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One person was killed and two others were injured when the small plane in which they were flying lost power and crashed near Houston, officials said.
The crash happened at about 5:15 p.m. Thursday in a mobile home park near Tomball, about 25 miles northwest of Houston, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. The single-engine Cirrus SR22 was on approach for a landing at Hooks Airport when it apparently lost power and crashed into woods two-thirds of a mile short of the runway, DPS Sgt. Richard Standifer said.
Two men and a woman were aboard. One man died at the hospital, but two were hospitalized in stable condition, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.
The flight had originated in Knoxville, Tennessee, and had stopped in Louisiana to refuel, officials said. No one on the ground was hurt.
No identities have been released, but Cirrus Aircraft said in a statement that one of its employees was the man killed.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/1-dead-2-injured-after-small-plane-lost-power-and-crashed-near-houston-officials-say/3063870/ | 2022-09-03T14:39:03 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/1-dead-2-injured-after-small-plane-lost-power-and-crashed-near-houston-officials-say/3063870/ |
Your favorite restaurant has reduced hours of operation and the service is slow.
A note in your hotel room says daily room service is now an add-on and there is no bellhop to help with your luggage.
The move-in date for your new office is delayed because contractors are behind schedule.
Everyone is touched by the labor shortage in the country.
Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows there were over 11.2 million job openings in the first half of the year.
The biggest shortages were in the hospitality and food service industry, with 1.4 million job openings; the retail industry had 1.1 million openings and the construction industry had 434,000 openings in that time.
"The younger generation is more interested in getting into the tech industry, leaving construction with a smaller pool of workers to perform manual labor," said Russell Higgins, a carpenter and superintendent for Tucson-based Barker Contracting Inc. "Because construction is such a physically demanding job it already doesn't interest the younger generation."
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He laments that some don't understand the pleasure of working with their hands.
"I love the physical appreciation of it," Higgins said, "being able to look at what I’ve built and accomplished."
A mix of factors led to the worker shortage, which existed before but was exacerbated by the pandemic.
Following nearly a year of lockdown, employees found their savings had grown because there had been no splurging on dinners, movies and travel.
That, combined with federal stimulus checks, gave these workers the ability to be more discerning about their jobs and there was more demand for flexible schedules, better benefits and pay.
Many decided it was time to be their own boss.
The Census Bureau reports more than 4.4 million new business were started just in 2020 — a 24% increase from 2019.
And, a lot of day care facilities increased rates because of their worker shortage and some parents found it less expensive to stay home a while longer.
But, many Tucsonans continue to show up for what have become hard-to-fill jobs each day. In honor of Labor Day, we'd like to introduce you to a few of them.
Building opportunity
Ron Boveington doesn't ascribe to the notion that young people don't want to swing a hammer.
The lack of vocational training in public schools means they never got exposed to such career choices.
"In my time, we had trade school in high school," said Boveington, 65. "You took different disciplines and learned different stuff and now they don't teach that."
A cross-trained construction worker since 1984, he has worked as a welder, mechanic, carpenter, electrician and tile worker.
Boveington currently works for Castle Construction and teaches at Idea'l Trade Institute.
"It's changed a lot since I started," he said. "When I started, the older guys weren't very nice to the young guys until you learned to do stuff correctly."
Now, the goal is to motivate students to pursue a career in construction.
"When I see these young people, they are having fun," Boveington said. "Hopefully they'll see there's a lot of opportunity after they get trained and get their license.
"They can pick any job or do it themselves and go out and start a business."
The median pay for construction workers is about $40,000 a year but specialized work, such as elevator installation and repair workers can earn more than $85,000 a year.
The best part of job, Boveington said, are the hours.
"Yes, you start at sunrise. But then you get off early."
A lifetime of service
Rosa Martinez learned the ideals of service and helping people from family and her time in the military.
And after retiring from the Army as a sergeant, she returned to her native Tucson and more than 10 years ago found a new career, keeping guests comfortable at the Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort and Spa.
Martinez works as a public-space attendant at the historic resort on East Ina Road, mainly taking care of the pool and fitness areas and making sure guests at the 241-room resort have everything they need.
She sometimes helps out the bell staff and with the laundry.
“I’m a multi-tasker chick – whatever they ask me to do, I go above and beyond, that’s my military ethics,” she said.
Martinez enjoys sharing the history of the Westward Look – built in 1912 as a hacienda-style family home before it became a dude ranch in the 1940s and later, a resort that hosted the likes of John Wayne and Dean Martin.
Martinez also likes sharing the history of her family, which traces its roots to Southern Arizona from the 1800s and includes a Civil War veteran, and her military service including her stints in Japan, the Philippines and Korea.
“I look forward to coming to work every day,” Martinez said, adding that she likes working weekends so she can attend to personal business and help her elders with their appointments.
Martinez said the Westward Look offers an excellent package of employee benefits. She said she makes over the state minimum wage of $12.80 per hour and recently got a pay increase.
Nationally, average hourly earnings for non-supervisory hotel workers rose from $15.06 in May 2020 to $19.44 per hour in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Martinez said working conditions can be challenging amid staffing shortages, but her supervisor is flexible and manages to work things out.
“We make it easier for other people, to make people comfortable, and to come and work, it’s pretty flexible,” she said. “My supervisor works with each person, according to their abilities and what they can do, and there’s no peer pressure – they look forward to coming to work.”
Restaurant family
Marana native Kalie Engen spends a few days a week serving grilled steaks with a side of how-do-you-do to diners at Marana's storied Li'l Abner's Steakhouse on North Silverbell Road.
Even during the pandemic, when the restaurant whose history goes back 80 years had to close its dining room, Engen never left. She snagged what hours she could to help with the restaurant's takeout service before jumping back on the schedule once the restaurant reopened in May 2021.
“This was my first job and I worked through high school and I just never left," said the Marana High School alumnus, who started working at the restaurant when she was 16. "Everyone here is a family. ... I can’t leave.”
Engen, a single mother of two, including a newborn, works around 20 hours a week as a server. She also fills in on occasion as a bartender and shift manager when the managers are gone. Between her hourly wage and tips, she said she makes the equivalent of someone working 40 hours a week at minimum wage ($12.80 an hour).
"The money is good," said the 27-year-old, who rents a house in nearby Gladden Farms.
Abners pays its servers the state minimum cash wage of $9.80 an hour and pays its cooks between $15 and $17 an hour, said longtime manager Connie Gilbert.
But she knows plenty of restaurant workers who took different paths after being sidelined during the pandemic. Some got used to the enhanced unemployment pay while others decided to take full-time work in other industries.
“We had the lockdown for two months and I think a lot of people at first just didn't know what to do; they didn't know how not to work," Engen said. "And then they got comfortable being at home. They didn’t want to come back.”
Nationwide, restaurants and the food service sector lost more than 2 million workers between February 2020 and May 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the state, the hospitality sector, of which restaurants make up a large portion, reported a drop of nearly 43,000 employees over the same period, the statistics showed.
Many of those jobs have rebounded, although the National Restaurant Association reports that staffing levels nationwide are still off by 9% — by more than a half million jobs — over pre-pandemic levels.
Engen said she has seen an uptick in interest in restaurant jobs among some of her friends.
"I have friends asking me if Abner's is hiring and I tell them to wait," she said. "We're almost in our busy season."
Contact reporter Gabriela Rico at grico@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/amid-worker-shortage-these-tucsonans-show-up-for-hard-to-fill-jobs/article_934d5dbc-227b-11ed-8e3c-cb753c1edc3c.html | 2022-09-03T14:56:21 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/amid-worker-shortage-these-tucsonans-show-up-for-hard-to-fill-jobs/article_934d5dbc-227b-11ed-8e3c-cb753c1edc3c.html |
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The song “I Am Woman” seems to be making something of a comeback, as debates rage and elections turn on the issue of abortion and women’s rights.
Singer Helen Reddy released what would be an enormous hit 51 years ago. But initially the song was ignored. When it was released as a single in 1972, it was culturally and politically divisive, even as it gained popularity.
The same could be said of Reddy.
Given current talk of cancel culture and political divisions — and claims our country has never, ever been this bad — you might think we all once lived in blissful harmony.
That’s nostalgic bunk. The course of history has always been bumpy.
And, also, we Americans tend to get histrionic about our place in history.
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Like so much of our social and scientific progress, gains in women’s rights are mostly incremental. Each generation of women has benefited from and built on the work and achievements of the generations before.
It was roughly 100 years ago that women, after a battle of several decades, finally won the right to vote nationwide. It was a mean and demeaning fight — one that succeeded when it did primarily because the forces that wanted a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol saw political advantage in collaborating with those fighting for women’s suffrage.
It was no coincidence that the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) and the 19th Amendment (women’s suffrage) were approved about the same time. Gaining access to the polls, however, was just one step.
Social, educational and economic discrimination continued. It was not just tolerated. It was the norm.
Women couldn’t get credit cards, couldn’t work in certain professions, and were fired from jobs they could get to make room for men. They were typically paid less, and they were refused promotions and managerial roles.
As a boomer, I benefited greatly from the women who fought for their rights throughout the 20th century. And that includes many women who didn’t even know they were fighting.
For example, when I became editor and publisher of the Hays, Kansas, newspaper in 1984, the group that owned the paper proudly announced that I was the first woman publisher in the group.
That was true, but The Hays Daily News had benefited from a woman boss years before I ever came on the scene (and before it was purchased by the group I worked for). Leota Motz, the wife of the paper’s founder, Frank Motz, served capably as publisher for more than a decade after her husband’s death in 1958.
Her work was mostly ignored because, well, she was a woman.
I never knew her, but from what I could learn, she was smart, competent and traditional, always giving way to the men, or pretending to.
The country benefited mightily from countless, similar women who stayed out of the limelight. Just as it benefited from those who publicly championed women’s rights in the workplace, in education, and elsewhere.
This year in Arizona, the Democratic and Republican nominees for governor are women, a circumstance about which voters care hardly at all. That’s a marvelous point of progress.
But it’s progress that happened because generations of Americans worked to make it happen. No one song, or one person, or one law garnered women the rights they have today. And there are no guarantees that the ground gained can’t be lost.
That’s something I keep in mind as I think of my nieces and other women who have so many more choices than did the women of 1922, or even 1972. Helen Reddy got it right when she told us:
“I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an’ pretend
‘Cause I’ve heard it all before
And I’ve been down there on the floor
No one’s ever gonna keep me down again”
A Kansas native, Julie Doll is a former newspaper journalist who now lives in Tucson. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-an-old-tune-strikes-a-new-chord/article_44fb32d4-2964-11ed-affa-c332c692bb32.html | 2022-09-03T14:56:33 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-an-old-tune-strikes-a-new-chord/article_44fb32d4-2964-11ed-affa-c332c692bb32.html |
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“Marana’s planning commission always votes to rezone” was the annoying rhetoric I heard repeatedly from on-the-ground community advocates of sensible planning.
As a newcomer to the politics of Marana, I had a hard time believing it was that cut and dry — that citizen voices wouldn’t be factored into the decision-making of their elected town officials. I found it alarming to think public hearings were just a charade of “good appearance,” and I couldn’t accept that residents attending public hearings were simply bearing witness to a community theater production with the same predictable ending: more development coming their way.
But on Aug. 31 — after more than 120 people showed up to oppose the blading of more pristine desert for high-density multi-use — I actually saw the charade with my very own eyes. I counted 25 Marana residents, nearly all directly impacted in big and small ways by this impending development, speak passionately about more than a dozen areas of concern. These subjects touched on traffic congestion, wholesale destruction of taxpayer-funded wildlife corridors, endangering protections afforded the adjacent Sky Ranch Reserve, filling in jurisdictional waterways, a 24-armed saguaro being bulldozed, and the continuity of a low-density community dissolved.
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Yet, there was a unanimous vote in support of fast food, a strip mall, three-story apartments, and high-density, single-family homes all supposedly occurring on 51 acres of cactus-ferruginous pygmy owl habitat (likely to be federally re-protected in December 2022). How did we get to a place in Marana where its residents are treated like theater-goers and where developers get top billing?
First off, we certainly can’t be frustrated or even disappointed by the seven male volunteers chosen by the Marana Town Council to give of their time as the Marana Planning Commission. And you can’t really fault the planning department — tied to a Marana government paycheck — who are directed, and instructed, by the town council.
All of last night’s actors in this public hearing are hog-tied into a single direction of thought: growth at all costs. Their philosophy is that growth is the tap that turns on the town’s money, and Marana’s town council ain’t turning off that tap, ever! With the recent town council elections in the rearview mirror, it would be easy to get discouraged. And that’s actually what they’re hoping for, that you come and watch their theater productions in silent acceptance, or just don’t bother coming at all.
But I say we cannot get complacent — we cannot give them what they want. Despite the planning commission’s rubber stamping of this reckless and wanton destruction of more fragile Sonoran desert, the conservation-minded citizens of Marana still have one more chance to open the hearts and minds of the council members they themselves elected into place.
The town council meets to review the planning commission’s recommendation on Tuesday, Sept. 20, and everyone who’s still concerned — everyone who still thinks protecting our magnificent natural landscapes is important — should be in those council chambers to continue opposing the re-zone of the SWC Tangerine Thornydale plat. Let’s just say no to re-zone, Marana!
Jill Kismet has a doctorate in ecology. She is a Sky Ranch Reserve resident and a Tortolita Alliance board member. | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-the-charade-of-marana-public-hearings/article_fa0f1a7c-2ad7-11ed-be9a-fba98df5917e.html | 2022-09-03T14:56:39 | 0 | https://tucson.com/opinion/local/local-opinion-the-charade-of-marana-public-hearings/article_fa0f1a7c-2ad7-11ed-be9a-fba98df5917e.html |
A man is dead following a shooting that happened in Dallas early Saturday morning, police say.
At approximately 1:17 a.m., officers were flagged down regarding a shooting at Malcolm X Boulevard and Commerce Street.
Upon arrival, officers found a 20-year-old male lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds. According to Dallas police, it was discovered that the actual shooting happened in the 2800 block of Clover Street.
The man was transported to the hospital by Dallas Fire Rescue where he died.
The victim’s identity is not being released pending next of kin notification.
This investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Emmanuel Romano at (214) 671-4096 or by email at emmanuel.romano@dallascityhall.com.
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Call Crime Stoppers at 214-373-TIPS (8477), 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/shooting-in-dallas-leaves-1-dead-gunman-at-large-police/3063884/ | 2022-09-03T15:05:07 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/shooting-in-dallas-leaves-1-dead-gunman-at-large-police/3063884/ |
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland’s highest court was one vote away from rejecting a map of state legislative districts last April.
The map had been approved by the Democratic-controlled General Assembly.
The court had issued a five-page order and said it would give its reasons later in an opinion. That opinion was released Wednesday. It showed that three of the seven judges opposed the majority ruling written by Senior Judge Robert McDonald.
Republican plaintiffs alleged that some districts were irregularly shaped or wove across rivers or county lines in ways that violated provisions in the state constitution.
But McDonald suggested the court would be overreaching if it sought to insert its “preferred district boundaries” in place of the General Assembly’s. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-court-was-1-vote-short-of-rejecting-legislative-map/2022/09/03/78f8435c-2b93-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-09-03T15:16:19 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-court-was-1-vote-short-of-rejecting-legislative-map/2022/09/03/78f8435c-2b93-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
Man, woman killed in Harper Woods; woman's son in custody, police say
A 45-year-old woman and a 52-year-old man were killed Friday in Harper Woods, and a 19-year-old male, who is the son of the deceased woman, is in custody, police said.
"We are not yet aware of motive and are awaiting autopsy results to confirm the cause of death," Public Safety Director Jason Hammerle said in a Nixle update Saturday morning. "Our thoughts are with the families of the victims at this time."
Police did not release the names of the deceased. Hammerle said charges against the suspect are pending, and an arraignment is expected in the coming days.
Police had sent an initial alert about an "active police situation" just after 1:30 p.m. Friday asking people to avoid the area of Woodside between Kelly Road and Beaconsfield.
The Harper Woods/Grosse Pointe Special Response Team was activated after the suspect had barricaded himself in a house in the 19000 block of Woodside. After several minutes of negotiation, the suspect was apprehended without incident, police said. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2022/09/03/man-woman-killed-harper-woods-womans-son-custody-police-say/7986023001/ | 2022-09-03T15:24:43 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2022/09/03/man-woman-killed-harper-woods-womans-son-custody-police-say/7986023001/ |
Last Labor Day, Lincoln’s car club members spent their afternoon cruising around town for the man many knew only as Mr. Rod.
But most knew him.
Before his death a month earlier, Rodney Phelps had been a galvanizing fixture in the city’s hot rod community since the ’50s, active in the Roadrunners, Nomads, Nifty Fifties, Rebels and the Nebraska Rod and Custom Association, and an organizer of the ecumenical Sonic and Culver’s cruise nights, where all were welcome.
This year, an estimated 400 car owners will spend their Labor Day cruising for a young couple most of them haven't met yet.
Hannah Wadiso and Aaron Swanson were among the hundreds lining O Street the night before Memorial Day, watching one of the holiday weekend’s unsanctioned cruise nights.
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And they’re still recovering from the high-speed collision near 52nd and O that sent two cars into the crowds, killing two spectators and injuring 20.
“I just hope I can live my life without pain every day,” Swanson, a high school senior, wrote recently. “The worst part of this accident is remembering seeing cars on fire and people screaming and Hannah right next to me on the ground, and I was unable to do anything for her.”
Wadiso had graduated from North Star the night before and was looking forward to college. But all of that is put on hold for now, she wrote.
“It was the worst traumatic thing I could possibly go through. Waking up hearing screams and not being able to move and looking over seeing Aaron extremely hurt it made me sick. I was scared if any of us would not make it.”
Three months later, both are still struggling, mentally and physically.
“The hardest thing after surviving is remembering all the fun times we use to have and how that has all been taken from both of us,” Swanson wrote.
Todd Francisco, president of the Midwest Rollers Car Club, met the pair recently. Swanson was out of his wheelchair but still needed leg braces and a walker, Francisco said. Wadiso was using a cane.
But both were thrilled that the Midwest Rollers -- along with the Rebels -- had launched a $35,000 fundraiser on their behalf.
“They couldn’t believe there were still real people in the world who cared, and would donate their time and give back to perfect strangers. They’re overwhelmed.”
Monday’s Mr. Rod Memorial Cruise will cover seven hours and more than 30 miles -- starting near 14th Street and Yankee Hill in the southwest corner of the city, regrouping at Mahoney Park in the northeast, gathering again at Southeast Community College and then driving the length of O Street to end at Air Park.
Anyone is welcome to join and the event is free, Francisco said, though the car clubs are encouraging participants to donate to the teens, either at the cruise stops or through GoFundMe.
And you don’t need a muscle car, hot rod or antique auto to join the rolling car show.
“The more the merrier,” he said. “They can have a Plain Jane daily driver.” | https://journalstar.com/news/local/the-worst-traumatic-thing-labor-day-cruise-fundraises-for-lincoln-teens-hurt-in-o-street/article_2ee73720-e6dd-5f56-a507-3d5e32969f90.html | 2022-09-03T15:27:48 | 0 | https://journalstar.com/news/local/the-worst-traumatic-thing-labor-day-cruise-fundraises-for-lincoln-teens-hurt-in-o-street/article_2ee73720-e6dd-5f56-a507-3d5e32969f90.html |
'We are roaring': Black women running for office join together for historic photo shoot
Outside the State House, Councilwoman Mary Kay Harris stood on the tips of her toes against a stone railing alongside her fellow Black female candidates for elected offices for what she described as a historic moment.
"There has never been a time in life that as many Black women have decided to run for office," she said. "Black women have always carried the weight of a lot of things ... but this is big. Coming into leadership is big deal."
It was Friday evening just before sunset when former Providence Journal staffer Alisha Pina -- who now works on various state and local campaigns -- directed the women to arrange themselves in various formations and poses to capture a milestone in a series of photographs.
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The idea was this: To gather together Black women running for state and local positions, even if they are competitors, in a moment of empowerment and unity.
The list included Ward 3 Councilwoman Nirva LaFortune, who is running for Providence mayor, Ward 11 Councilwoman Harris, Ward 9 council candidate April Brown, Ward 12 council candidate Althea Graves, Rep. Anastasia Williams of District 9, Rep. Brianna Henries of District 64, House candidates Diana Garlington and Torlo Kormasa Amos, both of District 5, Sen. Tiara Mack of District 6, and Secretary of State candidate Stephanie Beauté.
It's a long list, and it doesn't even include the total extent of the diversity among women running for higher office in the state.
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LaFortune, who like her council colleague described the moment as historical, said she hopes it serves as "inspiration to motivate other Black girls, Black women to run for office and not be afraid to do so."
"In politics ... there are less women who are in elected seats, and when it comes to Black women, that’s even less," LaFortune said.
Brown, who features in the images, made plans for the photo shoot after reflecting on a quote by Black author and activist Anna Julia Cooper, who wrote the following: "when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me."
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Last year, the line inspired Brown to pen an article for Motif Magazine for an issue she edited. This year, it inspired her once again.
“I think that there is this real kind of hollow space when you think about how Black women are understood in society and in culture," Brown said. "And it really goes back to the Anna Julia Cooper quote -- that when we enter anything, then everybody understands that they can enter."
For those who have entered, the road hasn't been easy. Mack, who is campaigning for another term, described feeling alone at times.
Mack said "it’s still so apparent how isolating it is for Black people ... being one of two Black women in the Senate chamber, being one of the few young Black women who's in this space even on staff in the State House, it is hard to see how the systems change until we have more people who look like us or with our lived experiences."
Securing seats in elected offices often comes with a fight, though for Beauté, who is up against stiff competition for Secretary of State, it's nothing new.
"The years of fighting -- it was never handed to [us]," Beauté said when reflecting on the history of voting rights in particular. "It was literally having to fight to be able to be in these spaces so that way your voice can be heard and to be taken seriously. And that fight doesn’t stop. It continues."
Graves, who seeks a spot on Providence City Council, said she has hope.
"We have a voice, and we are roaring." | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/rhode-island-black-women-running-state-local-offices/7976705001/ | 2022-09-03T15:34:21 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/rhode-island-black-women-running-state-local-offices/7976705001/ |
Cowboy Trenten Montero competes during the Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo on Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
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Cowboy Curtis Cassidy competes in steer wrestling during the Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo on Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
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The National Anthem is played during the Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo on Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
The Magic Valley Stampede Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) Rodeo brought out the crowds Friday for a night full of exciting moments.
According to the Twin Falls County Fair website, the Magic Valley Stampede is one of 60 PRCA rodeos in the United States that’s part of the 2022 PRCA NFR Playoff Series.
The long running rodeo will wrap up Saturday starting at 7:30 pm.
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Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo full of fun memories
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Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo full of fun memories
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Grant applications for Idaho families hoping for financial aid for educational resources will be available starting mid-September, the State Board of Education announced last week.
Cowboy Trenten Montero competes during the Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo on Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
Cowboy Curtis Cassidy competes in steer wrestling during the Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo on Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer.
The National Anthem is played during the Magic Valley Stampede PRCA Rodeo on Friday evening, Sept. 2, 2022, at the Twin Falls County Fairgrounds in Filer. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/magic-valley-stampede-prca-rodeo-full-of-fun-memories/article_78e3a32e-2b1c-11ed-ba97-b77c60b2a8de.html | 2022-09-03T15:34:28 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/magic-valley-stampede-prca-rodeo-full-of-fun-memories/article_78e3a32e-2b1c-11ed-ba97-b77c60b2a8de.html |
TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Police Department is looking for a man who was caught on camera taking a bike off the front porch of a home and walking away.
Police say the incident happened at a home on South Willow Avenue and the bike was left sitting unsecured.
If you recognize the man, police say to call at (813) 231-6130 (case # 22-353825) You can also submit a tip through our Tampa PD app. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/bike-tampa-front-porch/67-2dc1aa92-c9a7-4ee7-8941-ecc62888ff74 | 2022-09-03T15:36:03 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/bike-tampa-front-porch/67-2dc1aa92-c9a7-4ee7-8941-ecc62888ff74 |
Members of the Albany Woman's Club who attended the Georgia 2022 Institute in Athens recently were, from left, Hazel Masters, Betty Clark, Betty Gotsch, Renea Miller, Bobbye Pruet, Sharyn Davis, Denise Golden and Linda Snider.
ATHENS -- Several members of the Georgia Federated of Women's Club's Albany Woman’s Club chapter attended the Georgia 2022 Institute held recently at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in Athens.
The Institute is a statewide day of learning put on by the GFWC. Attendees received updated information about what’s new in different departments and brought home many new ideas for the local club to serve and to be successful.
Albany Woman's Club members who attended the institute included Hazel Masters, Betty Clark, Betty Gotsch, Renea Miller, Bobbye Pruet, Sharyn Davis, Denise Golden and Linda Snider.
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The Lee County E-911 Center installed new computer equipment recently to enhance the center’s ability to more efficiently and quickly respond to callers in need of assistance.
The Lee County 911 Center is managed by Director Nikkie Celinski.
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The Lee County E-911 Center installed new computer equipment recently to enhance the center’s ability to more efficiently and quickly respond to callers in need of assistance.
LEESBURG -- The Lee County E-911 Center installed new computer equipment recently to enhance the center’s ability to more efficiently and quickly respond to callers in need of assistance. This upgrade was completed using a portion of Lee County special-purpose local-option sales tax funding. The funding provided new monitor screens, hard drives, servers, adjustable work stations, and other equipment.
The Lee County 911 Center is managed by Director Nikkie Celinski. She is also the county's deputy emergency management director.
Celinski manages a 24/7 staff of 15 operators, three each on 12-hour shifts, including the training coordinator. Every employee, including the director, is a certified 911 operator, officially called telecommunicators. They are located in the E- 911/Emergency Operations building on North Starksville Avenue in Leesburg.
“Through the end of August this year, the 911 Center has received over 30,000 calls and will on average receive 70,000 calls per year.” Celinski said. “Though all manner of emergency calls or texts are received over a year, the hardest calls we get are ones involving children."
There are no typical calls, and there are no typical days in a 911 center. An emergency to one person might not even faze someone else. Each call, no matter the nature, is handled by the telecommunicator with professionalism and respect. Calls may come in sporadically or in a flurry, when all three on-duty telecommunicators must handle multiple calls.
Some may think that telecommunicators just sit by the phone waiting for a call and directing a response. That, however, is just one of the many duties each performs. When a call comes in, a telecommunicator can immediately access six different data bases to help direct the appropriate response to the particular incident.
These systems include monitors for computer-aided dispatch and a phone locator system called Emergency Call Works. Another useful system is called TEXTY. This allows a person to text instead of call 911. Lee County is the first center in the state to use TEXTY.
The operators also have a high-definition map of Lee County and a radio dispatch system. One of the most important databases in the center is Georgia Crime Information Center (GCIC). The database allows the operator to access information on a person, including car tag, driver’s license, criminal activity, criminal history and other personal information that may better prepare the on-scene responder for actions that may be needed. All 50 states plus Puerto Rico and some other countries are included in the database.
Most people think of police or firefighters as the typical first responders, but in many situations the first responder is the local 911 center. The person on the other end of the call may be having the worse day of their lives, so the telecommunicator needs to remain calm and collected when handling many of the calls they receive. The telecommunicator needs to be part dispatcher, counselor, medical evaluator, as well as other duties to help the caller thought a sometimes difficult situation. This job is not for everybody.
Training in all these areas is required and extensive. Before even starting the job, an applicant must complete the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) for 911 Telecommunicators. There is a minimum of six months on-the-job training at the center and 40 hours of continuing education each year after. The center also participates in annual mass casualty drills, active shooter training, bomb threats and other training to continue to hone the critical parts of these important exercises.
One of the more interesting training programs is Emergency Medical Dispatch. This training is given to the telecommunicator to aide callers who may have a medical problem such as a heart attack, bee sting, drug overdose or other medical issues before the EMS unit arrives. It even includes how to help deliver a baby, which Celinski said she has had to do once in her career.
