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The grief and pain being witnesses in Uvalde, Texas, after a gunman killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers is difficult to process for ay adult, let alone a child. But parents are still facing the tough question: How do you talk to your kids after yet another school shooting?
For mom Maria Richards, she is thankful her 2-year-old daughter Alina is too young to comprehend what happened. Even as her mother, Richards herself isn't sure she can ever fully grasp the tragic events.
"I can't even process what happened. You're supposed to be safe at school and I don't even want to send her to school when it's time," Richards said.
What happened in the classroom in Texas — as well as in Parkland, Sandy Hook and too many others to name — is unfathomable to most adults, but even more so for children. The news is inescapable, but talking kids through it is critical, according to an expert.
"The horrific nature of it doesn't make it frequent. Yes, it’s horrible but it’s unlikely to happen here," said Dr. Maurice Elias, the director the Social-Emotional and Character lab at Rutgers University.
He believes that reassuring children and easing their anxiety is crucial, and while it's hard to understand how a person barely 18 years old can harbor such anger, hate and pain to take innocent lives, Elias said it is what kids are taught at home and at school that can make the difference.
“Our children need to learn the socio-emotional skills of being a good person, to solve their problems without violence," he said.
Expecting her second child, Richards said it may likely be her last she has.
"It makes me rethink everything because, what future can you even give them if you don’t even know what’s going to happen today, or who is going to wake up today and be angry at the world? It's definitely scary," she said. "It’s scary to even be here, to go anywhere really. It’s always happening. And nothing is being done and everyday there’s a new story."
Dr. Elias said that changing that narrative will require action, not just reaction.
"We need to cry less and scream more. If we allow yet another one of these incidents to go by without any action taking place, we have to look in the mirror and say it's on us," Elias said. "We have to, in the words of John Lewis, be ready to get into trouble, good trouble."
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ELIZABETHON, Tenn. (WJHL) – A high-ranking Tennessee lawmaker is calling on school resources officers in every school following the Uvalde, Texas shooting. Some districts in Northeast Tennessee struggle with a shortage of SROs in schools.
Rep. Jeremy Faison said he asked Gov. Bill Lee and the state Department of Education to provide the funding for every school to have an SRO before the 2022-23 school year.
“Is there a pot of money we can find to make sure that when our kids go back to school in August there’s a peace of mind knowing that every single school in Tennessee, whether they, the locals can afford it or not, has an officer that is trained to handle an issue like this?” Faison said.
Faison’s concern comes after a gunman killed 21, including 19 children, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday.
He said the recently passed Tennessee Investment in Student Achievement (TISA), the state’s new school funding formula, has millions included for schools to hire SROs.
But TISA kicks in 2024, and Faison does not want the state to wait.
“The new funding formula has enough money built in for each LEA (local education agency) to be able to afford whatever they need as far as SRO officers,” Faison said. “Whatever possible within the state that we can do that, we need to pursue it.”
In the Tri-Cities, Carter County Schools said they have been dealing with short-staffing in their SROs.
School Board Chair Tony Garland would not give specifics, but said they have the funding to have SROs in every Carter County school, but just can’t find the people.
“It’s funded. Our issue comes into the availability of the SRO officers,” Garland said. “If you’ve got a labor issue, how do you solve a labor issue? You’ve got to potentially have salary increases to fulfill that gap.”
Garland said the responsibility for finding new SROs is on the Carter County Sheriffs Office.
Some cities struggle with SRO coverage in every school too.
Kingsport and Bristol, Tennessee both have schools without officers. In Bristol, three officers split the district’s five elementary schools, but expanding to have an officer at every school brings financial concerns.
“There is of course a very sizable expense to equipping and training, and just the payroll cost,” said Bristol Director of Community Relations Jon Luttrell.
Luttrell said Bristol’s geographic size allows them to operate with fewer officers. He said response times would still be quick in the event of an emergency at a school.
But in Carter County, schools spread out from outside Elizabethton to Roan Mountain, bringing concerns about response times in emergency situations.
“The response time to one of our schools say on the outer ends. It could be 30 minutes, it could be 40 minutes,” Garland said.
Garland said Carter County Schools do have additional safety measures like perimeter fencing and single entrance points in buildings.
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Prosecutors on Monday formally charged a Lincoln man who police said fired a shotgun last month toward a group of men who had been tampering with his vehicle, according to court records.
The 22-year-old man was charged with discharge of a firearm, a misdemeanor crime that carries a maximum fine of $500 and up to six months in jail.
The charge stems from the early morning hours of April 14, when officers responded to a house near 62nd and Hartley streets just before 3 a.m. The 22-year-old reported he heard sawing noises in his driveway and saw three men, dressed in dark clothing, underneath his car, Capt. Todd Kocian said then.
The man then retrieved a shotgun from his residence and fired toward the men as they fled in a dark SUV, Kocian said.
It is illegal to fire a gun inside city limits.
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The three men caused about $500 in damage to the man's vehicle, but ultimately did not make off with his catalytic converter.
The 22-year-old will make his first appearance in Lancaster County Court on Thursday.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
Reach the writer at 402-473-7223 or awegley@journalstar.com.
On Twitter @andrewwegley
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DALLAS — Chief Eddie Garcia said he is appalled and embarrassed by the actions of two Dallas Police Department officers he has recently placed on administrative leave.
Dash camera video obtained by WFAA showed that, in the early morning hours of May 13, two Dallas Police officers spotted a car taking off from a convenience store without its headlines on. The police then followed that car out of the store's parking lot, turning their siren and lights on to indicate that the driver pull his car over.
The driver, however, did not pull over. Instead, his car took off at a high rate of speed and a brief chase ensued. Because of DPD policy -- namely, that the subject of the pursuit was not wanted for, nor being pulled over for, a violent felony offense -- the officers quickly broke off their pursuit.
But the issue is what happened, or didn't happen, in the immediate aftermath of their decision to no longer pursue the vehicle.
Dash camera footage from the DPD car clearly shows that the vehicle the officers had been chasing along Martin Luther King Boulevard could be seen jumping a curb and crashing along the side of the road immediately after the police car turned off its lights.
Additional security footage that provides another angle of the incident shows the driver of the car blowing through a stop sign and swerving in order to avoid a pedestrian before losing control of his car.
Nineteen seconds later, that same security camera footage shows, the same DPD car that had been in pursuit casually approached the intersection where the crash took place -- before taking a right-hand turn and leaving the scene of the accident.
DPD now acknowledges that its officers didn’t stop to help the victim.
Instead, it was citizens who witnessed the crash that rescued the man from his car, which had become engulfed in flames.
Dash camera footage from the DPD car also included audio in which rookie officer Darrien Robertson and his trainer Sr. Cpl. Leonard Anderson can be heard talking.
"Did you see that?" Robertson can be heard asking his trainer.
"That’s his fault," Anderson, who was driving, replied.
Asked for comment, Chief Garcia said he couldn’t believe what he heard and saw on the tapes.
"It was obvious something happened to the vehicle when it got to the intersection," Garcia said. "To me, that was the most disturbing portion of that tape."
Garcia said he's appalled that his officers left the scene without checking on the driver first.
"I'm embarrassed for the men and women of this department," Garcia said. "This is not what we stand for."
Garcia applauded the witnesses who rushed to the scene to help the victim from the flames.
"Those citizens did an admirable job -- and did a job that our officers should have done," Garcia said.
Garcia said his officers only came back to the scene when they heard the car was on fire.
On body camera footage obtained by WFAA, the officers can be seen arriving back at the scene and running past the car on fire, then heard asking the group of civilians gathered there if the victim got out of the car safely.
As Dallas Fire-Rescue offered CPR to the driver, the civilians angrily grilled the police about what happened.
"Bro, a goddamn police was behind him, man," one of the civilians can be heard saying on the body camera footage. "That's what made him run into the damn thing like that, man. You telling me I'm lying, bro?"
Another reply: "They were chasing him when he hit the tree, and they turned their lights off and turned."
Another civilian reaction: "That [expletive] is not right. What if that was your big brother?"
Garcia said he understands the citizens' concern.
"They should be outraged," he said. "I'm outraged. Everyone who has seen this video is outraged."
The driver survived, and the officers will remain on administrative leave as DPD conducts an internal affairs investigation into the incident, Garcia said.
The officers face possible termination -- but are not likely to face criminal charges at this time, Garcia said. He said that DPD considered charging the officers with failure to stop and render aid, but chose not to do so upon interpreting that state law on such charges only applies when a person clearly caused an accident before fleeing the scene.
In this case, Garcia said, the driver was attempting to flee police and wrecked out on his own.
The officers' lawyer has yet to respond to WFAA's requests for comment.
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Arizona lottery numbers, May 25
Associated Press
These Arizona lotteries were drawn Wednesday:
Pick 3
6-4-4
Fantasy 5
20-21-28-31-34
Estimated jackpot: $257,000
The Pick
07-11-12-23-25-41
Estimated jackpot: $1,200,000
Triple Twist
02-03-12-26-31-40
Estimated jackpot: $300,000
Mega Millions
Estimated jackpot: 157,000,000
Powerball
19-28-39-42-57, Powerball: 17, Power Play: 3
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TEXAS, USA — School safety measures in Texas are largely left up to its more than 1,200 public school districts and charter schools, though the state requires emergency plans and safety drills — and only certain individuals are allowed to carry guns in schools.
Here’s a breakdown of general school safety measures in the state.
Who can carry a gun in Texas schools?
While Texas leaders have loosened gun laws, including by eliminating the requirement for a license to carry a handgun in 2021, schools are generally considered gun-free zones under federal and state laws except in certain circumstances.
A 1990 federal law bans firearms on school property or within 1,000 feet of public and private schools, but the law makes exceptions for law enforcement and individuals licensed to carry. Other exceptions include if the gun is not loaded and is locked away or if the individual has been authorized to carry a gun by the district. Texas also generally bans guns where school-sponsored activities take place, unless an individual is exempted.
Teachers and school staff can carry a gun under a state-run school marshals program, which is overseen by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and requires 80 hours of training. Another 2021 state law now allows school marshals to carry concealed guns around students instead of storing them in lockers.
School districts can also pass their own policy authorizing certain individuals to carry guns in their buildings. The policies, often referred to as “guardian plans,” are determined by districts and do not have uniform requirements, said Kathy Martinez-Prather, director of the Texas School Safety Center. In most cases, school districts use this option to authorize commissioned peace officers in school district police departments to carry a gun, but it can also be used to authorize other school staff, according to the Texas Association of School Boards.
Who is in charge of school safety in Texas?
School safety measures are largely up to individual school districts, but the state does mandate they enact some policies.
“There's no one aspect of school safety that addresses the needs of all campuses, so the state has an approach that is really broad in terms of the different options that schools use,” said Joy Baskin, legal director for the Texas Association of School Boards.
Since 2005, the state has required schools to have emergency operation plans in place, said Martinez-Prather of the Texas School Safety Center.
The Texas School Safety Center, a research center at Texas State University, was created after the 1999 Columbine school shooting and was tasked by the Legislature in 2001 with collecting and distributing school safety information, Martinez-Prather said. The center assesses school safety and provides research and free training.
The emergency operation plans should outline emergency management, staff training and safety drills for hazards such as natural disasters, Martinez-Prather said. After a 2018 shooting in Santa Fe High School left 10 dead and 13 wounded, lawmakers also required schools to outline responses to active threats and tasked the center with reviewing the emergency operation plans.
School districts are also required to conduct safety and security audits every three years. The Texas School Safety Center uses information provided by districts to create statewide school safety reports.
If a school district does not comply with requirements or recommendations from the school safety center, they may be required to hold a public hearing to address concerns or face Texas Education Agency conservatorship, Martinez-Prather said.
Districts’ plans and audits are not made publicly available, but schools should provide a summary, according to TASB.
“The reason for that is the last thing we want to do is expose or make available plans to any folks that, you know, may be interested in targeting a school,” Martinez-Prather said.
Martinez-Prather said concerned parents can ask their campus leadership about their school’s safety measures or can look to districts’ school safety and security committees. The committees, made up of school leaders and community partners such as parents, were also required after the Santa Fe school shooting and must hold public meetings.
What safety measures are required or recommended in schools?
School districts must also complete two lockdown drills a year, Martinez-Prather said.
In response to the Santa Fe school shooting, state lawmakers also required every school to have a behavioral threat assessment team.
The behavioral threat assessment teams, designated by school boards, help identify immediate threats, but Martinez-Prather said they should also work on prevention.
“It’s about connecting students with appropriate supports and interventions to get them off a pathway to violence so they can be successful in the educational environment,” she said.
State lawmakers also pushed for more school safety communication, training and mental health resources after the Santa Fe school shooting, but turnover and staffing constraints have complicated efforts, Baskin said.
“There’s staffing shortages for all purposes in schools right now,” she said. “But particularly around the state, there are locations where it’s very difficult to access mental health services. So expanding that access is a real priority.”
Does every school have police officers assigned to campuses?
Law enforcement and security presence in schools is left up to each school district in Texas. School districts can choose to employ school resource officers, who report to a local law enforcement agency, or commissioned peace officers, who often report to school district leaders. Both are licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement and receive training from the Texas School Safety Center, according to TASB.
Schools can also employ or contract with security officers not licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement, but they may be required to be registered and verified by the Texas School Safety Center.
Martinez-Prather said 333 districts reported to the center that they have their own police department, and the center has also seen an increase in school districts implementing “guardian plans” appointing certain individuals to be armed.
If a school district employs officers, an officer may be assigned to more than one school, said Lynelle Sparks, executive director of the Texas Association of School Resource Officers.
“It comes down to, unfortunately, funding and then it takes a specific person to be that officer to be in that school,” she said.
Schools are not required to lock entrances or doors inside buildings, but Martinez-Prather said it’s considered a best practice to help fend off intruders.
“Locking doors during the day, classroom doors during instruction also, is another time barrier and one less step to do when we go into lockdown,” she said.
Schools can also use metal detectors, but experts warn no single tool or measure will completely address school safety.
“The most important thing is building relationships and stopping anything from happening before it happens,” Sparks said.
Also on KCENTV.com:
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NORMAL — The McLean County Unit 5 board heard some good news about this year’s budget, but board members and district staff warned that the amounts involved were far from enough to solve the district’s structural deficit.
The board learned from district Chief Financial Officer Marty Hickman on Wednesday that an amended budget it expects to vote on next month includes a smaller than anticipated deficit in the transportation and education funds.
The education fund deficit is covered by a transfer from working cash. The amended budget includes an abatement from working cash to the education fund of around $11 million, down from $12.5 million in the original budget.
The deficit in the transportation fund is about $2 million lower than expected, down to $1.28 million from $3.26 million.
Factors that helped included higher than expected total equalized assessed valuation (the taxable value of property in the district), corporate personal property replacement tax money, federal revenue, food service revenue and state funding for transportation, Hickman said.
The expenses in the amended budget assume the building managers and district directors will spend every dollar they can, which does not actually happen, Hickman said.
“On this budget, we dial in the revenues as close as we can, but again, we try to take a conservative approach to budgeting the expense side,” he said.
Board member Amy Roser pointed out that the structural deficit is still visible in the education fund as the $11 million transferred from working cash. Working cash is not a viable long-term answer, Hickman said, as the bonds issued to raise it include fees and interest.
“I think the moral of the story for us as taxpayers is to recognize that when we take out a working cash bond and we pay a dollar in taxes to Unit 5, that whole dollar doesn’t get to go towards supporting education, it goes in part to the extensive fees to take out that working cash, in addition to the interest payments,” Roser said.
As the district continues to decide how to address its structural deficit long-term, the public can provide input through a survey on the district website. There is also a phone survey being done, and those who want to take the phone survey can find the number to call on the district website as well.
The board plans to vote on the amended budget at its next meeting.
At that meeting, it also plans to take up a standardized tax abatement incentive package to be offered through the Bloomington-Normal area Enterprise Zone to attach new businesses. Patrick Hoban, president of the Bloomington-Normal Economic Development Council, presented to the board on the change Wednesday night.
The board also heard from five members of the public opposed to the new standards on sex education. State law now requires districts that provide sex education at certain grade levels to use certain curriculum. Unit 5 only teaches sex education in eighth and ninth grades, and only the ninth grade curriculum will change next year, Superintendent Kristen Weikle said.
Some of the audience had signs telling the district to “opt out” of the new requirements.
Parents do have the option of opting out their children. A link to the curriculum will be available on the district’s website and parents will be notified about the unit ahead of time through the course syllabus, Weikle said.
One member of the public, Alex Williams, spoke, saying he trusted the teachers and professionals in the district to decide what was age appropriate for sex and health education and that he appreciated all the work that had gone into educating his children at Unit 5.
The board approved the changes as part of the consent agenda unanimously.
Starting in July, the board will change the time frame for signups for public comments to run starting from an hour and 15 minutes before the meeting and ending 15 minutes before, board President Barry Hitchins said.
The board started the meeting with a moment of silence in respect for the children and teachers killed in the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday. Multiple board members remarked on the event in their comments at the end of the meeting as well.
“As a school board, we are committed to ensuring the safety of every one of our students and I hope, as unfortunate as it is, that we will learn from the experience,” board member Alan Kalitzky said.
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Painting by Volusia County artist chosen for sale, display at Star Wars convention
DELEON SPRINGS — For as long as he can remember, L. Jason Queen has loved Star Wars.
He still remembers his father taking him to see the first film, retroactively titled "Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope," in 1977 when he was a little over 2 years old.
While Queen, 47, is unable to attend this year's Star Wars Celebration, which takes place in Anaheim, California, Thursday through Sunday, his passion for the franchise will be on display for tens of thousands of attendees to see.
After receiving submissions from around the world, Lucasfilm and Acme Archives chose pieces by Queen and 20 other artists for licensure and display at the convention's art show.
Acme Archives is the official licensee of art products for several movie, TV and gaming companies. Licensing enables artists, such as Queen, to receive royalties in exchange for the company reproducing and selling their work.
Queen's piece, dubbed "Legacy in the Making," focuses on Mandalorians, fictional characters known for their iconic armor.
"It's been an adventure, to say the least," Queen said during an interview this month at his home and studio. "There's certain bells that I want to ring in my career, and that was one I've been working toward since 2017."
The DeLeon Springs man's limited-edition print — the original is oil paint on masonite board — is already a hit. Of the 250 copies available, fans snatched up 179 of them during the pre-sale period that ran from May 2-16. The remaining copies will be available for purchase during the convention, which takes place biennially or when there's a new movie in the Star Wars franchise.
Whipping up a winner
"There's just something I love about them," Queen said of Mandalorians.
The piece features multiple characters including Boba Fett; Jango Fett; Bo-Katan Kryze; The Armorer; Sabine Wren; Din Djarin; and Grogu, also known as The Child, who is colloquially called Baby Yoda.
Queen noticed while watching "The Mandalorian" on Disney+ that the word "tribe" came up multiple times; it got him thinking about Native American totems and, eventually, the Tree of Life sculpture at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
"Then I took certain characters who I really liked from the stories and kind of combined them," Queen said.
Queen, who describes his style as "organized chaos," spent about a month working on the piece.
He cites N.C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parrish as some of his influences.
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"It was it was a long, drawn-out process because you had to have reference pieces," Queen said.
Lucasfilm and Acme Archives required that artists share their reference pieces to ensure the characters were correctly detailed.
Queen put Boba Fett's character at the top of the piece because he's the first Mandalorian seen in the Star Wars franchise – more specifically "The Empire Strikes Back," which Queen recalled seeing when he was 5.
"[Fett] was just this mysterious character who pops on the screen and takes Han Solo away," Queen said.
A family affair
Nearly four months after receiving the good news about his piece, Queen still feels a sense of disbelief.
He said he wasn't expecting to be one of the chosen ones and was just hoping for more feedback on his work from Acme Archives.
Queen interviewed with the company in 2017 when the Star Wars Celebration came to Orlando. He said they told him that, while he did good work, he wasn't ready and needed to work on finding his style.
After receiving that feedback, he changed his plans. Instead of spending all of the $500 he'd brought to the convention on merchandise, he bought one item and used the rest to invest in art supplies.
Christy Queen said she admired the way her husband responded to the critique.
"If it were me, I think I probably would have gone, 'OK, I quit,'" Christy, 47, said.
But the artist's tenacity wasn't new.
In 2004, two weeks after earning his master's degree in painting and illustration from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, Queen suffered critical injuries in a car crash.
He was in an induced coma and spent nearly a month in the intensive care unit.
Once conscious, Queen could only draw a spiral; he said he tries to hide one in every piece he creates. Learning to walk again took a year, and he underwent 28 surgeries over the next decade.
Queen and his family relocated to Florida in 2015.
His family's support was instrumental to his recovery and has continued throughout his burgeoning career.
After telling his wife and children about the acceptance of "Legacy in the Making" into the convention, Queen called his father, Larry Queen, in Ohio.
"We were proud of him, no doubt about that," Larry said in a phone interview. "It made my day."
Larry also remembers taking his son to see the first Star Wars film.
"He sat through that whole movie, never moved," Larry said.
He said he still has several of his son's earlier works on display in his home.
L. Jason Queen said his own son and daughter, 25-year-old Morgan Queen and 18-year-old Maria Queen, influence a number of his concepts.
"They're like, 'Oh, that's cool, Dad, but what if you did this?'" Jason said.
Maria, who's leaving home this summer to attend college, said her favorite work by her dad is of characters from "Stranger Things;" it's also the first piece he had licensed.
Queen said his daughter's cosplay of the character named "Eleven" served as inspiration.
Presently, Queen is working on concepts for Star Wars and Marvel as well as commissioned pieces.
He's also creating his own story with his own characters.
During the pandemic, Queen learned leatherworking, which he's incorporating into a line of pieces collectively dubbed "Spiritus Piratae" or "Spirit of the Pirate."
But the dream job would involve Queen working with a lord, more specifically "The Lord of the Rings."
Visit queenscovecreative.com to see more of Queen's work.
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NAMPA, Idaho — The family of Julie Martinez remembers her as a caring and joyful mother, daughter and friend.
"Ever since she was a little girl despite everything she's been through, she'd be giving big hugs and love, just being her goofy self and making people smile," said Yesenya Aguirre, Julie's cousin.
Nampa Police identified the 20-year-old Buhl woman as the victim of a shooting that happened early Sunday morning. Police said she was taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, where she did not survive her injuries.
Aguirre said her death was a shock to many and it is very emotional, especially because she leaves behind a four-year-old daughter, Arianna.
"She loved Arianna so much," Aguirre said. "They were always together. She was a great mother."
Her impact does not end with her daughter. Aguirre said she played the role of "mother" long before she had Arianna.
"Her mother left them at a young age, she was only ten. She had to help her dad raise her little sister and her brother," Aguirre said. "She had been such a great caretaker."
Now her family, who lives in the Magic Valley, is trying to cope without their caretaker.
"I don't think there will ever really be closure," Aguirre said.
Police said Martinez was shot by 23-year-old Junior Gamboa, a.k.a. Alfonso Emmanuel Leon. Gamboa was arrested and is in the Canyon County jail, and is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder and a felony probation violation.
The family of Martinez said Gamboa was her boyfriend and alleges she was a victim of domestic violence.
"I didn't know much about the relationship but what I've heard it's sickening," Aguirre said. "She did love him and she just wanted that love in return. I can't comment on it because I wasn't there for the relationship, but what I've heard is not nice."
Aguirre said she and many of Martinez's friends feel heartbroken because they tried to get her to leave her relationship. She said they wish they could have done more to help.
"Everybody remembers her as a happy person and she just had such a strong mask that you never knew what was behind it," Aguirre said.
Beatrice Black, the CEO of victim service center WCA, said people in domestic violence situations may feel scared to reach out. She encourages friends and family to ask questions, especially if they suspect something is going on.
"You're opening the door, the other person may not step through that door, but you've at least opened the door and said that you're willing and ready and able to listen," Black said. "Either that person may take advantage of it right then or it may come back to them and they may decide, 'Okay, it's time I need to do something different.'"
Black said there are also signs to be aware of that someone could be going through a domestic violence situation, if they withdraw from family and friend activities or their significant other is making them act or dress a certain way. Black said it may be a small, subtle way someone may be controlled.
"Just trust your gut and ask that individual, 'Is there something going on? Do you need somebody? I could be here for you if you want to talk about it,'" Black said.
By sharing Martinez's story Aguirre hopes to reach people in similar situations and encourage them to seek help, especially before it's too late.
"If you feel like you're alone, you're not alone," Aguirre said.
Aguirre created a GoFundMe to help pay for Martinez's funeral expenses. She said all of the proceeds will go to Martinez's daughter and father.
Nampa Police told KTVB Wednesday that detectives are following up on leads, tips, and information they have received.
If you are or believe you are in a domestic abuse situation, WCA has a 24/7 hotline that can be reached at 208-343-7025. They also have a 24/7 sexual assault hotline, 208-345-7273 (RAPE).
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The Flagstaff woman accused of fatally shooting a man in a wooded area near Walmart in 2021 has entered a plea of guilty except insane.
Officials say 37-year-old Ashley Nicole Martin killed 41-year-old Travis Nelson on an urban trail in the early morning hours of May 13, 2021. She reportedly told officers that an altercation with Nelson resulted in the shooting and her defense attorney initially indicated the shooting was in self-defense.
A plea agreement filed in Coconino County Superior Court last week indicates her mental state likely played a part in the alleged killing. Martin pleaded "guilty except insane" to a reduced charge of manslaughter, a class 2 felony, in connection with the killing. She was initially charged with second-degree murder.
The plea deal hasn't been finalized just yet. If it goes through, Martin won't serve the minimum of four years in prison typically demanded of this type of felony. The plea stipulates that Martin will instead spend her five-year sentence in the Arizona State Hospital under the jurisdiction of the psychiatric security review board. She won't be eligible for release until the entire sentence is completed.
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Ryan Stevens, Martin's attorney, was optimistic about the deal Wednesday.
"This agreement was the result of a lot of hard work by both sides," Stevens said. "While it's not official, we look forward to the opportunity for closure for everyone involved in this tragic case."
Details about Martin's current mental state, as well as at the time of the incident, have yet to come to light. However, court records indicate they're still waiting on a final evaluation before moving forward with the plea.
Records show Martin was dressed entirely in black except for a large purple robe and a leather belt holding numerous knives. Her attire was noted by both officers and witnesses who encountered Martin on the night of the shooting near the Walmart of the west side of the city. Evidence recovered by police included a large filet knife, three small letter openers and multiple knives attached to the leather belt, as well as a gun, an extra magazine and a box of ammunition.
Martin allegedly approached Nelson, who was sitting on the urban trail, and asked him to stay back because she had a gun, according to initial police reports. Nelson allegedly reached behind his back and said he also had a gun. Martin told police she felt Nelson was a threat and that her "spirit sent Nelson to hurt her," the probable cause statement detailed. She also claimed to be "Mary, the mother of Jesus."
Nelson allegedly attempted to grab the gun out of Martin's hands, but she freed herself and was walking away when he began to follow her. Police say Martin then turned around and fired two shots, fatally striking Nelson in the chest. Martin then walked to the nearby Walmart and asked to borrow a phone because she just shot someone and needed to call the police.
Reporter Bree Burkitt can be reached at 928-556-2250 or bburkitt@azdailysun.com.
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A man accused of randomly murdering a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train made his first appearance in court Wednesday, where his lawyer urged the judge and the public not to rush to judgment.
Andrew Abdullah, 25, was ordered held without bail in the death of Daniel Enriquez, 48, who was shot on his way to Sunday brunch in Manhattan.
The gunman wore a hooded sweatshirt and a mask that concealed his face, but police said they used security cameras to track the killer after he fled the station, including footage that showed him shedding the clothing that initially hid his identity.ir
Abdullah's lawyer, though, said in court that five of six witnesses brought to a police lineup could not identify him as the shooter.
“Tensions are running high right now in the city and this is the time to make sure our civil liberties are protected even more,” said Kristin Bruan, the Legal Aid Society attorney who represented Abdullah at his first court appearance.
Bruan said her client has been "cooperating fully" and had been in "constant communication” with authorities as soon as he learned he was being sought.
Throughout the court appearance, Abdullah looked ahead as he stood in blue sweatpants, a gray T-shirt and with a white mask with his hands handcuffed behind him. He was led away immediately after the hearing ended. The next court date was set for this coming Wednesday.
The shooting, which witnesses told police appeared to be unprovoked, came amid a disturbing rash of gun violence in which people have targeted strangers.
Last month, a man who authorities said had traveled from Philadelphia shot 10 people on a subway train in Brooklyn. On May 14 police say a gunman motivated by racial hatred killed 10 Black shoppers and workers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
News of the mass shootings in New York was quickly overshadowed by another attack that killed 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas.
A prosecutor, Nicole Blumberg, described Abdullah as a man with a long history of violent crimes who pulled out a loaded handgun on Sunday as he paced the last car of a Q line train heading from Brooklyn to Manhattan “and fired one shot at the center of Daniel Enriquez’s body.”
