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SEATTLE — The Seattle Fire Department (SFD) is battling a fire on Rainier Avenue South and South Walker Street.
The fire broke out in the vacant Borracchini's Bakery building, which shut down after 100 years in business in 2021. Flames could be spotted coming through the roof of the building on SkyKing video. One wall of the building has partially collapsed.
People who live or work nearby the fire are asked to close their windows and doors due to thick smoke billowing from the building, SFD said.
Crews are in a "defensive position" preparing to pour water on the fire from outside the building, according to SDF.
SFD first tweeted about the fire around 3:45 p.m. on Friday.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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It’s been 2 years since the Cooperstown Classic Legends Game has been played at Doubleday Field. The pandemic has had a big impact on local businesses, but 7th Inning Stretch CEO Frank Albertine believes this year things are getting back to normal.
"This usually happens every year. It hasn’t though, so now we’re starting to see these people, you know our return customers and stuff like that come finally back in. We haven’t seen you in a couple years. You know it’s very nice to kind of see everybody back in town."
The Village has several events happening this weekend like a golf tournament, concerts at Ommegang, and the General Clinton Canoe Regatta, but Village of Cooperstown Mayor Ellen Tillapaugh knows it’s baseball putting a smile on fans of all ages.
"We’re looking forward to a more normal season for our youth baseball camps, and they have a tremendous impact as well on the Village of Cooperstown."
Tara Burke the Executive Director of the Cooperstown Chamber of Commerce says the Cooperstown Legends Game is shaping up to be a breath of fresh air for baseball fans.
"It’s been greatly missed. It’s kind of the kickoff to our tourism season in a lot of way, so you know it’s just a great day of baseball on Doubleday Field."
Baseball Hall of Fame Vice President of Communications and Education Jon Shestakofsky tells us the event will draw in baseball fans from around the country, and bring them together like no other sport.
"Baseball is…it’s unlike other sports. I think we connect to the game a little differently, and that might be because the rules are exactly the same as they’ve been for generations and generations. It might be the pace of the game is a little slower, and when you’re at a game with your family maybe you’re making more of those interpersonal memories."
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Nearly 80% of 911 calls made to the Seattle Police Department between 2017 and 2019 were for “non-criminal events,” according to an agency hired by the city to conduct an analysis of such calls.
Of the 1.2 million calls made to Seattle police during that time, only 6% involved felony activity, the agency said in its analysis. Just over 14% of calls involved misdemeanor activity.
The agency, the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, was hired in 2020 to analyze calls to Seattle police as part of then-Mayor Jenny Durkan’s executive order aimed at reimagining policing in the city. That order, issued in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by Minneapolis police, sought to understand how alternatives to policing would work in Seattle.
The point of analyzing police calls is to figure out just how often police are actually needed when 911 is called.
Activists argue that most work can be done by someone other than an armed officer, who they say can escalate a situation. In turn, they say trained professionals should respond to calls alone or with an officer, as long as the officer keeps their distance.
The agency’s report appears to validate the activists’ argument, at least in Seattle.
The most common 911 call Seattle police received between 2017 and 2019 was for “premise checks” — a call in which an officer checks a specific area to make sure everything is OK. The department received 112,265 premise check calls during that time.
The second, third and fourth most common calls were for unspecified disturbances, a suspicious person and traffic violations, respectively. Seattle police received 388,929 calls for those types of incidents combined between 2017 and 2019.
Based on their findings, analysts with the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform created a four-tier structure they recommend Seattle police implement:
- The first tier, which applies to noncriminal activity, calls for the response of a trained professional only.
- The second tier, which applies to misdemeanor activity in which an arrest is unlikely, calls for the response of a trained professional and officer. The professional would arrive first and call off the officer if they determine the officer isn’t needed.
- The third tier, which applies to felony activity in which an arrest is likely, also calls for the response of a trained professional and officer. However, the officer would arrive first to determine if they’re needed. If they decide they’re not, they will let the professional take over.
- The fourth tier, which applies to felony activity in which an arrest is very likely, calls for an officer to respond alone.
The agency recommends that Seattle police assign each call type to one of these four tiers and respond to 911 calls accordingly. However, whether Seattle’s current mayor, Bruce Harrell, will implement these recommendations is unclear. On the campaign trail, Harrell said he understood the need for alternatives to policing but also pledged to augment the department’s presence within the city.
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Seattle Parks and Recreation plans to close two of the city’s most popular parks earlier during the summer, citing concerns over violence and illegal activity.
From May 27 to Sept. 4, Golden Gardens in Ballard and Alki Beach in West Seattle will close at 10 p.m. instead of 11:30 p.m. Both parks will still open at 4 a.m. during that time.
In a blog post on the city’s website, Seattle Parks and Recreation said it is testing the new closing time to “address [the] dangerous and/or illegal behavior that has been typical of summer evenings at these two parks.”
Alki Beach made headlines last summer for a string of violent incidents.
In May, police closed the park early after making three arrests during a large beach party. Police said “multiple fights” and a strong-armed robbery had occurred during the festivities. Then, in June, a shooting after a dispute over fireworks left one person dead and three others injured.
Golden Gardens also saw two separate high-profile instances of criminal activity last year, including a drive-by shooting and another shooting in which police found that at least 20 shots had been fired.
A city spokesperson told The Seattle Times that the reduced hours are part of a pilot program that allows the parks department to potentially make the change permanent. Park commissioners will likely consider the permanent change during public meetings held later this year or early next year, the spokesperson said.
Public input on the city’s decision to close both parks early can be made on the city’s website.
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The Coos Bay Downtown Association recently announced that phase one of the Utility Art Box Project is about to begin. Local artists will gather June 4 in downtown Coos Bay to paint at five different locations on multiple utility boxes. The theme is “under the water” and “tidepools.” The color palette is blue, green, purple, white and black. The CBDA put out a call to artists and was pleased with the submissions received. Congratulations to the selected artists; Laura Noel, Monica Deathrage, Bailee McMahon, Megan Gray, Kaylen Bennett and Shayla Van Tassell.
The Design Committee of the CBDA has worked very hard to bring local art to beautify downtown Coos Bay. They are also responsible for the gorgeous flower baskets that you see downtown, the rotating banners, the Wayfinding signs and most recently the running legs bike racks at the Coos Bay Visitor Center and Pre-Mural sites.
Sherwin Williams and Pacific Power offered support for the project.
The mission of the Coos Bay Downtown Association is to foster the development of downtown Coos Bay by strengthening local business, encouraging new business, and connecting the community through partnerships. The Coos Bay Downtown Association is committed to promoting Coos Bay as an attractive place to live, work, and visit by continually enhancing the quality life of the downtown area.
For more information about the Coos Bay Downtown Association visit www.coosbaydowntown.org. You can also follow on Facebook @coosbaydowntown.
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ROGERS, Ark. — Officials are reminding travelers to keep safety in mind this summer.
Public Information Officer Cassie Branstetter of the Buffalo National River says Memorial Day weekend makes the river a popular spot for families and recreation. She warns visitors to keep safety in mind.
“Safety of our visitors is our number one concern,” said Branstetter. “we want everyone to leave this Memorial Day weekend with really happy memories of their time at buffalo national river and not tragic ones.”
Ahead of the holiday weekend, she warned of high river levels due to the rain from the weekend.
“The water can be murky. There could be hidden obstacles that you can’t see when the water is that high and that unclear,” said Branstetter. “That can make the terrain difficult for those who aren’t experienced in that recreational sport.”
She recommends using a life jacket to keep safe while in the water. For those keeping out of the water, she recommended hiking for visitors.
If you procrastinated, Branstetter said odds are you won't find space at any of the buffalo's campsites. Rangers suggest looking for nearby lodging or enjoying a day trip.
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PULASKI COUNTY, Ark — The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office kicked off a unique safety initiative as people get on the road for Memorial Day weekend.
The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office is the first police department in the state to do this.
Sheriff Eric Higgins said instead of pulling drivers over and giving them a citation for something like a taillight being out, they're actually going to give them a gift card to fix it.
"I think it's important that we identify issues, but also provide a resource for them to address those problems," he said.
Just in time for one of the busiest travel weekends of the summer, Sheriff Higgins announced the new program on Friday, May 27. It doesn't just point out a problem, but gives a solution too.
"This gives us an opportunity to identify and assist them right in that moment, so that they can be safer when they're driving down the road," he said.
Advanced Auto Parts donated $2,500 in gift cards to the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office to give to drivers for minor citations.
Officers writing citations for things like a missing headlight or taillight is becoming a hot topic in cities across the country, some even banning police departments from making these stops.
"This gives us a good opportunity as we're emphasizing safety, people getting out. We're also talking about safety of their vehicle," Sheriff Higgins said.
It's a program General Manager Chris Nolan said Advanced Auto Parts has done for several years in many states.
"The community likes it. The officers like it, we like it of course," he said.
According to Nolan, the $25 gift card officers give drivers usually covers the expense and then some.
"Headlight could be anywhere between, $15 to $25. Taillights being like $9 to $10," he said.
At the end of the day, gift cards and tickets aside, they're coming together for one thing.
"A lot of times when people don't realize their headlights are out or taillights, that's a big safety concern, so if we can help safety then it's good," Nolan said.
Sheriff Higgins said they're hoping to continue this program with Advanced Auto Parts for the foreseeable future.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With Memorial Day quickly approaching, AAA projects approximately 5,000,000 Californians will travel over the weekend with 90% driving to their destinations despite record-high inflation and gas prices.
"So it's getting pretty close to what we saw before the pandemic. We're pretty much in line with the travel volumes that we were seeing," said AAA Northern California spokesperson Aldo Vazquez.
The average price of gas currently sits at $6.07 per gallon. Southern California resident Ruben Llamas felt the pain at the pump when he filled up his Jeep Gladiator at Neighbors Market and Spirits 76 gas station in Galt on his way to Lake Tahoe.
"It just sucks because we have to spend money on the Airbnb, food and now we have to consider travel. Right now it's over $100 to fill up the tank," said Llamas. "Obviously, it's in the back of our head how much we're gonna spend but we gotta enjoy life and be able to travel and not let things like that stop us."
Kishore Avula — the general manager of Neighbors Market and Spirits says business has been slow lately and blames the soaring gas prices for the lack of customers.
"On day to day basis, whenever we get a new truck, we have to raise prices, decrease prices based on what amount I'm getting," said Avula.
AAA recommends always planning ahead before hitting the road and making sure your car is in proper working order — ensuring fluids are topped off and tires are inflated which will help with fuel economy.
"If you are driving to your destination, look around your route and see what are the gas stations on your route that have the cheaper gasoline," said Vazquez. "Making sure that your vehicle is working to its full capacity is actually going to help improve your fuel economy because your vehicle won't have to work so hard to get it running."
According to AAA, peak travel times are from 1 p.m. until 8 p.m. on Friday. Monday will be the day with the heaviest return traffic as people are heading back home. AAA also projects that 524,000 residents will fly across the state — a 26% increase compared to 2021.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month to raise awareness about mental health issues and help reduce the stigma. Jessie Armenta, the clinical director at La Familia Counseling Center in Sacramento, discusses the different counseling services the organization offers.
“I like to call us a one-stop-shop where there's no wrong door, and whoever comes through the door will be helped and if we are not able to help, we will direct you to the right persons,” said Armenta.
The agency was established over 46 years ago and offers a variety of mental health services including counseling for children and youth ranging from zero to 21 years old, as well as adults.
The agency is also committed to providing mental health resources to the Hispanic and Latin communities in Sacramento. According to the American Psychiatric Association, Hispanics and Latinos face many barriers to accessing mental health care including:
• Lack of insurance or inadequate insurance
• Lack of knowledge/awareness about mental health problems and services available
• Cultural stigma associated with mental illness
• Language
• Lack of culturally tailored services and culturally competent mental health professionals
• Shortage of bilingual or linguistically trained mental health professionals
• Difficulties recognizing incipient signs of mental illness
• Problems identifying psychiatric symptoms when the chief complaint is a somatic symptom
To help alleviate some of these barriers, the mental health professionals at La Familia Counseling Center offer tailored services to the Hispanic and Latin communities.
“We can provide English services for the children, and we can communicate with the parents in Spanish,” Armenta said. “If you're looking for adult services, we have Spanish-speaking therapists that will work with you.”
The center also has a program called Supporting Community Connections (SCC), which connects the Hispanic and Latin communities to different resources such as support groups, senior companion groups, events, and suicide prevention training.
On Tuesday, May 24, there was a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that left people across the country grieving the lives lost, mostly Hispanic and Latin children. Armenta says their heart goes out to the families who were affected.
“What I would like to say is, there is no shame in seeking help, there's no shame in asking for help,” Armenta said.
If you are feeling sad, lonely, or hopeless, she encourages people in the Sacramento area to seek support through the local non-profit organization.
“All of our services are free, we don't charge,” said Armenta.
Anybody is welcome to access counseling services at La Familia Counseling Center. To learn more, you can visit their website or call their office at (916) 210 -8773.
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PLACER COUNTY, Calif. — The Placer County Board of Directors made the decision this week to place CEO Todd Leopold on paid administrative following the investigation into the death of 18-year-old Anthony Williams in Rocklin.
Leopold announced earlier this month that he was the driver who killed an Inderkum High School student earlier this year in a car crash.
After reviewing the case, Rocklin police concluded that Leopold was not at fault and that no criminal charges will be requested.
"My words and emotions cannot adequately express my profound grief and sadness," Leopold said in the press release. "I am heartbroken for the loss of this young man and extend my sincere condolences to Mr. Williams’ family, friends, and all of those impacted by this tragic accident."
Leopold's paid leave will begin May 27 and Jane Christenson will serve as Acting County Executive in his place according to Placer County Officials.
Watch more from ABC10: 'I don’t understand it' | Community reeling after death of Inderkum High School student
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STOCKTON, Calif. — Step right up! The San Joaquin County Fair is back after a two-year hiatus, and there's been a revamp.
This year's theme is "Bloom Where You Are Planted", and from June 3rd to June 5th, the San Joaquin County Fair has planted itself at the fairgrounds and opened its gates for everyone to come and enjoy.
Although the layout's changed this year, there will still be the same, if not more fun when entering the fairgrounds.
There will be new food, new entertainment, and a new KidZone!
Some tasty treats include unicorn shakes, Oreo funnel cakes, gold-plated ice cream, foot-long corndogs, barbequed ribs, and more.
When it comes to entertainment, there will be tons of it for free. There will be performances from a Tom Petty tribute band, a band tributing the Eagles, and on Sunday, they've partnered with VMG Concerts to host Hispanic Heritage Day with performances by Los Parras.
Kids have it made in the shade in their KidZone, featuring a free petting zoo, free bounce houses, face painting, rock climbing walls, and there will also be educational activities.
This year, the fair really focused on variety and strived for it to be something that any age and demographic could come and laugh and have fun at.
"If it's your first time coming, there's a ton of activities to do for everyone," Jennifer Stafford CEO fair manager at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds said. "From the toddlers and the two-year-olds to the teens and adults, there's great food, carnival rides, and great music."
There will also be local car shows and a boutique shopping area for people to come and shop local and handcrafted vendors.
The fair spent weeks reaching out and highlighting these local vendors because they saw a lot of them pick up crafts and go to pop-up events during COVID, so come out and show support.
Also, the fair chose the theme "Bloom Where You Are Planted" considering this is their first year back at the fairgrounds since 2019.
"We wanted a theme that was going to embrace the agricultural roots here in San Joaquin County, but also speak to our community's resiliency and beauty," Stafford said. "Even though it's been a difficult few years, were blooming with excitement, we're making a comeback, and we're excited for the new growth and opportunities to serve our community. We're not going anywhere, in fact, we are blooming where we're planted."
Tickets are available online at www.SanJoaquinFair.com. There are presale tickets that sell for $5, carnival presale wristbands are $30, and you can purchase tickets online or at their box office.
WATCH MORE ON ABC10: Memorial Day Weekend Weather: Big changes ahead for holiday weekend
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STOCKTON, Calif. — The Stockton Police Department has released video showing a March officer-involved shooting that injured a 19-year-old man.
Two uniformed officers were working a disturbance call in the 500 block of Bianchi Road around 10:30 p.m. March 12 when they reportedly heard multiple gunshots, Stockton Police said in a video statement released by the department.
Officers believed the gunshots came from someone inside of or near a black Chrysler, according to the video. After hearing the gunshots, both officers can be seen in bodycam videos returning fire.
Audio from one of the officer's bodycam starts after a black sedan can be seen turning from Bianchi Road to Calandria Street, in sight of the officers. Roughly ten seconds later, one of the officers begins shooting toward the sedan, firing more than a dozen bullets, the video shows.
The officer then walks downstairs from the second story of an apartment complex where he was standing to advise the residents on the ground to "get inside of the house" and "get down."
Video of the same incident from a second officer on the ground shows the second officer opening fire, appearing to start after the first officer opened fire.
The bodycam videos do not clearly show where the black sedan travels immediately after officers open fire although 26 seconds after gunfire stops, the sedan can be seen going northbound on Calandria Street back towards Bianchi Road.
The briefing portion of the video claims that the Chrysler, which the officers say they were shooting towards, drove off.
Partly blurred video from the bodycam of a responding officer who arrived two minutes after the gunshots stopped shows a person on the ground in front of the apartment complex where the officers were located, surrounded by a small group of four uniformed officers.
In the video, police identify the person laying on the ground as the person who was shot by office, identified by name in the video as 19-year-old Sam Barlow.
Police say Barlow was taken to an area hospital in critical but stable condition. A forensic examination of the bullet removed from Barlow's body at the hospital found that it was fired by one of the police officers, according to police.
Barlow was later released from the hospital and the black Chrysler was found unoccupied three blocks away from the scene, according to police.
Officials say a loaded rifle was found inside of the Chrysler, which was later confirmed to be Barlow's . A loaded gun magazine was also reportedly found on Barlow.
The officers opened fire after hearing gunshots, according to police. But, police would not confirm whether they believe Barlow is the person who opened fire. They also are unable to say whether they identified the person who drove the Chrysler away from the scene after shots rang out.
Police have also not confirmed how many gunshots were fired by officers saying that the investigation is still active.
The Stockton Police Department, San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office, and the California Department of Justice are involved in the investigation.
Watch More from ABC10: Placer County deputies engage in gunfire after alleged domestic disturbance in Auburn
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The Midland County Sheriff's Office will be sending deputies to Uvalde to assist with law enforcement duties, according to the county's spokesperson.
The deputies will be assisting there for an unknown amount of time.
"We are asking for support and prayers for the deputies that will be assisting and for all of the Uvalde community," the county spokesperson said. "We’re blessed to have the resources to step up and give a helping hand."
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EAST CHICAGO — An emotional East Chicago Police Chief Hector Rosario took to police airwaves late Friday morning to announce his retirement, bringing an end to a career he began as a cadet with the department just out of high school 24 years ago.
Rosario, 42, told The Times he is proud of his time on the department and all he was able to accomplish during his three years as chief.
He said he walks away having succeeded in a long-overdue update of the department's policy book and in delivering such public safety efforts as license plate readers and Shotspotter, which notifies police of the sound of gunfire.
Rosario said he is not venturing far in his retirement. He has accepted a job with the Indiana Gaming Commission and will be working oversight at the nearby Horseshoe Hammond Casino.
A tribute read over the airwaves Friday said he began as a cadet with the department in 1998 and then went to work as a 911 dispatcher before being sworn in as an officer in 2002. He rose through the ranks to be named chief in 2019 by East Chicago Mayor Anthony Copeland.
Copeland said at the time Rosario would lead the department in a "new direction."
Copeland could not be immediately reached Friday morning on his plans to replace Rosario.
Various officers and dispatchers lauded Rosario's efforts on air Friday morning following his retirement announcement.
The East Chicago department, under the leadership of Rosario, announced the creation last summer of a street crime unit designated to roam the city, saturating high crime areas as needed.
"They're not assigned to a specific beat like a patrol officer would be," Rosario said at the time.
Rosario also oversaw the creation a couple years ago of the SHOUT OUT program in which officers visit public, private and charter schools in the city to address needs such as gangs, drugs and teen pregnancy.
"Bullying is a big issue right now, so we're going to try to tackle that," Rosario had said.
Gallery: Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
Dedication ceremony for Our Lady of Guadalupe Plaza at the Shrine of Christ’s Passion
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An emotional East Chicago Police Chief Hector Rosario took to police airwaves late Friday morning to announce his retirement, bringing an end to a career he began as a cadet with the department just out of high school 24 years ago.
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CROWN POINT — A Lake Criminal Court judge granted bail Friday for an 18-year-old charged with murder in a shooting that killed a 17-year-old boy and wounded another teen last fall in Gary.
Daminion Y. Green Jr., of East Chicago remains the only person charged so far in the Oct. 30 shooting at the Save gas station in the 6200 block of West Fifth Avenue.
Surveillance videos from the gas station showed Green's companion, whose identity remains a mystery, fired the shots that killed 17-year-old Antonio Santana, of East Chicago, Lake County Sheriff's Detective Sgt. Antwan Jakes testified.
After viewing the videos, Judge Samuel Cappas said the evidence showed Green helped the shooter leave the scene but wasn't the one who pulled the trigger.
Prosecutors failed to meet their burden of showing the proof was evident or the presumption of guilt was strong that Green committed murder, he said.
Lake County Deputy Prosecutors Bradley Carter and Christopher Bruno said Green still could be found guilty of murder under "accomplice liability theory," but Cappas rejected that argument.
To be convicted under that theory, a person must intentionally aid, induce or cause another person to commit a crime. Cappas said he had not seen or heard any evidence that led him to believe Green aided in the killing.
Defense attorney John Cantrell said police found no evidence of a "beef" between Santana and Green, who went to high school together in East Chicago and were friends at one time.
Green's back was turned to Santana when Santana was shot, he said.
The videos showed Green enter the gas station about 6:30 p.m. and begin circling Santana, who was standing just inside the door, in what appeared to be an exchange of words.
Santana, who had a gun in his hand during the encounter with Green, was shot in the face by Green's companion.
Santana collapsed on the floor and was later pronounced dead at the scene.
Green and his friend both ran from the gas station and fled in a two-tone SUV, Jakes said. The detective testified he later confirmed the SUV was owned by one of Green's parents.
Green posted a bond of $75,000 surety or $7,500 cash Friday afternoon, online records showed.
Anyone with information about Santana's homicide is asked to call Jakes at 219-755-3855. To remain anonymous, call 866-CRIME-GP.
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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Booking Number(s):
Arrest Date: May 19, 2022
Offense Description:
Highest Offense Class:
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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CAPE CORAL, Fla. — People living in Lee County are fighting to get land back into county lines.
Last week, the City of Cape Coral approved a voluntary annexation of 37 acres near Pine Island Road and Veterans Parkway.
The city plans to re-zone the land for mixed-use development that could include more businesses and apartment complexes.
Michael Hannon is an attorney and lives in Matlacha, while also representing the Matlacha Civic Association as president.
Hannon said even if the city and county agreed to the annexation, it doesn’t make the act legal.
Hannon believes around 70% of the acreage is under agricultural zoning in Lee County. He said state law requires the land to be developed before it can be considered for annexation.
