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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Thursday kicked off Recovery Month and West Virginia Sober Living held a free event to kick the month off.
The event was held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Magic Island in Charleston.
There were activities, resources and keynote speakers to celebrate recovery.
West Virginia Sober Living will have events all throughout the month of September in celebration of Recovery Month. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/west-virginia-sober-living-holds-event-for-recovery-month-in-charleston/ | 2022-09-01T23:59:32 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/west-virginia-sober-living-holds-event-for-recovery-month-in-charleston/ |
SAN ANTONIO — In a suspected case of human trafficking, four migrants were trying to escape after being held against their will at a Southside motel.
San Antonio Police are searching for the two suspects who chased the migrants in a black truck.
It happened around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday in the 8900 block of South Presa St. Two of the victims were hit by the truck which left the scene, according to authorities.
The owner of Thirsty’s SA, the bar across the street from where the crash happened, described the scene as “frantic.”
Bar owner Shannon Earhart says her bartenders jumped into action after they learned what was going on.
“Several of our regulars were there and somebody came in the bar and was like ‘hey, lock your doors, there’s been a gunshot,’” Earhart told KENS 5.
Earhart says during the chaos, some of the suspected migrants tried entering the bar, but she says the bartender locked the door after hearing what happened outside.
“They tried to open the door and took off,” Earhart says patrons saw the migrants running bare-foot through the parking lot.
According to San Antonio Police, the four migrants were being held against their will at the Berg’s Mill Motel on South Presa.
Police say after one of the suspects left the scene, the migrants overpowered the second suspect and left the room.
After the victims left, police say one of the suspects jumped into the suspect vehicle and as they ran away, two of the victims were ran over.
They were taken to the hospital for treatment. One of the victims, a 36-year-old male was suffering from life-threatening injuries but was in stable condition.
Two of the other victims, a 16-year-old and 26-year-old, both stayed on the scene.
“I’m hoping they were able to get good information from them to find out whose vehicle it was and track them down,” Earhart said.
Police say they are contacting the Department of Homeland Security and their investigation is ongoing.
Police believe the suspect took off in a black Ford F-150 and headed down South Presa towards Loop 410. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/suspected-migrants-hit-by-a-truck-after-escaping-stash-house-at-a-southside-motel/273-01ea9840-e7c9-48bb-972c-3f59c4355e89 | 2022-09-02T00:01:02 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/suspected-migrants-hit-by-a-truck-after-escaping-stash-house-at-a-southside-motel/273-01ea9840-e7c9-48bb-972c-3f59c4355e89 |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The community is paying respects to Charleston PD K-9 Axel, who was killed in the line of duty Saturday night while police responded to a call.
Officers say the suspect, Samuel Ranson, ran from a house and toward the woods. Axel tried to apprehend him.
That’s when police say Ranson pulled out a gun and shot and killed Axel.
Police say officers returned fire and shot and killed Ranson.
On Thursday, law enforcement officers, first responders, dispatchers and members of the public came out to honor Axel and show their support for his handler and family.
“They are faithful and loyal to their companion and their family,” said Robert Wagner.
Wagner works at the Kanawha Charleston Humane Association. He came to the service to honor Axel and brought along Cookie, a dog he is currently training.
“I respect the fact that it was a police officer and I’m kind of choked up about it,” Wagner said.
During the memorial, officers spoke about Axel’s sacrifice to save his partner Patrolman Josh Clendenin and also Patrolman Childress.
“It is said that if having a soul means to feel love, loyalty and gratitude then dogs are much better off than a lot of humans,” said Deputy Chief Scott Dempsey during the memorial. “To Josh and his family, we are truly sorry for your grief and for your loss. But know this, everybody in this Grand Hall, everybody watching is right beside you every step of the way.”
Since the incident, Charleston Police have reiterated what a vital role K-9 officers play in the work they do. Many have also talked about the bond that is developed between K-9 officers and their handlers.
“Law enforcement is a righteous and noble profession and we care so deeply for our service animals,” said Charleston Police Chief Tyke Hunt. “There is a bond between K-9 handler and K-9 that is unlike any other.”
Animal lovers from across the region were moved by Axel’s loyalty and commitment.
“He gave his life to save two men. He did what he could do. He gave it all. He gave his all, that’s what he did,” said animal lover Roger Porter. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-honors-k-9-officer-killed-in-line-of-duty/ | 2022-09-02T00:01:11 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-honors-k-9-officer-killed-in-line-of-duty/ |
A 5-year-old boy was killed while crossing a Queens street Thursday evening by a driver who immediately took off from the scene, police said.
The young boy was crossing 100th Street in East Elmhurst with his parents before 5:30 p.m., according to police, when a vehicle turned onto the road from McIntosh Street. The vehicle, a white Dodge pickup truck, hit the child and immediately drove away, police said.
The boy was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police are searching for the driver of the vehicle, and no arrests have yet been made. An investigation is ongoing. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/5-year-old-boy-killed-by-hit-and-run-driver-in-queens-police/3848866/ | 2022-09-02T00:01:57 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/5-year-old-boy-killed-by-hit-and-run-driver-in-queens-police/3848866/ |
A man fell to his death from the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge in New York's Hudson Valley after he got out of his car that had broken down on the highway, according to police.
New York State Police said that Paul Montenero, from Poughkeepsie, was driving eastbound along I-84 just before 10 p.m. on Tuesday when his car became disabled while in traffic on the bridge that spans from Dutchess County to Orange County.
As he tried to get to a safer spot via the pedestrian walkway next to the road, the 29-year-old fell through a gap in the bridge between the highway and that walkway.
Montenero's body was later recovered by the Orange County Technical Rescue Team. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-dies-after-falling-through-gap-in-nys-newburgh-beacon-bridge-after-car-broke-down/3848842/ | 2022-09-02T00:01:58 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/man-dies-after-falling-through-gap-in-nys-newburgh-beacon-bridge-after-car-broke-down/3848842/ |
BIRMINGHAM Ala. (WIAT) — UAB fans are gearing up for tonight’s football game, tailgating all around Protective Stadium. Local restaurants around the area are prepping for the crowds as well.
Several local restaurants in the area say they have made some adjustments this season for the anticipated big crowds, and they are hoping it turns into big bucks this football season.
K and J’s Elegant Pastries and Creamery owner Kristal Bryant says their business is new to the area, but feels the World Games prepared them well for football season.
Bryant says large events that occur within the area have proven to have a positive impact on their business, increasing sales greatly. She says they are excited to welcome guests from all over this football season.
“Anytime we can put our business on a platform as large as this, you know, where we have people coming out of town and we have people that are local that may not have heard about us, but they’re coming down for the game, we’re always excited about it,” said Bryant. “So, I’m super excited about today.”
In preparation for the large crowds, Bryant says they bring in extra employees and extend their hours so they may continue to serve customers successfully.
Bryant says they will remain open until game time at 7:00 p.m. this evening and encourage tailgaters to stop by for a gameday-themed sweet treat.
“Every game day, we will offer game day treats,” said Bryant. “So, we have cute little cupcakes with the logos on them, you know, for the teams. And then always, we prepare like a Saturday, a super busy Saturday.”
Mugshots general manager Randall Peterson says college football season can be difficult to navigate, but that the USFL season helped them with preparations for this fall.
Peterson says on gamedays they prepare extra food and have extra servers on hand to ensure all customer needs are met.
He says they love that UAB’s football games are hosted at Protective Stadium, as the big crowds make it a win-win situation for his business.
“Last season they were here,” said Peterson. “Getting to see the parade and everyone come walk through that’s always awesome. You know, it brings a lot of attention in here. It fills up all the little parking lots. You got people watching the team come in and rooting on the local team. So that always brings in more business- more people around the area.”
Peterson encourages guests and tailgaters to stop by for their game day specials before or after the game. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/local-restaurants-prepare-for-large-crowds-this-football-season/ | 2022-09-02T00:02:01 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/local-restaurants-prepare-for-large-crowds-this-football-season/ |
A shooting gallery is just one of the activities you can do at the New York State Trappers and Sportsman Show. The show has plenty of fur, lures for baiting animals, and of course traps, but they also have live demonstrations to establish best practices. Charles Pitcher is a young Trapper from Westford, New York.
"They have a big setup and they have like ok here’s going to be a fox demo, or they have coyote demos and they show you how to like plant the trap and how to cover it up."
David Leibig, the Executive Director of the New York State Trappers Association says the demonstrations give novice and professional trappers a chance to perfect their skills.
"There’s somebody that has a specialty, and they share their secrets to make you a better trapper."
There’s everything from crafts to serious trapping items, and it’s not just the older crowd that’s getting 'caught up' in the activity.
"Trapping is the only one the median age is lowering. Hunters are getting older and older, and trappers get lower, and I put that towards our youth trapper’s camp."
This show helps educate the public about what trapping is all about, and why it’s important, and that message is getting through to young trappers like Charles Pitcher.
"Trapping is just trying to downsize the population so other animals can live better."
Don Hillman is the Region 6 Director of the New York State Trappers Association. He explains how wild animals will live better if they’re properly maintained.
"By controlling the animal populations we can reduce the amount of disease in the animals."
There is a misconception that trapping is cruel, but the traps are simply meant to hold the animal in place without hurting it, and many trappers like David Leibigare are selective about the animals they do catch.
"If I find a young female Bobcat I’ll let it go because that’s seed to produce more animals. It makes a healthy population."
Admission to the Trappers Convention & Sportsman Show is $10 per person. Service members and those 16 under get in for free. The event is Thursday noon-5 PM, Friday from 8 AM until 5 PM, and Saturday from 8 AM until 4 PM
For more information contact Bill Swagler: NYSTAconvention@gmail.com | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/new-york-state-trappers-and-sportsman-show/article_f64862ee-2a38-11ed-a7fe-f76ff0258c74.html | 2022-09-02T00:03:13 | 1 | https://www.wktv.com/news/local/new-york-state-trappers-and-sportsman-show/article_f64862ee-2a38-11ed-a7fe-f76ff0258c74.html |
Christopher “Chris” Pettit, the ex-San Antonio attorney accused of absconding with millions of dollars of clients’ money, has again avoided being held in contempt of court in his bankruptcy case — for now.
At an emergency hearing Thursday, Chief U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Craig Gargotta declined to grant the Chapter 11 trustee’s request to hold Pettit in contempt for violating a court order prohibiting him from transferring or disposing of any of his personal property.
But the judge ordered Pettit — who has been living in an $8 million mansion at Disney World while working as a $15.75-an-hour cook on the resort’s grounds — to appear in the San Antonio court next week to show why he shouldn’t be sanctioned for violating the court’s order.
“Mr. Pettit, I know you work. I know you’re in Florida. Can’t do much about that,” Gargotta told Pettit, who appeared by video. “You need to be here on Sept. 8.”
Trustee Eric Terry requested the emergency hearing after one of his lawyers, Patrick Huffstickler, got a phone call from Rob Vogt of Vogt Auction Galleries.
Vogt told him that someone had come by the business to inquire about selling personal property at a house on Champions Run in a gated community in Stone Oak, Huffstickler said Thursday.
Vogt visited the house and identified property he would be willing to sell. While in the house, he noticed a Post-It Note with Pettit’s name but didn’t think anything of it. After leaving, Huffstickler said, Vogt felt like something was “off” about his visit. He subsequently remembered reading about Pettit’s bankruptcy in the newspaper. So he called Huffstickler.
“I advised him there’s been no order to allow the sale of any personal property” that’s part of the bankruptcy estate, Huffstickler said.
The trustee said he believes Vogt met with a family member of the nanny who cares for Pettit’s 10-year-old son.
Pettit testified that he didn’t authorize anyone to meet with auction house representatives.
“I did not ask anyone to move anything out” of the house, he added.
Pettit filed bankruptcy protection for himself and his law firm June 1 after they were sued multiple times by clients who alleged their money had gone missing. His latest bankruptcy schedules listed $43.5 million in assets and $112.2 million in liabilities. He’s given up his law license and shut down his law practice.
The FBI has been investigating the allegations against him.
Pettit appeared at Thursday’s hearing without bankruptcy counsel after his former attorneys were allowed to withdraw from the case this week. They told the judge they had a conflict of interest after learning they had been paid with money that belonged to a Pettit client, opening them up to possibly being sued. Pettit hopes to hire a new lawyer soon.
Throughout the case, he’s been described as an uncooperative debtor who has obfuscated matters in the bankruptcy. He has been unwilling or unable to say where his former clients’ money went, but says he’s looking into it.
After Huffstickler heard from the auctioneer, Terry and attorney Danielle Rushing paid a visit to the Champions Run house Wednesday. They found some items boxed up and others missing — including a washer and dryer, a foosball table and a mini-fridge.
While on the witness stand, Terry described the creditors — some of whom have regularly been attending hearings — as “victims.”
“Their lives have been destroyed,” he said. “Since my appointment, they’re just getting further disrespected because of Mr. Pettit’s interference. Quite frankly, this court is being disrespected.”
Earlier this summer, Pettit provoked the trustee’s ire when it was discovered Pettit had withdrawn more than $186,000 from his retirement accounts after filing for bankruptcy, then going on a spending spree. While Pettit has said the money is his to spend freely, no determination has been made by the court.
The trustee sought to have Pettit held in contempt over that as well, but the judge declined the request in late July. But he issued the order barring Pettit from disposing of any personal property.
During Thursday’s hearing, some wanted Gargotta to go even further than what the trustee requested.
Mary Elizabeth Heard, a lawyer for a creditor, told the judge he should hold Pettit in civil contempt and have him sit in a jail cell until he reveals what he’s done with her client’s money.
“He’s directing … his minions to sell personal property out of the estate without permission,” she said. “Your honor, I would simply ask that … you bring him back to San Antonio and put him in a place where he can spend some time thinking about what he’s done.”
Gargotta said there was not convincing evidence to show that Pettit had directed his nanny’s family to sell items to the auction house. The judge ordered them all to appear next week so he can hear their testimony.
He added that he will issue a bench warrant for Pettit’s arrest if he fails to show.
“This isn’t a party invitation,” the judge said. “It’s time that we get some resolution on this. Frankly, my considerable patience is worn.”
pdanner@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Bankruptcy-judge-declines-Chris-Pettit-contempt-17413862.php | 2022-09-02T00:03:39 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/business/local/article/Bankruptcy-judge-declines-Chris-Pettit-contempt-17413862.php |
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After sitting through more than a week of halting, confusing testimony, a jury found former Bexar County Constable Michelle Barrientes Vela guilty of two felony counts of tampering with evidence.
Vela, 48, had been under a cloud since an 2019 Easter Sunday incident at a West Side park, where she allegedly coerced a family into paying her $300 in cash for security at a pavilion they had already paid for.
She still faces three counts of official oppression, a Class A misdemeanor, that was not part of the trial.
Prosecutors Dawn McCraw and Oscar Salinas had pointed to a mountain of records, a paper trail from the park’s rental system the investigation of Vela, to argue that evidence was destroyed or fabricated.
Defense attorneys Jason Goss and Nicholas “Nico” LaHood argued that law enforcement and prosecutors — which they called “the government” — laid a politically motivated trap for Vela and timed it to coincide with Vela’s campaign for sheriff.
She was indicted Jan. 20, 2020, while a candidate in the Democratic primary that March, and the charges ruined her chances of defeating incumbent Sheriff Javier Salazar, her lawyers said.
The defense also said the state’s main witness, Susan Tristan, a former clerk in Vela’s Precinct 2 office, was the one who kept the documents related to Rodriguez Park and admitted to shredding many of them. She was reprimanded and written up for it, and then left for a job in Seattle.
Salinas, in his closing argument, called it “a straightforward and common-sense case” about an elected official who controlled how security was handled at the park and what happened after the complaint was lodged.
Tristan spoke of being urged by Vela to “watch her back” and get a lawyer, and had testified she feared for her job when she contacted Texas Ranger Bradley Freeman, the investigator looking at possible corruption in a “joint effort” with the FBI.
“She saw the writing on the wall, she went to the law,” Salinas said.
Implying that the charges were rogue and bogus, Goss implored the jury not to buy into it.
“They are trying to make you think she is a bad person,” Goss said.
In his closing argument, LaHood said this case was nothing but politics at play.
“We don’t prosecute politics, personality or ideology,” he told the jury. “You are the big equalizers.”
LaHood reminded the jury they never heard Tristan say Vela told her to hide anything, and that Tristan wore a recording device on three different occasions that did not capture anything incriminating.
He pointed out that Freeman never recorded his conversations with Tristan and relied on her to tell him whether anything notable was recorded in her conversations with Vela.
LaHood pointed out that Jesus Reyes Jr., the park patron who paid Vela $300, admitted he unknowingly violated policies when more than 50 guests showed up at the pavilion he rented, and consumed alcohol.
“Freeman said Michelle Barrientes Vela was well within her right to do what the did that day, Reyes was wrong,” LaHood said.
In her closing argument, McCraw scoffed at the idea that Vela had been set up for political reasons.
“You forget she is a law enforcement officer, too,” McCraw said. “Vela is the only one who knew who actually worked (at the park) and who actually got paid,” and if Tristan had not alerted law enforcement, “we never would have learned of this public corruption.”
“It’s not a small amount of money,” McCraw told the panel. “We will never know how much money was collected. Why? She’s not letting us know. She’s not telling us.
McCraw also said she was “outraged” that the defense lawyers disparaged her reputation and that of Freeman during the often contentious trial.
“They don’t want you looking at her,” McCraw told the jury, pointing at Vela.
Freeman had garnered a scolding from state District Judge Velia Meza, who said she planned to hold him in contempt for mentioning other offenses Vela was accused of after being ordered not to let the jury hear it. LaHood had called it a deliberate ploy by Freeman and McCraw.
Vela will go before Meza at a pre-sentence investigation hearing at a later date. She faces up to 10 years in prison and has applied for probation.
ezavala@express-news.net | Twitter: @elizabeth2863 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Cook-the-books-constable-Victim-of-politics-17413770.php | 2022-09-02T00:03:45 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Cook-the-books-constable-Victim-of-politics-17413770.php |
Police are searching for at least two suspects who held four males hostage in a South Side motel.
Officers were called to the 8700 block of South Presa Street at about 4:30 p.m. Wednesday for a shooting in progress. When they arrived, they found a 36-year-old man and 26-year-old man in a nearby grassy area with multiple injuries.
Witnesses at the scene told police that the two injured men were with two other males running from a vehicle that was chasing them, the San Antonio Police Department said. The victims and suspects inside the vehicle were exchanging gunfire before the vehicle ran over the two injured men.
The vehicle then fled southbound on South Presa toward Loop 410. Police were unable to locate them.
Police believe the four victims were held hostage at a nearby motel by at least two suspects, though they do not know how long the men were held against their will. The victims said that one of the suspects left the motel, prompting the victims to overpower the other captor and escape.
The two injured men were taken to a hospital, one with life-threatening injuries. The other victims, a 16-year-old and 25-year-old were, uninjured.
Police said no arrests have been made and that an investigation is pending.
The four victims are believed to be migrants, according to media reports. Homeland Security Investigations is working in conjunction with the SAPD, the department said.
taylor.pettaway@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Four-migrants-held-hostage-San-Antonio-motel-17413628.php | 2022-09-02T00:03:51 | 1 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Four-migrants-held-hostage-San-Antonio-motel-17413628.php |
A mother and daughter who police believe were part of a recent murder-suicide were identified Thursday by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The mother has been identified as Leticia Marie Pecina, 44, and her daughter has been identified as Aurelia Alvarado, 8. The girl had previously been reported as being 7 years old.
Pecina died from a self-inflicted stab wound to the chest, according to preliminary information from the Medical Examiner’s Office. They believe Aurelia died of asphyxia by strangulation, with her preliminary manner of death listed as homicide.
San Antonio police are investigating their deaths as a murder-suicide, according to a preliminary report.
Emergency personnel responded on Tuesday to a home on the South Side after Jorge Alvarado, the girl’s father, found mother and daughter dead in the back of her vehicle.
A San Antonio Fire Department official pronounced Aurelia and Pecina dead at the scene, according to a police report.
Pecina was a juvenile detention officer for Bexar County who retired in 2018. In 2015, she was named employee of the year for the Juvenile Detention Department’s Office of the General Counsel.
Alvarado is employed by the county as an administrative specialist in the Juvenile Detention department.
Alvarado and Pecina were married in 2006, county records show.
The investigation is ongoing.
Emilie Eaton contributed to this report
michelle.delrey@hearst.com | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Mother-daughter-who-died-in-suspected-17413779.php | 2022-09-02T00:03:57 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Mother-daughter-who-died-in-suspected-17413779.php |
The Yturri-Edmunds Historic Site on the South Side, one of the only adobe houses of its kind in San Antonio, can seem like a place frozen in time.
After Vicenta Edmunds died in 1924, the clock on the mantle in the main parlor stopped measuring the passing hours and remained that way for 98 years.
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On Saturday, thieves kicked in the doors of the 180-year-old home and stole the clock. They vandalized the home, scattering artifacts and ripping off the heads of dolls.
“Why do you have to trash a piece of San Antonio history that goes back 180 years?” said Vincent Michael, the president of the San Antonio Conservation Society, which now owns and manages the property.
The Yturri-Edmunds Historic Site, about a block from the San Antonio River on 128 Mission Road, is a complex of structures from the 1800s that were originally part of Mission Concepcion. The home was built in the 1850s, and the land stayed in the Yturri-Edmunds family for almost 140 years.
The house, today decorated in period furnishings and functioning as a museum, reflects the heritage and architecture of the Hispanic people of the Southwest in the 1800s.
The break-in was five months after Mission Concepcion and Mission San Juan were broken into and marred with graffiti, causing considerable damage to the historic structures.
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On Sunday afternoon, a tenant who lives on the property discovered two doors had been kicked in.
“They ripped a lot of stuff off the shelves, scattered a lot of artifacts, rifled through some drawers,” Michael said.
Michael said that while nothing with much monetary value was stolen, the clock had special historical and interpretative value.
Vicenta was a descendant of one of 16 Canary Islander families who had established the first municipal government here in 1731. She is recognized by the Harlandale Independent School District as the first paid teacher in the district’s service area.
Vicenta was also religious and spiritual — she erected a sculpture of the Virgin Mary on the property because her mother had seen a vision of a woman in white there on several occasions.
The clock stopped — at 2:45 p.m. — the moment Vicenta died in 1924. Her daughters, Erestine and Josephine, placed letters inside the clock attesting to the fact that the clock had stopped working.
KENS 5, which originally reported the story, referred to the clock as possibly "cursed” and asked Michael whether he thought “a ghost is following the people who stole this.”
The Express-News also asked Michael whether he believed the clock was haunted.
“I’m not going to tell ghost stories,” Michael said.
For Michael, the clock and the handwritten notes are important to telling the story of the home.
Then, before the telephone interview ended, someone in the car with Michael said: “It’s as haunted as you want it to be.”
timothy.fanning@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Yturri-Edmund-cursed-clock-17413531.php | 2022-09-02T00:04:03 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Yturri-Edmund-cursed-clock-17413531.php |
A Fort Wayne man was in critical but stable condition following a one-car crash Thursday in DeKalb County.
Police were called about 11:20 a.m. to the 1000 block of West Quincy Street in Altona where a Ford F-150 truck had caught fire after striking a tree.
William J. Smith, 43, was driving east on West Quincy at high speed when he drifted to the north side of the road and struck the tree on the truck's front driver's side bumper, police said.
Smith was trapped in the truck and had to be extricated by the Garrett Fire Department. He was flown to a hospital where he was in critical but stable condition with leg and arm fractures.
Speed was a factor in the crash, police said. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/driver-badly-injured-in-dekalb-fiery-truck-crash/article_a7d017ee-2a45-11ed-a57e-9b62d31c6919.html | 2022-09-02T00:05:08 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/driver-badly-injured-in-dekalb-fiery-truck-crash/article_a7d017ee-2a45-11ed-a57e-9b62d31c6919.html |
TWIN FALLS — Shoppers grabbed their last armfuls of clothing, food items and cleaning supplies Thursday at a favorite discount store, appropriately named Thursdays.
“This store was loved by a lot of people,” owner Kevin Johansen said of the business, hidden at the end of Third Street West near the railroad tracks.
The building has been sold and the store will be forced to close. Johansen has been in liquidation mode for the past several weeks, discounting his merchandise.
“We aren’t closing voluntarily,” he said. “The new owner has other plans.” Johansen was unsure about the store’s last day; there is a chance the business will be open next week. He is checking into the possibility of relocating the store.
The building is primitive, the floors uneven. It had a dirt parking lot. It was open just two days a week.
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But maybe that bit of old-timey charm was what made Thursdays popular.
“It was fun because it was a different kind of store,” customer Emmalee Lawlor said.
Another customer, Don Brown, said the prices weren’t bad either.
It is a quaint store, selling mostly customer returns and closeouts. Customers never know what they will find there, from “Dr. Real” soda, to crutches, to a giant pair of coveralls. Racks of clothing cover much of the floor space.
Johansen bought the business three years ago, with his wife, Tina. The pandemic hit, which caused sales to decline. Tina, who Johansen described as “the heart and soul of the business,” had the venture rolling again when they heard of the fate of the building.
There is a chance, Kevin said, that they will relocate, but they haven’t found a suitable retail space.
The business has done well for itself, especially considering it was started on a business plan based in fiction, said founder Gus Bowman, who opened the store in the late 1990s and ran it for 10 years when he had an opportunity to sell customer returns from a big box store.
“We heard about a business in Portland that was open one day a week,” he said. He decided to follow that business plan because it would fit into his busy schedule.
As it turned out, there was no store in Portland that fit the description of the story he heard.