She said the other passengers scattered to the sides of the subway car, “praying for the life of their fellow passenger and hoping they would not be the next victim.” Blumberg said that “after killing an innocent man,” Abdullah told the other passengers to put their cell phones away and that they would be getting off at the next station.
The prosecutor said Abdullah fled the train after it pulled into Manhattan’s Canal Street station, handing his gun to a homeless man on the subway stairs. The gun was later recovered by police.
Abdullah's lawyer, Bruan, said she plans to make a bail application at a later date. She said there were flaws in the way the lineup was conducted. Besides the fact that five of six witnesses could not identify Abdullah “at all,” the lone person who could said that Abdullah was wearing a hat during the attack, the lawyer said.
Authorities have outlined other evidence. Abdullah was stopped by police as he left the area around the station and showed his identification, but was allowed to leave because he wasn't then wearing the hooded sweatshirt witnesses had described, officials have said.
Enriquez worked for the global investment research division at Goldman Sachs and lived in Brooklyn.
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MAUMELLE, Ark — During COVID-19, one thing that became a necessity for people working from home was high-speed internet.
Even before COVID, it's been an issue that Gov. Asa Hutchinson has tackled as he worked to improve outdated broadband access.
But imagine that work turning into a disaster right in your front yard. In one Maumelle neighborhood, that happened. People's lives have been thrown into chaos after workers hit several utility lines.
"They never let us know when they planned on being in our yard or even if our yard was going to be affected," said April Belcher, one of the homeowners in the Maumelle neighborhood.
"They drilled an electrical line knocking the power out to our houses in the cul-de-sac," said Belcher.
While fixing that problem, workers hit a gas line. A couple days later, there was sewage back up in the tubs and toilets.
"I'm very fearful something else is going to come up," said Belcher.
This isn't a unique issue in the Hightrail neighborhood in Maumelle.
Maumelle Mayor Caleb Norris said this neighborhood has experienced above average amounts of utility incidents.
Right now, the neighborhood is getting Comcast high-speed internet installed with fiber optic cables. Workers have to dig underground to place the wiring, which has caused an excessive amount of lines being hit.
"It's difficult because right now we're not so sure their own equipment is underground and then we are not so sure that the contractor is doing everything in their power to make sure they are not hitting utilities," said Norris.
As a THV11 crew observed the neighborhood, one house had a great amount of damage.
An underground line was marked with a blue flag and paint lines on the grass. A couple feet away from that were the water meters and places where workers dug. Comcast cones surrounded the disturbed earth.
A few feet from that was where the water line was hit, which flooded a nearby house.
"If you've ever been to the Big Dam Bridge down at the dam and saw the water gushing out like that-- that's the kind of force it had," said Cary McManus, a homeowner in Maumelle. "It blew a 10-foot hole in this guy's front yard, blew his retaining wall down, his whole driveway is sunken in and blew that away."
That contractor was Robert Cooper with Broadband Technical Resources.
We went to his business, but said he wasn't there when his workers hit the line. He did however see it later but did not want to talk to us on camera.
"For residents that this happens to or are getting the runaround from the utility [company], this is where the city gets to come in and we'll stop work, we'll stop them from doing projects while they go back and fix that," said Mayor Norris.
The City of Maumelle has stopped the permits to that area until this gets cleaned up and neighbors are hoping that happens soon.
"We're okay with fiber optic cables coming in. We're okay if we have to have a box in our yard, but put our stuff back the way it was," said McManus.
Central Arkansas Water has already started fixing the water lines and flooding in the neighborhood.
As for Comcast, they did provide a statement where they said:
“Earlier this week, a contractor performing work for Comcast inadvertently hit a water main in Maumelle. The contractor contacted Central Arkansas Water immediately and the water was shut off in about 30 minutes. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this has caused some residents. Those who were impacted should contact Broadband Technical Resources’ business manager at 901-235-6015 to begin the claim process. The work being done is part of a network expansion that will bring Maumelle residents faster internet speeds and more advanced technology upon completion.”
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IN LOVING MEMORY HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAIME - MAY 26. Even though Jaime's chair is empty and still, we will celebrate this day as always! We still remember his laughter that echoes in our ears; photos of happy and wonderful memories are scattered on the fridge. We miss him so much and wish he was here! Love, Mom, Dad, Nickey, Starr Ann
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Sept. 29, 1947 - May 24, 2022
SAINT JOHN - Joseph M. Kandron, age 74, of Saint John, resident formerly of Crete and Chicago's Roseland Neighborhood.
Graduate of Mendel Catholic High School. United States Air Force Veteran. Retired from AT&T after over 30 years of service as a Project Manager. Then worked for Time Warner as a Project Manager for 10 years.
Active parishioner at St. John the Evangelist Church, St. John, IN.
Husband for 54 years of Bernice A. (nee Cimaroli). Son of the late Irma (nee Parise) and Joseph Kandron. Brother of the late John (Beverly) Kandron. Uncle to many nieces and nephews. Friend of many.
Resting at St. John the Evangelist Church-Day Chapel, 11301 W. 93rd Avenue, St. John, IN (Corner of 93rd Ave and RT 41) on Saturday, May 28, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. until time of funeral mass at 10:00 a.m. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Alsip, IL. Info: Panozzo Bros. Funeral Home, Chicago Heights, IL. 708-481-9230 and panozzobros.com
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July 25, 1943 - May 20, 2022
GRIFFITH - Rose Ann Williams, age 78, died peacefully in her home in Griffith on May 20, 2022. She was born on July 25, 1943.
She was a 1962 graduate of Hammond Tech-Voc High School. Mrs. Williams resided most of her life in her hometown of Hammond. At the age of 61 she married Dannie Ray Williams and at age 63 moved to Griffith. She worked for numerous years as the Store Manager of Hostess before retiring.
Mrs. Williams was an avid bowler, golfer and bunco player.
She was preceded in death by her parents: Agnes and Raymond Haworth; uncle, Gene Marshall; sister, Mary Szakacs; and nephews: Mike and Johnny Szakacs.
She is survived by her husband of 17 years, Dannie (Doc) Williams; son, Scott Weaver (Joan) of Chesapeake, VA; son, Russell Weaver of Hammond; step-daughter, Kathleen West (Jared) of Lafayette; four grandchildren: Savannah Kosik-Zeledon (Denis), Sarah Albert, Grace Weaver, and Jordan Strickland; three great-grandchildren: Reagan, Ily, and Zeke; and many cherished friends.
A visitation will be held on Friday, May 27, 2022, from 12:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M. at Solan Pruzin Funeral Home, 14 Kennedy Ave., Schererville, IN. A service will be held at 4:00 P.M. Services conclude at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Hospice of the Calumet Area: www.hospicecalumet.org
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Nov. 27, 1954 - May 20, 2022
HIGHLAND - Susan Lynn Herald, age 67, passed away peacefully on May 20, 2022.
Sue is survived by her mother, Mary Chernivsky; her husband of 48 years, Steve Herald; her children: Greg (Katie) Herald, Marissa (Joe) Malinski, and Veronica (Andy) Andersen; her siblings: Andy (Pam) Chernivsky, Vicki (Mike) Mason, Francine (Richard) Harrison, and Karen (Steve) Lesniak; her grandchildren: Jack, Audrey, and Ryan Malinski, Riley and Charley Andersen; as well as many nieces; and nephews.
Sue was preceded in death by her father, Victor Chernivsky.
Sue spent many years as a medical transcriptionist. She enjoyed reading, sewing, traveling, baking, and spending time with her grandchildren. She enjoyed knitting and crocheting hats and scarves to donate to various organizations and charities. After she moved out of state, she maintained her friendships and continued to participate in her beloved book club. She maintained a positive attitude and humor through various hardships and continued to think of others for the duration of her life.
If you would like to send a gift, in lieu of flowers, we ask that you donate to the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN) or Hospice of the Calumet Area.
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Oct. 12, 1946 - April 26, 2022
EAST CHICAGO - Tina (Hoffman) Strug leaves behind her devoted husband, David Strug; beloved son, Louis John (LJ) Sass; and "adopted" granddaughter, Hailey.
Preceding her in death was her youngest son, Nathan; her brother, Harold; and her parents, Frank and Mary (Matusik) Hoffman; as well as deceased aunts and uncles. Christine is survived by her sister, Judith (William) Davis; her brothers: Frank, Walter (Sharon) Hoffman. She is also survived by her aunt, Ann Matusik; and aunt, Jean (Ray) Macek; as well as her nieces and nephews.
Tina graduated from St. John Cantius Grade School, Bishop Noll High School and Purdue University. After retiring from working at Purdue, Tina lived in Florida.
Memories of Christine include her love of family and friends, sharing good food, good books, walks on the beach and trips to the casino. She will be remembered as a fun, loving and caring person who lived, loved, laughed and will be greatly missed.
On Friday May 27, 2022, there will be a 10:00 a.m. visitation and 10:30 a.m. Catholic Mass at Our Lady of Consolation Church in Merrillville, IN. Immediately following Mass, the burial will be at Holy Cross Cemetery in Calumet City, IL.
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AUBURN, Calif — Auburn police discovered resident Michael Kuninobu dead east of the Golden Country Fairgrounds' eastern property line on Tuesday just hours after he was reported missing.
Their search began when loved ones of Kuninobu were unable to reach him at his cell phone and contacted law enforcement for assistance. His body was found around 7:15 p.m. Tuesday east of the Gold County Fairgrounds' eastern property line.
Police said there are no initial signs of criminal activity surrounding the death, and that the investigation is ongoing.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the Kuninobu family as they mourn the loss of Michael. We understand the sensitivity and concerns involving the death of a loved one, as well as our own community’s sensitivity involving deaths in and around the railroad tracks and canals within our community. We take all death investigations seriously and, as such, will ensure this investigation is conducted thoroughly and timely in order to bring closure to the family,” Lieutenant Tucker Huey said.
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GRASS VALLEY, Calif. — A Grass Valley firefighter is in a coma and fighting for his life after suffering severe injuries in an off-duty motocross accident this month.
Trenton Dambly remains hospitalized with multiple trauma-based injuries, according to Grass Valley Fire Department, after crashing on a track where he was riding with family members May 18.
His fellow firefighters started a GoFundMe page to help his family with paying uncovered medical expenses, his mortgage and other bills. It features a photo of Dambly on top of a tower during an April training exercise in Woodland.
"Like his parents said, he was at the top of his world, and that picture to me kind of symbolizes that. It's a good picture," said Grass Valley Fire Department Battalion Chief Chris Armstrong.
Armstrong was by Dambly's side at the hospital with his parents in recent days. He said nobody knows exactly what happened to cause the unfortunate accident.
"We know Trenton is a fighter, and he’s somebody who’s going to persevere, and we’re just right now hoping for the best," Armstrong said.
Armstrong called Trenton a quiet leader who was humble, and let his work speak for himself. Firefighters from across the state have called the Grass Valley Fire Department eager to help.
With the extent of Trenton's injuries, he will face a long road to recovery. But Armstrong is hopeful that with the best medical care and the support of the community, Dambly will one day be able to get back on the fire engine.
"He had his dream job, and he was living at the top of his life. He was living his best life," Armstrong said.
To help with the recovery, you can visit the GoFundMe page his fellow fighters set up for him HERE.
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MODESTO, Calif. — 5 homes were damaged after a fire at a Modesto trailer park Wednesday evening.
The blaze impacted 15 people. Fire crews are currently overhauling the involved trailers.
The fire happened along the 600 block of South 7th Street in Modesto just before 7:30 p.m. Crews from Modesto Fire Department and Stanislaus Consolidated Fire District responded to battle the flames.
Arriving firefighters were met with multiple trailers on fire with live powerlines down, but the three-alarm fire was eventually brought under control.
Roads in the area will temporarily be closed as crews complete overhaul operations.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A volunteer group saved a baby falcon that nearly took a tumble off of a Fort Wayne building last weekend.
According to WPTA-TV, a woman said she was watching a live stream of the "I&M Falcon Cam," which shows the falcon's nest atop the Indiana Michigan Power Center, Fort Wayne's tallest building. The woman said she only saw one peregrine falcon chick on the video and, since the chicks aren't yet able to fly, became concerned that something was wrong.
Video from the Falcon Cam shows one of the chicks, named Nova, stumbling out of the nest. It was found stuck below the next, inches away from the edge of the 26-story tower.
Members of Soarin' Hawk Rehabilitation, who found the bird after the fall, tried to get Nova back into the nest, but had to dodge swipes and squawks from her overly protective parents.
"The peregrines are very defensive and they had a lot to talk about,” Bob Walton of Soarin’ Hawk said. “A lot of peregrine swear words used. One of them hit John on the shoulder one time. And I got hit in the head one time. Just a little tap, just to say, 'Hey, don’t come back here for a while.'”
The volunteers were eventually able to get Nova back into the nest with her sister, Kiri.
Walton said he expects that in a week or so, the chicks will be strong enough to explore the roof freely, without danger of falling.
Peregrine falcons have been laying eggs in the next atop the I&M Building for nearly three decades. You can watch the live Falcon cam in the player below:
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CANNES, France (AP) — Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” brought hip-shaking swagger to the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, debuting a grand and glitzy portrait of the Memphis rock ‘n’ roll legend on the French Riviera.
Luhrmann’s film, the largest and flashiest Hollywood film making its world premiere in Cannes, brought Tom Hanks and Austin Butler, who plays Presley, to Cannes’ famed red carpet. Joining them, too, was Priscilla Presley, Presley’s ex-wife, who has enthusiastically endorsed Luhrmann’s movie.
At a festival seeking to shrug off two years of pandemic, expectations were high that Luhrmann, who also premiered “The Great Gatsby” in Cannes, would bring Cannes’ biggest and most extravagant party.
“Elvis,” though, isn’t just a big-screen tribute to Presley. It centers on the singer’s long and tortured relationship with manager Tom Parker (played by Hanks), a former carnival worker whose control over Presley was widely criticized as unethical and harmful to Presley.
Warner Bros. will release “Elvis” in theaters on June 24.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — 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.”
Depp will be cross-examined Wednesday afternoon.
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.”
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.”
Both sides are expected to present their final witnesses Thursday, with closing arguments expected Friday.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Mort Janklow, a colorful former corporate attorney who raised high the power of the literary agent as he brokered big advances for publishing, political and entertainment leaders, from Ronald Reagan and Al Gore to David McCullough and Barbara Walters, has died.
Janklow died Wednesday of heart failure at his home in Water Mill, New York, just days before his 92nd birthday. His death was announced by publicist Paul Bogaards, speaking on behalf of Janklow’s family and his literary agency, Janklow & Nesbit Associates.
“Mort was a beacon of positivity and hope in an uncertain world,” his business partner Lynn Nesbit said in a statement. “He radiated optimism and his clients, family, and friends were always leaning on and learning from him as a result. He was a bright light in the publishing world, devoted to his writers and passionate about our business. We will all miss him.”
Janklow was among the first of the so-called “superagents,” and became one by accident, stepping in to help with a book by a legal client and old friend, the speechwriter and columnist William Safire, and quickly mastering his new profession. Janklow was credited, and faulted, for the proliferation of blockbuster books and million-dollar deals in the 1970s and beyond, for jolting a gentleman’s trade with a lawyerly savvy about marketing, subsidiary rights and the fine print of a publishing contract.
“Mort brought publishing people into the space age,” Simon & Schuster executive Joni Evans told New York magazine in 1987.
He was a great character — so energetic he would dictate dozens of letters a day; a fighter on the tennis court and in the boardroom, a schmoozer with large-framed glasses and monogrammed white shirts, a whirlwind with a mental directory of one-liners, anecdotes and superlatives. Never afraid to cite his own accomplishments, Janklow liked to recall that some of the contracts he negotiated were worth more than the $25 million the Hearst Corporation needed to purchase the publisher William Morrow.
“One of the reasons to drive for big advances is not to make authors and agents rich,” Janklow told The New York Times in 1989. “It’s to make the publisher aware of what he’s bought. You’ve got to get them pregnant. They get up before their sales force and say, ‘We paid millions for this book. This is the biggest book we’ve got. Drive it into the stores.’”
He was at ease with liberals (Gore, Michael Moore) and conservatives (Reagan), with brand name fiction writers such as Sidney Sheldon and Danielle Steel, and with the journalists Ted Koppel and Daniel Schorr. His clout and credentials would multiply late in 1988 when he and fellow agent Lynn Nesbit announced the founding of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, with Nesbit bringing along such award-winning authors as Tom Wolfe and Robert Caro.
Not all his clients were superstars, at least at the beginning. He took on McCullough well before the historian’s million-selling “Truman.” He handled disgraced Nixon aide John Erhlichman, poet Diane Ackerman and the first novel by Jill Eisenstadt. In recent years, Janklow & Nesbit authors included prize winners Joan Didion and Jhumpa Lahiri, along with the more checkered James Frey, undone (under a different agency) as a memoirist, but reborn as a novelist. Janklow’s son, Luke, negotiated deals for Anderson Cooper and Simon Cowell. Mort Janklow also had a daughter, Angela, a former editor for Vanity Fair.
Janklow served on numerous advisory boards, among them he Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations for over four decades.
Born in New York City in 1930, Janklow was a lawyer’s son raised in a tough Queens neighborhood, a brilliant, assured child who skipped enough grades to graduate from high school at age 16. He attended Syracuse University as an undergraduate, and Columbia Law School as a graduate student. He married young, divorced young, then met and married Linda LeRoy, daughter of Hollywood director Mervin LeRoy, sister of restaurateur Warner LeRoy and his longtime partner in high society.
Janklow joined the law firm of Spear and Hill in 1960, and seven years later formed his own Janklow & Traum. Among his clients was Safire, himself a former Syracuse student, who in the early 1970s was leaving his job as a speechwriter for President Richard Nixon and wanted Janklow to represent him for a memoir.
Janklow not only worked out a $250,000 deal with publisher William Morrow, but helped break publishing precedent by recovering around one-third of his advance when the publisher attempted to drop the book, claiming that the Watergate scandal made Safire’s story obsolete. (Authors usually had to return all the money.) Safire had left his job before Watergate emerged and his memoir, published by Doubleday, would be called “Before the Fall.”
“Bill ran around Washington telling all of his friends and colleagues about his friend who was his agent,” Janklow wrote for The Daily Beast in 2009, shortly after Safire’s death.
“His opinion carried such weight even then that the telephone in my office began to ring … and within two years I abandoned a successful law practice and became an agent full time, a decision I’ve never regretted.”
In 1977, Janklow enriched Safire again when he negotiated a $1 million contract with Ballantine Books for Safire’s “Full Disclosure,” regarded at the time as the highest advance ever for a first novel. He would later negotiate seven-figure deals for “Silence of the Lambs” novelist Thomas Harris, and for memoirs by Reagan and Pope John Paul II, Ted Turner and Barbara Walters.
Summing up his clout, Janklow posed a riddle to New York magazine in 1987: “Where does a 500-pound gorilla sit?”
The answer: “Anywhere it wants.”
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BOSTON (AP) — Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has voluntarily entered a rehabilitation program, forcing the Boston-based rock band to cancel the first portion of its upcoming Las Vegas residency.
Tyler, 74, has made no secret of his lifelong struggle with substance abuse disorder.
“As many of you know, our beloved brother Steven has worked on his sobriety for many years,” the band posted on social media on Tuesday. “After foot surgery to prepare for the stage and the necessity of pain management during the process, he has recently relapsed and voluntarily entered a treatment program to concentrate on his health and recovery.”
The band’s June and July shows in Las Vegas have been canceled, and the goal is to start performing again in September, the band posted.
“We are devastated that we have inconvenienced so many of you, especially our most loyal fans who often travel great distances to experience our shows,” the band said.
The band promised refunds for the canceled shows.
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BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles traveled to Romania’s capital Wednesday to visit refugees, mostly women and children, from Russia’s war in Ukraine who have found safety in the neighboring Eastern European country.
The Prince of Wales visited the Romexpo Donation Centre for Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest. There, he met some of the nearly 1 million Ukrainians who have reached Romania since the war began on Feb. 24, and observed the relief effort being mounted by the government and volunteers.
Speaking to a group of Ukrainians through an interpreter, Charles apologized for his lack of language skills, saying, “I wish my Ukrainian was better.”
“We feel for you greatly, it’s a nightmare situation,” he said. “I’m full of admiration for the Ukrainian people. Total, extraordinary courage and resilience.”
During his visit, Charles received a gift from some of the Ukrainian children at the center: wooden spoons painted in traditional Ukrainian patterns.
“Marvelous, thank you, thank you,” Charles told one of the children. “I love the way you painted that.”
Joining Charles were representatives of the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the U.N. refugee agency, as well as the mayor of Bucharest and members of other state relief agencies.
Over 1,000 Ukrainians visit the donation center daily to get free supplies like food, hygiene products, clothing and shoes, according to the managers of the facility. Refugees also have access to social services and counsel while they remain in Romania.
The visit was the latest of a number of engagements Charles has had with Ukrainian refugees in recent weeks. According to the British Embassy in Bucharest, he visited a Ukrainian community in Ottawa, Canada last week, where he met with a family displaced by the war.
More than 972,000 Ukrainians have fled into Romania since Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, according to the U.N. refugee agency.
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The Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys said that they, along with the NYPD, have taken down a ghost gun arsenal worth $20,000, and the man who allegedly created it.
The law enforcement officials said Wednesday that 25-year-old Rene Loyola illegally purchased the cache of ghost gun parts — including more than 30 frames and receivers, nearly 300 high-capacity magazines and other related gear — from a dozen online retailers from March 2020 until March 2022.
Loyola allegedly collected all the parts and gear, particularly the high-capacity magazines, by having them shipped to a Pennsylvania address in order to circumvent New York's gun laws, which prohibit such items. The magazines recovered could collectively hold more than 8,600 bullets, according to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.
On one occasion, Loyola traveled to shipment location the same day the items were set to be delivered, prosecutors said. On April 20, the NYPD searched Loyola's Brooklyn home and a storage facility in Manhattan, where they uncovered the weapons and gear, along with rapid-fire modifications and other power tools.
"It is far too easy for anyone to buy the components needed to assemble a ghost gun. In just a few clicks, gun frames, receivers and high-capacity magazines can be delivered through the mail," Bragg said. "While changing technology has enabled the rise of ghost guns, this case also illustrates how the iron pipeline contributes to the gun violence epidemic – New York’s strict laws initially kept these magazines out of our state, but Rene Loyola eventually took advantage of lax regulations elsewhere."
Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez said that "recovering these receivers, frames and magazines is important as we continue to fight to curtail the gun violence plaguing our city."
Loyola appeared in court in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, where he faced hundreds of charges, most of which involve weapon possession. On May 6, he was indicted by a Manhattan jury for 235 counts of weapon possession, and six days later, was indited in Brooklyn for additional similar counts.
Prosecutors said that the arrest will prevent hundreds of illegal guns from getting into the hands of criminals in the city.
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A man was shot and killed while he was inside a Brooklyn Chinese food restaurant late Wednesday afternoon, police said.
The incident occurred around 4 p.m. at the restaurant in a plaza near the corner of Stillwell Avenue and Avenue W in Gravesend, according to police. The victim, later identified as 22-year-old Rasard Deas, was at the New Food First Cook takeout eatery when a single shot rang out, striking him in the chest.
Deas was rushed to Coney Island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said at least one suspect sped away from the scene in a red sedan, and were unsure of what the motive for the shooting may have been. Neighbors said that gunshots are not uncommon on the corner that has been plagued by crime.
An investigation is ongoing.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said earlier in the day that while the flood of guns form other states continues to drive crime, shootings have been decreasing weekly — down 30 percent last month compared to the same time last year.
"These crime waves are attached to a small number of New Yorkers that we can't continue to protect," Adams said Wednesday. "They say our city's a safe haven for shooters and dangerous people. It must be a safe haven for innocent New Yorkers."
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The mayor credited increased patrols in the city's most violent neighborhoods for reducing the number of shootings, as well as more patrols on the subways.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. – We all know what it is and some people may have even done it. Ding dong ditching is nothing new. But what is new in today’s world is the danger children could face when knocking on a stranger’s door.
Pounding on the door and hauling you know what out of there. It’s a prank that kids have been doing for decades.
“It’s a prank to them, but the people it’s happening to it’s not a prank,” said Kathee Galvin, who lives on Falcon Pointe Drive.
Sure it might tick some people off, but that’s not all. Ding dong ditching is dangerous because you never know who or what could be on the other side of the door.
“People are very protective of their property, especially down in Florida,” said Robert Brown, a retired police officer turned attorney.
Take this for instance, some of the pranksters have their faces covered up. Brown wants you to put yourself in the homeowner’s shoes.
“The person inside the house is probably thinking somebody is trying to break in,” Brown said.
“You come out here. You don’t know, it’s dark, you come out here and there still here, you don’t know what’s going to happen,” Vincent Cesarino said.
The rascals ran their luck twice at the same house Sunday off Falcon Pointe Drive in Fort Myers. About 10 minutes away in the Paseo community, a group of girls gave ding dong ditching a go, giggling the whole time.
“I wouldn’t open the door, I don’t think unless I knew it was punks and then I would say, I would say something like ‘I wouldn’t do that if I were you,’” Galvin said.
While ding dong ditching isn’t necessarily illegal, Brown said you could be charged with harassment. More importantly, he wants parents to know the real danger that could be lurking behind the door.
“It’s not a smart game to do, not in today’s world,” he said.
That’s why if Kathee Galvin’s kids were to be doing this, they’d be in more trouble with her than they would the law.
“Get in here! They’d have a punishment that would be right for the crime,” Galvin said.
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After the massacre at a Texas school left 19 students and two teachers dead, school safety is once again at the front and center of people's minds, leading to state police do check-ins at New York schools until the start of summer, Gov. Kathy Hochul said.
Even before the shooting in Uvalde, there had already been a massive surge in the number of guns and weapons found in New York City schools. According to police, the city has seen a 300 percent increase in the number of guns found in schools over the course of the academic year, compared to the last pre-pandemic school year.
"We have recovered 20 guns in school since the start of the year," NYC Mayor Eric Adams said in a Wednesday news conference, which had already been planned to discuss plans to combat the surge of guns.
A semi-automatic handgun was found in the backpack of a 13-year-old just days ago, and Adams said that one of the guns was found only because a school employee overheard a conversation in which the child said he had a weapon.
"Public safety can't be about luck and overhearing conversations," the mayor said.
In addition to the firearms, police said that 5,546 dangerous instruments have been recovered at schools, including knives and other potentially sharp objects. That represents a 124 percent increase over the last school year before the pandemic.
Adams said that he wants a new kind of metal detector, that works without a security line, at schools. He also wants parents to immediately start checking their children's bags.
"If you see boxes of bullets, something is wrong. We have to stop living life the way it ought to be, and live life the way it is," Adams said. "There's no freedom when you can't go to school, or to the supermarket, or ride the train."
In addition, a simple change could soon be coming to the nation's largest school district: no more open door policy.
"I spoke with the head of the principal's union today who said lock our front doors. Once in, they should be locked," said NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks.
Hochul also said she wants state lawmakers to raise the age for legal purchase of a gun.
"Am I supposed to leave the flags at half mast? They're still at half mast from Buffalo. No, I don't want to," she said.
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Andrew Frascht, 92, of Rockwell, died Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center. Arrangements: Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapel.
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Andrew Frascht, 92, of Rockwell, died Tuesday, May 24, 2022 at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center. Arrangements: Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapel.
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Janice Warren
October 4, 1940-May 21, 2022
DES MOINES-Janice Warren passed away suddenly on May 21 after courageously fighting her short battle of cancer surrounded by her family. Visitation will be from 5-7 pm Thursday, May 26th at Grandview Park Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10:00 am Friday at the Funeral Home with burial in the Oakwood Cemetery in Pleasant Hill.
Janice Mary (Christian) Warren was born Oct 4th, 1940 in Dallas Center, IA where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1958. Upon graduation, Jan moved to Des Moines & began working for Banker's Life. She bought her 1st car; a black 1958 Chevy Convertible that she loved to toodle around in going to concerts and dances at the Val Air & KRNT Ballrooms.
Some of her favorite memories were going to Johnny Cash concerts before he made it big, or as she would say "before he wore black".
On May 5, 1961, Janice married Tommy D. Warren, the love of her life & soul mate. They made their home in Pleasant Hill, IA where they raised their three children Chris, Carole & Craig.
Janice treasured her memories of their family vacations of camping & fishing and going up to Leech Lake, MN.
When her kids got older she worked as a volunteer at Des Moines General Hospital in the gift shop. She had so much fun & great friends and memories. She worked there until the hospital closed and then went to work at HyVee in Pleasant Hill for 20 years where she was best known as the "sample lady". She always had a smile and a joke; she loved meeting new people.
In 2009 Janice lost the love of her life, never a day went by that she didn't miss him or talk about him.
