. This is good stuff we’ve got right here.”
Much of the budget increase -- about $17 million -- is federal American Rescue Act dollars, which will be spent on a number of projects including improving broadband access in the county, fixing culverts, improving rural water service and for grants to human service agencies.
Those stimulus-funded projects must be included in the budget to give the county spending authority, said Budget Officer Dennis Meyer.
Much of the $10.6 million in new general fund spending is driven by salary increases for sheriff’s deputies and county corrections officers, along with increases in contracts for medical services for the jail and juvenile detention center, Meyer said.
The county contracts with medical service providers that hire nurses, and the nursing shortage has pushed up wages for hiring and retention. The salaries of deputies, a $1.4 million increase, and corrections officers, a $3.4 million bump, reflect increasing salaries in other departments and nationwide.
Another new expense: a $1.2 million increase in reimbursement rates for court-appointed attorneys – fee schedules determined by district court judges. County officials lowered the amount slightly from what judges initially requested.
About $4.2 million of the budget revenue goes to support other county funds such as those for roads and bridges, the crisis center and property management, Meyer said.
The county has about $2.2 million left from the federal CARES Act, which it will use to offset some of the law enforcement salary increases. The CARES Act, a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill signed by President Trump in March 2020, included money to help pay essential workers.
Another boost: The county had about $5 million from inheritance taxes remaining in the current budget, Meyer said.
Finally, county officials built the budget assuming property valuations would increase 2.5%. Those valuations actually increased 4%, which would have generated an extra $1.2 million in revenue.
Instead of collecting that additional revenue -- except for $180,490 that will be set aside for future projects -- the County Board decided to lower the tax rate by about a third of a cent.
The tax rate will go from the current rate of 26.4076 cents per $100 of property valuation to 26.0814 cents.
That means the owner of a $226,342 home – the average home price in Lincoln last year – would pay $590.33 in taxes to support county government. Assuming that homeowner’s property valuation doesn’t increase, that’s a savings of $7.38.
Last year the County Board lowered the tax rate by 1.75 cents per $100 of valuation, though 0.75 cents of that was shifted to the Railroad Transportation Safety District.
The county government's general fund tax rate doesn’t include some other levies that stem from county government, including the Railroad Transportation Safety District, the Lancaster County Agricultural Society and rural fire districts. Both the city and county levy taxes for the Public Building Commission and a correctional services joint public agency created to build the jail.
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A divided City Council found a sober living house didn't permanently alter city zoning plans, and 14 men in substance abuse recovery can live in the same house.
The Lincoln City Council found that plans to redevelop 7 acres along the MoPac Trail between 66th and 70th streets into an animal clinic, 29 town houses should move forward.
The city's definition of family -- highlighted by a sober living home seeking a zoning exception -- is similar to other college towns where students often live together near campus.
The City Council approved a biennial budget that includes hiring more than 60 new employees, more than half of them in public safety and the Health Department.
The City Council unanimously approved a three-year contract that will cost the city $3.2 million this year and $5 million in the second year of the biennial budget.
The postcard-size mail pieces are printed on yellow colored cardstock. Voters must complete and sign the application portion of the mailing and return it to receive a ballot by mail.
Two downtown bus stops will move across the street to get out of the way of Gold's redevelopment, city fees bring in millions, and Lincoln's parking guy gets an award.
Redevelopment agreements for apartments in the Bishop Heights shopping center proposes using TIF for trail improvements, and for energy efficiencies a new apartment building near 48th and Holdrege streets. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/this-is-good-stuff-lancaster-county-budget-increases-but-tax-rate-drops/article_733dac77-8415-5861-b3a9-c09b0b52eb98.html | 2022-08-24T23:32:08 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/this-is-good-stuff-lancaster-county-budget-increases-but-tax-rate-drops/article_733dac77-8415-5861-b3a9-c09b0b52eb98.html |
YORK, Pa. — The new school year is underway in the York City School District, but concerns are being raised about student safety while walking to school.
A concerned parent posted to Facebook that the intersections at Philadelphia, Market, and South Harrison Street are too dangerous for kids to cross, as they walk to Davis Elementary and Goode Elementary.
And some nearby neighbors agree. Courtney Love says she crosses East Market Street and South Harrison Street every day. She says she worries whenever she sees kids cross the road, due to traffic coming to and from I-83.
“It’s hard for adults to cross it," said Love. “They try to do it by the bus stop, but there’s just a lot of traffic.”
PennDOT spokesperson Fritzi Schreffler says parents should examine the safety of roads and sidewalks if their kids plan on walking to school.
Schreffler did not say if PennDOT has received complaints about streets in York, but says it’s important for parents to teach their kids traffic safety for the new school year.
“You walk against the flow of traffic, staying to the edge of the road as much as you can," said Schreffler. "You want to [be able to] see the cars coming at you and make sure the cars see you as well.”
Schreffler says school districts and municipalities are responsible for addressing any safety concerns with school routes.
“They need to contact the school district or municipality if there are genuine safety concerns," said Schreffler.
FOX43 reached out to the York City School District but they were not available for comment. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/parents-raise-safety-concerns-about-york-streets-for-students-walking-to-school-york-county/521-ddf99154-d5c1-4b5e-9508-4a63c140a974 | 2022-08-24T23:36:12 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/parents-raise-safety-concerns-about-york-streets-for-students-walking-to-school-york-county/521-ddf99154-d5c1-4b5e-9508-4a63c140a974 |
'That's where I belong.' J. Paul Taylor celebrates 102nd birthday with students
LAS CRUCES - Former state legislator and longtime educator J. Paul Taylor celebrated his 102nd birthday Wednesday morning with J. Paul Taylor Academy students and faulty.
Children in grades kindergarten through eighth sang, danced and presented Taylor with gifts they made. It was a beautiful start to the educator’s special day.
“You are a very special group of children and I want you to know that this has been a wonderful time to spend the early hours of my 102nd birthday. I never thought I’d make it this far,” Taylor said. “I’ve seen some of you grow up from kindergarten and first grade and here you are fine young people and adults and I appreciate and love you all.”
Students gifted special birthday notes, a sash, handmade flowers and more. Taylor and his family became emotional when accepting the gifts. The students also sang Las Mañanitas and the younger students dressed in traditional clothes to dance La Marcha. Their school’s namesake clapped and smiled the whole time — he was in his element.
2019 Distinguished Resident:J. Paul Taylor
“That’s where I belong,” he said. “I’ve worked with children all my life and this is the culmination of it all.”
Taylor was born Aug. 24, 1920 in Chamberino, a colonia in southern Doña Ana County. He worked for 34 years in the Las Cruces Public School system as a teacher, principal and district administrator.
He also served as a state representative for New Mexico’s District 33 — an area of Las Cruces and Mesilla currently represented by Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena — for 18 years. Taylor was often referred to as the “conscience of the New Mexico Legislature.”
J. Paul Taylor Academy was established in 2010 as an elementary charter school for the Las Cruces area. Taylor’s daughter, Mary Helen Ratje has been a teacher at the school since its opening, and her daughter, Brooke Ratje, has worked in the school’s cafeteria for over a year. Amelia Janer, one of Taylor's many great-grandchildren is a student at the school. Four generations of Taylors are currently represented.
Members of the Taylor family from Missouri came into town to celebrate the patriarch’s big day.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Taylor was unable to celebrate his 100th and 101st birthdays with the public. He’s making up for lost time this year.
Members of Taylor Friends, a nonprofit group supporting the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs in its preservation of the Taylor-Mesilla Historic Site, have the opportunity to meet with Taylor in timed groups at his Mesilla home Saturday and Sunday. The family’s home is listed on the National Historic Register.
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Leah Romero is the trending reporter at the Las Cruces Sun-News and can be reached at 575-418-3442, LRomero@lcsun-news.com or @rromero_leah on Twitter. | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2022/08/24/j-paul-taylor-celebrates-102nd-birthday-with-charter-school-students-legislator-las-cruces-mesilla/65416702007/ | 2022-08-24T23:36:16 | 0 | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2022/08/24/j-paul-taylor-celebrates-102nd-birthday-with-charter-school-students-legislator-las-cruces-mesilla/65416702007/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Editors note: The attached video is from Aug. 16.
Pennsylvania elections officials said Wednesday that a push last week to recruit new poll workers produced more than 1,100 applicants, including at least one in 58 of 67 counties.
The effort tied to Help America Vote Day, organized by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, brought in the most applicants in some of the populous suburbs of Philadelphia — 221 in Montgomery County, 132 in Chester and 91 in Delaware.
Allegheny County, which encompasses Pittsburgh, drew 100 applicants while Philadelphia brought in 47.
In central Pennsylvania, Lancaster received 71 applications, Dauphin 40 and Cumberland 39.
Poll workers, often older people, are paid to help run elections in some 9,000 polling places across the state, but it has been a challenge to recruit and train sufficient numbers of them during the pandemic. Poll worker shortages predate the pandemic, however, in part because their work can require 14- or 16-hour days.
Lisa Schaefer, executive director of the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania, said the influx of 1,146 new candidates was a welcome boost. Some counties promoted the recruitment drive last week.
“We hope that those who applied maintain their interest and follow through with training and serving on Election Day,” said Schaefer, whose members run the mechanics of elections in each county. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/states-poll-worker-recruitment-effort-drew-1100-last-week-pennsylvania/521-7545c6f6-444d-49ae-8022-02e05321cbf4 | 2022-08-24T23:36:18 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/states-poll-worker-recruitment-effort-drew-1100-last-week-pennsylvania/521-7545c6f6-444d-49ae-8022-02e05321cbf4 |
Grand jury indicts Luna County CBP agent on a charge of denying US citizen's rights
LAS CRUCES – A grand jury indicted a Luna County Customs and Border Patrol agent last week after a U.S. citizen said the agent slammed him against his car in 2019.
Oscar Orrantia, 36, was indicted on a single charge of willfully depriving the rights of a citizen of the United States. Orrantia appeared in court on Aug. 24, where a federal judge released him into pretrial services instead of holding him in jail or granting him a cash bond.
The Sun-News previously reported that a civil complaint alleges Orrantia pulled Anastacio Granillo of Deming out of his car at the Columbus port of entry in June 18, 2019.
Granillo — 64 at the time — said in the civil complaint he was in Mexico visiting family. After waiting in his car, Granillo commented to an agent that the agency should open a second lane to reduce the backup. Granillo said that Orrantia became irate at the request. Granillo said that Orrantia then escalated the interaction after asking to see the allergy medication Granillo reported he was bringing across the border.
As related in the complaint, Granillo became nervous and dropped the medication while handing it over, which the officer interpreted as "throwing the medication at him." Orrantia then allegedly removed Granillo from the car by force, hitting the older man's head against the wall of the vehicle bay while restraining him.
The civil case remains ongoing, according to federal court filings. In the criminal case, Orrantia could face five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
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Justin Garcia is a public safety reporter for the Las Cruces Sun-News. He can be reached by email at JEGarcia@lcsun-news.com or on Twitter at @Just516garc. | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/courts/2022/08/24/grand-jury-indicts-cbp-agent-on-a-charge-of-denying-us-citizens-rights/65418561007/ | 2022-08-24T23:36:22 | 1 | https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/courts/2022/08/24/grand-jury-indicts-cbp-agent-on-a-charge-of-denying-us-citizens-rights/65418561007/ |
CROWN POINT — They may look like little cars, but don’t tell that to Hot Wheels collectors — and there are many of them.
The Hot Wheels races at the Lake County Fair drew fans of all ages for a tradition that goes back nearly six decades.
“You get lost in it,” said event chairman Greg Simms, of Valparaiso. “You see a model Corvette, then as an adult, you want that car.”
Six cars per heat took off from an 11-foot-high incline, speeding 85 feet to the finish, where an infrared sensor recorded the top three places.
Simms said Hot Wheels attract people of all ages. “Some people may enter more than one car,” he noted.
Jackson Habel, 5, of Crown Point, has owned Hot Wheels since he was 1. Helping was his father, Nick, also an enthusiast.
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“It’s a staple,” Nick Habel said. “It gets you into cars. It’s just one of those things.”
Mattel introduced these scale-model cars in 1966. Hot Wheels became the primary competitor to Matchbox cars until 1997 when Mattel purchased Tyco Toys, then owner of Matchbox.
Jackson Habel entered two cars, though his father said the boy owns 200 Hot Wheels. Matchbox, his father said, is better known for its trucks and off-road vehicles, while Mattel’s line features more racing cars and “crazy design” vehicles.
Jerry Christian and son Jackson, 5, of Hobart, own more than 500 Hot Wheels.
“Every kid likes playing with cars,” the father said. “It’s like going to a car show.”
Jackson Christian brought three cars after testing his vehicles on a 15-foot-long, six-lane track his father built at home.
“We brought the fastest ones,” his father said.
Steven Scheeringa and son Landon, 10, of Highland, also have an indoor track at home.
“We raced a bunch of cars, and whichever was fastest, we brought,” the father said.
Mattel estimates that 41 million children have played with Hot Wheels. Children ages 5-15 have an average of 41 cars, the company added.
A mother of three, Julie Fink, of Munster, has owned Hot Wheels since her children were born.
“We love Hot Wheels,” she said. “It’s really exciting when yours is one of the top ones in the heat.”
Malachi Neal, 15, of Munster, has owned Hot Wheels for 10 years.
“They’re concept cars, really nice,” he said. “I wish I could own one.”
Shelley and Dave Szymonek and daughters Bailey, 8, and Sydney, 5, of Crown Point, were in their first Hot Wheels race.
“The kids love them,” Shelley Szymonek said. “We always get them at the grocery store.”
Don and Angela Gogal, of Crown Point, brought son Luke, 7, to race some of his cars.
“I like how fast they are,” the boy said.
Simms said he’s now seeing second generations of contestants. “That means people like it,” he said.
“It’s good to see people having fun,” Simms added. “The way it is meant to be.” | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/big-dreams-on-little-wheels-at-lake-county-fair/article_7a7a31b2-f421-58a8-8175-e8cfcb9da4b2.html | 2022-08-24T23:40:40 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/big-dreams-on-little-wheels-at-lake-county-fair/article_7a7a31b2-f421-58a8-8175-e8cfcb9da4b2.html |
WASHINGTON (WJHL) — President Joe Biden revealed his plan to cancel student loan debt for millions of Americans on Wednesday.
Under the plan, $10,000 of debt will be forgiven for individuals earning less than $125,000 a year or families earning less than $250,000. Those who received Pell Grants during college will be eligible for another $10,000 in debt relief.
Reaction from those who represent Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia in Congress was along party lines.
Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, both Democrats, praised the president’s plan:
“I commend the administration on taking action to provide student debt relief, though I’ve been saying for a long time that a smarter and more permanent solution would have been refinancing these loans to significantly lower interest rates. I’ll keep working to find solutions to lower costs for higher education.”
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
“Getting the education you need to achieve your dreams or provide for your family shouldn’t be a one-way ticket to a mountain of debt. I’m glad to see President Biden provide targeted student loan forgiveness to help millions of Americans. This will make a big difference for so many Virginians and Americans. I’m going to keep working to ease the burden of student loan debt and make post-secondary education more affordable.”
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn, a Republican, criticized the president’s plan in a series of tweets. She called it “a gimmick” that will benefit the rich instead of the middle-class, despite loan relief being restricted based on income.
“Inflation is hurting the American people. But the Biden Administration believes that loan forgiveness is a priority,” Blackburn said in one tweet. In another, she wrote: “President Biden’s decision to waive student loan debt will increase inflation and is another gift to the rich. Tennesseans should not be forced to pay for coastal elites to get their PhD in gender studies.”
Northeast Tennessee’s Republican congresswoman, Rep. Diana Harshbarger, was also critical of Biden’s announcement:
“Nearly 87% of Americans do not have student loans, but now will be forced to pay the debt. This is nothing more than a socialist debt transfer scam. Joe Biden is simply trying to buy votes.”
Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN)
A request for comment by Tennessee Sen. Bill Hagerty has not been answered. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/biden-announces-student-loan-debt-relief-local-lawmakers-react/ | 2022-08-24T23:42:20 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/biden-announces-student-loan-debt-relief-local-lawmakers-react/ |
Indium Corporation is growing world-wide, and have recently expanded their Rome facility to 114,000 square feet. Bill Jackson is the General Manager of Metals, Compounds, and Reclaim Operations. He says the expansion comes with a number of new career opportunities.
"We have manufacturing and support going on in the facility. R&D, Engineering, Quality, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Shipping and Receiving all happening here with a diverse number of people."
Indium manufactures a diverse number of products. They’re on the cutting edge in new technologies being used in electric vehicles, and semi-conductor thermal management systems just to name a few, and the applications don’t end there. In fact Indium Corporation's President/COO Ross Berntson says you probably have some of their technology in your hand every day.
"We invented a new technology called Durafuse LT here at Indium Corporation. Tested in the thermal-cycling chambers in our thermal cycling lab right here in Rome that are changing the way cell phones are made, and now high-end devices that require significant reliability. That product is being deployed across the globe and it’s invented right here in the Mohawk Valley."
The company is recruiting people with all kinds of abilities. Careers range from shipping and receiving to research, development, and engineering. One of the contributing factors in this company’s success is the amount of talent coming from our local institutions.
"You can’t beat our school systems. You can’t beat our University system here in New York, and so the talent is here. We have wonderful infrastructure to build our businesses around. So there’s tons of advantages, and there’s things we can improve, and that’s kind of how I like to look at it. I don’t think we are moving anywhere overseas because we can’t be successful here. We’re moving overseas because we need to be close to our customers for some of our products."
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Pensole Lewis college set to host Black Footwear Forum
Detroit — A Black Footwear Forum is slated to be held in Detroit at the Pensole Lewis College of Business and Design from Sept. 16-18 and will include the brother of George Floyd, the Minneapolis Black man who was killed by a White police officer more than two years ago.
The annual event, which is being held at a college that is seeking to regain its Historically Black College or University designation, is geared toward bringing footwear industry professionals together with supporters. It provides a platform for sharing ideas and creating a dialogue about the influence Blacks have on the industry.
"The Black Footwear Forum has evolved into a major industry gathering to celebrate, inspire and acknowledge Black creatives globally who are responsible for the culture of our industry," PLC Founder and President D’Wayne Edwards said in a statement. "This year it’s happening in the only city in the US designated a UNESCO City of Design — Detroit, Michigan."
The forum was originally named the African American Footwear Forum when it was launched in February 2019. But the name was changed in February this year to "strengthen and better represent the thousands of black footwear professionals," according to a forum statement.
The forum — which is sponsored by companies including Foot Locker and Steve Madden — will kick off with a free footwear design workshop on Sept. 16 hosted by Merit clothing brand's Detroit-based education fundraising program, Fate in Our Stars, and Pensole alumni working in the footwear industry. The workshop will be hosted at the StockX lounge in downtown Detroit.
On Sept. 17, a Kids Are Ready For Design session will be held at University Prep Elementary School, led by Jason Mayden, a former Nike designer and author of "A Kid's Book About Design."
The last day will feature a series of speakers and panelists, including Edwards and Terrence Floyd, founder of the We Are Floyd Foundation and brother of George Floyd.
The full schedule of speakers and panelists will be made available in the coming weeks.
Matt Priest, president and CEO of the Footwear Distribution and Retailers Association, one of the the forum's main partners, said Detroit is an ideal city to host the event.
"Excitement for this event has been off-the-charts as registrations and corporate support continue to roll in," Priest said.
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State officials identify cause of Michigan dog illness
State agricultural officials on Wednesday announced they have identified canine parvovirus as the illness recently spreading to dogs mostly in northern Michigan and causing some deaths.
Testing results centered on samples from cases sent by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to Michigan State University's veterinary lab in Lansing.
The affected dogs did not have a history of complete vaccination, officials said Wednesday.
Jennifer Holton, communications director for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said in a statement: “Parvovirus is not a reportable disease to the state veterinarian, so there isn’t a direct case count number to provide. What we have is anecdotal information placing the parvo case number somewhere between 15-25 or so, but no confirmation.”
Officials urged residents to ensure their dogs are vaccinated.
“Canine parvovirus is a severe and highly contagious disease in dogs, and veterinary professionals have extensive experience with this virus," said State Veterinarian Nora Wineland. “We have a highly effective vaccine available to help protect dogs from the virus. Dogs that are not fully vaccinated against this virus are the most at risk. ... Protecting Michigan’s dogs is a team effort.”
Canine parvovirus is not contagious to people or other species of domestic animals.
Kim Dodd, director of the MSU Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, added: "This situation is complex because although the dogs displayed clinical signs suggestive of parvovirus, they consistently test negative by point-of-care tests performed in clinics and shelters. Screening tests for parvo are done to help guide immediate isolation, disinfection and treatment protocols. While those tests are valuable in the clinical setting, they are not as sensitive as the diagnostic tests we can perform here in the laboratory. We continue to further characterize the virus in hopes of better understanding why those animals were testing negative on screening tests.”
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development also is encouraging all dog owners to take steps including:
- Keeping dogs and puppies at home and away from other dogs if they are exhibiting any signs of illness and contact your veterinarian if there are signs
- Cleaning up after your pet when you’re walking them in public
Veterinarians are encouraged to pursue additional diagnostics at the MSU lab when screening tests for canine parvovirus are negative but clinical presentation is consistent with parvovirus infection. Residents can call MSU diagnostic lab at (517) 353-1683 with questions about sample collection, submission or diagnostic options and contact the state Department of Agriculture and Rural Development at 1 (800) 292-3939 if unusual or reportable illnesses are seen.