“We based our whole business plan on something that wasn’t true,” Bowman said. The store later started to open on Saturdays in addition to Thursdays.
A semi-load of bb guns put Thursdays on the map in its early years. Bowman said he acquired the guns a short time after he opened the store and customers flocked to the location to make purchases.
Customers still often got lost trying to find the store. Bowman said it was common for the chamber of commerce or the gas station employees down the street to field questions as to where to find it.
“It’s almost impossible to find that store,” he said. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/no-more-thursdays-discount-store-to-close/article_ec1aa582-2a2b-11ed-9798-4f5edfaff4ec.html | 2022-09-02T00:16:23 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/no-more-thursdays-discount-store-to-close/article_ec1aa582-2a2b-11ed-9798-4f5edfaff4ec.html |
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CHANDLER, Ariz. — She's fast, she's accurate, can handle every table in the restaurant...and she's never gone home.
Because this perfect, tireless server is a robot.
Kur-B is a bright, yellow robotic serving tray on wheels. Conveyor belt sushi chain Kura Sushi started rolling them out before the pandemic but has since put them in every U.S. location.
“It does make the service job a lot easier, so that they're not running around just serving drinks," manager Christy Nguyen said. "Most of their time before was serving drinks, collecting the drinks and all of that.”
Customers at Kura order their drinks from a tablet mounted above the tables. the sushi rolls by on a conveyor belt, and Kur-B comes along shortly after with the drink order on one of the trays.
While Kura rolled the robots out as an extra set of hands in a restaurant that automates most of its activity, other restaurants are using them to help with staffing shortages.
Chili's restaurants have deployed Rita the Robot in 50 locations around the country, including three in northeastern Arizona.
Those robots help deliver food, bring customers to their seats and even sing Happy Birthday.
Other restaurants across the country have employed robots to help bus tables and also deliver food.
“It's fun, everyone gets a kick out of them," Nguyen said.
The robots obviously have limitations that keep them from replacing human workers. For starters, Kur-B doesn't have hands, so it depends on humans to fill the drinks and put them on the trays. But when faced with a shortage of workers, they're a welcome help.
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PHOENIX — One thousand people a month are filling out applications needing help with their rent in the City of Phoenix.
However, the City of Phoenix doesn’t have any more Emergency Rental Assistance funds anymore. It ran out two weeks ago, and the rest of the millions in funding has been given to four other agencies to help get through the applications faster.
“We know that the demand for the service is very, very high,” Sandra A. Mendez, the City of Phoenix’s ERA special project administrator said.
Since September of last year, 12,000 applications have been filled out for the City of Phoenix’s ERA program.
A constant, Mendez says, following the hardships of COVID-19 and the eviction moratorium being lifted.
“We're moving through most of them as quickly as possible. But we knew that getting help from the community, especially partners that are experienced in this kind of work, was a good idea,” Mendez said.
The last allocation for rental assistance funding was $35 million. Mendez says a portion of that was kept by the City of Phoenix to administer themselves.
At the same time, the city started working with four partners to administer the rest of the funds.
Now, $23 million is still left in rental assistance, just through the other agencies and not through the City of Phoenix itself.
The Foundation for Senior Living, St. Vincent de Paul, Chicanos Por La Causa and Pilgrim Rest are the agencies taking on distributing the funds to applicants now.
“We're still processing applications in the order received. Only what we're doing now is we're distributing them across four providers who are helping us get to those applications and hopefully process applications quicker,” Mendez said.
How much longer those agencies will be distributing that assistance, is unclear, Mendez says, as it’s unknown how much longer the $23 million will last.
“We’re keeping our fingers crossed, and hope we get another $35 million allocation and that will extend,” Mendez said. “But at this point, it's really hard to say.”
The allocations the city has received are allocations Mendez said she hasn’t seen in the 30 years she’s worked in the field and doesn’t anticipate it will stay long-term.
“We're advising clients to start thinking about sustainability with their rent, that they start making plans for trying to find a little bit more affordable housing,” Mendez said.
However, Mendez acknowledges those options are limited.
“I think, from our perspective, it's best to start having those conversations and helping families look at options as we move forward.”
While the City of Phoenix isn’t the one distributing the funding anymore, they’re still taking the applications for the four other agencies that are. Information about the program, with a link to the application, can be found here.
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NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 announced that 7,742 pets were adopted from 60 North Texas shelters/rescues during its month-long Clear The Shelters™ 2022 pet adoption campaign.
Across the country, 1,375 shelters in 50 states, Puerto Rico and Guam participated in helping more than 127,000 pets find new homes. This year’s initiative took place from Aug. 1 through Aug. 31 with participating shelters waiving adoption fees on Saturday, August 27.
The campaign also featured online donations through partners Greater Good Charities and The Animal Rescue Site, which host the fundraising and cover all transaction fees so that 100% of donations go directly to shelters and rescues in need.
This is the eighth consecutive year that NBC 5 and Telemundo 39 present their popular pet adoption campaign to local communities in partnership with area shelters/rescues. Since 2015, NBC and Telemundo-owned stations’ Clear The Shelters campaign has helped more than 830,000 pets find new homes.
Each year, Clear the Shelters is an opportunity for North Texans to open their home to a pet in need. Thanks to Clear the Shelters 2022, a 3-year-old mixed-breed named Scooter who had been at the SPCA of Texas since April found his new home with Alma Chavez. "I went back to where Scooter was and he kept looking at me with that sad eyes," Chavez said. "He started licking me and started wagging his tail, and that's when, like, 'this is mine!'" Scooter is just the prescription Chavez needs as she battles cancer.
Vanessa Lopez and her 10-year-old son added one-eyed Draco, the family's second pit bull. “If you give them love and affection, and show them you care about them, then they’re this type of whole different breed,” Lopez said.
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For more information about this year’s pet adoption campaign, visit ClearTheShelters.com. Follow the effort on Twitter @ClearTheShelter, and on social media using the hashtags #ClearTheShelters and #DesocuparLosAlbergues. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/clear-the-shelters/more-than-7700-pets-adopted-during-clear-the-shelters-2022/3062764/ | 2022-09-02T00:24:58 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/clear-the-shelters/more-than-7700-pets-adopted-during-clear-the-shelters-2022/3062764/ |
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — Cape May County health officials are preparing a series of walk-in COVID-19 vaccine clinics this month.
“Lives are getting back to normal, but we can continue to provide protection to ourselves and our families by getting vaccinated,” said county Commissioner Jeffrey Pierson. “Our county government is committed to making it easier for our residents to receive the vaccine.”
Clinics will be held on the following Tuesdays:
Here’s an update of the COVID-19 numbers in the state.
- Sept. 6 from 3-5 p.m. at the Cape May County Department of Health, 6 Moore Road, Cape May Court House. This clinic is for people 6 months and older, including adults. This is the only clinic for children in September. There will be no booster doses available at this clinic.
- Sept. 20 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Cape May County Department of Health, for ages 18 and older.
- Sept. 27 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Communities at The Shores, 24th Street and Simpson Avenue, Ocean City, for ages 18 and older.
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Masks must be worn at all clinic locations. Recipients must bring a form of identification and their COVID-19 vaccine records, if they have them, health officials said.
Children will be given Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, in two doses, as adults received their initial shots. The Department of Health will provide second-dose inoculations at a later date, health officials said.
For more information, visit cmchealth.net. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-county-offering-september-covid-19-vaccine-clinics/article_c73688a2-2a3b-11ed-acb4-ebeb4b5eb802.html | 2022-09-02T00:28:55 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/cape-may-county-offering-september-covid-19-vaccine-clinics/article_c73688a2-2a3b-11ed-acb4-ebeb4b5eb802.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — A city man was arrested Wednesday and charged in a stabbing death that occurred in June, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said.
George Harrell, 32, is accused of stabbing Dwight Hutchinson in the first block of North Kentucky Avenue on June 5, the Prosecutor's Office said Thursday in a news release. Harrell was arrested almost three months later by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Harrell was charged with murder, felony murder, robbery, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. He is pending extradition from Philadelphia, the Prosecutor's Office said.
About 2:20 p.m. June 5, police responded to a 911 call for an unresponsive man, identified as Hutchinson, on North Kentucky Avenue. Hutchinson was found lying on the ground unresponsive, police said.
Medical personnel were unable to revive him, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. An autopsy determined Hutchinson died from a stab wound to the chest, and that his death was a homicide. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-man-charged-in-june-stabbing-death/article_bc9b9e22-2a46-11ed-9db8-a3aca6e7d4f2.html | 2022-09-02T00:29:02 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-man-charged-in-june-stabbing-death/article_bc9b9e22-2a46-11ed-9db8-a3aca6e7d4f2.html |
ATLANTIC CITY — A city man was charged in a Sunday shooting in the resort, the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office said Thursday.
Lester Robinson, 28, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder, certain persons not to possess weapons, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in the death of Malikah McLaughlin, 26, of Atlantic City, the Prosecutor's Office said in a news release.
Robinson was arrested Wednesday and is being held in the Atlantic County jail.
Police responded to a 911 call at 1:09 a.m. Sunday for a shooting on South Bellevue Avenue. Officers found McLaughlin lying in the street unresponsive with multiple gunshot wounds. She was transported to the hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
An autopsy revealed she died from her wounds, and that the manner of death was homicide. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-man-charged-in-recent-shooting-death/article_e3489234-2a49-11ed-9b87-bf5d9e0fcd38.html | 2022-09-02T00:29:08 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/atlantic-city-man-charged-in-recent-shooting-death/article_e3489234-2a49-11ed-9b87-bf5d9e0fcd38.html |
Capt. Anthony Garreffi Jr. was officially sworn in as chief of the Sea Isle City Police Department on Thursday.
Mayor Leonard Desiderio administered the oath of office to Garreffi at City Hall, where Garreffi's relatives, members of the public and more witnessed the ceremony.
Garreffi has led the department since former Chief Thomas McQuillen retired at the beginning of the year. Garreffi also served as officer in charge before McQuillen was appointed chief in 2018.
Garreffi joined the Police Department as a seasonal officer in 1998 after completing Class II officer training at the Cape May County Police Academy.
In 2000, he attended the Atlantic County Police Academy before serving with the Atlantic County Sheriff’s Office for one year. In 2001, Garreffi returned to Sea Isle as a full-time patrolman. He was promoted to sergeant in 2007, lieutenant in 2010 and captain in 2014; and he served on the city’s SWAT team from 2006 to 2014, according to city officials.
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As head of the Police Department, Garreffi will manage day-to-day public safety operations in the community, including overseeing the city's Division of Emergency Medical Services, Fire Department and Office of Emergency Management. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/anthony-garreffi-sworn-in-as-sea-isle-citys-new-police-chief/article_4bf97e78-2a50-11ed-8858-4fae3b639ead.html | 2022-09-02T00:29:14 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/anthony-garreffi-sworn-in-as-sea-isle-citys-new-police-chief/article_4bf97e78-2a50-11ed-8858-4fae3b639ead.html |
Stockton University has selected one team and three individuals to comprise the 2022 class of the Stockton Athletics Hall of Fame. This year’s honorees are the 1999 Men’s Soccer Team, Josh Blamon (men’s basketball), Jimmy Connor (men’s soccer) and Chelsea Vaughan (women’s track and field).
The 2022 class will be the first class to be inducted since 2019.
The Stockton Athletics Hall of Fame banquet will be held at 6 p.m. on Oct. 7 in the Stockton Campus Center Event Room as part of the University Weekend festivities. Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased at stocktonathletics.com/sports/2022/8/25/hall-of-fame-registraton-2018.aspx. For more information, contact the Stockton Office of Athletics & Recreation at 609-652-4217.
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The 1999 men’s soccer team finished 20-5-1, at the time a school-record for victories and still second in school history. The Ospreys beat Rowan University 2-1 in overtime to win the New Jersey Athletic Conference championship for the second time in program history. Stockton earned an NCAA Division III Tournament berth.
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The Ospreys topped Vassar 4-0 and Rowan 2-1 to reach the NCAA quarterfinals. Playing on its home field, Stockton then upset second-ranked Williams College 1-0 and reached the program’s first NCAA Final Four. The Ospreys ended the season ranked fourth nationally.
Blamon was voted to the National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America Second Team in 2015, becoming the fifth All-American in Stockton men’s basketball history. Blamon was the chosen NJAC Player of the Year in 2015 and also was a two-time NABC All-District First Team and two-time NJAC First Team honoree (both 2014-15). He was also an NJAC Honorable Mention nod in 2013.
He ranks third all-time at Stockton with 209 3-pointers and he’s fifth in points with 1,397. He scored 536 points in 2013-14 and 519 points in 2014-15, two of the top seven single-season scoring totals in school history. Blamon helped Stockton to two NJAC championships (2014 and 2015) and three NCAA Tournament wins during his career.
Connor returned to his native New Jersey after two seasons at Illinois State University to play soccer for Stockton in 1996 and 1997. He scored a total of 40 goals and had 18 assists In his two seasons for the Ospreys, for 98 points in 37 games. He was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-Region First Team and the NJAC First Team in both of his seasons as an Osprey.
Connor helped Stockton win the program’s first NJAC championship, and the team reached the second round of the NCAA Division III Tournament in 1996. He still holds school records for goals (25) and points (60) in a season, both set in 1997. Connor ranks sixth in program history in goals and seventh in points.
Vaughan was a six-time Division III All-American in the women’s pole vault. She earned three All-American honors each in indoor and outdoor track & field in her three years at Stockton after transferring from the University of Cincinnati. She was voted the NJAC Outstanding Field Athlete for the 2014-15 indoor season.
Vaughan won the NJAC title in the pole vault and earned NJAC First Team honors five times in her six seasons at Stockton. She also was NJAC Second Team once. Vaughan earned U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association All-Region honors for the 2016 indoor and outdoor seasons, the first year that those awards were available. She won the women’s pole vault 26 times in the 51 meets in which she competed. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stockton-announces-2022-athletics-hall-of-fame-class/article_5f7432f0-2a40-11ed-a93a-1b7001ff3aca.html | 2022-09-02T00:29:20 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/stockton-announces-2022-athletics-hall-of-fame-class/article_5f7432f0-2a40-11ed-a93a-1b7001ff3aca.html |
Idaho Falls Regional Airport officials are seeing another busy year, as the airport is on pace to accommodate more passengers than last year’s record-setting numbers.
Airport Director Rick Cloutier said the airport increased passenger counts of about 30% from January through March compared to last year. This trend continued through the summer as passenger numbers are about 25% higher than they were in 2021 through the summer, he said.
“Over the last few years, we’ve been adding more flights since pre-COVID. Comparing this year to 2019, we have 85% more departing seats,” Cloutier said. “We have twice as many airlines as we did before COVID and they’re continuing to add flights all the time so people are using that to travel more both in and out of the region.”
The early projection for fall tickets continue to show an increased passenger count when compared to 2021, Cloutier said. Jackson Hole Airport’s closure did contribute to some additional passengers flying through Idaho Falls because of the city’s proximity to Yellowstone but July passenger numbers still were about 25% higher than July 2021, and Jackson Hole reopened at the end of June.
Nearly 450,000 commercial airline passengers used the airport in 2021, breakingIdaho Falls Regional Airport's previous total passenger record — set in 2019 at 350,000 passengers — in October.
City Public Information Officer Eric Grossarth wrote in a text to the Post Register that passenger numbers from January through July have increased by about 75% compared to 2021, rising to 374,750 from 210,500.
Airport officials also are working on the beginning stages of a future runway reconstruction project in 2024. The City Council approved a design agreement for the runway project as a consent item during its Aug. 25 meeting.
The design work of the project will cost $433,051 and the Federal Aviation Administration will cover $415,360 of the project. According to a March 30 work order, the project will add paved shoulders and blast pads to the runway, replace existing lighting and signs, install a weather information system, and rehabilitate a terminal apron and north apron. An apron is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, refueled, boarded and maintained.
Cloutier said the project is in its very early stages and heisn’t sure yet if it would require a runway closure. The last time the runway received major reconstruction was in 2008.
“Runways need to be constructed about every 10 or 12 years depending on how much use they’re getting,” Cloutier said. “Over the last 10 years, our operations have increased, so we have larger aircraft and more aircraft here than we did 10 years ago and it raises up to a different level of what’s needed (for the runway).” | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/idaho-falls-airport-annual-passenger-numbers-on-pace-to-increase-from-2021/article_48a5d5a8-2a39-11ed-9e76-870d8ba3b7e8.html | 2022-09-02T00:33:00 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/idaho-falls-airport-annual-passenger-numbers-on-pace-to-increase-from-2021/article_48a5d5a8-2a39-11ed-9e76-870d8ba3b7e8.html |
SAN FRANCISCO — A Northern California county has agreed to ban rubber bullets, bean bags and less-lethal munitions for crowd control as part of a settlement after sheriff’s deputies fired rubber bullets and injured two people protesting police brutality in 2020, the plaintiff’s lawyer said Thursday.
Oakland Police officers and Alameda County Sheriff’s deputies used tear gas to disperse demonstrators in Oakland during a June 1, 2020, protest, and deputies started indiscriminately firing rubber bullets at the crowd, shooting Tosh Sears in the hip and Kierra Brown in the calf, according to a federal lawsuit against Alameda County and the city of Oakland.
Sears and Brown along with thousands of others took to the streets to protest police brutality and racial injustice after a white Minneapolis officer killed George Floyd, a Black man.
Since 2003, the city of Oakland has had a policy banning the use of rubber bullets and bean bags for crowd control unless there was an “immediate danger of death or great bodily injury." But the department allowed Alameda County Sheriff's deputies, who were assisting city officers during the protests, to fire impact munitions at the demonstrators, attorney Rachel Laderman said.
“Alameda County Sheriff was really the main actor in terms of using impact munitions in an indiscriminate manner, shooting willy nilly into the crowd,” Laderman said.
The settlement restricts the sheriff’s department's use of impact munitions and flashbang grenades to situations where it’s necessary to defend against the threat to life or serious bodily injury or to bring a dangerous and unlawful situation under control, she added.
It also bans the use of shotgun fire munitions by both the Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County Sheriff's Office and it makes all the restrictions apply not only to political demonstrations but any type of crowd event in the county, Laderman said.
Attorneys for the city of Oakland and Alameda County did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
The use of tear gas, pepper balls, flash bangs, smoke bombs and other less-lethal weapons became a flashpoint in the debate over policing in 2020 after dozens of incidents throughout the country of protesters being struck by projectiles or caught up in clouds of tear gas unleashed on mostly peaceful crowds.
In February, the Police Executive Research Forum, an organization dedicated to improving the professionalism of policing, said in a report the federal government should create guidelines on the use of less-lethal weapons by law enforcement.
In the lawsuit filed against Oakland and Alameda county, Sears and Brown said officers and deputies began teargassing the demonstrators without warning.
“Nothing will erase the emotional pain and terror I felt on June 1, 2020,” Sears said in a statement released by Lederman. “I grew up with family members who were police officers, including my grandfather ... but I just don’t feel safe around police as a Black man. I’m hoping this settlement is a small part of achieving some real change.”
Sears and Brown will share $250,000 as part of the settlement.
Watch more from ABC10: Police officer hopefuls brave heat wave in Sacramento Police boot camp | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/alameda-county-bans-crowd-control-munitions/103-858d0ad2-393f-49af-af2f-afecdff3df48 | 2022-09-02T00:33:05 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/california/alameda-county-bans-crowd-control-munitions/103-858d0ad2-393f-49af-af2f-afecdff3df48 |
The Moose fire topped 100,000 acres on Thursday and continues to be the largest active wildfire in the continental U.S.
The human-caused fire was 44% contained as of Thursday, according to a Great Basin Incident Management Team's daily update. The fire started on July 17 due to an escaped campfire and remains under investigation. The fire is located 17 miles north of Salmon in the Salmon-Challis National Forest.
There are 759 total personnel working to contain the fire. Firefighters are using six helicopters, 12 crews, 30 engines and 32 pieces of heavy equipment. The estimated containment date of the fire is Oct. 31, according to InciWeb - Incident Information System.
Highway 93, Salmon River Road and Panther Creek Road remain open, but travelers may see short traffic delays with fire equipment on the road in addition to the recreation traffic to the area.
The Lemhi County Sheriff’s Office has moved all zones near the fire to “READY” evacuation status.
Fire activity is expected to continue as temperatures still remain above normal for this time of year. The low relative humidity and upcoming warmer temperatures may increase smoke, according to the Great Basin daily update.
A smaller fire started Wednesday near Henrys Lake in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. The fire was caused by lightning and is located about a quarter-mile from Sawtell Peak on the Island Park Ranger District.
The estimated containment date of the fire is unknown and the fire was nearly 30 acres in size as of Thursday morning.
Two crews, three engines, one helicopter, two scoopers and one air attack are being used to contain the fire.
No evacuations have been ordered for the Sawtell Peak fire. Fire behavior is smoldering, creeping, torching and short-range spotting.
Idaho leads all U.S. states with 14 active wildfires which have burned more than 129,306 acres in the state, according to the National Interagency Fire Center.
More information about wildfires in Idaho is available at inciweb.nwcg.gov/. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/moose-fire-surpasses-100-000-acres-wildfire-near-henrys-lake-spotted/article_e17a5058-2a23-11ed-86ce-bbff6945d611.html | 2022-09-02T00:33:06 | 1 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/moose-fire-surpasses-100-000-acres-wildfire-near-henrys-lake-spotted/article_e17a5058-2a23-11ed-86ce-bbff6945d611.html |
OAKLAND, Calif — A 9-year-old boy was wounded in a shooting while traveling in the front seat of a car that was hit by multiple bullets and the woman driving was injured after she exited the San Francisco Bay Area highway and crashed, authorities said.
The woman was driving on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 580 in Oakland Tuesday night when someone shot at her sedan from another vehicle, the California Highway Patrol said in a statement Wednesday.
The woman then exited the freeway and was involved in a crash on 35th Avenue and Brookdale Avenue in Oakland, the CHP said.
CHP officers who arrived at the scene found the child with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and the female driver with injuries from the crash, the agency said. Both were taken to a hospital where they are listed in stable condition, the CHP said.
A motive for the shooting has not been determined and no suspects have been identified, the CHP said.
The agency asked for anyone with information on the shooting to reach out to detectives.
A witness told KTVU-TV she saw the right side of the car riddled with bullets and found the child on the sidewalk with at least one gunshot to his hip.
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The Eastern Idaho State Fair, the region's largest and longest-runningannual event iscelebrating 120 years of operation.
The fairgrounds will open the gates for the 2022 edition at 10 a.m. Friday and the fair is open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. through Sept. 10.
A heavy attendance is expected for this year's fair, according to EISF Manager Brandon Bird. Nearly 250,000 people came through the fair gates in 2021, making it the most attended fair ever, with a grand total of 249,892 people.
"This is the first time ever we've sold out our three main grandstand events," Bird said. "We have over $400,000 generated from the fair going to youth programs in the community."
The fair, which got its start as a livestock show in 1902, has become a favorite destination for about a quarter-million people each year.
The faircomprises a 16-county fair district that includes Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou, Clark, Custer, Franklin, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi, Madison, Oneida, Power and Teton counties.
Fairgoers from across the region come out to see exhibits and entertainers and enjoy the fair food and rides.
Exhibitors from throughout the region travel to the fair to show their horses, goats, cattle, swine, sheep, and poultry.
Staying true to its roots,agriculture remainsthe historical backbone of the fair. This year's event will be home to more than 2,000 animals including beef cattle, draft horses, sheep, pigs, goats, rabbits, poultry and pigeons.
Additionally, more than 6,000 entries from Idahoans of all ages are received by the fair each year, entering their hobbies in more than 25 competition categories, including baking, canning, fine arts, flowers, needlecraft and photography.
This year's headliningentertainers includesinger-songwriters Andy Grammer and Cole Swindell as well as comedian Gabriel "Fluffy"Iglesias performing at the fair.
Advance adult general admission tickets are $6.50 for those 12 and up, while children between the ages of 6 and 11 can get in for $3. Children under 5 are admitted free, while tickets for seniors 65 and over are $4.50. Full-day access tickets for carnival rides start at $30, not including admission. Tickets for events in the grandstand arena are also sold separately from general admission tickets, with prices ranging from as low as $12 for children and up to $99 depending on the event or performance.
The low-priced entry to the fair will grant visitors access to over 70 concession options, 200 commercial exhibitors as well as art and livestock exhibits.
"For more than a century, the Fair has upheld its mission to provide wholesome, affordable, family-oriented entertainment and education in an agricultural environment within clean and safe surroundings," the fair's website said. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/the-eastern-idaho-state-fair-opens-friday-for-120th-year/article_45e61cd4-2a1a-11ed-9b00-8b35a2b61fea.html | 2022-09-02T00:33:12 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/the-eastern-idaho-state-fair-opens-friday-for-120th-year/article_45e61cd4-2a1a-11ed-9b00-8b35a2b61fea.html |
CITRUS HEIGHTS, Calif. — Citrus Heights’ school year started three weeks ago, but parents and community members are still concerned about safely dropping off and picking up their kids from school.
Residents on Facebook comment about how they almost “get hit every day walking my kid to school,” or how “people will drive on the wrong side of the road just to get around everyone else who is waiting” in school traffic.
While residents get used to the school routine, officers from the Citrus Heights Police Department are showing up at schools during the busiest hours of the day.
Lt. Mike Wells says when the school year starts the department puts together a traffic plan to educate the public, enforce laws and engineer roads when needed.
“We can't be at every school,” said Wells, going on to explain how the department listens to all complaints it receives and is flexible with their planning to ensure student safety.
Traffic violations and enforcement vary from school to school depending on where the campus is located.
Wells says the most common traffic violations are: speeding, not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign and parking illegally, which causes traffic.