In 2020 Janice moved to Garner, IA to be near her daughter and granddaughter's family.
She was proceeded in death by her husband Tommy, her parents Lavonne & Lester Christian. Those left to cherish her memories are her son Chris & Kristy Warren(Des Moines), daughter Carole & husband Phillip Boehnke (Ventura,IA), Craig Warren (Des Moines).
Grandkids, Amber & Josh Snow (Garner ,IA), Scott & Rebecca Sullivan (Anchorage, AK), Josh Sullivan & Noelle (Minneapolis ,MN). Tommy Warren the 2nd, Chelsea Warren, Theodore & Shanda Boehnke (Dumont, IA), James and Ashley Boehnke (Blooming Prairie, MN)
Great Grandkids Amelia Ytzen, Aliza Snow & Quinn Snow, McKenna & Macy Boehnke, Izick & Elizabeth Zweck, Addison & Jackson Boehnke.
Brother Jim & Peggy Christian (Denver, CO) And special, friend, sister & cousin Deb Tesson (Des Moines).
In lieu of flowers the family requests plants or charitable donations to Hospice, Alzheimer's association, MyHouse Youth Homeless Shelter Mat-Su
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TELFORD, Tenn. (WJHL) — May is Maternal Mental Health Month aimed at raising awareness about the mental health struggles mothers may face.
Cherished Mom, a non-profit out of Telford, aims to raise awareness and educate mothers and families about perinatal mental health. Perinatal Mental Health refers to mental health during pregnancy and the postpartum period after delivery.
Founder, Kristina Dulaney, is a registered nurse, but she said her specialization in the community came after her own experience with postpartum psychosis. She said there’s a stigma that exists surrounding new moms experiencing challenges with a new baby at home.
“I think the stigma stems from societal expectations of mothers and families in general,” said Dulaney. “That then becomes internal, where we think we are not good enough, we should do this, we should do that, we shouldn’t be feeling the way that we do. So, I think society plays a big role in that.”
Advocates said perinatal mood and anxiety disorders are far more common than many people realize, impacting 1 in 5 women. Some face a greater risk of developing mood and anxiety disorders, but it can impact any mother regardless of circumstance.
Mothers receive frequent care during pregnancy, but Dulaney said post-delivery focus tends to shift completely to the baby.
“It’s almost like the mother is forgotten,” said Dulaney. “While the mother is trying her best to take care of this new baby. We teach a lot about how to take care of babies and how to get the baby earthside, but we don’t talk enough about what do we do if we aren’t feeling joyful? Is that OK? Is that normal? And what resources are available?”
However, Dulaney said she thinks we’re reaching a time where we can shift those expectations for mothers and are creating more support systems for them.
The Health Resources and Services Administration recently launched a new Maternal Mental Health Hotline. The hotline connects callers with a trained counselor for support and resources.
Cherished Mom offers a weekly Pregnant and Postpartum support group and a Perinatal Grief and Loss group twice a month.
Dulaney said loved ones can offer a lot of support for the mothers in their lives.
“If there’s a new mom that you know, reach out to her and ask if there’s anything you can do to help ask how she’s feeling, and not just physically but add the word, how are you feeling emotionally? And maybe consider not asking just once,” said Dulaney. “Anything that just makes you think she’s not acting like herself, think into that and try to dig deeper and offer support and resources if they’re available.”
Kaylee Pancake is a mom to three and says she met Dulaney by chance when she catered a Cherished Mom event. She said it wasn’t until she suffered a miscarriage later that she learned about all the resources the organization offers.
“I was actually unaware that they offered a grief and loss support group,” said Pancake. “So that’s really nice to know that that’s there. So now I can not only know, for myself, if I’m starting to feel down again, but if somebody crossed my path I can point them in the right direction.”
Pancake said as a mom, she wants other moms to know it’s OK and important to seek help for themselves.
“Somebody out there has gone through either the exact same thing or something very similar,” said Pancake. “It’s OK to ask for help. It’s OK to put yourself first for that split second because, without mom, the world doesn’t go round.”
For more information and resources from Cherished Mom, visit their website here.
If you or a loved one needs perinatal counseling, you can call the Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-943-5746.
Cherished Mom will be taking part in the annual Climb out of Darkness event, Saturday, Sept. 17. To join their team or for more information visit its team page here.
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North America's most popular dinosaur event will stomp into Tupelo this weekend. Jurassic Quest will arrive at the BancorpSouth Arena starting Friday, May 27 and concluding Sunday, May 29. The dinosaur exhibition offers dinosaur rides, fossil digs and velociraptor training in addition to other prehistoric activities and learning opportunities. Tickets can be purchased online.
Jurassic Quest got its start in 2013 and has been traversing North America ever since. Their goal is to offer an educational and fun, family experience while thrilling attendees with lifelike dinosaur replicas.
North America's most popular dinosaur event will stomp into Tupelo this weekend. Jurassic Quest will arrive at the BancorpSouth Arena starting Friday, May 27 and concluding Sunday, May 29. The dinosaur exhibition offers dinosaur rides, fossil digs and velociraptor training in addition to other prehistoric activities and learning opportunities. Tickets can be purchased online.
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Jurassic Quest got its start in 2013 and has been traversing North America ever since. Their goal is to offer an educational and fun, family experience while thrilling attendees with lifelike dinosaur replicas.
TUPELO • Some 200-million-odd-years later, on a Friday, dinosaurs will once again walk the earth.
North America's most popular dinosaur experience, Jurassic Quest, will come stomping back into Tupelo this weekend, beginning Friday, May 27, through Sunday, May 29, at Tupelo's BancorpSouth Arena.
Jurassic Quest will stomp into Tupelo with the hopes of bringing in folks from all over Northeast Mississippi to learn about dinosaurs in a scientific and realistic setting.
The touring dinosaur event got its start in 2013 and has been traversing throughout North America since, bringing with it life-size dinosaur replicas and a larger-than-life prehistoric experience for the whole family.
A few of the most notable creatures making an appearance this weekend are a T-Rex, Spinosaurus and 50-foot-long Megalodon, just to name a few.
Marty Hoffman serves as park ranger for Jurassic Quest. His passion for dinosaurs began at a young age and has developed into his current profession.
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"I'm a lifelong dinosaur nerd," he said. "There was a time period each day in my second grade class where we would discuss dinosaurs. Then, I started coming back when I was older to teach the younger kids."
According to Hoffman, Jurassic Quest is the most popular dinosaur exhibit in North America and offers visitors a chance to get up close and personal with some of these prehistoric giants. Along with the life-size dinosaurs replicas, the weekend event offers rideable dinosaurs, fossil digs and a 411 text line where attendees can consult with Hoffman about their dinosaur questions in real time.
The dinosaur expert said that his goal is for everyone to have a good time and learn about dinosaurs in a fun, but scientifically accurate way.
"We try to make it as scientifically accurate as possible," Hoffman said.
In addition to the aforementioned events, Jurassic Quest will also include a raptor training experience where attendees have the opportunity to train a velociraptor, similar to actor Chris Pratt's role as Owen Grady in the most recent "Jurassic World" movies.
The "dino-mite" event is expected to sell out, so those wanting to attend should secure tickets online as soon as possible. More information about purchasing tickets can be found at jurassicquest.com.
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TUPELO • Despite what she described as a complicated first year in office, Ward 7 Councilwoman Rosie Jones said she is determined to see positive changes in her ward.
“I’m here to speak up for the people, the underserved and the people who don’t know what’s happening on the other side of the tracks,” the first-time elected official said.
As she approaches the final days of her first year in office, Jones said her priorities include resolving board appointments, nurturing community involvement and building trust between the council and city.
Major Thoroughfare appointment tension continues
Board representation is a priority for Jones, and she said she believes ensuring that each committee and board facilitated by the city has diverse representation is extremely important.
This comes amid tension between Jones and Mayor Todd Jordan, who will ultimately decide the person to represent Jones’ ward on the city’s Major Thoroughfare Committee. The 18-member committee comprises two members from each ward and four at-large positions, all of whom are, according to city ordinances, chosen by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council.
In the past, however, the mayor has taken recommendations from council members on who they felt would best represent their wards. In most cases, his nominations and the council members' recommendations have aligned.
But when Jones tapped former Tupelo police officer Tiffany Gilleylen, who has twice sued the city for alleged civil rights violations, Jordan bucked the recommendation for his own pick, Tommy Scott.
Scott pulled his name from consideration in April, leading to an impasse between the mayor and councilwoman over the appointment.
On Tuesday, Jones said she was still determined to see Gilleylen on the committee.
“(Jordan) hasn’t responded yet,” Jones said. “I don’t know if he feels he won’t put someone on the board, but that isn’t going to work.”
But Jordan is also resolute and, in a move that breaks tradition, said he would not nominate Gilleylen, noting she had “been vocally against the administration” on social media.
Jordan said he was working through a few resumes for candidates without Jones’ help.
“I should have it done in a month,” Jordan said, noting he plans to fill vacancies in Wards 1, 4 and 7 during the same meeting.
Local garden in works at Haven Acres
One goal Jones has been working toward since the spring is the creation of a community garden.
The councilwoman recently partnered with multiple volunteers and received permission from local business owner Linda Williams to use an open lot in Haven Acres to build the garden.
“I am just going to start. We are going to build sub garden areas,” Jones said. “I came to (Williams) because I wanted to build a community garden so we can feed the elderly and kids. Everybody is going to chip in.”
Jones said she plans to buy bricks and soil to build the garden beds with the help of another volunteer, Maurice Shumpert.
“I am excited,” Jones said. “Anyone can help, and anyone can come get whatever they want once it is grown.”
The project is part of a broader plan to provide children with a greater breadth of recreational opportunities. Jones also said she hoped to see the undeveloped land next to Theron Nichols Park, located on Mitchell Road, put to use. According to tax records, the city owns the wooded area east of the park and is considered part of the park’s lot.
Jordan said the administration would have to look at the needs for the park, adding he knew the park had a track, baseball field, basketball court, splash pad and other equipment. He said he was not opposed to its expansion.
Parks and Recreations Director Alex Farned said he plans to meet with the council, Jones and the administration about their goals in the coming fiscal year and would look into the needs of Theron Nichols Park and what the undeveloped portion of land could become.
Increased support for the Boys and Girls Club of North Mississippi was also on Jones’ mind. She said she would like to see if the city could increase its financial support to the organization.
“I have a love for children because they are the future,” Jones said, noting the Haven Acres Boys and Girls Club was a valuable tool in the development of children in her ward. “The kids don’t have anything to do.”
She said he hoped they could make membership for the organization free rather than the regular annual $40 fee, but Chief Operations Officers Don Lewis said it wouldn’t be the city’s call.
“We provide them with the facilities at Haven Acres and on Main Street,” Lewis said. “We do not do any grant funding, but the Boys and Girls Club has come to us in the past if they needed something. As far as day-to-day operations, we are not in that, and I don’t know that we can be.”
Another option for giving young residents of her ward more to do would be to open the gym inside the area’s storm shelter more frequently. The city uses the shelter during the city’s basketball season as a location for matches. Lewis said it was possible to open it indefinitely, but it would come down to funding and staffing.
“We would have to look at funding and ways to make that happen,” he said. “They weren’t designed to be open day to day. And if they were, we would need to staff them.”
Jones eyes Mitchell Road upgrades, administration concurs
Like her fellow council members, Jones pointed to infrastructure needs as a priority. She honed in on the widening of Mitchell Road as an issue worth addressing.
“That is something that really, really needs to be totally redone,” she said. “I have lots of concerns with the safety of the road. I just think they need to invest in all parts of the city.”
Calling Mitchell Road one of the most traveled in her road in terms of foot traffic, Jones said she’d like to widen the roadway to include a bike lane or sidewalk.
The widening of Mitchell Road is currently on the city’s capital improvement plan, but there is no time frame for when the work might begin.
“That is what I call a named capital improvement, so it won’t be lump summed into capital improvement,” Lewis said. “It would need to be something the council decided to spend money on itself.”
Lewis noted budget season was upon the city. He said as discussion opened up for what the city planned during the next fiscal year, officials could hash out the details on Mitchell Road.
Jordan said he agreed that Mitchell Road needed immediate attention, including widening and a possible walking path or sidewalk near Lawndale Elementary.
“Things are moving forward,” he said when asked about projects in Ward 7.
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Allentown has $28 million remaining in its American Rescue Plan fund to spend, but it may be a while before the money gets put to use.
Mayor Matt Tuerk announced plans for the remaining dollars earlier this month. But at a City Council meeting on Wednesday, council President Cynthia Mota said members had concerns about the plan, and council would not approve any more ARPA spending until the city gathers more input from the public.
Tuerk planned to roll out applications for American Rescue Plan money this month, inviting nonprofits and local businesses to apply with detailed plans on how they would use the dollars to address negative effects of the pandemic.
It would function as a grant program: the city would give out sums between around $100,000 to $1 million, and organizations would need to secure other funding on top of the ARPA grant to complete their projects. A city committee would evaluate the projects based on a rubric and make recommendations, but city council would have the final say.
Mota said that rather than approving ARPA projects on a case-by-case basis, council wants to present the city administration with a document outlining specific priorities they want to spend the money on.
“There was agreement that instead of piecemealing the ARPA funds, we step back and present to the administration some kind of holistic vision, independent of the administration’s procedures,” Mota said.
Wednesday’s meeting will help city council decide its priorities for spending the money and help it decide on a written “budget” to present to the city administration.
At the meeting, several members of the public urged council to spend the money on affordable housing, homelessness, youth programming and public safety initiatives.
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Anti-poverty nonprofit Community Action Lehigh Valley and other community advocates are pushing the city to invest in a recreation center in Center City Allentown. Advocates want to see one of the school district’s vacant buildings, McKinley or Cleveland elementary schools, become a youth center, but the school district has not yet decided how the buildings will be used.
Advocates believe a youth center would provide Allentown students a safe place to go after school and deter them from falling into gangs, drug use and crime.
Naquon Godrey, an Allentown resident, said that funding a youth recreation center would “guarantee” a reduced crime rate among Allentown youth.
“There’s a certain way and a certain tactic that you have to come to the kids nowadays, because the normal ways aren’t working,” Godfrey said. “A lot of these kids want to be rappers nowadays. Why wouldn’t we be able to provide that for them in this youth center? A lot of kids have anger issues. We could provide a boxing ring in there.”
Andrene Brown, founder of Fine Feather Foundation, which addresses youth mental health, said students struggling with their mental health because of the pandemic need better resources.
“We’re just moving forward, but our children our not conditioned to be that way,” Brown said. They’re struggling ... I’m really encouraging everyone to take a look of what we need right now, this community center is a necessity.”
Several members of the public urged council to spend the money on affordable housing developments, renovations to crumbling properties, a first-time homebuyers program and a year-round homeless shelter. Average rent in the Lehigh Valley has soared in recent months, much of the city’s housing stock is old and in poor condition, and the city lacks a homeless shelter that is open year-round.
“Affordable housing is the key, not just affordable housing, but better housing,” said Allan Jennings, former executive director of Community Action Lehigh Valley. “We have a housing stock that is in some cases not worthy of third world conditions, and we’ve got to make a massive effort to invest in those homes. Homeownership should be a priority.”
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Members of the public agreed that violence and crime in Allentown is a problem, but not everyone agreed on the solution.
David Keshl, president of the Mountainville #30, a neighborhood community organization, said the city should use ARPA money to hire more police officers and bolster the police academy.
“I’d like to see more officers with body cameras and training for all the stuff that’s going on,” Keshl said. “With a city that’s growing, we need more officers.”
But others said that rather than spending more on police, the city should invest more money to address poverty, which they see as the root cause of violence.
“Poverty is violence,” said Pas Simpson, an Allentown community advocate. “As we’re talking about homelessness, the rise in rent, ... gun violence is also a stem of poverty. I’ll tell you, when I was broke, I’d shoot you. When we have other opportunities and other options, we do better.”
City council will hold another meeting on American Rescue Plan spending on June 9.
Morning Call reporter Lindsay Weber can be reached at 610-820-6681 and liweber@mcall.com.
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A fire onboard a barge in the Delaware Bay has been extinguished, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The fire was reported early Monday on a barge about 9 miles south of Port Mahon, Delaware, and was extinguished Tuesday, the Coast Guard announced in a news release. A contractor will assess the vessel's integrity and manage salvage operations, officials said.
A patrol boat is enforcing a 500-yard safety zone around the barge reportedly carrying household appliances for scrap and the salvage vessel and if the fire should reignite, the vessel has firefighting capabilities, officials said. No sheening or discoloration was observed in the waterway. No injuries were reported, Petty Officer Cynthia Oldham said.
A unified command has been established to oversee salvage operations with representatives from Eastern Metal Recycling, New Jersey Office of Emergency Management, Cumberland County Office of Emergency Management, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the Coast Guard.
“I want to thank all the responders, especially Fire Chief Aaron Warren, the local fire companies, and Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control who initially responded to this complex and dynamic situation,” Capt. Jonathan Theel, Sector Delaware Bay captain of the port said in a statement. “The fire is out due to their dedication and adaptability.”
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Johnston solar farm fight reflects RI's dilemma: Green space or green energy?
JOHNSTON – Neighbors of a proposed solar farm spread across more than 300 acres of mostly wooded land in the northwestern part of town scored a significant victory last month when the proposal failed to win Zoning Board approval – a split vote after a marathon meeting that ended at 2:30 a.m.
While opponents won the latest battle, the war may not be over. Green Development, which has invested $2.5 million on the proposal over the last several years to get to this point, is considering an appeal of the board’s decision to Superior Court.
The Johnston project is a microcosm of the skirmishes being waged in communities across Rhode Island, with the push for renewable energy bumping up against questions of where solar farms – and wind turbines – should be located. And it’s forced communities to figure out how to address the emerging technology in their zoning and planning regulations.
Last fall, the City of Warwick passed a six-month moratorium on all ground-mounted solar projects while it updates its ordinances and building codes. The Town of Exeter is in litigation over changing its ordinances in the middle of one of Green Development’s projects. And Coventry negotiated a settlement on a lawsuit filed against the town.
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“Nobody here is inherently anti-solar,” said Chris Dibble, whose property is next to one of five parcels where Green wants to install solar panels. The solar farm would be built 200 feet from his property line. “I drive an electric car. We are for solar in appropriate areas. But we felt these areas are not an appropriate place. It’s not right for these companies to come in and try and muscle these towns.”
“The owners of that property are going to do something. If the solar doesn’t go up, there will definitely be houses there,” said Mark DePasquale, who founded Green Development in 2009. It is now the largest company installing wind turbines and solar farms in Rhode Island, with nearly 100 employees.
The specter of housing is echoed by proponents of the project, which include the mayor. Green said that after buying three major parcels for $10 million, it will turn them over to the Johnston Land Trust, which will have control over the land when the project is decommissioned in 20 to 25 years. Green will lease the land from the land trust to build the solar farm. It already owns two of the five parcels.
Green cites legislation pending in the General Assembly that would make it easier for affordable housing to be built in traditional residential zones, and the company warns of the added town services needed to support housing developments.
“I would rather see solar go through than houses,” Mayor Joseph Polisena said, adding that houses result in added town services such as trash pickup, police and fire protection and students in the schools.
But the neighbors who implored the Zoning Board to reject Green’s project said they knew the woods adjacent to their houses might one day be developed. They said they would rather have housing than a total of 90,000 solar panels on the five parcels, some of it former farmland and apple orchards. And they couldn’t stomach the environmental impact of clearing trees to install solar panels.
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“I can’t believe that I’m standing here today fighting to not have the town destroy any more than it already is,” Lynn Grissom, a lifelong resident, told the Zoning Board at the meeting on April 28. Grissom cited the Department of Environmental Management’s guidance on solar farms, which “strongly discourages” the clearing of forests to site them. Grissom and several of her neighbors on Rollingwood Drive own homes with thick woods behind them that would be partially cleared under the proposal.
“This is the last area in Johnston that’s not overbuilt and destroyed by the zoning,” Paul Zanecchia, who grew up in the town, told the board that night.
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Green Development has grown significantly over the last decade, producing enough electricity from its solar projects in Rhode Island to power 29,250 homes a year.
Three years ago the company moved from a modest office in North Kingstown into the top two floors of a building in Cranston’s Chapel View complex, where Alex and Ani was headquartered in its heyday. From his office on the fifth floor, DePasquale has a clear view of downtown Providence and some of the turbine projects he has completed over the last several years.
One floor up, a bank of video boards shows energy details from each of his wind and solar projects. He also can pull up video of his latest project – a massive solar farm in North Smithfield, the largest so far in Rhode Island.
While Green has been working on the Johnston proposal for several years, the neighbors didn’t hear about it until they began to receive notices about a Planning Board meeting in March. They turned out in full force to watch the board unanimously approve the five-parcel proposal.
The word around town was that the mayor wanted it and board approval was a given. “I didn’t believe a fix was in, but I know the mayor had strongly twisted a lot of arms and it was obvious at the Planning Board meeting that [some members] were clearly trying to advance [Green’s] agenda,” Zanecchia said in an interview last week.
Polisena told The Hummel Report he put no pressure on either of the boards to approve the proposal.
Bonnie Dibble, whose property is next to one of the proposed parcels, posted about the meeting on her Facebook page in March; that started a grassroots mobilization of residents from varying neighborhoods opposed to the project. She began an online petition and five couples chipped in to hire an attorney for the Zoning Board meeting. A GoFundMe page raised $1,500 toward the effort.
“One of the overriding themes here is it takes a group of citizens spending $10,000 to hire an attorney and other experts to fight these guys,” said Chris Dibble, Bonnie's husband. “We can go and stomp our feet and yell but they would approve it unless they had an actual case presented against them. The only way to do that is to hire an attorney. Saying that you don’t meet your ordinances just isn’t good enough.”
The group hired Matthew J. Landry, a veteran land-use lawyer who has experience navigating solar-farm proposals, including projects in Cranston and West Greenwich. The proposal moved from the Planning Board to the Zoning Board, abd Landry asked for a continuance at the March Zoning Board meeting so he could hire experts and put a case together.
“In a massive project like this with large-scale implications townwide … having legal representation to prepare a concise argument and bring in experts to narrow down the legal issues I think is very important,” Landry told The Hummel Report in an interview this month.
Landry said the state passed legislation more than a decade ago giving financial incentives to companies wanting to develop solar projects. But many communities didn’t have language in their ordinances or comprehensive plans addressing the new technology. Some passed moratoriums that sparked legal challenges.
While many communities began rewriting their plans and ordinances, Johnston has not revised its comprehensive plan since 2007. Green’s argument before the Zoning Board: while it doesn’t say you can put in a solar farm in a residential area, it doesn’t say you can’t either.
“They’re basically saying it’s in accordance with the plan because we say it is,” Chris Dibble said.
For Green to go forward with the solar development, the Zoning Board had to grant a special-use permit because the property is zoned residential. And that required approval of a “super majority” – four of the five members needed to vote yes.
Fireworks at a marathon meeting
By the time the April Zoning Board meeting began at 6:45 p.m., more than 100 people had filled a room at the Johnston Senior Center. The hearing got off to a rocky start as several people berated the board, saying the vote to approve was a foregone conclusion. It’s a story that had spread through town, although the board chairman, Thomas Lopardo, later said he had not spoken with the mayor about the proposal. “No one’s ever told me how I had to vote. I wouldn’t do it. I’m not there to be told what to do.”
When one resident began swearing at the board and another would not stop talking, Lopardo called for a five-minute recess. When the meeting resumed, Johnston police officers were stationed in the front and the back of the room.
Green Development’s attorney, John O. Mancini, guided a nearly 3½ hour-presentation, calling on five experts to speak about the proposal. They covered effects on wetlands and landscaping, the broader environment and real estate values. The project manager, Kevin Morin, walked through a 75-slide PowerPoint presentation of the plan, taking questions along the way.
The solar farms would be located on five parcels spread over 325 acres in the northern part of town; the designated solar area would take up 40% of the property and the panels themselves about 16%. The 90,000 panels would power 5,400 homes a year.
As Green finished its presentation, well after 10 p.m., Zanecchia, a lawyer whose mother still lives in the house he grew up in on Hopkins Avenue, implored the board to continue the meeting to another night. He said he had spoken with Lopardo and Joseph Ballirano, the board’s attorney, during a break. “We all know the longer these things go, people have to leave. That’s always to the advocates’ advantage,” Zanecchia said later in an interview.
The board voted to suspend its rules calling for a 10:30 curfew and plow on. No one knew at the time they’d be there another four hours.
Lopardo later explained: “I didn’t think it was fair to make all of those people come back again and make all of those experts come back again. No one knew it was going to go that long. Once we got going, it’s like you’re halfway across the river. You can’t really turn back.”
Landry’s case took nearly two hours and included two experts who said the plan was inconsistent with the area and not in the best interests of the residents, something the town's comprehensive plan requires for a special-use permit. It was the exact opposite of what one of Green’s experts had testified.
Ballirano, the board’s attorney, got into an extended – and animated – exchange with one of Landry’s witnesses, after asking no questions of the Green presenters. That drew a sharp response from the audience.
“This is outrageous,” Zanecchia shouted at Ballirano. “You’re here as legal counsel to the board. You’re not here to ask questions of this expert!”
Ballirano asked the witness: “Am I being unfair?"
Landry stepped in, saying: “I think it’s highly irregular, this type of dialogue. It’s appropriate for the board members to inquire of this expert; I’m happy to have any board member ask questions as voting members.”
Ballirano told The Hummel Report last week that he was doing his job as the board’s attorney for the past 15 years; he also said he'd had no contact with Polisena about the proposal.
“I’ve taken 10 appeals (of Zoning Board decisions) to Superior Court,” he said. “Every single judge told me the same thing: This is on you. You don’t have the opportunity to develop the record, you have the obligation to develop the record. When two experts in planning say the 100% exact opposite thing, the board needs help in gaining information to form an opinion as to which expert to side with or lean on a little bit more than another.”
'My quality of life is over as far as me sitting in my backyard'
The public finally got its chance after 12:30 a.m. While some people had left, the vast majority of the dozens who arrived six hours earlier remained; 16 people addressed the board, none speaking in favor of the project. Some talked about environmental concerns – wondering what might leach into the ground and affect their wells; one woman worried about the potential for added groundwater and flooding once the land is cleared.
Ray D’Amico’s backyard would be the closest to one of the solar arrays. “My quality of life is over as far as me sitting in my backyard,” he said. “I’m going to be sitting out there hearing the buzz. I’m probably the worst one in this whole thing.”
Green didn’t directly address D’Amico’s concerns, only saying it would be within the town’s noise limit – 60 decibels. D’Amico showed the board on a plat map how close his property would be to the solar farm.
Some wondered if the solar panels would ever be decommissioned. Chris Dibble said a lot can change over two decades. “It would not be out of line for the state, on behalf of National Grid, to roll out eminent domain and say we can’t afford to lose this [power] from the grid and we’re going to pay to replace the panels and they’ll be here for another 40 years. How do you know that’s not going to happen?”
The meeting went so late that one of the board members, who has a heart condition and is on a strict medication regimen, went home at 1:15 a.m. because he was having chest pains and feeling lightheaded.
At 2:15, with all of the testimony concluded, it was time for a vote. The board’s vice chairman, Anthony Pilozzi, commended both sides for their presentations and made a motion to approve, drawing groans from the audience. Lopardo, the chairman, called for a second to the motion; 27 seconds passed before Lopardo, looking right and left and hearing nothing, jumped in, saying: “I’ll second it, let’s have a vote.”
Richard Fascia and Richard Lobello both voted no, and Lopardo, Pilozzi and alternate Dennis Cardillo, who had replaced the member who went home with chest pains, voted yes. When it became apparent the board did not have enough votes to pass with a supermajority, the crowd erupted in applause.
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One 'no' vote: Green lacked answers
Fascia, in an interview last week, told The Hummel Report: “In my opinion they failed to make a compelling case that this was in the best interest in the people of Johnston.”
Fascia has been a member of the Zoning Board for 17 of the 26 years he’s lived in Johnston. He said Green has gotten approval from the board on other solar proposals in town. “In each case, no abutters came forward to speak out against the project,” Fascia said, adding that he was swayed by the number of people who stayed to the end of the meeting.
Fascia said he didn’t like that Green did not have answers for some basic questions he had, like what the batteries on the solar panels would be made of. “Were they going to be nickel-cadmium, lithium? They just simply did not come prepared with answers that are necessary to make an educated decision.
“In the end, the board is an instrument of the people, and it’s our job to look at it from all sides objectively, and I just could not fathom [voting for approval] when it could affect all of those abutting neighbors. They all have wells, they all have property values that could conceivably be depleted.”
Lopardo defended his vote to approve, “A lot of people who testified were for solar,” the chairman said. “The way it was presented to me, this was going to be a solar field temporarily, but the land was being deeded back to the town and it was to be [open] in perpetuity. If we got a lot of construction and housing up there, potentially it would be maybe even more disruptive to the surroundings than a passive solar farm.”