Right now the property is mainly rural and not developed.
Hannon said a similar case was filed against Cape Coral when the city tried to annex six acres of land near the Matlacha Bridge in 2019. The city lost the case.
“This is all about money. [City officials] wish to conspire with this owner to increase the density of this property, so the owner can make a lot of money and Cape Coral will make a lot of money on taxes,” said Hannon.
Hannon said the Matlacha Pine Island Fire District has already agreed to take legal action against the city.
Cape Coral residents have until June 17 to file a lawsuit.
NBC-2 reached out to city and county officials, but both declined to comment.
This is a developing story.
Count on NBC-2 for updates as we learn them.
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We are just five days and counting away from the official start of hurricane season.
Florida is giving everyone two weeks to get the items you and even your pets may need during a storm tax free.
Things like batteries, chargers for your phone, ratchet tie downs and flashlights are all on the list.
Manager of the Forth Fort Myers Home Depot Art Seayffert has his hurricane supplies at the front of the store for his customers
“It’s always better to be proactive than reactive because that is when we can get into lines and things like that. So the sooner you prepare the better,” Seayffert said.
Especially since scientists are predicting an active hurricane season.
Tom Bruno of North Fort Myers said he’s prepared mentally but will need to pick some items up in the coming days.
Gas cans, flashlights, and generators are all items which are expected to fly off the shelves.
“I might do those things like water and batteries and things like that,” Bruno stressed.
However there are some things on the list this year that haven’t been there in past years including supplies for your pets.
Pet supplies including kennels, dog or cat food and even pet beds will all be tax free this year.
“I am very prepared. I and I hope all the other people in Lee County is too,” said Gary Blantant.
The tax free holiday runs from May 28th through June 10th.
Below is a list of all the items that can be purchased without paying state sales tax.
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Driver shot by CHP officer near I-5 rest area north of Redding had gun
Investigators have released more details about a police shooting that they now say left one man dead Thursday afternoon on northbound Interstate 5, closing the freeway for several hours.
Redding police Capt. Ron Icely, in statement released Friday, said the man was driving a white sedan when for unknown reasons he crashed into a barrier at the O’Brien rest stop around 1:40 p.m. and then struck a tree, which sparked a small vegetation fire.
Icely said a California Highway Patrol officer was in the area and when he arrived, the officer spoke to a witness who had called the wreck in. Both the officer and the witness attempted to help the man, who was still inside the burning car. But when they got near the car, the officer realized the man had a gun. The man then got out of the burning vehicle.
Both the CHP officer and the witness went to the officer’s patrol car to take cover, Icely said.
Icely said the officer told the man numerous times to drop his weapon. The statement does not go into detail about how the man reacted or what he did as the officer ordered him to drop the firearm.
The man "ultimately forced a violent confrontation" that put the officer and witness in danger, Icely said in the statement.
The officer then shot the man, who died at the scene from his injuries, despite efforts to save his life.
The CHP officer and the witness were not injured.
The shooting is being investigated by a multi-agency team comprised of the Redding Police Department, Shasta County Sheriff’s Office, Shasta County District Attorney’s Office, Anderson Police Department and the CHP.
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TEXAS, USA — An aggressive dolphin on the coast of North Padre Island has become a threat to human safety and animal life, according to NOAA.
Biologists say the animal is showing more aggressive behavior, including separating children from their parents in the water and isolating swimming pets from their owners.
NOAA says human interaction can be blamed for the dolphin's aggression.
The public was discouraged from feeding, swimming or interacting with it for over a year. But while some heeded the warnings, others continued to seek out the dolphin.
Now the situation has become critical with the dolphin growing accustomed to human interaction, making it a threat to public safety.
NOAA says the dolphin has become so used to the interactions, that it seeks out humans and boats.
The public is asked to avoid the dolphin at all costs. And that even though it may seem friendly, its behavior is unpredictable.
NOAA says dolphins can become increasingly dangerous throughout four stages. The North Padre Island dolphin is in Stage 4, which is considered the most dangerous.
While NOAA and biologists try to determine how they can protect the dolphin, their concerns are with law enforcements plans to increase patrols in the water during Memorial Day weekend.
NOAA warns interactions with the dolphin that could change its behaviors are considered harassment and illegal under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
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The Washington region underwent hours of dark atmospheric menace Friday, amid gusts of wind and bursts of rain and frequent warnings of worse.
The Weather Service office in Wakefield, Va., indicated on Twitter that a tornado indeed had been confirmed in the vicinity of Hanover and Caroline counties, about 80 miles south of Washington. Details were not immediately available.
Under the lash of thunderstorm winds, trees toppled onto streets and roofs in many parts of the area. It sometimes seemed as if thickets of foliage had erupted from wet pavement.
Friday’s daytime clouds sometimes seemed so swollen as to be hauling huge Niagaras of rain. But by 9 p.m., although the night was not over, the amount measured in Washington seemed a surprisingly small 0.15 inch.
Citing “very severe weather” predicted for Friday night, the Washington Nationals baseball team postponed the night’s scheduled game until Saturday.
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SAN ANTONIO — Schools are meant to be sanctuaries of safety, not places where families gather to mourn their murdered loved ones.
“Hey, it could be my kids. You feel for those parents at the loss of a kid. It’s the worst thing you ever want to think. That’s the worst thing that a parent could ever go through,” said Shane Allard, who heads security and safety at Northside ISD.
The mass shooting in Uvalde has prompted questions about school safety nationwide and whether enough is being done to prepare students and staff for the worst.
Tuesday’s tragedy at Robb Elementary has reminded Allard about the importance of his years-long mission when he joined Northside ISD in 2014.
“I noticed when I first came in the district we didn’t have a really or uniform active shooter training program,” he said.
Allard’s main job is to provide the state an audit of the school district’s safety and security protocols. He’s also been instrumental in creating an active shooter training program for elementary and secondary schools.
The pandemic halted the drills, but he noted schools perform such trainings on average two to three times a year.
The comprehensive trainings go into depth regarding how students and staff should respond in the event of an active shooter by using the ‘Run, Hide, Fight’ model.
Allard said the Uvalde shooting has led to a flood of school requests for trainings in preparation for next school year.
“My calendar now is blowing up saying we need to get you out here, especially for next year,” he said. “No one can be 100% prepared for anything. But we are prepared that we can – we have it down.”
Allard detailed the security infrastructure found at facilities districtwide with an emphasis on elementary schools.
“We have our fences. You look at the school in Uvalde had a four-foot fence. Every fence in Northside at an elementary is 6-foot plus. We have security cameras. We’re pushing upwards of over 8,000 security cameras,” Allard said.
Northside also has more than 100 armed law enforcement officers at every middle and high school campus assigned full-time.
Every elementary cluster has one -full-time police officer patrolling the area ready to respond to an incident.
Elementary schools are fitted with bullet-resistant security lobbies and technology-controlled entry points.
One of the ongoing challenges is training all the district staff in school behavioral threat assessment in accordance with requirements outlined by Texas Senate Bill 11.
“That’s one of the biggest issues we’re having right now is school behavioral threat assessment teams, but I know our deputy superintendent is going to mandate that the following five people minimum get trained – one is their principals, their vice principals, their counselor, their special ed teacher and then their LSSP (licensed specialist in school psychology),” Allard said.
Northside ISD’ safety protocols are constantly evaluated throughout the year in preparation for any future threat.
“A tragedy like the one that took place earlier this week I think are reminders to us that we have to stay vigilant, that we can’t let our guard down,” said Barry Perez, Northside ISD’s communication director.
Perez noted counselors are available to help students and staff navigate through the emotional trauma of the mass shooting in Uvalde.
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UVALDE, Texas — Along with families mourning the loss of loved ones following the shooting in Uvalde, people are pulling for the recovery of survivors.
For every child and teacher present that day and all people touched by the trauma of the shooting, recovery means a long road ahead. That includes costly expenses for survivors were shot. Thousands of Texans are uniting to help with costs and have given blood in honor of Uvalde.
Danielle Braman at Chismosa's Cantina y Cocina in San Antonio saw firsthand how hungry people are to help when she held a plate sale for a nine-year-old shot in Uvalde with a hospital stay ahead of her.
"So many people sending money, buying plates, I had a mother of 12 show up with all of her children to buy plates, I've had a lady send me two dollars and tell me that's all she had but it came from her heart, and I broke down crying because I was overwhelmed," Braman said.
Braman says from her own family's experiences, she knows there are more costs than just medical bills, including food, lost wages, parking and the long-term therapy she and her parents will need. She collected more than $1400 to go toward the family, with more information on the restaurant's Facebook page about how people can continue to donate to the family.
Meanwhile, shelves at the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center are mostly full for the first time in a long time.
"Over the past three days we've seen over 2000 donations come into the center in honor of the Uvalde patients which is great cause you gotta remember our supply has been running low since the pandemic started," Roger Ruiz said.
Lines wrapped around blood drives, helping with the early stages for trauma victims and now, ready to help others who need it. The center says this was also the first mass casualty event that used low titer O blood now stored on emergency vehicles in a new program launched after the Sutherland Springs shooting. Survivors and mourning loved ones will still need all kinds of support in the days, weeks and years to come. Many are ready to offer it.
"It's Texans taking care of Texans," Ruiz said. "Everything's bigger in Texas, especially our hearts- and to see that, of the community coming and to be able to supply that and help people is very rewarding. They do this knowing they're helping their fellow neighbor."
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Sarasota sheriff on Uvalde response to shooter: 'We're prepared to lay down our lives to save yours'
Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt A. Hoffman reassured residents that his agency would respond differently from the way the public is now learning officers responded at the scene of the Uvalde school shooting.
"What we can do here locally as leaders is assure our community that we train for this, and we're prepared to lay down our lives to save yours," Hoffman said in a video statement released Friday.
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In a press conference Friday, Steven McCraw, director and colonel of the Texas Department of Public Safety, gave a new timeline and new details about the shooting that left 19 children and two teachers dead.
McCraw said that teachers and children repeatedly called 911 for help, while police waited outside in the hallway for more than 45 minutes. At one point 19 officers were in the hallway while the shooter was in the classroom, McCraw said. They did not storm in because the commander on the scene believed it had become a barricaded suspect situation rather than an active shooter, according to USA TODAY.
"We are learning that law enforcement apparently waited to engage the shooter, believing that they had a barricaded subject, which possibly led to additional lives being lost," Hoffman said in the video. Hoffman said the agency has received many calls from parents asking how they would handle the situation.
'Wrong decision':Police should have confronted Texas school gunman sooner, official says
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The Sheriff's Office routinely trains for active shooter situations, he said. They follow the single officer response model, where the first deputy on scene is mandated by policy to locate the suspect, follow the sound of gunfire and "meet deadly force with deadly force," he said. "Period, end of story."
"The situation in Texas is nothing short of a horrific tragedy. Nothing we can do will bring back those precious lives," Hoffman said, but he tried to reassure local residents that Sarasota deputies are prepared to put themselves at risk to save lives.
Parents of the Uvalde students and the public have spoken out against the length of time it took for officers to act, while parents outside urged them to go in and stop the gunman or tried to rescue their children themselves.
Guidance to police agencies changed after the 1999 Columbine school shooting that killed 13. Instead of staging and waiting for tactical teams or backup, officers are now trained to confront a shooter quickly and try to subdue him to save more lives.
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PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — A Port Orchard man says he wants his AR-15 rifle destroyed after the deadly shooting that killed 19 children and two adults in Texas.
Jeff Gearhart is an avid hunter with several guns, but he said he has no need for his AR-15 anymore. He also doesn't want the gun to ever fall into the wrong hands.
Gearhart's daughter-in-law is a teacher and he has two grandchildren. He was moved to get rid of the AR-15 and several magazines along with it.
"So this was just something like, hey, push[ed] me that little extra step, to actually get rid of my AR-15," Gearhart said. "And I still have the other guns locked up in my safe, but I don't need an AR-15."
The Washington State Patrol said a gun owner giving up their firearm to law enforcement is rare, however there are procedures in place for when it happens.
After verifying gun ownership and serial numbers, authorities will check crime databases, and then notify the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that the firearm has been destroyed.
Anyone who wants to hand over a firearm can call their local police agency's non-emergency number, and authorities can walk them through the process.
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'Our hearts break': Remembering those who died while homeless in Salem
On a drizzly Thursday afternoon, dozens gathered at Marion Square Park to remember those who died while experiencing homelessness in recent years.
"Today is a reminder of the heartbreaking realities we have all become too familiar with," Lucy Briseno, with the ARCHES Project, said. "Our neighbors, family and friends are dying without dignity. Our hearts break for the immense suffering and great number of deaths over the past several years."
ARCHES hosted the memorial, which included remembrances of those who died in recent years and the dedication of a memory bench.
Lisa Hedrick read from her journal recounting memories of her husband. The pair met 22 years ago and traveled and worked throughout the country before falling into homelessness. They lived in Wallace Marine Park and under the overhang at the downtown Rite-Aid before they were able to be sheltered at a motel through ARCHES.
Her husband, Eddie, died in December.
"He was my best friend," Hedrick said. "I am empty inside."
Others remembered those killed through violence, infections and exposure.
The memorial service was held a block away from an encampment where four people were hit and killed by an alleged drunk driver while they slept.
The violent crash shocked the community and spurred Salem residents to call for change.
More:4 killed in crash at homeless encampment in Salem remembered as funny, kind, loving
The recent deaths were fresh on the minds of many who spoke at the memorial service.
Salem City Councilor Vanessa Nordyke's voice broke as she recounted how three of the four people killed were under 30 years old.
"This gathering is a testament to our shared belief in humanity," she said. "We believe that every life matters, that every life is worthy of dignity and respect."
Deaths not formally tracked
Until last year, Oregon did not track the deaths of people experiencing homelessness. Multnomah County partnered with Street Roots for an annual report, and local advocates kept running tallies, but no formal records were kept on the dozens of people dying outside and unsheltered in Marion and Polk counties.
Jimmy Jones, executive director of the Mid-Willamette Valley Community Action Agency, told the Statesman Journal it feels like homeless deaths in the Salem area have skyrocketed in 2020 and 2021. He has collected data on people killed by vehicles, exposure and treatable infections.
More:'All of them had a name:' No one knows for sure how many people are dying while homeless in Oregon
According to Jones, the average age of death of a homeless person in Marion County was 52.
He joined Sen. Deb Patterson, D-Salem, last year in advocating for Senate Bill 850 to require medical examiners to include whether a person who died was experiencing homelessness in their report, listing their housing status as "domicile unknown."
Related:Oregon to require medical examiners to note when someone dies while homeless
Advocates hope reporting will help them understand the scope of the deadly impacts of homelessness, give humanity to those who died, and help address the systemic issues that lead to their often premature deaths.
The bill was passed by the Oregon Legislature and went into effect Jan. 1.
Struggles to live
The past two years have been particularly hard for those without a stable residence. The pandemic shuttered or limited many services. A severe ice storm hit the region, followed six months later by a deadly heatwave.
Briseno recounted hearing news of a client dying in his tent at Wallace Marine Park. She had talked to Kevin only a day before. It had been hard to earn his trust, but he eventually warmed up to her. He had asked for shoes and a burger for his wife.
The news of his death shook her. She couldn't fathom how quickly someone could be lost in a tent in a public park.
"We will continue to fight the good fight and make sure that the Kevins, the Carls, the Brians — all of them — are remembered and their lives and efforts day-after-day were not in vain," Briseno said.
She said they hope to hold a memorial service every year.
ARCHES staff asked those in attendance to write down memories of their loved ones on a display next to the bench decorated with flowers.
The bench will have an engraved plaque that reads:
"Here we remember and honour our neighbors, family and friends who have lived and died because of the traumas of homelessness.
In the past present and future
May they rest in power."
For questions, comments and news tips, email reporter Whitney Woodworth at wmwoodworth@statesmanjournal.com, call 503-910-6616 or follow on Twitter @wmwoodworth
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This Memorial Day, Idaho Falls residents can take action to honor retired or fallen veterans and active military.
With the day off, many residents use the holiday to travel, visit family or go on vacation, often overlooking what Memorial Day represents. But the veteran population in Idaho still needs support.
There are 116,157 veterans currently living in Idaho, according to statistics from the Veterans Data Central, with 6,126 veterans living in Bonneville County.
Veteran Robert Skinner said, "Memorial Day is a time to honor those who have passed. Some people never make it out of their uniform. They are killed in them. We need to remember them on Monday."
Skinner is the former commander of American Legion Post 56. Skinner has worked with the Legion for 35 years. Prior to his time with the nonprofit, Skinner served in the U.S. Navy for 38 years. He fought in the Vietnam War and was later assigned to a submarine during the Cold War. Then, in the U.S. Navy reserve, Skinner worked as a mechanic repairing nuclear vessels.
When asked what the citizens of Idaho Falls can do to support veterans, Skinner repeatedly mentioned a common theme -- gratitude.
"If you see someone with a military hat on, go up to them. A simple thank you means a lot to us. Just saying thank you for your service goes a long way with veterans," he said.
Skinner mentioned that many veterans are now just trying to "fit in."
"We are just trying to be a good citizen. We try to use our military training to better ourselves and others. We want to be respected in our community," Skinner continued.
He said that expressing gratitude to veterans around the community is an important way to celebrate the holiday. More than that, Skinner offered a few tangible ways area residents can show their support.
"A lot of veterans end up in assisted living, and boy would they like some company. They would love for someone to visit them and just talk. Tell them thank you for their service," Skinner said.
Skinner talked about a military affairs commission in which he takes part. Through the American Legion, this commission meets once a month with congressional leaders and service officers to come up with solutions to support the veterans' community. He said that he and others in the commission keep a fund to support veterans monetarily.
"If you want to help veterans by giving to this fund that would be appreciated. You can send the money to me, and I will make sure the money gets in the right hands," Skinner said.
Money can be donated to American Legion Post 56, addressed to Robert Skinner.
Not only can veterans end up in assisted living as Skinner mentioned, many find themselves on the streets. In Idaho, there are at least 178 veterans that are homeless, according to the Veterans Data Central. The unemployment rate for veterans is 4.4%, compared to the national employment rate which is only 3.6%. Local homeless shelters, such as the Idaho Falls Rescue Mission, say they house veterans regularly.
The head of administration at the Rescue Mission is Sean Vedro. He said, "Veterans stay here pretty often. There is at least one here all the time."
The Idaho Falls Rescue Mission consists of three homeless shelters, the City of Refuge (homeless shelter for men), the Ruth House (homeless shelter for women) and the Haven (homeless shelter for women and children). The Rescue Mission seeks to support the community through meals, shelter and recovery. When someone stays at the Rescue Mission, they are provided support and resources for employment and transitional housing.
There is a meal served at the Rescue Mission from 6-7 p.m. every day of the year. There will be a meal served on Memorial Day for anyone who shows up. As Vedro mentioned, the Rescue Mission consistently supports and houses veterans. Idaho Falls residents can attend the meal and say a simple thank you to veterans looking for support.
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Yet again, Americans are reeling after a gunman on Tuesday massacred 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
The shooting at Robb Elementary School is the deadliest school shooting in the country since 20 children and six staff members were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, almost a decade ago.
As Texas law enforcement officials continue to investigate the mass casualty event, politicians, educators and police in East Idaho are responding to the tragedy, offering support for those impacted and brainstorming solutions to what has seemingly become a problem that only impacts America.
“When you look at what happened in Texas, it’s truly a tragic and senseless incident,” said Pocatello Police Chief Roger Schei. “Anytime there is a loss of life it’s tragic, but that’s especially true when we’re talking about children.”
In the days since 18-year-old Salvador Ramos first shot his grandmother in the face, crashed a pickup into a ditch near Robb Elementary School around 11:28 a.m., and then, according to Victor Escalon, regional director for the Texas Department of Public Safety, entered the school ”unobstructed” through an apparently unlocked door, public anger and scrutiny over law enforcement’s response to Tuesday’s rampage have been mounting.
It wasn’t until 12:58 p.m. Tuesday that law enforcement radio chatter said Ramos had been killed and the incident was over. What happened in those 90 minutes, in a working-class neighborhood near the edge of the little town of Uvalde has left many flummoxed.
After two days of providing often conflicting information, investigators said that a school district police officer was not inside the school when Ramos arrived, and, contrary to their previous reports, the officer had not confronted Ramos outside the building.
Schei was hesitant to comment on the response of Texas law enforcement without understanding the entire breadth of the unfolding situation, though he did speak about how confident he is in the men and women of law enforcement in Southeast Idaho and “how good training, the right equipment and the great leadership” would impact a local response to an active shooter scenario.
When asked about his level of confidence that local police officers would storm into an East Idaho school and quickly dispatch any threat to human life, Schei said he has zero doubt.
“I am confident that they would do that,” Schei said about his officers. “That all goes back to our training. When I look at the recent incident that left two of my officers wounded, I know that those who were on scene reverted back to the numerous training events we conduct for active shooter scenarios. We all took an oath to protect our community and I’m sure we would knowingly put ourselves in harm’s way to try and protect the victims.”
The day after the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, David Archuleta — a former tribal court judge and the Democratic Party candidate for state Senate in District 30 held a press conference at the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel in Fort Hall.
The press conference involved Archuleta standing next to 21 empty chairs used to symbolize the lives of the people who were murdered in the Texas school shooting.
“Another school shooting... where’s the outrage? I don’t see it going on here in Idaho,” Archuleta said, pointing out there was a shooting at Rigby Middle School in May 2021. “We should be outraged. What have we become as a society when this becomes routine?”
Jefferson School District 251 Superintendent Chad Martin sent an email to parents Tuesday night to express support for the district’s students, several of whom had been exposed to two gun incidents at Rigby Middle School in 2021.
On May 6, 2021, two students and one staff member at the school suffered non-life-threatening injuries after they were shot by a sixth-grade student who brought a handgun to school. Months later, police arrested a 13-year-old student who brought a gun to school in September 2021. No shots were fired in the September incident and no one was injured.
“As members of the school district community, we are deeply saddened by today’s shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. Our community along with many others throughout the United States mourn the senseless loss of life and send our deepest condolences to those families affected by this terrible act of violence,” Martin wrote. “Please keep a close eye on your own children, and if you find that they need additional support, we ask that you contact your building principal or school counselor. We must help our children find the support they need. By working together we can help our students feel safe in our schools.”
Following the incidents at Rigby Middle School, District 251 increased safety measures at its schools. In an April 2022 update to district patrons, Martin wrote the district has hired a safety coordinator to update building safety and security plan procedures.
The district also added additional mental health counselors, safety monitors for parking lots and hallways and two additional police resource officers.
Archuleta called on Gov. Brad Little to create a task force made up of professional citizens to address school violence. Archuleta said it would be important to have mental health professionals on this task force as well as National Rifle Association lobbyists “because they need to be a part of the solution.”
“We’re so busy yelling at each other that we’re not listening. So if we have (the NRA) at the table with us, maybe we can come up with some sensible solutions,” Archuleta said.
Archuleta also called for high capacity firearm magazines and Kevlar piercing rounds to be banned.
