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LEE COUNTY, Fla. — The heated discussion of firearm rights and law reform continues after nearly two dozen students and teachers died in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Some national leaders are calling for stricter gun control measures to curb gun-related violence.
Among ideas are stricter background checks for all attempting to purchase a firearm.
“You know, every commercial sale requires a background check,” said Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio to reporters this week. “If people want to talk about banning specific guns they should propose that, but it wouldn’t prevent these shootings.”
More than 250 thousand concealed carry licenses have been issued in the state of Florida from the beginning of 2021 through April of 2022, according to recent data from the FDLE.
With the number of license holders and gun owners around the state, Cape Coral store Guns4Less manager Joshua Araujo said gun sales are holding.
“Its been very consistent,” he said. “The change in gun sales is normally directed to political intervention.”
Araujo walked NBC2 through the process of filling out an ATF Form 4473 to start a background check to purchase a firearm.
“Its a federal government form that asks you a couple questions,” he said. “Its very thorough, it asks you a lot of information. The questions that do disqualify you are not just state requirements but federal requirements. So mental stability drug use questions pertaining to, on the federal level and then criminal history.”
Araujo and other store owners around Southwest Florida that NBC2 spoke with said the background check is in-depth and makes sure if a firearm is sold in a store, its being done legally and on record. To purchase, first you must be 21 years of age and a Florida resident.
“Then with that background check you have a three-day wait, kind of a cool-off period, and then the end of that when you come back in you will still be on record saying you have this firearm,” said Araujo.
Federal leaders have said there is still major concerns of firearms that are sold in person-to-person sales. Many have also said mental health needs to be addressed to curb gun-related violence in the nation.
“But by doing something, we at least stop sending this quiet message of endorsement to these killers whose brains are breaking, who see the highest levels of government doing nothing,” said Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Even with a background check in Florida, Joshua Araujo told NBC2 there are other opportunities to help you be a responsible gun owner.
“I would always recommend that training is imperative,” Araujo said.
Many gun stores offer safety courses for conceal carry, though Araujo tells NBC2 he does not believe it should be required, he says it’s about personal responsibility.
“Its like the best thing we can do is take personal responsibility legal and lawfully carry firearms, train often and be prepared,” said Araujo.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said last month he wants to see Florida pass a law that would let people carry concealed guns without a permit.
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ALBANY — Albany Technical College will hold a special refresh presentation on its Nurse Aide Accelerated program Thursday at 10:00 a.m. in the Nathaniel Cross Health Technology Building’s Room 118. Program refreshes are a way that Albany Technical College introduces existing programs to the community with a new perspective and provides fresh energy to the program, imaginably piquing the curiosity of those interested in a new career.
Often, technology and instruction may have changed over the years and what is presented is entirely new information to the service area.
“Certified Nursing Assistants provide hands-on care and perform routine tasks and activities of daily living under the supervision of nursing and medical staff,” Albany Tech Nurse Aide Accelerated instructor Tracey Prince said in a news release. “Specific tasks vary, with nurse aides handling many aspects of a patient’s care.”
The Nurse Aide Accelerated technical certificate of credit is an approved curriculum of 9 credit hours. This certificate will allow students to go directly into the health care field, making competitive wages in a short period. Students will complete the Nurse Aide Fundamentals course and have the option of choosing either Introduction to Health Care or Medical Terminology for Allied Health Sciences. Graduates are eligible to sit for the National Nurse Aide Assessment exam and are considered CNAs.
“The country’s shortage of trained and qualified nurses has become dire,” Lisa Stephens, the dean of Business and Healthcare Technology at Albany Tech, said. “These first steps for students who graduate as Certified Nursing Assistants open doors and create opportunities. These graduates can start work almost immediately and conceivably while in school. This also sets the foundation for pathway education opportunities to become a nurse.”
In just one semester, the Nurse Aide Accelerated program prepares students to provide basic nursing care and to work in acute care and long-term care settings. CNAs perform basic duties for patients, clients and residents, depending on the type of health care facility that employs them. Skills include taking vital signs, dressing, bathing patients, and reporting patient concerns to doctors and nurses. This program is the foundation for higher-level nursing opportunities such as practical nursing and registered nursing. Upon completing the program, students must pass the National Nurse Aide Assessment program exam to become a certified nursing assistant. Students will earn a Nurse Aide Accelerated Technical Certificate of Credit.
Students may continue their education by pursuing advanced programs such as practical nursing and registered nursing at Albany Technical College or any schools with current transfer agreements with ATC.
For more information about the Nurse Aide program, contact Prince at (229) 430-2832 or tprince@albanytech.edu.
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Ten students at an elementary school in Chester were hospitalized and later released after eating marijuana edibles that one of them brought in, police said.
Police told NBC10 a 3rd grade student took marijuana edibles to Chester Community Charter school on Wednesday and shared it with classmates. In all, ten 3rd graders ate the edibles. They were later taken to the hospital where they were treated and cleared medically.
Police said an adult will be charged on Thursday in connection to the incident. They have not yet revealed that person’s identity.
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Police shot a man in a Dollar General parking lot after he allegedly reached for a gun while being apprehended, according to new information about the incident.
The shooting was captured on cell video Tuesday morning.
In a press release Wednesday, the Atlantic County prosecutors office said police were called to the store for a report of a man armed with a gun inside the store. When police arrived, they ordered 37-year-old Jalial Whitted of Absecon to exit the store, which he did.
The prosecutors office said once outside the store Whitted refused orders from police and reached for a gun. A short time later, police shot Whitted while trying to apprehend him, prosecutors say. They said a loaded gun was recovered at the scene.
"I felt like I was almost in a movie," Marialyn Cappuccio, a witness who recorded part of the incident, told NBC10. "I couldn't see any suspect. I could just see kind of the front of the store. They were pointing in that direction."
The suspect was taken into custody and transported to AtlantiCare Medical, City Campus Trauma Center where he remains in stable condition, prosecutors said.
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Prosecutors said unreleased surveillance video shows the suspect showing a gun, causing the employees to run out of the store. While in the store the suspect shot one round, they said.
The suspect is being charged with unlawful possession of a weapon, possession of a weapon by persons not to have weapons and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose.
The prosecutors office said they will not be releasing the names of the officers at this time.
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CALDWELL, Idaho — Editor's note: The video above this article was published May 20.
Caldwell Mayor Jarom Wagoner will officially present Jason Kuzik as his recommendation for Caldwell Police Chief at a special city council meeting Wednesday at 5 p.m.
On May 20, Wagoner announced Kuzik as his recommendation to succeed Frank Wyant, who is retiring effective May 31.
A committee that recently interviewed candidates for the chief position submitted three choices to Wagoner, who decided to recommend Kuzik to the Caldwell City Council.
Wednesday's city council meeting will be held in the Caldwell Police Department Community Room. You may attend in person or watch the meeting on the City of Caldwell YouTube page.
Kuzik is a 25-year law enforcement veteran who currently serves as a captain with the police department in Henderson, Nevada, which is about 15 miles southeast of Las Vegas.
Wednesday's City of Caldwell news release said Wagoner has "every confidence that Mr. Kuzik has the necessary experience and background to lead CPD into the future."
Like Caldwell, the city where Kuzik currently serves has seen rapid growth in recent years. Henderson's population in the 2020 Census was 317,610 -- up from ten years earlier, when the 2010 Census put Henderson's population at 257,729. When Kuzik started with the police department there, about 175,000 people lived in Henderson.
"I found Caldwell to have similarities to Henderson with a focus on community, family, and public safety. Before this exciting opportunity came about, my wife, Sandy, and I already decided that Caldwell would be our home after my eventual retirement from the Henderson Police Department in a few years," Kuzik said. "Though there have been some recent challenges within CPD, I believe the department is strong, resilient, and very capable."
If he's confirmed, Kuzik would succeed Wyant as an FBI investigation continues into allegations of misconduct by some officers in the Caldwell P.D. Street Crimes Unit.
Also, former Caldwell Police Lt. Joseph Hoadley, who was fired May 3, is awaiting trial on two federal felony charges: destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in a federal investigation, and deprivation of rights under color of law. Hoadley has pleaded not guilty to both charges. His trial is scheduled for Sept. 19.
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Son fatally stabs father in Palm Bay home early Wednesday morning during argument
A Palm Bay man was stabbed to death by his son in his home early Wednesday morning, police said.
Robert Lukow, 64, was found stabbed inside his home on Easton Forest Circle South East in Palm Bay just before 4 a.m. Wednesday, said Cmdr. Jeff Spears of Palm Bay Police Department. First responders attempted to provide life saving measures, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Lukow's wife told police that their son, Robert Lukow Jr., 29, had stabbed the 64-year-old during an argument, according to an arrest affidavit.
She said she awoke at about 3:40 a.m. to screaming from the living room area.
Both she and her sister went to the living room area, where they found Lukow Jr. standing with a knife in his hand over her husband in a recliner.
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The wife attempted to get closer to separate the men, but Lukow Jr. pushed her onto the sofa, the affidavit said. The wife's sister tried to wrestle the knife from Lukow Jr., causing it to fall onto the floor.
The wife's sister said when she found Lukow Sr., he was covered in blood and told her, "He stabbed me, call 911," the affidavit said. She added that Lukow Sr.'s wife asked Lukow Jr. to wait outside to prevent further incidents.
With assistance from Brevard County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit and K9 team, Palm Bay police found Lukow Jr. near the intersection of Stonebriar Drive South East and Cogan Drive South East, the affidavit said.
Police also found the knife that Lukow Jr. used, Spears said.
Lukow Jr. told police that he had been "feeling uncomfortable being around (Lukow Sr.)" for sometime, though he declined to provide a reason as to why this was, the affidavit said.
During the middle of the night, he heard a noise in the living room and armed himself with a knife to investigate.
He met up with Lukow Sr. in the kitchen area, where the two began to argue about how much alcohol Lukow Jr. had had to drink and if he had been sleeping, the affidavit said. The argument continued into the living room, and Lukow Jr. pulled his knife because he had "been feeling uncomfortable around his father due to past incidents."
He told police he stabbed his father several times in the neck, chest and stomach, though he said he did not remember how many times he did so.
Lukow Jr. was charged with second-degree murder and taken to Brevard County Jail.
Second-degree indicates an intentional killing that was not planned, but was intended to cause bodily harm.
Court documents show he does not have an attorney yet.
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The Bismarck City Commission has amended its zoning rules to allow for standalone data centers for cryptocurrency mining and other applications amid growing interest by developers.
The commission voted 4-0 Tuesday to approve the measure, which places conditions on where data centers could go. They could be placed only in heavy industrial zones or light industrial zones, and the latter would require a public hearing.
Data centers would have to be built inside structures that comply with the building and fire codes. They also would have to demonstrate through communication with a local utility that they will have adequate access to electricity to operate.
Data centers typically require a significant amount of power, and they can generate a lot of heat. Fans are often used for cooling, and they can be noisy.
The city already has a noise ordinance in place. A data center developer “would have to do the work up front to make sure they can meet the ordinance,” Senior City Planner Daniel Nairn told the commission.
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He said he has heard data center developers are interested in placing facilities in the community for cryptocurrency mining, cloud computing and artificial intelligence applications. No specific plans proposed by any developers were mentioned at Tuesday's meeting.
Cryptocurrency mining involves facilitating transactions of digital currency, which are recorded in ledgers known as blockchains. Computers lend processing power to validate those transactions, and they are rewarded with more cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin.
Data center developers are eyeing North Dakota in part because of its cold winters, which helps to keep the facilities from becoming too hot. Recent projects have been constructed in Jamestown and Williston.
Reach Amy R. Sisk at 701-250-8252 or amy.sisk@bismarcktribune.com.
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BLOOMINGTON — Central Illinois school districts are looking closely at their security measures, plans and protocols following the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
At least 19 children and two teachers were killed at an elementary school there Tuesday, reigniting national conversations about gun control, mental health and school security.
Here’s a look at the measures already in place, and further steps being taken, at some districts across Central Illinois.
McLean County Unit 5
Students and staff at McLean County Unit 5 practice active shooter drills as Illinois’ School Safety Drill Act requires: at least one drill per year, with one conducted within the first 90 days of the school year.
Superintendent Kristen Weikle said school administrators in the district’s 24 buildings work with school resource officers to review the steps students and staff would need to take in a crisis as well.
“Every time there’s an incident nationally, we always review and reassess the measures that we have in place and our plans,” she said, noting district staff receive additional training regarding safety procedures in addition to the drills.
The district has dedicated school resource officers at each high school and junior high, and those six officers also cover the elementary school, especially “if there’s an event or a threat or we need to call someone,” Weikle said.
With school doors locked by default, all visitors that are allowed into the building are screened by building personnel through cameras and speakers before being buzzed in. They then must be checked in at the school office before they can proceed.
All district volunteers who have access to the buildings must first complete a background check, Weikle added.
The students had a “typical normal almost last day of school day” on Wednesday, with no added measures to disrupt the students, Weikle said.
“My heart goes out to the students, staff, families and community in Texas. I can only imagine what they’re going through,” the superintendent said. “I know a lot of people are sending their thoughts and prayers, but I really hope the community … can come together to provide the support they need.”
Bloomington District 87
District 87 schools generally hold lockdown drills once or twice a year, Superintendent Barry Reilly said. The drills are set in cooperation between the district’s director of safety and security, building administrators and first responders.
First responders also use the buildings for trainings when students are not present. Reilly highlighted the strong relationship the district has with area first responders, helped by Director of Safety and Security Brian Evans' background in law enforcement. Evans is retiring soon and will be replaced by Rich Hirsch, who used to be a school resource officer in the district.
The district has two resource officers, one at the high school and one at the junior high. There are also plans in place for a third resource officer for elementary schools if Bloomington police staffing levels allow for it in the future.
There have been discussions about adding metal detectors, but so far the challenges around equipment, personnel and logistics in using the detectors have led the district not to add them, Reilly said.
“Metal detectors bring with them a whole world of issues and challenges,” he said.
The elementary schools and junior high school require visitors to buzz into the building. However, the high school has too many students coming and going from the main building during the day to use a single point of entry, Reilly said. The three main sets of doors have either camera systems or hall monitors stationed nearby.
The district is also upgrading its security camera systems and plans to implement a new visitor tracking system, which will provide more streamlined tracking of visitors and run quick background checks on them, Reilly said.
With a week left of school, students and families may see more police presence at District 87 schools, he said. National events like the Texas shooting lead to a greater vigilance around the district’s schools.
Beyond the active shooter drills, the staff hold crisis intervention training at least yearly, Reilly said. Incidents like Tuesday’s also prompt the district to provide more resources to teachers about how to talk with their students about the news, as well as places they can contact if they need help processing.
Events like Uvalde shooting can impact the staff as much or more than the students, Reilly said. That can be especially true if the adults have children themselves.
“It resonates, it makes you just be thankful for what we have,” he said.
Clinton School District
Curt Nettles, superintendent for the Clinton School District, said they practice active shooter drills annually with an optional additional drill, “if we feel that we need to make any changes or tweak it or anything.”
“We want students and staff to know how to behave and how to react. … but if we’re drilling too much, it can create complacency and also we don’t want those thoughts, especially in our younger kids’ heads, too much,” Nettles said.
Clinton’s five school buildings have single points of entry with doors locked by default, he said.
Visitors are screened by building personnel through cameras and speakers before being admitted to the schools’ offices.
The district’s school resource officer, Mike Bennett, covers all five buildings and “does a fantastic job of training our administration and staff on what to do in a crisis,” Nettles said, noting they do training beyond the drills.
Bennett reviews possible scenarios with staff and teaches the appropriate behavior and decision-making skills at least once per school year, the superintendent said.
Nettles said he met with Bennett and the Clinton Police Chief Robert Lowers on Wednesday to review their security measures and plans, and had more police presence in the buildings than a typical day.
In the wake of the Uvalde shooting, Nettles said he sent a message to staff “reminding everyone what their jobs are and to be vigilant.”
“When this sort of thing happens, it just creates a heavy feeling. You start your day and you try to push through knowing when those people in Texas are going through and you feel for them,” he said. “We have our kids in front of us and we have to push through, but everybody feels a heaviness.”
Tri-Valley School District
Tri-Valley School District, based in Downs, conducts lockdown drills yearly, said superintendent David Mouser, who is becoming the District 87 superintendent this summer. Those are just part of continuous discussions around safety among Tri-Valley staff.
“Our teachers invest emotional energy and genuine love for our kids, that’s why stories like these hurt so deeply,” he said in an email. “It is my continued prayer that we reach a point where we can stop talking about events like these happening at all.”
The district does not have metal detectors but the schools have single points of entry where visitors have to buzz in. Visitors are also given a sticker or badge. Mouser said that most visitors are parent volunteers there on pre-arranged visits. The district does not have a school resource officer, but there is a daily police presence on campus through cooperation with the Village of Downs.
“Like everyone, I am devastated by yet again another senseless act of violence in a school,” he said.
Catholic schools
Sharon Weiss, superintendent of Schools at the Catholic Diocese of Peoria, said in an email to the Pantagraph that each of their schools have armed intruder drills and all other drills mandated by the Illinois State Board of Education for non-public schools; recognition and compliance during the academic year.
“Local law enforcement comes on site annually to conduct armed intruder drills by the state, as well as local fire departments (who) visit each school during Fire Safety Month and observe a fire drill at the school,” Weiss said in the email.
Four years ago, the Diocese of Peoria hired two law enforcement personnel to come on site at each school — which includes Central Catholic High School, Epiphany Catholic School, St. Mary’s School and Corpus Christi Catholic School — to provide consultation and complete an audit of safety measures in place and make recommendations to take further action, Weiss said.
There are doorbells to indicate when an individual wants to enter the building and visitor badges are available in the office. Churches with parish schools were also inspected since the schools are in attendance at the parish church for masses and other events scheduled during the week throughout the school year.
All schools have a crisis management plan that is reviewed annually with faculty, staff and students and signs are posted in each classroom that provide visuals and written instructions.
“As our 42 elementary and secondary schools throughout the Diocese of Peoria are one system of schools and under the supervision of the Office of Catholic Schools, we will be asking our schools to be aware and vigilant as they finish their school years,” Weiss said. “This topic of school safety is ever present, and our diocesan office will be reviewing our protocols, procedures and policies for possible changes in 2022-2023 as we review and update policies each year.”
Trinity Lutheran School
Shawn Hoffman, principal at Trinity Lutheran School in Bloomington, said it performs a lockdown drill with a local police officer once every year, and students are very familiar with the drills.
Every year, with the help of local police officers, Trinity re-evaluates its security procedures and that it is an ongoing, evolving process, the principal said.
Trinity does not have metal detectors at entrances, but there are strict visitor entrance procedures. Any visitor has to be buzzed in and provide an ID, which is then scanned and checked against a sex offender database.
Faculty and staff have active shooter discussions at the beginning, middle and end of the year as well, Hoffman said. During these, they discuss the physical protocols of what to do in the event of an active shooter and what psychological, medical and spiritual needs the students may have.
While Trinity does not have a resource officer, they have a strong relationship with the Bloomington Police Department. Hoffman said an officer even stopped by Wednesday morning to check on the school.
In a message to parents Wednesday, Hoffman said he encouraged them to talk to their children, but some age-appropriate discussions were held in the classroom as well.
He said he checked in on classrooms this morning and found that while students were excited for summer break to begin, they also wanted to offer their prayers for the families and the victims of the Uvalde shooting.
Illinois Education Association
According to a statement from the Illinois Education Association (IEA), officials said mass shootings like the one that took place at Robb Elementary and others that have happened over the years including Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y., should raise red flags “for us as a country.”
“It’s time to stop watching these tragedies and start doing something. We ask for our leaders to come together. This is not a partisan issue. This is not a gun rights issue,” Officials said in the statement. “This is an issue of children being able to attend school and be safe, of families of color being able to go to the grocery store in the middle of the day and not be targeted by violence, and of helping all of America not live in fear.”
Officials said they join U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., in his pleas to Congress to come together and find a solution for the ongoing issues of gun violence.
“This isn’t inevitable. These kids weren’t unlucky. This only happens in this country. Nowhere else,” Murphy said on the Senate floor Tuesday. “It is a choice.”
The IEA’s joint statement is attributable to president Kathi Griffin, vice president Al Llorens, and secretary and treasurer Tom Lully.
The District 87 and Unit 5 teacher’s unions expressed their dismay at the shooting on their Facebook pages.
“We have no statement — what words could there possibly be?” Unit Five Education Association’s post read in part.
Bloomington Education Association’s post similarly said the union was uncertain what to say.
“We just don’t know what to say. We have dedicated our lives to our community’s children. Our hearts go out to Texas. When will this stop?” it said.
Pantagraph reporters Kelsey Watznauer, Connor Wood, Mateusz Janik and D. Jack Alkire contributed to this story.
Reactions to Texas school shooting that left more than a dozen students, 2 adults dead
Texans are grieving for the victims of this senseless crime & for the community of Uvalde.
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) May 24, 2022
Cecilia & I mourn this horrific loss & urge all Texans to come together.
I've instructed @TxDPS & Texas Rangers to work with local law enforcement to fully investigate this crime. pic.twitter.com/Yjwi8tDT1v
Heidi & I are fervently lifting up in prayer the children and families in the horrific shooting in Uvalde.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 24, 2022
We are in close contact with local officials, but the precise details are still unfolding.
Thank you to heroic law enforcement & first responders for acting so swiftly.
For too long, some in Congress have offered hollow words after shootings while opposing all efforts to save lives. It is time for all in Congress to heed the will of the American people & join in enacting the House-passed bipartisan, commonsense, life-saving legislation into law.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 24, 2022
His prayers are with the families impacted by this awful event, and he will speak this evening when he arrives back at the White House.
— Karine Jean-Pierre (@PressSec) May 24, 2022
While we monitor this situation, we remember that Uvalde, while rocked by today’s events, is strong and resilient. In this time of trepidation, our office is always here to do whatever we can to help. We are family and we will continue to be here for each other.
— Rep. Tony Gonzales (@RepTonyGonzales) May 24, 2022
My heart goes out to those in the hospital receiving care and to the loved ones of those who lost their lives. As a parent, I cannot imagine the pain they must be feeling.
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) May 24, 2022
*I am in touch with local officials in Uvalde and plan to travel there as soon as I can get there
Horrified and heartbroken by reports of the disgusting violence directed at innocent schoolkids in Uvalde, Texas. The entire country is praying for the children, families, teachers, and staff and the first responders on the scene.
— Leader McConnell (@LeaderMcConnell) May 24, 2022
Thoughts and prayers are not enough.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) May 24, 2022
After years of nothing else, we are becoming a nation of anguished screams.
We simply need legislators willing to stop the scourge of gun violence in America that is murdering our children.
Pray for Uvalde. My heart is with South Texas today. Our community is rocked by tragedy as we continue to learn more details.
— George P. Bush (@georgepbush) May 24, 2022
My thoughts and prayers goes out to the families of love ones loss & injured at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX! Like when is enough enough man!!! These are kids and we keep putting them in harms way at school. Like seriously "AT SCHOOL" where it's suppose to be the safest!
— LeBron James (@KingJames) May 24, 2022
Again. https://t.co/aHfOeGPRCE
— Eric Holder (@EricHolder) May 24, 2022
The horrific rampage in TX once again makes clear that there are some very sick people in this country with guns in their hands who should not have them. Congress may not be able to end this problem, but we must at least pass commonsense gun reforms to finally protect the public.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) May 24, 2022
To the families of Uvalde, we weep with you in your grief and ask for God’s solace for your unfathomable pain. May your angels be lifted up to spite the darkness that took them. And may the light of reason and compassion save the lives of others in their namesake.
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) May 24, 2022
#Uvalde
The most well-aged tweet ever on this app. https://t.co/LvvEgSE2w9
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) May 24, 2022
This is fucking terrible. https://t.co/3A7pVcJXzc
— Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 (@AndrewYang) May 24, 2022
What might we be if only we tried.
— Amanda Gorman (@TheAmandaGorman) May 24, 2022
What might we become if only we’d listen.
Sen. Chris Murphy gets on his knees on the Senate floor: "I am here on this floor to beg, to literally get down on my hands and knees to beg my colleagues: Find a path forward here. Work with us to find a way to pass laws that make this less likely."
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) May 24, 2022
Horrifying news. A mass shooter has killed 14 students and 1 teacher at Robb elementary school.
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) May 24, 2022
I don’t have the words to express my outrage at this preventable atrocity. God help us. https://t.co/IyE4OwHpj5
Our hearts are utterly and completely broken. You can’t stop a bullet with thoughts and prayers. To honor those lost and save countless lives, we need action. We’re dying while we wait for it. pic.twitter.com/6sF8FL2sjr
— March For Our Lives (@AMarch4OurLives) May 24, 2022
Schools should be sanctuaries of safety for our children, not where they go to die.
— Moms Demand Action (@MomsDemand) May 24, 2022
Join the millions of Americans demanding our lawmakers stand up to the gun lobby so our children don’t have to stand up to gunmen. Text ACT to 644-33.
The shooting at Robb Elementary in Texas is a horror.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) May 24, 2022
My heart aches for the families devastated by this tragedy and the Uvalde community.
Children are dying, and we could do something about it. But the GOP won’t stand up to the gun lobby.
Shameful doesn’t begin to cover it.
I implore – beg – my Republican colleagues to join Democrats in finally making changes to our gun laws to help prevent Americans from re-living this gun tragedy far too often. We cannot continue to sit on our hands and allow innocent lives to be lost. Congress must act.
— Senator Dick Durbin (@SenatorDurbin) May 24, 2022
End violence in schools
— UNICEF (@UNICEF) May 24, 2022
End violence in schools
End violence in schools
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End violence in schools
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Our message is clear: #ENDviolence NOW. pic.twitter.com/Znl3b8FbTc
14 children and one teacher left home for school today in Texas, never to return. My thoughts and prayers are with their families and all those who were wounded in this tragedy. We must end violence in our schools before another precious life is lost. #ENDviolence
— Catherine Russell (@unicefchief) May 24, 2022
Lord, enough.
— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) May 24, 2022
Little children and their teacher.
Stunned. Angry. Heartbroken.
How many more lives? How many more children? And how much longer before we reject the choices that have made ours the one country where this happens routinely? It is not inevitable, it is horrific. It must end.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) May 24, 2022
Contact Kelsey Watznauer at (309) 820-3254. Follow her on Twitter: @kwatznauer.
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SEATTLE — The police department in Vancouver, Washington, has agreed to improve services for people who are deaf or hard of hearing as part of a settlement reached Tuesday with the U.S. Justice Department.
Federal authorities became involved after receiving a complaint from a deaf woman who said she was denied services that would allow her to communicate with and understand officers during her arrest and interrogation.
Officers knew she was deaf when they responded to the call that led to her arrest, but they did not bring a sign language interpreter. Instead, she said, police required her minor daughter to act as an interpreter.
Further, the woman had her hands cuffed behind her during her transport to jail, preventing her from communicating at all.
In the settlement the Vancouver Police Department agreed to pay the woman $30,000 and to update its policies and procedures to make sure those who are deaf or hard of hearing can effectively communicate and receive equal access to services in their encounters with Vancouver police.
The woman is identified only by her initials, E.H., in the settlement documents, which also did not detail the reasons for her arrest. However, the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle noted that the investigation further revealed that Vancouver police failed to provide a qualified interpreter to the alleged victim of the incident, who is also deaf.
“Law enforcement encounters are some of the most high-stakes and personally significant moments a person can experience,” Tessa Gorman, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Seattle, said in a statement. "It is critically important that individuals be able to effectively communicate in these moments – both to provide information to the police and to receive information about their rights.”
The settlement notes that the Vancouver Police Department cooperated fully with the investigation. Under the deal's terms, the department will provide the U.S. Attorney's Office with draft policy revisions improve communication with those who are deaf or hard of hearing.
The department agreed to modify its restraint and handcuffing policy so that detainees who are deaf or hard of hearing can communicate using American Sign Language or in writing by having their hands in front of their bodies.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office will monitor the department’s compliance with the settlement for the next two years.
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'The Conjuring' house in RI that inspired the horror movies is sold
BURRILLVILLE — The Harrisville house that inspired the Conjuring series of movies is expected to be sold to a Boston developer on Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the buyer.
Jacqueline Nuñez, owner of Boston-based WonderGroup, has agreed to pay $1.525 million for the house, which had an asking price of $1.2 million, according to her spokeswoman, Michelle McGrath.
"It's not going to be turned into a private property," said McGrath. "It's still something that will be open to the public."
RI's most haunted house:'The Conjuring' property for sale for $1.2 million
McGrath said Nuñez's interest in the property is personal. "She has an interest in the spiritual," McGrath said. "She believes that there's some spiritual activity that happens in the house."