Landry, the opponents’ attorney, said: “I think the public won, frankly. The best outcome possible is what transpired at that meeting. The public came out in droves, they were against the project from the beginning. They were passionate. The public forum was successful in this case against a project that would have wide, sweeping impacts on the community.”
'It's my job to try and slow ... global warming'
DePasquale will have 20 days to appeal once the Zoning Board certifies the April vote. Would he pull the plug on a $160-million project that he's already sunk $2.5 million into? “We’re going to wait to see what the transcript says,” he said. “Before you can determine if there’s something to appeal, you have to look at what they did that night. I will listen to my legal staff. If they said to me (the Zoning Board made a mistake) and by right you should have (gained approval in) this vote, then I don’t stop.”
He said he will also consult with the owners of the properties. Green has a purchase and sale agreement and is paying the owners of the parcels a monthly fee during the approval process. In several cases the owners are aging and want to sell now.
DePasquale said he is committed to bringing renewable energy to Rhode Island.
“When you look at what we’re doing, I believe in what we do. That’s all I do now [renewable energy],” said DePasquale, who has a background in construction. “It’s my job to try and slow down the global warming that’s happening. Everybody wants to have their lights, but you have to make changes. And people just don’t want to make changes and are stubborn. “
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A 9-year-old girl died and her mother and 7-year-old sister were hurt as their car slammed into a parked water ice truck in Philadelphia late Wednesday night.
Police officers and fire department medics rushed to West Erie Avenue near Germantown Avenue, on the edge of the Hunting Park neighborhood, around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday to find a red Honda sedan crashed into the back of a minibus converted into a water ice truck, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
The force of the crash caused the water ice truck to be pushed several feet, police said.
"That 2017 Honda has very heavy front-end damage from striking the rear of the minibus," Small said.
Crews pulled a woman in the 30s and her 7-year-old and 9-year-old daughters from the wreckage.
The girls were rushed to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children where the 9-year-old died a short time later, the other girl was listed in stable condition, Small said.
The mother was rushed to another hospital where she was treated for injuries to her face and a possible broken leg, police said.
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Small said investigators weren't sure what caused the woman to lose control of her car.
Police found no evidence the driver was impaired, Small said.
Police searched for clues and surveillance camera footage early Thursday as they continued to investigate.
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Meet the 2022 inductees to Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame, including Randy Sanders
The Greater Knoxville Sports Hall of Fame announced its 41st class of inductees, which includes former Tennessee football player and assistant coach Randy Sanders.
Chipper Jones, who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2018, is set to speak at the event on Aug. 25.
Hospitality at the Knoxville Convention Center will begin at 5 p.m. and the ceremony will begin at 6:3. Tickers are available at www.gkshof.org.
Here is a look at this year's 10 inductees:
Sharrieffa Barksdale
Barksdale was a standout track and field athlete at Tennessee. She was the first woman in history to run the 400-meter hurdles in under 55 seconds and later broke the American record in the same event at 54.90. She was also a part of the 1981 National Championship team.
Barksdale represented the United States around the world for 15 years. She won a silver medal at the 1983 Pan American games and made the U.S. Olympic team in 1984 when finished ninth overall.
After retiring, Barksdale served as a coach, assistant manager and liaison for Team USA in the Olympics at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. Her high school track in Harriman was named after her following the 1984 Olympics.
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Hoyt Carroll
Carroll was a staple of Knoxville high school sports for years, beginning with his playing days at Knoxville High School. In Carroll's senior season, Knoxville football was an undefeated state champion.
Carroll served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. When he returned, he played for Carson-Newman for four years. Carroll coached at Bearden for two years as an assistant and got his first head coaching job at Carter in 1953.
When Holston opened in 1957, Carroll built the entire athletic program as athletic director and football coach. His overall coaching record was 95-115-9.
Claire Donahue
Donahue, a Lenoir City native, swam at Western Kentucky where she broke five school records, including the 100- and 200-meter butterfly her freshman year. Donahue was named the Student Athlete of the Year in 2011 when she placed second in the 100 butterfly at the national championships.
Donahue found success at the international level, too. In the 2011 Pan American Games, she won golds in the 100 butterfly and the 4x100 medley relay. At the 2012 London Olympic Games, Donahue won a gold medal as part of the United States’ 400 medley relay. She earned a seventh-place finish in the 100 butterfly with a personal best time of 57.42 seconds.
Gordon Heins
Heins has spent more than 35 years coaching youth soccer in Knoxville. He coached at the club level for 25 years and has been the boys coach at Knoxville Catholic for the last 10 years.
Heins' teams have won multiple state championships and his success was found early in his career. His impact goes further than the game, though, and in 2021 Heins was recognized by the United Soccer Coaches with the High School coach of Significance for the entire state.
Joe Hendee
Hendee left a legacy in Tennessee athletics before he died of cancer in 2011. He was the longest tenured assistant coach in the history of men's athletics at UT, where began his career as an undergraduate assistant for the swimming and diving teams.
While Hendee was on staff under legendary coach Ray Bussard and John Trembly, the Vols had 177-32 dual meet record, won three SEC titles and an NCAA title, produced three Olympic gold medalists and more than 100 All-Americans.
Hendee was a coach and manager for Team USA in various meets, including the 1984 Olympics. He was inducted into the Tennessee Swimming Hall of Fame in 2003 and the Greater Knoxville Area Interclub Swimming Association in 2010.
Randy Sanders
Sanders, who played at Tennessee from 1984-88, began his successful coaching career at his alma mater. He started as a quarterbacks coach under Johnny Majors and continued in different roles under Phillip Fulmer. He spent 17 years coaching at UT and helped led the Vols to a 162-46-2 record, four SEC Championships, six Eastern Division crowns and a national titles.
Sanders, a Morristown native, also was an assistant at Kentucky and Florida State. FSU won two ACC titles and the 2013 National Championship. Sanders was instrumental in helping Jameis Winston become the youngest player to win a Heisman Trophy in 2013.
Sanders ended his football career as the coach at ETSU from 2018-21 with a 26-16 record.
Buck Jones
Jones was an associate professor of physical education and sport management for 25 years at Tennessee and was heavily involved with the UT track and field program.
Jones served as the public address announced for UT track and cross country meets from 1982-2018. He created the track and field event management team for Tennessee and was the meet director for the 1995 NCAA Track and Field championships.
He won the Lifetime Achievement Award from UT track and field in 1995 and was named an honorary Tennessee letterman in 2005. Jones still serves as official scorer for Tennessee basketball teams.
Jimmy Hyams
Hyams is the sports director for Sports Radio WMNL in Knoxville, where he is co-host of Sports Talk. Hyams was a sports writer for more than 20 years, including the Knoxville News Sentinel, before switching professions in 1998.
He was awarded Tennessee Sportswriter of the Year five times and Tennessee Sportscaster of the Year twice. Hyams is the only person to win both awards.
Hyams, who was inducted into Tennessee Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame, has primarily covered UT football and basketball in his career.
Vance Link
For more than 40 years, Link has led the Pee Wee League with Knox Youth Sports. He pitches over 80 games a season, as well as being an umpire and coach for groups of children under age seven every spring as a volunteer.
He was one of the original commissioners of Sequoyah Baseball. Link is an alum of Tennessee and Webb School, where he was honored as a distinguished alumnus in 2016.
Willie Poplar
Poplar was the first Black athlete at Tennessee School for the Deaf. He excelled in football, track, bowling and basketball. Poplar became a two-time deaf Olympian in 1969 and 1973 and won a silver medal.
He was a state shot put champion, as well as a state and national record holder in the shot put. During Poplar's career at TSD, he helped lead the team to a Deaf School national championship in 1968 and was an All-American that year.
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BLOOMINGTON — For Smith Bachtold, the taste of that iconic Green Gables smash burger was all it took for him to call off work when he heard the news of the Hudson eatery coming back for one night.
“I would’ve brought my buddies with but they’re all working right now,” said Bachtold, of Fairbury. “Events like these are always great and it shows how small towns really come together to help each other out.”
As a way to help pay for staff wages and the rebuilding process, Epiphany Farms, 220 E. Front Street, hosted a Green Gables fundraiser dinner from 4 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday.
The event was organized by WJBC radio host Scott Miller, who had owner Amy Tague on-air after the May 9 fire that left the beloved restaurant in ruins. Afterward, he told Tague and his audience that he would do anything to help the restaurant rebuild.
“Green Gables is an icon,” Miller said. “We’ll never be able to replace what you would feel in that building but the taste may be able to be recreated.”
Having worked with Tague and co-owners of Epiphany Farms, Ken and Nanam Myszka and chef Stu Hummel, the dinner featured cooks from Green Gables working the grill and served $15 plates which included a classic burger, French fries and cheese balls.
Ken Myszka said they contacted their purveyor and coordinated with staff at the Green Gables to make sure that what they made with the burger was as close to the same recipe as it was before.
“We’re one family. We’re not competing, but we’re cooperating,” Myszka said. “I can never imagine what would happen if I lost my restaurant."
A portion of all sales throughout the restaurant that night will be donated to the Green Gables' owners to help pay staff and cover any other immediate expenses related to the fire.
During the fundraiser, a framed Green Gables print signed by the restaurant owners was being auctioned off, along with other pieces created and donated personally by Doug Johnson, executive director of the McLean County Arts Center.
“It’s amazing that businesses and people are willing to do this, and I know that if another business was in this kind of situation, we would have done the same thing, especially with how it’s making us feel,” Tague said. “My staff was just floored at the opportunity, and we haven’t all been together since the burn.”
Before the doors opened, Tague said there was already a line of people waiting outside and even more coming in to pick up their plates throughout the day.
Bartender Mike Schneider, who used to work Wednesday nights at the Green Gables, said he saw multiple regulars and even came across groups who used to gather for wine nights.
Although the grills at Epiphany Farms might be half the size, Schneider said both staffs were all working together to give customers that same Wednesday night feel they used to have near Lake Bloomington.
“It’s bittersweet,” Schneider said. “It’s good that we get to see each other but knowing that next Wednesday or Friday I won’t be working … we just need to take the time we got now and make sure everybody’s OK. That’s what is important.”
Annie Houston, of Normal, who came to Epiphany with her daughter Laurie Kunkel and her husband Charlie, said she remembers driving up to the Green Gables with her daughter in their matching Mazda MX-5 Miatas to get a burger and then race back home.
“There are so many people all over, not only out of the state but other countries that would come to it,” said Houston, who previously lived in Colorado for 27 years but would make trips up to Hudson anytime she came home. “I think this is fabulous, and I wasn’t going to miss it, so I called the kids and said we gotta go.”
In terms of the rebuilding process, Tague said she and her husband Kyle have been talking with the McLean County Department of Building and Zoning about where the new building can be built, and they have considered constructing in chunks or possibly having a food truck temporarily.
As for now, they have already received inquiries about other partnerships for the future with Destihl Brewery, Crafted Commons, and Lil Beaver Brewery, Tague said.
“My staff and family are so thankful,” she said. “We plan to be back, one way or another we will get there.”
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A police officer at a middle school had to detain a juvenile after they were found with a firearm on campus, according to Fort Worth police.
The department said an officer from their School Initiative Unit was on duty at W. A. Meacham Middle School on Wednesday. At around 4 p.m., he was notified about a student who possibly had a gun.
According to police, the officer did an investigation, detained a juvenile suspect and safely took away a firearm.
Police said there were no threats made and no one was hurt.
The juvenile hasn't been identified and it's not clear if they were a student at the middle school.
The incident happened as North Texas schools have taken extra precautions in the wake of the shooting in Uvalde, where 21 people, including 19 children, were killed at an elementary school. Texas Department of Public Safety officials said the suspect barricaded himself in a classroom with all of the victims.
Out of caution, school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have increased police presence and security measures on their campuses. Many districts made it clear that there were no known threats before their announcement.
Also this week, a student was arrested by Richardson police after a pistol was found in their car near Berkner High School.
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Flagstaff’s high schools will be hosting graduation ceremonies for the class of 2022 this week.
Northland Preparatory Academy's graduation will begin 2 p.m. Thursday, May 26. It will take place at Northern Arizona University's Ardrey Auditorium.
Summit High School’s graduation will begin on the school’s campus 5 p.m. Thursday, May 26. FUSD will be running a shuttle bus from Thomas Elementary School to ease parking. The shuttle will leave Thomas at 4 p.m., 4:20 p.m. and 4:45 p.m.
Coconino and Flagstaff high school ceremonies will both be held Friday, May 27, at the NAU Walkup Skydome. FHS’s will begin at 9 a.m. and CHS’s will begin at 3 p.m.
Flagstaff Arts and Leadership Academy will be holding its graduation Saturday, May 28, at the Pepsi Amphitheater in Fort Tuthill County Park beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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A first-year head coach. A verbal sideline confrontation between two superstar teammates. A season sweep by the best team in the WNBA.
And most significantly, a player jailed overseas indefinitely.
The Phoenix Mercury have struggled to start the 2022 WNBA season, opening with a 2-4 record following three losses to the top-seeded Las Vegas Aces (6-1) in the first month of the season. It is the team’s worst start since their 2019 season, when the Mercury began 2-5 and finished with a 15-19 record.
“We are all getting to know each other. We have a couple of players, like Diamond (DeShields) and Brianna Turner, who just showed up like seven days ago,” Mercury coach Vanessa Nygaard said. “That’s a quick learning curve, with a lot going on on a day-to-day basis.”
Nygaard was offered the Mercury job in January, after the team spent a month searching for a replacement. Sandy Brondello, the team’s previous coach, did not have her contract renewed after the team reached the WNBA Finals last season. Brondello was up on her feet a month later, as the new coach of the New York Liberty.
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Since then, the Mercury franchise has had a whirlwind off-season. The team traded backup center Kia Vaughn for a third round pick in next year’s WNBA Draft. They re-signed fan favorite 3-point spot up shooter Sophie Cunningham and backup point guard Kia Nurse to one-year deals. And they made two major transactions to bolster their present-day starting lineup: One, via trade and the other, a free-agent signing.
The Mercury signed eight-time All-Star and 2012 regular season MVP Tina Charles to a one-year, $108,000 contract -- a sensible offer for the 11-year pro, who averaged a career-best 23.4 points per game in 24 games started for the Washington Mystics a year ago. She was the primary option for the Mystics since their franchise player, Elena Delle Donne, only started three games last year after re-injuring her back and missed a majority of the season.
Just 10 days after Nygaard was introduced as the Mercury coach, the team was involved in a three-team sign-and-trade that saw reserve guard Bria Hartley (who played in only six games for the team last season) depart to the Indiana Fever. The Mercury also sent second round picks in the 2022 and 2023 WNBA Drafts to the Fever and a 2023 first round pick to the Chicago Sky. In return, the team obtained versatile wing Diamond DeShields from the Sky.
“DeShields is as dynamic an athlete as we have in our league and at just 26 years old has already been a champion, an All-Star and an All-WNBA performer,” Mercury general manager Jim Pitman said in a February press release. “She was one of our top targets this offseason because of her ability to score and defend from the wing position and how dangerous she is in the open floor. We are thrilled to add Diamond to our All-Star core.”
Little did Pitman know the unfortunate circumstances that followed the three-team trade.
Two weeks after the deal, the team’s star starting center in Brittney Griner, who was playing overseas for Russian powerhouse women’s basketball team UMMC Ekaterinburg, was arrested at an international airport in Moscow for carrying a vaporizer containing hashish oil, a banned substance on Russian grounds. To this day, Griner remains behind bars -- Friday be her 100th consecutive day in the jail cell if she is still there.
Guard Kia Nurse’s torn ACL that she suffered last October resulted in another Mercury starter ruled out to start the 2022 season. To add on, the team was without two other starters in DeShields and Turner on opening day, as both were completing overseas play. Both rejoined the Mercury following the team’s 106-88 blowout loss to the Aces in the first game of the season.
“This is my first rodeo and I think that it is a challenge to begin the year,” Nygaard said. “Tina (Charles) is new as well so it’s really just Skylar (Diggins-Smith) and Diana (Taurasi) that have played together significantly. We saw Sophie (Cunningham) play some great minutes for us today as well. We just have to sort it out. The good thing for us is that we have games coming up, so we’ll have an opportunity to keep working and I know those players want to get back on the court.”
The Mercury started the season 2-1, with a home-and-home sweep of Sue Bird’s Seattle Storm earlier in May. During that stretch, the new big three of Taurasi, Diggins-Smith and Charles averaged a combined 43/39/76 field goal, 3-point and free throw splits and a healthy 49/19/11 points, rebounds and assists per game.
Then came the Mercury’s current three-game losing streak, which featured two losses to the Aces and another loss to the young Dallas Wings squad (average age of their current roster: 24) sandwiched in-between.
In that span, a verbal sideline outburst between the team’s two star players – Taurasi and Diggins-Smith – occurred during the first half of the second Aces game.
Cooler heads prevailed, but the Mercury dropped their second straight game to the Aces. The Mercury scored a season-low 12 points in the third quarter, as they could not get any dribble penetration and quality looks. The Aces took advantage behind their defensive intensity with a 30-12 run in that quarter alone.
The nationally televised game on ABC on Saturday afternoon against the Aces put a spotlight on their defensive woes. Four Mercury players – Turner, Charles, DeShields and Cunningham – had four fouls apiece heading into the fourth quarter, in flailing attempts at guarding the likes of A’ja Wilson, sharpshooter Kelsey Plum and guard Jackie Young.
“This is the group that we have, and you have got to be able to find solutions to defeat really good teams,” Taurasi said following the team’s third straight loss. “We’re not going to make any excuses – we’ve played basketball for a long time. So it doesn’t matter who you are on the court. It’s just one of those days that things aren’t going your way. And so we’ve got to find a way to make sure we’re staying true to the things that we need to get done to be successful. I thought we had a pretty good first half, so the ability is there. We just need to be able to do it for a longer period of time.”
Taurasi was not too pleased about facing the Aces for the third time in the first six games of the season, with two of those games in Sin City.
“I’m glad we don’t see him for a while,” Taurasi said. “That’s for sure. I’m tired of Vegas food. It’s pretty crappy.”
The Mercury were playing without Taurasi’s backcourt mate in Diggins-Smith, who missed her second consecutive game – not because of her feud with Taurasi, the team said, but with a non-COVID illness – another blow for a team attempting to return to the WNBA Finals.
“We all are still getting used to each other, teaching each other,” Diggins-Smith said. “I just got our system down last year, and now we learned a whole new system. So, it just is what it is. So, there’s no excuses on our part. You shouldn’t have to coach effort or energy on us, and I think we have to start that fourth quarter punching somebody in the mouth and not the other way around.”
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A 71-year-old man is dead after a motorcycle crash in Burleigh County.
The man lost control on state Highway 10 and crashed about 1 ½ miles west of Sterling around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, according to the Highway Patrol. He suffered fatal injuries. His name was not immediately released.
The Patrol said road and weather conditions were both clear at the time of the crash. The agency is continuing to investigate.
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SAN ANTONIO — A Bexar County deputy is now in jail, accused of assaulting an inmate.
Ivan Torres, a 31-year-old deputy, was arrested for an incident at the jail on Wednesday.
Torres reportedly ordered the inmate back to his bunk area. The inmate didn't comply and said something to the deputy, and that's when Torres attacked him.
Sheriff Javier Salazar said the inmate had cuts on his face, and hit the back of his head.
Torres is now facing charges for assault and official oppression.
The sheriff said the deputy has been with BCSO for four years and was given a notice of proposed termination.
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LUPTON, Ala. (WIAT) — Local schools are taking a look at safety plans in case an active shooter were to come on campus.
Over the last few decades, school shootings have become more common. CBS 42’s Carly Laing spoke with educators in the Walker County school system and they said active shooter plans have evolved over the years in response to recent events.
“It makes me sick to my stomach,” Corey Shubert said.
School leaders are once again on high alert following the Uvalde, Texas Elementary School shooting that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
“Apparently they were having their awards day, we had our awards day yesterday as well. I just kept reflecting what if that would have been us,” Shubert said.
Corey Shubert is the principal at Lupton Jr. High school in Walker County. He has kids ages four to 14 in his care daily. Their safety is top priority.
“We all pray that it’s never us, but we always prepare for the moment that it could be us,” Shubert said.
Walker County Schools Safety Director Patrick Gann said all county schools have an SRO officer on campus. Schools also practice active shooter training through various drills.
“It started back with Columbine and they’ve gotten more in-depth. The different code words, the different types of lockdowns, you go from a soft lockdown to a hard lockdown,” Gann said.
It’s something Gann said has evolved as mass shootings become more common.
“Coming out of COVID we would like to have more of the active shooter drills and have the local law enforcement and fire department come in and simulate an active shooter drill without the kids being present, that way they can see how the plan would pan out and make improvements if needed,” said Gann.
Shubert said he hopes schools and law enforcement can continue to collaborate on training.
“That’s something I would like to see more of as well. I mean we can open our schools up to our sheriff’s departments and police departments and let them do training so they are familiar with the layout of our schools in case something like that ever does happen,” said Shubert.
Shubert hopes that’s a scenario they never have to face.
“We just hope and pray that we’ve prepared our teachers to the best of our ability and that they have their students well prepared to prevent anything like that from happening,” said Shubert.
According to Education Week, there have been 119 school shootings in the United States since 2018. That report also said that there have been at least 27 shootings at schools or on school properties so far this year.
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The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
Just in May 2022, there have been two major mass shootings, one in Buffalo, New York and another at an elementary school in Texas. They were entirely predictable. Every time there is a mass shooting, like in the ones referenced above or other major ones, like in Newtown, Connecticut, the question arises: What would it take to enact effective gun regulations in this country?
It is a matter of when another shooting shall occur. Chances are that nothing will be done. There will be thoughts and prayers, and any new gun regulations considered a “slippery slope” to gun confiscation. That is a common, maddening argument.
Guns are a complex, emotional subject. Although 80% of people want better background checks and less dangerous weaponry, it has not mattered. There has been no meaningful legislation to reduce gun violence. Some say that guns are not the problem. It is mental health or video games. Not guns. If so, shall submachine guns, howitzers, bazookas, be allowed?
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There are mental health related issues. However, few mentally ill people resort to violence. They are mostly victims. Many mass shootings are committed by strange, angry loners with a grudge. Shall we lock away all such people? It may be that people take revenge against the world through the barrel of a gun. It may also be that vulnerable others copy those acts.
Most gun owners will never resort to gun violence. Yet there are over 45,000 gun-related deaths per year, resulting from murders, suicide, accidents, and neglect. Children kill and are killed. Could it result from the sheer number of gun sales flooding America, well over 350 million, and fear that guns will be confiscated?
Conservatives claim that liberals want to “shred the Second Amendment.” It is reprehensible misinformation. Few know about the nuances, background and Supreme Court decisions regarding the Amendment.
Most people, including gun advocates, do not know the Second Amendment’s content. As an experiment, write down what it says and then check for accuracy. Ask others to do the same. Few will know the amendment’s language, yet use it as a reason for possessing guns.
Here’s what it says: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Essentially, it involves a well-regulated militia, and gives the people the right to bear arms, not to possess unlimited types and numbers. Interpretations of the amendment have been endlessly debated.
There is no Supreme Court interpretation allowing unrestricted arms. The 2008 Heller case, involving handguns, is an example. The court clarified that like most rights, the Second Amendment has limits. It also stated: “The right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” Antonin Scalia, no liberal, wrote the majority opinion. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative, once called the gun lobby’s Second Amendment interpretation “a fraud on the American public.”
There may be too much dangerous weaponry available. Assume there is a paranoid person convinced that the government is after him. He accumulates weaponry from individuals, gun shows, etc. Imagine 20 fully-armed people like him in a movie theater, or a bar. What could go wrong?
Gun rights advocates say that most gun owners are responsible. Imagine that you have a responsible neighborhood rattlesnake owner with one securely caged. What if he has 20? A hundred? Would you visit there? Remember, he is responsible.
The gun issue needs rational examination. Nothing will completely stop mass shootings, but reducing the numbers should be a goal. Those against new regulations argue that offenders will not follow them. Given that, why have laws at all?
Paul McCreary was raised on a farm in Illinois and spent 29 years in education in Michigan. Upon retirement, he moved to Indiana, Colorado and now the deserts of Arizona, trying to stay relevant and creative.
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Dear Steve, I’ve actually been writing this letter for several months now. My plan was to soften you up by letting you know how I have been following you, rooting for you, reveling in your successes at every level, and how for some strange reason I have felt this kinship and affinity for you.
Without even knowing who you were, I saw you go down with your knee injury in the World Games in 1985. In 1987/88 I was part of Roger Sedlmayr’s “Steeeeve Keeerrrr” chants in McKale after every three-point make.
I watched on TV when you torched ASU for seven threes in the first half of a game in Tempe on the night ASU fans were unspeakably cruel to you regarding the assassination of your father. And I was listening on the radio when Michael Jordan passed you the rock and you made that game-winning shot against Utah.
And then, when it seemed like your career was done, I remember silently pleading with San Antonio coach Greg Popovich to put you into a playoff game against Dallas that seemed all but lost, because I knew you could still shoot. Then, unbelievably he did, and all you did was respond by making four threes in the blink of an eye. I even saw your half-court make during halftime at the All-Star Game in Chicago a few years back. So yeah, we have some history.
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And now as you’re you’re in another playoff run coaching Golden State, I find I can no longer put this off. So let me cut to the chase. It is time for you to come home. To Arizona, where your voice, so compelling and clear and so very much needed, can make a real difference, both on the national stage and here at home.
In two years, Kyrsten Sinema will be up for re-election, and I cannot think of a better candidate to trounce her in a primary and then win in a landslide in November. Yes, you are still that popular here, but it is so much more than that.
“When are we going to do something?” you yelled and slammed your hand on the table. “I’m so tired of getting up here and offering condolences to the devastated families that are out there.”
You then called out the 50 senators who have refused to act on background checks for gun owners. “Are you going to put your own desire for power ahead of the lives of our children and our elderly and our churchgoers?”
Indeed.
What you said on Tuesday, to a basketball audience, is what needs to be said to a national audience. Granted, calling out those 50 senators for their collective and pre-meditated inaction on gun control — 52, if you count Sinema and Manchin (and based on their records why wouldn’t you?) — will certainly generate a few headlines. But what then? Another basketball game, playoff win, championship? Tonight, you made it clear how much (or how little) this all means in the grand scheme of things.
I know you understand how much BS there is in politics. Understanding that is what got Trump elected, so strong is the hunger for something, anything that appears to cut through the BS. Of course, with the former president it was all style and little substance. Fortunately, as anyone who has ever heard you can attest, this is not an issue for you.
As for Sinema, the excitement around her candidacy and then victory 2018 was palpable. While it may not have been reasonable to expect her to be an ultra-left progressive, I don’t think anyone who voted for her expected we’d get someone who’s been invited to caucus with the Republicans. Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the party’s leadership has said he’s tried “multiple times” to get her to join the GOP caucus. True, she turned him down, but still…
And so now as the clock is winding down, I’m passing you the rock. As a point guard and a shooting guard, and with eight championship rings, I like to think you’ll know exactly what to do with it.
Best wishes,
Your pal,
Jim Lipson
Jim Lipson is a freelance writer and itinerant yoga instructor. In 2016, he retired after 26 years with Pima County/Pima College Adult Education.
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PORTAGE — Police have released two surveillance videos hoping the public can help identify suspects in a recent theft.
The suspects are seen in the videos taking a lawnmower.
Police said the theft occurred Monday in the 800 block of Camelot Manor.
Anyone who recognizes either suspect is encouraged to contact Portage Police Lt. Dennis Meyers at 219-764-4709.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Porter County Jail
Aaron Smith
Arrest date: May 19, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202019
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Adam Langwinski
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 40
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202034
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Adrian Albisu
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 41
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202042
Charges: Intimidation, felony
Alisha Bailey
Arrest date: May 18, 2022
Age: 40
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202003
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Alstun Wiley
Arrest date: May 18, 2022
Age: 22
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202007
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Amanda Reeder
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 45
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number: 2201986
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Angilina Ortiz
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 39
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202041
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Bruce Cleveland
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202039
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Christopher Delgado
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 37
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2201983
Charges: Battery, felony
Cody Mathas
Arrest date: May 18, 2022
Age: 30
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202013
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Deandre Cannon
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 40
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number: 2201985
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Destiny Ronco-Hutchison
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 26
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202001
Charges: Neglect of a dependant, felony
Devin Shain
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 31
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2202047
Charges: Possession of cocaine, felony
Donald O'Connor
Arrest date: May 19, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202018
Charges: OWI, felony
Donald Samuelson
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 37
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2201995
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Donna Kavanagh
Arrest date: May 18, 2022
Age: 69
Residence: Michigan City, IN
Booking Number: 2202016
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Elyjiah Pearson
Arrest date: May 18, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2202005
Charges: Resisting law enforcement, felony
Eric Jones
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2201991
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Jaclyn Machusek
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 42
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202038
Charges: Possession of methamphetamine, felony
Jannica Seraypheap
Arrest date: May 19, 2022
Age: 21
Residence: Bloomington, IN
Booking Number: 2202017
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jefferey Sisk
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 63
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2202056
Charges: Battery, misdemeanor
Jennifer Costello
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 52
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2201999
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Jeremiah Parker
Arrest date: May 18, 2022
Age: 44
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202015
Charges: Auto theft, felony
Jordan Davis-Jakich
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 31
Residence: Fair Oaks, IN
Booking Number: 2202032
Charges: Possession of a controlled substance, felony
Julio Torres
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number: 2202045
Charges: Strangulation, felony
Justin Kinder
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 38
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2201984
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Karrie Burcaw
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 52
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2201974
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Keena Gray
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 39
Residence: Aurora, IL
Booking Number: 2202037
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Kenneth Ratliff
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 34
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2201973
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Kimberly Gregor
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 46
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202002
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Lauryn Lewis
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 31
Residence: Waukegan, IL
Booking Number: 2201972
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Lois Smith
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 38
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2201990
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Lorenzo Brandon
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 34
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number: 2202051
Charges: Residential entry, felony
Michael Abeyta
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 41
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2201969
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Michael Daoust
Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 47
Residence: Joliet, IL
Booking Number: 2201996
Charges: Maintaining common nuisance, felony
Michael Jones Jr.