"The discovery of these cases should not cause dog owners to drastically change how they care for their pets or where they plan to travel," state officials said Wednesday. "If dogs are fully vaccinated against canine parvovirus, they are protected against severe illness, but it is important to always consult with your veterinarian."
The cases sparking concern and testing were reported in Otsego and Clare counties.
Before the state identified them as parvovirus-related, some Metro Detroit animal rescue groups were preparing for potential rises in the region, warning volunteers to limit interactions or extend quarantine times for rescue dogs.
Juniper Fleming, executive director at Rebel Dogs Detroit, a foster-based shelter launched in 2018, notes the city often sees parvo cases in warmer months.
Fleming's group recently tended to a pair stricken with the illness after living outdoors. One died within 48 hours.
She said dog owners often are warned that their pets don't necessarily have to touch or interact with an infected canine to become infected. "It’s transmittable in a way that people aren’t thinking that it is."
For now, her group is watching out for alerts from the state, heeding officials' advice and following guidelines, including a quarantine period.
"When you’re working with the high volume we’re working with, you try to look out for symptoms and tell fosters not to walk unvaccinated dogs in locations where they’re not familiar with the dogs who have been in that location," Fleming said.
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TUPELO • Gov. Tate Reeves touted Northeast Mississippi's economic development on Wednesday following a meeting with Lee County and Tupelo officials.
Officials across Lee County met with Reeves to discuss the future of Northeast Mississippi. Speaking to media after the meeting, the governor said he had a great conversation with local leaders about the importance of economic development and developing the infrastructure to meet growth.
“We had a good conversation with community leaders talking about ... the partnership that we have created with our state legislature and our local communities to make sure we can fund that local infrastructure in such as way that we meet the needs of the next 50 years here in Northeast Mississippi,” Reeves said.
Reeves also said he and local leaders spoke about the importance of maintaining an educated workforce. He touted the local public school district, community college and universities as leaders in the state system.
“There is no doubt that in Northeast Mississippi, one of the strengths here is in this part of our state is our educational institutions," the governor said. “In Mississippi, we can definitely say, ‘Yes, we have a qualified workforce; we have an educated workforce; and we have a workforce training system that can get people to these potential employers.'"
When asked about the growth of affordable housing development alongside economic growth, Reeves said it was a focus when talking about development, but that there is no easy solution to working class families' struggles to find affordable places to live.
Reeves said it's important that people educated in Mississippi have job opportunities locally.
“We have to keep working on that," he said. "(Affordable housing) is certainly something that is important. … In every new economic development opportunity that we have we talk a lot about not only workforce training but workforce housing.”
Sen. Chad McMahan, R-Guntown, said the meeting with the governor was productive.
“I am so glad Gov. Reeves came to Lee County today,” he said. “He is here regularly, but today he was here to focus on economic development. He has proven to be a friend to Lee County Mississippi though the number of economic projects we’ve had in this area.”
Saltillo Mayor Copey Grantham thanked Reeves for taking time to visit the region and speak with him and other leaders.
“We are just excited to meet with the governor,” he said. “For him to take his time out of his busy schedule to come to Northeast Mississippi means a lot."
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Students have just begun their freshman year in the college of their choice. For many this means rush week where they hope to be picked to be in the fraternity or sorority of their dreams. One recent freshman enrollee, Grant Sikes, is now disappointed in the process.
You see, Grant is a biological male who now identifies as a female, and he wanted to join a sorority. To be honest, I also wanted to join a sorority when I went to college. Of course, that was before it was fashionable to be a transgender. In fact, I’d never heard of transgender when I went to college. The closest we had was Tiny Tim. I still don’t know exactly what he was.
Anyway, I’m not a big fan of the whole transgender movement, but that is a different subject for a different day. My issue today with Grant is not about his choice to decide to be a female. No, it is much more disturbing than that. I think Grant makes poor choices in general. Grant decided to apply to all the sororities and sought to enjoy rush at the University of Alabama.
Now, let me see ... I’m planning on a groundbreaking acceptance in a sorority as a male who identifies as a female and somehow I decide that Alabama would be a good choice to try and join to increase my odds?
Listen, I did not go to Alabama. I went to Auburn. Alabama is way down there in Tuscaloosa. Auburn will not win any awards for liberal thinking. Alabama makes Auburn look like the University of Berkley at California in comparison.
In fact maybe he should have tried Berkley, or the University of San Francisco, instead. As you might imagine, all of the 20 or so sororities turned poor Grant down. He said, “Being dropped from my last house this morning during primary recruitment at the University of Alabama doesn’t come as a surprise, considering out of the almost 20 chapters I was dropped by every single one except two before day one.”
I’m surprised he made day one with two of them, to tell you the truth.
I can just see it now. “Johnny, Cindy is coming home this weekend and she got accepted by the sorority of her choice. She is so excited she is bringing one of the other girls that got in, too.”
“Oh, really dear, that’s great. We will have to celebrate. What is the other girl’s name?”
“Well her name is Grant.”
“Grant? Hell, he damn near burned down Montgomery. What kind of name is ‘Grant?’”
“ “Dear, Grant is a transsexual who just got into her sorority.”
“I don’t care what she drives. I drove a Trans Am myself for a while. Cut the catalytic convertor off, put on headers and glasspacks and that baby would run. Loud, too! Loved it until I wrapped it around Fred Johnson’s Bait and Tackle. But why did they name her Grant?”
“Johnny, Grant is man, who identifies as female, so he is allowed to be in the sorority.”
“A man who thinks he is a woman? Does he ever look down while he is relieving himself? You mean he gets to go to the same bathroom, and take showers there, and stuff like that? Football starts in two weeks. I’ve got to worry about Kirby Smart and whether we have enough money to now legally pay these players to stay at Alabama. I can’t be worrying about Grant taking a shower with little Buttercup. No sirree. Either he goes, or she goes. They aren’t letting all that go on at Auburn are they?”
Well, Grant recorded his adventures on Tik Tok and had over a million followers. If I want to pursue snow skiing in college I probably should go to Colorado. Rodeo, maybe Wyoming or Texas. Deep sea fishing, University of Florida. Transsexual sorority acceptance, maybe Harvard. Not Bob Jones University.
I’m just saying so next time the 1 million viewers will not be disappointed.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Texas State University announced its first reported monkeypox case on Tuesday, and the University of Texas at Austin announced its first case back in July.
With campuses now filled with college students again for the fall semester, an Austin doctor said monkeypox should not be a concern on campus, but students should take precautions with what they do off campus.
“We’re seeing it a lot at times after people who have had sexual or intimate contact,” said Dr. Aliza Norwood, the medical director at Vivent Health. “It's not a sexually transmitted disease, because you can get it not having sex. But, generally, we're seeing that's how it's happening.”
Norwood said college students should educate themselves, especially with everyone back at school.
“Knowing what the signs and symptoms of monkeypox are, talking to potential sexual partners about any symptoms that they might have,” said Norwood.
Both UT Austin and Texas State have monkeypox testing services at their campus health departments.
“We can only test a rash, so they actually have to have visible signs of a rash on their body,” she said.
Texas State said, in general, a student confirmed with monkeypox will need to isolate until they’re no longer contagious, which Norwood said can take between two to four weeks.
“The rashes that we've seen vary,” she said. “They can be just one little lesion or there can be many all over the body. So, you have to wait until all of those have healed over and new skin has formed and until then, isolate from other people.”
Texas State said they will disinfect the student’s dorm room and their roommates will be offered vaccines by the local health department. They said the student is expected to contact their professors about classwork during quarantine. UT Austin said they will assess decontamination needs if a UT community member tests positive.
“It is possible for clothing or bedding that was touched, for an infectious rash to transmit,” said Norwood. “Again, we're not seeing that as much. But to be totally safe, we would want somebody to isolate and have all of their clothing and bedding washed, and not circulating with other people.”
Norwood said as students are now back on campus, they should take precautions in intimate settings, but they don’t need to worry about the spread in classroom settings.
“Just knowing, you don't need to be scared about just being in general rooms with people, that it is not as contagious as COVID, that you really do have to have that fever and rash and be in prolonged, close, intimate contact with somebody in order to get it,” said Norwood.
Texas State said they will only send university-wide notifications if they feel it is warranted. UT Austin did not comment on their notification systems.
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The owner of a Bismarck photography studio that closed abruptly last year and refused to refund clients has filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy, listing more than $4 million owed to creditors and just more than $20,000 in personal assets.
Federal court documents show Glasser Images owner Jack Glasser owes 50 creditors $4.06 million.
Attorney General Drew Wrigley in May filed a lawsuit against Glasser and partner Jace Schacher, asking the court to bar them from doing business, reimburse clients for images not received, and pay contractors who provided the photography services. The lawsuit alleges the two falsely blamed the business closure on the coronavirus pandemic and obtained loans to keep the business afloat, but at the same time lived a lifestyle “of high-end dining, travel, and luxury vehicles.”
Customers filed complaints totaling more than $1.4 million after the business closed in October 2021. Glasser Images owed its landlord $25,000 in rent and late fees. A judge in November ordered the business to preserve its websites while the attorney general investigated possible fraud.
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Tim O’Keeffe, the attorney representing Glasser Images, said in May that Wrigley’s office “asserted their own opinions into the complaint, which is full of speculation and puffery.” The case is slated for trial starting Sept. 25.
Chapter 7 bankruptcy provides a fresh financial start though all debt may not be wiped away. Certain taxes, fraudulent credit card debt, family support obligations and most student loans must still be repaid. When a company files for Chapter 7, it usually leads to liquidation of the filer's assets.
The unsecured claims on Glasser’s Chapter 7 filing include $116,000 to the IRS; more than $1 million to First Western Bank and Trust; $977,000 to payment processing company Messiahic Inc./PayJunction, in Santa Barbara, California; $150,000 to the North Dakota Development Fund; and $523,000 to the U.S. Small Business Administration. He owes thousands to credit card companies and people including his parents, who have loaned him more than $101,000 for the business.
The filing shows Glasser has $20,087 in personal property, lives with his parents, and has no income. His list of personal property includes brand-name clothing: Burberry, Hermes, Louis Vuitton. One line item lists a Louis Vuitton business bag valued at more than $1,000.
Glasser Images has faced a host of other legal challenges related to its closure, including from clients seeking relief in small claims court, as well as from various businesses involved in its affairs.
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Draft Idaho’s Legislature into special session in late summer.
Propose major changes in school spending and tax relief.
Do it in a hurry — just a day or two before lawmakers take their Labor Day weekend holiday.
Offer no alternatives.
Give a public otherwise preoccupied with vacations or getting ready for school no time to study up on the idea.
Lock down the legislative votes on a take-it-or-leave-it proposition that both increases ongoing budget demands and reduces tax revenues — permanently.
Preempt a popular school funding initiative that was on its way toward passage.
And do it on the eve of an election campaign.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Gov. Brad Little is doing precisely that.
Come Sept. 1, he will present to the assembled Legislature House Bill 1 — which would seem to have something for everybody with the notable exception of Little’s version of Darth Vader, aka the Idaho Freedom Foundation’s Wayne Hoffman.
Little is proposing to devote $410 million of Idaho’s surging general fund tax revenues toward a massive investment in a school system ranked 51st for per-pupil expenditures and which can’t afford to compete with neighboring states for teachers. That exceeds by 27% Reclaim Idaho’s Quality Education Act ballot measure, which proposes to invest $323 million in public education. Little’s plan also pledges to maintain a 3% yearly expansion of that commitment.
But at least Reclaim Idaho’s plan paid for itself — by restoring the corporate income tax rate to 8% from 6%. It also creates a new, 10.925% income tax bracket for individuals with more than $250,000 in taxable income or $500,000 for joint filers.
Little does just the reverse, repealing the Reclaim Idaho tax provisions two days after they would take effect and handing corporate Idaho a further tax break by imposing a flat 5.8% rate on everybody, rich and poor — after excluding the first $2,500 of income from taxation for individuals and $5,000 for joint filiers. That will cost about $161.2 million every year, not to mention the one-time $500 million in tax rebates the governor wants.
That may thread the needle with education advocates and corporate Idaho — but where’s the fire?
Extraordinary legislative sessions are called that for a reason — they’re intended to respond to crises.
Little’s assertion that high inflation constitutes such an emergency rings hollow. How in the world does spending more for schools and tax cuts do anything to cut the price of gasoline by even a penny at the pump? And if a brief special session can enact structural change in budgets and taxation, what’s the point of a prolonged legislative season — with hearings, competing ideas and public testimony — beginning in January?
We’ve been here before.
In 2006, then-Gov. Jim Risch was equally audacious.
He hauled the Legislature back to Boise in a one-day summer session with a plan to alleviate skyrocketing property tax bills. He swapped a $260 million property tax levy that supported public schools with a penny increase in the sales tax, then worth about $210 million. For most people, it was a loss. Homeowners paid far more in sales taxes than they saved in property taxes. The big winners were corporations and wealthy landowners, such as Risch. The big losers, of course, were renters — who were promised but never got a repeal of Idaho’s sales tax on food.
Then as now, Risch offered a take-it-or-leave-it deal.
Then as now, Risch had the votes lined up ahead of time.
Then as now, Risch was able to block another pro-education initiative campaign. The 2006 version of Proposition 1 had proposed to restore Idaho’s sales tax to 6% — it had temporarily dropped to 5% that summer — to shore up public education. By boosting the sales tax to 6% for property tax relief, Risch preempted the measure. No way would Idahoans vote for a 7% sales tax rate and Proposition 1 died by nearly 55% in November’s general election.
Then as now, the public had virtually no opportunity to weigh in on the deal.
Risch’s bland assurances aside, his arrangement blew up when the Great Recession battered Idaho’s economy. Schools never recovered from the budget cuts imposed. Communities that could afford them increased their reliance on supplemental property taxes. But for poor, rural districts, it was a one-way ticket to four-day school weeks.
But by then, Risch was serving in the U.S. Senate, safely unaccountable from all of that.
Not only is Little’s plan equally bold in its details and execution, but it also presumes that the economic good times will roll along forever. What happens to a state that quickly adds more than a half-billion bucks of new commitments if the real estate boom suddenly falters?
And where does that leave Idaho’s beleaguered homeowners, who have been begging for property tax relief?
One of the surest signals of impending trouble is when the political and economic elites assure you that “this time it’s different.”
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ECTOR COUNTY, Texas — Ector County ISD is investigating after a fight between two Odessa High School students resulted in one of them being stabbed.
According to a district representative, the two boys agreed to a fight near the end of the school day.
During the fight, one of the boys was stabbed. He was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The other teen is being sought at this time and the situation is still being investigated.
ECISD says no other students and staff at the school were threatened.
The district also emphasizes this behavior is considered unacceptable and extra precautions will be taken as classes resume Thursday.
Anyone who sees anything out of the ordinary or knows of trouble between students is encouraged to alert an adult on campus immediately.
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MIDLAND, Texas — The Midland College Art Department is set to host its first art show of the 2022-2023 calendar year on Aug. 25 at the Allison Fine Arts Department.
The art show will feature works from retired Midland College professor Kent Moss and his students and colleagues.
A blend of artistic styles will be on display at the show, including photography, drawings and mixed media images.
Along with these styles, different abstract art and ideas will be on display throughout the exhibit.
Admission is free and the event begins at 6:00 p.m.. For more information, contact Dagan Sherman at dsherman@midland.edu. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-college-art-department-to-host-first-art-show-of-2022-2023-academic-year/513-0a7624f6-109c-46f5-8078-86900b83d54d | 2022-08-25T00:11:04 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-college-art-department-to-host-first-art-show-of-2022-2023-academic-year/513-0a7624f6-109c-46f5-8078-86900b83d54d |
MIDLAND, Texas — The Midland County Fair is set to return for its 2022 edition on Aug. 25 at the Midland County Horseshoe Arena.
A grand ceremony will occur on the first day to officially open the Fair as the Fair's Grand Marshall will conduct a ribbon cutting ceremony to signal the beginning of the 13th annual County Fair.
Events that will be occurring include hot dog eating competitions, bull riding, rodeos and goat roping, while a petting zoo will be available on select days. The HopeFest Christian Music Festival is also set to take place on Aug. 27.
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There will also be an official NewsWest 9 night, featuring an ice cream eating competition at 6:30 p.m. in the horseshoe Education Building. Chief Meteorologist Anthony Franze will make an appearance.
NewsWest 9 is encouraging attendees to bring art supplies to donate to the Boys and Girls Club.
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- Scissors
- Glue
- Markers
- Colored pencils
- Pencils
- Erasers
- Paint ( acrylic, washable)
- Paint brushes
- Sponge brushes
- Art aprons
- Canvases
- Glue sticks (hot glue gun)
- Art sets
- Moldable clay (air dry, oven baked)
- Tabletop easels
- Sketch pads
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An infant had a skull fracture and bruising around his face after a weekend with his father, who now faces a felony charge of neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury.
Bryce A. Kreider, 22, of the 3600 block of Blueridge Lane in Fort Wayne, faces three to 16 years in prison if he’s found guilty. He has no trial date set yet. However, Allen Superior Judge Fran Gull set Kreider’s next hearing for 9:30 a.m. Oct. 17.
Gull also assigned Kreider a public defender at his Tuesday initial hearing and ordered him put on monitored conditional release. Kreider had posted $10,000 bond, which was listed in court records as received Monday. The Allen County prosecutor’s office filed the felony charge against him Friday.
The extent of the boy’s injuries were discovered Dec. 13, after his mother took the infant to a hospital, according to the probable cause affidavit written by Fort Wayne Police Sgt. Todd Battershell. She was concerned because the child was vomiting when fed after he was returned to her.
Kreider told the child’s mother that bruising around his right cheek and mouth were from the child hitting himself with a tambourine, court records said. He later said the child also fell two or three times from his swing, making the bruising worse.
However, he told the mother the falls from the swing happened Friday night and then changed that to Saturday morning, she told police. Medical personnel told police the injuries weren’t consistent with how Kreider said they happened.
The mother’s sister told police that when she lived with Kreider, the mother and their child, she heard Kreider say more than once that if the mother didn’t “shut that kid up, he would strangle him,” the probable cause affidavit stated. She said he also hit her 8-year-old but didn’t report it.
When interviewed by police, Kreider said the child was in good health when he went to sleep Dec. 10 but woke up the next day with bruises all over his face. Kreider admitted to police that he’d grabbed the child by the face and squeezed but didn’t mean to hurt him.
He also said that while he was preparing a bottle, he heard a scream and found the child lying on the concrete floor of Kreider’s bedroom, court documents said. Under questioning, Kreider told police the former roommate was right and he threatened to strangle the child before “but I never did.” He was frustrated with the baby spitting his bottle out, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Also during questioning, Kreider admitted that when the other woman was a roommate, he struck her child in the back of the head because he “was acting up.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-man-charged-with-neglect-for-infants-injuries/article_5af227fc-23f9-11ed-8673-0be322f967e0.html | 2022-08-25T00:15:29 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/fort-wayne-man-charged-with-neglect-for-infants-injuries/article_5af227fc-23f9-11ed-8673-0be322f967e0.html |
JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — Ivanna and Serhii Pryhoda are very grateful they are safe and housed in the U.S., but safety and security are still bittersweet for the couple from one of the first Ukrainian regions occupied by Russian troops in February.
After all, their town of Beryslav just north of the embattled city of Kherson is still occupied, Serhii’s parents and brother remain there holed up with little food and Ivanna’s brother is fighting with the Ukrainian army in the eastern Donbas region. They know both a soldier and civilians who’ve been killed.
So even with the sun shining brightly on a house where they and their five children live, Wednesday was not the kind of Ukrainian Independence Day that left Ivanna — a radiology nurse back home — in much of a mood for celebrating.
Despite it all, though, she and her friend Yevjeniia Hrebenkova, who has lived in Johnson City for six years, could laugh about Ivanna’s brother on the front lines and determined to get back his beloved pair of Skechers.
“It was in the house of my brother, and they stole cell phone, cream for shaving and Skechers,” Ivanna said, sitting in a new home that a local builder has donated for the family’s use.
“In every video (call) in which we see my brother, he always look at his shoes,” she said, laughing. “He says I just want to find who is stolen my shoes.”
That’s the kind of grim humor the congregation of Jonesborough United Methodist Church is learning the Pryhodas are using to cope with such tremendous loss. Serhii also worked at Beryslav’s local hospital, and in addition to a teenage son and twin 3-year-olds, they adopted Ivanna’s two teenage nephews before the war.
Their harrowing journey included about a month inside their home, where Russian soldiers regularly harassed them, and a flight to the Ivano-Frankisvsk region near the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine. There they found lodging in a resort cabin, but had to pay the owner and ran through most of their savings.
It was better than home, even though that’s where the family still longs to be. And Jonesborough, where they arrived early this month, is even more secure and safer — but a world away in distance and culture.
“The first time it was three soldiers with machine guns,” Ivanna remembers of the Russian troops who came to their home.
“They checked our house, they checked our phones, our papers, passports, (driver’s) licenses, they checked our car. Then they asked my husband ‘why you have so many tools?'”
Those types of questions and visits continued until the family left, with many friends, family and loved ones still there.