The Lee County E-911 Center has a mutual aid agreement with surrounding counties to assist or even take over 911 calls if damage or power outage affects that center. They also have quick call ability to transfer a call to the appropriate 911 county response if a call comes in that another authority needs to handle.
It is reassuring for local citizens to know that in Lee County when they call 911, they will be talking to a very competent, highly skilled telecommunicator on the other end of the line.
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ATLANTA -- Mauldin & Jenkins LLC, a leading accounting and advisory firm in the Southeast and nationwide, announced recently the appointment of 10 new firm partners, effective Thursday.
“We are thrilled to welcome these 10 outstanding individuals as partners in the firm,” Managing Partner Hanson Borders said. “Each one has played an important role in our continued firm growth and brings a high caliber of expertise. These new partners have demonstrated exceptional leadership within the firm and their communities, and we look forward to their continued success in the future.”
Daniel Anderson, CPA, Partner (Bradenton) focuses on serving governmental and nonprofit entities throughout Florida. He is a regular speaker on state and local government topics. Anderson is a graduate of Leadership Manatee and the FICPA Emerging Leaders Program. He currently serves on the Board of the Center of Anna Maria Island.
William Birmingham, CPA, Partner (Atlanta) practices in the Private Client Services practice. Since joining Mauldin & Jenkins in 2013, he has specialized in providing proactive tax planning and compliance services to entities and individuals involved in a wide variety of industries, including construction, manufacturing, professional services, hospitality, and real estate, with a focus on closely-held, family-owned businesses.
Grant H. Davis, CPA, Partner (Columbia) received his bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting from Georgia Southern University in 2011 and in 2012 received his Master of Accounting degree, also from Georgia Southern. Since starting his career in 2012 in the firm’s Macon office, Davis has focused on serving a wide variety of state and local governmental entities primarily in Georgia and South Carolina.
Kelsie Deiter, Partner (Atlanta) serves as the HR & Marketing leader of Mauldin & Jenkins LLC. With more than 15 years of experience at M&J, she supports not only the growth of the firm but also the professionals on staff. She plays a critical role in aligning the strategic direction of the firm’s leadership to the HR and Marketing team functions. Deiter holds a PHR certification and is an active member of the Accounting Marketing Association and SHRM.
Emily K. Dent, CPA, CRCM, CAMS, Partner (Albany) specializes in regulatory compliance and Bank Secrecy Act consulting services for financial institutions. She has more than 20 years of experience working in and with financial institutions and 15 years in public accounting. She has extensive experience with internal controls related to both financial reporting and compliance operations.
Rob Douglas, CPA, Partner (Albany) is involved in the Firm’s Private Client Services and Financial Institutions practices. He began his career with Mauldin & Jenkins in 2011. Douglas specializes in assurance, tax and advisory services for a variety of businesses including banks, agribusiness, large growers, medical practices and family-owned businesses and their owners.
Justin M. Elliott, CPA, Partner (Macon) received his BBA degree in Accounting in 2010 and Master's of Accounting degree in 2011 from Georgia Southern University. Elliott's primary focus has been serving governmental entities across the Southeast. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Georgia Government Finance Officers Association.
Tiffany Galligan, CPA, Partner (Albany) has spent the majority of her time working in the Private Client Services area since joining the firm in 2011. She focuses her career on income taxes and closely-held businesses with a concentration in the agricultural and real estate industries. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants.
Christopher McKellar, CPA, Partner (Atlanta) received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Accounting and Information Systems from Georgia Southern University. He also graduated with his Master of Accountancy degree from Georgia Southern. Since starting his career in 2005, Christopher has focused on serving state and local governments throughout the Southeast. Christopher currently works and resides in Atlanta.
Ashton Pellicano, CPA, Partner (Atlanta) has been with the firm since 2013. He received his BBA degree in Accounting in 2012 and MAcc degree in 2013 from the University of Georgia. Pellicano has focused his career on tax planning and preparation of individual and business tax returns, and audits of financial institutions and employee benefit plans. He is a member of the AICPA and GSCPA.
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Two area high school teachers are top-10 finalists for 2023 Indiana Teacher of the Year.
Jason Beer, an English teacher at Homestead High School, and Tara Cocanower, who teaches social studies at Bluffton High School, advanced to the top 10 after being named to the Top 25.
The Indiana Department of Education will announce the teacher of the year this fall. The 10 finalists will be interviewed by a panel of former teachers of the year and department of education staff.
Beer and Cocanower were both named teachers of the year in their respective school districts – Beer in Southwest Allen County Schools and Cocanower in Bluffton-Harrison MSD.
Beer previously taught at Chicago Public Schools, Columbia City High School, Eagle Tech Academy and New Tech Academy at Wayne High School. He has been at Homestead for seven years.
Along with standard English classes, Beer has taught travel writing and a novel and screenwriting course, which debuted this school year.
Cocanower has been an educator for 13 years and is in her ninth year with Bluffton-Harrison, where she teaches world history and advanced placement world history. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/fort-wayne-area-educators-up-for-teacher-of-the-year/article_3f7d6a8e-2af4-11ed-ba64-6f010ed733b9.html | 2022-09-03T15:43:12 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/schools/fort-wayne-area-educators-up-for-teacher-of-the-year/article_3f7d6a8e-2af4-11ed-ba64-6f010ed733b9.html |
AUSTIN, Texas — According to a report from the The Dallas Morning News, Walmart is stepping down in its legal fight against a liquor store law in Texas.
Last summer, the retailer filed a lawsuit in Austin challenging a portion of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code stopping publicly traded retailers from owning liquor stores.
This reportedly marked the second time Walmart has met Texas in court. The company had originally sued in 2015, a battle it initially won three years later. However, the ruling was reversed in 2019.
The Dallas Morning News reported that Walmart isn't giving up on its efforts in Texas just yet, potentially looking into options to build spaces in its stories with separate entrances for liquor sales.
Currently, Walmart is allowed to sell liquor in more than two dozen states.
Read The Dallas Morning News' full report here.
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EAGLE PASS, Texas — At least eight migrants were found dead in the Rio Grande after dozens attempted a hazardous crossing near Eagle Pass, Texas, officials said Friday.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials made the discovery Thursday while responding to a large group of people crossing the river following days of heavy rains that had resulted in particularly swift currents. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered two others, according to a CBP statement.
The agency said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody. Officials on both sides of the border continue searching for any possible victims, the CBP said.
CPD did not say what country or countries the migrants were from.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. The sector may soon surpass Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, which has been the focus for the last decade. The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them in families with young children.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CPD said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
Surveys by the U.N. International Organization for Migration and others point to rising fatalities as the number of crossing attempts have soared. In the last three decades, thousands have died attempting to enter the United States from Mexico, often from dehydration or drowning.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico. | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/rio-grande-border-crossing-migrants-dead/285-0612f706-a828-4f76-ac75-3bc4155e4037 | 2022-09-03T15:58:14 | 0 | https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/texas/rio-grande-border-crossing-migrants-dead/285-0612f706-a828-4f76-ac75-3bc4155e4037 |
The Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board has announced the five 2022 recipients of its Focused Investment Partnership program, including first-ever awards for Oregon’s Coast.
Among these recipients is the Coos Basin Coho Partnership, whose $11 million award will accelerate years of high-priority restoration projects in the Coos watershed, with the aim to recover local populations of threatened Oregon Coast coho salmon.
“This is a huge investment not just in Oregon Coast coho recovery, but also in the strong restoration economy we’re building on the South Coast,” said Haley Lutz, executive director of the Coos Watershed Association, which serves as the lead local coordinator for the CBP. “We’ll be investing millions of dollars in our local economy through supply purchases and by hiring contractors and additional skilled workers in the Coos Basin.”
The Coos Watershed Association and its partners have been securing OWEB grants and investing millions of dollars in Coos County for decades through projects that restore and enhance aquatic habitat. What’s different about this award is that is provides funding stability over a six-year period and will serve as a catalyst for future projects in the Coos Basin. The economic and ecological impacts of coho salmon restoration will extend beyond the FIP funding’s disbursement over the next six years, Lutz says, with long-term benefits for sport and commercial fisheries, tourism, and clean water for communities.
The blending of economic and environmental health is an important theme for the CPB, who believes strongly that healthy ecological, economic, and social conditions are needed to ensure a sustainable future for native coho through the restoration of highly connected, functional, and productive landscapes. According to Mike Gray, ODFW District fish biologist for the Coos-Coquille-Tenmile District, this funding will help us do just that.
“This award makes a major, focused investment toward sustaining keystone coho salmon populations in a changing environment, but also toward contributing to the coastal economy through restoring healthy fisheries,” says Gray.
The Coos Basin Coho Partnership consists of 15 local and regional organizations who have been working together on coho recovery activities in the Coos Basin for over 25 years, but formalized a regional partnership recently through the development of a Coos Basin-specific plan to accelerate coho recovery on the southern Oregon coast. The recently finalized Strategic Action Plan can be accessed here.
The full CBP team includes Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua and Siuslaw Indians, Coquille Indian Tribe, Coos Watershed Association, Coos Soil and Water Conservation District, Curry Soil and Water Conservation District – Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, Weyerhaeuser, Wild Rivers Land Trust, Wild Salmon Center, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, Bureau of Land Management – Coos Bay District, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – Restoration Center, Natural Resource Conservation Service, South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Coastal Program.
The partnership component is critical to being able to achieve the outcomes of this grant: each agency plays an important role in providing capacity, expertise, and additional funding. In fact, with contributions and matching funds from CBP partners, the total amount leveraged for the Coos Basin is expected to reach nearly $20 million over six years, almost doubling OWEB’s investment.
The CBP is hitting the ground running and has already started on some of the FIP projects, which are aimed at improving the quality, quantity, and connectivity of coho salmon habitat—particularly in areas that have experienced loss of tidal habitats, blocked or hindered fish passage, loss of winter rearing habitat, and degraded water quality. Over half of the projects are within lowland, tidally influenced subbasins within the Coos estuary, as these play a critical role in supporting life cycles of salmon and other aquatic organisms.
This work is not just happening in the Coos Basin, though, and is connected to a much bigger picture of salmon recovery efforts along the coast. The CPB was one of three coastal FIP recipients: the Siuslaw Coho Partnership and Oregon Central Coast Estuary Collaborative are doing similar work in their watersheds, which will add up to a much larger collective impact for salmon moving up and down the Oregon coastline.
Funding for these projects comes from the Oregon Lottery and the Federal Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A listing of all awarded grants is available at: https://www.oregon.gov/oweb/Documents/2022-FIP-Awards.pdf
COOS BASIN COHO PARTNERSHIP: THE FACTS
● The Coos Basin Coho Partnership (CBP) will receive the first of three OWEB disbursements ($3,469,614) in 2022. Funding will span three bienniums from 2022-2028 for a total of $11,075,993.
● In the first two years of FIP funding, CBP projects will improve access to over 40 miles of coho spawning and rearing habitat, add habitat complexity to 4+ stream miles, and enhance 20+ acres of native riparian (streamside) habitat and 170+ acres of lowland slough habitat.
● These projects will take place at 14 main project sites in the first two years, such as opening up fish passage to spawning habitat above Tioga Falls, upgrading a tide gate on Palouse Creek, and improving fish use, drainage, and connectivity in the Lillian Creek tidal wetland.
● Please contact Haley Lutz for a full project list and more details about the FIP award’s impact for Coos Basin communities. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/grant-to-help-coho-salmon-recovery-efforts/article_f5f29592-2972-11ed-8e0b-b70bdb0970a4.html | 2022-09-03T16:00:37 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/grant-to-help-coho-salmon-recovery-efforts/article_f5f29592-2972-11ed-8e0b-b70bdb0970a4.html |
One girl runs and hides when she sees thin people with long hair similar to the gunman who stormed into her Uvalde, Texas, school and killed 21 people. One boy stopped making friends and playing with animals. A third child feels her heart race when she’s reminded of the May 24 massacre that killed a close friend — once at such a dangerous pace that she had to be rushed to a hospital, where she stayed for weeks.
The 11-year-old girl has been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Associated Press spoke with her and her family on the condition her name not be used to protect her identity.
“I never lost someone before,” she said, adding that her friend who was among the 19 students and two teachers killed in the United States’ deadliest school massacre in a decade would encourage her through hard times. “She was a very strong person.”
As students get ready to return to Robb Elementary on Tuesday for the first time since the massacre, PTSD symptoms are starting to show. Parents are finding themselves unable to help, and experts worry because communities of color such as the largely Hispanic city of Uvalde face disparities in access mental health care. For low-income families, it can be even harder, as access to limited resources requires long waits for referrals through medical assistance programs such as Medicaid.
“It’s hard hearing what these kids are going through at such a young age,” said Yuri Castro, a mother of two boys in Uvalde, whose cousin was killed in the shooting and whose sons were once taught by the two slain teachers. Castro knows of children so traumatized they have stopped speaking.
School shootings dramatically upend survivors’ lives. For some, symptoms linger for years and high-quality treatment can be difficult to find.
In recent years, Texas lawmakers have focused on spending money on mental health services, devoting more than $2.5 billion during the current fiscal year.
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But according to the 11-year-old girl’s family — lifelong residents of Uvalde — the only mental health center in the area — just blocks from Robb Elementary — was seldom used or discussed, raising worries about the lack of awareness regarding signs and symptoms of mental illness and the stigma surrounding seeking help.
The mother of the 11-year-old girl whose racing heart led to her hospitalization says open conversations about mental health were previously taboo in the heavily Latino community, where culturally, mental health is brushed off as feeling lazy, bored or throwing a tantrum.
“I remember growing up it was like, ‘Go over there, you are just being chiflada,’” the mother said, using a Spanish word that means “acting spoiled.”
Now, she said, the town is waking up to the reality of mental health even as some people still ask why survivors like her daughter need help.
Members of the community have been supporting one another by checking in with extended family and friends and taking advantage of community resources that have been set up, including counseling by the Red Cross and emotional support from the churches. The parents of one of the children who was killed started an organization that will be putting together wilderness retreats for victims’ families and survivors. Residents also have social media groups where they can share mental health resources and express their grief.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission contracted with organizations to create a mental health hotline that in six weeks responded to nearly 400 calls.
Martha Rodriguez, who coordinated efforts to help students recover after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, said officials need to visit the community to make sure the right resources are available. She said addressing stigmas and sending providers who understand the families’ language and values are key.
“Some families may not feel comfortable sharing distress and needs,” she said.
Many families impacted by the shooting are Roman Catholic. The mother of a girl who survived the attack said her daughter has only been able to open up to a priest in Houston — 280 miles (450 kilometers) away — whom the family goes to see when they visit relatives.
“This is going to be a long journey. This is not going to be something that we can just do some work and fix it,” said San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller.
Julie Kaplow, director of the trauma and grief centers at the Texas Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital New Orleans, said many students who survived the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting that killed 10 in suburban Houston did not exhibit symptoms for six months.
“I am anticipating that we will see some similarities,” said Kaplow, who has been training clinicians and others who are treating families in Uvalde. “Part of the reason is those symptoms haven’t manifested yet and will start to manifest when they are reminded of the event itself. Or the caregiver starts to recognize, ‘Wait a minute my child is still not eating, is still not sleeping.’”
The length of treatment varies depending on the severity of symptoms. For some, it can last up to two to three years.
Melissa Brymer, director of terrorism and disaster programs at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, was the lead adviser to public schools in Newtown, Connecticut, after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. She said officials need to make sure that families can get services at school. They also need to create spaces that feel friendlier, such as community meals, rather than clinics.
Parents of the incoming fifth-grader who is struggling with symptoms chose to home-school her this year so she can continue going to appointments more easily. She is also getting a service dog who will alert her if her heart rate rises.
But she worries about her brothers returning to the classroom and gets anxious thinking others will judge her because of how she has been affected by the massacre when she wasn’t shot, her mother said. She is awakened daily by night terrors.
“We don’t sleep. ... We don’t even know what that is anymore since this has happened,” the mother said. “I am going to have to deal with that for however long it takes for her to heal.” | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/robb-elementary-students-grapple-with-massacre-trauma-as-they-get-ready-to-return-to-school/3063879/ | 2022-09-03T16:10:19 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/robb-elementary-students-grapple-with-massacre-trauma-as-they-get-ready-to-return-to-school/3063879/ |
The American Red Cross is assisting 11 families after a devastating overnight inferno left nearly 40 Newark residents without a place to sleep.
Firefighters rushed to Clifton Avenue around 2 a.m. Saturday for a fire that appeared to start in an abandoned building on the block.
Eventually the flames spread to two neighboring homes and required a 3-alarm response from fire crews, who were still putting water on the structures well after the sun came up.
Officials estimated 39 people were displaced by the fire, 11 of which were children. There were no immediate reports of any injuries.
Neighbors said the fire appeared to start in a home abandoned for several years -- a home they said should have been on the city's radar following countless complaints.
"It is heartbreaking seeing my home destroyed, my son's stuff," Blanca Fernandez said Saturday morning. "It's not easy, all the memories."
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The fire department's arson investigators visited the scene early Saturday morning, but so far there's been no official cause of the blaze released.
It's also not clear when, or if, any of the residents of the homes will be able to reenter and sort through what's left from the destruction.
"We have to start again," Fernandez said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/39-people-displaced-3-homes-charred-in-overnight-massive-newark-blaze/3850413/ | 2022-09-03T16:10:27 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/39-people-displaced-3-homes-charred-in-overnight-massive-newark-blaze/3850413/ |
This article was originally published on Sept 2 10:42pm EDT by THE CITY
The city’s public housing authority discovered traces of arsenic in the tap water at one of its biggest developments in Manhattan, the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village, THE CITY has learned.
Late Friday, NYCHA began distributing bottled water at the sprawling complex that houses 2,600 tenants and opened in 1949. It’s named after the iconic 19th-century muckraker who authored “How the Other Half Lives,” an expose of squalid housing conditions endured by thousands of New York’s immigrants.
Top NYCHA managers first learned of test results that indicated traces of arsenic were present in the water at the development about two weeks ago, according to two sources familiar with the situation.
Riis tenant Malina Barbosa told THE CITY on Friday that she had not been informed of the problem, although she noted that recently, “We don’t drink their water. It kind of smells. When they turn it off and it comes back on, it’s brown.”
Hours after THE CITY reached out, City Hall announced at 9:56 PM that Mayor Adams was going to distribute water bottles at Jacob Riis Houses at 10:15 PM — and that he would not be taking press questions.
At about 10:30 on Friday evening, a NYCHA spokesperson Barbara Brancaccio told THE CITY that the water at Riis had indeed previously tested positive for arsenic, but claimed that NYCHA had not confirmed that result until Friday.
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In a statement sent to THE CITY at 11:16 PM, Mayor Adams said that “Preliminary results received today from retesting showed arsenic levels higher than the federal standard for drinking water, and while there is no evidence linking it to the cloudy water, the city has taken immediate action, including providing support and drinking water to every household at Riis while we conduct additional water testing.”
NYCHA has been under the oversight of a federal monitor since then Mayor Bill de Blasio settled a 2016 lawsuit filed by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney charged the authority’s management with deliberately covering up unhealthy and unsafe conditions in public housing, including lead-paint exposure to children and mold infestations afflicting residents with asthma.
THE CITY is an independent, nonprofit news outlet dedicated to hard-hitting reporting that serves the people of New York. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nycha-found-arsenic-in-the-water-two-weeks-ago-tenants-only-found-out-friday-night/3850423/ | 2022-09-03T16:10:34 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nycha-found-arsenic-in-the-water-two-weeks-ago-tenants-only-found-out-friday-night/3850423/ |
Carmel Police looking for missing mom, daughter
The Carmel Police Department is looking for a mom and daughter, last seen more than a week ago.
In a Facebook post, Carmel police said they're trying to locate 37-year-old Christina Tinson and her daughter, 13-year-old Kindell Phillips. Tinson was last seen Aug. 26, driving her red 2011 GMC Terrain with IN license plate number GBJ430, east on Main Street near the Monon Trail just after 8 p.m., according to police.
Tinson is described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 200 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes. Kindell is 4 feet, 6 inches tall and 90 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
Police said neither Tinson nor her daughter are believed to be in danger. If you have any information on their location, please contact the Carmel Police Department at 317-571-2580. | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2022/09/03/carmel-police-looking-for-missing-mom-daughter-last-seen-aug-26/65471663007/ | 2022-09-03T16:14:29 | 0 | https://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2022/09/03/carmel-police-looking-for-missing-mom-daughter-last-seen-aug-26/65471663007/ |
The Northern Arizona Lumberjacks soccer team drew, 0-0, with the Georgia Southern Eagles at Lumberjack Stadium on Thursday night.
NAU sophomore goalkeeper Trinity Corcoran played impressively in the net, recording eight saves and earning the Lumberjacks' first shutout of the season.
"I'm proud of them, we had a clean sheet which is what we wanted, we created a bunch of chances, and we were dynamic," coach Kylie Louw said. "When you hear the crowd stay the whole game and cheer like that, you can't not be proud of them."
The Lumberjacks outshot Georgia Southern, 15-11, with seven shots on target. NAU had multiple opportunities inside the box, and a few shots flew just wide of the post. One of the biggest chances came in the 32nd minute, as Josie Novak -- who came off the bench in the first half and went on to put up four shots, three on goal -- ripped the ball into the left corner. The ball was saved, though . Freshman Morgan Caslin recorded three shots, with Allison Veloz and Dai Williams each recording two attempts on goal.
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The Lumberjacks changed the lineup in the second half, but still could not finish their chances.
"If you look at the first half compared to the second half, we were able to put some challenges on the team at halftime and changed the formation, and the team did it. It created some chances and the players were dynamic, that's the IQ part of it because you can't teach that," Louw said.
The Lumberjacks are set to play on the road for the first time this season, taking on Cal State Bakersfield next Thursday night, before heading back home to host Air Force on Sunday.
Volleyball falls 3-0 to Cal
The final score may have been a sweep, but the Lumberjacks volleyball team went stride-for-stride with California in the their first match of the Utah Valley Invitational in Orem, Utah, on Friday. However, the Golden Bears made plays late and ultimately handed the Lumberjacks a 25-21, 25-21, 26-24 sweep in Lockhart Arena as NAU dropped to 1-3.
"We showed today how hard this team is working," coach Ken Murphy said. "But they're feeling a little empty because we know today was one we could've had. There were a lot of times in the match where our defense was great and really defending their best stuff, but there were times when we let them off with some easy stuff. That's something I need to address to ensure that we're a little more consistent volleyball team."
Aiming for their first win over a Pac-12 team in a decade, NAU battled through a tight beginning to the day's opening set before breaking through with a 4-0 run fueled by two kills from senior Taylor Jacobsen, who put down a team-high 16 on the afternoon.
The run gave the Lumberjacks a 13-10 advantage and they held a 20-14 lead late following an error by the Golden Bears. A kill by junior Savannah Hasson had NAU in good position to close out the first game at 21-16, only to see California steal the set from the Lumberjacks' grasp with a 9-0 clinching run.
After being contained for much of the first set, the Golden Bears' late surge lifted California's offensive output to an impressive .326 mark with 21 of its 25 points coming on kills. California also made it difficult on NAU to score, although the Lumberjacks hit .222 in the set, as the Golden Bears logged 28 digs.
NAU gained the early edge in set two with a 4-2 lead, but a 6-0 California run forced the Lumberjacks to call a timeout. The Lumberjacks never led again although they slowly chopped away at what was at its largest, a seven-point deficit. Three straight combination blocks by Jacobsen and senior Neche Newton cut the Golden Bears' lead to 17-14 and the Lumberjacks, on three occasions, got within two points with the last at 22-20. However, California, which improved to 3-2 with the victory, held on for the set win by scoring three of the last four points.
Needing a win to extend the match, NAU never let California get loose in the third set despite the Golden Bears recording 23 kills. Neither team led by more than two points until late when a 3-0 run by the Golden Bears snapped an 18-18 tie, which was preceded by Hasson accounting for three consecutive Lumberjack points on blocks.
With the 21-18 lead in hand, California reached match point at 24-22 before NAU held off two match points. Freshman Kylie Moran put a kill through the California block on the first, and a Golden Bears error evened the score at 24-24. However, an NAU service error sided out for California and the Golden Bears wrapped up the match on their third clinching opportunity.
Even as the Golden Bears outkilled the Lumberjacks, 63-36, and hit .297 compared to NAU's .215, the Lumberjacks' offense found ways to be effective against a California team that ranked second in the country in total blocks.
"Kate (Hatch) did a good job distributing the ball and we had a little better balance offensively today," Murphy said. "Honestly, our hitters did what they do in practice."
Jacobsen's 16 kills on .259 hitting led the Lumberjacks with Hasson and Moran both recording seven kills apiece. Hatch handed out 27 assists.
Jacobsen also recorded her first double-double of the season with 11 kills, which only trailed junior Millie O'Ketter's 17, and tied a career-high with five blocks. Jacobsen's five blocks matched Hasson's five for the team-lead as NAU outblocked California, 9-5.
The Lumberjacks will look to close out the Utah Valley Invitational with a victory on Saturday when they take on Utah Valley on its home court at 1 p.m. | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-lumberjacks-goalkeeper-corcoran-tallies-eight-saves-in-0-0-draw/article_d5a190a4-2af8-11ed-b62f-d795a9785077.html | 2022-09-03T16:15:21 | 0 | https://azdailysun.com/sports/local/nau-roundup-lumberjacks-goalkeeper-corcoran-tallies-eight-saves-in-0-0-draw/article_d5a190a4-2af8-11ed-b62f-d795a9785077.html |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – It’s time once again for the Great Rubber Duck Race in Charleston, West Virginia!
The United Way of Central West Virginia and West Virginia American Water say right at noon today, Saturday, Sept. 3, the rubber ducks will be making their big splash into the Kanawha River from the South Side Bridge!
All 3,075 ducks will float to shore at the Levee Area along Kanawha Boulevard and Haddad Riverfront Park and the first one pulled from the water will be this year’s first place winner.
WOWK 13 News is a media sponsor of the event, and we will be streaming the drop in this article beginning just before noon.
The first place winner will receive $3,000, second place will receive a $1,000 Par Mar Fuel Card and third place will receive $500. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/3k-rubber-ducks-entered-in-charleston-great-rubber-duck-race-2022/ | 2022-09-03T16:20:51 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/3k-rubber-ducks-entered-in-charleston-great-rubber-duck-race-2022/ |
KANAWHA COUNTY, WV (WOWK) – Two people were injured and a man was arrested after a stabbing in Campbell’s Creek Friday night.
According to the Metro 911, the incident happened around 11:55 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2 in the 100 block of Gab View Drive in Campbell’s Creek. The Kanawha County Sheriff’s Office says two male victims were stabbed during an altercation.
According to the KCSO, one of the victims was stabbed in the chest and the other victim was stabbed in the back. Deputies say the victims’ wounds are “serious” but not believed to be life-threatening. Both victims were taken to a hospital for medical treatment.
Deputies have identified the suspect in the incident as Allen Wolfingbarger, 45. As of 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 3, Wolfingbarger was in the South Central Regional Jail on a $25,000 cash-only bond.
The investigation into the stabbing is ongoing. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-arrested-after-2-stabbed-in-campbells-creek-west-virginia/ | 2022-09-03T16:20:57 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/man-arrested-after-2-stabbed-in-campbells-creek-west-virginia/ |
Climate scientist Chad Greene studies ice in Antarctica, so when the pandemic gave him a chance to work remotely from anywhere he wanted, he naturally chose Tucson.
“Antarctica is technically a desert, so it’s just a home away from home,” Greene said with a laugh.
So far, the choice has been a productive one.
Working out of his home office in the Old Pueblo, the researcher from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, helped pioneer a new way of measuring the massive — and massively important — ice shelves that encircle the southern continent.