“Our policemen and our police dogs wear vests to protect them, but then they make these bullets that go through those and kill our officers. Those need to be banned,” Archuleta said. “The only reason they have those is to be able to kill more people.
Archuleta's Republican challenger in the November general election, Julie VanOrden, also spoke about the Texas shooting when contacted by a reporter after the press conference.
VanOrden agreed that the governor should start a task force with mental health professionals and the gun industry involved, but didn’t agree with the magazine and bullet bans Archuleta referenced.
“I don’t think that’s the answer here. I think it’s working together with both industries, with the gun industry and our mental health professionals to address both issues together. I think it’s a combination,” VanOrden said.
Pocatello-Chubbuck School District 25 provided a statement to the Idaho State Journal on Thursday meant to assure local parents that student safety remains a top priority.
“We understand how recent events can lead to alarm and unrest. We want to assure parents and patrons that safeguarding the well-being of PCSD 25 learners and staff members is our highest priority,” the district’s statement read. “As part of our safety protocol Safe Schools: All Day – Every Day, all Pocatello/Chubbuck School District 25 schools are in controlled access during school hours. This means that all exterior doors, including the front door are locked and visitors must be permitted entry using a video access system. The district’s safety committee meets monthly and works hand-in-hand with local law enforcement and other first responders to ensure our emergency plans and procedures are up-to-date.”
School District 25 said that in addition to ongoing safety measures, the district is working to enhance its camera monitoring system district-wide.
“In the event of breaking news, whether it is local, regional, or national, the district responds immediately to communicate with administrators to remain vigilant with heightened awareness. We appreciate that so many local families entrust their loved ones to our care throughout the school year. We all share a common priority to keep our learners and staff as safe as possible all day, every day,” the district stated.
Schei said he believes there isn’t one singular answer to what has seemingly become an epidemic in the U.S., in that firearms are the leading cause of death for kids in the country.
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention statistics, the firearm death rate among children is steadily rising and was the leading cause of death for kids age 1 and older for the first time in 2020. Nearly two-thirds of the 4,368 U.S. children up to age 19 who were killed by guns in 2020 were homicide victims, per the CDC. Motor vehicle crashes, formerly the leading cause of death for kids, killed nearly 4,000 children in 2020.
“We need to take a holistic approach,” Schei said. “Rather than looking at the instrument, we need to start looking at this as a mental health situation. We need to encourage all members of our community that if they see something questionable or out of the ordinary to say something to a figure of authority.”
Schei said he is a supporter of proper background checks for individuals wishing to purchase firearms legally and reiterated the importance of following up on those background checks.
“If someone has committed a crime with a gun, we need to have the proper consequences,” Schei said. “We need to make sure that those cases are followed through in the stages of prosecution and through the courts.”
The Associated Press, Logan Ramsey of the Bingham Chronicle and Jakob Thorington of the Post Register contributed to this report.
Editors note: This story has been corrected to say that Julie VanOrden was not at the press conference but was contacted by a reporter afterward.
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A district judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of a 71-year-old Niobrara man who disappeared and is presumed dead following the Spencer Dam collapse in 2019.
Kenny Angel's wife, Linda Angel, sued the Nebraska Public Power District and the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources later that same year, alleging the state agencies were to blame for the catastrophic flooding that led to his death.
NPPD owned the 92-year-old dam and, along with the Department of Natural Resources, was responsible for its operation and maintenance.
Earlier this year, NPPD reached a $2.5 million settlement with the family, leading to that agency's dismissal from the case.
At a hearing in April, Holt County District Judge Mark Kozisek considered a motion by the Nebraska Department of Natural Resources seeking to rule in its favor. The state argued it was immune from suit under the Safety of Dams and Reservoirs Act, that the state tort claims act barred the action and that Angel's family hadn't established its negligence.
The dam's failure March 14, 2019, sent a torrent of water and ice downstream, sweeping away homes and washing out farmland in its path.
Kenny Angel lived just downstream from the dam and is believed to have drowned when floodwaters washed away his home and business.
His body never was found, but in June 2019 a judge declared him dead.
In his order last week, Kozisek said the Safety of Dams and Reservoirs Act "places a significant hurdle in the plaintiff's path to recovery of damages from the DNR."
He said the Legislature has granted immunity to the Department of Natural Resources except in very limited circumstances.
"Paraphrased, simplifying and distilling to its essence in this proceeding, (Nebraska State Statute) 46-1636 provides: No suit may be brought against the DNR for damages associated with failure to a dam caused by: 1. the DNR's control and regulation of the dam, or 2. measures taken by the DNR to protect the public against dam failure, except for: a. the DNR's negligent acts in assuming control of a dam during an emergency, or 3. the DNR's failure to act."
Omaha attorney Mike Coyle alleged the Department of Natural Resources had failed to properly classify the hazard potential of the dam and that additional negligent acts flowed from the erroneous classification up to and immediately following the Spencer Dam's failure.
He alleged the department erred 30 years earlier by classifying the dam as a "significant hazard potential" and not a "high hazard potential," which would have required the agency to take actions it never took.
Kozisek said the plaintiffs were focusing on what the agency did or didn't do before and after the dam failure, not during the emergency. And it all hinged on whether the department had assumed control of the dam during an emergency, he said, adding there was no evidence that was the case.
"The undisputed evidence shows that the DNR was not aware of the potential breach of the Spencer Dam until after it had failed; it was never notified of the problems until the breach had occurred," he wrote.
Kozisek said the grant of immunity hasn't been limited to certain types of claims but applies to any action brought for the recovery of damages caused by a total failure of a dam caused by the agency's control and regulation of the dam.
And he dismissed the case.
It wasn't immediately clear if Angel's family would appeal the ruling.
In a report released in April 2020, the Association of State Dam Safety Officials said the dam had a history of unaddressed ice issues and had no formal emergency plan because regulators wrongly assumed that no one would die if it failed.
It meant that Kenny Angel didn't get a notification that the dam might fail until just minutes before it did.
The independent panel that investigated the failure also concluded that the regulator and owner were not fully aware the dam had failed and been damaged by ice flows in the ’60s and said a more thorough examination of the earlier events may have led to mitigation of the ice risk.
However, the panel ultimately concluded there was nothing the dam's operators could have done in the early morning of March 14, 2019, to prevent Spencer Dam from failing after unusually intense snow and rain created a raging flood on the Niobrara River in rural northern Nebraska.
A 92-year-old dam that collapsed March 14, 2019 amid had been classified by state inspectors last year as having a “significant” risk of causing damage.
A man who lived in a home below the dam, Kenny Angel, was swept away in the collapse and is presumed dead, and a quarter mile section of U.S. Highway 281 was washed out. Read more
A four-member team from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, a national nonprofit organization, will conduct an independent review of the Spencer dam.
The review will focus on what can be learned about the dam collapse to guide future dam construction, according to Lori Arthur, a spokeswoman for the Natural Resources Department. Read more
Offutt Air Force Base couldn't stop the floodwaters
THE WORLD-HERALD
Even the U.S. Air Force couldn’t stop the Mighty Missouri River from flooding Offutt Air Force Base. Between March 16 and 17 sandbagging efforts were called off as flood waters began to rise. Read more
Offutt Air Force Base flooding repairs close to $1 billion
Z LONG/OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
Six months after what 55th Wing officials describe as “historic and disastrous” flooding swamped one-third of Offutt Air Force Base and destroyed 137 structures, the expected costs of rebuilding continued to mount.
Lt. Col. Chris Conover, who spearheaded the recovery and reconstruction project, said in September that the figure stood at $790 million in September. He warned the cost most likely would rise further — perhaps even hitting $1 billion. Read more
As the Platte River swelled into Fremont, the city became an island
KENT SIEVERS/THE WORLD-HERALD
The Platte River swelled into Fremont, turning the city into an island.
Shelters in Fremont alone counted up to 1,100 people, with more evacuees expected from Snyder, Nebraska. And those numbers don’t capture the swaths of people riding out the flood in hotel rooms or crashing on the couches of family and friends.
Those who decided to evacuate left by plane, train line and automobile. There were departures by boat, by airboat and by massive military vehicles with jacked-up frames capable of cruising through waterlogged roads. Read more
Paradise Lakes community residents deal with mixed messages
REECE RISTAU/THE WORLD-HERALD
Before the water even reached the community, Paradise Lake residents were sent mixed messages.
Law enforcement officials went door to door encouraging residents to evacuate, Paradise Lakes residents received a different message from their landlord: Your homes are safe. Read more
The Bellevue City Council voted to condemn the community and told residents that they had until the end of July to take action on removing their homes. The remaining structures were expected to be razed by a city-hired company in early August.
Jim Ristow, Bellevue’s city administrator, said in August that officials are now taking a cautious approach moving forward because they don’t want taxpayers to be on the hook for the estimated $1.2 million needed for demolition.
Paradise Lakes’ owner, Howard “Howdy” Helm, has told the city that he can’t afford the cost of demolition. Read more
Floods cut off access to Plattsmouth water treatment plant
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sought bids to close the breach in the south bank of the Platte River that had stranded the city’s water treatment plant during the March flooding.
For months, the plant was accessible only by boat. Now, the water is gone, but Plattsmouth officials have wondered for how long. Read more
Plattsmouth's water treatment plant back up and running
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Plattsmouth notched a major victory in September when its flood-battered water treatment plant got back up and running, ending months of water rationing.
But the city’s ongoing battle with the waters of the Platte River isn’t over. Read more
One in 1996 brought water inside town and into basements, but it was nothing like the surge of water that clobbered Winslow in mid-March, when historic flooding struck parts of central and eastern Nebraska.
So the residents of this little village — where the population that hovered around 100 before disaster struck — are pondering a pivotal question about its future. Go should they stay or should they go? Read more
A group of state and federal officials who met in Winslow in January said plenty of hurdles stand in the village's way.
Those obstacles include state law, the likely millions of dollars needed to put in new streets and utilities in Winslow 2.0 and its dwindling population.
"We all want what's best for Winslow, I want to make that abundantly clear," said Molly Bargmann, a recovery supervisor for the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency. "We want to get to yes, but there's a lot of no's right now." Read more
On St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2019, a violent chute of water raged through a gash in the levee that for decades protected the Nebraska National Guard’s main training site from the Platte River. Floodwaters surged into classrooms, barracks and offices, wrecking furniture and tools and leaving a muddy watermark 5 feet high on inside walls.
Nebraska National Guard receives full funding for repairs to Camp Ashland
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The Nebraska National Guard learned in January that it will receive full funding, totaling $62.3 million, to fully rebuild the Camp Ashland training site, according to a statement released Wednesday by the state’s adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac. Read more
Floods came to Nebraska farmland and left tons of sand behind
WILLOW VALLEY FARMS
Tons of sand, sediment and silt — some in dunes as high as 10 feet — were scattered across the eastern half to two-thirds of the state by the March flooding. In some areas, washed-out cornstalks are 3 to 4 feet deep. Tree limbs are in piles and topsoil was washed away. Read more
A King Lake family returns home in time for Christmas
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Trish and Salvador Duran hosted Christmas this year for their extended family, an act of hospitality that once seemed impossible after almost 4 feet of floodwater swept into their house in King Lake in March.
King Lake is an unincorporated area, a secluded neighborhood of 1 square mile that sits next to the Elkhorn River and not far from the Platte River, east of Valley and north of Waterloo. During historic flooding in March, the Elkhorn spilled out of its banks, sending water into almost all of the 111 homes in King Lake. Read more
Pacific Junction in Mills County, Iowa was hit hard when levees failed
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Pacific Junction, with a population of less than 500, was hit hard by levee failures in March that sent floodwaters streaming into town, filling every structure with feet of water. It wasn't until mid-April that the last batch of residents could return to their homes and businesses and start clearing out flood-soaked possessions. Read more
Flooding has taken a toll on Mills County, Iowa; even when it comes to caucusing
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Mills County Democrats worried all month whether many of the 470 former residents of this flooded town would attend a caucus Monday.
Last March, the Missouri River inundated all 210 homes and businesses here, and a caucus day drive through town showed the extent of damage 10 months later. Most local homes, storefronts and gathering spaces remain boarded up. Only about 20 households have moved back so far, officials say, and the only evidence of the presidential race was a single campaign sign in front of the rebuilt home of Rick and Cherry Parham. Read more
As Nebraska and Iowa brace for the possibility of spring flooding here's a look back at the devastating floods of 2019.
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Nebraska's losses from 2019 flooding, blizzard exceed $3.4 billion
U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS
Nebraska’s disastrous weather in 2019 caused more than $3.4 billion in losses, according to a recently released federal report. Read more
The Spencer Dam collapse
OFFICE OF GOV. PETE RICKETTS
A 92-year-old dam that collapsed March 14, 2019 amid had been classified by state inspectors last year as having a “significant” risk of causing damage.
A man who lived in a home below the dam, Kenny Angel, was swept away in the collapse and is presumed dead, and a quarter mile section of U.S. Highway 281 was washed out. Read more
Spencer Dam: What went wrong?
WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
A four-member team from the Association of State Dam Safety Officials, a national nonprofit organization, will conduct an independent review of the Spencer dam.
The review will focus on what can be learned about the dam collapse to guide future dam construction, according to Lori Arthur, a spokeswoman for the Natural Resources Department. Read more
Offutt Air Force Base couldn't stop the floodwaters
THE WORLD-HERALD
Even the U.S. Air Force couldn’t stop the Mighty Missouri River from flooding Offutt Air Force Base. Between March 16 and 17 sandbagging efforts were called off as flood waters began to rise. Read more
Offutt Air Force Base flooding repairs close to $1 billion
Z LONG/OMAHA WORLD-HERALD
Six months after what 55th Wing officials describe as “historic and disastrous” flooding swamped one-third of Offutt Air Force Base and destroyed 137 structures, the expected costs of rebuilding continued to mount.
Lt. Col. Chris Conover, who spearheaded the recovery and reconstruction project, said in September that the figure stood at $790 million in September. He warned the cost most likely would rise further — perhaps even hitting $1 billion. Read more
As the Platte River swelled into Fremont, the city became an island
KENT SIEVERS/THE WORLD-HERALD
The Platte River swelled into Fremont, turning the city into an island.
Shelters in Fremont alone counted up to 1,100 people, with more evacuees expected from Snyder, Nebraska. And those numbers don’t capture the swaths of people riding out the flood in hotel rooms or crashing on the couches of family and friends.
Those who decided to evacuate left by plane, train line and automobile. There were departures by boat, by airboat and by massive military vehicles with jacked-up frames capable of cruising through waterlogged roads. Read more
Hundreds gather in Fremont for flood-risk briefing
NANCY GAARDER/THE WORLD-HERALD
Hundreds of people filled Christensen Field Arena in Fremont to hear a National Weather Service update on this year’s flood risk Feb. 4.
The crowd received a nuanced, but somewhat reassuring, explanation from National Weather Service hydrologist Dave Pearson. Read more
Paradise Lakes community residents deal with mixed messages
REECE RISTAU/THE WORLD-HERALD
Before the water even reached the community, Paradise Lake residents were sent mixed messages.
Law enforcement officials went door to door encouraging residents to evacuate, Paradise Lakes residents received a different message from their landlord: Your homes are safe. Read more
Paradise Lakes community's imminent demolition
REECE RISTAU/THE WORLD-HERALD
The Bellevue City Council voted to condemn the community and told residents that they had until the end of July to take action on removing their homes. The remaining structures were expected to be razed by a city-hired company in early August.
Jim Ristow, Bellevue’s city administrator, said in August that officials are now taking a cautious approach moving forward because they don’t want taxpayers to be on the hook for the estimated $1.2 million needed for demolition.
Paradise Lakes’ owner, Howard “Howdy” Helm, has told the city that he can’t afford the cost of demolition. Read more
Floods cut off access to Plattsmouth water treatment plant
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sought bids to close the breach in the south bank of the Platte River that had stranded the city’s water treatment plant during the March flooding.
For months, the plant was accessible only by boat. Now, the water is gone, but Plattsmouth officials have wondered for how long. Read more
Plattsmouth's water treatment plant back up and running
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Plattsmouth notched a major victory in September when its flood-battered water treatment plant got back up and running, ending months of water rationing.
But the city’s ongoing battle with the waters of the Platte River isn’t over. Read more
Winslow: a town considers relocating
ELSIE STORMBERG/THE WORLD-HERALD
Winslow floods.
One in 1996 brought water inside town and into basements, but it was nothing like the surge of water that clobbered Winslow in mid-March, when historic flooding struck parts of central and eastern Nebraska.
So the residents of this little village — where the population that hovered around 100 before disaster struck — are pondering a pivotal question about its future. Go should they stay or should they go? Read more
Winslow: A town ready to relocate
ELSIE STORMBERG/THE WORLD-HERALD
A group of state and federal officials who met in Winslow in January said plenty of hurdles stand in the village's way.
Those obstacles include state law, the likely millions of dollars needed to put in new streets and utilities in Winslow 2.0 and its dwindling population.
"We all want what's best for Winslow, I want to make that abundantly clear," said Molly Bargmann, a recovery supervisor for the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency. "We want to get to yes, but there's a lot of no's right now." Read more
Camp Ashland hit hard by flooding
BRENDAN SULLIVAN/WORLD-HERALD
On St. Patrick’s Day weekend 2019, a violent chute of water raged through a gash in the levee that for decades protected the Nebraska National Guard’s main training site from the Platte River. Floodwaters surged into classrooms, barracks and offices, wrecking furniture and tools and leaving a muddy watermark 5 feet high on inside walls.
Nebraska National Guard receives full funding for repairs to Camp Ashland
BRENDAN SULLIVAN/WORLD-HERALD
The Nebraska National Guard learned in January that it will receive full funding, totaling $62.3 million, to fully rebuild the Camp Ashland training site, according to a statement released Wednesday by the state’s adjutant general, Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac. Read more
Floods came to Nebraska farmland and left tons of sand behind
WILLOW VALLEY FARMS
Tons of sand, sediment and silt — some in dunes as high as 10 feet — were scattered across the eastern half to two-thirds of the state by the March flooding. In some areas, washed-out cornstalks are 3 to 4 feet deep. Tree limbs are in piles and topsoil was washed away. Read more
A King Lake family returns home in time for Christmas
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Trish and Salvador Duran hosted Christmas this year for their extended family, an act of hospitality that once seemed impossible after almost 4 feet of floodwater swept into their house in King Lake in March.
King Lake is an unincorporated area, a secluded neighborhood of 1 square mile that sits next to the Elkhorn River and not far from the Platte River, east of Valley and north of Waterloo. During historic flooding in March, the Elkhorn spilled out of its banks, sending water into almost all of the 111 homes in King Lake. Read more
Pacific Junction in Mills County, Iowa was hit hard when levees failed
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Pacific Junction, with a population of less than 500, was hit hard by levee failures in March that sent floodwaters streaming into town, filling every structure with feet of water. It wasn't until mid-April that the last batch of residents could return to their homes and businesses and start clearing out flood-soaked possessions. Read more
Flooding has taken a toll on Mills County, Iowa; even when it comes to caucusing
CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Mills County Democrats worried all month whether many of the 470 former residents of this flooded town would attend a caucus Monday.
Last March, the Missouri River inundated all 210 homes and businesses here, and a caucus day drive through town showed the extent of damage 10 months later. Most local homes, storefronts and gathering spaces remain boarded up. Only about 20 households have moved back so far, officials say, and the only evidence of the presidential race was a single campaign sign in front of the rebuilt home of Rick and Cherry Parham. Read more
"This will significantly defray the cost of the disaster for state and local governments," according to Bryan Tuma, assistant director of the Nebraska Emergency Management Agency.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy will be the featured speaker at a fund-raiser for 1st District GOP congressional candidate Mike Flood at the Country Club of Lincoln on June 3.
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Carmen Marley, a soon-to-be senior at Lincoln High School, held a megaphone, with a handful of classmates at her side.
She introduced herself as the president of the school's Feminists for Change club, then began to speak Friday at the state Capitol.
Carmen Marley speaks during an anti-gun violence vigil hosted by the Lincoln High School club Feminists For Change on Friday at the state Capitol.
JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
“The Sandy Hook shooting happened when I was in second grade. … Looking back on it now, I realize how significant that was,” Marley said. “The world had decided that I was not old enough to be respected by politicians, yet many allowed me to die for the sake of protecting their pro-gun legislation.”
A few participants wiped away tears as more young people, teachers and parents shared their stories.
They had gathered in support of America's young victims of gun violence. The couple dozen attendees held signs, cried and demanded change.
“Everyone in my generation has walked through their school, fearing for their life at least a few times before,” Marley said. “You've all become complacent, allowing shootings to be a simple fact of our existence.”
The Lincoln High club organized the Feminists Against Gun Violence Vigil in the wake of Tuesday's shooting at a Texas elementary school in which 19 students and two teachers died.
Friday's event included an open letter to the future governor of Nebraska, delivered by Lincoln High sophomore Marisol Alarcon. In the letter, she advocated legislative change that would better protect children.
Laura Roberts (left) holds a sign as she listens to speakers during an anti-gun violence vigil hosted by the Lincoln High School club Feminists For Change on Friday at the state Capitol.
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“Children should not be collateral damage,” Alarcon said. “In our era of divided government, there needs to be common-sense laws that protect our precious children.”
Other students stepped forward to read the names of victims of gun violence. The group then held a moment of silence for those who had been slain.
Members of Nebraskans Against Gun Violence were also present, expressing their frustration with the state's lack of gun control legislation. A founding member of the group, Melody Vaccaro, was given the chance to speak.
“It is OK to be furious,” she said. “We have asked the Lincoln Public Schools repeatedly to send messages to parents, telling when there's a gun at the school, asking parents to lock up their guns so kids can't take them to school. They won't do it.”
Carol Flora, a U.S. history teacher at Lincoln High, assisted in organizing the vigil. Flora is the Feminists for Change club’s sponsor, but she said a great deal of the legwork came from the students in the group.
When Flora asked the students if they would like to do a letter-writing campaign or hold a vigil, they told her “Both.” She said the club members are passionate about gun control because they’re concerned for their peers and the safety of younger students.
In Omaha on Friday, Omaha Public Schools students walked out of buildings on the final day of classes to express their feelings on gun violence and the need for reform.
Flora hopes adults will pay extra attention to the students’ pleas. The country’s youth are the ones the issue is impacting the most, she said.
“I think people want to listen to the youth, and they want to help build a future for them,” she said. “As adults, we feel like we have failed our kids, and it's time we listen to their voices.”
Memorial Day: Remembering Nebraskans loved and lost
Gaylord L. Blanc
Gaylord L. Blanc, 17th Airborne, 82nd Airborne, WWII European Theater. Passed 12-16-1996.
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Edward E. Kimm
GySgt. Edward E. Kimm died alongside of 241 fellow brothers in Beirut, Lebanon, on Oct. 23, 1983.
Shelly Kulhanek
William E. Phalen
William E. Phalen served in World War II. He passed away in 2001.
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Kenneth H. Carnicle
Kenneth H. Carnicle served in World War II. He was killed in action on May 4, 1945.
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Richard L. Monnier
Richard L. Monnier served in the Korean War. He passed away on June 28, 2017.
