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PARIS (AP) — The former president of the Louvre museum has received preliminary charges for alleged antiquities trafficking during his tenure as head of the famous Paris museum.
Police in the French capital charged Jean-Luc Martinez on Wednesday with “complicity in organized fraud” and money laundering, according to the Paris prosecutors’ office.
The prosecutor’s office said that two of Martinez’ former colleagues in the Louvre’s Egyptian antiquities department were also taken into custody this week but released without charges.
The Paris prosecutor’s office would not confirm French media reports saying that the three men were suspected of taking part in the trafficking of priceless heritage pieces.
According to Le Canard Enchaine newspaper, investigators were looking into whether Martinez “turned a blind eye” to false certificates of provenance for five Egyptian antiquities.
The newspaper said the pieces including a granite Tutankhamun stele or slab sold in 2016 when the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, a branch of the Paris museum, acquired several Egyptian antiquities for tens of millions of euros (dollars).
Martinez stepped down last year as the Louvre’s president, a post he had held since 2013. He now serves as an ambassador for international cooperation in the field of heritage. The museum’s current president is Laurence de Cars.
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Ray Liotta, the blue-eyed actor best known for playing mobster Henry Hill in “Goodfellas” and baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 67.
Liotta’s publicist, Jen Allen, said he was in the Dominican Republic shooting a new movie and didn’t wake up Thursday morning. Police in the Dominican Republic said they received a call just before 6 a.m. Thursday at a hotel where Liotta was staying with his fiancee and found the actor dead.
Robert De Niro, who co-starred with Liotta in “Goodfellas,” said in an emailed statement that he was saddened by Liotta’s passing. “He is way too way young to have left us,” De Niro said.
Another “Goodfellas” star, Lorraine Bracco, who played Henry’s wife Karen Hill, tweeted Thursday that she could be “anywhere in the world & people will come up & tell me their favorite movie is Goodfellas. Then they always ask what was the best part of making that movie. My response has always been the same…Ray Liotta.”
Liotta was also mourned by Alessandro Nivola, who recently appeared with him in “The Sopranos” prequel “The Many Saints of Newark,” and by the film’s writer and producer David Chase. Nivola called Liotta “dangerous, unpredictable, hilarious, and generous with his praise for other actors.” Chase said in a statement that “We all felt we lucked out having him on that movie.”
The Newark, New Jersey, native was born in 1954 and adopted at age six months out of an orphanage by a township clerk and an auto parts owner. Liotta always assumed he was mostly Italian — the movies did too. But later in life while searching for his birth parents, he discovered he’s actually Scottish.
Though he grew up focused on playing sports, including baseball, during his senior year of high school, the drama teacher asked him if he wanted to be in a play, which he agreed to on a lark. Whether he knew it or not at the time, it planted a seed, though he still assumed he’d end up working construction. And later, at the University of Miami he picked drama and acting because they had no math requirement attached. He would often say in interviews that he only started auditioning for plays because a pretty girl told him to. But it set him on a course. After graduation, he got an agent and soon he got his first big break on the soap opera “Another World.”
It would take a few years for him to land his first big movie role, in Jonathan Demme’s “Something Wild” as Melanie Griffith’s character’s hotheaded ex-convict husband Ray. He was 30 years old at the time and hadn’t had a steady job in five years. In an interview in 1993, he told The Associated Press that he wanted to get the part on his own merits even though he knew Griffith. When that didn’t work, he “phoned Melanie.
“I hated doing it, because that’s politics for me; calling someone to help you out. But I kind of realize that’s part of what it’s all about,” he said.
The turn earned him a Golden Globe nomination. A few years later, he would get the memorable role of the ghost of Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams.” Though it moved many to tears, it wasn’t without its critics. Liotta remembered hearing a baseball announcer during a Mets game complain that he batted the opposite way Joe Jackson did.
“(Bleep) you! He didn’t come back from the dead either!” Liotta recalled thinking.
Liotta’s most iconic role, as real life mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” came shortly after. He and Scorsese had to fight for it though, with multiple auditions and pleas to the studio to cast the still relative unknown.
Scorsese said Thursday that Liotta was “so uniquely gifted, so adventurous, so courageous as an actor.”
“Playing Henry Hill in Good Fellas was a tall order, because the character had so many different facets, so many complicated layers, and Ray was in almost every scene of a long, tough shoot,” the director said in a statement. “He absolutely amazed me, and I’ll always be proud of the work we did together on that picture.”
Roger Ebert, in his review, wrote that “Goodfellas” solidified Liotta (and Bracco) as “two of our best new movie actors.”
“He creates the emotional center for a movie that is not about the experience of being a Mafioso, but about the feeling,” Ebert continued.
In a 2012 interview, Liotta said that, “Henry Hill isn’t that edgy of a character. It’s really the other guys who are doing all the actual killings. The one physical thing he does do, when he goes after the guy who went after Karen — you know, most audiences, they actually like him for that.”
In the same interview, he marveled at how “Goodfellas” had a “life of its own” and has only grown over time.
“People watch it over and over, and still respond to it, and different ages come up, even today, teenagers come up to me and they really emotionally connect to it,” he said.
It didn’t matter the size of the role, or even the genre, Liotta always managed to stand out and steal scenes in both dramas and comedies, whether as Johnny Depp’s father in “Blow” or Adam Driver’s bullish divorce lawyer in “Marriage Story.”
Mafiosos seemed to be his specialty (he even narrated an AMC docu-series called “The Making of the Mob”), though he was wary of being typecast. He turned down the part of Ralphie on “The Sopranos” because of it. But he’d still end up playing a mob type with James Gandolfini in Andrew Dominik’s “Killing Them Softly.” And later, he would pay his own ticket to audition for “The Many Saints of Newark.”
“I’m really not sure what made me so determined,” he told The Guardian last year. “But I was and luckily it all worked out.”
Liotta also often played various law enforcement types, from cops and detectives to federal agents in films as diverse as “Unlawful Entry,” “Cop Land,” “Narc,” “The Place Beyond the Pines” and “Observe and Report.” Many were corrupt.
He got to be a victim of Hannibal Lecter in the 2001 film “Hannibal” and played Frank Sinatra in the TV movie “The Rat Pack,” which got him a Screen Actors Guild nomination. For gamers, he’s immortalized as the voice of Tommy Vercetti in the video game “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.” He also starred opposite Jennifer Lopez in the series “Shades of Blue.”
His only regret, he once told the Los Angeles Times, was turning down a meeting to talk to Tim Burton about starring in “Batman.”
Liotta has one daughter, Karsen, with ex-wife Michelle Grace and was engaged to be married to Jacy Nittolo at the time of his death.
He also had a number of projects recently wrapped and upcoming, including “Cocaine Bear,” directed by Elizabeth Banks, which is supposed to come out in February, and the Apple TV+ crime series “Black Bird,” developed by Dennis Lehane and starring Taron Egerton and Paul Walter Hauser. He was due to start another film soon too: “The Substance” with Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley.
“The business is rough, no matter where you’re at in your career,” Liotta said in 2012. “There’s always some reason for them to say no to you — that part of it is horrible… But the job itself — making people believe that what they’re seeing is really happening—that’s still a challenge, putting that puzzle together. You know, what can I say, I still like playing pretend. And it’s sure a fun way to make a living.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Phillipa Soo says she noticed a change in the audience immediately.
News had just dropped of the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, and there was a different vibe coming from the audience at “Suffs,” in which the former “Hamilton” star plays an early 20th-century suffragist. Some audience members at the Public Theater seemed to be clearly feeling a link, she says, between two struggles 100 years apart — over a woman’s vote, and over women’s reproductive rights.
“There’s a difference in how people were hearing this play,” says Soo, who plays real-life labor lawyer and activist Inez Milholland in the musical. She describes “audience members literally reaching their hands up in solidarity with what we’re saying — in the same week that all of this stuff was happening in the news surrounding abortion and bodily autonomy.”
“Suffs” creator and star Shaina Taub had the same feeling that Tuesday in early May. That afternoon, Taub had led many of her cast members in song — “How Long,” a cry for liberty — at a lower Manhattan rally reacting to the Supreme Court leak. Taub told the crowd how the scene, with protesters and their giant banners, looked strikingly like a suffrage rally a century earlier. “I wanted to write a play that was there for us on days like that,” Taub says.
It was one of many impactful moments the cast recalls of an eventful, emotional run that began in April with huge buzz and advance sales, then was sorely challenged by COVID-19, forcing some 20 canceled shows including opening night itself. Extended three times, the run now closes May 29, and there are certainly hopes of a renewed life elsewhere.
“I think the show should live on and give as many people as possible the opportunity to see it,” says director Leigh Silverman, asked if there were hopes of a Broadway transfer. “That’s my hope for it.”
In interviews, the cast and creatives of “Suffs,” which covers the final years leading to passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, recalled an emotional visit from Gloria Steinem, two nights after the feminist icon’s 88th birthday (the cast serenaded her). And another emotional one from Hillary Clinton, who had pointedly worn the suffragists’ color of white to accept the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. (She also wore it to the inauguration of her rival, Donald Trump.)
“My only regret is she wasn’t there in her capacity as president,” Taub says of the woman who would have cracked the ultimate glass ceiling. But she adds: “At the end of the show we sing “Don’t forget our failure. Don’t forget our fight.’ Who will make it?… The next one will.”
Taub stars as Alice Paul, a fiercely determined leader who not only waged hunger strikes and endured brutal forced feedings in jail to achieve suffrage, but immediately afterward started work on a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing women equal rights under the law — what’s now called the Equal Rights Amendment (and still isn’t law).
But Taub, like most people, had never learned in school about Paul and her cohorts. In college at New York University, Taub studied earlier social movements but not the women who changed history in the early 20th century. When she read “Jailed for Freedom” by suffragist Doris Stevens, Taub thought: “These women could be a musical.” She dove down a research rabbit hole for several years, “poring over footnotes and bibliographies… searching for breadcrumbs.”
It was perhaps inevitable that the show, birthed on the same off-Broadway stage as the juggernaut “Hamilton,” would become known as sort of a female version — a “Hermilton,” as some dubbed it.
“Quite frankly, I’m thrilled,” Soo says of the comparison, “because it’s another example of how art can get people excited about history, about being a citizen, about being involved in democracy.”
But the task was different. “Hamilton,” about the nation’s founding fathers, “took a story that we knew or thought we knew, and flipped it,” director Silverman says. “(With) our show there was nothing to flip because nobody knows anything. And so we had a very different kind of responsibility — and also challenge.”
Telling the story isn’t easy. The suffrage movement was full of competing characters and clashing leadership styles. And it lasted roughly a century (“Suffs” comes in for the final decade or so.)
Jenn Colella, a Tony nominee from “Come From Away,” plays Carrie Chapman Catt, an old-guard suffragist who was challenged by the much younger Paul. She, too, says she came into the show “a complete blank slate.”
”I felt a little embarrassed, having not known any of these women’s names,” she says. A dinner with Silverman, who explained the goals of the musical, moved her to tears. She was sold: “This feels like exactly where I’m supposed to be in my life, in my career, the kinds of shows I want to align myself with.“
Tears were also Colella’s response when she first heard her costar, Nikki M. James, sing the powerful “Wait My Turn” as Ida B. Wells, the Black journalist and activist who fought for racial and gender justice. The song, an emotional highpoint of the show, is a biting response to how Black suffragists were sidelined by their white counterparts. Colella calls it “that moment where every piece of your flesh stands on end and you know something important is happening.”
James, a Tony winner for “The Book of Mormon,” notes that despite the density of the play, it still can only touch on five or six main characters: “There’s hundreds more where they came from.”
James recalls how throughout its development, “Suffs” was impacted by events in the outside world. The protests over George Floyd’s murder by police prompted Taub to add more of a racial dimension. And when the Supreme Court draft leaked that would overturn Roe, which guarantees abortion rights nationwide, James says it felt like some of Taub’s lyrics had been written for that very moment. That night, she says, “I walked on stage and I had an inability to be an actor. I felt tears streaming down my face, because the work is never over.”
As the run draws to a close, the cast of about 20 — and comprised solely of female and non-binary actors — has been enjoying the interplay with audience members who approach them after the show saying they want to learn more.
“You know, we’ve opened a lot of doors and left a lot of breadcrumbs,” Soo says, noting that younger women in particular express gratitude to cast members for telling a story they’d never heard.
“And so now everyone’s just like, ‘Wait a minute. I didn’t know that. Well, what now?’” Soo says. “’How do I keep going?’”
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MADRID (AP) — A court in Spain on Thursday dismissed Colombian singer Shakira’s appeal in a tax fraud case, paving the way for a trial after a judge previously concluded there was enough evidence to suggest the pop star may have avoided her fiscal obligations to the state.
The case first made headlines in December 2018 after Spanish prosecutors charged the singer with failing to pay 14.5 million euros ($15.5 million) in taxes on income earned between 2012 and 2014.
Shakira, 45, denied any wrongdoing when she testified in June 2019.
At the heart of the legal wrangling is the question of the singer’s residence: Prosecutors allege she lived mostly in Spain despite having an official residence in the Bahamas.
In its decision issued Thursday, the Spanish court said the evidence suggests Shakira was “a habitual resident in Spain,” adding that documentation failed to substantiate her residence for tax purposes in another country.
The court upheld a July ruling in which Spanish Judge Marco Juberías wrote that his three-year probe found there existed “sufficient evidence of criminality” for the case to go to trial.
Shakira’s public relations firm said Thursday that she had immediately paid what she owed once she was informed of the debt by Spain’s Tax Office.
“Shakira’s conduct on tax matters has always been impeccable in all the countries where she has had to pay taxes, and she has trusted and faithfully followed the recommendations of the best specialists and expert advisors,” the P.R. firm said in a statement.
Shakira’s legal team will continue to “defend her innocence,” according to the statement.
The singer faces a possible fine and a prison sentence, if found guilty of tax evasion. However, a judge can waive prison time for first-time offenders if they are sentenced to less than two years behind bars.
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City of Mason City offices will be closed on Monday for the Memorial Day holiday. This includes City Hall and other city offices and facilities.
Sanitation staff will not be running routes on Monday according to a release. The make-up day for garbage, recyclable and yard waste collection service for those who normally have pick-up on this day will be Wednesday, June 1 and must be set out by 7 a.m.
The public transit buses will not operate on Memorial Day.
Abby covers education and entertainment for the Globe Gazette. Follow her on Twitter at @MkayAbby. Email her at Abby.Koch@GlobeGazette.com
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andy “Fletch” Fletcher, the unassuming, bespectacled, red-headed keyboardist who for more than 40 years added his synth sounds to Depeche Mode hits like “Just Can’t Get Enough” and “Personal Jesus,” has died at age 60.
Depeche Mode announced the death of founding member Fletcher on its official social media pages.
A person close to the band said Fletcher died Thursday from natural causes at his home in the United Kingdom. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
“We are shocked and filled with overwhelming sadness with the untimely passing of our dear friend, family member and bandmate Andy ‘Fletch’ Fletcher,” the band’s posts said. “Fletch had a true heart of gold and was always there when you needed support, a lively conversation, a good laugh, or a cold pint.”
Fletcher formed the group that would become giants of British electro-pop along with fellow synthesizer players Vince Clarke and Martin Gore, and lead singer Dave Gahan, in Basildon, England in 1980.
The band would break out a year later with their debut album “Speak and Spell,” which opened with the modest hit “New Life” and closed with one of the band’s enduring hits, “Just Can’t Get Enough.”
Clarke would leave the group and be replaced by Alan Wilder after the album.
The group would find international success with 1984’s “Some Great Reward” and the single “People are People,” and their prominence would only grow throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
Fletcher would lend his keyboards to classic albums including “Music for the Masses,” “Black Celebration” and “Violator.”
The first of these led to a world tour that brought a live album, a documentary, and a legendary concert at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, that represented the pinnacle of the band’s prominence.
A fan of soccer team Chelsea FC with a penchant for chess, Fletcher assumed a low-profile in the group. He did not sing or write songs, and his face never as familiar as those of his bandmates.
“Martin’s the songwriter, Alan’s the good musician, Dave’s the vocalist, and I bum around,” he said in the tour documentary, “101.”
But Fletch was a uniting figure and often the tiebreaking vote in the squabbles of his more famous bandmates.
He also occasionally played bass in the band.
Depeche Mode was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. Gahan, Fletcher and Gore had to accept the honor remotely along with all the other inductees in the pandemic year. As usual, Fletcher let his bandmates do nearly all the talking.
His death leaves Gahan and Gore as the only permanent members.
Fletcher’s musical peers paid him tribute as word of his death spread.
“His keyboard sounds crafted not just Depeche Mode’s sonic approach but shifted the direction of Techno, EDM, Downtempo, Triphop, & Electronica. Crucial loss,” Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid tweeted.
The Pet Shop Boys said on Twitter that he was “a warm, friendly and funny person who loved electronic music.”
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark tweeted that he was a “beautiful person in an amazing band.”
The eldest of four siblings, Fletcher was born in Basildon and raised in Nottingham, England.
He became childhood friends with Clarke, and with singer Alison Moyet, who would form Yazoo (known as Yaz in the U.S.) with Clarke after he left Depeche Mode.
“Since we were 10,” Moyet tweeted Thursday. “Same estate. Class mates to label mates. He who kept faith with all the old gang and they with him. It doesn’t compute. Fletch. I have no words.”
As teens, Fletcher and Clarke would form the short-lived group “No Romance.”
With Gore, who Fletcher met at a pub in Basildon in 1980, they formed the trio Composition of Sound, with all three playing synthesizer. Gahan was recruited into the group later in the year, and the name was changed to Depeche Mode.
Fletcher would remain with the group until his death, though reported struggles with depression in 1994 spurred him to sit out part of a tour.
He started his own record label, Toast Hawaii, in 2002, releasing an album by the band CLIENT.
Fletcher would perform DJ sets at the band’s live shows, which he continued to do at festivals and clubs after he and CLIENT parted ways.
Fletcher is survived by his wife of nearly 30 years Gráinne Mullan, and their children Megan and Joe.
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LONDON (AP) — Indian writer Geetanjali Shree and American translator Daisy Rockwell won the International Booker Prize on Thursday for “Tomb of Sand,” a vibrant novel with a boundary-crossing 80-year-old heroine.
Originally written in Hindi, it’s the first book in any Indian language to win the high-profile award, which recognizes fiction from around the world that has been translated into English. The 50,000-pound ($63,000) prize money will be split between New Delhi-based Shree and Rockwell, who lives in Vermont.
Translator Frank Wynne, who chaired the judging panel, said the judges “overwhelmingly” chose “Tomb of Sand” after “a very passionate debate.”
The book tells the story of an octogenarian widow who dares to cast off convention and confront the ghosts of her experiences during the subcontinent’s tumultuous 1947 partition into India and Pakistan.
Wynne said that despite confronting traumatic events, “it is an extraordinarily exuberant and incredibly playful book.”
“It manages to take issues of great seriousness — bereavement, loss, death — and conjure up an extraordinary choir, almost a cacophony, of voices,” he said.
“It is extraordinarily fun and it is extraordinarily funny.”
Shree’s book beat five other finalists including Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk, Claudia Piñeiro of Argentina and South Korean author Bora Chung to be awarded the prize at a ceremony in London.
The International Booker Prize is awarded every year to a translated work of fiction published in the U.K. or Ireland. It is run alongside the Booker Prize for English-language fiction.
The prize was set up to boost the profile of fiction in other languages — which accounts for only a small share of books published in Britain — and to salute the often unacknowledged work of literary translators.
Wynne said the prize aimed to show that at “literature in translation is not some form of cod liver oil that is supposed to be good for you.”
“Tomb of Sand” is published in Britain by small publisher Tilted Axis Press. It was founded by translator Deborah Smith — who won the 2016 International Booker for translating Han Kang’s “The Vegetarian” — to publish books from Asia.
The novel has not yet been published in the United States, but Wynne said he expected that to change with “a flurry of offers” after its Booker victory.
In Britain, “I would be gobsmacked if it didn’t increase its sales by more than 1,000% in the next week,” Wynne said. “Possibly more.”
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, made a visit to a memorial site for the victims involved in the deadly elementary school shooting in Texas.
Meghan placed white flowers tied with a purple ribbon at a memorial outside the Uvalde County Courthouse on Thursday. She paid her respects after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers Tuesday at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
The Duchess of Sussex lives in California with her husband Prince Harry and their two children. She took the trip to Texas in a personal capacity as a mother to offer her condolences and support in person to a “community experiencing unimaginable grief,” according to her spokesperson.
Meghan left the flowers at the memorial and stood with her arms crossed while she looked at the memorials.
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CALIFORNIA, USA — This story was originally published by CalMatters.
When Ashley Raveche and her husband bought their home in Mill Valley, they thought they were doing everything right. The 1,300 square foot house already had vents with screens that make it harder for embers to get in and a tar and gravel roof, top-rated for fire safety. They installed double-paned windows, which are less likely to explode under extreme heat. They cut down four trees within 10 feet of their house. They kept the gutter and roof clear, and the local fire marshal performed an annual inspection.
But their efforts — totaling more than $10,000, by Raveche’s estimation — weren’t enough to insure their home in Marin County. In February, their insurance company said it wouldn’t renew the policy because the “risk is unacceptable”
“I panicked,” she said. “I was just like, ‘This is too much, we are doing absolutely everything we possibly can.’”
It was the second time an insurance company had declined to renew her home insurance coverage in five years, she said.
In response to wildfires that have blazed across the state, some Californians have spent thousands of dollars trying to fireproof their homes — often at the urging of state and local officials — to reduce their risk of burning. But some have confronted an unpleasant reality: Taking those steps doesn’t prevent their premiums from ballooning, or keep them from being dropped by their insurance company.
Now the California Department of Insurance has proposed new rules that would require insurance companies to take homeowners’ preventative steps into account when setting premiums. The rules would also require companies to be more transparent about how they gauge a home’s wildfire risk.
But some consumer groups are ringing alarms about what they see as loopholes that would leave homeowners stuck, like Raveche, with a fire-hardened home and a non-renewal letter. Insurance industry trade groups, on the other hand, worry that the rules are getting ahead of science, and that transparency requirements would expose intellectual property.
The agency plans to have the rules finalized this summer.
New fire insurance guidelines
The proposed rules, rolled out in February, require insurance companies to do several things, including:
- Make the models or tools they use to assess wildfire risk public, and require that companies send individual policyholders their wildfire risk scores on a regular basis
- Explain to policyholders what specific factors influenced each consumer’s score, what they could do to lower their score, and how much they can expect to see their premium go down if they take the actions outlined by the insurance company
- When setting prices, insurers would have to take into account whether a homeowner or commercial property owner has reduced a property’s wildfire risk by taking specified steps, including clearing vegetation from under decks and installing fire-resistant vents
- When setting prices, insurers would have to take into account whether a home is in one of three types of fire risk-reduction communities, such as Firewise.
The state Department of Insurance also proposed giving policyholders the right to appeal their wildfire risk scores.
Part of the goal is to provide incentives to more people to protect their properties from wildfires. “Money is tight for most people,” said Amy Bach, executive director of United Policyholders, a consumer group. “If I have a choice between spending money on taking out my favorite tree, and, like, buying a new flatscreen, I’m going to buy a new flatscreen, right?” There has to be a compelling reason for people to do things they don’t want to do, she said.
“Home hardening” is aimed at reducing a house’s risk of burning during a blaze. There’s evidence to suggest it works, too: A 2020 study from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners found that “structural modifications can reduce wildfire risk up to 40%, and structural and vegetation modifications combined can reduce wildfire risk up to 75%.”
California already regulates insurance more than a lot of other products. Insurers, for example, can’t just increase their prices whenever they want to — they have to submit their pricing plans to the insurance department for approval. But, says Bach, that’s in part because they have an advantage most industries don’t: People must buy their product in order to get a mortgage.
“They sell economic security,” said Bach. “They have a special obligation.”
That’s why it’s stressful for homeowners when an insurance company decides it will no longer cover them.
When homeowners can’t find a private company to cover them, they can turn to the state-created FAIR Plan, which offers bare bones coverage, often at higher cost. Coverage through the FAIR Plan is intended as “a temporary safety net” until a homeowner can find other coverage.
“A loophole that can swallow the rule”
Steve Poizner, who lives 15 minutes from the San Jose airport, said he took some extra steps to protect his home after an insurance agent came out to inspect the property. He said he upgraded his fireproof vents and cleared vegetation around the house, and the company gave him a policy.
“That was that. For years,” Poizner told CalMatters. Then, he said, early this year he got a letter. His insurance company wouldn’t renew his coverage, he said, and he was “stunned.” Poizner is no naif: He was California’s insurance commissioner from 2007 to 2011.
The number of Californians who are not renewed by their insurance companies each year increased in 2019, according to insurance department data, after especially damaging wildfires in 2017 and 2018. It’s a small share of policyholders: less than 3%, according to the department. The numbers are higher in areas with greater fire risk. Temporary bans on non-renewals in areas hit by wildfires, imposed by Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, have helped, although the issue is still a key part of the election race for insurance commissioner.
It’s far from certain the numbers will stay low. The number of California properties facing severe wildfire risk will grow sixfold over the next 30 years, according to projections from First Street Foundation, a nonprofit.
Three consumer groups — Consumer Watchdog, Consumer Federation of America and Consumer Federation of California — sent feedback to the insurance department, pointing to what they see as a loophole: The rules require insurers to take home-hardening efforts into account when setting prices, but not when deciding whether to cover someone or renew a policy.
“A homeowner could literally rebuild their home in concrete, in the middle of a concrete field, and still be non-renewed by an insurance company,” said Carmen Balber, executive director of Consumer Watchdog.
“It is a loophole that can swallow the rule,” she said.
Insurance department spokesperson Michael Soller rejected the term “loophole.” He pointed to the department’s initial reasoning for the rules and expected benefits, which says insurance companies “may become more comfortable writing and retaining policies for properties with completed mitigation actions, even if the property is located in an area with a higher overall risk of wildfire.”
Not wading into coverage decisions may also have been a pragmatic decision for the department. Insurers would be more likely to sue over rules that mandate coverage, since the department’s authority to regulate coverage decisions is not clear cut, said Michael Wara, a lawyer and climate scholar at Stanford Law School. A suit could keep the rules from going into effect for years.
“This may be a situation where you kind of have to choose between doing something that’s sort of pretty good — maybe even really good — but not perfect,” said Wara.