Those shelves block the flow of glaciers and prevent slabs of inland ice more than a mile thick from sliding unfettered into the ocean, triggering a potentially catastrophic rise in global sea levels.
For decades, scientists have used altimeters to monitor the thickness of the continent’s ice in the face of global warming. The new technique by Greene and company uses optical, thermal-band and radar images from orbiting satellites to create high-resolution maps of the entire coastline and chart changes to the ice shelves over time.
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According to their calculations, Antarctica has lost some 14,710 square miles of ice shelf since 1997. That’s an area larger than the state of Maryland and represents nearly 2% of the continent’s protective shelves.
Greene has posted an animation to YouTube showing the retreat of the ice shelves, set to the Patsy Cline song "I Fall to Pieces."
The researchers also found that almost as much mass has been lost to calving and crumbling along the front edges of the shelves — some 6.5 trillion tons of ice — than has been lost to the melting and thinning of the ice sheets as a whole over the past quarter century.
Not glacial pace
The team of Greene, Alex Gardner and Nicole-Jeanne Schlegel from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Alexander Fraser from the University of Tasmania in Australia saw their findings published in the journal Nature on Aug. 10.
Since then, Greene has been interviewed by CNN and The Washington Post, in part because the new study points to something grim unfolding in Antarctica.
As the ice sheets weaken and crumble, they can lose their integrity and behave in unexpected ways.
In March, the Glenzer Conger Ice Shelf in East Antarctica suddenly collapsed without warning. Though comparatively small as shelves go — it merely covered an area about twice the size of Tucson — it was located in the coldest and seemingly most stable part of the continent.
“It just fell apart after thousands of years of being rock solid, and no one saw it coming,” Greene said. “It kind of makes you wonder what else we might not see coming.”
Climate scientists are especially worried about signs of distress in the ice shelves fronting two much larger and far more critical spots: the Thwaites and Pine Island Glaciers at the western edge of the continent.
Greene said Thwaites is roughly the size of Florida and particularly susceptible to a rapid collapse that could destabilize the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet, where enough water is locked away to raise oceans worldwide by a dozen feet or more.
That’s why some have taken to calling Thwaites “the doomsday glacier,” though Greene isn’t crazy about the term.
While it’s true that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could eventually collapse as the planet continues to warm, he doesn’t consider it likely and doesn’t expect it to happen in any of our lifetimes.
“It’s hard to give context without sounding alarmist,” he said.
Midnight sun
Though his current work mostly involves analyzing satellite data from the kitchen table of his rented bungalow in Armory Park, Greene has spent two field seasons on the southern continent so far.
He was first there in late 2012 and early 2013 at a place called Byrd Station on the West Antarctic Ice Shelf, where he camped for several weeks in a one-man tent at the height of summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
He said the coldest it got was about 30 below zero, but the sun never set. It just went in a little circle high in the sky all day and all night.
“That’s where I learned to sleep with a little eye mask on,” Greene said.
The glaciologist returned to Antarctica in 2018, this time to the eastern side of the continent. There he continued his work with other researchers studying ice sheets from the air in a World War II-era DC-3 with skis on its wheels and a cabin filled with high-tech science gear.
Greene joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a post-doctoral research fellow in 2019.
He had no real connection to Tucson before he moved here two years ago, after COVID-19 shut down the JPL offices in Pasadena. He said he had passed through Southern Arizona once and really liked it, so he decided to return.
When he isn’t studying ice sheets, he likes to explore his downtown neighborhood and the Sonoran Desert landscape from his bicycle or his motorcycle.
“Tucson is just a good place to be,” Greene said. “The people are friendly, the food is good, and the bicycle infrastructure is great.”
His professional life seems happier and more productive here, too, which is why he is a little apprehensive about what’s going to happen as pandemic protocols are lifted and places like JPL start calling their remote employees back into the office.
Greene feels as if he has struck just the right balance in Tucson.
“I’m here in Arizona for the scorching heat, and I go down to Antarctica for the freezing cold,” he said. “I guess you could say that, on average, I’m very comfortable.”
Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@tucson.com or 573-4283. On Twitter: @RefriedBrean | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/scientist-finds-perfect-spot-in-tucson-to-study-glaciers/article_2d980200-2899-11ed-afe0-b775315797c0.html | 2022-09-03T16:26:52 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/scientist-finds-perfect-spot-in-tucson-to-study-glaciers/article_2d980200-2899-11ed-afe0-b775315797c0.html |
Here’s an update of the COVID-19 numbers in the state.
New positive cases: 1,585
New deaths: 6
Total positive cases: 2,281,617
Total number of deaths: 31,480
Total vaccine doses administered: 14,209,962
Rate of transmission: 0.92
CASES BY COUNTY
Atlantic: 64,295 cases, 975 deaths, 381,962 doses administered
Cape May: 12,821 cases, 271 deaths, 134,740 doses administered
Cumberland: 38,331 cases, 588 deaths, 187,740 doses administered
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Ocean: 154,947 cases, 2,917 deaths, 705,232 doses administered
Source: N.J. Department of Health
Figures as of 1 p.m. Sept. 3 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-reports-nearly-1-600-new-covid-19-cases-6-new-deaths/article_10b145be-2ba2-11ed-a84c-4fbf79591060.html | 2022-09-03T16:28:46 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/new-jersey-reports-nearly-1-600-new-covid-19-cases-6-new-deaths/article_10b145be-2ba2-11ed-a84c-4fbf79591060.html |
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Atlantic City 35, Clearview Regional 17
Bayonne 60, Belleville 22
Bishop Eustace Prep 27, Holy Cross 22
Bridgewater-Raritan 7, Union 6
Caldwell 47, Morris Catholic 14
Carteret 13, Perth Amboy 0
Cedar Creek 43, Absegami 20
Cedar Grove 50, Glen Ridge 13
Colonia 34, Scotch Plains-Fanwood 24
Delaware Valley Regional 20, Roselle 17
Donovan Catholic 41, Lacey 7
Edgewater, Fla. 34, Don Bosco Prep 10
Edison 43, J.P. Stevens 0
Gloucester City 35, Buena Regional 7
Hammonton 24, Cherokee 14
Hasbrouck Heights 42, Hawthorne 13
High Point 15, Jefferson 13
Hoboken 36, Newark Central 18
Holy Spirit 35, Egg Harbor 14
Hopewell Valley Central 35, Lawrence 6
Hunterdon Central 17, Piscataway 0
Irvington 25, Millville 17
Jonathan Dayton 14, Dunellen 8
Lower Cape May Regional 27, Clayton 14
Manalapan 14, Middletown North 3
Manheim Central, Pa. 44, Immaculata 43
Mendham 17, Robbinsville 9
Middlesex 27, Bound Brook 0
Middletown South 23, Long Branch 13
Montgomery 28, Franklin 14
Moorestown 34, Cherry Hill East 7
Morristown-Beard 26, Montclair Kimberley 7
Mountain Lakes 34, Lenape Valley 20
Newark East Side def. Harrison, forfeit
Newton 42, Warren Hills 20
North Hunterdon 34, Cranford 7
Notre Dame 42, Allentown 13
Oakcrest 24, Middle Township 10
Overbrook 20, Bordentown 13
Passaic Tech 6, Union City 3
Passaic Valley 34, West Milford 14
Pequannock 28, Boonton 27
Phillipsburg 14, Sayreville 7
Pleasantville 26, Penns Grove 2
Ramapo 48, Willingboro 20
Ramsey 35, Pascack Valley 0
Randolph 41, Mount Olive 9
Red Bank Catholic 63, Freehold 0
Ridgewood 42, Hackensack 0
Somerville 42, Old Bridge 33
South Hunterdon 42, Roselle Park 8
St. Augustine 30, St. Joseph-Hammonton 10
Tenafly 42, Highland Park 6
Timber Creek 56, Camden Catholic 0
Vernon 48, Morris Hills 14
Voorhees 33, North Plainfield 12
Washington Township 48, Eastern 12
Watchung Hills 17, Westfield 7
Wayne Hills 34, Liberty Creek, Tenn. 19
West Morris 21, Montville 7
Westwood 34, Shore Regional 0
Williamstown 28, Kingsway 14
Woodbury 14, West Deptford 7
Woodstown 46, Haddon Heights 19
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Weequahic vs. Asbury Park, ccd.
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PHOTOS Clearview Regional vs. Atlantic City
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Scenes from the Clearview Regional_atlantic city high school football game in Atlantic city. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Atlantic City quarterback Joe Lyons throws a floater to Allen Packard. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Atlantic City quarterback Joe Lyons shovel passes to Allen packard against Clearview Friday night. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Atlantic City’s Allen Packard scores a touchdown during the Vikings’ game against visiting Clearview Regional on Friday night.
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Clearview's Noah Colon runs for positive yards against Atlantic City Friday night. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
The Vikings' Dre Roocks tackles Clearview running back Sean Ralph.
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Atlantic City's Shawn Williams intercepts a Clearview Regional pass Friday night on the Vikings' field.
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Atlantic City quarterback Joe Lyons throws a floater to Allen Packardfor a long touchdown. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Sah'nye Degraffenreidt makes a big gain for the Vikings.
Kristian Gonyea, For The Press
Atlantic City quarterback Joe Lyons throws a pass friday night against Clearview. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Clearview quarterback Tyler Dell runs for a touchdown against Atlantic City. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
Tyler Dell of clearview runs for a gain against Atlantic City Friday night. Friday, September 3, 2022.(Kristian Gonyea, For The Press of Atlantic City)
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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A proposal to charge the city’s grocery shoppers 5 cents per plastic bag is tangling opinions in Virginia Beach.
Mary Jo Burchard, of Concord Solutions, said all of them said that this was an urgent need to be addressed, but they did not agree on the approach.
The newspaper reports that the city paid the consulting company $11,515 for planning, preparation and facilitation of three 2-hour sessions, data analysis and reporting.
A state law allows Virginia Beach to charge a 5-cent fee for each disposable plastic bag at grocery stores, convenience stores and pharmacies.
Several Virginia localities have implemented the tax, including Fairfax County, Alexandria and Charlottesville. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/opinions-tangled-on-plastic-bag-tax-pitch-in-virginia-beach/2022/09/03/0be0cb3a-2ba3-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-09-03T16:47:32 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/opinions-tangled-on-plastic-bag-tax-pitch-in-virginia-beach/2022/09/03/0be0cb3a-2ba3-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
BALTIMORE — Officials say a student has died after being shot at high school in Baltimore.
Baltimore City School Police officers were at the school when the shots were fired and chased the suspect.
Clyde Boatwright, president of the Maryland State Fraternal Order of Police, said in a written statement that the school police officers were armed. They also retrieved the suspect’s weapon.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said that shortly before 3 p.m. Friday the suspect approached the male victim in a parking lot behind the school, and they got into a heated encounter before the suspect fired multiple rounds.
School police performed CPR on the victim, who was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital and pronounced dead soon afterward. | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/police-student-dies-after-shooting-at-baltimore-high-school/2022/09/03/8522835e-2b9d-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html | 2022-09-03T16:47:38 | 1 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/police-student-dies-after-shooting-at-baltimore-high-school/2022/09/03/8522835e-2b9d-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html |
DALLAS (KDAF) — The Plano Police Department has released some helpful tips that could save you from the trouble of having your vehicle stolen.
According to department officials, there has been a recent surge in vehicular thefts across the metroplex and are reminding people to securely lock their cars.
“The PPD strongly urges you to take the extra five seconds to lock it up and save yourself the stress of having your vehicle stolen,” officials said in a Facebook post.
On top of making sure you’re car is securely locked, police officials also recommend buying an after-market tracking device like an Apple Airtag in the event that your car is stolen.
Here are the cars being stolen the most in the Dallas area:
- Dodge Ram TRX
- Dodge Charger/Challenger ScatPack/Hellcat/SRT/Daytona
- Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk
- Chevrolet Corvette
- Cadillac CTS-V
- GMC Yukon or Sierra
- Chevrolet Silverado or Tahoe
- Cadillac Escalade
Click here for more. | https://cw33.com/news/local/these-vehicles-are-being-stolen-the-most-in-dallas-according-to-plano-police-department/ | 2022-09-03T16:51:16 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/these-vehicles-are-being-stolen-the-most-in-dallas-according-to-plano-police-department/ |
A press release from the town said Virginia Avenue between South Linden and Hillcrest streets will be shut down at 7 a.m. Tuesday for repairs to the Camelback Bridge.
Additionally, Constitution Trail closures at Camelback Bridge will be needed between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. starting Tuesday. Town engineers said day and night closures will be necessary later on in the project.
Brendan Denison is our breaking news reporter. Denison was a digital content producer for WCIA-TV in Champaign and a reporter for The Commercial-News in Danville. He can be reached at (309) 820-3238 and bdenison@pantagraph.com.
Normal police say a blue Ford Focus was seen driving recklessly through the Ross parking lot on Saturday, including hitting but not damaging the building.
Both the motorcycle driver and the pedestrian sustained serious injuries and were transported to a local hospital. The pedestrian was later pronounced deceased.
A Bloomington has been indicted by a McLean County grand jury for theft and fraud after receiving a Paycheck Protection Program loan that was later forgiven. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/road-trail-closure-starts-tuesday-at-normals-camelback-bridge/article_749dd08a-2aec-11ed-a26d-fb73d7ba03aa.html | 2022-09-03T16:51:22 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/road-trail-closure-starts-tuesday-at-normals-camelback-bridge/article_749dd08a-2aec-11ed-a26d-fb73d7ba03aa.html |
With Monkeypox cases increasing and a recent death, more vaccinations are becoming available.
There will be a free Monkeypox pop-up clinic event at JR's Bar & Grill in Dallas on Friday, Sept. 9 and Sunday, Sept. 11.
You must be eligible to receive the vaccination. The vaccination is for the prevention of monkeypox only. People with confirmed cases of monkeypox or symptoms of monkeypox are not eligible to receive the vaccine.
How to Prepare For the Monkeypox Vaccine
- 1-Check your eligibility.
- 2-Register with the QR code.
- 3-Bring your insurance card (if you have one)
Monkeypox Vaccination Criteria
The vaccine remains in low supply and can currently only be offered to people who meet one of the below criteria.
- Persons who had close, intimate, skin-to-skin contact with someone who has tested positive for monkeypox.
- Men (cisgender and transgender) and transwomen 18 and older who have sex with men and who also have had multiple or anonymous sex partners in the past 14 days
- Men (cisgender and transgender) and transwomen who have sex with men who met partners through an online website, digital application ("app"), or social event, such as a bar or party in the past 14 days.
- NEW - Men (cisgender and transgender) and transwomen who have sex with men who had skin-to-skin or intimate contact (e.g., kissing, hugging) with persons at large venues or events in the past 14 days.
- NEW - Persons 18 years of age or older who were diagnosed with HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea or early syphilis within the past 12 months or are on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
HOW DOES MONKEYPOX SPREAD?
Monkeypox can spread through contact with bodily fluids, lesions, or shared items that have been contaminated with fluids by a person with monkeypox such as bleeding.
It can also spread through respiratory droplets to persons in close proximity after prolonged exposure (three hours or more). Symptoms can include but are not limited to rash, fever, swollen lymph nodes, and body aches.
Monkeypox cases are accruing nationwide within sexual networks. Monkeypox does not only affect persons of a specific sexual orientation, however recent cases across the nation have been traced to men who have sex with men. Persons who are at high risk for monkeypox exposure should be aware of their risk and seek appropriate medical attention if they develop any symptoms of monkeypox. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/free-monkeypox-vaccination-pop-up-clinic-dallas-county-hhs/3063915/ | 2022-09-03T16:58:07 | 1 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/free-monkeypox-vaccination-pop-up-clinic-dallas-county-hhs/3063915/ |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Volunteers are invited to stay cool and enjoy the scenery while cleaning up the Clackamas River in September.
The annual Down the River Cleanup will take place on Sept. 11.
Every year, about 200 volunteers gather together in rafts, kayaks, scuba gear, snorkels, drift boats and other vessels to scour the stream bed and banks of the river for trash.
Together, volunteers pull an average of 2 tons of litter from the most popular section of the Clackamas River.
People can either choose to clean up trash on land or on the water. On-land volunteers will choose to work in either Milo McIver State Park, Barton Park, Carver Park, Riverside Park, or Clackamette Park.
On-water volunteers will choose between four sections: Milo McIver to Barton Park, Barton Park to Carver Park, Carver Park to Riverside Park, or Riverside Park to Clackamette Park.
At the end of the cleanup event, all volunteers are invited to Barton Park at 3 p.m. for a free BBQ.
“While the Down the River Cleanup is a stewardship event, volunteers should expect to have fun! Over 90% of the time is spent floating, paddling, and enjoying the splendor and beauty of the Clackamas River,” the Clackamas River Basin Council wrote in a news release.
The Clackamas Down the River Cleanup is the largest and longest-running on-water cleanup event of its kind in Oregon. Since 2003, more than 40 tons of garbage (more than the approximate weight of one gray whale) has been removed from the river by volunteers.
Anyone interested in participating should visit WeLoveCleanRivers.org to sign up.
The cleanup is organized by the Clackamas River Basin Council and We Love Clean Rivers. | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/volunteers-needed-for-clackamas-down-the-river-cleanup/ | 2022-09-03T17:03:12 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/clackamas-county/volunteers-needed-for-clackamas-down-the-river-cleanup/ |
WEED, Calif. — A wind-swept wildfire in rural Northern California tore through a neighborhood and destroyed about 100 homes and other buildings, fire officials said Saturday after at least two people were injured and thousands were forced from their homes.
As of a Saturday morning update from Cal Fire, the fire is mapped at 3,921 acres and is 20% contained.
The Mill Fire started shortly before 1 p.m. Friday just north of Weed, a city of about 2,600 people 250 miles (402 kilometers) north of San Francisco. The flames raced into the Lincoln Heights neighborhood where a significant number of homes burned and residents had to flee for their lives.
Two people were brought to Mercy Medical Center Mount Shasta. One was in stable condition and the other was transferred to UC Davis Medical Center, which has a burn unit.
Cal Fire Siskiyou Unit Chief Phil Anzo said crews worked all day and night to protect structures in Weed and in a subdivision to the east known as Carrick Addition.
“There’s a lot at stake on that Mill Fire,” he said. “There’s a lot of communities, a lot of homes there.”
Weather conditions improved overnight and firefighters were able to get 20% containment but another blaze, the Mountain Fire, that broke out Friday northwest of Weed grew substantially. No injuries or buildings had been reported lost in that fire. The causes for both fires were under investigation.
Anzo estimated about 100 homes and other buildings were lost in the Mill Fire. Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for Siskiyou County and said a federal grant had been received “to help ensure the availability of vital resources to suppressthe fire.”
California is in a deep drought as it heads into what traditionally is the worst of the fire season. Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.
In the last five years, California has experienced the largest and most destructive fires in state history. Weed has seen three major fires since 2014.
The latest fire started at or near Roseburg Forest Products, which makes wood products. Evacuation orders were quickly put in effect for 7,500 people.
Yvasha Hilliard said she was home in Lincoln Heights when she heard “a big boom" and ran outside to see her neighbor's house on fire.
“It was like fire coming out of the sky," she said. “It was terrible."
Hilliard said her home was among those that burned. “We lost everything," she said.
Annie Peterson said she was sitting on the porch of her home when suddenly “all that smoke was just rolling over toward us.”
Very quickly her home and about a dozen others were on fire. She said members of her church helped evacuate her and her son, who is immobile. She said the scene of smoke and flames looked like “the world was coming to an end.”
Dr. Deborah Higer, medical director at the Shasta View Nursing Center, said all 23 patients at the facility had to be evacuated. Twenty went to local hospitals while three stayed at her own home, where hospital beds were set up.
Rebecca Taylor, communications director for Springfield, Oregon-based Roseburg, said a large empty building at the edge of company property burned. All employees were evacuated and none reported injuries, she said.
At about the time the blaze started, power outages were reported that affected some 9,000 customers, and several thousand remained without electricity late into the night due to the wildfire, according to power company PacifiCorp.
It was the third large wildfire in as many days in California, which is now sweltering under a heat wave that was expected to push temperatures past the 100-degree mark in many areas through Labor Day.
Thousands also were ordered to flee on Wednesday from a fire in Castaic, north of Los Angeles, and a blaze in eastern San Diego County, near the Mexican border, where two people were severely burned and several homes were destroyed. All evacuation orders were lifted Friday.
The Mill Fire was burning about an hour’s drive from the Oregon state line. It was only about 30 miles (48 kilometers) southeast of where the McKinney Fire — the state’s deadliest of the year — erupted in late July. It killed four people and destroyed dozens of homes
EVACUATIONS:
EVACUATION CENTERS:
- Karuk Wellness Center: 1403 Kahtishraam, Yreka, CA
- Siskiyou Fairgrounds (For livestock and large animals) : 250 Sharps Road, Yreka, CA
STAY INFORMED:
FIRE MAP:
This map from the National Interagency Fire Center shows fire activity (this may take a few seconds to load):
WILDFIRE PREPS
According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
The Department of Homeland Security suggests assembling an emergency kit that has important documents, N95 respirator masks, and supplies to grab with you if you’re forced to leave at a moment’s notice. The agency also suggests signing up for local warning system notifications and knowing your community’s evacuation plans best to prepare yourself and your family in cases of wildfires.
Some counties use Nixle alerts to update residents on severe weather, wildfires, and other news. To sign up, visit www.nixle.com or text your zip code to 888777 to start receiving alerts.
PG&E customers can also subscribe to alerts via text, email, or phone call. If you're a PG&E customer, visit the Profile & Alerts section of your account to register.
What questions do you have about the latest wildfires? If you're impacted by the wildfires, what would you like to know? Text the ABC10 team at (916) 321-3310.
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Three people, including a young girl, were shot in two incidents at the same North East Side apartment complex late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
The first shooting, which resulted in the death of a 21-year-old man, took place just before midnight after an altercation at the Alamo Estates Apartment Homes at 8000 Midcrown.
SAPD says officers were on scene initially for a robbery in progress, but secondary calls came in for a shooting in progress. A witness reported three men forced their way into an apartment before the victim confronted them. After the suspect shot the victim, they fled the scene but were detained by officers. The shooter was booked for murder.
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The second shooting occurred while officers, detectives, and CSI were on-scene for the initial shooting. According to SAPD, after hearing shots, officers went to check the area and found two victims who stated shots had come through the wall into their apartment from the parking lot.
One of the victims was a 4-year-old girl, who was struck in the leg. The other victim was an 18-year-old woman who was struck in the abdomen.
Neither of the victims of the second shooting had life-threatening injuries and were listed as stable.
Officers believe the second shooting was in retaliation for the first, but witnesses were uncooperative with police, said SAPD. | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Two-shootings-North-East-san-antonio-17417262.php | 2022-09-03T17:16:46 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Two-shootings-North-East-san-antonio-17417262.php |
Superfund site facility named in honor of Pascual Rodriguez Jr.
During the 10th anniversary of the Griggs-Walnut Groundwater Plume Remediation Project at 163 N. Cottonwood St., Las Cruces Utilities announced the renaming of the site in honor of retired long-time employee LCU Water Production Supervisor Pascual Rodriguez, Jr.
In the last year, Pascual Rodriguez Jr. has been enjoying his retirement after 28 years with LCU but admits that what he misses most about working at LCU is his crew.
“I still get texts and go to lunch with them,” he said. “I don’t miss the paperwork and getting up throughout the night. Though, I did it because it was important to me that people had the water they needed in the morning, even if we were working on a well at night. We made sure that no one would wake up with an outage.”
Rodriguez began at LCU in 1993 as a cooperative student Operator Trainee and graduated with an associate degree in Water Utility Operation in 1994. In 1996, Rodriguez earned his Water and Wastewater Level 4 certifications for the State of New Mexico. He was promoted to Water Production Operator in 2003 and was active in the innovative design and construction of the Griggs Walnut Groundwater Plume Superfund Site project.
“I oversaw the construction with the contractors who installed the facility because I wanted to know how it worked at all ends, knowing that me and my crew would need to take care of it 24/7 since it would run 24/7,” said Rodriguez.
The facility was substantially completed in 2012, the same year that Rodriguez was promoted to Water Production Projects Coordinator and became directly responsible for the operation and maintenance of the Griggs Walnut treatment facility. In 2016, Rodriguez was promoted to Water Production Supervisor and continued to oversee the operation and maintenance of the treatment facility until his retirement in 2021.
“Pascual’s legacy will live on not just through the name of the building, but through the active mentorship that he gave almost effortlessly to new and continued staff,” said LCU Assistant Director Adrienne L. Widmer, P.E. “His methods of diligence are carried on by those he taught, even if they might not choose to adopt wearing the same safety safari hat he was known for.”
Through his diligence in operating and maintaining the Griggs Walnut treatment facility with his crew, the facility has removed over 34%, or 102 pounds of tetrachloroethylene from the aquifer and put the clean water to beneficial use, meeting the Environmental Protection Agency's Consent Decree requirements.
Throughout his 28-year distinguished career, Rodriguez has instructed, mentored, inspired, and supported LCU associates, co-ops, and interns while supporting other City of Las Cruces lines of business, New Mexico Utility Operators, the Doña Ana Branch Community College Water Technology Program, and the Joint Superfund Project for the City and Doña Ana County.
The Doña Ana County Commission approved the naming of the facility to 'Pascual Rodriguez Jr. Griggs Walnut Groundwater Plume Superfund Site Treatment Facility at their July 28, 2022, meeting, contingent upon the City Council approving the resolution, which it did on August 1, 2022, through Resolution 23-016.
Widmer said, “Pascual is one of the unknown stars that showed devotion to our community in his position. He worked without being noticed by the public without much fanfare, and it was important to us to recognize his efforts and the exemplary service he brought to our city.”
LCU – Your Utility Connection. Customer Central can be reached at 575-541-2111 from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. LCU provides clean, safe, and reliable services to Las Cruces residents and businesses. Learn more at las-cruces.org/180/Utilities. For emergencies, call Dispatch at 575-526-0500.
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State-funded reproductive health clinic could face a worker shortage
Lujan Grisham pledges $10 million to opening a full-spectrum facility in southern NM that would include abortion services
This story was originally published by Source New Mexico.
The excitement following the governor’s promise to put $10 million toward a reproductive health clinic in southern New Mexico is peppered with the reality that there is a serious health care worker shortage in the state.
When Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the investment Wednesday in an executive order, she paraphrased a famous line from a baseball movie, “If we build it they will come.”
But New Mexico needs more than a field of dreams. Real health care workers will have to handle the influx of patients seeking reproductive care.
That sentiment was shared by people working on the front lines of reproductive health across the state who have reported an increase in patients as high as 150% since the Dobbs ruling in June when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal protections for abortions.
“Being understaffed for that but still trying to meet the need has been super exhausting for our staff,” said an abortion clinic employee who declined to be named out of safety concerns.
Lujan Grisham’s proposal is for the state to build the facility, but a contracted service provider would run day-to-day operations. She indicated it will likely be built in Las Cruces or somewhere in Doña Ana County. It could be run by someone from another state or from New Mexico.
The money would be part of the governor’s capital outlay priorities next year. There likely wouldn’t be much pushback from legislators in a Roundhouse that typically skews heavily Democrat.
But Lujan Grisham has to win re-election before she can commit money next year.
In a statement, her GOP opponent Mark Ronchetti denounced the investment and affirmed his stance that he would propose to ban abortion after 15 weeks.
In the meantime, medical professionals, advocates and abortion funds are still hustling to meet demand and are excited for the idea about a clinic opening in southern New Mexico.
“We’ve been saying very loud and clear that New Mexico has had abortion access in the past, but there have been gaps in the care that has been provided,” Luzhilda Campos policy co-director with Bold Futures, an organization that’s lately focused its work in southern New Mexico.
Campos wants to ensure community needs are met. For her that means cultural competency, language access and assistance for anyone who has to travel from rural areas.