The San Juan Unified School District’s Safe Schools program works with law enforcement and encourages campuses to utilize their safety guidelines.
Each school has its own rules and safety guidelines that can be found on their website for pick-up and drop-off to promote safety for students as they go to and from school, according to Raj Rai, director of communication for the district.
Drivers are not the only ones responsible for traffic issues during busy morning and afternoon hours, said Rai. She says pedestrians not using crosswalks for crossing streets, students continuing conversations after parking and not being ready to exit the vehicle once stopped also add to congestion around schools.
Some tips to ensure student safety while picking up and dropping off are: leave your home early, follow traffic laws, move forward as far as possible along the curb before dropping off or picking up, and connect with their child’s school if they have questions regarding where to pick up and drop off their child.
“Be responsible for your community, the kids and your neighbors,” said Wells. “These are your kids and we should work together and respect each other... at the end of the day it's about the kids being safe.”
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VACAVILLE, Calif. — Vacaville fire crews and police raced to the Sycamores apartments on Sara Court Thursday afternoon when they received reports of a balcony fire in one of the buildings.
While the building was evacuated and later brought "under control," one firefighter suffered minor injuries, officials said.
Vacaville Fire Department posted a photo of one building's top floor severely damaged by the flames.
Two upstairs apartment units were heavily damaged in the fire, meanwhile seven other units also suffered damage.
Firefighters are still investigating the cause of the blaze and warn residents to steer clear of the area. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/firefighter-injured-in-vacaville-apartment-fire/103-f8cedd71-2382-40ac-a985-054504a1eee4 | 2022-09-02T00:33:23 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/firefighter-injured-in-vacaville-apartment-fire/103-f8cedd71-2382-40ac-a985-054504a1eee4 |
ROSEVILLE, Calif. — An Auburn man was found guilty of murder in a 2020 deadly shooting at a hotel in Roseville on the 1900 block of Freedom Way.
On Aug. 25, jurors in Placer County returned a guilty verdict on charges of first-degree murder and robbery against 29-year-old defendant Anders Johanson-Fulilangi.
Johanson-Fulilangi was involved in a robbery scheme and beat the victim with a gun as he robbed him. He then shot the victim 17 times before leaving him dead in a hotel hallway on Sept. 18, 2020.
Days after the homicide, Johanson-Fulilangi was arrested by authorities in Reno. Jury selection in the case began on Aug. 8.
Johanson-Fulilangi is due back in court on Nov. 7 for sentencing.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly sexually assaulting two teenage girls in Sacramento.
26-year-old Aleksandr Anatolyevi Rudenko, who is a Registered Sex Offender, was taken into custody following a sexual assault allegation from a 17-year-old and a 14-year-old, according to an investigation by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office.
Rudenko had reportedly been meeting with minors online through social media using fake identities.
He is reportedly a repeat offender and frequently hangs out in reactional areas around the city such as parks and movie theatres, according to Sacramento County deputies.
Rudenko was arrested on five suspected sexual abuse-related charges including Lewd Acts with a child under 14, Sodomy and Oral Copulation.
Deputies booked him into Sacramento County Jail on Tuesday where he was released Wednesday on $135,000 bail. His made first court appearance Thursday afternoon, according to the sheriff's office.
This is an ongoing investigation, no other details of the case have been released.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento State University is suspending tailgating at Saturday's football game and campus tabling due to excessive heat.
According to the university, all tailgating activities at this Saturday's football game have been suspended. University officials have also suspended student tabling across campus starting Thursday at 1 p.m. until further notice.
The university says this decision came after Sacramento County officials recommended all outdoor events scheduled between noon and 8 p.m. Saturday through Tuesday should be postponed.
"Assuming conditions are deemed safe by NCAA referees, kickoff is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.," Sacramento State President Robert S. Nelsen wrote in a statement.
Nelsen says water stations will be available inside and outside of Hornet Stadium and a cooling room will be open inside The WELL both before and during the game.
"No matter what your weekend plans are, please make sure that you take necessary steps to stay cool, hydrated, and out of the heat as much as possible," Nelsen wrote in a statement.
Cooling centers have opened around Northern California through the Labor Day weekend and can be found HERE.
Some tips to avoid heat exhaustion and other heat-related illness are:
- Hydrate with water and electrolyte drinks like propel of Gatorade
- Avoid alcohol
- Limit time outdoors
- Wear sunscreen
- Avoid any exercise or strenuous activity outdoors
- Stay in temperature controlled spaces
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STOCKTON, Calif. — With her inflatable beach balls blown up and her swim tubes on standby, Stockton resident Lorene Yee is ready for her 3 p.m. appointment in her own backyard.
Yee is one of an estimated 25,000 private swimming pool owners who use the Swimply website to list their pools and backyard amenities for rent by the hour.
"I like the idea, you know, people want to rent my pool and I'm trying to help people out," Yee said.
The website allows owners of pools to list their bodies of water along with add-ons such as waterfalls, diving boards, lunch tables, fire pits, grills and speakers.
Pool owners set their hourly prices and schedules on the website and then customers sign a waiver and book their preferred time.
"I've got the refrigerator as a free option, I've got a plugin for their cell phones, I do have a little music thing that they can use," Yee said. "It was kind of weird the first time because you know, there are some strange people."
However, after a year of using the website to rent out her pool, Yee says she is now more comfortable with the idea of strangers using her backyard-- especially during times like this week when heat grips the region.
"I've always thought outside the box. I've always done what I want to do," Yee said. "It's clean, it's safe and I like what I do. Any way to keep somebody cool and stuff, because we are going to approach a lot of heat in the next week."
As temperatures rise, Swimply users like Yee often see an increase in bookings and interest.
For Bunim Laskin, Swimply's co-founder, more users on his site means more people beating the heat and more profit for the 2019 startup company.
"Triple-digit temperatures in California is Gotham and Swimply is Batman," Laskin said from his Los Angeles office. "It's obviously a meaningfully awesome thing to have, just to be able to tap and have your own aquatic paradise to enjoy during days like these."
In exchange for using its web platform and liability insurance, Swimply gets 15% of profits from pool bookings.
"It's taken some time for people to wrap their heads around it. It's brand new, it's fresh, the way a lot of things are," Laskin said "We have a pool in our office and it's been booked up, you can imagine, the whole weekend."
With four other swimming pools up for rent and competing for customers in Stockton, Yee says aside from making some money, listing her backyard for strangers is a way to keep the pool in use.
"My daughter's boyfriend likes to swim, but I like to swim more. So I'm the only one that really uses it like almost daily," Yee said. "It's an opportunity to have a private place because when you're in public, you're dealing with other parents, other kids and you don't have that option to keep that bully kid or whatever off your kid."
For those skeptical of renting an hour or two in a stranger's backyard, Laskin says the only way to test the website is to try using it.
"Over a million people have gone into stranger's backyard so far," Laskin said. "We take the quality and the security of our pools meaningfully safe, meaningfully seriously and so we don't really compromise when it comes to that."
Yee says she also doesn't compromise when it comes to safety and offers to serve as a lifeguard when young kids are present.
With pool toys ready to go and the water's temperature set at a cool 80°, Yee says she's excited to see more families and individuals make a splash in her backyard soon.
"Three is the max that I've done then I will shut it down on my app, then you won't be able to rent," Yee said. "So if you're wanting to rent, book it."
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SALEM LAKES — A man suffered an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to his face Thursday afternoon while at Fox River Park, according to authorities.
The incident was reported around 2:30 p.m. with Salem Lakes Fire and Rescue personnel responding to the man at the county park, which is located just southwest of Silver Lake. The man was later transported by Flight For Life Helicopter to Froedtert Hospital in Wauwtosa, according to Sgt. James Campbell of the Kenosha County. His condition was not immediately available, but Campbell said the man was alive as he was airlifted to the Milwaukee-area hospital.
Campbell said there was one witness on the scene, but as yet few details, as the incident was still under investigation.
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The Kenosha AFL-CIO Council will honor six local union leaders and supporters chosen to receive Labor Person of the Year awards during a ceremony at the annual Laborfest celebration Monday.
A short program will commence at 12:30 p.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church festival grounds on the main stage where this year’s recipients will be recognized.
The labor council sought multiple nominations for this year’s awards, in part, because Laborfest was postponed the last two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to local AFL-CIO Council President Rick Gallo.
The council last presented awards in 2019 to Paula Gallo, a longtime member of the American Postal Workers Union and local AFL-CIO treasurer and Kenosha Education Association executive director Kendra Koeppen-Mulwana.
“I am very proud to announce the selection of these recipients to be our Kenosha Labor Person(s) of the Year,” he said in news release. “Each is very highly deserving of the honor.”
Gallo called the 2022 recipients “truly inspirational” leaders whose actions exemplify the “important contribution individuals can make to today’s labor movement.”
Following unanimous approval by delegates to the council, these award recipients were selected:
Peggy Applegate-Peplinski, a 2022 Labor Person of the Year honoree, holds a sign during a protest and march against the dismantling of the Aff…
Peggy Applegate-Peplinski, president of United Auto Workers Local 72 : Throughout her nearly 31-year career at AMC/Chrysler Peggy represented members in various elected union positions including union steward, district steward, and shop committee/board member at-large. She has served on the Community Services and Women’s Committee, and the local union election committee. Following her retirement, she was elected to serve on the UAW Region 4 Retired Workers Council. She was appointed and currently serves as an election coordinator. Applegate-Peplinski was also elected to the UAW Southeastern Wisconsin CAP Council. She is involved in various community activities, including fulfilling duties as a poll worker for the City of Kenosha.
Bradley Kalcic, president of the S.E. Wisconsin Building and Construction Trades Council : Kalcic is also president of the Kenosha Union Club, and business representative, recording secretary and training coordinator for the International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Workers Local 18. His career started 18 years ago as an apprentice. He also serves on at least four distinct councils for his union.
Tanya Kitts-Lewinski, immediate past President of the Kenosha Education Association : Elected president in 2019, one of her first challenges was a change in Kenosha Unified’s health care plan that left many teachers disillusioned. She began the task of rebuilding the local union, believing that education is best when teachers are at the table. She sought coordination and cooperation with Kenosha Unified in advocating for a state budget that benefits students. Kitts-Lewinski was a stalwart advocate for her members in various public forums before the School Board and the administration. She endured verbal attacks and threats to her safety seeking to protect students and union members during the pandemic.
Ricardo Lebron, President of the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 414 : Lebron grew up in a union household where his father was a Teamster. His first union job was at Jewel as a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers union, while he pursued a degree in fire science. He has more than 16 years of experience as a city firefighter and has been Local 414 president the last eight years. Lebron has distinguished himself in the labor community for his leadership of Local 414, especially throughout the pandemic as union members led by example in wearing masks in public, to treat and transport COVID patients to area hospitals.
Rep. Tip McGuire, D-Kenosha, Wisconsin State Assembly, and District 64 : McGuire began his career in the office of former Minority Leader Peter Barca, where he served constituents, including during the Act 10 debates. He has been a member of multiple labor unions, joining the Teaching Assistants Association and later the Association of State Prosecutors when he served as an assistant district attorney. Since joining the Wisconsin State Assembly, working families have been McGuire’s top priority, according to the release. This session, McGuire authored the Main Street Recovery Package, which was signed into law by Gov. Tony Evers and provided tax relief to working families and small businesses.
Joey Sielski, vice president, International Association of Fire Fighters Local 414 : A lifelong Kenosha resident, Sielski learned at a young age learned the value and importance of organized labor. His mother, Janice, a lifelong member of the KEA, taught for more than 40 years in the Kenosha Unified School District. His father, Joe, was an active member of UAW Local 72, serving the union for 36 years. Inspired by the weeks of protests by union workers at the state capitol in 2011, he ran for Local 414 Executive Board, was elected a week later and assigned to the Healthcare Committee. He is in his third term as vice president.
WHAT: Laborfest, 42nd annual celebration, with Labor Person of the Year awards presentation, children’s activities, music, food and fellowship. Music provided by Betsy Ade and the Well-Known Strangers. Children’s activities will include two bounce houses, games, projects, a police K-9 unit demonstration and a fire safety house. Free and open to public.
WHEN: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday, Sept. 5 (Labor Day)
WHERE: St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church festival grounds, 2020 91st St., Kenosha
WELCOME: Donations of non-perishable food items for the Shalom Center; purchase of tickets for hourly raffle prizes; and a separate raffle for a ride to school in a fire truck to raise funds for the purchase of two search and rescue drones for the Kenosha Fire Department.
States with the largest unionized workforces
The most unionized states
Unions spent the first half of the 20th century transforming a massive industrial peasantry into the American middle class. In the second half of the 20th century, big business fought back by pressing for so-called "right-to-work" laws, which dilute the influence of labor unions and their power of collective bargaining.
The right-to-work campaign has been an unmitigated success for big business. Union memberships plummet wherever these laws exist, weakening the primary check on corporate excess. The results are clear: The dramatic decline in union membership that began in the early 1960s directly coincided with a meteoric rise in the share of income going to the top 10%.
To determine which states are the most unionized, Stacker looked at BLS data for 2021 (released in January 2022) and ranked each state according to its percentage of wage and salary workers who were members of labor unions.
Not surprisingly, the issue is politically polarized. Republicans overwhelmingly back right-to-work laws, and Democrats overwhelmingly side with their historic allies in labor. In fact, a red/blue map of the right-to-work states versus pro-union states looks nearly identical to that of the Electoral College.
Today, 27 states enforce right-to-work laws. These free-rider statutes extend the gains of union-won collective bargaining agreements to non-union workers who didn't join or pay dues themselves. Predictably and as intended, many workers simply opt to piggyback instead of pitching in, which causes union membership and the influence of organized labor to dwindle. Big business prefers divided labor over organized labor for a reason. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median weekly wage for union members in the United States is $1,169 vs. $975 for nonunion workers.
In 2021, union membership stood at about 10.3% of the U.S. workforce. That's a little more than half of the 20.1% that existed when BLS began tracking it in 1983. Three decades before that, in 1953, more than one in three private-sector workers were union members . Today, that number has dwindled to just 6.1%. Right-to-work legislation is decided at the state level, so the country's remaining union members are not spread out evenly.
Keep reading to see which states are the most unionized.
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#51. South Carolina
- Members of unions: 34,000 (1.7% of employed population)
-- Down 25,000 from 2020 (-1.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 42,000 (2% of employed population)
-- Down 35,000 from 2020 (-1.8 percentage points)
No stranger to the bottom of the list, South Carolina once again takes the title of America's least unionized state. The state's workforce is growing quickly, while union membership has declined.
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#50. North Carolina
- Members of unions: 108,000 (2.6% of employed population)
-- Down 21,000 from 2020 (-0.5 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 142,000 (3.4% of employed population)
-- Down 19,000 from 2020 (-0.5 percentage points)
In the years when South Carolina isn't the least-unionized state, its neighbor to the north often is. North Carolina became a right-to-work state in 1947, making it one of the early adopters of the movement. The right-to-work agenda emerged in the South after World War II, as integrated labor unions began threatening both the economic power structure and the racial power structure in the region.
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#49. Utah
- Members of unions: 51,000 (3.5% of employed population)
-- No change from 2020 (-0.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 96,000 (6.5% of employed population)
-- Up 21,000 from 2020 (+1.1 percentage points)
In 1955, Utah became the 18th state to join the right-to-work coalition—one of the first states to do so outside of the South. This dynamic, according to the Utah History Encyclopedia, is directly connected to organized labor's long history of conflict with the Mormon church.
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#48. Texas
- Members of unions: 454,000 (3.8% of employed population)
-- Down 109,000 from 2020 (-1.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 571,000 (4.7% of employed population)
-- Down 122,000 from 2020 (-1.3 percentage points)
The term "right to work" was coined by anti-labor oil industry chiefs in Houston in 1936, and no state has been more central to the movement. After World War II, Houston businessman and vocal white supremacist Vance Muse founded the Christian American Association. Through the organization, he leveraged contemporary fears to successfully link unions with both integration and communism in the public imagination, while crafting the first right-to-work laws in Texas.
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#47. Arkansas
- Members of unions: 46,000 (3.9% of employed population)
-- Down 9,000 from 2020 (-0.8 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 51,000 (4.4% of employed population)
-- Down 18,000 from 2020 (-1.5 percentage points)
In 2018, a local CBS affiliate reported that union membership was on the rise in Arkansas, despite the state ranking above only 12 other states in terms of current unionization. Now, four years after the supposed boost, Arkansas has dropped even further—behind all but four other states.
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#46. South Dakota
- Members of unions: 16,000 (4% of employed population)
-- Down 1,000 from 2020 (-0.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 20,000 (5% of employed population)
-- Down 1,000 from 2020 (-0.5 percentage points)
Back in 2003, the Rapid City Journal ran an article under the headline "Unions Waning in South Dakota. " There were just 19,000 union members left in the state by 2002, down from 21,000 in 1997. Overall membership has continued to decline.
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#44. Idaho
- Members of unions: 36,000 (4.7% of employed population)
-- Down 5,000 from 2020 (-0.9 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 42,000 (5.5% of employed population)
-- Down 5,000 from 2020 (-0.9 percentage points)
Idaho's union history can be traced back to the first half of the 20th century, to conflicts between laborers and corporate bosses in the booming timber industry. Today, Idaho is one of the 10 least unionized states in the country and part of a confederation of right-to-work states that spreads across the conservative Mountain West.
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#44. Louisiana
- Members of unions: 81,000 (4.7% of employed population)
-- Down 18,000 from 2020 (-1.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 98,000 (5.7% of employed population)
-- Down 15,000 from 2020 (-1.0 percentage point)
In 1954, a scathing report by a man named William J. Dodd called the adoption of right-to-work laws in Louisiana "without question the most controversial legislative problem considered during the 1954 legislative session." Although the law's authors insisted their motives were based in liberating Louisiana workers, Dodd pointed out that the proposed law restricted the use of some of organized labor's most important tools, like picketing or recruitment. The law was eventually adopted in 1976.
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#42. Georgia
- Members of unions: 211,000 (4.8% of employed population)
-- Up 17,000 from 2020 (+0.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 256,000 (5.8% of employed population)
-- Down 15,000 from 2020 (-0.7 percentage points)
In 2016, labor leaders in Georgia cheered as a judge overruled a state law designed to dilute the influence of unions there even further. Despite that narrow victory, Georgia remains committed to protecting its well-earned image as a pro-business state, a status often won at the expense of its workers.
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#42. Virginia
- Members of unions: 176,000 (4.8% of employed population)
-- Up 12,000 from 2020 (+0.4 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 240,000 (6.5% of employed population)
-- Up 39,000 from 2020 (+1.1 percentage points)
Although the 2020 election saw Democrats flip Virginia, the state is still part of the South, where the modern anti-labor movement was born. Despite the change in leadership, Virginia's right-to-work laws have thus far proven too deeply entrenched for progressives in the state to uproot.
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#40. Florida
- Members of unions: 448,000 (5.2% of employed population)
-- Down 76,000 from 2020 (-1.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 529,000 (6.1% of employed population)
-- Down 115,000 from 2020 (-1.8 percentage points)
When Florida was called for President Trump in the 2020 election, it became clear that Democrats would not get the election night knockout punch they had hoped for. Their allies in labor, however, won a major victory in the Sunshine State that day. More than 60% of voters passed a ballot measure that will raise the state minimum wage from $8.56 to $15 an hour by 2026, giving 2.5 million low-wage Florida workers a raise.
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#40. Tennessee
- Members of unions: 145,000 (5.2% of employed population)
-- Up 28,000 from 2020 (+0.8 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 166,000 (5.9% of employed population)
-- Up 29,000 from 2020 (+0.8 percentage points)
Tennessee is part of America's right-to-work stronghold in the South, where union membership has dwindled to about 5% of the workforce. In 2020, state leadership proposed an amendment enshrining right-to-work language in the Tennessee constitution.
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#38. Arizona
- Members of unions: 167,000 (5.4% of employed population)
-- Up 12,000 from 2020 (+0.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 208,000 (6.7% of employed population)
-- Up 1,000 from 2020 (-0.4 percentage points)
Arizona's union history revolves around the mining industry, in a relationship that was often volatile and frequently violent, with race, immigration, and the inherent unpredictability of the metals industry fanning the flames. Unions have faced an uphill battle in the state since the first right-to-work laws were enacted in 1947.
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#38. North Dakota
- Members of unions: 19,000 (5.4% of employed population)
-- Down 2,000 from 2020 (-0.8 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 24,000 (6.9% of employed population)
-- Down 1,000 from 2020 (-0.5 percentage points)
In 2020, The New Yorker investigated an interesting labor situation in North Dakota . Tensions were rising between Democratic Party opponents of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline and the labor unions that represented the workers. The infighting waned when the two groups seemed to find common ground, as large numbers of oil workers shifted to clean-energy jobs operating wind turbines—while oil industry employment stagnated.
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#37. Mississippi
- Members of unions: 59,000 (5.5% of employed population)
-- Down 15,000 from 2020 (-1.6 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 74,000 (6.9% of employed population)
-- Down 12,000 from 2020 (-1.4 percentage points)
In the tumultuous 1950s and '60s, union membership plummeted in Mississippi and much of the South as labor leaders allied with civil rights organizations. Union membership remains down in Mississippi as the state is still dominated by pro-business conservatives hostile toward the labor movement and suspicious of unions.
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#36. Oklahoma
- Members of unions: 87,000 (5.6% of employed population)
-- Down 3,000 from 2020 (-0.4 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 105,000 (6.8% of employed population)
-- Down 9,000 from 2020 (-0.8 percentage points)
Union culture in Oklahoma began when the state was still a territory, through labor uprisings in the mining industry. The arrival of the railroad brought a new breed of union to Oklahoma, followed by the rise of agricultural unions in the state, and finally the appearance of trade unions.
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#35. Wyoming
- Members of unions: 13,000 (5.7% of employed population)
-- Down 5,000 from 2020 (-1.9 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 16,000 (6.9% of employed population)
-- Down 6,000 from 2020 (-2.4 percentage points)
Wyoming serves as the bridge between two solid blocks of right-to-work states —one in the Midwest and the other in the Mountain West. To Wyoming's east are solid-red North Dakota down through Texas and to the west are Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.
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#34. Alabama
- Members of unions: 115,000 (5.9% of employed population)
-- Down 36,000 from 2020 (-2.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 133,000 (6.9% of employed population)
-- Down 31,000 from 2020 (-1.8 percentage points)
Although the number of union members found among Alabama's employed population is still below the national average, it's significantly higher than its neighbors in the Deep South, the heart of America's right-to-work culture.
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#32. Colorado
- Members of unions: 165,000 (6.5% of employed population)
-- Down 17,000 from 2020 (-0.9 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 192,000 (7.5% of employed population)
-- Down 10,000 from 2020 (-0.7 percentage points)
In 2018, something happened in Colorado that's a rarity in the modern era—union membership increased from 9.6% to 11%. The success was short-lived, however, and the state is now all the way down to 6.5%, its lowest union membership level since 2015.
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#32. Iowa
- Members of unions: 93,000 (6.5% of employed population)
-- No change from 2020 (-0.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 118,000 (8.3% of employed population)
-- Down 10,000 from 2020 (-0.8 percentage points)
As the 2020 presidential election grabbed all the headlines, thousands of public employees in Iowa turned out to vote in union recertification elections that determine whether or not they'll retain their collective bargaining power. In 2017, Iowa's conservative leaders succeeded in creating the recertification requirements to weaken unions further in the right-to-work state, but Democratic lawmakers have fought back.
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#31. Nebraska
- Members of unions: 61,000 (6.8% of employed population)
-- Down 24,000 from 2020 (-2.8 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 72,000 (8% of employed population)
-- Down 22,000 from 2020 (-2.5 percentage points)
At the turn of the 20th century, bakers in Omaha went on strike to protest $10 weekly wages for 10-17 hour workdays in sweltering hot, subterranean oven facilities that were commonly worked by children. However, anti-union legislation enacted in the 1940s established Nebraska as one of the oldest right-to-work states in America and part of the anti-union stronghold in middle America that runs from the Dakotas down through Texas.
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#30. Kentucky
- Members of unions: 126,000 (7.2% of employed population)
-- Down 1,000 from 2020 (-0.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 170,000 (9.8% of employed population)
-- Up 10,000 from 2020 (+0.4 percentage points)
Few states have a labor history as dramatic, bloody, and consequential as the coal wars that consumed Kentucky throughout the late 1800s and early 20th century—particularly the Harlan County War of the 1930s. In recent years, Kentucky has never been able to compete with Ohio and West Virginia in terms of the percentage of its miners who were union members . Membership plummeted from an already low 35% of miners in 1997 to 17% in 2017.
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#29. New Mexico
- Members of unions: 58,000 (7.5% of employed population)
-- Up 5,000 from 2020 (+0.4 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 70,000 (9.1% of employed population)
-- Up 6,000 from 2020 (+0.5 percentage points)
New Mexico—which is not a right-to-work state—includes an employed population with more than 7% union membership . That number was up over 8% as recently as 2017, but even that represents a decline from pre-recession membership.
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#28. Wisconsin
- Members of unions: 215,000 (7.9% of employed population)
-- Down 12,000 from 2020 (-0.8 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 251,000 (9.3% of employed population)
-- Down 13,000 from 2020 (-0.9 percentage points)
Despite its long history as a labor stronghold for American agriculture and industry, Wisconsin is now a right-to-work state with membership numbers that lag well below the national average. The state's membership percentages have also declined much more rapidly than they have in the country as a whole. In 1983, nationwide union membership had dropped to 18%, but nearly one in four Wisconsinites were still represented by organized labor.