HIMARS and hospitality
As they watch the war unfold from afar, Ivanna said she’s grateful for the support the U.S. and western governments have given the Ukrainian military. She said the HIMARS weapons systems have allowed for precise bombing of Russian positions even near their home and for the destruction of bridges over the Dnipro River that the Russian army needs to maintain its stranglehold on the region, which isn’t far south of the Zaporhizia nuclear plant.
“The HIMARS gave us hope for quickly finish this,” she said.
While they wait and hope with the war now six months in as of Wednesday, Ivanna said the family is overwhelmed by the church’s support.
“All these people is so kind, so friendly, and we are so grateful for all of these people.”
Jonesborough UMC’s pastor, Michael Lester, said the gratitude goes both ways.
“We intended to help them but we’ve discovered that they are helping us and they are changing us in very powerful and positive ways,” Lester said Wednesday as a Ukrainian flag shone in the sunlight where it hung from the second story of the Pryhodas’ temporary home.
“We are actively involved in many area mission projects, and this gave us a chance to do something that stretched us, that brought us out of our comfort zone,” he added.
Members have downloaded translation apps and happily provided rides, gift cards and other support as the family gets the kids enrolled in school and signs up for benefits, with work permits in the future. The family attended a church picnic last weekend, entering to applause that Ivanna found heartwarming if a bit embarrassing.
“When I first met them and talked with them, I asked them ‘what is the greatest challenge or difficulty about relocating to America and to Jonesborough,’ and they had this strange look on their face and they said ‘we’re just so thankful to be safe and to be together. That’s all that matters.’
“And that really spoke to me and that’s another way that they have impacted my life, because it’s helping me and our church focus on what’s most important and not take our freedoms for granted and the blessings that we have — everyday life, our relationships, our freedom, just the opportunity to work and to play and to be with friends and family. And the Jonesborough community is embracing them.”
A proud people
Ivanna said Ukraine’s struggle to maintain its independence from Russia has been consistent throughout her adult life. When she was in nursing school, the “Orange Revolution” of 2004-05 was occurring. A Russian-backed presidential candidate, Viktor Yanukovych, had been declared the winner of a runoff election despite Ukrainians believing those results were rigged against the other candidate, Viktor Yushchenko.
People took to the streets or, in Ivanna’s case, wore orange armbands in protest. Yushchenko was eventually declared the winner, but Russia’s influence was clear.
“Some of the teachers saw me with this stripe and he said I needed to remove this and if I’m not doing this he will take me to the principal,” she said. “They made some list.”
She said some corruption still plagued Ukraine prior to the war, but that the country was continuing to move toward becoming more free and democratic, with respect for the rule of law. That’s all she, Serhii, and their friends the Hrebenkovs hope for their country.
“I hope war is finished in Ukraine and we can come back to our home,” Ivanna said. “The U.S. is so great a country, like my favorite book Great Gatsby, and people so kind and so careful and so friendly — it’s a country where the law is highest, law works.”
Nonetheless, she knows she wants to return to Ukraine.
“Who will rebuild Ukraine? It’s so awesome to live here, but I love my country so much and I know it will be some moment when you need to change something in your country. It will be a moment after our win, we will be the people who will be changing this, rebuild the system in our country and I want to be part of that.” | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/ukrainian-family-finds-welcome-in-jonesborough-after-fleeing-kherson-region-longs-to-rebuild-country-someday/ | 2022-08-25T00:18:21 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/ukrainian-family-finds-welcome-in-jonesborough-after-fleeing-kherson-region-longs-to-rebuild-country-someday/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County officials plan to test the capacity and effectiveness of the Regional Mass Notification System (RMNS) on Friday by sending out calls and emails to residents of 13 cities countywide.
The test will be sent out to residents who opted into the Emergency Alert system, as well as people who have landlines within the 911 system.
Officials say residents can expect a test alert call from an 833-422-5253 number.
Much like an Amber Alert system, the test will use the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) System to cause phones to vibrate and omit a distinct ringtone.
Testing the alert system is also a way for the county to raise awareness of its existence, as county officials hope to get as many residents to opt into it as possible.
Residents of participating counties can register at the following websites:
People can also download the Everbridge App on either Apple or Google Play stores to receive push-alert notifications through the app once registered.
For Verizon Wireless customers, they may notice a misspelling from the caller ID that says “Sacremento”—this does NOT mean the call is spam.
"The misspelling occurred when Verizon Wireless set up the tri-county account. Sacramento County Office of Emergency Services continues to work with Verizon to correct the issue," according to a news release from the county. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/sacramento-county-testing-regional-mass-notification-system/103-791647d4-bad5-42f6-96a0-b80d18212c9d | 2022-08-25T00:20:22 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/sacramento/sacramento-county-testing-regional-mass-notification-system/103-791647d4-bad5-42f6-96a0-b80d18212c9d |
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — West Sacramento reaffirmed its commitment to reproductive rights at an Aug. 17 council meeting.
The council unanimously voted to pass a resolution classifying the city as a safeguard for bodily autonomy and reproductive rights, meaning it supports the right to reproductive care access and education to fight disinformation.
The resolution was drafted after the Supreme Court's decision overturning the landmark ruling Roe v. Wade, as well as the presence of a mobile Crisis Pregnancy Center (CPC) operated by an anti-abortion support group in Yolo County. Planned Parenthood representative Candelaria Vargas says the organization operating the CPC is misguiding women from accessing reproductive care.
“What it means is to ensure that our residents know that West Sacramento is a safe place,” West Sacramento Mayor Martha Guerrero said. “So that they can access services if they need services for an abortion, or deciding what to do with a situation in making sure that they are making that choice on their own, and for women to have the opportunity to decide what they want to do with their body.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature reassured California residents safe and guaranteed access to abortion services is available to all shortly after the Dobbs decision.
“I think women have to be empowered and not go back to where we were before,” Guerrero said. “What happened in the Supreme Court is not going to infringe on their decisions that they have to make with their own body.”
West Sacramento's independent resolution does not affect the access all Californians have, but it does provide additional education and support in defense of women's right to choose.
“It's really a reassurance for community members that if anything comes to happen to infringe upon those rights, that their leaders are at the ready,” Planned Parenthood Mar Monte representative Candelaria Vargas said. “The governor has been great, the legislature has been great, but folks also like to hear in their cities – that their cities and their communities are also safe.”
The effort comes after claims a mobile care center has been offering free pregnancy services alongside unsolicited anti-abortion counseling.
These CPCs are not new or uncommon in California and about 90% are privately funded by anti-abortion organizations allegedly targeting vulnerable young women and groups most affected by health care access, including women of color, low-income and less educated women, according to a 2015 report by the San Francisco City Attorney's Office.
The report highlights a number of tactics and data CPCs use to disinform women seeking pregnancy care and abortion services like "incorrectly telling women that abortion leads to serious, immediate and long-term complications including mental disorders, breast cancer and future infertility."
“In the end, it [misinformation] ends up delaying the ability to seek health care, which is dangerous when you're trying to receive care in a timely fashion," Vargas said.
The city is using its resolution to inform residents of the reproductive care offered by the state and take steps to offer education combatting disinformation by CPCs.
“We're also going to be doing teachings as well,” Guerrero said. “Via Zoom or in person, just to make sure residents are aware of the resources that they can access here in California.”
According to Mayor Guerrero, the city worked closely with Planned Parenthood while drafting and approving the resolution, which was officially handed to Vargas Tuesday afternoon on behalf of the council.
“Having folks know that their community leaders are supportive of abortion access and reproductive health care access is very important,” Vargas said. “They're standing strong with their community and they're sharing that they're going to be supported no matter what and they're gonna get the health care they deserve no matter what.”
ABC10 reached out to the organization operating the mobile pregnancy center in Yolo County. They were unavailable to provide a statement at this time.
Watch more from ABC10: Health and Human Services secretary travels to California reassuring women of reproductive rights
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A dead body has reportedly been found near a popular hiking trail in Multnomah County.
According to a tweet from the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday afternoon, the body was discovered at the bottom of a cliff near Angel’s Rest Trail. Deputies were responding to the scene around 3 p.m.
The area where the body is located is reportedly hard to reach, so MCSO’s Search and Rescue Team has been called in to help with the recovery.
This news comes days after a woman fell to her death at the nearby Multnomah Falls.
At around 1:20 p.m. on Friday, firefighters hiked up the Multnomah Falls trail to the woman who had reportedly fallen about 100 feet. She was located near Wisendanger Falls, past the top of Multnomah Falls itself.
Bystanders reportedly attempted to perform CPR — but sadly, the woman was declared dead at the scene. She was identified as 62-year-old Jessica Warejoncas from Minnesota on Monday.
This is a developing story, more updates to come. | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/mcso-body-discovered-at-bottom-of-cliff-near-angels-rest-trail/ | 2022-08-25T00:21:21 | 1 | https://www.koin.com/local/multnomah-county/mcso-body-discovered-at-bottom-of-cliff-near-angels-rest-trail/ |
Originally published Aug. 24 on IdahoCapitalSun.com.
The last day to request an absentee ballot for the Boise School District’s Sept. 6 school board election is Friday, Aug. 26.
Altogether there are 13 candidates running for five different school board seats. Although there is a packed slate of candidates, the Boise School Board races could fly under the radar for many voters because the election takes place on a special election day separate from other city and local elections. The election is taking place Sept. 6 because the Boise School District’s charter established in 1881 predates statehood and stipulates Boise School Board elections are held on the first Tuesday in September in even numbered years.
The process for requesting an absentee ballot and voting are also slightly different compared to voting in local elections, primaries or the statewide general election.
Voters living within the district’s boundaries may vote in any and all Boise School Board races on the ballot. The candidates and races that will be decided Sept. 6 include:
- Race 1 (two six-year terms, vote for two candidates): Krista Hasler, Beth Oppenheimer, Dave Wagers and Greg Woodard.
- Race 2 (one four-year term, vote for one candidate): Andy Hawes, Neil Mercer and Matthew Shapiro.
- Race 3 (one two-year term, vote for one candidate): Nate Dean, Dawn King, Todd Kurowski and Elizabeth Langley.
- Race 4 (one two-year term, vote for one candidate): Shiva Rajbhandari and Steve Schmidt.
Each of the candidates’ applications and profiles is available to read on the Boise School District’s website. Reporters at Idaho Education News are also covering the election closely.
How to vote in the Sept. 6 Boise School Board election
To request an absentee ballot, voters residing within the Boise School District’s boundaries must specifically request an absentee ballot from the school district, which can be done with a form online, by Friday’s 5 p.m. deadline. The Boise School District is in charge of its own elections, so ballots cannot be requested from the state. Completed absentee ballots must be received by the Boise School District Services Center, 8169 W. Victory Road in Boise, by the time polls close at 8 p.m. Sept. 6.
There are also other options besides absentee voting. Early in-person voting started Monday at the Boise School District Services Center, and continues through Sept. 2.
Polls will also be open for in-person voting from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the day of the school board election, Sept. 6. There are special polling locations for the school board election, and the locations are different than the polling locations for city, state and legislative elections.
There are 40 different Boise schools and the Boise School District Services Center serving as polling locations. Schools serving as voting locations include Adams Elementary School, Garfield Elementary School, Lowell Elementary School, Roosevelt Elementary School, Whitney Elementary School, East Junior High School, Les Bois Junior High School, South Junior High School, Boise High School, Borah High School, Capital High School, Timberline High School and more. A complete list of polling locations is available on the Boise School District’s website.
To be eligible to vote in the school board election, voters must be at least 18 years of age, have lived within the Boise School District boundaries for at least 30 days preceding the election and be registered to vote.
Winners of the Sept. 6 school board election will be sworn in during the Sept. 12 school board meeting.
The Boise School District is the second-largest school district in Idaho based on enrollment behind the neighboring West Ada School District. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/deadline-to-request-absentee-ballot-in-boise-school-board-race-is-aug-26/article_0a75a29a-23ea-11ed-b9da-13ab6ebdec86.html | 2022-08-25T00:21:34 | 0 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/deadline-to-request-absentee-ballot-in-boise-school-board-race-is-aug-26/article_0a75a29a-23ea-11ed-b9da-13ab6ebdec86.html |
Adri Belnap, Brock Young and Ila Payne, fifth-grade students in Lori Anderson’s class at Inkom Elementary School, work on their entries for NSAA’s annual National Kids’ Safety Poster Contest.
BOISE — Results from a phone poll of 700 self-identified Idaho Republican voters indicate strong support for public education, contrary to the vociferous opinions of some Idaho legislators and far-right advocacy groups.
Members of the Idaho Education Association and public opinion research firm American Viewpoint conducted the poll between April 30 and May 4, 2022, according to a press release from the association. Those polled were identified as being likely to vote in the November 2022 election, and were asked a variety of questions about public education, the release said.
For example, 89% of respondents said they agree or somewhat agree with the statement, “Schools are a central part of my community,” and 86% at least somewhat agreed that “Every student in Idaho has a fundamental right to a free and equitable public education.”
“Despite decades of effort by enemies of public education on the political fringe to undermine support for and confidence in public schools and educators, these astonishing poll numbers show something quite different,” said Matt Compton, Idaho Education Association’s associate executive director, in the release.
“It’s clear the voter base of the Idaho Republican Party still believes in the importance of every student having access to a free, high-quality public school education and the essential role Idaho’s educators play in making that a reality.”
Other results from the poll included 85% of respondents agreeing that “Educational support staff, like custodians or teachers aides, should be paid a liveable wage that provides their families with a decent standard of living,” and 81% agreed “Public education is a symbol of democracy and a strong nation.” Just under 75% of respondents agreed that “The state of Idaho should bolster its investment in school facilities so local taxpayers are not burdened with higher property taxes.” | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/poll-indicates-support-for-public-education-from-idaho-republican-voters/article_fdb99fd2-23e6-11ed-b8cb-1b943ec15f42.html | 2022-08-25T00:21:40 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/poll-indicates-support-for-public-education-from-idaho-republican-voters/article_fdb99fd2-23e6-11ed-b8cb-1b943ec15f42.html |
SAN ANTONIO — Property tax records indicate 1231 Virginia Boulevard was built in 1910, when William Howard Taft was the president of the United States.
Until Monday evening, the stately 3,792 square foot home was a favorite in the Knob Hill Historic District, according to neighbors.
But now, the big white house that sheltered generations is nothing but a broken, blackened mess, flattened by a roaring fire that raced through the structure around 6:30 p.m.
Ruth Bushman lives next door.
She said several people were gathered on her front porch watching a lively lightning display as a storm rolled across east San Antonio.
Bushman said a few minutes after they went back inside, they smelled smoke, looked outside, and saw the house next door was aglow, burning fast.
Bushman said while she is sad for the loss, she is grateful the fire happened during daylight hours when everyone was paying attention.
"I'm really grateful that we were awake and home when it happened. It was so surreal to watch it go," Bushman said, adding "To witness the passing of something so big and beautiful, we were able to mourn its loss in real time."
Bushman said the long-time owners have been connected to the house for decades.
"Even in the short time that I've lived here, compared to how long this house has been here, there's always been a feeling of joy and love from it," Bushman said.
Bushman said her neighbors are a close-knit community and she was not surprised when she came outside to investigate the fire and found someone already trying to save her house from damage with a garden hose.
"There was a stranger watering my house before the fire department got here. Someone was just trying to do what they could," Bushman said, adding "Isn't that sweet? The neighborhood-ness of this area? It warms my heart like no other."
Still Bushman said the fire, which was being pushed by winds from the north, was threatening to take her house as well.
When she walked through her house, Bushman said she was startled to see fire damage inside her home.
"I could hear firefighter sounds and there was glass in the room and it was my glass. The windows had shattered," Bushman said, adding "It was so hot it melted our window blinds inside of our house!"
Bushman has high praise for the San Antonio Fire Department for keeping the heat from igniting her home.
She said because the house had a tin roof, firefighters had a difficult time getting water where it needed to be.
Bushman said a piece of heavy equipment was brought in to punch holes in the walls so that water could be streamed where it needed to go.
"These old houses are built so well, like the house didn't want to be torn down. There were parts that weren't burned and the house was like 'No! You giant piece of equipment! I'm going to stand here and reject you!' Oh! It broke my heart!" Bushman said.
A spokesman for the fire department said while the cause of the fire is still under investigation, it may be ruled as "undetermined" because of the extent of the damage.
Bushman said she and her neighbors are betting it was a lightning strike that did the damage.
An independent arson investigator was examining the site Wednesday. He said he would be consulting a weather database to see how many lightning strikes were recorded in the area.
There was a tenant in the house at the time of the fire. That person made it out of the home safely.
On property tax records, the listed owner is Grandpas Virginia Blvd Legacy Trust. On the phone, he said it is just too soon to talk about the emotional impact of the loss. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/112-year-old-home-fire-virginia-boulevard-san-antonio-texas-historic/273-69b16e49-1c04-4224-956a-4a2d642b6e9e | 2022-08-25T00:23:48 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/112-year-old-home-fire-virginia-boulevard-san-antonio-texas-historic/273-69b16e49-1c04-4224-956a-4a2d642b6e9e |
SAN ANTONIO — Now that children are back in school, back-to-school sports and outdoor activities have returned as well.
Every child is different. Not all are acclimated to the heat; children may have different health problems to begin with, and not all children have enough hydration.
"A child with ADHD on certain medications may have problems with any sort of heat intolerance. And then even obese children with a BMI greater than 85% may not tolerate the heat as well," said Dr. Mandie Tibball-Svatek who is a pediatrician with University Health and UT Health San Antonio. She says if your child has a specific health problem, to let their coach know so they can keep an eye on them. And talk your family doctor.
Dr. Tibball Svatek said, "That primary care physician can advise parents when it's a good time to play and when it's not."
Some tips to avoid a heat illness include:
- Limit outdoor activity in the middle of the day.
- Drink more water than usual and don't wait until you're thirsty.
- Monitor yourself and the teammates around you.
- Wear loose, lightweight, light-colored clothing.
- Apply sunscreen often and as indicated on the package.
The heat index is another story. Dr. Tibball-Svatek added, "If it's going to exceed 95 degrees, then you need to talk about, 'Do you have practice sooner earlier in the day or late in the evening?'"
Look for these signs of a heat illness: Heavy sweating and cold, clammy skin, nausea and vomiting, dizziness and a headache, tiredness and weakness, a rapid pulse with a body temperature of at least 103.
Dr. Svatek also told us, "If you have a heat index above that 105, you are leading that individual to heat exhaustion and potentially heat stroke, which can be very detrimental to a child's health."
The CDC offers excellent tips about avoiding heat illnesses in children. Pediatrics also offers additional information about heat exhaustion in children and adolescents.
If you would like to see more of our Wear The Gown stories, click here. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/outreach/wear-the-gown/preventing-heat-illness-in-kids-now-that-theyre-back-in-school-wear-the-gown/273-6c109b26-8fa3-4b07-870a-82e50b7edd68 | 2022-08-25T00:23:55 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/outreach/wear-the-gown/preventing-heat-illness-in-kids-now-that-theyre-back-in-school-wear-the-gown/273-6c109b26-8fa3-4b07-870a-82e50b7edd68 |
United Way of North Central Iowa has kicked off its campaign, marking the start of the fundraising season.
The 2022 fundraising campaign slogan is "United Way is All of Us" recognizing all individuals are creating change in North Iowa through volunteering, donating, and advocating according to the release. The campaign officially started on Aug. 18.
United Way of North Central Iowa is excited to have Joe Malone as the 2022 Campaign Chair. Malone is the host of The Joe Shoe on Star 106 and on Super Hits 102.7, Public Address Announcer for the North Iowa Bulls and Mason City Toros, and T-Ball and soccer coach with Mason City Parks and Recreation.
United Way funded twenty-one local programs for 2022 providing food, shelter, healthcare, victim services and educational initiatives including childcare assistance says the release. Strained agency budgets led to funding requests which exceeded available United Way funds. Each year, United Way receives double the requests for funding than they can provide which means each year our area’s needs grow.
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United Way’s annual campaign is a vital part of the organization’s work because every dollar given goes to support local programs in North Iowa. United Way believes a successful campaign isn’t defined by reaching a monetary goal but rather the ability to meet every funding request that creates positive, measurable outcomes in the community.
For more information about the 2022 Fundraising Campaign and how to give or get involved, please contact Angie Perez, Marketing and Campaign Director at 641-423-1774 or by email at angelina@unitedwaynci.org.
Abby covers education and entertainment for the Globe Gazette. Follow her on Twitter at @MkayAbby. Email her at Abby.Koch@GlobeGazette.com | https://globegazette.com/news/local/united-way-of-north-central-iowa-kicks-off-fundraising-campaign-for-2022/article_9ad14acd-639e-5c8e-99d4-7a73c8ffac0d.html | 2022-08-25T00:28:15 | 1 | https://globegazette.com/news/local/united-way-of-north-central-iowa-kicks-off-fundraising-campaign-for-2022/article_9ad14acd-639e-5c8e-99d4-7a73c8ffac0d.html |
For the first time in history, some student loan debt is being canceled free and clear by the federal government.
President Joe Biden made the announcement Wednesday saying through the Biden-Harris Administration's Student Debt Relief Plan up to $20,000 in outstanding student loan debt would be forgiven for those on Pell Grants and up to $10,000 for those who did not receive Pell Grants.
To qualify for loan forgiveness a person must only earn less than $125,000 per year or $250,000 in their household.
Biden is also extending the pause on payments one final time through the end of this year.
Those who owe money on student loans say they're relieved while some others are questioning the president's decision.
Laquinta Layton, of Lewisville, is one of 43 million Americans breathing a sigh of relief after learning of the president's plan.