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 29
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number: 2201982
Charges: Possession hypodermic syringe or needle, felony
Misti Franco
Arrest date: May 19, 2022
Age: 38
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2202028
Charges: Theft w/prior, felony
Monique Martakis
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 42
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2201978
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
Natasha Huff
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number: 2202048
Charges: OWI, felony
Roberto Camacho Romera
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 39
Residence: DeKalb, IL
Booking Number: 2202031
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Roy Whitelow
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 63
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number: 2202057
Charges: OWI, felony
Ryan Lewis
Arrest date: May 20, 2022
Age: 35
Residence: Kouts, IN
Booking Number: 2202058
Charges: OWI, misdemeanor
Shaneka Bridges
Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 27
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number: 2201971
Charges: OWI, felony
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Offense date : Thu Mar 29 2018 05:22:22 GMT-0500
Age : 25
Residence : GARY, IN
Booking Number : 1801737
Charges : FEL MV/OWI PRIOR/PASS LE
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Arrest date: May 17, 2022
Age: 27
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number: 2201998
Charges: Domestic battery, felony
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Arrest date: May 16, 2022
Age: 43
Residence: Chesterton, IN
Booking Number: 2201981
Charges: Domestic battery, misdemeanor
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Street racers might think twice before zig-zagging down O Street this Memorial Day weekend as law enforcement plans to crack down on reckless drivers.
Based on infamous instances of dangerous driving and hazardous road conditions in the past, the Nebraska State Patrol and Lincoln Police Department will strengthen their forces Friday through Sunday.
The high-visibility traffic enforcement aims to prevent accidents during a notoriously hectic weekend. The enforcement will cover several streets, with an emphasis on O Street between 17th and 84th streets.
LPD Sgt. Mike Muff said the task force hopes to keep Lincoln roadways safe despite a higher-than-usual volume of traffic.
“Usually, on Memorial Day Weekend, there are a lot of cars on the roadway,” Muff said.
In the past, an unofficial parade of classic cars cruised the street, drawing thousands of mostly well-intentioned people to gather and watch from parking lots along O Street. But there have been reports of a few crowd members running into the streets and throwing bottles.
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Some motorists also attempt dangerous maneuvers — like burnouts and excessive speeding — to excite the audience.
Many of these O Street racers have altered mufflers, an offense that has caused residents to issue noise complaints.
The Nebraska Department of Transportation will fund the weekend traffic project by covering the officers’ overtime hours.
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Late one Thursday night at his San Francisco animation studio, “Bob’s Burgers” creator Loren Bouchard fiddled with the strings on his ukulele, trying to find the right melody. But there was something he couldn’t ignore.
It was the distant sound reverberating from the nightclub below him on 16th and Harrison. On that evening in 2008, a weekly drum-and-bass night was in full swing at the now-shuttered El Rincon.
“It was thumping up through the floor,” Bouchard told SFGATE. “Not a good environment to be recording in, but here’s the funny thing: I was on to something with those chords.”
After a few minutes of listening to the DJ and experimenting with the key and tempo on his own instrument, Bouchard came up with the song that would become the iconic theme for the show’s opening sequence, setting the tone for the high jinks of the loving but lawless Belcher family that would play out in each episode.
“And that’s the recording that’s on TV today,” Bouchard said.
Just over a decade later, “Bob’s Burgers” has become one of the most well-known animated family comedies on television, joining the ranks of “The Simpsons,” “King of the Hill,” “The Flintstones” and “Family Guy.” Now approaching its 13th season, the series won two Emmy awards in 2014 and 2017, released a soundtrack of 90 popular songs on Sub Pop Records and will have its own feature film released on Friday.
“The Bob’s Burgers Movie” takes the typical beats of a 20-minute-long episode and kicks them up a notch in a musical comedy-meets-murder mystery that asks what would happen if Bob (H. Jon Benjamin) and Linda (John Roberts) Belcher were faced with the closure of their restaurant – a fate all too familiar to the industry, especially during the pandemic. But if Gene (Eugene Mirman), Louise (Kristen Schaal) and Tina (Dan Mintz) have anything to say about it, they could save the family burger joint just in time for the summer.
While the animated series has garnered a cult-like fandom that spans the globe, Bouchard said “Bob’s Burgers” has “deep San Francisco roots” – namely in the Mission District, where Bouchard used to live and work, and a neighborhood he never planned on leaving.
“I was going to be buried there. That was my idea,” he said.
Drawing funny
During the mid-aughts, Bouchard lived with his wife and baby on the upper floor of a two-story apartment building just down the street from Atlas Cafe. At the time, he had just wrapped the ‘90s-era Comedy Central sitcom, “Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist,” and was working on “Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil,” a dark animated comedy that ran for a single season on Adult Swim.
While developing a new show with writer Nora Smith that would eventually become “Bob’s Burgers,” a friend encouraged Bouchard to get in touch with then-barista and local artist Jay Howell, who sold some of his comics from behind the counter at the neighborhood staple.
“A lot of people draw well, but very few people draw funny, and it’s remarkable how funny Jay’s drawings are,” Bouchard said. “So I paid for my coffee and asked to see his work, and bam, he had a zine right there. I knew I wanted him to design the characters on ‘Bob’s.’”
Howell, who grew up in Pleasanton and moved to San Francisco in 2004, described the city then as a “creative explosion” and a “huge incubator” for local artists. The gig at Atlas Cafe was his first job in the city, but he spent most of his time making zines and skateboard art, taking inspiration from Barry McGee, a graffiti artist and prominent figure in the Mission School art movement, the distorted feedback of now-legendary garage rockers Thee Oh Sees, and punk shows at the Eagle and Bottom of the Hill.
“Meeting Loren really changed my life,” Howell said via phone from his home in Los Angeles. He ultimately left San Francisco to become a showrunner for the Nickelodeon series “Sanjay and Craig,” and now counts Vans, Gucci and Creature Skateboards among his clientele. “I was super excited to meet a working cartoonist, and he was really kind to me and open to checking out my stuff.”
When Bouchard shared the initial premise for the show with Howell, it was far more grim. At first, the plot revolved around a family of cannibals that lived next door to a funeral home and served human meat to the customers. Fox’s studio executives vetoed the cannibalism concept almost instantly, but as Howell continued to develop the characters, the show snowballed from there. (The first design for “Bob’s Burgers” was much more disturbing, but the approved pilot still has much of the same script and preserved the original title: “Human Flesh.”)
Howell said Bouchard would send him long, detailed emails with descriptions of each character, which were based on YouTube clips of the voice actors – all stand-up comedians from the East Coast who had already been cast. John Roberts, for instance, was known for making parody videos of his own mother, which helped inform Linda’s character. His red wig and sunglasses also inspired her look.
A number of comics and movies provided inspiration for the rest of the characters. Tina, who was originally a 13-year-old boy named Daniel, is loosely based on Enid Coleslaw from Daniel Clowes’ graphic novel “Ghost World.” Louise’s pink bunny ears were included because he liked the aesthetic of Bunny Boy’s character in the 1997 Harmony Korine film, “Gummo.” Howell also wanted to create a distinctive silhouette for her that audiences could identify instantly.
“I wanted every character to stand out like 'The Simpsons' did,” he said. “It made her weird and cool and whimsical.”
Bob’s character, however, was somewhat of a reflection of himself, Howell said.
“The best tool you can have as a cartoonist is a mirror,” he said. “I have a beer gut. I have a big nose. I have a bald spot on my head. Bob isn’t quite me, but he’s based on my goofy shape, maybe. And I love a guy with a hairy chest.”
During that time, Howell’s routine was textbook Mission District.
“I’d return from Loren’s, draw, go to the corner store by Thieves Tavern, draw, buy a couple of tallboys of Budweiser, head to El Farolito, buy some more tallboys, draw, then go to the Attic or the Knockout,” he said. “I was definitely nervous, but excited. I knew I had to really shoot my shot on this show.”
Burger of the day
Meanwhile, Bouchard tapped muralist Sirron Norris to create the background art for “Bob’s Burgers,” bringing the Mission District’s candy-colored Victorian architecture to life.
“I knew his work from walking around the Mission. His murals were everywhere, and he knew how to capture what made those buildings unique.” Bouchard said. “He’s really part of the DNA of the show in a lot of ways.”
On a recent Tuesday morning at his art studio near 24th and Bryant streets, Norris idly itches at a new tattoo of the “Bob’s Burgers” restaurant inked into his forearm. On the other arm is the face of one of his signature blue bears.
“It’s been over 10 years, so I feel like it’s part of the zeitgeist now,” he said, while revisiting some of his preliminary designs from the show. “I’ve been opening up files and sketches I haven’t looked at in more than a decade. We wanted to create something that lasted, and it’s pretty incredible to see what the show has become.”
One of Norris’ first murals in San Francisco was at Norm’s Market on 20th and Bryant, just a couple of blocks away from Bouchard’s house and Atlas Cafe. When Bouchard approached him to work on the show, Norris spent hours walking around the Mission District to pin down every visual detail, from the electric lines criss-crossing overhead to the colorful storefronts and steep staircases. Then, he’d return to his studio to draw, in addition to assisting with a slew of other art-related tasks to get the show’s demo (about half of a pilot episode) off the ground.
“It was a lot of work. I’d say 12 to 15 hours a day, for a good six months at least,” Norris said, noting they started working on the show in fall 2008, and finished production in summer 2009.
During that time, Bouchard was taking pictures in restaurants all over the city for inspiration. But nothing quite clicked until he stepped inside Just for You Cafe in Dogpatch.
“I looked in the window and saw something big,” he said. “Like, bolt of lightning big.”
It was the pass-through between the kitchen and the front counter where customers place their orders, which he likened to “a children’s puppet theater.”
“You can basically see it as its own little stage,” he continued. Bouchard asked Norris to draw an interior modeled after Just For You so they could stage scenes in which Bob could banter with his family while at the grill.
At the 34-year-old brunch spot just two miles east of Norris’ studio, the cushy diner stools are absent from the wooden countertop. A marlin – or “an outside protein,” as Kuchi Kopi would call it – adorns the back wall. But the shelves of beer, wine and condiments, as well as the pass-through, still bear a striking resemblance to the restaurant in “Bob’s Burgers” today.
The current owner of Just for You, Reid Hannula, said he had no idea his restaurant had been immortalized in the animated series.
“It was a total surprise, but we’re absolutely over the moon about it,” he said.
Hannula added that he was a fan of the show and felt a connection to its portrayal of a mom-and-pop business, seeing characteristics of his own five children in Tina, Gene and Louise.
“My son was helping me out with dishes when he could barely reach the sink, and they were always running around the restaurant,” he said. “There’s a comfort in those similarities.”
Now, he plans to frame a photo of the Belcher family's restaurant to display on the wall and add his own “Burger of the Day” to the menu.
“We just have to figure out what to call it,” he said with a laugh.
Order up
Notably, “Bob’s Burgers” is not set on the West Coast, primarily because of the voice actors, according to Bouchard. That said, a number of other places in the Bay Area, like the Santa Cruz Boardwalk and the Winchester Mystery House, may have influenced the look of the Wonder Wharf amusement park and Mr. Fischoeder’s mansion, respectively.
But Bouchard said it was his own home in the Mission that left the largest imprint on the show.
“It is square foot by square foot identical to the Belcher’s apartment. Not the color, but the layout and the way the building looks from the outside,” he said. “And then downstairs, we just plopped the restaurant right in there and made it fit. That really helped me to be able to be an expert on that building.”
There was never a question as to whether H. Jon Benjamin, a longtime collaborator of Bouchard’s, would play the role of the Belcher family patriarch. It’s an unmistakable voice that has remained consistent throughout his motley career of scene-stealing characters, from the son of “Dr. Katz” to Coach McGuirk in “Home Movies” and the eponymous “Archer.” But the actor said his character in “Bob’s Burgers” is the one he’s most recognized for by far.
“It’s a show that crosses generations in its audience,” he said. “You have kids who are at a very young age and their parents watching it together. I meet kids who have grown up with Bob. I meet kids who are college age or in their mid-20s who started watching 'Bob’s' with their parents when they were 10.”
It’s an unexpected development, despite the fact that both Bouchard and Benjamin said they approached the series in the same way they have for previous shows they’ve teamed up on.
“It’s a sort of weird and bizarre and wonderful kind of accident that ‘Bob’s’ happens to be consumed by this large audience,” Bouchard said. “But in a lot of ways, I think Jon and I both kind of squint at that, and then just get back to the work. And we do the same work that we were doing when only a few people ever saw the show.”
And even though Bouchard ultimately made the decision to set “Bob’s Burgers” on the East Coast, Benjamin joked that he still makes sure to acknowledge its Bay Area beginnings.
“I’ll add that I’m doing a San Francisco accent. That’s what I committed to doing early on in the show,” he said in his trademark gruff monotone. “I don’t know if people in San Francisco picked that up, but that was my tip of the cap to that area. You can hear it. I’m doing it now.”
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A 1-year-old girl died and her mother was hurt after both were hit by a Jeep as they crossed a Staten Island intersection early Thursday, authorities say.
The Jeep Cherokee driver was turning at the intersection of Abbott Street and Scarboro Avenue in Shore Acres as the mother and baby were in the crosswalk around 7 a.m. and hit them, police said. The driver, a 40-year-old woman, stayed at the scene.
Emergency crews responding to the call found the baby and her 31-year-old mother in the intersection with trauma to their bodies. The baby died a short time later. Her mother is said to be in stable condition. Details on her injuries weren't known.
Chopper 4 showed a heavy law enforcement presence at the scene through the morning. The victims' identities have not been released.
No arrests have been made at this time, police say.
The investigation is ongoing.
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ELK GROVE, Calif. — Facing overwhelming demand for affordable housing, the Elk Grove City Council recently approved the biggest affordable housing project in city history.
But its far from being the silver bullet that'll solve the housing crisis.
At 387 units, city officials say the Poppy Grove apartments puts a "meaningful dent" in their housing needs. Sarah Bontrager, housing and public services manager for Elk Grove, said the city needs more than 4,000 affordable units by 2028, a standard set by the state. While the project is far from being the sole answer, it's a welcome sight.
"This is a meaningful dent in that, and it will provide housing for hundreds of households that are probably overpaying for rent right now or who are currently homeless,” Bontrager said.
While rents won't be set until the complex is constructed, estimates would be in the range of roughly $700 up to $1,800 for a two-bedroom apartment if based on current affordability.
“The rents are set at different income levels so that someone who's extremely-low income would pay at the lower end of that range, and someone who's closer to the median income, who might be earning 80% of the median income, would pay at the higher end of that range,” Bontrager said.
The complex comes with a pool, playgrounds, a bocce ball court, outdoor spaces, community rooms, bike racks and parking, as well. Speaking with 30 years of real estate experience, April Cooke says the projects looks like it'll be a welcome addition to the area.
"It is going to be a pretty nice complex," Cooke said. "And it's going to integrate the trails into the Elk Grove trail system, which is going to be nice, and it's going to have some outdoor facilities, some yards for kids... and swimming pools (and) some inside facilities."
She added that the selection of apartments also translates to good news for a housing-hungry demographic in the area.
“That's going to be great for families, one of the biggest groups of people renting apartments are between the ages of 18 and 34, so it's a huge demographic and finding affordable housing is critical,” Cooke said.
According to Bontrager, recent affordable apartment projects generated a lot of attention and applicants. Two years ago, a roughly 90-unit apartment complex had 1,400 applicants. However, the most recent project in 2021, a similar size effort, had 28,000 unique applicants.
"This one really, really did show how much more challenging this situation had gotten, even in just a couple of years,” Bontrager said.
There's a number of factors that went into that applicant number, including some intense marketing from Elk Grove to find applicants, but there's other factors at play, some even extending back to 2009.
Generally, Bontrager said there wasn't a lot of new homes being built between 2009 to 2014 during the recession and some families had also doubled up in homes.
"Coming out of it, we saw households split - meaning new households formed, putting more pressure on the market, but it was a market that hadn’t built many new homes during the recession," Bontrager said.
In addition, people who stayed at home during the pandemic stopped the usual turnover the city would usually see. Whereas a normal affordable housing vacancy rate is 5%, Elk Grove is seeing about 1%, according to Bontrager. It's similar in market rate housing, as well.
Cooke said she's seen home values go up 14% to 20% every year for the last two or three years.
“We look at a little house on a street that, a few years ago was selling for a couple hundred thousand, is now selling for $400,000 or more. It boggles the mind when you see the prices on some of the housing,” Cooke said.
She said what the city is currently seeing the top of the market, and it's not clear just how long it'll stay there or how long it'll keep climbing. There's also not much good news for apartments when it comes to affordability.
“Apartments can cost more and be more difficult to rent than to buy a house. It's funny to say that, but it's true. It could cost more to rent an apartment than to buy a house,” Cooke said.
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It begs the question as to why these prices have gone up so high. Rent from just five years ago aren't the same range of rent Elk Grove is seeing now. Bongtrager said the market rate apartments are around $2,400 to 2,800 a month, and the reason is an all too familiar one, supply and demand.
The city doesn't have the supply to keep up with demand, as evidenced by the 28,000 applicants for the most recent affordable housing project. Rentals of single-family homes are also being sold, meaning tenants exit into a market with very low vacancy rates, lots of demand and high costs.
For now, the Poppy Grove is a welcome addition to a city, like many others, facing an affordable housing crisis. Elk Grove has more than 1,000 affordable housing unit projects in their pipeline, but its not clear how many of those will cross the finish line.
However, even though the Poppy Grove apartments are still a ways from being constructed, Cooke can already predict the result.
“It's going to take a while to get built at this point, but the applicants that will be applying will far, far exceed what's available. It'll get rented out fairly quick,” Cooke said.
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SAN DIEGO — One day after 19 children and two adults were killed by a gunman in a fourth grade classroom in Texas, five Los Angeles City Councilmen Wednesday called for the state to pass legislation that would allow private citizens to sue those who sell or manufacture guns.
Senate Bill 1327, which is sponsored by Gov. Gavin Newsom, was introduced by Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, and Sen. Anthony Portantino, D- La Cañada Flintridge. It passed the Senate on Tuesday and now heads to the Assembly.
The bill would allow citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who manufactures, distributes, transports, keeps for sale, offers for sale, gives or lends assault weapons, .50 BMG Rifles, firearm precursor parts or unserialized firearms.
It was introduced after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed similar legislation that enables private citizens to seek civil action against people who have abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
The resolution in support of the legislation was introduced Wednesday by Councilmen Bob Blumenfield, Paul Krekorian, Mitch O'Farrell, Paul Koretz and Marqueece Harris-Dawson.
"Restricting assault weapons reduce deaths," the resolution states. "Estimates find mass-shooting fatalities were 70% less likely during the period when the federal ban was in effect." The federal assault weapons ban was passed in 1994 and expired in 2004.
Council President Nury Martinez seconded the resolution. During Wednesday's council meeting, she said, "I thought about having a moment of silence, I thought about sending thoughts and prayers, but honestly, colleagues, these families don't need any more thoughts and prayers. Their babies are not coming home. They want their babies back."
"I hope this is a call to action to finally have the political courage to do the right thing in this country and get the Senate to act," she added.
The resolution states that the state legislation is supported by the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Students Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.
ACLU California Action opposes the legislation for being modeled after the Texas law's "end-run around the system" which it says is designed to "prevent court protection of a constitutional right."
"We believe it is a serious misstep to further entrench that flawed logic. In doing so, California will be promoting a legal end-run that can be used by any state to deny people an effective means to have their constitutional rights protected by the courts," ACLU of Northern California's legal director Shilpi Agarwal said.
Speaking in April in support of the legislation, Newsom said: "Today, the Legislature took an important step towards holding the gun industry accountable for mass shootings in our communities involving illegal firearms and protecting residents, utilizing the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that allowed private citizens in Texas the ability to sue abortion providers. So long as the Supreme Court has set this precedent, California will use it to save lives."
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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.
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TUPELO • Despite what she described as a complicated first year in office, Ward 7 Tupelo councilwoman Rosie Jones said she is determined to see positive changes in her ward.
“I’m here to speak up for the people, the underserved and the people who don’t know what’s happening on the other side of the tracks,” the first-time elected official said.
As she approaches the final days of her first year in office, Jones said her priorities include resolving board appointments, nurturing community involvement and building trust between the council and city.
Major Thoroughfare appointment tension continues
Board representation is a priority for Jones, and she said she believes ensuring that each committee and board facilitated by the city has diverse representation is extremely important.
This comes amid tension between Jones and Mayor Todd Jordan, who will ultimately decide the person to represent Jones’ ward on the city’s Major Thoroughfare Committee. The 18-member committee comprises two members from each ward and four at-large positions, all of whom are, according to city ordinances, chosen by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council.
In the past, however, the mayor has taken recommendations from council members on who they felt would best represent their wards. In most cases, his nominations and the council members' recommendations have aligned.
But when Jones tapped former Tupelo police officer Tiffany Gilleylen, who has twice sued the city for alleged civil rights violations, Jordan bucked the recommendation for his own pick, Tommy Scott.
Scott pulled his name from consideration in April, leading to an impasse between the mayor and councilwoman over the appointment.
On Tuesday, Jones said she was still determined to see Gilleylen on the committee.
“(Jordan) hasn’t responded yet,” Jones said. “I don’t know if he feels he won’t put someone on the board, but that isn’t going to work.”
But Jordan is also resolute and, in a move that breaks tradition, said he would not nominate Gilleylen, noting she had “been vocally against the administration” on social media.
Jordan said he was working through a few resumes for candidates without Jones’ help.
“I should have it done in a month,” Jordan said, noting he plans to fill vacancies in Wards 1, 4 and 7 during the same meeting.
Local garden in works at Haven Acres
One goal Jones has been working toward since the spring is the creation of a community garden.
The councilwoman recently partnered with multiple volunteers and received permission from local business owner Linda Williams to use an open lot in Haven Acres to build the garden.
“I am just going to start. We are going to build sub garden areas,” Jones said. “I came to (Williams) because I wanted to build a community garden so we can feed the elderly and kids. Everybody is going to chip in.”
Jones said she plans to buy bricks and soil to build the garden beds with the help of another volunteer, Maurice Shumpert.
“I am excited,” Jones said. “Anyone can help, and anyone can come get whatever they want once it is grown.”
The project is part of a broader plan to provide children with a greater breadth of recreational opportunities. Jones also said she hoped to see the undeveloped land next to Theron Nichols Park, located on Mitchell Road, put to use. According to tax records, the city owns the wooded area east of the park and is considered part of the park’s lot.
Jordan said the administration would have to look at the needs for the park, adding he knew the park had a track, baseball field, basketball court, splash pad and other equipment. He said he was not opposed to its expansion.
Parks and Recreations Director Alex Farned said he plans to meet with the council, Jones and the administration about their goals in the coming fiscal year and would look into the needs of Theron Nichols Park and what the undeveloped portion of land could become.
Increased support for the Boys and Girls Club of North Mississippi was also on Jones’ mind. She said she would like to see if the city could increase its financial support to the organization.
“I have a love for children because they are the future,” Jones said, noting the Haven Acres Boys and Girls Club was a valuable tool in the development of children in her ward. “The kids don’t have anything to do.”
She said he hoped they could make membership for the organization free rather than the regular annual $40 fee, but Chief Operations Officers Don Lewis said it wouldn’t be the city’s call.
“We provide them with the facilities at Haven Acres and on Main Street,” Lewis said. “We do not do any grant funding, but the Boys and Girls Club has come to us in the past if they needed something. As far as day-to-day operations, we are not in that, and I don’t know that we can be.”
Another option for giving young residents of her ward more to do would be to open the gym inside the area’s storm shelter more frequently. The city uses the shelter during the city’s basketball season as a location for matches. Lewis said it was possible to open it indefinitely, but it would come down to funding and staffing.
“We would have to look at funding and ways to make that happen,” he said. “They weren’t designed to be open day to day. And if they were, we would need to staff them.”
Jones eyes Mitchell Road upgrades, administration concurs
Like her fellow council members, Jones pointed to infrastructure needs as a priority. She honed in on the widening of Mitchell Road as an issue worth addressing.
“That is something that really, really needs to be totally redone,” she said. “I have lots of concerns with the safety of the road. I just think they need to invest in all parts of the city.”
Calling Mitchell Road one of the most traveled in her road in terms of foot traffic, Jones said she’d like to widen the roadway to include a bike lane or sidewalk.
The widening of Mitchell Road is currently on the city’s capital improvement plan, but there is no time frame for when the work might begin.
“That is what I call a named capital improvement, so it won’t be lump summed into capital improvement,” Lewis said. “It would need to be something the council decided to spend money on itself.”
Lewis noted budget season was upon the city. He said as discussion opened up for what the city planned during the next fiscal year, officials could hash out the details on Mitchell Road.
Jordan said he agreed that Mitchell Road needed immediate attention, including widening and a possible walking path or sidewalk near Lawndale Elementary.
“Things are moving forward,” he said when asked about projects in Ward 7.
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – Charleston Police are releasing new details on a Wednesday night shooting investigation.
According to CPD around 10:45 on Wednesday night officers arrived outside of 1300 Renaissance Circle apartment complex for a report of a shooting. When police got there, they found the victim, 37 year-old Dennis Butler of Charleston, with multiple gunshot wounds. Butler later died.
Police say they discovered that earlier in that night Butler was approached about speeding in the apartment complex while children were playing. Police say Butler then left the complex and returned a short time later when he parked his vehicle in front of the apartment, pulled out a AR15 style rifle and started firing at people attending a party. Police say a bystander attending the party quickly pulled out their pistol and fired at Butler, fatally injuring him.
Charleston police say several witnesses and the person who fired the gun waited on police to get there and fully cooperated with the investigation. At this time no one has been charged in the shooting. The investigation now goes to the Kanawha County Prosecutors office for review.
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NITRO, WV (WOWK) – Almost 400 motorcycle riders are traveling across the country and made a stop in Nitro, West Virginia Wednesday. As the bikers rode into the city, they received a warm greeting as people lined the sidewalks waving flags and cheering as they passed by.
This group has been traveling across the United States, from Ontario, California to Washington D.C. as a part of the “Run for the Wall” annual event. The ride consists of veterans, friends, and family; many of which have loved ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice.
We spoke with those in the motorcycle lineup and they say their goal is to not only honor the memory of those killed in action, but also those who are currently deployed.
“Our motto is ‘We ride for those who can’t,’ and I have two family members who served in the Marines, so I consider it an honor to serve and run for the wall this year,” says the President of Run for the Wall Texas House of NAM Chapter, “Xray.”
According to Nitro Mayor Dave Casebolt, the city strives to be patriotic, and being a part of this event just adds to that goal.
They teach you a lesson in honor, about honoring those who have fallen for our country and protected our freedoms. A powerful lesson about loyalty, for those who are missing in Nitro. That we should never give up on them from past wars and future wars.
Dave Casebolt, Nitro Mayor
The WV State Council of Vietnam Veterans of America also set up a display showcasing the Vietnam Mobile Memorial Wall that lists those who were killed in action, held as prisoners of war, and/or listed as missing in action.
The overall goal is to promote healing among veterans, their families, and friends, while also calling for all those who didn’t come home to be accounted for.
The group also planned a stop in Charleston Thursday around 9 a.m. Then, they will continue their journey to Washington D.C.
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HUDSON OAKS, Texas — An adult was arrested after allegedly making a threat against a Parker County elementary school on Wednesday, school officials said.
Officials at Mary Martin Elementary School in Hudson Oaks sent a note to parents saying the situation had been resolved.
Earlier Wednesday, police received "information of an alleged threat made by an adult against our campus," the school note said to parents.