“Living in the southern part of New Mexico, abortion care and reproductive health care is not as accessible as in other areas of our state. So just having the clinic there is huge,” Campos said. “Being able to have more, not just the abortion care, but a clinic that encompasses more than just abortion, a full spectrum of reproductive health care, is huge.”
Rep. Melanie Stansbury hosted a roundtable with people invested in providing abortion access in New Mexico. While it appears her district won’t receive money for the new clinic, she is adamant that staffing issues need to be addressed statewide.
“We have a shortage of providers. There’s major barriers, irrespective of what’s happening in policy and in the budget, just for individuals who need access to care,” she said. “New Mexico has a health care provider shortage overall. And one of the big challenges, especially in our rural areas, is that we don’t have access to a lot of health care clinics of any kind.”
Stansbury said one thing her office does to help overburdened health clinics is to make it easier for them to get reimbursements from federal programs like Medicaid and Medicare.
In the long term she said, “We really got to build a health care pipeline for New Mexico.”
The Doña Ana clinic will need to attract numerous specialists if it will uphold its commitment to providing full service care, such as contraception and checkups, family planning, prenatal care, labor and delivery, postpartum care and support, lactation counseling and support, abortion, and appropriate medical management of miscarriage and pregnancy loss.
Groups are already making their way south. The Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which was at the center of the Dobbs ruling, moved their clinic to Las Cruces as Mississippi’s trigger law took effect. Planned Parenthood is also planning to move resources to the area.
“The southern part of New Mexico has lacked access to the full spectrum of reproductive health care for generations. Directing money to help our southern New Mexico families is critical for patient care,” said Kayla Herring with Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains.
In her remarks, Lujan Grisham did note the need for continuous training and to build on partnerships such as with the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine at New Mexico State and the UNM School of Medicine. “To do residencies and clinical training for primary care and women’s specialists is critical,” she said.
Shaun Griswold is a reporter for Source New Mexico.
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HOUSTON — A woman was injured Friday after a structure above the entrance to Houston's Downtown Aquarium collapsed.
The Downtown Aquarium is located on Bagby Street near the Gulf Freeway.
The structure above the entrance fell on top of the woman as she was standing underneath, officials said. She was taken to the hospital in an unknown condition.
No other injuries were reported.
A forklift had to be brought to the establishment to scoop up the debris from the collapse.
The aquarium remained open for guests.
Landry's, Inc. executive vice president and general counsel Steve Scheinthal gave KHOU 11 the following statement:
“We are not exactly sure what happened at the Downtown Aquarium this evening, but are committed to fully investigating. We immediately reached out to the family of the impacted individual and are doing what we can to support them. We have cleaned the area and our development team is committed to understanding what happened. The Downtown Aquarium will reopen tomorrow.” | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/roof-collapse-downtown-aquarium-houston/285-177bd7a4-f06c-4393-b3b9-0df245aed5f4 | 2022-09-03T17:21:15 | 0 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/roof-collapse-downtown-aquarium-houston/285-177bd7a4-f06c-4393-b3b9-0df245aed5f4 |
Each week The Pantagraph profiles a different community member. Know someone we should talk to? Email roger.miller@lee.net.
Name: Jean M. Miller
Position: Dean of Illinois State University's Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
1. What is your role as dean?
I often say that I have the best job on campus. Being a fine arts dean, I am immersed in the business of the university, but I also work closely with colleagues and students in the School of Music, School of Theatre and Dance, Wonsook Kim School of Art, Creative Technology Program, University Galleries, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Design Streak, New Editions Workshop, and Big Red Marching Machine! Together we develop creative initiatives for our students and the community. This is my eighth year as dean at ISU, and each year brings unexpected opportunities and surprises.
2. What are some projects the college is working on?
We are working on the final plans for the $61.9 million Fine Arts Rehabilitation Project. For the past 18 months, the college’s leadership has been working closely with personnel from the State of Illinois Capital Development Board, Ratio Architects in Champaign, HGA in Minneapolis, and ISU’s facilities planning, design and construction architects and staff. I call us the dream team. This project involves five of the college’s buildings, so it is anticipated it will take two to three years until it is all completed. Over the summer, much of the college moved to temporary buildings across campus in preparation for the demolition and construction that will begin late next spring or early summer.
3. What does the college have planned for the community this year?
I am proud to announce that the Illinois Symphony Orchestra has moved its symphony concerts to Illinois State’s Center for the Performing Arts for the season. This is an opportunity for ISO and the college to work together to further develop performing arts opportunities for everyone, on and off campus. Both the college and ISO will benefit greatly from this partnership. The college will continue to offer over 300 performances, public lectures and exhibitions throughout the year. Each year, we try to take a fresh approach to our signature events, and this year is no exception.
4. Does the college have new academic programs?
Game design, audio and music production, and film and digital media are the college’s newest majors. All three programs are attracting large numbers of first-time-in-college and transfer students. Next year, we will be offering a major in VR/XR. Prospective and continuing students are already inquiring about it. Along with the music, theater, art and dance education programs, these new majors will link directly to career-ready opportunities.
5. Is there anything you would like to share about yourself?
My family still operates an excavating company in Minnesota we have had for 60 years. Living on a farm and being an integral part of a family-owned business taught me how to work hard to overcome obstacles, including cold winters and unpredictable rain and drought. Often, I think of how my upbringing influenced my decision to become a dean.
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Nebraska's first horse track casino is poised to open later this month in Lincoln.
The temporary WarHorse Casino set up in the horse racing simulcast building at the Lincoln Race Course will have 433 slot machines. It won't have table games, though, as officials say there isn't enough room.
Another thing it won't have is sports betting.
The gambling ballot measures that gained overwhelming support from Nebraska voters in November 2020 not only authorized casinos in the state, they also opened the door to betting on sporting events.
And when the state Legislature in spring 2021 established the framework for casino gambling in the state, the law included provisions for sports betting.
But while rules for casino gaming were finalized earlier this year, the rule-making process for sports betting hasn't even begun.
Tom Sage, director of the Nebraska Racing and Gaming Commission, said sports betting will go through a separate rule-making process before the commission, just like casino gaming did.
That means a public hearing and commission vote, followed by a review by the state Attorney General's office and approval by the governor's office.
Sage said proposed rules for sports betting have been created and the industry was allowed to analyze them and make comments and suggestions. Those comments have been addressed, and the rules are tentatively scheduled to go before the Racing and Gaming Commission for a public hearing on Oct. 21.
It took about five months for casino rules to be approved by the governor after the Racing and Gaming Commission voted on them in December, so if the process takes the same amount of time, that would mean sports betting rules could be in place by March or April of next year.
Sage declined to speculate on whether the timeline for approval will be the same, shorter or longer than it was for casino gambling.
The timeline means that at best, sports wagering will be available in Nebraska about 2 1/2 years after voters approved it.
Contrast that to Kansas, where sports betting began Thursday, just a few months after the state legislature approved it.
But Kansas had a couple of advantages over Nebraska. One, it already has casinos, so it didn't have to create new rules for gambling. Two, the Kansas law allows mobile sports betting.
The Nebraska Legislature chose to require that all sports betting occur in person at Nebraska casinos, which Sage said is "the biggest reason" that it's taken so long for sports betting to get going in Nebraska.
Because all betting must occur in person in a casino, there was no reason to craft rules for sports betting until there were casinos in the state, he said.
"We could have had sports wagering rules (already), but we would have had no place to have sports wagering," Sage said.
Whenever the rules for sports betting are approved, WarHorse will be ready to take bets.
"The moment that sports betting is approved in the state of Nebraska, we will offer it," said Lynne McNally, CEO of the Nebraska Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, which is partnering to open the WarHorse Casinos in Lincoln and Omaha.
McNally said sports betting will be added to the temporary casino in Lincoln once it becomes available. A temporary casino is not scheduled to open in Omaha until late in 2023, so it will likely have sports betting from the start.
It's not clear yet what the plans are at Fonner Park, which hopes to have a temporary casino open in Grand Island by Thanksgiving.
Sharon Haselhoff, a regional vice president with Elite Casino Resorts, Fonner's partner in the casino, said the company operates sports books at casinos in Iowa and Colorado and plans on having one in Grand Island "in accordance with the rule making by the commission."
"We are awaiting to see what the final rules will be for sports wagering," she said.
McNally said she appreciated Gov. Pete Ricketts' timely approval of the casino rules once they had been voted on by the commission and vetted by the attorney general.
"So I'm hoping the process goes as quickly for sports betting," she said.
Depending on the timing, it's likely it will be a new governor, either Republican Jim Pillen or Democrat Carol Blood, who makes that decision.
One thing that will need to be clarified through the rule-making process is what steps casinos will have to take to add sports betting once the rules are approved.
Sage said he believes it could be a simple process that involves an administrative approval by his office, or commission members could decide they want to approve each sports betting operation.
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The information potentially exposed included borrowers' names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and Social Security numbers, the Lincoln company said.
Economists from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Creighton University say the state has some advantages that could lessen the effects of a recession here.
The program led by Invest Nebraska includes the UNL College of Engineering, Northeast Community College, Metro Community College, Nebraska Innovation Studio, the Nebraska Manufacturing Extension Partnership and The Combine.
Legal sports betting got underway Thursday in Kansas, including a location at the Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway. The temporary Barstool Sportsbook consists of 30 sports betting kiosks and five betting windows with odds boards and 45 high-definition televisions. The casino plans on opening a permanent Barstool Sportsbook in the fall. | https://journalstar.com/business/local/will-there-be-sports-wagering-in-nebraska-anytime-soon-dont-bet-on-it/article_773ddf74-f434-501d-802e-64c003b31302.html | 2022-09-03T17:48:55 | 1 | https://journalstar.com/business/local/will-there-be-sports-wagering-in-nebraska-anytime-soon-dont-bet-on-it/article_773ddf74-f434-501d-802e-64c003b31302.html |
This will be a story without a complete ending.
At least not this week.
I would share if I could, but I’m as in the dark as you are.
Is this any way to tell a love story?
I’m doing the best I can.
So is Husband.
Which is where the love story part comes in.
I needed to head out of town this past weekend.
It was a work thing, an exciting project I will be telling you more about as the pieces come together.
As work trips go, it wasn’t the biggest, longest or furthest ever.
Husband is holding down the fort with Pup at our home on the remote tidal marsh.
I’ve shared before my long-held travel belief that it’s always easier to be the one who leaves, rather than the one who stays.
Of course, I think of him all the time. I’ve also been focused and busy in an unfamiliar city.
Meanwhile, I could tell Husband has been missing me.
I was surprised to discover just how much.
It was during a phone call home that he dropped the love bomb on me, speaking in our old people marsh love language.
“I’ve been missing you so much that I’ve gone ahead and done a chore you’ve wanted me to do for a long time.”
We are talking big time flirting here.
“I’m not going to tell you what it is,” he continued, “because I want you to be excited to come home and see what it is.”
As if I think of Husband as a chore slacker.
He is not.
As if I need a completed chore to make me want to come home.
I do not.
It’s the thought and creativity that has me smiling, Dear Reader.
My life has certainly not always been this sweet.
To have someone to come home to.
To have someone to share a love language, even a goofy one that involves chores rather than, say, jewelry.
And now, just like you, I’m wondering, what has he done?
This remote life means we both have endless lists of what we can get done.
I stayed up late putting together his new stand-up desk the night before I left.
I’m the official putter-together in this relationship when something arrives in a box.
I’m better at it.
More patient.
More likely to actually read the directions and not chuck an Allen wrench across the room in frustration.
My best guess is Husband put up hooks so that mops, brooms and other tools can live neatly on a wall downstairs instead of strewn about the extra outdoor bathroom.
I know, so hot, right?
We will see.
I’ll report back. Meanwhile I wish you a week where you’re lucky enough to have someone do something kind for you.
Just as great would be that you have the opportunity to do something nice for someone else.
Kindness.
Chores.
Hooks.
It’s what makes the world go round.
Daryn Kagan is the author of the book “Hope Possible: A Network News Anchor’s Thoughts On Losing Her Job, Finding Love, A New Career, And My Dog, Always My Dog.” Email her at Daryn@darynkagan.com.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration launched the three-digit 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline nationally on July 16, 2022.
The Fort Smith Police Department (FSPD) says they have been preparing for this and want citizens to know that it's now available in the River Valley for those in need.
FSPD says this program is yet another facet in their commitment to addressing the mental health needs of Fort Smith.
By dialing 988, a person in crisis is able to connect to a counselor trained in addressing their needs and getting them the appropriate care. This line is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and is confidential.
The program is able to collaborate with 911 dispatchers in Fort Smith to have teams such as the FSPD Crisis Intervention Unit or other local resources that can assist those who may be suicidal or in another state of crisis.
FSPD reminds the public that if you have a police, fire, or medical emergency, you dial 911. For an urgent mental health need, you can dial 988.
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WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A racetrack north of Wichita is still trying to recover from last weekend’s lightning storm. However, 81 Speedway, 7700 N. Broadway, says it has found a way to keep Saturday’s scheduled races on track.
Last Saturday night, after the races ended, a couple dozen people were still visiting at Tie-Rod Tavern at the track when the rain storm moved in. The garage door to the place was open, and the group saw the rain start coming down in sheets.
Then, one of the people said he felt his arm hairs stand up. That is when lightning hit. He said it was so close and so loud that it shook the structure, and he was afraid a lightning bolt had struck someone. As soon as they realized everyone was OK, they shut the garage door.
The lightning kept coming and hit some of the light poles at the track, knocking out lights and bringing wires down.
When it was over, the damage was significant — 21 of the 32 lamps on the front stretch side no longer work. Several of the lights on the infield are also out. The racetrack posted pictures of all the light poles, noting how many lights are out on each one.
81 Speedway says multiple electrical crews have been assessing the damage, and there is damage to the entire lighting system.
The track can have races this weekend because workers set up enough temporary lights. Click here to learn more about the track and to buy tickets. | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/lightning-hit-81-speedway-but-races-can-go-on/ | 2022-09-03T17:58:30 | 1 | https://www.ksn.com/news/local/lightning-hit-81-speedway-but-races-can-go-on/ |
A Fort Wayne mother is in jail today following a crash along an Indiana highway, east of Lynnville, state police said.
Justa Shinn is charged with possession of marijuana, driving while intoxicated and neglect of a dependent, a felony.
Officers believe the 33-year-old woman was driving west on Interstate 64 when her white Subaru Impreza went off the road, hitting trees before overturning and landing on its top about 6:30 p.m. Friday in Warrick County.
Police said Shinn and her two children were still inside the car wearing seatbelts when officers arrived. Emergency responders helped the kids from the wreckage, but their mother had to be extricated from the vehicle.
Officers found alcohol, marijuana gummies and two small bags of the drug inside the car.
The family was treated and released from a Boonville hospital and the Indiana Department of Child Services took Shinn's children into custody.
No further information was provided. | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/fort-wayne-mom-behind-bars-after-crash/article_26c2c152-2ba2-11ed-9aae-6fe49f9c2ea1.html | 2022-09-03T18:02:34 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/fort-wayne-mom-behind-bars-after-crash/article_26c2c152-2ba2-11ed-9aae-6fe49f9c2ea1.html |
A woman was sentenced Friday to 94 years in prison after being convicted of murdering one person and stabbing two others in Kosciusko County in 2020.
Vickie Louise Wooldridge, 45, of Nappanee, was found guilty by a jury in August of murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, criminal confinement and battery by means of a deadly weapon.
Matthew Alan Lucas, 42, of Warsaw, died from multiple stab wounds to the neck, face and chest after the violent incident on Dec. 15, 2020, which was reportedly followed by Wooldridge attacking his parents, Bill and Diane Burr.
Wooldridge was Lucas’ girlfriend, court records say. Bill Burr said he had yelled at Lucas to keep it down as the couple was arguing before the attack.
Lucas was pronounced dead at the scene, and Bill Burr was airlifted to Lutheran Hospital in Fort Wayne with stab wounds to the chest. Diane Burr also required medical attention for facial injuries, cuts to her hands and loss of teeth from the attack, court records say.
Kosciusko Circuit Court Judge Michael Reed sentenced Wooldridge to 94 years in the Indiana Department of Correction.
Bill Burr said in a letter that the family appreciates the legal teams for “bringing this case to justice.”
“I would ask that you keep all the families involved in your continued thoughts and prayers,” Bill Burr wrote.
Brad Voelz, Kosciusko County chief deputy prosecuting attorney, said in a statement that he thinks it’s important for the community to know about the Burr and Lucas families’ story.
“They have suffered tragic loss, but through it all, they never lost their faith or their strength,” he said. “I hope after receiving a measure of justice they can now move on to try to find a measure of peace. They are an inspiration to us all.” | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/homicides/nappanee-woman-sentenced-to-94-years-for-deadly-attack/article_3d881106-2afa-11ed-aae4-6b77d4299a8a.html | 2022-09-03T18:02:40 | 0 | https://www.journalgazette.net/local/police-fire/homicides/nappanee-woman-sentenced-to-94-years-for-deadly-attack/article_3d881106-2afa-11ed-aae4-6b77d4299a8a.html |
At least four men were hurt in a drive-by shooting in Brooklyn late Friday -- and the search is still on for the gunman responsible.
Police said the gunfire erupted in the borough's Greenpoint neighborhood around 8:30 p.m. along Russell Street. The bullets flew outside a motorcycle club, but it wasn't clear if any of the victims were bikers.
Four men wounded in the shooting were rushed to nearby hospitals. At least one of the men was shot in the head, another was hit in the back, officials said.
The ages of the victims range from 24 to 41.
Investigators were said to be looking for a white sedan. There's no word yet on any possible motive.
Copyright NBC New York | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-hurt-in-brooklyn-drive-by-shooting-outside-motorcycle-club-cops/3850435/ | 2022-09-03T18:06:11 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4-hurt-in-brooklyn-drive-by-shooting-outside-motorcycle-club-cops/3850435/ |
A 20-year-old man from New York City was arrested early Saturday in connection to a string of late-night groping incidents up and down the island of Manhattan, police said.
Damian Baeza Rendon was arrested around 3:45 a.m. on charges of sexual abuse and forcible touching, linked to three separate incidents stretching back to late June.
NYPD officials said the Manhattan man struck as recently as Aug. 20, around 2 a.m., in East Harlem. Rendon is accused of running up behind a 33-year-old as she was walking home and pulling up her dress. He tore her underwear and grabbed her pelvis before running off, police said.
Nearly one month earlier, police said Rendon groped another woman, 30, on July 31, also around 2 a.m. in the morning. In that instance, he's accused of stopping in front of the woman and grabbing her on Greene Street in Soho.
According to the department, the first known assault came back on June 28 around 11:45 p.m. Police said the man ran up from behind a 22-year-old victim in Yorkville, where he pulled down her blouse and placed his mouth on her breast. Then he ran off.
Police officials didn't provide specifics on what led to Rendon's arrest early Saturday. Attorney information for the 20-year-old was not immediately known. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/manhattan-groping-suspect-nabbed-after-summer-of-late-night-assaults/3850494/ | 2022-09-03T18:06:17 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/manhattan-groping-suspect-nabbed-after-summer-of-late-night-assaults/3850494/ |
The woman arrested early this week after allegedly running down a man sitting in a walker with her car outside a Queens deli, killing him, was indicted Thursday before a grand jury on murder charges, prosecutors announced.
Kiani Phoenix, 26, was arrested on Monday for charges she allegedly ran over a 59-year-old bystander following a brawl she got into with another woman at the Rohan Deli on Beach 20th Street in Far Rockaway before 7 a.m. last Saturday.
“The blatant disregard for human life allegedly displayed by the defendant is incomprehensible. An entire neighborhood continues to mourn the senseless loss of a community member because of these criminal actions," District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a statement Friday.
Prosecutors alleged Phoenix fled in her vehicle after striking the bystander, but not before hitting a second pedestrian in a wild escalation of the earlier fight -- all of which was caught on camera.
Video from inside the deli appeared to show the two women get into a shouting match before moving outside, where their fight escalated and another video angle captured fists flying on the crowded sidewalk in front of the store.
Punches were thrown and a wig was ripped off, but the violence didn't end when the two women separated. One of the women, who police believe to be Phoenix, climbed into a black Honda Accord parked along the sidewalk and backs the car a few feet, allegedly in an effort to jump the curb and hit the other woman, NYPD officials said.
Instead, the woman slammed into 59-year-old Milton Storch, who had been sitting on his walker outside the doors of the deli. He was thrown to the ground and his walker was heavily damaged. He was pronounced dead at St. John's Hospital. Another 37-year-old man had also been taken to the hospital for minor injuries to his back.
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Phoenix initially took off in the car before abandoning it and fleeing on foot, police said. She turned herself into police in Far Rockaway on Monday.
A lawyer representing Phoenix said the fight between her and the other woman stemmed from longstanding abuse by the latter's brother.
"A lot of this could have been avoided had the police made an arrest on the 10 complaints [Phoenix] made against [the brother]," Maryvn Kornberg, the defendant's lawyer, said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-indicted-in-nyc-brawl-outside-deli-that-killed-bystander-in-walker-faces-25-years/3850460/ | 2022-09-03T18:06:23 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/woman-indicted-in-nyc-brawl-outside-deli-that-killed-bystander-in-walker-faces-25-years/3850460/ |
Police in the city of Richmond and Chesterfield County are investigating two fatal shootings that occurred Friday night and Saturday morning.
Shortly before midnight, police responded to a report of random gunfire in the 700 block of East Gladstone Avenue in the residential Providence Park neighborhood of north Richmond. Officers found an adult female with a gunshot wound. Authorities pronounced her dead on the scene and did not release her name.
The medical examiner will determine the cause and manner of death, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call Detective J. Higgins at (804) 646-7570 or Crime Stoppers at (804) 780-1000.
In Chesterfield, police were called for a report of a subject found unresponsive and suffering from a gunshot wound in a vehicle in the 3300 block of old Courthouse Road. Police arrived at about 8:10 a.m. and found a victim deceased inside the vehicle.
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The 3300 block of Old Courthouse Road is near Rockwood Park and Hull Street Road. Police did not identify the victim.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Chesterfield County Police Department at (804) 748-1251 or Crime Solvers at (804) 748-0660. | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-investigate-fatal-shootings-in-richmonds-northside-chesterfield-county/article_a36e4a01-2a56-51d8-af96-482a929b08af.html | 2022-09-03T18:08:53 | 1 | https://richmond.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-investigate-fatal-shootings-in-richmonds-northside-chesterfield-county/article_a36e4a01-2a56-51d8-af96-482a929b08af.html |
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has nominated a new member to the board of visitors for Virginia Commonwealth University.
Anthony R. Bedell, corporate and government relations director for Florida-based law firm Becker and Poliakoff, joins the board immediately.
A resident of Ashburn, Bedell previously served on the board at Radford University and led it from 2015-16.
In 2008, he was the chairman of the budget committee for the Republican Party of Virginia. He also worked as deputy assistant secretary for congressional affairs for the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Bedell replaces Pamala El, who resigned from the VCU board and the VCU Health System board in July. In her resignation letter, she did not specify a reason for leaving.
"I'm humbled by the opportunity I had to contribute to important decisions this board of visitors has made during my tenure – especially those related to the hiring decisions of senior leaders, guidance on branding and marketing issues and the strategic vision for OneVCU," she wrote.
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"I will continue my financial support of the university and appreciate the opportunity I was given to serve."
A 1983 graduate of VCU, El was formerly the chief marketing officer of the NBA.
Bedell is the fourth new member of the 16-person board. Earlier this year, Youngkin nominated Ellen Fitzsimmons, Dale Jones and Clifton Peay. The governor also re-nominated Peter Farrell.
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VCU has named Aaron J. Hart its new vice president for student affairs. Hart, who starts at VCU on Oct. 25, is currently vice president for student affairs at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
He replaces Chuck Klink, who is taking a position at VCU to focus on student mental and physical health and wellness. | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/youngkin-names-northern-virginia-government-relations-director-to-vcu-board/article_59861c65-0971-50d6-951f-0bfd07599939.html | 2022-09-03T18:08:59 | 0 | https://richmond.com/news/local/education/youngkin-names-northern-virginia-government-relations-director-to-vcu-board/article_59861c65-0971-50d6-951f-0bfd07599939.html |
CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Applications for the Fall Cycle of Charleston’s Small Business Investment Grant are now available.
According to the City of Charleston, 17 small businesses in Charleston were awarded grants through this year’s summer cycle, totaling an amount of $152,800 awarded.
“Our Small Business Investment Grant Program helps our local businesses leverage funding to make facility improvements, further enhance marketing strategies, and strengthen their position in our Charleston community,” said Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin. “If you’re a small business owner or know someone who is, I encourage you to learn more about this grant program. If you review the application and find that you have questions, give us a call. We are here to help you.”
To apply for a Fall 2022 grant, business owners can visit the link at the top of the city webpage. Business can be awarded up to $10,000 per year through the grant program and recipients must match their award by 25%.
The city says examples of qualifying projects include broadband connectivity; marketing; advertising; demolition projects; constructing interior or exterior surfaces such as doors, windows, fences, stairs and ramps; or painting.
Applications for the fall cycle are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. Anyone with applications can contact 304-348-8174.
Since the grant program began, more than $800,000 in funding has been awarded to help small businesses get back on their feet and finish necessary projects.
The businesses that received funds during the Summer 2022 cycle include:
- Burns Exposure – $10,000
- Circle M Food Mart – $10,000
- El Fuego, LLC – $10,000
- Embros Realty Company – $10,000
- Fun Fitness Kids Club, LLC – $4,000
- Hair Station 1901 – $10,000
- Hairways – $7,650
- K Nicole Collection – $10,000
- Kinship Goods – $5,000
- Leasing Services – $10,000
- MCVD Properties, LLC – $7,253
- Mishoe Chiropractic – $10,000
- Phat Daddies – $10,000
- Pugh Furniture – $9,508
- Short Story Brewing – $10,000
- Tea Spoons – $10,000
- Zion Child Development $9,389 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-taking-fall-applications-for-small-business-grants/ | 2022-09-03T18:16:36 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/charleston-taking-fall-applications-for-small-business-grants/ |
ARIZONA, USA — The Grand Canyon National Park is re-implementing water conservation measures following a major pipeline break in the area.
Restrictions are in place for both the North and South rims, and park officials ask that all park residents and visitors reduce water usage wherever possible.
The pipeline breakage was discovered Saturday morning in the inner canyon near North Kaibab Trail and has led to diminished water supplies across the park.
At this time, there is no estimate of how many gallons of water have been spilled by this break.
A release from the National Park Service laid out the following mandatory water conservation measures:
- No watering lawns/plants
- No washing cars, boats, bikes, or any outside vehicle
- Run dishwashers or washing machines with only full loads (in eco mode if available)
- Utilize dry precleaning methods to scrape off food items before thoroughly washing dishes.
- Fill the sink with water while washing dishes to avoid running water
- Take shorter or less frequent showers
- Turn the water off while you shave or brush your teeth
- Use low water cleaning techniques and reduce toilet flushing to the minimum necessary
- Camper Services may implement limited hours for showers and laundry services
- Employee and concessionaire laundromats may implement limited hours
- Report drips, leaks, or other water loss to appropriate offices
- Remove outside hoses from spigots when not in use
Drinking water is turned off at inner canyon locations including: Mile-and-a-Half and Three-Mile rest houses, Cottonwood Campground and day use area, and Manzanita rest area.
Hikers in the area should plan to carry all water, or bring ways of treating water on the trail.
You can click here for the park's up-to-date information on water availability in the canyon.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — You know what they say, the most important meal of the day is breakfast. Whether that is true or not, is left to debate; however, what is not left for debate is that no good breakfast is complete without bacon (in my opinion).
Who doesn’t love bacon? It’s delicious and easy to make, and it goes well with everything: burgers, breakfast, sandwiches, you name it.