Live Facebook announcement from 'The Conjuring' house planned
The current owners of the house, Cory and Jenn Heinzen, have scheduled a live event on their Facebook page, The Farm on Round Top Road, for 1 p.m. Thursday.
Nuñez, who holds a master's degree from the University of Rhode Island and bachelor's and law degrees from Northwestern University, lives in the Savin Hill section of Boston's Dorchester neighborhood.
The Heinzens had operated a business renting the house to overnight visitors who styled themselves as paranormal investigators.
McGrath declined to comment on whether Nuñez would live in the house.
The first film in the Conjuring series focused on self-proclaimed demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren, of Connecticut, and their investigation of spiritual happenings that the Perron family said happened to them when they lived in the 3,100-square-foot house, at 1677 Round Top Rd.
'Death is not the end':Members of 'The Conjuring' family returns to Burrillville house
In October, three members of the Perron family – father Roger, then 86, and daughters Andrea, then 63, and Nancy, then 61 – returned to the house to take part in a live-streamed paranormal investigation there.
Other members of the family joined the event virtually from Georgia, where they now live.
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A grizzly sow and two yearlings were killed in Island Park on May 25, after the bears exhibited aggressive behavior and showed no fear toward humans after becoming food-conditioned and habituated to human food sources from residential areas.
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service euthanized a sow grizzly and two yearlings in Island Park on May 25, after the bears exhibited aggressive behavior and showed no fear toward humans after becoming food-conditioned and habituated to human food sources from residential areas.
Since April, the trio of bears began persistently seeking out and successfully obtaining food rewards from unsecured residential garbage and dumpsters. Due to their aggressive behavior, dependence on human food, and habituation to residential areas, the bears were captured and euthanized in the interest of human safety on May 25.
This is the second incident in less than a week where grizzly bears had to be euthanized after gaining access to unsecured garbage and other attractants. Residents and visitors in bear country are strongly encouraged to store all residential garbage containers inside a garage or locked shed. Garbage containers should only be put out the morning of pick-up, not the night before.
Bears are extremely adaptable and can learn very quickly to associate people with food. The presence of unsecured food sources of human origin such as residential garbage, bird seed, dog food, beehives, domestic poultry, or fruit trees have long been documented as sources of human-bear conflicts. Food-conditioned bears can rapidly lose their fear of humans, resulting in bears approaching people and ultimately putting the lives of both humans and bears at risk.
Grizzly bears in Idaho are federally protected under the Endangered Species Act and management actions are therefore done in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Jared Fuhriman, the longtime Idaho Falls police officer and former two-term mayor who died Sunday at age 60 after a long battle with Alzheimer's, is being honored this week by the city flying flags at half-mast.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m., Friday, at the Idaho Falls 28th Ward located on 2025 Jennie Lee Drive. The Fuhriman family will visit with friends from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at the Brickyard Event Center on 1025 S. Ammon Road and Friday from 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. prior to the funeral.
Fuhriman who spent nearly 20 years with the Idaho Falls Police Department before being elected mayor is remembered fondly for many of his good works through his church and in city government. But his legacy also is a complicated one.
As mayor, one achievement Fuhriman is remembered for was casting the deciding vote, to break a 3-3 tie, on the city’s 2013 nondiscrimination ordinance, which bans discrimination in the areas of housing and employment based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
The issue drew passionate input, both for and against, and Fuhriman's vote, which came nearly two years after it was revealed he'd been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment, was poignant. Before casting his vote, Fuhriman paused and had to ask the City Council what they were discussing before reorienting himself and breaking the tie. At the time, Idaho Falls became just the sixth city in the state to pass an ordinance along those lines.
Another of Fuhriman's achievements city government achievements also lives on to this day. He started the Mayor’s Scholarship Fund in 2006, which has awarded more than $422,000 to students in grades 8-12 to help them pursue a post-secondary education.
Fuhriman's longtime friend Craig Lords, a former municipal services director for the city of Idaho Falls, said Fuhriman was a pleasure to work for because of how much love he showed for the city.
“I think we lost a real jewel,” Lords said. “As a mayor, he was dedicated and had the courage to do the right thing.”
Lords said he also appreciated Fuhriman’s demeanor as mayor seeking input from all parties whenever he needed to make a decision. He said Fuhriman always dealt with honesty and tried to do his best for the city.
After Fuhriman stepped down as mayor, he and his wife Karen dedicated themselves to volunteer and speaking events to raise awareness and support for Alzheimer's patients.
The Post Register reported in 2016 that Fuhriman would often visit Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center and the Adventure Center to talk with patients or race them in a wheelchair to keep a positive outlook on his life.
Gov. Brad Little extended the authorization for the city to raise its flags at half-mast through the week, the city announced Tuesday.
"Mayor Fuhriman loved Idaho Falls and worked throughout his life to help serve others and to make our city what it is today," Idaho Falls Mayor Rebecca Casper said in a city news release. "He had a way of making everyone around him feel good with his friendly and reassuring demeanor. He exemplified what he referred as 'The Spirit of Idaho Falls,' where neighbors serve neighbors."
However, Fuhriman also leaves behind a record complicated by his police investigative work on two of the most high-profile criminal cases in recent Idaho Falls history.
Fuhriman was one of the lead investigators of Christopher Tapp’s wrongful murder conviction in 1998. Fuhriman was largely responsible for coercing a false confession from Tapp.
A key piece of evidence in convicting Tapp — what one court called the “crux” of the state’s case — was Fuhriman’s testimony at the trial that officers did not reveal any information to Tapp during the interrogation. Reviews of video recordings of Tapp's polygraph examinations showed that was not true.
Tapp spent 20 years in jail for the rape and murder of then 18-year-old Angie Dodge, a murder Tapp didn’t commit.
Tapp was exonerated in 2020 after Idaho Falls Police officers with the help of genetic genealogist CeCe Moore, who was able to identify a suspect by tracing the killer’s family tree using information from the DNA left at the crime scene and genetic research.
Brian Leigh Dripps Sr. was arrested for Dodge's rape and murder in May 2020 and confessed to the crime, telling investigators he acted alone.
In June 2021, Dripps was sentenced to a minimum of 20 years and up to life in prison for the crimes.
Fuhriman also investigated Michael Whiteley, who’s been in prison for nearly 30 years for a crime he claims he didn’t commit. Whiteley was arrested in January 1991 after he reportedly kidnapped and raped his ex-wife, Sylvia Canido. Whiteley was convicted in a jury trial based largely on Canido’s testimony and in August of that year he was sentenced to up to life in prison.
The Post Register reported in 2019 that both Tapps’ and Whiteley’s convictions were influenced by false, coerced statements with Fuhriman playing a key role. Legal experts have long questioned Canido’s testimony due to letters signed by Canido recanting her statement, which she denied writing.
At the time of the trial, Whiteley’s defense attorney negotiated a plea agreement that would have required him to admit to second-degree kidnapping and receive less than a year in prison but Whiteley, maintaining his innocence, refused.
Neither Tapp nor Carol Dodge, the mother of Angie Dodge, responded to the Post Register’s request for comment in time for this article.
Tapp is suing the city of Idaho Falls and the former police officers who investigated him, including Fuhriman, for police misconduct. A death notice for Fuhriman was filed in the lawsuit on Tuesday.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One person is in the hospital after a firefighters say a big rig crashed off of Interstate 5.
The driver of the big rig was said to be in stable condition, according to the Sacramento Fire Department.
Officials said the semi-truck crashed off of I-5 and ended up on San Juan Road just after 2 p.m. Wednesday. San Juan Road is blocked from Duckhorn Drive to Airport Road due to the crash.
Hazmat teams are on scene to clean up the fuel that leaked from the truck.
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November 4, 1952 – May 9, 2022
William “Cleve” Piatt was born November 4, 1952 and died May 9, 2022. He was preceded in death by his parents, William and Mavis Piatt. Survived by his wife, Suzy Piatt, whom he married on May 2, 1992; brother, Darryl Piatt; sisters, Marie Smith, Lona Archer and Barb Mulcahy; stepchildren, Anthony Walker and Andrea Morris; grandchildren, Ashley Guevara, Cassidy Walker, Brittany Syracuse, Logan Christensen, Mykenzie Christensen and Liam Morris; numerous nieces and nephews.
Cleve was a loving and generous man, well known in the Bandon/Coos Bay areas for years of hard work building and remodeling homes and businesses.
The most important day in Cleve’s life was when he dedicated his life to Jehovah God in 1980. He proved himself to be a self-sacrificing elder and enjoyed teaching others about the promises of God’s Kingdom. He loved helping others and using his skills to serve in building and maintaining Kingdom Halls.
There is nothing to describe the pain and sorrow felt by all who knew and loved this wonderful man.
Memorial services will be Saturday, June 4, 2022, 2:00 p.m. via the ZOOM app. Please call 541-252-5551 for more information.
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A Lincoln company that uses technology to make nitrogen fertilization more efficient has received more than $1 million from investors.
Sentinel Fertigation, the brainchild of founder Jackson Stansell, announced Wednesday that it has received an initial $1.2 million seed investment from a group of investors that includes Invest Nebraska, Burlington Capital Ag-Venture and the Nebraska Angels.
Stansell, an Alabama native who came to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to pursue advanced degrees in agricultural and biological systems engineering, developed the company out of research he did for his master's degree.
"Jackson Stansell leading Sentinel Fertigation is a perfect example of Nebraska entrepreneurs developing solutions that help farmers across the Midwest," Stephanie Luebbe, executive director of the Nebraska Angels, said in a news release. "The market is prime for a solution like this right now and we're bullish on what Jackson can accomplish and learn this growing season."
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Seed funding is typically the first investment a company receives from outside investors. Sentinel Fertigation, which had previously received $25,000 investments from the UNL student venture fund and the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development's LaunchLNK program, said it will use the current investment to complete software development, execute initial imagery contracts and hire additional staff.
The company will be working with Midwest farmers in a paid pilot program this summer.
"Our paid pilot program this summer is the first step to our system making a significant impact at scale," Stansell said in the news release. "I am excited about the team we have begun assembling and working with them to make Sentinel the leader in fertigation management.”
Directions 2022: Changing times in Lincoln
Explore all of the articles, videos and photos in this year's Directions section here.
Several residential projects in or near downtown, including the 250-foot-tall Lied Place Residences, will open to residents this year.
Delta Nelson's entire life has been rooted in the auto industry, so it only made sense when she decided to open The Mechanix Garage in Lincoln.
Downtown Lincoln's population is expected to reach 10,000 in 2025 — a 730% increase since 2010.
The history, culture and DNA of the Cornhusker state are woven throughout the Scarlet, which is scheduled to open this spring.
Robin Eschliman's annual review of restaurants in Lincoln found more dining options opened in 2021 than shut down.
Over $2 billion worth of inventory was sold online through HiBid in 2021, and there are typically anywhere from 700,000 to 1 million items listed on the site at any given time.
Assurity's Jack Douglas moved with his wife from South Carolina in 2020, the height of the pandemic.
What started as an ambitious vision in 2015 has nearly come to fruition for Speedway Properties and Nelnet, which partnered together and bought more than a dozen properties in the once-blighted area in the 2010s.
Union Bank & Trust executive vice president Doris Robertson attributes the bank's recent success in part to the innovations the company made during the early days of the pandemic.
Before Boxcar BBQ officially served its first slab of ribs to a paying customer in October, the staff experimented with hundreds of pounds of meat and dozens of tweaks to their recipes.
Even when the work is hard and frustrating, Jayne Ellenwood says it fills her bucket to be a part of Bryan's response to the community.
The golf club that opened in 2001 has gone private and among its new features will be a 250-foot-long lazy river, an adults-only pool with a swim-up bar and a six-lane competition lap pool.
"I wrote thank-you cards to anyone that spent money with us. … I wrote hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cards," owner Laurie Frasier said, even if someone only spent a few dollars.
With the South Beltway set to open next year, some developers worry the city isn’t thinking aggressively enough about spurring growth in an area still largely unserved by sewer and other infrastructure.
Jason Ball returns home to lead the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce with determination to "keep the ball rolling" for Lincoln as the city develops and grows.
CHI Health plans to open a new clinic at 40th Street and Yankee Hill Road, while Bryan Health will wrap up a multiyear expansion and renovation at its East Campus hospital.
Directions 2022: Growing chickens for Costco a link to origins of five-generation Seward County farm
Each of the eight Schulz Poultry barns holds 45,000 birds, which arrive at just a couple hours old and spend the next 42-44 days in the barns before going to Fremont for processing.
Jada Picket Pin said she enjoys serving first-time visitors to the Green Gateau, as well as regulars who return for the excellent food and quality service.
Christina Melgoza has seen big changes in Lincoln during her eight years as director of lot sales at Kreuger Development. She spoke to the Journal Star about Lincoln’s growth, the housing market and more.
Since CompanyCam's inception, more than 400 million photos have been stored and 15 million projects created largely by contractors looking to better document their work.
Monolith led a record year for investment in Lincoln-based companies, which collectively raised nearly $300 million in venture capital in 2021.
Many employees moved to remote work during COVID-19, a trend that's likely to stick around, experts say. But other pandemic effects, such as labor shortages and pay increases, are likely to be short-term changes.
A fundraising campaign brought in more than $10.3 million for the 7 acres of land near the airport and the 60,000-square-foot new office building and warehouse, almost doubling the Food Bank's current space.
Watch Now: Veteran coach and broadcaster Derrick Pearson brings a new sports radio vision to Lincoln
Jay Foreman, Erick Strickland and Vershan Jackson have shows on the The Ticket, which also has programs featuring 22 current Nebraska athletes.
The Journal Star invited businesses and other offices celebrating an anniversary divisible by five this year to share their history with readers.
The Journal Star invited readers to share honors that businesses or employees received as best of state, region or nation. Also included is a recap of the major awards presented by business organizations locally.
In June, the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce resumed ribbon-cutting events to mark new businesses, businesses with new owners, relocated and renovated businesses, business anniversaries and ground-breaking ceremonies.
Reach the writer at 402-473-2647 or molberding@journalstar.com.
On Twitter @LincolnBizBuzz.
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He'd been called out of his office — where staff had expertly distracted him — unaware that students had spilled out in the hallways to give Mr. Deibler one last send-off.
Then the familiar opening of "Sirius" began.
"I did not expect that at all," Deibler said, who broke out in a big smile as he rounded the corner, high-fiving students and giving out hugs to staff who had formed a tunnel walk just for him.
His family was there, too — his wife, Lorrie Ford, and daughters and grandkids who came into town to be part of the surprise.
"He didn't know we were coming in," said his daughter Mandy Spitzer, who flew in from Massachusetts and arrived just in time. "We were just so excited to see him."
Wednesday marked the end of the final school year for Deibler, who's been at Pound for 25 years, the longest time at one school of any current LPS principal.
Originally from Mullen, Deibler came to Lincoln and "worked at some other things" before going back to school. He got into education and spent 18 years working his way toward a doctorate.
He began his career at Lincoln Public Schools in 1986 as a P.E. and health and science teacher at Lefler Middle School, where he was promoted to assistant principal.
It was in 1997 when then-Superintendent Phil Schoo and administrator Marilyn Moore took a chance on him, Deibler said, and sent him to Pound, a middle school in southeast Lincoln.
"I'd never been a principal before," he said from his office Wednesday. "They felt it would be a good match, and they were right."
Deibler had organized a similar tunnel walk when Ross Dirks retired as associate principal years ago. So when it was Deibler's turn to say goodbye, Dirks wanted to pay it forward.
As the students got in position, Dirks came to Deibler in his office to tell him something was up that needed his attention.
"Dr. Dirks, he came in and 'talked' to me ... as if he had some business to he wanted to talk about," Deibler said. "He tricked me."
Assistant Principal Victory Haines, who will take over for Deibler this summer, said his predecessor built a strong culture and staff at Pound over the years.
"Let's just say (there are) some very big shoes to fill," Haines said
Deibler is one among a significant number of teachers and administrators at LPS retiring this year.
As of March 15, when most retirement decisions have been made, 240 certified staff and administrators indicated they were leaving LPS, or about 6.2% of staff. At that time last year, the number was 190.
Deibler said the last few weeks have been bittersweet. He'll miss the students and "rock-star" staff the most, but he's looking forward to the next chapter.
"This is a great community," he said. "I've had the best job in town for 25 years."
Once he had winded his way through three hallways, signing autographs along the way like a superstar athlete, the principal stopped inside the front entrance of Pound.
School was just getting out. Summer was finally here. And the students formed a line to say goodbye.
Zach Hammack, a 2018 UNL graduate, has always called Lincoln home. He previously worked as a copy editor at the Journal Star and was a reporting intern in 2017. Now, he covers students, teachers and schools as the newspaper’s K-12 reporter.
The mission to show Tom Cruise a good time as he prepared to film "Top Gun" in 1985 fell to Lt. Walter E. Carter, Jr., known to his fellow naval aviators as Slapshot, and to the Cornhusker state as University of Nebraska President Ted Carter.
The Nebraska native has spent her whole life working hard, and it's all about to pay off in June when she receives her degree from Stanford University.
“Everything I’m doing right now, I’m treating it (like) it's the last time I’m doing it,” LPS Superintendent Steve Joel said. “I try to get there a little bit early, try to stay a little bit late, try to talk to as many people as I can talk to.”
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Monday, Thomas claimed a no-trespass order handed down to him from the district in September prevented him from experiencing his first grader's school year.
The two-story addition will contain two smaller labs and one larger gymnasium-sized space officials are colloquially referring to as the "hangar" that will be able to accommodate aircraft.
Pay for a full-day substitute teacher at Lincoln Public Schools would increase from $165.64 a day to $171.77. A half-day sub would see $85.88 a day, up more than $3 from this year.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — For 2 decades, Anjali Hursh has been bringing people together with her music and her South Asian dance moves.
She’s better known as DJ Anjali. “But my full name is actualy Gitanjali. My mom named me. My mom’s from India. She named me after a book of poems, which Gitanjali means song offering. So it was kind of like — I was born to be a DJ, you know?”
She’s been owning that birthright, hyping up Portland crowds since 2000 along with her partner, The Incredible Kid.
The style for which she is best known, Bhangra, “is Punjabi folk dance. That style, it’s almost like that music found me, like my family’s from a different part of India. So I didn’t grow up with Bhangra. But when I became a DJ, I got a couple Bhangra CDs and compilations and it was just, like, it’s such fun party music.”
It’s party music and dance scenes you might see in Bollywood movies.
“Like, arms up, everybody’s, like, jumping up and down,” she said, laughing. “Bollywood definitely, kind of, absorbs a lot of Bhangra.”
Before becoming a DJ, though, there was a time when Anjali didn’t embrace that side of her ancestry.
“Of course, I went through my teenage era where I was, like, I reject all of my Indian heritage,” she said. “Then it came back to me after college, like, organically, like, on my own terms, I guess.”
Now she has advice for others who might be going through something similar.
Watch: DJ Anjali and The Incredible Kid, 2013
“I think as a kid, like an Asian immigrant kid, you can just be so annoyed when you’re young by all of the traditions. I think that’s really typical to go through your rejection phase,” she said. “But then the beauty of it is that later in life you can embrace it kind of on your own terms, you know what I mean?”
Through her journey to embrace her Indian roots, DJ Anjali has been able to spread joy while sharing a fun part of her culture.
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RICHARDSON, Texas — Police arrested a student Wednesday after officials said he was allegedly seen walking to a Richardson ISD high school with a rifle.
Richardson Police said the department received a call just before 11 a.m. on May 25 of a man walking toward Berkner High School with what appeared to be a rifle.
Richardson Police responded to the area and initiated a search. In collaboration with Richardson ISD, the police department said it was able to identify the suspect as a student of Berkner High School.
The suspect was located but no weapons were found. Police located the suspect's vehicle in the parking lot of 1551 East Spring Valley Road and inside, officers found what appeared to be an "AK-47 style pistol" and a "replica AR-15 style Orbeez rifle."
The student was arrested and charged with unlawful carrying weapons in a weapon-free school zone.
Richardson Police said no other details will be released about the suspect due to his age.
Berkner High School and nearby Springridge Elementary School were placed on lockdown protocols during the incident.
"The Richardson Police Department would like to remind the public of the importance to report suspicious activity, as we recognize the vigilant awareness and actions of the person who initially called 911 to alert law enforcement," Richardson Police said.
The incident comes one day after at least 21 people were killed Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, including at least 19 children. The suspect in the shooting was an 18-year-old resident of Uvalde.
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DALLAS — One child has been transported to a local hospital following a Dallas house fire, officials said.
Dallas Fire-Rescue crews responded to a fire at a one-story home located in the 4200 block of Munger Avenue, near Haskell late Wednesday afternoon.
A fire investigator at the scene said four people were inside the home -- one adult and three children. One child was transported to a local hospital for burn injuries and the family's dog died, the investigator said.
The investigator told WFAA, the blaze didn't "look suspicious," but the investigation is ongoing.
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WISE, Va. (WJHL) – Southwest Virginia leaders gathered at UVA Wise for an economic forum, with the biggest topic of discussion being the economic boom the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino is about to bring.
Almost 300 business and community leaders attended.
President of Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Bristol Allie Evangelista was a part of a panel discussing the growth the casino will bring.
“Not only are we bringing a brand new form of entertainment to the area,” Evangelista said. “We’re bringing opportunity for careers.”
Evangelista said her team has already hired about 400 team members over the past month and a half.
Shannon Blevins with UVA Wise said population trends are expected to decline in Southwest Virginia in the coming years, but it’s new ventures like Hard Rock that could change that.
“The trends are projected to actually decline unless there are mighty interventions,” Blevins said. “So when you look at the opportunities that are in front of this region, there’s plenty of opportunity to reverse that trend.”
Sara Dunnigan with Virginia Growth and Opportunity (GO Virginia) said this economic forum is a step in the right direction.
“Southwest Virginia has really demonstrated the highest level of commitment to collaboration and shared success,” Dunnigan said.
Evangelista said a lot of people within Hard Rock have shown interest in moving to Virginia but are struggling to find housing. Another topic of the forum discussed creating new places for casino employees and guests to stay or live.
“I’m so excited about this opportunity to bring the first casino to Virginia,” Evangelista said. “But I’m more excited just because of the excitement of the community.”
The temporary casino is on track to open on July 8.
Hard Rock is still hiring in the area, with the next event taking place on June 1 in Johnson City at the DoubleTree hotel.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Art from dozens of elementary school students now decorates a Johnson City park.
The Johnson City Public Art Committee held a dedication ceremony Wednesday evening to mark the unveiling of the artwork.
The art from students is now hanging on banners at the Niswonger Children’s Hospital Natural Adventure Area in King Commons Park downtown.
Drawings and paintings were selected from children at schools across Johnson City who worked hard for weeks on their projects. One of the children chosen says it is a joy to see her art hanging downtown.
“I feel really special when I see it. It just makes me feel so happy and proud,” said Sarah Amarna, a Lakeridge School student. “I really like the scene of sunset, and whenever I look out in my car, I see the beauty of the sunset and the sun.”
Amarna explained that the scene inspired her artwork.
The art from students will hang at the park for at least a year.
City leaders congratulated all of the students who were chosen with gifts and certificates for their hard work.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Science Hill High School’s graduation ceremony has been moved indoors due to the threat of inclement weather.
The ceremony will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday inside Freedom Hall Civic Center.
It will be a ticketed event, with each graduating senior receiving nine tickets during graduation practice, which will take place at 1 p.m. Friday inside Freedom Hall.
Johnson City Schools shared the following information about Saturday’s ceremony:
- We ask that you limit what you bring inside. If you need to bring a bag inside of the event, please ensure that it is a clear bag. All bags that are not clear will be searched upon entry.
- Graduation practice is required and will begin promptly at 1 p.m. on Friday, May 27 inside Freedom Hall Arena. Please allow 1.5 hours to complete practice and review information. It is imperative that seniors be on time.
- For the ceremony, seniors should be inside Freedom Hall Auxiliary gym (located by swimming pool) by 9 a.m.
- All guests should arrive and be seated inside Freedom Hall by 9:30 a.m.
- The proper attire for graduation is a Science Hill Custom Cap & Gown purchased from Jostens and business casual. It is requested that gentlemen wear shirts with collars, ties, dark or khaki pants, dark shoes and socks. Ladies are requested to wear a dress or slacks and a shirt with dress shoes. Please choose your shoes wisely as you will be walking from the gym to the stadium.
- Decorations or messages on caps will be permitted but must adhere to our policy regarding content.
- Handicap drop-off and pick-up will be at the plaza level of Freedom Hall. All seating, including handicap, will be on a first-come, first-serve basis. A deaf interpreter will be on stage facing section 8 and the first three rows will be reserved for those will hearing impairment.
- Live streaming of this event will be available for family and friends who are unable to attend the ceremony. The link for the live stream will be available at www.jcschools.org the morning of the event.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Services have been announced for Rev. Vincent Dial, who died Monday night after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
A visitation service will take place Friday beginning at 2 p.m. at Topper Palace at Science Hill High School.
A celebration of life will follow at 4 p.m.
Dial, a Johnson City icon, was the senior pastor at Bethel Christian Church and chaplain for the East Tennessee State University football team. He served for years as a band teacher at Liberty Bell Middle School before becoming North Side Elementary’s principal in 2001. Described by others as a pillar in the community, Dial remained active in schools and the church up until his death.
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TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL)- As the recent Texas mass shooting is hitting home for many families, schools across the region are not only feeling heavy-hearted but are already taking steps to ensure they’re prepared if a situation like that were to happen in the Tri-Cities.
Local administrators say they are learning from what happened in Uvalde, Texas and are starting to adjust their own safety plans.
“Today, increased presence, last night at 10, Major Rice and I are communicating to make sure we do that just to make sure families feel that we are aware and paying attention,” said Greg Wallace, the supervisor of Safety and Mental Health for Johnson City Schools.
Kingsport students in summer classes will see a larger police presence in schools.
“When the events of yesterday occurred, communication began with us and the Kingsport Police Department,” said Asst. Superintendent Andy True. “KPD is going to provide us some additional presence, some additional walkthroughs in addition to our SROs that are on staff throughout the summer.”
Adding more school resource officers was already in the works for Kingsport City Schools with another full-time SRO being added as early as next school year. That district has the least in the region.
“As we go into the school year, we’re really looking at having five full-time SROs in addition to the four [limited service employees] that provide coverage at our other schools,” said True.
Washington County, TN Schools are planning to add one more SRO to each high school.
“Usually they’re the larger schools in most school districts, so it’s just a matter of volume and also the age of the students in high schools,” said Superintendent Jerry Boyd. “The violent acts are typically committed by the older students.”
In Johnson City, there is an SRO assigned to all 12 buildings and a sergeant assigned to the unit.
The largest school district in the region, Sullivan County Schools, is like most with at least one school resource officer in each building.
“We’re always looking to improve every day. If we can find something to improve, we will. All of our guys are SWAT trained, they’re active shooter trained and they’re all certified SROs,” said Sgt. Jaret Ratliff, who is over the system’s SRO program.
The officers are in addition to the Raptor check-in system that scans driver’s licenses.
“It keeps the sex offenders out of here, and it gives us a list of who is in the building if we have an active shooter or a fire or tornado or something that we need to count and see who all was in here and make sure they’re out safe,” Ratliff said.
Most schools also have a multi-tiered entry system with layers of protection.
“We have 3D-M on most of our schools, the door and you can get a shot through it, but you can’t break through it,” said Ratliff. “You’re not going to be able to shoot your way through the door. It’s going to hold up.”
JCS is working to have secured foyers in every building.
“You’ll get buzzed in through the initial entry into the building, and you’ll have to get buzzed in a second time if you are given entry to the students, and there’s the goal that we’re moving toward to have that for all of our schools,” Wallace said.
Schools in Tennessee have a safety assessment once a year with state and local officials. But some districts- have task forces that look at it more often.
“For the last several years, we’ve had a safety task force that is comprised of not only school administrators but also law enforcement, first responders, and emergency response to be able to help us craft a plan and put in place a plan that is as safe as possible for us as a school district,” True said of KCS.
Leaders also say drills including all parties involved are key.
“We really need to look at what kinds of training that we provide and even outside resources and the sense of qualified folks to come in and train our safety teams,” said Boyd. “Students are a part of the response as well in the sense of they need to know what to do if there’s ever a threat.”
JCS is holding an active shooting training this summer that is set to include more than just school staff and students.
“In July, we’re going to have a multi-unit response to an active shooter drill, which is going to include the police department, fire, EMS, 911, potentially WINGS air rescue, the hospital so that all of those different entities are going to work together on a drill to make sure that we’re as prepared as possible,” Wallace said.
Each district leader said that the biggest thing they want students and families to do is if they see something, say something.
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(WJHL) – Following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that claimed the lives of 19 children and two teachers, many parents are now left wondering how to discuss such a topic with their children.