Insurers want to protect their risk tools
Consumer groups aren’t the only ones pushing back against the proposal. Trade organizations representing insurers have their own set of concerns.
One is that the science on wildfire mitigation is still developing, said Mark Sektnan, vice president for state government relations for American Property Casualty Insurance Association, a trade group. That means there may not be good data on exactly how much one strategy — or several — reduces a homeowner’s fire risk, and insurers need data to decide how much of a discount to offer.
The proposed rules, for example, would require companies to take into account whether a home is in a “Fire Risk Reduction Community,” a new certification created by the state Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. The criteria for the certification was finalized last month, according to Edith Hannigan, the Board’s executive officer, and the list of the communities that meet the requirements is yet to be released. There hasn’t been any significant analysis on how much safer certified communities are, since it’s brand new, Hannigan said.
That’s problematic, said Seren Taylor, senior legislative advocate for Personal Insurance Federation of California, another insurance industry trade group, because everything in insurance “is about understanding risk and having data.”
The new program was “established with the expertise of the Board of Forestry, with consideration of community programs like Firewise,” said Michael Soller, a spokesperson for the Department of Insurance.
Another concern Taylor cited has to do with intellectual property. Many insurers rely on models, often provided by separate companies, to assess the risk of wildfire to a particular home or area, taking into account factors like the slope a home is on, or the kind of roof it has. The rules require insurers to make those models public.
“These companies spend tens of millions of dollars building complex computer models,” said Taylor, and they want to create models that are more accurate than their competitors.
“What our folks are concerned about is that these modelers will say, ‘Well, we’re not going to use our most innovative new models, because why would we invest in that technology if we’re just going to have to hand it to our competitors? So we’ll give you version 2.0, but you’re not going to have version 4.0,’” Taylor said.
Still, he said, the federation completely agrees with the goals of the proposed rules — they point in the direction some insurers are already heading.
Currently 20 insurance companies voluntarily give homeowners some kind of discount for reducing their wildfire risk, according to the insurance department.
Still trying in Mill Valley
Raveche’s community, meanwhile, is using some cutting edge measures to prepare for wildfire.
More than 250 Mill Valley residents piled into their cars to simulate an evacuation, with Google researchers standing by and gathering data to model traffic flow. Her community partnered with NASA, so fire officials can access high-quality satellite images during an active fire, she said. Raveche, who is a board member of her fire district, just wrote a guide for short-term rentals so that visitors can figure out evacuation routes and sign up for emergency alerts.
After her insurer declined to renew her policy in February, she was able to get coverage from another company. But despite her many efforts, she’s not optimistic it will last.
“I think it’ll probably be covered for two years, maybe three,” she said. “And then I see them dropping us.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Biden administration has released the lease terms for offshore wind projects that would place hundreds of turbines in California's coastal waters — the first such project off the nation's Pacific coast.
The two projects along the state's northern and central coasts are envisioned to generate up to 4.5 gigawatts of wind energy. That's enough to power about 1.5 million homes, the U.S. Department of the Interior said Thursday. Wind turbines could eventually cover up to 583 square miles (1,150 square kilometers) of land off the coast.
The federal government will take public comment starting Tuesday for 60 days about the terms of the leases, which include requirements for engaging with tribes, fisheries and other ocean users as well as negotiating labor agreements for construction. Bidders could get extra credit for agreeing to invest in workforce training or supply chain development for offshore wind.
Changes could be made before the lease sale officially opens. Even after the leases are awarded, the projects must clear environmental and other reviews and it will likely take years before any turbines are up and running.
President Joe Biden has set a goal of generating 30 gigawatts of power from offshore wind by 2030 to help the nation reduce its reliance on fossil fuels and meet climate change goals. Today the country produces about 118 gigawatts of wind power annually, but most comes from turbines in the center of the country, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Offshore wind projects currently exist off the coasts of Rhode Island and Virginia.
"Today, we are taking another step toward unlocking the immense potential of offshore wind energy (off) our nation's west coast to help combat the effects of climate change while creating good-paying jobs," U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said in a news release.
In California, three lease areas have been proposed near Morro Bay on California's central coast, a small city driven by tourism and the fishing industry, which catches tuna and swordfish in the area. Some fishermen are concerned the projects could negatively effect coastal ecosystems. The two other lease areas are located off the coast along northern California's Humboldt Bay.
The fishing industry has not been given an opportunity to offer input on where wind turbines can be placed to minimize harm to the seafood industry, said Mike Conroy, executive director of The Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations.
"The fishing industry is not opposed to offshore wind projects. What we are opposed to is a process that tells us where these turbines will go," he said in an emailed statement.
California has set a goal of producing 100% of its electricity from sources that don't emit greenhouse gases by 2045. The state got about 11% of its electricity from wind power in 2020 through a mix of in-state generation and imports from other states, according to the California Energy Commission.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom supports the plan for offshore development in the state's coastal waters. He included $20 million in last year's state budget to support such projects.
David Hochschild, chair of the California Energy Commission, said the state looks forward to working with tribal governments and other affected groups "to ensure the responsible development of this important clean energy resource."
Other proposed offshore wind projects would dot the coastlines off Maine, New York, the Carolinas, Oregon, the Gulf of Mexico and the Central Atlantic.
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SANTEE, Calif. — As we try to process yet another mass shooting, the survivors of San Diego County's deadliest school shootings are trying to do the same.
In 2001, a gunman entered Santana High School in Santee and killed two students and wounded thirteen others.
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Kristen Dare was a 16-year-old junior at Santana High when the gunfire rang out. She remembers being in the small quad area of campus, hearing the screams.
She said the shooting in Texas brought back a lot of memories.
"I think a lot of people my age, who have been through what we have been through, brings back a lot of the feelings we had as kids experiencing it," said Dare. "Sometimes you still feel like that kid that day, that 16-year-old."
Dare says she remembers hearing the noises and the screams from that day in 2001. She said she saw a campus supervisor who was shot, lying on the ground. She remembers running for safety. She managed to escape uninjured.
She is now 37 years old. She married her high school sweetheart, Brandon Dare, who also is a survivor of the shooting.
They have kids, one is in high school. They chose not to send him to Santana High because they didn’t want to have to return all the time and relive what happened.
Dare told CBS 8 that it makes her angry to think not much has changed in 20 years. She said these mass shootings are still happening and things seem to be getting worse.
She said her generation is moving out of victim mode. They want action.
"We’re older, we’re voters. We want to put money and time and votes for things that matter. And nobody’s right to own a gun is more important than the life of a child. We need to find a balance here," she said.
She said it's heartbreaking thinking of what the families of the victims in Texas are going through. She said it's also painful thinking of what the surviving children are dealing with at such a young age.
Meanwhile, she’s made a significant effort to make sure her two classmates who were killed in 2001, Bryan Zuckor and Randy Gordon are not forgotten. She's helped raise money for a scholarship fund in their honor. To donate, click here.
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STOCKTON, Calif. — Miguel Gullien bought his home in Midtown Stockton four years go and has never had a pest problem.
However to his surprise, this summer brought a swarm of cockroaches to the dry regions of the Central Valley that even the cleanest of homeowners could not prepare for.
“Everything was great until just this year,” Guillen said. “This year, there is an abundance of roaches all over the house, big ones too.”
Gullien said he sprayed his entire house after seeing just one roach in his basement, but he did not expect what had been hiding in the infrastructure of his home.
“I sprayed around the house, and the next day, I found them everywhere flipped over on their backs,” Gullien said. “Four years in this house, haven't had any issues, then this year alone, it's just boom, everywhere.”
Large species of roaches have been entering the homes of Stockton residents like Gullien as the hot, dry climate of San Joaquin County wreaks havoc on these pests, forcing them to search for cool air and moisture, according to Lynn Kimsey, an entomologist at UC Davis.
“This is crazy we put in brand new flooring, but they're coming in,” Gullien said. “They look like they have wings. I've never seen anything like it, and they’re huge.”
Ron Ghiglier, owner of Ron’s All Seasons Pest Control in Stockton, has been in the business for over 30 years and has seen his fair share of cockroach season.
“We're still seeing them in the winter time, more than usual,” Ghiglier said. “We're not getting the freezing temperatures that we would normally get long enough for them to go kind of semi-dormant.”
Ghiglier said places like Stockton, where temperatures have begun to heat up much higher and much sooner, is dealing with an aggressive roach problem.
In the Central Valley, we have the Delta waterways and a lot of adjacent creeks and storm water, and as those start to dry up, their habitat starts to dry up and they go where they need to go,” Ghiglier said. “I would say, starting at the end of March, I started to see an increase, maybe 30% more roaches than last year.”
These pests are most commonly found in industrial areas, but make their way into residential areas once it begins to warm up.
“They'll come from irrigation ditches, storm drains, sewer drains, things like that,” Ghiglier said.
As roaches begin to migrate into homes to find food and moisture, Ghiglier shares some tips to help Stockton residents prevent getting roaches.
According to Ghiglier, it is important for homeowners to inspect and treat possible hidden sources of water that would attract different species of roaches, such as sprinkler valves, trash cans and any outdoor compost.
“Seal up the windows, seal up the doors and use glue boards,” Ghiglier said. “Glue boards are a non-toxic way to catch them and throw them away.”
The inevitable roach season has already begun, but taking the correct steps can help with unwanted participation. Those who are having an issue with roaches can also reach out to local pest control for more tips and extermination services.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A handgun was confiscated from the backpack of a high school student in Clark County on Thursday — just days after a tragic school shooting left 19 children and two teachers dead in Texas.
According to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, deputies arrested a teenage boy at Heritage High School for possession of a dangerous weapon on school grounds. School staff reportedly found and confiscated the gun, which was unloaded inside the student’s backpack while he was at the school.
Because he is a juvenile, the student has not been identified.
In a message to parents on Thursday, Heritage High School Principal Derek Garrison cited the Uvalde massacre, saying, “especially considering recent events, we know that incidents like this are highly concerning.”
“Please know we take these situations very seriously, and the safety of our students and staff is a priority here at Heritage High School,” he said.
Authorities say the student told them he had no intention of harming himself — or anyone else.
CCSO says the student has been taken to the Juvenile Detention Center, where he has been referred to speak to a Designated Crisis Responder.
No other details are available at this time but the investigation is ongoing.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The homeless crisis is affecting communities all around the Portland metro area and on Thursday a new solution was proposed in Washington County.
The founder of Helping Hands Reentry Outreach Centers announced he wants to open a new transition center in the county.
First, they need a place for the shelter to go then once they have it, they’ll need support from the community for it to go forward.
“We need to bring services to folks yesterday,” Hillsboro City Council member Beach Pace said.
In the latest Point in Time count in 2021, there were more than 800 people unhoused or unsheltered. This is likely an undercount, but still 14% more than before the pandemic.
Senator Janeen Sollmon (D-Hillsboro) said “it’s bigger than all of us right and it takes so many different pieces of solutions coming together to make sure we’re addressing the issues.”
The piece Washington County is looking to add includes a 150 bed transition and reentry center operated by Helping Hands Reenrty and Outreach Centers. A high barrier facility to support low barrier shelters.
“It takes a process you have people in low barrier shelter entry with high barrier needs and our job is to convince people this is worth it and it works pretty well,” Alan Evans, founder of Helping Hands Reentry Transition Centers, said.
Evans’ organization has centers across Oregon such as the Bybee Lakes facility in north Portland.
The track record is what inspired Washington County Hope Center Steering Committee Chair Bob Grover, to try and bring it to Washington County.
“We need to get people to understand this isn’t a homeless shelter, this is a homeless recovery center and there are rules and that this is a positive impact to their neighborhood,” Grover said.
Evans says it will cost around $1.5 million dollars a year to operate–supporting up to 500 people each year. But he will not know the startup costs until there is a building for the facility to go.
City councilor Beach Pace believes it will be worth it.
“Three clean ups can take care of one person for a year. It’s a better investment. We will pay regardless, so let’s invest in people and make a difference in their lives and a difference in our community,” Pace said.
Most of Evans’ facilities, like Bybee Lakes, are privately funded.
Organizers like Grover hope those donations can be paired with public money from local governments to get this effort off the ground.
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2 men each face attempted murder charge among others, after weekend shooting in Titusville
Two Titusville men were arrested Wednesday on multiple charges, including attempted first-degree murder, following a shooting that wounded two people near a Mobile gas station Saturday night, police said.
Jayden Treyon Wright, 18, was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder, three counts of shooting a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle and four counts of shooting a deadly missile into an occupied dwelling.
Bryce Xavier Leron Rios, 18, of Titusville, faces three counts of attempted first-degree murder and three counts of shooting a deadly missile into an occupied dwelling.
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Both were arrested Wednesday and are being held at Brevard County Jail without bond.
The men made up a group of four shooters who gathered at a Mobile Gas Station at 1500 Harrison Street in Titusville at about 8 p.m. Saturday night, an arrest affidavit said.
As a car carrying three women drove through the intersection of Harrison Street and Barna Avenue, where the gas station is located, the men shot at the car 75 times, police said.
Two of the women were wounded, with the driver suffering wounds to her right bicep, back and chest cavity, the affidavit said. One of the passengers was wounded in her back, bicep, shoulder, ear and calf.
Property in the vicinity of the shooting was damaged during the incident, the affidavit said. Part of the Bank of America's fence on the corner of Barna Avenue and Harrison Street was damaged, and bullet holes were found in the exterior of a residential building next to the bank. More bullet holes and projectiles were found in three other residences and 75 bullet casings were found in the parking lot and grass near the Mobile Gas station.
Prior to the shooting, the men were observed gathering at the intersection of Whispering Hills Road and South Deleon Avenue, an area colloquially known as "The Hill."
While there, Wright held a gun while in a verbal fight with an unknown man, though it was not known if he pointed it at anyone.
When the unknown man left the area, the car with the three women followed his vehicle, the affidavit said. Wright, Rios and the two other suspects got into a Toyota Camry and drove to the Mobile Gas Station.
Court paperwork did not indicate if either of the men had attorneys representing them.
Finch Walker is a Breaking News Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Walker at 321-290-4744 or fwalker@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @_finchwalker
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CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) – West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice says he’s extremely sick after attending events earlier this week. It is a possibility he may have Lyme disease.
Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness. Each year there are nearly 400,000 cases in the United States with West Virginia being one of the top five states.
“There’s several ticks in the US, several ticks in West Virginia and there’s one or two in particular that can transmit Lyme disease,” Barbra Koster, Nurse Practitioner at West Virginia Health Right said.
The disease is transmitted when the tick becomes attached to your body for a period of time and then releases bacteria. That’s when symptoms start.
“The most common one being that they can develop a rash. The rash may or may not be present though to develop Lyme disease. The rash can take on a variety of forms it’s usually the redness around the site the tick has attached,” Koster said.
Other symptoms include fever, chills, body aches and muscle pain. More serious symptoms include neurological, heart and memory problems.
On Wednesday, Justice sent out a statement saying “After the WV GameChanger events on Monday in Wheeling and Blacksville, I began feeling extremely sick. I immediately got tested for COVID-19 and was negative, but I am still having symptoms and nowhere near 100%. As of now, I am being treated for possible Lyme disease.”
Koster says people with Lyme disease are treated with antibiotics, but symptoms can last for years.
If you do think you’ve been bitten by a tick, seek your medical provider for testing and treatment – however, the best way not to get bit is by prevention.
“They should take precautions as in wearing clothing to cover up arms and legs, having a hat on your head, wearing some sort of insect repellent. Once you’ve been outside in the woods or doing gardening work, coming in and immediately taking those clothes off and showering or bathing,” Koster said.
It has not been confirmed if Gov. Jim Justice has been tested for Lyme disease.
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BOISE, Idaho — A Nampa teacher is raising frustrations over the Nampa School Board's decision to remove 22 books from district libraries.
On May 11th, the board voted 3-2 to remove 22 books from libraries and curricula.
“There should be more dialog not less,” said Brian Coffey, an English teacher at Nampa High School.
Some of the well-known books include but are limited to The Kite Runner, The Handmaid's Tale, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Coffey has been an English teacher for over six years and is also president of the Nampa Education Association. He spoke to KTVB on behalf of Nampa, Caldwell, Vallivue, Kuna, and Mountain Home Education Associations about their response to the school board’s decision on banning books.
“The biggest problem is the process itself and that it was a unilateral decision that was made and didn't evolve much of a due process,” Coffey said. “Education is really about exposing people to new ideas, and that's a vital core mission that we have.”
Coffey added, that when it comes to exposing kids to sensitive or controversial topics, he believes educators are able to manage that.
“We have restricted sections, restricted policies, and teachers send out permission slips all the time to parents, to make sure that information is being vetted, that parents have a say,” he said. “There are options for kids who maybe don't want to be exposed to certain material and so all of that has really been squashed and stomped on by the board."
According to Coffey the general feeling among educators in the Nampa school district is that the board’s decision was not the appropriate way to address controversial issues.
“Our kids come from incredibly challenging circumstances and environments and normalize incredibly difficult life topics, and so the idea that we can't talk about books is incredibly disheartening,” Coffey said. “Students have their own first amendment right so in a state like Idaho where there's this huge push for enforcing freedom and individual rights, students have rights too."
Coffey said there needs to be more discussion about controversial topics, that is what education is about.
"The idea that the problem in this day and age is books and that teenagers are running to the library to get information is approaching the absurd when they mostly have cell phones that give them access to all of the human knowledge in all of history, at an instant,” Coffey said.
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BOISE, Idaho —
Sue, the best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered, is coming to the Discovery Center of Idaho in Boise on Friday.
The Discovery Center of Idaho has partnered with the Micron Foundation to host a special exhibition featuring the latest scientific discoveries about this incredible T-rex fossil.
Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the sights, sounds, and smells of Sue’s world.
"We last hosted a T-Rex named Sue over five years ago and it was one of the most popular exhibitions ever brought to the Discovery Center. We were able to secure this brand-new version for a short time as it tours the U.S." said Eric Miller, Executive Director of the Discovery Center of Idaho. "This all-new exhibition is twice as amazing as last time and features an updated skeleton along with a full-sized SUE, muscles, skin and all, with incredible life-like detail. You won't want to miss it!"
Since Sue’s fossils are on permanent display at the Field Museum in Chicago, the traveling exhibit gives the public an opportunity to see and experience the biggest T Rex specimen ever, all across the world.
The exhibit features an exact cast of Sue’s skeleton, measuring 40 feet from snout to tail and 13 feet tall at the hip.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to see new digital and interactive technologies that highlight the latest scientific discoveries and show people what Sue’s world was like.
"It's exciting because we get to see how scientists continue to learn more about topics we think we understand by continuing to ask questions and apply critical thinking,” said Emily Mahon, Education Director of the Discovery Center. “Plus, who doesn't love getting the chance to feel what it's like to be up close to a full-grown T. rex?"
There will also be a full-sized, fleshed–out replica of the T-rex battling its prey, the duck-billed herbivore Edmontosaurus.
Sue will be on display at the Discovery Center of Idaho from May 27 to September 5.
Admission to the Discovery Center of Idaho is free for members. For non-members, admission is $20 for adults age 18 and older, $19 for seniors 65 and older, $13 for youth 2-17, and free for children under two years old.
The Discovery Center of Idaho is open Monday through Saturday from 10 A.M to 5 P.M and 12 P.M to 5 P.M on Sundays.
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CENTRALIA, Wash. — Marveen Rohr helped change state law and secured state funding to clean and preserve the estimated 2,000 gravesites at Greenwood Cemetery, where her parents and grandparents are buried.
But after three years of clearing weeds and accessing cemetery records, volunteers have identified more than 7,000 gravesites at the Centralia property, some marking the remains of men who fought in the Civil War.
"That's when we started to understand that we are sitting on a history lesson... It kinda takes you on this trip, you know what I mean? We're talking about when Abraham Lincoln was president," Rohr said.
"I think this was probably a lost battalion so to speak," said Ed Day.
The original owners of Greenwood abandoned the property in 2007 and for more than a decade, due to state law, family members of those buried on the property risked trespassing charges if they visited their loved ones.
As a result, weeds and moss overtook many of the tombstones.
In 2019 Rohr helped change state laws regarding abandoned cemeteries and helped the City of Centralia get nearly $500,000 in grant funding to pay for the cleanup.
“This is the kind of work we should be doing as a community, together,” said Rohr.
Restoring all of the gravesites may require more state funding. Volunteers are planning to rededicate the cemetery on Saturday, just in time for Memorial Day.
Day, a Marine, who fought in the Vietnam War, spent Thursday placing flags at fellow veterans' gravesites, including some that were recently identified.
“They just need a little respect,” said Day.
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SEATTLE — Editor's note: The above video of concrete being poured on the West Seattle bridge was published April 18.
Crews have completed pouring structural concrete on the West Seattle Bridge, moving the project one step closer to an expected mid-2022 reopening.
The structural concrete will hold new steel cables essential to strengthening the bridge, according to the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT). The department called the process a "crucial project milestone" that affected the project's reopening schedule.
Concrete work was supposed to begin in February but was delayed by a concrete strike that stalled many projects around the Puget Sound area. At the time, it was unclear if the strike would push back the bridge's expected reopening date. Current estimates suggest construction will be completed on time.
During the strike, crews prioritized completing other projects that didn't require concrete work like sealing cracks with epoxy and wrapping the bridge walls with carbon fiber, SDOT said.
This week, the construction contractor for the West Seattle Bridge project poured 15 truckloads of concrete in two days, which was more than half the structural concrete needed for the entire project. Once the concrete structures have cured, they'll be capable of holding more than 20 million pounds of force, according to SDOT.
Crews are now working with the construction contractor to finalize the sequence of the remaining work on the bridge.
The next step in the process is to install ducts in the new concrete blocks so that crews can thread steel cables through the length of the bridge. After the concrete has fully cured, crews will tighten the cables to strengthen the bridge and prevent future cracking.
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SNOHOMISH COUNTY, Wash. — A mother and her son who has a traumatic brain injury (TBI) could soon be homeless because they can't find a facility to properly care for him.
It has been 12 grueling years since the motorcycle crash that changed everything for Rhonda Johnson and her son Brandon.
"This was done to him," Rhonda Johnson said. "It’s not his fault."
Brandon Johnson suffered a traumatic brain injury in the wreck shortly after his 18th birthday.
He was doing ok for a while. He was even able to live on his own, but then his condition deteriorated and he turned angry.
"He would stand on his porch and yell, see people in the trees," Rhonda Johnson said. "There is paranoia and there are delusions."
Because of his outbursts and disturbing behavior, Rhonda and Brandon keep getting kicked out of wherever they live.
Brandon Johnson has also been arrested at least 40 times for minor altercations. He has a sex crime on his record for kissing a woman's hand without her consent, which makes it especially difficult to get an apartment.
They've repeatedly worked with the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) and tried adult family homes, assisted living facilities and subsidized apartments, none of which have worked.
Rhonda Johnson has even tried to have her son committed to a psychiatric hospital, but that didn’t work either.
"They say he doesn’t meet a threshold. He’s not a threat to himself or to others," she said. "But he is a threat to our livelihood because we can’t live anywhere. It’s, it’s absurd. It’s surreal that there is nowhere for him to go."
The state does have a Traumatic Brain Injury Advisory Council to assist the 145,000 people living with TBIs. It has a budget of about $3 million, but none of that money is used for housing.
According to the DSHS website, the state legislature authorized DSHS to develop Enhanced Services Facilities (ESF) around 2013. This new category of licensed residential facility will provide a community placement option for individuals whose complicated personal care and behavioral challenges do not rise to a level that requires an institutional setting.
Individuals are referred to an ESF if they are coming out of state and community psychiatric hospitals or have no other placement option due to their complex behavior, medical, chemical dependency and/or mental health needs.
"We do have one of the top long-term care systems in this country, overall," said DSHS spokesman, Chris Wright. "There are options, but in situations like this I’m sure everybody would like more."
Rhonda Johnson had to quit her job as a paralegal to care for her son.
They live on a government check and are staying in motels or with friends but those stays are always short-lived because of Brandon Johnson's issues.
Rhonda Johnson is hoping to find an affordable place somewhere in rural Snohomish County where Brandon can live without disturbing people, but that, too, is proving very difficult because of rising rents and their limited income.
For now, she’s just trying to help her son survive.
"It’s like when you try to save someone from drowning and you go down too," Rhonda said, as Brandon gave her a hug. "What can you do? But I have to try."
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SAN ANTONIO — Many in Uvalde are experiencing some unexpected, very expensive costs. For some it will be funerals for a loved one. Others will have major medical bills. Make sure your money goes where it is needed and not to schemers who will try to take advantage of your generosity with these tips:
Find out how donations will be used.
Avoid vague appeals for money.
“It’s going to be used for funeral expenses or medical costs. Those are the terms that you really want to look for in a situation like this, instead of something that’s saying this money is going to go to help the family,” said Katie Galan of the Better Business Bureau (BBB).
Be careful when using crowdfunding.
Some crowdfunding sites vet fundraisers, others do not. GoFundMe said to look for its page that has verified fundraisers for Uvalde.
“We have gone through the process of looking at key information on the fundraiser, such as the identity of the organizer, who they’re raising for, the organizer’s relationship to the recipient of funds, as well as how they will be used,” said Leigh Lehman of GoFundMe. “Our Trust and Safety Team has secured it and cleared it. They then get added to that centralized hub.”
A red flag on crowdfunding sites is if there is more than one fundraiser for the same person.
“Typically, there’s going to be one official page for the victim,” Galan said. “Look for that wording that they are the official page. A lot of times people are going to come out and say we’re a friend of the victim, we’re family of the victim. Well, who are you? What’s your name? What’s your relationship to them?”
GoFundMe said it holds all funds collected until a fundraiser is verified. The funds go directly to the recipient and not the organizer. There is also a GoFundMe Guarantee to protect donors.
“What that certifies is in a very rare instance, when something isn’t right with a fundraiser, donors will be eligible for a full refund for their donation,” Lehman said.
If donors question a fundraiser, they can use the “contact” button to get more information.
“Ask anything you want,” Lehman said. “After that time, if you still have additional questions, you can click on what is a 'report a fundraiser' flag. What that does is send an immediate notification to a member of our Trust and Safety Team. We’ll take a closer look. If after we’ve gone through that process, we’ll take action as needed, which sometimes is either removal of the fundraiser, or we may reach out to the fundraiser organizer and ask for more information, or it will go ahead and get cleared to be verified.”