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Veteran
Victoria Ayotte Brown
PFC Franklin W. Ritter
PFC Franklin W. Ritter, U.S. Army, Neligh, NE. KIA Luzon, Philippines, January 26, 1945. Buried in Manila American Cemetery, Philippines.
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Pvt. James Svec
Pvt. James Svec, U.S. Army, Milligan, NE. KIA France September 29, 1918. Buried in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, France. Pictured in 2005 with his niece, then 100-year old Marie Sysel.
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Fritz Grant Minder
Fritz Grant Minder
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William G. Rockel
William G. Rockel fought in World War II. He passed away on April 16, 2017.
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Leslie Clymer and Milton Clymer
Leslie Clymer of Lincoln served in World War I and Milton Clymer of Lincoln served in World War II.
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Lt. James Edwin Kelley
Lt. James Edwin Kelley, Beatrice, graduated from Marianna Army Air Field in Florida. On April 14, 1944, he was the co-pilot on a B-25C (S/N: 42-64559) on a mission to the Viterbo Airdrome in Italy. The plane was hit by flak and went into a steep dive, then leveled off, then flew inverted and finally crashed. He was killed.
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Jeffrey Alan Alexander
Jeffrey Alan Alexander, who served two tours in Iraq.
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Robert Schenaman
Robert Schenaman of the 143rd 155th fighter, bomber wing. Member of the Hustlin Huskers. Photo was taken at Dow AFB in Bangor Maine.
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E.W. Stevens
World War II pic of E.W. Stevens CAG-80 ARM 2nd Class USN - Round Trip
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Cory R. Mracek
KIA Iskandaryiah, Iraq 1/27/04
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Frank Stuart Lomax
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Harry Perkinton
SSGT Henry C. Perkinton, Nebraska 134th, WWII veteran
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Claude A. Fiedler
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Mike Doheny
This is (former) Marine Staff Sgt Michael Doheny of Broken Bow. He was killed by an IED in Iraq in December 2007. He was a civilian security contractor at the time of his death.
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Lawrence Wilcox
Lawrence Wilcox, KIA
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Wilfred M. Schutz
Wilfred M. Schutz served in Korea in the Special Category Army with the Air Force (SCARWAF), a unit of the 934th Engineering Aviation Group attached to the 8th Air Force Fighter Bomber Wing in 1952-1953.
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E.W. Stevens
E.W. Stevens ARM 2nd Class CAG-80 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga CV-14 WWII, 1944–1945.
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Joseph A. Gilmore
Joseph A Gilmore was born and raised in Omaha. He retired as a sergeant major after serving in Korea, Vietnam and Europe primarily in Airborne Infantry units. He retired after more than 20 years of service. He passed away on Oct. 22, 2014.
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Melvin Leroy Fertig
Melvin Leroy Fertig, U.S. Air Force 1952 Korean War veteran.
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Jay Dana Morse
Jay Dana Morse served in the Civil War as a Private in the 2nd Vermont Light Artillery Battery. He saw action at the siege of Port Hudson, Louisiana. He was discharged in 1865 for injuries received in that battle. He settled in Holbrooke and passed away in 1925.
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Harvey Hubka
Harvey Hubka
Hank Krass
Hank Krass, left, served as a technical sergeant in the 445th Bomb Squadron in the U.S. Army.
Clair Geiger
Clair Geiger died while serving on the USS De Haven, which was sunk on February 1, 1943.
Sgt. Jed Marsh
Sgt. Jed Marsh served in Afghanistan in 2010 with the Air Force and Marine Corps. Marsh is a 1993 Lincoln High School graduate.
Chuck van Rossum
Charles F. van Rossum, captain, U.S. Air Force (retired).
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Kenneth W. Wright
Kenneth W. Wright was a first sergeant in the 110th Field Signal Battalion, 35th Infantry Division, in France in World War 1.
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Miguel Beltran
Miguel Beltran, U.S. Marine.
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Dean Wright
Dean Wright served as a sergeant in the 28th Infantry Regiment, 8th Infantry Division, during the Cold War in Germany.
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Staff Sgt. Patrick Hamburger
Staff Sgt. Patrick Hamburger with his daughter, Payton. Hamburger was killed in action on Aug. 6, 2011.
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Sgt. Jason T. Palmerton
Sgt. Jason T. Palmerton
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Pauley, Betty J.
Betty J. Pauley
Thompson, William Bill
William Bill Thompson
Rollin Fritch
Rollin Fritch
Wittrock, Raymond R. "Red" "Woody"
Raymond R. Red Woody Wittrock
Bopp, Walter D.
Walter D. Bopp
Blum, Harry J.
Harry J. Blum
Benjamin G. Prange
Staff Sgt. Benjamin G. Prange
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Robert Woody
Myron Woody carries this portrait, a photo of a painting of his father, Robert Woody, in his wallet.
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Donald K Schwab
1st Lt. Donald K. Schwab.
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Wachtel, C.L. "Vern"
C.L. Vern Wachtel
Rex Fuller
Rex Fuller, a veteran airman of World War II and the Korean War, poses beside a Boeing Stearman he flew. Fuller died in 2013.
Kevin Abourezk
Jess Hartsell
Jess Hartsell flew his first combat mission in November 1943, then 68 more with the 449th Bomb Squadron, 322nd Bombardment Group, nicknamed the “Annihilators.” This picture was taken when he was in Myrtle Beach, S.C., for armament training before the war.
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Martin, Eugene R.
Eugene R. Martin
Gayle Eyler
Omaha contractor and World World II veteran Gayle Eyler may have been the reason Nebraska's largest city had a D-Day invasion beach named after it.
Mark Andersen
Sage brothers
Sage brothers of Niobrara who lost their lives during the Vietnam War when the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was struck and cut in two by an Australian aircraft carrier in a 1969 training exercise in the South China Sea.
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Hoppe, Frank Henry
Frank Henry Hoppe
Doran, Ivan E.
Ivan E. Doran
Jack Allsman
Karen Allsman is reflected in the glass frame of a portrait of her husband Jack, who was a combat soldier in the European theater during World War II.
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Hunter Hogan
Lance Cpl. Hunter Hogan died June 23 while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (United States Marine Corps photo)
'Searching for Stanley'
Stanley Dwyer's B-17 was shot down on May 10, 1944, in a forest near Vostenhof, near Neunkirchen, Austria. (Courtesy Kay Hughes)
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Linda Tarango-Griess
Sgt. 1st Class Linda Tarango-Griess.
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Staff Sgt. Lillian Clamens
This undated handout provided by the family shows Army Staff Sgt. Lillian Clamens, 35, of Lawton, Okla. Clamens died Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2007, in wounds suffered from rockets fired on Camp Victory in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Family)
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Special Agent Nathan J. Schuldheiss
Special Agent Nathan J. Schuldheiss, 27, of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations died Nov. 1, 2007, of wounds from an improvised explosive near Balad Air Base. He was assigned to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska and and was a civilian counterintelligence specialist from Newport, R.I
Todd Henrichs
Spc. Nathaniel A. Caldwell
Spc. Nathaniel A. Caldwell, 27, of Omaha, was killed May 21, 2003, when his vehicle rolled over in Baghdad. He was a tank mechanic assigned to the Army's 404th Air Support Battalion, 4th Infantry Division. Caldwell was born in Germany but had made his home in Nebraska. He got married just six months before his death and had a son and a daughter.
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Pfc. Eric Paul Woods
U.S. Army Pfc. Eric Paul Woods, 26, of Omaha was killed by an explosion on July 9, 2005, in Iraq when he stopped to help a wounded soldier on the side of a road. Woods was a medic assigned to G Troop, 2nd Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, based out of Fort Carson, Colo. Woods graduated from Urbandale (Iowa) High School in 1997 and had a 3-year-old son.
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Staff Sgt. Jason Fegler
Army Staff Sgt. Jason Fegler, 24, of Harrison, was killed Nov. 4, 2005, while serving with the 101st Airborne out of Fort Campbell, Ky. He was a 1999 graduate of Banner County High School, where he excelled in basketball and was remembered an amazing soldier who loved to make people laugh.
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Spc. Dustin L. Workman II
Spc. Dustin L. Workman II, 19, of Greenwood, was one of five soldiers from his unit killed by improvised explosive devices in Baghdad on June 28, 2007. He man was a member of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division based at Fort Carson, Colo. Workman graduated from Ashland-Greenwood High in 2005 and was described as creative and a rebel with a zest for life.
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Capt. Matthew Nielson
Army Capt. Matthew Nielson, 27, of Jefferson, Iowa, died June 29, 2011, in Badrah, Iraq, during a fire attack by insurgents. He was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood, Texas. Nielson was born in Omaha and lived in Lincoln before moving with his family to Iowa. He graduated from the University of Northern Iowa and was one of seven children.
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Capt. Travis A. Ford
Marine Capt. Travis A. Ford
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Petty Officer 3rd Class David J. Moreno
Petty Officer 3rd Class David J. Moreno, 26, of Gering, formerly of Lincoln, died July 17, 2003, in Al Hamishiyah, Iraq, from an accidental gunshot wound. He was a Navy medic assigned to the Naval Medical Center, San Diego, 4th Marine Division Detachment. Moreno went by the nickname D.J. and was a 1995 graduate of Lincoln Southeast High School.
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Staff Sgt. Christopher W. Swisher
Staff Sgt. Christopher W. Swisher, 26, of Lincoln, was one of two soldiers killed when their patrol was ambushed and hit by small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades on Oct. 9, 2003, in Baghdad. He was assigned to the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division, based in Fort Polk, La. Swisher graduated from Lincoln Northeast High School in 1995 and loved the military so much he dressed in camouflage most of his senior year.
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Staff Sgt. Daniel Bader
Staff Sgt. Daniel Bader, 28, of York, was one of 15 U.S. soldiers killed Nov. 2, 2003, in a missile attack on a CH-47 Chinook helicopter near Fallujah, Iraq. He was assigned to Tiger Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment based at Fort Carson. Bader joined grew up in York and had one daughter. He was remembered as an All-American good kid.
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Spc. James R. Wolf
Spc. James R. Wolf, 21, of Scottsbluff, was killed Nov. 6, 2003, when a homemade bomb exploded near his convoy in Mosul, Iraq. He was an engineer assigned to the Headquarters and Headquarters Company of the 52nd Engineer Battalion of the 43rd Area Support Group, based in Fort Carson. Wolf had already committed himself to serving his country when he graduated from Scottsbluff High School in 2000.
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Sgt. Dennis A. Corral
Sgt. Dennis A. Corral, 33, of Kearney, died Jan. 1, 2004, when the his vehicle traveling in a convoy to Baghdad International Airport rolled over. He was assigned to Company C, 1st Engineer Battalion, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, based at Fort Riley. Born in San Diego, Corral moved to Kearney in 1994 and joined the Army for the second time in 1997.
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Sgt. Cory Mracek
Sgt. Cory R. Mracek, 26, of Hay Springs, was killed Jan. 27, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded near Iskandariyah, Iraq. He was a paratrooper assigned to 3rd Battalion, 319th Field Artillery, Fort Bragg. Mracek was born in Chadron and grew up in Hay Springs. He had been in Iraq just eight days.
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Pvt. Noah Lee Boye
Pvt. Noah Lee Boye, 21, of Grand Island, was killed April 13, 2004, when his Marine unit came under fire near Fallujah, Iraq. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton. A graduate of Grand Island Senior High School, Boye was remembered as the life of the party.
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Spc. Dennis Morgan
Spc. Dennis Morgan, 22, of Valentine, was killed April 17, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded south of Baghdad. He was a member of the 153rd Engineer Battalion of Winner, S.D. Morgan was a 2000 graduate of Winner High School and was the first casualty of he war involving the South Dakota National Guard.
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Matthew Henderson
Marine Cpl. Matthew Henderson
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Lance Cpl. Kyle Codner
Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle Codner, 19, of Shelton, was killed along with two other Marines in Iraq's Al Anbar province on May 26, 2004, while conducting security and stability operations. He was in the 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton. Codner graduated from Shelton High School in 2003 and was remembered for his smile, humor and selflessness.
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Sgt. Jeremy Fischer
Sgt. Jeremy Fischer, 26, of Lincoln, was killed July 11, 2004, when a roadside bomb exploded in Iraq. He was a mechanic with the Nebraska National Guard's 267th Ordnance Company based in Lincoln. Fischer was a 1996 graduate of Harvard High School, joined the guard in 1999 and was remembered as a great soldier.
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Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott
Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric L. Knott, 21, Grand Island, died Sept. 4, 2004, in an attack in Iraq. He was assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4, Port Hueneme, Calif. He was on the Navy's construction force and was building a gate at the time of the attack. Friends remembered Knott as a bright spot in sometimes dark times. He was a 2001 graduate of Grand Island Senior High School.
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1st Lt. Edward Iwan
Army 1st Lt. Edward D. Iwan, 28, Albion, died Nov. 12, 2004, in Fallujah when a grenade hit his vehicle. He was assigned to the Army's 2nd Battalion, 2nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division, Vilseck, Germany. Iwan joined the Army after graduating from high school in 1994 and served three years as an enlisted man and then studied criminal justice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He rejoined the Army in December 2001 as a second lieutenant.
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Lance Cpl. Shane E. Kielion
Marine Lance Cpl. Shane E. Kielion, 23, of La Vista, died Nov. 15, 2004, in action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. He was assigned to the 1st Marine Division based in Camp Pendleton, Calif. Kielion was the starting quarterback at Omaha South High School and attended Peru State College for a short time on a football scholarship. He died not knowing that his son had been born just hours before.
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Sgt. Nicholas Nolte
Marine Sgt. Nick Nolte, 25, a native of Falls City, died Nov. 24, 2004, at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., from injuries received when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad on Nov. 9. He served with the 2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion, under Marine Air Control Group 28, part of the 2nd Marine Air Wing. Nolte enlisted in the Marines after graduating from Falls City Sacred Heart in 1998 and re-enlisted following his original four-year commitment. He had a 3-year-old daughter.
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Staff Sgt. Tricia L. Jameson
Staff Sgt. Tricia L. Jameson, 34, of Omaha was killed July 14, 2005, near Trebil, Iraq, when a roadside bomb exploded near her ambulance as it approached wounded Marines. Jameson, a member of the 313th Medical Company of Lincoln, had been in Iraq for just three weeks. She was a 1989 graduate of Millard South High School and attended Central Community College in Columbus.
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Spc. Darren Howe
Army Spc. Darren Howe, 21, of Beatrice died at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, on Nov. 3, 2005, from injuries he suffered when a roadside bomb exploded in Iraq on Oct. 17. Howe joined the Army Reserve during his junior year of high school, days before the Sept. 11 attacks, and wanted to make a career of the military. He graduated from Beatrice High School in May 2003 and had two small children.
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Capt. Joel Cahill
Army Capt. Joel Cahill, 34, of La Vista, was serving his third stint in Iraq when he was killed by a roadside bomb Nov. 6, 2005. He was a member of the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry from Fort Benning, Ga., and a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Creighton University and Papillion-La Vista High School. He was the father of two daughters.
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1st Lt. Garrison Avery
Army 1st Lt. Garrison Avery, 23, of Lincoln was killed in Iraq on Feb. 1, 2006, when a roadside bomb exploded. He was stationed with the 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Ky., deployed in October and stationed south of Baghdad. Avery was a 2004 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of Lincoln High School. He was remembered as a person with an analytical mind who was devoted to the military but sometimes frustrated by its procedures.
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Sgt. Lonnie Calvin Allen Jr.
Army Sgt. Lonnie Calvin Allen, 26, of Bellevue was killed May 16, 2006, when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Baghdad. The 1998 Bellevue East graduate was serving with the Army's 10th Mountain Division. He was remembered as a compassionate and courageous person who was lovable and gentle.
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Lance Cpl. Brent Zoucha
Marine Lance Cpl. Brent Zoucha, 19, of Clarks, died June 9, 2006, after an explosion in Anbar province. He was an infantryman with 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, Twentynine Palms, and worked with mortars. Zoucha graduated from High Plains Community High School in 2005; his brother Dyrek was serving with the same unit when the land mine exploded.
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Pfc. Benjamin Slaven
Army Reserve Pfc. Benjamin Slaven, 22, of Plymouth was killed by a roadside bomb June 9, 2006, near Kirkuk. He was serving with the 308th Transportation Company of Lincoln and had been with the Reserves for 17 months. He had earned his GED and worked at a lawn mower factory in Beatrice. Slaven was remembered as a jokester who was generous and caring.
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Spc. Jeremy Jones
Army Spc. Jeremy Jones, 25, of Omaha was killed in Iraq on June 27, 2006, by a roadside bomb. He was serving in Iskandariyah with the 1st Battalion of the 67th Armor Regiment based in Fort Hood, Texas, and had been in Iraq since November after re-enlisting in April. Jones graduated from Millard West High School in 1999 and was the father of two.
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Spc. Joshua Ford
Spc. Joshua Ford, 20, of Pender died July 31, 2006, near An Numaniyah in south-central Iraq. He was a member of Nebraska Army National Guard's 189th Transportation Company. Ford graduated in 2004 from Pender High School, joined the Nebraska National Guard as a heavy-vehicle driver while still in high school and finished basic training between his junior and senior years.
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey J. Hansen
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey J. Hansen, 31, of Cairo, died Aug. 27, 2006, from wounds suffered during a Humvee accident near Balad, Iraq, on Aug. 21, 2006. He was a member of the Fremont-based portion of Troop B, 1st Squadron, 167th Cavalry Regiment. Hansen graduated from high school in 1993, earned a bachelor's degree in athletic training from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1997 and was an an officer in the Kearney Police Department, 2001-03.
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Spc. Germaine Debro
Army National Guard Spc. Germaine Debro, 33, of Omaha, was killed in a roadside bombing near Tikrit, Iraq, Sept. 4, 2006. He was serving with the 1st Squadron, 167th Cavalry. Debro attended Benson High School for a year and graduated from high school in Arkansas in 1991. He joined the Army in 1994.
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Staff Sgt. Scott E. Nisely
Staff Sgt. Scott E. Nisely, 48, of Marshalltown, Iowa, formerly of Syracuse, was killed Sept. 30, 2006, in a firefight while providing convoy security west of Baghdad. Nisely was a 1976 graduate of Syracuse High School and a former U.S. Postal Service employee. He was in the Marines for 22 years before joining the Iowa National Guard and was a member of the Iowa Falls-based Company C, 1st Battalion, 133rd Infantry.
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Lance Cpl. Michael Scholl
Marine Lance Cpl. Mike Scholl, 21, of Lincoln, died Nov. 14, 2006, from injuries he suffered when a roadside bomb exploded in Al Anbar province in Iraq. Scholl was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii. He was a 2002 graduate of Lincoln High School and had a lifetime goal of becoming a Marine. He had an infant daughter.
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Staff Sgt. Jeremy W. Mulhair
Army Staff Sgt. Jeremy W. Mulhair, 35, of Omaha, died Nov. 30, 2006, when a roadside bomb hit his vehicle in Taji, Iraq. He was a member of A Troop, 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood. Mulhair was born in Michigan but raised through high school in northwest Omaha. He had three children.
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1st Lt. Jacob Fritz
Army 1st Lt. Jacob Fritz, 25, of Verdon, died Jan. 20, 2007, in combat operations in Iraq. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Richardson, Alaska. Fritz was a 2000 graduate of Dawson-Verdon High School and a 2005 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. In high school, he was a three-sport athlete, baritone player in the honor band and active in anti-drug-abuse organizations.
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Sgt. Randy Matheny
Army National Guard Sgt. Randy J. Matheny, 20, of McCook died Feb. 4, 2007, from wounds suffered when an improvised explosive device was detonated near his vehicle. He was assigned to the 1074th Transportation Company based out of Sidney. Matheny graduated from high school in 2004 and was known as a mischievous, but trustworthy, friend.
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Sgt. Wayne R. Cornell
Army Sgt. Wayne Cornell, 26, formerly of Holstein, died in Baghdad on March 19, 2007. He was based at Fort Riley, Kan., and was a member of the 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry, 4th Brigade, 1st Infantry Division. Cornell graduated from Silver Lake High School in Roseland in 1999 and was the father of two children.
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Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph Adam McSween
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Joseph Adam McSween, 26, of Valdosta, Ga., died April 6, 2007, near Kirkuk in northern Iraq when a rocket hit his vehicle. He was assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit 11 based at Whidbey Island. McSween graduated in 2001 from York College, where he met his wife. He was buried in York.
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1st Lt. Kevin Gaspers
Army 1st Lt. Kevin Gaspers, 26, of Hastings, died in Iraq on April 23, 2007. He served with the 82nd Airborne Division and was stationed at Fort Bragg. He graduated from St. Cecilia Catholic High School in Hastings in 2000, and later attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was remembered as a humble man who had a great love for his country and the Army.
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Sgt. Kenneth E. Locker Jr.
Army Staff Sgt. Ken Locker Jr., 28, of Burwell, died in Iraq on April 23, 2007. He was with the 82nd Airborne Division and was stationed in Fort Bragg, N.C. He graduated from Burwell High School and enlisted in the Army while still in high school. He was injured by a land mine several months before his death and was awarded a Purple Heart.
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Cpl. Matthew Alexander
Cpl. Matthew Alexander, 21, of Gretna, died in Iraq on May 6, 2007, with five other soldiers. He had been serving with the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division, based in Fort Lewis, Wash. Alexander enlisted in the Army after graduating in 2004 from Gretna High School, where he a percussion section leader in the band. His family said he was proud of his military service.
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Spc. William Bailey III
Spc. William Bailey III, 29, of Bellevue, died May 25, 2007, near Taji, Iraq. He had been serving with the 755th Chemical Company based in O'Neill and was providing security for a military convoy when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle. Bailey was a former firefighter who loved being a soldier and was a family man, with five children.
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Spc. Adam G. Herold
Army Spc. Adam Herold, 23, of Omaha, died in Iraq on June 10, 2007, in an explosion. Herold enlisted in the Army in 2005. He attended Roncalli High School and was in the Job Corps in Utah learning a construction trade before enlisting in the Army in February 2005. Friends and family said he was known as a peacemaker.
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Spc. Val John Borm
Spc. Val John Borm, 21, of Sidney, died in an explosion in Iraq during the week of June 10, 2007. Borm was serving as an infantryman in the Army's B Company, 2nd Battalion with the 35th Infantry based at Fort Shafter, Hawaii. Borm graduated from Sidney High in 2005 and enlisted in the Army a few months later. His father said Borm enjoyed his Army service.
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Spc. Josiah W. Hollopeter
Spc. Josiah W. Hollopeter, 27, formerly of rural Valentine, died June 14, 2007, in Balad, Iraq, after his four-man sniper team was attacked in Al Muqdidiyah. He was part of the 6th Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 1st Cavalry Division based in Fort Hood, Texas. Hollopeter graduated from Valentine Rural High School in 1998 and was described as a rebel with a willingness to mix it up but very loyal to his friends.