That’s why Saturday, Sept. 3, is International Bacon Day. If you are looking to celebrate the day with a healthy serving of bacon yourself, here are the best places to get bacon in Dallas according to Yelp:
- Maple Leaf Diner – North Dallas
- Ellen’s – West End
- The Original Pancake House – North Dallas
- AllGood Cafe – Deep Ellum
- Snooze, an A.M. Eatery – Oak Lawn
- Smithy – Lower Greenville
- Montes Burritos – North Dallas
- Yardbird Table & Bar – Uptown
- Bubba’s Cooks Country
- Maple Bacon Restaurant | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-bacon-in-dallas-for-international-bacon-day/ | 2022-09-03T18:18:03 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-bacon-in-dallas-for-international-bacon-day/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, there really is something for everyone in Dallas and to prove our point we’re celebrating National Welsh Rarebit Day.
What is National Welsh Rarebit Day? Here’s what NationalToday.com has to say about this interesting national holiday.
“The humble Welsh dish ‘rarebit’ is celebrated on National Welsh Rarebit Day on September 3. It is uncertain why this date was chosen, but what we are sure of is that this centuries-old dish doesn’t contain any rabbit. The term ‘rarebit’ is taken from the Welsh language, but it is just thickly-sliced bread with loads of decadent cheese sauce on top. Just thinking about the melted cheese sounds mouthwateringly good!”
So in the spirit of the holiday, we are looking at places that serve this Welsh treat, according to Yelp:
- From Across the Pong
- Dubliner
- Blackfriar Pub | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-welsh-rarebit-in-dallas-for-national-welsh-rarebit-day/ | 2022-09-03T18:18:09 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/best-places-to-get-welsh-rarebit-in-dallas-for-national-welsh-rarebit-day/ |
BLOOMINGTON — A draft version of the Metropolitan Long-Range Transportation Plan 2050 is available for public review and comment online or in person.
The plan is being developed by the McLean County Regional Planning Commission, working with area governments and agencies. The plan includes public feedback from a survey held earlier this year; priorities that guided the development of the plan; and a look at long-term needs and goals for transportation in the Bloomington-Normal area.
The document is available online at mcplan.org, as well as in person at the McLean County Regional Planning Commission office and both the Bloomington and Normal public libraries. The MCRPC office is in the Government Center at 115 E. Washington St., Bloomington, in Suite M103.
Comments can be provided in various ways, including online at mcplan.org, email to ghuss@mcplan.org, via phone at 309-828-4331 or by hard copy either dropped off or mailed to the MCRPC office at the address above. Comments can also be dropped off at the libraries.
5 key takeaways from the August jobs report
Inflationary pressure may subside
Friday's report from the government suggests that the Fed may find it a little easier to bring the economy in for a soft landing. Key to that daunting task is seeing hiring ease a bit — enough, anyway, to reduce the pressure on employers to raise pay. When they hand out raises, businesses typically increase prices for their customers to offset their higher labor costs, thereby feeding inflation.
Not only did August's job creation decelerate from July's breakneck pace — 526,000 added jobs — but the Labor Department also revised down its earlier estimate of the gains for June and July by a combined 107,000. In addition, average hourly pay rose just 0.3% last month from July, the lowest month-to-month gain since April.
"If the Fed were to design the (jobs) report, this is the kind of report they would have designed,'' said Megan Greene, chief economist at the Kroll Institute.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell has made it clear — notably at a hawkish speech last week in Jackson Hole, Wyoming — that the central bank expects to impose further large rate hikes to try to tame inflation. And he warned that the Fed's continued tightening of credit will cause pain for many households and businesses as it slows the economy and potentially lead to job losses. The Fed has raised its benchmark short-term interest rate four times this year, including by a hefty three-quarters of a percentage point in both June and July.
Investors are anxiously anticipating what the Fed will do when it next meets Sept. 20-21.
"The slower pace of payroll gains in August, together with a big rebound in the labor force, and the more modest increase in wages, would seem to favor a smaller (half-point) rate hike from the Fed,'' said Michael Pearce, senior U.S. economist at Capital Economics.
Still, Fed policymakers will be watching to see whether inflation decelerated last month. One major barometer will be the government's report on consumer prices for August, to be issued Sept. 13.
Is higher unemployment actually good news?
Normally, an uptick the joblessness would be sobering news, even cause for worry. Not now.
The unemployment rate rose last month to 3.7% from 3.5%, which had tied a 50-year low. But the increase in August was welcome: The number of Americans either working or looking for work surged by 786,000 in August, the biggest one-month jump since January. And their share of the population — the so-called labor force participation rate — rose to 62.4% last month, its highest level since March.
To be counted as unemployed, people have to be actively seeking a job. So when they stay on the sidelines, as many have since COVID-19 struck, their absence from the labor force means they don't show up as unemployed. And the jobless rate can look artificially low.
Last month, the number of Americans who told the Labor Department they had jobs rose by 442,000. And the number who said they were unemployed also rose, by 344,000. That suggests that many people who started looking for a job didn't find one right away.
"The labor participation rate went up, and I would love to see that number continue to climb even if that means a 3.7%, 3.8%, 3.9% unemployment rate,'' said Labor Secretary Marty Walsh. "You have potentially 11 million open jobs. Having more people entering the workforce is good for the economy.''
The idea is that the more Americans there are who are looking for work, the less pressure there is on employers to raise wages to attract applicants, increase prices and contribute to inflation.
Leisure and hospitality hiring slowed sharply
Last month's jobs gains were spread broadly across industries. Retailers added 44,000. Healthcare gained 48,000, including nearly 15,000 at hospitals.
Factories added 22,000 jobs despite a slowing global economy, a consumer shift away from manufactured goods and toward services like restaurant meals and a stronger dollar that makes U.S.-made goods pricier overseas.
But hiring in leisure and hospitality slowed sharply in August — to 31,000, including just 18,000 at bars and restaurants. Both gains were the weakest since December 2020.
Average hours worked slipped
The average workweek slipped slightly last month to 34.5 hours. Those figures haven't changed much this year even as employers have complained about a worker shortage.
So why aren't they assigning more hours to the workers they have on hand?
Labor Secretary Walsh suspects that employees, especially in high-paying occupations, are more conscious of striking a balance between their work and their personal lives and balk at putting in ever more hours on the job. Employers are wary, having seen "people quitting their jobs because their work-life balance was off,'' Walsh suggested.
An increase in employees working from home, or splitting time between home and the workplace, may also limit the number of hours worked.
In the leisure and hospitality business, which includes restaurants and hotels, average hours worked peaked in April 2021 and has fallen more or less steadily since then. Thomas Feltmate, senior economist at TD Economics, said the drop might reflect a "softening in consumer demand in recent months for discretionary recreational services.''
Black jobless rate rose
An increase in the unemployment rate of Black Americans last month couldn't be explained by an influx into the labor force.
The number of Black people working or looking for work fell by 51,000. And their labor participation rate dipped from 62% in July to 61.8% last month, the lowest point since December. The number of Black Americans reporting that they had jobs fell by 131,000 last month. And the number saying they were unemployed rose by 79,000.
The Black jobless rate rose from 6% in July to 6.4% in August, the highest level since February.
It isn't entirely clear what caused the uptick in Black unemployment, the second straight increase. The Labor Department's racial breakdown of employment numbers can be volatile from month to month. But the number of Black Americans in the labor force — and their participation rate — has now dropped for three straight months. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/regional-planning-commission-releases-draft-transportation-plan/article_7ddebb7c-2af7-11ed-bf19-578eba3d216e.html | 2022-09-03T18:21:33 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/regional-planning-commission-releases-draft-transportation-plan/article_7ddebb7c-2af7-11ed-bf19-578eba3d216e.html |
APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — A 28-year-old man was arrested on multiple charges after a 5-year-old child found a gun and shot themselves on Monday, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies say they received a call about the incident around 8 a.m. At the same time, Aston Simmons, 28, drove the child to St. Joseph's Hospital.
"When detectives arrived at the home on the 6000 block of Sunsail Place, in Apollo Beach, they smelled a strong odor of marijuana. No firearm or casing could be observed in plain view, so a court-authorized search warrant was obtained for the residence," the sheriff's office wrote in a statement.
The detectives determined the child found an unsecured and loaded gun in a bedroom and shot themselves.
Detectives also say multiple pounds of marijuana and money were seized from the home along with drug paraphernalia.
Aston Simmons is now facing multiple charges including, improper storage of a firearm and possession of marijuana with intent to sell.
“There is never a circumstance where a child should have access to a firearm. Now, due to the careless actions of this man, a 5-year-old child is fighting to survive. Please pray for him as he clings to life, and know that the irresponsible person that caused this devastation has been arrested and will be held accountable," said Sheriff Chad Chronister.
The 5-year-old is currently in critical condition and their name will not be released due to Marsy's law.
Simmons is not related to the 5-year-old child. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/aston-simmons-apollo-beach-child-shot/67-2eecb21e-e5b5-4bf1-8a09-6fb36801fbfd | 2022-09-03T18:24:58 | 1 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hillsboroughcounty/aston-simmons-apollo-beach-child-shot/67-2eecb21e-e5b5-4bf1-8a09-6fb36801fbfd |
WAVERLY -- Wartburg College music faculty will explore the art of listening during the college's first Keep on Learning community education series of 2022-23 beginning Thursday, Sept. 8.
Rebecca Nederhiser, conductor of the Wartburg Community Symphony; Karen Black, the Rudi Inselmann Endowed Professor in Organ; Lee Nelson, the Zahn Chair in Choral Conducting; and Jeff DeSeriere, interim director of bands, will explore a different genre of music each week.
Classes continue Sept. 15, 22 and 29 in the Heritage Room of Saemann Student Center. Coffee will be served at 9 a.m., followed by the class from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Parking is available near Saemann Student Center for those entering campus via Wartburg Boulevard.
Advance registration is not required. The first class of each session is free; a $40 fee due at the second class covers the rest of the sessions.
Other topics offered in the fall portion of the series will include "Cemeteries: Our 'Silent Cities'" by history professor Terry Lindell and "The Art of Storytelling" by retired educator Kris Meyer.
The Keep on Learning series is sponsored by Waverly Health Center. The Wartburg Alumni & Parent Engagement Office coordinates Keep on Learning with the assistance of a volunteer committee. For more information, call (319) 352-8491, email alumni@wartburg.edu or visit www.wartburg.edu/kol .
Photos: Wartburg's Zayren Terukina at NCAA Division III championships
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina gives a thumbs up to the student section after his loss against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina is introduced prior to his bout against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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Wartburg College's Zayren Terukina competes against University Of Mount Union's Jordin James during the championship round of the NCAA Division III Wrestling Championships at Alliant Energy Powerhouse in Cedar Rapids on Saturday.
CHRIS ZOELLER Courier Staff Photographer
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SOUTHLAKE, Texas — Parents in several Tarrant County school districts served legal notices telling the districts to take down "In God We Trust" signs that allegedly violate state law and replace them with ones that are compliant, including signs with rainbow designs and Arabic writing.
The parents sent cease-and-desist letters to school districts in Mansfield, Keller, Southlake and Grapevine-Colleyville.
Texas lawmakers passed a law last year requiring districts to hang privately donated "In God We Trust" signs in a prominent location in buildings.
Two weeks ago, a Christian, conservative cellphone company, Patriot Mobile, donated "In God We Trust" signs to the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake.
Carroll officials accepted the signs, citing the state law.
Last week, though, the district board rejected "In God We Trust" signs that were created by current and former students that were designed in rainbow colors to support LGBTQ students and in Arabic. The donors said the signs were created to make schools feel more inclusive.
"All of us are stakeholders in this community. In this state, we’re all taxpayers, we’re all voters and we’re all citizens so we wanted to be a part of this as well," Srivan Krishna, the donor, told WFAA last week. "I felt incredibly frustrated and disappointed."
"So, we support having as many of these signs as necessary to fully give representation to the students that attend our schools," said Laura Leeman, a GCISD parent.
But, these parents admit that their signs are a not-so-subtle attempt at political sarcasm. They don't want "In God We Trust" signs in these public schools at all.
"I would probably say our main goal is to highlight the ridculousness of the law the state legislature passed," said Laney Hawes, a Keller ISD parent. "We're fine with world religion courses and history courses. We're not interested in policies and laws that are based in single religion ideologies."
Carroll ISD board president Cam Bryan said they no obligation to accept these donations of signs because the district had already accepted signs.
“All 11 campuses, plus the admin building, now have the poster pursuant to SB 797," Bryan said. "The statute does not contemplate requiring the district to display more than one copy at a time. Instead the statue requires a durable poster or framed copy which limits displays to one poster or framed copy in an effort not to overwhelm schools with donations.”
The law does not state that schools must stop at one copy.
After continued criticism, the district released a statement the day after the meeting referencing a letter from the bill’s author, Sen. Bryan Hughes (R – Mineola).
The letter said that the signs must be in English, which the law does not specify. It also says that no other images may be on the signs beyond the US flag and Texas flag.
Law representatives for parents asking the rainbow and Arabic signs to be hung in districts said under Hughes’ reading, the Patriot Mobile signs violate the state law because they have more than one depiction of the state flag on them. The lawyers also said the Patriot Mobile signs include stars in the background, a violation of the law prohibiting "any other words or images."
Critics of the law have continued to argue it’s an effort to indoctrinate children with Christianity in public education. Carroll ISD, which declined the rainbow and Arabic sign donation, is facing five discrimination investigations from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights.
WFAA has reached out to each district that was served with a cease-and-desist letter. Only Grapevine-Colleyville replied, stating it had "received a letter and the district is evaluating its content."
Patriot Mobile officials boasted at CPAC, a convention for the right-wing conservatives, that the PAC connected to the company spent $500,000 to elect 11 conservatives on the boards of Carroll, Keller, Grapevine-Colleyville and Mansfield school districts.
The company buys its plans wholesale from carriers and then resales them to consumers at a marked-up, higher price. It then uses part of the profit to donate to Christian conservative causes. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/southlake-carroll-parents-file-cease-and-desist-over-in-god-we-trust-signs-saying-theyre-not-compliant-with-state-law/287-fb6bb2c6-720e-4312-ac7e-e46b88a37d1f | 2022-09-03T18:33:44 | 1 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/southlake-carroll-parents-file-cease-and-desist-over-in-god-we-trust-signs-saying-theyre-not-compliant-with-state-law/287-fb6bb2c6-720e-4312-ac7e-e46b88a37d1f |
Following the What is Medicare Secondary Payer article/Aug 20, 2022, we received more questions about options when turning 65. Below is an excellent outline of how this works.
The baby boomers are turning 65 with an average of 10,000 new Medicare beneficiaries daily starting in 2018. Additionally, we had more working adults past 65 than we have had since Medicare was created in 1965 but then came the Great Resignation, with some new Medicare beneficiaries moving from commercial to Medicare. Others kept their spouse’s commercial coverage and are covered by this plan. This means that 65+ year olds have options with their insurance. Let’s walk thru some choices while developing a spreadsheet to complete the below comparisons.
After turning 65:
Decision points and pertinent research to assist with the decisions.
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Working: Continue with your employer-sponsored insurance plan.
What is your monthly premium? What is your deductible and copayment for services? What do you pay for a drug benefit- generic drug options? What is your cap with out-of-pocket costs?
Discontinue your employer-sponsored plan and move to Traditional Medicare.
What would Traditional Medicare’s monthly premiums be? Part B/outpatient, Part D/drugs and optional, supplemental insurance to cover deductibles and copayment when services are used? What is the out-of-pocket cost without a supplement for Part A/inpatient hospital and all outpatient services/Part B when used? Your own personal health history plus historical utilization should be included to develop an estimate. How much would you pay for your prescription drugs – as this may be a significant difference depending on the medication? On MyMedicare.gov, there is a free booklet, “Medicare and You,’ with an excellent outline of services and resources that are included with Traditional Medicare.
Discontinue your employer-sponsored plan and move to Medicare Advantage/Part C.
The costs will be different than Traditional Medicare but there will still be Part B (covers doctor visits, outpatient hospitals and durable medical equipment) monthly premium with plan-specific Part D (prescription drug) monthly premiums included in the Part C monthly premium. Every Medicare Advantage plan has their own coverage packages and monthly premiums.
Note: If you decide to continue with your employer-sponsored plan, you can still add Medicare Part A at no cost to your employer sponsored plan. Medicare will become the ‘Secondary Payer’ as you are still working and have an employer sponsored plan with the employer insurance plan being primary. Once you retire, even if you have an employer retirement insurance benefit, Medicare will become primary.
Summary: Depending on your current employer-sponsored insurance plan’s monthly premiums, deductibles and co-payments -and your current health status – do a review of the Medicare options. Pay close attention to the drug benefit with the employer plan as all Medicare plans have ‘tiers’ for drug coverage – higher cost drugs usually can have significantly higher co-payments. There is also a yearly enrollment period after your initial/turning 65 period so you can re-assess what is best for you each year.
Do your “happy dance” as you are turning 65 and explore your insurance options! Yes!
Day Egusquiza is the president and founder of the Patient Financial Navigator Foundation Inc. — an Idaho-based family foundation. For more information, call 208-423-9036 or go to pfnfinc.com. Do you have a topic for Health Care Buzz? Please share at daylee1@mindspring.com. | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/health-care-buzz-turning-65-what-insurance-options-do-i-have/article_898c2f7a-2afe-11ed-be10-e32cf585b46f.html | 2022-09-03T18:35:59 | 0 | https://magicvalley.com/news/local/health-care-buzz-turning-65-what-insurance-options-do-i-have/article_898c2f7a-2afe-11ed-be10-e32cf585b46f.html |
Finward Bancorp, the parent company of Peoples Bank, is declaring a third-quarter dividend of 31 cents per share.
The Munster-based bank will pay the dividend on Oct. 5 to anyone who holds its stock as of Sept. 28. The bank's common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol FNWD.
Peoples Bank has 29 branches in Lake County, Porter County and the greater Chicagoland area.
The bank's board of directors announced the third-quarter dividend before reporting the bank's earnings for the three-month period that ran through the end of September.
Peoples Bank turned a profit of $4.4 million in the second quarter, up from $3.6 million in the first quarter, or $1.03 per share.
The financial institution now has $2 billion in assets, up from $1.59 billion in assets in the second quarter of last year. It made a profit of $6.6 million in the first half of 2022, increasing its core net income by $533,000 year-over-year because of organic loan growth, management of net interest margin and its acquisition of Royal Financial Bank in Chicago, which increased its interest-earning assets.
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Peoples Bank has grown its footprint in Chicago, south suburban Illinois and Lake County in recent years after a series of acquisitions of smaller community banks.
Founded in East Chicago in 1910 and long based out of Munster, the bank is one of the largest independent community banks left headquartered in Lake County. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/peoples-bank-declares-third-quarter-dividend/article_d56b6be6-41f9-5d41-8317-8a7bc9af2a0c.html | 2022-09-03T18:37:43 | 1 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/peoples-bank-declares-third-quarter-dividend/article_d56b6be6-41f9-5d41-8317-8a7bc9af2a0c.html |
GARY — Over two years ago, Gary, alongside thousands of American cities and towns, began to reexamine the cities' approach to policing.
Shortly after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd on May 25, 2020, Mayor Jerome Prince signed an executive order establishing the Police Reform Commission. In December 2021, the commission released a long list of recommendations, including the use of Tasers and body cameras. The commission also looked at how police interact with individuals experiencing mental health crises.
The Police Reform Commission's discussions led the Interfaith Action Network to develop a plan for a mobile mental health crisis response team, consisting of professionals who specialize in crisis intervention and social work.
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“Mental health is a national crisis, certainly a local one," Council President William Godwin, D-1st, said.
The Interfaith Action Network envisions a clinician-led model, where family members, teachers and anyone else who sees someone in crisis can call a special number and be referred to the mental health team. The unit would then respond to the crisis using their own vehicles.
Though the project has been in the works for months, a recent national change will help shape how the mobile mental health team actually operates.
In July, the U.S.' first three-digit mental health hotline was launched. Instead of using 911, callers can now dial 988 to be connected with a trained mental health counselor.
Becky Hanscom, of the Interfaith Action Network, said the state has agreed to integrate the mobile mental health team with the Lake County 988 number. One of the 988 call centers will be located in Gary, and dispatchers will refer callers to the mobile mental health team.
To help launch the project, the Interfaith Action Network is asking the Gary Common Council for $1.5 million of the city's $80.3 million in American Rescue Act funding. Hanscom said most of the money will go toward staffing, though the exact size of the team has not been determined.
The allocation was reviewed during a Monday night Ways and Means Committee meeting. Council members Cozey Weatherspoon, D-2nd, and Godwin both expressed support for the allocation.
Godwin said one of the priorities of the Police Reform Commission was "ensuring our policing had a mental health component or at least the ability to refer individuals who are suffering and are trying to live a holistic life but need resources beyond what police are able to provide.”
The current proposal lays out a partnership with Edgewater Health in Gary. Hanscom said the team would also partner with local rehabilitation centers and shelters.
Chris Carroll, chief clinical officer of Edgewater, said he spent 30 years working in mental health crisis response. Throughout his career he has learned that school systems utilize mental health response programs frequently.
Carrol said that mobile mental health programs typically operate 24/7 and that goal is to respond to all calls within 15 minutes and arrive at the scene of the incident within 45.
The ARPA funding would help cover initial equipment and salary costs for a pilot program. Once the pilot is complete, Hanscom said, there are a string of federal and state funding opportunities, and the new 988 program will bring even more money to mental health programs.
In addition to grants, Godwin said, over time the city could start to budget some money for the program.
The council will vote on the allocation during the Sept. 6 meeting.
"This has never been done before here in Gary, and we want to do this right," Hanscom said. “It will help our families, it will actually save lives." | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/gary-council-considers-funding-mental-health-crisis-response-program/article_ab3a7cba-4444-5323-a006-7e7287dff0e7.html | 2022-09-03T18:37:49 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/gary/gary-council-considers-funding-mental-health-crisis-response-program/article_ab3a7cba-4444-5323-a006-7e7287dff0e7.html |
While most teens in the community were enjoying one of the final weekends of their summer, around 40 teens came together last Saturday to help those less fortunate.
Spearheaded by Skyline Baptist Church, the teens from four churches came together too to work at the Devereaux Center and Coal Bank Village, a transitional housing center for the homeless.
At Coal Bank Village, which can house up to 20 homeless individuals at a time, Chad Frantz led the effort as the teens built a dining shelter, rails for the bathrooms to assist the handicapped and a shelter for the residents to hang out in.
At the Devereaux Center, the volunteers installed a fence, did landscaping and helped paint.
Frantz, the youth pastor at Skyline Baptist, said helping others is something his church and his teens care strongly about.
"We have a passion just to serve and be able to show the community that Christ cares about the community, whether you're doing good or struggling," Frantz said.
He said the goal Saturday was not only to help the community, but also to help the teens.
"The goal is the for the youth to have a servant's attitude," Frantz said. "They've been all cooped up and it's good to get out and serve."
Makaela Gonzales, a teen from Skyline, was assisting the effort to build the dining shelter. She said she enjoyed the opportunity to help others.
"I just like helping people, and I thought this was a good opportunity to give back to our community," Gonzales said.
Service has been a mission for Gonzales as well as Skyline Baptist, and as a result, she has learned a little about construction.
"I went on a mission trip to Mexico, and we helped build a house for people who didn't have one," Gonzales said.
In addition to Skyline Baptist, teens from First Baptist of North Bend, Hauser Community Church and Myrtle Point First Christian volunteered to help.
Josh Woodruff, the youth pastor at Myrtle Point First Christian, said any time the teens can help others it sends a powerful message.
"I wanted to get the guys some good service experience," he said. "We're not here just to build but to show the love of Jesus."
Brennan Jones came from Myrtle Point to help, and he said giving up a Saturday to help others was an easy choice.
"They said we could work and we were going to help people so I came out to help," Jones said.
An admitted math expert, Jones was instrumental in making sure the buildings were going up properly. In addition, he said, it would give him some experience he could use at home.
"I'm going to be building a shed, so this will help me with that," he said. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/teens-volunteer-to-help-devereaux-center-coalbank-village/article_f6c865b0-2971-11ed-867a-2353f1fce711.html | 2022-09-03T18:41:46 | 1 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/teens-volunteer-to-help-devereaux-center-coalbank-village/article_f6c865b0-2971-11ed-867a-2353f1fce711.html |
A Fort Worth fire truck was involved in a rollover accident on NW 28th Street early Saturday morning that injured four firefighters.
Just before 3:30 a.m., Engine 12 was responding to a house fire when it was involved in the accident on the north side of Fort Worth.
All 4 firefighters were transported to the hospital with minor injuries.
No other vehicles were involved.
"Our firefighters have been treated and released from the hospital. Thank you for your outpouring of support and prayers," Fort Worth Fire Department. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/4-fort-worth-firefighters-injured-in-rollover-accident/3063962/ | 2022-09-03T18:42:46 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/4-fort-worth-firefighters-injured-in-rollover-accident/3063962/ |
The tweet heard 'round Raiderland: How one dig rallied Texas Tech around cactus
Nearly two months after a Texas Christian University recruiting coordinator slighted the Texas Tech football program for trying to "build their brand in a desert," the dig has turned into part of the Texas Tech culture.
The insult came after the Matador Club announced a $25,000 per athlete Name, Image and Likeness deal for the entire football program. From there, Tech and its fans ran with the joke and incorporated the desert - specifically cactus - into its culture.
Texas Tech fans use cactus to turn TCU insult into prickly situation
Tech and fans immediately took to Twitter to show their support for the program in the desert:
From there, fans started putting the cactus emoji at the end of their Twitter handles to show support.
Texas Tech even took it a step further by sharing a recipe for pickled cactus, created by Executive Chef Dewey McMurray. According to the recipe, the cactus is "pickled in the tears of our enemies."
The City of Lubbock and Mayor Tray Payne also showed their support for the program, sharing messages embracing cacti.
T-shirts, hats and stickers featuring desert themes combined with Texas Tech logos and symbols started showing up around Lubbock.
Even artwork started showing up in local galleries, which led to the Museum of Texas Tech University creating a special gallery called "There is no I in Cactus."
"We really wanted to be able to help jump on the bandwagon and support Tech in another way because in the museum field, it's really hard to have a quick turnaround and to be able to just you know, be able to jump on the bandwagon, per see," said Taylor Ernst, art collection manager for the museum.
The gallery, housed in Gallery 4 in the museum at 3301 4th St., will feature 13 pieces of desert-themed artwork and will run until right after the TTU vs. TCU football game on Nov. 5.
Ernst said the 13 pieces from 10 artists were selected from local galleries that already had the pieces available. Ernst said it was a team effort within the museum to pull the gallery together.
"It's really (about) coming behind Tech and really supporting football program and really trying to gear up, of course, for the Centennial next year," Ernst said. | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/the-cultural-impact-one-tweet-had-on-texas-tech/65470657007/ | 2022-09-03T18:56:31 | 1 | https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/the-cultural-impact-one-tweet-had-on-texas-tech/65470657007/ |
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
A late summer heat wave is gripping Northern California on Labor Day weekend and the days beyond, with temperatures hovering around 110 degrees for some parts of the valley Sunday through Wednesday. Get your latest forecast from ABC10; find a map and list of open cooling centers in Sacramento County (Citrus Heights, Elk Grove, Folsom, Rancho Cordova), San Joaquin County (Lodi, Stockton, Tracy), Stanislaus County (Modesto, Turlock, Ceres), Placer County, Yolo County, and more; information on Flex Alerts, keeping your home cool, and more on the signs of heat-related illnesses.
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- Some areas such as Roseville, the city of Sacramento and Modesto would not be affected by possible rolling blackouts because they are not part of the California Independent System Operator's system. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/heat-wave-resources/103-193e71a1-5561-4ce8-87d0-0a881e257f43 | 2022-09-03T19:05:23 | 1 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/heat-wave-resources/103-193e71a1-5561-4ce8-87d0-0a881e257f43 |
GAZELLE, Calif. — The growing Mountain Fire in Siskiyou County has forced residents out of their homes near the community of Gazelle just as another raging wildfire miles away destroyed homes and left two injured overnight.