Stick with established charities.
“The problem with newly founded organizations is not that they don’t necessarily have good intentions,” Galan said. “Most likely they do, but they don’t have the experience to get the resources to the people that need it right away. Stay with organizations that already have experience helping during times like this, during times of tragedy or disaster.”
Never click on unsolicited links sent to you for fundraisers.
The links may take you to a look-alike website that asks for personal or financial information or may download malware onto your device.
“There’s a lot of risk that comes with that,” Galan said. “Instead of clicking on those links, we encourage you to go to that organization’s website independently."
GoFundMe said $3 million was raised for Uvalde.
KENS 5 also has a list of charities helping Uvalde.
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UVALDE, Texas — Home to world-famous honey, a historic opera house and streets built around trees so they can continue to grow, the town of Uvalde is, at its core, a place where people come together- built upon long-time bonds and deep connections.
"I am part of at least two generational friendships, where it's the grandparents and my parents and my generation, or my parents, me and my children," Karen Miller Barnes said. "We're part of generational friendships, and you get that from being here all that time- and from others being here all that time."
People around the world have always had connections to Uvalde. It hosts a world gliding competition, and residents host guests in their homes. People travel from all over for their honey, and there is a rich abundance of art and culture in buildings across town.
Miller Barnes, like many, has grown deep roots in the "Tree City," and says people in Uvalde have always branched out to wrap their hearts around each other. Now, they are met with a tragedy that will forever change the community- and will have to call upon that strong character and spirit of support to heal.
"I know that we will forever be defined by this, and we will not be defined by this," Miller Barnes said. "I don't know, going forward, how that works. I know the character and the wonderful nature of people here won't change."
Alex Covarrubis showed his support for the community by holding a sign asking for prayers for Uvalde.
"Uvalde, it's always been Uvalde, it's never changed, everybody looks out for each other, knows each other and it's a real small community, but everybody sticks together, stays strong together," he said. "We never thought any of this would happen here in this small community; we'll get through this together as we go."
To learn more about Uvalde's history and traditions, click here.
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FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Amber Heard told jurors Thursday that a harassment campaign waged against her by ex-husband Johnny Depp has left her humiliated and scared for her life from multiple death threats, and said she just wants “Johnny to leave me alone.”
Heard was the final witness in the six-week libel trial Depp brought against his ex-wife. With cameras in the courtroom, millions of people have followed the trial, and interest seemed to gain momentum as the weeks went on and both Depp and Heard testified about the ugly details of their relationship.
Online and at the courthouse, Depp's fans have overwhelmingly dominated the narrative, with groupies lining up overnight to get one of the few spots in the courtroom and wave at Depp as he walks in and out. Heard has been booed by spectators on the street as she enters and leaves the courthouse.
“The harassment and the humiliation, the campaign against me that’s echoed every single day on social media, and now in front of cameras in the showroom — every single day I have to relive the trauma,” Heard said as she fought back tears. “Perhaps it's easy to forget I'm a human being.”
On cross-examination, Depp lawyer Camille Vasquez told Heard that “your lies have been exposed to the world" and questioned her about people who contradicted portions of her accounts.
“I know how many people will come out of the woodwork to be in support of Johnny,” Heard responded.
Depp is suing Heard for libel 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.
Heard said she hopes the lawsuit will allow her to regain her voice, and said she had the “right as an American” to publish an article that described her experiences and how they relate to the national debate over domestic violence.
“Johnny has taken enough of my voice,” she said. “I have the right to tell my story.”
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.
The final witness Thursday morning for Depp's side was a hand surgeon, Richard Gilbert, who said he thinks the injury that occurred to Depp's middle finger could have occurred as Depp describes it.
The tip of the finger was severed during a fight the couple had in Australia. Depp says it occurred when Heard threw a large vodka bottle at him. Heard says Depp did it to himself in a drug-fueled rage on a night when he also sexually assaulted her with a liquor bottle.
Jurors will hear closing arguments on Friday.
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WASHINGTON — After a national organization called on schools everywhere to plan walkouts in the wake of a mass shooting at an Uvalde, Texas elementary school, some D.C. and Virginia schools quickly mobilized, following suit.
The shooting at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday left 21 people, including 19 children, dead in what is now considered the deadliest school shooting in Texas history. Just days before the massacre, an FBI report said that active shooter incidents have increased by 52.5% since 2020 and by 96.8% since 2017.
The youth activist group Students Demand Action called for students across the country to walk out of their classrooms at noon EST on Thursday.
"How many more kids have to die in our schools before our lawmakers act," organizers wrote on the group's website, which is the student arm of the organization Everytown for Gun Safety. "We deserve to learn and live without fear, but thanks to our weak gun laws and the gun lobby's relentless 'guns everywhere' agenda, nowhere is safe."
At least four schools in the region saw student walkouts, including McLean High School in Fairfax County. About 200 students briefly walked out carrying signs and chanting, "Will We Be Next?"
"We will have our voices be heard and not let politicians get away with any more thought and prayers without action,” student Ava Libertore told the crowd over a bullhorn.
Bennett Brunner, 16, told the crowd there is a "new normalcy of loss of life" that can not be tolerated.
“Every time I see those headlines, it's just crazy to think that it could happen at any school," Brunner said. "Definitely all the students here felt that and that's why we see such a big crowd today, because it's not some fantasy issue. It's not just politics. It's affecting our daily lives and our security.”
Students at Meridian High School in Falls Church, Loudoun Valley High School in Purcellville and Janney Elementary in Northwest, D.C. also participated. Organizers arranged for students to wear orange -- the color chosen by Everytown to represent gun violence victims nationally -- or make posters in a show of their solidarity with Robb Elementary and in an effort to pressure lawmakers.
The organizers include those who have survived school shootings, like Mia Tretta, who was shot by a classmate three years ago at her high school in Santa Clarita, California. Two of her classmates died and two others were injured.
"Even though my friends died and I got shot, nothing has happened yet," she said Wednesday.
Gun law reform advocates are also planning a second "March for Our Lives" protest in D.C. on June 11. Four years ago, the organization and its supporters filled the streets of D.C. while thousands joined voices to demand real answers to an epidemic of gun violence. The student-led march took place on March 24, 2018, a little more than a month after a deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Organizers posted to social media that a march to demand gun control legislation and universal background checks from lawmakers was planned for June 11, 2022.
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WASHINGTON — A D.C. woman celebrates a milestone birthday this week. Willie Mae Avery will be turning 107 on May 28.
Friends and family gathered to celebrate her birthday Wednesday at Walker Memorial Baptist Church, which the retired church deaconess considers a second home.
Jacqueline Ellis, a deacon at Walker Memorial, said Avery was an active deacon when she came to the church, and until Avery got sick she was always at the church and offering help wherever it was needed.
"She was always serving, she would go and visit the nursing homes. She would put things in her car and ride down the street and if she saw someone she thought needed something, she would stop and ask them if they needed it," Ellis said.
Ellis explained that even though she is not an active deacon any longer at 106, she remains an important member of the church with a bright and beautiful spirit.
"We are here to celebrate and honor a life well lived. Ms. Willie Mae Avery will be 107 on May 28, 2022. She was born in 1915. Deaconess Avery is such a wonderful spirit. She is such a lovely woman," Ellis said. "Her spirit is such a joy. She's a loving person, she's a kind person. Her spirit is all about service to the lord."
"She knows it's a blessing to be here today," Ellis said.
Avery is a resident of Ward 4 in D.C. and has been recognized by the Department of Aging as a DC Centenarian and is now being recognized as the oldest living resident in the District.
During Wednesday's celebration, complete with cake and balloons, a member of Mayor Muriel Bowser's office issued a proclamation wishing Avery a happy birthday and thanking her for being a pillar of her community.
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YORK, Pa. — What started as a peaceful night in a York neighborhood turned out to be filled with moments of horror.
"We seen a gentleman laying by the tree," one York City resident said. "He was laid out, bloody. It was just really bad, especially when you see him gasping for air twice and then...you could tell he was gone."
On Wednesday at 10:30 p.m., York City Police were called to the 200 block of West Jackson Street for reports of a suspicious man trespassing onto a housing unit.
Authorities say a witness confronted the trespasser. When he ran away, the witness called a group of unknown individuals to stop him. When they did stop him, the deadly assault began.
"Preliminarily, it looks like the victim was beaten to death by several actors," said Kyle Hower, detective sergeant with the York City Police Department.
Police later identified the victim as 35-year-old Zachary Young.
At this time, authorities are still investigating if the victim knew his attackers and the witness.
However, one neighbor who wished to remain anonymous calls this violent crime odd.
"I didn't hear anything," said the neighbor. "No fighting, no arguments, nothing."
With York College within blocks, another neighbor is surprised the incident occurred in the area.
"You got the college kids. They play their music and do their drinking [and] their games," resident Keith Ritz said. "Ain't anyone bothering anyone around here."
Authorities are still searching for several suspects connected to this homicide.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
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Lincoln Public Schools is holding a fast-track hiring event next week in hopes of filling about 50 transportation positions.
Those interested in becoming a bus driver or transportation paraeducator can come to Culler Middle School gym from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday to apply and be interviewed on the spot.
Qualified candidates may be offered a job on the spot pending successful completion of background and reference checks.
LPS is hiring full- and part-time bus drivers and paras. Both regular and substitute routes are available in both the morning and afternoon, with potential for midday work.
Those wishing to apply must bring a valid driver's license, Social Security card and have a valid email address. Candidates should also have their work history on hand, including dates of employment, company names, addresses, phone numbers and their former supervisors' contact information.
Three references and their email information for a survey are also required.
LPS provides training to drivers to earn their CDL license and school bus permit. New drivers may be eligible for a $1,500 hiring bonus.
The starting wage for a driver is $19.49 and $14.13 for a para.
Top Journal Star photos for May
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Nebraska’s Jackson Brockett pitches against a Michigan State batter Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Haymarket Park. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Part of Reception and Treatment Center's expansion project includes 384 new beds seen on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
KENNETH FERRIERA Journal Star
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Nonprofit organizations that host events to draw people to Lincoln can now apply for grants to help them recover from the pandemic.
City of Lincoln and Lancaster County officials Thursday announced a $5 million grant program using federal American Rescue Plan funds for nonprofits in the tourism industry.
“The nonprofits in our community produce outstanding events all year long — events that bring residents, visitors and tourists together for sports and entertainment,” said Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird. ”These funds are intended to help this important sector recover from the revenue losses during the pandemic and to support new programming.”
City and county officials have worked together to allocate $108 million from the federal relief plan in an effort to avoid duplication of efforts. The city got $46 million and the county $62 million.
They’ve announced several stimulus grant programs, including those for job training, small business stabilization, expanding broadband service, improving rural water service and helping nonprofits.
They’ve made several changes in how they plan to use the money in an effort to make sure they follows federal guidelines, which have changed.
Grants will be made to nonprofits to cover six months of operating expenses up to $1 million, according to a news release.
That grant program is funded by $4.3 million in city funds and $600,000 from the county, said Jennifer Williams, the mayor’s chief of staff.
Applications will be accepted June 1-14. Eligible nonprofits include foundations, sports associations and arts and cultural organizations. A committee of city and county officials will review the applications.
Information about the program and the application for funding are available at lincoln.ne.gov/ARP .
Top Journal Star photos for May
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
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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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With Memorial Day fast approaching, there is a number of events taking place in the Treasure Valley on Monday to honor those who have died in war while serving the United States of America:
Ceremony at Idaho State Veterans Cemetery
The Idaho State Division of Veterans Services invites all visitors to attend the 2022 Memorial Day Ceremony at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery, 10100 Horseshoe Bend Road in Boise.
Scheduled from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m., the ceremony will include a wreath presentation by multiple veteran and civic organizations, support and participation by the U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Air Force. Speakers will include representatives from Gov. Brad Little’s office, elected officials, and combat veteran Dan Nelson, who is the keynote speaker.
The cemetery will be decorated with a single American flag placed at each gravesite, according to a news release from the Idaho Division of Veterans Services.
Event parking will be at Optimist Park, located at the intersection of Hill and Horseshoe Bend roads. Bus transportation will be provided from there. Those planning to attend are asked to arrive early.
Meridian’s Rock of Honor
The public is invited to attend a Memorial Day Tribute at 11 a.m. at the Rock of Honor, a monument honoring military members and others from Meridian who have died defending the United States.
The Rock of Honor is located at Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, 1900 N. Records Ave. in Meridian. Attendees are encouraged to bring folding chairs or lawn blankets, as seating is limited.
The 45-minute ceremony will feature the recital of Meridian’s 62 fallen heroes, who are engraved on the Rock of Honor. Meridian Mayor Robert Simison will address those in attendance, and portions of the event will be dedicated to a wreath laying, rifle salute, and the playing of Taps.
The event is being presented by Meridian’s American Legion Post 113, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4000, and the city of Meridian.
Memorial Day Ceremony in Nampa
The event is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Kohlerlawn Cemetery, 76 6th St. N.
Hal Bongiovi – who served in the U.S. Air Force, Idaho Air Guard and the Idaho National Guard – will be the keynote speaker.
Bagpipes will be played by Lloyd Blackstone while the Legion Riders will do a Placement of Flags ceremony around the gravesite of “The Unknown.”
Troop 112 Honor Guard will conduct the Presentation of the Colors and the Pledge of Allegiance while Patti Syme will sing the National Anthem.
Special music renditions will be conducted by Obadiah Neashan while a Three Guns of Volley will be put on by the Firing Party Detail of the Nampa Police Department and American Legion Post 18 Honor Guard.
Eagle Field of Honor
Hundreds of American flags are currently on display, atop 8-foot poles in rowed formation, at Reid Merrill Park, 637 E. Shore Drive.
The 16h Annual Eagle Field of Honor has been up since May 21 and will remain standing until Tuesday. Visitors are invited to the patriotic tribute which, according to the city of Eagle, “will honor all veterans and currently-serving men and women who have served and are serving our nation to preserve our security and freedom.”
The flags, which can be purchased throughout the week, stand for 24 hours during the 10-day period and are lit at night.
Star Cemetery
Mayor Trevor Chadwick will host a Memorial Day Service at Star Cemetery, 9350 W Floating Feather Road.
The American Legion Post 39 will provide the Color Guard, invocation and a Taps salute.
Dana Partridge, Star’s public information officer, will be reading an excerpt of a story about her father, who was a warrant officer in the United States Army.
The ceremony begins at 10 a.m.
Warhawk flyovers
The Warhawk Air Museum will hold a series of Memorial Day flyovers that will stretch from Nampa, to Boise, to Meridian, and then wrap up at the museum.
The events will begin at around 10:45 a.m., when three World War II fighter planes will perform several flyovers at the Warhawk.
They will then begin an 18-minute route at 10:59 a.m. at the south side of Saint Alphonsus Nampa and make their way over Kohlerlawn Cemetery in Nampa, St. Luke’s Meridian (west side of the facility), Kleiner Park in Boise, Saint Alphonsus Eagle (south side of the facility), Idaho State Veterans Cemetery in Boise, Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise, St. Luke’s Boise, the Boise VA Medical Center, Veterans Memorial Park, Cloverdale Cemetery and then finishing at Meridian Cemetery at 11:17 a.m.
After that the planes will return to the Warhawk Museum for more flyovers that will conclude with the missing man formation.
Pilots John Maloney (flying a P-51C), Jim Thomas (P-40E) and John Hinton (P-40N) will take to the skies.
On its website, the museum said it is saluting “the service and sacrifice of our magnificent veterans” as well as honoring “our front line health care providers and thank them for keeping us safe.”
The Warhawk Air Museum will also be open on Monday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Boise city cemeteries
A Civil War volunteer group will conduct its annual flag-raising ceremony, eulogy, and gun salute at 11:45 a.m. at the Silent Camp in Morris Hill Cemetery in Boise, 317 N. Latah St.
Visitors are also welcome to place artificial flowers, flags, fresh flowers, and wreaths graveside at Boise city cemeteries. No glass or breakable containers are allowed and all mementos must be picked up by June 6 for those who wish to recollect them, a city of Boise news release states.
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At least two people were killed while three others are trapped following an apparent explosion that destroyed and damaged several homes in Pottstown, Pennsylvania.
First responders were called to a home along the 400 block of North Washington Street around 8 p.m.
Todd Stieritz, the Public Affairs Coordinator with the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety, confirmed with NBC10 at least two people were killed while at least three others are trapped in the rubble. Numerous people have also been hospitalized though they don't have an exact number.
Several neighbors reported hearing a loud blast in the area and video from the scene showed several homes destroyed or damaged.
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The Flagstaff Ski Club not only provided a unique Arizona experience with skiing and snowboarding this winter, but also had athletes competing and succeeding at an elite national level.
Of 183 participants who started in December and competed all the way until April, there were several medals and skilled performances to be proud of.
Among the accomplishments were three national gold medals in snowboard slalom, giant slalom and border cross in the USASA Snowboard Nationals, Female Snowboard Youth 15-16 division, by Basis Flagstaff sophomore Wesley Wolkowinsky in April. Her sister, Basis Flagstaff seventh-grader Riley Wolkowinsky, earned gold in the 13- to 14-year-old division of the snowboard giant slalom and bronze in the snowboard slalom.
Basis eighth-grader Linnae Kuehl was one of the area’s top skiers, winning the U14 Female Southern Series -- the elite local competition. She also competed at U14 Rocky Mountain Division qualifiers at Aspen and Steamboat, Colorado, among athletes from several different states. Her best finish was 17th out of 104 competitors in the Slalom at Aspen.
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The USASA Freeski Overall 9-10 freestyle competition was championed by Easton Ake, with many other locals also faring well in their respective events.
"I think that the opportunity for any of the athletes is great,” Flagstaff Ski Club executive director Kelly Miller said. "For any Arizona kid to have this as part of their childhood experience, and to see these girls go to such a high level against girls who are able to ski and snowboard twice as much as them and compete against them is just phenomenal."
After two seasons that were limited due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the winters of 2020 and 2021, the excitement of succeeding was mixed with more opportunities on the slopes to create one of the best seasons in recent memory for the competitors.
"It was really fun. This season was really different from the last one, because last year we didn't really do much at all. This year we got to jump back into everything," Wesley Wolkowinsky said.
"Skiing has had more events for the snowboarders,” said Kuehl. “So the difference wasn't as drastic for me, but it still has been a ton of fun.”
Pretty much as soon as the air got cool enough and there was snow on the ground at Arizona Snowbowl, the athletes began putting in work. Many of the athletes took off from school early on Fridays and headed up the hill to begin a weekend of work.
The goal was not only to improve as competitors themselves, but also represent the small portion of Arizona that can ski and snowboard on a regular basis.
Wesley Wolkowinsky said she often talks to people at national meets who can’t believe that there are high-level skiers and snowboarders from this part of the United States. She chuckled as she remembered jokingly telling one person she was competing against that she and her teammates had to ski down sand dunes in the offseason.
“People are like, ‘There’s snow in Arizona? You can snowboard there?’ Which, I think, is pretty funny,” she said.
"A lot of people assume it’s a desert and dead, but obviously it’s not. We can compete all winter,” added Riley Wolkowinsky.
There are, admittedly, less opportunities to ride than other Western states, such as Colorado or other mountainous places. But that makes it even more worthy of pride when the athletes do well against competitors from states that have more time available on slopes.
The Flagstaff-area kids often are the only ones representing their community -- which makes it even more important to do well in their minds.
"It was lonely for me,” Kuehl said. “At most of the races it was just me. There were a lot of people, sometimes it was close to 200 athletes from all these big series. Then there’s just me from Flagstaff. But it was cool, also.”
“They have these huge groups, and we’re kind of itty-bitty, but then we also kind of kick butt,” added Riley Wolkowinsky.
Miller added that much of the spotlight is put on the national racers, and deservedly so. But, there is much to be prideful of with each of the age groups and levels. The overall mission of the club is to provide an outlet that is rare to the state and can create lifelong friendships.
“It’s obviously cool to see the kids doing it at the high levels, but it’s also great to see a 6-year-old come out for the first time in the puffiest of coats making a full hockey stop every turn or every gate and then come across the finish line like they just won the Olympics. They’re so excited, and that passion is what we’re trying to instill,” she said.
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Northern Arizona distance runner Abdihamid Nur left no doubt when rounding the track at the NCAA West Regional on Wednesday that he would punch his ticket to Eugene in the championship, winning the men's regional 10K with a time of 28:45.90, while David Dunlap (20.68) and George Kusche (3:45.72) advanced to the men's 200-meter and 1500m quarterfinal on Friday in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Earlier on the track, Dunlap (10.61) ran in the men's 100m dash to finish 40th overall, while Theo Quax (3:46.46) and Caleb Easton (3:47.51) respectively placed 26th and 33rd in the men's 1500m. Trenton Givens (13.95) narrowly missed the quarterfinal qualifying slot for the men's 110m hurdles.
Meanwhile, in the field, Trevor Hook (60.86m) finished 32nd in the men's javelin, Jack Murphy (56.88m) placed 44th in the men's hammer, Jake Arnold (17.46m) finished 37th in the men's shot put and Mitchell Effing (7.31) finished 35th in the men's long jump.
The women were set to begin competition on Thursday.
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ZAMORA, Calif. — Three people are dead and eight others have been taken to the hospital after a van crashed into a tree in Yolo County.
CHP Officer Pat Talley said the 11 people were in a van heading eastbound along County Road 14 near Zamora when the van left the roadway, rolled several times and hit a tree. Authorities don't know what caused the van to leave the roadway at this time.
The crash left the one man, identified as the driver, and two women, identified as passengers, dead. The other eight people were taken to the hospital.
The crash happened around 3 p.m.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When about 47,000 unemployment insurance claims came through the EDD, department personnel said they were suspicious since they usually see 7,000 or so claims during the same timeframe.
The $560 million in claims were swiftly rejected by EDD, department officials said on Thursday.
Officials say the fraud scheme involved flooding the EDD with unemployment insurance claims through paper filings and fax applications.
EDD is now mailing notices to claimants to separate the fraud attempts from any legitimate claims. The fraud applications are also set to delay some paper filing applicants.
Mailed notices will explain that an issue must be resolved before any benefits are paid and include information about fraud reporting. Any legitimate claimant who receives an EDD notice should respond with the requested verification right away and EDD will review and process the legitimate claim.
“Criminals will probe for weakness every day of the year and EDD will keep blocking them,” said EDD Fraud Special Counsel McGregor Scott. “EDD will continue to strengthen its fraud fighting capability and remind Californians to guard against identity theft.”
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — Officials say Grant Union High School was put on lockdown Thursday after a student reported seeing a weapon on campus.
Twin Rivers Unified School District said they found an airsoft gun, and that police detained a student for allegedly discharging it on campus.
An investigation into the incident is underway, and district officials warn students that weapons of any kind are not allowed on campus.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Stockton and Sacramento County have fallen into a dubious distinction when it comes to bicyclists and deaths. Both now rank in the nation's top ten list for bicycle fatalities.
From 2011-2020, Stockton had 35 bicycle deaths ranking it 10th for cities in the United States. Sacramento County ranked eighth deadliest for the nation's counties with 3.2 deaths per 100,000 people, according to a getjerry.com which compiled the statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
New York and Los Angeles topped the city list, respectively, for the deadliest metro areas for cyclists.
"I'm not terribly surprised," said Jennifer Donlon Wyant, transportation planning manager for the City of Sacramento.
In Sacramento, the city council has implemented "Vision Zero," a "traffic safety philosophy which rejects the notion traffic crashes are simply accidents." It's goal is to have zero traffic fatalities and serious injuries by 2027.
The city is also using grant money to make it safer for bicyclists.
"So the engineering piece is building new bike ways, right? So, providing space for people who are biking, so they can do so and they can do so comfortably and be connected to the places they want, and then there is the education piece. So, we want to make sure that people biking understand the rules (so) they can understand what is expected of them, why we want them to bike a certain way, follow the flow of traffic," Donlon Wyant said.
The City of Sacramento has new separated bike lanes downtown and will expand them to the Florin Road area near the light rail station. The Stockton Boulevard area will also get safety improvements down the road.
Tyler Young of the San Joaquin Bike Coalition is an avid cyclist, who also works at Robby's Bicycles in North Stockton. He says the pandemic, as well as record high gas prices, have brought out more people who want to ride bikes.
He says there is lots of room for improvement when it comes to bicycle safety.
"I would like to see more bike lanes, more thorough bike lanes that go throughout the whole city, wider bike lanes with the protective barrier (and) signs up that say 'cyclists' and 'slow down,'" Young said.
The San Joaquin Bike Coalition says speeding with cars is a big issue. They say the faster cars go, the less survivable a crash becomes.
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DALLAS — Law enforcement officials say the man who shot and killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde on Tuesday bought two AR-15 rifles and 375 rounds of 5.56-caliber ammunition just days earlier.
The attack has increased calls for gun safety and regulation and increased interest in current gun laws.
Federal licensees have to report the sale of two or more handguns if they happen within five days of each other, but sellers in Texas along with New Mexico, Arizona and California also have to report the sale of certain rifles, including AR-platform rifles, if they are bought within five days of each other.
ATF officials said all rules were followed in weapons bought in Uvalde. The only database the ATF is legally allowed to maintain is for multiple purchase sales.
Texas doesn’t have any limits on multiple purchases. The ATF said its database is often searched for patterns and red flags.
“If they see that the type of firearm being purchase or other intel-type information sparks a red flag, they can then go talk to that customer,” Sara Abel, a Dallas ATF spokesperson said. “Most of the time, 99% of the things that go into the e-trace system are never touched.”
While multiple weapons purchased back to back is reported to the ATF, there is no requirement for sellers to report or record ammunition purchases. Abel said in Texas, the multiple sales around the shooter’s 18th birthday also wouldn’t have raised red flags.
“Birthdays are a big deal, and we’ll see them come in a lot purchasing on their 18th birthday,” Abel said. “So to say, 'could that have been noticed,' maybe in other states, maybe in places where hunting and the type of lifestyle that is here in Texas might not exist.”
Seven states require someone to be 21 before they can buy a long gun like a shotgun or rifle from a licensed dealer. In Texas, the number is 18, but there’s no minimum age someone can possess a long gun.
“I’m sure every agency looks at their process after something horrific like what happened a couple days ago,” Abel said “Of course, as an agency and as a Dallas Field Division we did talk about what can or could’ve been done and honestly everything was done by the book.”