Dr. Carlos Isaza, medical director of Woodridge Hospital’s Willow Unit, joined News Channel 11 Wednesday to inform parents and guardians on the best ways to have those conversations. Isaza, who is also an assistant professor in ETSU’s psychology and behavioral health department, answered a series of questions.
You can watch Isaza’s full interview in the video above.
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CABELL COUNTY, WV. (WOWK) – Many gun owners and sellers say they are concerned about the possibility of more gun restrictions being put into place.
“The gun doesn’t do it,” said Rick Sperry, the owner of Rick’s Gun Shop in Kenova. “It’s a person or someone picks that up and does something bad with it,”
This comes as the nation continues to grieve after Tuesday’s tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School in Texas.
Now, the question many Americans are asking is what can be done to prevent this from happening again?
“If you have all those gun restrictions, then all the bad guys will have the guns and then we are all in trouble,” said gun owner, Robin Nichols.
Some residents say the way to stop this violence is to push for more gun restrictions and make them less accessible. However many gun owners say they disagree.
“It’s not going to solve anything making firearms limited,” said Sperry. “There should be more restrictions on people and their mental capacities to function in society. The issue is in behavior”
Many who own firearms say instead of attacking gun rights, the nation should look to who operates the gun and focus their efforts on mental health.
“Instead of going after the guns, more people need to be active in supporting people with mental health issues,” said Nichols. “What to look for, what to say if you see something in your circle, or in your family. Because it doesn’t matter if it’s a gun, or a car like we saw last week, or a baseball bat. If they want to wreak havoc they are going to grab whatever they can and do it.”
While some say they feel unsafe in the presence of a gun, others say they rely on their firearms for security for themselves and their family.
“It just makes me feel so much safer in my day-to-day life knowing that if something does arise, I can protect myself and my daughter,” said Nichols.
Sperry says owning a gun is a responsibility that shouldn’t be taken lightly and that it all comes down to gun safety. He says everyone who owns a gun or plans to get one, should take a gun safety course.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Gov. Jim Justice says he is getting treated for possible Lyme disease.
Justice said in a press release that he started feeling “extremely sick” after the WV GameChanger events on Monday.
Justice shared this statement in an email:
I immediately got tested for COVID-19 and was negative, but I am still having symptoms and nowhere near 100%. As of now, I am being treated for possible Lyme disease.
Gov. Jim Justice
He says he will be postponing COVID-19 briefings and is hoping to hold one sometime after the Memorial Day holiday.
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HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) — During Spring 2022, the City of Huntington will begin a new road paving construction project.
The City says they hope to pave 62 roadways by the end of spring, totaling over $2 million.
Here is a list of the roadways chosen:
City Council District 1
- Bradley Road from Handley Road to the end of the roadway;
- Kentucky Street from Auburn Road to the end of the roadway;
- Auburn Road from Jefferson Road to Burlington Road;
- Jefferson Road from Magazine Avenue to West River Road;
- Lucian Street from Hughes Street to Chase Street.
City Council District 2
- 22nd Street West from Adams Avenue to the dead end;
- 6th Street West from Washington Avenue to Virginia Avenue;
- 17th Street West from Monroe Avenue to Jackson Avenue.
City Council District 3
- 3 ½ Alley from 14th Street to 15th Street;
- 12th Street from 4th Avenue to 5th Avenue.
City Council District 4
- Oak Lane from North Altamont Road to the dead end;
- Sunset Drive from North Altamont Road to the dead end;
- South Edgemont Road from Memorial Park Drive to 141 Edgemont Road;
- Hawthorne Way from South Boulevard (east entrance) to 605 Hawthorne Way.
City Council District 5
- Euclid Place from 10th Avenue to Charleston Avenue;
- Lincoln Avenue from 20th Street to 21st Street.
City Council District 6
- Norway Avenue from Olive Street to Rugby Road (project extends into District 7);
- 800 Block Alley from 11th Avenue to 12th Avenue;
- Bethel Road from Norway Avenue to the dead end.
City Council District 7
- Wilson Street from 28th Street to 2812 Wilson Street;
- Washington Boulevard from Avondale Road to Olive Street.
City Council District 8
- 30th Street from 3rd Avenue to 4th Avenue.
City Council District 9
- Riverside Drive from the floodwall entrance to Elm Street;
- 35th Street from 3rd Avenue to the floodwall.
Projects submitted by At-Large City Council members
- Saltwell Road from Washington Boulevard to Sumner Avenue;
- 8th Street West from Washington Avenue to Adams Avenue.
Requests for the roadways to be considered were sent to Huntington’s City Council. The roads were chosen based on factors like traffic volume and road conditions, and residents say those issues can get pretty bad.
“When there’s ice, they can’t scrape the roads because of the brick, and it stays slick,” said Huntington resident Elsie Muncy. “It’s dangerous, I don’t get in my car when it’s icy.”
Another resident says he is glad Huntington is putting money toward projects like this.
“You have to start somewhere, and if that’s what it takes to bring in businesses and clean up the city, then I’m all for it,” said Huntington resident Michael Matt. “As it’s an older city and the population has declined, there’s things that you just don’t have the funds for. And now that they do have the funds, it’s good to see them start to put things back together.”
The City says they are putting more money into the roads now, hoping to start a 10-year paving cycle.
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PRESTONSBURG, KY (WOWK) — During a morning investigation, officers found human remains near the Riverside Drive area in Prestonsburg.
Prestonsburg officers say area dispatchers received a call in the morning of May 25 about a vehicle that may be related to an investigation led by the Kentucky State Police.
They say when they arrived, they found the vehicle. Kentucky State Police were notified about the possible connection and officers and fire officials started to look around the area.
While searching, they say they found human remains near Riverside Drive.
According to the Prestonsburg Police Department, the KSP is conducting the investigation as a possible part of the already active case.
They say they will release more information when it becomes available.
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RIPLEY, WV (WOWK) — Principals are sharing school safety precautions after the Texas mass shooting Tuesday.
“It’s devastating,” said Jimmy Frashier, Ripley High School Principal. “You know, you hate to see that from anything, and then you always think back to our kids here and how we would handle those situations.”
The mass shooting has people questioning if it could happen here. Frashier says one of the best resources they have is an armed officer on duty.
“I think that’s the top key,” Frashier said. “I really do. Not only just his presence, but the relationships he has with our students.”
Their second line of defense is making sure all visitors are approved before entering the building.
“Standing behind me is like a mantrap where all of our visitors would have to come in here and buzz the office before they’re allowed to get into our school,” Frashier said.
Students also practice lockdown drills during the year. Stepdad Wayne Britton says a mass shooting never happened when he grew up, and he thinks it would not happen if old ways were still taught in schools.
“Lack of discipline in the school, and they took the bible out of the school,” said Wayne Britton, a student’s stepdad.
Britton says proper gun training could be the solution to the problem.
“People hate guns,” Britton said. “I understand they do, but if they teach them the right way to handle a rifle or a pistol and what not to do, it’s a lot better than the federal government trying to take all the rights of the NRA away.”
The principal says the prevention resource officer goes over to the elementary school and checks on the kids often to make sure things are okay.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — Charleston residents and visitors can once again enjoy outdoor dining, food trucks and outdoor recreation on Kanawha Boulevard from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
To keep pedestrians safe, the activities will require temporary closures on Kanawha Boulevard and other Downtown Charleston streets. More information is below.
Outdoor Dining
Parts of Capitol and Hale streets will close for outdoor dining from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Virginia and Quarrier streets will be open. Emergency crews will still have access to closed streets.
Outdoor Dining — Memorial Day Weekend (Friday, May 27 to Monday, May 30)
Capitol Street, from Kanawha Boulevard to Lee Street, will close Friday at 3 p.m. to Monday at 10 p.m. Hale Street, from Quarrier Street to Lee Street, will close Friday at 3 p.m. to Saturday at 11 p.m.
Outdoor Dining – Regular Schedule (Memorial Day to Labor Day)
Capitol Street, from Kanawha Boulevard to Lee Street, will close Friday at 3 p.m. to Sunday at 10 p.m. Hale Street, from Quarrier Street to Lee Street, will close Friday at 3 p.m. to Saturday at 11 p.m.
Note: During Charleston Sternwheel Regatta and Labor Day weekend, closure for Capitol Street
will be modified.
Food Truck Wednesday (Wednesday, June 1 to Wednesday, Aug. 31)
Every Wednesday from June 1 to Aug. 31, there will be music, food and activities in the City Center at Slack Plaza. This will occur from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wedndesays. DJ EJ will kick off the summer series and participating food trucks will include MR Poppins, The Shape Shop, Dem 2 Brothers, Busters Blazin’ Grill, Mr. Choo Choo, Just Drinks and more.
Sunday Kanawha Boulevard Closure for Outdoor Recreation (Memorial Day to Labor Day)
Kanawha Boulevard, between Court and Greenbrier streets, will close to vehicles every Sunday from
Memorial Day to Labor Day. This will make space for outdoor recreation such as biking, walking, and running. The westbound lane of Kanawha Boulevard, between Morris and Hale streets, will be open to local vehicular traffic.
Charleston Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin said the Capital City is excited to bring back summer acitivites in addition to Live on the Levee and more events.
“It’s going to be an exciting summer in our Capital City with family and friends!”
Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin
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MEIGS COUNTY, OH (WOWK) — Sheriff Keith Wood tells 13 News that another arrest has been made in connection to the shooting death of Kane Roush.
Roush was killed early Easter Sunday morning in 2021.
Right now, Sheriff Wood confirms a third arrest has been made.
Two other men from Charleston were charged in connection to Roush’s murder. One of them is expected to be in court tomorrow.
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Police: Missing money and drugs leads to murder and arrests
Missing property, money and drugs leads to assault and murder, according to an arrest warrant.
Wichita Falls police were sent to the scene of a murder on May 21 at a home on Brown Street. They found 23-year-old Zachary Ryan Wood deceased from injuries he received from an assault.
Four people, Payton Collier, William Bell, Ronnie Lang Jr., and Ashley Esselborn have been arrested.
According to allegations made in Esselborn's arrest warrant:
During a police interview with Collier about another woman being at the house during the assault, Collier said Esselborn, was there with her boyfriend, Bell.
More:Police arrest fourth suspect in Wood's murder
During a police interview, Esselborn admitted she was at the house with her boyfriend when Wood was assaulted. She said she was sleeping in the same room with Wood. She said when she woke up, she noticed her property, money and drugs were missing from her purse. Collier also noticed she was missing money and they began to question Wood.
Lang entered the room and began beating Wood. Esselborn said she left the house but returned later with Bell because he left his shirt. She said later that night they drove towards Burkburnett and discarded bloodied items.
On May 24 a witness went to the police and told them they were scared. They said they overheard Esselborn bragging that she didn’t go to jail and that she put her hands on Wood that night.
More:Murder suspect was wanted for gun assault
When asked if Esselborn took part in the assault, Collier said Esselborn didn’t assault him, but said she was cheering them on while they were assaulting him at the same time yelling at Wood asking where her stuff was.
A warrant was issued, and police arrested Esselborn. Her bond was set at $1,000,000 by a judge.
Collier, Bell, Lang, and Esselborn have been charged with murder.
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RICHARDSON, Texas — Police arrested a student Wednesday after officials said he was allegedly seen walking to a Richardson ISD high school with a rifle.
Richardson Police said the department received a call just before 11 a.m. on May 25 of a man walking toward Berkner High School with what appeared to be a rifle.
Richardson Police responded to the area and initiated a search. In collaboration with Richardson ISD, the police department said it was able to identify the suspect as a student of Berkner High School.
The suspect was located but no weapons were found. Police located the suspect's vehicle in the parking lot of 1551 East Spring Valley Road and inside, officers found what appeared to be an "AK-47 style pistol" and a "replica AR-15 style Orbeez rifle."
The student was arrested and charged with unlawful carrying weapons in a weapon-free school zone.
Richardson Police said no other details will be released about the suspect due to his age.
Berkner High School and nearby Springridge Elementary School were placed on lockdown protocols during the incident.
"The Richardson Police Department would like to remind the public of the importance to report suspicious activity, as we recognize the vigilant awareness and actions of the person who initially called 911 to alert law enforcement," Richardson Police said.
The incident comes one day after at least 21 people were killed Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, including at least 19 children. The suspect in the shooting was an 18-year-old resident of Uvalde.
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BOISE, Idaho — After the shooting at an elementary school in Texas, both Governor Brad Little and Boise Mayor Lauren McLean issued statements.
Little and McLean each have children of their own and spoke from their perspectives as both Idaho leaders and parents.
"I just spent time with some local high school students, hearing their pleas for action on common-sense gun laws, and marking moments of silence for each of the 21 people killed in Texas," McLean said in her statement. "Nineteen young children were killed in their classroom. I cannot imagine the horror and pain their families are going through right now, though as a mom, I can feel in my gut the depths of trauma that they will forever feel."
McLean shared an experience she had with her son after learning about the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that happened nearly ten years ago.
"On my son's 9th birthday, shortly after learning that children younger than him had been violently killed at Sandy Hook, I walked into Longfellow School to celebrate his birthday and hear his class sing Christmas songs; I remember vividly the sense of horror I felt imagining the same happening there, at that moment. Yesterday as we prepared for his graduation party, I learned that this had happened again. In the intervening decade, we've owed their parents – and our kids – significant action, common-sense gun laws. Yet as my child and his peers graduate from high school, still nothing has been done. The list of victims to whom we owe action continues to grow."
Gov. Little is also a grandfather to school-aged children and said he found the news "heartbreaking" and ordered that flags be lowered to half staff until sunset on Saturday.
"If anyone can take comfort in my prayers, know that I am offering them. But these parents in Uvalde, and every community in this country, are owed action." the mayor said in her statement, "the vast majority of Boiseans and Americans want reform that would encourage responsible gun ownership and keep weapons of war out of the hands of people who would walk into an elementary school and murder almost two dozen children."
Mayor McLean's statement ended by saying: "We can do it. We must do it. It's time to pay our debt to help keep our children safe."
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GARY — After a young man was found dead, police are seeking the public's help in identifying him.
At 6:40 p.m. a deceased man was found in an abandoned house in the 1200 block of East 35th Place in Gary, Lake County Sheriff Oscar Martinez Jr. said.
The Lake County/Gary Metro Homicide Unit is currently investigating his cause of death, which has not yet been determined.
He is described as a white man who is about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs 204 pounds. Authorities believe he was in his 20s.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Lake County Metro Homicide Unit at 219-755-3855 or the Lake County Sheriff’s Department Report-A-Crime Hotline at 1-800-750-2746.
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When Porter Superior Court Judge Mike Fish is not on the bench presiding over high-level felony cases, he can be found coordinating legal services throughout the Midwest as a member of the Indiana Army National Guard.
His 33 years of service with the Guard culminated over the past weekend with the 51-year-old being promoted to colonel, which puts him in line to be the highest-ranking lawyer in the state when a senior officer retires Aug. 1.
"It's a great honor," Fish said of his service with the National Guard.
Fish said he was commissioned to serve as an Army lawyer two years after he obtained his law license in 1999.
His service is not all paper shuffling. Fish said he has been deployed with the Guard on three occasions, including three trips overseas and service in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
He continues his active service with upcoming training.
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Larry Boston, 21, and his childhood friend Charles Golden, 20, both of Chicago, were visiting a friend in Gary and planned on going on a double date July 8, 2020, according to trial testimony.
Pastor John Lowe II got a standing ovation initially after saying he had sinned and committed “adultery.” Then a woman walked up to the microphone and said she was 16 at the time. A prosecutor is investigating.
Maximilliono C. Farias didn't slow down before striking 19-year-old John Garner IV on Monday night as Garner and another man walked through a Merrillville parking lot, records state.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call detectives at the Lake County/Gary Metro Homicide Unit at 219-755-3855. To remain anonymous, call 866-CRIME-GP.
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Police officers from around the State are spending 8 hours a day for 5 days straight learning new skills on their bicycles. Bicycle Instructor James Burns talked about some of the challenges the course presents.
"We have a 10 foot circle. The officer’s going to make 3 rotations around the circle without touching the cones or putting their feet down. When they do that they can exit the circle, and they’ve passed that course."
One guy made it look easy, but the course gets progressively tougher.
"We have the slow maneuvering course where they have to make three 180 degree turns without putting their feet down or touching any cones."
Difficult, but the slow maneuvering course proved to be a big hit.
"It’s a 6 foot, 5 foot, 4 foot slalom that they have to weave through in and out without putting their feet down or touching any cones as well."
They also do things like panic breaking, emergency stopping, and learning to weave, but the training doesn’t stop there.
"Part of the course is we want to get the officers out on long rides. We want to teach them how to gear their bicycle correctly and pick up some speed."
It’s a lot of work, and even though these officers are from different agencies, Rome Police Officer Kalyn Olney thinks at this training camp they all feel like they’re part of the same team.
"Having everybody else encourage you. Encouraging others. I think the mental aspect of it is definitely huge."
Herkimer Police Officer Russell Schaffer is one of the many officers enjoying the training.
"We’re always trying to make ourselves better every day, but you got to find things that make you happy being on the job and learning, and this is definitely one of them."
Even though some may ride away in a little pain, James Burns says most everyone thinks the course is fun.
"It’s very fun. So just hearing from a couple of the police officers, they said this is the best week they’ve had this year, so this is one of the more fun things that we get to do."
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How Midland County voted
(unofficial results)
Registered Voters 95,470
Total ballots cast: 5,913
Republican Party 5,433
Democratic Party: 480
Republican Party
County Commissioner, Precinct 4
Early voting Total
Randy Prude 361 761
Dianne Anderson 767 1,506
Attorney General
Ken Paxton 1,828 3,916
George P. Bush 678 1,466
Land Commissioner
Tim Westley 695 1,678
Dawn Buckingham 1,645 3,273
Railroad Commissioner
Sarah Stogner 708 1,616
Wayne Christian 1,742 3,616
Precinct Chair 302
Carry Covington 26 54
Killi Kincaid Burkes 18 37
Democratic Party
Lieutenant Governor
Mike Collier 104 278
Michelle Beckley 64 197
Attorney General
Joe Jaworski 54 163
Rochelle Mercedes Garza 111 306
Comptroller
Janet T. Dudding 92 280
Angel Luis Vega 71 181
Land Commissioner
Sandragrace Martinez 87 255
Jay Kleberg 79 210
Source: Midland County Elections Office
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MCSO hosts Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association annual memorial service
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The Midland County Sheriff's Office was the hosting agency at this year's Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association annual memorial service on the campus of Sul Ross State University in Alpine.
The ceremony highlights those who have fallen in the line of duty.
Staff reporter for the Midland Reporter-Telegram
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DAVIS, Calif. — A student at UC Davis has died after being hit by a garbage truck on campus Wednesday morning.
The female student was riding her bike along Dairy Road and Hutchinson Drive on campus at 8 a.m. when she was struck, according to UC Davis Police Department.
She was taken to UC Davis Medical Center, where she later died from her injuries.
“On behalf of UC Davis, we share our deepest condolences with her family. We share in the pain of their loss,” said Chancellor Gary S. May in a press release. “In this time of grief, I do want to thank our first responders who worked heroically at the scene as well as the UC Davis Medical Center team who did everything they could to save her life.”
This incident was the second time this week a bicyclist was hit and killed by a garbage truck in the Sacramento area.
UC Davis has encouraged impacted families and student peers to take advantage of community support and resources on campus in grieving an untimely death.
The student's name has not yet been released as police continue to investigate the incident.
Watch more from ABC10: Why water safety is important in the Sacramento region
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FAIRFAX, Va. — Johnny Depp called his ex-wife's accusations of sexual and physical abuse “insane” Wednesday as he returned to the witness stand in his libel suit against Amber Heard.
“Ridiculous, humiliating, ludicrous, painful, savage, unbelievably brutal, cruel, and all false,” Depp said when asked about his reaction to hearing Heard's allegations when she testified earlier in the trial.
Depp was testifying Wednesday as a rebuttal witness — both he and Heard each testified extensively earlier in the trial.
He gave some specific responses to some of the particular allegations levied by Heard and also her sister, Whitney Henriquez, who provided some of Heard's strongest corroborating testimony.
He concluded his testimony with a final denial of the allegations.
“I have never in my life committed sexual battery, physical abuse, all these outlandish, outrageous stories of me committing these things,” he said. “And living with it for six years, and waiting to be able to bring the truth out.”
He said that “no matter what happens I did get here and I did tell the truth and I have spoken up for what I've been carrying on my back, reluctantly, for six years.”
On cross-examination, jurors saw text messages from Depp's phone to his assistant in which he used vulgar terms to refer to a woman's sexual organs and said “I NEED. I WANT. I TAKE.”
When Heard's lawyers asked whether the text message shows Depp believes he can claim ownership rights over a woman he desires, Depp denied he wrote the message.
“I don't have that kind of hubris,” he said, suggesting the text was doctored or someone might have commandeered his phone. “That's quite grotesque.”
Depp is suing Heard in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” His lawyers say he was defamed by the article even though it never mentioned his name.
Depp has denied he ever struck Heard and says she was the abuser in the relationship. Heard has testified about more than a dozen separate instances of physical abuse she says she suffered at Depp’s hands.
Depp also disputed a claim made by Heard that Depp had nothing to do with getting her a role in the superhero blockbuster “Aquaman.” When Heard testified, she was clearly offended by a question from Depp's lawyers insinuating Depp got her the role.
Depp, though, said that after Heard auditioned for the role, he talked to the studio on her behalf. He was barred from discussing the details of his conversations when Heard's lawyers objected, but said that "ultimately she did get the job, so hopefully, I suppose, I had curbed their worries to some degree.”
On cross-examination, though, jurors saw a text message sent after Heard filed for divorce in which Depp told his sister “I want her replaced in that WB (Warner Bros.) film.”
Still, when Heard's lawyer, J. Benjamin Rottenborn, asked Depp whether he tried to get Heard fired from “Aquaman,” he denied it. He said instead that he just felt duty-bound to let the studio know “that it was going to end up ugly” if they kept Heard in the film.
Also Wednesday, supermodel Kate Moss, a former girlfriend of Depp, denied that she had ever been pushed or assaulted by Depp during the course of their relationship.
Moss also testified as a rebuttal witness. Heard, in her testimony, made a reference to Moss and a rumor that Depp had pushed Moss down a set of stairs when they dated.
Moss, in testimony provided by video link, said Depp never assaulted her. She said she did once slip down a flight of stairs after a rainstorm at a Jamaican resort, and that Depp came to her aid.
She testified for less than 5 minutes and was not cross-examined.
Depp also addressed the accusation in his testimony, saying it happened just as Moss said. He said he'd told the story about Moss to Heard years ago and “Ms. Heard took the story and turned it into a very ugly incident, all in her mind.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – More than 70 employees at a Dr. Martens Airway distribution center in Portland will be without a job after the facility closes later in 2022.
According to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, or WARN Notice, sent Wednesday, the layoffs will begin Sept. 1 and will continue through Oct. 31.
The notice says the distribution center is closing permanently and 71 people will be laid off. The workers are not represented by a union.
Dr. Martens’ public relations representatives said the Portland office is not closing, just the distribution center.
Dr. Martens Airway shared the following statement with KOIN 6 News about the closure:
“Dr Martens is investing in a new, larger distribution centre in Los Angeles to support the continuing rapid growth of the business in the US.
“Regretfully, this will mean the gradual wind-down and eventual closure of our existing, smaller Anchor Park hub in Portland.
“As a business we will be doing everything we can to support the affected colleagues in Portland with generous severance pay, extended health care benefits, retraining and other help with finding alternative work.”
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Coconino High School held a senior community service day Friday as part of a week of celebrations for its graduating seniors.
It's the 23rd year the school has had the service day, and its first in-person since the pandemic started.
The day started with Senior Signing. The school’s seniors lined up to sign a poster with their name and plans for after graduation. They then went into the auditorium to wait for their assignments.
“It's an opportunity for students to understand the importance of their role in the community as seniors," said teacher Janet Chavez, one of the event’s organizers. "It bridges their time in school with what they're about to take on -- which is being a productive citizen of their communities and working to support those that support us."
The students had signed up for a variety of volunteer projects at CHS, other district schools (Sinagua Middle School and Puente de Hozho, Thomas and Killip elementary schools) or local organizations including Catholic Charities, Sharon Manor and Big Brothers, Big Sisters. Groups ranging in size from five to 25 students were sent out on their projects, led by the senior teachers.
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One senior, Anthony Nareaez, was heading to an urban trail cleanup event.
“I like being outdoors and I thought I might as well pick up trash while I’m there,” he said.
He plans to go to Norther Arizona University after graduating and study software engineering.
Marcia Ortiz and Ivy Cohen were headed to a CHS art classroom to help the teacher clean up and organize supplies.
“We both like art and we already have that classroom, so we'd be familiar with it," Ortiz said of their reason for choosing the project, adding: "We’d heard that other activities had landscaping, so we didn't want to do that."
Both said their favorite senior event this week was Thursday’s Hispanic Convocation, which they’d both attended.
After graduating, Ortiz has plans to go to cosmetology school, and Cohen will be taking a gap year to travel.
She said Cancun was first on her list.
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Installation of flood sirens in the Grandview and Sunnyside neighborhoods began this week.
The sirens are being provided by the City of Flagstaff and the Coconino County Flood Control District with financial support from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. Installation will continue through May. Testing, training and public awareness of the siren alert system will take place at various times throughout June.
The four elevated, high-power speaker arrays will emit alarm sounds and voice messages to residents when rain thresholds are triggered within the burn scar above the Flagstaff neighborhoods. Emergency messages from the sirens will repeat in English and Spanish. The sirens will operate alongside free emergency notification alerts text messages.
The purchase of the sirens was unanimously approved by the Coconino County Board of Supervisors following destructive 2021 flooding from the Museum Fire burn scar.
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There are currently three thresholds programmed for the siren operation. The first threshold is activated by 0.25 inches of rainfall in 15 minutes as measure by rain gauges in the fire scar. At this threshold, emergency personnel from the city and county will begin advanced monitoring, but no sirens or emergency alert messages will be activated.
The second threshold is 0.40 inches of rainfall in 15 minutes, at which point an emergency notification alert will be issued only for the Mount Elden Estates neighborhood. The siren alert system will also be activated, and city and county official will post alerts on social media.
At the third threshold of 0.75 inches in 15 minutes, an emergency notification alert will be issued for Mount Elden Estates, Paradise, Grandview Homes and Sunnyside neighborhoods. Text messages alerts will be sent to registered numbers in these areas, the siren alert system will be activated, and city and county officials will post alerts on social media.
The installation of these flood sirens is just one of many mitigation efforts that the city and county have been working on to address flooding from the Museum Fire scar.
Residents can sign up for emergency notification alert text messages at coconino.az.gov/ready. To hear the siren sounds that will be used by the Museum Flood area siren alert system, please visit museumfloodprojects.com/sirensystem.
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Rain spit down on a gray Wednesday as Officer Mario Herrera's family and fellow Lincoln police officers packed into a third-floor courtroom and an overflow courtroom to watch a judge sentence the teen who shot and killed him in 2020.
Felipe Vazquez, now 19, was 17 on Aug. 26, 2020, when he tried to escape from police who came to arrest him on the other side of his brother's locked bedroom door, breaking the window, jumping out and firing off three shots from a stolen gun.
"Society needs to be protected from Mr. Vazquez's dangerousness," Lancaster County District Judge Andrew Jacobsen said, before reading through each of seven counts.
He started with 70 years in prison to life for first-degree murder. Then went on to 59 to 86 years more for attempted assault on a second officer, escape and four gun charges.
The sentence means Vazquez won't be eligible for parole for roughly 70 years.
First-degree murder, as charged here, typically comes with an automatic life sentence. But because he was under 18 at the time, he faced 40 years to life, under Nebraska law.
"In my mind, the most important factor in this case is the age of Mr. Vazquez at the time these crimes were committed," said his attorney, Nancy Peterson, arguing for the judge not to give a life sentence. "He was little more than a child."
She said the law recognizes that 17-year-olds are different, and their brains still are developing. Coupled with his lack of opportunity and role models, she said, it helps to understand how he got to Aug. 26.
"Our hearts break for the Herrera family and for the community and everyone who lost a friend and colleague," she said.
Then, Vazquez offered a brief apology to the family for his actions, which cost Herrera his life.
"To the family of Mario Luis Herrera, I know times have been hard without him. Due to my poor decision-making, you're at a loss. But when comfortable, I ask for y'all forgiveness," the teen said.
Moments later, an at times tearful Adelina Herrera, who was 18 when her father was killed, stood at a podium, directing her comments to "the kid who killed my dad."
"On Sept. 7, 2020, my dad died and so did you," she said. "Your life ended the moment you shot and killed my dad, as living is more than just an existence."