Police "immediately launched an investigation that ultimately resulted in an arrest" Wednesday afternoon.
Weatherford police commander Stewart Chalmers told WFAA that the threat didn't happen on school property, though Hudson Oaks police were handling the investigation.
More information about the alleged incident was not released. Officials also have not release the suspect's name or the charges they are facing.
Mary Martin is located in Hudson Oaks but is part of the Weatherford Independent School District.
School officials told parents that extra police presence will be at the school this week, along with other Weatherford ISD schools. The added presence was out of precaution following the shooting in Uvalde, where 19 students and two school staffers were killed Tuesday.
Other North Texas schools have heightened their police presence this week, in the wake of the Uvalde shooting.
RELATED: These are the actions DFW school districts, police are taking in response to Uvalde school shooting
There have also been several instances of security incidents at schools.
Students at Rains High School, Richardson Berkner High School and Fort Worth Meacham Middle School have been taken into custody after officials found weapons in their possession, police have said.
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DALLAS — Dallas’ sexually-oriented businesses are fighting the city over a new ordinance limiting their hours of operation, and so far, the court has sided with them—granting a preliminary injunction to keep the ordinance from taking effect.
The court also denied the City’s motion to dismiss the suit filed against them, a court document published Tuesday states.
City Council members had unanimously passed an ordinance in January which would require sexually-oriented businesses—such as cabarets and adult bookstores—be closed from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. That same day, four adult cabarets, one adult bookstore and a nonprofit trade association whose members include sexually-oriented businesses filed a complaint against the city, arguing the ordinance violates their First Amendment right to freedom of expression.
Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas wrote in a court document that speech targeted by the ordinance—nude dancing and material sold by adult bookstores—was protected, and deemed the ordinance’s restriction on said expression to be unconstitutional.
“The City states that it adopted the Ordinance to reduce crime and conserve police and fire rescue resources, by restricting SOBs from operating between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.,” the document reads. “However, even assuming that the stated aim constitutes a compelling government interest, no evidence was presented that the City considered less restrictive means of achieving its stated interest of lowering crime, such as, for example, requiring heightened security, escorts of customers to their vehicles, or better lighting, before it decided to prohibit the operation of SOBs between the hours of 2 a.m. and 6 a.m.”
The Court found the crime data presented by the City to cite the need for the ordinance as flawed, as the data would indicate that, from 2019 through 2021, non-operational sexually-oriented businesses accounted for more violent crime between 2 a.m. and 6 a.m. than sexually-oriented businesses operating as bookstores.
“The inclusion of crime unrelated to SOBs is likewise problematic in the second observed issue with the City’s crime data, namely that by including data from crimes occurring at locations within a 500-foot radius of SOBs, the data does not necessarily reflect crime resulting from activity at the SOBs,” the document states. “[DPD] Lieutenant [Stephen] Bishopp testified that, depending on the particular SOB, his data could include unrelated crime that happened to occur within 500 feet of the SOB’s location.”
Because the city’s data included crimes that could have occurred, say, 495 feet away from a closed cabaret, the data overstates the amount of criminal activity and need for police resources attributable to those kinds of businesses.
“The City’s data does not reasonably link the regulated activity—protected expression at SOBs—to the adverse secondary effects, namely increased reports of crime, arrests, and calls for service,” the document reads.
The Court’s decision concluded that the burden on the businesses’ First Amendment right to free speech and expression outweighed the City’s burden in dealing with increased crime and a drain on resources, if any, associated with sexually-oriented businesses.
“Moreover, if the injunction is entered, the City will be deprived solely of the opportunity to enforce a law that violates the First Amendment, which the Fifth Circuit has acknowledged is ‘no harm at all,’” the ruling concludes.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — A police officer at a middle school had to detain a student after they were found with a firearm on campus, according to Fort Worth police.
The department said an officer from their School Initiative Unit was on duty at W. A. Meacham Middle School on Wednesday. At around 4 p.m., he was notified about a student who possibly had a gun.
According to police, the officer did an investigation, detained a juvenile suspect and safely took away a firearm. In an email to parents, Meacham Middle School principal Carlos Mendoza said the campus was "on 'hold' status" while a search took place.
Police said there were no threats made and no one was hurt. Principal Mendoza also emphasized that there are continuing threats to students.
"Please know that the safety of your child is and will remain our number-one priority," he wrote in his letter.
The juvenile hasn't been identified, but the principal said they are a student.
The incident happened as North Texas schools have taken extra precautions in the wake of the shooting in Uvalde, where 21 people, including 19 children, were killed at an elementary school. Texas Department of Public Safety officials said the suspect barricaded himself in a classroom with all of the victims.
Out of caution, school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have increased police presence and security measures on their campuses. Many districts made it clear that there were no known threats before their announcement.
Also this week, a student was arrested by Richardson police after a pistol was found in their car near Berkner High School.
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DALLAS — A resident watching television in Old East Dallas got a surprise late Wednesday night when a truck barreled through their home and into their backyard.
The resident was not injured, and the truck driver is also expected to be OK, police said.
The crash happened on San Jacinto Street, in the Bryan Place neighborhood of Old East Dallas.
Police said the driver of a pickup truck had a medical incident and lost control of the vehicle, crashing into the front of a home.
The truck went through the house and into the backyard of the home.
Surveillance video from a neighbor showed the crash happen. The truck went through a stop sign at a three-way intersection and directly into the home, not appearing to slow down as the crash happened.
The man inside the home was watching TV but was not struck by the truck. The truck driver was taken to a hospital and was expected to be OK, police said.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — We’re counting down to a Memorial Day weekend full of fun for all ages at the Multnomah County Fair!
Food, farm animals, and live music are all back in full force now that pandemic restrictions have been lifted.
Kohr Harlan went to Oaks Amusement Park with a preview of what to expect.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Portland Rose Festival is a tradition dating back to 1907. Since then, Portland’s reputation for its renowned florals has led to it being called “The Rose City.”
After two years off during the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival is returning in 2022 for its 115th year.
Once again, the fair will take over Tom McCall Waterfront Park, fireworks will ignite the sky, and flower-covered floats will take to the street in this year’s events.
Opening night is Friday, May 27. The Starlight Parade takes place Saturday, June 4; Fleet Week begins Wednesday, June 8; the Queen’s Coronation is June Friday, June 10; and the Grand Floral Parade is Saturday, June 11.
Many of these well-known events date back 100 years, to 1922. They can be seen in these photos the Oregon Historical Society shared with KOIN 6 News.
In 1922, Harriet Griffith was named the Portland Rose Festival Queen and her coronation took place in Laurelhurst Park.
These photos show flower-covered floats traversing the streets and the Royal Rosarians marching in the Grand Floral Parade.
For more information on the 2022 Portland Rose Festival events, visit RoseFestival.org.
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Police are looking for a couple they say strolled into a Manhattan art gallery and tried to walk out with a $45,000 Jean-Michel Basquiat painting last weekend, authorities say.
The woman, who has long blonde hair and is thought to be about 20 to 30 years old, and the man, who is believed to be around the same age, went into a 10th Avenue gallery around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, when it was still broad daylight out, and allegedly tried to remove the painting.
It wasn't clear how they planned to get it out, but they didn't -- and they walked off. The two were last seen holding hands as they strolled north on 10th Avenue near West 28th Street, surveillance video shows.
The pair are said to speak with an unknown European accent, police say. Anyone with information on the duo seen in the above footage is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
Last month, cops said they were looking for a woman and four men in connection with a $45,000 portfolio heist involving another Manhattan art gallery. It wasn't immediately clear if cops believed the two cases could be connected.
The Brooklyn-born Basquiat rose to fame during the 1980s' Neo-expressionism movement. He died of a heroin overdose at age 27 and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. Some of Basquiat's pieces have sold for record prices since his death.
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A 34-year-old Williston woman was injured when the pickup truck she was driving collided with a train in Mountrail County.
The pickup failed to yield to the BNSF Railway train about 6 miles northwest of Ross around noon Wednesday, according to the Highway Patrol. The vehicle was struck on the passenger side and the driver was ejected.
She was taken to a Stanley hospital and later transferred to a Minot hospital. Her injuries weren't specified, and her name wasn't immediately released.
The train was empty, according to the Patrol. The engineer and conductor weren't injured.
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Tours of the North Dakota Capitol will be available seven days a week with weekend tours resuming this Saturday.
Tours will follow this schedule through Labor Day weekend:
- Monday through Saturday, on the hour from 9-11 a.m. and 1-3 p.m.
- Sunday, on the hour from 1-3 p.m.
Tours will be conducted on the Memorial Day and Fourth of July holidays.
“We look forward to welcoming an increased number of visitors to the state Capitol during the summer traveling season,” Office of Management and Budget Facility Management Director John Boyle said in a statement. “We enjoy being able to share the building’s rich history, unparalleled architecture and unique beauty.”
The 19-story Capitol with art deco interior was completed in 1934 after the previous brick building burned in 1930.
Tours take visitors mainly through the ground, first and 18th floors, including legislative chambers, Memorial Hall, the Supreme Court and the observation deck.
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Group tours can be requested online at omb.nd.gov/capitol-complex. Self-guided tours are not allowed on weekends.
Reach Jack Dura at 701-250-8225 or jack.dura@bismarcktribune.com.
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BESSEMER, Ala. (WIAT) — Two inmates at William E. Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer died within a few hours of each other Wednesday.
According to the Jefferson County Coroner’s Office, Allen Dewitt Bibbs was found unresponsive in his cell at 3:33 a.m. By 3:50 a.m., he was pronounced dead. Bibbs, 48, was serving a life sentence for a kidnapping charge out of Houston County from 2009.
At 6:33 a.m., Calenes Jones was found unresponsive in the prison infirmary, where he was being treated for an undisclosed “significant natural disease.” By 6:43 a.m., he was pronounced dead. Jones, 42, was serving a life sentence for a robbery and assault conviction out of Jefferson County from 2008.
The last death at Donaldson was Earnest Charles McReynolds, 69, who was found unresponsive in his cell May 10 and was pronounced dead later that day in the infirmary.
On Thursday, the Alabama Department of Corrections will perform autopsies on both Bibbs and Jones to determine the causes of their deaths. Both deaths are under investigation.
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Why a federal agency can’t stop this copper mining project from polluting Arizona streams
A federal agency can’t stop a copper mining project near Tucson from polluting streams because the company gave up its Clean Water Act permit, a U.S. District Court ruled on Monday.
Toronto-based Hudbay Minerals surrendered its Clean Water Act permit for its copper mining projects in the Santa Rita Mountains, reasoning that without a permit, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers would have no authority to regulate what the company does to streams on its private land.
The federal judge ruled that Hudbay can give up its permit, but it also means the company relinquishes its rights to discharge dredged material or other fill into bodies of water regulated by the United States.
For the time being, the ruling means that Hudbay can continue filling the streams with gravel and other pollutants for its Copper World project on the west side of the Santa Ritas, since the Army Corps doesn't have the power to stop the company.
Opponents called the company's decision to surrender its permit a novel approach, but one that sets a precedent that should cause regulators concern.
“We're disappointed in the ruling and we are evaluating the ruling carefully and considering all options,” said Stu Williams, executive director of Save the Scenic Santa Ritas, a non-profit that’s fought against mining in the Santa Rita Mountains.
Several tribes and Save the Scenic Santa Ritas filed a motion against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for allowing Hudbay, the copper mining project’s parent company, to give up its permit. Drone footage showed the company filling streams with what appeared to be gravel on the west side of the Santa Ritas for the Copper World project.
The tribes and non-profit argued that Hudbay could not simply surrender a permit and thus skirt the requirements to adhere to federal rules about discharging rocks, dirt, gravel and future mine waste into bodies of water regulated by the United States. If the company wants to move forward with polluting the streams, it should ask the Army Corps to formally revoke the permit, the lawyers argued.
Army Corps rules state that permits are in effect until they expire or are modified, suspended or revoked.
“The Corps does not have a process to surrender permits but does have a process by which permittees can request that the Corps consider revocation of a permit,” a spokesperson for the Corps wrote in an email to The Republic. “Individuals and companies must obtain and comply with Department of the Army permits before placing fill into waters of the United States.”
Before revoking a permit, the Army Corps will consider whether it’s in the public interest and evaluate a number of factors, according to the spokesperson for the Corps. Those include whether the project has been terminated and no longer requires a permit, if the circumstances of authorized activity have changed since the permit was issued and revisions to regulatory authorities, along with others.
Hudbay argued that without a permit, the Army Corps had no authority to regulate how it treats streams on its private property. The company maintains that the streams on its site on the west slope cannot be federally regulated at all.
Judges have previously sided with defendants in other cases where they gave up their federal permits regulating pollutant discharge.
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The tribes and the non-profit argued that in those previous cases, the plants also ended their projects and dismantled their stations, making it physically impossible to discharge pollutants.
But in the decision, U.S. District Judge James Soto wrote that previous rulings didn’t require the termination of the project to be able to give up a Clean Water Act permit.
Soto wrote that because Hudbay gave up its Clean Water Act permit, it meant that the company also relinquished its rights to pollute bodies of water regulated by the federal government.
“In sum, a claim is moot where it challenges a permit that has been surrendered or is otherwise no longer effective,” the opinion read. “While it is true that in the cases Rosemont cites loss of the permit occurred alongside cessation of the conduct it authorized, that is not the operative fact.”
According to drone images included in court filings, Hudbay started filling streams on its property with what appears to be gravel after giving up its Clean Water Act permit. The drone images, captured by a Center of Biological Diversity employee on four separate dates in April, show several dump trucks and bulldozers on the property, filling streams and creating a network of roads.
Hudbay notified Pima County in late March that it would start operations on its Copper World project. The company notified the Army Corps that it surrendered the Clean Water Act permit in a formal letter on April 28, according to company lawyers.
“In April 2022, the company commenced early site works at Copper World with initial grading and clearing activities continuing at site,” Hudbay wrote in an email to The Republic. “The company also continues exploration and technical work at site with seven drill rigs conducting infill drilling and supporting future feasibility studies.
Can the feds regulate the streams on the west side of the Santa Ritas?
There had been debate over whether the streams on Hudbay’s property were considered “waters of the United States,” a legal description that describes bodies of water the federal government can regulate.
The Army Corps previously determined that Hudbay didn’t need a Clean Water Act permit, since the Trump administration adopted a narrower definition of "waters of the United States" that did not include ephemeral streams, or streams that only flow after rain.
The law has since been thrown out by the courts, and the EPA criticized the Army Corps’ rationale for revoking the permit. The EPA classified some of the streams on Hudbay’s property as “intermittent,” meaning they flow seasonally, instead of ephemeral, according to a document obtained by the Arizona Daily Star.
The streams on Hudbay’s privately owned property on the west side of the Santa Ritas flow into the Santa Cruz River.
The Army Corps "has never determined that there are jurisdictional waters of the U.S. on the site and Hudbay has independently concluded through its own scientific analysis that there are no such waters in the area," Hudbay wrote in an email to The Republic.
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What’s next?
Soto wrote that the tribes and non-profit groups can still sue Hudbay for violating the Clean Water Act by polluting federally regulated bodies of water.
What they can’t do is bring a case against the Army Corps for allowing the company to pollute the streams, since the company no longer has a Clean Water Act permit, which is what gave the Army Corps the power to regulate Hudbay.
The ruling sets a precedent that shifts the burden of regulating pollution away from federal agencies, and instead could force third parties like conservation groups, tribes and concerned citizens to sue companies individually if they violate the Clean Water Act.
Stu Gillespie, an attorney for the Tohono O’odham Nation, Pascua Yaqui Tribe and the Hopi Tribe, said the Army Corps “is asleep at the wheel.”
Hudbay is “sidelining the agency, the agency’s letting it happen, the court's decision allowed that to occur,” he said. “It allows the company to escape the regulatory process.”
“It's now up to the tribes that we represent, conservation groups, community groups, concerned citizens. Those are the folks now that have to bring the suits, expend the resources to enforce the law and do the job that the federal government itself should be doing,” he said. “I think the agencies should be really concerned about this precedent. This is not something the Army Corps should let stand, because it would blow a hole in the Clean Water Act.”
Gillespie also said the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to enforce the Clean Water Act but is instead “sitting on the sidelines.”
While the Army Corps is the lead agency that grants Clean Water Act permits, the EPA is the ultimate backstop. It has the authority to enforce the Clean Water Act, veto Clean Water Act permits and can determine what bodies of water are regulated by the United States.
Gillespie said the tribes and non-profits have two options: appeal the ruling, or sue Hudbay directly for violating the Clean Water Act. They have not yet decided what to do.
Copper mine:Plans for the giant Rosemont mine have unleashed a battle
Can Hudbay move forward with mining?
Before Hudbay can begin significant mining operations for its Copper World project on the west side of the Santa Rita Mountains, it needs to file a technical report under Canada’s securities law, which at this stage of the project includes a preliminary economic assessment and a pre-feasibility study.
The company said in an email to The Republic that it’s on track to complete the preliminary economic assessment by the second quarter of this year.
Hudbay also needs to obtain two water permits and an air permit from regulators in Arizona.
As of right now, Hudbay cannot move forward with its Rosemont mine on the east side of the Santa Ritas.
An appeals court recently upheld a 2019 decision from Judge Soto that said the Forest Service acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” in approving Hudbay’s entire mining plan of operations.
In a 2-1 decision, the court said Hudbay has valid rights to mine on the land where its 3,000-foot deep and 6,500-foot wide pit would operate, private land that Hudbay purchased, but the 1872 Mining Law doesn’t give it permission to permanently dump mine waste on public Forest Service lands.
Zayna Syed is an environmental reporter for The Arizona Republic/azcentral. Follow her reporting on Twitter at @zaynasyed_ and send tips or other information about stories to zayna.syed@arizonarepublic.com.
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These 5 Arizona cities are among the fastest growing in the U.S. Here's what to know
Five Arizona cities and towns are among the fastest growing in the nation, new population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau show.
Queen Creek, Buckeye, Casa Grande, Maricopa and Goodyear were all among the top 15 cities with at least 50,000 people with the largest percentage population growth between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021.
Arizona has more cities among the top 15 fastest growing than any other state, but the Texas cities of Georgetown and Leander lead the list.
Queen Creek, whose population grew by 8.9% and Buckeye, whose population grew by 8.6% were the third and fourth fastest-growing large cities in the nation.
Phoenix and Buckeye were also among the the cities that gained the largest number of residents during the period, even as other major cities lost residents.
Phoenix gained more than 13,000 residents, second only to San Antonio, between 2020 and 2021, and Buckeye gained about 8,000 residents. This continues a pattern of growth for communities like Buckeye, which grew faster than any other city between 2010 and 2020. Both Buckeye and Goodyear now have more than 100,000 residents, the population estimates show.
Growth brings challenges, benefits
While growth is often seen as positive economically, it presents challenges for some Valley communities. Buckeye and Queen Creek have contended with accessing enough water to meet the needs of their growing populations. And, even as Maricopa County was second in the nation in gains in housing units from 2020 to 2021, many renters and homebuyers, seeking affordable housing, have struggled to find housing that meets their needs.
The population estimates released Thursday are also important for the revenues of cities and towns. The population counts will be used to calculate the revenue shared with municipalities for the coming fiscal year. More than an estimated $2.75 billion in state taxes collected from income, sales, vehicle licenses and gasoline sales are distributed based on the population of cities and towns.
Population estimates are among the data sets derived from decennial census counts that guide more than $29 billion in federal funds for Arizona, an analysis of fiscal year 2017 funds by George Washington University Research Professor Andrew Reamer found.
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A $6.9 million Tucson-area property has sold for the highest sale price ever recorded for a single-family home in the Multiple Listing Service of Southern Arizona.
The home, within The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, closed on May 10. It had been on the market since before Thanksgiving but sold at the listing price, said Maria Anemone, associate broker with Long Realty's Dove Mountain office.
Dubbed "The Point," the home, at 6355 W. Rockpoint Ridge Place, has four bedrooms, five baths and a host of amenities. It was built in 2020 and sits on a 3.13-acre lot.
The sale broke the record set just days earlier on the very same street, at 6280 W. Rockpoint Ridge Place, which sold for $5.2 million on May 5.
Private sales outside of the MLS are not included.
"The Point" features architectural design by Tucson’s Ron Robinette and interior design by the Tucson-based Baker+Hesseldenz.
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“People said I was crazy to take this on,” Anemone said, “but my goal was to set a record and make history. I built an amazing marketing plan with Long Realty and worked hard to make it happen.”
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Mayor Elorza's proposal to fix the Providence pension crisis faces its first big hurdle
PROVIDENCE — State lawmakers are set to take up Mayor Jorge Elorza's pension obligation bond bill on Thursday, weighing whether to allow Providence to borrow $515 million in hopes of fixing its pension crisis.
The bill, which would authorize the city to issue the bond, will go before the House Finance Committee. Of its 14 members, six – Representatives Scott Slater, Camille Vella-Wilkinson, Raymond Hull, Gregg Amore, William O'Brien and Grace Diaz – are sponsoring the legislation, in addition to Representatives Anastasia Williams, Carlos Tobon, David Morales and Carol McEntee.
The Providence Journal has reached out to the remainder of the committee's members for their stance. Rep. Jay Edwards said he is "still considering it." Rep. George Nardone said he is opposed. The other six committee members did not immediately respond
In a statement, Elorza told the Journal that his "team won't be taking anything for granted."
"I plan to continue engaging General Assembly members over the coming weeks in both chambers to ensure they have all of their questions answered and have the most up to date information before any votes are taken," Elorza said. "I am confident that once they have all of the information they need, they will agree that this is Providence's best path forward to meaningfully address our own pension issue."
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The vote comes two weeks after General Treasurer Seth Magaziner penned a letter to lawmakers in which he urged the city to bring its benefit structure in line with that of the state.
"This will improve financial sustainability and reduce risk over the long run, while providing a fair and uniform landscape for public employees across the state," he said.
Magaziner also wants guardrails in place, such as capping allowable true interest at 4.5%. In the fall, the city projected a rate of 4.39%, though it anticipates it will actually be lower.
In addition, Magaziner proposed limiting the term to 25 years, requiring that no more than $150 million of the bond be issued in a six-month period, and including a call option so that the city may refinance the bond at a lower interest rate if possible.
A substitute amendment to the bill establishes only a couple of those measures -- a call option and a 25-year term. However, it stipulates a true interest cap of 4.9%, higher than what Magaziner would have liked.
According to House spokesman Larry Berman, the amendment also tightens language "on the safeguard against the city increasing benefits in the future," and requires the city to put $10 million into a trust fund for other post-employment benefits
Last year, when Elorza proposed an $850-million pension obligation bond, Magaziner criticized the idea as "a risky strategy with a mixed track record."
However, this year, in part due to the smaller size of the proposal, some of Elorza's initial critics have come around. That includes Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council President and CEO Michael DiBiase, Sen. Sam Zurier and City Councilwoman Helen Anthony, who serves on the council's Finance Committee.
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Police are investigating after a report of shots fired in central Lincoln Wednesday night led officers to several spent shell casings but no suspected perpetrators, according to police.
Lincoln Police Capt. Todd Kocian said officers responded to 18th and H streets at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, finding the shell casings and a residence damaged by gunshots.
Kocian said the shooting caused about $2,125 in damage to the building but injured no one.
An investigation into the incident is ongoing.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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A 17-year-old boy sustained non-life-threatening injuries after he was shot Wednesday night near Seacrest Field in east Lincoln, according to the Lincoln Police Department.
The boy arrived at a local hospital with a grazing gunshot wound to the left side of his head at about 7:30 p.m., police said. Officers determined that the victim and several others met up with another group at Seacrest Field following a social media feud.
Lincoln Police Capt. Todd Kocian on Thursday said the exact nature of the feud is unclear.
As the two groups met, a boy wearing a mask over his face exited a vehicle with a handgun and shot at least twice toward another vehicle, striking both the vehicle and the victim, Kocian said.
A 15-year-old boy was later arrested after police served a search warrant at his residence. Kocian said investigators haven't found the gun thought to have been used in the shooting.
Ultimately, the 15-year-old was lodged in the Lancaster County Youth Services Center on suspicion of second-degree assault, use of a weapon to commit a felony and discharging a firearm into a vehicle.
Officers responded to 18th and H streets at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, finding several spent shell casings and a residence damaged by gunshots, according to police.
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A list of events and services to commemorate Memorial Day this weekend in the Lehigh Valley.
MEMORIAL DAY
Sons of Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic will hold services at Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Plot, Lincoln and Dewey avenues, Northampton, 8 a.m.; Allen Union Cemetery, Fourth and Main streets, Northampton, 8:45 a.m., rain location: Grace United Church of Christ, Ninth and Lincoln streets, Northampton; St. Johns United Church of Christ, Howertown, 9:45 a.m.; Siegfried Memorial Plot, W. 21st Street, Northampton, 11 a.m.
Northampton VFW Post 4714 will conduct a memorial tribute at the graveside of fallen comrades at the following Northampton cemeteries: 8:30 a.m., Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Cemetery, 9 a.m., St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Cemetery, 9:30 a.m., Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Ukrainian Orthodox Cemetery, and 10 a.m., Our Lady of Hungary Cemetery. The national anthem, prayer, song, roll call, rifle salute, echo taps, “Amazing Grace” and “America the Beautiful,” will be played.
Emmaus Memorial Day Parade, 9 a.m. will depart from the high school parking lot and proceed to the Memorial Triangle for services. Rain location, parade will be canceled and a short ceremony will be held at the Memorial site.
The Brown & Lynch American Legion Post 9 will render military honors at 9 a.m. at the Grand Army of the Republic plot at Easton cemetery.
American Legion Fullerton Post 367 will hold services at 9 a.m. at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Mundy Lane, Whitehall Township; at 9:30 a.m. in front of the WWI Memorial, Park Street, Fullerton; and 10 a.m. at the post home, 609 Fullerton Ave., Whitehall Township.
First Call
The Easton Memorial Day parade starts at 10:30 a.m. at Sixth and Walnut streets through Centre Square to the Northampton Street free Bridge. Ceremonies will continue on the bridge, with the playing of the national anthem and taps by the Phillipsburg High school band, and tossing of the Memorial wreath on to the waters of the Delaware River jointly by the mayors of Phillipsburg and Easton. Elements of the parade will then regroup at Riverside Park amphitheater near the Bushkill Street bridge, with ceremonies, speakers and honors, ending at noon.
Macungie Veterans of Foreign Wars Memorial Post 9264 will hold a flag raising and VFW Memorial Day ceremony at the Macungie Memorial Park, Veteran’s Memorial, 50 N. Poplar St., Macungie at 10:30 a.m. A service will be held at the “All Gave Some-Some Gave All” Memorial, 287 Lehigh St., Macungie at 11 a.m.
The Northampton Joint Veterans, consisting of the American Legion Post 353, Catholic War Veterans Post 454 and VFW Post 4714 will conduct a memorial tribute for fallen comrades at 11 a.m. at the Northampton Memorial Plaza, 14th and Dewey avenues, Northampton.
The West Bangor Memorial Association will hold services at 11 a.m. at the Memorial site, Second Street, West Bangor. The speaker will be Navy veteran Jeffrey Berger, a Pen Argyl resident. Rain location: St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church Social Hall, Verona Avenue, West Bangor.
East Bangor will hold services at 1 p.m. at the East Bangor Cemetery, Park Road. Speaker will be Russell Stout, historian. There will be a roll call of those veterans who have died in the past year and are now buried in the East Bangor Cemetery. Music by the Blues Eagles Drum & Bugle Corps. A gun salute will be fired by the Martocci-Capobianco Post 750 American Legion, Roseto. Taps will be played. Rain location, East Bangor United Methodist Community Church, 136 W. Central Ave. Info: 610-588-4453.
Artsquest annual Memorial Day Commemoration continues with a Memorial Day service at 3 p.m. featuring speakers Rep. Steve Samuelson, Northampton County Executive Lamont McClure, Lehigh County Executive Philips Armstrong, and Bethlehem Mayor William Reynolds, on the Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks stage with “A Time to Remember” in honor of the Lehigh Valley’s fallen soldiers from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The ceremony will be followed by a luminary display honoring those who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, “Remember Our Heroes” at 8 p.m. The Swing Time Dolls perform at 3:30 p.m. and Stefanie Johnson performs at 5 p.m.
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That’s what downtown bar owner SaRena Freet had to say to the City Council Monday, nine months after the council passed an ordinance allowing downtown bars to have sidewalk cafés.
The ordinance eliminated the requirement that 60% of revenue come from food sales — a self-reported requirement difficult to enforce and one bar owners argued was unfair to them.
Freet, who had advocated for the ordinance change, has been working since then to create a sidewalk café outside The Hot Mess, 408 S. 11th St.
Among the hurdles: the bar was once an automotive shop, so the area out front was once a driveway and sloped too much. Although Freet couldn't find a grant or community program to help her pay for the improvements, she managed to get it done.