Texas doesn’t have laws surrounding the purchasing of assault weapons, according to Giffords Law Center. A federal report noted that because of a lack of regulation Texas is by far the top source of assault weapons trafficked into Mexico and Central America, accounting for about 40% of those firearms. Texas also doesn’t limit the sale of .50-caliber weapons.
The state has an F rating from Giffords Law Center for its lack of laws around gun safety. In 2020, more than 4,000 people died from gun violence in Texas, the most of any state.
Laws around carrying weapons have changed in Texas just last year when state lawmakers passed a permitless carry bill, allowing anyone over 21 to carry a handgun in public without a license or training. That took effect in September of 2021.
Previously, people in the state had to first have a background check and take a safety course to carry in public. Texas joins around 20 other states that also have a variation of permitless carry.
Texas also loosened gun laws following the deaths 27 people at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The state lifted a ban on guns in places of worship following the attack.
It did not pass a "red flag" law pushed by some advocates, which could have taken weapons away from the shooter who had escaped from a mental health facility and been convicted of domestic violence. Nineteen different states and Washington D.C. have extreme risk laws, according to Everytown Research.
Texas doesn’t require people who become prohibited from possessing firearms to turn over weapons in their possession. Two-thirds of women killed by an intimate partner are killed by a gun, but Texas does not ban people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence against someone they did not live with or convicted of threatening to harm a family member from owning a gun.
The state does, however, ban people with domestic violence-related protective orders from possessing firearms.
Most of the rules around gun sales don’t apply to unlicensed dealers and there isn’t a clear distinction on how many guns someone could sell before they are required to be a licensed dealer.
Since gun shows do not require reports to happen, finding repetitive sellers violating rules can be difficult, and Abel said ATF relies on federal license partners.
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CROWN POINT — Lake County prosecutors dropped robbery and theft charges this week against a Gary man also charged in two separate murder cases.
Melvin M. Brown, 20, had been scheduled to stand trial next week on charges linked to the robbery of a Domino's Pizza driver Oct. 25, 2019, in the 3500 block of Pierce Street in Gary.
In a motion to dismiss filed Wednesday, Deputy Prosecutor Judith Massa wrote that the court granted the defense's motion for a protective order for an essential witness in the case and that there was a problem with identification of Brown as a suspect.
Lake Criminal Court Judge Gina Jones ordered the robbery case dismissed and scheduled a jury trial for the week of Nov. 14.
Jones ordered Massa to elect which murder case to try Brown on first by a state hearing set for Aug. 3.
Brown, who is represented by attorney Casey McCloskey, is accused in the Oct. 26, 2019, shooting death of Rico's Pizza delivery driver Phillip Hearne, 60, of Gary, in the 3500 block of Pierce Street in Gary.
Brown also is charged with murder in the Jan. 12, 2020, shooting death of Marcelis Stevenson, 21, of Gary, in the area of 35th Avenue and Fillmore Street in Gary.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Zachary Lindahl
Age : 21
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204040
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Wayne Rivera
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204125
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Wayne Micka II
Age : 31
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204089
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Ocampo-Ayala
Age : 30
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204268
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vernisha Devers
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204213
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Vaughn Baker Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204183
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Tyran Calhoun
Age : 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204140
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON (SOCIETY IS VICTIM); BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tonya McElvene
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204160
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tommy Talley Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204107
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tessa Baumgartner
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204111
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tameko Brown
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204176
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stan Guydon
Age : 72
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204082
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shaun Ross
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204127
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Hall
Age : 59
Residence: Huntington, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204184
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Cicale
Age : 41
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204174
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Santino Garza
Age : 18
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204110
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sabrina Krueger
Age : 22
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204205
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ryan Vaughn
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204056
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Flores
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204053
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rosalinda Miranda
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204192
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Armstrong
Age : 34
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204072
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Hemphill
Age : 29
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204190
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ria Swelfer
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204186
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rex Arney
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204224
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Reinaldo Rosa
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204199
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - CONVERSION - UNAUTHORIZED CONTROL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Randy Martin
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204081
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Sherman
Age : 43
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204124
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Knight
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204189
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Pablo Frias-Maldonado
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204178
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: ASSISTING A CRIMINAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oletha White
Age : 49
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204032
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $75
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nivea McDonald
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204041
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Teague
Age : 36
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204105
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Natori Hull
Age : 24
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204153
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Murell James III
Age : 22
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204221
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Modesto Godinez Jr.
Age : 44
Residence: Knox, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204276
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mitchell Wood
Age : 51
Residence: Riley, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204121
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Slavik
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204049
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Rodriguez
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204129
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Potter
Age : 55
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204206
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Miner
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204248
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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Michael Lynch
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204130
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Kibler II
Age : 41
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204093
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Hitchcock
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204249
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Matthew Steen
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204091
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mark Simcoke
Age : 35
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204080
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcell Pierce
Age : 33
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204258
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Gross
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204043
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Lisa Woods
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204028
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leandrea Sanders
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204071
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Davis
Age : 32
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204052
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Krystal Brady
Age : 40
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204044
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Davis
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204264
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Brown Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204070
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keadrick Morris
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204134
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kamesha Houston
Age : 26
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204158
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justin Zinkiewitz
Age : 34
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204273
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justice Ball
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204141
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Julian Duron
Age : 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204232
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joven Evans
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204271
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Gutierrez
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204092
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204265
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204051
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jeffrey Reeves
Age : 29
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204260
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jameka Moore
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204280
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jamale Henderson
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204139
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Tate
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204038
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Irma Anguiano
Age : 46
Residence: Matteson, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204103
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Gregory Nash
Age : 49
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204157
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gigi Vega
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204162
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Genaro Cruz
Age : 40
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204076
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Garrett Landers
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204207
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Wingard
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204151
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Bibbs II
Age : 26
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204135
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dustin Gertz
Age : 31
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204225
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devin Bates
Age : 27
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204269
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Destiny Berrones
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204235
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Derek Gensel
Age : 32
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204045
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dennis Richardson
Age : 56
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204175
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Deidra Merritt
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204161
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Lapotka
Age : 55
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204253
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darryl Rodriguez
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204188
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darean Richardson
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204122
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dante Taylor
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204180
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danny Hall
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204195
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Damarcus Fisher
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204137
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Curtis Colvin
Age : 38
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204200
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POSSESSION - STOLEN PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clem Laster
Age : 33
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204266
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cierra Kelly
Age : 33
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204215
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Moynihan
Age : 31
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204068
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christina Guzman
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204259
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Gregory
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204243
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carlos VonHatten Jr.
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204256
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON - FELONY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brittany Ramirez
Age : 33
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204027
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Larry
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204217
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Hughes
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204263
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Fastabend
Age : 34
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204047
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Bobby Jones II
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204242
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bo Wayne
Age : 31
Residence: Trail Creek, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204074
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 32
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204187
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bennie Therrell
Age : 65
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204054
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Armond Gamble
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204042
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: COMMON NUISANCE - MAINTAINING - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Aquantis Walker
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204202
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antwan Lucious
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204120
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III; MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Antonyous Harris
Age : 20
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204090
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Antonio Johnson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204250
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antoin Lewis
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204116
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Trezak
Age : 47
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204272
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andre Prince
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204229
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Lucero
Age : 32
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204069
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alonzo White
Age : 45
Residence: Atlanta, GA
Booking Number(s): 2204084
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alexis Perkins
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204083
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexis Duenas
Age : 31
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204036
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Akosua Arhen
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204234
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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DOLTON — An officer-involved shooting in Dolton resulted in one person being transported to a hospital early Saturday, police said.
At 1:08 a.m. Thursday two Dolton officers were in the area of a BP gas station at 667 East Sibley Boulevard, Dolton Chief of Police Robert Collins said.
The officers saw two men in an argument by one of the gas pumps. When one of the officers saw a handgun with an extended magazine protruding from his waistband, he reported the situation to dispatchers.
The officer then ordered the 54-year-old man with the firearm to show his hands, but he refused and started to run away from the officer. The officer repeatedly ordered the man to show his hands as the man ran across Sibley Boulevard into the backyard of a residence at 680 East Sibley Boulevard.
As he entered the yard, the officers said the man appeared to be removing the gun from his waistband, and the officer fired his weapon, Collins said.
The man continued to run away and went inside the house through the back door. Police surrounded the residence and issued commands to the man using a sound amplifier, telling him to come out of the house.
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A short time later, the man exited the house and surrendered and it was discovered he had a gunshot wound in his right side.
The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening. He remains in good condition in medical care and under guard.
Officers searched the home, which the man resides at, and found his loaded handgun with the extended magazine behind the door, police said. It was discovered the gun had been reported as stolen.
Dolton Police Department immediately requested assistance from the Illinois State Police Public Integrity Task Force and ISP Crime Scene Services for the investigation into the shooting.
No officers were injured in the incident, and the officer involved was placed on administrative leave temporarily during the investigation.
ISP said the investigation is ongoing, and no additional information will be released at this time. The man's identity has not been released pending official charges.
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NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. – A woman is facing animal cruelty charges after four dogs in her care died in a hot car Thursday afternoon, New Smyrna Beach police said.
According to officers, Tesia White, 25, left a 4-year-old Goldendoodle, 2-year-old Boxer and two 12-week-old Goldendoodle puppies in the car with the air conditioning on and the windows up as she ate lunch at a restaurant on Canal Street.
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Police said White told them she checked on the dogs once during her meal at 325 Canal St. but found them all dead when she finished her lunch an hour later.
White was arrested and is facing four counts of animal cruelty. She was booked into the Volusia County jail where she is held on a $10,000 bond.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Nearly eight months after News 6 submitted a public records request seeking emails and other communications created by Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo during his first two weeks on the job, the Florida Department of Health released eight pages of unredacted documents.
The records — including one page that is almost entirely blank — do not immediately appear to contain noteworthy information.
But the time it took the state agency to produce the small volume of government documents has prompted questions about FDOH’s adherence to Florida’s public record law.
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Under Florida’s Constitution, every person has a right to inspect nearly any public record made or received in connection with official government business.
State agencies are required by law to make public records available at any reasonable time.
“As I’m sure you understand, the Department received a very large number of records requests over the last two years,” FDOH press secretary Jeremy Redfern said in response to an inquiry from News 6 about the eight-month processing time. “You’re more than welcome to apply for a position or get your JD to work in the legal office to assist with the workload.”
Redfern shared a link to a state job posting for a public record specialist.
“Long delays in producing public records have become a serious, widespread problem,” said Pamela C. Marsh, the executive director of the First Amendment Foundation, a nonprofit that advocates for access to Florida’s public records and open meetings.
Florida’s public record law does not require government agencies to comply with requests within a specific time limit.
But the Florida Supreme Court has ruled the “only” permissible delay in releasing public records is the reasonable time it takes for the custodian to retrieve the record and redact any information legally exempt from public disclosure.
Such exemptions might include social security or account numbers, medical information or the home addresses of certain government employees.
Any unjustified delay in producing public records constitutes an “unlawful refusal to provide access to public records,” according to Florida’s Government in the Sunshine manual.
News 6 submitted a public records request with FDOH on October 5, 2021, seeking copies of all emails, text messages and other electronic or printed communications authored by Ladapo in his official capacity as surgeon general between that date and his appointment 14 days earlier on September 21.
FDOH has not confirmed when it retrieved the requested records from the agency’s email system. Metadata embedded in digital PDF copies of the emails indicated the duplications may have been created on November 8, 2021, approximately one month after News 6 requested them.
By February 2022, FDOH’s communications office confirmed the records were in the possession of agency lawyers for “review and redaction”.
After FDOH did not respond to subsequent inquiries about the status of the surgeon general’s communications, News 6 published a news story in early May about the withheld public records.
Three weeks later, FDOH released the documents to News 6. The agency produced the records nearly eight months after they were first requested.
The batch was comprised of five email messages sent by Ladapo in September 2021 totaling eight printed pages. No text messages or other electronic or written communications were produced by the state agency.
Two of the email messages were related to an inquiry made by a newspaper reporter seeking comment for a profile story about the newly appointed surgeon general. The reporter shared quotes from some of Ladapo’s former colleagues that were critical of the doctor.
“(Of) course, no comment,” Ladapo wrote to FDOH’s communications director in one of the emails. “I mean, for crying out loud, my opinions are out there for the world to see and they have been for a year and a half, and these guys just want to hate.”
In another email, Ladapo shared a screengrab of a news article titled “Some States Limit Monoclonal Antibody Treatment to High-Risk, Unvaccinated Patients”.
“I tend to think we shouldn’t pursue it for reasons we can discuss,” Ladapo wrote to the agency’s chief of staff. According to FDOH, the surgeon general believed that people seeking treatment for breakthrough COVID-19 infections should not be discriminated against due to their vaccination status.
A fourth email from a CNN producer invited Ladapo to appear on the cable network’s Sunday morning news program State of the Union with Jake Tapper and Dana Bash.
“Would love to do this,” Ladapo told the agency’s communications director. FDOH indicated it later rejected the interview request.
The fifth email, which was blank except for the email header, appeared to be a receipt confirming Ladapo accepted an electronic meeting invitation.
None of the emails contained any black boxes covering redacted information.
After receiving the requested records, News 6 asked FDOH to explain how it processes public record requests and why it believed the five emails contained potentially exempt information that would legally justify the months-long delay in releasing them.
“You’re free to discuss legal theory with your general counsel,” replied Redfern, the FDOH spokesperson. “I am not an attorney, and I will not pretend to be an attorney.”
Marsh, who served as a U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida before leading the First Amendment Foundation, believes the public is being denied timely access to public records.
“We have heard from some records custodians, who take their jobs seriously and are professionals, that in light of the 1,138 exemptions to the public records laws, it is difficult for them to hand over documents without analyzing what exemptions may apply,” Marsh said. “I have told legislators every year that every time they add an exemption, it creates bigger government, slower government and less effective government. But that argument seems to fall on deaf ears. Fifteen new exemptions were passed by the Florida legislature this year.”
The First Amendment Foundation recently worked with a state lawmaker on a bill that would have established a specific deadline for agencies to produce records instead of the “reasonable time” currently required by law, said Marsh, but the bill did not gain traction.
“We are seeing delays of not just months but in some cases up to a year before any records are provided,” said Marsh. “And when the records are redacted, in some cases, they are so heavily redacted that the records literally provide no information.”
After providing the surgeon general’s emails to News 6, FDOH’s spokesperson posted a message on Twitter that appeared to address journalists who request public records.
It’s a giant pain. They fill the office with records requests, and I have to spend days sifting through them to be able to respond.
— Jeremy Redfern (@JeremyRedfernFL) May 26, 2022
They complain when they don’t get their records fast enough. They complain when they don’t get a response fast enough.
They complain… a lot.
Marsh said the tone of such responses is incredibly disappointing.
“One would hope that those carrying out the constitutional duty to provide public records could at least be professional in their responses and recognize they serve the citizens of the state, who have a constitutional right to public records,” Marsh said. “Florida has overwhelmingly voted for transparency in government on every occasion. Those who serve Florida’s citizens should keep that front of mind.”
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FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Flagler Beach residents often say they have everything they need beachside.
And many jokingly say they’ll do anything to avoid crossing back over the bridge that takes them to the mainland.
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This week’s Getting Results Award winner turned that into her catchphrase.
But the love for her hometown is more than just a slogan.
Carla Cline runs the Flagler Surf Art and Stuff gift shop on 3rd Street, just steps from the ocean. The playfully-decorated store specializes in local art and beach-themed souvenirs.
Hand-painted signs welcome customers to enter the store under a blooming jasmine vine. The one in purple that says “Good Vibes” sets the tone for both the store and its owner.
“When I started the store, I made almost everything in it,” Cline said pointing out that now she offers items from more than 25 local crafters. “I like being creative. That’s what I like to do.”
Cline slides a T-shirt into the heat-press, tucked behind her cash register, and pushes down on the handle. “The thing I sell the most is T-shirts. People like T-shirts.”
Cline has become known for her design featuring the phrase, “Please don’t make me cross the Bridge!”
It’s a humorous take on Cline’s love for the seaside community.
“It can be interpreted many different ways. There’s nothing wrong with the other side, it’s just that I’m content and don’t want to go anywhere,” Cline laughs.
“I’m simple,” she says. “If I can walk there, bike there or take the golf cart. I’m content.”
Plenty of her customers agree. Her T-shirts have become a top seller. “I get people that see the sticker or the T-shirt and they say, ‘Where did you get that? I need that.’”
“Now I’m the bridge person,” Cline concedes.
Others call her “the backbone of the Flagler Beach community,” for all her organizing and fundraising efforts.
“I do try to figure out a lesson or a way you can make change for the better,” Cline said. “I’ve had some amazing role models in my life so I decided that was the way to do it.”
Cline’s first effort into community organizing happened more than 12 years ago when she decided to re-imagine the city’s annual Fourth of July celebration.
“I remember when I was a kid it was watermelon eating contest and fireworks and you’d go to the beach all day. It was the best day ever,” Cline remembers. “I knew the president of the chamber and I said, ‘Hey, I’d like to be responsible for the entertainment of Flagler Beach. And she looked at me like I was crazy,” Cline said with a smile.
Cline has the attitude that you can complain about things or you can stand up and do something.
Since that first project, Cline has done a lot.
She recently launched a fundraising effort to ensure a dune enhancement project would stay on schedule, raising $40,000 in a matter of days.
She was the founder of the Flagler Beach All-Stars, a volunteer group dedicated to community projects and monthly beach clean-ups.
She was a Flagler County Education Foundation board member and helped start the Josh Crews Writing Project, a program to promote creative writing in Flagler County schools.
And during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, she helped collect restaurant gift cards for the staff at Advent Health Palm Coast.
Cline had friends go to the hospital but were turned away when there were no beds available for them.
“I was upset on their behalf but I was also upset for the nurses that were having to send people away. People they would have normally taken care of,” Cline remembers. “There was so much negativity going on. I thought we just need to give them a token of kindness.”
The project ended up collecting enough gift cards to give one to every employee.
Cline was nominated for the News 6 Getting Results Award by Flagler Beach resident, Joan Cuson.
“When I saw your nomination form, there was nobody else that came to mind but Carla,” Cuson said. “Most people think there’s nothing I can do, the problem is too big. Carla isn’t like that. She’s going to find a way to do something, to make a change.”
Kelly Brasol agrees. Brasol approached our camera on the boardwalk to ask why we were in Flagler Beach.
“When you said you were here for a lady that owned a gift shop, I knew right away it had to be Carla,” Brasol said. “She really is the backbone of the Flagler Beach community. She’s the one behind the scenes getting things done.”
Over the years, Cline said each project has taught her that anything is possible. “If people work together, you can achieve great things,” she reflects.
For someone who tries to avoid crossing bridges, Cline sure is good at building them.
“I try really hard,” Cline said, “I figure there’s enough negativity in the world.”
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Flames erupted from the smokestack of a Carnival cruise ship as it was docking Thursday morning in Grand Turk, according to the cruise line.
Now Carnival is sending another cruise ship to pick up stranded passengers and bring them back to Port Canaveral, which means a delay in getting home.
News 6 reached out to Carnival Cruise Line for comment and the following statement was released:
“Carnival Freedom’s emergency response team quickly activated and extinguished a fire inside the ship’s funnel while the ship was in Grand Turk. All guests and crew are safe, and the ship’s guests were cleared by local authorities to go ashore. We continue to assess the situation. Carnival Freedom left Port Canaveral on Monday on a five-day cruise.”
Matt Lupoli, Senior Manager of Public Relations, Carnival Cruise Line
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Pictures posted to Twitter show smoke and flames coming from the right fin of the ship’s smokestack.
See video of the fire in the player below:
One poster identified the ship as the Carnival Freedom. The company later confirmed that Freedom caught fire.
Records show that ship departed from Port Canaveral on May 23. The ship was due to return to the port on Saturday, May 28.
On Thursday Carnival sent a letter to guests onboard the Freedom, notifying them that the ship would have to make repairs in Grand Bahama and would not return to Port Canaveral.
“In order to get you home as soon as possible, we have made arrangements to send Carnival Conquest to Grand Turk to sail back to Port Canaveral,” Carnival said.
Conquest is Freedom’s sister ship. Carnival says that once everyone is brought on board, the ship will sail Saturday evening and arrive at Port Canaveral on Monday.
Carnival is giving passengers a $100 onboard credit, extending the beverage and Wi-Fi packages for those who bought them, and giving everyone a 50% future cruise credit. The company says it will also waive additional port parking fees and reimburse for independent air expenses up to $200 per person.
Carnival cruise on fire sheesh #carnivalfreedom #shiponfire #shipdown pic.twitter.com/n00l0HaFUV
— That Panda Guy (@SantaPanda39) May 26, 2022
The @Carnival Freedom is on fire in Port at #GrandTurk #Carnival pic.twitter.com/7GgoWLG2Tc
— Brian H (@Budman922) May 26, 2022
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Department of Economic Opportunity has responded to claimants frustrated by an answering machine with no connection to a real person to take their calls for assistance.
As of Thursday, May 26, Reemployment Assistance claimants now have the option to verify their identities for Reemployment Assistance accounts directly with a “live human agent.”
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DEO Press Secretary Morgan Jones told News 6 this new option “does not require the claimant to take a selfie and can be selected once the claimant signs into their ID.me account.”
For step-by-step instructions on how claimants can select this option, click here.
If you have an unemployment issue email makeendsmeet@wkmg.com or text the words “make ends meet” to 407-676-7428.
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Central Florida is reinventing the definition of ‘mall.’
The age of e-commerce and online shopping is causing retail stores to consolidate and close, leaving empty malls. Some people may even describe malls as being irrelevant, but that’s not stopping some business owners from revamping and repurposing the indoor shopping centers.
“We are a very different mall,” Oviedo Mall Director of Marketing Josh Gunderson said.
If you’ve visited the Oviedo Mall lately, you’ll agree. The nearly one million square feet of space includes the traditional retail shops along with some nontraditional storefronts.
“A lot of people are shopping online and e-commerce and that’s great, so what do malls have to do? We have to adapt. We’ve now become a live work and play center. We may not have the typical stores you’re looking for, but we’ve got your entertainment,” Gunderson said.
The Oviedo Mall is home to over 50 locally-owned businesses and some are far from anything you’d expect to be at a mall.
You can work on your hitting skills at KC Baseball, an indoor batting cage facility, or record an album at Gizmo’s Productions studios.
“It is a little shocking to some folks that we’re in a mall,” Gizmo Productions Owner Michael Janiero said.
You can even take dance lessons at Imagine Dance Academy.
“At first it was really different. When I first told people I had a dance studio in the mall they were like, ‘Okay, that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me,’” Imagine Dance Academy Owner Sarah Fanok said.
Fanok said it didn’t take long for parents to get used to the unique venue.
“Parents have expressed to me they feel comfortable in the mall waiting for their kids and there’s other stuff for them to go do,” Fanok said.
What’s really unusual is the Oviedo Mall has a wedding venue. Yes, you can exchange vows with a small group of guests inside the mall.
Unlike most malls with a major department store as an anchor, the Oviedo Mall has a large brewery, Oviedo Brewing, as an anchor to the mall.
“We’ve discovered how to be different and we’re rolling with it,” Gunderson said.
The Oviedo Mall also using social media as a strategy. Gaining interest through tweets, some calling out other malls.
If you’ve ever seen the movie Mean Girls, you’ll understand this tweet.
The Oviedo Mall posted a tweet that reads, “We’ve started a mall burn book because we clearly have too much time on our hands.” The post includes a photo of the Altamonte Mall.
“I guess we’re adding the iPod to the ever-growing list of things that we have lasted longer than,” the mall posts in another tweet.
“Thinking about starting beef with another mall on Twitter just to feel something,” another post said.
The official Minnesota-based Mall of America account responded with “Good luck.”
“To have it be something that’s fun and lighthearted, it gets people talking about the mall,” Gunderson said.
The Oviedo Mall used to be the talk of Central Florida, opening in 1998 as Oviedo Marketplace. It was full of chain retail shops and department stores.
“It was built as a green mall, so it featured a lot of plants inside the mall, ivy growing outside the mall. With all the green, you couldn’t see it from the highway so it was causing problems,” Gunderson said. “It also brought a lot of bugs and people didn’t like that.”
Over the past few decades, some malls across the country have become vacant buildings. Stores are closing and moving to online retail. In Central Florida, we’ve seen a few malls doing a refresh and turning old vacant box stores into unique attractions.
For example, at the Seminole Town Center, the old Sears building was transformed into a multilevel entertainment complex with go-karts and virtual reality games.
In Titusville, plans were recently announced to revamp the old Searstown mall. New animations of the project show new apartments, dining and shopping options as part of the proposal.
“Are malls going away? I don’t think so. I think if a mall is willing to adapt and do different things they’ll be sticking around for awhile. Is it shopping, entertainment or dining? If you can adapt, you can overcome,” Gunderson said.
Business owners at the Oviedo Mall said there are perks to being located in a mall.
“We offer music lessons. The real plus for me is that foot traffic is going to get more potential for lesson clients,” Janeiro said.
There are also several summer camps for kids and families that are being offered at the Oviedo Mall that include music, dance and even Taekwondo.
“It’s an easy landmark to tell people where we are,” Fanok said. “If the mall is not being used for something, what is it for? It would be a waste. Who says it has to be a retail store?”
Mall officials added there are special discounts at the mall offered for Seminole State College and University of Central Florida students, according to their website, which reads:
“THE OVIEDO MALL IS THRILLED TO OFFER THE FOLLOWING DISCOUNTS FOR UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA AND SEMINOLE STATE COLLEGE STUDENTS AT THE FOLLOWING VENDORS: (must show student ID at time of purchase to receive discount).”
Asian Express- 10% off your order
CupPasta Pizza- 10% off your order
F&S Cell Phone Repairs- 10% off repairs | free tempered glass with purchase of any cell phone case (does not apply to tablets or iPads)
Legacy Taekwondo Academy- 10% off first three months tuition
Our Suite Village- Purchase one day of co-working space ($10.65), get two days free (value $21.30)
Oviedo Brewing Company- 10% off your purchase
Vagrant Traveler- 20% off bags & accessories (excluding clearance items)
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UVALDE, Texas – The husband of one of the teachers killed in the Uvalde elementary school shooting trying to protect her students has also died, family members confirmed to News 6 sister station KSAT-TV.