According to a Saturday morning update, the Mountain Fire is mapped at 3,395 acres with just 5% containment.
The cause of the inferno, which started Friday on Gazelle-Callahan Road east of Gazelle Mountain, is still under investigation, Cal Fire officials said.
An evacuation center has been set up at the Karuk Tribal Wellness Center at 1403 Kahtishraam Yreka, Ca 96097. Animals can be taken to Rescue Ranch, 2216 East Oberlin Road, Yreka, Ca 96097 or the Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds at 1712 Fairline Road, Yreka, Ca 96097.
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According to Cal Fire, the 2021 fire season started earlier than previous years, but also ended earlier, as well. January 2021 saw just under 1,200 acres burned from nearly 300 wildfires. Fires picked up in the summer when the Dixie Fire burned in five Northern California counties — Butte, Plumas, Shasta, Lassen and Tehama. The Dixie Fire started on July 13 and wasn't contained until Oct. 25, burning nearly 1 million acres. It has since become the second-largest wildfire in state history and the largest non-complex fire.
Overall, 2.5 million acres were burned in 2021 from 8,835 wildfires. Over 3,600 structures were destroyed and 3 people were killed.
If you live in a wildfire-prone zone, Cal Fire suggests creating a defensible space around your home. Defensible space is an area around a building in which vegetation and other debris are completely cleared. At least 100 feet is recommended.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Four firefighters were hospitalized Saturday morning after their fire engine rolled over in a crash while headed to a house fire, the Fort Worth Fire Department (FWFD) said.
The FWFD said Engine 12 was responding to a house fire just before 3:30 a.m. Saturday when it was involved in a rollover accident on NW 28th Street. There were not any other vehicles involved in the crash, according to the department. The firefighters went to the hospital with minor injuries.
The firefighters were treated for their injuries and released Saturday morning, according to the department.
"Thank you for your outpouring of support and prayers," the department said in a comment on the Facebook post.
More Texas headlines: | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-firetruck-rollover-crash-sept-3-2022/287-cbacdd1b-69ac-49ba-b793-901216db84c9 | 2022-09-03T19:09:38 | 0 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/fort-worth-firetruck-rollover-crash-sept-3-2022/287-cbacdd1b-69ac-49ba-b793-901216db84c9 |
The Houston Texans will host the Uvalde high school football team and wear "Uvalde Strong" decals on their helmets when they open the season Sept. 11 against Indianapolis.
A contingent from the team, including coach Lovie Smith and linebackers Christian Kirksey and Kamu Grugier-Hill, visited Uvalde on Thursday night and surprised the team with new uniforms provided by Nike during a team dinner.
"It was just special to see the smiles on their faces because we know this city was impacted drastically," Kirksey said in a television interview. "Being a leader and not just being a football player but being somebody that can be an extra shoulder to lean on, it definitely warmed something in my heart… (and) we're just going to be here with the city and let them know that we support them in every way and we're going to be here for them."
This is part of the team's continuing support for the community. The Texans donated $400,000 to the Robb Elementary School memorial fund after 19 children and two teachers were killed in a shooting there in May.
During the visit, the Texans also announced that they were joining with grocery store chain H-E-B to pay for the high school team to travel to the opener and take in the NFL game from a suite.
Kirksey and Grugier-Hill showed the team the decal on a Texans helmet during an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
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"You guys will be with us, and we'll be with you," Grugier-Hill told them while holding the helmet. "Words can't even describe or help anything you've been through, so we can only try to empathize (with) you guys and be there for you guys."
The visit continued Friday when team owners Cal and Hannah McNair joined members of the organization in town and the team hosted football camps and clinics for hundreds of children before attending Uvalde's home opener. | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texans-to-wear-uvalde-strong-decals-on-their-helmets-at-season-opener-against-indianapolis/3063972/ | 2022-09-03T19:12:51 | 0 | https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/texans-to-wear-uvalde-strong-decals-on-their-helmets-at-season-opener-against-indianapolis/3063972/ |
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP — The Atlantic County Utilities Authority’s household hazardous waste drop-off and normal Saturday operations at the solid waste facility on Delilah Road are expected to be significantly impacted by the Ironman 70.3 Atlantic City triathlon occurring on the same date.
Residents intending to visit the household hazardous waste drop-off are strongly encouraged to hold their material until the next drop-off event scheduled for Nov. 5, the ACUA said in a news release. If residents cannot wait and must access the facility, they are strongly discouraged from visiting the facility between 7:30 and 11 a.m. The hazardous waste drop-off will remain open until 1 p.m.
Haulers and others intending to visit the solid waste facility are encouraged to avoid the area between 7:30 and 11 a.m. Saturday. To accommodate for the delay, the facility will remain open until 3 p.m. for solid waste disposal only, the ACUA said.
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If you must access the facility during these hours, Egg Harbor Township police and race organizers advise that Doughty Road will provide the safest access to the facility. Drivers should expect long wait times and heavy delays.
For more information, call the ACUA at 609-272-6950.
In addition to Delilah Road, traffic during the triathlon is expected to be affected in Atlantic City, Ventnor, Egg Harbor Township and Absecon, according to Atlantic City police.
On the Atlantic City Expressway, Exits 1-5 will be closed from 3:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Drivers entering the city on the Black Horse Pike from West Atlantic City should plan to turn onto West End Avenue or take the toll road into Margate to avoid Albany Avenue. The expressway's Brigantine Connector will be closed, police said.
Delays and detours also are expected along Delilah Road, Westcoat Road, Fire Road and New Road from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m., police said. Mill Road, Fire Road, Westcoat Road and Ohio Avenue in Absecon should experience delays from 6 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/acua-operations-likely-to-be-affected-by-ironman-triathlon/article_b6c94192-2bb4-11ed-914f-f7d945592b06.html | 2022-09-03T19:31:16 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/acua-operations-likely-to-be-affected-by-ironman-triathlon/article_b6c94192-2bb4-11ed-914f-f7d945592b06.html |
At 24 years old, Malachi Timberlake is one of the state’s youngest high school football coaches.
Yet Timberlake was calm before he made his Pleasantville debut Friday night.
“I’m not nervous at all because of the work that we put in,” Timberlake said. “These boys have worked extremely hard. They did everything we asked them to. It was a new type of schedule, a new type of regiment. They were committed to all. I was just excited to see the fruits of their labor.”
The Greyhounds rewarded their new coach’s faith and snapped a 10-game losing streak with a 26-2 win over Penns Grove. Quarterback Samir Miller threw three touchdown passes and ran for a score. Senior wide receiver/defensive back Xander Roberts-Bogin caught a TD pass and also had an interception.
“It was a great feeling seeing the smiles and happiness of the kids,” Timberlake said Saturday morning. “You can see the confidence growing and them realizing they’re capable of winning more football games this season. It’s a different feeling when you come out on top.”
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The Greyhounds did not win a game last season. Friday's win was their first since they beat Atlantic City 18-14 on Nov. 20, 2020.
Timberlake took over the program last winter. He excelled at wide receiver/defensive back for Cedar Creek (class of 2016) and then played defensive back at Florida Tech. Timberlake was an assistant at Pleasantville in 2020 and at Cedar Creek last season.
In Penns Grove, Pleasantville faced a perennial power. The Red Devils (1-1) finished 6-5 and reached the South Jersey Group I semifinals last season. Penns Grove opened this season with a 48-14 win over Burlington City.
Miller overcame an early interception to spark the Greyhounds.
“Honestly, the interception motivated me,” Miller said. “I didn’t look at it as something to be mad about. Stuff happens. Once I threw (the interception), I had no choice but do better than I did on that play.”
On one of Miller’s TD throws, he connected with Roberts-Bogin on a fade route to the end zone corner for a 24-yard score. Roberts-Bogin made a leaping catch over a defender.
“That was the best play of the night,” Miller said.
Miller said Timberlake and the rest of the Greyhounds coaching staff has already made a big difference.
“They make sure we’re doing everything we need to,” Miller said. “It seems like (Timberlake) has been doing this for years.”
Pleasantville also got standout contributions from Dwayne Carter and Khalil Spoon, who both caught TD passes. Freshman linebacker Alchino Blakely made three tackles for losses.
“For a freshman who’s 14 years old,” Timberlake said, “he was pretty impressive.”
Junior linebacker Ah’Shod Hill also excelled for the Greyhounds.
“Penns Grove has a really well-respected program,” Timberlake said. “I told the team to stay level-headed and do our job and we’ll be fine. That’s exactly what they did.”
Pleasantville cannot rest on its laurels. The Greyhounds play at South Jersey power Salem (1-0) next Saturday. Salem won the South/Central Group I title last season and is ranked No. 5 in The Press Elite 11.
“We’re looking forward to the challenge,” Timberlake said. “They are a very talented football team. We’re going to prepare and take it one play at a time.”
Notes: Pleasantville senior quarterback/defensive back Marlon Leslie, a transfer from Mainland Regional, did not play Friday. Timberlake said the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association is reviewing Leslie’s transfer. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/pleasantville-gets-first-win-since-2020-in-coach-malachi-timberlakes-debut/article_8b291840-2bb5-11ed-a912-4b964ab2eb7d.html | 2022-09-03T19:31:22 | 0 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/sports/local/highschool/pleasantville-gets-first-win-since-2020-in-coach-malachi-timberlakes-debut/article_8b291840-2bb5-11ed-a912-4b964ab2eb7d.html |
Two people died in a two-vehicle collision in Limerick Township Friday night, authorities said.
Around 9:20 p.m., Limerick and Upper Providence police responded to the crash on the 1200 block of South Township Line Road between Linfield Trappe and Rittenhouse Roads, Limerick police said.
Two “heavily damaged” vehicles were found at the scene, police said.
Two trapped occupants in one vehicle sustained major injuries and were later pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A dog inside the vehicle was transported by police to an area veterinary hospital.
The driver of the other vehicle was taken via ambulance to a nearby hospital for non-life-threatening injuries. The driver is cooperating with the investigation, police said.
Township Line Road was closed for around 4.5 hours, police added.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the police department at (610) 495-7909. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/2-dead-in-montco-crash-police-say/3353369/ | 2022-09-03T19:37:14 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/2-dead-in-montco-crash-police-say/3353369/ |
The “City of Brotherly Love” may be a misnomer, according to one recent survey naming Philadelphia the rudest city in America.
Language-learning app Preply, which released the survey in August, found that Philadelphia residents rank the rudeness of the average local as a 6.43 out of ten, with Memphis, Tennessee (6.05) and New York City (6) trailing behind.
70% of respondents also agreed with the statement “people who live in or around cities are ruder than people who live in rural areas.”
“Americans typically stereotype Philadelphians as rude, but locals tend to attribute their behavior to a feeling of insularity in the city,” the site’s analysis reads. “Reluctant to incorporate outsiders, many residents have learned to keep to themselves while growing up in a busy city … residents born and raised in these cities have grown up accustomed to certain behaviors, which likely originated from the city’s culture itself.”
The survey polled over 1,500 residents in the 30 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., and consisted of responses about the rudeness level of their city. It also asked locals about common rude behaviors in their cities, such as being noisy in public, not acknowledging strangers and not letting people merge in traffic.
Philadelphia again topped the list of locals with the rudest behaviors, namely having residents most likely to talk on a speaker in public. But overall, Memphis, Tenn. took the cake in five other categories, including having residents most likely to not let people merge in traffic, watch videos in public, not respect personal space, be noisy in public and act rude towards service staff.
To view the full analysis, click here. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-tops-rudest-cities-in-u-s-list-survey-finds/3353346/ | 2022-09-03T19:37:20 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-tops-rudest-cities-in-u-s-list-survey-finds/3353346/ |
A self-serve bar and tasting room is set to open in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square neighborhood early next year, reports the Philadelphia Business Journal.
Tapster, a Chicago-born concept which has additional outposts in Seattle and another slated to open in Cleveland later this year, will launch its fifth location at 110-16 S. 16th St. in the first quarter of 2023. The company has signed a roughly 3,600-square-foot lease, taking over the spot formerly occupied by Philadelphia Runner.
Unlike traditional bars, the concept gives patrons direct access to a long row of drink taps where they can sample beers or pull an entire pint. Staffed with bartenders to answer questions and help guide patrons, Tapster also serves large-batch cocktails, kombucha, wine, cold brew coffee and craft cocktails.
Upon arriving at Tapster, patrons are given a card that is linked to their form of payment, which they then use on a tap. Guests are charged by the ounce, allowing for sampling or entire pints. Each ounce is priced differently depending on the beverage.
Check out PBJ.com's full article for why having non-alcoholic options available is important to the company’s co-founder, and what Tapster has in store for coworking locals and coffee lovers.
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Idaho Falls residents attend the city’s opening of its first splash pad on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. The splash pad replaces the pool at Reinhart Park, which closed in 2014.
The city of Idaho Falls is moving forward with its railroad crossing removal project, scheduling a removal after Labor Day weekend.
The next crossing that will be removed is on SouthCapital Avenue, near Idaho Falls Power and Idaho Falls Public Library, according to a Thursday news release. Part of the street will close at 7 a.m. Tuesday for construction and is expected to reopen by Wednesday evening.
In coordination with Eastern Idaho Railroad, the Idaho Falls Streets Division removed a railroad crossing on Aug. 30 on SouthUtah Avenue. City Public Information Officer Kerry Hammon earlier told the Post Register the City Council voted in June for an agreement with Idaho Transportation Department which provides funding for acquisition of Eastern Idaho Railroad right-of-way.
The agreement allows the city to remove and replace various railroad crossing roads in the city with no more than $465,000 of federal railroad and highway crossing project funds. The project is removing unused railroad tracks from Yellowstone Highway to just north of Broadway.
The release said tracks have also already been removed from Park Avenue and from the south side of the library. The railroad crossing on Shoup Avenue will be removed later this month and Idaho Falls Public Works also plans to remove tracks across Yellowstone Avenue near Cliff Street, but a date hasn’t been determined.
Motorists will be detoured to Yellowstone Highway until construction on Capital Avenue is completed. The release says motorists should reduce speeds, obey posted traffic control signage and watch for construction crews throughout the work zone.
Questions or concerns about this project can be directed to Idaho Falls Public Works at 208-612-8250.
Alaska Airlines upgrading jet for Seattle route
Starting Wednesday, Idaho Falls Regional Airport passengers flying to and from Seattle will travel in a larger and more spacious regional jet.
The flight is offered by Alaska Airlines, which launched the route in 2021 with a Bombardier Q400 turboprop. A city news release said the airline is transitioning to the Embraer 175, which offers 12 first class seats, 12 premium class seats and 52 main cabin seats.
“The success and reception of the Idaho Falls to Seattle route over the past year has been incredible,” said Idaho Falls Regional Airport Director Rick Cloutier in the release. “The E175 has been operated by multiple carriers at (Idaho Falls Regional Airport) and we have seen its success in providing a more enjoyable travel experience for passengers.”
Horizon Air, the regional airline that operates Alaska Airlines flights in Idaho Falls, announced it was beginning to transition all of its jets to a single fleet of E175 jets earlier this year.
“The E175 aircraft is extremely efficient and well suited for markets like Idaho Falls. Customers love flying in it and we think that’ll be the case for our guests in eastern Idaho,” said Horizon Air President Joe Sprague in the release.
The E175 jets provide passengers with more choices of legroom options and larger overhead bins, the release said. The jet flies at a maximum cruising altitude of 41,000 feet at 494 mph.
Alaska Airlines officials expect to add the E175 on route between Idaho Falls and Boise in 2023, according to the release.
Reinhart Park Splash Pad closing after Labor Day weekend
Reinhart Park Splash Pad is closing after Labor Day.
A Thursday city news release said the Parks and Recreation Department needs to conduct annual maintenance on the splash pad, which opened on May 31.
“We really appreciate everyone who made the first summer at Idaho Falls’ first splash pad such a success,” said Idaho Falls Parks and Recreation Director PJ Holm in the release. “While it would be so much fun to keep the splash pad open, proper maintenance is necessary to ensure the splash pad can be enjoyed for years to come.”
Residents still looking for aquatic activities within the city can use the Wes Deist Aquatic Center, which is open for year-round swimming.
The aquatic center reopened in June after a near $1.2 million renovation project to help better control humidity and moisture in the facility. | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/weekend-roundup-idaho-falls-continues-to-remove-railroad-crossings/article_8ca55dca-2af0-11ed-bb5d-3b0fe61c9151.html | 2022-09-03T19:48:19 | 0 | https://www.postregister.com/news/local/weekend-roundup-idaho-falls-continues-to-remove-railroad-crossings/article_8ca55dca-2af0-11ed-bb5d-3b0fe61c9151.html |
Two drivers were arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after separate accidents on the same stretch of Northeast Loop 410, including one that left a pedestrian dead.
The first incident occurred around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, when a woman was walking on the westbound highway ramp connecting Harry Wurzbach Road and the main lanes of Loop 410, according to a police report.
The driver of a 2019 white Dodge Journey struck the woman and drove off without stopping, police said.
A security guard at a nearby business saw the incident and called 911. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.
An officer later saw the SUV stopped at a parking lot in the 8100 block of Broadway.
The driver was arrested and booked into the Bexar County Jail on charges of DWI and failure to stop and render aid resulting in death.
Police did not identify either the driver or the victim.
While police were at the accident scene, a driver plowed through a line of traffic flares and struck a Texas Department of Transportation roadside assistance truck.
No one was injured, but the driver was found to be heavily intoxicated and was arrested on a charge of DWI, police said.
jbeltran@express-news.net | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Drunk-driver-kills-pedestrian-17417543.php | 2022-09-03T19:48:55 | 0 | https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Drunk-driver-kills-pedestrian-17417543.php |
Man killed after hit-and-run in Maryvale neighborhood
A pedestrian died after a hit-and-run Friday night in Phoenix.
Around 7 p.m., police were dispatched to West Indian School Road near 51st Avenue, about a crash involving a pedestrian and a vehicle, according to Phoenix Police Department. Officers found a male victim, later identified as 40-year-old Tommy Hinton, laying in the road, police said.
Hinton was taken to a local hospital in critical condition, where he later died from his injuries, according to police.
The suspected vehicle was seen fleeing northbound on 51st Avenue, police said. No description on the vehicle or driver was given.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Phoenix Police Department. Those looking to remain anonymous are asked to call Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS or 480-TESTIGO.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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Man hospitalized after being shot; Police investigating 2 separate shootings in north Phoenix
As of Friday night, police were investigating two separate shootings in northwest Phoenix that sent one man to the hospital.
According to police, one incident happened in the area of 43rd Avenue and Cactus Road when an unknown assailant shot at a man who was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The other incident, police said, occurred when an unknown man began firing at a father who was with his young child inside his vehicle at an apartment complex parking lot in the area of 7th Street and Bell Road. The suspect then fled, police added.
There was no description of the shooter in either case. Though police did not list a time for either shooting, both occurred within eight miles of each other.
Reach breaking news reporter Jose R. Gonzalez at jose.gonzalez@gannett.com or on Twitter @jrgzztx.
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BLOOMINGTON — The Bloomington Fire Department responded to a garage fire Saturday morning in southeast Bloomington.
Firefighters were dispatched at 9:34 a.m. to a house fire at 15 Prenzler Drive, where neighbors had reported smoke coming from the structure, according to a news release from BFD. The first crews arrived at 9:38 a.m., finding a two-story house with smoke and fire coming from the garage.
Firefighters began an interior attack, and as additional crews arrived, they quickly found the fire in the garage and extending into the attic space of the garage.
Two people and a dog were home at the time of the fire, according to BFD. They were all evaluated by EMS at the scene and did not need to go to the hospital, but they are displaced. No firefighters were injured.
The fire was brought under control at 9:55 a.m. and the scene was mostly cleared by 11:27 a.m., BFD said.
Most of the damage was contained to the garage and its contents, including two cars.
The cause of the fire is still unknown and is under investigation.
In its news release, BFD reminded residents to place smoke detectors in their garages and have a fire extinguisher on hand. They should check smoke alarms monthly and change batteries annually.
Photos: Emergency crews train on air disaster readiness at Bloomington airport | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/2-people-and-dog-displaced-after-bloomington-garage-fire/article_b0039e54-2bbc-11ed-bc0a-e3dad9a65af7.html | 2022-09-03T19:59:12 | 1 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/2-people-and-dog-displaced-after-bloomington-garage-fire/article_b0039e54-2bbc-11ed-bc0a-e3dad9a65af7.html |
(Stacker) — Seniors will comprise more than 20% of U.S. residents in 2030, up from 15% in 2020. By 2034, older adults will outnumber children, according to Census Bureau projections.
Across the U.S., 52 million Americans are 65 years or older, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, and a quarter of them live in just three states: California, Florida, and Texas. By comparison, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming, and Alaska each have fewer than 150,000 senior residents. The size of a state’s senior population means a lot in terms of demand for resources like health care, affordable housing, assisted living, in-home and nursing care, and support services, and the quality and availability of those resources help determine where seniors migrate.
With baby boomers moving into old age, fewer babies being born, and longer life expectancies, the senior population of America is on a spectacular rise. The lengthening of the U.S. life expectancy has been particularly dramatic, rising to nearly 79 years from 68 years in 1950.
Stacker compiled a list of counties with the most seniors in West Virginia using data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Counties are ranked by the highest percentage of residents 65 years or older according to 2020 5-year estimates.
Keep reading to find out which counties have the most seniors in West Virginia.
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#55. Monongalia County
– Population aged 65 or older: 12.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 16.3%
– Median age: 32.2 years old
— Median age of males: 31.2 years old
— Median age of females: 33.5 years old
– Total population: 106,196 people
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#54. Berkeley County
– Population aged 65 or older: 14.8%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 23.3%
– Median age: 38.9 years old
— Median age of males: 38.6 years old
— Median age of females: 39.2 years old
– Total population: 117,615 people
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#53. Jefferson County
– Population aged 65 or older: 16.2%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 22.2%
– Median age: 40.9 years old
— Median age of males: 40.1 years old
— Median age of females: 42 years old
– Total population: 56,922 people
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#52. Gilmer County
– Population aged 65 or older: 17%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 15.0%
– Median age: 39.9 years old
— Median age of males: 37.8 years old
— Median age of females: 41.8 years old
– Total population: 7,970 people
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#51. Putnam County
– Population aged 65 or older: 18.4%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 22.4%
– Median age: 42.2 years old
— Median age of males: 41.1 years old
— Median age of females: 43.6 years old
– Total population: 56,604 people
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#50. Cabell County
– Population aged 65 or older: 18.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.8%
– Median age: 39 years old
— Median age of males: 37 years old
— Median age of females: 40.5 years old
– Total population: 93,328 people
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#49. Pleasants County
– Population aged 65 or older: 18.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.7%
– Median age: 44 years old
— Median age of males: 40.9 years old
— Median age of females: 47.2 years old
– Total population: 7,457 people
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#48. Mingo County
– Population aged 65 or older: 18.9%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 22.2%
– Median age: 43.1 years old
— Median age of males: 42.1 years old
— Median age of females: 44.4 years old
– Total population: 23,808 people
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#47. Lincoln County
– Population aged 65 or older: 19.2%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 22.5%
– Median age: 43.1 years old
— Median age of males: 41.3 years old
— Median age of females: 43.8 years old
– Total population: 20,617 people
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#46. Harrison County
– Population aged 65 or older: 19.4%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 21.4%
– Median age: 42 years old
— Median age of males: 40.8 years old
— Median age of females: 43.5 years old
– Total population: 67,620 people
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#45. Marion County
– Population aged 65 or older: 19.6%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.0%
– Median age: 41 years old
— Median age of males: 39.7 years old
— Median age of females: 42.7 years old
– Total population: 56,233 people
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#44. Boone County
– Population aged 65 or older: 19.9%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 21.3%
– Median age: 44 years old
— Median age of males: 43.2 years old
— Median age of females: 45.1 years old
– Total population: 21,897 people
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#43. Preston County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 18.8%
– Median age: 43.3 years old
— Median age of males: 42.3 years old
— Median age of females: 44.9 years old
– Total population: 33,610 people
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#42. Wirt County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.9%
– Median age: 46.1 years old
— Median age of males: 43.8 years old
— Median age of females: 46.5 years old
– Total population: 5,764 people
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#41. Barbour County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.6%
– Median age: 42 years old
— Median age of males: 41.8 years old
— Median age of females: 42.1 years old
– Total population: 16,543 people
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#40. Logan County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.6%
– Median age: 43.9 years old
— Median age of males: 43.2 years old
— Median age of females: 45 years old
– Total population: 32,593 people
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#39. Taylor County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.0%
– Median age: 43.9 years old
— Median age of males: 42.6 years old
— Median age of females: 44.8 years old
– Total population: 16,817 people
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#38. Jackson County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.2%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 21.7%
– Median age: 43.5 years old
— Median age of males: 41 years old
— Median age of females: 45.9 years old
– Total population: 28,793 people
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#37. Wood County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.4%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 21.0%
– Median age: 43.8 years old
— Median age of males: 42.7 years old
— Median age of females: 44.9 years old
– Total population: 84,387 people
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#36. Upshur County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.5%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.1%
– Median age: 42 years old
— Median age of males: 41.2 years old
— Median age of females: 43 years old
– Total population: 24,451 people
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#35. Kanawha County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.5%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.0%
– Median age: 43.6 years old
— Median age of males: 41.8 years old
— Median age of females: 45.1 years old
– Total population: 181,014 people
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#34. Lewis County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.5%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 21.5%
– Median age: 44.3 years old
— Median age of males: 43.4 years old
— Median age of females: 45.4 years old
– Total population: 16,024 people
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#33. Clay County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.5%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 22.4%
– Median age: 44.4 years old
— Median age of males: 42.3 years old
— Median age of females: 45.6 years old
– Total population: 8,599 people
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#32. Raleigh County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.7%
– Median age: 42.3 years old
— Median age of males: 40.7 years old
— Median age of females: 44.3 years old
– Total population: 74,452 people
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#31. Mason County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.9%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.6%
– Median age: 44.4 years old
— Median age of males: 43.6 years old
— Median age of females: 45.2 years old
– Total population: 26,700 people
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#30. Wayne County
– Population aged 65 or older: 20.9%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.5%
– Median age: 44.5 years old
— Median age of males: 43.8 years old
— Median age of females: 45.2 years old
– Total population: 39,952 people
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#29. Fayette County
– Population aged 65 or older: 21.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.6%
– Median age: 44.5 years old
— Median age of males: 43.6 years old
— Median age of females: 45.6 years old
– Total population: 43,087 people
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#28. Doddridge County
– Population aged 65 or older: 21.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 15.6%
– Median age: 46 years old
— Median age of males: 42.1 years old
— Median age of females: 47.3 years old
– Total population: 8,499 people
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#27. McDowell County
– Population aged 65 or older: 21.5%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.5%
– Median age: 45.5 years old
— Median age of males: 42.8 years old
— Median age of females: 48.8 years old
– Total population: 18,083 people
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#26. Mineral County
– Population aged 65 or older: 21.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.9%
– Median age: 44.4 years old
— Median age of males: 41.5 years old
— Median age of females: 47.1 years old
– Total population: 27,047 people
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#25. Wyoming County
– Population aged 65 or older: 21.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.6%
– Median age: 45 years old
— Median age of males: 44.1 years old
— Median age of females: 46 years old
– Total population: 20,890 people
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#24. Roane County
– Population aged 65 or older: 21.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 21.5%
– Median age: 46.1 years old
— Median age of males: 45.1 years old
— Median age of females: 46.7 years old
– Total population: 13,831 people
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#23. Ohio County
– Population aged 65 or older: 21.8%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.2%
– Median age: 43.2 years old
— Median age of males: 41.5 years old
— Median age of females: 45.4 years old
– Total population: 41,875 people
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#22. Randolph County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.5%
– Median age: 43.8 years old
— Median age of males: 42.8 years old
— Median age of females: 46.1 years old
– Total population: 28,763 people
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#21. Mercer County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.5%
– Median age: 43.4 years old
— Median age of males: 41.9 years old
— Median age of females: 45.1 years old
– Total population: 59,370 people
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#20. Hardy County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.6%
– Median age: 45.4 years old
— Median age of males: 45.1 years old
— Median age of females: 46 years old
– Total population: 13,789 people
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#19. Marshall County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22.3%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.4%
– Median age: 46 years old
— Median age of males: 43.7 years old
— Median age of females: 47.5 years old
– Total population: 30,900 people
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#18. Tyler County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22.4%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.6%
– Median age: 47.9 years old
— Median age of males: 47.7 years old
— Median age of females: 48.1 years old
– Total population: 8,736 people
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#17. Nicholas County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.5%
– Median age: 45.3 years old
— Median age of males: 44.7 years old
— Median age of females: 45.7 years old
– Total population: 24,857 people
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#16. Hampshire County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 18.9%
– Median age: 47.6 years old
— Median age of males: 47.3 years old
— Median age of females: 47.9 years old
– Total population: 23,304 people
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#15. Braxton County
– Population aged 65 or older: 22.9%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.8%
– Median age: 46.4 years old
— Median age of males: 45.1 years old
— Median age of females: 46.6 years old
– Total population: 14,032 people
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#14. Greenbrier County
– Population aged 65 or older: 23.2%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.4%
– Median age: 45.9 years old
— Median age of males: 44.5 years old
— Median age of females: 47.3 years old
– Total population: 34,893 people
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#13. Hancock County
– Population aged 65 or older: 23.2%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 19.0%
– Median age: 47 years old
— Median age of males: 45.7 years old
— Median age of females: 48 years old
– Total population: 29,118 people
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#12. Ritchie County
– Population aged 65 or older: 23.3%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.2%
– Median age: 47.1 years old
— Median age of males: 46.4 years old
— Median age of females: 47.5 years old
– Total population: 9,747 people
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#11. Webster County
– Population aged 65 or older: 23.3%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.0%
– Median age: 47.4 years old
— Median age of males: 48.2 years old
— Median age of females: 46.9 years old
– Total population: 8,289 people
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#10. Morgan County
– Population aged 65 or older: 23.3%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 17.8%
– Median age: 48.5 years old
— Median age of males: 47.8 years old
— Median age of females: 48.8 years old
– Total population: 17,800 people
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#9. Brooke County
– Population aged 65 or older: 23.4%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 17.6%
– Median age: 46.2 years old
— Median age of males: 44.7 years old
— Median age of females: 47.7 years old
– Total population: 22,162 people
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#8. Wetzel County
– Population aged 65 or older: 23.6%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.3%
– Median age: 46.6 years old
— Median age of males: 45.9 years old
— Median age of females: 47.1 years old
– Total population: 15,291 people
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#7. Grant County
– Population aged 65 or older: 24.4%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 18.5%
– Median age: 46.7 years old
— Median age of males: 46.1 years old
— Median age of females: 46.9 years old
– Total population: 11,565 people
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#6. Calhoun County
– Population aged 65 or older: 24.5%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 18.6%
– Median age: 48.7 years old
— Median age of males: 49.3 years old
— Median age of females: 47.8 years old
– Total population: 7,185 people
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#5. Monroe County
– Population aged 65 or older: 24.7%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 20.1%
– Median age: 46.7 years old
— Median age of males: 44.7 years old
— Median age of females: 49.5 years old
– Total population: 13,344 people
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#4. Pocahontas County
– Population aged 65 or older: 25.6%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 17.3%
– Median age: 49.5 years old
— Median age of males: 49.5 years old
— Median age of females: 49.3 years old
– Total population: 8,382 people
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#3. Summers County
– Population aged 65 or older: 25.6%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 16.4%
– Median age: 49.6 years old
— Median age of males: 49.6 years old
— Median age of females: 49.6 years old
– Total population: 12,710 people
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#2. Tucker County
– Population aged 65 or older: 26.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 15.6%
– Median age: 49.8 years old
— Median age of males: 49.2 years old
— Median age of females: 50.9 years old
– Total population: 6,943 people
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#1. Pendleton County
– Population aged 65 or older: 28.1%
– Population aged 18 and younger: 17.1%
– Median age: 51.8 years old
— Median age of males: 51.5 years old
— Median age of females: 52.2 years old
– Total population: 6,968 people
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A new home stands on a purchased lot in the Golden Dawn Mobile Home Park, a 50-plus-year-old neighborhood in the Harris Ranch area of Boise, on Aug. 25. At 1,020-square-feet and $429,900, the home is considered affordable for the area.