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"I'm floored. I'm excited. I'm grateful. I believe it gives me the opportunity, and other people like me, an opportunity to really harness our lives," said Layton.
She said she repaid the loans she took out for her bachelor's degree but has struggled to repay federal loans used for her master's program at Dallas Baptist University.
Some say the amounts forgiven by the president's plan are not enough while others say forgiveness isn't fair.
"We have to ask ourselves, 'Can we afford it?' And if we can afford it are these the people we want to spend that money on?" said SMU economics professor Mike Davis who worries about the estimated $300 billion price tag amid 40-year high inflation.
"We already know that we have inflation because there have been unprecedented levels of government spending and now we want to spend even more. It's worrisome," Davis said, adding it could lead to even higher inflation.
Cadece Franks Sanders, a college graduate, said the relief plan is a great burden lifted. She said she could pay her loan back but that it would just take a long time.
"No one signs up for something with the thought 'I'm not going to pay this back.' But circumstances in your life dictate what you're able to do," Sanders said.
Though the benefit covers earners up to $125,000 per year Biden said Wednesday on Twitter that "almost 90% of the benefit will go to folks making less than $75,000 a year." | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/im-grateful-north-texas-graduate-relieved-by-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan/3056370/ | 2022-08-25T00:32:49 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/im-grateful-north-texas-graduate-relieved-by-bidens-student-debt-relief-plan/3056370/ |
Phoenix woman dies after being shot near 26th, Myrtle avenues; boyfriend arrested
A 36-year-old woman died after a shooting at an apartment complex in the area of 26th and Myrtle avenues Monday night.
Phoenix police responded to the scene about 7 p.m. for a welfare check, and when they arrived, they heard gunshots fired from inside an apartment.
Officers found a woman, Racal Monique Ramos, 36, suffering from gunshot wounds. Police said witnesses told them the suspect, whom police identified as Jermaine Lamar Houston, 36, ran away from the apartment.
Ramos was taken to a local hospital where she later died of her injuries, according to the Phoenix Police Department.
While at the scene, officers learned that Houston was believed to be the boyfriend of Ramos. After a search of the area, officers found Houston hiding in the backyard of a nearby residence and took him into custody, police said.
Houston was later booked into jail on multiple charges, including first-degree murder.
An investigation is ongoing to determine what led to the shooting, police said.
Reach breaking news reporter Haleigh Kochanski at hkochanski@arizonarepublic.com or on Twitter @HaleighKochans.
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First ever Capitol Jam music festival takes the stage at Salem amphitheater
The Gerry Frank Salem Rotary Amphitheater is capping off its first full summer in operation with the inaugural Salem Capitol Jam Community Music Festival.
The first-of-its-kind free musical festival starts at 11 a.m. Aug. 27 and runs until 10:30 p.m.
The line-up features a roster of local and regional bands.
Kathleen Swarm, who joined city staff this year as the amphitheater manager, said she hopes the festival will become an annual event celebrating the city's passion for art and music and bringing inspiration to the community.
“Our vision is to showcase our new amphitheater and Riverfront Park as a destination venue for music, fun and family entertainment,” she said.
After years of canceled events and delays due to the pandemic, she feels people are ready to get out and celebrate as a community.
"I think it's a long time coming," Swarm said.
The amphitheater, a joint project between the city and the Rotary Club of Salem, was dedicated July 24, 2021.
Located at the south end of downtown's Riverfront Park, the venue seats an estimated 3,000 to 3,500 people.
Swarm said it'll take years to lay the foundation to attract more and bigger acts to Salem, but events like Saturday's help plant the seeds for those "big shows" residents say they want to see. They hope to continue the jam annually.
"We would love to see it return year after year and grow," she said.
Co-headliners for the day are Portland’s own The Shivas and blues legend Lloyd Jones. Acts will be featured on the Rotary Amphitheater stage and the "Shred Shed" stage in the vendor plaza.
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The jam's schedule includes:
- 11-11:30 a.m. Rivercity Rock Star Academy presents Young Rockers.
- 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Rivercity Rock Star Academy presents Tuesday Rockers.
- 1-2 p.m. Jacquie Roar.
- 2:30-3:30 p.m. Erin Westfall.
- 3:45-4:30 p.m. Rivercity Rock Star Academy presents The Royals.
- 4:30-5 p.m. (at The Shred Shed) Grimiss.
- 5-6 p.m. Rich McCloud.
- 6-7 p.m. (at The Shred Shed) Rivercity Rock Star Academy presents Saturday Rockers.
- 7-8:30 p.m. Lloyd Jones.
- 8:30-9 p.m. (at The Shred Shed) Grimiss.
- 9-10:30 p.m. The Shivas.
The event will also feature food, activities and vendors. Vendor and sponsorship opportunities are still available.
More information about Capitol Jam can be found at cityofsalem.net/capitoljam.
Swarm said the day will showcase the beauty of downtown.
"It's pretty incredible to get to sit on that beautiful lawn in front of the river with the backdrop of the Minto-Brown conservation area and experience a show," she said. "It's a really nice thing that we have here in our city."
Reporter Whitney Woodworth covers city hall, economic development and business for the Statesman Journal. For questions, comments and news tips, email wmwoodworth@statesmanjournal.com, call 503-910-6616 or follow on Twitter @wmwoodworth | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/24/first-ever-capitol-jam-music-festival-takes-the-stage-at-salem-amphitheater-concert/65416474007/ | 2022-08-25T00:33:26 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/08/24/first-ever-capitol-jam-music-festival-takes-the-stage-at-salem-amphitheater-concert/65416474007/ |
State data released Wednesday shows that newly reported COVID-19 cases, hospital admissions and emergency room visits — as well as virus particles in wastewater — have all declined.
That's as local health officials are reporting an increasing number of monkeypox cases — 19 so far among Guilford County residents — while also preparing for the upcoming flu season.
Locally, there were 204 new reported COVID-19 infections for a total of 2,449 active cases on Wednesday and no new deaths. The single-day rate of tests coming back positive is 28.7%, according to the Guilford County Health Department.
Dr. Cynthia Snider of Cone Health urges residents to remain aware of risks and protect themselves and loved ones. In Cone Health hospitals on Wednesday, 72 patients were hospitalized with the coronavirus.
"As summer winds down, we are going to do more things indoors. That ushers in flu season, respiratory infections and may make it easier for COVID-19 to spread," Snider said.
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She suggests getting a COVID-19 booster if you are in a high-risk group or are around others who are. She also advises anyone at risk of monkeypox to consider getting vaccinated, and urges residents to get a flu shot as those become available in the community.
"It has been a bad flu season in Australia and what happens in their flu season often happens in ours," Snider said. "I know we have all heard it, but not getting too close to people, keeping our hands clean, wearing a mask when appropriate and getting vaccinated are easy steps we can take to stay healthy."
A spokeswoman for the Guilford County Health Department said state officials tend to track flu cases between October and May.
"We encourage the community to begin thinking about getting their yearly flu vaccine to make sure that they are prepared," Kenya Smith Godette of the health department said Wednesday.
She said residents can call the health department at 336-641-3245 to check on the availability of flu vaccines and schedule an appointment.
The health department has also been working with state health officials and surrounding counties to ensure there is enough monkeypox vaccine for those who need it and qualify for it.
North Carolina has reported a total of 265 monkeypox cases as of Wednesday, according to the latest data from state health officials.
Latest statewide COVID data
As for newly reported COVID-19 cases, North Carolina saw the number drop to 21,567 during the week ending Aug. 20 — down from 26,840 the previous week, according to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.
The percentage of all emergency room visits statewide for patients with coronavirus symptoms dropped from 6.6% to 5.8% during the week ending Aug. 20, according to the state report.
At least 1,259 COVID-19 patients were admitted to hospitals during the week ending Aug. 20. That’s down from 1,317 the previous week.
Another metric that health experts are watching closely is the number of COVID-19 virus particles found in wastewater, which has been shown to be an early indicator of how quickly the virus may spread without relying on individual test results.
In the state’s latest report, 20.4 million coronavirus particles were found in wastewater samples during the week ending Aug. 17 — down from 28.2 million the week prior.
By comparison, 100 million COVID-19 particles were found in wastewater samples in late January during the peak of the omicron surge. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/health-officials-tracking-increase-in-monkeypox-cases-but-see-statewide-covid-19-metrics-decline/article_8d800e72-23eb-11ed-b6fa-27caadd6bb59.html | 2022-08-25T00:36:36 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/health-officials-tracking-increase-in-monkeypox-cases-but-see-statewide-covid-19-metrics-decline/article_8d800e72-23eb-11ed-b6fa-27caadd6bb59.html |
The Wyoming Department of Education is offering a new coaching program to school districts that’s meant to “improve teacher morale and retention.”
The program uses “instructional coaching” to highlight teachers’ strengths with the idea to help them expand on their successes. It pays both teachers and coaches who participate.
Wyoming has a big teacher shortage problem. According to data from the Wyoming Department of Education, 12 school districts in Wyoming had a negative teacher count change in the 2019-2020 school year, meaning that they hired fewer teachers than the number who left the previous year. In the same year, 17 districts had a negative count change for full-time educators.
What’s more, a recent statewide survey by the Wyoming Education Association and the University of Wyoming found that 65% of teachers who responded would quit right now if they could, and 12% said they planned to quit at the end of the school year. Anxiety and depression, lack of professional support and too many student assessments correlated strongly with desire to quit, according to the report.
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On top of all that, there aren’t enough new college graduates in Wyoming to fill the number of teacher departures each year.
There are several efforts around the state to address the problem. The Wyoming Department of Education and the Wyoming Professional Teaching Standards Board are launching a pilot teacher apprenticeship program in three school districts this fall with hopes that it will improve the situation. The agencies plan to do a statewide rollout of the program, which is meant to reduce barriers for people who want to become teachers, in fall 2023.
The University of Wyoming is also working on a couple projects to support teachers; the Wyoming Teacher-Mentor Corps, which connects emerging teachers with mentors, launched in June. And the university got a grant in March to explore making a rural teacher corps in Wyoming.
The newest teacher retention program is funded by a federal grant led by the American Institutes for Research, a nonprofit research organization. It will pay teachers to attend a two-hour orientation this fall, after which the teachers will participate in several coaching sessions during the school year. The coaches will be school district staff or educators who have retired or temporarily left the classroom.
Those interested in the program can register for a Sept. 7 informational webinar at https://airtable.com/shrpr8wPdj3XqXxcW to learn more. The webinar will also be available as a recording. An online application at https://airtable.com/shrghdaebxzZzKQND to participate in the program is due by September 14. | https://trib.com/news/local/education/education-department-offering-program-meant-to-help-with-teacher-morale-and-retention/article_252d7a42-23f7-11ed-bbb5-73f25ff0d396.html | 2022-08-25T00:40:57 | 0 | https://trib.com/news/local/education/education-department-offering-program-meant-to-help-with-teacher-morale-and-retention/article_252d7a42-23f7-11ed-bbb5-73f25ff0d396.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — While no one in the country was lucky enough to score the $116 million Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night there were some victories to be had in the Lone Star State.
No, no one in the state won the secondary prize of $1 million but someone did buy a ticket that matched four of the five winning numbers along with the Mega Ball to score $20,000 after also choosing the Megaplier to take their initial winnings of $10K to new heights.
The winning numbers from the August 23 drawing were 3, 5, 47, 48 and 67 with the Mega Ball, 7. In total there were over 49,000 winners from this drawing in Texas that at least won $2 and as much as $20,000.
“Tickets must be claimed no later than 180 days after the draw date,” the lottery said.
The next drawing is set for August 26 with a jackpot of $135 million which has a cash value of $75.8 million. Good luck! | https://cw33.com/news/local/20000-winning-mega-millions-lottery-ticket-sold-in-texas/ | 2022-08-25T00:43:36 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/20000-winning-mega-millions-lottery-ticket-sold-in-texas/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — Football fans, listen up. This Dallas sports bar may be the spot where you host your Fantasy Football league’s draft.
Draft Sports Bar & Lounge in Downtown Dallas is now offering a Fantasy Football Package until the end of September, that will provide Fantasy Football players a place to host their draft parties.
The package includes:
- A reserved table
- A bucket of beer
- An appetizer platter for two guests
- Fantasy Football draft essentials, such as notepads, pens and Wi-Fi access.
The package costs $30 per person.
They understand that draft parties can get intense and you may need somewhere quiet to hot your part so they also have another option: a private Karaoke room. For $300 you can rent a Karaoke room at Draft Sports Bar & Lounge. The room also includes:
- Two appetizer platters
- Two buckets of beer
- Fantasy football essentials
To reserve your table or room, call 469-371-1486. | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-sports-bar-offering-fantasy-football-package/ | 2022-08-25T00:43:42 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-sports-bar-offering-fantasy-football-package/ |
When looking at the makeup of American families today, it’s rare to see a home where a pet isn’t part of the family. According to the most recent data from the APPA National Pet Owners Survey, 67% of households, or around 85 million homes, own a pet. Of these households, dogs and cats top the list of most popular pets, with 63.4 million and 42.7 million households owning dogs and cats, respectively.
In exploring the history of animal shelters and rescue organizations in the country, nothing proves as problematic as the lack of a centralized reporting system to collect data on these organizations. Most of the shelter statistics that are available and accepted today are estimates based on several period surveys, including the aforementioned APPA National Pet Owners Survey along with the AVMA U.S. Pet Ownership & Demographics Sourcebook. Without a nationally codified and streamlined process for collecting, organizing, and reporting on shelter data, there has been a grave lack of transparency around the country’s shelters. That makes it difficult not only to pinpoint accurate statistics regarding sheltered animals in America but also to understand the true state of animal welfare in the country, which is the first step to improving that welfare.
If you’ve been considering bringing home a furry companion, be sure to keep reading. Stacker compiled a list of dogs available for adoption in Dallas, Texas on Petfinder, ranging in age, breed composition, temperament, and needs. It’s important to note that pet adoption is a huge responsibility and requires available savings for emergency and routine veterinary care, a day-to-day routine and game plan for coverage if the pup needs to be left at home during the day (i.e. hiring a dog walker), and time and attention devoted to training your newest family member. Be sure to do due diligence on breed research to see what kind of dog will be the best fit for your lifestyle.
Without further ado, here are adoptable dogs in your home city.
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Babe
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
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Xamot
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Shepherd, Mixed Breed (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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Jax
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Terrier (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
4 / 16Petfinder
Tugs
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Boxer (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
5 / 16Petfinder
Darla
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: Boxer (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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6 / 16Petfinder
BLUE
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
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KANE
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
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ELENA/DOLLY
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Labrador Retriever, Mixed Breed (mixed)
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JUNEBUG
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier
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Luxx
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: Cattle Dog, Mixed Breed (mixed)
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A
– Gender: Male
– Age: Young
– Breed: Mixed Breed
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Scrappy
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Pit Bull Terrier, Mixed Breed (mixed)
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Tipper
– Gender: Female
– Age: Adult
– Breed: Mixed Breed
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14 / 16Petfinder
*Tigg
– Gender: Male
– Age: Baby
– Breed: American Staffordshire Terrier (mixed)
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15 / 16Petfinder
*Nala Hazel
– Gender: Female
– Age: Young
– Breed: German Shepherd Dog (mixed)
– Read more on Petfinder
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16 / 16Petfinder
*Rusty
– Gender: Male
– Age: Adult
– Breed: German Shepherd Dog (mixed)
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Southern Arizona’s weed warriors just got more ammunition for their fight against buffelgrass in the Tucson Mountains.
U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva and other officials gathered Wednesday at the base of “A” Mountain to highlight $100,000 in new funding to help get rid of the invasive grass on Tumamoc Hill.
“I consider it a down payment,” the Democrat from Tucson said. “This first installment — in what I hope to be a consistent installment of resources for the campaign — is deserved and its overdue.”
The money will be used to treat up to 60 acres of buffelgrass on the eastern flank of Tumamoc starting next month, said Kim Franklin, conservation science manager for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Digging is prohibited on the hill because of the large number of cultural sites there, so contract crews will fan out to spray the weeds with the popular herbicide glyphosate.
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The matching grant was actually announced last year, but the funding just arrived, Franklin said.
The federal government supplied half the money. The rest came from a diverse coalition of 22 stakeholders in what is known as the Sonoran Desert Cooperative Weed Management Area.
The Desert Museum leads the partnership, which includes local, state and federal agencies, the Tohono O’odham Nation, the University of Arizona, the Freeport-McMoRan mining company and a host of conservation nonprofits, neighborhood associations and volunteer weed pulling groups.
Buffelgrass is native to Africa and Asia, where it populates grasslands that burn frequently as part of the natural ecological cycle.
The hardy, fast-growing perennial was planted widely in Arizona starting in the 1930s to curb erosion, provide forage for livestock and decorate some urban landscapes.
It has since exploded out of control, spreading even in dry years to crowd out native grasses and fuel once-rare wildfires that ravage saguaros, palo verdes and other desert plants not adapted to such things.
“It’s trying to convert the landscape. That’s what species do,” said Perry Grissom, restoration ecologist at Saguaro National Park.
By some estimates, buffelgrass now covers as much as 5,000 acres in the Tucson area alone. About 2,000 acres of that can be found in Saguaro National Park, where aerial spraying and volunteer weed-pullers have at least kept the problem from getting worse.
Franklin said she is no big fan of herbicide, but when applied correctly it’s a crucial tool. Without it, she said, “we’d have Buffelgrass National Park instead of Saguaro National Park.”
Wednesday’s news conference drew about 30 people, including several volunteers who had just returned from pulling weeds in the desert. The event was held in the lower parking lot at Sentinel Peak Park, next to a hillside dotted with bright green clumps of buffelgrass.
“It’s kind of ironic to see all that green and not get to appreciate it,” said Debra Colodner, director of conservation education and science for the Desert Museum.
The slopes of Tumamoc Hill are covered with about 200 acres of the stuff. Colodner said it will take about 10 years of “intensive treatment” to bring the weeds under control there.
The plant will probably never be eliminated completely, but it could be reduced from a serious threat to an annual maintenance issue, she said.
The fight against invasive weeds has been a real grassroots effort so far, Grijalva said. “The consistent force behind the eradication efforts (has) been volunteers and the organizations that have sponsored them.”
Now it’s time for the federal government to step up and do its part, he said.
With just $4 million, roughly one-tenth of what the U.S. Forest Service spent to contain the Bighorn Fire in the Catalinas in 2020, nearly every acre of buffelgrass in the Tucson area could be treated and the desert restored, Grijalva said.
So far, though, the 10-term congressman has had to work hard to convince even friendly administrations to make the war on weeds a priority.
“It’s hard sometimes to convince people that grass is a threat — a threat (of) fire, a threat to biodiversity, a threat to species and a threat to the landscape that we all love and are familiar with and cherish,” Grijalva said. “It is a threat, and we need to approach it as a threat.” | https://tucson.com/news/local/weed-wackers-on-tumamoc-hill-get-fresh-batch-of-buffel-cash/article_fb4d84d0-22fa-11ed-a42b-c75f4ccc2385.html | 2022-08-25T00:50:48 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/weed-wackers-on-tumamoc-hill-get-fresh-batch-of-buffel-cash/article_fb4d84d0-22fa-11ed-a42b-c75f4ccc2385.html |
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — August is winding to an end, which means the 14th annual Dempsey Challenge is right around the corner — exactly a month away. Every year, this event raises money through biking, running, and walking to help The Dempsey Center continue to provide its services to people affected by cancer, free of charge.
This year, those services seem to be in higher demand than usual. Cara Valentino, the CEO and president of The Dempsey Center as of November 2021, says they have seen a "huge rise" in the number of people visiting the center. In 2021, they had about 1,500 clients total. As of July 31 this year, that number was already up to 1,400 clients. Valentino says she expects they will double 2021's numbers by the end of 2022.
"My goal and the goal of The Dempsey Center, and the goal of our founder Patrick, is that we can touch the lives of everyone in Maine who has been impacted by cancer," Valentino said, noting the center serves not only cancer patients — but also their care partners, family members, and friends.
"Illness is a shared experience," Valentino said. "You can’t watch someone you love suffer with an illness without also being deeply affected."
Valentino says to help expand the center's reach, she and her team have created a greater presence online through Dempsey Connects, connected with like-minded nonprofits, and conducted a "listening tour" in all of Maine's 16 counties to learn more about needs. She says right now, services range from counseling and nutrition consultations to movement classes and workshops to massages and wig styling.
"My vision is to meet people where they are in terms of their cancer impact," Valentino said.
For former client Ruth Hennig, that time came in 2019 when she was looking for a support group after her cancer treatment had ended.
"It’s over! Your treatment’s over. So, now what do you do?" Hennig said. "It’s like all of a sudden, you’re on that tight rope — but there’s no net underneath you."
Hennig had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 for the second time. She says finding The Dempsey Center a year later post-treatment allowed her to get back to her normal life once again. Then, she wanted to return the favor by volunteering.
"I just instinctively felt like I need to give back somehow. I need to pay forward and help other new clients at The Dempsey Center move through their journey," Hennig said.
In 2021, The Dempsey Center raised $1.5 million through its Dempsey Challenge. This year, organizers are shooting even higher — to $1.6 million.
"With these donations, we’re able to provide all of our services at no cost," Katelynn Davis, the marketing and communications manager at the center, said. "When we say no cost, we mean no cost. We don’t look at insurance. We don’t do any sort of financial survey. Everything is no cost no matter who you are."