Irma Garcia was shot and killed at Robb Elementary School, alongside 19 students and another teacher all in the same classroom Tuesday afternoon.
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Two days later, Garcia’s husband, Joe Garcia, “passed away due to grief,” according to a post by their nephew on Twitter.
EXTREMELY heartbreaking and come with deep sorrow to say that my Tia Irma’s husband Joe Garcia has passed away due to grief, i truly am at a loss for words for how we are all feeling, PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY, God have mercy on us, this isn’t easy pic.twitter.com/GlUSOutRVV
— john martinez ❤️🔥 (@fuhknjo) May 26, 2022
“...i truly am at a loss for words for how we are all feeling, PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY, God have mercy on us, this isn’t easy,” the couple’s nephew wrote.
Garcia was a fourth-grade teacher at the elementary school. According to her school biography, she taught with fellow teacher Eva Mireles for five years. Mireles was also killed on Tuesday.
“My husband’s name is Joe Garcia. We have been married for 24 years and have 4 children. I love to BBQ with my husband, listen to music, and take country cruises to Concan,” her webpage reads.
In her teacher biography, she goes into detail about the accomplishments of the couple’s children.
“I have my eldest Cristian son completing Marine boot camp and another son Jose attending Texas State university University,” Garcia wrote. “My eldest daughter Lyliana will be a sophomore in high school and my youngest Alysandra will be a 7th grader this year.”
To donate to the Garcia family, you can visit this GoFundMe page their nephew set up.
To find more fundraisers supporting the community of Uvalde in the wake of the Robb Elementary School shooting, click here.
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SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – More than a month after a Sanford man’s body was found in a burning shed, deputies believe they have arrested the killer, according to the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies announced the arrest of Lewis Boone, 24, on Thursday. According to jail records, Boone was first arrested on May 3 on unrelated charges.
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The investigation began on April 21, when deputies were called to a home in the 1700 block of Roseberry Lane, records show. Deputies said a shed at the home was torched.
Once the fire was out, deputies learned a body was inside the shed, later identified as 21-year-old Jaylen McIntyre.
Deputies did not say how they determined Boone was a suspect in McIntyre’s death.
He faces charges of premeditated first-degree murder, carrying an unlicensed concealed weapon, destruction of evidence and 54 counts of possession of a weapon or ammunition by a convicted felon.
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LEESBURG, Fla. – One high school graduate is making history before heading to college in the fall by being the first recipient of a scholarship honoring a member of a historic civil rights case.
Dencov Bryant from Leesburg high school is the recipient of the Samuel Shepard Memorial Rights Scholarship.
“I’m on top of the world. It’s been an incredible journey,” Bryant said.
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The scholarship honors Samuel Shepard, who — alongside three others — was wrongly accused of raping a white woman back in 1949.
The group of men, later known as the “Groveland Four,” were exonerated two years ago after previously being posthumously pardoned.
Shepard’s family now leads the Robinson House Foundation, which established the scholarship to go to a graduating Lake County student showing interest in law and government.
Bryant said he didn’t learn about the scholarship until it was being presented to him, which came as a shock.
“I didn’t know that I won the scholarship until our annual senior awards, which is when scholarships are given out. I was actually sitting there; I was just checking a text from a friend who was late, and they called my name, and I was like: ‘What, wait, I won?’” Bryant said.
Bryant said he and his siblings were taught about the Groveland Four, which led him to apply.
He hopes this scholarship proves Lake County is moving forward
“It’s humbling, and it’s just an honor that I was the one chosen to not only receive this scholarship but to also take that piece of the past and bring forward into my future,” Bryant said.
Bryant served as both Leesburg High’s class president as well as the county’s superintendent student advisor.
As he reflected on his senior year, he smiled, saying a memorable moment was walking across the graduation stage twice: once in the rain and the next indoors as his school did a redo of graduation.
“No, it was not perfect. It was not everything we exactly wanted to be, but then again, neither is life.. when life gives you lemons, you have to make lemonade,” he said.
The fresh high school graduate left this word of advice for those to follow in his footsteps:
“Make the most of every single moment and every single opportunity that you’re given... when you get to senior year, enjoy it, yes, but work hard,” he said.
Bryant is set to attend the University of South Florida in the fall, majoring in communications because he said it will lay the groundwork to observe different avenues of work in government.
He hopes to lay a strong foundation in that field before running for office, whether it be local, state, or national.
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MARION COUNTY, Fla. – The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said after a search for two missing girls Thursday who left their residence over the weekend and are considered to be unsafe due to their young age, one was found safe hours later.
While Jayden Lynn Kiser, 14, was found Thursday evening, deputies are still asking for any assistance in the search for Karla Leeann Kiser, 10.
The two girls left their Silver Springs home on Saturday and Sunday, respectively, deputies said. Karla was last seen near the Silver Lake Acres neighborhood around 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, according to a news release.
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Jayden is 5 feet, 1 inch tall and weighs 110 pounds, with blue eyes and blonde hair. Karla is 4 feet, 11 inches tall and 90 pounds with blue eyes and brown hair.
Because of their age, deputies said in a statement the length of time the two girls have been missing, along with the fact they haven’t attended school, has concerned law enforcement for their safety.
Anyone with knowledge of Karla’s whereabouts is urged to call 911.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The men accused of wearing clown masks during a deadly shooting outside a Daytona Beach mini-mart have been indicted, court documents show.
Keylan Baker, 26, and Noble Geathers, 29, were indicted Thursday on first-degree murder charges.
Baker was arrested in early May, while Geathers was nabbed shortly after the shooting in November, records show.
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Investigators said the men were drinking at Baker’s home on Reva Street prior to the shooting.
While the group was drinking, witnesses said Baker became aggressive and wanted to “go do a lick,” which means he wanted to commit a robbery, records show.
Police said the group then went up the road to a nearby liquor store to buy more alcohol. While on the way, officers said the group encountered the man who was later shot. Baker grabbed the victim by the shirt and said “Give me what you’re smoking,” according to the witness statement. The man did not fight back and the group moved on, investigators said.
When the group got back to the home on Reva Street, Baker again said he wanted to commit a robbery and displayed a revolver, records show. Witness said Baker then went and retrieved two clown masks, one with green hair and one with red hair, police said.
Baker put on the green-haired mask, Geathers put on the red-hair mask and the pair left the house, witnesses said.
Police said the masked pair then walked back up the road where the victim and two others were working on a car in a parking lot outside the D Town Supermarkets on Orange Avenue. Investigators said surveillance video showed Geathers acting as a lookout as Baker approached the victim.
One of the witnesses who was sitting in the car being worked on said they saw Baker put a finger to the mask’s mouth, telling the witness to be quiet, records show. The witness thought the masked man was going to prank the victim but saw the man point a gun at the man and shoot him once in the head, police said.
Investigator said Baker then pointed the gun at the person in the car, but another witness got between them and begged the masked man not to shoot. Baker and Geathers then took off, records show.
In addition to the murder charge, Baker was also indicted on a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The manager of Orange County’s Mental Health and Homeless Division, Donna Wyche, said the county is making it a priority to address the gap in mental health services.
After more than 25 years of working in the mental health field, she said the focus has to be on early childhood intervention.
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“If we start earlier, we may never see that child have that first psychotic break, or that young adult have that first psychotic break, because we’re preparing for it,” said Wyche.
Wyche said the county is working on bringing a robust system of mental health care services to the community.
She said they put together an analysis, taking a look at the needs of people from birth to adulthood, when it comes to mental health.
What they found was it would cost $49 million a year to tackle mental health issues.
Wyche said the bulk of the funding will focus on the youth.
“I think it’s about $29 million that we said needed to be in that space, everything from training, to early learning interventions and daycare in early learning centers,” said Wyche.
She told News 6 that early childhood traumas, when left untreated, have the potential to end in a psychotic break.
“The further upstream you go in identifying children with behavioral health issues, the better off their family can function,” said Wyche, “The better off they will be learning to live with the disease.”
Orange County is taking the first step in the process and is expected to vote on a half a million-dollar grant which would go to the United Way to put together an implementation team.
The county said that vote is expected in the very near future.
If you or someone you know needs mental health help, we have a list of resources on the News 6 website.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Even with home prices skyrocketing and low inventory, a recent Lending Tree study found Florida is one of the top states with the highest vacancy rates. While realtors and economists said this may seem shocking, knowing that information can help homebuyers make better decisions.
Jacob Channel is a senior economic analyst for Lending Tree. He said the study found more than 16 million homes across the U.S. are sitting vacant.
“I think when people hear that they say ‘That’s crazy. There’s no inventory where I live. Home prices are skyrocketing right now,’” Channel said.
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Channel said using data from the U.S. Census Bureau to track states by the shares of unoccupied homes, the study found Florida is in the top 10.
“There are over 1.6 million vacant homes there,” Channel said.
That means 17% of the total housing units in the state are vacant. But Channel said it is important to understand what a vacant home is.
“They think ‘Oh it’s abandoned, it’s rundown, nobody wants to live there,’ but in reality homes can be vacant for all sorts of reasons,” Channel said.
That includes homes on the market waiting for people to buy or rent, vacation homes, and timeshares. Channel said it’s the seasonal homes that are driving up Florida’s high vacancy rates.
“It’s just a matter of how those people are choosing to use their homes that makes them vacant most of the time,” he said.
Channel said potential homebuyers can use vacancy rates to get a better understanding of the housing market and help make informed decisions. If vacancy rates are high and home prices low, that could be an indicator your home may not appreciate in value as much. On the flip side, with high vacancy rates and high home prices, like in Florida, that could indicate a vacation hot spot with more seasonal housing.
“You want to have a vivid picture of where you’re buying, just to make sure that you’re making the best possible choice for you,” Channel said.
Realtor Mike Yeba with Keller Williams Winter Park said he wasn’t shocked by the study’s findings.
“Once you really dive in and really read the information and see what it’s saying, it’s no surprise at all that Florida being a hot spot has so many vacancies,” Yeba said.
He adds while vacancy rates are important, homebuyers and sellers shouldn’t be scared.
“I don’t want people to look at these vacancies and freak out, essentially. The fact is we are in a very thriving market from both a sellers’ and buyers’ perspective,” Yeba said. “Sellers, because we have a lack of inventory of course and especially with a lot of those vacant homes. Buyers, because of the historically low mortgage rates. It’s still a good time to cash in and invest in real estate.”
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Rockstar Axe Throwing Orlando, a sports-entertainment business that provides a range of targets at which customers can practice knife and axe throwing, is set up for a speed-dating event Thursday, June 9.
According to Rockstar Axe Throwing Orlando, attendees can practice throwing axes with instruction from on-site coaches while spending six to eight minutes per “date.”
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The website’s event page reads: “Tired of endless swiping left? Too many uncomfortable silences during a much-too-long meal? Then we’ve got the perfect event for you - and if it doesn’t work out...hey, you’re still throwing axes!”
Rockstar Axe Throwing Orlando said that, while not physically intensive, attendees should be able to lift up to two pounds — the approximate weight of the axe — and throw it about 12 feet away.
The event begins at 7 p.m. and lasts approximately two hours, according to the business. Participants are required to pay a $35 registration fee, which includes one free drink.
For more information or to register, visit the business’ event webpage here.
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KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Police said they were investigating a death in the Kissimmee area Thursday afternoon.
Sky 6 saw a heavy police presence in the area of 1901 Michigan Ave.
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Kissimmee police later provided an update saying the death was deemed “not suspicious.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where 19 children and two teachers were killed, has renewed discussions of gun control and how to prevent mass shootings.
Oregon has seen a number of mass shootings in its recent history, including one of the first mass school shootings in the United States — at Thurston High School, which predated the Columbine High School massacre by less than a year.
Here is a timeline of notable mass shootings in Oregon, as well as gun laws passed by voters and the legislature.
Timeline
In 1998, a Springfield teenager killed his parents, then drove to Thurston High School where he opened fire, killing two and injuring 25 others. Kip Kinkel was a 15-year-old freshman at the time. He is serving a de facto life sentence.
Two years after that, Oregon voters passed a measure requiring background checks at gun shows or before a licensed dealer sells a gun. That is the only ballot measure involving guns that voters have ever passed in Oregon. Measure 5 was approved with 61.8% of the vote.
In 2004, the federal ban on assault weapons, which began in 1994, expired. Oregon has never passed its own assault weapons ban. Six states, including California, have passed bans, as well as Washington, D.C. Washington state lawmakers are currently considering a bill that would ban assault weapons.
In 2009, Oregon lawmakers passed a bill to comply with federal gun laws for those with severe mental health issues who have been banned from owning guns. It requires the state to send the names of those people to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which the FBI uses to perform background checks prior to gun sales.
In 2010, the Portland City Council passed its own gun control measures, including a ban on carrying loaded guns in public places, which was challenged in court.
In 2012, a gunman opened fire at Clackamas Town Center, killing two people and injuring another. The shooter died by suicide.
The year after that, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Portland's ban on loaded guns in public places is unconstitutional.
A Reynolds High School student shot and killed another student and wounded a teacher in 2014, before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Also in 2014, four students were hurt in a shooting outside Rosemary Anderson High School in Portland. Three people pleaded guilty or no contest for their roles in the shooting and were sentenced to significant prison time.
In 2015, Oregon lawmakers passed background check requirements for all private gun sales. That expanded on the ballot measure applying to gun shows and dealers that passed in 2000.
In October 2015, a student at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg shot and killed nine people on campus. Eight others were hurt. The gunman died by suicide. In the wake of the shooting, applications for concealed carry permits more than doubled in Multnomah County.
In 2016, Gov. Kate Brown signed an executive order directing Oregon State Police to maintain a database for gun sales.
In 2017, state lawmakers passed a "red flag law," which allows family, household members or law enforcement to request a court order removing guns or a concealed handgun license from someone if they feel they could be a danger to themselves or others.
In 2019, a student entered a classroom at Portland's Parkrose High School with a loaded gun. A security guard took the gun and no one was hurt. Investigators said the teenager only planned to hurt himself. Angel Grandados-Diaz was sentenced to 36 months of probation and mental health treatment.
The same year, state lawmakers passed a bill to close the so-called "boyfriend loophole." It takes guns away from people convicted of domestic abuse against an unmarried partner.
In 2021, the Oregon Legislature passed a safe storage law requiring gun owners to keep firearms locked up when they're not using them. It also allows schools to ban people from bringing guns on campus, even if they have a permit to carry. It also bans guns from the state Capitol.
What's happening now?
A coalition of faith and community leaders in Portland is trying to gather signatures for two gun reform initiatives to appear on the November ballot.
One would ban assault weapons in Oregon, the other would require gun owners to have permits.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Clark County Animal Protection and Control said they are continuing the push for humane treatment of animals after recent animal rescues.
On May 20, Clark County Animal Protection and Control (CCAPC) issued a search warrant, along with Vancouver Police Department, at an apartment for suspected animal cruelty.
Animal protection crews removed 19 animals from the home, including dogs, cats and reptiles, which were taken to the Humane Society for Southwest Washington. The owners were arrested for first- and second-degree animal cruelty.
The next day, CCAPC responded to a call for emaciated horses in La Center and removed 3 horses from the property. The horses were signed over to Clark County animal control and placed in Sound Equine Options horse rescue in Multnomah County, Oregon.
Additionally, Clark County noted an ongoing case from early May involving horses and another case in which CCAPC rescued a horse and two goats after its owner passed away.
“It is our partnerships with local law enforcement, the Humane Society, rescues and community fosters that allow us to do our job, said Animal Protection and Control Manager Joanne Cloud. “Thank you, Vancouver PD for helping us get those animals to safety and thank you Sound Equine Options for always being ready for the calls. I would like to give a special shout out to local equine volunteer Pamela Gotham. Pamela has helped us on five equine cases and is an amazing resource to have at our disposal.”
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WINTER GARDEN, Fla. – The Garden Theatre is pulling back the curtain on another season of shows.
For the Orange County theatre’s 2022-23 season, it’s exploring the theme of family and all the sentimentality, drama and discordance that comes with it.
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The season, which spans every era from Shakespeare to the ‘60s to the 21st century, officially starts Aug. 26 with a “A Bronx Tale,” followed by “Paper Thin,” “Honk!,” “Stick Fly,” “Next to Normal,” “Something Rotten!” and “Dreamgirls.”
Read more information about each play and musical featured this season below:
“A Bronx Tale”
Runs Aug. 26- Sept. 18, 2022
Based on the critically acclaimed film and play, this musical takes audiences to the stoops of the Bronx in 1960′s New York, where a young man named Calogero is torn between his father and his mob boss aspirations, calling into question who he can truly call family.
“Paper Thin”
Runs Oct. 7-23, 2022
Lucrece is calling in the favor that her husband Gerald promised on their wedding night years ago: Divorce. Now, she’s drinking and thinking up the best way to explain it to their son because in this show, the only way to keep the family together is to tear them apart.
“Honk!”
Runs Nov. 18- Dec. 18, 2022
Ugly the odd duck looks different from his other siblings and the barnyard animals won’t let him forget it. So, he sets off on a musical adventure, meeting others and learning to love himself along the way.
“Stick Fly”
Runs Jan. 20- Feb. 5, 2023
A rich, African American family—the LeVays—gather at their Martha Vineyard home for a weekend when the family meets the brothers’ respective partners, a self-described WASP and a middle-class Black academic. The meeting which the play revolves around brings dormant family tensions and secrets to the surface as they discuss the issues of race and class in this play.
“Next to Normal”
Runs Feb.24- March 12, 2023
The Goodmans look like an average American family on the outside— two hard-working parents, two sassy teenagers. But they are all navigating a minefield of mental health challenges. The show takes audiences on a journey inside the minds and hearts of each family member.
“Something Rotten!”
Runs April 21- May 21, 2023
In this musical, two brothers, Nick and Nigel Bottom, are writing their way through the Renaissance, trying to live up to the name and fame of William Shakespeare himself. Nick visits a fortune teller who predicts that musicals are the next best thing in theatre and so the duo set out to write the world’s first one, fighting social norms, family struggles and “The Bard” in the process.
“Dreamgirls”
Runs July 7- Aug. 6, 2023
The Dreams—Effie, Lorrell and Deena—are three young and talented African American singers in the ‘60s as the fight for civil rights wages on. Together these friends get a taste of show business and all the ambition, betrayal and hope that comes with it. Set to a soundtrack of gospel, R&B, pop, disco and more, this smash hit features popular songs such as “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going,” “Family” and “I Am Changing.”
Tickets for all shows go on sale starting July 6, with prices starting at $25 and discounts available for groups, youth, seniors and military members. Subscriptions are on sale and can be purchased on the Garden Theatre website. For more information on the season’s lineup, click here.
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CLERMONT, Fla. – Businesses in Lake County are being forced to shut their doors because of nationwide problems — workforce shortages and inflation.
Uncle Kenny’s Barbecue in Clermont is one of those locations. The award-winning barbecue joint said it can’t get enough workers.
“We really struggle to find help,” said Kenny Nadeau, the owner. “We can’t get one interview. We haven’t had a response on an interview in over three weeks
Uncle Kenny’s Barbecue is not alone when it comes to staffing shortages.
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The Tap House, just a few minutes down the road off U.S. 27, already closed its doors last month.
A Facebook post also cited staffing challenges, as well as rising food costs and wages.
Nadeau echoed those issues when discussing his own shutdown, adding that even increased sales are not helping his business.
“We’re doubling our sales every day right now, and we are doing it with five people,” Nadeau said.
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News 6 reached out to an associate professor in economics, Dr. Victor Claar, at Florida Gulf Coast University to learn more about a recent trend in business closures.
“What we are seeing is a fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and the industries most impacted are retail and restaurants,” he said.
Claar said small businesses will have some tough decisions to make as he predicts prices won’t be going down any time soon.
“I think we are going to continue to see some increases in consumer prices,” Claar said. “Remember even though it seems inflation rates are flattening, just because they are flattening doesn’t mean that they are not positive.”
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Mario Ferazzoli, the owner of Razzo’s Pizzeria — which is taking over Pizzano’s Pizza in Clermont — said while inflation and staffing shortages are a worry, he remains hopeful.
“I get to dictate my prices according to what their selling to me for, so I look at it as an advantage,” Ferazzoli said,
Ferazzoli said he already has promising applicants down, but only time will tell.
“It’s only a matter of time, see if they work out and see if they are willing to put in the time and effort to make this place what it possibly could be, " Ferazzoli said.
Uncle Kenny’s Barbecue will be shutting down on June 5. Razzo’s Pizzeria is opening around the same time.
Claar advises small businesses to make a plan that fits their needs and hold on until inflation decreases.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – A man facing eviction was arrested after pointing a weapon at a Volusia County deputy during a standoff Thursday at a Port Orange home, authorities said.
Curtis Lapiere Jr., 56, is facing a charge of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer following the hourslong standoff, which unfolded in the area of Southfork Court and Southampton Drive, the sheriff’s office said.
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Investigators said Lapiere Jr. was facing eviction from his parents’ home, where he barricaded for several hours.
SWAT, bomb drone, Air One, Mobile Command Post and negotiator teams worked the scene until about 3:30 p.m. when Lapiere Jr. finally surrendered, according to deputies.
Deputies urged the public to avoid the area.
Lapiere Jr. was also issued a trespass warning for the home from which he was evicted, deputies said.
He is currently booked in the Volusia County jail and being held without bond.
Subject in custody pic.twitter.com/PaqzJFLfeP
— Volusia Sheriff (@VolusiaSheriff) May 26, 2022
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OVIEDO, Fla. – Workers at a Starbucks location in Oviedo are now voting on whether to unionize, joining a national labor movement that started in December when a New York location of the coffee chain became the first to organize.
The Starbucks store is located at 305 E. Mitchell Hammock Road, near the intersection with South Central Avenue. The workers there are looking to join Starbucks Workers United, the union that formed out of the Buffalo, New York, location.
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“Pretty much right when the news about (the) Buffalo store started circulating is when we started talking about it,” Roy Sistovaris said. “I would say that most of my coworkers are politically, civilly active so we all kind of knew about it. We started talking about this soon as everybody else knew.”
Sistovaris is a barista trainer at the Oviedo location who has been with the company for about 4 years. He has been leading the unionization efforts at the store.
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“I didn’t really expect anybody else to really step up and do it because the people who were really talking about it have been with Starbucks for like 8 years, (who) envision a future with the company longer than I do,” Sistovaris said. “I’m a college student. I’m graduating soon and customer service is not the field that I’m going to be going into, career-wise, so if anybody’s going to take the fall for this — experience retaliation — I would rather it be me than someone who’s really trying to move forward with the company.”
The workers at the Oviedo store sent a letter of intent in March to Starbucks Workers United for their unionization efforts.
The letter reads, in part: “We have been energized and inspired by the efforts and demonstrations across the nation — from Buffalo to the Seattle Roastery to stores right here in Florida — to make our workplace better. If Starbucks is really to be a second place for us, we must ensure that our voices and concerns are truly heard and taken seriously by higher management.”
The E Mitchell Hammock and City Plaza store in Oviedo, Florida is organizing a union!
— SBWorkersUnited (@SBWorkersUnited) March 5, 2022
“We love our store. We love our manager. We love this company. Together, we can make Starbucks so
much more than it currently is.” — Oviedo organizing committee pic.twitter.com/Lh6VOCwIYB
The letter points out that the workers’ grievances are not with their direct management, but with the corporate environment within which they work.
“Our store manager is really great,” Sistovaris said. “She’s really empathetic. She gets what we’re talking about.”
However, the union organizer did point out that higher management has been conducting “captive audience meetings” and “union-busting tactics.”
News 6 reached out to Starbucks for comment on the Sistovaris’ accusations.
The company said, in part: “We are listening and learning from the partners in these stores, as we always do across the country. Starbucks’ success—past, present, and future—is built on how we partner together, always with Our Mission and Values at our core. We’ve been clear in our belief that we are better together as partners, without a union between us, and that conviction has not changed.”
Sistovaris said the workers in Oviedo have a number of issues with the corporation, including but not limited to issues with low wages and the brand’s “the customer is always right policy.”
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“I worked in those first few weeks of the pandemic when nobody really knew what was going on,” Sistovaris said. “And the way that the customers treated us — despite us providing that like essential service, right, calling us essential workers — was just absolutely atrocious. And if anything corporate has just rewarded their behavior towards us.”
Sistovaris recounted stories of customers calling Starbucks workers slurs or becoming violent toward them, including throwing hot coffee onto employees.
“I’ve had people throw like their trash at me like from their car,” he said. “So Starbucks’ response has been — (the customer) basically gets sent to the district manager or whatever manager, and basically, they (the managers) have to be like, ‘Oh, we’re so sorry. You know, we’re gonna make that moment right for you.’ And they basically give them a gift card.”
The workers are now casting their votes by mail as to whether they will unionize, sending their ballots to the National Labor Relations Board.
The votes will be read on June 9. If everything goes to plan, the work of collective bargaining then gets underway.
“There obviously has to be time to get a consensus amongst all the workers of like, ‘Hey, who’s going to represent us? What do we want?’ You have to give out surveys so that we make sure we’re on the same page, or we are representing everybody’s interests,” Sistovaris said.
After the vote, the process of bargaining with Starbucks corporate begins, which will be a long process.
At least 85 of Starbucks’ 9,000 company-run U.S. stores — representing 7,444 workers — have voted to unionize since December, according to the National Labor Relations Board, and at least 10 stores have rejected the union. Many more elections are coming; at least 268 stores across the U.S. have petitioned the NLRB to hold union elections.
The labor board says it has officially certified 64 of those 85 elections, which means Starbucks must begin bargaining with the union at those stores. So far, just three — two in Buffalo, New York, and one in Mesa, Arizona — have begun the process; many others are talking to Starbucks about dates to begin negotiating, according to Workers United, which represents the unionized stores.
You can read Starbucks’ full response to News 6 below:
“We are listening and learning from the partners in these stores, as we always do across the country. Starbucks success—past, present, and future—is built on how we partner together, always with Our Mission and Values at our core.
We’ve been clear in our belief that we are better together as partners, without a union between us, and that conviction has not changed.
As Howard recently shared in a letter to partners, “We will become the best version of Starbucks by co-creating our future directly as partners. And we will strengthen the Starbucks community by upholding each other’s dreams; upholding the standards and rituals of the company; celebrating partner individuality and voice; and upholding behaviors of mutual respect and dignity.’”