Adelina Herrera said as she celebrates birthdays, graduates college, gets married someday and has kids of her own and grows old, Vazquez will still be sitting in a cell, the same 17-year-old kid that killed her dad.
Her dad's life wasn't meant to end early, she said, but at 50, he had a full and complete life.
"I could list off every single good quality he had, all of the good things he did and what an amazing police officer and person he was. But you don't care. You didn't care when you pulled the trigger and you don't care now," Adelina Herrera said, calling Vazquez a coward who deserved everything he gets.
Then, Lancaster County Attorney Pat Condon said: "They say this was a thoughtless and impulsive act, and that's how somebody that age acts. Yet for 20, 25 minutes he sat there negotiating with the officers, making up his mind which way he was going to go."
Out the door into the hallway, where he knew officers were waiting, or out the window and into the street, where he knew at least one officer was. Condon said Vazquez made that choice, and when he got into the street it was either the officer or him.
"By imposing the sentence, we tell Mr. Vazquez there are consequences to your actions and that you will not give him the opportunity to hurt another person, another family or another community again," he said.
In the end, Jacobsen said the court and the jury believed Vazquez's intentions were clear: He was shooting to wound or kill the officers in an attempt to escape.
After his arrest, just hours after having shot Herrera, he was recorded spitting on the floor of the interrogation room, singing rap songs and flashing gang signs to a camera.
"This is an indication to me that he harbored little to no remorse for his actions," Jacobsen said.
After sentencing, dozens of police officers poured out into the hallway and headed back down to the police station.
Celia Herrera, who is 17 now, stood beside her siblings and mother, Carrie Herrera.
"I think we're all glad that it's finally over," she said. "None of this will bring my dad back, but it's a little bit of peace of mind."
Carrie Herrera said you never want to ask why us.
"But you kind of ask, 'God, why did it happen to Mario' and, 'Why was their dad taken away.' Such a senseless act," she said.
The Lincoln Police Department says they have arrested two people — 32-year-old Derrick Pearson and 31-year-old Briana Jelinek — on suspicion of manslaughter in connection to a 57-year-old man's death early Thursday morning in central Lincoln.
Police said 45-year-old Rodney Badberg punched the man three times and kicked him once before fleeing the area on foot, leaving the man bleeding on the sidewalk.
"She is in a position of trust, where she is tasked with ensuring the safety of inmates, ensuring the safety of her co-workers, as part of her job ... and she violated that," Deputy Lancaster County Attorney Chris Reid said.
Henry Lee Jones, a resident of 2801 F St., was pronounced dead at a local hospital after a fight broke out around 6:30 a.m. Thursday near the intersection in front of his house, Assistant Police Chief Jason Stille said.
Prosecutors formally charged a 32-year-old man and 31-year-old woman with manslaughter and first-degree assault on Monday, four days after they allegedly confronted and killed a 57-year-old in a property dispute, police said in court records.
The visual records created by body-worn cameras have largely remained inaccessible to the public — a reality that calls into question the effectiveness of body cameras as a tool for police accountability in Nebraska.
Felipe Vazquez listens as he is sentenced to 70 years to life for the first-degree murder of Lincoln Police Officer Mario Herrera on Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court.
Adelina Herrera, daughter of Lincoln Police Officer Mario Herrera, speaks before Felipe Vazquez is sentenced on Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court.
Felipe Vazquez (center) and his attorney Nancy Peterson (left) look on during his sentencing for the first-degree murder of Lincoln Police Officer Mario Herrera on Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court.
Carrie Herrera (center), widow of Lincoln Police Officer Mario Herrera, listens as Felipe Vazquez is sentenced to 70 years to life in prison for first-degree murder Wednesday in Lancaster County District Court.
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If Wednesday hadn't been the last day for students at Lincoln Public Schools — a day typically set aside for fun activities — Sarah Sorensen would've kept her 7-year-old son at home.
Watching tragedy unfold hundreds of miles away at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, had unnerved Sorensen, whose son is a first grader at Wysong Elementary.
"It's an overwhelming feeling," Sorensen said. "You just want to hold your family a little bit closer."
It was a feeling shared by many families on Wednesday, a day after an 18-year-old opened fire with an assault rifle on a fourth grade classroom at Robb Elementary in a largely Hispanic community west of San Antonio, killing 19 students and two adults.
When Sorensen saw the news, she bounced between sadness, anger and hopelessness.
"I was in middle school when Columbine happened," she said. "Here I am grown with my own children and it's still happening."
Kevin Haake said the shooting weighed on his mind on Wednesday as he took his daughter to Schoo Middle School for her last day of eighth grade.
"It should be a day of celebration (but) I find myself thinking about it quite a bit," he said.
He said it's tragic that the U.S. has "done so little" since the Sandy Hook massacre, in which 26 people were killed — including 20 children — in Newtown, Connecticut in 2012. He would like it to be more difficult to purchase guns, including high-caliber assault rifles.
LPS Superintendent Steve Joel said attacks like the one in Uvalde "shake society to its core," but added that Wednesday was "business as normal" as he made stops around the district on the last day of school.
"I'm sure there were some parents who might have kept their kids home," Joel said in a joint news conference with Lincoln Police Chief Teresa Ewins on Wednesday morning. "I'll say that our schools are safe, and in many ways, safer than a lot of other places."
The shooting in Texas appeared to have no significant effect on attendance in Lincoln on Wednesday. In fact, more students were in school than the previous two days.
Ewins said there were increased patrols around schools on Wednesday, and LPS Security Director Joe Wright said administrators provided increased visibility.
After the Sandy Hook massacre, LPS and LPD began to work closely on threat assessment and violence prevention at schools. An interlocal agreement between the city and LPS signed in 2018 also added six school resource officers to work in the district's 12 middle schools, in addition to officers already in place in high schools.
The agreement also provided LPS with a full-time police investigator assigned to the district's threat assessment team, Wright said. Each school also has its own security team, comprised of administrators at the elementary and middle school level and campus supervisors at high schools.
But an attack like the one Tuesday makes Wright think about the gaps that may still exist in the system.
"I get paid to worry about that," he said.
For Sorensen, the conversation around gun control and better mental health resources for those in need cannot be delayed.
"We can all agree," she said, "something needs to change."
Zach Hammack, a 2018 UNL graduate, has always called Lincoln home. He previously worked as a copy editor at the Journal Star and was a reporting intern in 2017. Now, he covers students, teachers and schools as the newspaper’s K-12 reporter.
The mission to show Tom Cruise a good time as he prepared to film "Top Gun" in 1985 fell to Lt. Walter E. Carter, Jr., known to his fellow naval aviators as Slapshot, and to the Cornhusker state as University of Nebraska President Ted Carter.
The Nebraska native has spent her whole life working hard, and it's all about to pay off in June when she receives her degree from Stanford University.
“Everything I’m doing right now, I’m treating it (like) it's the last time I’m doing it,” LPS Superintendent Steve Joel said. “I try to get there a little bit early, try to stay a little bit late, try to talk to as many people as I can talk to.”
In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court on Monday, Thomas claimed a no-trespass order handed down to him from the district in September prevented him from experiencing his first grader's school year.
The two-story addition will contain two smaller labs and one larger gymnasium-sized space officials are colloquially referring to as the "hangar" that will be able to accommodate aircraft.
Pay for a full-day substitute teacher at Lincoln Public Schools would increase from $165.64 a day to $171.77. A half-day sub would see $85.88 a day, up more than $3 from this year.
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PHOENIX — Beaten back two years in a row, Gov. Doug Ducey may make one more try at enacting legislation to allow parents and school officials to ask judges to take guns away from people who are a danger to themselves or others.
"We thought it was good policy then," press aide C.J. Karamargin told Capitol Media Services Wednesday in the wake of the shooting in Texas that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
"We still do," he said. "And we remain committed to measures to increase school safety."
Ducey did manage to get his plan out of the Senate in 2018 by agreeing to dilute some of the provisions, only to have the House refuse to take it up.
A subsequent bid in 2019 fared no better. And Ducey has not brought it up since amid opposition from the fellow Republicans who control both the House and Senate.
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"Politics intervened," the governor told Capitol Media Services at the time.
But Karamargin said his boss never has completely given up on the idea.
"We thought then, and still do, it was a common-sense plan that protects the Second Amendment rights for law-abiding citizens while keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous individuals who are a lethal threat," he said.
The current legislative session is at a point where new policy bills are not supposed to be introduced.
In fact, the session should have wrapped up a month ago. But lawmakers remain at the Capitol because they have yet to approve a spending plan for the new fiscal year that begins July 1.
But Ducey has the constitutional power to call lawmakers into a special session — even one that runs concurrently with the regular session — to address specific issues. And Karamargin said he will not rule that out, saying a decision is "undetermined at this time."
Any bill the governor would ask be enacted would go to a highly divided legislature.
In a floor speech Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Rebecca Rios, D-Phoenix, said the reason children were murdered in Texas is directly attributable to the lack of action by not just Republicans in the U.S. Senate on gun-reform legislation but also "by state legislatures just like ours that refuse to act to end the gun violence epidemic in this country but rather send a nicely packaged 'thought and prayers' message."
That drew a sharp response from Senate Majority Leader Rick Gray, R-Sun City, who said that it's not the lack of gun laws that lead to mass shootings.
"For decades we've been teaching our children in school there is no God," he said.
"You can't pray, you can't even pray on the field," Gray said. "There are no absolutes."
Sen. Martin Quezada, D-Glendale, said there are things that could help — if only the Republican majority would allow them to be considered.
He ticked off a list of measures introduced by Democrats this year which did not even get a hearing. These include requiring parents to ensure that children do not have access to firearms and requiring a background check for all gun sales, including those person-to-person sales at gun shows.
And there was something else: allow judges to order a "severe threat order of protection" to remove weapons, at least temporarily, from the hands of those who present a danger to themselves or others.
That is pretty much what Ducey proposed in 2018 and again in 2019 — and may be willing to make one more try before he leaves office at the end of the year.
The plan actually was based on a study by the governor's office of prior mass shootings, including what were at the time the deadliest school shootings in the last 20 years. Ducey said that requires increased law enforcement and increased mental and behavioral health resources.
But the governor also said there are flaw in current laws on who can have a gun.
"Individuals who either suffer from mental illness or appears to be a danger to themselves or others are not necessarily prohibited form purchasing or accessing a firearm," his plan stated.
And as proof he cited the 2008 shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. He pointed out that the gunman had been dismissed from Pima Community College and that his parents had taken away his shotgun fearing he was a danger.
Ducey said a procedure for STOP orders could have prevented that — and could prevent future incidents.
It would allow family members, law enforcement, school administrators to seek a court order to keep people from purchasing or possessing weapons for some period of time. Ducey, in an interview with Capitol Media Services at the time, defended the idea of letting others trigger a mental health exam of those who may be dangerous.
"This law was brought together by superintendents and principals and teachers," he said, people who want to remove guns from dangerous individuals before they show up at school.
Part of what the governor said at the time may have been working against the legislation is that Arizona has not had the kind of school shootings that have plagued other states. Ducey said that's irrelevant.
"Why would this only be the focus in response to one of these school shootings?" he asked. "Why can't we do something proactively?"
The governor acknowledged the opposition the measure faced from the National Rifle Association and the Arizona Citizens Defense League, both of which raised questions about the plan.
Both are likely to raise renewed objections. But Ducey said that should not be a barrier.
"I believe we can get the full school safety package passed," he said. And Ducey said if there's a problem with that, "the onus is on us as elected leaders, the onus is on the legislature to make the right vote."
But current legislators — the ones who would have to consider such a plan — have their own ideas about dealing with school shootings.
"I think the solution is we need to arm our schools, plain and simple," said Sen. Kelli Townsend, R-Apache Junction. And that, she said, includes volunteer veterans, police — and teachers.
"The thing that stops this is equal force," she said.
"Are you kidding me?" responded Sen. Christine Marsh, D-Phoenix, who is a teacher. Marsh said this comes as Republicans are saying the law needs to be amended because teachers can't be trusted to decide how they teach about race, a reference to legislation to ban what foes call "critical race theory."
"And now you're suggesting you do trust them, though, to carry guns to school?" Marsh said. "I mean, give me a break."
The governor himself has been cool to the idea, saying in 2018 in the wake of a mass shooting in Florida that he doesn't see arming teachers as a way to deal with school violence.
"I want to see our teachers be put in a position where they can teach our kids," he said. And Ducey said security — and weapons — should be the job of school resource officers, "people that are there in charge of security so the teachers can go ahead and teach," Ducey said.
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For 45 years, Eric Lepie has put in 10- to 12-hour days, five, six and sometimes seven days a week, at 1702 E. Speedway.
For 30 years, he ran his namesake restaurant and ice cream shop in the space. Over the last 15 years, he’s tossed pizzas and poured craft beers, many of them locally brewed, at 1702 — the sign explained the name with a simple statement: “It’s the address.”
When he and his partner Austin Santos decided to jump into the local craft brewing scene in late 2011, they dubbed their nanobrewery The Address, also a play on the 1702 street address.
But at the end of business on Friday, May 27, Lepie will turn out the lights one final time when he locks the doors of 1702 for good.
“We really never recovered from the pandemic,” he lamented earlier this week as the clock ticked on the pizzeria’s final days. “The research people (from the nearby University of Arizona) really haven’t come back to their offices. The parking lot has been empty for the past two or three years.”
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1702 never closed during the pandemic, pivoting to takeout and delivery using a third-party delivery app. The costs, Lepie said, ate up 30% to 40% of his sales. He and Santos scaled back the menu, taking pastas and sandwiches off and streamlining to chicken wings, pizza and craft beer to cut food costs.
They kept the smaller menu in place after things started opening up in summer 2020, but with all the new variations of COVID-19 and the threats of infection that followed, the parking lot remained mostly empty.
In February, Lepie’s neighbor Greek House at 1710 E. Speedway threw in the towel after eight years, telling its customers in a Facebook post on Feb. 20 that “COVID just proved to be too much for us.” Part of the Greek restaurant’s menu is being served by its sister restaurant Dolce Vita Italian Bistro at 1800 E. Fort Lowell Road.
“I think when the Greek place went out, the writing was on the wall,” said Lepie.
Not only will Lepie be closing the restaurant on Friday but he’s also closing the final chapter of a 45-year restaurant career in Tucson.
He opened his first restaurant, the popular Eric’s Fine Food & Ice Cream, in 1977 and gained a reputation for unusual and innovative (for the times at least) ice cream flavors, including his Gentle Persuasion, made with oatmeal and prunes. The treat landed on “Letterman” and “The Tonight Show” and was lauded by the The New York Times when it was dubbed 1987’s product of the year by a national food trade magazine.
Lepie is most proud, though, of sending a gift certificate good for a free burger to Mars as part of the UA-led Pathfinder landrover mission in 1996. Lepie said he was an honorary member of the Pathfinder team, which regularly came to his restaurant after hours. He would open the restaurant just for them, he said.
“I was hoping that either (Jeff) Bezos or (Elon) Musk would bring it back,” he joked, alluding to the two mutlibillionaires’ private space flight companies.
When he closed Eric’s in 2006, he pivoted to pizza at 1702 and business was good from the start.
“We had an incredible crew, great people in the kitchen, great management,” he said “The pandemic came on and it kind of crushed us.”
Lepie said his plans after Friday include renewing his passport so he can travel more and visiting his daughter.
“It’s been a struggle and after doing this since 1977, I figured it’s time to enjoy life again,” he said.
1702 will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 or 9 p.m. Thursday, May 26, and Friday, May 27.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com. On Twitter @Starburch
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It's tempting to succumb to numbness.
Years of absorbing the massacres of our country's children — or the ordinary shootings of our fellow Americans — and doing nothing about it produces in me a narcotic stupor. Maybe in you, too.
We've seen this before, we've felt the shock, we've wept for the victims and the families, we've screamed at the state of our country, and we've moved on. As a survival mechanism, we've learned to sedate ourselves against the justified fear and rage that comes welling up.
Maybe this time, let's not.
We don't need to plumb the depths of our national pathology anymore to measure the dimensions of the problem, to puzzle out the causes or dream up solutions. We've done that all before, and still the problem is becoming more acute.
Gun deaths have been rising as a cause of death among American children since 2013, the year after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. But in the last three years, from 2019 forward, the shooting deaths of children have really spiked, the New England Journal of Medicine reports
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Gunfire surpassed car crashes as the top cause of death for children in the United States in 2020.
Children are perpetrators as well as victims. At least 14 teens were arrested for murders committed in Tucson last year. The most recent one arrested, 17-year-old Fabian Kristyan Montiel, was accused of shooting to death a 70-year-old homeless woman, Linda Mendibles, along the I-10 Frontage Road, possibly as she slept.
So we know the problem is both chronic and getting worse.
And now, the desperate efforts to blame anything but our easy access to guns are falling apart, too.
It is guns
People have said we need to "harden" school security, but this failed in Uvalde yesterday. A school security officer exchanged gunshots with the killer, who wounded him and made it inside the school. Police also fired at the armed teen before he'd committed his massacre, but he fired back, warded them off, and made it into a classroom.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and even the mayor of Uvalde, Don McLaughlin, have tried desperately to steer the conversation in the aftermath toward mental health problems. We do, of course, have serious mental health problems in the United States, especially after the pandemic, but we're not too different from any other country in that sense.
We're the only country where these mental health problems regularly turn into gun massacres, especially by teens and young men.
Reckless and mentally ill teens are nothing new, of course. Impulsivity and the onset of mental illness occur naturally in teens. But their free access to firearms is, if not new, and growing in our state and country. And when you combine impulsivity with guns, and maybe even throw in mental illness, it can be a deadly combination.
There is no reason a kid should be able to buy a semi-automatic rifle like an AR-15 as soon as he turns 18, as the killer in Uvalde, Texas, did this month and as the killer in Buffalo did earlier this year. A California law establishing a higher age limit has been challenged in the courts, but it seems obvious that if we regulate teens' purchases of alcohol, we should regulate their purchases of guns.
At minimum, we could put more training requirements or other checks on teens' purchases.
Making it harder to buy guns won't eliminate teen killers, of course, but any obstacle might work in a given case. And of course, we know that the free access we offer now doesn't work for society as a whole.
Red-flag proposals
Of course young people don't make up the majority of our killers or victims — just a distressingly large proportion.
For others who are disturbed, armed and potentially violent, so-called "red-flag laws" fill a need. These are court orders that allow police to remove a person's guns when the person is a threat to himself or others.
In Arizona, we flirted with the idea in 2018 and 2019. Gov. Doug Ducey's office analyzed school shootings in 2018 and came back with a raft of proposals for school and gun safety. Ducey said Wednesday it's worth another try.
Among them was what he called Severe Threat Orders of Protection, or STOP Orders, Ducey's version of a red-flag law. The proposal passed the Arizona Senate but failed in the House due to opposition from the gun lobby and the governor's own GOP.
This year, House Democrats have introduced at least 13 bills related to regulating firearms, including a STOP Orders bills. Most of them were introduced by Rep. Jen Longdon, who was injured in a shooting and uses a wheelchair, and none have passed.
More popular and widely known than either of these ideas are proposals for universal background checks. As it stands, licensed gun dealers must conduct background checks before making a sale, but other sellers at gun shows and elsewhere don't have to.
The U.S. House has passed bills requiring background checks, but the Senate has not followed suit.
In fact, Arizona's senators presented an eyebrow raising contrast when asked about what the body could do following this latest massacre.
"It's f---ing nuts to do nothing about this," Sen. Mark Kelly said.
But Sen. Kyrsten Sinema dodged the issue saying, "I don't think D.C. solutions are realistic here."
Majority rules
These things are only unrealistic if we allow ourselves to remain paralyzed by the awful repetition of our recent history.
It's true that a strong minority of Americans oppose some of these relatively modest ideas, as does a powerful special interest with a lot of money. But the majority must eventually prevail, if we keep pushing, in passing reforms that help reduce the death toll and also respect constitutional rights.
As former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it in the 2008 Heller decision: "Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unlimited. It is not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose."
We, of course, have significant laws that we should be enforcing now. Too often the killers are found to have given our authorities reason to stop them before they went on a rampage.
But we also need new tools to lessen the carnage.
So let's snap out of the stupor and get this done.
Contact columnist Tim Steller at tsteller@tucson.com or 520-807-7789. On Twitter: @senyorreporter
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Cottonwood student arrested on suspicion of posting online threats to fellow students
A student at Mingus Union High School in Cottonwood was arrested on Wednesday after police say he posted messages threatening to harm other students on social media.
Cottonwood officers confronted and interviewed 18-year-old Noah Lee Rhebb after school officials and community members alerted the department about the posts.
Police said investigators were able to confirm Rhebb had made the threatening messages and that they were directed at other students at his school.
Police arrested Rhebb and booked him into jail on making a terrorist threat, which is a Class 3 felony.
The arrest comes a day after a gunman shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
“As underscored by the apocalyptic tragedy in Uvalde, Texas, yesterday, we must and will take threats like those posted in this case very seriously,” Cottonwood Police Chief Steve Gesell said in a written statement.
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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Vigil honoring victims of Uvalde school shooting to be held at Arizona State Capitol
On Wednesday — a week after people gathered in Phoenix to honor the victims of the mass shooting in Buffalo, New York — community members will come together again, but this time to honor the 19 children and two teachers who were killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
The candlelight vigil for the state's deadliest school shooting in modern history and the third mass shooting in the United States within weeks will be held at the Arizona State Capitol at 6:30 p.m.
The vigil comes just one day after a gunman entered a fourth-grade classroom and started shooting. Multiple students in the classroom were wounded, and officials have said the death toll could rise.
The names of the children are starting to come out, along with the identification of two longtime teachers who were among the victims, Eva Mireles, 44, and Irma Garcia.
The deceased students so far identified include Uziyah Garcia, 8; Xavier Javier Lopez, 10; Jose Flores, 10; and Eliahana Cruz Torres, whose age is not currently known.
University Health in Texas tweeted Wednesday morning that at least four victims from the shooting were in their care:
- A 66-year-old woman in serious condition
- A 10-year-old girl in serious condition
- A10-year-old girl in good condition
- A 9-year-old girl in good condition
The suspect, identified as Salvador Ramos, 18, had hinted of an attack on social media, according to state Sen. Roland Gutierrez, who said he had been briefed by state police. He said the gunman “suggested the kids should watch out” and that he had bought two assault weapons after turning 18.
Donations for the Uvalde community
GoFundMe established a website with verified fundraisers for those affected by the shooting.
Those include the fund started by Victims First, an organization that helps those affected in previous mass shootings. The description states the donations are for the victims and survivors in Uvalde.
"The funds collected will go to the families in cash payments with no strings attached, thereby fulfilling the full intent of the donors," the description in the fundraiser reads.
As of Wednesday afternoon they had raised over $1.8 million in donations.
A Robb Elementary Memorial Fund account was opened at First State Bank of Uvalde for the families, according to Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District.
People can donate in any FSB branch and checks can be mailed to 200 E Nopal St. Uvalde, TX, 78801. Zelle donations are also being accepted at robbschoolmemorialfund@gmail.com.
Biden says allowing teens access to an AR-15-style rifle 'violates common sense'
Before signing an executive order on policing Wednesday, President Joe Biden questioned laws that allow teenagers access to an AR-15-style rifle like the one authorities said Ramos used.
"The idea that an 18-year-old could walk into a store and buy weapons of war designed and marketed to kill, it's just wrong,'' Biden said. "It just violates common sense. ... "Where's the backbone? Where's the courage to stand up to a very powerful lobby?"
Biden said he and first lady Jill Biden will soon travel to Texas to meet with grieving families, adding that the whole nation should offer support.
"And we must ask when in God's name will we do what needs to be done to, if not completely stop, fundamentally change the amount of the carnage that goes on in this country," he said.
USAT reporters contributed to this article.
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Three months after the launch of the New York City's Subway Safety Plan, more than 1,300 people experiencing homelessness accepted help and shelter, Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday.
According to the Adams, 1,379 people accepted placement in safe haven, stabilization, and shelter beds as part of the Subway Safety Plan, a 17-page program to fight the massive spike in transit crime citywide.
The city's multi-pronged approach includes 30 "Joint Response Teams" with personnel from the Department of Health, the Department of Homeless Services, the NYPD and community groups.
Police will also have what the city called a "clear mandate" to enforce MTA rules, and will be trained on them. Among the prohibitions they will be expected to enforce: lying down on the seats, littering, drug use, or "using the subway system for any purpose other than transportation."
Another key change in the city's plan is requiring, rather than requesting, that people get off the train and leave the station at the ends of subway lines.
“Three months into our work making subways safer and connecting New Yorkers in need with services, and it is evident that our efforts are working,” Mayor Adams said in a statement. “We have connected more than 1,300 New Yorkers with shelter and other vital services and our teams are making hundreds of engagements every day on the subways, a monumental milestone.”
The number of those who accepted assistance is a great increase from the only 22 individuals who accepted help during the program's first week, according to the city.
According to the city, the outreach teams engage around 744 individuals in need daily through the Subway Safety Plan and the end-of-line outreach efforts to connect them with long-term permanent housing, mental health care, and other services.
“Every New Yorker deserves a permanent home and today’s milestone is a first step toward that goal,” Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services Anne Williams-Isom said in a statement.”
As part of the Subway Safety Plan, the city is providing outreach services at all 24 end-of-line stations every night and throughout the subway system every day. At some EOL stations, enhanced outreach is provided overnight through joint response efforts that include various city departments and community-based providers.
Though the city describes the number of individuals helped through the Subway Safety Plan as a "milestone," some of Adams' approaches to ending homelessness in the city have proven controversial -- particularly his efforts in removing encampments throughout the city.
The renewed push to engage with and offer services to homeless people camped out on city streets comes amid an already underway effort to help them out of its sprawling subway system, which has been plagued by crime and aggressive behavior over the last few months. That's not just limited to the homeless, though.
That said, Adams argues the current situation involving street homelessness is untenable and that as a society we have grown accustomed to seeing these encampments and accepted it as a way of life -- something he called "unacceptable" and "dysfunctional."
"We are going to have a city that is far better than the dysfunctional city that we've had for far too long," he previously said in March when unveiling more information regarding the encampments throughout the city.
Adams previously said people living in these encampments are offered services, including information on "safe haven sites" with dozens of beds.
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The Bureau of Land Management will open its campgrounds on the southern Oregon Coast for the summer starting Memorial Day weekend.
The District’s developed campgrounds will be open from May 27, 2022 to Sept. 30, 2022. The campgrounds include Smith River Falls, Vincent Creek, Fawn Creek, and East Shore in the Reedsport area; Park Creek east of Coquille; and Sixes River and Edson Creek near Port Orford. All campgrounds except East Shore, Sixes River and Edson Creek are free of charge. All campsites are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Sites at the Edson Creek Group Campground will be available by reservation after the installation of a seasonal bridge later this summer. Reservations for the group sites can be made at recreation.gov.
The BLM plans to open Loon Lake Campground and Day Use Area, located east of Reedsport, in July 2022. The repairs to the site’s water system and other infrastructure are almost complete, but it is unfortunately not far enough along to allow the agency to open the site for Memorial Day. East Shore Campground is located approximately one mile east of Loon Lake Campground and offers campsites, a small picnic area and access to the lake.
Public use restrictions currently do not limit campfires on BLM-managed public lands on the southern Oregon Coast. Nevertheless, it is important for visitors to be mindful of wildfire potential and be fire safe:
- Avoid activities that may cause fire or sparks. Fireworks, exploding targets, metal targets, and steel ammunition are not allowed on BLM public lands in Oregon and Washington.
- Ensure your campfire or grill is cool to the touch before you leave. Use the ‘drown, stir, and feel’ method, and do not leave until the site is cold to the touch.
The BLM encourages visitors to be aware of public health guidance and to be stewards of public lands every time you visit:
- Come prepared, be flexible, and have a plan ‘B’ if the area is crowded.
- Avoid unnecessary risks while recreating. Bring a first aid kit, know the location of your nearest clinic or hospital, and be prepared for emergencies. For more safety tips, visit Know Before You Go.
- Practice Leave No Trace principles and leave your public lands cleaner than you found them.
For additional information on the recreation opportunities available on BLM lands on the southern Oregon Coast, blm.gov/visit or recreation.gov.
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DALLAS — Tuesday afternoon was one of the last times Lily Lane would walk down the hallway of Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Center. She's a high school senior at Townview's School of Health Professions.
On Wednesday night, she instead walked down the stage at graduation.
At 18 years old, Lane is already a certified phlebotomist. And in the fall, she's heading to Trinity University in San Antonio for college, another step toward her goal of being a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon.
"I was born in China with a cleft lip and palate, and I have had six surgeries to fix that," said Lane. Her most recent surgery was on her jaw in 2021, and she still needs an implant in the future. She said each time, her pediatric surgeons have left a lasting impact on her life.