You can learn more about The Dempsey Center and Challenge here. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/as-seen-on-tv/dempsey-center-lewiston-south-portland-supports-cancer-patients-and-loved-ones-at-no-cost-through-dempsey-challenge-fundraiser/97-e482a501-b14d-47d2-aa9f-dbd9fb1243b2 | 2022-08-25T00:53:57 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/as-seen-on-tv/dempsey-center-lewiston-south-portland-supports-cancer-patients-and-loved-ones-at-no-cost-through-dempsey-challenge-fundraiser/97-e482a501-b14d-47d2-aa9f-dbd9fb1243b2 |
WASHINGTON, D.C., DC — Former Interior secretary Ryan Zinke lied to investigators about conversations he had with lobbyists, lawmakers and other officials regarding a bid by two Indian tribes to operate a casino in Connecticut, the department’s internal watchdog said Wednesday.
Zinke, now the Republican nominee for a new House seat in western Montana, made statements to investigators "with the overall intent to mislead them,'' a report by Inspector General Mark Greenblatt said.
Both Zinke and his former chief of staff, Scott Hommel, “ presented an inaccurate version of the circumstances in which (Interior) made key decisions” on the casino project, the report said. “As a result, we concluded that Secretary Zinke and (Hommel) did not comply with their duty of candor when questioned.”
Zinke's campaign could not immediately be reached for comment. But a letter from Zinke’s attorney, included in the report, said the finding that Zinke lacked candor was "wrong and without merit.''
In comments to investigators, Zinke called the report's timing — less than three months before the November election — “disturbing and improper.'' He asked that the report's release be delayed until after the election. Greenblatt, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump, denied Zinke's request, saying a delay “could be perceived as a political purpose and would be inconsistent with our typical processes.''
In an Aug. 3 letter from the law firm Schertler, Onorato, Mead & Sears, Zinke's attorney called the IG's report “distorted and misleading” and said it "fails to clarify that Secretary Zinke did not adopt the position of any lobbyist for or against the (casino) project.'' The lawyer's name is redacted in the IG report.
Zinke was accused of acting improperly on a request by the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan tribes in Connecticut to open a casino on non-tribal land in East Windsor, Connecticut. The request required federal approval. The proposed site was close to a casino planned by Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts in nearby Springfield, Massachusetts. The MGM casino opened in 2018.
Zinke did not approve or reject the tribes' request, instead sending it back to the tribes in September 2017.
The lack of action led to a federal ethics investigation, one of several against Zinke, who served as Interior secretary from March 2017 to January 2019. The state of Connecticut and the tribes also filed a lawsuit in 2017, alleging that improper and undue political influence, including from MGM, was behind the decision not to sign off on the agreements.
Among those Zinke talked to during his deliberations was then-Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nevada, who told investigators he asked Zinke not to approve the tribes' request. Heller said he believed Zinke lacked authority over the project because gaming would not occur on tribal lands. He also said representatives of MGM explained to him how approval of the request would allow the tribes to open a casino only 13 miles away from — and in direct competition with — the Springfield site.
Both Zinke and MGM have denied any wrongdoing. In a 2019 interview with The Associated Press, Zinke also denied reports that he may have lied to Interior's inspector general, saying he was asked twice about the casino decision and was truthful both times.
The inspector general’s office ultimately shifted its focus from the casino decision to whether Zinke and Hommel, his chief of staff, were truthful in their statements.
Zinke’s Democratic opponent, Monica Tranel, tweeted that “one of the most common refrains I hear is that voters want someone in Congress they can trust. Based on his actions, it’s clear we can’t trust Ryan Zinke.''
The Connecticut tribes ultimately decided to set aside plans for the jointly owned casino, citing the need to focus on their two existing casinos that have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
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A 36-year-old Lincoln man was charged with two felony sex crimes Tuesday after he allegedly sexually abused a girl for four years, starting when she was 13 years old, police said in court records.
Andrew Sell was charged Monday with first-degree sexual assault of a child, forcible first-degree sexual assault and felony child abuse, according to court filings.
Police began investigating Sell in May after the mother of a teenage girl called the Department of Health and Human Services child abuse hotline and said her daughter had disclosed she was "possibly pregnant" from a sexual relationship with Sell, Lincoln Police Investigator Robert Norton said in the affidavit for Sell's arrest.
The teen later alleged to investigators that Sell first sexually assaulted her four years before and he had assaulted her as recently as April in his camper parked northwest of Lincoln, Norton said.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Police are investigating a shooting that involved a police officer on the east side of Indianapolis Wednesday night.
An IMPD spokesperson said the incident happened in the 2900 block of Carnaby Street, which is near 30th Street and Post Road, just before 8 p.m.
The spokesperson didn't share many details but said there is no indication anyone was struck by the gunfire.
Police at the scene told 13News they are searching for a suspect and asked the public to avoid the Cheswick Village and Briergate apartments.
This is a developing story and it will be updated as new details become available. | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-police-investigate-east-side-officer-involved-shooting/531-428f9269-2957-4b56-aa85-ffc5ffdafe70 | 2022-08-25T01:03:33 | 0 | https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/indianapolis-police-investigate-east-side-officer-involved-shooting/531-428f9269-2957-4b56-aa85-ffc5ffdafe70 |
UVALDE, Texas — Pete Arredondo has been fired as Uvalde CISD's chief of police. The decision is effective immediately.
The vote by district school board members was unanimous Wednesday evening, in a meeting where the embattled Arredondo – who led the botched law enforcement response at Robb Elementary exactly three months ago – was a no-show.
Instead, his attorney submitted a 17-page statement calling for him to be reinstated with back pay. Arredondo had been on unpaid leave since July 22.
"Any allegation of lack of leadership is wholly misplaced," the statement asserts, arguing that Arredondo's actions at the school on May 24 potentially saved lives or further injury.
It also alleges Arredondo was put on unpaid leave “without any advanced notice” in July, and that the district “imposed last-minute procedural hurdles" ahead of Wednesday's hearing, violating his First Amendment rights.
“The district has successfully gagged Chief Arredondo to the point that he cannot participate,” the statement concludes.
The district had faced pressure to fire the police chief after Texas DPS revealed he was the incident commander on May 24. Wednesday's vote was preceded by a lengthy closed-doors session involving the school board, and was followed by those in attendance silently leaving while holding up signs. One had photos of the victims, and another read: "Amerie Forever."
The meeting had been postponed twice. The school district sent out a notice last week stating that they would discuss his termination Wednesday.
The meeting has been postponed in the past because the district can’t end Arredondo’s contract without giving their reasons why. Superintendent Hal Harrell recommended Arredondo's termination in July.
Many community members and victim’s families had called for the same. During Wednesday's public-comments section, Brett Cross, whose 10-year-old nephew Uziyah Garcia died at Robb Elementary, said the least the district could do is conduct its meetings in an open forum.
"For him to not be here and face the consequences of his own actions? Exactly,” the speaker said referring to Arredondo.
Another speaker added, "You are not going to sweep this under the rug.”
Amerie Jo Garza's father said that he wished his daughter was there so she could speak for herself, while also thanking the community for their support.
“Thank you everyone for being here for us. It means a lot,” he said. “We don’t know what to do. We want to fight for our children.”
The full statement from Arredondo's legal representation can be read below.
Arredondo has testified to the Texas House Committee that he believed the shooter was a barricaded subject instead of an active shooter.
It took law enforcement more than an hour to confront the shooter.
And while Arredondo was listed in the district’s active shooter plan as the incident commander, the House Committee report showed law enforcement lacked clear leadership and communication.
The report criticizing Arredondo for wasting time trying to find a key to the classroom the shooter was in. He also didn’t take his radio with him.
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BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge has issued a partial pause on Idaho's abortion law when it conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, as of Wednesday. Doctors will not face criminal charges for performing an emergency abortion when it conflicts with EMTALA, for now.
The rest of Idaho's abortion laws will take effect Thursday.
In a 39-page judgement, U.S District Judge B. Lynn Winmill said that the law lacks clarity for providers to be able to preform an emergency abortion.
"The clear and intended effect of Idaho’s criminal abortion law is to curb abortion as a form of medical care. This extends to emergency situations, obstructing EMTALA’s purpose. Idaho’s choice to impose severe and sweeping sanctions that decrease the overall availability of emergency abortion care flies in the face of Congress’s deliberate decision to do the opposite," the judgement said.
The DOJ sued the state of Idaho on Aug. 2, claiming the near-total abortion ban violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in emergency medical situations.
EMTALA requires doctors to stabilize patients in emergencies, which can include various medical procedures. Abortion can be used to resolve hemorrhaging, sepsis or ectopic pregnancies, a life threatening condition where the embryo develops outside the uterus and can rupture the fallopian tube.
Certain emergencies with pregnant people may require an abortion to fix it, the DOJ argues, which falls under the EMTALA umbrella.
These factors in EMTALA do not just include risk of death, but also include factors that place a person's health in serious jeopardy, risk serious impairment to bodily functions, or serious dysfunctions of any bodily organ or part. There is no health risk exception to Idaho Code 18-622.
In a preliminary injunction hearing on Monday, the Idaho Attorney General's Office admitted in court that ectopic pregnancies are considered a real pregnancy and could not be resolved through abortion until the pregnant person is near death or dying.
Idaho's argument to Winmill on Monday is that the law falls under EMTALA because it includes a section that allows doctors to use their "good faith" judgment to make a call on whether to perform an abortion or not, even though they risk being criminally charged and thrown in jail.
The judge asked many hypothetical questions about how close to death someone must be to have an abortion to save their life -- 50%, 5% -- but state attorney Brian Church continually just said he would refer his clients and doctors to the law -- a law that was seemingly unclear to the judge to begin with.
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bat found dead in an Olympia bedroom has tested positive for rabies, the first rabies case in Thurston County this year.
It is the fourth in the state so far in 2022.
Homeowners Suzanne Featherstone and her husband David Hruska received their first round of rabies shots Wednesday morning because they had been sleeping in the room where the bat was found last Friday morning.
Rabies is usually deadly, according to Thurston County Public Health.
“They told us if you have symptoms, it’s too late,” said Featherstone.
She said she thinks the bat got inside through a window left open overnight.
Featherstone said her cat, Meowly, likely killed the bat.
She thinks she and her husband will be ok since they never came in physical contact with the bat thanks to their cat’s actions.
“Who knows what would have happened,” said Featherstone, “Good for the cat, she’s the hero.”
Meowly is up to date on her rabies shots, said Featherstone.
Sammy Berg, Senior Environmental Health Specialist for Thurston County, said health officials should be contacted whenever a dead bat is found inside a home, or if a person or pet comes in contact with a bat.
Berg said the county typically gets a case or two of rabies every year, adding that about six percent of all bats that are reported to the county test positive for rabies.
It is not possible to tell if a bat has rabies just from its appearance. Whether a bat is alive or dead, handling an infected bat can potentially transfer rabies.
According to Thurston County Public Health, to prevent exposure to rabies:
Don’t handle bats, alive or dead, or allow anyone in your family to handle one.
Don’t allow your pet to touch or play with a bat and keep your pets vaccinated against rabies, as per Washington law. If you find a bat in a bedroom or with an unattended child, try to safely capture the bat and have it tested.
- To learn more about how to capture a bat indoors from the CDC visit: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/bats/contact/capture.html
- To read the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, Living with Wildlife: Bats visit: https://wdfw.wa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/00605/wdfw00605.pdf
- To learn more about vaccinating your pets, visit the Department of Health at: https://www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/IllnessandDisease/Rabies/PetVaccinationRequirement | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bat-found-olympia-bedroom-positive-rabies/281-da34c9eb-19ce-44d2-aa22-a33f2ca43af3 | 2022-08-25T01:05:17 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/bat-found-olympia-bedroom-positive-rabies/281-da34c9eb-19ce-44d2-aa22-a33f2ca43af3 |
ATHENS, Pa. — An investigation is underway in Bradford County after alleged hazing within a high school football team.
According to the Athens Area School District, state police are investigating after reported bullying, hazing, and other improper behavior within the high school varsity and junior varsity team.
Officials believe the hazing took place at school facilities during pre-season practices as well as at a football camp earlier this summer at Bloomsburg University.
Superintendent Craig Stage wrote, "We will not tolerate behavior or actions that cause physical or emotional harm to teammates at any time. All student-athletes deserve the opportunity to participate in our athletic programs without fear of bullying and hazing."
Want to see what was in news in 1983? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/bradford-county/hazing-investigation-underway-in-bradford-county-athens-area-school-district-wnep/523-1d52ad4a-3e24-49c6-a681-31f4fc2d332f | 2022-08-25T01:18:25 | 1 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/bradford-county/hazing-investigation-underway-in-bradford-county-athens-area-school-district-wnep/523-1d52ad4a-3e24-49c6-a681-31f4fc2d332f |
SCRANTON, Pa. — Outside of the Scranton Police Headquarters, city officials and members of the Scranton Counseling Center announced a new Crisis Co-Responder Team Program.
It pairs counselors who have a background in mental health and Scranton Police officers in the field, helping residents who are in crisis.
"I think it's a really, really big deal that we're able to partner so quickly with Scranton Counseling Center, and we're so fortunate to have Scranton Counseling Center right here in the city," said Paige Cognetti, Mayor of Scranton.
"A lot of times, when we hit the end of our abilities, we have to refer someone to a higher level of care and treatment. A subject matter expert may be at the hospital. This is allowing us to bring that subject matter expert to the site," added Chief Thomas Carroll, Scranton Police Department.
"They're really sensitive and how they respond to the individual, how they work with them to just assess what kind of brought on the crisis, and ultimately helping to kind of bring the person down to where they feel like they're at a comfortable state of functioning where they could talk through kind of the resources that they need," said Sarah Wodder, Scranton Counseling Center.
The program went into effect on August 9, and it is already producing positive results by working together.
"Of the last eight mental health calls, five of them we've been assisted by Scranton Counseling Center and they've been influential in taking the crisis moment in the right direction, and able to free up law enforcement so that we can focus on public safety," Chief Carroll said.
The city also has nearly $1 million in federal grant money to distribute for wellness programs.
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HANOVER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Investigators are working to determine what led to a fire in Luzerne County.
Fire crews responded to the home along Chestnut Street in Hanover Township around noon.
Officials say everyone inside at the time made it out OK.
A neighbor named Henry says he was working from home when he saw flames shooting out of the front of the home.
"By the time I came out, it was already engulfed in flames. The flames were shooting out of the top and the side. Within moments fire engines were here," Henry said.
Fire crews from Nanticoke and Plymouth were also called in to help knock down the flames.
Want to see what was in news in 1983? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/fire-damages-home-in-luzerne-county-chestnut-street-hanover-township-wnep/523-8395350e-7bd6-47c1-bbed-bd4244224b1e | 2022-08-25T01:18:38 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/luzerne-county/fire-damages-home-in-luzerne-county-chestnut-street-hanover-township-wnep/523-8395350e-7bd6-47c1-bbed-bd4244224b1e |
While millions of Americans will likely soon have fewer student loans to pay off because of a new federal relief plan, some experts are worried about what type of impact this could have on the economy.
President Joe Biden provided some details Wednesday revolving around his plan to cancel student debt for millions of Americans.
Borrowers who earn less than $125,000 a year, or families earning less than $250,000, would be eligible for the $10,000 loan forgiveness, Biden announced. For those who also receive Pell Grants, which are reserved for undergraduates with the most significant financial need, the federal government would cancel up to an additional $10,000 in federal loan debt.
"An entire generation is now saddled with unsustainable debt in exchange for an attempt at a college degree,” Biden said.
These student loans will still have to be paid for in some capacity, according to SMU’s Mike Davis. He is an economist for the university’s Cox School of Business.
"There is no such thing as a free lunch,” Davis said. “If you forgive this amount of debt, it's just like the government is spending that money."
According to a new CNBC poll, 59% of Americans are worried debt forgiveness could make inflation worse.
"We have to be alert to the inflationary problem that this might cause,” Davis said.
The Biden administration said this relief is focused on helping low- and middle-income families since those in the top 5% of income can't benefit.
"Both of these targeted actions are for families who need it the most,” Biden said.
However, based on a 2022 study from Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, the top 40% of households, ranked by income, owe 68% of our student debt. The bottom 20% owe only 2%.
Similarly, a July 2022 study from Education Data Initiative said that Americans with income higher than the national average owe an estimated 65% of the nation’s outstanding student loan debt. Households in the lowest income quartile owe an estimated 12% of all student loan debt, according to the study.
Andrew Lautz is the director of federal policy for the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. He said he worries that a broad relief fund such as the one the Biden Administration is planning to put in motion won’t target the people who need the support the most.
"I do worry that this policy, however well-intentioned, ultimately does help out a lot of people who probably don't need the federal government's assistance,” Lautz said. "We are borrowing future generations' wealth to fund this policy right now."
He recently put together an article looking at the potential cost of student debt cancellation on taxpayers. said that based on a Penn Wharton Budget Model, the cost of this student debt relief could be $329.1 billion over 10 years.
With that in mind, the average cost for the taxpayer would theoretically be about $2,085.59 per person. When taking into account shares of taxes for low- and middle-income households, Lautz’s estimates show:
- The average cost of student debt cancelation per taxpayer making between $1 and $50,000 is $158.27
- The average cost per taxpayer making between $50,000 and $75,000 is $866.87
- The average cost per taxpayer making between $75,000 and $100,000 is $1,477.78
- The average cost per taxpayer making between $100,000 and $200,000 is $3,158.35
- The average cost per taxpayer making between $200,000 and $500,000 is $9,947.92
Lautz said it’s also important to note many people right out of college with debt are in income brackets they will move out of through internal growth through their career or with workplace experience.
Even with debt, college graduates from 25-34 have an unemployment rate of 2.8%, according to statistics from the online database Federal Reserve Economic Data. Those in the same age range who didn’t go to college, they have a 4.6% unemployment rate.
Lautz said the main three ways the federal government will cover these students loans are:
- Decrease government spending
- Increase taxes
- Increase borrowing and debt
"There are no doubt some low-income folks and some folks who are struggling who benefit from this policy, and it's OK to acknowledge that," Lautz said. "But I also think there are a lot of people, probably in the long run, who do not urgently need the federal government's assistance.
Both Davis and Lautz said increasing the budget deficit at the federal level has the potential to have lasting negative effects on the economy.
"At this point, there's no use even arguing about that," Davis said. "We know that all the money the government spent since the pandemic, has directly contributed to the inflation we're seeing now."
"Our country is tens of trillions of dollars in debt right now," Lautz said. "We need to be focusing on reducing debt and deficits rather than increasing them." | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/economics-experts-worry-impact-student-loan-forgiveness-on-country/287-81a8315a-ecfb-4bdc-83e7-956d1f9eb97a | 2022-08-25T01:21:01 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/economics-experts-worry-impact-student-loan-forgiveness-on-country/287-81a8315a-ecfb-4bdc-83e7-956d1f9eb97a |
FORT WORTH, Texas — Monday's flash floods sent water running throughout the building at The Collective Outdoors. Employees called the company's president to give him the bad news around 6:30 a.m. Monday.
The Collective Outdoors President Dustin Hillman said, "The building is over 100 years old. So, we're used to little leaks here and there. But the four inches of rain through this area is unpredictable."
Collective Outdoors specializes in Luxury Patio Furniture. They needed help right away, so Hillman reached out to his old high school buddy Dustin Urbanovsky at MVP Restoration. Hillman learned the sooner the better when it comes to treating water damage.
"What I learned this week was the mold issue, and we talked a little bit about when that mold creeps up over here in like 48 to 72 hours. It can go up like six feet high in our drywall. I had no idea. I had no idea," said Hillman.
MVP Restoration arrived and set up blowers which also serve as air-movers. The back warehouse also needed drying out along with several offices hit hard by water. In just hours, moisture from the air nearly filled a 13-gallon trash can with water. MVP also checked moisture levels to monitor their progress.
"I live by this meter and I've used it for many of years," said Dustin Urbanovsky.
Other North Texas restoration companies are just as busy, like Dalworth Restoration in Euless, Texas. The owner shared several photos with WFAA showing damages to businesses and home after Monday's flash floods. Damage to homes throughout the metroplex is just as bad.
Dustin Urbanovsky said, "Over the last three or four days, we probably helped out 10 to 15 different homeowners and we're still getting calls today."
Dustin warns that if you have water damage, get it checked out now because it could be worse later. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/flash-flood-recovered-underway-widespread-water-damage/287-9fe4dae6-497a-465c-896d-5bedc033b1be | 2022-08-25T01:21:07 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/flash-flood-recovered-underway-widespread-water-damage/287-9fe4dae6-497a-465c-896d-5bedc033b1be |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — Dog bites have left two people in south Wichita with serious injuries.
According to the Wichita Police Department (WPD), a 54-year-old woman was watching a 10-year-old girl Wednesday, Aug. 24, in the 1800 block of E. 52nd St S.
The woman had two German Shepherds with her. According to the WPD, the dogs knew the girl.
Wichita police say the dogs attacked the two shortly before 5 p.m. They had no incidents in the past, and police say they do not know what provoked them to attack.
The 10-year-old is in surgery due to bites to her head and face. Police say she is expected to make a full recovery.
The 54-year-old woman was bitten on the head and has lost part of one of her thumbs as a result.