Rossann Williams, evp and president, North America, has also shared with our partners that we respect their right to organize and will bargain in good faith.
She also noted in a letter sent to all partners in that “the vote outcomes will not change our shared purpose or how we will show up for each other. … We will keep listening, we will keep connecting and we will keep being in service of one another because that’s what we’ve always done and what it means to be partner.”
As for wages and partner satisfaction, please see the below background information:
In October, Starbucks announced a wave of investments for our partners, building on our 50-year history and tradition of listening and learning, while investing our success back into our people. Building on substantial wage and benefit investments throughout the pandemic, Starbucks is prioritizing another significant investment to recognize and reward tenured partners while also ensuring all partners earn at least $15/hour by Summer 2022.
This next investment culminates a total of approximately $1 billion in incremental investments in annual wages and benefits over the last two years.
Effective as of late January 2022, partners with two or more years of service received up to a 5% raise and partners with five or more years received up to a 10% raise.
Additionally, in August 2022, average pay for all U.S. hourly partners will be nearly $17/hr.
- In December 2020, Starbucks committed to raising its wage floor to $15/hr.
- Hourly rates will range based on market and tenure from $15 to $23/ hr. across the country in Summer 2022.
Finally, to improve on the store experience – with significant customer demand for Starbucks and an increasing pace of beverage innovation, Starbucks has invested in forecasting capabilities to improve store staffing; testing of a “shifts app” aiming to make it easier for partners to work available shifts that meets their personal needs; and improving behind the bar floor design and equipment, including testing a Cold Beverage Station in select stores around the country.
A team of support partners and data analysts, as well as a Store Manager Council, are working side by side with our store partners to help shape this work.”
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Carnival is a celebration of emancipation in Caribbean cultures, and Orlando Carnival Downtown is seeking to bring that spirit to Florida with a weekend-long festival at Dezerland Park.
The three-day Orlando Carnival Downtown celebration kicks off Friday evening with a celebration of Carnival traditions, starting with a fashion show based around Carnival attire.
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The first day of the event — Carnival on the Runway — will open its doors at 6 p.m. Friday evening, and is set to act as a “fabulous fashion show, combination of mas (a form of Caribbean masquerade dress used for Carnival), fashion and culture,” according to the event’s organizers.
An afterparty will be hosted at Legends Resto & Lounge, featuring the ladies of “soca” — a style of Caribbean music — Imani Ray, Nessa Preppy and Nailah Blackman.
The second stage of the event is titled “J’Ouvert” and is scheduled for Saturday from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. According to organizers, this stage of the event will see participants getting paint all over themselves — a tradition of Carnival celebrations — while enjoying music in the outdoor venue.
Following J’Ouvert is “Back in Time Lime,” which is set to run from 6 - 10 p.m. Saturday evening.
“Liming” is a Caribbean slang term for relaxing in a public place and enjoying the scenery, which is exactly what organizers say this stage of the event is meant for.
Attendees can “lime in an outdoor dinner theater type atmosphere” while they sit, eat, drink and enjoy entertainment from musical artists and entertainers — including Winston “Gypsy” Peters, a Trinidad and Tobago politician with a background in Caribbean music — organizers wrote.
The weekend-long event builds up to its fourth and final stage Sunday with “Carnival Day,” which will feature a parade of Mas bands and Caribbean street food, such as jerk chicken, “real” snow cones and coconut water, organizers stated. Carnival Day is scheduled to last from noon to 11 p.m.
Orlando Carnival Downtown is set to begin Friday at 6 p.m. For more information or to get involved, visit the event’s website here.
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The deceased are from Tucson unless otherwise noted.
Acers, Donald E., 93, business owner, May 5, Hudgel’s Swan.
Anderson, James M., 82, business executive, May 12, Hudgel’s Swan.
Bobzin, Lyle D., 103, airline pilot, May 4, Hudgel’s Swan.
Charlton, Donna M., 94, homemaker, May 2, Hudgel’s Swan.
Colica, Delphine, 80, office administrator, May 2, Hudgel’s Swan.
Durazo, Eva O., 87, homemaker, May 13, Carrillo’s.
Golibersuch, Barbara A., 80, medical office manager, May 7, Hudgel’s Swan.
Haig, Michael J., 61, auto body repair, May 18, Hudgel’s Swan.
Huskey, Robert L., 96, construction, May 14, Hudgel’s Swan.
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Hutchison, Aaron S., 63, auto mechanic, May 3, Hudgel’s Swan.
Kaplowitch, Christy A., 44, customer service rep., May 2, Hudgel’s Swan.
Kreidler, Frances L., 75, electronics, May 7, Hudgel’s Swan.
Lopez, Maria Luisa, 90, shop owner, May 13, Carrillo’s.
Meade, Susan M., 63, quality control, May 12, Hudgel’s Swan.
Niemeyer, Albert I., 90, computer specialist, May 18, Hudgel’s Swan.
Quezada, Miguel, 52, May 13, Carrillo’s.
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Arizona Daily Star border reporter Danyelle Khmara speaks to people who hold a stake in the borderlands — who work, live, travel and migrate in the Arizona-Mexico border region or whose lives are affected by immigration and border policies.
In this occasional series, Khmara brings readers the voices and stories of those people to illuminate what life is really like on the border.
Here she talks to two people who work at the coffee cooperative Café Justo, in the Sonoran border city Agua Prieta, about 120 miles southeast of Tucson. They have both watched the small business grow into something that could be part of the solution to keeping families together in their homes rather than migrating out of necessity.
'Providing an option for them'
Adrian Gonzalez was in his early 20s when he started working at Café Justo. He heard about the coffee cooperative through the Presbyterian Church in Agua Prieta, Sonora, where he is a member.
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He knew nothing about coffee. When asked in the initial interview if he knew how many varieties of coffee there were, he said, “Sure, regular and decaf.”
It was 2002, and the cooperative had rented a small house with a single roaster, a small mill and a computer. It was in its first year and still just an idea, started by a group of 25 coffee farmers from Southern Mexico and a $20,000 loan from Frontera de Cristo, a binational ministry with the Presbyterian Church.
In the very beginning, they weren’t moving more than 100 pounds of coffee a month, Gonzalez says. Now, they sell at least 1,500 pounds a week.
The project was born out of a need.
As the profits from producing coffee dropped, coffee farmers and workers began migrating from Chiapas in Southern Mexico where many made their living growing coffee to border towns like Agua Prieta, where there was work in the maquiladoras. These mostly U.S.-owned factories receive tax breaks and take advantage of the cheaper labor of Mexico to make products to be exported. And when some maquiladoras left for cheaper labor in Asia and Central America, more people who lost their livelihoods began migrating, undocumented to the U.S.
Gonzalez was born in Agua Prieta, and he’s seen the city transform from a city of less than 30,000 habitants to nearly 100,000.
Growing up in Agua Prieta, Gonzalez remembers crossing the border after school with his friends, hopping a small barbed wire fence to swim in the Douglas public pool. On the way home, they often ran into Border Patrol, who would offer to give them a ride back to the Mexican side of the line.
Going to Douglas was just like going to another part of the city, Gonzalez says. The wall changed that.
“We felt like Douglas and Agua Prieta were the same city, the same community,” he says. “Obviously when they started to build the wall, well you no longer feel welcome. I understand the reasons, but it did transform the border and had many types of impacts.”
Like most Arizona border towns, main streets in Agua Prieta run right up against the border wall. In some spots, artists have painted murals — color and life on top of rust-colored steel bollards.
Gonzalez remembers when Café Justo started. Coffee farmers arrived in Agua Prieta looking for work because they couldn’t support their families or educate their children. Many came to the border because they knew there was work with the maquiladoras. And when the maquiladoras weren’t enough, many began to make the ever more treacherous journey across the border.
Today about 100 families are impacted directly or indirectly by Café Justo. Gonzalez is an employee of the farmers, who own every aspect of the business.
“A $20,000 loan is keeping over 100 families here in Mexico, where they want to be anyway,” Gonzalez says. “And you compare that to all the millions of millions of dollars that are being put into building the wall and the border security that clearly is not working.”
At the end of this year, the organization will have its 20th anniversary.
“Just receiving a fair price for coffee isn’t the solution for the coffee growers,” Gonzalez says. “You have to empower them. Make them understand that they can be more than just coffee farmers. They can be business owners if they want to be. So that is the idea behind Café Justo — reduce the flow of immigration to the United States, providing an option for them.”
While most of the farmers are in Southern Mexico, the roaster is on the border because 95% of their customers are in the United States. Many are church organizations, as well as a few cafes, food co-ops and small bed-and-breakfasts.
Recycled boxes are piled up in the back room of Café Justo, packed with 1,500 pounds of freshly roasted coffee. Labels advertising things like Mexican cookies and Fruit of the Loom are covered over with addresses, ready to ship to cities in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois, New York and many more.
They have at least one customer in every state now and a few in Canada, Gonzalez says. Because of their connection with Frontera de Christo, their first customers were Presbyterian churches. But now many other denominations are participating — Episcopalians, Catholics, Mennonite and Quakers.
“Pretty much everyone that likes coffee serves coffee in the churches,” Gonzalez says. “If they’re getting coffee for their members anyways, why not get it from a store that is keeping the families together in Mexico?”
A 5-pound bag of coffee is labeled with the date the coffee was roasted, the type of coffee and the name of the farmer. It’s all about building relationships and connection, Gonzalez says.
Every year in November they take a group of people to Chiapas to meet the farmers and learn all about the coffee processing. Some people who go have been watching the names on their coffee bags and get to meet that farmer who has been growing it.
Gonzalez speaks at universities, churches and other organizations in the U.S. to share the project and vision of Café Justo, and that this model can be used with other products besides coffee.
Along with keeping families together, Café Justo is leading to reverse migration, he says.
People who have left are returning back to these communities because they have opportunities they didn’t have before. As well, farmers can afford to hire locals, not just from Mexico but also from Guatemala, to work in the farms so their children can go back to school and get an education.
“Many of them are already graduating, becoming nurses, doctors, teachers, engineers. I mean, whatever they want,” Gonzalez says. “What they have now that they didn't have before is opportunities, options.”
Gonzalez joined Café Justo because he wanted to be a part of something that helps people.
“Independent of the salary or job you can have, if you’re participating in something that is for the common good, it’s very gratifying,” he said.
While border issues are so often seen through a politically divided lense, Gonzalez says the beauty of this project is that whether you are liberal or conservative, it's a win-win situation.
“When it comes to border issues, you want people to be together with their families, especially if you're religious,” he says. “And this just makes sense. If you don't want people to come over to your country, then by all means support ideas like this.”
As Gonzales has watched his community change, separating in half what he grew up thinking of as one community, some things don’t change.
“A wall is never going to dictate the way that we relate to each other,” he says.
“Finding common ground, common ideas and ways to exchange and collaborate together, that's how we are gonna be able to relate to each other.”
'You always have the opportunity to overcome or to grow'
It’s Carmina Sanchez’s birthday. The 30-something laughs at herself as she shows off her curls, thick ringlets falling around her shoulders, which she did for the occasion. She talks with her colleagues in the little Café Justo office behind the industrial coffee roaster and boxes of coffee piled high, ready to be sent across the country.
Friends arrive for the impending party. Teens and families come by and say hello.
Sanchez is the secretary for Café Justo y Más — the Café Justo coffee house that opened in 2016.
Her duties include taking orders, payments and doing the paperwork to export the coffee. But the title does little to describe the impact she has on the place, and vice versa.
Sanchez has worked full time with Café Justo for eight years, but she was also there in the very beginning, nearly 20 years ago, roasting coffee in a pan over a little gas stove with her mother and a few other women, creating samples to send to prospective clients.
Sanchez is from Salvador Urbina, in Chiapas — a small community that primarily grows coffee and home of the farmers who started Café Justo. She migrated to Agua Prieta when she was just a teenager.
Her father was working in the coffee farms, and life in Chiapas was getting very hard, she says. It was the late ’90s, and the price of coffee had devalued so much that the owners of the coffee plantations were just doing the work themselves or even losing their livelihoods.
Her dad decided to go north where he heard there was work in the maquiladoras. A year later, when Sanchez was 16, he came for her and her older brother. Soon after, her mom and other siblings joined them in the border town.
It was 1998, and Sanchez stopped going to school and got a job in a maquiladora, making seat belts. It was common that teenagers where she was from stopped going to school, she says. She worked at the same factory as her father. He worked at night, and she had the day shift.
The work was hard, 10-hour days on her feet with very few breaks and very repetitive, like a robot, she says.
It was her first job. And she loved it.
“It was the first time I had money, in my own hands,” she says. “And honestly, I didn’t know what to do with the money. When I got my first payment, I took my parents out to eat dinner. I’ll never forget it, and neither will they.”
Back in Chiapas they sometimes struggled to have enough food. They ate a lot of beans and simple meals, and on special occasions had chicken, maybe a mole, a traditional Mexican sauce usually served over meat.
“We also ate iguana,” Sanchez says, laughing. Her dad liked to hunt, and when they didn’t have enough food, he might catch an iguana for dinner or go fishing.
Moving to Agua Prieta was a huge change. Sanchez left behind a large family of aunts, uncles and cousins. And coming from the tropics of Chiapas, being surrounded by desert was shocking.
When she first arrived, she lived in a house with as many as 20 people who were from the same region as her and had also come to work in the maquiladoras. The house only had a couple rooms, and they hung blankets to create a modicum of privacy.
Sanchez eventually got married and had two children, a boy and a girl. And she kept working in the maquiladora. Now, her husband worked at night while she kept the day shift.
Then the maquiladoras started closing, moving elsewhere for cheaper labor. And Sanchez lost her job.
“It was a very difficult time because it was a very big factory,” she said. “Many people were without work, and they migrated to the United States. Many people migrated, and one of them was my dad.”
Café Justo was starting then, and Sanchez’s mom taught her to roast the coffee.
She was getting paid 10 pesos for each pound of coffee she roasted, the equivalent at the time of less than one U.S. dollar, which took about 40 minutes. Still in its infancy, they were seeing if the idea would work.
Eventually, Sanchez found another factory job, packing tomatoes.
Years later, she heard there was a job at the new coffee house Café Justo was opening, and she got it. She started with packaging coffee and was taking on more responsibility when the secretary was leaving, and they offered her the job.
Sanchez laughs remembering how nervous she was accepting it.
“I thought, why did I say yes? I was afraid because I felt like I didn't know that much,” she says. “But I can tell you that over these years, I have grown so much. Café Justo has taught me so many things.”
Being a part of Café Justo taught her there are no limits, that si, se puede, she says.
Sanchez taught herself to use the accounting program for the coffee house. The instructions were all in English, which was harder for her to understand, but she found a way. Besides learning to manage aspects of the cafe, working with Café Justo helped open her mind, she says.
“It doesn’t matter where you came from,” she says. “You always have the opportunity to overcome or to grow while you’re alive. You don’t have to be afraid. Or if you are afraid, face your fears so you can win, grow as a person, learn. I have learned so so much.”
And just like Café Justo, the coffee house served a need that she and others saw in the community. There were more drug issues in the city, and teens and children were vulnerable. So first off, the cafe opened to be a safe space for teens and youth where they could do school work, connect and express themselves creatively.
As well, the coffee house hires people from a substance-abuse treatment center in Agua Prieta. Café Justo y Más is a place where they can have work that’s meaningful and be part of a community, Sanchez says. When there is a job opening, they offer it to patients of the treatment center first.
The cafe has been such a success and they are looking to expand and franchise it, hopefully in the United States.
“For me, I am very in love with the project of Café Justo, to help the farmers and my countrymen in Chiapas,” she said. “And also, I love the project of Café Justo y Más, which I say because I also have teenagers.”
Sanchez’s daughter is 20 now, and her son is 14. Her daughter loves art and takes part in youth events at the coffee house.
People who grow up in the south, sometimes have a mentality that’s a bit closed, Sanchez says. It was new to her to interact with people from northern Mexico and the U.S. People had different ways of communicating and traditions she wasn’t used to.
“All of this was walls that we had to break,” she says. “Now, I love the people from here and also the desert.”
Sanchez hikes and rides her bike in nature and on the outskirts of the city.
“I realized that here, there is also life,” she says. “I’m talking about the nature but also saying that one can grow outside their home. You arrive with fear — What’s out there? Where are we going to live? Where are we going to work? — but here, there is the opportunity to grow. And so here we are.”
Contact reporter Danyelle Khmara at dkhmara@tucson.com or 573-4223. On Twitter: @DanyelleKhmara
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Just days after a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers inside an elementary school in Texas, officials at two separate New York City-area schools found students brought firearms to school.
In Brooklyn, a ghost gun was found outside the Street Academy School. The weapon was found around 11 a.m., when officials at the Bedford-Stuyvesant school were told by a female student that her 16-year-old boyfriend had put the firearm in a duffel bag outside the school, according to a law enforcement source.
A spokesperson for the city's Department of Education told NBC New York that school safety agents with the NYPD "immediately and safely recovered this item, which was found off campus, following a concern raised by a member of the school community."
The union source said that the safety agent did a perimeter check, and when looking into bushes across the street from the school, found a black bag. Inside that bad was a nylon case, containing the gun. A law enforcement source said the gun was not loaded, but there were two magazines with bullets inside the bag.
"Yet another gun off our New York City streets," said Mark Rampersant, the head of safety and youth development for the city's Education Department.
Two male students were held for questioning regarding the found weapon, while NYPD detectives canvassed the area and were waiting to review security footage to see who may have placed the bag there, a law enforcement source told News 4.
It was the 21st gun found inside a NYC school this academic year.
"A small percentage of young people are doing the wrong thing. And we need to band together and rid our city of this unfortunate weaponry," Rampersant said. "Young people arming themselves to hurt each other."
It was not the only weapon found at an NYC-area school Thursday, as three students in Yonkers were found to have passed around a BB gun. The students, all seventh graders at the Cesar Chavez School that serves kindergarten through eighth grade, were seen with the weapon by classmates, who in turn told school staff.
"Immediately police responded and three young people seem to have been involved in passing the BB gun around," said Yonkers Superintendent Dr. Edwin Quezada.
The BB gun was not believed to be loaded. Yonkers police said they anticipate charging one or more of the students as juvenile delinquents. However, Quezada said that it's adults who also need to take action.
"Schools will not be safe places for children if we, the adults, do not get it together," he said, urging parents to be more mindful of what their kids are doing. "They need to be attentive to what kids are writing, saying, social media. Open the bags of your children, see what they may be carrying to school."
Police told NBC New York that "in light of recent events locally and nationally, parents may expect to see additional resources in and around our schools," but added that the situation was under control and that thee are no additional treats to students or the school.
Quezada said the school does not have metal detectors, and does not have plans to get any, calling it a sad development following the tragic events in Uvalde, Texas.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — It's 9:37 AM at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth. The skies are clear, the weather is perfect, and for Maj. Thomas 'Puppy' Frey of the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 112--it's time to buzz a hangar.
Cruising at subsonic speeds--Maj. Frey approaches a handful of Marines on the ground, who spent a considerable amount of time on the F/A-18C Hornet he's test flying.
The sounds of his jet engine rip through the Fort Worth sky--as he passes, it's a clear sign to everyone that the test flight is a success.
Maj. Frey casually climbs out of the cockpit, carrying confidence as if he can read my mind: "Damn, this guy has one of the coolest jobs ever."
"They changed out some flight controls, so, basically went up really quick to make sure the aircraft behaved normally. Took it through some aerobatics to make sure it behaved normally," Maj. Frey said.
"Wanted to fly it by the Marines--show them the fruits of their labor."
This kind of thing happens daily at the base. The reason WFAA wanted to see it up close?
This weekend, the much-anticipated sequel--'Top Gun: Maverick' will hit theaters, and we feel the world is about to fall in love with fighter jets all over again like it's 1986.
That's the year the movie 'Top Gun' was released--which is considered a timeless classic and pop culture fixture by many.
It was such a success that year--the U.S.military saw a massive recruitment boom in the months that followed. The U.S. Navy even set up recruiting stations outside of theaters.
If you haven't seen it, the movie follows actor Tom Cruise as he competes through the United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program--often called TOPGUN.
The school is actually real and was set up in 1969 as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School at Naval Air Station Miramar. In 1996, the school moved to Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada.
Lt. Col. Todd 'Forest' Peterson knows the terrain well in that area.
The Houston native and fellow member of the Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 112 graduated from TOPGUN in March of 2012.
"TOPGUN is designed to send guys to be trained to come back and be instructors in their squadron. We go through the most realistic and intense scenarios to learn to execute the right way--and then teach it to other pilots," Peterson said.
"So it's bringing everyone up to a standard--and TOPGUN is the source to do it."
And being a graduate of TOPGUN--brings a lot of questions.
"I obviously get asked about the movie," Peterson said with a laugh.
"Is it anything like it?" I ask.
"Mostly--no," Peterson laughed. "I don't want to take anything away from it, though--it's a movie, and it served its purpose. It impacted me as a kid, and I think this new movie will impact future aviators."
Sorry, y'all--no shirtless volleyball scenes.
"They also don't walk around in skinny towels!" Peterson's wife said with a laugh.
Yes, WFAA saw nothing of that on-base either.
But so many people are excited to see the 'Top Gun' sequel--primarily because of how it was filmed.
Tom Cruise went full 'Tom Cruise' and pushed things to the limits for the audience. Paramount Pictures and the larger-than-life actor developed IMAX cameras specifically for the cockpit of the F/A-18F Super Hornet.
Peterson and Frey fly the F/A-18C Hornet--an older model that's not a two-seater jet.
Simply put--all of the dogfighting scenes are real.
Six of those cameras are rolling as the actors of the film sit backseat of a two-seater Super Hornet--as a real pilot flies in the front seat.
As the real pilot maneuvers, the actors' expressions and movements look realistic on camera.
Peterson saw the movie Wednesday night at a special screening and said the flying footage is pretty phenomenal.
"These actors were actually in the aircraft, and you see the G forces on their faces and see the exhaustion," Peterson said.
However, Peterson told WFAA that he wished more of the movie focused on the maintainers.
Those are the guys who do maintenance on aircraft daily.
"One thing that's missed is the maintainers," Peterson said. "They spend so many hours on these aircraft to make sure they can fly, and they're just as important as we are."
Still--the movie will offer a never-before-seen glimpse into a fighter pilot's world.
One that Peterson and Frey can't get enough of.
"I can't think of anything better," Peterson said.
One last question: does anyone actually quote the original movie?
"That's a fineable offense," Peterson said with a laugh.
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HOUSTON — The National Rifle Association (NRA) is set to hold a convention in Houston just days after a mass shooting took place at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
Following the school shooting that left 21 people dead, a number of high-profile guests dropped from the Houston NRA event.
"American Pie" singer Don McLean was set to perform at the event but dropped out.
"In light of the recent events in Texas, I have decided it would be disrespectful and hurtful for me to perform for the NRA at their convention in Houston this week," he said in a statement.
"I'm sure all the folks planning to attend this event are shocked and sickened by these events as well. After all, we are all Americans," the statement continued.
McLean's statement concluded, "I share the sorrow for this terrible, cruel loss with the rest of the nation."
Lee Greenwood also announced he would not perform.
"As a father, I join the rest of America in being absolutely heartbroken by the horrific event that transpired this week in Texas. I was scheduled to perform at NRA’s private event on Saturday with my band. After thoughtful consideration, we have decided to cancel the appearance out of respect for those mourning the loss of those innocent children and teachers in Uvalde.
"During this Memorial Day Weekend, we should also remember the servicemen and women, and first responders who’ve given their lives to protect our great country. Please join me to pay our respects as we unite together as would be the most appropriate measure at this time."
Key speakers still attending
Former President Donald Trump is still scheduled to headline the event. Guns won't be allowed in the auditorium where the former president will be speaking.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is also set to take the stage.
Over the course of his political career, which began in 2002, Cruz has accepted $176,284 in political donations from the NRA, according to the nonprofit group OpenSecrets and the Texas Ethics Commission.
Gov. Greg Abbott was scheduled to attend, but will instead remain in Uvalde. He will provide a pre-recorded message to be played at the NRA convention in Houston.
Abbott has accepted $16,200 in political donations from the NRA and the Texas State Rifle Association over the course of his political career, which also began in 2002.
Calls for cancellation
There have been calls for the NRA convention to be canceled or held at a location not in Texas.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on Wednesday said the city was unable to cancel the convention citing legal issues.
"The convention has been on the books for more than two years," Turner said during a City Council meeting on Wednesday. "It's a contractual arrangement. We simply cannot cancel a conference or convention because we do not agree with the subject matter."
Protests planned
The convention, which is set to be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, is expected to be met with protest.
"Our children are dying in schools because of laws they created that made it easier for them to happen," Ashton Woods, with Black Lives Matter Houston, said. "So, the message is people can go home."
Houston police on Thursday tweeted out a photo of designated protest and counter-protest zones across the street from the convention center at Discovery Green.
Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said there will be a heavy police presence at the convention center and the protests.
"You will see officers everywhere," he said.
Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña said the fire department will also be on hand to provide support.
Despite calls for cancellation, the NRA convention is still set to go on.
"Our deepest sympathies are with the families and victims involved in this horrific and evil crime. On behalf of our members, we salute the courage of school officials, first responders and others who offered their support and services," the NRA said in a statement.
"Although an investigation is underway and facts are still emerging, we recognize this was the act of a lone, deranged criminal. As we gather in Houston, we will reflect on these events, pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members, and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure," the statement continued.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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UVALDE, Texas — The tragedy in Uvalde is not just another reminder of the recurring gun violence in our schools but a reminder of the seemingly age-old question: Should our teachers carry guns?
"This school is an extension of my home. When I step through these doors in the morning I have 115 kids under my roof," said Cody Patton, who is the superintendent at Harrold ISD.
Harrold ISD is a small, rural school district near the Oklahoma border where teachers can conceal-carry.
"One of my teachers said I would not be working here if we did not have that policy in place," said Patton.
The superintendent tells WFAA the program, called Guardian, is only effective if educators are properly trained. Patton says yearly firearm training is required and the district even offers a stipend for teachers who conceal-carry.
In the two days since the Uvalde mass shooting, there have been three reported gun incidents in North Texas. In Arlington ISD, a parent on campus at Duff Elementary was arrested after his concealed weapon accidentally discharged. In Fort Worth ISD, at Meachem Middle School, a tip led to the arrest of a middle school student who had a gun on campus.