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Sgt. Jacob Schmuecker
Sgt. Jacob Schmuecker, 27, of Norfolk, died July 21, 2007, in a roadside bomb explosion in Balad, Iraq. He was 10 months into his first tour of duty with the National Guard's 755th Chemical Company based in O'Neill and graduated from West Holt High School in Atkinson in 1999. The father of three enjoyed hunting and fishing and was called an inspiration to others.
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Sgt. Justin Duffy
Sgt. Justin Duffy, 31, of Cozad, died June 2, 2009, in Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near the Humvee in which he was riding. He was serving with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army based in Fort Bragg, N.C. Family members said Duffy was "full of blarney" but kind and gentle. He was a Moline, Ill., native and his family moved to Cozad when he was in sixth grade.
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Pfc. Michael Jarrett
Pfc. Michael Jarrett, 20, of North Platte, died Jan. 6, 2010, in Balad, Iraq, as a result of injuries suffered in a noncombat incident. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, based in Illesheim, Germany. Jarrett joined the Army in 2008 and repaired helicopters. He received posthumous awards including the Army Commendation medal and Good Conduct medal, as well as an Army Service Ribbon and the Basic Aviation Badge.
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John Douangdara
Master at Arms, Class 1 John Douangdara, 26, of South Sioux City was among 30 American soldiers killed when a military helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan on Aug. 6, 2011. Douangdara, a 2003 graduate of South Sioux City High School, was a Navy SEAL and was known back home as a jokester who was always laughing and always put his family and friends first.
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Jeffrey Chaney
Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jeffrey L. Chaney, 35, of Bellevue was killed by a roadside bomb July 17, 2007, in Iraq's Salah Ad Din Province.
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MELBA, Idaho — The school year is coming to a close and high school seniors are saying goodbye and heading off to take on the world.
It is certainly a different world than seniors saw ahead of them a century ago, especially for those seniors graduating from farms towns across Idaho.
Take Melba for example, the Canyon County town known as 'The Seed Heart of America.'
These days, the school district boasts an enrollment of 810 students, but back in 1924, Melba had only four graduating seniors.
Melba's four graduating seniors included a couple of quotes in the school's first-ever yearbook, 'The Butte.'
The President of the Melba Valley Historical Society, Beverly Robinson, did the honors of reading the quotes from the 1924 yearbook:
Marshall Eichenberger: "Then let thy love be younger than thyself or thy affection cannot hold the bent."
"Oh boy, I don't even know what that means," Robinson said.
Lorene McElfresh: "I will believe that thou hast the mind that suits with this thy fair and outward character."
Pearl Miller: "Nothing which duty and desire to please bears written in the forehead comes amiss."
Everett Miller: "For thou shall find He will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind him.
"So, their class motto was 'Honor Lies at Labor's gate.' It's also pretty deep," Robinson said laughingly.
Not only did Melba's graduating seniors each leave quotes in The Butte, but they also wrote a senior will:
"To the Melba High School Board, we leave one pitchfork, two tea towels and one worn out shoe. To the lower classmen, we leave the high school building on two conditions: First, that they will not do anything to the building that the seniors would not do. Second, that they, everyone will clean these feet properly before entering the building."
"So, being farm kids, they probably all knew that rule. Right," Robinson said. "I think it mostly probably was just kind of a fun thing to do."
Those annuals, by the way, cost 35 cents back in 1924.
As for the senior will, it was - or still is in some parts of the country - an annual tradition for each graduating class.
In their school newspaper, or in this case their annual, seniors leave their possessions - whether physical or inanimate objects - to those left behind, such as teachers and other students.
For Melba's seniors in 1924, the will included a pitchfork, two tea towels and one worn-out shoe.
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AUBURN, Calif. — The Auburn Police Department will soon be getting a Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) All-Terrain Vehicle from the California Office of Emergency Services.
Auburn city council members approved the transfer this week, as part of what’s been called the 1033 Program through the National Defense Authorization Act. Authorized by Congress in the 90s, the program allows for the transfer of excess U.S. Department of Defense equipment to federal, state, and local agencies.
Here in California, it’s administered through Cal OES’ Law Enforcement Support Program.
On Monday, Auburn city council members gave their unanimous blessing for the Auburn Police Department to receive a 2014 Oshkosh Mine-Resistant Ambush-Protected (MRAP) All-Terrain Vehicle. It comes at no cost to the city.
Auburn Police Chief Ryan Kinnan told council members this will help his department better protect people.
“Here in the Auburn Police Department, we currently do not have an armored rescue vehicle,” he explained. “There are two in the region – one is housed in Roseville and the other is the Placer County Sheriff’s Office. That being said, although we can request those items, as part of a mutual aid agreement, when we need them, the timeliness of them getting here isn’t as quick as we would need them for some type of rescue operation.”
In recent years, however, there has been a discussion – especially in the wake of law enforcement responses to demonstrators following the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer - about concerns over the militarization of local law enforcement agencies.
San Francisco City Attorney and former Assembly member (D-San Francisco) David Chiu had that same concern.
“We know that the streets of California are not war zones, our citizens are not enemy combatants. Our police are not military generals,” Chiu told ABC10.
He is now San Francisco City Attorney, but last year he was the Assembly member who authored AB 481, which Gov. Newsom signed into law in September. Starting this year, it requires all police departments and sheriff’s offices in the state of California to establish – and get approved by their local governing bodies – a military use policy.
“Part of why this issue came up was, a number of years ago when we had a lot of protests, there were a lot of surprises from the public when there were some police agencies that were shooting tear gas from military grenade-launchers at peaceful protesters, who were shooting rubber bullets from behind armored vehicles,” Chiu said. “These questions arose, and we want to make sure that we continue to build that trust between police agencies and their local communities.”
At the same city council meeting where he made his case for an MRAP all-terrain vehicle, Auburn’s Chief Kinnan also presented his department’s recently drafted Military Use Policy.
“The goal of this policy and legislation really was to be a little bit more transparent about what [the] equipment is,” Kinnan said. “This is just going before the public and giving the public and our governing bodies an opportunity to learn more about the process and why we may need this equipment.”
He detailed the military-grade equipment the Auburn Police Department owns —and the situations in which they use it. That presentation starts on page 26 of this city council document.
“Here’s a pepper ball,” Kinnan explained. “You can use this in a crowd management tool, involving barricaded subjects. Only authorized to be deployed by an incident commander after an unruly crowd has committed felonious criminal offenses and refuses to comply with a lawful dispersal order - or incidents in which a subject has committed a crime, barricades him- or herself, and negotiations have failed.”
He said all of the military gear the department has is necessary.
“The reality is, more and more suspects are equipping themselves with not only equipment such as this but also the body armor that is readily available,” Kinnan said.
As part of AB 481, local law enforcement agencies have to prepare an annual report about their use of military equipment in the previous year and whether they will ask to buy more in the coming year — and present that to their local governing bodies.
If you’re curious about your local law enforcement agency’s military use policy, you should be able to look it up now. State law required departments to have a policy presented to their local governing bodies by May 1.
Here are several local law enforcement agencies’ military use policies:
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HOUSTON — One by one, they took the stage at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention and denounced the massacre of 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school across the state. And one by one, they insisted that further restricting access to firearms was not the answer to preventing future tragedies.
“The existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law-abiding citizens,” said former President Donald Trump, who was among the Republicans who lined up to speak before the gun rights lobbying group Friday as thousands of protesters angry about gun violence demonstrated outside.
“The existence of evil is one of the very best reasons to arm law-abiding citizens," he said.
The gathering came just three days after the shooting in Uvalde and as the nation grappled with revelations that students trapped inside a classroom with the gunman repeatedly called 911 during the attack — one pleading “Please send the police now" — as officers waited in the hallway for more than 45 minutes.
The NRA had said that convention attendees would “reflect on” the shooting at the event and “pray for the victims, recognize our patriotic members and pledge to redouble our commitment to making our schools secure.”
The meeting was the first for the troubled organization since 2019, following a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic. The organization has been trying to regroup following a period of serious legal and financial turmoil that included a failed bankruptcy effort, a class action lawsuit and a fraud investigation by New York’s attorney general. Once among the most powerful political organizations in the country, the NRA has seen its influence wane following a significant drop in political spending.
Wayne LaPierre, the group’s embattled chief executive, opened the program with remarks bemoaning the "Twenty-one beautiful lives ruthlessly and indiscriminately extinguished by a criminal monster.”
Still, he said that “restricting the fundamental human rights of law-abiding Americans to defend themselves is not the answer. It never has been.”
Later, several hundred people in the auditorium stood and bowed their heads in a moment of silence for the victims of the shooting. Several thousand people were inside the auditorium during the speeches, which appeared fewer than the number gathered outside. Many seats were empty.
Trump accused Democrats of trying to exploit the tragedy and demonizing gun owners.
“When Joe Biden blamed the gun lobby he was talking about Americans like you,” Trump said, referring to the president’s emotional plea in a national address asking, “When in God’s name are we going to stand up to the gun lobby?”
He called for overhauling school security and the nation's approach to mental health, telling the group every school building should have a single point of entry, strong exterior fencing, metal detectors and hardened classroom doors and every school should have a police officer or armed guard on duty at all times. He also called yet again for trained teachers to be able to carry concealed weapons in the classroom.
He and other speakers overlooked the security upgrades that were already in place at the elementary school and did not stop the gunman, who entered the building through a back door that had been propped open.
According to a district safety plan, Uvalde schools have a wide range of safety measures in place. The district had four police officers and four support counselors, according to the plan, which appears to be dated from the 2019-20 school year. It also had software to monitor social media for threats and software to screen school visitors.
Security experts say the Uvalde case illustrates how fortifying schools can backfire. A lock on the classroom door, for instance — one of the most basic and widely recommended school safety measures — kept victims in and police out.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who, like Trump, is considered a potential presidential candidate in 2024, railed against Democrats’ calls for universal background checks for gun purchases and banning assault-style weapons and instead pointed to broken families, declining church attendance, social media bullying and video games as the real problems.
“Tragedies like the event of this week are a mirror forcing us to ask hard questions, demanding that we see where our culture is failing," he said. “We must not react to evil and tragedy by abandoning the Constitution or infringing on the rights of our law-abiding citizens."
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, another potential presidential contender, said calls to further restrict gun access are “all about control and it is garbage. I’m not buying it for a second and you shouldn’t, either.”
Some scheduled speakers and performers backed out of the event, including several Texas lawmakers and “American Pie” singer Don McLean, who said “it would be disrespectful” to go ahead with his act after the country’s latest mass shooting. Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Friday morning that he had decided not to speak at an event breakfast after “prayerful consideration and discussion with NRA officials.”
“While a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and an NRA member, I would not want my appearance today to bring any additional pain or grief to the families and all those suffering in Uvalde,” he wrote in a statement.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, who was to attend, addressed the convention by prerecorded video instead.
Outside the convention hall, protesters gathered in a park where police set up metal barriers — some holding crosses with photos of the Uvalde shooting victims.
“Murderers!” some yelled in Spanish. “Shame on you!” others shouted at attendees.
Among the protesters was singer Little Joe, of the popular Tejano band Little Joe y La Familia, who said in the more than 60 years he’s spent touring the world, no other country he’s been to has faced as many mass shootings as the U.S.
“Of course, this is the best country in the world,” he said. “But what good does it do us if we can’t protect lives, especially of our children?”
Democrat Beto O’Rourke, who is challenging Abbott in the governor’s race, ticked off a list of previous school shootings and called on those attending the convention to “join us to make sure that this no longer happens in this country.”
While Biden and Democrats in Congress have renewed calls for stricter gun laws after the Uvalde shooting, NRA board members and others attending the conference dismissed talk of banning or limiting access to firearms.
Samuel Thornburg, 43, a maintenance worker for Southwest Airlines in Houston who was attending the NRA meeting, said, “Guns are not evil. It’s the people that are committing the crime that are evil. Our schools need to be more locked. There need to be more guards."
There is precedent for the NRA to gather during local mourning and controversy. The organization went ahead with a shortened version of its 1999 meeting in Denver roughly a week after the deadly shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado.
Texas has experienced a series of mass shootings in recent years. During that time, the Republican-led Legislature and governor have relaxed gun laws.
Most U.S. adults think that mass shootings would occur less often if guns were harder to get and believe schools and other public places have become less safe than they were two decades ago, polling finds.
Many specific measures that would curb access to guns or ammunition also get majority support. A May AP-NORC poll found, for instance, that 51% of U.S. adults favor a nationwide ban on the sale of AR-15 rifles and similar semiautomatic weapons. But the numbers are highly partisan, with 75% percent of Democrats agreeing versus just 27% of Republicans.
Though personal firearms are allowed at the convention, guns were not permitted during the session featuring Trump because of Secret Service security protocols.
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CROWN POINT — A Lake Criminal Court jury convicted a Whiting man Friday of six counts of murder for beating three people to death 24 years ago inside a crack house in Hammond.
James H. Higgason III, 52, could face consecutive sentences of 45 to 65 years for killing Jerod "Buddy" Hodge, 18, of Chicago; Timothy W. "Midnight" Ross, 16, of Calumet City; and Elva Tamez, 36, on Jan. 18, 1998, inside Tamez's home in the 4600 block of Torrence Avenue in Hammond.
Higgason's co-defendant, David L. Copley Jr., 47, of Franklin, Indiana, pleaded guilty last year to one count of murder linked to Hodge's death. In exchange for his testimony against Higgason, the state agreed to a 45-year sentence for Copley.
Higgason's attorneys, Matthew Fech and Mark Gruenhagen, questioned Copley's credibility during the weeklong trial, but jurors ultimately rejected the notion that Copley pointed a finger at Higgason to protect whomever was truly responsible.
In his closing arguments, Lake County Deputy Prosecutor Jovanni Miramontes played clips from two recorded phone calls Copley testified he made to Higgason in May 1998, while Copley was in a rehab program in South Bend.
The defense disputed that the person heard in the calls was Higgason, but Miramontes pointed out Copley called Higgason's grandmother by her first name and she answered affirmatively.
When Copley asked her to wake up "Jim" so Copley could talk to him, she said she hoped "Jim" didn't get Copley in any trouble.
The defense suggested Copley killed Tamez, Hodge and Ross with Higgason's uncle, who also was Copley's sister's boyfriend.
Copley testified his sister and Higgason's uncle had four children together, and Higgason had two children.
In one of the recorded calls, the man Copley spoke to talked about his "two beautiful children," Miramontes said.
"James Higgason and David Copley beat Elva Tamez, Jerod Hodge and Timothy Ross to death," he said. "They bashed their skulls in a drug-fueled frenzy."
Miramontes said now-retired Hammond police Detective Lt. Thomas Fielden "did an excellent job" investigating who had been at Tamez's house in the 24 hours before the murders.
Among those to testify this week was a former drug dealer who opened the front door, saw the bodies and left without calling police.
Lavonte "Kilo" Nunnally testified he and James "Red" Williams left Tamez's house after making the grisly discovery and drove to Chicago to tell Hodge's mother her son was dead.
"Why would a killer do that?" Miramontes said, as he questioned theories that the killer was anyone other than Higgason.
Several witnesses testified they noticed unusual activity at Tamez's house just before sunrise, and Copley said he and Higgason fled the residence as the sun was coming up, Miramontes said.
Under cross-examination by Fech, Copley testified he once told detectives the killings happened at 1:30 or 2:30 a.m. but "that was just a guess-timate."
On the stand this week, Copley was adamant he and Higgason went to the house three times to buy crack cocaine. The last time, Higgason brought a shotgun to trade for drugs, and they stayed inside the house smoking crack until Hodge and Ross fell asleep and Higgason initiated the killings.
Gruenhagen call Copley a liar and said his story wasn't plausible.
Copley told police his hit Hodge with a board, but he later walked back his statement and told prosecutors he "pretended to hit" Hodge, Gruenhagen said.
The defense attorney said it would not have been possible for Copley to see Higgason use a board and a pipe to hit Hodge and Ross while Copley was running to a back door and then to a front door.
Police found blood on the outside of the front door, which meant it was open, not closed as Copley testified, he said.
"Copley is just not telling the truth," Gruenhagen said. "He is selling you a false bill of goods."
An analyst with Indiana State Police testified DNA from six people was discovered in blood collected from the door.
Higgason, Copley and the three victims were each determined to be contributors, but a sixth contributor could not be identified, Gruenhagen said.
"Who is the sixth person?" he asked.
Police never interviewed Higgason's uncle, and DNA analysis performed in 2020 made the state's case weaker, he said.
"We know there is absolutely no way that the story David Copley tells you could have possibly happened," Gruenhagen said. "He's wrong in everything he says."
Miramontes reminded the jury that Copley, when asked if he committed the crimes with Higgason's uncle, simply replied, "Wrong."
Police testified Higgason's uncle likely was dead, so it would not have been possible to compare his DNA to the blood sample from the door, he said.
Analysis showed it was 2.7 quintillion times more likely that DNA found on Tamez was contributed by Higgason, Copley and Tamez, Miramontes said.
The deputy prosecutor reminded the jury of what Higgason said in the phone calls.
"I dug a hole. ... I got the dirt up to my neck," Higgason said, as he urged Copley not to talk to police. "The only way to get out of it is to get away with it."
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
Jose Maldonado Collado
Age : 48
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204403
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devonne Tyler
Age : 26
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204424
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Meadows III
Age : 42
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204416
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
LaMarc Hall
Age : 19
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204426
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Gleeson
Age : 48
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204402
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Enedelia Hernandez
Age : 41
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204369
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jerry Stokes Jr.
Age : 38
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204349
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Michael Dillard
Age : 59
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204422
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Moose
Age : 33
Residence: Athens, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204381
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Crystal Fantasia
Age : 40
Residence: Steger, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204350
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kerri Olson
Age : 43
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204419
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Watkins
Age : 38
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204441
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Allie Hassan
Age : 59
Residence: Orland Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204434
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CASINO GAMBLING VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cristian Anaya
Age : 25
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204425
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Robert Hudson Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204348
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Albert Hendon
Age : 30
Residence: Geraldine, AL
Booking Number(s): 2204388
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Patterson III
Age : 34
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204451
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alex Moreno
Age : 27
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204393
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ray Weems Jr.
Age : 31
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204347
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Harry Bernstein
Age : 57
Residence: Wanatah, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204410
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jovanni Garza
Age : 24
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204366
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharonia Jelks
Age : 25
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204440
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jasper Brewer
Age : 30
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204438
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Limmie Lockhart III
Age : 55
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204365
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Thomas Philpot II
Age : 18
Residence: St. John, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204427
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Miguel Payan
Age : 44
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204408
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Karen Church
Age : 53
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204457
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Smith
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204456
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Dontrell Lewis
Age : 23
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204443
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jakeem Johnson
Age : 30
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204414
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jeffery Morgan Jr.
Age : 35
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204377
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Randy Godshalk
Age : 57
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204362
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Stewart
Age : 30
Residence: Wolcott, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204384
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Fletcher
Age : 20
Residence: North Judson, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204421
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Offense Description: Felony
Melinda Massey
Age : 39
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204379
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Zolinda Diaz
Age : 43
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204401
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - AGAINST LAW ENFORCEMENT OR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIAL
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kirk Struven
Age : 52
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204437
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Christopher Schweitzer
Age : 43
Residence: Schererville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204356
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SHOPLIFTING - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Laiza Gonzalez
Age : 39
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204371
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - TOUCH W/NO INJURY
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Andraya Mathis
Age : 30
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204420
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Lindley
Age : 47
Residence: Hammond, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204397
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Thule
Age : 42
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204380
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Arlin Mejia Santamaria
Age : 23
Residence: Bowling Green, KY
Booking Number(s): 2204396
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Tracey Getter
Age : 36
Residence: Gary, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204418
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Ken Taylor
Age : 30
Residence: Griffith, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204445
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luke McCormick
Age : 28
Residence: Portage, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204436
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Starr Tillis
Age : 23
Residence: Waukegan, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204407
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Arthur Ford III
Age : 30
Residence: Chicago, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204382
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Darrin Slaughter
Age : 62
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204352
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: OWI
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Garrett Abromitis
Age : 33
Residence: Hobart, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204452
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - BODILY WASTE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
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CROWN POINT — Irene Holinga is remembered as bringing elegance and hard work to the job of minding the finances of Lake County government.
Holinga, 95, died May 22 after more than four decades in public service.
“She was always well dressed,” County Auditor John Petalas said of Holinga, whom he had known and befriended since the 1970s.
“I never saw her get angry with anyone. She was an honest, good public official who will leave behind a legacy that will be hard to match,” Petalas said.
Lake County Elections Director Michelle Fajman said she thought of Holinga, “like royalty. She took over office after having lost her husband and had to raise her children as a single mother and she still so kind and generous. “
Gary Mayor Jerome Prince offered his condolences to the family and hold fond memories when they worked together when he was county assessor.
Michael Griffin, longtime Highland clerk-treasurer, said he still remembers when he won his first election in 1991. “There was a picture in the paper of her hugging me when we found out I won.
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“She served the public with earnestness and integrity,” Griffin said.
Former Lake County Sheriff Roy Dominguez said, “She had a smile that would warm someone all over. She dressed beautifully and professionally. She was a role model for a number of women now in public life. She just lit up the room.
"I guess that is why she was elected so many times,” Dominguez said.
Visitation will be held at Hillside Funeral Home and Cremation Center, 8941 Kleinman Road, Highland, from 2 to 8 p.m. Thursday.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church at 3025 Highway Ave., Highland.
Born in Czechoslovakia, she moved at age 4 with her family to East Chicago, where her father worked at Inland Steel.
She married World War II veteran Andrew Holinga shortly after high school and had three children. She worked during the Korean War as a class A welder at the American Steel Foundries.
She also worked as a co-manager of the Highland BMV bureau and later opened a store for women’s apparel in 1972.
She entered into public service in 1977 when her husband, then the Lake County treasurer, died of cancer after only six months in office. She was appointed to finish out the remaining time of his term.
Lake County Auditor Peggy Holinga Katona, Irene’s daughter, said her mother refused to retire back into private life.
“She put her name on the 1978 ballot to run for county treasurer in her own right to honor my dad (Andrew Holinga). He had asked my mom to serve as treasurer before he died.”
Katona said no woman had previously run for county office before. She said her mother had support from a number of county and state officials, but was being pressured by others to return to being a traditional housewife.
Holinga told The Times in 2012 interview, she was warned she'd never win election to countywide office. “I just thought I could do the job just like anybody else if I worked really hard,” she said.
Katona said her mother won that election by a 2-1 margin. “She broke the glass ceiling.”
Holinga went on to win three other elections as county treasurer.
Holinga employed her daughter as her deputy treasurer in the 1990s and herself served as a deputy treasurer until two years ago.
Holinga served as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention for multiple presidential primaries as well as being an invitee to the inaugural balls of President John F. Kennedy and President Bill Clinton.
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A woman was seen on surveillance camera getting so brutally beaten on a Bronx sidewalk by a group of attackers, it left her with a broken jaw — and she's now afraid to go outside, she told NBC New York in an exclusive interview.
Her face swollen, neck bruised, she can't eat or sleep and can barely speak — her life changed because of three strangers. The assault occurred at a taco stand on Lydig Avenue in Pelham Parkway.