KSN will provide more information as it becomes available. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/dog-bites-leave-two-people-in-s-wichita-with-critical-injuries/ | 2022-08-25T01:23:14 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/dog-bites-leave-two-people-in-s-wichita-with-critical-injuries/ |
SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sedgwick County Election Commissioner said some of her employees are working up to 200 hours a pay period. She wants more employees.
The Sedgwick County 2023 budget has been finalized without this request from Election Commissioner Angela Caudillo being approved, but she said they are open to a future compromise.
“I have staff that couldn’t take two hours to go to a father’s 80th birthday party on a Sunday. So just know when you look at these numbers these are human beings. These are real people, and we need additional staff,” said Caudillo.
An emotional plea from Caudillo called for more help, and extra funding as the 2023 budget was approved.
“The needs of the daily work the increased voter registration, all of the daily tasks that we have. We’re working very, very hard to get those accomplished, and it takes all of our time to do that and not be able to address the bigger picture things that we need to address,” said Caudillo.
Bigger picture things Caudillo said like more training adding poll sites and more public outreach. The chairman of the Sedgwick County Commission David Dennis said they don’t have enough details to agree to her request.
“She needs to show us how she needs the full time people or could she – well first of all she hasn’t even filled all of her positions she has got now,” said Dennis.
Dennis said he would be open to adding more part-time roles.
“Could we hire someone and they work in another department expect when it comes to the ‘boom time’ and then they move over and work in the elections office,” said Dennis.
Caudillo said they have been too busy working to fill the one current full-time position and other part-time rolls that are available. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/sedgwick-county-election-commissioner-asks-county-board-for-more-staff/ | 2022-08-25T01:23:15 | 0 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/sedgwick-county-election-commissioner-asks-county-board-for-more-staff/ |
WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Wichita Fire Department battled a fire on the east side of town Wednesday evening.
The fire broke out shortly before 6:30 p.m. in the 1400 block of S. Hickory Stick Cir., northeast of S. 143rd St. E. and E. Harry St.
According to a tweet from the Wichita Fire Department, flames were visible from the two-story home upon arrival at the scene.
The cause of the fire has not yet been released.
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Stuffed Acorn Squash
- 3 small acorn squash
- 3 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- Kosher salt
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 1 cup wild rice
- 2 cup plus 2 tablespoons apple cider, divided
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 1/2 pound sweet Italian sausage
- 1/2 yellow onion, chopped
- 2 stalks celery, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
- 1 bunch kale, stems removed and chopped
Preheat oven to 400 F. Cut each end off squash and halve.
Use a spoon to remove seeds and brush all over with 2 tablespoons olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and roast until tender, 30-35 minutes.
Meanwhile, make rice: In a medium saucepan, combine rice with 2 cups cider, 1 cup water and thyme sprigs. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally, until liquid is evaporated and rice is tender, 25 to 30 minutes. If your liquid is evaporated and rice is not yet tender, add more water a ¼ cup at a time. Remove thyme sprigs.
Meanwhile, make filling: in a large skillet over medium heat, heat remaining oil. Add sausage and cook, breaking up with a wooden spoon and stirring occasionally until golden and cooked through, 5 minutes. Remove sausage with a slotted spoon onto a paper-towel lined plate.
Drain most fat from the skillet, reserving about 1 tablespoon for cooking. Add onion and celery and cook until soft, 6 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Add garlic and chopped thyme and cook until fragrant, 1 minute more.
Add kale and cook, stirring frequently. Add remaining 2 tablespoons cider after 4 minutes of cooking, then cook 4 minutes more, or until kale is tender.
Add cooked rice and sausage to the skillet with vegetables and stir to combine. Taste and adjust seasoning as needed. Divide mixture among the 6 squash halves. Switch oven to broil and broil until tops are golden and filling is warmed, 2 to 3 minutes. | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/catholic-order-of-foresters-to-host-breakfast-at-gilbertvilles-st-mary-center/article_8ce2743f-cfe9-5ce2-8582-6e941c3c4644.html | 2022-08-25T01:23:22 | 1 | https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/catholic-order-of-foresters-to-host-breakfast-at-gilbertvilles-st-mary-center/article_8ce2743f-cfe9-5ce2-8582-6e941c3c4644.html |
HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) – The Biden Administration is being met with both praise and pushback after announcing a student loan forgiveness plan.
This plan could eliminate up to $10,000 for borrowers who didn’t receive the Pell Grant and up to $20,000 for those who did.
Other criteria includes whether the borrower is single and making less than $125,000 or married and making less than $250,000.
Most of the college students at Marshall University say this would help a lot of people.
“I think there’s a lot of student loan debt in America because education is so expensive and with the workforce now, you kind of have to have a higher education. I know for me, when I go to optometry school in the next four years, it’s quite expensive. I’m going to be in a lot of student loan debt,” explained Teaghan Beasley, a freshman at Marshall University.
Another student says this will take away some of the pressure behind college expenses.
“I had to take out a loan myself. A lot of people don’t get scholarships, like books are expensive. I think like $5,000 loans, $10,000 should be forgiven,” says Charles Robbins, a Marshall University freshman.
Still, one person says this new plan is “ridiculous.”
“I think it’s absolutely ridiculous. A loan is exactly that, a loan,” said Lisa Ransbottom, a Huntington resident. “I worked in financial aid for 25-26 years and the majority of students who took out loans abused the money, used it for things other than educational expenses. That right there is an abuse of the program.”
Now, nearly 8,000,000 borrowers may be forgiven automatically because the Department of Education already has their income information. But the FSA says other borrowers can expect an application in the coming weeks to send in your information.
Until that point the re-payment pause that was originally scheduled to end at the end of this month has been pushed back until Dec. 31. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/marshall-students-react-to-student-debt-loan-forgiveness/ | 2022-08-25T01:23:38 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/marshall-students-react-to-student-debt-loan-forgiveness/ |
GALLIA COUNTY, OH (WOWK) – Ohio Governor Mike DeWine stopped by Gallia County this afternoon to discuss grant funding awarded to local law enforcement.
The Gallipolis Police Department and Gallia County Sheriff’s Office are both receiving grant money through DeWine’s Ohio Violent Crime Reduction grant program.
The program has awarded more than $37 million dollars to 119 Ohio law enforcement agencies.
“Both agencies, like I’ve said, are directing these funds to support the retention of their current workforce because law enforcement staffing has a direct impact on the safety of the citizens,” said DeWine.
After visiting Gallia County, DeWine and his team headed to the Collins Career Center in Chesapeake. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/ohio-gov-dewine-visits-gallia-county-law-enforcement/ | 2022-08-25T01:23:44 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/ohio-gov-dewine-visits-gallia-county-law-enforcement/ |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) There was tremendous excitement when the Charleston Town Center first opened in 1983. Wednesday people in the Charleston area shared their memories of what the mall was like decades ago.
People who lived in the Charleston area in the 1980s likely visited the Charleston Town Center with family, especially around the holidays.
“I just remember coming to the Charleston Mall as a child and it being decorated for Christmas and just having a wonderful experience. It was an exciting time,” said Allyson Chandler.
If you ask around you could quickly meet someone who remembers the mall’s heyday.
“For back to school, for Christmas shopping it is where as teenagers we gathered to get to see each other,” recalled Rebecca Snodgrass.
At times the mall had more than 100 tenants and offered shopping options for everyone.
“It was very active, a lot of crowds, a lot of different stores. We enjoyed it. We came down and saw friends and relatives while we were here,” said Larry Frail. He and Patty Johnston drove from Beckley often to shop.
“We used to come down with our daughter and nieces when they were young,” Johnston said. “We’d just have a big time and spend the whole day.”
When it first opened many were in awe of the fountain and the decor. Those images still stick in the minds of locals even though the mall looks much different now than it did back then.
“I remember when it first opened and how it used to be packed,” Snodgrass said. “I can remember driving downtown on Saturdays with my mom and dad and you couldn’t even get around it for everyone who was trying to get inside the mall.” | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/residents-share-mall-memories-as-plans-take-shape-to-revitalize-the-town-center/ | 2022-08-25T01:23:50 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/residents-share-mall-memories-as-plans-take-shape-to-revitalize-the-town-center/ |
Horizon Bank named industry veteran John Freyek its new market president for Lake County, where his family has deep banking roots.
Freyek has 26 years of experience in banking, including as longtime vice president and senior relationships manager at First Merchants Bank in Valparaiso. His father, John Freyek, had worked as a banker for more than a half century before retiring in 2014 while as president and CEO of First Federal Savings and Loan in Hammond, which WJOB long called the "Bailey Building and Loan of Hammond."
Freyek will now lead Michigan City-based Horizon's efforts to grow its brand and market share in Lake County. He will be based out of the Horizon office at 8950 Broadway in Merrillville.
The Purdue University Northwest graduate has served on the boards of directors of Mental Health America of Northwest Indiana, the Highland Chamber of Commerce and Jacob’s Ladder Pediatric Rehab Center. He also currently serves on the boards of Opportunity Enterprises and the Legacy Foundation, which helps fund philanthropic efforts across the Region.
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Horizon Bank has $7.4 billion in assets and more than 70 branches across Indiana and Michigan. It's the third largest bank in Northwest Indiana by market share, trailing only Centier and Chase, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
Horizon's stock is publicly traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol HBNC. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/horizon-bank-names-john-freyek-new-lake-county-market-president/article_24919a71-6b77-5a60-a8f4-06492366303b.html | 2022-08-25T01:27:36 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/horizon-bank-names-john-freyek-new-lake-county-market-president/article_24919a71-6b77-5a60-a8f4-06492366303b.html |
An Illinois man who deliberately set fire to a Hammond home, killing one person and injuring two others, received a fair trial, according to the Indiana Court of Appeals.
Ronald Gee, 46, of Berwyn, was convicted last year of murder and two counts of arson, and ordered to serve 55 years in prison, in connection with the fire he started around 2 a.m. April 14, 2018, at 19 Doty St., records show.
According to court records, Gee was upset with his estranged wife, Robyn Gee, for spending the night with her new boyfriend, Michael Young, at the home of her boyfriend's mother, Brenda Poole.
Records show Ronald Gee accused Robyn Gee of neglecting their children, and he threatened to have them taken away from her. To which Robyn said, "Over my dead body," and Ronald replied, "That could be arranged."
In the hours before the fire, Ronald Gee drank approximately 10 beers at a bar, searched online for directions to the Doty Street home, stopped at a gas station and set fire to the porch — a fire that eventually spread to the entire house, according to court records.
Records show Poole was killed in the fire, the blaze caused permanent injuries to Robyn Gee's hands and Young also was injured.
At Ronald Gee's six-day trial, the jury viewed video recordings from two nearby buildings that showed the Gees' 2003 silver Ford Explorer drive past the Doty Street house and park, an individual wearing Gee's jacket get out of the vehicle and a fire on the porch igniting a few minutes later.
Robyn Gee identified the person in the video as Ronald Gee based on the build of his body and the way he walked, with swooped down shoulders and his head down, and because of Gee's black jacket and blue jeans, according to court records.
In his appeal, Gee argued the identification provided by his estranged wife should not have been allowed at his trial because she was not an expert in identifying people using video recordings.
The appeals court said Robyn Gee's knowledge of her estranged husband gained over 11 years of marriage, including his body type, walk and clothing, was helpful to the jury in identifying the individual captured on video, and her testimony therefore was acceptable.
"We conclude that her testimony provided an adequate foundation demonstrating the rational basis for identifying Gee. The trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing Robyn to identify Gee," wrote Appeals Judge Rudolph Pyle III in the court's 3-0 ruling.
Ronald Gee still can ask the Indiana Supreme Court to consider reviewing the appellate court decision.
Otherwise, his earliest possible release date from prison, assuming good behavior, is Nov. 17, 2059, when Ronald Gee will be 83 years old, according to the Indiana Department of Correction.
Here are the new Indiana laws to know that took effect July 1
Animals
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248 )
The owner of a lion, tiger, leopard, snow leopard, jaguar, mountain lion or bear must prevent all direct physical contact between the animal and a member of the general public, no matter the age of the animal. Violations are subject to a $1,000 fine for each person who comes into contact with the animal. (House Enrolled Act 1248)
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Annexation
The Aberdeen subdivision may seek to officially become part of Valparaiso, even though the neighborhood is not currently contiguous to the city. A pre-annexation financial study must be completed so Aberdeen residents know the fiscal impact of being voluntarily annexed by Valparaiso. (House Enrolled Act 1110 )
Doug Ross, file, The Times
Ag equipment
Counties, cities or towns can designate agricultural zones as Economic Revitalization Areas (ERA) on the same basis as outdated business districts or distressed residential neighborhoods. New farm equipment or new agricultural improvements located in an ERA are eligible for a property tax abatement for up to five years. The exemption does not apply to farmland. (Senate Enrolled Act 119 )
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Bone marrow
The Indiana Department of Health is authorized to establish and promote a bone marrow donor recruitment program to find eligible Hoosiers willing to donate bone marrow to individuals fighting leukemia, lymphoma and other blood cell conditions. (Senate Enrolled Act 398 )
John Luke, file, The Times
Campus speech
State colleges and universities cannot designate outdoor areas of campus where First Amendment activities are prohibited. Higher education institutions may impose reasonable and content-neutral time, place and manner restrictions on other campus speech that's narrowly tailored to serve a significant interest of the school. (House Enrolled Act 1190 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Caregivers
An adult relative caring for a child after the child has been removed from a dangerous home situation is entitled to directly participate in court hearings concerning services needed by the child, or terminating the parent-child relationship. Previously, only state-licensed foster parents had a statutory right to intervene in legal proceedings pertaining to abused or neglected children. (Senate Enrolled Act 410 )
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Catalytic converters
A catalytic converter is redefined as a "major component part" of a motor vehicle and only licensed automobile salvage recyclers are permitted to buy or sell used catalytic converters. Automobile salvage recyclers also must keep the same records for catalytic converters as valuable metal dealers and cash payouts for detached catalytic converters are capped at $25 per transaction per day. (Senate Enrolled Act 293 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Coerced abortion
A new crime of "coerced abortion" punishes anyone who knowingly or intentionally coerces a pregnant woman to have an abortion with up to 2 1/2 years in prison. State law already required "the voluntary and informed consent of the pregnant woman" prior to obtaining an abortion. (House Enrolled Act 1217 )
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Data breach
Businesses, banks and similar entities that suffer a data breach must notify their customers within 45 days of the breach being discovered, instead of simply providing notification "without unreasonable delay." (House Enrolled Act 1351 )
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Dementia training
Home health aides who provide care to individuals with symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or a similar cognitive disorder must complete at least six hours of dementia care training within 60 days of hire. Current home health aides with at least one year of experience must participate in at least three hours of dementia training. (Senate Enrolled Act 353 )
Joe Ruffalo, file, The Times
Double voting
The penalty for fraudulently casting more than one ballot in the same election is set at up to 2½ in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. The penalty does not apply to individuals casting a valid replacement ballot as permitted by law. (Senate Enrolled Act 328 )
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Expungement
Individuals charged with crimes who either are acquitted following a trial or the charges are dismissed will have their court records automatically expunged within 60 days of disposition, unless the county prosecutor requests a one-year expungement delay. Any non-prosecution of criminal charges within 180 days following an arrest must be expunged immediately. (Senate Enrolled Act 182 )
Jonathan Miano, file, The Times
Foreign land purchases
Foreign business entities are barred from purchasing Indiana agricultural or timber land, with certain exceptions. Businesses organized under Russian law or controlled by Russian nationals are prohibited from acquiring any real estate in Indiana. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
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Health officers
The Indiana Department of Health no longer is entitled to remove a local health officer on the basis of intemperance. Health officers still may be removed for failing to collect vital statistics, follow rules, keep records, make reports, respond to official inquires or for neglect of official duty. (House Enrolled Act 1169 )
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Handguns
Adults age 18 and up legally entitled to possess a handgun are not obligated to obtain a state permit to carry a handgun in public. Indiana carry permits remain available for out-of-state reciprocity purposes. Handguns continue to be prohibited in schools, courthouses, and any residence or business that chooses to bar handguns. (House Enrolled Act 1296 )
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Housing shortage
A 13-member Housing Task Force is directed to study issues relating to housing and housing shortages in Indiana. The task force must submit recommendations for policy changes to the General Assembly and the governor no later than Nov. 1. (House Enrolled Act 1306 )
Tony V. Martin, file, The Times
Hunting
The holder of an archery hunting permit is allowed to use a bow and arrow or a crossbow. Previously, crossbow hunters were required to obtain a separate license. (Senate Enrolled Act 186 )
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Inmate calls
The in-state rate for telephone calls placed by inmates at Indiana Department of Correction facilities drops to 12 cents per minute from 24 cents per minute. County jail telephone rates are capped at 21 cents per minute statewide, instead of ranging from 22 cents per minute to $4.70 per minute. (House Enrolled Act 1181 )
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Lead testing
Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, doctors must offer a blood lead screening test to the parents of children between nine months and six years old if the child has not previously been tested for lead poisoning. Parents are not required to have their children tested for lead. (House Enrolled Act 1313 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Low-level felons
Judges once again may sentence level 6 felony offenders to state prisons operated by the Indiana Department of Correction, replacing a mandate that individuals found guilty of minor felony crimes only serve their six-month to 2 1/2-year sentences in county jails. (House Enrolled Act 1004 )
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Lowell investment
The town of Lowell is authorized to segregate its recent water utility sale proceeds from other town funds, contract with an investment adviser, and deploy the funds in most kinds of investments offering higher returns than fixed-income securities, except corporate stock and other equity securities. (House Enrolled Act 1011 )
Kale Wilk, file, The Times
Medicaid
Pregnant individuals whose family incomes are less than 208% of the federal poverty level are entitled to receive low- or no-cost health coverage through Indiana Medicaid for the duration of their pregnancy, and up to 12 months after giving birth. (House Enrolled Act 1140 )
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Nuclear power
The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission is directed to adopt rules by July 1, 2023, permitting small modular nuclear reactors to be used to generate electricity in the Hoosier State. The law does not mandate any utilities switch to nuclear power but opens the door by putting in place the regulations that would guide its development and use. (Senate Enrolled Act 271 )
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Pregnant inmates
Restraints used on a prison inmate in her second or third trimester of pregnancy need to be the least restrictive restraints necessary. A pregnant inmate must be unrestrained while in labor, delivering a baby and during the immediate post-delivery period, unless she is an immediate danger to herself or others, or a substantial flight risk. (House Enrolled Act 1294 )
Connor Burge, file, The Times
Property tax
The $3,000 property tax deduction for mortgaged property is eliminated beginning Jan. 1, 2023, and the homestead deduction is increased to $48,000 from $45,000. The senior citizen tax deduction may be claimed on homes worth up to $240,000, instead of a maximum of $200,000. (House Enrolled Act 1260 )
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Public comment
School boards must allow any person physically present at a school board meeting to address the board if the person is interested in doing so in accordance with the board’s public comment rules, including any time limits. Boards still can take "reasonable steps to maintain order in a meeting," including "removal of any person who is willfully disruptive of the meeting." (House Enrolled Act 1130 )
Dan Carden, file, The Times
Rape
The definition of rape is expanded to include a person who disregards the other person's attempts to physically, verbally, or by other visible conduct refuse the person's sexual acts. Rape in Indiana also consists of the use of force, or imminent threat of force, to compel sexual conduct; sex with a person unaware sexual conduct is occurring; or sex with a person unable to consent to sex due to mental disability. (House Enrolled Act 1079 )
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Semiquincentennial
A 23-member commission is established to organize events and commemorations across the state celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026. (Senate Enrolled Act 12 )
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Simulated child porn
The production, distribution, possession or viewing of a video or image depicting obscene sexual conduct involving a person who appears to be less than 18 years old — even if the person is over 18, or doesn’t exist — is the legal equivalent of child exploitation, possession of child pornography and similar felony crimes. (House Enrolled Act 1363 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
State fossil
The mastodon is designated as the official fossil of Indiana. Dozens of mastodon fossils have been found throughout Indiana, including the bones of at least five mastodons now held by the Indiana State Museum that were discovered in 2005 by workers digging a pond in the Porter County town of Hebron. (House Enrolled Act 1013 )
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Tax cuts
The utility receipts tax, a 1.46% charge paid by businesses and consumers on a portion of their electricity, natural gas, water, steam, sewage and telephone bills, is eliminated July 1. Beginning Jan. 1, 2023, the state income tax rate drops to 3.15% from 3.23%, with the possibility of future reductions to 2.9%. (House Enrolled Act 1002 )
Doug Ross, file, The Times
Tourism
The definition of "agritourism" is expanded beyond agricultural activities to include camping, canoeing, kayaking, river tubing and winter sports activities. An agritourism participant release form may be signed electronically, instead of only on paper. (Senate Enrolled Act 343 )
Connor Burge, file, The Times
Township trustees
A township trustee who fails to perform the duties of his or her office is subject to removal by court order if the removal is endorsed by the township board, county commissioners and county council, and other conditions are met. (Senate Enrolled Act 304 )
Dan Carden, The Times
Trans sports
All children assigned male at birth are barred from participating in any elementary, middle or high school athletics designated as a "girls" or "female" sport — no matter the child's gender identity or physical characteristics. (House Enrolled Act 1041 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
Tribal law enforcement
A police officer employed by the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi in South Bend may exercise law enforcement authority anywhere in the state, so long as the officer meets the standards of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy and the tribe consents to statewide police powers. (Senate Enrolled Act 347 )
Turn signal
A mandate that drivers signal all turns or lane changes at least 200 feet ahead of time, or 300 feet if the vehicle is traveling in excess of 50 mph, is deleted on Jan. 1, 2023, in favor of a requirement that motorists signal all turns and lane changes "a reasonable time" before completing them. (House Enrolled Act 1167 )
John J. Watkins, file, The Times
University gifts
Public and private colleges and universities in Indiana must report to the state, and disclose on their website, all gifts from foreign entities that already must be reported to the federal government upon receipt. (Senate Enrolled Act 388 )
Kale Wilk, file, The Times
Vaping taxes
A tax of 15% is imposed on the wholesale price of closed system cartridges used for vaping. Under a 2021 law, the tax rate was scheduled to be 25%. An additional tax of 40 cents per ounce is assessed on alternative nicotine products, such as electronic cigarettes. (Senate Enrolled Act 382 )
Richard Vogel, file, Associated Press
Virtual instruction
Public schools may only hold up to three student-directed virtual instruction days during the 180-day school year absent extraordinary circumstances and a waiver approved by the Indiana Department of Education. (House Enrolled Act 1093 )
John Luke, file, The Times
Youth ag
A public school or school corporation may purchase up to $10,000 in food each year from a youth agricultural program, up from the former annual maximum of $7,500. (House Enrolled Act 1320 )
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Based out of Dowagiac, Michigan, the Pokagon Band has been working to establish an agreement with the national park since 2018. Jennifer Kanine, director of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi's Department of Natural Resources, has said the goal of the agreement is to give tribal citizens access to the many edible and medicinal plants that grow at the dunes.