And at Richardson ISD, police say a student from Berkner High School was spotted carrying a rifle-type weapon. Police say the student was later arrested on campus when the gun was found in a nearby car. In all three incidents, the offender was arrested and charged with unlawful carrying of weapons in a gun-free zone.
"Maybe we can slow down things or deter it long enough to keep our kids safe," said Patton.
Patton says the nearest law enforcement to Harrold is 20 minutes away. Conceal-carry for teachers is Harrold ISD's answer to gun violence at schools. It may not be the answer for many districts, but it will be talked about over the summer.
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MACON, Ga. — A 92-year-old veteran reflects on his time in the U.S. Navy and how he remembers his friends he lost ahead of this upcoming Memorial Day.
Dan Gatlyn was born during America's Great Depression.
"There was nothing. I remember when I was a kid, we didn't have anything, nothing. I remember when I didn't have any shoes," Gatlyn said.
At 18 years old, he joined the Navy.
"I was a victim of circumstance. I joined to have a job," Gatlyn said.
Throughout his 20 years of service in the Korean War, Vietnam War, Cold War, and Cuban Missile Crisis, he lost several friends.
"We lost pilots, a lot of them in the squadron," Gatlyn said.
Gatlyn says he lost one friend in a flying accident, and another who got caught in a fire on their hangar deck.
"It was 30 days before they got him back to Milledgeville, and I had to take his wife down to the funeral home and listen to her words, and she looked at him and said, 'That's not him.' You want to issue as much comfort as possible, but watching her face and watching those two kids [was hard]," Gatlyn said.
58,000 men and women died in Vietnam alone.
"69 percent of those who died were under 22 years of age. That's terrible. That's the story. All wars take our young people," Gatlyn said.
It's those young people Gatlyn wants us to remember.
Gatlyn plans on attending a "Taps" ceremony on Houston Road in their honor. It's at Sardis-Heard Funeral Home and Crematorium on May 28th at 11 a.m.
Gatlyn is also a pastor, missionary, and journalist. His wife passed away in 2013. They were married for 68 years.
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Michael L. Gray, 60, of Coquille died May 18, 2022 in Coquille. Cremation rites will be held at Ocean View Memory Gardens Crematory, Coos Bay under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com
John Frank O’Bryan, 75, of Coquille, passed away May 16, 2022 in Coquille. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Richard “Dick” Mooney, 76, of Myrtle Point, passed away May 18, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Sherrill D. Stevens, 71, of Lakeside, passed away on May 23, 2022 in Roseburg. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Deanne Patrice Chase, 66, of Coos Bay, passed away May 18, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Sheldon J. Storm, 49, of Coos Bay, passed away on May 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Robert Wayne Widdifield,71, of North Bend, passed away May 18, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
James Earl Green, 82, of Coos Bay, passed away May 17, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of Coos Bay Chapel, 541-267-3131 www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Robin J. Carpenter, 71, of Coos Bay died May 22, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation rites will be held at Ocean View Memory Gardens Crematory, Coos Bay under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Lawrence Joseph Palumbo Jr., 69, of North Bend, passed away on May 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Cynthia E. Donaldson, 69, of Coos Bay, passed away on May 22, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Jacqueline K. McPartland, 76, of Coos Bay, died May 20, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation rites will be held at Ocean View Memory Gardens Crematory, Coos Bay under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com
Rebecca Jane Brown, 61, of Lakeside, passed away on May 22, 2022 in Lakeside. Arrangements are under the care of North Bend Chapel, www.coosbayareafunerals.com, 541-756-0440.
Julie McLean, 87, of Coos Bay, passed away May 20, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Benjamin Michael “Mike” Easley, 81, of Coos Bay, passed away May 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Johann Richard Bauer Sr., 79, of Coos Bay, passed away May 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
George Raymond Humbert, 89, of North Bend, passed away May 21, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Harlis G. “Sandy” Crabbe, 90, of North Bend, passed away May 22, 2022 in Coos Bay. Cremation Rites are under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Diana Lee Martin, 76, of Langlois, passed away May 22, 2022 in Langlois. Arrangements are pending under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
Dina Davis, 71, of Lakeside, passed away May 24, 2022 in Coos Bay. Arrangements are pending under the direction of Nelson's Bay Area Mortuary, 405 Elrod Ave., Coos Bay, Oregon 541/267-4216
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A celebration of life for Michael L. Gray, 60, of Coquille, will be held Saturday, August 27, 2022 at 12:00 pm at the Fairview Fire Station, 96775 Fairview Sumner Lane. Arrangements are under the direction of Coos Bay Chapel. 541-267-3131. www.coosbayareafunerals.com
A celebration of life for Jeannette Brunell Sweet, 94, of Coos Bay, will be held Saturday, May 28, 2022, 11:00 am at the Coos History Museum, 1210 N Front St, Coos Bay, OR 97420. We will gather to share our loving memories.
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A private school in Naples showed NBC2 its extra layer of protection that works hard to keep their children safe.
The Village School of Naples has one of only three ‘Skool Dogs’ in America, and her name is Colby.
Colby is the only Skool Dog in Florida. She’s basically a full time guard dog. She specializes in responding to an active shooter and the scent of gunpowder, or ammunition.
“We are both certified as an active shooter response team to like threats and things like that,” said Daniel, Colby’s handler and the school resource officer.
Two years ago, a family anonymously donated her to the school.
“This all started since Parkland,” said Dennis Chapman, head of school.
Colby and Officer Daniel went through several weeks of training to become a close-knit team. They patrol the campus all day long.
“She allows us to do our job better and then have resources to detect or deter if need be,” said Daniel.
Colby sniffs out anything she can to then notify Officer Daniel of danger.
“She will not hesitate to do what she is trained to do. If there are gunshots, she will actually take the K-9 handler toward them,” Daniel said.
Chapman said parents, just like him, feel better knowing Colby is securing the campus at all times.
“All the money we’ve invested into safety and security has come through donations. Our parents are very passionate about keeping their children safe,” said Chapman.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif — If a mural paint party, an antique fair or a vegan soul food festival sounds fun to you, then it goes to show there's something for everyone this weekend in Northern California.
After this week's heatwave, the weekend weather seems to be cooling down, reaching the low 80s with a light breeze. Gather up some friends, maybe family members, or even go solo but head outside and enjoy some of these weekend events for Memorial Day Weekend!
Enjoy traditional county fair competitions, agriculture displays, family activities, a midway, festival-style entertainment, and all the fair food you've been missing for those two years. Don't forget to see traditional fair fun entertainment including local bands, hypnotists, petting zoos and rescued exotic animals
- 10 a.m. — 10 p.m. May 26 - 30
- Located at Cal Expo (1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento)
- Organized by Sacramento County Fair, Sacramento County, and Midway of Fun
- More information about this event HERE.
Celebrate Broadway this Memorial Day weekend with an amazing opportunity to make your mark on Sacramento at District 4's Community Mural! In addition to the Paint by Number Mural, enjoy the free Broadway Block Party held on 5th Street consisting of music, food trucks, yoga classes, a car show from Cars & Coffee, and local art.
- 10 a.m. — 2 p.m. Sunday, May 29
- Located at the ABC10 Building (400 Broadway, Sacramento)
- Organized by Community Murals Sacramento and ABC10
- More information about this event HERE.
A three-day multi-genre music festival right in the heart of the city of Napa. There will be five stages, a culinary stage, food, drinks and good vibes! This year's headliners are Metallica, Kygo, Twenty One Pilots, The Black Crowes, P!nk, and Luke Combs.
- 11 a.m. — 10 p.m. May 27 - 29
- Located at Napa Valley Expo (575 3rd St., Napa)
- Organized by Bottlerock Napa, Visit Napa Valley, and JaM Cellars
- More information about this event HERE.
An outdoor event where you can eat vegan and vegetarian dishes, listen to live music, and enjoy organic drinks and entertainment. This event is to bring awareness to a healthier eating lifestyle and an alternative way to eat!
- 11 a.m. — 8 p.m. Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29
- Located at the parking lot of the African Market Place (2251 Florin Rd., Sacramento)
- Organized by Queens of Africa USA
- More information about this event HERE.
The Sacramento Bugorama is America’s longest-running Volkswagon event held on Memorial Day and Labor Day Weekends. This event features drag racing, a show and shine car show, a swap meet to buy and sell used VW parts and local food and beverage vendors.
- 1 p.m. — 8 p.m. Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29
- Located at Sacramento Raceway Park (5305 Excelsior Rd., Sacramento)
- Organized by Bugorama Promotions and Sacramento Raceway
- More information about this event HERE.
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An 18th annual vintage street fair where you can shop for antiques, collectibles, jewelry, garden stuff and lots of wonderful old items!
- 8 a.m. — 3 p.m. Saturday, May 28
- Located at Downtown Sutter Creek (Main St., Sutter Creek)
- Organized by The Antique Gardener
- More information about this event HERE.
This is an event where people can browse through over 160 tables of toy trains available for sale. There will also be food and a free train set drawing for ages 17 and under.
- 10 a.m. — 3 p.m. Saturday, May 28
- Located at The Scottish Rite Masonic Center (6151 H St., Sacramento)
- Organized by the Train Collectors Association
- More information about this event HERE.
A 3-day festival of family fun with access to free entertainment consisting of a Ferris wheel, pony ride, petting zoo, bungy jumping, roller coasters, the KidFest train, and many more. This event is open to those of all ages, so channel your inner child and have some fun!
- 3 p.m. — 7 p.m. Saturday, May 28
- Located at Mt. Diablo High School (2450 Grant St., Concord)
- Organized by Visit Concord and Bay Area Festivals
- More information about this event HERE.
Summer '22 kicks off on Saturday with a very rare DJ set from TORO Y MOI, who are currently on tour along with music from Basi Vibe & friends.
- 8 p.m. — 2 a.m. Saturday, May 28
- Located at Tiger Bar + Restaurant (722 K St., Sacramento)
- Organized by HOFIsBetter and Tiger
- More information about this event HERE.
A deliciously imaginative weekend of food and beverage specials at Drake's: The Barn. There will be special guest performers from Big Fun Circus, so step right up and enjoy all the carnival entertainment like juggling, stilt walkers, clowns, even a friendly petting zoo, and of course, live music!
- 1 p.m. — 8 p.m. Saturday, May 28 and Sunday, May 29
- Located at Drake's: The Barn (985 Riverfront St., West Sacramento)
- Organized by Drake's Brewing Company
- More information about this event HERE.
Come and experience a day full of fun, food, music, local vendors, guest performances, laughter and good vibes!
- 2 p.m. — 8 p.m. Saturday, May 28
- Located at 315 12th St., Sacramento
- Organized by The Co-Op Spot
- More information about this event HERE.
Experience a variety of shopping and farmers market booths, food trucks, raffles, music by DJ Outlaw playing all the Country hits, a magic show, axe throwing, and of course, a local talent show where the first-place winner will receive $1,000!
- 3 p.m. — 7 p.m. Saturday, May 28
- Located at Unity Ranch (512 Hogan Dam Rd., Valley Springs)
- Organized by FREE WILL ORGANIZATION
- More information about this event HERE.
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MOUNT CARMEL, Tenn. (WJHL) — Things got contentious at Thursday’s Mount Carmel Board of Mayor and Aldermen (BMA) meeting after the mayor told a criminal justice advocate he had exceeded a three-minute public comment limit (he hadn’t), with Mayor Pat Stilwell at one point threatening to have him arrested.
Terence Jones of the non-profit group Total Justice Project (TJP) had asked the BMA to fire Hunter Jones, a Mount Carmel police officer. Hunter Jones, along with a Hawkins County deputy, fired 16 shots at a car attempting to flee in Kingsport on Jan. 18, 2021. Thirteen shots hit the car and three hit driver Ciia Hall, who was 17 at the time but has been charged as an adult with two counts of attempted second degree murder.
Jones and Hall’s parents conducted an exclusive interview with News Channel 11 earlier Thursday.
Jones, who actually spoke for just one minute, 43 seconds before Stilwell attempted to cut him off, told BMA members they had the authority to fire Hunter Jones, whom he said had violated the police department’s excessive force policy in the shooting. A video captured from a home camera shows Jones and Isaac Hutchins, the Hawkins County deputy, chasing the car driven by Hall and occupied by four other teenagers, as it tried to flee in reverse.
As the car turned, the officers ran in front to either side of it and then began firing their handguns at the second it began moving forward. Hunter Jones admitted in testimony to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) that he continued to fire even at the rear of the car until it was “out of his sight picture.”
Jones had emailed BMA members a formal complaint in early April, which none of them had replied to.
“It appears that you and Chief Lunsford are intentionally ignoring a concerned citizen’s complaint against the police officer who is employed by the Mount Carmel Police Department,” Terence Jones said. “Please be advised that you both are violating my First Amendment right to file a grievance against officer Jones and petition the government to fire him for using excessive force and knowingly violating the Mount Carmel Police Department’s use of force policy.”
By the time he finished that statement, the bell had gone off (1:36 after he introduced himself) and Stilwell had said “thank you.”
Jones asked for more time, saying the shooting was a very serious matter.
“I cannot,” Stilwell said. “It’s in our bylaws not to (exceed) three minutes. Please sit.”
“Well, I’m not going to sit down,” Jones said. “I have a First Amendment right to free speech.”
He then said he wanted to use the time that would have been available to Hall’s mother, who was present and who told the Mayor she was willing to cede her time.
The next several minutes involved a back-and-forth between Jones, Stilwell and the town attorney, Joe May. May concurred with Stilwell’s judgment and Jones continued to stand and interact with them.
“They even do this in Congress, where they give someone else’s three minutes,” Jones said.
“I’m sorry,” Stilwell replied. “You need to leave now or sit down.”
Jones asked what Stilwell was going to do if he didn’t leave.
“I will have you arrested,” she said.
Eventually, May told Jones he was “speaking of a criminal offense, if it exists, against some officer. If you have a complaint, you need to address it to the district attorney.”
Jones tried to explain that he wasn’t bringing forward a criminal complaint but was asking the board to take a personnel action related to police department policy.
“I asked a question and I would like your lawyer to answer, which is, when you have a citizen file a formal complaint to your mayor and to your police chief, do they have an obligation — it’s real simple and then I’ll go — do they have an obligation to acknowledge the formal complaint against their officer that allegedly used excessive force and violated your police chief’s use of force policy?”
Jones did speak with Lunsford outside the meeting and said he appreciated the police chief’s cordial and professional discussion with him. Jones told News Channel 11 after that conversation that Lunsford had mentioned that the TBI had conducted the investigation, not his department.
“I asked him if he could please open up an investigation and not look into whether Officer Jones should be fired, but look into did he violate the police chief’s use of force policy … and the police chief said that he will take a look at it.”
Jones called that “a blessing” and a win for him, “and I really appreciate the fairness and the impartiality of the police chief.”
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Caddo Parish Grand Jury returns six indictments in multiple murder cases
Makenzie Boucher
Shreveport Times
On Thursday the Caddo Parish Grand Jury returned six indictments. Five Shreveport men and three teens were all charged with second-degree murder.
- Antonio Tyrone Bryant Jr., Eric Dewayne Green and Marquise Tremell Starks, all 16, were charged in connection to the death of De'Anthony Walker, 17, who was walking home from school in the 1400 block of Harvard Avenue on Jan. 27, when he was shot multiple times.
- Damion Daron Sherfield, 20, was charged in connection with the Feb. 15, slaying of Roderick Dalaun Walker, 29, who was shot in the chest at the Village Food Mart in the 5300 block of Jewella Avenue.
- Ja’Corion Cedrick Robinson, 20, is charged in connection with the Feb. 7, slaying of Shaundowian Marqee Whitehead, 27, who was shot several times at a residence in the 4900 block of Haywood Place, in Shreveport.
- Noel Deon Garner, 27, is charged in connection with the Jan. 20, slaying of Jermond Lamar Houston, 25, who was shot several times just after midnight at a service station in the 5400 block of West 70th Street.
- Romullus Devarian Noyes, 22, is charged in connection with the Feb. 15, slaying of Jermond Chance Lewis, 41, who was shot several times in the 4100 block of Westwood Park Drive in west Shreveport.
- Ernie Lynn Campbell, 38, is charged in connection with the Feb. 17, slaying of Regmond Mitchell, 25, who was found dead inside a vehicle in the 4200 block of Barbara Avenue just after 10 a.m. He had been shot in the head.
All of the defendants charged remain in custody at Caddo Correctional Center.
Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com.
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Great Falls Fire, Police give updates on impact of recent city rule changes
Great Falls Chief of Police Jeff Newton and Fire Marshal Mike McIntosh gave updates on their respective departments during Tuesday evening’s Council of Council meeting.
Both gave updated statistics regarding the impact of the implementation of recent actions by the city commission, including the large vehicle ordinance and the resolution recouping costs from Emergency Medical Services calls.
Ordinance 3230, which passed last fall and went into effect March 15, requires that RVs not be parked on city residential streets for longer than 72 hours within a seven-day period.
Newton said since the large vehicle ordinance’s implementation in March, the department has received 119 complaints, with most complaints resolved after the first notification to the owner. The enforcement behind the ordinance is handled by volunteers.
Lisa Meyers of Council Seven said that she’s seen people try to park their vehicles in another spot after a first warning, but that after the second notice they complied.
McIntosh said the fire department has had 38 EMS transports, which the department does in a surge event when the private contractor Great Falls Emergency Services, Inc. doesn’t have the capacity to meet demand.
He said that they’ve been able to charge nearly $5,500 in costs since April following the city's passage of Resolution 10444, with five paid and 15 pending status, and is covered by insurance, Medicare and Medicaid.
There has been an uptick in EMS responses to drug overdoses, McIntosh said, and an uptick of having to use Narcan, a drug which can be used to reverse overdoses.
Newton said Fentanyl, which can be lethal even in small doses, has overtaken Methamphetamines as the drug of choice in the area. He said since Jan. 2022 there have been 58 overdoses, at least six deaths, with Narcan being administered 18 times.
He said a lethal dose of fentanyl for the average person is about 2 milligrams and the pills the department is seeing range from .02 milligrams to 5.1 milligrams.
Both departments are lower staffed and are working on recruiting and training.
City Engineer Mark Juras also provided an update on the Lead Service Line inventory that is underway following the Environmental Protection Agency’s Lead and Copper Rule.
Juras said the city will be sending letters to 7,000 to 8,000 property owners with “unknown” status of lead contamination in town.
In Great Falls, the entire service line from the connection to the main of the house and its maintenance is the responsibility of the homeowner. Juras said it is still unclear whether there will be funding available to help with the costs associated with changing the line and who will oversee the change. The EPA is requiring city’s go through the review of the pipe inventory by 2024.
Both finding the pipes that need to be replaced and the actual replacement will come with a hefty price tag, Drinking Water Practice Leader for Advanced Engineering and Environmental Services Inc. (AE2S) Nathan Weisenburger said in March.
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HAMMOND — A federal judge sentenced a Michigan man to prison for illegally traveling through Indiana with a firearm.
U.S. District Court Judge Philip P. Simon imposed a 41-month sentence Thursday on Taequan Richardson, 23, of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Richardson pleaded guilty Feb. 25 to a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Police arrested Richardson July 10, 2020, on the Indiana Toll Road. He was a passenger in a car that officers stopped for speeding and going through a toll gate without paying.
Police found an FN Herstal .40 caliber pistol underneath the front passenger seat in front of Richardson’s feet.
Richardson, who has a prior conviction in the State of Michigan for illicit drug trafficking, told police he had just brought the gun after getting out of prison because he lived in a dangerous neighborhood and needed it for protection.
A federal grand jury indicted Richardson in 2020. He gave up his right to make the government prove his guilty at trial in return for the U.S. attorney recommending he receive a more lenient sentence.
Ryan Holmes, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office, credited the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Hobart Police Department for investigating the crime.
Gallery: Recent arrests booked into Lake County Jail
Zachary Lindahl
Age : 21
Residence: South Bend, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204040
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Wayne Rivera
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204125
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Wayne Micka II
Age : 31
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204089
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Victor Ocampo-Ayala
Age : 30
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204268
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Vernisha Devers
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204213
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Vaughn Baker Jr.
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204183
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - AGAINST A PREGNANT PERSON; OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony; Misdemeanor
Tyran Calhoun
Age : 21
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204140
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: CRIMINAL RECKLESSNESS - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON (SOCIETY IS VICTIM); BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Tonya McElvene
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204160
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tommy Talley Jr.
Age : 36
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204107
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tessa Baumgartner
Age : 23
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204111
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tameko Brown
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204176
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Stan Guydon
Age : 72
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204082
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Shaun Ross
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204127
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Hall
Age : 59
Residence: Huntington, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204184
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Scott Cicale
Age : 41
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204174
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Santino Garza
Age : 18
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204110
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Sabrina Krueger
Age : 22
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204205
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ryan Vaughn
Age : 28
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204056
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ruben Flores
Age : 34
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204053
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Rosalinda Miranda
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204192
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Robert Armstrong
Age : 34
Residence: Rockford, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204072
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Richard Hemphill
Age : 29
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204190
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ria Swelfer
Age : 31
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204186
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Rex Arney
Age : 26
Residence: Lake Station, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204224
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Reinaldo Rosa
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204199
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - CONVERSION - UNAUTHORIZED CONTROL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Randy Martin
Age : 39
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204081
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Paul Sherman
Age : 43
Residence: DeMotte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204124
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OPERATE VEHICLE AFTER BEING HABITUAL TRAFFIC OFFENDER
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Knight
Age : 40
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204189
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Pablo Frias-Maldonado
Age : 27
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204178
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: ASSISTING A CRIMINAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Oletha White
Age : 49
Residence: Sauk Village, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204032
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $75
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nivea McDonald
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204041
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Nicholas Teague
Age : 36
Residence: Lafayette, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204105
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Natori Hull
Age : 24
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204153
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Murell James III
Age : 22
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204221
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/SERIOUS BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Modesto Godinez Jr.
Age : 44
Residence: Knox, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204276
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mitchell Wood
Age : 51
Residence: Riley, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204121
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Slavik
Age : 32
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204049
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Rodriguez
Age : 42
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204129
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Potter
Age : 55
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204206
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Miner
Age : 47
Residence: Dyer, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204248
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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Michael Lynch
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204130
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE - PRESENCE OF CHILD < 16 YEARS OLD
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Kibler II
Age : 41
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204093
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Michael Hitchcock
Age : 43
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204249
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - < $750; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Matthew Steen
Age : 38
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204091
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Mark Simcoke
Age : 35
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204080
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Marcell Pierce
Age : 33
Residence: Harvey, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204258
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Malik Gross
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204043
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE; BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Lisa Woods
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204028
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Leandrea Sanders
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204071
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kyle Davis
Age : 32
Residence: Lowell, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204052
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Krystal Brady
Age : 40
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204044
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Davis
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204264
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Brown Jr.
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204070
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Keadrick Morris
Age : 19
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204134
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kamesha Houston
Age : 26
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204158
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justin Zinkiewitz
Age : 34
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204273
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Justice Ball
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204141
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: ROBBERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Julian Duron
Age : 29
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204232
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joven Evans
Age : 27
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204271
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jonathan Gutierrez
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204092
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204265
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Joel Ridder
Age : 27
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204051
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jeffrey Reeves
Age : 29
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204260
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jameka Moore
Age : 27
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204280
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jamale Henderson
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204139
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Tate
Age : 21
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204038
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Irma Anguiano
Age : 46
Residence: Matteson, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204103
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Gregory Nash
Age : 49
Residence: Fort Wayne, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204157
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Gigi Vega
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204162
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Genaro Cruz
Age : 40
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204076
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Garrett Landers
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204207
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Wingard
Age : 29
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204151
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Edward Bibbs II
Age : 26
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204135
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dustin Gertz
Age : 31
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204225
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - FIREARM
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devin Bates
Age : 27
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204269
Arrest Date: May 20, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Destiny Berrones
Age : 27
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204235
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Derek Gensel
Age : 32
Residence: LaPorte, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204045
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: CONFINEMENT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dennis Richardson
Age : 56
Residence: Westville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204175
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felonhy
Deidra Merritt
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204161
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
David Lapotka
Age : 55
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204253
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darryl Rodriguez
Age : 33
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204188
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION; RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Darean Richardson
Age : 40
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204122
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dante Taylor
Age : 46
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204180
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - MARIJUANA
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Danny Hall
Age : 20
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204195
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - MODERATE BODILY INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Damarcus Fisher
Age : 26
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204137
Arrest Date: May 16, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Curtis Colvin
Age : 38
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204200
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - POSSESSION - STOLEN PROPERTY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Clem Laster
Age : 33
Residence: Indianapolis, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204266
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Cierra Kelly
Age : 33
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204215
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Moynihan
Age : 31
Residence: Whiting, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204068
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christina Guzman
Age : 38
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204259
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION LEGEND DRUG OR PRECURSOR
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Charles Gregory
Age : 55
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204243
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Carlos VonHatten Jr.
Age : 58
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204256
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/DEADLY WEAPON - FELONY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brittany Ramirez
Age : 33
Residence: Highland, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204027
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Larry
Age : 50
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204217
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Hughes
Age : 41
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204263
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bradley Fastabend
Age : 34
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204047
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG; BATTERY - SIMPLE - AGAINST A PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Bobby Jones II
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204242
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bo Wayne
Age : 31
Residence: Trail Creek, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204074
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bianca Dominguez
Age : 32
Residence: Munster, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204187
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Bennie Therrell
Age : 65
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204054
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Armond Gamble
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204042
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: COMMON NUISANCE - MAINTAINING - CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Aquantis Walker
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204202
Arrest Date: May 17, 2022
Offense Description: FRAUD - FORGERY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antwan Lucious
Age : 43
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204120
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III; MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felonies
Antonyous Harris
Age : 20
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204090
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Antonio Johnson Jr.
Age : 24
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204250
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Antoin Lewis
Age : 18
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204116
Arrest Date: May 15, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Anthony Trezak
Age : 47
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204272
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andre Prince
Age : 49
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204229
Arrest Date: May 18, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - STRANGULATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Amanda Lucero
Age : 32
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204069
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alonzo White
Age : 45
Residence: Atlanta, GA
Booking Number(s): 2204084
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Alexis Perkins
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204083
Arrest Date: May 14, 2022
Offense Description: FAMILY OFFENSE- NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alexis Duenas
Age : 31
Residence: Lansing, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204036
Arrest Date: May 13, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGGRAVATED - W/INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Akosua Arhen
Age : 23
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204234
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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CROWN POINT — A serious crash has caused closures on U.S. 231 and interstate ramps Thursday night.