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#27. District of Columbia
- Members of unions: 31,000 (8.9% of employed population)
-- Up 1,000 from 2020 (+0.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 35,000 (9.9% of employed population)
-- Up 2,000 from 2020 (+0.4 percentage points)
The District of Columbia is situated right on the border of the pro-union Northeast and the South, where right-to-work laws first emerged and remain the strongest. Today, District government employees alone are represented by 114 collective bargaining units, 48 locals, and 15 international unions.
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#25. Indiana
- Members of unions: 256,000 (9% of employed population)
-- Up 21,000 from 2020 (+0.7 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 290,000 (10.2% of employed population)
-- Up 20,000 from 2020 (+0.7 percentage points)
Union membership in Indiana reached 11.3% in 2011 . The next year, the state enacted right-to-work legislation , and the decades-long decline in union membership quickly accelerated.
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#25. Missouri
- Members of unions: 235,000 (9% of employed population)
-- Down 3,000 from 2020 (-0.4 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 266,000 (10.2% of employed population)
-- Up 12,000 from 2020 (+0.1 percentage points)
Missouri and neighboring Illinois are an island in a sea of right-to-work states, and Missouri voters chose to keep it that way when the issue came to a vote in 2018. A proposed right-to-work law was rejected by 67% of Missourians—an overwhelming majority.
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#24. Kansas
- Members of unions: 120,000 (9.2% of employed population)
-- Up 6,000 from 2020 (+0.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 148,000 (11.4% of employed population)
-- Up 4,000 from 2020 (+0.2 percentage points)
In 2018, while Missouri was overwhelmingly rejecting a right-to-work measure, neighboring Kansas marked its 60-year anniversary as a right-to-work state. According to the Lawrence Journal-World, early labor opponents in Kansas were successful in exploiting fears of communism and integration to fracture a long-standing alliance between farmers and industry workers.
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#23. West Virginia
- Members of unions: 66,000 (9.6% of employed population)
-- Down 5,000 from 2020 (-1.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 73,000 (10.5% of employed population)
-- Down 2,000 from 2020 (-0.8 percentage points)
West Virginia's labor history is rich in drama. Like Kentucky, West Virginia was a primary battleground for the coal wars —where mining bosses and their collaborators in law enforcement and government terrorized, arrested, evicted, harassed, and murdered labor leaders and union members. In 1921, as many as 100 people died in the Blair Mountain Massacre, the largest labor uprising in American history, when strikebreakers and their allies in the military and police attacked thousands of West Virginia miners and their families.
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#22. Delaware
- Members of unions: 42,000 (9.7% of employed population)
-- Up 1,000 from 2020 (no percentage point change)
- Workers represented by unions: 44,000 (10.2% of employed population)
-- No change from 2020 (-0.1 percentage points)
Despite being halfway through the list, Delaware is one of only a few states so far that doesn't enforce right-to-work laws, a fact that reinforces just how detrimental those kinds of laws are to organized labor. At the start of 2020, Delaware made headlines when its employees in the state legislature announced plans to unionize.
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#21. New Hampshire
- Members of unions: 65,000 (10.1% of employed population)
-- Up 3,000 from 2020 (+0.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 73,000 (11.3% of employed population)
-- Up 3,000 from 2020 (+0.2 percentage points)
Despite trending Republican from the late 1940s through the late 1980s, New Hampshire is now a reliably Democratic state. Labor unions there are small but influential. In 2017, organized labor in New Hampshire led a successful effort to defeat proposed right-to-work legislation in the state.
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#20. Maryland
- Members of unions: 295,000 (11% of employed population)
-- Down 56,000 from 2020 (-2.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 332,000 (12.3% of employed population)
-- Down 48,000 from 2020 (-1.8 percentage points)
In Maryland, the top two Food and Commercial Workers local unions represent the largest number of union members in the state by far. Together, locals 400 and 27 boast more than 39,000 members.
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#19. Montana
- Members of unions: 49,000 (11.2% of employed population)
-- Down 1,000 from 2020 (-0.8 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 56,000 (12.9% of employed population)
-- Up 2,000 from 2020 (-0.1 percentage points)
Off the coast, the entire inland Western United States from Missouri to the Pacific Ocean is made up of right-to-work states except three: blue Colorado and New Mexico, which fit the pattern, and ruby red Montana. A right-to-work bill, supported by the state's Republican governor, was defeated on the floor of the Montana House of Representatives in March 2021.
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#18. Ohio
- Members of unions: 596,000 (12% of employed population)
-- Down 41,000 from 2020 (-1.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 647,000 (13% of employed population)
-- Down 39,000 from 2020 (-1.2 percentage points)
A strange and headline-generating reversal of alliances played out in a battle between a Republican incumbent and Democratic challenger in a 2018 Ohio House election: virtually all significant unions in both the public and private sectors endorsed the GOP incumbent. Nationally, 90% of union spending goes to Democrats, but in Ohio in 2019 it was almost evenly split.
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#17. Nevada
- Members of unions: 153,000 (12.2% of employed population)
-- Down 8,000 from 2020 (-1.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 176,000 (14.1% of employed population)
-- Down 10,000 from 2020 (-1.3 percentage points)
The sheer size of the Las Vegas hospitality industry makes Nevada hard to compare to other states, but it has proven to be a model for union strength in modern times. However, its union membership has declined in recent years.
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#16. Vermont
- Members of unions: 32,000 (12.3% of employed population)
-- Up 1,000 from 2020 (+0.5 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 37,000 (14.2% of employed population)
-- Up 1,000 from 2020 (+0.4 percentage points)
Like all of its New England neighbors and the Northeast in general, Vermont is not a right-to-work state. In October 2020, the state's Republican governor signed a bill that expands access to new employees for public-sector unions and includes other protections for organized labor.
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#15. Maine
- Members of unions: 70,000 (12.4% of employed population)
-- Down 12,000 from 2020 (-2.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 83,000 (14.7% of employed population)
-- Down 10,000 from 2020 (-2.0 percentage points)
In 2017, Republican Gov. Paul LePage pushed to have Maine become the first Northeastern state to pass a right-to-work law. LePage argued that it was a necessary step to attract businesses, but his push was unsuccessful, the mixed state legislature balked, and in 2019, Maine elected a Democratic governor.
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#14. Massachusetts
- Members of unions: 402,000 (12.6% of employed population)
-- Up 45,000 from 2020 (+0.6 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 433,000 (13.6% of employed population)
-- Up 50,000 from 2020 (+0.8 percentage points)
Labor in Massachusetts flexed its muscles when the governor began devising reopening plans in May 2020, after the pandemic forced an economic shutdown in the state. Since union laborers comprised the majority of the front-line service workers who would be most affected, union leaders demanded a seat at the table of the committee tasked with crafting the reopening strategy.
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#13. Pennsylvania
- Members of unions: 693,000 (12.9% of employed population)
-- Down 24,000 from 2020 (-0.6 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 732,000 (13.6% of employed population)
-- Down 43,000 from 2020 (-1.0 percentage point)
As an early leader in the mining, railroad, coal, and agriculture industries, Pennsylvania played a critical role in America's formative organized labor movements. It's not a right-to-work state, and starting in 1988, non-union, public-sector laborers who didn't want to join or pay dues paid a reduced fee to be covered by union-earned collective bargaining agreements. Called the fair-share fee , this plan—and others like it all across America—was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2018 in a devastating decision against organized labor.
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#12. Michigan
- Members of unions: 540,000 (13.3% of employed population)
-- Down 64,000 from 2020 (-1.9 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 620,000 (15.3% of employed population)
-- Down 41,000 from 2020 (-1.3 percentage points)
In 2012, Michigan shocked the country when it became the 24th state to pass a right-to-work law in what had long been the cultural, historical, and political heart of the American labor movement. In 2018, five years after the law went into effect, nine of Michigan's 11 largest unions reported declines in membership and political spending.
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#11. Illinois
- Members of unions: 752,000 (13.9% of employed population)
-- Up 13,000 from 2020 (-0.4 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 818,000 (15.2% of employed population)
-- Up 30,000 from 2020 (no percentage point change)
The Pullman Strike, which led to the creation of Labor Day, took place in Illinois, home to the final resting place of Mother Jones. Some of the most important moments in the history of organized labor took place in Illinois as well, including the Cherry Mine Disaster, the Herrin Massacre, and the Haymarket Affair.
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#10. Connecticut
- Members of unions: 223,000 (14.6% of employed population)
-- Down 39,000 from 2020 (-2.5 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 248,000 (16.3% of employed population)
-- Down 34,000 from 2020 (-2.1 percentage points)
Connecticut has recently been a battleground for the labor movement in the Northeast. In 2019, unions prevailed in two high-profile legislative battles, one that guaranteed a $15 minimum wage and another that granted paid medical leave. The state remains on the front lines of the region's ongoing labor battles.
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#9. Rhode Island
- Members of unions: 75,000 (15.7% of employed population)
-- Down 6,000 from 2020 (-2.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 83,000 (17.4% of employed population)
-- Down 4,000 from 2020 (-1.7 percentage points)
Although tiny in size, Rhode Island boasts one of America's biggest union membership rolls in terms of the percentage of employee population—and it's also home to some of organized labor's oldest and richest history. The forerunners to Rhode Island's first unions emerged in the early 1750s, before America was even a country.
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#8. Alaska
- Members of unions: 46,000 (15.8% of employed population)
-- Down 3,000 from 2020 (-1.9 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 50,000 (17.2% of employed population)
-- Down 5,000 from 2020 (-2.3 percentage points)
Iowa's recertification law is hardly the only example of anti-union legislators erecting unnecessary legal barriers making it harder to join a union, to recruit new union members, and to stay within the state's regulations. In Alaska, for example—a state with a long history of labor solidarity—the governor pushed for a rule in 2019 that would force union workers to opt in to their unions every year.
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#7. California
- Members of unions: 2.5 million (15.9% of employed population)
-- Up 27,000 from 2020 (-0.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 2.8 million (17.8% of employed population)
-- Up 102,000 from 2020 (+0.2 percentage points)
California is one of only two states in America that still measures its union members in the millions—and organized labor's membership rolls in the Golden State continue to grow. After years of decline, unions in California realized gains among electricians, nurses, mechanics, researchers, animation artists, and more. This growth has been enabled by a labor-friendly state legislature.
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#6. Minnesota
- Members of unions: 416,000 (16% of employed population)
-- Up 18,000 from 2020 (+0.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 446,000 (17.1% of employed population)
-- Up 19,000 from 2020 (+0.1 percentage points)
Minnesota joins Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri as the only remaining states in the Midwest not governed by right-to-work laws. The state's labor activists are famous for their intense political participation, and Minnesota union membership has increased as the state adds more and more jobs.
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#5. New Jersey
- Members of unions: 608,000 (16.2% of employed population)
-- Up 8,000 from 2020 (+0.1 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 672,000 (17.9% of employed population)
-- Up 12,000 from 2020 (+0.1 percentage points)
New Jersey is home to some of the oldest industrial centers, and its history in the labor movement goes back nearly as far as the industrial revolution. Shortly after the country won its independence, laborers in New Jersey's massive shoemaking industry organized for better working conditions.
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#4. Oregon
- Members of unions: 318,000 (17.8% of employed population)
-- Up 43,000 from 2020 (+1.6 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 336,000 (18.8% of employed population)
-- Up 43,000 from 2020 (+1.5 percentage points)
Oregon is part of the organized labor stronghold that is the American West Coast. As union membership declined nationwide in 2019, membership rolls in Oregon went up. The downside, however, is that the influence of organized labor appears to have waned since the Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that non-union members can't be forced to financially contribute to collective bargaining initiatives.
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#3. Washington
- Members of unions: 629,000 (19% of employed population)
-- Up 72,000 from 2020 (+1.6 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 661,000 (20% of employed population)
-- Up 65,000 from 2020 (+1.4 percentage points)
One of America's most reliable labor strongholds, Washington state saw its membership rolls rise by more than 10% in 2019 as unions across the state added tens of thousands of new members. Among the modern legislative accomplishments attributed to union activism in Washington are a $15 minimum wage, paid sick leave, and paid medical and family leave.
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#2. New York
- Members of unions: 1.7 million (22.2% of employed population)
-- Up 68,000 from 2020 (+0.2 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 1.9 million (24.1% of employed population)
-- Up 85,000 from 2020 (+0.5 percentage points)
New York stands with California as the only two states left with seven-figure union membership rolls. From the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building, to the network of subterranean tunnels that carry millions of New Yorkers on the city's subway system every day, the evidence of New York City's industrial heritage is literally everywhere you look. But it's not just the big city—unions have contributed to every facet of the labor, politics, and social fabric across the state.
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#1. Hawaii
- Members of unions: 121,000 (22.4% of employed population)
-- Up 1,000 from 2020 (-1.3 percentage points)
- Workers represented by unions: 131,000 (24.1% of employed population)
-- Up 1,000 from 2020 (-1.6 percentage points)
Only two states can still boast union membership of more than 20% of their working population—New York and Hawaii. The island chain witnessed labor uprisings long before achieving statehood, which were largely organized by race among laborers toiling in what was then the state's sugar plantation system. Once workers united and formed one single union, however, organized labor grew deep roots in the state, and Hawaii continues to be America's foremost union state.
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Charlotte Thayer, left, and Aria Dallia roll out green and red Play-Doh to make Play-Doh cookies on their first day of kindergarten at Nash Elementary School on Thursday. Students in most area districts reported for classes to start the 2022-23 academic year.
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Students at Nash Elementary School file into the building for the first day of school Thursday morning.
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Megan Humphreys, a third grade teacher at Nash Elementary School, talks with students during a "This or That" game.
Students and staff throughout the majority of Kenosha Unified School District, and most other districts in Kenosha County, flocked to their respective buildings for the first day of classes Thursday morning.
At Nash Elementary School, students eagerly filed into the building Thursday morning for the first day of school for the 2022-23 academic year.
Unlike last year, students were not expected to come to school with a mask, in addition to their usual backpacks and lunch boxes. The KUSD Board of Education decided to make mask-wearing optional for students during the 2022-23 school year.
As previously announced, schools in the district will continue to provide hand sanitizer as well as following cleaning and disinfecting protocols.
There were no COVID-19 vaccine requirements for staff or students in the district to start this academic year.
Nash students were led inside the building by teachers holding decorated signs. Once inside, teachers began setting up general classroom organization, such as coordinating lunch arrangements for their classes.
In Kathy Landgraf’s kindergarten room, students spent time building Play-Doh snowmen and cookies.
Megan Humphreys third grade class played a game of “This or That,” in which students would walk to a side of the room to indicate their choice.
Some choices included hamburgers or hot dogs, which elicited a reaction from students who had a tough time picking one or the other, airplanes or cars and soccer or baseball.
Once students made their decision, Humphreys approached the groups on either side of the room to ask them about their decisions.
Nash Elementary Principal Brett Basley said he is excited for the new school year and to create connections that were harder to make during COVID-19 restrictions.
“It’s a new year and an opportunity to make connections,” Basley said. “So (I’m) excited for the kids to be back in the building and for them to start a new year and make new friendships, and see where this journey goes this year.”
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“Everybody loves Kyle.” It was the running joke in the White household. From family and friends to coworkers and people he would come across in his travels, people who met Kyle White always had something great to say about him.
The skydiver was reported to be a professional "conducting test runs for the national championship competition" scheduled for this upcoming week when he died.
A prisoner overdosing in his cell led to law enforcement uncovering his illegal sexual relationship with a prison supervisor, according to criminal charges filed Monday.
Charlotte Thayer, left, and Aria Dallia roll out green and red Play-Doh to make Play-Doh cookies on their first day of kindergarten at Nash Elementary School on Thursday. Students in most area districts reported for classes to start the 2022-23 academic year. | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kusd-students-faculty-start-first-day-of-school-thursday/article_8c263222-2a03-11ed-a65d-239021bbea89.html | 2022-09-02T00:38:05 | 0 | https://www.kenoshanews.com/news/local/kusd-students-faculty-start-first-day-of-school-thursday/article_8c263222-2a03-11ed-a65d-239021bbea89.html |
TREASURE ISLAND, Fla. — Say hello to Captain, Treasure Island Fire Rescue's newest member of Station 24.
The fire department adopted the beagle who was recently rescued from a Virginia breeding facility that bred thousands of beagles for research and experimentation. The Humane Society of Tampa Bay received 15 of them just last week.
The 8-month-old beagle loves belly rubs and has giant adorable floppy ears, the fire station says.
Firefighters at Treasure Island Fire Rescue thought to get a station dog when they saw the reports of the beagles being rescued and needing a new home.
Captain will serve as a therapy dog to Treasure Island first responders. He'll also tag along to public education events and become the fire department's official mascot. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/treasure-island-firefighters-adopt-beagle-virginia-breeding-facility/67-5a78ee82-52c7-4d8f-99b3-5f866dda888f | 2022-09-02T00:39:59 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/treasure-island-firefighters-adopt-beagle-virginia-breeding-facility/67-5a78ee82-52c7-4d8f-99b3-5f866dda888f |
BLOOMINGTON — Cody Hendricks has announced his run for Ward 6 on the Bloomington City Council in next year's municipal elections.
“I’m running because I have a desire to contribute to my community in a positive way,” Hendricks said in statement. “I believe in the tenets of servant leadership and have attempted to follow them by serving in elected office and committees, being an educator, and advocating for others through my role as a union president.”
Hendricks is a history teacher in the Olympia School District. He previously served on the Pekin City Council from 2011 to 2015 and has served on the sister cities and beatification committees in Bloomington.
Hendricks said he prioritizes supporting and expanding equitable city services, providing relations with constituents and revitalizing downtown by working with business owners and residents to encourage economic growth while preserving the historic features.
Hendricks also said he values social justice and equity.
“The new Ward 6 is crucially important as it represents the heart and soul of Bloomington — our downtown. We have a real opportunity to revitalize and help enhance our downtown’s accessibility and growth while keeping the historic charm that makes it unique in the local area,” Hendricks stated. “Study after study shows that strong downtowns produce even greater returns that can then be used to support other parts of the city — namely, areas of west Bloomington and the downtown surrounding communities.”
Wards 2, 4 and 8 will also be up for election next year, and Ward 1 will select a council member to fulfill the remaining two years left on Jamie Mathy's term. Incumbents in those wards include: Grant Walch (Ward 1), Donna Boelen (Ward 2), Julie Emig (Ward 4) and Jeff Crabill (Ward 8).
The filing period for petitions begins Nov. 21 and ends Nov. 28, with that also being the last day to file petitions for public questions on public policy on the ballot.
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Contact Mateusz Janik at (309) 820-3234. Follow Mateusz on Twitter:@mjanik99 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/cody-hendricks-announces-run-for-bloomington-ward-6/article_c0f12760-2a3e-11ed-8fc9-c3b027f8eab7.html | 2022-09-02T00:44:15 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/cody-hendricks-announces-run-for-bloomington-ward-6/article_c0f12760-2a3e-11ed-8fc9-c3b027f8eab7.html |
BLOOMINGTON — A $97,000 contract for lead abatement services at the McLean County Museum of History, 200 N. Main St. in Bloomington, will be up for a county board vote later this month.
According to a memo from McLean County Administrator Cassy Taylor, local engineering firm Ideal Environmental completed a request for proposal for the abatement project on behalf of the county.
Two proposals were received by the Aug. 16 deadline. The low bid came from American Asbestos Abatement LLC, doing business as Midwest Service Group out of Missouri, for $97,340.
Taylor said the museum staff believe operations could be shifted to other parts of the museum while the abatement is performed.
"They will probably vacate (the staff) floor by floor as they are repairing the spaces that need the abatement," Taylor said. "And then after that abatement is done, the plaster company is coming in to replace the plaster."
The lead abatement is estimated to take about three weeks, but it could take several weeks until the plaster repairs are dry enough to paint over, Taylor said. The hope is that the entire project can be completed by the end of the calendar year.
Taylor added that the project would be funded entirely by the county's American Rescue Plan Act reserves.
The McLean County Property Committee voiced no objections to the project during its Thursday meeting.
The project now will come before the county's executive committee on Sept. 12 before a vote from the full board the following Thursday.
The county property committee also were in support of a $119,000 bid from Ragland Buildings to construct a new boat rental and bait shop at Comlara Park in Hudson.
Ragland Buildings' proposal includes $89,200 to construct the new building and another $24,945 for excavation services needed to prepare the site. Wayne Litwiller Excavating would perform the excavating work. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-weighs-97k-lead-abatement-contract-for-museum/article_6e3830b2-2a3f-11ed-811e-079eb20a3cc2.html | 2022-09-02T00:44:22 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/mclean-county-weighs-97k-lead-abatement-contract-for-museum/article_6e3830b2-2a3f-11ed-811e-079eb20a3cc2.html |
Circle K gas stations in Tucson and across the U.S. are offering 40 cents off each gallon of fuel purchased between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1.
More than 3,600 Circle K locations are participating in the "Circle K Fuel Day" sale throughout the country to kick off the Labor Day holiday weekend, the company announced Wednesday.
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The sale could lead to long lines at the pump, but according to a statement released by Circle K, anyone who is in line before 7 p.m. will receive the 40 cents off per gallon deal.
Customers can find nearby Circle K stations using the store locator on the company's website. | https://tucson.com/news/local/gas-promo-at-tucson-circle-k-stores-means-long-lines/article_00af586a-296b-11ed-a42b-0b9950e02573.html | 2022-09-02T00:46:29 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/gas-promo-at-tucson-circle-k-stores-means-long-lines/article_00af586a-296b-11ed-a42b-0b9950e02573.html |
Nearly seven years after opening Batch, a popular whiskey and doughnut bar in downtown Tucson, owners Ronnie and Christian Spece are aiming their barrels toward expansion.
In April, the couple purchased the building that houses Batch, 118 E. Congress, and also houses the space next door, 120 E. Congress, currently home to M.E.B. Management Services.
Listed as the First Hittenger Block on the National Register of Historic Places, the two-story property dates back to the late 1800s, a project of capitalist Anton Hittenger. Over the years, it has been home to a wide variety of businesses, including a piano store, a confectionary and the Harry A. Drachman Shoe Company.
"It is an awesome building," Spece said. "It was in escrow through COVID, but that deal didn't go through. We were lucky."
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Even before the Speces purchased the property, expansion plans were already in the works, starting with the addition of a basement bar, which they hope to have open for business by the end of October.
Utilizing about 2,000 square feet of basement space, the new bar will be an offshoot of Batch. Whiskey won't be its primary focus, but it will carry the same vibe, Ronnie Spece said.
"It's still Tucson," he said. "Not snobby, pretentious, overly complicated. It will be more of a laid back kind of thing. Something nice and classic."
The space, which has yet to be named, will be anchored by a 35-foot bar and will offer a selection of spirits, beer, wine and craft cocktails.
"We are keeping our cocktails simple," Spece said. "It won't be a mixology experience. The cocktails wont have 10 ingredients and take 12 minutes to make. But they will be well-done."
In addition to the new bar, the Speces are building out a boutique bottle shop in what is currently the M.E.B. lobby next door.
Ronnie Spece said Batch has always done well with bottle sales, especially during the pandemic, when people had no choice but to grab-and-go.
The new shop will offer single-barrel whiskies, with a curated selection of whiskey bottles and other spirits.
"There is a local prickly pear syrup we use in our cocktails that we can buy wholesale from Cheri's Desert Harvest," Ronnie Spece said. "We’ll probably have stuff like that on the shelf as well."
Ronnie Spece said they hope to have the retail space complete before holiday shopping begins in late November. The timeline for both the bar and the bottle shop were recently bumped up thanks to the approval of a $250,000 investment by the Rio Nuevo Board at its August meeting.
"I think they were surprised and impressed with the scale of what we were doing," Ronnie Spece said. "We are native Tucsonans. We are investing in downtown. We live downtown. What they want to do is help someone like us."
Spece said expansion will not affect the quality at Batch.
The bar has more than 900 bottles of whiskey in stock, one of the largest whiskey collections offered by any bar or restaurant in the state. The Bourbon Review recently named the establishment one of the best bourbon bars in the country for the second year in a row.
The Speces hope their efforts will leave an indelible impression on downtown Tucson.
"Now that we own the building and have a lasting business down there, we are doubling down for the long haul," Ronnie Spece said.
Follow Batch at facebook.com/batchtucson. | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/a-new-basement-bar-is-opening-in-downtown-tucson-this-fall/article_03629f92-294b-11ed-bd0e-e3f3a63b04d0.html | 2022-09-02T00:46:35 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/a-new-basement-bar-is-opening-in-downtown-tucson-this-fall/article_03629f92-294b-11ed-bd0e-e3f3a63b04d0.html |
U.S. Senate candidate Blake Masters has repeatedly stressed that he would stick to his guns as an America First Republican, unafraid to speak controversial truths.
But after winning the GOP primary Aug. 2, Masters has changed his language on the issue of abortion rights, which has become a vulnerability for Republicans nationally, and some other issues.
As first reported by NBC News, Masters scrubbed the phrase "I am 100% pro-life" from the campaign website. But perhaps more significantly from a policy perspective, the campaign deleted a line highlighting his support for "a federal personhood law (ideally a constitutional amendment) that recognizes that unborn babies are human beings that may not be killed."
Depending on the specific language, such a law could lead to a ban on all abortions — not a popular position.
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When journalists pointed out the change, Masters put out a video calling Sen. Mark Kelly the extremist. Kelly, Masters said, supports no limits on abortion until birth, while Masters simply wants "a ban on very late-term and partial birth abortion."
Masters was referring to Kelly's vote in favor of the Women's Health Protection Act, which failed. It would have prohibited states from banning abortion of a viable fetus when the life and health of the woman are at stake.
Kelly says his position is that he would like to codify the protections in the Roe v. Wade decision, which the Supreme Court overturned in June.