On Monday the City Council approved her application — the first since the ordinance passed — and she said she hoped to have the outdoor area up and running by the end of the week.
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Yuliia Iziumova (left) hugs her mother Oksana Iziumova Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the Lincoln Airport. It was the first time they'd been together in more than three years. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Lincoln High's Javon Leuty celebrates his win in the Class A boys 110-meter hurdles Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Fans run to catch a foul ball during a baseball game between Nebraska and Michigan State on Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Haymarket Park. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Lincoln High's Landon Kruse competes in the wheelchair Class A boys 800-meter race at the state track and field meet Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
GWYNETH ROBERTS Journal Star
Elkhorn North celebrates on the field after defeating Waverly in the Class B baseball championship game Friday, May 20, 2022, at Tal Anderson Field in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Autumn LaDeaux-Baxter (left) ties poles together while saying a prayer as leaders of the Niskíthe prayer group work to assemble a tipi during a protest outside City Hall on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. The group wants legal protections of a Native sweat lodge, which is on about 2 acres of private land surrounded by Wilderness Park and across the street from the planned Wilderness Crossing development near First Street and Pioneers Boulevard. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Fremont's Braden Taylor celebrates winning the Class A boys 3,200-meter relay at the state track and field meet Wednesday, May 18, 202, at Omaha Burke Stadium. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
GWYNETH ROBERTS Journal Star
Lincoln Public Schools Superintendent Steve Joel plays a game of spike ball with eighth graders Hayden Tenopir (left) and Drew Van Dyke on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at Mickle Middle School. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Nebraska’s Jackson Brockett pitches against a Michigan State batter Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Haymarket Park. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Josh Vinson Jr. runs with a pool noodle during the second annual Josh Fight Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Bowling Lake Park. Vinson Jr. remains the reigning champion, winning the crown for a second year. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Lincoln Southwest's Jaida Rowe carries the team trophy after Southwest won the Class A girls team race at the state track and field meet Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Millard West's Dylan Driessen collides into Millard South's Camden Kozeal while stealing second base in the first inning during the Class A championship, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Tal Anderson Field in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Bloomfield's Alexandra Eisenhauer (left) reacts after finishing ahead of North Platte's Hayley Miles in the Class D girls 100-meter dash at the state track and field meet on Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Teacher Maria Ramos pours milk as children aged 18 months to 3 years eat lunch at The Children's Place child care center Tuesday, May 17, 2022. According to a report from the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, 87% of providers received some kind of COVID-19 relief funding in the last year. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
GWYNETH ROBERTS Journal Star
Lincoln East's Garrett Springer celebrates after hitting a double against Millard West during a Class A state baseball game Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Tal Anderson Field in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Photographer Michael Farrell gets ready to take a group photo as members prepare to tear down the Niskíthe Prayer Camp on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Lincoln East's Belinda Rademacher reacts after defeating Lincoln Southeast's Camilla Ibrahimova (not pictured) in the No. 1 singles championship at the Class A girls state tennis meet Friday, May 20, 2022, at Koch Tennis Center in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
The boys Class B 3,200-meter race enters its third lap at the state track and field meet Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Bishop Neumann's Kamdyn Swartz reacts after winning the Class C boys 300-meter hurdles during the state track and field meet, Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Axtell's Calvin Johnson (left) looks as he passes Falls City Sacred Heart's Jakob Jordan to win the Class D boys 3,200-meter relay at the state track and field meet Friday, May 20, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Part of Reception and Treatment Center's expansion project includes 384 new beds seen on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Lincoln Southeast’s Corynne Olsen (2) (from left) Maggie Hayes (0) and Sidney Wettlaufer (21) hold each other after placing second in the girls Class A state championship game Monday, May 16, 2022, between Lincoln Southeast and Gretna at Morrison Stadium. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Omaha Skutt Catholic celebrates their state championship win over Norris in the girls class B state championship game on Monday, May 16, 2022, at Morrison Stadium. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Nebraska softball players take a selfie during the Nebraska women’s softball watch party of the NCAA tournament selection show on Sunday, May 15, 2022, at Bowlin Stadium. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Lincoln’s Hunter Clanin (14) misses the diving catch during a game on Sunday, May 15, 2022, between Sioux Falls and Lincoln Saltdogs at Haymarket Park. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Omaha Skutt Catholic's Dylan Toth (right) reacts to a Skutt goal as Waverly’s Austin Neddenriep watches the ball hit the back of the net during the Class B boys state soccer semifinals game on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Morrison Stadium. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Waverly's Eli Russell (second right) and Wyatt Fanning (second right) leap on to pitcher Payton Engle (first left) as they celebrate with their team after an upset win over Norris during a boys Class B first-round game at Warner Park on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Papillion. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Norris base runner Kale Fountain celebrates as he reaches home plate to score in the fourth inning against Waverly during a boys Class B first-round game at Warner Park on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Papillion. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Soon-to-be graduates walk through Creighton's campus outside of a girls class A semifinal game at Morrison Stadium on Friday, May 13, 2022, in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
A bicyclist rides toward downtown on the 13th Street bike lane on Friday, May 13, 2022. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
Goldenrod Pastries owner Angela Garbacz (left) talks with Molly Ebbers of Lincoln on Thursday, May 12, 2022. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Dee and Ronald Baddorf (from left) scratch Lucy, their mini-pig, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. The Baddorfs are hoping the Lincoln City Council will approve a waiver so they can keep Lucy at their Lincoln home. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Lincoln Southwest’s Alex Kosmicki (23) dribbles to the goal as Papillion-La Vista South’s Jenasy Schultz (1) goes for the save during the girls A-4 district championship game Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at Seacrest Field. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
The Husker dugout erupts in cheers as Sydney Gray (bottom) reaches home plate after scoring the second solo home run of the fifth inning against Indiana, Sunday, May 8, 2022, at Bowlin Stadium. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Exterior of a Ford TRIPI-Motor 5-AT, seen on Thursday, May 5, 2022. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
The Omaha Bryan boys soccer team celebrates its District A-7 boys championship win over Lincoln Southeast, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at Omaha Bryan High School. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Runners make their way through the final stretch of the 2022 Lincoln Marathon Sunday, May 1, 2022. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Lincoln Southwest players celebrate the goal by Jillian Lane (third from left) with Lincoln East's Page Monson reacting in the background during the second half of a Class A girls state soccer first-round match, Monday, May 9, 2022, at Morrison Stadium in Omaha. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Lincoln East's Jesse Chartier (left) embraces with teammate Kayma Carpenter after losing to Lincoln Southwest in a Class A girls state soccer first-round match, Monday, May 9, 2022, at Morrison Stadium in Omaha.
JUSTIN WAN Journal Star
Supporters of Donald Trump blow kisses, give cheers and vie for position as Trump takes the stage during a Trump rally for Charles Herbster at the I-80 Speedway on Sunday, May 1, 2022, near Greenwood. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Lincoln Southeast's Lilly Talley (left) and doubles partner Lily Rippeteau celebrate a point in the No. 2 doubles finals of the Heartland Athletic Conference Tournament on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, at Woods Tennis Center. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
GWYNETH ROBERTS Journal Star
Lincoln East's Elijah Jobst (8) blocks a shot by Lincoln Southwest's Lane Kruse (16) during a Class A boys state soccer first-round match Tuesday, May 10, 2022, at Morrison Stadium in Omaha. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
GWYNETH ROBERTS Journal Star
Juju Tyner (center, in green) holds a sign in support of Roe vs. Wade as she joined others in a pro-abortion rights rally on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, on the north steps of the Capitol. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
GWYNETH ROBERTS Journal Star
Midland’s Matt Ross dives but misses the ball hit by a Doane hitter during a GPAC Tournament game Friday, May 6, 2022, in Crete. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
A crowd of supporters cheer on Jim Pillen as he takes the stage during an election night party at the Embassy Suites, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Lincoln. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Tim Brox fills out his voting ballot at the Redeemer Lutheran Church offices, Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Lincoln. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Lincoln East players celebrate as they see the district championship plaque after defeating Omaha Westside during the District A-4 baseball final at Den Hartog Field, Saturday, May 7, 2022. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
Lincoln East’s Paige Poppe (13) and Columbus’ Liberty Larsen battle to head the ball during the girls A-5 district championship game, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at Seacrest Field. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
JAIDEN TRIPI Journal Star
Crete players celebrate after a goal in the 20th minute by Osvin Garcia Velasquez (second from left) during the B-5 district championship Saturday, May 7, 2022, in Waverly. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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The unrelenting rain over the past couple of days has led to the threat of some minor flooding.
The National Weather Service issued a flood warning Thursday morning for the Little Nemaha River near Auburn. The weather service said in a tweet that the river was expected to crest at 22.6 feet sometime Thursday morning, just above flood stage, which is 22 feet.
Though the rain that has fallen since Tuesday has been mostly moderate, the steady nature of it has led to some pretty impressive precipitation totals, especially in Southeast Nebraska.
As of early Thursday morning, Beatrice had recorded more than 2.5 inches of rain over the past 48 hours. Falls City and Plattsmouth had also recorded more than 2 inches, while Lincoln's total stood at 1.86 inches.
The steady rain and cloud cover have also kept temperatures much cooler than normal. Lincoln's high of 53 on Wednesday set a record for the lowest high temperature ever recorded for the date. The normal high is 79.
Those who prefer it warmer will get their wish, however, as summer-like heat is expected to move in for Memorial Day weekend.
Lincoln's forecast calls for a high of 80 on Friday, 86 on Saturday, 94 on Sunday and 93 on Monday.
The heat will also bring the chance of severe weather, with the best chance Saturday night into Sunday, the weather service said.
Six years ago: Floodwaters swamp Lincoln, surrounding areas
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Scott Ogbun (left) collects his family's bags from a utility truck used by Lincoln Fire and Rescue teams to evacuate residents from the flooded South Bottoms on Thursday.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
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During flooding in May, rescue workers, including Lancaster County Sheriff's deputy Christina Worster, helped to evacuate residents of Lincoln's South Bottoms. The year 2015 ranked as the fourth-wettest ever in Lincoln.
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Plumes of water emerge high in to the air from a Jeep that travels quickly through standing water on O Street between Capitol Beach Blvd. and NW Roundhouse Dr. on Thursday, May 7, 2015, in the aftermath of heavy rains that came through Lincoln overnight.
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Salt Creek rose rapidly on May 7, 2015, nearing track level on two train trestles south of Haymarket Park. The creek crested at 28.8 feet.
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Crews from Lower Platte Natural Resources District, US Army Corps and Engineers and General Excavating fill sand bags to stop seeping water on the Salt Creek levy south of Haymarket Park on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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As floodwaters rose along Salt Creek on May 7, 2015, crews deployed sandbags to bolster the levee south of Haymarket Park. The river that flowed at 4.6 feet last week crested at 28.8 feet during this spring's flooding.
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Debris piles up as Salt Creek nears the track level on two rail trestles south of Haymarket Park on May 7, 2015.
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Crews from General Excavating place sandbags along Salt Creek under supervision from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Curtis Miller (second from right) and Bryan Flere (right) south of Haymarket Park on May 7, 2015.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
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General Excavating employees Scott Embury (left) and Karl Shackelford left sand into bags near Salt Creek on Thursday.
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General Excavating employee Ty Glover arranges sandbags to filter mud and clay out of clean water seeping under the levy from Salt Creek near the city's water treatment plant.
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General Excavating employees Dan Bulling (left) and Scott Embury lift sand into a bag held by Kyle Keller (right) along the Salt Creek levee on Thursday.
KAYLEE EVERLY/Lincoln Journal Star
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This marker placed by Lower Platte South Natural Resources District employees to monitor water levels along Salt Creek indicated a drop from 2:35 p.m. to 6 o'clock on Thursday.
KAYLEE EVERLY/Lincoln Journal Star
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Lower Platte South Natural Resources District employee Al Langdale looks at a marker placed on the levee to monitor the Salt Creek water level on Thursday.
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A truck passes over Salt Creek on Superior Street on Thursday.
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People stop to look at water levels along Salt Creek on Thursday.
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Traffic passes over the Salt Creek bridge on Superior Street on Thursday.
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Evacuating DeWitt on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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Flooding in DeWitt on Thursday.
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Lincoln Fire and Rescue Capt. Dan Ripley (right) checks on four cats evacuated with their owners from the South Bottoms neighborhood on Thursday.
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Mark Godbout prepares to evacuate from his South Bottoms home along with his three dogs.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
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A Lincoln Fire and Rescue team evacuates residents from the South Bottoms neighborhood as others took the opportunity to enjoy the water.
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Lincoln Fire and Rescue teams help Alex Lekai and his mother evacuate from her home in the South Bottoms on Thursday. Meanwhile, other residents toured the flooded area in a paddle boat.
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Lancaster County Sheriff's deputies and Lincoln Fire and Rescue personnel help Jeni Ogburn down from the truck used to evacuate residents of an E Street home on Thursday.
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Lancaster County Sheriff's Deputy Christina Worster (right) lifts Eziaha Leon into the department vehicle used to evacuate Eziaha and his mother from their home near First and A streets in May 2015.
GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star file photo
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A Lincoln Fire and Rescue team helps Alex Lekai (center) from a raft after evacuating Lekai and his mother, Katherine Lekai (right), 90, from her house near Second and D streets on Thursday.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding in DeWitt
Brandon Houts walks from his house through floodwater to get supplies from a friend parked on Highway 103 on Thursday after an overnight storm system swelled nearby creeks and flooded most of DeWitt.
MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding in DeWitt
Byron Beerenstrauch of rural DeWitt stomps though floodwater after helping his in-laws move their belongings to the second floor on Thursday, after an overnight storm system swelled nearby creeks and flooded most of DeWitt. The town is under a voluntary evacuation and many residents are sticking it out.
MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding
In this file photo from May 7, Lower Platte Natural Resources District and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel monitor conditions along the Salt Creek levee between South and A streets.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Journal Star file photo
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Lower Platte South Natural Resources District employees Jeff Hegy (left) and Dan Schulz monitored the Salt Creek levee between South and A streets on May 7. The 7-mile long levee held, protecting Lincoln from severe flooding.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Journal Star file photos
Flooding in DeWitt
James Kerns (middle left) is evacuated from his DeWitt home with the help of his uncle Will Kerns of Lincoln (middle right) and volunteers Mike Spilker (far left) and Wilbur Young (far right in bucket) on Thursday afternoon. James Kerns' parents stayed behind at home.
MATT RYERSON / Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding in DeWitt
Reportedly this sedan hydroplaned off the road during flash flooding on Thursday after an overnight storm system swelled nearby creek and flooded most of De Witt.
MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star
Hebron flooding
An aerial view of the flooding at Hebron on Thursday.
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An aerial view of the flooding at Deshler.
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An aerial view of the flooding in Dewitt.
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Two cars are barely visible above the flood water on Old Cheney Road near U.S. 77.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding, Holmes Lake
Officials said Holmes Lake rose to its highest level following the May 6-7 storm, covering the ballfields on the east side of the park.
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Salt Creek is up to the 55 spur bridge in Roca, about 7 miles south of Lincoln.
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Water covers the southwest parking lot at Lincoln Southwest High School on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
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Flood waters cover the road and ball fields on the East side of Holmes Park on Thursday morning.
ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
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Saltillo Road closed at 27th Street looking west on Thursday.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star
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A Nebraska Department of Roads worker cleared debris Thursday morning as flood waters race over U.S. 77 south of Nebraska 33 near the Prairie Hill Learning Center. Two cars were left stranded.
ALGIS LAUKAITIS/Lincoln Journal Star
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A utility truck drives through the closed portion of Hickman Road west of Hickman Thursday.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star
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38th and Bennett Road looking west on Thursday.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star
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Larry's Auto Parts, 2035 Yolande Ave., was flooded Thursday morning, May 7, 2015, as other business owners along Salt Creek kept an eye on the creek's level.
ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Sta
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U.S. Geological Survey employees measure water flow on Roca Road just west of Roca on Thursday.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star
Roca elevator
High water from Salt Creek rushes under the east side of the bridge on Roca Road in this May 7 photo.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star file
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Lincoln, NE - 5/7/2015 - Water covers the parking lot south west of Lincoln Southwest High School on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Hickman Road west of Hickman Thursday.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding in Lincoln
Residents of the First and F Streets neighborhood deal with the flood on Thursday, May 7, 2015, after an overnight storm system dumped over 6 inches of rain in Lincoln.
MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star
Flash Flooding in Lincoln
Hawks Field in Haymarket Park is inundated with flood water on Thursday, May 7, 2015, after an overnight storm system dumped more than 6 inches of rain in Lincoln.
MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star
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Flooding at 25th Street and Saltillo Road looking west on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star
Roca grain bins
Water rushes under the bridge at Roca Road in this May 7 photo. One of the grain bins in the background is believed to have collapsed Wednesday evening.
TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star file
Flooding, Haymarket Park
As Salt Creek rose rapidly on May 7, 2015, the outfield at nearby Haymarket Park became a temporary storage site for excess water. The water disappeared a day later as Salt Creek dropped.
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A home and trailer at 10679 Nebraska 41 west of Clatonia is surrounded by flood waters Thursday, May 7, 2015.
ALGIS LAUKAITIS/Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding evacuation
Rescue workers load a boat to help with evacuation efforts in DeWitt. Heavy rains caused flooding throughout the area on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Water backs up in Antelope Creek north of 22nd and Q streets on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Vehicles drive through standing water Thursday morning, May 7, 2015, on the north side of the Devaney Sports Center.
ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
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South 1st Street remains under water looking north from A Street on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Flooding in Lincoln
Kris Pothast watches as buckets of water flow out of her SUV after getting help pushing her vehicle out of the flood water in the First and F Streets neighborhood on Thursday, May 7, 2015, after an overnight storm system dumped over 6 inches of rain in Lincoln.
MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star
Flash Flooding in Lincoln
Haylie Miller, (from left) Alexxys Webster, Margaret Indriksons and Arley Mooney help push a neighbor's car out of the flood water in the First and F Streets neighborhood on Thursday, May 7, 2015, after an overnight storm system dumped over 6 inches of rain in Lincoln.
MATT RYERSON/Lincoln Journal Star
Flash flooding on Salt Creek
Salt Creek approaches the old railroad bridge near Haymarket Park early May 7, 2015, after an overnight storm system dumped over 6 inches of water in Lincoln.
Lincoln Journal Star file photo
Flooding
A truck navigates high water on the east end of the A Street bridge on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
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This man found a way to add some fun to the flood on May 7, 2015.
JONATHAN EDWARDS/Lincoln Journal Star
Dogs in flood
Two golden retrievers enjoy a romp through the floodwater on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
JONATHAN EDWARDS/Lincoln Journal Star
Flooding
Workers from a nearby warehouse crossed water on Second Street south of A Street on May 7. Streets in the South Bottoms flooded, officials said, because runoff had nowhere to go.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Journal Star file photo
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A truck navigates high water at the intersection of Southwest First and West A streets on Thursday.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
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A Waverly resident was surprised to see someone kayaking down the storm drainage ditch behind her home.
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Flooding at Haymarket Park
Water covers the field at Haymarket Park.
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Former Public Works Director Karl Fredrickson shoots video from the Q Street bridge over Antelope Creek as floods moved through the area Thursday, May 7, 2015.
ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
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Water covers the intersection of Southwest 1st and West A streets on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
GWYNETH ROBERTS/Lincoln Journal Star
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A car almost completely submerged in flood water May 7, 2015.
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Flooding at Southwest High
Southwest High School looks like lake-front property on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
CHRIS DUNKER/Lincoln Journal Star
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Cars parked along South 2nd Street south of A Street are trapped by high water on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
GWYNETH ROBERTS
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A car is stranded at the West A viaduct at S.W. First Street.
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Flooding in the Lincoln area.
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Flooding near Wilderness Park.
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The view near the UNL City Campus at Vine Street.
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Water and debris crossing the road at 27th and Saltillo.
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A flooded field near 27th Street and Saltillo Road.
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A view of Salt Creek under 27th Street looking north and slightly east.
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Hickman Road on the west edge of Hickman is closed because of the flood.
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A flooded creek in Lincoln, May 7, 2015.
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Water covers the field at Haymarket Park.
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Debris flows down a flooded creek in Lincoln.
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Heavy rains caused flooding on May, 7, 2015.
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Heavy rains caused Salt Creek to flood through Lincoln on May 7, 2015.
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Heavy rains caused flooding around Lincoln Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Heavy rains flooded roads and parking lots in Lincoln on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Heavy rains flooded roads and parking lots around Lincoln Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Heavy rains flooded roads and parking lots across Lincoln on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Heavy rains caused flooding across Lincoln on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Flooding in the Firespring parking lot near 14th and Yankee Hill.
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This man was talking with Lincoln Fire and Rescue workers, who were on the A Street via duct.
JONATHAN EDWARDS/Lincoln Journal Star
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Heavy rains caused flooding in Lincoln on May 7, 2015.
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Flooding at Sherman Field
Heavy rain caused flooding in Lincoln, including the area around Sherman Field.
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Heavy rains caused flooding across Lincoln on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Flooding at Sherman Field
Heavy rains caused flooding across Lincoln, including the area around Sherman Field, on May 7, 2015.
JONATHAN EDWARDS/Lincoln Journal Star
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Water filled the dugouts at Bowlin Stadium at Haymarket Park on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
PETER SALTER/Lincoln Journal Star
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Bowlin Stadium at Haymarket Park filled with water Thursday, May 7, 2015, after storms dropped more than 6 inches of rain in Lincoln.
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People use kayaks to travel down a flooded road in Lincoln May 7, 2015.
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The Saline County Sheriff's Office, with the help of the State Patrol and area rescue departments, is evacuating the town of DeWitt due to flooding from Turkey Creek and the Big Blue River. Residents are being transferred to Tri-County High School.
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A panoramic view of Salt Creek flooding.
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Lincoln, NE - 5/7/2015 - From Hwy 77 looking east, water covers Old Cheney Rd and submerges two cars on Thursday, May 7, 2015.
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Roseland tornado damage
Roseland was hit by tornado Wednesday, May 6, 2015.
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Water floods across a road in Lancaster County.
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Floodwater rushes across and intersection.
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An interesting black-and-white view of the flooding.
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WEATHER, STORM, FLOOD, WATER, SALT CREEK
LINCOLN, NEB - 5/7/2015 - The Lincoln Southwest student parking lot is under water on Thursday, May 7, 20th. RILEY MOODY/Southwest Hawk Talk
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Lincoln Southwest student Tyler Carstens walks to his car in the flooded school parking lot on Thursday. The water depth rose after school began.
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LINCOLN, NEB - 5/7/2015 - The Lincoln Southwest student parking lot is under water on Thursday, May 7, 20th. RILEY MOODY/Southwest Hawk Talk
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WEATHER, STORM, FLOOD, WATER, SALT CREEK
LINCOLN, NEB - 5/7/2015 - The Lincoln Southwest student parking lot is under water on Thursday, May 7, 20th. RILEY MOODY/Southwest Hawk Talk
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Flood waters fill a backyard near Lincoln.
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An aerial view of the flooding near DeWitt after rains on May 6-7, 2015.
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Flooding near O and First streets.
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An aerial of flooding at the Swan Creek flood control structure south of Western.
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DeWitt sits near the confluence of Swan and Turkey creeks and the Big Blue River, all of which have a long history of overflowing their banks.
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Flooding in DeWitt on Thursday.
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Flooding in DeWitt one year ago.
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Vehicles were submerged all over DeWitt after nearly a foot of rain fell last year.
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Flooding in DeWitt on Thursday.
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Three months after floodwaters covered DeWitt, the community will celebrate recovery efforts on Sunday.
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Flooding in DeWitt on Thursday.
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Flooding in DeWitt on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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First and A flooding on Thursday.
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Boating at Haymarket Park on Thursday.
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A house on the northeast corner of Old Cheney and Hunts Drive. The basement is a total loss.
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A house on the northeast corner of Old Cheney and Hunts Drive. The basement is a total loss.
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A house on the northeast corner of Old Cheney and Hunts Drive. The basement is a total loss.
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Photo is from Hunts Drive, the last street on Old Cheney before the tracks and Salt Creek. Every family on the street was blocked in on Thursday as water filled up the intersection at Old Cheney and made it impossible to leave.
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Photo is from Hunts Drive, the last street on Old Cheney before the tracks and Salt Creek. Every family on the street was blocked in on Thursday as water filled up the intersection at Old Cheney and made it impossible to leave.
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Photo is from Hunts Drive, the last street on Old Cheney before the tracks and Salt Creek. Every family on the street was blocked in on Thursday as water filled up the intersection at Old Cheney and made it impossible to leave.
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West of O Street viaduct near Shooters.
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Philadelphia is looking to stop super spreader events before they start by giving out COVID-19 tests in bulk to anyone planning a special event.
The city is now offering free rapid test kits to organizers of all sorts of events: from proms and graduations to funerals and weddings. They’ll get two at-home tests for each guest if they’re approved: one test to take before attending the event and the other to take afterward.
Organizers are urged to apply as soon as possible because it may take up to two weeks to review applications and distribute tests, the health department noted. If applications are approved, organizers will need to distribute the tests in the manner described in their application.
The department said it has at least 20,000 tests available for the program and may allocate more depending on how successful the program is.
Test distribution will be prioritized for events that are either in areas of Philadelphia that have suffered disproportionately from COVID, have a high number of people who are at higher risk for severe infection, or present a high risk for COVID-19 transmission, the department said.
Event organizers are asked to apply online. You can find the application here.
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UVALDE, Texas — Could Facebook have known about ominous direct-message threats made by a gunman who Texas authorities say massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school? Could it have warned the authorities?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott revealed the online messages sent minutes before the Wednesday attack, although he called them posts, which are typically distributed to a wide audience.
Facebook stepped in to note that the gunman sent one-to-one direct messages, not public posts, and that they weren’t discovered until “after the terrible tragedy.”
The latest mass shootings in the U.S. by active social-media users may bring more pressure on social media companies to heighten their scrutiny of online communications, even though conservative politicians — Abbott among them — are also pushing social platforms to relax their restrictions on some speech.
RELATED: Texas school massacre highlights differences between Gov. Abbott and challenger Beto O'Rourke
SHOULD FACEBOOK HAVE CAUGHT THE SHOOTER'S MESSAGES?
Facebook parent company Meta has said it monitors people’s private messages for some kinds of harmful content, such as links to malware or images of child sexual exploitation. But copied images can be detected using unique identifiers — a kind of digital signature — which makes them relatively easy for computer systems to flag. Trying to interpret a string of threatening words — which can resemble a joke, satire or song lyrics — is a far more difficult task for artificial intelligence systems.
Facebook could, for instance, flag certain phrases such as “going to kill” or “going to shoot,” but without context — something AI in general has a lot of trouble with — there would be too many false positives for the company to analyze. So Facebook and other platforms rely on user reports to catch threats, harassment and other violations of the law or their own policies. As evidenced by the latest shootings, that often comes too late, if at all.
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
Even this kind of monitoring could soon be obsolete, since Meta plans to roll out end-to-end-encryption on its Facebook and Instagram messaging systems next year. Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people's messages. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, already has such encryption.
A recent Meta-commissioned report emphasized the benefits of such privacy but also noted some risks -- including users who could abuse the encryption to sexually exploit children, facilitate human trafficking and spread hate speech.
Apple has long had end-to-end encryption on its messaging system. That has brought the iPhone maker into conflict with the Justice Department over messaging privacy. After the deadly shooting of three U.S. sailors at a Navy installation in December 2019, the Justice Department insisted that investigators needed access to data from two locked and encrypted iPhones that belonged to the alleged gunman, a Saudi aviation student.
Security experts say this could be done if Apple were to engineer a “backdoor” to allow access to messages sent by alleged criminals. Such a secret key would let them decipher encrypted information with a court order.
But the same experts warned that such backdoors into encryption systems make them inherently insecure. Just knowing that a backdoor exists is enough to focus the world’s spies and criminals on discovering the mathematical keys that could unlock it. And when they do, everyone’s information is essentially vulnerable to anyone with the secret key.
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Where to observe Memorial Day: Events planned across Greater Taunton
On Monday, May 30, towns and cities across the US will once more observe Memorial Day, a holiday established for honoring those who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
People across the country will be visiting cemeteries and memorials, or placing flags on graves, or gathering with family and friends or participating in parades to honor the people who have died while serving in the military.
Observances, ceremonies and parades are planned all over the Greater Taunton area.
Here’s a look at what cities and towns in our area will be doing to honor the fallen over Memorial Day weekend:
TAUNTON
Taunton veterans' organizations have organized Memorial Day commemorations for Monday, May 30.
At 11 a.m., there will be an annual salute to the city’s veterans at the WWI “Doughboy” memorial on Taunton Green. Veterans of the Sgt Shane Duffy American Legion Post 500, David Adams VFW Post 611, Disabled American Veterans Chapter 57 and the Taunton Area Vietnam Veterans will be gathered there.