"It was really bad. It was traumatizing, it was heartbreaking," said the woman, who did not wish to be identified. "I don't know what I possibly could have said to them that was so bad for them to treat me in such a hateful manner."
Police said it all started with a disagreement, then three men were seen on video throwing the woman onto the sidewalk near White Plans Road and kicked her repeatedly in the face.
"That's what I remember, that's what really, that's what I can tell where this injury came from, that kick," she said. "My body was in shock. I didn't really realize, I just thought that my tooth was loose until I started moving my jaw around, then I started realizing something was wrong."
Knocked unconscious, the woman woke up in a hospital bed, with security camera footage the only cluse as to what happened to her earlier in the week. The doctors told her that her whole jaw was broken, and that she needed surgery.
The physical pain is constant, she said, as is the emotional trauma. What also hurts, the woman said, is that no one stepped in to help. Some took out their phones — not to help, but to record the attack.
"Care for each other. Don't just sit there and see someone near you almost get killed, and not even help in lending a hand," she said.
As detectives search for the trio seen in the video attacking her, the survivor has a message: If anyone knows them, call police.
"Justice, point them out. Imagine if it had been your daughter, your sister, or mother," she said.
While she has a long road to recovery ahead of her, she said an arrest would help ease the pain.
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Ever since she closed her Lost Barrio cafe six years ago, fans of Tooley's Cafe's turkey tacos and plate-sized cookies, soft and chewy from the oven, would occasionally ask owner Patricia Schwabe when she was going to bring it back.
Last fall, Schwabe, who also owns downtown's popular Mexican restaurant Penca at 50 E. Broadway, decided it was time to resurrect Tooley's Cafe and its popular turkey-centric menu.
The restaurant at 299 S. Park Ave. will reopen on Friday, June 3, with the original breakfast and lunch menu that dates back to 1989, when Schwabe's then boyfriend/now husband Ron opened the restaurant.
The restaurant was supposed to be a hobby for Ron Schwabe, whose primary business was his development company Peach Properties. When he told Patricia he was thinking of closing the restaurant, she said it would be a loss to the community.
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"You can't close. People love it," she recalled telling him.
"Well then you can have it," he told her.
She admitted she knew nothing about restaurants back then.
“I had never, never, never worked in restaurants. I was never a server or hostess or nothing," she said. "But I did grow up in a house where we cooked a lot. I was never afraid of the kitchen.”
For the next 19 years, Patricia Schwabe ran the restaurant. In 2013, she opened the Central Mexico-inspired Mexican restaurant Penca and ran both businesses along with her role as a leasing agent in Peach Properties. Penca was a year-round operation, but every summer, she closed Tooley's from July until September, reopening in time for the return of the winter visitors and students.
But in September 2016, Schwabe lost her sister and when it came time to reopen Tooley's, she put it on hold. She said she didn't have the energy or motivation, especially with the street construction on South Park and East Broadway that cut into many of the Lost Barrio businesses. She turned her focus instead on Penca and her other downtown venture, The Owl's Club at 236 S. Scott Ave.
Last fall, Schwabe decided enough time had passed. It took her six months to clean up the restaurant, which seats about a dozen inside and another 30 or so on the patio. Last month, she got the necessary county and city permits to reopen and began hiring and training staff, and last week, she spent several mornings at the restaurant taste-testing the menu coming from the kitchen.
"Tooley's was the original. It was our first walk into this business, the place where we started cooking and developing a lot of these recipes," she said. "People loved the corncakes and pozolé and turkey tacos."
Tooley's Cafe will be open from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays beginning June 3.
Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch at cburch@tucson.com. On Twitter @Starburch
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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — West Ridge High School’s first graduating class walked across the stage Friday night.
The new school opened to students last August.
For those who walked the stage Friday, it was a unique four years, between the COVID-19 pandemic and moving to the new school.
“This senior class has come together, they’ve unified as one, they work together,” Principal Josh Davis said. “They’ve established norms, traditions, a culture of excellence and tonight we celebrate that.”
West Ridge combined students from the former Sullivan Central, Sullivan North, and Sullivan South high schools.
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BOISE — When Gov. Brad Little this year proposed that Idaho institute proactive “election integrity audits” after each election, just to make sure results were valid, lawmakers backed him unanimously.
The first of those audits was completed on Friday, and the results were encouraging. Not only were any differences found between new hand-counts and the already certified results infinitesimal, in the state’s largest county they were non-existent.
“Our counts were exactly the same as what Ada County’s were, across all of that,” said Chief Deputy Idaho Secretary of State Chad Houck. Also, Ada election officials had detailed tracking information available indicating how each ballot was counted, whether it was cast by absentee or early voting or fed into a tabulator at an election day voting precinct. “Having that level of detail of tracking is awesome,” Houck said.
Perfect results also were found in Kootenai and Bonneville counties.
Idaho randomly selected eight counties around the state for its first integrity audits; all were conducted Wednesday through Friday by teams of auditors who included staffers from the Idaho Secretary of State’s office along with state-trained representatives of both major political parties. The teams flew to the counties on a state-owned small plane. The Legislature this year voted unanimously in favor of a $50,000 appropriation to fund the audits.
The auditors will prepare detailed reports on not only the results, but observations of and recommendations regarding practices observed at all eight of the counties, which included Ada, Bannock, Bonneville, Idaho, Jerome, Kootenai, Madison and Payette counties. The counties were chosen by random ball draw weighted proportionally to their population.
“It is in these reports that we hope to be able to provide the real value of this process,” Idaho Secretary of State Lawerence Denney said in a statement. “Sharing the observations, both positive and negative, that our teams are able to make over the course of this process with all 44 counties is one way we can continue to push Idaho’s processes forward and guarantee the continued high integrity of Idaho’s elections.”
Little proposed the new audits in his State of the State message to lawmakers in January, saying they would “enhance transparency and confidence in our elections here in Idaho.”
“We must make election integrity a priority, to give our citizens confidence that their vote matters,” the governor said.
Houck said the Secretary of State’s office under Denney has been pushing for the audits for several years, and unsuccessfully proposed legislation to launch them last year.
Nationally, supporters of former President Donald Trump have continued to claim, without evidence, that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent. Two of the three GOP candidates for Idaho Secretary of State in the May 17 primary, state Rep. Dorothy Moon and state Sen. Mary Souza, said they didn’t believe President Joe Biden was legitimately elected. Both lost; the winning candidate in that primary, current Ada County Clerk Phil McGrane, was the one whose job has been running Ada County elections. McGrane will face Democrat Shawn Keenan in November; Denney is retiring rather than seek a third term.
The audits targeted three counties on their first day, Wednesday: Ada, Idaho and Payette. While results matched perfectly in Ada County, they were one ballot different in Idaho and one ballot different in Payette. Initial counts in those two counties showed a handful of differences in numbers of ballots per precinct, but those turned out to have occurred when the auditors sorted the ballots by precinct – not when the ballots were counted. A couple of other differences came when voters marked their ballots so lightly, or outside the box, that the voting machine couldn’t read them, but the auditors could make out the voter’s apparent intention.
By law, those aren’t valid votes in a machine-counted race. That’s why voters are instructed to fully fill in the box next to their choice.
Overall, the margin of error was found to be a tiny fraction of a percent, far below the threshold that was set to trigger further review.
On the second day of audits, ballots from Bonneville and Jerome counties were examined. Again, the variance was tiny, at one ballot in Jerome County and zero in Bonneville.
The final day of audits on Friday examined ballots from Kootenai, Bannock and Madison counties. Again, the results showed either perfect matches or a count that was off by a single ballot, but for documented and explainable reasons.
In each county or precinct, auditors hand-checked ballots in the closest race in the county. In most cases, that was the GOP primary race for Idaho Secretary of State; but in some cases, it was a close legislative race. That included the Payette County race in which current Rep. Judy Boyle, R-Midvale, defeated current Rep. Scott Syme, R-Caldwell, by just six votes.
When Idaho lawmakers approved the audit legislation this year, SB 1274, Idaho was one of just nine states that hadn’t already instituted post-election audits.
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Arizona lottery numbers, May 27
Associated Press
These Arizona lotteries were drawn Friday:
Pick 3
5-2-3
Fantasy 5
02-03-10-22-38
Triple Twist
01-03-05-21-25-27
Estimated jackpot: $310,000
Mega Millions
03-14-40-53-54, Mega Ball: 8, Megaplier: 3
Powerball
Estimated jackpot: $150 million
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Ella Buzan celebrates collecting her high school diploma Friday morning during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome. For more graduation photos, see Page A7, and for an online gallery of each school's ceremonies, visit azdailysun.com.
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Coconino High School seniors Marcia Ortiz and Matias Ortiz wave to the crowd of family and friends Friday evening during the school's 2022 graduation ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Flagstaff Unified School District (FUSD) held graduation ceremonies for its class of 2022 Thursday and Friday. Seniors from Summit, Coconino and Flagstaff high schools walked the stage to close out their time in high school.
While Summit hosted an outdoor ceremony, both Coconino and Flagstaff returned to the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus after two years of pandemic-altered graduations. The pandemic's effects could still be seen, however, in the table offering free masks and hand sanitizer to attendees, and in the mentions made across several addresses.
"I am very proud FUSD was able to maintain in-person learning for the entire school year, and understand all of us were called on to do more to support one another and sustain student learning and school services during the surges of COVID-19 in the fall and winter months," district Superintendent Michael Penca said in an end-of-year message posted to the district’s website. " ... I wish the best for all of the students and staff who will not return to FUSD next school year and thank you for sharing your time and talents with us."
After each ceremony, the graduates joined a crowd of family and friends who were waiting for them with hugs, banners and bouquets.
“It’s awesome, I’m excited,” Noah Burdick said of his graduation from FHS. “I’m excited for the future; it’s a great feeling.”
He has plans to study health and technology at Coconino Community College before transferring to an international school in Norway to receive a bachelor’s in health science and nursing.
“It’s just natural to me,” he said of his interest in medicine. He said his dad, who is a nurse practitioner, was one of his inspirations.
“I think he worked hard and he’s got a big future ahead," Noah's dad, Jeremy Burdick said. "We’re excited to see where he goes, how he gets there."
Sandra Yazzie attended CHS’s graduation to support her son, Ronando. She said the ceremony went well.
“I’m glad he made it, even though the struggle he’s been going through,” she said. “I’m glad he toughed it out, even with the pandemic.”
“I'm so happy. I'm so proud,” Gioelys Pagan said about her graduation from Summit, the school she'd attended since eighth grade.
She hopes to one day be a lawyer, because she's “so good with arguing.”
“I'm really proud of my childhood friend,” said Amy Madrigal, a rising senior at FHS and Pagan's friend since second grade.
Another Summit graduate, Jeremy Orduna, said he was feeling “pretty good" after the ceremony.
He described his time at the school as “five out of five.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way,” he said.
Orduna wasn’t sure what he was going to do next, but planned to continue working while looking for his next job.
His older sister, Jennifer Orduna, said she was proud of him. She is also a graduate of Summit.
“I’ve seen all of his hardships that he’s been through,” she said of Jeremy. “I’m very proud of him.”
Summit High School
Friends and families of Summit High School’s 2022 graduates gathered in the school’s parking lot Thursday evening to celebrate their students. About 50 students graduated from the school this year.
Graduate Jordan Lunsford gave the class address. After transferring to Summit earlier this school year, she had graduated in October.
Lunsford has a 5-month-old daughter, who she said was "the reason I am here today" and "the reason I am who I am."
“She has changed me for the better, and I am forever grateful that I get to be her mom,” Lunsford said of her daughter.
She thanked her mother and boyfriend for their loyalty and assistance, especially over the past year.
“Although I didn’t think I’d be graduating high school with a 5-month-old, I would not have wanted my life to turn out any other way,” she said. "So graduates, I hope by hearing my story, you’ll find your inspiration to overcome any challenges that you will face. Summit class of 2022, as we reach this point and go our separate ways, we must remember: although it is the end of this chapter, it is just the beginning of the rest of our lives.”
The faculty address was given by teacher Ray Serverian.
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Summit High School senior Angela Cortes shakes hands with Principal Chris Koenker after receiving her diploma Thursday evening during the school's graduation ceremony.
A crowd of family members and friends of Summit High School's newest graduating class gather to hand out hugs, kisses, flowers and balloons after the school's graduation ceremony comes to a close Thursday evening in the school's parking lot.
One graduation cap at Summit High School's ceremony Thursday evening reads "Mommy Did It," featuring photos of the grad's children. Summit has been a haven for teen parents over the years through their Teenage Parent Program, providing students an opportunity to attend and finish school while remaining close to their kids.
Sandra Cortez-Brown delivers her How We Got Here speech Thursday evening at Summit High School's graduation ceremony held outside in the school's parking lot.
Summit High School senior Angela Cortes shakes hands with Principal Chris Koenker after receiving her diploma Thursday evening during the school's graduation ceremony.
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Summit High 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Summit High School senior Estrella Garcia raises her new diploma in celebration Thursday evening during the school's graduation ceremony.
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Summit High 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Summit High School senior Isabella Rivera-Gallegos raises her new diploma in celebration Thursday evening during the school's graduation ceremony.
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Summit High 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Summit High School senior Gabriel Golden waves to the crowd as he walks on stage Thursday evening during the school's graduation ceremony.
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Summit High 2022 Graduation Ceremony
A crowd of family members and friends of Summit High School's newest graduating class gather to hand out hugs, kisses, flowers and balloons after the school's graduation ceremony comes to a close Thursday evening in the school's parking lot.
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Summit High 2022 Graduation Ceremony
One graduation cap at Summit High School's ceremony Thursday evening reads "Mommy Did It," featuring photos of the grad's children. Summit has been a haven for teen parents over the years through their Teenage Parent Program, providing students an opportunity to attend and finish school while remaining close to their kids.
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Summit High 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Sandra Cortez-Brown delivers her How We Got Here speech Thursday evening at Summit High School's graduation ceremony held outside in the school's parking lot.
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Summit High 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Jordan Lunsford delivers the Class Address Thursday evening during Summit High School's graduation ceremony held outside in the school's parking lot.
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“This is the most amazing group of graduate students that I have ever been able to work with and learn with,” he said. “Despite COVID stealing some of that time away, it is still important that we made the most of all the time we had together and that we made it to this most important event.”
He advised the students on decision-making and reminded them that the school will offer them assistance.
“Do not be afraid to take risks … . ... You cannot know whether you are making the right choice, but thoughtful examination will help you no matter the outcome. Rash decision-making leads to regret as often as not, but knowing you did your best in the moment will help you to try and find your success," he said.
Flagstaff High School
The Walkup Skydome was full of FHS graduates and their families, friends and teachers for Friday morning’s graduation. A total of 25 of the school’s graduates had participated in the AP Academy program and 11 had chosen to join the armed forces. The graduating class had earned a total of about $2 million in scholarships.
Among the students who gave speeches at the ceremony were senior speaker Sydney Wooldridge and Student Senior Body President Cora Miller, who dedicated her speech to her mom.
"I know that some of us think that this might be a scary, maybe even sad time right now,” Miller said. “We’re graduating, and some people think we have it all together, but in reality, we don’t ... .
She continued: "Graduation is an ending, but also a beginning. A beginning to anything you want, anything you can desire in life. It’s OK to make mistakes right now. Keep making them, because you’re allowed to. “
The school’s principal, Libby Miller, who had come to the district in January, acknowledged one of her predecessors in the role, Tony Cullen, as well as the work the school’s staff and students had done to get to graduation.
“Staff, we’ve been through quite a year,” she said, “COVID, four principals and many pressing challenges ourselves, yet you still show up with a smile on your face and the dedication your students deserve. The perseverance you demonstrate daily is inspirational.
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Samuel Thomas chats with Principal Libby Miller as he collects his high school diploma Friday morning during Flagstaff High School graduation ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Graduates toss their mortar boards into the air at the end of graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School Friday morning inside Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
Ella Buzan celebrates collecting her high school diploma Friday morning during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome. For more graduation photos, see Page A7, and for an online gallery of each school's ceremonies, visit azdailysun.com.
Nate Adams hugs Flagstaff High School Principal Libby Miller during graduation ceremonies Friday morning in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Tristen Morgan gives fist-bumps to faculty while walking to collect his high school diploma Friday afternoon at Flagstaff High School’s graduation ceremony in the Walkup Skydome.
Sydney Wooldridge delivers the Senior Speech Friday morning at the Flagstaff High School graduation ceremony in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
Katherine Ellenberger shakes the hand of her Marine Corps recruiter Friday morning during Flagstaff High School graduation ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the NAU campus.
Chenoa Sam waves to family in the stands Friday morning while walking in to graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
Aaron Reasor shouts out from the stage Friday morning after collecting his high school diploma during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School at the NAU Walkup Skydome.
Samuel Thomas chats with Principal Libby Miller as he collects his high school diploma Friday morning during Flagstaff High School graduation ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
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School's Out for Summer
Graduates toss their mortar boards into the air at the end of graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School Friday morning inside Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
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Flagstaff High School Graduation
Ella Buzan celebrates collecting her high school diploma Friday morning during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome. For more graduation photos, see Page A7, and for an online gallery of each school's ceremonies, visit azdailysun.com.
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FHS Graduation
Nate Adams hugs Flagstaff High School Principal Libby Miller during graduation ceremonies Friday morning in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
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Flagstaff High Graduation
Tristen Morgan gives fist-bumps to faculty while walking to collect his high school diploma Friday afternoon at Flagstaff High School’s graduation ceremony in the Walkup Skydome.
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Graduation Performance
Bryce Kotalik plays drums during a special performance Friday at the Flagstaff High School graduation ceremony in the NAU Walkup Skydome.
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Student Address
Sydney Wooldridge delivers the Senior Speech Friday morning at the Flagstaff High School graduation ceremony in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
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Future Marine
Katherine Ellenberger shakes the hand of her Marine Corps recruiter Friday morning during Flagstaff High School graduation ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome on the NAU campus.
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Mortar Message
The mortar board of a Flagstaff High School graduate indicates her next step Friday morning during graduation ceremonies in the Walkup Skydome.
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Waving To Family
Chenoa Sam waves to family in the stands Friday morning while walking in to graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
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A Shout Out to His Peeps
Aaron Reasor shouts out from the stage Friday morning after collecting his high school diploma during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School at the NAU Walkup Skydome.
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“… Graduates, I know these last few years have not been easy for you; however, you can choose to be a victim of circumstance, or a navigator of the circumstance,” she said. “Having had the privilege to get to know so many of you, I know you have what it takes to become navigators. I encourage you to take this and mold into a new experience. Acknowledge what strengths you have developed because of this and use them in your coming years. Bring that into the new world.”
Coconino High School
The Skydome was just as full Friday evening for the district's last graduation. Among the honors CHS Principal Stacie Zanzucchi listed the class as having achieved were IB diplomas, two students accepted to the U.S. Naval Academy, full-ride scholarships to a variety of schools and several who had earned a seal of biliteracy, The class had earned over $4 million in scholarships, she said.
“They have shown perseverance and persistence over the last few years and have brought hope and promise to CHS,” she said.
The ceremony included addresses from students including valedictorian Oscar Landa Samano and Trever Petersen, senior class president. Northern Arizona Distance Learning graduate and musician Avery Rhoton performed a few of her original songs to honor the school "where it all started."
There was also a presentation of the senior class’s gift to the school: two digital banner displays.
In his speech, Landa Samano thanked his family, CHS and his home community of Sunnyside.
“The community that was supposed to lead me to failure was the same community where I fell in love with STEM. It's the community where I learned the value of education,” he said. “In this community, I learned that hard work, perseverance and commitment will enable you to achieve anything. Because of this community -- the Sunnyside community, the CHS community, the Flagstaff community -- I've become the person I am today. “
Two teacher dedicatees -- Lori Wright and Bryce Brother -- were recognized for their accomplishments and dedication. This is Wright's 24th year celebrating graduation at CHS and Brother’s last teaching at the school, they said.
“As you walk across this stage and you graduate from CHS, I want you to think about life like you do an at-bat,” Wright said. “... I want you to step into the box of life, and I want you to stare that pitcher down, expect a curveball. But if you get a fastball, you hit the cover off of it.”
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Coconino High School senior Oscar Landa Samano delivers the Honor Address Friday evening during the school's graduation ceremony hosted at Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
In a sea of graduation caps, a few are customly decorated Friday afternoon during Coconino High School's graduation ceremony inside NAU's Walkup Skydome.
Coconino High School seniors Evelyn Marella and Angeline Trejo recognize the Teacher Dedicatees Friday evening during the school's 2022 graduation ceremony hosted at Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
Coconino High School senior Avery Rhoton sings one of her songs to the school's class of graduates Friday evening during commencement hosted at NAU's Walkup Skydome.
Coconino High School senior Ryanna Begay delivers the Navajo Welcome Speech Friday during the school's graduation ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Nearly 400 seniors from Coconino High School sit in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus Friday evening waiting to cross the stage and officially graduate high school.
Coconino High School senior Jonathan Padilla delivers the English Welcome Speech Friday evening during the school's 2022 commencement ceremony hosted at NAU's Walkup Skydome.
Coconino High School senior Daysy Medina Lopez walks to her seat Friday evening during the school's 2022 commencement ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Coconino High School senior Madison Lorenzo walks to her seat Friday evening during Coconino's 2022 commencement ceremony hosted at NAU's Walkup Skydome.
Coconino High School seniors Marcia Ortiz and Matias Ortiz wave to the crowd of family and friends Friday evening during the school's 2022 graduation ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Coconino High School senior Oscar Landa Samano delivers the Honor Address Friday evening during the school's graduation ceremony hosted at Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
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In a sea of graduation caps, a few are customly decorated Friday afternoon during Coconino High School's graduation ceremony inside NAU's Walkup Skydome.
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CHS 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Coconino High School seniors Evelyn Marella and Angeline Trejo recognize the Teacher Dedicatees Friday evening during the school's 2022 graduation ceremony hosted at Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome.
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CHS 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Coconino High School senior Avery Rhoton sings one of her songs to the school's class of graduates Friday evening during commencement hosted at NAU's Walkup Skydome.
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CHS 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Coconino High School senior Ryanna Begay delivers the Navajo Welcome Speech Friday during the school's graduation ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
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CHS 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Nearly 400 seniors from Coconino High School sit in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus Friday evening waiting to cross the stage and officially graduate high school.
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CHS 2022 Graduation Ceremony
Coconino High School senior Jonathan Padilla delivers the English Welcome Speech Friday evening during the school's 2022 commencement ceremony hosted at NAU's Walkup Skydome.
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Coconino High School senior Daysy Medina Lopez walks to her seat Friday evening during the school's 2022 commencement ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
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Coconino High School senior Madison Lorenzo walks to her seat Friday evening during Coconino's 2022 commencement ceremony hosted at NAU's Walkup Skydome.
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Coconino High School seniors Marcia Ortiz and Matias Ortiz wave to the crowd of family and friends Friday evening during the school's 2022 graduation ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Ella Buzan celebrates collecting her high school diploma Friday morning during graduation ceremonies for Flagstaff High School in Northern Arizona University's Walkup Skydome. For more graduation photos, see Page A7, and for an online gallery of each school's ceremonies, visit azdailysun.com.