CNN also dug into Masters' website and found some changes unrelated to abortion. In a section about election integrity the sentence is gone that previously said, "if we had had a free and fair election, President Trump would be sitting in the Oval Office today and America would be so much better off."
And he has deleted a line that echoed the "great replacement theory" — the argument that Democrats want to replace native-born Americans with immigrants. It is something Masters embraced openly earlier in the campaign. That line: "The Democrats dream of mass amnesty, because they want to import a new electorate."
But he maintained some sharp language about the Biden administration: "They canceled the Border Wall construction. They invite illegals to come here and give them housing and cash."
And this week he kept up his longstanding mockery of celebration of cultural diversity and claims of racism.
When the Associated Press posted a story noting that the Federal Reserve had more female, black and gay officials than ever, Masters responded "Finally a compelling explanation for why our economy is doing so well."
When subsequent news stories pointed out he seemed to be blaming cultural diversity for the economy's woes, he lashed back. He said he doesn't care about an employee's sexual orientation or race as long as they're competent, adding "We are done with this affirmative action regime."
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Vail incorporation studied
A citizens group in Vail is looking at whether the community southeast of Tucson would benefit from joining the city or becoming a separate municipality.
Members of the nonprofit called Incorporate Vail Arizona? have been meeting for more than a year and hired consultants to study the viability of incorporation, the group's leader said in a news release announcing a series of public meetings later this month.
As an unincorporated part of Pima County, Vail has no local government of its own. Its residents are represented at the county level by a member of the county board of supervisors.
Consultants are comparing the pros and cons for Vail under various scenarios: joining Tucson through annexation, becoming a separate city or town or keeping the status quo, David Hook, president of the citizens group said in the news release.
"One of the many advantages of incorporation is that Vail residents would have direct input into the future of our great community. But ultimately, this decision is up to the residents,” Hook said.
Vail is about 25 miles southeast of Tucson and had about 14,000 residents in the 2020 census, an increase of more than 30 percent since the 2010 census. In 2013, Vail voters rejected a proposal to incorporate the community.
Go to incorporatevailaz.org for information and a list of neighborhood meetings happening in September.
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Housing supply meeting
A legislative committee studying the state's housing-supply issues is scheduled to meet in Tucson and three other Arizona cities this month.
The Housing Supply Study Committee is tasked with studying the causes of Arizona's housing supply problems and propose solutions by Dec. 31. The committee is co-chaired by Rep. Steve Kaiser and Sen. David Gowan, both Republicans, but also includes Rep. Cesar Chavez and Sen. Martin Quezada, both Democrats, as well as seven others.
The Tucson meeting is scheduled for 1 p.m. on Monday Sept. 12 at the Tucson City Council Chambers, 255 West Alameda Street. The meeting is set to run until 3 p.m., and public comment is encouraged.
The other meetings this month include one in Sierra Vista, at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 19 in the city council chambers, 1011 North Coronado Dr.
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Hernandez has new gig
State Rep. Daniel Hernandez Jr. is landing on his feet after losing in the Democratic primary in Congressional District 6.
Stand for Children Arizona announced Wednesday the group has hired Hernandez as its government affairs director. Stand for Children works on legislation involving children and schools.
Hernandez has been an office-holder in southern Arizona for more than a decade. He won a seat on the Sunnyside school board in 2011 and'll served till 2019 there. He has also represented Legislative District 2 in the state House of Representatives since winning a seat in 2016.
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MIDLAND, Texas — Just days after student-involved incidents at Legacy Freshman High School, Midland City Councilman John Norman and Midland ISD School Board Trustee Michael Booker are coming together to try to help their community by listening to parents, students and staff.
"I felt it was a great idea for me to step in with Booker to see if we could come up with plans to better the environment for students, staff and everyone involved in schools," said Norman,
Both community leaders encourage LFHS parents to come out Sept. 13 to make their concerns known to move in a positive direction.
"We want to hear ideas, concerns that’s going on so we want people to express their concerns and if they have ideas and suggestions to implement moving forward, we’ll hear that as well," Norman said.
"I like for parents to be involved; I believe that’s a huge part is parent involvement. If we had every student's parents at this meeting it would be an awesome thing. As a community we all have a part to play in this."
For Norman, being born and raised here in Midland and even attending this same school means he feels even more passionate doing what he can to help these youth in his community.
"It’s a community near and dear to my heart so I felt the need to get involved and insert myself in the situation so hopefully we can come up with some ideas to progress," said Norman.
"We have to do better for our youth and our future that will be citizens in Midland. We have to find ways to help not just students but also staff in the environment. For all parties involved it’s something we need to address and continue to see how we can progress."
The Community Meeting will be held for LFHS parents on Sept. 13 at the MLK Community Center, 2300 Butternut Ln, Midland, TX 79705, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/community-meeting-for-legacy-freshman-high-school-parents/513-0094d7b2-1caf-4928-b8c3-5b4e7d2f415f | 2022-09-02T00:50:26 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/community-meeting-for-legacy-freshman-high-school-parents/513-0094d7b2-1caf-4928-b8c3-5b4e7d2f415f |
MIDLAND, Texas — On Thursday, Midland Memorial Hospital announced its neonatal partnership with Pediatrix Medical Group, Covenant Children's Hospital and Cook Children's Health Care System.
Midland Health says the collaboration allows the community to feel more confident about the quality of care that all infants needing NICU services get at Midland Memorial Hospital.
“With the alignment, with all of the groups together, us, Pediatrix, Covenant, and Cook’s we’ll be able to provide quality healthcare to all of our babies here in the NICU and just to offer a peace of mind to our community so that all that care can be done here in Midland," said Lori Dyess, Director of Women and Children Services.
With the peace of mind of being able to provide more care for all their babies, the hospital believes they are on the cusp of achieving a level 3 NICU. Right now they’re a level 2.
They couldn’t be prouder of their team and everything that they’ve accomplished.
“I think that we’ve worked really hard to get where we’re at. We’ve made a lot of progress, the huge strides that we’ve overcome over the past few years that I’ve been involved and the NICU staff organization as a whole; we’re doing really well and we just can’t wait to get to that level 3," Dyess said.
The partnership will begin on September 3rd. Current patients and families will not see any interruption in care. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-memorial-hospital-nicu-partnership/513-4da7b310-3510-496f-b9be-ad0af94b46c7 | 2022-09-02T00:50:32 | 1 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/midland-memorial-hospital-nicu-partnership/513-4da7b310-3510-496f-b9be-ad0af94b46c7 |
ATLANTA — Investigators with the Atlanta Police Department are asking for the public's help in identifying suspects who allegedly shot at a man in an apartment complex.
On Aug. 12 around 1 a.m., officers responded to a call regarding damaged property at an apartment complex located at 1537 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard southwest in Atlanta's West End neighborhood.
A victim said that suspects shot at him as they tried to break into his vehicle, according to a statement from APD on Facebook. In the statement, APD attached a video of the incident from apartment surveillance cameras. Multiple gunshots can be heard coming from a vehicle passing through as the victim immediately ducks out of the way before the car speeds off. Officers said the suspects' vehicle appears to be a white Kia Optima.
Initial investigation indicated the victim was alarmed when he saw suspects attempting to break into his vehicle, APD stated. After the victim confronted the suspects from his apartment complex balcony, the suspects shot at him as they drove off from the scene. The victim was not injured, but his apartment complex was damaged, according to police.
Atlanta Police said the investigation is ongoing and people with information regarding the suspects are eligible for a reward of up to $5,000. The suspects are wanted for criminal damage to property, as of now.
Anyone can submit a tip anonymously to the Crime Stoppers Atlanta tip line at 404-577-TIPS (8477), online here. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-searching-suspects-apartment-shooting/85-c5929727-88c7-4a64-8109-63f9afa0a488 | 2022-09-02T00:53:12 | 1 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/atlanta-police-searching-suspects-apartment-shooting/85-c5929727-88c7-4a64-8109-63f9afa0a488 |
ATLANTA — Makayla de Jong reflects on the milestones: her father walking her down the aisle, him showing up to the graduation ceremonies of her siblings. De Jong said those moments nearly did not happen because a dirt bike accident almost took her father's life.
"He suffered a temporal lobe injury and multiple facial fractures, all sorts of things," de Jong said. "And he needed to be airlifted to a Level 1 Trauma Center.”
De Jong's father went to Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center. Now, the hospital that has opened its doors for more than 100 years will close them for good on Nov. 1. The announcement came Wednesday, and it means the hospital that has the capacity to house 460 beds will no longer be available for patients who need dire emergency care.
Dr. Cecil Bennett worked on the medical staff at Wellstar AMC for 20 years. He said he feels for his colleagues, now searching for new jobs or considering early retirement. Bennett said he was also concerned for the patients whose only option was Wellstar AMC, many of them underserved.
"The closing of that hospital affects every single citizen in metro Atlanta, whether rich or poor," Bennett said. "There is no doubt lives are going to be affected, and there is no doubt that lives are going to be lost. There's that golden hour from the time of injury to getting adequate care. There's no way possible losing one major trauma center will not affect that golden hour for several individuals who may be in accidents in the coming months and years."
Bennett said fewer options could cause patients to put off seeing a doctor about a slight discomfort that could turn out to be a serious medical emergency.
"There was a hospital system they could easily access and now the fear that must exist in that community knowing that hospital is going to close, and they have to go further distance and may not be seen as quickly," Bennett said. "What is the hurry to where that hospital has to close in two months? You would think there would be a little more sensitivity given the environment.”
Wellstar released a statement, saying it pursued every opportunity for an alternative path forward. The hospital, which had served the community for over 100 years, cited financial woes and pointed to $107 million in losses in the last year. The health system previously closed the emergency room at its East Point location.
Wellstar said it would work with other healthcare systems to find beds for existing patients and jobs for staff at AMC. Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens sent a scathing letter to Wellstar, criticizing the hospital's closing and the impact it would have on the community at large. The pending closure of the facility is likely to put more pressure on Grady Hospital, which is the only Level 1 Trauma Center-left in Atlanta.
“Patient care should be number one. Finding a way to make that work should be the priority, not looking at a balance sheet and saying we’re closing this hospital and opening this hospital," Bennett said. "We cannot run a healthcare system based on profitability if it’s going to affect patient care and patient lives. A solution has to be met.”
De Jong called the closure devastating, especially for other patients and their families who have to travel long distances just to get essential care for emergencies.
“I credit their team for being there, and I’m sad to see it close," de Jong said. "I hope no family ever has to go through what we did, but I’m really sad now because they don’t have a lot of options anymore. We live in North Georgia and had to travel to get trauma care. Where are these families going now?” | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/wellstar-atlanta-medical-center-closing-patient-impact/85-44a7c36f-8dcd-47db-8873-fc85dac8cf11 | 2022-09-02T00:53:18 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/wellstar-atlanta-medical-center-closing-patient-impact/85-44a7c36f-8dcd-47db-8873-fc85dac8cf11 |
SEATTLE — Pastor Patrinell "Pat" Staten Wright, otherwise known as Seattle's first lady of gospel, passed away Tuesday after a long illness. She was 78 years old.
Wright was known for her four-octave range and soulful voice. She founded the Total Experience Gospel Choir in Seattle.
The group performed in at least 38 states and 28 different countries, winning more than 150 national and global awards over the course of 45 years before Wright retired in 2018.
Pastor Wright spent the majority of her life helping people of all backgrounds understand the importance of African American gospel music in Seattle and around the world.
Wright performed at many historic events, including Jimi Hendrix's funeral in 1970 and for former President Barack Obama right after he was first elected.
Wright was also known for giving back to the community. She won many prestigious awards, including a Washington State Governor's Heritage Award and the Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award.
However, Wright's beautiful singing voice is what she will be most remembered for.
Information on Wright's celebration of life is still pending. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/pastor-patrinell-wright-gospel-dies/281-0e4095f7-e004-4faa-bfed-2f52c3f44e4d | 2022-09-02T00:56:55 | 0 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/pastor-patrinell-wright-gospel-dies/281-0e4095f7-e004-4faa-bfed-2f52c3f44e4d |
TACOMA, Wash. — One person was killed after a hit-and-run in Tacoma Thursday afternoon.
The suspect was driving a vehicle reported stolen out of Puyallup when they ran a stop sign in at the intersection of East D Street and East 34th Street and collided with another vehicle, according to Tacoma police.
The driver of the other vehicle was killed.
The suspect ran from the scene.
The Collision Investigation Team responded.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Download our free KING 5 app to stay up-to-date on news stories from across western Washington. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/one-person-killed-hit-and-run-tacoma/281-a29ab9ce-539c-4e57-8dd8-f6628e49b3d5 | 2022-09-02T00:57:01 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/one-person-killed-hit-and-run-tacoma/281-a29ab9ce-539c-4e57-8dd8-f6628e49b3d5 |
SCRANTON, Pa. — Across Lackawanna and Wayne Counties, there was one goal: to give back to the community.
The United Way held its first Day of Caring in 2019.
Volunteers stopped by the Bellevue Child Care on Emmett Street in Scranton to do some landscaping, help clean up outside and paint inside.
This year marks the 28th Annual Nancy Jackson Memorial Day of Caring.
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LACKAWANNA COUNTY, Pa. — Whether it's a vanilla and chocolate swirl or two scoops of mint chocolate chip, nothing beats Ice cream on a hot summer day.
"We love to come out for the ice cream it's just delicious," said Marilyn Orlando of Scranton.
"With great weather, people are looking to get out, they are looking to do a few things, and ice cream usually comes to mind, so I definitely can't complain about the weather at all," said Rich Grippi, owner of Josie's Frozen Custard and Italian Ice.
Just off of North Keyser Ave in Scranton, Josie's Frozen Custard and Italian Ice is one of its two locations that specialize in all kinds of frozen desserts.
Owner Rich Grippi has had his hands full this summer, as the soaring temperatures over the last few weeks have given his business quite a boost.
"Very, very little rain this summer, outside of the other day where it rained pretty much non-stop all day, the summer has been really well," said Grippi.
Business can be good until you start to run out of products like plastic cups, something Grippi says can be pretty hard to find right about now.
"A couple of the toppings, they've been a little bit challenging to get, but if you look around hard enough, you can generally find someone who has it," said Grippi.
Some changes to the menu and a slight increase in prices had to be done to stay competitive.
It hasn't stopped Marilyn Orlando and her husband from coming out and enjoying one of their favorite spots.
"Well, they lost a lot last year, so they are making up for it this year, and the people maybe they saved up enough money to come out and have ice cream more than they planned to," said Orlando.
And while there may be a price hike to shout I scream for Ice cream, Grippi plans to continue making milkshakes for anyone who walks up to his window.
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Jane Marie Frye Foust, 84, formerly of North Bend, passed away in Baker City, Oregon on August 19, 2022. Arrangements are under the direction of Tami's Pine Valley Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 541-745-6435; www.tamispinevalleyfuneralhome.com.
Richard "Dick" W. Erickson, 81, of North Bend, passed away on August 24, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Wayne L. Schade, 72, of North Bend, passed away on August 29, 2022 in North Bend. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Kerry "Al" Smith, 57, of Coos Bay, passed away August 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Jerry Michael Ciraolo, 74, of Coos Bay, passed away August 20, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Tammy Lee Phillips, 58, of Coos Bay, passed away August 22,2022 in Portland. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Nathanial B. “Big Nate” Waggoner, 38, of Coos Bay, passed away August 24, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Jerry Mitchell, 80, of Coos Bay, passed away August 28, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Verle Inman, 88, of Myrtle Point, died August 30, 2022 in Myrtle Point. Arrangements are under the direction of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service - Myrtle Point Chapel, 541-572-2524
Robert Leckband, 80, of Powers, died August 28, 2022 in Powers. Arrangements are under the direction of Amling/Schroeder Funeral Service - Myrtle Point Chapel, 541-572-2524
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A Celebration of Life will be held for Darwin L. Giles, 70, of Myrtle Point, on Saturday, September 10, 2022 from 2 - 4:00 pm at the Coquille Valley Elks Lodge, 54942 Maple Heights Rd, Coquille. Cremation Rites have been held under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
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BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho State Board of Education (ISBOE) created a confidential form called "See Tell Now!" for students and staff to report any level of concerning information in Idaho schools.
The form routes the reported tips to the appropriate agency. Low-level tips, such as bullying, go to school administration; high-level emergencies go to local dispatch, according to ISBOE School Safety and Security Program Manager Mike Munger.
"We don't wanna end up in a situation where everyone knew what was going on, but nothing was done about it because they didn't communicate that to anyone," Munger said. "A lot of times we see kids know what is going on, but they don't have the tools to communicate it to the people who need to know."
Around 230 schools in Idaho are promoting 'See Tell Now!' This has brought awareness to roughly 110,000 Idaho students; that's roughly 1/3 of the state's K-12 population, according to Munger.
The West Ada School District is the largest in the state. They signed onto the program starting in the 2022-23 school year.
The program intends to serve as a preventative measure to stop violent incidents at schools - such as a shooting - before it occurs in the first place.
The Cassia School District (CSD) has used the program for years; it has been successful in providing troubled students with the help they need, according to CSD Student Safety Coordinator Gail Gallegos.
"I don't ever want us to have a situation where we can't return those students to their parents," Gallegos said.
Tips to CSD administration from the 'See Tell Now!' report form often include suicidal ideations and bullying, according to Gallegos. When a tip comes to the district, the Cassia Threat Assessment Team determines the credibility of the tip and how to handle it.
The threat assessment team includes Gallegos, the district superintendent, several principals, mental health experts, juvenile detention representatives, an attorney, the school resource officer, and the deputy sheriff.
"We never want to make a decision with one person on how to handle a student," Gallegos said. "The other day we had a 2.5 hour meeting on a student."
A CSD student in recent years made "significant threats" against others, according to Gallegos. The report form brought this concern to the district administration.
The student received mental health resources; the district transferred the student to a different school.
"He was upset about that, and I said, 'I'm going to be there when you graduate.' And graduation night he sent me a text saying, 'where are you?'" Gallegos said. "He's doing great. It brings tears to my eyes to think about him, because he is truly a success story."
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – There is more evidence the state’s case against 20 people accused of illegally voting in the 2020 election could face a legal hurdle.
A News 6 investigation revealed the Lake County State Attorney’s Office had a lack of evidence to file charges against six people accused of the same crime.
There is language in the law that could have a big impact on the other cases.
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Florida’s law that allows convicted felons — excluding those convicted on felony charges related to murder or sexual assault — to vote after they have served their sentence is specific: prosecutors must prove intent.
The state senator who wrote the legislation — titled Amendment 4 — told News 6 that is by design.
State Sen. Jeff Brandes told News 6 that not only did he author the implementing legislation for Amendment 4, but he and others were intentional in writing it.
“We thought that there needed to be some grace, and so we put the word ‘willingly’ in, which means they have to have knowledge of what they’re doing in order to actually commit a crime,” Brandes said.
That’s the exact portion of the statute, 5th Circuit State Attorney William Gladson’s office referred to back in May, when they decided not to file charges against six people accused of illegally voting in the 2020 election.
“A person who willfully submits any false voter registration information commits a felony of the third degree,” according to the statute.
“‘Willfully’ requires the state prove the actions were intentional, knowing, and purposeful,” Jonathan Olson, division supervisor in the 5th circuit, wrote.
“In all of the instances where sex offenders voted, each appear to have been encouraged to vote by various mailings and misinformation...” Olson wrote. “Each were given voter registration cards, which would lead one to believe they could legally vote in the election.”
That’s one reason 59-year-old Peter Washington told News 6 he thought he was eligible to vote.
“They sent me a voter registration card,” Washington said.
Washington was one of 20 people arrested for allegedly illegally voting in the 2020 election. He pled guilty to felony charges of attempted sexual battery of a child in 1996, and so his voting rights were not restored under Amendment 4.
Governor Ron DeSantis made the announcement about the arrests two weeks ago.
“They’re going to pay the price for it,” DeSantis said during the announcement.
However, several of those arrested, including Washington, were under the impression that their rights had been restored.
“I think what you’re going to find out is a good state attorney, they’re going to have a really tough time showing that these people willingly and intentionally tried to deceive or tried to commit fraud and vote,” Brandes said.
Advocates are urging the 20 defendants to fight the charges.
Attorney Roger Weeden is now representing Washington, according to court documents.
Weeden is President of the Central Florida Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
The organization is reaching out to those defendants and offering to represent them pro bono, according to Weeden.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin is providing nine paid scholar positions to Ukrainian refugees. They will be conducting research, and some are teaching different subjects.
They said they are glad to be in Austin and are adjusting to being in Central Texas.
"First of all it's very hot for me. Yes because it's not typical, maybe, temperature for Ukrainians," said Dr. Tetiana Klynina.
“I am glad for sure, it is really, these are people are very helpful here, and it is really, I am impressed with the university," said Victoria Trofimenko.
Many of these Ukrainian scholars are dealing with very difficult circumstances with the war going on with Russia before coming to Austin.
"We saw fire and we a lot heard a lot of weapons, we saw rockets," said Klynina.
"Under my windows, I heard the gunshots of soldiers against those groups, Russian special forces," said Dr. Yuriy Loboda.
Trofimenko said she grabbed her daughter and mom and fled to the Czech Republic before coming to Austin.
"At that point, I had to save my child, so we left," said Trofimenko.
Her daughter is also here with her in Austin now.
Project Manager Michelle Daniel and Dr. Mary Neuburger played a big role in helping these scholars come to the U.S.
"Very honored to help these people, they are also amazing warm, and brilliant people and just a huge boon to the UT campus," said Daniel.
These scholars will get paid up to $100,000 dollars and are living on campus. Many said the money will go to help loved ones back in Ukraine.
"I lost friends, especially on the first days. I have to support their families. I have to help wounded soldiers. I just have to share my salary with those who are still on the battlefront," said Loboda.
These Ukrainian scholars said they are grateful to be here and that they will always be thinking about their loved ones back in Ukraine while also trying to make a difference here in Austin over the next year.
"I hope I can contribute with my knowledge and my experience," Roman Mykhailyshyn said.
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Labor Day closures: Here’s what’s open, closed for holiday in Lane County
Here's what's closed and open for Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 5, in Lane County:
Schools: Closed.
University of Oregon: Closed.
Lane Community College: Closed.
Lane Transit District: Buses will operate on its Sunday schedule on Monday. The Customer Service Center is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; administrative offices are closed.
Libraries: Eugene and Springfield public libraries are closed.
Banks: Closed.
Mail: No service.
State and city government offices: Closed.
Trash pickup: One-day delay through the week for Lane Apex, Royal Refuse and Sanipac. Ecosystems Transfer on regular schedule.
Stock Market: Closed.
Labor Day store hours nationally:Walmart, Target and Home Depot are open; Costco is closed
Willamalane: All closed except Splash! at Lively Park, open 6 a.m.-9 p.m. and Camp Putt, open 10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Amazon Pool: Open 11 a.m.-2 p.m. for lap swim and on-your-own fitness,
Echo Hollow Pool and Fitness Center: Open from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for lap swim and on-your-own fitness, and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. for recreation swim.
Department of Motor Vehicles: Closed.
Register-Guard Customer Service Center: Office closed. No print edition on Monday, e-edition available. Customer service open 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. at 541-485-3311 or 800-377-7428, Ext. 3311, or online at registerguard.com.
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Automobile enthusiasts are making their annual pilgrimage to Auburn this week for festival events capped by a traditional parade through downtown Saturday featuring the classic vehicles that made the DeKalb County seat famous in the pre-World War II era.
The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, marking its 66th year, coincides with an auction of antique, collector and classic cars at the Kruse Plaza Auction Park through Saturday. The three-day, expanded sale began Wednesday with a preview day and is sponsored by Worldwide Auctions.
Saturday’s auction lineup includes the 1928 Rolls-Royce Phantom 1 Sport Phaeton featured in the 1974 movie “The Great Gatsby.”
This week’s events typically draw tens of thousands to Auburn and are the community’s best-attended tourist events of the year, according to the DeKalb County Visitors Bureau.
Free festival attractions include a cruise-in to downtown beginning at 10 a.m. today, when streets are closed to accommodate displays of hundreds of cars. Tonight will feature a concert by Hubie Ashcraft and Whoa, Man! beginning on the Courthouse Square at 6 p.m.
Saturday features a parade at 1 p.m. and a collection of sports and luxury cars at the square beginning at 5 p.m. The Fort Wayne Driving Club is again organizing the event, which last year brought 100 cars including McLarens, Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Aston Martins, Corvettes, Vipers, Mustangs, Camaros and other deluxe rides.
The classic cars will go on display in Auburn’s Eckhart Park before and after the parade, while a market on Sixth Street will feature vintage items 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday night, the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum will transport attendees to the 1920s with the Gatsby Gala Ball from 7 to 11 p.m. Those who come to dance to a period-appropriate jazz band are invited to dress the part.
This year’s ACD Festival featured car is the 1929 Cord L-29, a car that pioneered front-wheel drive as well as experimentation with sleek body design. The ill-fated vehicle was released in August 1929 with celebrity owners including the Marx Brothers, but the stock market crashed in October, decimating the car’s market, and the model was discontinued.
Worldwide Auctions, where cars often fetch six and even seven figures, has a notable Duesenberg and a rare Auburn going on the block.
The auction’s 15th year features a refabricated 1929 Model J Duesenberg convertible coupe and a 1935 Auburn 841 SC boattail speedster. Both are to be sold Saturday evening. The Auburn, one of only 143 built during a short two-year run, “remains likely the most memorable of all Auburn models,” the auction catalog says.
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The lowest airfare AAA discovered for this weekend’s Labor Day holiday came up as $179 – a nearly 20% increase from last year and up 30% from 2020.
The average lowest car rental price: $89 a day, is up almost 32% when compared to 2020.