Lane wants to be a surgeon for many reasons, but most importantly, she knows she will be able to relate to children going through surgeries because of her own experiences.
When Lane was born in China, her birth mother gave her up at the police station. She went from an orphanage to foster care.
"I spent the first two-and-a-half years of my life in China and then my mom came and adopted me," she said. At a young age, she moved to Dallas.
At this point, Lane isn't ready to dig into her biological past.
"I have mixed emotions. I don't know if I'm ready yet, but I think I'm still working toward getting there."
But she looks at her beginnings with grace, thankful for the sacrifice her birth mother made to give her a better life.
Lane said her mom and their faith are what keeps her positive through all her surgeries and experience.
"Don't stop, just keep going," she said.
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DALLAS — In the wake of the May 24 mass shooting in Uvalde that claimed the lives of 21 people, including 19 children, many are wondering how law enforcement is tracking threats to public safety.
Dallas Police's Fusion Center is where detectives monitor threats to the public including gathering intelligence on possible mass shooters.
They launched new software that allows them even more access to social media posts and blogs.
"It allows us to filter and monitor in live time and we see alerts and make real-time decisions. If this is a credible threat and we vet it and look deeper into it and decide where we need to go with that threat," says Major Williams.
But police say they also rely on the public to come forward with information.
Richardson Police arrested a juvenile with a weapon near Berkner High School Wednesday after a woman called in saying she saw a man with a weapon walking toward the school.
"When you are seeing something you are just as important of a role as we are. You are the eyes of the police department," says Williams.
But law enforcement can't catch every threat. So, what happens when the shooter makes it onto a school campus?
Texas Republicans say there need to be more police resource officers or even arm teachers in schools through the guardian program.
"So, we are going to need people on the ground whether they are trained police officers or people who are trained in the school so the reaction time can be more quickly," says Ken Paxton, Texas Attorney General.
Former DISD Chief Craig Miller who also investigated more than 70 police-involved shootings while with the Dallas Police Department says arming teachers is not a good idea.
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"In my mind, it is never a good idea to arm teachers, educators are put on campus to educate kids. I think that is their goal. That's their responsibility," says Miller.
In Uvalde, authorities say an officer confronted the suspect who was in full body armor almost immediately but couldn't stop him from entering the school. So, Miller says expecting a teacher to confront someone in that situation is asking a lot.
"I don't think that you are giving that same level of training to teachers and the expectations for them to be able to perform in a crisis moment would be difficult," says Miller.
Miller says the best way to prevent something like this is to increase school security and continue to put more resources into gathering information about potential threats.
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DALLAS — Some faith leaders across North Texas are expected to be busy, planned mid-week and Sunday sermons.
“It is very much a struggle,” said Rev. Dr. Lucretia Facen, as she sat in the sanctuary of St. Paul United Methodist Church in Dallas.
Like some pastors, Facen is struggling to find words of comfort to pass along to church members after, yet, another school shooting tragedy in Texas.
“I think I reflect on how tired we all are of hearing this over and over again. It makes us feel powerless, in a sense. You know, the question that comes up for people of faith, why is God allowing this to happen? Where is God in all of this,” said Facen.
Some pastors believe those questions, unfortunately, become normal responses.
People are wondering how 19 children and two adults were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. The deadly shootings happened in a place that was supposed to be a community safe haven.
At the same time, people are still processing the shooting massacre at a grocery store in Buffalo, New York that happened just days ago. In that case, a gunman targeted, shot, and killed 10 Black people.
“It’s not even frustrating anymore. It’s just anger,” said Rev. Dr. Edgar Bazan, of New World United Methodist Church in Garland.
He was also preparing his sermon. The pastor said it’s tough.
“We just keep praying the same prayers. Saying the same things. At what point do we…do we change?” asked Bazan.
Processing emotions and facilitating hard, yet healthy, conversations are ways some pastors believe people can begin sharing.
Bazan said he’ll be encouraging his members to be proactive in contributing to the wellness of children.
”Kindness, compassion, forgiveness, justice. Looking out for the marginalized, for the poor. Really stepping into the gap for those who are suffering,” said Bazan.
At Facen’s church, she has some ideas in mind. She’s a mother and grandmother. She’s convinced taking emotions, even anger, and mobilizing them for good can be productive.
“It also, I think, brings to light the urgency of the matter. We cannot let this lie. We have to respond. And we have to mobilize. And I think the church has a role in that. I think we have to speak up,” said Facen.
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At least four people, including a teenager, were killed and six others injured in six separate shootings in Philadelphia on Wednesday.
The first shooting occurred along the 3000 block of Ella Street at 1:53 p.m. A gunman shot a 45-year-old man seven times in the upper body and a 44-year-old man once in the head. Both men died from their injuries. No arrests have been made and a weapon has not been recovered.
At 2:01 p.m., a 20-year-old man was shot multiple times throughout his body on the 1600 block of Erie Avenue. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:08 p.m. No arrests have been made and a weapon has not been recovered.
At 6:09 p.m., a 44-year-old woman was shot once through her right arm and into her right side inside an apartment along the 4600 block of Leiper Street. She was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital where she is in critical condition. Police said the woman knows the gunman and an arrest was made. They also recovered a weapon.
At 7:08 p.m., a 19-year-old woman, 34-year-old woman, 59-year-old man and another man were all on the 3500 block of Fairmount Avenue when a gunman opened fire.
The 19-year-old woman was shot twice in the right side, the 34-year-old woman was shot twice in the right leg, the 59-year-old man was shot three times in the right leg and the second man was shot multiple times in the right side.
All four victims were taken to the Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. The man who was shot in the side is in critical condition. The three other victims are stable.
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No arrests have been made and a weapon has not been recovered.
A man was shot along the 2100 block of Kennedy Street around 8 p.m. Police have not yet revealed the man’s condition or if any arrests have been made.
Also around 8 p.m., a teenager was shot along the 2300 block of Bailey Terrace. The teen was pronounced dead at 8:20 p.m. No arrests have been made and a weapon has not been recovered.
As of Tuesday night, there were 188 homicides in Philadelphia this year, down 9 percent from the same time last year which was ultimately the deadliest in the city on record.
There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here.
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UVALDE, Texas — As Texas once again goes through the heart-wrenching rituals that come after a deadly school shooting, the state will no doubt also revisit the promises and the proposals from the last time it happened.
The 2018 shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, near Houston, took the lives of ten teachers and students. It also inspired Governor Greg Abbott to hold roundtable discussions that eventually led to a plan.
“More than 40 pages offering 40 specific recommendations,” the governor announced in Dallas almost exactly four years ago. Since then, there have been two legislative sessions in Texas, which have included progress on some of what the governor proposed.
He signed new bills to give more access to school-based mental health services and to approve more funding to “harden” campuses to make them less desirable to attackers.
But the governor couldn’t build momentum for some gun control measures he floated like a “red flag” law that would allow authorities to seize guns from someone if a court deems that person a threat.
Even as the governor talked about gun safety and school safety after Santa Fe, he also made this clear in 2018: “I can assure you I will never allow Second Amendment rights to be infringed”.
Last year, after a firearm-friendly legislative session, the governor signed one bill in defiance of new federal gun control regulations making Texas a so-called Second Amendment Sanctuary State. He signed another bill allowing Texans to carry a handgun without a permit or training.
Tuesday's shooting in Uvalde became the deadliest school shooting in Texas' history, with a death toll of 21 people, including 19 students.
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As Memorial Day nears, events honoring veterans are filling the calendar.
The Exchange Club of Idaho Falls will hold its annual Field of Honor event for the 10th time this weekend. The event begins at 10 a.m. Saturday at Freeman Park. However, Field of Honor Program Chairman Dan Kahl said that anyone can sign up to volunteer to set up the 1,000 American flags Friday night in the park.
The Field of Honor's goal is to remember and honor veterans and local heroes, Kahl said. Kahl mentioned that the flags also honor first responders, the fire department and the police department. Anybody can sign up to sponsor a flag for $30 on its website, fieldofhonor.net.
"People sponsor flags to honor fallen veterans. Some people will even sponsor flags for teachers, coaches and parents," Kahl said.
Money given through donations and flag sponsors go directly to several nonprofits that Field of Honor supports. According to its website, "Net proceeds from your contribution go to help local veterans, families of veterans, victims of child abuse, and community crime prevention efforts."
Not only does this event remember the lives of those lost serving or currently in service, it hopes to bring awareness to and provide education of child abuse. Kahl said a lot of the proceeds go to victims of child abuse.
"I think the most important thing for people to do on Memorial Day is to take time and remember those who paid the ultimate price. We want to honor the fallen but also all veterans."
The Field of Honor will span three days, beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday with an invocation and welcome and closing at 4 p.m. Monday with the 1,000 flag pickup. In between these two, there will be events returning that have not happened in two years due to the pandemic.
"For the first time since COVID-19, we are going to have some in-person presentations proceeding the commencement service," Kahl said. "There will be a patriotism display brought in by Compass Academy. There will be entertainment, and some speakers from the American Legion and U.S. Navy will be there."
American Legion Post 56 in Idaho Falls also will host multiple ceremonies on Memorial Day, including placing flags on veterans' graves.
The American Legion, commonly referred to as the Legion, is a nonprofit organization comprised of U.S. veterans. Its headquarters are in Indianapolis, but local posts are all across the U.S. The Legion's goal is to "enhance the well-being of America's veterans, their families, our military, and our communities by our devotion to mutual helpfulness," according to its website.
Its vision statement is "The American Legion: Veterans Strengthening America."
Retired veteran and former American Legion state Commander Robert Skinner, who has been working with the local Legion for 35 years, said about placing flags on veterans' graves, "This has been happening for many, many years now. It used to be the city who did it, but they decided they didn't have enough manpower. So for about the last 10 years I'd say, we have been doing it."
The Legion will place flags at 9 a.m. Friday at Fielding Cemetery and 12 p.m. at the Vietnam Memorial. On Saturday, the Legion will place flags at 9 a.m. at Rose Hill Cemetery.
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The shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, is among the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Two days before summer vacation, 19 children and two teachers were killed, making it the deadliest school shooting since 2012, where 20 children and six staff members were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
Several school districts and education groups in Idaho responded to Tuesday’s shooting, offering support for students, educators and their families. Here’s what some of them had to say:
Jefferson School District 251
Jefferson School District 251 Superintendent Chad Martin sent an email to parents Tuesday night to express support for the district’s students, several of which who have been exposed to two gun incidents at Rigby Middle School in 2021.
On May 6, 2021, two students and one staff member at the school suffered non-life-threatening injuries after they were shot by a sixth-grade student who brought a handgun to school. Months later, police arrested a 13-year-old student who brought a gun to school in September. No shots were fired in the September incident and no one was injured.
Chad Martin
“As members of the school district community, we are deeply saddened by today’s shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Our community along with many others throughout the United States mourn the senseless loss of life and send our deepest condolences to those families affected by this terrible act of violence,” Martin wrote. “Please keep a close eye on your own children, and if you find that they need additional support, we ask that you contact your building principal or school counselor. We must help our children find the support they need. By working together we can help our students feel safe in our schools.”
Following the incidents at Rigby Middle School, District 251 has increased safety measures at its schools. In an April update to district patrons, Martin wrote the district has hired a safety coordinator to update building safety and security plan procedures.
The district also added additional mental health counselors, safety monitors for parking lots and hallways and two additional resource officers, among other strategies.
Bonneville School District 93
Bonneville School District 93 advises parents and teachers to visit the National Association of School Psychologists website to learn the best strategies on how to talk to children about violence.
District 93 encourages parents and students to report any sign they see of students struggling with self-harm, suicidal thoughts, sexual harassment, bullying or threats of violence. Reports can be made www.d93.org/HelpAlert or by texting “@GETHELP” to 855-528-0074.
“Our hearts are with the educators, students and families of Robb Elementary School, as well as the entire Uvalde community in Texas, during this incredibly tragic time. D93 counselors and mental health clinicians are here to support students and staff who may need help,” the district wrote on its Facebook page.
Idaho Falls Education Association
Idaho Falls Education Association President Julie Nawrocki said she feared Americans are starting to become numb to school shootings. She said many students practice active shooter drills for not if it happens, but when it happens.
Julie Nawrocki
“It’s not the scary Colombine or Sandy Hook anymore,” Nawrocki said. “It’s become almost a normalized situation and it’s enough. It’s time to stand up and say ‘this is enough.’ There are people that have the ability to protect our children and we need them to do that.”
Nawrocki called for requiring background checks at a minimum to purchase a gun, normalizing mental health treatment and improving school security.
She said about a dozen students at Skyline High School, the school she teaches at, and another dozen faculty members wore orange on Wednesday, joining a movement organized by Shiva Rajbhandari, a junior at Boise High School.
“Hunters wear orange so they don’t shoot one another. Tomorrow, on our last day of school at Boise High, we’re wearing orange to stand in solidarity with the victims of the Uvalde massacre and demand our elected leaders stand up to the gun lobby,” Rajbhandari posted Tuesday on his Twitter account.
Rajbhandari called for action from U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson and U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, all Idaho Republicans who have not publicly commented on the Uvalde shooting.
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The City of Idaho Falls Water Division will be repairing two leaking waterlines over the next 24 hours. Motorists should expect traffic delays and are encouraged to use alternate routes.
Water service interruptions are anticipated for both repairs. Impacted residences and businesses in the area will be notified prior to any disruption in service.
S Woodruff Avenue
The first repair begins tonight, May 25, at 9 p.m. at the 1400 block of S Woodruff Avenue, between E 12th Street and E 16th Street.
North and southbound traffic will be reduced to a single lane through the construction zone, occupying the western-most lanes on Woodruff Avenue. Construction may impact the commute on Thursday morning as crews patch the asphalt roadway.
E Anderson Street
The second repair will begin at approximately 6 a.m. on May 26 at the 300 block of E Anderson Street, between Wadsworth Drive and N Holmes Avenue.
Eastbound traffic will be reduced to a single lane through the construction zone. Motorists should expect traffic delays and are encouraged to use alternate routes. Construction impacts should be minor for the commute on Thursday morning. Barring any complications, the asphalt roadway will be patched and reopened prior to the evening commute.
Please reduce speeds, obey posted traffic control signage, and watch for construction crews throughout the work zone.
We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we repair the leak as quickly as possible.
For questions or concerns, contact the Water Division at 208-612-8471.
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GARY — The Gary YWCA could receive $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds.
YWCA Executive Director Caren Jones first went before the Gary Common Council at the start of April. Jones explained that during the pandemic, many Y services and programs were shut down, and several staff members were laid off or furloughed. She asked that some of the $80.3 million the city received in ARPA funding go toward the YWCA.
During the April meeting, several council members said they supported the Y's request, but an exact appropriation was not determined.
On Tuesday, the Gary Ways and Means Committee discussed an ordinance that would award the Y $1.5 million. Jones said the money would go toward some much-needed renovations as "everything in the building is 22-years-old."
Councilwoman Tai Adkins, who represents District 4, where the Y is located, said the Gary YWCA has been "a staple" in the community since it was created in 1920.
Adkins, who also chairs the Ways and Means Committee, noted that the Y has one of the city's only operational pools.
“During the COVID pandemic, I believe they did take a substantial hit but still continued to push through and be an avenue of support for the citizens of the city of Gary,” Adkins said.
The YWCA's long list of needed improvements includes modernizing the pool, installing a new roof, repainting the gym, renovating the day care and after school centers and getting new LED lights for the entire building.
The YWCA also has substantial personnel costs as the organization hosts a summer camp, an after-school program and swim lessons, Jones explained.
“We want to continue to offer the citizens of Gary the very best services that we can," Jones said.
Current ARPA allocations include premium pay, investments in broadband infrastructure and youth training programs.
A public hearing the for YWCA appropriation will likely be held during the June 21 council meeting, said Gary Director of Community Development Arlene Colvin.
Councilmembers Adkins, Cozey Weatherspoon, D-2, Ronald Brewer, D-at-large, and Mary Brown, D-3, all said they would support the ordinance.
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South Shore Line Miller project underway
Work has begun around the new Miller South Shore station.
Construction crews were at work last week around the Miller South Shore Station, where a new building and parking lots will complement the railroad's Double Track project.
Crews are working in Gary’s Miller neighborhood, where a sewer project has rerouted some traffic and station site work is underway.
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South Shore Line Miller project underway
Work has begun around the new Miller South Shore station.
John J. Watkins, The Times
South Shore Line Miller project underway
Work has begun around the Miller South Shore station.
John J. Watkins, The Times
South Shore Line Miller project underway
Crews are working in Gary’s Miller neighborhood on the Double Track project.
John J. Watkins The Times
South Shore Line Miller project underway
Work has begun around the new Miller South Shore station.
John J. Watkins, The Times
South Shore Line Miller project underway
Construction crews were at work last week around the Miller South Shore Station, where a new building and parking lots will complement the railroad's Double Track project.
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Thunderstorms with gusty winds caused power outages and downed tree branches throughout Northwest Indiana on Wednesday night.
As of 7:30 p.m., a total of 2,694 outages were reported by NIPSCO customers, with the largest outages including Hammond with 1,574, Cedar Lake with 146, Highland with 116 and Portage with 71. Power is expected to be restored Wednesday night, with times varying based on location.
There will be more rain and storms to come overnight Wednesday, but they are not expected to be severe, said Times Media Co. Chief Meteorologist Matt Holiner.
Gusty winds of up to 60 mph caused some down tree branches in south Lake County communities like Schererville and Lowell. Funnel clouds were spotted in Dupage and Cook counties in Illinois, but no such reports were made in Indiana on Wednesday night.
Indiana State Police at the Lowell Post said that a civilian did make a report of that they believed there was a tornado in Lowell near the Interstate 65 mile marker 240 near Route 2, causing police to investigate. However, police found no evidence of a tornado or any damage in the area to indicate a significant weather event. Holiner said it was likely straight line winds.
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A hazardous weather outlook affecting all Northwest Indiana counties and Cook County was issued Wednesday afternoon, warning of strong storms developing in the evening, with the possibility of tornadoes forming. Large waves and onshore winds also created dangerous rip currents, causing a high swim risk for Lake Michigan.
Thursday will bring thunderstorms in the morning through the afternoon, with scattered storms in the evening.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Zachary Lindahl
Age : 21
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204040
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Wayne Rivera
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204125
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Wayne Micka II
Age : 31
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204089
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Ocampo-Ayala
Age : 30
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204268
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vernisha Devers
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204213
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Vaughn Baker Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204183
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Tyran Calhoun
Age : 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204140
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON (SOCIETY IS VICTIM); BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tonya McElvene
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204160
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tommy Talley Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204107
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tessa Baumgartner
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204111
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tameko Brown
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204176
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stan Guydon
Age : 72
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204082
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shaun Ross
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204127
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Hall
Age : 59
Residence: Huntington, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204184
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Cicale
Age : 41
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204174
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Santino Garza
Age : 18
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204110
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sabrina Krueger
Age : 22
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204205
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ryan Vaughn
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204056
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Flores
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204053
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rosalinda Miranda
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204192
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Armstrong
Age : 34
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204072
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Hemphill
Age : 29
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204190
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ria Swelfer
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204186
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rex Arney
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204224
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Reinaldo Rosa
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204199
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - CONVERSION - UNAUTHORIZED CONTROL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Randy Martin
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204081
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Sherman
Age : 43
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204124
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Knight
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204189
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Pablo Frias-Maldonado
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204178
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: ASSISTING A CRIMINAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oletha White
Age : 49
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204032
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $75
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nivea McDonald
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204041
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Teague
Age : 36
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204105
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Natori Hull
Age : 24
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204153
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Murell James III
Age : 22
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204221
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Modesto Godinez Jr.
Age : 44
Residence: Knox, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204276
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mitchell Wood
Age : 51
Residence: Riley, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204121
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Slavik
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204049
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Rodriguez
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204129
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Potter
Age : 55
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204206
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Miner
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204248
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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Michael Lynch
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204130
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Kibler II
Age : 41
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204093
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Hitchcock
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204249
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Matthew Steen
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204091
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mark Simcoke
Age : 35
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204080
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcell Pierce
Age : 33
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204258
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Gross
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204043
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Lisa Woods
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204028
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leandrea Sanders
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204071
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Davis
Age : 32
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204052
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Krystal Brady
Age : 40
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204044
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Davis
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204264
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Brown Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204070
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keadrick Morris
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204134
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kamesha Houston
Age : 26
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204158
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justin Zinkiewitz
Age : 34
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204273
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justice Ball
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204141
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Julian Duron
Age : 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204232
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joven Evans
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204271
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Gutierrez
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204092
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204265
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204051
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jeffrey Reeves
Age : 29
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204260
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jameka Moore
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204280
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jamale Henderson
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204139
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Tate
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204038
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Irma Anguiano
Age : 46
Residence: Matteson, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204103
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Gregory Nash
Age : 49
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204157
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gigi Vega
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204162
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Genaro Cruz
Age : 40
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204076
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Garrett Landers
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204207
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Wingard
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204151
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Bibbs II
Age : 26
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204135
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dustin Gertz
Age : 31
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204225
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devin Bates
Age : 27
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204269
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Destiny Berrones
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204235
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Derek Gensel
Age : 32
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204045
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dennis Richardson
Age : 56
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204175
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Deidra Merritt
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204161
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Lapotka
Age : 55
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204253
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darryl Rodriguez
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204188
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darean Richardson
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204122
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dante Taylor
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204180
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danny Hall
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204195
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Damarcus Fisher
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204137
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Curtis Colvin
Age : 38
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204200
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POSSESSION - STOLEN PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clem Laster
Age : 33
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204266
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cierra Kelly
Age : 33
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204215
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Moynihan
Age : 31
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204068
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christina Guzman
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204259
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Gregory
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204243
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carlos VonHatten Jr.
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204256
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON - FELONY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brittany Ramirez
Age : 33
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204027
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Larry
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204217
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Hughes
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204263
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Fastabend
Age : 34
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204047
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Bobby Jones II
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204242
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bo Wayne
Age : 31
Residence: Trail Creek, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204074
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 32
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204187
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bennie Therrell
Age : 65
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204054
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Armond Gamble
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204042
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: COMMON NUISANCE - MAINTAINING - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Aquantis Walker
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204202
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antwan Lucious
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204120
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III; MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Antonyous Harris
Age : 20
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204090
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Antonio Johnson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204250
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antoin Lewis
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204116
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Trezak
Age : 47
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204272
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andre Prince
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204229
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Lucero
Age : 32
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204069
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alonzo White
Age : 45
Residence: Atlanta, GA
Booking Number(s): 2204084
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alexis Perkins
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204083
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexis Duenas
Age : 31
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204036
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Akosua Arhen
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204234
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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Tickets for the Montana State Fair going on sale May 31
Tickets for the Montana State Fair are going on sale on May 31. The fair will run from July 29 through August 6. Musical performances include the Beach Boys and new addition Cheap Trick.
Tickets can be purchased starting 9 a.m. on Tuesday online at www.tickets.goexpopark.com, by phone at (406) 727-1481 or in person at the Pacific Steel & Recycling Arena Box Office which is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The Pay One Price tickets include the Night Show Ticket, Fair Gate Admission and a $5 food coupon.
PAY ONE PRICE PACKAGEReserved or General Admission ticket, expedited Fair Gate Admission and a $5.00 Food Coupon to use with your favorite food vendor.
- MINI POP KIDS
- GA: $24 RSVD: $29
- THE BEACH BOYS
- GA: $49 RSVD: $54
- SKILLET
- GA $44 RSVD: $49
- CHEAP TRICK
- GA $49 RSVD: $54
- CHASE RICE
- GA: $44 RSVD: $49
- DWIGHT YOAKAM
- GA: $49 RSVD: $54
INDIVIDUAL TICKETReserved or General Admission Ticket ONLY (DOES NOT INCLUDE Fair Gate Admission or $5.00 Food Coupon)
- MINI POP KIDS
- GA: $19 RSVD: $24
- THE BEACH BOYS
- GA: $44 RSVD: $49
- SKILLET
- GA: $39 RSVD: $44
- CHEAP TRICK
- GA: $44 RSVD: $49
- CHASE RICE
- GA: $39 RSVD: $44
- DWIGHT YOAKAM
- GA: $44 RSVD: $49
Fair Gate prices:
Adults: 18 to 59 - $8Children: 5 and under are freeLunch Special: $5 (Available Monday through Friday between the hours of 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.)Seniors: 60 and older - $5Youth: 6 to 17 - $5
MINI POP KIDSSaturday, July 305 p.m.Tickets range from $19 to $29
THE BEACH BOYSSunday, July 317:30 p.m.Tickets range from $44 to $54
SKILLETMonday, August 17:30 p.m.Tickets range from $39 - $49
CHEAP TRICKWednesday, August 3 9 p.m.Tickets range from $44 - $54
CHASE RICEFriday, August 59 p.m.Tickets range from $39 - $49
DWIGHT YOAKAMSaturday, August 69 p.m.Tickets range from $44 - $54
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MASON, WV (WOWK) — Memorial Day weekend is always a time for us to pause, honor and say thank you. Right now, there are plans for a permanent reminder that those sacrifices should be remembered year-round.
“Mason County does not have a memorial,” said Mason County Veterans Committee Vice President Brent Clark. “It is a nice fit to be able to do that to make sure they are honored and recognized.”
Volunteers like Clark say the memorial will honor all Mason County veterans from World War I through present day.
“The first phase of it will be to honor the guys who didn’t come back home,” explained committee President Steve Halstead. “The second phase will be the walls with the names of our men and women from World War I up to present day that have served.”
The project has attracted a great deal of support from the community already. It will be situated in Mason next to the Bridge of Honor.
“I hope it will be an educational piece for one thing and something they can really come and see the numbers,” Halstead said. “We had 2,200 residents men from World War II and women that went off to fight. That is pretty remarkable, about 10% of the population at that time.”
They estimate the project will cost around $500,000 and they are giving the public an opportunity to get involved. People can donate toward the memorial using different sponsorship levels. Leaders of the project say it will be a place where the community can come to say thank you.
“You know a lot of people don’t have the freedoms that we do and the fact that they were willing to serve means a lot,” Clark said.
You can follow the progress of the project here.
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Good news for Iowa dear hunters: a bill passed by the Iowa House is adding a new hunting season.
Senate File 581 will allow hunters to use semi-automatic rifles to hunt antlerless deer in January if counties still have unsold licenses to hunt them. But, not everyone is happy about the changes.
The new bill expands the window for Iowa hunters to use semi-automatic, AR-15-style rifles during hunting season. An AR-15 is not a specific rifle of its own; the title just means it's semi-automatic and based on the design of an older rifle made by Colt. Ethan Settle, manager of Crossroads Shooting Sports, says he sees the rifles pretty frequently.
"AR-15s are already commonly used for target sport and as well as for hunting in the state of Iowa. This is just going to be a minor change in the calibers that are allowed to be used," Settle said.
The bill allows hunters to load their rifles with .223 caliber ammunition. Settle says he's seen shortages of other commonly-used ammo for hunting over the past few years and thinks the change will help hunters.
"A caliber that's already readily available, that people are familiar with is a smart change to be allowed to use and hunt," he said.
However, some Iowans have concerns. While the legislation is intended for deer hunting, rifle rounds can go long distances, potentially causing a hazard if a shooter misses their target.
"A gun like this has a range of about two and a half miles. So any stray bullet can go a lot further than intended in any kind of a hunch," said Art Roche, Acting Board Chair of Iowans for Gun Safety.
When asked how he'd respond to someone with those concerns, Settle said that with AR-15s being so common, owners already have the training and knowledge to use them appropriately.
"The AR-15 is already in common use. So that means there's a lot of people familiar with it already and how to use them properly and safely," Settle said.
Comparing the law to Iowa's neighbors, Minnesota and Missouri already allowed .223 caliber ammo for hunting; Illinois, however, does not.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland Police Bureau arrested a man who they say held two people hostage on a MAX train with a knife and a barbecue skewer Tuesday.
The suspect, Marcus Tate, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to multiple felony charges during his initial court appearance.
On Monday night, less than 24 hours before the hostage situation that sparked a significant police response at Mount Hood Avenue station in Portland, officers had taken Tate into custody.
A PPB spokesperson said Tate had a physical altercation with officers during an "apparent mental health crisis." Police took Tate to a hospital, where he was held overnight but released Tuesday morning.
The case highlights Oregon's mental health evaluation process, which can be complex.
"In the state of Oregon, the criteria is does someone pose an imminent risk to themselves or to other people," said Dr. James Koved, Co-Medical Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Services division at the Unity Center for Behavioral Health.
While the details of any evaluation Tate received are unknown, Koved described the high threshold that medical professionals must clear in order to sign off on involuntary medical treatment.