Around 9:40 p.m. Crown Point Fire Rescue announced the crash with injuries on U.S. 231 at Interstate 65.
First responders said there will be lengthy closures at the intersection of U.S. 231 and I-65, including the northbound entrance and exit ramps at the I-65 247 exit. As of 10 p.m., the closures continued.
Indiana State Police and Crown Point Emergency Management were called to assist Crown Point police and firefighters.
Crown Point agencies were not immediately reachable Thursday night as they worked at the scene.
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CEDAR LAKE — A juvenile was taken by ambulance after being struck by a vehicle near Tastee Top Grill in Cedar Lake.
First responders were called around 8:50 p.m. Thursday to the area of West 145th Avenue and Morse Street for a pedestrian who was struck by a vehicle.
The accident happened on 145th Avenue past Tastee Top Grill, and the stretch of road was temporarily blocked by emergency vehicles.
The crash involved a juvenile who officers said was being taken by ambulance to a hospital. Their condition is unknown but the individual was said to be breathing and conscious.
Cedar Lake police and firefighters were at the scene and the incident is under investigation.
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Arizona lottery numbers, May 26
Associated Press
These Arizona lotteries were drawn Thursday:
Pick 3
9-7-8
Fantasy 5
15-20-27-29-31
Estimated jackpot: $271,000
Triple Twist
07-11-33-35-39-42
Estimated jackpot: $305,000
Mega Millions
Estimated jackpot: 157,000,000
Powerball
Estimated jackpot: 150,000,000
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Phoenix police arrest man after recovering over 1,200 catalytic converters
Phoenix police arrested a man after executing a search warrant on a storage unit containing over 1,200 catalytic converters, most of which investigators believe to be stolen.
Sgt. Vincent Cole, a department spokesperson, said police began investigating the man, who remains unidentified, in January and were able to collect enough evidence to obtain a search warrant on the storage unit located near the 3600 block of Washington Street across from Sky Harbor International Airport.
In a video the department tweeted on Thursday afternoon, Det. Adam Popelier said police conducted surveillance on the storage unit's owner and that officers witnessed him buying and selling catalytic converters.
Popelier estimated each catalytic converter was worth between $100 to $150 dollars, making the stockpile worth well over $100,000.
Cole said many of the converters had fresh cuts, which indicated someone had removed them from a vehicle. Cole said they had a man in custody but information regarding what criminal charges he will face remains pending.
Converters are a target of robberies as these contain valuable metals such as platinum, palladium and rhodium.A study from BeenVerified states that in Arizona there were 2,046 catalytic converter thefts in 2021, 142 in 2020 and 30 in 2019.
The arrest comes a little more than two weeks after Gov. Doug Ducey signed House Bill 2652, which requires people be authorized to transport catalytic converters, require transactions involving the part be reported and allow law enforcement to track people who handle catalytic converters to ensure the parts aren't stolen.
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BOISE, Idaho — As more information continues to be released about the deadly shooting at a Uvalde, Texas elementary school that killed 21 people, more questions continue to rise as well. Parents and families around the Gem State are beginning to think about the role school resource officers (SRO) play in school safety and security in Idaho.
Police departments around the Treasure Valley told KTVB they offer their SROs some of the best training when it comes to active shooter and active killing events.
Lt. Shawn Harper with Meridian Police's Community Services Division, which oversees the department SROs, said officers all go through 20-30 hours of intense training on this topic when joining the force. They must take a 10-hour refresher course every year.
Other departments, like Nampa Police, said they go through active shooter training or similar ones quarterly.
"That training works in any environment, whether it's outdoors, indoor schools, commercial faith-based locations," Harper said. "That training is consistent across the board and we use a nationally recognized training program through ALERT, which is out of Central Texas."
Boise Police Captain Spencer Fomby, who leads the department's training, education and development division (TED), said agencies around the region have coordinated training so their officers receive similar education. Fomby said 300 officers in BPD are going through this yearly training currently.
"All of us will respond to these emergencies when they happen. We want to make sure that we're using the same tactics and have the same protocols," Fomby said.
Training can range from scenarios involving a single officer or multiple officers responding, to strategies on entering structures and approaching threats, according to Sgt. Jason Cantrell with the Nampa Police Department. He calls SROs the "first line of defense" for schools.
"I guarantee you those SROs that are in the school are making a difference," Cantrell said.
Cantrell, who oversees his department's SROs and training, said there is a three-phase process when handling an active killing or shooter event. Number one is to stop the killing as quickly as possible. He said if his officers receive information there is an active killing going on they are trained to make entry into the structure or event, move to the threat and stop it.
"We can't afford for an officer not to have the ability to go take action and stop the killing," Cantrell said.
Officers are then trained to provide medical help to those injured and work with partner agencies around the area to provide relief as quickly as possible. He added another role with SRO is to teach students and staff how to respond to emergency situations and events by working on lockdown procedures.
However, to do that Cantrell and other law enforcement in the Valley said it starts by building trust and relationships with students and staff.
"They're there to integrate and communicate with students, build relationships with the school community, and make sure that people are safe," Fomby said. He added that SROs are not there for administrative discipline issues.
- Boise PD has 17 SROs in Boise and West Ada School Districts, including two supervisors.
- Nampa PD has 12 SROs in the Nampa School District, with one supervisor.
- Meridian Police Department has 11 SROs in West Ada.
"They have to be pretty well-rounded because they're dealing with our younger populations," Harper said. "We provide them ongoing training in regards to de-escalation. We deal with a lot of mental health training, anything that we can potentially do to help resolve any issues that go on in the school."
"They have that relationship for students to be able to come and tell them and say, 'Hey, I've had another student that told me not to come to school tomorrow," Cantrell said.
Cantrell said by building those relationships has been able to stop multiple potential tragedies within the last few years.
"They feel that they can call them anytime, day or night," Cantrell said.
Schools across the gem state also work with the Idaho Board of Education's Idaho School Safety and Security program. The office visits and assesses schools in the Gem State about any vulnerabilities within the buildings and recommendations to improve safety. They do a vulnerability assessment for schools every three years.
Program manager Mike Munger said SRO partnerships are crucial for the safety of schools.
"One of the things that is a really strong indicator for us is a school's community connection when it comes to safety and security," Munger said. "At the end of the day, our office isn't going to come out and help them if they have a situation, it's going to be that local law enforcement, it's going to be local fire, sheriff's offices, their local support agencies, and all of those folks are truly the people who are available to them in the event of an emergency."
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CONWAY, Ark — In 2019, Arkansas saw flooding they had never seen in 100 years. The waters damaged homes and tested our levees like never before.
Now, city leaders revisit the historic event to learn from the past.
"I really hope I don't ever see a 2019 flooding again," said Faulkner County Judge Jim Baker.
Judge Baker was one of the leaders when Conway was hit with the massive flood waters.
Homes were damaged and parks were underwater. When they thought the worst was over, Conway city leaders discovered the Lollie Levee had caved in whcih caused them to scramble and act before it breached.
All the levees damaged have been repaired now, according to the Army Corps of Engineers.
Three years after the historic flooding, Arkansas has learned a lot about flood protection-- starting with the levees.
There are 115 levees in the state, with the average age of them being 72 years old.
The governor's Levy Taskforce was created in response to the disaster. They still meet and are creating a plan for future leaders.
"...pass to the next administration and there forth and forward to make sure we are always moving to improve the flood protection in our state," said Col. Eric Noe with Army Corps of Engineers.
The Army Corps of Engineers and Arkansas leaders still meet often to prepare for flooding. In fact, the most recent conversation with the city of Conway was this week to discuss other problem areas that could be improved.
But the greatest thing Judge Baker said came out of this disaster was the team work from all agencies statewide to provide response quickly to those impacted by the rising waters-- that teamwork is still strong today.
"It's helped us keep the lines of communication open, and establish those lines of communication," said Judge Baker.
Arkansas has spent more than $130 million of federal money given to the state during the emergency.
The city of Conway said they are discussing using some CARES Act funds for flood protection.
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TACOMA, Wash. — As the fallout from one of the deadliest school shootings in US history continues, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) is working to keep school buildings as safe as possible.
That means extensive preparation, and learning from past tragedies.
“One of the things that we learned from Columbine is that they did their emergency drill, which was get under the table and hide and that doesn’t work, and unfortunately that was one of the reasons why so many people were hurt,” said PCSD Spokesperson Sgt. Darren Moss.
For over a decade, school resource officers have been running active shooter drills in schools, training students and staff to use different options that range from running away, fighting the shooter, or hiding.
“When you or I were in school, we didn’t have to do these drills, when our parents and grandparents were in school, they didn’t have to do these drills,” Moss said. “But it’s such a common occurrence that they have to know what to do to protect themselves.”
But mental health counselor Latonya Littleton says that while she sees the value of preparation, the drills can take a toll on the mental and emotional well-being of the students she works with.
“For some students, they feel safer because they know what to do. And sometimes, the teachers provide reassurance of what their role is when there's an active shooter,” she said. “And for others, there’s a level of fear, because some of them have not really been exposed to the idea that there could be a school shooting and this is an introduction of what could actually happen to them.”
Sgt. Moss says he’s seen how traumatizing this all can be, but also says it’s critical that schools and law enforcement are prepared because doing nothing simply isn’t an option.
“I’ve been in some of these schools when they do these drills and some of the kids are actually terrified,” Moss said. “The other option is to not prepare and wait for somebody else to do something or make a new law or figure out a different way to solve the problem. Until we find out a solution to the problem, the sheriff's department and our schools need to be ready to act when something bad happens."
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SAN ANTONIO — Some Catholic leaders from San Antonio have been spending time in Uvalde comforting the families impacted by Tuesday’s mass shooting at Robb elementary. So, this morning, the seventh annual arch-bishop’s prayer breakfast became a chance to reflect.
The archbishop’s prayer breakfast had been planned long before the tragedy in Uvalde, but it is the first thing on everyone’s mind. San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who was in attendance, said it was a good chance to support San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller.
“It’s an opportunity for us to hear, from his perspective, what’s happening with the families and also to support him because he carries a very large burden on all of our behalf’s including Uvalde right now,” Nirenberg said.
The Archbishop has been in Uvalde for the past two days with catholic charities offering services to the community after a gunman violently took the lives of nineteen fourth graders and two teachers.
“Right now, Catholic Charities is already in Uvalde,” said Antonio Fernandez, CEO of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of San Antonio. “We spent the whole day yesterday with Therapists to provide Mental Health services to the community, to the families affected.”
The archbishop said members of the catholic church, which is anti-abortion, should be as concerned about the lives lost to gun violence.
"To be consistent, that's the challenge for believers." San Antonio Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller said. “If we do not respect every life as a principle, we are not pro-life.”
He said that the work he is most interested involves ensuring that every life is respected.
“Every life is precious,” He said. When asked if that attitude could translate into support for some kind of gun control or policy change, the Archbishop responded: “We hope. We hope.”
“Guns have been the instruments, the tools for the many deaths and shootings in the United States,” he said.
He even invoked the second commandment, comparing the way people in the US treat guns to the worship of idols.
“Guns are considered idols in our country and particularly here in Texas,” García-Siller said. “And until we surrender, and we stop idolatry, and we see people first before us, we’ll be able to be consistent with our message, faithful to the Gospel values and faithful to God.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A suspect is behind bars in Clark County Jail after police say he intentionally ran over and killed a man. KOIN 6 News talked to the victim’s son who was worried an arrest would never come.
34 days ago, Rob Hicks received a call from his sister he’ll never forget.
“She said, ‘dad’s gone,’” Hicks explained. “She said, ‘dad was killed this morning.’”
Rob Hicks lives in California, but he never stopped trying to track the suspect down. He said with the help of social media and people around Vancouver, he kept track of possible sightings of the suspect and would relay those to law enforcement.
“My dad loved his kids…he took care of my grandmother in Washington that’s 94 years old…and a lot of people cared about him,” Hicks said.
On April 22, Hicks’ father, Larry Hicks was run over on his Kawasaki motorcycle in the parking lot of Sea Marc Clinic on Northeast Fourth Plain Boulevard in Vancouver.
Hicks was taken to a hospital but did not survive. Investigators say his death was a murder carried out by 33-year-old Corey Shenkle.
Rob Hicks told KOIN 6 News he’s watched video of the gruesome moments recorded by a witness.
“I had to watch it. I’ll be honest with you, I had an emotional breakdown yesterday,” Hicks said.
Details of the moments Larry was killed are documented in a probable cause affidavit by a detective who reviewed surveillance video. The documents say Larry was arguing with someone in a Honda SUV.
Moments later, Shenkle, who was reportedly driving the SUV that was later found out to be stolen, swerved towards Larry who was on his motorcycle.
The affidavit notes Shenkle continued accelerating — driving over Larry and dragging him along the pavement before driving off.
“Now, I have a video of him being ran down like a dog planted in my brain,” Hicks said.
Two weeks went by before U.S. Marshals tracked Shenkle to a motel in Vancouver. However, he escaped arrest by leading law enforcement on a chase, authorities say Shenkle was going more than 100 mph when they called it off out of public safety. Rob Hicks said when he learned Shenkle got away it was hard not to give up hope.
“This whole process has been emotional. I never thought I’d have to go through it and here I am,” Hicks said.
Shenkle was arrested on Tuesday after Marshals received information that he was spotted riding a bicycle in southeast Vancouver. VPD caught up with him and took him into custody. Police say Shenkle admitted to running over Larry but didn’t think he killed him.
“I wanna see him spend the rest of his life in prison,” Hicks said.
Shenkle was scheduled to be in court on Thursday, but KOIN 6 News was told he didn’t make an appearance.
Shenkle’s next court hearing is June 3.
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MCSO releases bodycam footage on deputy shooting that killed armed man
Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone held a press conference Thursday at noon where he showed body-camera and drone footage depicting the deputy shooting that killed an armed man in Guadalupe last week.
Penzone said MCSO received a call at 1:32 p.m. on May 18 regarding an armed man, later identified as 37-year-old Rolando Abel Rojas, walking along the street. Penzone said the first deputy responded to the scene in ten seconds and a second deputy responded shortly thereafter.
Penzone said Rojas began walking southbound toward Frank Elementary School when deputies told 911 dispatch to have the school go into lockdown and requested a SWAT team.
Body-camera footage played during the press conference shows a deputy ordering Rojas to put his gun down, which Rojas appears to ignore. The deputy returns to his patrol vehicle and opens his door when the video cuts to black. The video then returns with the time stamp about a minute later with the deputy advancing toward a residence.
The deputy repeats his command for Rojas to put down the gun when several gunshots can be heard before the video once again cuts to black. Penzone said Rojas fired all the gunshots heard during that part of the video.
Warning: The video below contains graphic content.
Penzone said Tempe police and the Department of Public Safety also responded to assist, for which Penzone expressed his gratitude. Penzone then showed drone footage without audio that appeared to show Rojas firing his gun multiple times from behind a chair.
The video appears to show Rojas shouting something at the officers before falling back after an MCSO "tactical team sniper" team shoots him. Penzone said the sniper fired only one round which ultimately killed Rojas.
Penzone said Rojas also possessed an extensive criminal history and had been booked into MCSO jails 19 times.
Penzone said Rojas had stolen the handgun from a Phoenix police officer's vehicle in Tempe the previous day and that law enforcement didn't know what made Rojas decide to walk through Guadalupe while shooting a gun.
Deputies also helped evacuate the occupants of the home from which Rojas was firing out the back door during the standoff.
Penzone commended his deputies for attempting to deescalate the situation and said Rojas' actions required deadly force.
"We do not choose deadly force as an option," Penzone said. "Deadly force is the lack of an option where the behavior of the subject is such a threat to the community that no other options available are going to mitigate or stop that threat from occurring."
Reach the reporter Perry Vandell at 602-444-2474 or perry.vandell@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter @PerryVandell.
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Janette Elizabeth Buck, 93, of Clear Lake, died May 25, 2022, at the Muse Norris Hospice Unit in Mason City. Arrangements: Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.
Marcella “Sally” Weiskamp, 96, of Britt, died Wednesday, May 25, 2022 at Westview Care Center in Britt. Arrangements: Ewing Funeral Home in Britt.
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HILLSBORO, Ore. — A Hillsboro man did something with his two firearms that's gaining national attention on social media — he turned them over to police to be destroyed.
“Today I'm turning in my weapons to the Hillsboro Police Department in Oregon, both my AR-15 and my nine millimeter handgun. I no longer want them,” said Ben Beers in his now viral TikTok post.
Beers said he made his decision in response to the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas that resulted in the deaths of 19 children and two teachers.
“I was up all night, tossing and turning, crying and shaking,” Beers told KGW.
When he woke up Wednesday morning, Beers, 37, knew exactly what he wanted to do.
In just one day, close to 200,000 people had watched Beers’ TikTok video.
“Which is a good thing,” said Beers. “Hopefully soon we can all wake up and realize this needs to be done … this is an idea — guns are not as precious to us and nor are my Second Amendment rights as the lives of my children in school.”
Beers and his wife have two daughters. By the time they're grown, he said he hopes access to guns in America will look different.
“I can't even find a PlayStation 5, but I can go get a Glock, you know?” said Beers.
Beers said he also hopes the money driving the gun industry will have lost its pull.
“I'm aware that I could have made thousands of dollars off this stuff but that's the problem. [Guns] already have too much of an economic impact in this country. It's already a big moneymaker and that's the root of the problem,” he said.
In the past, Beers said he has owned and sold other guns, but said this latest mass shooting changed everything.
“I just want to turn them in, have them destroyed,” he said.
The Hillsboro Police Department contracts with a company that destroys guns that have been turned in, according to Hillsboro Police Sgt. Clint Shrz. He said they don’t offer people incentives to turn in firearms, be it money or vouchers, just a property receipt. He said most local law enforcement agencies do the same.
“It could be a death in the family and someone has left them a firearm that they don't want in the house and they decide to turn it into us,” said Shrz. “It happens about once a month.”
Beers said he hopes people will choose to turn in their firearms more often now.
“Hopefully America can wake up, because no other country has the problem we do with gun culture and ideation and gun violence like we do,” said Beers.
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TACOMA, Wash. — As the fallout from one of the deadliest school shootings in US history continues, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) is working to keep school buildings as safe as possible.
That means extensive preparation, and learning from past tragedies.
“One of the things that we learned from Columbine is that they did their emergency drill, which was get under the table and hide and that doesn’t work, and unfortunately that was one of the reasons why so many people were hurt,” said PCSD Spokesperson Sgt. Darren Moss.
For over a decade, school resource officers have been running active shooter drills in schools, training students and staff to use different options that range from running away, fighting the shooter, or hiding.
“When you or I were in school, we didn’t have to do these drills, when our parents and grandparents were in school, they didn’t have to do these drills,” Moss said. “But it’s such a common occurrence that they have to know what to do to protect themselves.”
But mental health counselor Latonya Littleton says that while she sees the value of preparation, the drills can take a toll on the mental and emotional well-being of the students she works with.
“For some students, they feel safer because they know what to do. And sometimes, the teachers provide reassurance of what their role is when there's an active shooter,” she said. “And for others, there’s a level of fear, because some of them have not really been exposed to the idea that there could be a school shooting and this is an introduction of what could actually happen to them.”
Sgt. Moss says he’s seen how traumatizing this all can be, but also says it’s critical that schools and law enforcement are prepared because doing nothing simply isn’t an option.
“I’ve been in some of these schools when they do these drills and some of the kids are actually terrified,” Moss said. “The other option is to not prepare and wait for somebody else to do something or make a new law or figure out a different way to solve the problem. Until we find out a solution to the problem, the sheriff's department and our schools need to be ready to act when something bad happens."
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IN LOVING MEMORY OF AL BRIDEGROOM
ON HIS 9TH BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN -
Remembering you is easy, we do it everyday. Missing you is a heartache that never goes away. Not a day goes by that you are not in our thoughts and in our hearts.
We love you always Jeannie and Jeff.
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Oct. 10, 1938 - May 22, 2022
HARTLAND, WI. - John M. Connelly of Hartland, WI, passed peacefully on May 22, 2022, at the age of 83. He was born October 10, 1938, in the farm house of his grandparents, Bert and Esther (Taylor) Bruce in Lowell, IN to John and Vera (Bruce) Connelly. He grew up in Cedar Lake and Lowell, IN and Chicago, IL.
He served in the U.S. Navy from 1956 to 1958 on two destroyer ships, the USS Cony and USS Murray, and attended many ship reunions over the years. John graduated from Lowell High School in 1956, earned a bachelor's degree from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He had a long career in the foundry industry and retired in 2004 as President of Wrightech Corporation. He previously served as President of the WI Chapter of the American Foundrymen's Society.
John was an avid reader, interested in science, nature and history. In his business and personal life, he traveled to over 40 countries. In retirement he was a volunteer mentor for SCORE of SE Wisconsin and an active member of a curling club well into his 70's.
John is survived by his wife of 62 years, Linda (Lantrip) Connelly; daughters: Kathleen (Thomas) Girman, Dana Connelly; brother, Bruce Connelly (Lynne Chase); granddaughters: Melissa (Mark) Krieter and Kelsey Haddorff; great-grandchildren: Aiden Krieter, Madison Krieter, Abigail Krieter; and numerous other beloved relatives.
John was devoted to his family and his country and loved them all with his whole heart.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Vera E. (Bruce) Saganovich; father, John Connelly; maternal grandparents: Esther (Taylor) Bruce and Bert O. Bruce; paternal grandparents: William Connelly and Catherine Van Herwynen.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, May 29, 2022, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., followed by full Military Honors and a Memorial Service at 12:00 p.m., at the Evert-Luko Funeral Home, 170 Warren Avenue, Hartland, WI. He will be interred at Southern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Union Grove, WI.
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Nov. 11, 1952 - May 21, 2022
CEDAR LAKE - Lila Juanita Wilkes, 69, of Cedar Lake, IN, was reunited with her parents: Samuel A. and Margaret M. Goff; oldest son, John Samuel Wilkes; and siblings: Dwight Goff, Nancy Poole, Diane Yankovich and Janis Allen, whom she loved so much, on May 21, 2022. She was with her loving children and grandchildren when she passed peacefully, while in Boston, MA. on vacation.
Lila lived a wonderful, colorful life in which she enjoyed so many things and was a successful, multiple small business owner, after coming from meager means. She enjoyed doting on her grandkids immensely and was her children and grandchildren's greatest cheerleader. She travelled frequently with, and also to see, her family and friends; and also to experience the world, with great recompense.
Lila is survived by her children: Ron Wilkes of Lowell, Jodi (Josh Govert) Wilkes of Cedar Lake; siblings: Joseph (Rosetta) Laas of Lake Station, Billie Goff of Germantown, OH, Arlene (Jimmy) O'Neill of Cleveland, GA, and Gail (Mike) Allen of North Judson. She is also survived by her beloved grandchildren: Brian Clark, Jesse Wilkes, Kendall Wilkes, Kali Govert, Nicholas Marlett, Nevaeh Govert and Racyn Wilkes; as well as great grandchildren: Jameson Adler, Niko Salinas, Johnathon Clark, Callie Marlett and Bo Barger; in addition to so many nieces, nephews, cousins and aunts.
A Celebration of Life will be held Monday, May 30, 2022, at 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM at the Cedar Lake Knights of Columbus, 13039 Wicker Ave, Cedar Lake, IN 46303. In lieu of flowers the family would request you make a donation to the American Cancer Society or a charity of your choice.
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Sept. 21, 1943 - May 22, 2022
CROWN POINT - Margaret S. Stanley, age 78, of Crown Point, IN, passed away on Sunday, May 22, 2022.
Margaret is survived by her sisters: Marvianna "Marva" Maragos, Carolyn Beals; nieces and nephews: Hilary (Mike) Bennett, Denise Maragos, Victoria (Chris) Biegel, Matthew Beals, Timothy (Mary) Beals; great nieces and great nephews: Kayla (Jamie) Taylor, Lindsay (Greg) Mick, Andrew and Alison Biegel, Nathan, Brandon, Logan and Kinsley Beals; great-great nieces: Abigail and Harper Taylor; and many cousins and dear friends.
Margaret was preceded in death by her parents: Marvin Sr. and Rosemary Stanley; grandparents: Claude and Margaret Stanley, and Herman and Mary Waters; siblings: Paul, Marvin, Jr., Grace Perrin and her son, Frankie; and uncle, Walter Stanley
Margaret was a longtime member of Trinity Lutheran Church, and participated as a Sunday school teacher and assistant bookkeeper for many years. Margaret was a 1962 Crown Point High School graduate. For the majority of her career, she worked at Schepel Buick as a warranty writer for over 50 years. She was an avid collector of Angel figurines, Longaberger Baskets & Beanie Babies, and loved bowling and participating in tournaments.
Friends may visit with the family on Saturday, May 28, 2022, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 250 S. Indiana Ave., Crown Point, IN 46307 from 10:00 AM until the time of service at 11:00 AM.
Interment to follow at Maplewood Memorial Cemetery in Crown Point, IN.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be given in Margaret's name to Breast Cancer, Dementia, Epilepsy Foundation or a charity of your choice.
Visit Margaret's online guestbook at
www.GeisenFuneralHome.com 219-663-2500.
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GARY - Matthew Scott Jr. "Big Daddy Woo Woo", 64, of Gary, IN, passed away on Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Methodist Hospital Northlake Campus in Gary.
Survivors include four daughters: TaQuita Curtain, Tamika Scott, Tierney Scott and Shante Phillips; eight grandchildren; mother, Johnnie Scott; one brother, Gregory (Michelle) Scott; three sisters: Cynthia Williams, Michelle Scott and Doretha Toodle; special friend, Louise Jones; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
Funeral services will be held on Saturday, May 28, 2022, 11:00 AM at First AME Church 2045 Massachusetts St., Gary, with visitation from 10:00 to 11:00 AM prior to the funeral service.
Rev. Virgil Woods, officiating.
Interment will be at Fern Oaks Cemetery, Griffith.
HINTON & WILLIAMS FUNERAL HOME is honored to be of service to the Scott family during their time of loss.
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