But GasBuddy on Thursday offered an update that motorists might find a little more comfort in. Per gallon prices are more than 60 cents higher than last year, but they are expected to be the lowest since March 3 and 20% lower than on July 4, at $3.79.
Gas prices in Fort Wayne and other Midwest markets jumped to more than $5 in June.
This year was forecast to be the biggest travel summer since COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns in 2020, according to GasBuddy, which has a popular gas price tracking app. But this year’s “soaring gas prices threw a wrench into the road trip plans of many Americans,” GasBuddy said in a Thursday news release.
At the beginning of the summer, 58% of Americans responded to GasBuddy’s survey that they intended to take road trip over the summer, with 33% to travel on Labor Day weekend.
And then came pain at the pump.
“It was a dizzying time as gas prices surged ahead of summer, which caused many Americans to re-think their summer travel plans, only for the longest decline in gas prices since the pandemic to start providing meaningful relief,” said Patrick De Haan, GasBuddy’s head of petroleum analysis, said in a statement.
“As the sun sets on summer,” he said, “gas prices are in far more familiar territory and could continue to decline well into fall, barring major disruptions from hurricanes and the like.”
Although many markets have seen a fairly steady weekly decline in gas prices, GasBuddy suggests motorists still shop around, noting that variance between stations can be extreme.
Fuel prices are on the minds of motorists whether they are using their own vehicle or renting.
“The demand is pretty high for this weekend. We’re close to selling out, just because we have limited availability of vehicles,” said Jenny Richardson, an Avis-Budget agency operator in Fort Wayne.
“Right now the pickiness lies in the gas mileage,” Richardson said Wednesday. Because gas prices are “still high, that means everybody is still requesting something with good mileage.”
Car rental agency Hertz said it anticipates strong demand nationally through the weekend.
To manage reservation volume, Hertz moves fleet to areas with highest demand to support customers, John G. Friess, external communications manager, said in an emailed response.
“We advise customers to book as early as possible and at the same time they’re making other travel arrangements,” he said. “Another tip is to consider booking at a neighborhood car rental location, which may have more availability when airport volumes are high. Hertz has thousands of neighborhood locations throughout the country.”
Fort Wayne International Airport officials did not return phone calls Wednesday or Thursday with what sort of traffic it might see through the Labor Day holiday.
For domestic travel, bookings for air, car, cruise, hotel and tours for Labor Day weekend are up 22% compared to last year, according to AAA, a motor club, that offers travel, insurance and other services. For international travel, bookings are up 104%.
AAA finds that the average lowest mid-range hotel rate is coming in at $233 a night, but did not have data available for 2021, said Ellen Edmonds, director of external communications. But when compared to 2020, hotel rates are up almost 53%.
The top three domestic destinations for travelers are Seattle, Orlando and Las Vegas, AAA said. The top three international destinations are Vancouver, Canada; London, England; and Dublin, Ireland. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/extended-labor-day-weekend-travel-gets-underway/article_349ce766-2a31-11ed-8278-d78860710bd3.html | 2022-09-02T01:36:35 | 1 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/extended-labor-day-weekend-travel-gets-underway/article_349ce766-2a31-11ed-8278-d78860710bd3.html |
A Fort Wayne university announced Thursday it will expand its K-12 camp offerings and start new year-round after-school programs with a $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.
Indiana Tech isn’t the only area institution benefiting from Lilly’s Indiana Youth Programs on Campus initiative. Awards include $862,346 to the University of Saint Francis and $845,557 to Trine University in Angola. Purdue University received $733,173, and officials said the Fort Wayne campus’ share is about $150,000.
The private philanthropic foundation launched the initiative last year to help Indiana colleges and universities, both public and private, create or enhance high-quality, on-campus programs for ages 5 to 18. Goals listed on its website include increasing the number of students who attend Indiana colleges and obtain postsecondary degrees and credentials.
Indiana’s college-going rate has dropped from 65% in 2015 to 53% in 2020, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education has reported.
Indiana Tech’s grant will support a high school STEM camp, an after-school robotics program and Girls Who Code, a new yearlong after-school program to help close the gender gap in the technology workforce, a university news release said. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and math.
“Indiana Tech has long provided quality summer camp programs for youth interested in STEM fields,” university President Karl Einolf said in a statement. “This new grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. will allow our university (to) take these offerings to a new level.”
At Saint Francis, the grant will help launch the Discovery Academy, a series of discipline-focused camps fostering students’ academic interests, a news release said.
At Purdue Fort Wayne, the money will support summer camp activities over the next three years, said Ron Friedman, dean of the College of Science. He noted the four camps will be led by the colleges of Science and of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/4-colleges-in-fort-wayne-get-1-million-grant-from-lilly-endowment/article_7f8292ca-2a0a-11ed-b248-f78cb51213ef.html | 2022-09-02T01:36:36 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/4-colleges-in-fort-wayne-get-1-million-grant-from-lilly-endowment/article_7f8292ca-2a0a-11ed-b248-f78cb51213ef.html |
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Newly released footage shows the moments that a Beaverton police officer rescued a man who was trapped in a flaming car early Tuesday morning.
Police responded to a rollover crash near the Southwest Hocken Avenue and Southwest Jenkins Road intersection around 2:30 a.m. On the scene, officers found the car on its side covered in flames.
The Beaverton Police Department said the driver, 34-year-old Johan Hermosillo, was trapped inside. Video shows the officer was able to break the sunroof and told Hermosillo to crawl out.
After being pushed back by small explosions, the officer was able to pull an unresponsive Hermosillo out of the car.
BPD said because of the officer’s actions, Hermosillo only sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
Officers reported seeing evidence of impairment which they believe contributed to the crash. Hermosillo was released from the hospital and now faces DUII and reckless driving charges. | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/video-beaverton-officer-rescues-man-from-burning-car-after-rollover-crash/ | 2022-09-02T01:37:10 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/video-beaverton-officer-rescues-man-from-burning-car-after-rollover-crash/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — In a recent court brief, more than a dozen current and former employees of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services warned that continuing to abide by Gov. Greg Abbott's directive to treat gender-affirming medical care as potential child abuse would push the agency past "the brink of collapse."
According to a report from KVUE's news partners at the Austin American-Statesman, an "unprecedented" number of DFPS employees have quit since the directive was announced in February.
"For an agency already struggling, and often failing, to protect Texas children, the stakes are too high to ignore, according to the current and former employees, many of them supervisors and managers," wrote Chuck Lindell of the Statesman.
The report states that employees have already been stretched beyond their resources and are unable to fully help children in the system who are victims of abuse or neglect.
"The great mass of DFPS employees did not choose the child welfare profession to break up loving families who, with no ill motive, malice, or negligence toward their child, are simply following medical advice and administering medicine under a doctor’s supervision," the legal brief states.
Read the Statesman's full report here.
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A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shook far West Texas on Thursday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
The USGS reported that quake – one of eight prior to 4 p.m. Thursday in the area west of the Loving County city of Mentone – took place around 11:23 a.m. and happened at a depth of 5.59 miles.
The website earthquaketrack.com reported the quake was the second 4.5-plus magnitude quake in the last three weeks and the strongest in the area going back to July 21 when a 4.9-magnitude quake hit.
The website on Thursday also showed 40 tremors in the last seven days, 125 in the last 30 days and 1,721 in the last 365 days. By comparison, there had been a combined 673 earthquakes reported around Los Angeles (358) and San Francisco (315). | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/4-6-quake-is-one-of-eight-in-far-West-Texas-on-17413783.php | 2022-09-02T01:45:03 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/4-6-quake-is-one-of-eight-in-far-West-Texas-on-17413783.php |
Fire and Police Commission will explore requiring police to release bodycam footage of critical incidents in a specific timeframe
The chair of Milwaukee’s police oversight board said Thursday he will explore whether to require the release of body camera footage of officer-involved deaths in a specific timeframe.
Arguing the Fire and Police Commission should be “self-generating these policies,” Chairman Ed Fallone said he and Leon Todd, the executive director of the commission, have been meeting with various stakeholders since March after members of the public have pushed for greater transparency.
He said he and Todd “feel the commission is going to have to make a decision” to either codify the Milwaukee Police Department’s current, informal practice of releasing footage about 45 days after the incident, or adopt a different procedure that would perhaps require disclosure sooner.
“It’s apparent that it’s becoming an either-or situation,” Fallone said.
He did not provide any timeline for when he and Todd might come to the commission with one or more proposals to consider, emphasizing the need for a thoughtful approach and commission’s staff limitations to perform the research.
Fallone said he and Todd planned to continue meeting with leadership at the Milwaukee Police Department, the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office and various community groups about the issue and invited other commissioners to get involved.
Commissioner Bree Spencer indicated she would like to join, and encouraged Fallone to come up with a timeline, but he did not commit to that Thursday.
“I appreciate the comments you made about how important it is to do this correctly and thoughtfully, but I do feel a sense of urgency around it because of the community requests we’ve received related to this issue,” Spencer said. “I think we do need to have a timeline for folks so people know what to expect.”
In the aftermath of police shootings or in-custody deaths in Milwaukee and elsewhere, the release of any footage can be a hotly contested struggle between members of the public pushing for transparency and law enforcement wishing to preserve the integrity of the ensuing investigation.
The Milwaukee Police Department does not have a standard operating procedure for voluntarily releasing such information after a death or a severe injury occurs with police involved.
Its internal practice is to release what the department calls “community briefings” – videos that include limited and redacted footage with narration from police officials – within 45 days of the incident, even with the ensuing investigation still active. The department has not always met that goal.
That process has been criticized by some activists for its length of time and for the limited footage included in the video. Unedited footage is subject to Wisconsin open records law, but those requests are almost always denied until after an investigation is completed.
The department has defended its community briefing process before. In July 2021, it released a statement asserting that it is “one of the only, if not the only Wisconsin law enforcement agency” that releases footage of such incidents prior to a prosecutor deciding to file charges or not.
Contact Elliot Hughes at elliot.hughes@jrn.com or 414-704-8958. Follow him on Twitter @elliothughes12. | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/09/01/milwaukee-fpc-explores-requirements-releasing-bodycam-footage/7954262001/ | 2022-09-02T01:45:05 | 0 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/milwaukee/2022/09/01/milwaukee-fpc-explores-requirements-releasing-bodycam-footage/7954262001/ |
The average price of gas in Midland fell more than the average in Odessa this past week, but the weekly decrease here trailed the state average and every other larger city in the region, according to AAA Texas.
The organization reported the average in Midland fell 6 cents to $3.46. Across the region, weekly price decreases included 11 cents in El Paso, 8 cents in San Angelo and Amarillo, 7 cents in Lubbock and Abilene and 4 cents in Odessa. The average statewide fell 7 cents to $3.34.
AAA Texas also reported that the average in Midland remains the third highest of the 27 larger metropolitan areas across the state. El Paso topped the list at $3.61 and College Station-Bryan was second at $3.48.
AAA Texas stated in its weekly report that the statewide gas price average fell for the 11th week in a row.
“The cost for fuel is at its lowest point in six months as millions of drivers prepare to hit the road for the last weekend of summer driving season,” said AAA Texas spokesperson Daniel Armbruster in the weekly report. “However, crude oil prices remain sensitive to any supply or demand news with the ongoing war in Ukraine. Crude makes up approximately 60 percent of the cost of a gallon of retail gasoline.”
The averages across the region included: $3.39 in Odessa, $3.27 in Amarillo, Lubbock and San Angelo. The cheapest price in the region was $3.25 in Abilene.
Other notables from the weekly report included:
- The price in Midland is down $1.06 from the all-time high set on June 11,
- The average is also 51 cents higher than one year ago,
- The state average is down $1.26 from earlier this summer and 54 cents higher than one year ago.
- The cheapest average in the state was $3.20 in McAllen and Brownsville-Harlingen.
Highest averages in state
This week
El Paso $3.61
College Station-Bryan $3.48
Midland $3.46
Longview $3.42
Beaumont-Port Arthur $3.40
Texas $3.34
National $3.83
Last week
El Paso $3.72
College Station $3.56
Midland $3.52
Longview $3.47
Wichita Falls $3.46
Texas $3.41
National $3.88
Source: AAA Texas
Last week
El Paso $3.72
College Station $3.56
Midland $3.52
Longview $3.47
Wichita Falls $3.46
Texas $3.41
National $3.88 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Midland-trails-other-regional-cities-for-gas-17413374.php | 2022-09-02T01:45:09 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Midland-trails-other-regional-cities-for-gas-17413374.php |
Sanchez Mortician Services will no longer provide services for Midland County, including the transportation of bodies to medical examiner’s offices.
Oscar Sanchez turned in his company’s 30-day notice to terminate the contract with the county during the recent county budget hearings – the result of a dispute between he and County Judge Terry Johnson over a recent request by Sanchez to increase its monthly contract to keep up with inflation costs.
According to county documents, Oscar Sanchez alerted the county on Aug. 1 that he intended to increase the monthly service charge from $25,750 to $31,000 due to rising costs. When Justice of the Peace John W. Barton brought the increase request to the Commissioners’ Court, Johnson stated that notices of increases were to be brought forward by May 1 as that is when budget planning takes place.
Even in the county’s current contract with the Sanchez Mortician Services, which was signed by Sanchez and put into place on Oct. 5, 2020, it states “On or before May 1 of each year, Sanchez may request a fee increase in a letter sent to the Justice of the Peace Precinct 2 and the county judge.”
A few days after the first back-and-forth between Barton and Johnson, Sanchez appeared before the Commissioners’ Court to say costs had increased and he was seeking that pay increase.
Johnson reminded Sanchez that if he would have turned in his request by May 1, he “probably would have gotten what (he) wanted.”
Sanchez immediately turned in his 30-day notice to terminate the contract with the county.
Barton reminded the court that the county will lose things without a contract, including cost benefits and priority for services. “Families are relying on us with respect for a deceased family member,” Barton stated.
“May 1 is the time to turn it in,” Johnson responded. “If you want to talk about the contract – you or (Justice of the Peace David) Cobos, that is a discussion for another day.”
During the discussion, Sanchez stated that he and the former County Judge Mike Bradford had an agreement that anytime he needed to talk about pay increases that he could submit his request.
During Friday’s budget meeting, county officials created a committee that will help determine qualifications for companies wanting to pick up and transport dead bodies and other mortuary services for Midland County. That committee includes members of the Commissioners’ Court, Justice of the Peace office, District Attorney’s Office, the Sheriff’s Office, Department of Public Safety and those who investigate deaths.
Once qualifications are determined a request for proposal will be sent out.
Two years ago, only two entities responded to a RFP – Sanchez and a “fly-by-night operation,” according to officials during the Friday meeting. The funeral home directors spoke on behalf of Sanchez, it was noted.
It also was stated that requests could now come in at a higher rate than what Sanchez was paying and what he was offering in the request on Aug 1.
When asked if Sanchez would bid on it, he told the court, “I don’t know.” | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Mortician-turns-in-notice-after-quarrel-with-17413359.php | 2022-09-02T01:45:16 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/Mortician-turns-in-notice-after-quarrel-with-17413359.php |
The annual Halloween carnival hosted by the Midland YMCA benefits the non-profit’s scholarship campaign, allowing the organization to give kids, adults and families financial access to the Y based on needs and circumstances.
This year’s celebration will take place 4 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 22. Tickets will be $5 (adults and kids 3-plus) during advanced ticket sales Oct. 18 through 21. If buying at the door, the price will be $10. Concessions will be available for cash purchase, and kid-friendly costumes are highly encouraged. Some activities guests can look forward to include a train, trampoline jump, DJ, photo booth, cake walk, spook house, rock climbing wall, obstacle course, Disney character performances and more.
Sponsorship packages from $500 to $5,000 are available. For more information on how to become a sponsor, email Liz Harris-Jurado at eharris@midlandymca.org or call 432-682-2551. | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/YMCA-looking-for-Halloween-carnival-sponsors-17413412.php | 2022-09-02T01:45:22 | 0 | https://www.mrt.com/news/local/article/YMCA-looking-for-Halloween-carnival-sponsors-17413412.php |
Birmingham, Ala. (WIAT)–Comedian George Wallace in the house for the CBS 42 News at 4. Here’s what he told CBS 42 News Anchor Sherri Jackson about his upcoming show at the Stardome Comedy Club September 2nd-4th. He’s appearing with Comedians J. Anthony Brown and Myra J. Click here for ticket information. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/comedian-george-wallace-stops-by-cbs-42/ | 2022-09-02T01:46:06 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/comedian-george-wallace-stops-by-cbs-42/ |
CROWN POINT — A man accused of firing the shot that killed a Portage High School student in 2019 in Griffith told a judge Thursday he would not accept a plea agreement and wanted to go to trial later this month.
Elrice L. Williams, 29, of Park Forest, pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted robbery and burglary charges filed in connection with the Jan. 9, 2019, shooting death of 18-year-old Alayna Ortiz.
Williams' trial is scheduled for the week of Sept. 19 before Lake Criminal Court Judge Natalie Bokota.
Prosecutors allege Williams and his co-defendants were attempting to rob Ortiz's boyfriend when she was shot and killed outside the Park West Apartments in Griffith.
Giovante M. Galloway, 24, of Gary; Juarez E. Rogers, 52, of Park Forest; and Joe C. Pittman Jr., 29, of Chicago, also were charged in the homicide.
Williams was prepared to plead guilty a year ago, but Bokota refused to accept his plea agreement after he claimed he didn't intend to pull the trigger.
Lake County Supervisory Deputy Prosecutor Robert Persin told the judge Williams' previous plea offer had remained on the table.
The proposed deal called for Williams to plead guilty to attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, a level 2 felony, and attempted armed robbery, a level 3 felony. His sentence would have been capped at 26 years.
If Williams is convicted at trial of murder, he could face a sentence of 45 to 65 years in prison on that charge alone.
Galloway and Rogers each have accepted plea deals and could face sentences of three to 16 years.
Pittman pleaded not guilty and is next due in court Sept. 15.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
The judge allowed a defense attorney time to speak with the defendant, who could be heard saying, "I never told you to put that motion in" and, "That's frivolous." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-says-hes-ready-to-face-jury-on-charges-he-fatally-shot-portage-high-student/article_6e3231c8-1a6d-5efd-b57a-fa541fa2a404.html | 2022-09-02T01:49:02 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/man-says-hes-ready-to-face-jury-on-charges-he-fatally-shot-portage-high-student/article_6e3231c8-1a6d-5efd-b57a-fa541fa2a404.html |
CROWN POINT — Prosecutors filed additional charges this week against a man accused of attempting to hit two police officers with a minivan during an attempted theft last month at a Dick's Sporting Goods store in Schererville.
Robert E. Thompson Jr., 28, of Chicago, was shot in the left shoulder area by Schererville police Aug. 20 after he drove toward two officers and a K-9, hit two unoccupied squads with a black Chrysler Voyager minivan and rammed a third unoccupied police vehicle head-on outside the Dick's store, Lake Criminal Court records state.
Thompson already had been facing felony counts of attempted theft and resisting law enforcement and a misdemeanor county of resisting law enforcement in connection with the confrontation.
Lake County prosecutors this week charged Thompson with one count of felony theft from the Dick's Sporting Goods in Hobart and five more felonies linked to events at the Schererville store, including two counts of attempted battery by means of a deadly weapon.
Thompson, who was treated at a Chicago hospital, has not yet entered pleas in any of his cases. He was in custody in Illinois, pending extradition to Indiana, Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said.
His co-defendants, Ricky C. Pierce, 30, and Jaleel S. Spencer, 32, both of Chicago, also were each charged Wednesday with one count of felony theft from the Hobart store. All three are accused of stealing $1,000 to $3,000 worth of Nike items from the Hobart store, including Air Force 1 shoes, Air Max 270 shoes, a Nike backpack, T-shirts and underwear.
Pierce remained in custody at the Lake County Jail without bond until Sept. 10.
Spencer posted a bond of $15,000 surety or $1,500 cash Aug. 25 and was wanted on the new theft charge.
Schererville police responded about 4:30 p.m. Aug. 20 to the store in their town for a report of a theft in progress, according to court documents.
Dick's employees and police were on alert, because two thefts had been reported earlier in the day at the company's stores in Valparaiso and Hobart.
Employees at the Schererville store noticed Thompson, Pierce and Spencer and the black minivan in which they arrived all matched descriptions in the thefts at other Dick's stores, records state.
Schererville police parked two squads near the minivan in an attempt to block it in and decided to split up to cover all exterior doorways to the store.
An officer who remained outside, near the minivan, heard officers fighting with people on the other side of a door.
As police announced they had two suspects — later identified as Pierce and Spencer — in custody inside the store, the officer outside saw Thompson run around the northwest corner of the building.
The officer ordered Thompson to stop, but Thompson continued running toward the minivan. As Thompson passed the officer, the officer wrapped both arms around Thompson and they fell onto the hood of a parked vehicle, records state.
A second officer released his K-9, which began biting the back of the first officer's leg, causing the first officer to release Thompson because he was in extreme pain.
Thompson made it to the van and began revving its engine as four officers with their guns drawn ordered him to turn it off, records state.
Thompson began to drive directly at the first officer, and the K-9 officer fired a shot. The gunfire had little effect on Thompson, who rammed two parked police vehicles, documents state.
The impact pushed the first officer's parked car into him as he stood behind it.
As the K-9 officer attempted to put his dog into his vehicle, Thompson veered and drove at them. The first officer fired four shots, striking Thompson, who drove head-on into the K-9 officer's car before stopping, records state.
Thompson struggled with officers as they took him into custody. They restrained him as one of the officers applied a tourniquet to his left arm to slow bleeding from his gunshot wound.
The charges linked to the Schererville store were secured by Lake County sheriff's police, who took over the investigation at the request of the Schererville Police Department.
The Lake County prosecutor's office will ultimately determine whether the shooting by police was justified.
Martinez said the investigation was still ongoing and his detectives would submit all findings to the Lake County prosecutor's office.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
"In those phone calls, Katalinic made specific references as to knowing the victim’s whereabouts, as well as other references regarding the well-being of their shared child," state police said.
"Kelsie stated she would never leave her children home alone during the daytime while they were awake, however she thought they were asleep, so she left them overnight," police said.
Hammond firefighters also arrived on scene and attempts were made to revive the child, who was taken to Franciscan Health Hammond hospital, police said.
The judge questioned whether the defendant would be able to pay $1,000 a month in restitution for two years. If she misses a payment, she could have her probation revoked and be sent to jail.
The truck driver told police he was traveling east on U.S. 20 in Gary when he stopped for a red light and two people in a red Ford Edge behind him got out and argued with him about a traffic issue.
Some two dozen law enforcement officers from Schererville and surrounding communities responded Saturday afternoon to a suspected robbery and police-involved shooting at the Dick's Sporting Goods store. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/more-charges-filed-against-man-shot-by-police-outside-dicks-store/article_64e65a4f-a5c1-5530-ba3d-a50d9da31c56.html | 2022-09-02T01:49:08 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/more-charges-filed-against-man-shot-by-police-outside-dicks-store/article_64e65a4f-a5c1-5530-ba3d-a50d9da31c56.html |
Authorities have arrested a 31-year-old Beatrice man who they allege is one of two suspects who robbed a Gage County woman alongside a rural Lancaster County road after they offered to drive the woman to Lincoln, according to the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office.
Members of the Omaha Metro Fugitive Task Force arrested Kenneth Miles and took him to the Lancaster County jail Wednesday, Sheriff Terry Wagner said.
Miles, who had an active warrant out for his arrest stemming from the alleged crime, was formally charged with robbery and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony.
His arrest comes four days after a 33-year-old Beatrice woman told deputies that Miles and 40-year-old Thomas Angell Jr., of Lincoln, pulled over near Roca as they drove the woman to buy a car in Lincoln and told her to get out of the car, Deputy Tyler Loos said in the affidavit for Angell's arrest.
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The two men told the woman they needed to fix the car's stereo, so the woman waited near the ditch, Loos said in the affidavit.
But soon, the woman told deputies, Angell and Miles exited the car with a handgun and allegedly shot into the dirt near her feet before repeatedly kicking her and taking her purse, stuffed with $10,000 in cash.
An area resident summoned deputies to the scene, near South 25th Street near Wittstruck Road, around 12:40 p.m. Saturday after hearing the commotion.
Deputies arrested Angell outside his Lincoln apartment Saturday night and found $3,000 in cash in his pockets, Loos said in the affidavit.
After searching for Miles since Monday, authorities found him in Omaha on Wednesday, the sheriff said. | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/second-suspect-arrested-in-gunpoint-robbery-of-beatrice-woman-sheriff-says/article_20b77677-a58a-59bd-a114-81f317c7935e.html | 2022-09-02T01:51:54 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/second-suspect-arrested-in-gunpoint-robbery-of-beatrice-woman-sheriff-says/article_20b77677-a58a-59bd-a114-81f317c7935e.html |
GREENSBORO — The newest state results for Guilford County Schools are better than those for the 2020-21 school year, but aren't yet back to where they were prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 47% of students who took end-of-grade or end-of-course tests passed in 2021-22. That's up from about 42% in 2020-21, but down from about 55% in 2018-19.
North Carolina did not administer tests in spring of 2019-20 because school buildings were shuttered during the pandemic.
“Our goal is not just to get to pre-pandemic levels, but to do better,” new Superintendent Whitney Oakley told reporters on Thursday.
The vast majority of Guilford County Schools students were back in classrooms for all of 2021-22, but like other school districts, the district was still grappling with the fallout of the pandemic, including coronavirus-exacerbated staffing issues and other concerns.
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Those are in addition to the lingering academic issues from students learning online during parts of 2020 and 2021. Oakley said online learning only worked well for a small portion of students.