From there, ceremonies will move to the WWII and Korean War memorials on the lawn at the Bristol County Superior Courthouse, before proceeding to the Vietnam, Persian Gulf, and Global War on Terrorism memorials on Church Green.
There will also be a Memorial Day parade, starting at 1:15 pm.
The parade will kick off on Broadway (between Adam and Dartmouth streets) and will proceed down to Taunton Green.
There is no rain date for these activities.
BERKLEY
On Monday, May 30, at 10 a.m., there will be a Memorial Day parade at the Berkley Common, and later in the day the Berkley American Legion will have a buffet, at 1 p.m.
DIGHTON
Starting at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 30, at Veterans Memorial Park, 979 Somerset Ave., “the town’s annual Memorial Day Ceremony in observance of the longstanding tradition of honoring those who died while in military service to this country” will be held in Dighton, according to a post on the town’s Facebook page.
There will be remarks from town officials including the Board of Selectmen, as well as Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson.
A wreath of thanks will be placed and there will be a salute.
Rachel Rapoza will sing the national anthem and “God Bless America,” and that will be followed by a dove release.
There will be light refreshments after the ceremony.
FREETOWN
While no official ceremony or public event is planned in Freetown, the town will mark Memorial Day in other ways.
Volunteers from the Freetown VFW Post 6643 and local Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will be replacing flags on the graves of veterans throughout the town. Wreaths will also be replaced at Freetown's Memorial Park and other memorial sites.
Freetown Post 6643 will be participating in the Memorial Day Parade in New Bedford.
LAKEVILLE
The Lakeville Historical Commission will hold its annual Memorial Day observance on Monday, May 30, at 10:30 a.m. The observance will begin at the fire station and proceed to the Old Town House, where there will be an exhibit as well as refreshments.
MIDDLEBORO
The parade steps off at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 30, at Town Hall. A ceremony will follow the parade at the War Memorial Park on Main Street.
NORTON
All veterans are invited to march in the Norton Veterans’ Council’s Memorial Day parade on Monday, May 30, at 10 a.m. The parade will begin at the Henri A. Yelle Elementary School at 64 W. Main St. There will be a float, for veterans who prefer to ride. Contact eflett@nortonmaus.com to join the veterans’ float.
RAYNHAM
The parade route will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, May 28, at the Merrill Elementary School and proceed down Pleasant Street, through the four corners and along South Main Street. The parade will turn onto King Phillip Street and conclude at the Gazebo.
There will be a ceremony at 11:15 at Gazebo Park.
REHOBOTH
There will be a Memorial Day parade in Rehoboth on Monday, May 30, starting at 10:15 a.m., at 55 Bay State Rd. and the Anawan School. The parade will proceed to the Veterans Memorial Gazebo. There will then be a ceremony, beginning around 11:15 to 11:30 a.m., in honor of USMC Sgt Jeniffer Lindgard. The ceremony will end with a flag raising at noon.
The Rehoboth Police Department announced some road closures in a Facebook post. The restrictions will be in place from 9 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.:
- Rte. 118 North from County Street to Rt. 44 will be closed to all traffic and detoured.
- Rte. 118 South from Rt. 44 to County Street will be restricted to parade participants and parade drop offs. No thru traffic will be allowed.
- Bay State Road from Rte.44 (Redway Plain) to County Street will be restricted to parade spectators.
- Locust Avenue from Summer Street to Bay State Road will be restricted to parade spectators only.
There will be no parking allowed at Rte.44 near Red way Plain; Bay State Road in the area immediately surrounding the Gazebo; and Pond Street, in the area of the Village Cemetery and Red Way Plain.
Parade parking will be available at: Goff Hall; Rehoboth Congregational Church; Village Cemetery; and the Sports Complex at Danforth Street and Rte. 44.
Anyone who would like to participate and march in the parade is welcome. RSVPs are encouraged, but not required, by either calling 508-252-4467 or sending an email to veterans@rehobothma.
— With reporting from Ashley Schuler of The Herald News and Kathy Bossa of the Brockton Enterprise
Taunton Daily Gazette/Herald News copy editor and digital producer Kristina Fontes can be reached at kfontes@heraldnews.com. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette today.
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LANCASTER, Pa. — A Manheim Township middle school principal and the school district's resource officer teamed up to help reunite a 94-year-old resident with a trophy he helped win 80 years ago, the township's police department said Thursday.
The police department shared the following account:
Earlier this month, Wheatland Middle School Principal Don Trost received a letter in the mail from Jim McMullen, a 94-year-old Manheim Township alum and former member of the Lancaster Township Junior High track team of 1942.
McMullen's letter included a team photo that showed him holding a championship trophy the team won that year.
McMullen asked if he could get another photo of himself with the trophy, in front of the former Lancaster Township Junior High School (which is now known as Buchanan Elementary School in the School District of Lancaster).
McMullen's letter read:
Dear Folks,
Because of the war, only one track meet was held for Lancaster County Junior High Schools. This was our team that year.
The year before, 1941, Colin Engle took us to attend the Penn Relays at Franklin Field where we saw Barney Ewell compete.
That year Jim Ault (#1) and I were the only 7th graders to receive Junior Achievement Awards.
I am at age 94, the only one still living in the photo. I served with L.P.D. (Lancaster Police Department) from 1950 to 1988. During that time, I believe I had seen the large trophy still on display at W.M.S. (Wheatland Middle School) in the 1970s and 1980s.
If in fact Wheatland still has the trophy, I am asking if I can borrow it so my 71-year-old daughter can photograph me holding it at the same place in front of what was then Lancaster Township School?
Sincerely,
Jim McMullin '43
Lanc. Twp. Jr. High
Because McMullen said he was a former police officer, Trost reached out to School Resource Officer Scott Neff for help.
The two men searched through the school building's storage areas and were able to locate the trophy.
Neff gave the trophy a little polish and a fresh shine before setting out to surprise McMullen. He contacted McMullen's daughter and arranged to have her bring her father to the school.
On May 10, Neff, Trost, and Manheim Township Police Sgt. Barry Waltz Jr. gathered at the school to reunite an emotional McMullen with the trophy.
After posing for some photos, McMullen got another nice surprise: Trost told him he could keep the trophy for good.
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HUNTINGTON, WV (WOWK)—The Huntington Police Department is warning residents about an ongoing phone scam involving the impersonation of officers.
HPD says that last month, an individual claiming to be Deputy Martin Rodgers with the police department called residents and told them they had failed to respond to a subpoena.
They also said that earlier this week, an individual called a Huntington resident and claimed to be Officer Jones Anderson. In all of these incidents, the caller tried to obtain personal information, including bank account numbers, from residents.
HPD says that law enforcement will never ask for money or payments over the phone. Anyone who receives a call like those described above should call the Huntington Police Department’s non-emergency phone number at 304-696-4470 or the HPD anonymous tip line at 304-696-4444.
The police department also provided the following tips to keep personal information secure:
- Never give any personal or banking information to an unsolicited caller or via email. Be suspicious of any call or email that demands immediate payment for any reason.
- Keep social media accounts private, change the passwords on the accounts frequently and do not accept messages or friend requests from people you don’t know.
- Utility companies and government agencies will never contact you for payment through services like GreenDot, MoneyPak or Vanilla Reload.
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UVALDE, Texas — Could Facebook have known about ominous direct-message threats made by a gunman who Texas authorities say massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school? Could it have warned the authorities?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott revealed the online messages sent minutes before the Wednesday attack, although he called them posts, which are typically distributed to a wide audience.
Facebook stepped in to note that the gunman sent one-to-one direct messages, not public posts, and that they weren’t discovered until “after the terrible tragedy.”
The latest mass shootings in the U.S. by active social-media users may bring more pressure on social media companies to heighten their scrutiny of online communications, even though conservative politicians — Abbott among them — are also pushing social platforms to relax their restrictions on some speech.
RELATED: Texas school massacre highlights differences between Gov. Abbott and challenger Beto O'Rourke
SHOULD FACEBOOK HAVE CAUGHT THE SHOOTER'S MESSAGES?
Facebook parent company Meta has said it monitors people’s private messages for some kinds of harmful content, such as links to malware or images of child sexual exploitation. But copied images can be detected using unique identifiers — a kind of digital signature — which makes them relatively easy for computer systems to flag. Trying to interpret a string of threatening words — which can resemble a joke, satire or song lyrics — is a far more difficult task for artificial intelligence systems.
Facebook could, for instance, flag certain phrases such as “going to kill” or “going to shoot,” but without context — something AI in general has a lot of trouble with — there would be too many false positives for the company to analyze. So Facebook and other platforms rely on user reports to catch threats, harassment and other violations of the law or their own policies. As evidenced by the latest shootings, that often comes too late, if at all.
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
Even this kind of monitoring could soon be obsolete, since Meta plans to roll out end-to-end-encryption on its Facebook and Instagram messaging systems next year. Such encryption means that no one other than the sender and the recipient — not even Meta — can decipher people's messages. WhatsApp, also owned by Meta, already has such encryption.
A recent Meta-commissioned report emphasized the benefits of such privacy but also noted some risks -- including users who could abuse the encryption to sexually exploit children, facilitate human trafficking and spread hate speech.
Apple has long had end-to-end encryption on its messaging system. That has brought the iPhone maker into conflict with the Justice Department over messaging privacy. After the deadly shooting of three U.S. sailors at a Navy installation in December 2019, the Justice Department insisted that investigators needed access to data from two locked and encrypted iPhones that belonged to the alleged gunman, a Saudi aviation student.
Security experts say this could be done if Apple were to engineer a “backdoor” to allow access to messages sent by alleged criminals. Such a secret key would let them decipher encrypted information with a court order.
But the same experts warned that such backdoors into encryption systems make them inherently insecure. Just knowing that a backdoor exists is enough to focus the world’s spies and criminals on discovering the mathematical keys that could unlock it. And when they do, everyone’s information is essentially vulnerable to anyone with the secret key.
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Ko Im always thought she would live in New York forever. She knew every corner of Manhattan and had worked hard to build a community of friends. Living in a small apartment, she found her attitude shifting early in the pandemic. After her brother accepted a job in Seattle in the summer of 2020, she decided to move there too.
“It was fine until it wasn’t,” said Im, 36. “The pandemic really changed my mindset about how I wanted to live or how I needed to live.”
Eight of the 10 largest cities in the U.S. lost population during the first year of the pandemic, with New York, Los Angeles and Chicago leading the way. Between July 2020 and July 2021, New York lost more than 305,000 people, while Chicago and Los Angeles contracted by 45,000 residents and 40,000 people, respectively.
Although San Francisco’s not among the 10 largest cities, almost 55,000 residents left that city, or 6.3% of its 2020 population, the highest percentage of any U.S. city.
Among the 10 largest U.S. cities, only San Antonio and Phoenix gained new residents, but they added only about 13,000 people each, or less than 1% of their populations, according to 2021 vintage population estimates.
Justin Jordan’s move to Phoenix a year ago was motivated by a job offer paying him more money than the one in Moundsville, West Virginia, where he had been living. He has had to adjust to 110 degree Fahrenheit (43.3 degree Celsius) temperatures and unwieldly traffic.
“I love the weather, the atmosphere, and all the stuff to do,” said Jordan, 33, a senior operations manager for a business services firm.
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Among the largest U.S. cities, Austin and Fort Worth in Texas; Jacksonville, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Columbus, Ohio also registered modest population gains. Other cities that grew more than 5% were North Port and Port St. Lucie in Florida; Spring Hill, a city near Nashville, Tenn.; and three Idaho cities, Caldwell, Meridian and Nampa.
In March, the Census Bureau released estimates for metro areas and counties showing changes from mid-2020 to mid-2021. The estimates released Thursday offer a more granular perspective. For instance, the March data showed metro Dallas had the largest population gain of any metro area in the U.S., adding more than 97,000 residents, but Thursday’s estimates show the city of Dallas lost almost 15,000 residents. The growth occurred in Dallas suburbs like Frisco, McKinney and Plano.
Reasons for population changes vary from city to city, driven by housing costs, jobs, births and deaths. The pandemic and the lockdown that followed in spring 2020 made living in a crowded city less appealing for a time, and those who could leave -- workers who could do their jobs remotely, for example -- sometimes did.
Brookings Institution demographer William Frey said he believes the population declines in most of the largest U.S. cities from 2020 to 2021 are “short-lived and pandemic-related.”
When it came to growth rates, as opposed to raw numbers, the fastest-growing cities with populations of at least 50,000 residents were in the suburbs of booming Sunbelt metro areas. They included Georgetown and Leander outside Austin; the town of Queen Creek and the cities of Buckeye, Casa Grande and Maricopa, outside Phoenix; the city of New Braunfels, outside San Antonio; and Fort Myers, Florida. They had growth rates of between 6.1% and 10.5%.
As metro Austin has grown by leaps and bounds, so has Georgetown, located more than 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of the Texas capital, said Keith Hutchinson, the city’s communications manager. The city grew by 10.5%, the most in the nation last year, and now has 75,000 residents.
“It’s not really a surprise,” Hutchinson said. “People are moving here for jobs.”
The estimates also showed population declines of 3% to 3.5% in New Jersey cities outside New York, such as Union City, Hoboken and Bayonne. Similar declines occurred outside San Francisco in Daly City, Redwood City and San Mateo, as well as Cupertino in Silicon Valley.
Lake Charles, Louisiana, which was devastated by Hurricane Laura in 2020, lost almost 5% of its residents, the second-highest rate in the U.S. behind San Francisco.
Though the Category 4 storm was the driver there, elsewhere, the pandemic created opportunities to move. Andrew Mazur, 31, had been wanting for some time to leave Philadelphia for South Florida where he grew up, and the chance to work remotely in his job at a large professional services firm arrived in November 2020. He joined almost 25,000 residents who left Philadelphia between 2020 and 2021.
Although he now needs a car to get around, Mazur loves golfing every weekend and going to the beach. He recently moved out of his parents’ home, getting his own apartment in Fort Lauderdale. He made the move official three weeks ago by obtaining a Florida driver’s license.
“I’m not going back. It has been great,” Mazur said. “Philly, New York, Chicago — tons of people from there are moving down here.”
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Cops are looking for a 23-year-old Brooklyn woman who hasn't been seen in three weeks -- and while they haven't said they suspect foul play in her case, they do find her disappearance to be troubling, based on her history, police sources said Thursday.
Tijae Baker was last seen leaving her Wortman Avenue home in the middle of the afternoon -- around 3:30 p.m. -- on Sunday, May 1, according to the NYPD.
A man purporting to be a good friend of Baker's mother said the young woman just graduated and had gone to Washington, D.C., for a visit that day. She went missing after that, the man said, and was last seen at Union Station Bus Terminal in DC.
No one has heard from Baker since.
"Her family is distraught and asked if you can help by any information to help find their daughter," his post continued. "Please use the contact information below to get in touch with her family. Please Your help is desperately needed for the Baker family."
Police sources say Baker has no history of vanishing and describe her disappearance right now as a mystery. She is said to be about 5 feet 7 inches tall and 130 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
Baker was last seen wearing a black sweater, gray shorts and a white top, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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Northland Preparatory Academy (NPA) will be celebrating its 2022 graduates this week with an in-person ceremony today set to take place at Northern Arizona University's Ardrey Auditorium. Among its seniors are athletes, performers and student leaders.
Here's a look at two standouts from the class:
Claudette Wyard
“It’s honestly surreal,” Wyard said of her upcoming graduation. “I feel like I was just starting in sixth grade. It went by way too quick, but I’m also very excited to start a new chapter and go to college and meet new people and get new experiences. It’s bittersweet.”
She said she liked the school’s small, “tight-knit” atmosphere.
“I think the largest class I’ve been in is like 20 people, so we know the teachers really well. It’s just a really nice, small community,” she said.
For similar reasons, Wyard’s favorite class was her seventh period this year: Government with Sheleena Schorey.
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“She is just one of the best teachers, she is so sweet and kind, and our seventh period was really tiny, so we were all super comfortable with each other. It was really great. I loved ending every day with that class,” she said.
Wyard has tried several sports during her time at NPA, playing volleyball her freshman and sophomore years, and track freshman year and tennis sophomore year. She is hoping to try intramural sports in college with her roommate, specifically volleyball and tennis.
“I think that’d be fun,” she said.
In addition to being secretary of the school’s National Honors Society, she’s been in student council since her sophomore year, serving as treasurer her senior year.
“I wanted to be more involved in the community because I really love NPA,” she said of her reason for joining student council.
The student council helps plan several events at NPA, including the Back to School Social and Prom.
As treasurer, Wyard was in charge of making the dance tickets. They also put on a volleyball fundraiser this year to benefit local nonprofit Over the Rainbow Butterfly Garden.
“We got so many people to come and raise a lot of money -- which is great,” Wyard said.
After graduation, Wyard will be going to Arizona State University, and says that what most excited her about ASU was “a new atmosphere.”
“I love Flagstaff, I really do, but it is a small mountain town and I’m excited to be in a big city with a bunch of people that I don’t know and meet new people and form new bonds," she said.
She plans to major in business with a concentration in law.
“I’ve always been interested in law, and my dad always told me that his dad always told him that everything in life is a business, so that’s the best major to get,” she said.
She’s not sure how law fits into the picture just yet but “wanted to choose a major I’m interested in.”
“I’ve noticed that if I’m passionate about something, I learn better,” she said.
She hopes to one day become an actress, however.
“Acting is an industry and a business, so if I take business, I’ll be able to understand contracts for myself and be able to support myself,” she said.
She began acting this year in the TheatriKids production of “The Burn” and described the experience as “amazing.”
“All my life, I wanted to act, but I was always told it’s stupid, it’s not realistic, it’s a one-in-a-million chance, so I never really let myself do it,” she said. “But this year, after people were like, ‘What do you want to do with your life?’ I finally realized I should only go after what I really want to do.”
She talked to her friend Emmy, who had acted with Theatrikos before and who told her they were currently holding auditions. They went together and Wyard made cast.
“It was more fun than I expected,” she said of the experience. “Everyone was way more supportive than I was expecting. It was my first time and they made me feel so welcome. It was also scarier, because it was a play, versus like a live performance, which is harder than TV or movies I feel like. And then, also, the play was set up in a way where you don’t leave the stage at all until the very last scene. So it wasn’t like I could go backstage and decompress. I had to be there the whole time and it was really scary. “
Her advice for younger students is to find their passion.
“I think it’s so important to prioritize what you like to do and not try to be a certain person to look good on college applications or for other people, because ultimately what you do is going to make you happy or unhappy,” she said. “So if you’re doing things that you like and that you’re passionate about, you’ll be happy, and if you’re acting and doing things you don’t like, then you’re not going to be happy.”
Malakai Hanson
Hanson described his time at NPA as “very chaotic.”
“Lots of sports, so never really a break, but the environment I really like because a smaller environment allows me to have a closer friend group,” he said.
Hanson plays a sport for almost every season: cross country, basketball and track.
He started early on all three, inspired by his parents. His mom was a collegiate athlete and runner who inspired him to start cross country in elementary school, he said, and his dad has been his basketball coach since he was 7. He has played all three sports at NPA since he came to the school as a sixth-grader.
“The coaches for sure have been super supportive,” Hanson said. “I’ve been around all, and a lot of them have changed throughout the years for every single sport, but it’s been really beneficial to have bonding — especially since your friends are part of it. Being a part of team sports, your friendship gets a lot closer in school and out of school.”
He advised other students to seek out these kinds of relationships.
“Make sure that you keep a close friend group and that you surround yourself with adults that that are going to impact your life positively,” he said. “Especially the coaches are the ones I would go to the most for advice.”
Hanson’s favorite class at NPA has been guitar, he said. He’s played the instrument since he was 8. NPA’s classes started in eighth grade, so after lessons in elementary school and “on the side,” he’s been part of those classes since.
“I’ve had the same kids in my class ever since eighth grade and we’ve all grown [together],” he said. “…It’s also fun to just be around them in class every day.”
Both of the guitar teachers -- Thomas Byers and Josh Moore -- "have been my favorite teachers so far,” he added.
“They’ve both had really big impacts on my instrumental life and personal experience,” he said.
Hanson said his older brother had inspired him to start playing the instrument.
“He’s been playing it for a long time and he got really good at it,” he said. “So I thought, ‘Why not try?’”
Hanson said he’s both excited and nervous for his upcoming graduation.
“I'm nervous about leaving Arizona and attending an out-of-state college, [but] I’m also really excited about the new friendships and new relations I’m gonna have,” he said.
He’ll be heading to Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, to study kinesiology and sports medicine.
His brother went to the college, and their parents had met in Colorado, so Hanson said he’d “always enjoyed” the state.
“Colorado has always been one of my favorite places, because its really similar to Flagstaff, a really good community outdoors,” he said.
Hanson’s plan is to go into some kind of sports medicine or physical therapy. He’s taking Sports Medicine this year and said teacher Jennifer Cyphers helped spark his interest in the field.
“She’s been from school to school, she really enjoys the personal side of that. It's been cool getting to know her through athletics and in class,” he said.
Hanson said he was grateful for the support he’d received in his time at school.
“I want to say thank you to my coaches, family, friends and especially my parents, for all the support throughout the years and helping this process to college be so much easier,” he said.
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The Northern Arizona Care and Services After Assault (NACASA) program celebrated its 20th anniversary recently.
Representatives from North Country Healthcare (NCHC), Victim Witness Services (VWS), Navajo County family advocacy center and sexual assault nurse examiners from Northern Arizona Healthcare gathered for a small reception May 11 to celebrate the occasion.
According to its website, the program is intended to be “a safe place for adult and adolescent victims of sexual assault and domestic violence strangulation to go to for help and to explore their options after an assault.”
NACASA started in 2002, under VWS, providing medical forensic examinations to victims of sexual assault. It was originally known as the Northern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault, changing its name in 2017. The program moved to NCHC in 2007, as the original model was no longer sustainable.
Forensic nurse examiners (FNEs) with NACASA performed 53 medical exams in 2007, growing to provide 137 in 2019. The COVID-19 pandemic created a decreased exam rate of about 30% in 2020 and 2021, though, according to NCHC, the number of exams has been rising in 2022 so far.
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NACASA has since expanded to provide examinations in Navajo and Apache counties. In 2014, Coconino County began funding exams for intimate partner violence strangulation as well as for sexual assault, in line with International Association of Forensic Nursing best practices.
The program currently also provides emergency contraception, sexually transmitted infection prevention medication and a variety of survivor support services.
More about the program is available at northcountryhealthcare.org/community-programs/sexual-assault-support or by calling 928-522-9460.
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Northern Arizona Healthcare’s (NAH) Orthopedic and Spine Institute will be offering low-cost screenings to Flagstaff students on Friday, June 3, through a one-day sports physical clinic.
It is the second year the Orthopedic and Spine Institute has provided these screenings.
The clinic will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Orthopedic and Spine Institute, located at 106 E. Oak Ave, Suite 101. No appointments are necessary, but a signed release from a parent or guardian is required. Screenings cost $10 and will take approximately one hour.
Releases are available at the Orthopedic and Spine Institute and at aiaonline.org/about/forms. Forms 15.7A and 15.7B must be printed out and brought to the clinic. Form 15.7A must be completed prior to attending, and the name, birth date, age and sex sections of 15.7B must be filled out prior to the appointment.
All school athletes need to complete a preseason physical to be able to participate in fall sports. High school and grade school athletes can both receive physicals at this clinic.
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“The sports physicals will include internal medicine, baseline sway concussion testing and orthopedic and cardiac clearance,” according to a press release. “The tests will be performed by internal medicine physicians, orthopedic physicians and surgeons, cardiologists, athletic trainers and physical therapists. All proceeds from the physicals are donated back to the student’s school to benefit the sports medicine program.”
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Dr. Jennifer Whitehair of Tuba City Regional Health Care Corp. (TCRHCC) received an award from the American College of Gynecologists May 7 for her work with women’s health in the Navajo Nation.
The Outstanding American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s Healthcare Clinician Award is also known as the H.J. Heffner Award. The award’s announcement noted Whitehair’s “career-long commitment to the highest standards of clinical care for American Indian and Alaskan Native women.”
“It is a privilege to serve the women of the Navajo Nation and be their obstetrician and gynecologist,“ Whitehair said. “I am thankful for their trust and acceptance in the community. I hope to continue to advocate for Indigenous women’s health for many more years to come.
Whitehair, a Flagstaff resident, has worked at TCRHCC for the last 16 years. She is a board-certified Navajo Obstetrician and Gynecologist.
“TCRHCC is fortunate to have such a skilled OB-GYN physician taking care of our women’s health,” said CEO Lynette Bonar in a press release. “Dr. Whitehair is very deserving for this award, as her intimate knowledge of our AI/AN communities provides her insight on how she approaches and incorporates the unique challenges present across the western part of the Navajo Nation.”
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After receiving a bachelor’s in microbiology professions from Northern Arizona University, a master's at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine and completing an OB-GYN residency at the University of Arizona, Whitehair returned to Tuba City in 2006. She is the chief of surgical services and staff OB-GYN at TCRHCC and is a clinical assistant professor of OB-GYN at UofA’s school of medicine.
“Dr. Whitehair’s desire to help began while growing up in Southern California,” according to a press release. “The passion to return to the Navajo reservation and help her people is what led her to the field of medicine.”
During the pandemic, Whitehair coordinated with organizations to deliver food and supplies such as masks, hand sanitizer and cleaning products to the Navajo Nation.
In December 2021, Whitehair testified on improving maternal morbidity and mortality in the Indigenous community at the White House’s Maternal Health Hearing.
“Women of color carry a disproportionate burden of maternal mortality. In Arizona alone, American Indian women and Alaskan Native women had the highest pregnancy associated mortality ration and 100% of these deaths were considered to be preventable,” she said in her testimony.
She also noted that American Indians and Alaska Natives had the highest maternal morbidity rate–over 3.5 times the rate for non-Hispanic white women–and that rural communities also tended to have higher mortality rates.
“It’s important for this data to be analyzed and mandates to be enforced to change this trajectory for the future of our people,” she said.
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'Lifesaver' Emergency Alert FM system training in Shasta County starts Thursday
Rural Shasta County residents like Cindy Shaw are eager to tap into a new system that will broadcast alerts about wildfires or other disasters.
But Shaw, who’s lived in Oak Run for more than 30 years, earlier this week said she hasn’t ordered an Alert FM receiver yet. That’s because the system, which uses FM radio signals to send out potentially life-saving alerts, hasn’t been activated to send out customized wildfire alerts.
Supply-chain disruptions and the process to train emergency dispatchers are among the reasons for the delay, Shasta County public information officer Tim Mapes said on Tuesday after a Record Searchlight reporter emailed him with questions about the delays.
On Thursday, emergency dispatchers will be trained on the Alert FM system on how to send out alerts for wildfire evacuations and other customized alerts, Mapes said.
That's good news for residents like Shaw and Jane Andersen, also an Oak Run resident, who told the Record Searchlight that they had been frustrated with the delays.
Shaw said she attended a meeting about the Alert FM system in February at the Sheraton Hotel in Redding.
“We were told it could be the end of April. We are at the end of May,” she told the Record Searchlight.
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The Board of Supervisors late last year approved a $935,000 contract for Alert FM to provide an alternative to what is already available for broadcast alerts to rural Shasta County residents.
The thought is the radio signal won't go down during a fire, which can cause power outages, damage cell phone towers and knock out service. There also are many people in Shasta County who live in areas that can't get cell service or where the signal is spotty.
“It’s a lifesaver when we are out of power,” Shaw said.
Shaw said the receivers can run off batteries and she can take it with her in her car.
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Both Andersen and Shaw are members of the Oak Run Firewise Council, a group that promotes wildfire safety and prevention in their community. They said the fire season has started in earnest and each day that passes without activation is critical.
"But, you know, what the end result is, it's positive, so it's good. We are very glad," Andersen said of the news that training will start Thursday. "Through communication, we had some very positive results."
"We are going to keep on top of them and hopefully they will make an announcement after tomorrow that the training is complete and we can move forward," Shaw said Wednesday.
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Matthew Straeb, executive vice president of Alert FM, said weather and earthquake alerts, both of which are automated messages, are already available in Shasta County.
Five local radio stations are connected to the Alert FM system in Shasta County.
"Based on testing, they are adding three additional FM stations to provide redundancy and fill any gaps," Mapes said.
Shasta County residents can purchase the radio receivers by going to alertfm.com/store. They can also call 1-866-869-5180. Mapes said there are 6,000 Alert FM receivers in stock at the company's distribution center in Chico.
Supply chain issues, increase in the cost to manufacture the devices and a rise in shipping costs have pushed the retail cost for the receivers to $99, up from about $60, Straeb said.
But help for income eligible residents is expected to come from a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. $50,000 grant. The grants still have to be approved by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors, Mapes said.
"We will be working with the sheriff's office to properly establish a fair and equitable program for dissemination of these receivers if and once the (the grant is) approved," Mapes said.
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