When evaluating patients brought to a hospital or clinic, Koved said he may recommend treatment or care, but if they refuse, he must check off a detailed assessment before issuing a Notification of Mental Illness or involuntary hold for treatment that's required by the state.
"In the state of Oregon, the bar is quite high, and so we are held to a standard of looking for a very high level of risk a person might be at in order to seek involuntary treatment," he said. He explained the assessment requires a diagnosis of mental illness — a diagnosis of substance abuse would not meet Oregon's criteria.
In Tate's case, PPB said he was released the morning before he allegedly took a driver and a passenger hostage on a MAX train.
"People’s circumstances change really quickly and there are certain things people might have done in the past they wouldn’t necessarily do in the future, it’s a really challenging assessment," Koved said.
In Oregon, if a physician believes a patient meets all criteria for an involuntary hold, that assessment is investigated and reviewed by the county’s Involuntary Commitment Process, before it can be reviewed by a Judge, before civil commitment may be approved.
"There are times when we absolutely recognize there is illness that is present, and we still are not able to provide treatment for people," Koved said.
Koved said the current system has gaps and could leave vulnerability for risks, but it displays the balance between prioritizing civil liberties and prioritizing medical treatment.
"Oregon as a state has chosen a relatively high bar, which allows people to live independently and maintain their rights but at the same time can be a real challenge when people are facing a high level of mental illness," he said.
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BOISE, Idaho — The future of Nathan's Greenleaf Café was uncertain up until this week.
The owners of the café have rented the space for more than six years. Since 2015, the café brought regulars and tourists alike, becoming a staple in the Greenleaf community.
Dave Milburn has visited Nathan's Greenleaf Café regularly since it first opened.
"How many restaurants do you go to where you see your name up on the bulletin board saying Happy Birthday?" Milburn said. “At a certain time of the day, you can find out a whole lot about your community; who's garden's growing and who's not, who's watering and all this long table. Certain time of the day, you can find out who's naughty and who's nice."
When looking at the bustling café, it’s hard to imagine the future of the Greenleaf establishment was uncertain a few days ago.
“Our lease was up, and we just didn't know financially how we could proceed,” one of the café owners, Michaela Daniels said.
Roger Daniels runs the café with his son, Nathan and daughter-in-law, Michaela. Daniels said his landlords decided to no longer continue leasing the building, but rather wished to sell it.
"What I was worried about was not my family, my family is fine, but what I was worried about was all of these people," Roger said. "Where are they going to go? Where are they going to meet, because this is the meeting place."
According to Roger, the property owner was asking $350,000 for Nathan's Greenleaf Café. Karen Perry, who owns the building, said her intention to sell was something that had been discussed with the owners for years.
"In 2019, my husband was diagnosed with an aneurysm and that's when we first approached him with the sale agreement and he signed it and we told him that we wanted to be done," Perry said.
Since then, Perry said they agreed to renew the lease and sale agreements three years in a row, but this year they wanted to sell the café for good.
“We were business owners and we decided to sell something. It's like somebody selling their house,” Perry said. “I don't wish them ill at all, I hope they succeed and prosper in the community.”
According to Roger, they needed $70,000 for a down payment, but did not have the needed funds. The café took to Facebook to tell the community they would be closing.
The Greenleaf community came together and the response was overwhelming.
In two weeks, Nathan's Greenleaf Café brought in more than $78,000 in donations.
"That's a really good tip, way beyond a good tip,” Roger said.
On Monday, May 23, the Daniels purchased the building.
"Everything in this building is everyone's,” Michaela said. “We have had people help make booths, redo cushions, our customers bring in our décor, so this building is Greenleaf.”
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BOISE, Idaho — If you could somehow work Idaho City, a Tinder date that involves the Old Idaho Penitentiary and an impression of Jim Zamzow into a tight 10-minute set in Garden City, you might be Idaho's best comedian.
Those jokes -- and the title -- are taken, at least for a year.
On May 21, 29-year-old Dylan Hunter clinched the Sasquatch trophy after the three-day Idaho's Best Comedian competition at the Visual Arts Collective.
Hunter has taken his style of comedy to the stage since 2018.
"My dad used to tell me if you can make one person laugh, you can make the whole world laugh," he said. "And my mom would say, 'what, are you a comedian?' Yes."
Like a lot of comics, Hunter has a style that leans inward or, more accurately, toward his outward appearance.
"Now I just look like Rasputin the used-car salesman," Hunter said during his standup set, in which he also compared himself to "Abraham Lincoln if he gave up" and "Tom Hanks if 'Big' and 'Castaway' were the same movie."
Hunter first stepped up to the comedy stage by doing improve at the College of Idaho in Caldwell.
Yep, he's a homegrown Idaho product -- kind of.
"A lot of people think I'm local making these jokes. I want to come clean: I actually grew up in the Caribbean," Hunter said.
While onstage, Hunter relates his experience doing comedy in Idaho City.
"This one woman kept shouting at me, 'you're Idaho City handsome!'," he said. "That is a real story. I wish I came up with that tag line myself, but that is just something somebody shouted at me, and I was like, 'thank you. I am taking that.'"
More self-deprecating humor from Hunter: "My Tinder profile just said, 'I know, and I'm sorry.'"
"Having that set I've been working on the last couple of years really came together in a way that I haven't seen it really do before. It just felt magical," Hunter said on winning Idaho's Best Comedian.
So, Dylan Hunter, you've won the Sasquatch trophy, what are you going to do next?
"I get a haircut, ha ha," he said. "I like this look, but I want to challenge myself to literally shave five minutes of my material and see what else I can come up with."
Beard or no beard, Hunter will always have a venerable Treasure Valley lawn, garden and pet store to help laughs bloom whenever he steps onto an Idaho stage.
"Hi, this is Jim Zamzow here with the conclusion of 'The Three Little Pigs,'" goes one of Hunter's impressions and joke setups. "But the piggy was smart and planted her home during the last thaw of the Idaho spring, when our soil's at its most nutrient-rich, and she kept it that way year-round using our patented three-step patented lawncare program (pronounced "pro-grum")."
Now that he's conquered Idaho, where does Hunter see himself in the future?
"Hopefully not a burnt-out curiosity that somebody's pointing at at some brewery saying, 'that guy used to be the best in Idaho,'" he said.
But seriously, Hunter hopes winning the contest will open doors for him. He'd like to start touring the Northwest. In the near future, he'll be doing his thing Friday, May 27, in a comedy show at Brother Brown's Underground Bar-B-Q.
The Idaho's Best Comedian organizer, Beth Norton, was able to provide all the contestants with head shots, video of their sets and an updated biography -- things comics can use to get gigs at various venues and festivals.
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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — One guy in Cape Coral is getting a lot of attention.
It’s for the company he keeps and it’s more than his neighbors that are starting to take notice.
“I always thought you had to go to a farm or something to see a goat, but nope,” said Nick Brown of Cape Coral.
Instead if Nick wants to see a few of them, all he has to do is go outside and play basketball.
“I do that like all the time,” said Brown.
While he is outside, just about every day two dairy goats make their way toward Nick.
“They basically are like dogs. They come up and sniff you and will lick your hand, it’s pretty cool,” said Brown.
The goats have a guardian and no one in the neighborhood seems to know his name.
“People just yell out their window hey goat guy,” said Todd.
Todd is the man people smile at or get confused when they see walking around town.
“I get a few things like wow I wasn’t expecting that or that’s something you don’t see every day,” said Todd.
We followed Todd around the neighborhood Wednesday as he took his two girl goats on leashes to the park.
“Their names are Ellie and Corrie Mushroom and they are both about eight years old. They don’t even think they are goats,” said Todd.
So while you may think your dog is great and we’re sure it is, these two exotic animals turned pets might just be the greatest of all time.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — One of the most effective ways people can respond to the latest string of mass killings is to prioritize prevention and intervention when people pick up on signs of threatening behavior in a person, according to violence prevention consultant Hector Alvarez.
The Sacramento-based security expert spoke with ABC10 about what he described as the growing field of behavioral threat assessment.
"The focus is on helping identifying people on a pathway to violence," he said on Wednesday. "Like 99.9% of time, it's rare that there are not crystal clear warning signs that were overlooked or misunderstood—or simply not even acted on."
What are some indicators of potentially threatening behavior?
Alvarez said one phenomenon to look out for is "leakage," described by the FBI as a potentially violent person intentionally or unintentionally revealing their plans to others.
Other indicators include:
- Collecting resources
- Posting concerning messages or images online
- Buying weapons
- End of life planning
What can I do if I identify potentially threatening behavior?
California passed red flag laws in 2016 allowing law enforcement officers, and family members of a potentially dangerous person to petition courts for a ban on that person possessing firearms.
In 2020, Assembly Bill 61 expanded the right to petition a court for a gun violence restraining order to employers, coworkers and school employees.
How can schools and students respond to prevent future shootings?
Just as fire and earthquake drills have been practiced regularly at most California schools for decades, Alvarez said threat assessment education and drills among students should be happening just as often.
"I think the problem in schools, every year, we have a new group of kids that have to be retrained. You're doing the same thing over and over," he said. "So it's easy to get complacent."
Alvarez said events like the school shooting Uvalde, Texas and the grocery store shooting in Buffalo, New York show there is more work to do in terms of harm prevention and intervention when threatening indicators arise.
"It tends to be a constant, uphill battle, to get people to focus on prevention and intervention," he said.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento County Fair is returning to Cal Expo Thursday after a two-year hiatus.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the fair had to be canceled and was only allowed to conduct the livestock auction for their Future Farmers of America and 4-H members.
Now, it's back and bigger than ever.
"This is a time for us to stop and reflect, give thanks, and come together as a community," Graham Enos, spokesperson of the Sacramento County Fair, said.
This year, the fair will feature the return of the demolition derby, the infamous Stars and Stripes bull riding event, as well as a new interactive exhibit that includes discovering and learning about different dinosaurs, birds and reptiles.
Other attractions include guest performances, comedy shows, magicians, petting zoos, carnival games and the fair food everyone loves and misses, ranging from the dinosaur-sized turkey legs to deep-fried treats.
There will also be various monster trucks and dirt bikes at the Malicious Marauders Monster Trucks event in the Lasher’s Elk Grove RAM Arena.
Last but not least, all animals ranging from chickens to horses will be on display during the County Fair.
"This is an educational opportunity for students throughout the region to get a better handle on what it means to raise animals and grow food," Enos said. "It further reinforces Sacramento's mission to be a Farm-to-Fork leader in both the region and the country"
General admission is $12 and kids under 12 are always free. On Monday, military personnel can show a valid military ID and get in for free as well.
For more information as well as tickets, go to their website at www.SacFair.com.
WATCH MORE ON ABC10: Elk Grove students prepare for the Sacramento County Fair coming back
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Students at Sacramento City schools could once again be wearing masks in class if coronavirus transmission trends continue, district officials said.
In a news release, the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) said the county could reach "medium" or "high" community transmission levels as soon as May 26. If rates reach "medium," it could cause a changeup in the district's masking policy, but if rates are "high," there would be an automatic return to indoor masking for staff and students. It's part of an approach that was detailed in a March presentation to the Board of Education.
The district originally lifted their mask mandate in April, about a month after the statewide mandate was relaxed. It was part of what the district called a cautious approach to keep infections low. According to SCUSD, the county's case rate is almost five-times higher than it was when the district's mask mandate was lifted.
SCUSD still has about three more weeks left in the school year.
Officials are encouraging testing as a way to help keep the rest of the school year safe. To that end, students are expected to be sent home with COVID testing kits ahead of Memorial Day weekend. SCUSD is asking students to be tested on May 30 before returning to school and to upload their results HERE.
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STOCKTON, Calif — With one of the Stockton Arena’s longest-serving tenants, the Stockton Heat, announcing a leave from the city starting this year, a new $2.5 million spending package unanimously approved by the Stockton city council Tuesday, hopes to attract more events to the arena.
During their meeting Tuesday night, the Stockton City Council was asked to allocate $2.5 million from the city's federal America Rescue Plan money to go toward three areas, which includes improvements to the arena.
"Of the $79 million that the city is being given over the next three years, we put a portion of that, 10%, into a contingency fund for things that might arise," said Christina Fugazi, the City Councilmember who represents the downtown area where the 12,000-seat arena is located. "One of the items that we selected was the arena."
By approving the funding package, $1.5 million will now go toward improvements at the arena while the remaining $1 million will be split between improving traffic and safety on the Miracle Mile stretch of Pacific Avenue and supporting previously unfunded state-mandated COVID sick leave for city employees.
"$500,000 of this will go to making sure that our employees were compensated for that sick time related to COVID. The other $500,000 is going to traffic mitigation and improvements along the Miracle Mile," Fugazi said. "We have had a number of people who have either been struck by a vehicle and even, unfortunately, killed by a vehicle when in the street."
For businesses that operate out of the Stockton Arena, the news of the approved funding was encouraging.
The vice president of business operations for Stockton's G-League Kings, which plays at the arena, was at the Tuesday evening meeting and expressed frustration over the current state of the facility.
"We had a game, ready to host an outside team, and we had stalled out the game because the scoreboard did not drop down because it's outdated," said Stockton Kings Vice President Aaron Morales. "We were left with our fans having to look up at the board halfway down."
The frustration is a sentiment also shared by Wes Rhea, CEO of Stockton's nonprofit visitor's bureau, Visit Stockton.
"The citizens deserve a facility that they can be proud of," Rhea said during the Tuesday meeting. "We don't want people to visit the Stockton Arena and say, 'The scoreboard is crappy; this is what I would expect in Stockton.'"
Beyond the arena's current tenants, officials say the outdated scoreboard and technology inside the arena have an even greater impact on prospective events.
"We were the host for the NCAA Regional Finals for women's collegiate basketball, and we could not apply for future years because one of the requirements was to have a video board," Fugazi said.
The NCAA's next four-year event venue bid period opens in 2023, according to Rhea, which is why he said now is the best time to re-invest in the arena.
"There's always priorities- I get that- but for us, this is something we've been advocating for at least five years now," Rhea said. "This is one-time dollars, and I think that's a great opportunity for us to do that; because as you know, it will only get more expensive."
Installing a new video board will be the focal point of the improvements, city leaders said.
The funding will also go towards installing a new sound system and creating an electronic ribbon around the arena which advertisers will be able to pay the arena to use.
"We've known for at least the last five years that we were going to need to do something with the technology," Fugazi said. "The arena now will also have Wi-Fi."
Fugazi hopes that the improvements will not only aid the city in attracting events but also keeping residents in the area and bringing in new visitors.
"We are able to track ticket sales of venues outside of our city limits," Fugazi said. "There are a number of people from Stockton that do not mind jumping in their car and traveling, you know, 45 minutes to three hours away to go see a performance."
Fugazi and other city leaders hope that those drives to attend out-of-city events will end in 2024 when the improvements are slated to be completed.
"I think overall, the $2.5 million is money that will be well spent to benefit everybody in the city," Fugazi said. "This translates into rooms in our hotels, people eating in our restaurants and visiting our city."
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Five new chimpanzees are calling the Oregon Zoo home after moving into the recently opened Primate Forest habitat.
The chimps began exploring their outdoor areas for the first time last week, after taking some time to settle in to the new environment.
Eventually, they’ll be introduced to the zoo’s long-time chimpanzee residents: Chloe, Delilah and Jackson.
“My favorite thing about chimpanzees is that they cannot hide their emotions at all,” said Kate Gilmore, who oversees the zoo’s primate area. “If they’re excited about something, they’re excited at a 10. You will definitely hear about it.”
There are four females and one male in the group of new chimps. They arrived in Portland earlier in May from the Emory National Primate Research Center in Atlanta.
Daisey the chimpanzee is 32 years old. She’s small, “but has attitude for days,” according to the Oregon Zoo. The zoo says she’s very smart, somewhat stubborn and loves kiwi and oranges.
Julianne is Daisey’s younger sister. She’s 23 and like Daisey, is stubborn. She’s also playfully mischievous. She enjoys playing with her sister and Pericles, the only male in the group. Julianne also enjoys a good nap.
Missy tends to be more reserved. She’s 28 and the zoo says she’s always planning her next move. Missy is a fast learner, loves food and prefers one-on-one training sessions.
Pericles, the only male in the group, is 20. He likes to make noise and pursue the female chimps. He’s playful and loves surprises.
Suwanee, the oldest of the group, is 37 and likes to be in charge. She’s smart, eager to learn, and enjoys training, the zoo says. She likes to steal food from the other chimps, especially Pericles, and he will usually hand her whatever she wants.
The decision to move the chimpanzees to Oregon came from a recommendation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Species Survival Plan for chimpanzees. The animals are endangered and nearing extinction in many of their native lands.
The Atlanta zoo the chimps came from has been working with the Species Survival Plan to place chimps in settings that offer expert care, social housing and educational programs.
The new habitat at the Oregon Zoo features climbing structures, complex spaces for family groups and enhanced opportunities for enrichment and keeper interaction. The space features an indoor “day room” with natural flooring and a pair of 26-foot-tall, floor-to-ceiling climbing structures. It also has a simulated termite mound to help encourage natural foraging behavior. There are five roof hatches to allow zookeepers to scatter food from above.
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CABOT, Ark. — For Cabot Learning Academy nurse Lexi Gibbs, accepting a job with the city's school district was supposed to be a chance for a quieter career.
"I came from a critical care unit, and you know, when COVID, the reason I came to school nursing was because I just needed a break," Gibbs said.
That change in work happened just over a month ago back in April.
Just a short time into her new gig, Gibbs already had to use those skills she learned even before the first bell even rang.
"It was about 7:45 a.m. I'm on bus duty at Champs Hall, which runs parallel with the road that the accident happened on," Tim Harrison, high school Assistant Principal said.
Gibbs was on her way to work last Thursday morning when a motorcyclist passed her up and hit a vehicle ahead of her.
From her own car, she said she could hear the screams of the driver of the vehicle that had just got hit. Once Gibbs got out, she saw a man lying on the pavement, not moving.
"I noticed, like I seen his arm or whatever flop on the ground," Gibbs said. "I was like, hmm that's not good."
Gibbs was there first, followed by Harrison, and finally another assistant principal, Mike Falcinelli.
"As soon as I hit the road, I saw how serious it was because I saw Lexi giving compressions," Falcinelli said.
The trio was able to keep that motorcyclist, Samuel McCool, steady before medics got there. Gibbs said in the moment, she was scared – at one point, she couldn't feel a pulse.
While everything worked out in the end, that day still hasn't left their minds.
"I say a prayer for him everyday, you know?" Gibbs said.
It hasn't left McCool's either.
They say never meet your heroes, but McCool would disagree.
He met the three that he calls his guardian angels for the first time on Wednesday, just feet from where he was unconscious roughly a week ago.
"That means a lot to me," he said. "They jumped out there and done what they done to bring me back, that means a lot."
McCool said he doesn't remember anything of that day – just leaving his girlfriend's house and then waking up in the hospital hours later.
The physical memories are still there, though. Spray paint on the road where his body laid, and the scars that will last a lifetime.
"Slow down. Take life one day at a time. Love your family," McCool said.
But it's a lifetime he's grateful to have.
"I love all you guys," McCool said, hugging each of his guardian angels. "I swear to God I do, I'm glad y'all were there."
McCool said he has brain swelling and is still sore, but he's on the road to recovery. For Gibbs, she's glad that this story has a happy ending.
"Coming from where I came, you don't really ever see people get better," she said. "So it's been, it'll be kind of like a fresh breath of air."
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MINNEAPOLIS — Ahead of this holiday weekend, you might be preparing for large gatherings, and often, that means a large menu. This year, the cost of that menu will be a lot higher. The USDA forecasts 2022 inflation is already at a 14-year high.
Meaghan Hickey, editorial director at recipe site Just a Pinch, shares tips on how to host a barbeque for a large gathering while being cost effective.
Shop your pantry
Hickey says you don't necessarily need a trip to the grocery store to find the staples for your grill out.
"Instead of picking up a dessert, you can make a dessert very easily. It costs pennies to make chocolate chip cookies," Hickey said. "You can make cobbler from flour, sugar, butter, you can use frozen fruit, which is inexpensive to buy."
For a side dish, she recommends dressing up canned baked beans with items you likely already have, like brown sugar and mustard.
She says making coleslaw is easy, too.
Build your menu around grocery store sales
"Look at your local grocery store and see what’s on sale and try to build a menu over what would be on sale that week," Hickey said. "If you don’t already have an app downloaded, download a grocery store app because those give exclusive coupons sometime."
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Use cheaper cuts of meat by adding a marinade
If you make a quick marinade out of vinegar, oil, and seasonings, Hickey says, you're set.
"You don’t need a really nice steak to throw on the grill," she said. "You can throw a flank steak on for a fraction of the cost, even though they are more these days."
Instead of chicken breasts, you can marinate chicken thighs.
"Chicken breasts are great, everyone loves chicken breasts, but they’re very expensive," Hickey said.
Another idea is to buy frozen meat patties.
"Frozen meat patties. People think they’re gross but they’re not that expensive and you can jazz them up by putting different toppings, cheese on them," she said. "Or if you just grill them, you can get a slow cooker and put some water, Worcestershire sauce, some salt and pepper in there and put the cooked hamburgers in there. They absorb the flavor from the sauce and you can keep them juicy."
Above all, keep it simple
After two years of cancelled gatherings due to COVID, you might be tempted to go big with your menu and decorations. However, Hickey says the relationships will matter most.
"It's like we’re trying to make up for all the time we haven’t spent together and we’re doing all of these elaborate things, and in the end it’s just about being together and eating good food," Hickey said.
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The proposed redevelopment of the Gold's Building at 1033 O St. has cleared its first hurdle as developers explore the possibility of drawing from an occupation tax to help fund extensive improvements.
The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Commission on Wednesday voted to recommend that the first phase of the project conforms to the city-county Comprehensive Plan.
Developer Mike Works is proposing to renovate the six-story northern part of the building into 110 hotel rooms with 6,000 square feet of retail or restaurant space on the first floor. He has not said which brand the hotel would be but has previously described it as a "limited-service hotel."
The $24 million project would also include the demolition of the building at 1023 O St., directly to the west of the Gold's Building, with the space then used as either a hotel entrance or open space.
The southern, four-story portion of the Gold's Building also would be demolished, although that was not included in what was approved Wednesday. There are no immediate plans for what would go on the site after demolition.
Andrew Willis, an attorney representing the developer, said the building has been a "challenge" to develop. At least two other proposals -- one for a hotel and one for apartments -- fell through.
Demolishing the southern half of the building, he said, is "really the only way to make it work functionally to preserve the original six-story tower." That part of the building was built in 1926 and has historical significance.
In addition to seeking about $4.2 million in tax-increment financing, which would allow the future property taxes the redevelopment generates to pay for certain upfront costs, the developer also is considering seeking to have it designated as an Enhanced Employment Area. If the City Council were to approve the designation, it would allow for a 2% occupation tax on general retail and hotel revenue and a 1% occupation tax on restaurant and bar revenue, with the proceeds reinvested in the development.
The only development in Lincoln that currently draws from an occupation tax is SouthPointe Pavilions, which collects a 1% additional tax on most sales to pay for a parking garage that was built as part of the expansion of Scheels.
Willis did not give a timeline for starting construction on the project, which still must be approved by the City Council. Works previously said that if everything went as planned, the hotel could open before the end of 2023.
In other business Wednesday , the Planning Commission approved a zoning change for the proposed redevelopment of the Bishop Heights shopping center at 27th Street and Nebraska 2. A trio of developers is planning a 230-unit apartment complex, retail and office space and a potential hotel on the site.
The commission recommended approval of a planned unit development designation, which gives the developers flexibility on what uses they can have and where they put them in the nearly $90 million project.
A waiver was included that would allow both the apartment buildings and a hotel, if one is built, to be up to 65 feet tall, about 60% taller than what the zoning on the site would normally allow.
The potential height of the buildings is one concern of neighbors. Others include the density of the development, which many believe will worsen traffic congestion in the area, and the inclusion of a residential lot on Kucera Drive on the north side of the site into the commercial area.
Only one person spoke in opposition to the plan at Wednesday's hearing, however.
Another, Kim Hachiya, termed her testimony as "neutral."
She said she was in favor of redeveloping the property but feels the scope is excessive, describing it as "putting 20 pounds of potatoes into a 10-pound sack."
Lincoln buildings that have made history
Lincoln Army Air Field Regimental Chapel
The Lincoln Army Air Field Regimental Chapel at 4601 N.W. 48th St. was constructed in May 1942. The building is significant for its association with the World War II Lincoln Army Air Field. It is also significant as a good representation of building technology used in World War II.
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Woods Brothers Building
The Woods Brothers Companies, which were formed in 1889 by Mark, George and Frank Woods, played a major role in the real estate development of the city. Many of the first Lincoln neighborhoods, including Lincolnshire, were platted, developed and sold by the Woods Brothers Companies.
Designed in 1914 by the Woods Brothers Construction Co. and completed in 1916, the building at 132 S. 13th St. incorporates Neo-Classical Revival elements. It was the home office of the Woods Brothers Companies until 1939.
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College View Public Library
The building at 3800 S. 48th St. reflects the state of the art in design and use for library buildings erected in smaller communities during the first two decades of the 20th century. Designed in a simplified Neo-Classical Revival style, the library was constructed in 1914 in the town of College View (now a neighborhood in southeast Lincoln) with funds from an Andrew Carnegie grant.
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Antelope Grocery
Built in 1922 as a mixed use (commercial and apartment) building, the two-story brick and stucco structure at 2406 J St. incorporates architectural elements common to period houses. The Lincoln architectural firm of Fiske and Meginnis designed the building to be compatible with the surrounding Lincoln residential neighborhood.
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Burr block
The Security Mutual Life Building, a 10-story skyscraper at 1206 O St., is a unique product of early 20th century businesses on 0 Street, Lincoln's main thoroughfare. Occupying the former site of the Burr block, the structure was substantially rebuilt and transformed into the present Security Mutual Life Building in 1916. For over four decades the building housed offices for the Security Mutual Life Insurance Co. It is now known as Centerstone and houses commercial and rental residential space.
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Federal Trust Building
Constructed in 1926-1927, this 12-story office building at 134 S. 13th St. is a reinforced concrete structure designed in the Gothic Revival style. Its primary facades are faced in light buff-colored brick with limestone and terra cotta trim, while the secondary sides are sheathed mainly in red-orange brick.
First National Bank Building
The First National Bank Building at 1001 O St., constructed in 1910-11, is significant for its association with the First National Bank, a financial institution that was influential in the development of the city of Lincoln. The building also has architectural significance as a representative example constructed in the Commercial-style.
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First State Bank of Bethany
The former bank, built about 1914 in the town of Bethany (now a neighborhood in northeast Lincoln), is a one-story brick building at 1551 N. Cotner Blvd. with simple Neo-Classical Revival trim. It is the most substantial commercial building remaining from the period before Bethany's annexation by Lincoln in 1926. The bank was founded in 1904 with C. W. Fuller, a Bethany grain elevator owner, as president. The bank failed in 1930. The building has since served various educational and commercial purposes.
Gold and Co. store building
William Gold, a native of New York, established "The Peoples' Store," a modest retail business, in 1902. The firm was incorporated in 1915 with William Gold as president and son Nathan as vice president and was later renamed "Gold and Company." The building at 1033 O St. is a landmark in Lincoln's downtown business area. The oldest section, erected in 1924, is six stories high and displays Gothic Revival detailing. Additions were made in 1929, 1947, and 1951 and illustrate the phenomenal growth experienced by the store. In 1964 Gold and Company merged with Omaha's J.L. Brandeis and Sons, and the business was named "Brandeis, Gold's Division" until 1980, when the store was closed. The building has been rehabilitated for retail and office space.
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Governor's Mansion
The Nebraska Governor's Mansion, 1425 H St., is significant for the history of its construction and the notion that Nebraska and its people deserved a grand building dedicated to the residence of the state's executive officer, the governor. Prior to the construction of this building, governors had received a stipend from the Legislature that paid for their living expenses, or, after 1899, lived in the governor's mansion that the Legislature purchased from its previous owner at 14th and H in Lincoln, near the State Capitol.
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Hayward School
Hayward School, 1215 N. Ninth St., was built in 1903-04, with additions completed in 1913 and 1925. Each building phase displays a distinct style of public school architecture. The original school is at the center of the present structure and was designed by architect James H. Craddock, with Late Renaissance Revival detailing. The two additions display Neo-Classical and Georgian Revival elements and are the work of the Lincoln architectural firms of Davis and Berlinghof, and Fiske, Meginnis and Schaumberg respectively. Named for U.S. Sen. Monroe L. Hayward, the school served the German Russian community in the North Bottoms area of Lincoln. It operated a special program from November to May when the "beet field children" returned from working in the sugar beet fields of western Nebraska.