Across North Carolina, about 51% of students passed state tests in 2021-22 as opposed to about 45% in 2020-21. One caveat: Test taking participation was a bit lower in 2020-21.
In 2018-19, about 59% of students in North Carolina public schools passed the tests.
The district's graduation hit an all-time high of 91.8%, slightly topping last year's record of 91.5%. Prior to that, graduation rates for the district had been hovering just below 90% since 2015.
Oakley, who was named superintendent on Wednesday, said the biggest factor in the increase is the amount of work teachers and principals are putting into getting students ready to graduate.
She said another factor is that the state has pushed back the date for students to have all their requirements completed to Aug. 6. That deadline had been July 15.
"Lastly, I would just say that we focused really hard on extended learning opportunities," she said.
Those included "fifth quarter" and learning hub initiatives.
The term "fifth quarter" comes comes from the fact that the school year is usually divided into four grading periods. With a fifth quarter, students who are failing courses needed to graduate can get an extra learning period to work with teachers to improve their grades. With the learning hubs, Guilford County Schools offered a place and time during the school year or summer for students to work on homework and get tutoring and other help, often with meals and transportation provided.
Students who attended the learning hubs had about a 96% graduation rate versus a graduation rate of about 90% for those who did not attend. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/report-state-test-results-for-guilford-students-are-better-but-still-lagging/article_d04c56c8-2a05-11ed-876b-dff5f628f0e6.html | 2022-09-02T01:51:58 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/education/report-state-test-results-for-guilford-students-are-better-but-still-lagging/article_d04c56c8-2a05-11ed-876b-dff5f628f0e6.html |
CDC endorses new omicron COVID-19 booster shots: What Arizonans need to know
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday endorsed new booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccines that specifically target the omicron subvariants of the virus. The Food and Drug Administration also gave emergency use authorization for those boosters this week.
Arizona is seeing a decline in reported cases of the virus, but the cases that are still circulating are predominantly the BA.5 omicron subvariant. Some epidemiologists are concerned about another wave of infections this fall and winter seasons.
Existing vaccine formulations still significantly reduce the risk of hospitalization and death due to the coronavirus, but scientists hope the updated booster doses will decrease risk of infection against the currently circulating virus. So should you get the new shot?
Here’s what you need to know.
Why is there a new booster shot available?
The virus that causes COVID-19 has changed several times since the vaccines were first developed, explained Deepta Bhattacharya, a professor of immunobiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.
As the virus has evolved, it's acquired mutations that make it better at evading our immune systems. An updated version of the vaccine can help our bodies bolster defenses.
"When the vaccines are matched to the variants that are circulating, then they work better," Bhattacharya said. "That's the thinking behind adopting these vaccines."
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Is the new omicron booster safe, and will it protect me better than previous shots?
Yes, Bhattacharya said, the evidence shows that the new booster is safe and will likely be more effective than the existing booster.
In June, vaccine companies were wrapping up clinical trials in humans on a booster targeted to match BA.1, the omicron subvariant that caused massive surges last winter. Data showed that booster worked better than the original, but by the time the trials were completed, BA.4 and BA.5 were the dominant strains.
So researchers tweaked the "instructions" contained in the vaccine to better match the virus that's currently circulating. They tested that formulation for efficacy in mice, not in humans. That’s on par with the ways scientists update flu vaccines, which don’t require large-scale human trials.
Human trials for efficacy are also underway for the new booster, but those results won't be available until after the rollout begins. In other words, Bhattacharya said, we don't know exactly how much more effective this booster will be, but we have enough data to be confident that it will be safe and better than the shots we have now.
The FDA has also said that they believe the vaccine will be more effective against the omicron subvariants.
When will COVID omicron boosters be available?
Since the CDC has endorsed the shots, they could become available as soon as this weekend, with more quantities available after Labor Day.
Where can I get the new booster shot?
You can likely receive the new booster vaccine wherever you got your previous shots. It is a single shot and the government has purchased millions of doses for the winter vaccination campaign, which means that for now, the updated boosters will be administered free of charge at most locations.
However, federal funding for the vaccines may run out next year, so they may no longer be free for all in 2023.
As the boosters are rolled out, local pharmacies, community clinics and doctor's offices will likely be able to administer the shot at the same time you get your annual flu shot. Your body's immune response will ramp up to higher levels over approximately two weeks.
Find the nearest provider to you using the state's vaccine finder.
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Who is eligible to get the new booster shot?
For anyone who has already had a primary series of the coronavirus vaccine, regardless of type (e.g. Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson), the FDA issued emergency use authorizations of the new booster:
- For the Pfizer/BioNTech booster: 12 years or older
- For the Moderna booster, 18 years or older
Bhattacharya said that people who are immunocompromised or elderly should prioritize getting the new booster. He also noted individuals who have had a primary series but have not had a booster yet can go straight to the updated booster. This means if you've only had two shots of the Moderna vaccine, your third dose can be the omicron-specific booster.
Will the new omicron-specific booster replace the older boosters?
As the omicron subvariants continue to dominate, the updated booster will likely become the most useful one in our arsenal. The BA.5 subvariant makes up nearly 90% of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
However, the primary series will stay the same. If you have not yet received the first dose of the vaccine, you will still first be vaccinated with the first doses made available in 2020. Bhattacharya hopes that will change, but doesn’t know when that will happen.
How long should I wait to get the new booster if I recently had a booster or was infected?
Do not get the booster right away if you were infected or vaccinated with either the original or booster vaccines in the last two months. The FDA says getting the new booster too soon can limit its benefit.
"From a purely immunological standpoint, six to nine months would be ideal" between a previous vaccination or infection and a new booster, Bhattacharya said.
However, he noted that that window may be modified by the situation on the ground. For example, if cases begin rising, scientists may recommend another booster, say, four months later to decrease risk of infection and help slow community spread.
Will there be more new boosters in the future?
Bhattacharya thinks continually updating boosters as the virus evolves is a good idea and will likely happen again, beyond just this year.
"Based upon what we've learned from flu, updating the vaccine when the new variant comes out is useful," he said, adding that he doesn't think we have the infrastructure to roll out updated vaccines more often than once a year.
The good news, he added, is that although each variant of the coronavirus looks a bit different, parts of the virus stay the same, and that's something our immune systems can take advantage of.
With vaccination or infection, "you're going to generate some antibodies against parts of the virus that can't change, and that will only help you, even if a new variant comes down the road," he said.
And as other public health measures are removed, vaccines have become one of the primary ways individuals can try to protect themselves from illness, hospitalization and death.
That doesn't mean that individuals can't continue masking or taking other precautions, but it does mean that on a broader scale, ensuring the efficacy and implementation of updated vaccines will be important in protecting all of us.
Have a question you need answered? Reach the reporter at rromeroruiz@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @raphaeldelag.
Independent coverage of bioscience in Arizona is supported by a grant from the Flinn Foundation.
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UFO sighting over Carlsbad credited to nearby Air Force training mission, feds say
An Air Force base in southern New Mexico claimed credit for a series of initially unexplained lights witnessed over Carlsbad this week, which drew several reports of an unidentified flying object (UFO).
The lights, which multiple Carlsbad residents said appeared in the sky at about 9 p.m. Monday during a lightning storm, moving strangely and seeming to multiply, lit up social media that night and the day after as users posted cellphone videos and speculated that cause of the illuminations.
Some users said at one point in the hour-long display, one of the lights erupted in flames and light, appearing to explode.
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But Holloman Air Force Base spokesperson Denise Ottaviano explained the incident was likely F-16 jets from the base near Alamogordo flying over the area during a routine training mission.
She said the Talon Military Operations Area (MOA), which includes airspace in Carlsbad and the surrounding region, is frequently used during training missions.
Those involve the use of flares, Ottaviano said, that could explain the changing brightness of the lights.
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Carlsbad residents can expect to see similar flares “a few times a week,” she said, as training schedules can vary and notifications to local communities are not sent out ahead of such a mission.
“It would appear that the lights in the videos are flares being dropped by F-16s from Holloman Air Force Base that were flying in that area on the night of Aug. 29,” Ottaviano said. “We routinely fly in the Talon Military Operations Area throughout southeastern N.M. as part of our regular training where citizens are likely to see our aircraft performing a variety of maneuvers and possibly the use of flares.”
The Talon MOA is a portion of national airspace in southeast New Mexico dedicated to F-16 fighter jet training.
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It was expanded by 93 percent in October 2021, after a decade of planning intended to improve opportunities for the 49th Wing, Ottaviano said, which produces more than a quarter of fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force.
This wasn’t the first time the U.S. Military helped explain UFO sightings as part of its operations.
That kind of response dates back to 1947 in the infamous Roswell Incident where a rancher near the city said he found materials some said at the time could have been from an otherworldly aircraft.
The U.S. Army quickly responded that the material was part of balloon used in military research, but the event captured the imagination of the nation and continues to be discussed and theorized today.
The Roswell Incident happened in July of that year, per a report from the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, also during a thunder and lightning storm like the recent event in Carlsbad.
Rancher W.W. Mack Brazel discovered the debris on his ranch on the outskirts of the city, reporting his findings to the military.
A series of contradictory press releases ensued from the U.S. Army, per the report, first implying the debris was a “flying saucer” but later shifting to report it was a “weather balloon.”
“That was the start of the best known and documented UFO coverup,” read the report. “Once it became public, the event known as The Roswell Incident, the crash of an alleged flying saucer, the recovery of debris and bodies, and the ensuing coverup by the military were of such magnitude and so shrouded in mystery that 60 years later there are still more questions than answers.”
Duncan Gonzalez, 25, of Carlsbad still has questions himself.
He was one of the residents who said he witnessed the lights while stopped a truck stop on the southern edge of town.
Gonzalez said he’s gone back to that spot in the nights since and has seen what he was confident were jets.
Those flying objects were different than what Gonzalez said he saw Aug. 29.
“I didn’t see any jets or nothing,” he said of that evening. “There was nothing like that around. I’ve been going out there the past few nights and there’s a lot of jets flying around. I know what a jet looks like and what a something I can’t explain looks like.
“There’s something else to it.”
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Charges filed against student suspected of bringing BB gun to Gilbert school
Charges were filed against a student from Mesquite Junior High School, who Gilbert police said brought a BB gun to school on Monday.
Police started an investigation after it was found that the student had brought the BB gun to campus, according to Brenda Carrasco, a spokesperson for Gilbert police. It is unclear who or how the school found out that the student had brought the gun.
Charges of disorderly conduct were filed against the student and submitted to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office for review, Carrasco said in an email.
Similar incidents have happened in Arizona this year.
Earlier this week, a 7-year-old boy was found with two guns and ammunition in his backpack at a Cochise County school, according to the Cochise County Sheriff's Office.
The parents of the student were contacted, and a "juvenile referral" was completed for charges of misconduct with a weapon and a minor in possession of a firearm.
On Aug. 25, a gun was confiscated from a fourth grade student attending Legacy Traditional School in Queen Creek, according to Queen Creek police.
In March, a 15-year-old teenager was arrested after he brought a gun to Verrado High School, according to Buckeye police. The gun was confiscated by officials.
Reach breaking news reporter Angela Cordoba Perez at Angela.CordobaPerez@Gannett.com or on Twitter @AngelaCordobaP.
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Phoenix woman among 17 suing Lyft over sexual, physical assaults on rides
Lyft is being sued by 17 passengers and drivers alleging the popular ride-sharing company failed to protect them from sexual assault or physical attacks. Among those suing is one Phoenix woman who detailed her ordeal.
In a news release from the San Francisco-based law firm Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, Phoenix resident Katherine Rasta is said to have spoken at a Wednesday news conference about being sexually assaulted during a Lyft ride by a driver. Rasta said the driver locked her doors when they reached her destination, snatched her phone, proceeded to sexually assault her and threatened to find her if she said anything.
Rasta said she had a severe anxiety attack and felt "defiled," and that Lyft never followed up with her. She urged Lyft to use dash cams, the news release mentioned.
"I hope I can use this horrific experience to make Lyft realize anything can happen during a Lyft ride," she said, according to the news release. "We all deserve a safe ride experience. Nobody should go through the trauma that still haunts me today.”
The news release named four other alleged victims from different states, all of them accusing drivers from either California, Illinois or Connecticut of incidents occurring between March 1, 2020, and Feb. 7, 2022. Peiffer Wolf pointed to plaintiffs from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin who have not been publicly named.
Other than Rasta, there are 12 passengers named as plaintiffs, with 11 arguing they were sexually assaulted, according to the news release.
Some of the other allegations made by plaintiffs include criminal acts of false imprisonment and assault with a deadly weapon. Some alleged victims were left with disabilities, permanent deformities and PTSD, Peiffer Wolf said in the news release.
“This is a nationwide crisis. It’s unconscionable that Lyft was aware of the ongoing problem for years and did virtually nothing," said Adam Wolf, partner at Peiffer Wolf, in a statement.
In a Thursday afternoon email, a Lyft spokesperson responded to the lawsuit and news conference, saying 99% of rides with the company occur without a safety report and that there have been safety measures introduced over the years.
“We’re committed to helping keep drivers and riders safe. While safety incidents on our platform are incredibly rare, we realize that even one is too many. Our goal is to make every Lyft ride as safe as possible, and we will continue to take action and invest in technology, policies and partnerships to do so,” read a statement from the spokesperson, adding "false and/or misleading claims" were made by attorneys at the news conference.
Stuart Berman is a Lyft driver who, according to the news release, is suing for a Sept. 17, 2021, incident in Stamford, Connecticut, where a passenger, unprovoked, repeatedly punched him in the head and face. After reporting the alleged incident to Lyft, the company told Berman it would deposit $750 in his bank account, the news release said.
Berman suffered a broken nose and a ruptured blood vessel in his brain, forcing him off blood thinners that led to a blood clot in his abdomen and continuing mobility issues, according to the news release. He also has a large scar on his head from surgery related to the brain injury, the news release said.
“I still have trouble going up and down stairs and have issues walking straight. It makes me feel like a child. I also have a huge physical reminder of the attack that I have to see every time I look in the mirror," Berman said at the news conference, according to the news release. "Mentally, I haven’t yet returned to normal."
Another Lyft driver who is suing, according to the news release, is Stella Grant from Chicago, who is said to have spoken at the news conference about being attacked on Aug. 30, 2021, by a passenger who used a sharp object to cut a deep gash on her lip.
“I’m scared to look at my mirror because the scar reminds me of being attacked. I’m scared to drive for Lyft because I’m scared of being attacked by a Lyft passenger again,” Grant said, adding that she can no longer financially provide for her children, the news release said.
The emailed response from the Lyft spokesperson said the company detects unsafe rider behavior and temporarily or permanently deactivates accounts and blocks users from creating new accounts.
"Drivers can see riders’ ratings before accepting a ride, and have our support to decline rides if they ever feel unsafe," read a statement from Lyft.
Peiffer Wolf argued in the news release that Lyft is still hiring drivers without performing adequate background checks, has not adopted procedures monitoring drivers such as alerts about substantial route diversions, has no zero tolerance policy for sexual misconduct and no mandatory dashcam surveillance.
In Lyft's emailed response, the spokesperson said every driver is screened. The spokesperson said the company requires background checks before a driver is approved to drive, there is criminal monitoring with notification to the company of disqualifying offenses, and violence and sexual harassment are not tolerated and will result in permanent removal.
The law firm contends in the news release that Lyft does nothing to allow drivers to verify the identity of their riders, allows for account holders to arrange trips for unregistered individuals, does not allow drivers to see prior complaints on riders and refuses to cooperate with law enforcement without a court order.
"Any assertion that we do not cooperate with law enforcement is false — it is our policy to respond to every valid law enforcement request and assist law enforcement with their investigations," read the emailed response from Lyft.
In the news release, Peiffer Wolf pointed to Lyft's 2021 Community Safety Report, which includes reported sexual assaults and 10 fatalities related to its rides from 2017-2019.
"The report was woefully inadequate and appears to have been designed to obscure safety issues rather than reveal them. For example, Lyft specifically noted that it had information regarding non-fatal instances of physical violence associated with the use of the platform, yet intentionally failed to quantify and describe the nature of these attacks," read a statement from Peiffer Wolf.
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'It can impact anyone': Experts, community members discuss need for affordable housing
After a family medical emergency left James Lawrence and his wife needing to care for loved ones, the couple had to survive on one income and eventually ran out of savings.
The couple and their children had to move in with his wife’s mother to get back on their feet.
“The housing situation, with the lack of affordable housing, can impact anyone, and it can impact anyone in a variety of ways,” said Lawrence, who spoke Wednesday night at "Finding Home," a storytelling and educational event hosted by The Arizona Republic at Tempe Center for the Arts.
Lawrence's family moved into an apartment in Phoenix, but quickly found it to be unsafe, he said. When he heard about Native American Connections’ sliding scale for renters to access housing, he and his wife were finally able to get their children into a safe, affordable apartment in downtown Phoenix.
An apartment they could afford allowed them to support his wife’s siblings, who became displaced when their mother passed away.
“Having affordable housing put us in a place to be a support system for others, rather than being the ones needing support,” he said.
Lawrence was one of several speakers at an event, which The Arizona Republic sponsored alongside the Arizona Community Foundation, Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy, KJZZ and the City of Tempe. Hundreds of community members and leaders gathered to hear storytellers and experts share their experiences and ideas about addressing Arizona’s housing crisis.
Short hundreds of thousands of units
Across the state, there is simply not enough housing. An additional 270,000 housing units are needed across the state to meet demand, said Ashlee Tziganuk, a Morrison Institute research analyst.
A person is considered housing cost-burdened if they spend more than a third of their income on housing. Someone working full-time, earning Arizona’s minimum wage of $12.80 per hour could afford to pay $660 per month in rent before being cost-burdened, Tziganuk said. Average rent in Phoenix reached $1,477 in October 2021, according to Morrison Institute data.
“The reality is people are very much struggling on a personal level,” she said, adding that renters are much more likely to be cost-burdened than homeowners.
In Maricopa County, about 44% of renters are cost-burdened, compared with 20% of homeowners, Tziganuk said.
Racial disparity an acute issue
Black, Latino and Native American people are much less likely to own their home than white people, according to Morrison Institute data, meaning they are more likely to rent and more likely to be cost-burdened by housing.
This reality is the result of decades of discriminatory housing and lending practices that have stacked the homeownership deck against racial minorities, said ASU professor Rashad Shabazz.
Shabazz was a member of a panel of housing experts moderated by Arizona Republic housing reporter Catherine Reagor.
The housing market was constructed to serve upper- and middle-class white homebuyers, Shabazz said. Early mortgage lending was limited to white borrowers, allowing white families to accumulate wealth through homeownership for generations. The same opportunity was not accessible to people of color, he said.
Allowing housing to be dictated by market-force development has also led to scarcity and a dramatic increase in costs, Shabazz said, creating the acute need for affordable housing that is being felt across the country.
“These two fundamental flaws were always going to lead us to this point,” he said. “This is not an aberration. Until we deal with these, we are always going to have this problem."
Evanston, Illinois, took steps to give housing market access to people who have historically been kept out, Shabazz said. That community is offering down payment assistance and subsidized mortgages. It's a reparations model, he said, that could be replicated on a national scale and give millions of people access to homeownership and allow them to build generational wealth.
Exclusionary practices still exist
Discrimination in housing is not limited to homeownership, said Sarah Shambrook, government relations associate for affordable housing developer Dominium.
When the company applies to rezone land to build affordable apartments, they are often met with opposition from neighbors worried about decreased property values, increased crime and traffic and added burden on schools. The opposition to new development in a neighborhood, known as NIMBYism (Not In My Backyard), can make it difficult for city councils to approve affordable developments.
“NIMBYism is a modern-day form of redlining,” Shambrook said, adding that when developers apply to get a property rezoned, they must either prove there is enough existing infrastructure to support the project or pay for improvements, like roads and traffic signals.
Research has also disproven the notion that developing apartments near a residential neighborhood does not decrease property values, she said.
Shambrook urged event attendees to be aware of the NIMBY “buzz phrases,” like "property values," that can be used to rally a community against affordable housing. She wants people to recognize the euphemisms meant to keep affordable housing and those who need it out of neighborhoods.
Can those who serve a community live there?
Joan Serviss, executive director of the Arizona Housing Coalition, said wages in Arizona simply are not keeping up with rent and mortgage increases, forcing more people across the state to become unsheltered. Serviss said there were more than 13,000 people across Arizona who were unsheltered during the latest census of people experiencing homelessness.
People often have an unflattering idea of what affordable housing is, she said. Modifying the messaging to focus on people who are already working in a community but cannot afford to live there could help change the perception of who needs affordable housing, she said. Restaurant employees and educators are among the people being priced out of living in the communities where they work, she said.
“We need to think about these diverse individuals. Can they afford to live in our community? Can my son’s teacher afford to live in our community?” she said.
Being knowledgeable about elected officials’ stances on affordable housing, supporting candidates who want affordable housing built, and supporting nonprofit organizations working on housing accessibility are ways for anyone to get involved in solving our housing crisis, Serviss said.
Clean clothes and a connection
Social Spin is a nonprofit working to bring human services to a place where people who might need assistance are already going: the laundromat. It's a “purpose-driven laundromat,” said founder Christy Moore, who told a personal story at Wednesday's event.
Laundromat owners are usually not laundromat customers, she said. For that reason, Moore said laundromats can become undignified spaces with built-in inequities, like coin-free machines that are priced so that there will always be money left on customers' cash-loaded cards, forcing people to waste money.
Moore, who had worked as a social worker, had a goal of creating a laundromat where people could do laundry and access services like medical exams, legal advice and connection to job training.
“Customers come in, load their laundry, and we connect them with care,” she said. Social Spin offers workforce development to people who have barriers to employment, like an arrest record, neurodivergence or are experiencing homelessness.
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the landlord of one of Social Spin’s locations doubled the rent, Moore said. After deciding not to spend the additional money to renew the lease, Moore established the Social Spin Foundation and bought land about two miles from the previous location. Now, the organization is building a new socially conscious laundromat with “dozens of affordable housing units on top,” she said.
Even for those with the most need, process is long
Connecting vulnerable people with housing can be a months-long process, said Richard Southee, a case manager for Central Arizona Shelter Services.
Southee, who served as a medic in the Army, began working for CASS early in the pandemic, helping people who were in temporary housing, and trying to connect them with a permanent place.
He told a story about how he helped one of his clients, a woman who had experienced lifelong trauma and had been experiencing homelessness for decades.
It took nearly a year to get her into permanent housing, Southee said. He worked with her for seven months to manage some of her needs and prepare her for permanent housing. Then, after identifying a place for her to live, she waited three months more because housing programs can be cumbersome, he said.
“Something I took away from that was how terrible it is that it takes 10 months to house someone who is so vulnerable because others didn’t want to affect their property values,” he said.
Finding Home was the second of three housing-focused events planned by The Republic/azcentral.com around the state this year. The Republic/azcentral.com is partnering with local and statewide groups for the event series. This event series is part of The Republic/azcentral’s coverage of housing insecurity, which is supported with a grant from the Arizona Community Foundation.
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Tempe's vice mayor thrown off horse, hospitalized with multiple injuries
Tempe Vice Mayor Jennifer Adams was hospitalized over the weekend after being thrown off her horse and sustaining a punctured lung, six broken ribs and a concussion.
She's expected to make a full recovery after a four-day stint in the hospital.
Adams said her injuries will not impact her ability to perform city duties, though she may have to attend City Council meetings virtually for the time being.
The incident happened Sunday morning when Adams was "warming up" her horse Bucky for a trail ride in her south Tempe neighborhood.
She said the horse started to run, "bucking as hard as he could," when the reins broke and she was thrown from the saddle. The vice mayor said she hit her head "so hard" that she would have died if not for her helmet.
"I lost all control. I rode him for a little bit longer, holding on to his neck and doing everything I could to stop him. That's when I broke my ribs," she told The Arizona Republic from her hospital bed. "He tossed me across the arena. My head bounced off the ground and I got a concussion, but I had a helmet on — that saved my life."
Adams added that she wanted to emphasize "the importance of wearing a helmet on all these activities because if I didn't have it on, I would be dead. There's no doubt about it."
Bucky was raised by Adams' father in Nebraska and the Tempe official has owned the horse for six years. She doesn't know what caused the horse to panic, but the blow Adams took to the head knocked her "out cold."
Adams said she's still in "overwhelming" pain from her broken ribs, but is "beginning to be on the mend." She will be discharged from the hospital on Thursday and expects to be fully recovered within six weeks.
Reach Sam at sam.kmack@arizonarepublic.com. Follow him on Twitter @KmackSam.
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Three gymnasts from Collin County placed in the top ten in the all-around at U.S. Championships two weeks ago in Tampa.
Konnor McClain, who trains in Plano, brought home top honors.
Frisco's Skye Blakeley came in sixth.
Allen's Katelyn Jong took ninth in what was only her first senior-level competition.
“I like to challenge myself and grow and that's my favorite part of gymnastics,” said Jong.
She is a soft-spoken 16-year-old who lets her skills do the talking.
“I love overcoming challenges. Gymnastics is not an easy sport,” she said.
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Jong started gymnastics when she was 4 years old at Metroplex Gym in Allen where she still trains.
“My parents told me I was very energetic when I was young and so they wanted to put me in some class,” said Jong.
She kept going and kept improving, becoming an elite gymnast in early 2020, just as the pandemic hit says Katelyn's coach Marnie Futch.
“She missed a big portion of the beginning of her junior career with the pandemic, a lot of competitions were canceled, things like that,” said Futch.
Jong bounced back in a big way.
At the 2021 U.S. Championships in Fort Worth, she won the all-around and uneven bar competitions, solidifying her spot as the top junior gymnast in the nation.