After an environmental assessment and a 30-day public comment period, the national park issued a "Finding of no Significant Impact" and entered into the agreement "to permit the sustainable, limited gathering of plants and plant parts." Under the agreement, tribal citizens would not be allowed to gather rare, threatened or endangered plants.
The Pokagon Band requested permission to gather at the dunes under the National Park Service's 2016 Plant Gathering Rule, which authorizes agreements to "facilitate continuation of tribal cultural practices on lands within areas of the National Park System where those practices traditionally occurred, without causing a significant adverse impact to park resources or values."
Under the 2016 rule, tribes must have "traditional association to lands within the national park system" and the plants can only be gathered for traditional purposes.
According to the Pokagon Band's website, the Potawatomi once occupied parts of what is now Wisconsin, southern Michigan, northern Illinois and northern Indiana. A series of treaties, including the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, removed the Potawatomi from much of the Great Lakes area.
After years of forced removals, in 2016 the Pokagon Band was able to obtain 166 acres of land in South Bend. The only other tribal land in the state is the Cultural Extension Office operated by the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma in Fort Wayne.
The national park determined a long list of plants that can be gathered, including wild rice, cattails, wild grapes and elderberries.
The Pokagon Band will have to submit an annual report detailing what was collected. Tribal citizens will be able to gather a limited number of plants in five parts of the park: Miller Woods, the Bailly area, the Cowles area and the West Beverly Shores area.
Groups of gatherers will be limited to six people. However, Kanine has said she does not anticipate group size to be a problem.
"It (the agreement) might be for one person a year or zero people a year, but I wanted them to have the opportunity.”
Plants can only be harvested by hand or with the aid of small hand tools and cannot be used for commercial purposes.
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Jennifer Kanine, left, and Diana Ramirez examine grains of wild rice while doing research at the Indiana Dunes National Park. The goal of the research is to determine what conditions the rice does best in.
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Jennifer Kanine, director of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi's Department of Natural Resources, began researching mnomen at the Indiana Dunes National Park in 2016.
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Diana Ramirez, left, and Jennifer Kanine are conducting research on wild rice in the Indiana Dunes National Park. The research project began in 2016 after the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi launched efforts to reintroduce the plant. Decades of development and the loss of wetlands have caused wild rice numbers to dwindle.
PHOTOS: Wild rice research at Indiana Dunes National Park
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Jennifer Kanine, left, and Diana Ramirez examine grains of wild rice while doing research at the Indiana Dunes National Park. The goal of the research is to determine what conditions the rice does best in.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Jennifer Kanine, director of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi's Department of Natural Resources, began researching mnomen at the Indiana Dunes National Park in 2016.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Diana Ramirez, left, and Jennifer Kanine are conducting research on wild rice in the Indiana Dunes National Park. The research project began in 2016 after the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi launched efforts to reintroduce the plant. Decades of development and the loss of wetlands have caused wild rice numbers to dwindle.
John J. Watkins, The Times
Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Wild rice is an important keystone species and a valuable source of fiber and antioxidants.
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Jennifer Kanine researches wild rice at the Indiana Dunes National Park.
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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi conduct wild ricing experiment at Indiana Dunes
Jennifer Kanine shows grains of wild rice while doing research at the Indiana Dunes National Park.
Jennifer Kanine, director of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi's Department of Natural Resources, researches wild rice at the Indiana Dunes National Park. The national park has entered an agreement with Pokagon Band allowing tribal citizens to gather a limited amount of edible and medicinal plants. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/national-park-approves-agreement-with-pokagon-band-of-potawatomi-for-traditional-gathering/article_33979e5f-0549-5ab6-aa1d-cb0feaaec1f0.html | 2022-08-25T01:27:48 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/porter/national-park-approves-agreement-with-pokagon-band-of-potawatomi-for-traditional-gathering/article_33979e5f-0549-5ab6-aa1d-cb0feaaec1f0.html |
A 31-year-old Zion, Illinois, man is facing numerous charges after allegedly shooting three people outside a Kenosha bar over the weekend following a fight.
Damon A. Blakey is charged with felonies of attempted first-degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon, first-degree reckless injury with a dangerous weapon, first-degree recklessly endangering safety with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by an out-of-state felon in Kenosha County Circuit Court.
Blakey made his initial appearance at Intake Court Monday where Court Commissioner Loren Keating imposed a $500,000 cash bond. A preliminary hearing is set for Aug. 31.
According to the criminal complaint three people were shot by Blakey on Saturday following a physical altercation. The incident occurred at approximately 1:45 am and the fight reportedly began inside Las Margaritas Tavern, 2322 Roosevelt Road.
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The confrontation continued outside onto 23rd Avenue, according to the criminal complaint. That’s when Blakey allegedly opened fire, shooting a male and two females. One of the females was his girlfriend who he allegedly shot by accident.
Officers patrolling the area of 63rd Street and 22nd Avenue arrested Blakey after spotting him walking in a zig-zag pattern west down the sidewalk along 63rd Street. He reportedly matched the description of the suspect involved in the nearby shots fired complaint. Blakey was detained and his firearm was recovered after officers found it stashed in a trash can.
When questioned by investigators, Blakey reportedly stated he grabbed his gun and began to “blow” following an altercation with the injured male.
When asked who he was shooting at he stated it was nobody in particular at first but then he saw (the male) and began shooting at him, because he “punched my tooth out,” according to the complaint.
When it was explained to the Blakey that his girlfriend dropped to the ground while he was firing, “the defendant began to sob and uttered something about her being right in front of him.”
Blakey had been in Kenosha celebrating his girlfriend’s birthday. She sustained serious injuries. The other female sustained non-life-threatening injuries and the male sustained three gunshot wounds but is expected to survive.
Mugshots: Racine County criminal complaints, Aug. 22, 2022
Today's mugshots: Aug. 22
These are images of people charged with a crime in Racine County. Booking photos are provided by Racine County law enforcement officials. A defendant is presumed innocent unless proven guilty and convicted.
Brytton D. Hurd
Brytton D. Hurd, 1100 block of Douglas Avenue, Racine, misdemeanor battery, disorderly conduct, knowingly violating a harassment restraining order.
Shawn E. Londre
Shawn E. Londre, 2000 block of DeKoven Avenue, Racine, misdemeanor battery, disorderly conduct.
Frank D. Walker
Frank D. Walker, 2800 block of Mount Pleasant Street, Racine, misdemeanor battery (domestic abuse assessments), disorderly conduct (domestic abuse assessments).
Ione Amber Davis
Ione Amber Davis, 2100 block of Romayne Avenue, Racine, felony retail theft (intentionally take between $500-$5,000).
Steven M. Friebolin
Steven M. Friebolin, 1200 block of West Lawn Avenue, Racine, attempt first degree intentional homicide (use of a dangerous weapon).
Cameron J. Harris
Cameron J. Harris, West Allis, Wisconsin, possession of THC.
Marc Lee Manderfield
Marc Lee Manderfield, 1700 block of Deane Boulevard, Racine, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence (5th or 6th offense, general alcohol concentration enhancer).
Alain D. Manning
Alain D. Manning, 3300 block of Kentucky Street, Racine, burglary (arming self with a dangerous weapon, domestic abuse assessments, felony domestic abuse repeater), disorderly conduct (use of a dangerous weapon, domestic abuse assessments, felony domestic abuse repeater), take and drive vehicle without owner's consent (2nd+ offense, domestic abuse assessments, felony domestic abuse repeater), misdemeanor theft (domestic abuse assessments, felony domestic abuse repeater), stalking (use of a dangerous weapon, domestic abuse assessments, felony domestic abuse repeater).
Chandler L. Pierce
Chandler (aka Spuaky Playa-Hata) L. Pierce, 5400 block of Byrd Avenue, Racine, felony bail jumping, disorderly conduct (domestic abuse assessments).
Russell J. Rediske
Russell J. Rediske, 1200 block of Goold Street, Racine, possession of THC, felony bail jumping.
Michael L. Wells Jr.
Michael L. Wells Jr., 1100 block of ½ Kewaunee Street, Racine, battery by prisoners.
Ernest D. Everson
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A San Antonio man — whose family was ousted from its annual Easter Sunday celebration at Rodriguez Park in 2019 by disgraced ex-Bexar County Constable Michelle Vela — admitted in court Wednesday that he unknowingly violated a parks regulation that may have led to their confrontation.
Vela’s defense attorney, Jason Goss, pressed Jesus Reyes Jr. on whether he had complied with a then-new county rule requiring him to contact county constables to pay for additional security officers after reserving a park pavilion if he knew more than 50 guests would attend the party or consume alcohol.
Reyes, a FedEx truck driver who had reserved the same spot at Rodriguez Park on the West Side for more than 30 years of Easter celebrations, didn’t notify the constables. He said he was surprised and irritated that Vela and her deputies showed up that morning to demand $300, in addition to the rental fee.
The scrutiny of Vela’s behavior at Rodriguez Park has become a key element of the prosecution’s case against her. She is on trial in state court charged with two felony counts of tampering with or destroying evidence.
Her scandal-plagued 33 months in office were marked by federal discrimination lawsuits against her, FBI raids of her office, her baseless charges leading to the arrest of a fellow deputy, her evidence-free claims that a county commissioner was involved in child abuse and another alleged “shakedown” case in 2018 involving a family in Rodriguez Park that was settled out of court.
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She regularly feuded with Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and Sheriff Javier Salazar, and often said she was being persecuted by an entrenched “good ol’ boy” establishment that couldn’t tolerate her unconventional management style.
What made the 2019 Easter incident even more unseemly to Reyes was that Vela intended to use Reyes’ reserved pavilion for her own personal Easter bash.
Reyes didn’t have enough cash on him at the moment and had to go to a Valero convenience store nearby to use its ATM.
“I didn’t have any choice. My family was already in the park,” he testified, explaining why he didn’t immediately dispute Vela’s demand.
Saying he felt intimidated, he added: “Vela could have talked to me by herself. She didn’t have to bring her whole entourage.”
Reluctantly, Reyes paid $300 for what Vela told him would be six more hours of security at $50 per hour — a higher rate than normal because alcohol was present.
After Vela left the park, Reyes said he flagged down some San Antonio police officers and made a formal report about what he thought may have been extortion by a public official.
The trial will continue Thursday in the Bexar County 226th District Court.
The Uvalde school board listened to screaming, crying parents of children massacred at Robb Elementary School, spent a short while in executive session and then voted unanimously Wednesday evening... | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Bexar-County-constable-trial-17396227.php | 2022-08-25T01:33:22 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Bexar-County-constable-trial-17396227.php |
UVALDE — The Uvalde school board listened to screaming, crying parents of children massacred at Robb Elementary School, spent a short while in executive session and then voted unanimously Wednesday evening to fire the district’s embattled police chief, Pete Arredondo.
A crowd of about 200 people erupted in applause. Earlier, they had erupted in a bitter fury when they learned that Arredondo had spurned the chance to appear at a twice-delayed termination hearing scheduled for the same meeting.
The suspended police chief’s lawyer issued a 17-page statement as the meeting began, saying the hearing was an insufficient forum to clear his name and hinting at a planned lawsuit that would argue that his due process rights under the 14th Amendment were violated. And, the lawyer wrote, the district hadn’t guaranteed Arredondo’s safety amid common knowledge that people had threatened to kill him.
Arredondo took early blame for the seemingly leaderless response to the shooter at Robb Elementary who killed 19 students and two teachers May 24, though a subsequent Texas House probe faulted virtually every commander from multiple agencies in charge of the more than 400 officers there.
The school district’s superintendent recommended firing Arredondo in July but two attempts at a hearing were cancelled at the request of Arredondo’s lawyer, officials have said.
At the meeting’s start, a brief announcement about Arredondo’s no-show fueled a raucous public comment period, with a heavy news media presence. Family members of the shooting victims held large photographs of their lost loved ones.
“Our babies are dead. Our teachers are dead,” Brett Cross shouted at the school board. “The least you can do is show us the respect to do this in public.”
The public comment period was short, but in effect, it continued while the board was in closed session. As trustees left for another room, the crowd began screaming, “No justice, no peace!”
Niki Cross, guardian to Uziyah Garcia, 10, who was killed on May 24, grabbed the microphone and began sharing stories about Uziyah and others who were killed. Others followed with more stories about their grief and frustration at the school board.
“I miss my best friend,” said Felicia Martinez, who lost her son Xavier Lopez on May 24. “His brothers miss him. Three months and they have forever to live. I don’t know how we are going to do that. And with all the love and support and our new 21-angel family, I know we will get through this and it will take time.”
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“If the board can hear me, please change! Please change everything for our kids. Please change the safety, the protocols, everything. For those ones that need to get out, get out!”
Within weeks of the shooting, DPS director Steven McCraw said Arredondo was the incident commander responsible for the chaotic law enforcement response and hour’s delay in confronting the shooter, Salvador Ramos, 18.
After placing him on administrative leave in June, school district officials had declined to comment on Arredondo’s employment status through almost three months of angry public demands that he be fired. He resigned from his City Council seat and a special election has been set for November to fill it.
His Georgetown-based attorney, George E. Hyde, has not responded to interview requests. Superintendent Hal Harrell’s recommendation that the chief be fired was on the July 23 school board agenda, but the hearing was scrapped, as was a subsequent date, at Hyde’s request, officials have said.
Hyde’s statement Wednesday said the school board and superintendent had not criticized Arredondo’s performance on May 24 until a month later, when he was placed on paid administrative, told not to comment publicly but to cooperate with outside investigations, and barred from school grounds.
He received notice of Harrell’s decision to recommend his firing on July 19 and was put on unpaid leave, but without a formal complaint or investigation, before or since, that state law requires — and with possible witnesses on his behalf intimidated by a gag order issued by the local district attorney, Hyde wrote.
“Moreover, it has been publicly reported that Chief Arredondo has been the victim of death threats made by individuals with the means to carry them out. The last thing anyone wants is for these proceedings to be compounded by violence, especially gun violence,” the statement said. “Despite death threats being common knowledge, the School District has not disclosed any effort on its part to ensure the safety of Chief Arredondo, his legal counsel, or any of the pubic in attendance under such tense circumstances.”
Cross scoffed at the notion that Arredondo was in danger and flatly denied that anyone had threatened him.
“For him to not be here and not face the consequences to his actions,” she began, and was interrupted by people in the crowd yelling, “Coward!”
“Exactly,” Cross said.
In the moments after the vote to fire Arredondo, the crowd chanted, “We are not done.”
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AUSTIN, Texas — Water was the hot topic under the Capitol dome on Wednesday as the House Committee on Natural Resources held a public hearing.
Lawmakers heard from experts on a variety of topics, like water loss and Texas' aging infrastructure.
The National Wildlife Federation's Texas Coast and Water Program released a study on Wednesday showing that in 2020, homes and businesses lost on average 51 gallons of water every day. The study also found that those losses were enough to meet water needs for Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso, Laredo and Lubbock combined.
Jennifer Walker was the lead author of that study.
The following is a conversation she had with KVUE's Jenni Lee.
Jenni Lee: Jennifer Walker, thanks for joining us this afternoon and for your time.
Jennifer Walker: "Yeah, thank you for having me."
Jenni Lee: The House Committee on Natural Resources held a hearing today to talk about water. How are we doing on our water supply?
Jennifer Walker: "So our water supply in Texas, we have a really robust water supply planning process that we do in the state. So we've got great plans in place and it really is on a community-by-community basis when you look at water supply. Some communities have long-term water supplies well into the future. Some have shorter-term challenges that they're going to need to deal with. But it really is when looking at water supply, it's about more than that because it's not just the amount of water that we have to meet our needs. We pump that water into a water treatment plant which needs maintenance and may need to be expanded...and requires ongoing care and feeding like many big operations we have. We have pipes and water infrastructure all through our communities that deliver water from our water supply, from the water treatment plant to our homes and businesses. And then we have wastewater pipes and wastewater treatment. So all of those things really together make up our water supply and our water our water supply infrastructure."
Jenni Lee: I'm sorry, Jennifer, to interrupt you. Tell us how the Austin area is doing. How are we doing as far as water is concerned?
Jennifer Walker: "...Austin has had some challenges. We've had challenges, Winter Storm Uri, many, many communities in the state did as well. We've had some challenges with boil water notices and other things like that, but we also have a water supply plan that we're looking for out into the future. We're really trying to think about the impacts that climate change may have on our water supply and plan for that. Austin is investing in reclaimed water lines and that's taking wastewater and treating it to a high level and re-piping it through the city to be used for non-potable uses. And we're exploring lots of ways to diversify water supplies in Austin. So, you know, like many communities, we have some things that are going really well, some things that were some challenges that we're trying to overcome as a community."
Jenni Lee: Jennifer, you're the lead author on a water loss study that you presented to lawmakers today. What are some of the major points of study?
Jennifer Walker: "...We presented our study... called Hidden Reservoirs Addressing Water Loss in Texas to the House Natural Resources Committee today. They are having interim hearings on some other charges of looking at water supply. And so we presented in our research that we've been doing over the past year, and our analysis indicates that as of 2020, Texas utilities are losing at least 572,000 acre-feet of water per year. This corresponds to an average of about 51 gallons per service connection per day."
Jenni Lee: That's a lot of water, Jennifer.
Jennifer Walker: "Yeah, it's a lot of water. So if you think about your house, my house, and think about that, the water in the course of the day and delivering water to my home, that 51 gallons of that is lost along the way. It's a lot. And so we really try to think of ways to make these numbers, are very big, to make them bite-sized and understandable to all of us. And it's not that the water utilities are necessarily doing anything wrong. The infrastructure that we deliver our water through may be suffering from underinvestment or disinvestment. And it really requires continued attention and investment and really good data to understand the condition of our systems and to make sure that we are trying to reduce water loss. That is the earth. This is water that we already have in our communities. We're just we're pulling it out of our lakes. We're treating it. We're putting in our distribution systems. And a portion of it is getting lost along the way. If we can lose less water in our distribution systems, that's more water supply for us."
Jenni Lee: So a couple of follow-up questions here. Fifty-one gallons a day per service connection. That is her home, per business. And you had a really good comparison here. The estimated losses in 2020 were enough to meet the total annual municipal needs of Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso, Laredo and Lubbock combined....
Jennifer Walker: "Exactly. Because who can really put their finger on how much 570,000-acre-feet of water is? So what we did was we took that amount and we looked at our state water plan and it lays out the water demands for all the cities in Texas. So it was just a simple mathematical exercise to look at the cities that add up to that much. And everyone is familiar with Austin, Fort Worth, El Paso, Laredo and Lubbock. So if you take the 2020 water demand of all five of those cities combined, that's how much water we estimate that we're losing every year in Texas. So we can reduce that water loss by some or a lot."
Jenni Lee: It sounds like the aging infrastructure is partly to blame. So what can we do? Because there's, what, $250 million of federal funding that's available for cities and counties and utilities. What can be done to reduce water loss?
Jennifer Walker: "Yeah, so there's a lot of tools that utilities have at their disposal to reduce water loss. So we really need to, instead of looking at supply side water management strategies, some examples would be like, seawater desalination or major new reservoirs, to reduce water loss. We can invest in programs like acoustic leak detection, which helps us pinpoint leaks and find where they are in our systems. You can use sound...water makes noise to find the leaks and that pinpoint where they need to be repaired. We can look at our meters, our small and large meters, and make sure that we're measuring water accurately. Sometimes we're not actually losing water. We're just measuring it incorrectly. Meters as they age under measure water. So we really need to have an accurate count of how much water there is entering and leaving our systems. We can look at pressure management. There's water under pressure as it travels through our distribution systems. If there's too much pressure, then leaks can be exacerbated. We can get more leaks. And there's lots of other things that we can do. And many of these interventions are really cost-effective. And when you compare the kind of known costs to a lot of these types of strategies to strategies in our state, water plan, water supply strategies, they really compare quite favorably. Now, every community is going to be different. You know, if if you have a whole lot of water loss and doing something that's going to impact it, you know, there's magnitudes of scale, you know, on a per gallon basis of how much water loss you can reduce. And it may be less. So every community is different and unique."