A new home stands on a purchased lot in the Golden Dawn Mobile Home Park, a 50-plus-year-old neighborhood in the Harris Ranch area of Boise on Aug. 25. At 1,020-square-feet and $429,900, the home is considered affordable for the area.
A new home stands on a purchased lot in the Golden Dawn Mobile Home Park, a 50-plus-year-old neighborhood in the Harris Ranch area of Boise, on Aug. 25. At 1,020-square-feet and $429,900, the home is considered affordable for the area.
The cozy back yard of a new home on a purchased lot in the Golden Dawn Mobile Home Park, a 50-plus-year-old neighborhood in the Harris Ranch area of Boise on Aug. 25. At 1,020-square-feet and $429,900, the home is considered affordable for the area.
A new home stands on a purchased lot in the Golden Dawn Mobile Home Park, a 50-plus-year-old neighborhood in the Harris Ranch area of Boise, on Aug. 25. At 1,020-square-feet and $429,900, the home is considered affordable for the area.
A new home stands on a purchased lot in the Golden Dawn Mobile Home Park, a 50-plus-year-old neighborhood in the Harris Ranch area of Boise, on Aug. 25. At 1,020-square-feet and $429,900, the home is considered affordable for the area.
BOISE — Chris Sabala, manager and owner of Hornet Construction, is attempting to bring more relatively affordable housing to Harris Ranch — one of the most expensive places to live in the Treasure Valley.
Between Jan. 1 and Aug. 1 this year, the average new home closed for $1,472,750 in northeast Boise, said Matt Weston, manager and owner of Western Real Estate Services.
Sabala is selling the 1,020-square-foot home he built on South Durham Way for $429,900.
“This is more of an experiment for me,” Sabala said in an interview. “I’ve tried to acquire in there for years. And then this popped up and it was perfect because there was only a garage on it, the trailer had been removed.”
Sabala works with Weston, who finds land opportunities for Sabala to acquire, develop and build on. They are currently looking at two other properties in the Harris Ranch area. Sabala said one of them is a tax deed sale and the other burned down last month, making both properties unoccupied. Weston and Sabala specifically look for places that are on their way out rather than displacing mobile home owners, Weston said.
“What we’re trying to do is take this high-end area of northeast Boise, where the average new home sales $1.4 million, and then we’re trying to reinvest and redevelop a spot there that needs it, it helps the community and it’s such a smaller number at $430,000 than $1.4 million,” Weston said.
Sabala purchased a lot in the Golden Dawn Mobile Home Park, which is in the middle of the Harris Ranch development. The mobile home park has single- and double-wide mobile homes, and approximately half of the homes are rentals, said Clint Wheeler, who lives in the park.
He said half of the rentals are owned by corporations that “don’t give a hoot,” leaving weeds to grow and homes to fall into disrepair, which is why he and his wife Deb Wheeler are “thrilled” about Sabala’s recent build.
“It’s a big improvement to the neighborhood,” Deb Wheeler said. “This is a 50-plus-year-old mobile home park.”
But the process of building the new home was not easy. Sabala had a lot of cleanup to do, Clint Wheeler said. The previous owner on the lot had passed away, leaving an old garage and messy space. It took a while, but when the property finally went up for sale, Sabala immediately bought it.
“Chris did such a good job because he actually built a home that fit the neighborhood,” Deb Wheeler said. “There’s plenty of parking, there’s grass in the back, there’s a shed.”
The mobile home park has had two other homes, both of which are older, go up for sale, according to Sabala, and they’re each about $300,000.
“We’re old timers so we’re always shocked at the prices in this area and Harris Ranch, and all around here million dollar homes. $450,000 is certainly affordable in comparison,” Clint Wheeler said. “A new home in that price range is pretty hard to find, with that quality.”
Sabala’s home was built by two or three people, Clint Wheeler said.
This is the fourth stick-built house in the neighborhood, and the Wheelers said there are four empty lots that they’re hoping get a similar upgrade to the one Sabala built. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/builder-hopes-harris-ranch-experiment-provides-lower-cost-homes/article_ca775dca-23f6-11ed-8250-770edbbdd403.html | 2022-09-03T20:14:33 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/builder-hopes-harris-ranch-experiment-provides-lower-cost-homes/article_ca775dca-23f6-11ed-8250-770edbbdd403.html |
Meet our Mid-Valley: Saying goodbye after 50 years at the State Fair
This is part of a weekly series introducing readers to individuals who are passionate about our Mid-Valley community.
At 87, Oregon State Fair veteran George Julian is serving shaved ice for the last time.
George and his wife Donna have been doing concessions for the Oregon State Fair since 1972. They have moved around the fairgrounds, at some times working three or four concession stands, until they settled inside the horse stadium.
Before he became a fair favorite, George was a U.S. Marine. He began his service in 1952 and served in both Korea and Japan. After his service, he moved to Michigan and then settled in Oregon by chance.
"My cousin and I came out here (Oregon), and we were going to go to Alaska or to California," George said. "And we flipped a coin. Of course it went and ended up landing straight up. We said 'Oh, we're supposed to stay here.'"
George decided to start working at the fair after going to the Seattle World's Fair in 1962. He noticed people were selling food, some for just 25 cents. He decided he could do the same thing and that began his 50-year story.
In the past, JGeorge and his wife have served hot dogs, burgers and freshly baked pastries. As time went on and the fair grew bigger, they decided to go back to the basics and served shaved ice, popcorn and ice cream.
The couple has been married for 60 years, and always worked their concession booth together. Donna said the fair was definitely not her idea.
"This is George's passion, not so much mine," she said, laughing. "I help him because he needs the help."
As for George, he loves being able to come to the fair every year and interact with people, some of whom he has built relationships with over the past 50 years. One of his favorite things to do is a puppet show for the kids who come to his booth.
"Oh yeah, I love to do it. I always get a kick every time I meet people and show them how to do it and how easy it is for kids to do it," George said.
While he makes it fun, the work can be tiring. After they close down every night, they have about an hour's drive back home to their farm in Carlton. Then they have to wake up early in the morning, take the drive back to Salem and do it all over again.
"We get off here and go all the way home because we go feed the animals," George said. "Then we come back in the morning. So it's pretty hard driving."
Despite the challenges, it is bittersweet for George to be saying goodbye to the fair.
For health reasons, he decided this would be the last year he will work at the fair. His favorite part, interacting with people, will be the thing he misses the most when he closes down for good Monday.
"I enjoyed it," George said. "There's a lot of work but I have a good time doing it."
Dejania Oliver is the breaking news reporter for the Statesman Journal. Contact her at DAOliver@salem.gannett.com or follow her on Twitter @DejaniaO | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/george-julian-celebrates-50-years-working-at-the-oregon-state-fair/65470303007/ | 2022-09-03T20:26:20 | 0 | https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/03/george-julian-celebrates-50-years-working-at-the-oregon-state-fair/65470303007/ |
DALLAS — The Dallas Police Department is investigating after a local surgical center notified them of a "compromised" IV bag.
Baylor Scott & White Surgicare North Dallas, located on 12230 Coit Road, contacted the department after discovering an IV bag appeared to be "compromised."
It is unclear what the IV bag was compromised with or if there were multiple bags affected.
The center said it paused operations the same day it discovered the possible compromised IV bag. It's unclear if operations have resumed.
The police department said it was involved in an ongoing investigation but it could not comment further.
In June, Melanie Kaspar died of what was initially thought to be a heart attack at her home, according to a source familiar with the investigation.
Kaspar was an anesthesiologist who had worked at the surgery center earlier in the day, the source said. She was not feeling well and gave herself an IV at home that she’d gotten from the surgery center, the source said.
Recently, Dallas County Medical Examiner toxicology test results were completed and showed she died from toxic effects of bupivacaine, which is a drug used to numb an area during surgery or a medical procedure. Currently, the death is ruled accidental, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The source added that over the last few months, several other people have had unexplained reactions during or after surgery at that facility. One of those patients, according to the source, was an 18-year-old who went to the hospital for surgery last week.
That 18-year-old patient's lawyer, Bruce Steckler, told WFAA the patient suffered severe respiratory distress and was rushed to Medical City Heart and Spine Hospital, where he was intubated and placed on a ventilator. He was released five days later and is now in good condition, Steckler said.
"My client is cooperating with all law enforcement agencies. In addition, we are investigating the practices and procedures at the facility which led to my client likely receiving a tainted bag of IV fluid," Steckler said. "It’s extremely concerning that controlled substances were able to get into IV bags and raises concerns on the safety and storage of the bags, as well as the medication onsite at the surgery center. We are also concerned about the number of patients impacted prior to my client. Healthcare providers should be able to ascertain whether IV bags were used or contaminated prior to use. My clients are committed to ensuring that this does not happen again."
In their statement, Baylor Scott & White acknowledge one possible compromised IV bag. They told WFAA: “We are also contacting recent patients of the surgery center who may have questions, and we have created a dedicated phone line at 214-818-2794. There is nothing more important than the safety and well-being of our patients.”
If anyone has any additional information about the situation, or had any adverse reactions during surgery, WFAA would like you to email us at investigates@wfaa.com. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/dallas-texas-surgical-center-stops-operations-after-compromised-iv-bag-found/287-ceaf5be8-778b-4093-a712-ceb63ef57938 | 2022-09-03T20:40:58 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/dallas-texas-surgical-center-stops-operations-after-compromised-iv-bag-found/287-ceaf5be8-778b-4093-a712-ceb63ef57938 |
AUSTIN, Texas — According to a report from the The Dallas Morning News, Walmart is stepping down in its legal fight against a liquor store law in Texas.
Last summer, the retailer filed a lawsuit in Austin challenging a portion of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code stopping publicly traded retailers from owning liquor stores.
This reportedly marked the second time Walmart has met Texas in court. The company had originally sued in 2015, a battle it initially won three years later. However, the ruling was reversed in 2019.
The Dallas Morning News reported that Walmart isn't giving up on its efforts in Texas just yet, potentially looking into options to build spaces in its stories with separate entrances for liquor sales.
Currently, Walmart is allowed to sell liquor in more than two dozen states.
Read The Dallas Morning News' full report here.
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ARIZONA, USA — The Grand Canyon National Park is re-implementing water conservation measures following a major pipeline break in the area.
Restrictions are in place for both the North and South rims, and park officials ask that all park residents and visitors reduce water usage wherever possible.
The pipeline breakage was discovered Saturday morning in the inner canyon near North Kaibab Trail and has led to diminished water supplies across the park.
At this time, there is no estimate of how many gallons of water have been spilled by this break.
A release from the National Park Service laid out the following mandatory water conservation measures:
- No watering lawns/plants
- No washing cars, boats, bikes, or any outside vehicle
- Run dishwashers or washing machines with only full loads (in eco mode if available)
- Utilize dry precleaning methods to scrape off food items before thoroughly washing dishes.
- Fill the sink with water while washing dishes to avoid running water
- Take shorter or less frequent showers
- Turn the water off while you shave or brush your teeth
- Use low water cleaning techniques and reduce toilet flushing to the minimum necessary
- Camper Services may implement limited hours for showers and laundry services
- Employee and concessionaire laundromats may implement limited hours
- Report drips, leaks, or other water loss to appropriate offices
- Remove outside hoses from spigots when not in use
Drinking water is turned off at inner canyon locations including: Mile-and-a-Half and Three-Mile rest houses, Cottonwood Campground and day use area, and Manzanita rest area.
Hikers in the area should plan to carry all water, or bring ways of treating water on the trail.
You can click here for the park's up-to-date information on water availability in the canyon.
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EAGLE PASS, Texas — Officials on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border searched for more victims Saturday after at least nine migrants died while trying to cross the rain-swollen Rio Grande river, a dangerous border-crossing attempt in an area where the water level had risen by more than 2 feet in a single day.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Mexican officials discovered the victims near Eagle Pass, Texas, on Thursday, following days of heavy rains. U.S. officials recovered six bodies, while Mexican teams recovered three, according to a CBP statement. It is one of the deadliest drownings on the U.S.-Mexico border in recent history.
The river, which was a little more than 3 feet deep at the start of the week, reached more than 5 feet on Thursday, and the water was flowing five times faster than usual, according to the National Weather Service.
“There was much more water in the river after that rain, and there was more rain upstream, which adds to the flow," said NWS meteorologist Bob Fogarty.
The CBP said U.S. crews rescued 37 others from the river and detained 16 more, while Mexican officials took 39 migrants into custody.
CBP did not say what country or countries the migrants were from and did not provide any additional information on rescue and search operations. Local agencies in Texas that were involved have not responded to requests for information.
The Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, is fast becoming the busiest corridor for illegal crossings. Agents stopped migrants nearly 50,000 times in the sector in July, with Rio Grande Valley a distant second at about 35,000. Eagle Pass is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of San Antonio.
The area draws migrants from dozens of countries, many of them families with young children. About six of 10 stops in the Del Rio sector in July were migrants from Venezuela, Cuba or Nicaragua.
The sector, which extends 245 miles (395 kilometers) along the Río Grande, has been especially dangerous because river currents can be deceptively fast and change quickly. Crossing the river can be challenging even for strong swimmers.
In a news release last month, CBP said it had discovered bodies of more than 200 dead migrants in the sector from October through July.
This year is on track to break last year’s record for the most deaths on the U.S.-Mexico border since 2014, when the U.N. International Organization for Migration began keeping track. The organization has tallied more than 4,000 deaths on the border since 2014, based on news reports and other sources, including 728 last year and 412 during the first seven months of this year, often from dehydration or drowning. June was the fourth-deadliest month on record, with 138 fatalities.
The Border Patrol has not released official tallies since 2020.
In June, 53 migrants were found dead or dying in a tractor-trailer on a back road in San Antonio in the deadliest documented tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
Some of the busiest crossings on the border — including Eagle Pass and Yuma, Arizona — were relatively quiet two years ago and now largely draw migrants from outside Mexico and Central America’s ‘Northern Triangle’ countries of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Mexico has agreed to take migrants from the ‘Northern Triangle’ countries, as well as its own nationals, if they are expelled from the United States under Title 42, the pandemic rule in effect since March 2020 that denies rights to seek asylum on grounds of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
People from other countries are likely to be released into the United States on humanitarian parole or with notices to appear in immigration court because the U.S. has difficulty flying them home due to costs, strained diplomatic relations or other considerations. In the Border Patrol’s Del Rio sector, which includes Eagle Pass, only one of every four stops in July were processed under the pandemic rule, compared to about half across the rest of the border, according to government figures.
Venezuelans were by far the most common nationality encountered by Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio sector in July, accounting for 14,120 of 49,563 stops, or nearly three in 10. They were followed by Cubans, who were stopped 10,275 times, and then by Mexicans, Hondurans, Nicaraguans and Colombians, in that order.
As more people crossed into South Texas in the 2010s, Brooks County became a death trap for many migrants who tried walking around a Border Patrol highway checkpoint in the town of Falfurrias, about 70 miles (110 kilometers) north of the border. Smugglers dropped them off before the checkpoint and made arrangements to pick them up on the other side, but some perished on the way from dehydration.
The Baboquivari Mountains in Arizona and ranches in Texas’ Brooks County still draw Border Patrol agents and grief-stricken families hoping to rescue migrants or, if not, find corpses, but the deceptively strong currents around the Texas towns of Eagle Pass and Del Rio have become increasingly dangerous as the area has become one of the most popular spots to enter the United States illegally.
Not all victims are migrants. In April this year, the body of a Texas guardsman was recovered from the Rio Grande. He had jumped in to try to help a migrant who was struggling in the water. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/rio-grande-border-crossing-migrants-dead/285-0612f706-a828-4f76-ac75-3bc4155e4037 | 2022-09-03T20:53:03 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/rio-grande-border-crossing-migrants-dead/285-0612f706-a828-4f76-ac75-3bc4155e4037 |
The Northwest Indiana Influential Women Association, a group dedicated to the professional advancement of women in the Region, will soon give out its annual awards recognizing leading women in business in Northwest Indiana.
The 11th annual Influential Women Awards Banquet will take place at the Avalon Manor in Hobart on Sept. 29. Winners will be named from a group of 120 finalists before an anticipated crowd of nearly 800 attendees.
More than 250 people were nominated this year from leading companies and organizations from across the Calumet Region.
“Selecting the 2022 group of winners was a real challenge for our selection committee members because there were so many impressive applications that were submitted this year. Women are truly redefining what it means to live and work in Northwest Indiana, and we’ve been observing quite a number of very inspiring people thrive throughout our region and affect real change,” said Erica Dombey, the NWIIWA board chairwoman.
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Two award recipients — one Up and Coming winner and one Influential Woman winner — will be named in each of 12 categories. Honors also will be conferred for leadership and individual support.
Influential Women alumni evaluated nominations made by peers and members of the public. Award recipients include corporate leaders, hospital officials, nonprofit heads, government leaders, educators and caregivers.
“We’re also very excited to induct the 2021 winners into our Influential Women alumni,” Dombey said. “At each awards banquet, our winners from the previous year are celebrated and welcomed into our list of alumni — which is a true and lasting testament to their continued impact.”
For more information, visit nwiiwa.org/influential-women-award-finalists. | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/influential-women-awards-winners-to-be-named/article_4834b2da-a6e0-5bf4-aaee-c82ec2861aa2.html | 2022-09-03T20:54:08 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/influential-women-awards-winners-to-be-named/article_4834b2da-a6e0-5bf4-aaee-c82ec2861aa2.html |
Tom Krejci, of Gary, and his grandson, Brennan McIntosh, 6, examine a 1983 Mustang on Friday during the 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival in downtown Griffith. The local firefighters association sponsored the car show.
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Ed Downs, of Gino's Banquets by Ace Catering in Hobart, grills shish kebabs and sausage Friday during the 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival in downtown Griffith.
GRIFFITH — According to Town Council President Rick Ryfa, R-3rd, Griffith has been described as a “town that came to the tracks.” So it only made sense to name a local festival after the community’s rail history.
And if you have tribute bands and offer plenty of locally prepared food, that’s an added bonus.
The 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival has been filling Broad Street with music, food, various other vendors and even classic cars.
“We have lots of vendors,” said Ryfa, who with Michelle Velez, events coordinator for the town, co-chairs the festival. The fest concludes Sunday, running from 1 p.m. to midnight.
Ryfa said the idea behind the festival was to “change the image of the town and bring awareness to the downtown.”
At the time of the first festival in 2009, Ryfa said, about half of the downtown commercial properties were vacant.
The festival started as a one-day event in August, he said, then was expanded to four days over the Labor Day weekend to coincide with the downtown revitalization the town was spearheading.
That work included new roads, sidewalks and pavers, Ryfa said, again with the intention of changing the town’s downtown image.
“The festival has grown as the town has grown,” he said. “We’ve seen [festival] numbers grow by three times in the past four years. We get about 50 vendors.”
The festival includes special events, including a classic car show taking up several street blocks. Griffith Firefighters Association sponsored the one-day car show Friday as a benefit.
A major attraction, Ryfa said, includes the tribute bands and performers. Musicians coming from around the country and Canada do tributes to the likes of John Mellencamp, Fleetwood Mac, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Bob Seger, Elton John, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.
“We try to find the bands that are the best in the nation, or come close,” Ryfa said. “Our Johnny Cash tribute may be the best around.”
Sunday’s lineup includes tributes to Johnny Cash, the big band era and Abba, along with gospel music. Entertainment begins at 2 p.m.
Looking at the festival’s popularity overall, Ryfa noted, “from what I hear, people love the music, the food and the very safe environment.”
Ryfa praised local law enforcement and volunteer security personnel for maintaining a safe atmosphere.
About that food, Ed Downs, a partner with Gino's Banquets by Ace Catering, said his company sells 10,000-12,000 pounds of meat annually at the festival, including 1,200 pounds projected for Rock ‘N’ Rail. That includes shish kebabs and Polish sausage.
As to the name Rock ‘N’ Rail, Ryfa traced the town’s railroad history. Like other communities, Griffith remained connected through railroad tracks. According to its history, the town rode the rails of 19th-century expansion.
Even the town’s name reflects the rail industry, taken from E.P. Griffith, a surveyor for Grand Trunk Railroad, whose line was completed in 1879.
Once dubbed “Chicago’s best factory suburb,” Griffith drew its share of rail business. These included Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway, Chesapeake and Ohio, Eric and Kalamazoo and Michigan Southern.
According to local historians, railroads brought people and progress to this small farming community, incorporated as a town Nov. 19, 1904.
Many of the Rock ‘N’ Rail vendors have come and gone, but Sweet and Savory Delights, of Crown Point, participated in that first festival and has never left. Its owner has deep roots in the community.
Randy Szafarczyk grew up in Griffith, graduating from St. Mary School and Griffith High School. His father, Ron Szafarczyk, is a former town clerk treasurer.
Szafarczyk, who owns the business with his wife, Maria, said the festival has grown because of the local appeal, including plenty of food.
“It’s a lot of fun,” Szafarczyk said, “and each day it gets bigger.”
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Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Valparaiso police Sg.t Joe Cowser and a K-9 give a demonstration during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday.
Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Walter Bryant, 5, of Valparaiso, tries out the firefighters hose with MAAC trainee David Brasher-Harding, of Hobart, during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday at the Multi Agency Academic Cooperative taining facility in Valparaiso.
Steel poles are supporting the Bailly Homestead house for now. Once the building is fully restored, the National Park Service plans to seek a private vendor to reuse the building for lodging or another use.
Casey Parker from the College of Business looks on as Arianna Peterson spins the wheel for some Purdue swag at the Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally on Thursday.
Doug Drummond, of Crown Point, waits for the start of the Hometown Heroes Charity Motorcycle Run near Bulldog Park in Crown Point Sunday morning. Over 70 riders participated riding from Crown Point to Hebron and Lowell supporting Crown Point EMA.
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Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Valparaiso police Sg.t Joe Cowser and a K-9 give a demonstration during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday.
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Public gets glimpse at work of emergency responders at MAAC event
Walter Bryant, 5, of Valparaiso, tries out the firefighters hose with MAAC trainee David Brasher-Harding, of Hobart, during the First Responder Appreciation and Demonstration Day on Saturday at the Multi Agency Academic Cooperative taining facility in Valparaiso.
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Historic Dunes buildings are being restored
Todd Ravesloot, chief of facilities at Indiana Dunes National Park, stands on the front porch of the house at Bailly Homestead.
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Historic Dunes buildings are being restored
Steel poles are supporting the Bailly Homestead house for now. Once the building is fully restored, the National Park Service plans to seek a private vendor to reuse the building for lodging or another use.
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Valparaiso head coach Bill Marshall watches the Vikings defense against Hammond Central in the second quarter Friday evening.
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Valparaiso’s Sammy Ampeliotis (32) intercepts a pass intended for Hammond Central’s Dashawn Woods (3) in the second quarter Friday evening.
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Hammond Central’s Jordan Woods (1) is caught by Valparaiso’s Tyres Morris (15) in the first quarter Friday evening.
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Crown Point at Andrean football
Crown Point's J.J. Johnson hands the ball to the referee following his touchdown.
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Merrillville at Hobart football
Hobart's Trey Gibson, far left, reaches forward as he's tackled on Friday in Hobart.
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Merrillville at Hobart football
Hobart's Noah Ehrlich, left, aims for open teammate Jaelen Williams on Friday in Hobart.
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Hobart's Nathan Queer reacts after the Brickies recovered a Merrillville fumble on Friday in Hobart.