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Hotel Capital-YMCA building
The Hotel Capital at 139 N. 11th St. opened on May 19, 1926, and provided hotel accommodations in downtown Lincoln for more than four decades. In 1962, Bennett S. Martin purchased the hotel and donated it to the Lincoln YMCA. The 11-story brick building is an outstanding product of the Georgian Revival style and is probably the best remaining example of an early 20th century hotel building in Lincoln's central business district. The upper floors of the building have been rehabilitated as rental residential units; lower levels still house the YMCA offices.
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Lincoln Liberty building
The building at 113 N. 11th St. in downtown Lincoln was constructed in 1907-08 as the five-story Little Building and then redesigned in 1936 for the Lincoln Liberty Life Insurance Co. by the architectural firm of Meginnis and Schaumberg. The remodeling, which included the addition of a sixth floor, transformed the building into a prominent Art Deco-style structure.
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Masonic Temple
Designed by the Lincoln architectural firm of Meginnis and Schaumberg, the Masonic Temple at 1635 L St. is an excellent example of the union of art and architecture. A restrained Art Deco style is seen in the cubic massing and geometric décor of the building. Locally renowned artist Elizabeth Honor Dolan worked on the architectural character and form of the building's interior, creating a series of nine related murals in the meeting hall. The bas-relief sculpture above the main entrance to the Masonic Temple was also based on a sketch by Dolan.
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Municipal Lighting and Waterworks Plant
The A Street Power and Water Station, a flat-roofed structure of red brick with stone and brick trim, is an industrial building at 2901 A St. designed in the Neo-Classical Revival style by Fiske and Meginnis, a local partnership especially active in municipal architecture in the 1920s. In 1904, Lincoln voters authorized a municipal electric plant to pump water and light streets. It was located near the well on A Street. In 1913 the city authorized sale of power to consumers, much enlarging the kilowatt capacity of the A Street plant.
In the spring of 1921 the city council voted to build a new combined pumping station and powerhouse, with a substantial increase in generating capacity. The current building was constructed in 1921-22 after the approval of bond issues for water system and municipal lighting improvements. It has been rehabilitated as residential units.
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Nebraska State Historical Society building
Constructed in 1953, the Nebraska State Historical Society building, 1500 R St., is significant for its contribution to the social and cultural history of Nebraska through the acquisition, conservation and interpretation of Nebraska's cultural heritage and through the administration of public policy related to these activities. The building is also significant as a good example of the Modern Movement style of architecture.
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Nebraska Telephone Co. building
The three-story Nebraska Telephone Co. commercial building, 128-130 S. 13th St., was designed in the Renaissance Revival style in 1894 by Thomas Rogers Kimball of the architectural firm of Walker and Kimball. Occupied in 1896, it was probably the first building erected as a telephone exchange in Lincoln. Constructed to sustain the loads of the telephone equipment and to provide a modern, fire-resistant structure, the building is an early product of the communications industry in eastern Nebraska.
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Nebraska Wesleyan Old Main
The three-story Richardsonian Romanesque structure, 50th and St. Paul, was constructed as the main building for the Nebraska Wesleyan University campus in 1887-88. It was designed by architects Gibbs and Parker of Kansas City. "Old Main" is a campus landmark, reflecting the early history of the Lincoln-based university.
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Palisade and Regent apartments
The Palisade, 1035 S. 17th St., and Regent Apartments, 1626 D St., are significant as representative examples of large and ornate apartments built at the end of Lincoln's second historic apartment "boom," which occurred during the 1920s. The buildings are also significant for their use of a richly textured, polychromatic terra cotta block, which was a rare building material in Lincoln, used only in 1928 and 1929, which corresponds with the buildings' construction dates.
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Rose Kirkwood Brothel
The existence of a red-light district of Lincoln is one that is often ignored, with only minimal physical remnants remaining, the Rose Kirkwood Brothel being the key physical remnant. When the Peoples City Mission opened in 1910, Lincoln's most flagrant brothel transformed into a place of charity, sealing the demise of Lincoln's red-light district.
As a brothel, the building embodies the illicit political and social values of the early 1900s, while as the Peoples City Mission, it symbolizes Lincoln's effort to promote social welfare by serving the poor and immigrant community. As one building serving both ends of the moral spectrum -- vice and charity -- the Rose Kirkwood Brothel building represents a key transformation in Lincoln's social history.
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President and Ambassador apartments
The President and Ambassador Apartments, 1330 and 1340 Lincoln Mall, are a pair of five-story, flat-roofed apartment buildings. They were constructed in 1928-29 of reinforced concrete with red brick veneer and limestone trim. They are outstanding examples of the final stage of historic apartment construction in Lincoln. They are very prominently sited adjacent to the State Capitol and possess a high degree of integrity.
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Old University Library
The Old University Library at 11th and R streets, constructed 1891-95, is the oldest existing building on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's downtown campus. Designed by the architectural firm of Mendelssohn, Fisher and Lawrie of Omaha, the two-and-one-half-story brick building incorporates Richardsonian Romanesque styling in its design. The library has been adapted to a variety of educational functions.
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Quinn Chapel
The Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church and its parsonage, 1225 S. Ninth St., are significant for their association with African-American ethnic history in the city, as the continuing home of the first African-American church established in Lincoln and for the church's broad-based contribution to the community.
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Rock Island Depot
The Lincoln depot, 1944 O St., is one of Nebraska's finest remaining 19th century railroad depots and an excellent example of the Chateauesque style. Few exterior alterations have occurred since the depot's construction in 1892-93. The building has been adapted for commercial uses in recent years.
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St. Charles Apartments
When St. Charles Apartments, 4717 Baldwin Ave., was built in 1923-24, University Place was an incorporated town with a population of about 5,000. Universitv Place was annexed by Lincoln in 1926. St. Charles was designed to accommodate 16 dwelling units and was the first brick apartment house built in University Place and the only one erected before annexation. The building, which incorporates Neo-Classical Revival motifs, was constructed by William Henry Seng, a major contractor in the University Place area during the 1920s and 1930s.
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Scottish Rite Temple
Lincoln's Scottish Rite Temple, 332 Centennial Mall South, is a reinforced concrete, Neo-Classical Revival-style building sheathed in Indiana limestone. The temple's most prominent feature is a colossal order of 10 Roman Doric columns on the front facade. On April 6, 1916, Lincoln's Delta Lodge of Perfection No. 4 voted to build a new Scottish Rite Temple. The building was designed by Ellery L. Davis, Lincoln's leading architect in the first half of the 20th century. When the temple was constructed, there were 17 Masonic organizations in the city.
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Sheldon Museum of Art
The Sheldon Museum of Art is located on the downtown campus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus at 12th and R streets. Sheldon was designed and built for the express use as a museum of art and associated sculpture garden to house the more than 12,000 works of American art and sculpture attained through the University of Nebraska art collection as well as the collection of the Sheldon Art Association, formerly known as the Hayden Art Club, founded in 1888.
Sheldon is a work of master architect Philip Johnson and reflects the era of Modern architecture with New Formalism styling.
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State Arsenal
The State Arsenal, built in 1913 at 17th and Court streets, was the first permanent facility provided by the Nebraska Legislature for support of the Nebraska National Guard, successor to the Nebraska Volunteer Militia. The two-story, rectangular concrete-and-brick building was used by the guard as a warehouse until 1963, when it was transferred to the state fair board. Today the building serves as a museum.
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State Capitol
The Capitol, 1445 K St., was constructed in 1922-32 and was designed by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, one of America's foremost architects. The structure evolved through an elaborate competition that was widely publicized in journals and newspapers. Goodhue's design incorporated a 400-foot tower as the major architectural feature, producing a modernistic skyscraper. The building is rich in decorative art and symbolism and demonstrates the skills of sculptor Lee Lawrie and Hartley Burr Alexander, a professor of philosophy at the University of Nebraska. The Capitol is internationally recognized as a building of outstanding architectural distinction.
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Stuart Building
The Stuart Building is located in downtown Lincoln at 13th and P streets. This architecturally significant building was designed in a hybrid Art Deco-Gothic Revival style by the leading architectural firm of the period, Davis and Wilson. Completed in 1929, the Stuart was one of Lincoln's most prestigious multipurpose office buildings of its time.
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Temple of Congregation B'Nai Jeshuran
The Temple, 20th and South streets, exemplifies the early 20th century eclectic architecture of temple building types and incorporates Byzantine and Moorish design elements in its ornamentation and general massing. The large brick structure, designed by Lincoln architects Davis and Wilson and built in 1923-24, features a prominent central octagonally-shaped dome that rises above the roof line. It continues in use as a synagogue.
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Terminal Building
The 10-story reinforced concrete office building, 947 O St., is sheathed in white-glazed terra-cotta on the principal facades above the storefront level, while the remaining facades are faced with brick. The building was planned in 1915 and erected in 1916 as headquarters for the Lincoln Traction Company. The Lincoln Traction Company, formed in 1897 as a reorganization of the Lincoln Street Railway Company, was the major street railway company in the city from 1909 until the end of streetcar service in 1943. Designed by architect Paul V. Hyland of Chicago, the Terminal Building is the city's best example of a Commercial-style office building.
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Terrace Houses
Three buildings, Barr Terrace, Lyman Terrace, and Helmer-Winnett-White Flats, on 11th Street, H and K streets, are the only remaining 19th-century terrace or row houses in Lincoln. The major period of interest in the terrace house as a building type occurred in the city in the late 1880s and 1890s. Row houses were typically built by individuals seeking a maximum number of rents per land unit.
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Tifereth Israel Synagogue
The former Tifereth Israel Synagogue, 344 S. 18th St., is a fine example of Neo-Classicism as used in small-scaled synagogue architecture in the early 20th century. Located in Lincoln, the building is easily recognizable as a Jewish house of worship by the prominent Star of David on the front facade. The Tifereth Israel Synagogue was dedicated on May 25, 1913, and served the Orthodox Jewish congregation until the late 1950s, when a new synagogue was built.
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U.S. Post Office
The building at 920 O St. was constructed in 1874-79 incorporating Gothic Revival and French Second Empire-style elements in its design. Originally designed by Alfred Mullett, supervising architect of the United States Treasury, the building was redesigned by William Potter, who replaced Mullett in 1875. The limestone structure is one of downtown Lincoln's oldest buildings and perhaps its finest remaining example of 19th century architecture. Originally built as Lincoln's United States Post Office and Courthouse, the building later served as the City Hall. In 1978, restoration began, and the building is now being used by civic groups.
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Veith Building
The Veith Building, 816 P St., is one of the oldest commercial buildings in Lincoln and is an outstanding example of late 19th century commercial architecture. Constructed in 1884 as a grocery by the Veith family, it features excellent cast iron and pressed metal detailing.
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YWCA building
The Young Women's Christian Association of Lincoln was organized in 1886, incorporated under Nebraska law in 1893 and chartered as a member of the YWCA National Board in 1897. The Georgian Revival building at 1432 N St. was completed in 1932 on the site of the original facility. The three-story, H-shaped building is brick with limestone trim and was designed by the Lincoln architectural firm of Meginnis and Schaumberg.
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KENT, Wash. — When a police officer shot and killed Sonia Joseph’s son in 2017, she vowed to change laws regarding police policies.
While she worked to pass I-940, establishing new restrictions and reforms for police, Joseph said the murder of George Floyd in 2020 played a “huge role” in state lawmakers taking action during the 2021 legislative session.
“His death brought about change in Washington state and across the world,” said Joseph. “The world got to witness an unarmed Black man murdered by police.”
Joseph said those images likely helped several police reform bills pass, including ones calling for prohibiting chokeholds and limiting when police can chase after suspects.
Her son, Giovonn Joseph-McDade, was 20 years old when Kent police shot and killed him during a chase.
In April of 2021, the City of Kent settled a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Joseph for $4.4 million dollars.
A city spokesperson maintained the officers were not in violation of any laws.
Joseph set out to change those laws.
She said her son was pulled over for having expired tabs, but said he got scared and drove off.
After getting in a chase with Joseph-McDade, officers fired at his car when he started driving towards them.
Under the law Joseph supported in 2021, law enforcement officers can no longer chase after someone for having expired tabs.
Joseph hopes to return to Olympia next year to try and pass a law to prohibit officers from being able to pull over a driver for having expired registration stickers.
Joseph thinks lawmakers won’t forget what happened to Floyd, just like she’ll never forget what happened to her son.
“I’m still not going to stop,” said Joseph.
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SEATTLE — At Bryant Elementary in Seattle, kindergarten teacher Kevin Gallagher knew today would be difficult because of the mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas. He had to do something.
“You are just consumed by this disbelief and rage,” said Gallagher.
Gallagher started the school day differently.
“I looked every single child in the eye, and said their name and said, I care about you,” said Gallagher.
He also posted a message on social media.
“Just stand with me for five minutes in silence at our flagpole," said Gallagher.
He made that after-school request because he's been teaching kindergarten for 35 years; through the pandemic and moments of despair.
“Sandy Hook was unlike anything I had felt before with the other school shootings because they were first graders. They were a year older than my kids,” Gallagher said.
Now, 10 years later, another tragedy with the mass shooting at a school in Texas claiming young lives.
Gallagher did not know if people would show up for a moment of silence at Bryant Elementary, but right after the school bell rang, a crowd began to form.
“I heard that Mr. Gallagher was having this,” said one former student.
Another former student who is now 26-years-old said, “I was in his kindergarten class during 9/11, and I am just here to hopefully see him and support him through this day.”
Families and friends were there to greet Gallagher, too.
“I am so glad that he is doing this,” said Bonnie Morris. “I have known him for over twenty years.”
Morris added, “I want to stop talking. I want somebody to do something.”
With about 100 people gathered before Gallagher, he said, “I am just going to count to five and start the five minutes.”
The five minutes of silence was followed by some comforting moments with people sharing hugs and consoling one another.
On Wednesday, Seattle Public Schools sent a letter to families with resources to help parents talk with their kids about what happened in Texas.
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GREENBANK, Wash. — The day after Jordan Shelley was killed in a car crash on Seattle's Ship Canal Bridge, his mother, Teresa, recalled the day she met her adopted son at an Ethiopian orphanage.
She said it was love at first sight.
"Without any sort of reservation he just came running out of the orphanage and he just jumped on me and yelled, 'Mom!'" she said.
In Ethiopia, Jordan’s father had died. His family was poor, forcing his mother to beg on the streets.
When he arrived in America at 7 years old he was a fast learner.
Jordan graduated from Skagit Valley College at the age of 18. Upon his graduation in 2018, Jordan received a McIntyre scholarship, which afforded him a full ride to study medicine at the University of Washington.
Skagit Valley College President, Dr. Tom Keegan, told KING 5, “I am heartbroken. Jordan was such a bright light and a shining personality. His energy was infectious. He inspired many of us at the college, including his fellow students, faculty, and staff. My thoughts and prayers are with Jordan’s family."
His mom said Jordan hoped to become an anesthesiologist, so he could shield people from pain. Fittingly, Jordan's Ethiopian name loosely translated to "the one who helps."
Friends say Jordan earned a Bachelor's Degree in biochemistry after just two years at UW.
In his pursuit of a career in medicine Jordan was working as an EMT.
The company, American Medical Response, said he was on his way to work when his car broke down along Interstate 5 the morning of May 24. According to the Washington State Patrol, Shelley was standing outside his disabled vehicle on the Ship Canal Bridge when another vehicle hit Shelley's vehicle from behind. Shelley's vehicle was pushed forward, hitting Shelley and throwing him over the bridge's railing into the water below.
Divers recovered Jordan's body several hours later.
Barely 24 hours since her son’s tragic death, Teresa said she forgives the driver, in part, because Jordan would.
"Jordan was very quick to forgive, even more so than us," said Teresa. "That’s a huge lesson we’ve learned in this. Forgiveness can’t wait. You rush to forgive. We should all do that."
Jordan leaves behind his mom and dad along with six brothers and sisters – two of whom are his biological siblings from Ethiopia.
Their lives are shattered but their love is still very much intact.
"It doesn’t matter how many chairs are at our big family table," said Teresa. "It will always be obvious there is one missing."
The suspect in the crash made his first court appearance on Wednesday, May 25. The King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office argued he is a danger to the community and asked a judge to hold him on $100,000 bail. The judge agreed, finding probable cause for vehicular homicide.
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DALLAS — The Dallas police officer who pinned Tony Timpa face-down on the ground for 14 minutes received a promotion during a Dallas Police Department ceremony Tuesday morning.
Dustin Dillard, an officer during the incident with Timpa in August 2016, was promoted to senior corporal, the next rank above officer which involves training rookies.
DPD’s staff page on their website states senior corporals are selected from the department when a vacancy in a squad occurs. Rule XIV under the City of Dallas’ civil service rules and regulations states officers who have served with DPD for three years, including two years as a police officer, are eligible to take the exam for the rank of senior corporal.
Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia said during the ceremony that each officer being promoted is there because of their hard work and dedication to the department and the people they serve, and that with these promotions comes new challenges and greater responsibilities.
“Seeing your work, knowing the dedication, the cases you solve, the people of Dallas are in good hands,” Garcia said.
DPD Deputy Chief William Griffith said the promotion ceremony is an indication of what hard work and commitment has led to.
“This is not a small achievement,” Griffith said. “It is a profound achievement and the various divisions and units will be better and stronger for the experience and leadership you will be providing.”
Dillard can be seen in livestream footage of the ceremony shaking hands with Garcia and posing for pictures, with Garcia patting his arm.
Bodycam from Dillard in 2016 shows him holding down Timpa, along with three other officers—Raymond Dominguez, Kevin Mansell and Danny Vasquez—moments before he died in custody. Officers can be heard laughing in the background as Timpa’s face is buried into the ground and he is screaming and crying for help before falling unconscious.
Within minutes, body camera footage shows officers performing CPR on Timpa until he's declared dead by a paramedic.
An autopsy eventually found that Timpa had a cardiac death due to the toxic effects of cocaine and stress associated with physical restraint. Timpa also had an enlarged heart, medical reports show.
Three officers were indicted on misdemeanor deadly conduct charges, but those charges were dismissed in 2019 by Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot.
Most recently, a federal appeals court ruled the four officers could be sued over the case by the family, who claim there was excessive force used as well as bystander liability.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled the officers violated his Constitutional rights, which means they can be sued for his death.
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Calendar Events
Thursday, May 26
Roots Grand Opening at Roots in Mason City -Come and check out the Grand Opening at Roots from 4-8 p.m. This new business features a food-first approach to healthy living and nutrition counseling. Staff are excited to finally share the space, products, and services with the North Iowa community. Join the festivities for healthy snacks, samples of products, and a look at the brand new space – including the kitchen.
83rd North Iowa Band Festival in Mason City -The North Iowa Band Festival is the largest, free marching band competition in the Midwest. The festival runs Thursday, May 26 through Monday, May 30. In its 83rd year, the theme for 2022 is “Band Fest on Broadway." Festivities include free, live entertainment, carnival, marketplace, and of course, the BIG parade. The carnival opens at 6 p.m. and music begins at 6p.m. with the John Adams Middle School Band.
Summit USMTS National Championship Presented by Racindirt at Mason City Motor Speedway - Head to Mason City Motor Speedway at 6 p.m. to see the Summit USMTS National Championship presented by Racindirt. Spectators are sure to enjoy the following cars in action – USRA Modifieds, USRA B-Mods, USRA Stock Cars, USRA Hobby Stocks and Outlaw Mini Mods. Grandstands open at 4 p.m.
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Friday, May 27
Forest City Chamber of Commerce Annual Golf Tournament -Join us for the 20th Annual Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament at 9 a.m., with 18 holes and a shotgun start. To register, visit:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNHnxCMvcTLaL4sc_bDcmIORXjF8OBTRSwp2zYFr1o08hGQg/viewform?usp=sf_link. Meal included. Don’t worry, be happy, have fun, it’s a best shot tourney. Contact the Chamber at 641-585-2092 with questions.
Wilderness Camping Program at Thorpe Park in Forest City -The Winnebago County Conservation Board invites you to come meet at the Thorpe Park shelter house on Friday evening from 7-8 p.m. to learn how to plan and enjoy a wilderness camping trip. The program will focus on camping in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northern Minnesota, but the information will be applicable to wilderness camping throughout the country. During the program, Winnebago County Naturalist Lisa Ralls will discuss how wilderness camping is different than traditional camping and why people choose to do it. She will illustrate how to plan a wilderness trip, what equipment to bring, how to cook food, and how to stay safe. She will also demonstrate some of the equipment that is used. The program will be free and open to the public, and there will be no need to preregister. For more information, people can contact Lisa Ralls at either 641-565-3390 or at lralls@winnebagoccb.com.
Iowa Falls JAM 35 “Musical Vanguard” at Estes Park -This free dance starts at 6 p.m. and runs until 11:30 p.m. with music for all ages. Come for this free dance with a light show, super ball drop, novelty items, food and t-shirts in Estes Park.
Live Music: Jesse Calvert at TAP'd in Clear Lake -Jesse plays all your favorite rock and country from Bush and Foo Fighters to Tyler Childers and Morgan Wallen. Show starts at 9 p.m.
Saturday, May 28
TRI Clear Lake -The Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the 6th Annual TRI Clear Lake Triathlon sanctioned by USA Triathlon. The scenic course will commence at City Beach; the flat and fast one or two-loop bike course guides athletes out and back along South Shore Drive through the prairie and windmills south of Clear Lake. The race is capped off with a 3.1 or 6.2 mile run on North Shore drive along Clear Lake passing by the Lady of the Lake and the legendary Surf Ballroom. This is the perfect race for beginners, or for experienced triathletes alike looking for a great tune-up race for Ironman 70.3 Des Moines. At the completion of the race, you will experience a high-energy lakefront finisher party, complete with music, food and beverages.
Mitchell County and Limestone Brewers Double Steak Cookoff at Limestone Brewers in Osage -Kick off Memorial Day weekend with the Mitchell County & Limestone Brewers Double Steak Cookoff. Get signed up for this great contest at steakcookoffs.com. Come and cook some awesome steaks from S&S Meat's and Spirits, and while your grill is warming up or when the smoke clears, sneak into Limestone Brewers for a pint. Not sure about cooking steak? Enter the pizza contest instead.
Live Music: Jeff Reinartz at TAP'd in Clear Lake -Jeff was one of the first musicians to play here at TAP’d and we’re very excited to get him back. Jeff plays a lot of classic rock and good time country music. He’ll be covering artists like Johnny Cash and Tom Petty to Bread and Pearl Jam to go along with his own great originals. Show starts at 9 p.m.
Sunday, May 29
Live Music: Liv McNair at TAP'd in Clear Lake -TAP’d is excited to welcome back 21-year-old, up-and-coming country star Liv McNair. The Winterset native will get you going with all your favorite country and blues. She covers a lot of Taylor Swift, Lady Antebellum & Miranda Lambert to go along with her new originals. Show starts at 9 p.m.
Monday, May 30
VFW Memorial Day Service at the Charles City VFW -Remembrance program begins at 10:30 a.m. with lunch served afterwards at the VFW Banquet Hall. Bring your own lawn chair.
Memorial Day Program in Clear Lake -The program begins with an assembly at the lakefront at the Seawall. After a Welcome, opening prayer, raising of the flag, national anthem, casting of the wreath on the lake and Taps by the Clear Lake High School Band, the program will move to the Clear Lake Cemetery. At 10 a.m., there will be a march to the Lincoln statue monument. The Clear Lake High School Band will open, with remarks and an opening prayer. After the Pledge of Allegiance will be ritualistic work, readings, and a speaker of the day. Clear Lake High School band will then play America, followed by a Reading of the Roll Call of Deceased Veterans of the past year, folding of the American flag, honor guard salute and the Clear lake High School Band will play Echo Taps. The service will end with Benediction.
Tuesday, May 31
100 Things to Do in Iowa Before You Die Kick-Off Party and Book Signing at the Surf Ballroom and Museum in Clear Lake -Meet Sara Broers, the author of 100 Things To Do In Iowa Before You Die. Sara is a native North Iowan and is honored to have her kick off party at #35 - The Surf Ballroom & Museum. Everyone is welcome. A short program will begin at 4:30 p.m. and Sara will be available for questions and have books available for purchase and to sign. Light snacks will be served.
Wednesday, June 1
- Outdoor Story Time at Pine Tree Park in Clear Lake -Little Learners up to age five and their families are invited to join us at a local park for story time each Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in June, July and August. Story time consists of stories, body movement activities, songs and rhymes, helping children grow the skills they need to become lifelong readers. Feel free to stay after and play and make new friends. June Location: Pine Tree Park. July Location: Armour Pugh Park. August Location: Central Gardens.
Rae Burnette is a GA and Crime & Courts Reporter at the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by phone at 641.421.0523 or at Rae.Burnette@GlobeGazette.com
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Thousands of local K-12 students went to school on Wednesday just hours after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers in a classroom at Robb Elementary School in Texas. Those Miami Valley students were not unprotected.
Local schools have been increasing building security since 2012, when a shooter at Sandy Hook Elementary School killed 28 people, including 20 children, and left six people injured. There’s also more knowledge of social and emotional needs for kids than 10 years ago.
“I think we just have to keep going back to doing what we know to do and what we have the control to work over, which is first and foremost building positive relationships with our kids,” said Ben Richards, superintendent of Valley View schools. “And I think that’s something that we can do.”
Richards said there was an increased police presence at Valley View Wednesday, and the district asked teachers to be in the hallways more.
Chad Wyen, superintendent at Mad River Local Schools, said he’d made calls to state representatives today, asking them to support House Bill 99, which would allow registered people to be armed in a school zone.
Mad River schools have had a response team of around 30 people picked by the superintendent and the head of HR, in collaboration with law enforcement. That team had the ability to access locked-away firearms in case of an emergency. But Wyen said the response team is on pause due to an Ohio Supreme Court ruling in 2021.
“We’re still training even though we can’t have firearms in our buildings right now, with the foresight of we’re going to hopefully be able to implement this again in the future,” Wyen said.
Chris Piper, Troy Schools superintendent, said the district has been focusing more on preventing school shootings while he’s worked there the last four years.
“It’s something you constantly worry about,” Piper said. “They are, you know, statistically rare, but still far too frequent.”
Superintendent Paula Crew of Tecumseh Local Schools in Clark County said the district had extra police presence today. Recently, the district trained teachers and staff on what to do in case of a school shooting, including showing teachers how to make tourniquets, she said.
“Although we certainly pray we will not need to use any of this training in the future, we also recognize that the world is a different place,” Crew said. “It is our responsibility to provide the necessary training and resources to our staff, and when appropriate to our students, to ensure we have the systems, training, and resources in place to maximize the safety of our students and staff.”
At least two districts, Springboro and Centerville, sent out a mass email to parents, reassuring them of safety precautions.
“Yesterday’s events in Uvalde, Texas, have left us reeling,” Centerville City Schools Superintendent Tom Henderson said in the email. “Once again, an individual’s violent actions inside a school building have taken the lives of innocent students and staff members. I want to assure you that the safety and security of our students and staff remains a priority for Centerville Schools.”
Henderson listed many precautions that included dedicated school resource officers, drills, locking doors and windows, requiring visitors to buzz into the school, mental health resources and others.
Springboro Schools listed similar precautions in an email to parents.
“Springboro Schools would like to assure you that we take the safety and security of our students, staff, and volunteers very seriously,” the district said in a release. “We commit, through regular and ongoing training, to ensure that our schools are places where students can learn and grow, free from concerns about safety.”
Staff writer Brooke Spurlock and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hundreds of caregivers rallied on the steps of the Capitol Building and nearby streets in Harrisburg on Wednesday to call for more funding for nursing homes.
Nursing home workers joined legislators to echo the theme of "Now or Never."
They said the nursing home system was going downhill even before the pandemic, but COVID-19 only amplified the issues.
The caregivers asked for safe patient-to-staff ratios and $300 million in permanent and recurring investment into care. They also asked that 70 cents of every dollar spent by a nursing home to goes to resident care.
"The staffing is really slim-to-none now, and people are just tired. They're exhausted," said nurse Karen Hipple. "They're tired of working 12-hour, 15, [or] 16-hour shifts and have to come back in the next day and do it again, and it's hard working with that little staff and that many patients."
Nursing home advocates also say that, if more funding doesn't come, workers will continue to burn out and quit, which escalates the problem.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — On the second anniversary of the death of George Floyd, community members gathered in Charleston to honor the man.
They stood together in solidarity at 5 Corners on Charleston’s West Side.
Organizer Martec Washington says he hopes gatherings like these will prevent people from forgetting the past.
Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis by Officer Derek Chauvin during an arrest after a store clerk suspected he may have used a counterfeit $20 bill.
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MASON COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — A husband and wife attempted to flee from Mason County deputies on Tuesday and the husband is still missing.