Jenni Lee: We just got a whole bunch of rain, but we're in a drought and it's been extremely hot. So how critical is this water loss? Why should people care about it?
Jennifer Walker: "Yeah. So you're right. We have been experiencing all the weather scenarios in the past couple of years here in Texas. You know, we had a terrible drought in 2011 and 2014, which, you know, the people that were here then this summer, 2022 felt a lot like it. We've had Winter Storm Uri, we've had Hurricane Harvey. We have we've had it all. So I think really that what we're seeing as climate change is being expressed through water in a lot of ways for Texans. And so living through all of these experiences, how could water not be on people's minds? And with the drought that we've been in this past summer. I can't tell you how many conversations as a water person that works in water, in the water space. We've been having conversations for weeks about wells that are lower, spring flows that are declining, rivers that are dry. What stage of your output, what stage of your drought contingency plan are you implementing? This is the top of mind for water managers, but also water users, everybody around. And what can we do and what will this summer play out like and will it just be this summer or will it continue into the next summer like we saw? So while the rain is very, very welcome and much, much needed, we will still be in a drought when our sidewalks and our yards dry up. And so we need to be really careful about how we use water. We need to make sure in each community there are drought contingency plans are in place. And that means a drought contingency plan is a plan a community puts in place to reduce water use in the face of drought in order to prolong water supplies. It's a temporary measure. Most communities in Texas, if they aren't already, should have those plans implemented and folks should be taking action to reduce their water use."
Lee: Every community around here at least has some absolutely plan going on. Jennifer, was there anything else about your study that we need to know about?
Jennifer Walker: "Well, I think that it's really important to note that if we do a moderate and cost-effective amount of water loss mitigation could really cut Texas' current water losses in half as what we predict and deliver quite a lot of water to our communities is very achievable. We're not talking about eliminating all water loss. It's about getting more utilities to a performance level that a number of their peers in Texas have already achieved. If we can do that, we will have untapped a large volume of new water and can forego some of the expensive and contentious water supply projects that are contemplated in our state water plan. So we need to invest in making sure that our infrastructure is as tight as possible, that as much water as we can get to its intended destination makes it. This is water we already have. So let's not go out and create new supplies of water. If we can make, if we can deliver the water that we already have more efficiently, let's invest in that. We have a huge opportunity with the federal dollars coming to Texas. We have $3 billion over the next five years coming to Texas for water supply, water infrastructure, water quality. Those dollars can be invested in shoring up our infrastructure and our cities. And we think it's a really good investment."
Jenni Lee: And I want to end with the infrastructure. How bad is it? We recently received a grade for our aging infrastructure. Jennifer, what is it?
Walker: "The grade I believe, it was a C-."
Jenni Lee: So not good.
Walker: "No, it's not good. It's not good. And the thing is, every community is different. Every community has different infrastructure issues going on. So it's really important to kind of understand where you are in time and to make a plan for how to address it and to have really good data to build that on this infrastructure. These pipes are underground. You gather a lot of data to really understand how the water is coming into your system and how it's being built and metered. And everything is a complicated exercise. We need good data, we need good decision making, and we need to invest and we need to keep investing because it's not a thing that you just do once and then it's fixed. It requires investment. And we need to value water. We need to value water in such a way that it really supports these investments. And I'm not saying charge more for water. What I'm saying is we need to place a value on water."
Jenni Lee: It's a finite resource.
Walker: "A finite resource that we can't afford to waste and everybody needs it and we need to deliver it as efficiently as we can."
Lee: Jennifer Walker with the National Wildlife Federation, the Texas Coastal Water Program. Thank you so much for your time this afternoon.
Watch the full interview here:
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PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — Crews are working to contain a fire at the Walmart in Peachtree City Wednesday evening.
Firefighters are responding to the Walmart at 2717 Highway 54. Smoke was seen billowing by nearby shopping plazas. As the crews were struggling with water pressure, Peachtree City authorities called Fayette and Peachtree City Water Department to help. Coweta Fire and Fayette Fire also came to assist.
Peachtree City Fire and Police crews are asking the public to stay out of the area at this time.
Officials said three police officers took themselves to a nearby hospital for smoke inhalation. Crews are still working to put out the fire, authorities said.
Photos | Fire at Walmart in Peachtree City
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UVALDE, Texas — Pete Arredondo has been fired as Uvalde CISD's chief of police. The decision is effective immediately.
The vote by district school board members was unanimous Wednesday evening, in a meeting where the embattled Arredondo – who led the botched law enforcement response at Robb Elementary exactly three months ago – was a no-show.
Instead, his attorney submitted a 17-page statement calling for him to be reinstated with back pay. Arredondo had been on unpaid leave since July 22.
"Any allegation of lack of leadership is wholly misplaced," the statement asserts, arguing that Arredondo's actions at the school on May 24 potentially saved lives or further injury.
It also alleges Arredondo was put on unpaid leave “without any advanced notice” in July, and that the district “imposed last-minute procedural hurdles" ahead of Wednesday's hearing, violating his First Amendment rights.
“The district has successfully gagged Chief Arredondo to the point that he cannot participate,” the statement concludes.
The district had faced pressure to fire the police chief after Texas DPS revealed he was the incident commander on May 24. Wednesday's vote was preceded by a lengthy closed-doors session involving the school board, and was followed by those in attendance silently leaving while holding up signs. One had photos of the victims, and another read: "Amerie Forever."
The meeting had been postponed twice. The school district sent out a notice last week stating that they would discuss his termination Wednesday.
The meeting has been postponed in the past because the district can’t end Arredondo’s contract without giving their reasons why. Superintendent Hal Harrell recommended Arredondo's termination in July.
Many community members and victim’s families had called for the same. During Wednesday's public-comments section, Brett Cross, whose 10-year-old nephew Uziyah Garcia died at Robb Elementary, said the least the district could do is conduct its meetings in an open forum.
"For him to not be here and face the consequences of his own actions? Exactly,” the speaker said referring to Arredondo.
Another speaker added, "You are not going to sweep this under the rug.”
Amerie Jo Garza's father said that he wished his daughter was there so she could speak for herself, while also thanking the community for their support.
“Thank you everyone for being here for us. It means a lot,” he said. “We don’t know what to do. We want to fight for our children.”
The full statement from Arredondo's legal representation can be read below.
Arredondo has testified to the Texas House Committee that he believed the shooter was a barricaded subject instead of an active shooter.
It took law enforcement more than an hour to confront the shooter.
And while Arredondo was listed in the district’s active shooter plan as the incident commander, the House Committee report showed law enforcement lacked clear leadership and communication.
The report criticizing Arredondo for wasting time trying to find a key to the classroom the shooter was in. He also didn’t take his radio with him.
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Robert “Bob” Sully passed away peacefully on July 29, 2022, at the age of 70. A 1969 graduate of North Bend High School, loving son to Robert and Patricia Sully; big brother to Mike; proud father to Matthew, Jamie, and Samantha; and amazing uncle to Jeff, Bess, and the boys.
His career spanned many decades working for Safeway, United Grocers, Wilsey Foods, and Ventura Foods, and right before retirement spent some time as a realtor traveling the western US. He was an avid car guy relishing many models, yet ultimately missing his 1965 GTO as the one that got away.
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Ballooning costs force IndyGo to rethink Blue Line design; here's what might change.
IndyGo is considering changes to the route for the Blue Line, the transit agency's third bus rapid transit line connecting Cumberland to the Indianapolis International Airport, in light of ballooning project cost estimates.
This summer, the transit agency received an updated cost estimate of $520 million to build five of six segments, compared to a 2019 cost estimate of $220 million for the entire 24-mile route along Washington Street.
To cut costs, IndyGo is proposing diverting the bus rapid transit route to I-70 between Holt Road and the airport, rather than using Washington Street. That would save in capital costs and travel time to the airport, but it would also mean no new stops west of Holt Road and no immediate infrastructure improvements to that stretch of Washington Street, unless the city or IndyGo pursues these in a separate project.
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IndyGo is also considering using hybrid buses for the initial rollout of the Blue Line, rather than its previous plan to use all-electric buses.
Inflation among several factors in rising costs to IndyGo Blue Line
IndyGo began work on the Blue Line in 2018, and completed 30% of the design in 2019. At that milestone, IndyGo received a cost estimate of $220 million.
Work paused in late 2019 to focus on the Purple Line, the city's second bus rapid transit line that connects downtown to Lawrence and is scheduled to open in 2024.
In the spring of 2021, the design team resumed work on the Blue Line in earnest, excluding the segment between Holt Road and the airport, since this section had been the subject of various legislative proposals in the General Assembly to restrict the use of dedicated bus lanes. Upon reaching 60% design completion this spring, the updated cost estimate for the segments between Holt Road and Cumberland came out to $520 million.
"So we’re not even comparing apples to apples," chief development officer Jennifer Pyrz told the board.
Labor shortages and supply chain issues have increased construction costs in "unpredictable ways," she said, in addition to unprecedented levels of inflation.
Another major cost increase is attributable to city standards for drainage that have changed since work on the Blue Line began in 2018. Drainage costs alone comprise 42% of the total construction cost, whereas they comprised 18% of the Purple and Red Line costs.
"Forty-two percent drainage on a transit project is way out of wack with where other transit projects are," Pyrz said.
Third, IndyGo now needs nearly twice as many buses for the Blue Line than it anticipated in 2018.
The U.S. National Defense Authorization Act of 2020 prevents IndyGo from using federal dollars to purchase buses from a China-based manufacturer such as BYD, from which it purchased electric buses for the Red and Purple Lines. That limits IndyGo's options to one other electric bus manufacturer, which Pyrz said costs more and has worse range.
Because those only travel half as far on a charge, IndyGo would need to purchase 55 instead of the original 29 planned.
What changes IndyGo is proposing
Shifting the rapid transit buses onto I-70 at Holt Road, instead of building the route on Washington Street to the airport, would save at least $50 million in capital costs alone. More than 80% of that was going to go toward drainage needs in the area.
It would also eliminate the need for about 5 buses and save operational costs of $1.6 million a year, IndyGo estimates.
Changing the route away from this section of Washington Street does not mean there won't be future work to improve pedestrian-friendly infrastructure in the area, Pyrz said.
IndyGo CEO Inez Evans said the agency is still committed to addressing those needs, with the caveat that the city would first need to address the severe drainage issues there.
IndyGo is in active talks about developing a microtransit program in the area, a door-to-door service for residents where transit access is lacking, Evans said.
"We’re still committed to helping that segment of our city," she said.
IndyGo also estimates it could save $96 million if it used hybrid buses for the initial rollout of the Blue Line rather than electric buses. Hybrid buses would last an expected 7-12 years, and at the end of their life, IndyGo's hope would be to switch to all-electric, Pyrz said.
IndyGo also plans to meet with the city Department of Public Works and Citizens Energy Group to see how they can save costs on the drainage and sewage requirements.
The project team plans to continue evaluating potential design changes and their impacts to federal grant eligibility, then present options to the board of directors in December.
"There’s a lot of decisions to be made," Pyrz said. "We have a very strong commitment to improving the service between Cumberland and the airport for our customers."
Contact IndyStar transportation reporter Kayla Dwyer at kdwyer@indystar.com or follow her on Twitter @kayla_dwyer17. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/2022/08/25/indygo-blue-line-design-cumberland-indianapolis-international-airport-costs/65418582007/ | 2022-08-25T01:42:39 | 1 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/transportation/2022/08/25/indygo-blue-line-design-cumberland-indianapolis-international-airport-costs/65418582007/ |
Man charged in kidnapping, assault of 11-year-old in Ypsilanti
A Washtenaw County man has been charged in connection with allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting an 11-year-old child, police announced Wednesday.
Brandon Hutson, 35, was arraigned from the county jail on kidnapping, first-degree criminal sexual conduct involving someone under age 13 and unlawful imprisonment, records show.
He faces life in prison if convicted on the kidnapping and sexual assault charges.
Ypsilanti police identified Hutson through an investigation that began last spring, representatives said in a statement.
On May 20, officers received a report of an 11-year-old child who was missing from his home, the Police Department said.
The youth was found the next day. Detectives learned the child snuck out of the home and was picked up and assaulted by a man they identified as Hutson, police reported.
“If it weren’t for the dedicated employees of the Ypsilanti Police Department and their outstanding work, the victim’s assailant may not have been identified and arrested,” Lt. Brent Yuchasz said.
"Due to the sensitive nature of the crime, no additional details will be released at this time."
Hutson remained at the Washtenaw County Jail on a $250,000 bond, records show. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/24/man-charged-kidnapping-assault-11-year-old-ypsilanti/7889842001/ | 2022-08-25T01:44:32 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/08/24/man-charged-kidnapping-assault-11-year-old-ypsilanti/7889842001/ |
BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge has issued a partial pause on Idaho's abortion law when it conflicts with the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act. Doctors will not face criminal charges in these instances, as state law must yield to federal law.
The rest of Idaho's abortion laws will take effect Thursday.
In a 39-page order, U.S District Judge B. Lynn Winmill said that the law lacks clarity for providers to be able to preform an emergency abortion. Known as the "trigger law," a law that was made to take effect when Roe v. Wade fell, it outlines inherent criminal prosecution for doctors when providing an abortion, punishable by up to five years in prison.
The only exception to this law, the code says, is when an abortion can be preformed to prevent death, or when a survivor can provide a police report of rape or incest to police.
The DOJ sued the state of Idaho on Aug. 2, claiming the near-total abortion ban violated the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) in emergency medical situations. EMTALA requires doctors to stabilize patients in emergencies, which can include various medical procedures. Abortion can be used to resolve hemorrhaging, sepsis or ectopic pregnancies, a life threatening condition where the embryo develops outside the uterus and can rupture the fallopian tube.
There is no exception in the abortion law, Idaho code 18-622, for a health risk, which falls under the EMTALA umbrella.
Additionally, in a preliminary injunction hearing on Monday, the Idaho Attorney General's Office admitted in court that ectopic pregnancies are considered a real pregnancy -- thus, is covered under 18-622 -- and could not be resolved through abortion until the pregnant person is near death or dying.
Winmill said in his judgement that providers may delay care under this law until a patient is extremely close to death to avoid the criminal penalties, which subjects those patients to physical and emotional trauma.
"One cannot imagine the anxiety and fear she will experience if her doctors feel hobbled by an Idaho law that does not allow them to provide the medical care necessary to preserve her health and life," the order said.
Winmill goes on: "The clear and intended effect of Idaho’s criminal abortion law is to curb abortion as a form of medical care. This extends to emergency situations, obstructing EMTALA’s purpose. Idaho’s choice to impose severe and sweeping sanctions that decrease the overall availability of emergency abortion care flies in the face of Congress’s deliberate decision to do the opposite."
Winmill, in the order, also pointed to the notion that doctors from out of state may be discouraged from coming to Idaho over the law.
The state's argument to Winmill on Monday was that the law falls under EMTALA because it includes a section that allows doctors to use their "good faith" judgment to make a call on whether to perform an abortion or not, even though they risk being criminally charged and thrown in jail.
The judge asked many hypothetical questions about how close to death someone must be to have an abortion to save their life -- 50%, 5% -- but state attorney Brian Church continually just said he would refer his clients and doctors to the law -- a law that was seemingly unclear to the judge to begin with.
Monte Stewart, who was hired by the Idaho Legislature, repeatedly said in the hearing Monday that prosecutors could ignore the text of the law and focus on "the real world" when deciding to perform abortions, and that Idaho has no instances of "real abortions" that the DOJ was referring to -- but, in the judge's ruling, he noted several responses from Idaho doctors that pointed to the need for certain abortions.
"If the law does not mean what it says, why have it at all?" Winmill wrote. "In short, given the extraordinarily broad scope of Idaho Code § 18-622, neither the State nor the Legislature have convinced the Court that it is possible for healthcare workers to simultaneously comply with their obligations under EMTALA and Idaho statutory law."
The Idaho Democratic Party issued a statement on the matter after the ruling.
"I am relieved to see the court take this step to ensure that every Idahoan receives necessary medical care in an emergency. Governor Little and Idaho's Republican legislators were warned about the harm their extreme abortion ban would cause to patients, but they didn't care," Idaho Democratic Party Chair Lauren Necochea wrote. "Under the GOP ban, a doctor can either risk prison time to provide care for a nonviable ectopic pregnancy or allow it to go untreated, causing life-threatening internal bleeding."
The Idaho Republican Caucus in a statement wrote that despite these limitations, "some of Idaho's preborn children may die because of this injunction, children whose lives the Idaho law otherwise would have protected."
Abortion is still nearly illegal in Idaho, however, and the trigger law "pause" will be in effect until a permanent judgment is issued.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — For the third time in six years, the City of Portland has passed a zoning ordinance that bans most new fossil fuel terminals and caps the size of existing sites.
Two previous versions of the ordinance were appealed by business groups and struck down, but the city council voted Wednesday to adopt a third version that city staff said addressed all the issues that had been flagged by the state Land Use Board of Appeals during the previous attempt.
The ordinance amends the city's zoning code to create a specific land use category for bulk fossil fuel terminals and prohibits the expansion of storage tank capacity at existing facilities in the city. It also limits storage tank capacity at any new fuel terminals to 2 million gallons and prohibits storing coal.
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The prohibition is intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and tackle earthquake risks, because Portland's existing fossil fuel export terminals are clustered along the Willamette River in an area prone to soil liquefaction, raising concerns about a spill during a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.
The ordinance still allows for seismic upgrades at the existing sites, including new tanks that replace existing tanks without raising total capacity. It also includes exceptions to allow for increased storage of renewable fuels and jet fuel, due to projected higher demand for both in the future.
Mayor Ted Wheeler noted that Wednesday's vote was the council's third attempt to pass the ordinance, and he thanked advocates, city staff and current and former commissioners for sticking through the process.
"I know that some of you have been working on this for years and years and years," he said, "and I want to thank you for your continued leadership and your continued diligence on behalf of the entirety of the community."
Wheeler and all of the commissioners present at the meeting voted to approve the measure and praised the environmental impacts of the ordinance, although commissioner Mingus Mapps added some reservations.
"I'm concerned about what's not in this ordinance," he said. "The proposed ordinance, for example, fails to provide exemptions for fossil fuel infrastructure projects that improve safety or accelerate the transition to lower-emission fuel sources. I think eventually council should look at those issues, but I also recognize that this is not the day to have that discussion." | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-enacts-fossil-fuel-terminal-restrictions/283-1aeb7918-9e8e-4eb0-82df-79cf50a923bc | 2022-08-25T01:46:48 | 0 | https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/portland-enacts-fossil-fuel-terminal-restrictions/283-1aeb7918-9e8e-4eb0-82df-79cf50a923bc |
LOS ANGELES — Kobe Bryant's widow was awarded $16 million as part of a $31 million jury verdict Wednesday against Los Angeles County for deputies and firefighters sharing grisly photos of the NBA star, his 13-year-old daughter and other victims killed in a 2020 helicopter crash.
The nine jurors unanimously agreed with Vanessa Bryant and her attorneys that the photos invaded her privacy and caused emotional distress. She cried quietly as it was read.
The jury deliberated 4 1/2 hours before reaching the verdict on Kobe Bryant Day, which is celebrated in LA on Aug. 24 because it represents his jersey numbers — 8 and 24 — and is the day after his birthday. Tuesday would have been Bryant's 44th birthday.
An attorney for the county declined comment on the verdict outside the courtroom.
The pictures were shared mostly between employees of the LA County sheriff's and fire departments including by some who were playing video games and attending an awards banquet. They were also seen by some of their spouses and in one case by a bartender at a bar where a deputy was drinking.
Vanessa Bryant tearfully testified during the 11-day trial that news of the photos compounded her still-raw grief a month after losing her husband and daughter, and that she still has panic attacks at the thought that they might still be out there.
"I live in fear every day of being on social media and these popping up," she testified. "I live in fear of my daughters being on social media and these popping up."
Her co-plaintiff Chris Chester, whose wife and daughter were also among the nine people killed in the crash, was awarded $15 million.
"We're grateful for a jury and a judge who gave us a fair trial," said Chester's lawyer Jerry Jackson.
Vanessa Bryant's attorneys did not give jurors a dollar amount they thought their client deserved, but Chester's attorney gave them suggested guidelines that would have meant tens of millions for each plaintiff.
Vanessa Bryant and her attorney declined comment outside court Wednesday. Her face was still streaked with tears as she walked past TV cameras and dozens of reporters and climbed into an SUV.
Vanessa Bryant's lawyer Luis Li told jurors that the close-up photos had no official or investigative purpose, and were mere "visual gossip" shared out of a gruesome curiosity.
County attorney J. Mira Hashmall argued during the trial that the photos were a necessary tool for assessing the situation.
She acknowledged that they should not have been shared with everyone who saw them. But she emphasized that the photos had never appeared publicly, and had never even been seen by the plaintiffs. She said that meant that Sheriff Alex Villanueva and other officials had taken decisive and effective action when they ordered those who had the photos to delete them.
Kobe Bryant, the former Lakers star, five-time NBA champion and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, was traveling with Gianna and seven others to a youth basketball game when the helicopter they were aboard crashed into hills in Calabasas west of Los Angeles on Jan. 26, 2020.
Federal safety officials blamed pilot error for the crash.
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