“It’s honestly like the greatest feeling because you know that you put in the work and it paid off,” she said.
Then she made the leap to senior ranks and rose to the occasion.
Jong placed ninth at the U.S. Championships in Tampa last month in her senior competition debut.
“Now that I’m part of senior division, I'm competing against Olympians and the best people out there so that was a really good experience,” said Jong.
“She went out there and she did her thing and she wasn't intimidated being out there standing next to girls that have more experience than her and she did a great job,” said Futch.
Jong likes playing the guitar when she isn't going to school or at the gym.
She says the 2024 Paris Olympics are in sight.
“That would be my dream come true,” said Jong.
Until then, she’s taking each competition one tumble at a time.
Jong’s next goal is to be selected for the World Challenge in Hungary.
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ELK GROVE, Calif. — Frustrated parents and educators called out the Elk Grove Unified School District moving some teachers to Special Education in a peaceful protest Thursday.
The recently announced a shift that would see Inclusion Specialists moving to Special Education positions. However, people at the protest said they were unhappy with the approach to filling the empty teacher positions.
"As far as my family goes, it's just been kind of a shock to us. This is our real first year with our son in a special needs class," said Kay Sharma, mother of a son who is on the autism spectrum.
She says his education means the world to her and that it doesn’t seem to be a top priority to the school district after this change.
The announcement from the district means Inclusion Specialists would be teaching Special Education classes instead. It sent dozens of parents and educators protesting for a different solution.
"We feel this is an unacceptable solution to what we already acknowledge is a big problem with the teacher shortage, particularly in Special Ed," said Brandon Morgan, a father and husband of an inclusion specialist.
Sharma’s son Grayson is in one of the impacted classes. She says the class is being taught by two general education substitute teachers who really feel like permanent replacements. She says this is doing more harm than good for students and her son.
"The ideal situation for me would be for the district to offer competitive salaries and incentives for the teachers to come work here,” Sharma said. “We obviously want a special education teacher for the classroom but not at the expense of another child."
The district told ABC10 that this was a decision they had to make.
“Our priority is to make sure students have teachers in the classroom," said Xanthi Soriano, director of communications for the district.
Morgan says he would like to see if there are other options.
"The Inclusive Ed program has a lot of roots and a lot of different parts of the school and they are centered around the Inclusion Specialist, so to remove that person out of the spot with such short notice without addressing all the responsibilities, it's going to put the whole thing into chaos," Morgan said.
The "chaos" Morgan mentions is already being felt by families like Sharma's. She says her son Grayson’s education is in limbo. She has one message for the district.
“Talk to us like we're parents and you're a parent, and you understand the struggles that we're going through,” Sharma said. “I understand you're trying to do your job but at our children's expense?"
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INDIANAPOLIS — Food vendors who work from home are now reaching more customers.
It's thanks to the cottage food law that took effect in July, allowing most items to be sold online.
One local entrepreneur said the new rules have impacted her business.
Damaris Contreras loves to bake.
"It's touchstones to memories with my mom," said Contreras. "It's made many memories with my children."
As owner of 4 C's Delicious Yummies, Contreras' home kitchen is her office. And before July 1, she and other food producers were legally prohibited from selling their products online. Aspiring food business owners could only legally sell their products at farmers markets or on the side of the road.
"I don't have the ability to commit to working at every farmers market every Saturday," said Contreras.
The changes allow home-based vendors to enjoy being part of the e-commerce community. Contreras started selling her goods on the site Market Wagon after the law passed.
She said she's already seen a large increase in sales.
"Economically, this is helping and will continue to help a great deal," said Contreras. "It means my son can get a new bowling ball. My daughter is in the choir and it's the uniform rentals."
The new law has some restrictions. Eggs, poultry and rabbit must still must be sold at public forums.
"When we set a barrier to starting a business at many hundreds of thousands of dollars for a commercial kitchen, very few people will be able to take that idea, or spark of an idea, and give it legs," said Market Wagon CEO Nick Carter, who worked with lawmakers to pass the bill.
Carter said the pandemic was a huge driving force in finding creative ways to diversify income.
Contreras said she's excited to see where these new opportunities take her.
"There's just no limit to where I can sell," said Contreras.
Part of the bill requires vendors to go through food handling safety training.
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INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana's attorney general says profits should be the only thing considered when the state invests money for its pension funds.
Todd Rokita said his office is now investigating some big investment advisors for not doing that.
Rokita is upset about something called ESG, which stands for "environmental, social and governance-based investigating."
On Thursday, the attorney general released an advisory opinion that says ESG investigating for the state's public retirement plans is prohibited under Indiana law.
He called out some big investment firms because he claims they use ESG investing to advance environmental causes, rather than focusing solely on high returns for teachers, first responders and other Hoosiers who rely on the state's pension retirement system.
"Our advisory opinion makes clear often times pension funds to advance social goals rather than maximize financial returns is not only unconscionable and unethical, but it's illegal," Rokita wrote.
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But investment firms say state officials are just playing politics. They say environmental and climate risks pose a huge financial risk to companies and investors, and that must be considered to make wise investments.
It's unclear how the AG's opinion will impact the state's investment decisions, but those decisions affect nearly a half-million public employees who participate in state retirement plans.
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INDIANAPOLIS — If you are a migraine sufferer, you may have noticed that the pain correlates with the change of the weather.
You are not alone.
Dawn Calvert suffers from migraines and knows that changes in the weather will bring on a migraine.
"The main weather-related triggers are rainy weather, but especially stormy, like thunderstorms, for sure, are ones... anytime I look into the sky, and I see those big, dark gray-bluish clouds, I'm like, 'Oh, here we go.'"
"Some migraine sufferers are so sensitive that they even know when the weather is going to change a day or so before it does," said Dr. Karen Vogel, a neurologist.
Vogel said weather is one of the largest causes of migraines.
"Probably more than two-thirds of patients with migraines will note that a weather change, particularly a drop in the barometric pressure, but also extreme heat or extreme cold, will trigger a migraine," she said. "So what happens typically is, when the barometric pressure changes, pressure in our head and neck changes. It has to equilibrate with what's happening in the atmosphere."
"I just noticed even as I see the clouds rolling in, almost as soon as the rain starts, that's when my head starts to get grouchy," Calvert said.
Vogel suggests keeping a diary.
"Please keep a diary and write down what has happened to you around the time of your headache occurring, and people will then start to see a pattern," she said.
If you suffer from migraines and you know it's brought on by the weather, there are ways to prevent the migraine - or at least to minimize it.
"For many people, an over-counter medication is just fine," said Vogel. "Where that becomes a problem is if you're taking handfuls of it every day, because that can also cause medical side effects. "There's been a lot of changes in the last few years, a new class of medications have been released onto the market. The calcitonin gene-related peptide antibodies, they are very, very effective for migraines."
"When I see the clouds moving in, I'll go ahead and take my medicine, because it's coming. I know it's coming" says Calvert.
You can reach out to Dr. Vogel here.
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Philadelphia police said a 4-year-old child was shot inside of a home in the Germantown section of the city Thursday night.
The shooting happened on the unit block of East Penn Street around 8:30 p.m., police said.
Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said the child had been shot in the stomach and is in critical condition at the hospital.
Investigators said early indications suggest it was an accidental shooting with an adult mishandling a gun.
This story is developing. Check back here for updates. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/4-year-old-shot-in-germantown/3352115/ | 2022-09-02T02:15:30 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/4-year-old-shot-in-germantown/3352115/ |
President Joe Biden charged in a prime-time address Thursday that the “extreme ideology” of Donald Trump and his adherents “threatens the very foundation of our republic,” as he summoned Americans of all stripes to help counter what he sketched as dark forces within the Republican Party trying to subvert democracy.
In his speech at Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, Biden unleashed the trappings of the presidency in an unusually strong and sweeping indictment of Trump and what he said has become the dominant strain of the opposition party. His broadside came barely two months before Americans head to the polls in bitterly contested midterm elections that Biden calls a crossroads for the nation.
“Too much of what’s happening in our country today is not normal,” he said before an audience of hundreds, raising his voice over pro-Trump hecklers outside the building where the nation’s founding was debated. He said he wasn’t condemning the 74 million people who voted for Trump in 2020, but added, "There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans,” using the acronym for Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan.
The explicit effort by Biden to marginalize Trump and his followers marks a sharp recent turn for the president, who preached his desire to bring about national unity in his Inaugural address.
Biden, who largely avoided even referring to “the former guy” by name during his first year in office, has grown increasingly vocal in calling out Trump personally. Now, emboldened by his party’s summertime legislative wins and wary of Trump’s return to the headlines, he has sharpened his attacks, last week likening the “MAGA philosophy” to “semi-fascism.”
Wading into risky political terrain, Biden strained to balance his criticism with an appeal to more traditional Republicans to make their voices heard. Meanwhile, GOP leaders swiftly accused him of only furthering political divisions.
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Delivering a preemptive rebuttal from Scranton, Pennsylvania, House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy said it is Biden, not Republicans, trying to divide Americans.
“In the past two years, Joe Biden has launched an assault on the soul of America, on its people, on its laws, on its most sacred values,” McCarthy said. “He has launched an assault on our democracy. His policies have severely wounded America’s soul, diminished America’s spirit and betrayed America’s trust.”
Asked about McCarthy’s criticism, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said earlier Thursday that “we understand we hit a nerve” with the GOP leader, and quoted the Republican’s prior statements saying Trump bore responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Trump plans a rally this weekend in Scranton, Biden’s birthplace
White House officials said the sharp tenor of Biden's remarks reflected his mounting concern about Trump allies’ ideological proposals and relentless denial of the nation’s 2020 election results.
“Equality and democracy are under assault” in the U.S., Biden charged, casting Trump and his backers in the GOP as a menace to the nation’s system of government, its standing abroad and its citizens’ way of life.
Trump and the MAGA Republicans “promote authoritarian leaders and they fan the flames of political violence,” he said. They “are determined to take this country backwards.”
“Backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love," he said, referencing the social issues that Democrats have looked to place front-and-center for voters this fall.
Biden’s appearance was promoted as an official, taxpayer-funded event, a mark of how the president views defeating the Trump agenda as a policy aim as much as a political one. Red and blue lights illuminated the brick of Independence Hall, as the Marine Band played “Hail to the Chief” and a pair of Marine sentries stood at parade rest in the backdrop. Still, the major broadcast television networks did not carry the address live.
The president appealed for citizens to “vote, vote, vote” to protect their democracy. “For a long time, we’ve reassured ourselves that American democracy is guaranteed. But it is not.”
Biden harked back to the 2017 white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, which he said brought him out of political retirement to challenge Trump. Biden argued that the country faces a similar crossroads in the coming months, and he cast defending the “soul of the nation” as “the work of my presidency — a mission I believe in with my whole soul.”
But Iowa GOP chair Jeff Kaufman said in a statement that Biden was using the tactics of an authoritarian regime, “trying to turn his political opponents into an enemy of the state.”
Larry Diamond, an expert on democracy and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, said calling Trump out for attacks on democracy "can be manipulated or framed as being partisan. And if you don’t call it out, you are shrinking from an important challenge in the defense of democracy.”
The White House has tried to keep Biden removed from the legal and political maelstrom surrounding the Department of Justice’s discovery of classified documents in Trump's Florida home. Still, Biden has pointed to some Republicans’ quick condemnation of federal law enforcement, to argue “you can't be pro-insurrectionist and pro-American.”
His trip to Philadelphia was just one of his three to the state within a week, a sign of Pennsylvania's importance in the midterms, with competitive Senate and governor's races. However, neither Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democrats' Senate nominee, nor Attorney General Josh Shapiro, their pick for governor, attended Thursday night.
The White House intended the speech to unite familiar themes: holding out bipartisan legislative wins on guns and infrastructure as evidence that democracies “can deliver,” pushing back on GOP policies on guns and abortion that Biden says are out of step with most people's views.
The challenges have only increased since the tumult surrounding the 2020 election and the Capitol attack.
Lies surrounding that presidential race have triggered harassment and death threats against state and local election officials and new restrictions on mail voting in Republican-dominated states. County election officials have faced pressure to ban the use of voting equipment, efforts generated by conspiracy theories that voting machines were somehow manipulated to steal the election.
Candidates who dispute Trump’s loss have been inspired to run for state and local election posts, promising to restore integrity to a system that has been undermined by false claims.
There is no evidence of any widespread fraud or manipulation of voting machines. Judges, including ones appointed by Trump, dismissed dozens of lawsuits filed after the election, and Trump’s own attorney general called the claims bogus. Yet Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling has shown about two-thirds of Republicans say they do not think Biden was legitimately elected president.
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Associated Press writer Zeke Miller reported from Washington. Chris Megerian in Washington and Christina A. Cassidy in Atlanta contributed. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/biden-at-independence-hall-trump-allies-threaten-democracy/3351253/ | 2022-09-02T02:15:36 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/biden-at-independence-hall-trump-allies-threaten-democracy/3351253/ |
TWIN FALLS — Valley House homeless shelter has always held classes to help give their clients more information about improving their lives.
Now, with the opening of the new Beyond Shelter earlier this month, 60 additional residents are being housed by the shelter, and more classes are being offered in the facility's new conference room.
Every Wednesday morning, nutrition coaches from Eat Smart Idaho talk to residents about strategies for healthy eating that will have an overall benefit on their health and wellbeing. They shared information about which foods carry essential nutrients, like why whole grains support health better than white flour, or what body systems fruits like blueberries support.
Eat Smart Idaho is a program of the University of Idaho. Extension educator Siew Guan Lee said the program is carried in up to 14 different locations throughout the year, appearing in schools, the Refugee Center, and now in Valley House.
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"Of course, it's to improve their health, but we also want to improve self-efficacy," Lee said. "It's not that complicated to eat healthy — and if you eat healthy, that will really help you a lot in life."
To support the program, Valley House has partnered with Chobani, which makes yogurt available to people attending the class. And after each class, students are encouraged to visit the garden beds around Valley House to pick fresh fruits and vegetables, such as tomatoes, squash, leafy greens and herbs. The raised garden beds are maintained by extension volunteers and clients of Valley House, and the hope is to make healthy food options easily available and free.
"It's really to teach people how you can grow your own food," Lee said. "You talk about eating healthy, but you also talk about how you can sustain by growing your own food in any small space you have."
Lee tells students that even having a small planter box by the window for some leafy greens or herbs can improve their meal options.
Valley house director John Spires said having a variety of classes in their new Beyond Shelter facility had been part of the dream for years.
"We have the ability with this new building and our conference room to do all these classes that we couldn't do — just because of logistics we had with the other building — now we can do them here," Spires said. "Now we have a lot more ways that we can benefit and help the people that are our clients and residents."
Spires said having the partnership with the extension service and Chobani has combined to bring a lot of good things together into one location, which helps the clients Valley House serves.
"We have an opportunity here to teach people not just nutrition, but also take some ingredients that are freshly grown here, with some good healthy yogurt and make something that they can take back and go, 'Oh, I just learned something new. Now I can eat this nutritious thing and it's tasty,'" Spires said.
Spires said there are six other classes taking place at the facility, including counseling, budgeting and finance.
Clients at Valley House are expected to get a full-time job, manage a budget and show that they are building savings for an eventual deposit on housing, and they are expected to complete goals that will get them back out into the community. The classes, Spires said, serve to make those goals achievable.
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Children hold their goats Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, during the 4-H and FFA Dairy Goat Quality Show at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
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A girl holds her goat during the 4-H and FFA Dairy Goat Quality Show on Thursday morning, Sept. 1, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
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Willa Sisson, 2, looks over her hat while the 4-H and FFA Dairy Goat Quality Show takes place Thursday morning, Sept. 1, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
Children interact with their goats Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, while they were judged during the 4-H and FFA Dairy Goat Quality Show on Thursday morning, Sept. 1, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
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Tucson police are looking for several participants who took part in street racing that took over the South Kolb Road corridor on Saturday night.
On Aug. 27 just after 10 p.m., police received 55 calls reporting street racing and gunfire along Kolb. The callers described “large street takeovers,” which are also known as sideshows.
When officers arrived at the area, between East 22nd Street and East Escalante Road, multiple vehicles were seen leaving at high speeds. Police said they were able to conduct traffic stops on some of the vehicles and the intersection was cleared.
According to police, the sideshows typically involve illegal street racing and tire burnouts after the intersection is shut down by a large crowd of spectators, causing heavy traffic delays and significant damage to property. While street racing is not new to Tucson, sideshows have become a challenge to large city police departments across the country.
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Investigators are attempting to identify several of the participants as well as those who illegally discharged firearms. The drivers in the sideshows, along with the spectators, can be arrested for their involvement in obstructing streets.
Anyone with information is asked to call 88-CRIME and refer to Tucson police case No. P2208310150. Police are also asking that community members do not attend or approach the crowd during these gatherings and call 911 immediately.
“The Tucson Police Department is working with all of our regional partners to implement proactive enforcement efforts to curb illegal street racing and sideshows throughout the Tucson metro community,” TPD said in a news release. “TPD would like to express our gratitude to our many car club partners who do not associate with this type of criminal activity. We encourage the community to make this an ongoing conversation highlighting the risks associated to being an active participant or an observing member of these events; help keep your community safe, stay away from these activities.”
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/tucson-police-looking-for-street-racing-participants/article_a4673f44-2a25-11ed-b00e-d39107513326.html | 2022-09-02T02:16:53 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/tucson-police-looking-for-street-racing-participants/article_a4673f44-2a25-11ed-b00e-d39107513326.html |
TUCSON, Ariz. — A final procession for Constable Deborah Martinez-Garibay.
The Tucson community packed St. Augustine Cathedral to pay their final respects to a woman that gave her life for her community.
Martinez-Garibay was killed in the line of duty on Thursday, August 25th, while serving an eviction notice at an apartment complex in central Tucson.
At Thursday’s funeral service, Bishop Edward Weisenburger of the Diocese of Tucson described the dangers her, and countless others in law enforcement face every time they go to work.
“You get up every morning and walk out into a world that may welcome your presence, or want to do you harm,” Bishop Weisenburger said. “But you do that so that the rest of us to live in a safe, stable, civilized world.”
Richard Gastellum, a friend of the family, eulogized Martinez-Garibay and revealed her desire to change the world around her.
“Her passion was to make the world a better place and assist those less fortunate,” Gastellum said. “In her words, 'I joined the Army after September 11 and I just felt it was wrong for me to sit at home when I knew I could contribute. I know I had to go serve my country.'”
Martinez-Garibay served 16 years in the Army. After her service, she continued to work with disabled Veterans as an ambassador with the PGA Hope organization.
“It takes a special human being to help others face life's challenges,” Gastellum said. “Deborah was that person.”
Along with Martinez-Garibay, 28-year-old Angela Fox-Heath was also killed in the shooting. Fox-Heath was a manager at Lind Commons Apartments, who accompanied Martinez-Garibay to the shooter’s apartment to serve an eviction notice.
The other victim has been identified as 25-year-old Elijah Miranda, who lived in one of the complex's other units.
At Martinez’s funeral, Gastellum told the audience that even in death, Martinez-Garibay is making positive changes.
“The homicide investigation continues,” Gastellum said. “There are numerous discussions at Pima County, and the City Tucson Police will be changing policies and protocols regarding the responsibilities of the Constable position. When change happens, Deborah's sacrifice will not have been in vain.”
Martinez-Garibay leaves behind a husband and daughter, her parents, three sisters, and a large extended family who will no doubt carry on her inspiration in the community.
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ATLANTA — An Atlanta Police officer is facing charges for allegedly pointing a gun and yelling racial slurs at a family during a suspected road rage incident.
The incident happened May 5 around 5:30 p.m. at the intersection of Bill Kennedy Way SE and Memorial Drive SE in Atlanta.
Atlanta Police Department Officer Robert Malone was in uniform but off duty at the time.
According to a police report, a woman said a man driving a black Camaro pointed a handgun while in traffic. She told police that she was pulling out of the parking lot of the Reynolds Town Village when she turned and nearly collided with the Camaro.
The driver of the Camaro allegedly blew his horn out of frustration and yelled expletives at her and her family. She said the man called her the "N-word" and said, "He will blow her brains out," according to a police report.
The woman told 11Alive that the incident went on for several minutes as they were stuck in traffic. She said three of her children were in the car at the time. Then, she said she saw the man pointing a gun at them through the windshield.
"That put the biggest fear in them, like just seeing that gun being pointed at them. And then, my 11-year-old holding my 8-year-old daughter's head down to protect her, telling her the gun is pointing right here," she said. "I cried that night - that hurt."
During the incident, the woman got out of the car and went up to the man's Camaro and asked why he was pointing a gun at them. She told 11Alive that she didn't know the man was a police officer until she got out of the car and saw his badge.
"I was scared," she said. "At the same time, I wasn't surprised, you're doing all this and calling us racial names, and stuff like that, like so I was just upset. I just had all types of emotions running through my head."
A police report states the man involved in the incident was later identified as Malone. He denied the allegations, according to the report.
The woman said her fiance also got out of the car. The police report said he started yelling at the officer, and the officer drove off from the scene. Malone told APD later that he left "because he didn't want to infuse the situation."
Malone now faces violation of oath, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and first-degree cruelty to children charges.
Police records show Malone has been with APD for more than a decade.
11Alive reached out to the department in regards to Malone's employment. A spokesperson with the agency said he is on paid administrative leave and that they are still investigating.
Malone's attorney told 11Alive's Joe Henke that they deny the allegations and have no further comment at this time. | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/apd-officer-robert-malone-road-rage-racial-slur-gun-incident/85-1b7c6a53-ee56-4df3-93a6-7fad8aba68dd | 2022-09-02T02:29:00 | 0 | https://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/apd-officer-robert-malone-road-rage-racial-slur-gun-incident/85-1b7c6a53-ee56-4df3-93a6-7fad8aba68dd |
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — The dates have been set for an online auction of the former Colonial Heights Middle School.
The auction will begin Monday, Sept. 19 at 9 a.m. and end a week later, on Monday, Sept. 26 at noon.
There will be a minimum bid of $2 million.
The sale of the former school on Lebanon Road will come with a restriction that the premises only be used for school or residential purposes.
Kingsport City Schools and Lakeway Christian Schools have expressed an interest in purchasing the property.
Sullivan County Schools has not posted a link to the auction page yet, but the school system says more details will be posted on its website. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/online-auction-for-former-colonial-heights-middle-to-go-live-sept-19/ | 2022-09-02T02:29:50 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/online-auction-for-former-colonial-heights-middle-to-go-live-sept-19/ |
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — UPDATE:
Charles has been found safe. Check back for more information as it becomes available.
Original story:
In Centre County, there is a missing endangered person advisory for 91-year-old Charles Kayhart.
Kayhart was last seen in the area of West Gatesburg Road in Ferguson Township Wednesday afternoon.
He is said to be operating a green Ford Escape, and police believe he may be at special risk of harm or injury or might be confused.
Anyone with information on Kayhart is asked to contact police immediately by calling 911 or the Ferguson Twp Police Dept at 814-237-1172.
Want to see what was in news in 1983? Head on over to WNEP's YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/centre-county/missing-endangered-person-advisory-for-centre-county-charles-kayhart-ferguson-township-wnep/523-09cf155e-bdff-4bc6-95dd-3bde95d31a17 | 2022-09-02T02:41:37 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/centre-county/missing-endangered-person-advisory-for-centre-county-charles-kayhart-ferguson-township-wnep/523-09cf155e-bdff-4bc6-95dd-3bde95d31a17 |
FRACKVILLE, Pa. — College football is back, and Nittany Lions fans are fired up for another season.
Penn State faithful in Schuylkill County kicked off the season with a tailgate party outside the Elks Lodge.
Cold drinks, sizzling burgers, and good company are all on the menu.
"The food is the most important, right? I think this is the closest we could get to State College, so we'll take it," said Ron Bane, Exalted Ruler of Frackville Elks.
It's not just any season opener for these Penn State fans in Schuylkill County, many of them wearing number 43 in support of one of their own.
It's all for hometown hero Tyler Elsdon, a 2020 North Schuylkill graduate making his first start at middle linebacker for Penn State.
His mom Nea Griffin joined the fans to watch the game on the inflatable screen under the stars.
She and her husband couldn't make it to the Thursday night contest against Purdue, but she did check in with her quarterback-sacking son.
"I asked him if he was nervous, and he said, 'mom, it's just like playing high school. It's just another game, and I have to do my job.' So, we're excited for him," Griffin said.
Watching her son start his first game for a perennial college football powerhouse means the world.
You're going to make me cry. It's emotional," Griffin said. "It's exciting, but he earned it."
"To get that scholarship and now get an opportunity to be a starter, it's awesome. It's everything he's worked for and dreamed about," added Wally Hall, North Schuylkill head football coach.
Hall had a hand in Elsdon achieving that dream, but he credits Tyler's hard work and persistence as the keys to his success.
His former coach is confident Elsdon will live up to Penn State's expectations and excel at the coveted linebacker position.
"That's why he chose Penn State. He knows the legacy there, that being 'Linebacker U.' That's the perfect place for him and the place he wanted to be because of that reason," Hall said.
It's the start of another season of Penn State football and a chance to add to that legacy.
Local sports from Newswatch 16 are available on YouTube. | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/schuylkill-county/schuylkill-county-cheers-on-penn-state-football-teams-tyler-elsdon-wnep-nittany-lions-43-newswatch16/523-adca2456-75ff-4a15-a09a-9eb0ba0d90d4 | 2022-09-02T02:41:43 | 0 | https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/schuylkill-county/schuylkill-county-cheers-on-penn-state-football-teams-tyler-elsdon-wnep-nittany-lions-43-newswatch16/523-adca2456-75ff-4a15-a09a-9eb0ba0d90d4 |
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