According to Mason County deputies, law enforcement tried to service three felony warrants on Ronald Hively.
Once Ronald Hively’s wife, Koah Hively, saw the police, she told Ronald and they began to flee.
They say Koah tried to keep up with Ronald but was not able to. Koah Hively was arrested for obstructing an officer, open dump and having an abandoned refrigerator with the doors on it, according to the Mason County Sheriff’s Office
A search began for Ronald Hively and law enforcement was unable to find him.
Ronald Hively is six feet tall and weighs around 190 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red shirt. If you have any information on his whereabouts, contact the Mason County Sheriff’s Office or call 911.
They say Ronald Hively is a person of interest for an incident in Gallipolis, Ohio which are related to the charges in Mason County.
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HAMMOND — A federal judge sentenced a Gary man to 19 1/2 years in prison for the armed robbery of a bank two years ago.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio imposed that sentence Wednesday on 43-year-old Omarr R. Williams.
Williams pleaded guilty Nov. 17 to taking money at gunpoint Oct. 8, 2019, from a teller of the First Financial Bank branch at 2705 169th St., Hammond.
A federal grand jury indicted Williams and his co-defendant, Anthony Day, 24 hours after their capture.
The government alleges Williams and Day walked into the bank branch. Williams was wearing sunglasses, a dreadlocks wig, a Golden State Warriors hat and a blue windbreaker.
He pointed a gun at the teller and said, “Open the drawers and give me everything inside, and if you activate the panic alarm, I’ll shoot you.”
They fled with $4,804 in a car that Hammond and Lake County police were able to follow — through a tracking device planted in the money — to a wooded area in the 500 block of Burr Street in Gary.
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Police said they arrested Day as he walked out of the woods and later Williams, six blocks away, in possession of a loaded gun and $1,597 in cash.
Officers say they found the defendant’s getaway car abandoned nearby as well as their disguises.
Government investigators allege they found Williams’ DNA on a Taurus handgun and clothing seen during the bank robbery.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Caitlin Padula stated in a memorandum she wrote earlier to the court that Williams is a career offender, chronic alcohol and drug abuser and danger to his community.
He has 23 arrests dating back to his teenage years. His offenses include 10 convictions for drug-related crimes and two for violent crimes.
Padula said Williams was convicted for severely beating a pregnant woman with a metal pipe, fracturing her skull.
Williams committed the 2019 bank robbery while free on probation from a 2016-armed robbery of a Family Dollar store at 61 E. Ridge Road, Gary.
In 2016, Williams and another Gary man entered that store wearing ski masks. One hit an employee with a gun before fleeing with a bag of cash and some cigarettes.
Mark Psimos, Williams’ defense attorney, argued in a memo to the court that Williams has a history of mental health issues, including depression and bipolar disorder.
State court officials are seeking his return to Lake Criminal Court in Crown Point to answer for his probation violation.
A federal court magistrate ordered a psychiatric exam of Williams after his 2019 arrest for mental health issues because of disruptive behavior during his court hearings and seemingly irrational letters to the court.
Psimos said lately Williams has stopped acting out and has been respectful in court.
Antony Day is maintaining his plea of not guilty and is scheduled to stand trial later this fall.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Zachary Lindahl
Age : 21
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204040
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Wayne Rivera
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204125
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Wayne Micka II
Age : 31
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204089
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Ocampo-Ayala
Age : 30
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204268
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vernisha Devers
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204213
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Vaughn Baker Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204183
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Tyran Calhoun
Age : 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204140
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON (SOCIETY IS VICTIM); BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tonya McElvene
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204160
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tommy Talley Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204107
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tessa Baumgartner
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204111
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tameko Brown
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204176
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stan Guydon
Age : 72
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204082
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shaun Ross
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204127
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Hall
Age : 59
Residence: Huntington, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204184
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Cicale
Age : 41
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204174
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Santino Garza
Age : 18
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204110
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sabrina Krueger
Age : 22
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204205
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ryan Vaughn
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204056
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Flores
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204053
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rosalinda Miranda
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204192
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Armstrong
Age : 34
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204072
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Hemphill
Age : 29
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204190
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ria Swelfer
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204186
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rex Arney
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204224
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Reinaldo Rosa
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204199
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - CONVERSION - UNAUTHORIZED CONTROL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Randy Martin
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204081
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Sherman
Age : 43
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204124
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Knight
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204189
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Pablo Frias-Maldonado
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204178
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: ASSISTING A CRIMINAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oletha White
Age : 49
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204032
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $75
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nivea McDonald
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204041
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Teague
Age : 36
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204105
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Natori Hull
Age : 24
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204153
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Murell James III
Age : 22
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204221
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Modesto Godinez Jr.
Age : 44
Residence: Knox, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204276
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mitchell Wood
Age : 51
Residence: Riley, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204121
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Slavik
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204049
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Rodriguez
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204129
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Potter
Age : 55
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204206
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Miner
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204248
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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Michael Lynch
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204130
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Kibler II
Age : 41
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204093
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Hitchcock
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204249
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Matthew Steen
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204091
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mark Simcoke
Age : 35
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204080
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcell Pierce
Age : 33
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204258
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Gross
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204043
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Lisa Woods
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204028
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leandrea Sanders
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204071
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Davis
Age : 32
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204052
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Krystal Brady
Age : 40
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204044
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Davis
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204264
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Brown Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204070
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keadrick Morris
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204134
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kamesha Houston
Age : 26
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204158
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justin Zinkiewitz
Age : 34
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204273
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justice Ball
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204141
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Julian Duron
Age : 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204232
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joven Evans
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204271
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Gutierrez
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204092
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204265
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204051
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jeffrey Reeves
Age : 29
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204260
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jameka Moore
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204280
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jamale Henderson
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204139
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Tate
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204038
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Irma Anguiano
Age : 46
Residence: Matteson, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204103
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Gregory Nash
Age : 49
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204157
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gigi Vega
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204162
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Genaro Cruz
Age : 40
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204076
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Garrett Landers
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204207
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Wingard
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204151
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Bibbs II
Age : 26
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204135
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dustin Gertz
Age : 31
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204225
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devin Bates
Age : 27
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204269
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Destiny Berrones
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204235
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Derek Gensel
Age : 32
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204045
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dennis Richardson
Age : 56
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204175
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Deidra Merritt
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204161
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Lapotka
Age : 55
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204253
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darryl Rodriguez
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204188
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darean Richardson
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204122
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dante Taylor
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204180
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danny Hall
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204195
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Damarcus Fisher
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204137
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Curtis Colvin
Age : 38
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204200
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POSSESSION - STOLEN PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clem Laster
Age : 33
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204266
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cierra Kelly
Age : 33
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204215
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Moynihan
Age : 31
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204068
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christina Guzman
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204259
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Gregory
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204243
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carlos VonHatten Jr.
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204256
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON - FELONY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brittany Ramirez
Age : 33
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204027
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Larry
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204217
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Hughes
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204263
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Fastabend
Age : 34
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204047
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Bobby Jones II
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204242
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bo Wayne
Age : 31
Residence: Trail Creek, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204074
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 32
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204187
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bennie Therrell
Age : 65
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204054
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Armond Gamble
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204042
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: COMMON NUISANCE - MAINTAINING - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Aquantis Walker
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204202
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antwan Lucious
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204120
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III; MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Antonyous Harris
Age : 20
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204090
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Antonio Johnson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204250
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antoin Lewis
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204116
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Trezak
Age : 47
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204272
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andre Prince
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204229
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Lucero
Age : 32
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204069
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alonzo White
Age : 45
Residence: Atlanta, GA
Booking Number(s): 2204084
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alexis Perkins
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204083
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexis Duenas
Age : 31
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204036
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Akosua Arhen
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204234
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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CROWN POINT — The state's star witness in a triple murder trial testified Wednesday the defendant told him during two recorded phone calls in 1998 they would spend the rest of their lives in prison or possibly "fry" in the electric chair if the witness talked to police.
David L. Copley Jr., 47, of Franklin, Indiana, looked down as he sat on the stand and listened to the two phone calls he made to a person he testified was James Higgason III.
Higgason, 52, of Whiting, has pleaded not guilty to six counts of murder in the bludgeoning deaths of Jerod "Buddy" Hodge, 18, of Chicago; Elva Tamez, 36, of Hammond; and Timothy W. "Midnight" Ross, 16, of Calumet City, on Jan. 18, 1998, inside a home in the 4600 block of Torrence Avenue in Hammond.
Copley, who pleaded guilty last fall to one count of murder linked to Hodge's death, told Lake County Deputy Prosecutors Jovanni Miramontes and Keith Anderson he was testifying "because it's the right thing to do."
Defense attorneys Matthew Fech and Mark Gruenhagen moved for a mistrial because Lake Criminal Court Judge Salvador Vasquez said the recorded calls were between Copley and Higgason.
After a long talk with the attorneys at the bench, Vasquez told the jury he misspoke and Copley testified the calls were between Copley and a person Copley identified as Higgason.
After the jury left the courtroom, Fech said the judge "sort of emphasized" the calls were between Copley and Higgason.
"It is very difficult to unring that bell," he said. "Now they have it in their mind."
Vasquez denied the defense's request for a mistrial.
"You brought it to my attention. I told the jury I misspoke," Vasquez said. "By giving an admonishment, there is an assumption they will follow the court's instructions."
Copley was in a rehab program at The Salvation Army in South Bend in May 1998 when he spoke to Hammond police Detective Lt. Thomas Fielden about the triple homicide and allowed the detective to record the phone calls, he said.
"I think we should just turn ourselves in together," Copley said.
The man replied, "We're going to spend the rest of our lives in prison and maybe even get the electric chair."
Copley testified he knew Higgason had two children.
The man Copley called said he had "two beautiful children" and a job.
Copley told the man during the call he'd been talking to a pastor and told him "everything about what we did together."
The man said, "Dude, we're looking at life. Really. We got alibis.
"I know we (expletive) up," the man said. "But I don't remember doing it. You understand what I'm saying?"
The man repeatedly asks Copley not to talk to police and warns him they could get beat up or raped in prison.
The man said, "The only way to get out of this is to get away with it."
Copley said, "I don't want to go to the chair for what you did. That was sick."
The man said, "Dave, you did it. You did it. Why you want to blame it on me?"
Copley said he was having flashbacks of the killings when he went to sleep. He asked the man if it was bothering him.
The man said he hadn't been sleeping well at night, but police were trying to play them off each other.
"They're trying to peg three of them on us," he said. "So you're talking 75 years."
The possible penalty for a person convicted of murder in 1998 was 45 to 65 years, but the law required only 50% of the sentence to be served with good time.
The man offered to pay for an attorney for Copley but said he needed to know if Copley was going to talk to police. The man said the story he told his attorney would depend on Copley.
"I ain't never did you wrong and, dude, I'm still with you," he said. "You're here trying to back out on me."
Copley said, "My whole life is (expletive) because of you."
The man replied, "You're saying it was because of me?"
Copley said, "My life is (expletive) because you killed those people."
The man said, "It was your idea."
Copley replied, "Yeah, right."
The man said, "Dave, forget about it. We got to, or we're both gonna live the rest of our lives in hell."
Copley testified he and Higgason went to Tamez's home on Torrence Avenue three times Jan. 18, 1998, to buy crack cocaine.
The first two times, Higgason bought the drugs and he drove Higgason's van around Hammond while they got high.
They got a flat tire, so they walked to the house the third time and Higgason went inside but didn't get any drugs, he said. They took Tamez's van to Higgason's girlfriend's home, where Higgason picked up a shotgun, he said.
Copley testified they went back to Tamez's house, and a man came out and took the shotgun. They all went inside the house, where Higgason got more crack in trade for the gun, he said.
Higgason spent some time with Tamez in a bedroom or bathroom while Copley got high, he said.
When Higgason and Tamez came out, Higgason sent Tamez outside to look for cigarette butts and locked the front door, Copley said.
"He tells me, 'We're gonna whack these guys,'" Copley said. "I tried to talk him out of it. I was kind of scared."
Two men — identified by other witnesses at Hodge and Ross — had fallen asleep in the living room, and Higgason wanted to rob them of money and drugs, Copley said.
"He hands me a board. He has a closet pole or something," Copley said. "He whacks one. I whack the other."
Copley said he dropped the board and ran to a back door, but he couldn't get it open so he ran back to the front door. As he passed through the living room, he heard Higgason saying, "Die, (expletive), die," he said.
Copley said Higgason stopped hitting the men and told him to open the door for Tamez, who entered and asked Copley where he was going.
"I told her I was getting sick," he said. "She says, 'Jimmy, you're bleeding.'"
Higgason began hitting Tamez and shut the front door, and Copley fled down an alley, he said.
Higgason caught up with him, took off a bloody sweater and sweatpants and threw them in the garbage, he said.
Higgason was wearing multiple layers, so he was still wearing a sweater, sweatpants and orange hat as they walked, Copley said.
Higgason picked up snow to wipe blood off his hands and face and told Copley, "Loose lips sink ships," he said.
Larry Shelton, who worked for the Hammond Sanitary District at the time, testified he saw two men, one taller with an orange hat and one shorter with a dark hoodie, walking near the Johnson Street pumping station about 7 a.m.
He thought it was odd that the taller man in the hat was wearing only a muscle T-shirt, despite the cold weather, he said. When he saw them walking a second time, he called police to report the suspicious men, he said.
Copley said he and Higgason walked from the house on Torrence to Higgason's van to retrieve Higgason's dog, then continued on to Higgason's grandmother's house in Hammond.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Larry Boston, 21, and his childhood friend Charles Golden, 20, both of Chicago, were visiting a friend in Gary and planned on going on a double date July 8, 2020, according to trial testimony.
Pastor John Lowe II got a standing ovation initially after saying he had sinned and committed “adultery.” Then a woman walked up to the microphone and said she was 16 at the time. A prosecutor is investigating.
Maximilliono C. Farias didn't slow down before striking 19-year-old John Garner IV on Monday night as Garner and another man walked through a Merrillville parking lot, records state.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call detectives at the Lake County/Gary Metro Homicide Unit at 219-755-3855. To remain anonymous, call 866-CRIME-GP.
"David (Dalton) stated multiple times that he was going to do whatever to help his son, who just got jumped by the large group of juveniles," according to Chesterton police.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — Homeless camps and trash sites are building up along Northeast Airport Way between Northeast 138th and 148th avenues, near the Portland Costco.
“It’s like we don’t care, we don’t care at all, so we just dump it here,” said William Strong. “It’s sad to see people having to live with this kind of stuff and it’s kind of angering, makes me angry, because there’s nothing they can do that seems to stop it.”
Strong has lived in Portland for 50 years. Each week, he drives along Airport Way, watching the homeless encampments and piles of garbage multiply.
“You look at this, this is worse actually than the last time my wife came by,” he said, pointing to what looks like an abandoned encampment right across the street from Costco.
The next site is on a levee off of 138th Avenue.
“There’s a campground down here on the left,” he said as we drove along the dirt road past the broken-down cars, sewage and old tires.
“It’s sickening because there’s cans of chemicals and foam rubber and it’s like this all the way down,” Strong continued, pointing to the piece of an RV that collects waste from sinks and toilets. “Now it’s just sitting here.”
At the bottom of the levee, hidden by trees, is a homeless camp.
“There’s a pathway of what looks like plywood underneath the ground that goes over to a truck or an RV,” Strong pointed out.
We walked past a man taking tires from a broken-down Honda.
“I know the city’s overwhelmed,” Strong said. “I don’t know how they can let this continue out here.”
Last week the city received 1,783 new homeless campsite reports. They observed 327 of them and talked with the campers at another 541. They cleaned 30 and removed 45.
This specific site along Airport Way wasn’t on the list.
Metro’s RID patrol team responds to reports of dumped garbage. They’ve received about 10 reports of sites along Airport Way in the past few months, which they said isn’t a lot.
“We do know that there are some areas like these higher instance corridors like Airport Way and the freeways, and of those things where it’s harder to get those reports to come in,” said Kimberlee Ables, the Metro’s public information officer.
Ables said the majority of their reports come from residential areas where there’s more foot traffic, but that’s not the only reason these sites on the outskirts of the city aren’t getting cleaned.
Airport Way is broken up into multiple jurisdictions: the Department of State Lands, the Port of Portland and the City of Portland, which makes it challenging for people to know which department is responsible for cleaning each section of land.
“We do know that it’s confusing — everything about the garbage and recycling is confusing, about who picks up what, about how we are managing our houseless population is confusing ... it all kinds of ties together,” Ables said.
The state just gave Metro $10 million to try and clear up the confusion by delegating each campsite report to the correct agency.
“And we’re doing a really good job at that piece which is why the state was willing to give us these funds to really lead in this effort,” said Ables.
However, it’s up to the community to report sites like this one.
“There’s such a contrast between the sound of the birds and the trash on the ground,” said Strong as he walked back to the car. “Boy, I don’t know how they’re going to solve it.”
New legislation is coming up this summer that will try and cut down on the amount of bulky garbage that lines the streets, such as refrigerators, furniture and tires. Metro is also asking for the community to share ideas on the changes they would like to see made when it comes to preventing garbage sites.
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STOCKTON, Calif — When news broke of a mass shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texas, it was all too familiar for Judy Weldon.
"My mind instantly went to grief, and tears began to flow right away," Weldon said.
Weldon was a second grade teacher in 1989 when five kids, ages six to nine, were shot and killed at Cleveland Elementary school. 32 others were hurt by gunman Patrick Purdy, who shot them with a semi-automatic rifle.
"Every time a shooting like this happens, it brings us back. It doesn't just prick the wound; it explodes the wound all over again," Weldon said.
10 years ago, Weldon, fellow teachers and staff formed Cleveland School Remembers. It began as a support group, but eventually became a non-profit aimed at reducing gun violence.
Reverend Becky Cameron, a former hospital chaplain, leads the group's legislative efforts to keep guns out of the hands of those who want to cause harm.
"Firearms are now the leading cause of death for children and teens in this country. Think about that - the leading cause of death. When I was a child, that was car accidents or falling out of a tree you climbed too high in," Cameron said.
In California, you can be 18 and purchase a semi-automatic assault weapon, just like in Texas.
However, federal legislation called "Act 21" would raise the minimum age to 21 in the U.S. The bill is sponsored by San Francisco Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.
The legislation was introduced three years ago, and nothing has changed. If it does pass, it would be law for all 50 states.
"We got to get the guns out of the hands of people that shouldn't have them," Cameron said.
Cameron points out that, since the beginning of the year, there have been over 200 "mass shootings" in the U.S.
According to the non-profit, independent data collection and research group, Gun Violence Archive, there have been 213 mass shootings this year. The group categorizes a "mass shooting" as a "minimum of four victims shot, either injured or killed, not including any shooter."
What Weldon and her group want are universal background checks, a ban on assault weapons and ghost guns, and a "day of action."
"Personally, I would like parents who could afford to keep their kids out of school one day a month to do it, and say until you pass legislation, until you get this across, then we're going to keep boycotting school," Weldon said.
As far as arming teachers with guns, Weldon says "absolutely not." She said teachers don't need the added responsibility and "so many variables could lead to fatal accidents."
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WEBER CITY, Va. (WJHL) — The Virginia Department of Transportation hosted an information meeting Wednesday regarding U.S. Route 23 in Scott County.
The meeting primarily focused on operational and safety issues along U.S. 23 between the Tennessee state line and U.S. Route 59. According to VDOT, that section of the highway has a high number of crashes due to poor spacing between intersections and access driveways located along the corridor.
A study has been underway to identify opportunities for improving the highway.
“The study looks at various safety and operational improvements along the road, so they’re looking at ways that maybe closing a crossover or adding a turn lane and removing some turn lanes,” VDOT spokesperson Michelle Earl said. “Just some things that will help traffic flow more smoothly through the area and then will improve safety.”
The comment period for the study will close on June 4. Comments may be submitted online.
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Leaders in Idaho have posted their thoughts on the recent mass shooting that took place in Uvalde, Texas. The messages expressed sympathy and empathy and some addressed the topic of gun regulation.
The deadly shooting occurred Tuesday at Robb Elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers, the Associated Press reported, after a gunman walked into a school in full body armor and barricaded himself into a classroom. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the gunman had no prior criminal history or history of mental illness in a Wednesday press conference.
The process of identifying victims continued into Wednesday.
The tragedy has brought up conversation about gun control legislation, a topic that has surrounded previous mass shootings.
Gov. Brad Little reacted Wednesday on Twitter.
“Our country is grieving the victims of today’s horrific school shooting in Texas. As a grandpa of school aged children, this news is heartbreaking. The families and all those affected will be strengthened by our prayers as they cope with this awful tragedy,” Little wrote.
Boise Mayor Lauren McLean issued a statement on Wednesday, saying that as a mother, she can feel the pain in her stomach over the trauma the families may experience.
“I just spent time with some local high school students, hearing their pleas for action on common sense gun laws, and marking moments of silence for each of the 21 people killed in Texas. Nineteen young children were killed in their classroom,” McLean said.
The city of Nampa also shared a statement on Facebook.
“There are no words to express our heartfelt condolences to the community of Uvalde, Texas. Please know we are praying for you,” it said.
Luke Cavener, a Republican Meridian City Council member, posted on Twitter Wednesday that he is a gun owner, but also a father.
“Representing means listening so I’m listening. Yes, I’m a gun owner, a (second amendment) supporter. But before that I’m a dad who acknowledges the status quo is not working. Not looking to debate, but If you have suggestions on solutions at the local, state, and federal level my ears are open,” Cavener wrote.
Sen. Melissa Wintrow, D-Boise, posted a statement on her website, saying the shooting, “once AGAIN brought many of us to our knees, wondering what is wrong with our country and how to stop these murders.”
Wintrow said that it’s easy to obtain a firearm, which makes for a “deadly situation.”
“We need to deal with how easy it is to access deadly weapons and how to reduce, limit, or eliminate access to deadly weapons to people prone to violence. AND we need to deal with root causes of violence (power and control that is linked with patriarchal systems) and work on changing the culture of violence that tolerates dehumanization and rewards violence in media, politics, etc,” the post said.
Treg Bernt, another Meridian City Council member who recently won a GOP primary race for the Idaho Senate, issued a statement on Facebook.
“As elected officials we need to come together and figure out how we can reduce the number of unnecessary deaths in this country caused by those challenged with mental illness. We need to find common ground,” Bernt said.
Republican Congressmen Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher, as well as Republican U.S. Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch, had not issued social media statements on the shooting as of Wednesday afternoon, but Fulcher told KBOI in an interview that “strengthening the family unit, the parental unit, the moral teaching that we have walked away from over time,” is what is needed to stop mass shootings.
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Tens of thousands of people will travel within, into and out of Idaho this Memorial Day weekend, even as gas prices continue to soar.
AAA predicts that 224,000 Idahoans will take a trip during the holiday weekend, an 8% increase from last year. The uptick coincides with record-high average gas prices in the Gem State and U.S. — a gallon of gas cost $4.62 on average in Idaho and $4.60 nationally as of May 24, according to AAA.
The average gallon of gas in Idaho went for $3.24 last year and $2.14 in 2020.
"In our research, we learned that, of the people who had already booked a vacation this summer, 50% will not cancel those plans. It doesn't matter what gas is doing price-wise," AAA Idaho Public Affairs Director Matthew Conde told the Idaho Press. "So it just tells you that there's a certain amount of stickiness, there's some stubbornness that, even though prices are high, people are thinking that they're going to make some other change, maybe drive less in their everyday life, to still make that vacation possible."
And even though the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic seem to be well in the rearview, Conde said, many travelers are still trying to make up for lost time.
"Revenge travel is the phrase that we've used to sort of describe this, where people are trying to get even with the pandemic for holding them back," Conde said.
Although there's plenty to explore in every corner of Idaho, many travelers will leave the state to visit the region's national parks and amusement parks, Conde said.
AAA defines an Idahoan who travels during Memorial Day weekend as anyone who goes 50 miles or more away from home.
ITD URGES SAFETY, ATTENTIVENESS ON THE ROADS
Memorial Day weekend begins the period known as "100 deadliest days" — when a majority of fatal traffic crashes occur.
There were 85 fatalities between Memorial Day and Labor Day in Idaho last year and 88 in 2020, according to the Idaho Transportation Department's online crash summary dashboard.
To combat the trend, ITD provided grants to more than 60 law enforcement agencies throughout the state so they can keep extra officers on patrol this weekend, looking specifically for travelers who are not wearing seat belts, said Bill Kotowski, grants and contracts officer in ITD's office of highway safety.
Wearing a seat belt increases the chance of surviving a crash by about 50%, Kotowski said.
Officers may issue citations to passengers who aren't wearing seat belts, but the initiative also encourages officers to educate travelers they pull over about the importance of buckling up.
"It takes 2 or 3 seconds," Kotowski said.
Planning ahead, exercising patience and being attentive are other important measures travelers can take to avoid being pulled over — or causing a crash — over the weekend. Thursday and Monday will be the busiest travel days, according to AAA.
ITD's 511.idaho.gov and 511 app alerts travelers to accidents, closures and other delays.
"Summertime is a great time to get out and enjoy everything Idaho has to offer, but as you're traveling, we just ask people to remember to buckle up and really just focus on the drive," Kotowski said. "You can enjoy the place once you get there, but when you're driving, it's a very serious thing that requires your full attention.
"We just ask people to be cautious and make smart decisions on the road."
The Canyon County Sheriff's Office doubled down on Kotowski's sentiments, adding that people who have been drinking alcohol should use a designated driver or a rideshare option, such as Uber or Lyft.
"The Canyon County Sheriff’s Office encourages all drivers to be safe and obey all traffic laws while on the roadways this Memorial Day weekend," the sheriff's office said in a statement. "That means putting your cell phones away, being an attentive driver, and following the speed limit."
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — One person has been detained after a shooting in Charleston.
Metro 911 officials say this happened at around 10:45 p.m. on Renaissance Cir. and Farnsworth Drive.
They say there is no word on if anyone was shot or any injuries.
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HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) — One person has been taken to the hospital after a shooting on Charleston Avenue in Huntington.
Dispatchers say there is no word on the extent of the injuries.
Police on the scene say there is no suspect yet.
HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK) — One person has been taken to the hospital after a shooting on Charleston Avenue in Huntington.
Dispatchers say there is no word on the extent of the injuries.
Police on the scene say there is no suspect yet.
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Democrat Antonio Delgado was sworn in as New York’s lieutenant governor Wednesday, becoming the state's first person of Latino heritage to serve in statewide office.
Delgado, who identifies as Afro-Latino, is taking on the largely ceremonial role in the administration of Gov. Kathy Hochul, who selected him for the job. It was previously held by Brian Benjamin, who resigned following his arrest in April for federal corruption charges, which he has denied.
Delgado, 45, will also be Hochul's running mate in this year's gubernatorial election.
Hochul, speaking at a ceremony in New York City before Delgado was sworn into office, said he shares her views of what it means to be a public servant.
“It means being a good listener, but not just listening to people’s concerns passively, but translating those concerns into real action. That’s when public service manifests itself and achieves its full potential,” she said.
Delgado, who was joined by his wife and twin 8-year-old sons at the ceremony, gave a short speech in which he said his “path to politics was not meticulously plotted out.”
He is a Rhodes Scholar who, after earning a Harvard law degree, pursued a rap career before becoming a litigator at a New York City law firm.
“I heard some chuckles out there,” he said as he recounted his foray into hip hop. “I followed my heart. Like I’m doing now.”
He said that though he spanned two different careers, in two very different environments, a diversity of experience will help him bridge divides.
“As leaders we need to listen and work hard and find common ground and be effective. That's my commitment," he said.
He spoke about the shooting at an elementary school in Texas on Tuesday and said nothing was being done on the national level to protect children like his from gun violence, and he said America was at a moment where too many lives and the foundation of democracy were at stake.
“The very fabric of our nation is on the line," he said.
The two-term congressman represented the Hudson Valley and the Catskills and was the first person of color representing upstate New York in Congress. He had campaigned for the U.S. House on universal access to Medicare, creating good jobs and eliminating tax loopholes for the rich.
Delgado's move to leave Congress and join Hochul's administration comes in an election year in which the state's congressional maps were redrawn as part of the decennial redistricting process.
The timing sets up a dual-track process to replace Delgado, in which a special election would be held for his sprawling House seat, New York's 19th Congressional District, on Aug. 23, with the winner holding office for the rest of the year.
But that same day, the state will hold primary elections for Congress under the new political maps, which shifted boundaries and political matchups throughout the state.
That has left some quirks in campaigning, like Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan, a Democrat, who announced he will seek to win the Aug. 23 special election for the 19th District, but on the same day, compete in a Democratic primary for the 18th District.
Delgado grew up in Schenectady and lives in Rhinebeck.
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