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Hobart fans rally as Merrillville prepares to receive the kickoff on Friday in Hobart.
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Crown Point at Andrean football
Crown Point's Micah Jones and JJ Johnson celebrate Johnson's touchdown.
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Senior Izzy Gomez poses with school mascot Leo at the Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally Thursday.
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Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally
Casey Parker from the College of Business looks on as Arianna Peterson spins the wheel for some Purdue swag at the Purdue Northwest Welcome Rally on Thursday.
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Groundbreaking for the Silos at Sanders Farm industrial development
Ground has been broken for The Silos at Sanders Farm industrial complex in Merrillville.
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Taking advantage of the weather
With summer winding down, a couple row their kayaks on Cedar Lake Monday afternoon.
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Relaxing on Cedar Lake
Tommy Westbury take a photo of his wife, Jessica, and a carp that she caught at Cedar Lake.
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Doug Drummond, of Crown Point, waits for the start of the Hometown Heroes Charity Motorcycle Run near Bulldog Park in Crown Point Sunday morning. Over 70 riders participated riding from Crown Point to Hebron and Lowell supporting Crown Point EMA.
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Riders head to their motorcycles for the start of the Hometown Heroes Charity Motorcycle Run at Bulldog Park in Crown Point Sunday morning.
The group Little Giant performs a tribute to The Doors on Friday at the 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival in downtown Griffith. The four-day festival concludes Sunday with more tribute bands.
Jonathan Sabo, of Sweet and Savory Delights in Crown Point, places pierogies on the griddle Friday during the 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival in downtown Griffith. Sweet and Savory is among the original vendors to the festival.
Tom Krejci, of Gary, and his grandson, Brennan McIntosh, 6, examine a 1983 Mustang on Friday during the 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival in downtown Griffith. The local firefighters association sponsored the car show.
Onlookers pass by the numerous classic cars on display Friday during the 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival in downtown Griffith. The local firefighters association sponsored the car show.
Ed Downs, of Gino's Banquets by Ace Catering in Hobart, grills shish kebabs and sausage Friday during the 13th annual Rock ‘N’ Rail Music and Street Festival in downtown Griffith. | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/griffith/fest-pays-tribute-to-musicians-rail-past/article_25febb20-d683-5b93-ba92-8f9a728d0508.html | 2022-09-03T20:54:14 | 0 | https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/lake/griffith/fest-pays-tribute-to-musicians-rail-past/article_25febb20-d683-5b93-ba92-8f9a728d0508.html |
She held a hard-fought Ph.D. in chemistry, but Helen Schaefer was probably best known in Tucson for her love and generous support of the arts and education.
Schaefer was a regular at performances and on the board of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. She sang for years with the University of Arizona’s Community Chorus. And when the UA Poetry Center opened in its glittering new home in 2007, thanks to her tireless fundraising leadership, the building was named in her honor.
Schaefer died Sept. 1 at her home in Tucson after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. She was 89.
“The University of Arizona community has lost a true champion and leader who spent her life in exploration and in service to others,” said UA President Robert Robbins in a written statement. “Dr. Helen Schaefer was a powerhouse — a scientist and teacher, community leader, and mother of two.”
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She was born Helen Marie Schwarz on April 26, 1933, and grew up in a cultured, educated and musical family in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois.
She played piano and sang, and her twin sister, Caroline, played violin.
After earning her bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Michigan, she enrolled in graduate school at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana, where she was one of about three female grad students in her academic field.
She met and began dating a fellow chem student in the summer of 1957. Asked about it 65 years later, John Schaefer said he was drawn to her beauty, her sophistication and her intellect.
They married and moved West in 1958, after he graduated with a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship that landed him a position at the California Institute of Technology.
She was still working on her Ph.D. dissertation in physical chemistry at the time, so she hauled her lab equipment with her and tried to finish up while John started his career, first at Caltech and then at the University of California, Berkeley.
“She was much smarter than me,” said John, who served as UA president from 1971 to 1982. “If there’s one bit of advice I would give young men, it’s marry a woman who is smarter than you.”
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The Schaefers traded California for Tucson in 1960, lured by better opportunities for career advancement at the growing university here.
“They camped at the Grand Canyon on the way down,” said Susan Schaefer Kliman, John and Helen’s youngest daughter.
It didn’t take long for Tucson to win the couple over.
“They fell in love with it. My mother loved the heat,” Kliman said. “They never really considered moving anywhere else.”
The Schaefers both worked at the UA initially — he as an assistant professor and she as a teaching assistant — but she was forced to quit the following year because of university nepotism rules that prohibited spouses from working in the same department.
After that, she set her unfinished dissertation aside to start a family and advocate on behalf of their adopted home.
“She started getting very active in the community,” John said.
When Schaefer wasn’t driving her girls to swim meets, she served on the board for both the YWCA and YMCA. When her daughters joined the Girl Scouts, she joined the group’s citywide council.
For more than five decades, she volunteered her time with — and sometimes led — too many community boards to name, including ones devoted to school desegregation, child welfare, higher education, health care, the arts and women in science.
For years, John said, the personalized UA license plate on her car read VLNTR.
She gave a lot more than just her time. Schaefer's financial generosity earned her a spot in the UA Foundation’s Founders Society, which recognizes donors whose cumulative giving reaches $500,000 or more.
There are scholarships in Schaefer's name at the UA for women studying science, engineering or mathematics and at the University of Michigan for chemistry majors.
“She believed that having money is a real responsibility. Charity was just a defining part of her family, her culture and herself,” John said.
“We were raised in this household where giving back was never a question,” Kliman added.
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When the UA Poetry Center was looking for a permanent home on campus, she helped lead the effort to build no mere repository but a $7 million architectural wonder worthy of housing one of the nation’s largest, stand-alone collections of poetry.
Tyler Meier, executive director of the center, said a lot of people donated money and helped with the fundraising campaign, but Schaefer’s “astonishing leadership” is why her name ended up on the building.
Sinking money into a palace for poetry simply wasn’t a priority for everyone at a research-driven, land-grant institution like the UA, Meier said. “But Helen was adamant that this was a need and that it would distinguish the university.”
After the center's new home was finished — on Helen Street, coincidentally enough — Schaefer remained a vital and committed supporter, even in later years when her failing health kept her from visiting, Meier said.
"She always wanted to know what was going on with the center," he said. “Every nonprofit needs a champion, and we have been so, so lucky to have someone like Helen as our champion."
Apparently, letting things go wasn't Schaefer's strong suit.
Sometime around 1975, the serial volunteer and philanthropist decided to do something for herself, something that had been eating at her. She left her husband at home with the girls and returned to the University of Illinois, where she finally completed her dissertation over the course of two summers.
“It was unfinished business, and Helen didn’t like unfinished things,” John said.
She officially earned her doctorate in 1978 with the publication of “Isotope Effects: Metal Ion Oxidations in Solution.” It would never be a bestseller, her organic chemist of a husband said with a laugh, but it stands as a testament to her lifelong dedication to science and to seeing things through.
It certainly left an impression on Kliman, who said she has been trying to live up to her mother's example her whole life. “She was an incredible role model and a really remarkable woman."
Shaefer is survived by her husband, John, of Tucson; sister Caroline Siegel and brother-in-law Ron Siegel of Lincolnshire, Illinois; sister-in-law Anita Meyer of Lindenhurst, New York; daughter Ann Schaefer-Reid and son-in-law Andy Reid of Hartford, Connecticut; and daughter Susan Schaefer Kliman and son-in-law Douglas Kliman of Fargo, North Dakota, and grandson Randall Kliman of Atlanta.
The family plans to hold a celebration of her life in late fall, possibly at the UA Poetry Center that bears her name.
Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@tucson.com or 573-4283. On Twitter: @RefriedBrean | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/helen-schaefer-remembered-for-love-of-chemistry-poetry-community/article_bcd2e994-2af1-11ed-9350-cff01a0941ae.html | 2022-09-03T20:55:47 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/helen-schaefer-remembered-for-love-of-chemistry-poetry-community/article_bcd2e994-2af1-11ed-9350-cff01a0941ae.html |
BURLINGTON — A 22-year-old Burlington man died Thursday after being struck by a car while crossing the road, police said Saturday.
Police officers and emergency personnel responded at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to the intersection of Chapel Hill Road and Tucker Street for a traffic crash, police said in a news release. They found that Nathaniel Navarro was hit by a 2016 Toyota Corolla driven by a 22-year-old Gibsonville woman.
The Corolla was headed west on Chapel Hill Road and had a green light at the intersection with Tucker Street when Navarro stepped into the car's path, police said.
Alamance County Emergency Medical Services pronounced him dead, police said.
Police said the preliminary investigation indicates neither speed nor impairment played a role in the crash.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 336-229-3500. Anonymous tips can be sent to Alamance County-Wide Crimestoppers at 336-229-7100 or via the P3Tips app. | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/pedestrian-killed-thursday-after-being-hit-by-car-in-burlington-police-say/article_99aa18fe-2bc1-11ed-8465-a763bf725903.html | 2022-09-03T20:57:09 | 0 | https://greensboro.com/news/local/accident-and-incident/pedestrian-killed-thursday-after-being-hit-by-car-in-burlington-police-say/article_99aa18fe-2bc1-11ed-8465-a763bf725903.html |
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The family of a Midtown woman kidnapped today while jogging has posted a $50,000 extra award with CrimeStoppers for information that helps authorities arrest those responsible.
Memphis Police are searching for 34-year-old Eliza Fletcher, who they said was reportedly kidnapped early Friday morning while out for a jog near the University of Memphis.
The University of Memphis Police called MPD to assist about 7 a.m. Friday after receiving a missing person report for Fletcher, known as Liza, a Memphis mother and junior kindergarten teacher at Saint Mary's Episcopal School..
According to Memphis Police, Fletcher had been jogging in the area of Central and Zach Curlin about 4:30 a.m. when an unknown person approached her and forced her into an SUV. U of M police said in a safety alert to students and staff a man had approached her in the middle of Central Ave. and forced her into the vehicle after a brief struggle.
MPD said the suspect was in a mid-sized dark color SUV headed westbound on Central. They have issued a City Watch Alert for Fletcher.
The UofM police said Fletcher’s cell phone and water bottle were found in front of a home owned by the university in the 3800 block of Central Ave.
MPD was at the scene of Fletcher's home Friday evening as the investigation continues into what happened to her.
Fletcher is 5’6” tall and 137 pounds with light brown/blonde hair and green eyes. Her hair was in a bun and she was wearing a pink jogging top and purple running shorts.
Her family posted the bond money this afternoon and issued a statement:
“We look forward to Eliza’s safe return and hope that this award will help police capture those who committed this crime.”
Anyone with information is asked to call 911 immediately. You can also call Crime Stoppers at 901-528-CASH or the TBI at 1-800-TBI-FIND. The University of Memphis Police can be reached at 901-678-4357 (HELP).
Buddy Chapman, CrimeStoppers executive director, said the award will go to the anyone who provides information that helps police make an arrest. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/memphis-woman-kidnapped-jogging-university-of-memphis-area-police-search/522-0f1cd50e-9012-45b0-b4ae-873aa859a3a4 | 2022-09-03T20:58:09 | 1 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/memphis-woman-kidnapped-jogging-university-of-memphis-area-police-search/522-0f1cd50e-9012-45b0-b4ae-873aa859a3a4 |
PALMYRA, Maine — A Litchfield man was taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor after suffering a serious head injury during a crash in Palmyra Saturday morning.
According to a release from the Somerset County Sheriff's Office, deputies responded to the crash at the intersection of Routes 2 and 152, known as 'Ell Hill' around 10:50 a.m.
The release states Lisa Veaxie, 61, of Scarborough, stopped at the intersection and then pulled out in front of Kevin Pulk, 59, of Litchfield, who was riding a Honda Goldwing motorcycle.
Pulk was taken to a nearby hospital before being taken by Lifeflight of Maine to Eastern Maine Medical Center to get treatment for a serious head injury. Police said he was not wearing a helmet.
Veazie was sent to Sebasticook Valley Hospital for a possible shoulder injury, according to the release. Her passenger was not injured.
Neither speed nor alcohol appear to be factors in the crash, but the investigation is ongoing. | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/motorcyclist-sent-to-hospital-by-lifeflight-of-maine-due-to-serious-injuries-after-crash-in-palmyra/97-47a98a5f-d945-4ac8-b8ab-dd2dd8e1b993 | 2022-09-03T20:58:15 | 0 | https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/news/local/motorcyclist-sent-to-hospital-by-lifeflight-of-maine-due-to-serious-injuries-after-crash-in-palmyra/97-47a98a5f-d945-4ac8-b8ab-dd2dd8e1b993 |
PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. — Labor day weekend is officially underway and crowds of people are hitting the beaches to enjoy the long weekend. Volunteers across the bay area came out on Saturday morning to make sure they were cleaned up.
“This morning I woke up and I decided, let's get some trash off the beach!" said Corey Melke, one of the volunteers.
Caddy’s Waterfront Restaurant hosted beach cleanup events at all seven of its locations, and they plan to keep the movement going.
“We're looking at doing it three to four times a year," said Scott Campbell with Caddy's. "To keep the beaches clean and give back to the community that's given to us for so many years.”
Florida has 825 miles of beaches and that means hundreds of thousands of tons of trash wash up on the shore every single year, and volunteers are reminding beachgoers, every little bit helps.
"It's like, oh, it's one cigarette, but it's really not. It's thousands and thousands of cigarettes. If you come out here, just pick up, you see something on the floor, pick it up, because at the end of the day, it is really actually helping,” said Lauren Iovino, a volunteer and environmental science teacher at Boca Ciega High School.
Lovino said she offered her students extra credit if they showed up to help out.
"We're leaving this earth for the future generation. So I always tell my students, honestly, the grade in the classroom is not the biggest thing to me. It's coming out here, learning, helping clean up what you're going to leave to future generations."
She’s not alone in her message. Other volunteers echoed the same sentiments.
"I see a lot of kids doing it, and I think that's really important that we kind of spread that message to who we're raising our kids around us, that, hey, this is where trash belongs," said Laura Barrett, another volunteer.
It was a community effort to keep bay area beaches beautiful.
"We don't want anybody getting sick. You don't want to build up," said Scott Campbell.
Volunteers were also looking to set an example.
"It's not like there's far to find out where to put your trash. So I think it's super easy just to walk into any of the trash cans and throw it out," said Barrett. | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/caddys-pinellas-county-beach/67-22100c91-cfcf-44a3-9c8d-350180294d18 | 2022-09-03T20:58:15 | 0 | https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/caddys-pinellas-county-beach/67-22100c91-cfcf-44a3-9c8d-350180294d18 |
Dallas Cowboys safety and 2017 Bridgeton High School graduate Markquese Bell sits in the backseat of a 1979 Rolls-Royce as he greets fans Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Markquese Bell talks with Bridgeton athletic director Cynthia Wilks on Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Shana Hannah, 38, and Dave Peterson, 54, both from Bridgeton, on Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Bridgeton resident and Dallas Cowboys fan Bob Griffin on Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park. "Been wanting to see somebody (in the NFL) that you know for a long time," he said of Bell, a 2017 Bridgeton High School grad on the Dallas Cowboys.
JOHN RUSSO, Staff Writer
Event coordinator Esaul Martin, left, and Bridgeton resident and Dallas Cowboys fan Bob Griffin on Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park.
BRIDGETON — Markquese Bell is pretty confident there are a whole lot more Dallas Cowboys fans in Cumberland County now.
Bell, 23, was in his hometown Saturday morning — conveniently the heart of Philadelphia Eagles territory in South Jersey — as the rookie NFL safety was honored during the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade, held by Gateway Community Action Partnership.
"This is amazing, just to be able to come back to my community and to see all the support I had here," Bell said. "Especially talking a lot to the young football team and seeing the smiles on their faces, it means a lot to me."
Hundreds of people lined the road that led from Bridgeton High School to City Park, where vendor tents, food trucks and games lined the area.
Bell sat in the backseat of a 1979 yellow Rolls-Royce convertible with a huge smile as he waved to fans, residents and kids. He passed out autographed flyers for the event, posing for photos when the classic car would stop for him to mingle.
Bob Griffin, 48, a lifelong Bridgeton resident, had to come out to see the local who not only made it to the NFL but for the team he's rooted for his entire life.
Griffin was one of a few dozen Cowboys fans who were there. He was reminded a few times, in a teasing way, by Eagles fans that he's wearing the wrong colors.
TOMS RIVER — Bo Melton’s football life both peaked and began anew Saturday.
"I'm super excited. It's a dream come true," said Griffin, who said he has a brand new Nike No. 41 Cowboys jersey with Bell's name on it on the way. "Been wanting to see somebody (in the NFL) that you know for a long time."
The Southeast Gateway Neighborhood Revitalization Team organized Saturday's event with the intention of unifying surrounding neighborhoods and communities, bringing them to one common area while promoting positive interactions.
A section for kids was filled with bounce houses, obstacle courses, inflatable darts and ax throwing, a video game truck and more.
Esaul Martin, who coordinated the event, said he wanted to bring all different types of cultures to Unity Day, including food, music and vendors from different backgrounds.
"I even have two different types of emcees — one Black person and one white person — to merge it all together," Martin said.
"All the unrest in our country, we need something like this. I wanted to merge everything together into a beautiful masterpiece, and what a way to top it off with a contribution to our youth that's going on to do great things," he added, referring to Bell.
David Peterson, 54, who works for the city's water and sewer department, hosted the event. He too is a lifelong Cowboys fan.
"It's awesome because I've coached for 30 years and coached against him and he dominated us. ... I just can't wait to meet him, shake his hand and tell him congratulations," Peterson said.
Cynthia Wilks has been the athletic director at Bridgeton for 12 years, and Bell is the most successful athlete during her tenure, she said.
"There are so many people that he made an impression on when he was here because he just has a good soul," Wilks said. "People wanted to cheer for him, and that kind of success is gonna make him have a legacy."
Markquese Bell and Isiah Pacheco made the cut Tuesday.
The Cowboys will open their season on Sunday Night Football next weekend against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The game will be nationally televised at 8:20 p.m. on NBC.
Bell graduated from Bridgeton in 2017 as one of the state's most recruited players. He went to NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision school University of Maryland that fall but was benched by the team ahead of its season opener for violating a code of conduct. He left the university that November and played for Coffeyville Community College in Kansas, where he excelled.
Bell then went to Florida A&M and enjoyed a stellar three seasons at the D-I Football Championship Subdivision school. He went undrafted in this April's NFL Draft but was immediately signed by the Cowboys, where he impressed in training camp and the preseason to earn a spot on the 53-man roster.
"Being a kid from this city, from Bridgeton, a lot of us don't get those opportunities that I got," Bell said, crediting his valuable support system along the way. "So for me to have gotten those opportunities, I was truly blessed."
Asked how many Eagles fans he may have converted into Cowboys fans in recent weeks, he said "almost the whole Cumberland County," with a smile.
"But, you know, it's all love. There is definitely a lot of love out here," he said.
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Dallas Cowboys safety and 2017 Bridgeton High School graduate Markquese Bell sits in the backseat of a 1979 Rolls-Royce as he greets fans Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park.
Bridgeton resident and Dallas Cowboys fan Bob Griffin on Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park. "Been wanting to see somebody (in the NFL) that you know for a long time," he said of Bell, a 2017 Bridgeton High School grad on the Dallas Cowboys.
Event coordinator Esaul Martin, left, and Bridgeton resident and Dallas Cowboys fan Bob Griffin on Saturday at the Unity Day/Markquese Bell Day Parade at Bridgeton City Park. | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/bridgeton-residents-and-plenty-of-dallas-cowboys-fans-honor-local-nfl-player-markquese-bell/article_62b1602c-2bae-11ed-9743-c779a39081fa.html | 2022-09-03T21:02:36 | 1 | https://pressofatlanticcity.com/news/local/bridgeton-residents-and-plenty-of-dallas-cowboys-fans-honor-local-nfl-player-markquese-bell/article_62b1602c-2bae-11ed-9743-c779a39081fa.html |
ELLSWORTH — Mayor Tobey Bane said he’s proud to represent Ellsworth for its “small town, big heart.”
He was at Ellsworth Park on Saturday for the village’s 150th (plus one) anniversary celebration, a four-day event highlighting local garage sales, dining options, church events and activities for children. While the town is 151 years old, the celebration was called off one year because of COVID.
Bane said people were enjoying the festivities “big time.” He said it’s taken four months to prepare for the party, which was organized with the help of Bonnie Hammons.
Hammons said they had a lot of good volunteers who took a portion of the tasks, from getting food vendors and craft vendors to bringing out inflatable bounce houses and slides.
“We all had our part to do,” she said, adding that That Kid Place has been a hit with children.
She also said they work well together as a small town.
Bane said he’s hoping for a good turnout for the 2 p.m. Sunday car cruise-in, plus the chicken and fish dinner from 3-5 p.m. Monday. And, he’s wishing for a doubled turnout for this year’s Labor Day parade, which marches off at 2 p.m. Monday.
Following the chicken and fish dinner is a cake walk at the village hall at 6 p.m. Monday.
And after the car show is a family fun night at the park, beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday.
The mayor concluded: “We got a very busy weekend.”
Two food vendors attended Saturday, including The Longbranch Again from Cooksville.
Garage sales will continue from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Monday.
That Kid Place set up a mobile sensory museum trailer and foam pit machine. Owner Ryan Abbott, of Carlock, said he started his company around four years ago so they could make an environment that gives kids sensory input somewhere that doesn’t look like a hospital.
The sensory trailer features 60 feet of tunnels, a two-story tree fort, light-up games and drum pads, Lego bins, geodes and more.
“Once you go in there it will blow your mind,” Abbott said. He added nearly 10,000 people go into it yearly.
That Kid Place has attended many events within 50 miles of Bloomington-Normal, Abbott said. He also said he loves small-town events like this one in Ellsworth.
LeRoy’s Aaron Rennicks, 11, agreed the foam pit was his favorite. He said he loves the sound bubbles make when they pop by his ears.
Parish and pancakes
Over 200 people attended a sausage and pancake breakfast Saturday at the Ellsworth United Methodist Church, according to congregation member Shelly Hanover. She said she loves the sense of community the event brings.
The morning meals were organized by fellow church members Dennis and Vickie Butler. Vickie said they were blessed to enjoy people’s company, conversation and the good fellowship that comes with them.
She also said several grocery stores donated supplies to the cause, including the Normal Meijer, the LeRoy IGA and the Gibson City County Market.
Funds were raised at the breakfast for the Ellsworth Fire Department. A total amount of proceeds taken was not available Saturday morning.
Donald Tutt came from East Peoria and met with his girlfriend Molly Barr, a Bloomington resident who formerly lived in Ellsworth.
Tutt said when you mix church and community events together for a multi-day event, “you get the full view of a community.” He said that doesn’t happen when you only visit for one day.
They planned on checking out the garage sales later that day.
Ellsworth UMC co-pastor Michelle Giermann, of Normal, said the breakfast turnout went beyond their expectations. She also said being able to socialize with each other has been too sorely missed.
She was looking forward to outdoor services set for 9:30 a.m. Sunday in Ellsworth Park. All are welcome, and attendees should bring a chair.
Giermann said she’s most proud of the Ellsworth community because of how much everyone cares for each other – whether or not they’re a church member.
“It’s beautiful how everyone takes care,” she said. | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/ellsworth-150th-anniversary-brings-big-time-fun-to-small-town/article_04ef497e-2bbb-11ed-95da-7b07f4202361.html | 2022-09-03T21:29:30 | 0 | https://pantagraph.com/news/local/ellsworth-150th-anniversary-brings-big-time-fun-to-small-town/article_04ef497e-2bbb-11ed-95da-7b07f4202361.html |
Death in Waterford Township lake ruled accidental drowning
The Detroit News
The death of a man whose body was discovered floating in a Waterford Township lake was caused by accidental drowning, said law enforcement officials.
The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office identified the man as Leonardo De Jesus Jimenez Lopez, 25, of Chiapas, Mexico.
Lopez was discovered Thursday in four feet of water about 15 feet from the shore of Williams Lake, said the sheriff’s office.
A 9-1-1 caller reported seeing his body in the lake Thursday morning.
Divers from the Sheriff’s Office Marine Unit and Search and Rescue Team did a sweep of the lake and found no evidence of foul play.
Lopez was last seen by acquaintances on Sunday. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/09/03/accidental-drowning-death-waterford-township-lake/7988637001/ | 2022-09-03T21:34:53 | 0 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/09/03/accidental-drowning-death-waterford-township-lake/7988637001/ |
Oakland County teen found after missing for two weeks
A Commerce Township teen who was missing for two weeks has been reunited with her family, said law enforcement officials.
Laken Elezabeth Lewis, 15, was found by authorities Saturday in the company of several people in northwest Detroit, said the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff’s detectives had received a tip about her whereabouts earlier in the day, said the sheriff’s office.
Sheriff Michael Bouchard lauded the work by members of his special investigations unit and fugitive apprehension team, who were assisted by the Detroit Police Department.
“We appreciate the feedback we received from the public,” said Bouchard.
Lewis had been missing since Aug. 18 when she left her home at Stratford Villa mobile home park. She went for an evening walk at 6:15 p.m. and was expected to return in two hours. | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/09/03/oakland-county-teen-found-missing-two-weeks/7988917001/ | 2022-09-03T21:34:59 | 1 | https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2022/09/03/oakland-county-teen-found-missing-two-weeks/7988917001/ |
It's the end of another era in New York City.
Straphangers in the Big Apple will soon spot the slow disappearance of the classic MTA machines recognizable by their bright colors.
One by one, the MetroCard machines that have populated subway stations since 1999 are expected to be removed and replaced with OMNY vending machines.
Nostalgic riders sad to see the MetroCard go need not worry, the change won't happen overnight.
The first OMNY vending machines will be installed in stations during the first half of 2023, as long as testing of the new devices goes according to plan.
Anyone commuting and in need of purchasing a train payment card will have either the MetroCard or OMNY machine available until the former is "retired" at a date not yet announced.
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The OMNY systems allows riders to use contactless payment methods like credit or debit cards, smartphones and other wearable devices. OMNY cards are also available for purchase at participating retail locations. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/farewell-metrocard-classic-mta-machines-are-getting-replaced-next-year/3850561/ | 2022-09-03T21:37:13 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/farewell-metrocard-classic-mta-machines-are-getting-replaced-next-year/3850561/ |
TRI-CITIES, Tenn./Va. (WJHL) – This Labor Day weekend, an estimated 137 million Americans are expected to hit the road or airport, according to AAA.
Travelers from all over the country, and even the world made their way through the Tri-Cities this weekend. Canadian Daniel Sirard said he’s having an amazing Labor Day weekend in the United States.
“Traffic was fine,” Sirard said. “Traveling was fine, I mean vacation was great.”
Sirard, like so many others, has been embracing the ability to travel since pandemic restrictions have slowed. Mike DeRisso and his wife, Maria, said they had some hesitations about their own trip initially.
“I’ll tell you what, two months ago I was very concerned about the trip,” DeRisso said. “I figured we were going to have to put a lot more money aside for gas.”
Drivers said a slight gas price decrease is a relief this holiday weekend as they enjoy the last of their summer vacation time.
The Tri-Cities Airport was also a popular destination this holiday weekend, and luckily, travelers said more people haven’t caused more flight delays.
Ana Nunez said she started her journey at the Charlotte airport where things were a little more hectic.
“I mean this is a small airport, so it’s been pretty good so far,” Nunez said. “It wasn’t delayed or anything like that.”
There are a couple more days left of the Labor Day weekend, and travelers plan to make the most of it.
“We’re both warm weather people, so this is kind of like the last hurrah,” Maria DeRisso said. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/local-travelers-say-labor-day-weekend-traffic-is-moving-well/ | 2022-09-03T21:38:15 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/local-travelers-say-labor-day-weekend-traffic-is-moving-well/ |
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