Coconino High School seniors Marcia Ortiz and Matias Ortiz wave to the crowd of family and friends Friday evening during the school's 2022 graduation ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Nate Adams hugs Flagstaff High School Principal Libby Miller during graduation ceremonies Friday morning in the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
Coconino High School senior Daysy Medina Lopez walks to her seat Friday evening during the school's 2022 commencement ceremony hosted at the Walkup Skydome on the Northern Arizona University campus.
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TRI-CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) – A three-day weekend and a newly re-opened Boone Dam Recreation Area mean this weekend is a great time to get outside, but veterans and their families know why Memorial Day weekend means so much.
Several cities and towns across Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia will hold Memorial Day ceremonies throughout the weekend.
You can find a full list HERE.
In Carter County on Monday, the names of 258 fallen service members from the county are at the War Memorial in downtown Elizabethton.
Mayor Pro Tempore Bill Carter, who served in Vietnam and is the chairman for the Carter County War Memorial, said this weekend is about honoring the fallen from the county and throughout the country.
“We want to recognize the veterans that gave the ultimate sacrifice for our country from Carter County,” Carter said. “We as Carter County family members gather, just regular veterans that want to pay tribute.”
Carter said last year was the first time the War Memorial had hosted a Memorial Day ceremony. The space had only been used for Veterans Day previously, but Carter expects a big turnout at the ceremony Monday at 11 a.m.
“We hope the attendance will be at least twice as many as it was last year,” Carter said.
Memorial Day also signals the arrival of summer, and the re-opened Boone Lake Recreation Area should be a popular destination to spend some time outdoors this weekend.
Kenny Watson took a walk with family along the shoreline Friday evening. He said it’s good to be back.
“It means a lot for the community and everyone that used to come here and enjoy it,” Watson said. “My daughter is 11 years old, and the last time we were here was when she was three, so it’s our first time back in seven or eight years.”
Watson said he’ll be off the water this weekend due to busy waters on a holiday weekend.
Family members of veterans want people to remember the reason for this weekend.
Anne Wooden of the Johnson City-Washington County Veterans Memorial Foundation said her husband and grandson are Marines.
She said people need to understand why they can enjoy this weekend with family and friends.
“I look at Memorial Day for what it really is. To honor those who went before us and gave the ultimate sacrifice so that we would have the privilege of doing those picnics and enjoying the holiday,” Wooden said.
It’s a special weekend for Watson too. His father served in Vietnam.
“He was in Vietnam. Crew Chief on C-130s,” Watson said. “It’s especially meaningful to us. We fly the American flag at the house and it’s decorated for the holiday.”
News Channel 11 will have coverage of several Memorial Day ceremonies across the Tri-Cities throughout the weekend.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Top officials from California and New Zealand signed a pledge Friday agreeing to help fight climate change by sharing ideas and best practices, including how to put millions more electric vehicles on the road.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke about the agreement at San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The agreement doesn't commit either government to specific policies but outlines broad areas for cooperation.
“We have a natural connection and I’m so pleased we’ve put pen to paper today to confirm that and continue our cooperation on one of the great challenges from our generation,” Ardern said.
Cars, trucks and other parts of the transportation sector are California's biggest contributor of greenhouse gas emissions, and New Zealand's second largest behind agriculture, Ardern said. California is moving to ban sales of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. New Zealand wants 30% of all car sales to be electric by that year.
Newsom said he expects competition to grow in the electric vehicle market, which Tesla currently dominates, likening it to when Netflix started facing competition from other streaming services. Ardern said her government will talk with California officials about programs that offer incentives for people to get rid of older, gas-guzzling cars.
New Zealand is home to 5 million people compared to California's population of 39 million and has a much smaller economy. Both are experiencing the effects of climate change. California just recorded its driest winter on record as a drought grips the state. New Zealand's most recent winter, which takes place from June to August, was the hottest on record.
New Zealand is heavily focused on reducing emissions from its vital agriculture industry. Beef and dairy dominate the nation's farming sector and milk products are its largest export. Worldwide, cattle are a major source of emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
California is also home to a major farming industry that produces many of the world's fruits and vegetables. The agreement says the two governments may engage in joint projects to expand farming practices that build soil health, reduce methane emissions and boost water efficiency.
The memorandum of cooperation was signed by Jared Blumenfeld, secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, and Jeremy Clarke-Watson, New Zealand’s consul-general in Los Angeles.
California already has climate-focused agreements with many other nations, including China, Canada, and Mexico.
Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, also a Democrat, helped launch a coalition of 270 subnational governments, aimed at keeping an increase in emissions to below 2 degrees Celsius.
At last year's global climate change conference in Scotland, California signed a brief joint declaration with New Zealand and the Canadian province of Quebec to share information on climate policies including carbon markets.
Because of Ardern's high-profile role in the wake of the 2019 massacre of 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, the issue of gun control was also expected to come up.
Newsom is pressuring the state Legislature to send him a package of gun reform bills in the wake of this week's killing of 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school.
Less than a month after the Christchurch shootings, New Zealand's parliament voted to outlaw most automatic and semi-automatic weapons.
Newsom and Ardern did not publicly discuss gun control, though Ardern addressed her country's actions on the issue in response to a question about the “shared values” between California and New Zealand.
“It was clear that the New Zealand public expected its politicians to find solutions and quickly," Ardern said. “Now are they the answer to all of our issues as they relate to weapons in New Zealand? No, but they were practical steps that we believe were necessary, and that would make a difference. And so we made them."
Investigators say an 18-year-old gunman who shot and killed 10 shoppers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, targeting Black people, had researched the racist Christchurch shooting and also livestreamed the attack as the Christchurch shooter did.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California man pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to blow up the state Democratic Party’s headquarters in what prosecutors said was the first in a planned series of politically-motivated attacks after the defeat of former President Donald Trump.
Ian Benjamin Rogers, 46, of Napa, pleaded guilty to conspiring to destroy a building by fire or explosives, possessing an explosive device and possessing a machine gun under a plea agreement that could bring him seven to nine years in federal prison.
U.S. prosecutors in San Francisco charged Rogers and Jarrod Copeland with conspiring to attack targets they associated with Democrats after Trump's defeat in the November 2020 presidential election.
The pair “hoped their attacks would prompt a movement,” prosecutors said when they announced the charges in July.
Copeland, 38, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy and destruction of records.
“I want to blow up a democrat building bad,” Rogers wrote in one of the messaging apps he used to communicate with Copeland, according to the indictment. In a different message he said that after Democratic President Joe Biden was inaugurated, “we go to war.”
Their first planned target was the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento, prosecutors said.
Law enforcement officers who searched Rogers’s home in January 2021 seized nearly 50 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and five pipe bombs, prosecutors said.
He was taken into custody then on state charges after the FBI said he sent text messages that agents perceived as threats against the unoccupied Governor’s Mansion and social media companies Facebook and Twitter.
Under a universal agreement, the federal sentence will be served concurrently with a 10- to 12-year state sentence on similar Napa County charges of possessing fully automatic weapons and explosive devices, said Rogers' attorney, Colin Cooper.
Rogers “has never been in trouble before,” Cooper said.
“He’s accepted responsibility and he is desirous of paying his debt to society and resuming a life of productivity, of being a good father and good husband and a good family man” with an 11-year-old son, Cooper said. ”He feels awful about what happened and what he’s done to his family, and he’s a guy I think we’ll never see again in the (criminal justice) system.”
Rogers remains in custody awaiting his sentencing, set for Sept. 30.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — They meet every Monday night like clockwork: 7:30 p.m. on the dot.
And sometimes they leave without you if you arrive at 7:31.
“In four years I think we’ve canceled one ride,” said cyclist Abbey Robinson.
They call themselves “Smash Bros Plus One.”
Abbey is the only woman – so she’s the plus one.
They ride around Fort Worth once a week, every week. It’s rare to ride twice, but last week they did.
“We didn’t have anything going on so it’s just like, let’s ride to Dallas and back,” Chris Williamson said.
They were about 30 miles into their 80-mile round trip when they got to a bridge over a drainage ditch.
Robinson said when they crossed it, “this woman had stopped her car and she keeps yelling, there’s a dog there’s a dog.”
On a concrete beam just below the road but 15 to 20 feet above the ground precariously sat a dog.
“There’s no way she could have gotten there herself and there’s no way she could have gotten out herself,” Robinson said. They believe the dog was most likely dumped there.
“The look on her face was despair,” Robinson said.
The cyclists stopped and out of nowhere a handyman van did too.
Within moments, Williamson had grabbed a ladder off the van and was climbing down.
He spent at least 15 minutes perched on that narrow beam, face to face with a frightened pup.
Cell phone pictures and videos show Williamson talking to her, laying with her, calming her down and eventually winning her over.
“As soon as I got over there and grabbed a hold of her, we were golden,” Williamson said
He picked her up and carefully lifted her up.
The rest of the cyclists reached down.
“Three of us bent over the side of the rail and cradled her like a baby and sat her down next to use,” Robinson said. “It was just relief.”
They nicknamed her “Mo,” short for Moriah, in honor of Moriah Wilson, an elite pro cyclist who was recently murdered in Austin.
Mo is now with a foster family and Saving Hope Rescue out of Fort Worth is raising money to cover the cost of her care.
“I mean it needed to be done, and who else is gonna do it if you don’t just jump in and do it?” Williamson said.
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AUSTIN, Texas — Through the grief, teachers are reflecting on what needs to happen next to protect schools.
The mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde that left 19 children and two teachers dead, was a tragic way to end the school year.
Ken Zarifis is the president of Education Austin, the union representing Austin ISD employees. As a father and former teacher, he said the Uvalde shooting caused heartache for educators everywhere.
"The emotions are just so intense and teachers are just so deeply concerned at this moment," Zarifis said.
Teachers have faced many challenges including mental health issues and staffing shortages heightened by the pandemic. Zarifis said now this tragedy is also causing fear among teachers.
"We didn't sign up for that. We're teaching kids. We're supporting kids. We're counseling kids," Zarifis said, "We're not there to be law enforcement. We don't need that in our schools," he added.
Zarifis said the state of Texas needs legislation to protect teachers and students.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are talking about what they can do to prevent another tragedy. The Texas Legislature isn't set to be in session again until next year.
On Friday, Gov. Greg Abbott said "with regard to a special session... all options are on the table." The Texas governor added, "we need to have a discussion and pass laws to make sure that our schools are safer."
Zarifis said people on both sides of the aisle need to come together.
"It's guns and it is mental health issues. It's a lot of issues that need to be addressed. That's what this governor and the state legislature need to tackle," Zarifis said.
Teachers want change too.
"In my opinion, our politicians are doing nothing to fix the issue," Eric Ramos said, a teacher at AISD.
Ramos has been teaching for 8 years and he said educators shouldn't have to worry about their campus not being safe.
"We're there to educate our kids. We're not there to have a plan of what happens if someone comes in and starts shooting," Ramos said.
Emmaleigh Toto is also a teacher at AISD. She said watching everything unfold in Uvalde reminded her of how many school shootings there have been since she began her career 13 years ago.
"It's it's terrifying because, you know, your first reaction, at least mine was to think of like, am I going to be safe when I go back on campus this week?" Toto said.
She said not enough is being done to keep schools safe.
"I should not have to learn how to handle a weapon or be in tactical training or combat training for me to educate children. That's not appropriate. Schools are not supposed to be war zones," Toto said.
Zarifis said the time for change is now.
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UVALDE, Texas — There had been speculation the shooter at Robb Elementary, this week, was involved in a foiled mass casualty plot four years ago. However, the Uvalde County Attorney, John Dodson, is shutting those rumors down.
“I felt like I needed to set the record straight,” he said.
Dodson is revealing to KENS 5 the juvenile records of Salvador Ramos. He’s the gunman who police say shot and killed 19 children and two teachers and injured several others at Robb Elementary.
“It hits close to home,” he said. It is a tragedy.”
In 2018, KENS 5 reported about the arrest of a 13 and 14-year-old who were infatuated with the Columbine High School shooting and were planning to carry out an attack, this year, at a Uvalde school. At the time, police reported one of the students had numerous writings and drawings which depicted weapons capable of causing mass destruction.
The student wrote about being "God-like" and killing police and other persons. He had an academic analysis of one of the Columbine shooter's journals," the release stated. According to the release, in 2018, the teens were also planning on detonating IED's before killing students from a list 'ranked by priority.'
However, Ramos was not one of the teen’s arrested in that case.
“I can assure you and the rest of the world that he was not a part of that in any form or fashion,” Dodson said. Because they looked at all the names of the others that might have been on the friends list of everything. Because the ranger conducted his investigation.”
Dodson is the juvenile prosecutor for the county. He looked up the records and even contacted the Texas Ranger assigned to that case.
“The shooter was never involved with a threat against the school prior to this incident,” he said. He had no record. I can say that. I am not violating any confidentiality rules because they die when somebody dies.”
Dodson said his focus right now are the victims, his fellow neighbors. In his office of five, three of his staff members were impacted by the tragedy. The county attorney is working closely with the state to make sure all resources are readily available.
As for the two teens involved, Dodson told us they were prosecuted and adjudicated. He said that essentially means they were convicted.
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SAN ANTONIO — The Uvalde school police force hosted an active shooter training session on March 22, according to a department Facebook post.
"Our overall goal is to train every Uvalde area law enforcement officer so that we can prepare as best as possible for any situation that may arise," the post reads. "We have hosted several of these courses and plan to continue to do so."
On May 24, some of those school officials responded to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary. A gunman murdered 19 students and two teachers before tactical agents killed him.
The shooter was inside the school for 1 hour and 17 minutes.
Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety director Steve McCraw said the UCISD police chief, acting as commander on scene, made poor decisions which allowed the shooter more time inside the classroom.
State curriculum UCISD police department staff studied in March makes clear that officers responding to a mass shooting must first "stop the killing."
"(The) officer's first priority is to move in and confront the attacker. This may include bypassing the injured and not responding to cries for help from children," the plan reads.
This strategy, developed after Columbine and codified by researchers at Texas State University in 2002, is considered the nation's gold standard for crisis response. The feds have endorsed the playbook.
But the course relies on commanders to determine whether they are responding to an active shooter situation. If law enforcement inaccurately assesses the scene, their training becomes moot.
The course says officers are not obligated to deal with the attacker if the shooter is in an area where they are "isolated, cannot escape, and can do no more harm to students, staff, or visitors." Instead, they should wait for backup, "treating the situation as a barricaded subject."
As students inside begged 911 dispatchers for help, the commanding officer did not revert from barricaded subject protocol to active shooter protocol.
"There were children in that classroom that were at-risk," McCraw said. "It was, in fact, still an active shooter situation and not a barricaded subject."
A student placed the first 911 from inside the classroom at 12:03, thirty minutes after the shooter entered. At 12:16, the same student called and informed dispatchers that at least eight students were still alive.
Another student called 911 at 12:19.
At 12:47, the first caller asked dispatchers to "please send police now," McCraw said.
It's not clear whether dispatchers successfully relayed the students' calls for help to the UCISD police chief, who was commanding law enforcement's response from the school hallway.
A Border Patrol tactical team carrying ballistic shields entered the classroom at 12:50 and killed the shooter.
Dispatchers were in almost-constant contact with students inside for 47 minutes. Still, law enforcement waited to breach the classroom.
"Of course that was not the right decision," McCraw continued. "It was the wrong decision. Period. There is no excuse for that."
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Florida Theatrical Association is set to present their rendition of the musical ‘Blood Brothers’ at The Abbey entertainment venue starting June 10.
“‘Blood Brothers’ tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the social and economic tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences,” according to the event’s webpage.
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Organizers said the musical is one of the longest-running shows on the West End District, a major entertainment center in London where the musical played for more than 24 years across 10,000 performances.
The show will run Friday, June 10 through Sunday, June 19 at select showtimes. Tickets start at $15 for general admission and $25 for VIP seating.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the event’s website here.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – At 24 years old, with a $48,000 salary, Aidan Groll achieved a keystone of the American Dream: homeownership.
“When I made that first offer on my property, I did not sleep for three days,” Groll told News 6. “It was the most nerve-wracking experience that I have ever gone through.”
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However, Groll’s dream was only possible if he rented out every spare bedroom in his home to cover the mortgage.
“For me, it made more sense, even though I was sacrificing some of that privacy, to be able to qualify for more of a home,” said Groll.
That concept is called house-hacking, and as home prices and mortgage rates rise, some people are turning to this hack to help pay the bills.
First, Groll took on a weekend side job, saving the extra income he earned producing wedding videos, to save for a down payment. That dual income helped him qualify for a larger home.
“I got it renovated, got it rented out, and now all of the sudden I had about $20,000 extra a year annually,” Groll said.
With all the spare bedrooms rented, Groll’s mortgage, taxes, insurance and utilities were covered. And the extra $20,000? “I was saving to be able to use for a down payment on my next property,” Groll told News 6.
Groll sacrificed his privacy, saved the money he would have spent on his mortgage and bills, but today, the now 26-year-old has five homes in his portfolio.
Plus, a literal bonus: Groll tells News 6 he quadrupled his income, thanks in part, to his renters.
Last year, US home prices rose 19%. S&P Global estimates another 6% rise this year, and are expected to rise another 6% this year.
In Florida, a recent report shows median home prices are now $410,000.
Simultaneously, a recent poll shows that 67% of millennials are open-minded to sharing their homes, more than any other generation.
“I don’t think it’s that they are more open-minded,” said Groll, a millennial. “I think they are being forced to. I think that home pricing is becoming so unaffordable that you must become creative in how you are able to qualify for a home.”
But the idea of house-hacking is not exclusive to millennials.
“I did not know it was called house-hacking when I was doing it. I called it survival,” said Leslie Harrington, who was living in her Orlando home, with her two teenage daughters, when she lost her teaching job in 2008.
“In a recession, your neighbor is out of a job. In a depression you are out of a job,” said Harrington. “Unemployment only goes so far. And I had to have a reality check with the budget.”
Faced with losing her home, Harrington moved her two daughters into one room and rented out the third bedroom.
“Just from my front porch, I can see four houses that went into foreclosure, and I was able to pay my mortgage. So that definitely kept us afloat,” Harrington said.
Harrington admits she would not have house-hacked if her financial situation had not called for it, but now that she has, she continues to rent rooms for extra cash.
Harrington has also passed the lessons onto her daughters. This year, one of Harrington’s daughters, a millennial, bought her first home with a group of friends.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Husky Haven of Florida, a non-profit in Winter Springs that focuses on rescuing Siberian Huskies, helped rescue a six-week-old puppy after it suffered a seizure.
According to the group’s Facebook page, the puppy, nicknamed ‘Cooper,’ was brought to Mitchell County Animal Rescue in North Carolina by a backyard breeder.
Husky Haven said Cooper had a seizure that lasted approximately two hours, and the breeder — instead of taking him to the vet — took Cooper to the shelter to be euthanized.
“It’s going to be difficult for (breeders) to sell them if they have a seizure,” said Francia Vogini, president of Husky Haven of Florida. “And instead of putting up the money and getting the puppy medical care, they just take them to the shelters and request them to be put to sleep.”
The shelter chose to take Cooper to a vet, rather than let him be euthanized.
After making sure the dog was taken care of, the doctor in charge of Cooper took the puppy home for a weekend to make sure he didn’t have any further episodes, the rescue told News 6.
While Cooper had recovered, Husky Haven said he’d lost vision due to the seizure.
“The puppy is vision impaired. We don’t believe that he is completely blind,” Vogini said. “But he does stumble into things and walls and that kind of stuff. So we believe that he sees shadows.”
The shelter that had taken Cooper to the vet was full, and so they made arrangements to have Cooper sent to the Husky Haven.
Vogini said Husky Haven is used to taking in Huskies like Cooper, as shelters filling up has become a common trend.
“People are losing their homes, or people are going back to work, and these dogs don’t have anywhere to go,” she said. “So one of the reasons North Carolina contacted us was because we actually do have experience with Huskies that have medical issues.”
According to Vogini, the trip was anything but short; Cooper endured a drive to Georgia and another drive from there to Florida.
Once Cooper reached Jacksonville, Kurt Manthei — a private pilot who has flown dogs for the rescue before — flew Cooper down to Orlando Sunday.
“It’s a lot of steps to save a life,” Vogini said. “But if we wouldn’t have done that, chances that somebody else would be able to (help)... second chances are very slim.”
Vogini said Cooper has been taken in by a foster family in Orlando, where he as been getting “lots of love and attention.”
She added that Cooper hasn’t had any further seizures, though they plan to have him evaluated by an animal hospital to make sure he’s alright.
For more information on Husky Haven of Florida or to reach out about adoption and fostering opportunities, visit the group’s website here.
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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood commented Friday on the recent shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, telling residents he won’t hesitate in the case of a similar shooting there.
In the Uvalde shooting, police waited for more than 40 minutes before heading into the classroom the shooter barricaded himself in.
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Chitwood said he wants Volusia County residents to know there would be no delay if a shooting like that happened there.
“When you hear the director of public safety in Texas get out there and say, ‘Mistakes were made,’ and he knows a lot more than he’s telling us — that sends a shockwave through law enforcement,” Chitwood said.
Chitwood sent out a Twitter post Friday afternoon assuring the county that “I will do it myself” if the situation called for it.
My pledge to you is you will never see @VolusiaSheriff deputies stand by while a mass shooter wipes out a classroom. We will stop the threat. I will do it myself if I’m the 1st one there. Deputies are well-trained & equipped to take action, not to stand down for an active killer.
— Mike Chitwood (@SheriffChitwood) May 27, 2022
“The first deputy has a moral and ethical obligation to go. We even give you tourniquets — ‘cause God forbid — if you go in and get shot, the next person in the door is not coming to help you,” he said. “They are going to take out the threat, and you have to be able to dress your own wounds until we neutralize the threat.”
According to Chitwood, his deputies train three times per year for an active shooter situation. Chitwood stated each deputy has ready access to a handgun, a long gun and plenty of ammunition.
“Our deputies are extremely well trained, and they are extremely well equipped, and we have great leadership that we would not allow something like that to occur,” he said. “We would use everything in our power to get in there to stop it.”
Volusia County schools have at least one person armed at each school, which could include a deputy, a police officer or a guardian.
“I just can’t imagine. We’ve all done it: as parents, you drop your kid off at school, kiss him goodbye. ’I’ll pick you up at 2:30,’ and 2:30 doesn’t come. I just can’t imagine for any parent who has lost a child this way,” he said.
Volusia County bulked up its training after 17 people were killed at a school in Parkland in 2018 — that’s when the justice department spent nearly one billion dollars on grants for law enforcement agencies to train for active shooter situations.
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Margaret A. Fisher, 86, of Mason City, died May 26, 2022. Arrangements: Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapels.
John C. Whipple, 63, of Mason City, died Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Select Specialty Hospital in Davenport. Arrangements: Hogan Bremer Moore Colonial Chapels.
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Debra Kay “Deb” Buckner
June, 3, 1953-May 25, 2022
HAMPTON-Debra Kay “Deb” Buckner, 68, of Hampton, Iowa, passed away May 25, 2022 at Mercy Medical Center North Iowa in Mason City, Iowa. She was born June, 3, 1953, the daughter of Walt and Shirley (Wyke) Fuller in Mason City.
Deb was a strong woman. She always came out ahead despite life's many struggles. She was an absolutely genuine person and never held anything back. She loved being outdoors and animals of all kinds; but she had a special place in her heart for horses.
Deb is survived by her son, Max Kruggel; grandchildren, Tiffany, Tyler, and Jacob Kruggel; great-grandchildren, Kayden and Kylee Kruggel; dear friends, Sally Stanbrough and LeeAnn Wickwire; and beloved furry friend Abbey Lynn Buckner.
Deb was preceded in death by her parents; and daughter, Tammy Costos.
Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel. 126 3rd St. NE, Mason City, IA 50401. 641-423-2372. ColonialChapels.com
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Harlan Lunde
December 5, 1946-May 22, 2022
Harlan Lunde, 75, of Manitowoc passed away on Sunday, May 22, 2022 at his residence.
Harlan was born on December 5, 1946 in Nora Springs, IA to Herbert and Nellie Lunde. HE was a graduate in 1965 of Nora Springsock Falls High School where he was a champion wrestler. Upon graduation, Harlan served his country in the United States Navy from 1965-1969, serving two tours of duty in Vietnam on the USS Ranger aircraft carrier. On September 9, 1967, he married the former Diane Reinhart. She preceded him in death on July 12, 2011. On February 16, 2019, he married the former Sandra Anhalt Jarosh.
Harlan worked for Rozen Chevrolet doing sales and mechanics, D&D Cable TV in Iowa, and AMS Insurance in Green Bay as a mailing supervisor.
Harlan was adventurous and tried to make the most of every opportunity. He had many special trips to far away lands like Germany, Austria, France, and Hong Kong, plus numerous trips to Hawaii. He said his favorite place to go was Norway, where he walked the fields where his ancestors had a farm. He even had a map of the farm. He had many passions like NHRA, golf, fishing, boating, swimming, hunting, classical music, and dancing to music, especially his favorites, the Doo Wop Daddies and the Del Rays. And there was also his beloved Harley. He enjoyed many road trips through the mountains of Arizona, Door County, Wisconsin, and riding with his brother Carroll through Iowa and Wisconsin. Evenings were often strolls by the lake and maybe a nice glass of Riesling or some other beverage. He enjoyed spending time with his brothers-in-law, often being coaxed into some antics. He loved sitting by Dan's shack on his river and daydream, breakfast out with Tim, and visiting Rick at his home tucked in the woods. He enjoyed going to out of the way places with sister-in-law Carole and Regina for lunch and annual gatherings on the farm. Rides with his friend Bill through rural areas looking for unusual places like the Square Silo. And long visits with good friends at Friar Tuck's. The last 7 years have been with his wife Sandy and he was welcomed into her family with open arms. He was a proud veteran and even had the opportunity to go on an Honor Flight to Washington D.C. in 2019. He will be sadly missed!
Harlan is survived by his wife: Sandra (Anhalt Jarosh) Lunde; son, Aric Lunde of Westfield, MA; daughter Dawn Lunde-Chaves; granddaughters Alexandra and Ariana; grandson Ian; and great-grandson Abel; brothers Carroll Lunde, John Lunde, and David Lunde, all of Iowa; step-son Christopher Jarosh (Nikki Muenchow); step-daughter Lisa (Bob) Kiel; step-grandsons Brandon Keil and Bailer Keil; sisters-in-law Regina Anhalt and Carol Anhalt; brothers-in-law Daniel (Mary Jo) Anhalt, Richard Anhalt, and Joseph “Tim” Anhalt; Harlan is further survived by many nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his wife Diane Lunde and brothers Gary Lunde and Roger Lunde.
Visitation will be held on Saturday, May 28, 2022 from 9:00 am - 11:00 am at the Lakeshore Life Celebration Center (Peace United Church of Christ), 3613 Waldo Blvd, Manitowoc. Funeral service will be held at 11:00 am. Military honors will follow the service. A luncheon will be provided following services.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be made in Harlan's memory to Gumby's Club Fore a Cure: www.gumbysclubforeacure.org
Lakeshore Family Funeral Homes, Pfeffer location, is assisting the family with arrangements.
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Century 21 Morrison Realty hires
Realtors Monte Engel, Lisa Hoynes, Naomi Keney, Tracy Middaugh, Desri Neether, Katie Winbauer and Tammi Winbauer have joined Century 21 Morrison Realty in Bismarck.
Engel holds a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from North Dakota State University and has 40-plus years experience with the state of North Dakota regulating health care construction and water/wastewater construction and compliance.
Hoynes has four years of real estate experience and 21 years as a member of the Bismarck State College faculty. She holds a Master of Social Work.
Keney has 19 years experience in banking, with the last 15 ½ at First International Bank & Trust as director of credit administration and a business administration degree from North Dakota State University.
Middaugh has been a Realtor since 2019 and previously was a licensed child care provider. She holds degrees from Bismarck State College and Cooke Real Estate School.
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Neether has nearly 10 years of real estate experience as a real estate agent, broker, real estate trainer and also holds a doctorate degree from North Dakota State University.
Katie Winbauer is a licensed attorney and works as a law clerk for the North Dakota Supreme Court. She will be joining Bormann, Myerchin, Espeseth & Edison LLP as an associate attorney in August. She holds an associate degree from Bismarck State College; a Bachelor of Science from Valley City State University; and a Juris Doctor from University of North Dakota School of Law. Winbauer has assisted her mother, Tammi Winbauer, for the last two years and obtained her real estate license in February.
Tammi Winbauer has four years of Realtor experience and previously worked in hospitality management and banking. She is also a Army National Guard member with one deployment to Saudi Arabia.
Banking officer on list
Kassy Landis has been named to three distinguished lists of America’s top mortgage bankers. The Scotsman Guide named Landis in their Top Originators of 2021 and Top Women Originators of 2021 lists. Mortgage Executive Magazine named Landis as one of the Top 1% of Mortgage Originators of 2021.
Landis, Starion Bank mortgage banking supervisor based in Bismarck, has been a mortgage banking officer since 2012.
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Jason Kirchmeier with Legacy Financial Partners in Bismarck, has earned a career milestone distinction through Ameriprise Financial Services Inc.’s Circle of Success recognition program.
Only a select number of high-performing advisers earn this distinction. Kirchmeier has 26 years of experience with Ameriprise Financial.
Monthly awards
North Dakota Farmers Union Insurance, based in Jamestown, announced professionals who exceeded in their positions for the month of March.
David Beck, Bismarck, was a top-two producer of new health insurance sales.
Dave Berger, Mandan, was the top producer of new auto insurance sales.
Robert Johnson, Mandan, was a top-four producer of new life insurance sales.
Ryan Opdahl, Bismarck, was a top-five producer of new auto insurance sales.
Troy Renwick, Mandan, was a top-three producer of new health insurance sales.
Courtney Schauer, Mandan, was a top-five producer of new life insurance sales and new health insurance sales.
Ryan Schnell, Bismarck, was a top-three producer of new FUIC personal lines sales.
Lewis Schock, Mandan, was a top-four producer of new health insurance sales.
Jason Smith, Mandan, was a top-two producer of new annuity sales.
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Carolyn Joan Thatcher
Sept. 4, 1933 - May 26, 2022
HEBRON - Carolyn Joan Thatcher passed away peacefully on May 26, 2022, at her home in Hebron. She was born on September 4, 1933, in Brook, IN, to Athol and Esther Christine (Holley) Purkey.
On November 19, 1952, she married Francis Wendell Thatcher who proceeded her in death. Also proceeding her are two brothers; and one sister.
Surviving Carolyn are her children: Christine (Jerry) Dye of Hebron, Jerry (Karen) Thatcher of Valparaiso, and Jeffrey (Linda) Thatcher of Hanna; as well as her sisters-in-law: Pam Purkey of Lowell, Mary Alice Klein of Valparaiso, Ruth Ohlsen of Dyer; and many grand and great-grandchildren.
Carolyn was a member of Hebron United Methodist Church. Visitation will be from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday June 1, 2022, at Bartholomew Funeral Home in Valparaiso with funeral service to follow. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery. Rev. Allen Wright will be presiding.
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Dr. Alfred J. Kobak Jr.
Feb. 10, 1935 - May 25, 2022
CHICAGO - Dr. Alfred J. Kobak Jr. passed away peacefully on May 25, 2022, surrounded by his family, after a long illness.
Dr. Kobak was born Feb. 10, 1935 in Chicago, the son of Dr. Alfred Kobak, Sr. and Rose Barron Kobak. He earned both a B.S in biology and a medical degree from the University of Illinois, and was awarded Alpha Omega Alpha distinction for top performance in medical school. Dr. Kobak completed his medical residency in obstetrics and gynecology as chief resident at Cook County (now Stroger) Hospital, and served as a Captain in the United States Air Force from 1962-64.
Over the course of his long medical career, in addition to private practice Dr. Kobak served as OB/GYN Department Chair and Chief of Staff of Porter Memorial Hospital, President of the Porter County Medical Society, Chairman of the Porter County Health Department, and Vice President of the Chicago Gynecological Society. He was also a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rush University and Indiana University School of Medicine.
Dr. Kobak believed community service was its own reward and worked tirelessly for more than 50 years to build a vibrant and healthy region. He grew a thriving medical practice while helping develop Porter Memorial Hospital from 10 beds and 40 physicians to 400 beds and physicians, respectively. He was also a foundational member of Temple Israel and served the Jewish community of NW Indiana as both a philanthropist and volunteer educator.
Dr. Kobak was a man of many interests beyond the practice of medicine. He was a prolific reader and an avid skier, fly fisherman, hiker and camper who loved to spend time in the Colorado Rockies when not working. He was a devoted family man who was married to his lifelong love and best friend, Sue S. Kobak, for 61 years until her death in 2020. Their marriage was the model of committed partnership for their many family members and friends.
He is survived by their children: Dr. William Kobak (Colleen McDonough) of Chicago, Steven Kobak (Randi) of Portland, OR, Jane Kobak (Rob Lynch) of Valparaiso, and Deborah Kobak (Daniel Nielsen) of Chicago; seven grandchildren: Emily and Sara Lynch, Sydney, Ellie, and Max Kobak, and Maggie and Carrie Nielsen; and sister, Claire Meyers (James Meyers) of Glenview, IL.
Community members are invited to pay their respects during a visitation on Tuesday May 31, 2022, from 12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. at Bartholomew's Funeral Home in Valparaiso. A funeral service will follow at 4:00 p.m., also at Bartholomew's.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Dr. Kobak's memory to the St. Agnes Day Services Center, Dunes Hospice, or the Alzheimer's Association Greater Indiana Chapter Northwest Office.
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Joseph Francis Vessely III
May 28, 1967 - Oct. 3, 2019
In Loving Memory of Joseph Francis Vessely III on his Heavenly Birthday.
Hope the fishing is awesome and you are scoring the most hockey goals ever! We love you and we miss you each and every day. With all our love, Your Wife, Children, Sisters, Parents, Friends & Buddy
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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.
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www.GeisenFuneralHome.com 219-663-2500.
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DYER - Paul E. Swalwell, 75, of Dyer, formerly of Chicago, passed away May 25, 2022. Paul is preceded in death by her parents: Ervin and Clara; and his brother, Roy. He is survived by his brother, Conrad (Ann); Dearest uncle of three; and great uncle of five. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a union carpenter, working out of Local #199. Paul was active in the Chicago Southeast Lions Club, the American Legion, and the Rainbow Beach Handball Club for many years. Visitation Sunday, May 29, 2022, from 2:00 - 6:00 PM at the Elmwood Funeral Chapel 11300 W. 97th LN. (1/2 block west of US 41/Wicker Ave. at 97th LN.) St. John. A private burial will be held at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood, IL. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions to Hospice of the Calumet Area preferred. For more information 219-365-3474 or
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Ralph Biggs, III
May 28, 1964 - March 31, 2019
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF RALPH P. BIGGS, III
As You Celebrate Your 3rd Anniversary In Heaven. Sadly missed, but not forgotten. You were always a blessing. Forever in our hearts. Love you, Mom, Brother, Keith, Your Son, Cody, Your Granddaughter, Elizabeth, Niece, Cassie (who gave you a nephew on your birthday), Eddie.
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TACOMA, Wash. — One man died after crashing into a bus on McKinley Way in Tacoma Friday night. The bus driver sustained minor injuries.
There were some passengers on the bus, but none of them were hurt, according to the Tacoma Police Department (TPD).
A call reporting the accident came in at 8:47 p.m., according to TPD.
The driver of an SUV was heading southbound on McKinley Way while a bus was headed northbound. Police believe the SUV crossed the center line and collided head-on with the bus.
The adult man was pronounced dead at the scene. He was the only occupant of the SUV.
The bus driver had minor injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
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TROUTDALE, Oregon — On May 28, lifeguards return to the Sandy River at Glenn Otto Park in Troutdale. Since 1999, the American Medical Response (AMR) River Rescue and Safety Program has been a summertime fixture there.
“I think the number one mistake people make out here is kind of overestimating their ability and underestimating the current,” said AMR River Rescue Technician Gracie Goodrich. “These waters are dangerous, we're out here for a reason.”
On Friday, Goodrich and other lifeguards wrapped up their two-week River Rescue Academy, perfecting various rescue drills. Before implementing the River Rescue Program, an average of two people died at Glenn Otto Park every year.
“Our backyard was the number one drowning spot in the state of Oregon until this program came about,” said Troutdale City Councilor Glenn White.
In 1999, the City of Troutdale and community boosters, including Linda and Junki Yoshida, hired AMR to place lifeguards at the park. A few years later, the City of Gladstone also hired AMR lifeguards to watch over swimmers at High Rocks Park on the Clackamas River.
On Friday, the Kiwanis Club of the Columbia Gorge unveiled a bronze statue at Glenn Otto Park, honoring the lifeguards and the River Safety Program. Chad Caswell designed the bronze sculpture of a male and female lifeguard.
“I'm so proud of what you guys do for our river, and excited this program was put into place,” said Caswell. “I just want to thank you for your ongoing service and professionalism keeping people safe.”
Lifeguards will be on duty every day at Glenn Otto Park from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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One village’s effort to let a few dozen people vote in its local elections may lead to amending the Ohio constitution, if some state legislators have their way.
In 2019, Yellow Springs held a referendum on whether to allow people who were residents but were not U.S. citizens to vote for local offices. It passed with 59% of the vote, Yellow Springs Council President Brian Housh said.
Now some state lawmakers are working to keep that from happening in the future with a pair of resolutions that propose amending the Ohio Constitution to prohibit local governments from allowing people to vote in their local elections if they’re not qualified to vote in state elections.
State Reps. Jay Edwards, R-Nelsonville, and Bill Seitz, R-Green Twp., introduced HJR 4 on May 17. It passed the House State & Local Government Committee on its second hearing May 24, then passed the full House 68-28 the next day.
SJR 6, sponsored by state Sen. Louis Blessing, R-Colerain Twp., was also introduced May 17. It had a second hearing in the Senate Local Government & Elections Committee on May 24 but didn’t come up for a vote.
If they pass both chambers by a three-fifths margin – as HJR 4 already has in the House – the question would be on the statewide ballot Nov. 8. If a simple majority of the Ohio electorate approves it, the measure will amend the Ohio Constitution accordingly.
Housh described the push for a constitutional amendment in reaction to Yellow Springs’ referendum “outsized” and politicized.
“Honestly, we really didn’t think it was that big as a deal,” he said. “It’s a local issue. It’s about local issues.”
Yellow Springs has about 3,800 residents. Only about 170 are foreign-born, and the vast majority of that foreign-born population are naturalized citizens, according to 2020 U.S. Census data.
Housh said allowing noncitizens to vote would likely affect about 30 people: business owners, residents with children in local schools who have a stake in village affairs. According to census figures, the number of potential noncitizen voters appears to be 26.
Housh said Llyn McCoy, deputy director of the Greene County Board of Elections, indicated that noncitizen voting in Yellow Springs was manageable.
But Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose stepped in, ordering Greene County not to accept any voter registration forms from noncitizens.
Since then, Housh said, no noncitizens have tried to register to vote. Yellow Springs appealed LaRose’s decision but has not taken legal action.
Legal grounds
LaRose told legislators that allowing noncitizens to vote would “cheapen the value of citizenship.” He would never allow it, but another secretary of state might, he said.
The state’s nonpartisan Legislative Service Commission, which analyzes proposed legislation, considers noncitizen voting in local elections a gray area, LaRose said.
“Some believe that home rule allows this to happen,” he said.
LaRose said if a local jurisdiction allowed noncitizens to vote in its elections, that would require county boards of election to create a separate, parallel system for voter registration and ballot types and might require use of a separate set of voting machines.
“The administrative burden to this is not to be understated,” he said.
Alisha Beeler, who became Greene County Board of Elections director in June 2021, said the proposed constitutional amendment is directly tied to Yellow Springs’ referendum.
“We won’t allow them to be registered to vote because that’s state law. We have to follow the state constitution,” she said.
The Ohio Constitution specifies that “every citizen of the United States, of the age of eighteen years,” is eligible to vote, provided they meet residency requirements and register at least 30 days before an election.
But it does not specifically say voting eligibility must be limited to those requirements. Ohio has not explicitly prohibited noncitizens from voting in local, or even state, elections, said Marc Clauson, professor of history and law at Cedarville University.
“But since local governments are ‘creatures’ of the state, courts might hold that any locality has to get explicit permission from the legislature to allow noncitizen voting,” he said. “The General Assembly would also have to approve noncitizens’ participation in any state-level elections.”
Gary Daniels, chief lobbyist for the ACLU of Ohio, told legislators the ACLU is not taking a position on noncitizen voting. But he described the proposed amendment as rushed and “wholly unnecessary.”
Daniels said the proposal plays to those who are “unhealthily obsessed” with the falsehood that President Joe Biden’s election in 2020 was illegitimate and that Ohio’s voting systems are not secure.
In the House debate, state Rep. Michele Lepore-Hagan, D-Youngstown, denounced the proposed amendment as a political move aimed at taking away cities’ home rule.
“What’s really going on here is an effort to promote a narrative that our elections are faulty,” she said.
One argument for restricting voting to citizens is that it serves as an incentive for citizenship, but state Rep. Michael Skindell, D-Lakewood, said obtaining U.S. citizenship is a long and expensive process. People may be legal permanent residents and actively involved in a community for years without becoming citizens.
Long history
Legal voting by noncitizens is not new in the United States, according to Stateline, the Pew Charitable Trusts’ reporting arm. From the founding of the country until 1926, 40 states at various times allowed noncitizens to vote in local, state and federal elections, Stateline found, citing San Francisco State University political science professor Ron Hayduk. In some places noncitizens could even hold office.
Depending on where someone lived, voters could be required to show documentation to vote, but that was loosely enforced, Clauson said.
“Citizenship really meant nothing, nor did documents,” he said.
Efforts to allow noncitizens to vote are more likely to be successful in larger cities, which are predominantly Democratic, rather than in more conservative and rural areas, Clauson said.
Housh told Ohio legislators that Maryland cities’ experience shows that undocumented immigrants today – already at risk of being detained and deported – would not take the risk of trying to vote in local elections.
States began to limit or prohibit voting by noncitizens from around 1880 to World War I, likely driven by an influx of immigrants and war-era suspicions, Clauson said. At the time women could not vote in many states, or in any federal election; and African Americans were barred from voting in much of the South, he noted.
In 1996, the federal government formally prohibited noncitizens from voting in federal elections.
Even that move left the question open for state and local elections, Clauson said. Up to 15 state constitutions, including Ohio’s, are ambiguous on the issue, he said.
Last year Stateline noted that until recently only San Francisco and nine Maryland cities have allowed noncitizens to vote in local elections. Two cities in Vermont joined that group in 2021. Two towns in Massachusetts passed resolutions to allow noncitizen local voting but still needed state approval.
Legislators in Washington, D.C., Illinois and New York City were considering similar permission, Stateline found. But in the previous three years Alabama, Colorado, Florida and North Dakota amended their constitutions to ensure only U.S. citizens could vote anywhere in those states.
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The new Scottsburg Bridge is open, even if it’s not quite finished.
The bridge, which spans the Umpqua River 16 miles east of Reedsport, was opened to a single lane of traffic at 7:20 a.m. today.
Over the next month, prime contractor Hamilton Construction will widen the northeast approach to the bridge with the goal of opening a second lane in July.
Oregon 38 motorists should watch for flaggers or automated flagging machines in the work zone. Most delays will be brief.
Construction on the bridge replacement project began in February 2020 and most work, including the removal of the old bridge and a pair of work platforms, is scheduled to be completed by the end of summer.
The original Umpqua River Bridge opened in 1929, when vehicles were smaller and speeds lower. In recent years, the bridge has been hit several times by trucks and recreational vehicles navigating the tight corners at each end. A crash in April 2017 required a three-day bridge closure for emergency repairs.
In the summer of 2017 the Oregon Legislature passed the Keep Oregon Moving Act (House Bill 2017), which provided nearly $40 million in funding for a new bridge in Scottsburg.
Oregon 38 is a critical freight and evacuation route connecting Interstate 5 with the southern Oregon Coast. Over the past 20 years, ODOT has replaced several aging bridges along the Umpqua Highway, including bridges in Elkton and on both ends of the Elk Creek tunnel.
When completed, the new bridge will provide two 12-foot travel lanes and wide shoulders for pedestrians and bicycles. The new bridge alignment will straighten the curves at both ends of the bridge.
For more information, visit the project website or contact ODOT Public Information Officer Dan Latham at 541-817-5200 or Dan.Latham@odot.oregon.gov.
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Just in time for Memorial Day, dozens of volunteers with Bay Area Beautification visited Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery to clean up the cemetery.
While she didn't organize the cleanup, Cricket Soules was out at the cemetery where she spends a lot of her time. A longtime volunteer at the cemetery, Soules said volunteers like those with Bay Area Beautification are necessary to keep the cemetery looking good.
"It's great," Soules said as she looked around the cemetery. "Especially after COVID, we haven't been able to engage as many students or people. When we started this 17 years ago, we had 100 people the fire work day. The grass was over your head and we took out three and a half truck loads. If we didn't maintain it, in three years it would be a disaster again."
The grass at the cemetery was not over anyone's head, but it was up to wait high in many areas. So the volunteers with Bay Area Beautification cut the grass, using trimmers to cut near the graves and many used their hands to cut back blackberries and other vines that were taking over.
The cemetery holds much of Coos Bay's history. It opened in 1988 and holds the graves of 62 Civil War veterans, including 36 people from Marshfield High School who died in service to the country.
Soules said keeping the grass cut not only keeps the cemetery beautiful but honors those laid to rest there.
"Usually, they'll mow it now, they'll mow it in June, and if it's dry in the summer, they won't mow again until the fall," Soules said. "We appreciate everyone who comes, and we encourage people to come back."
While the cemetery is locked after years of vandalism, it is open to the public. Anyone who wishes to visit can get access through the office at Marshfield High School. If the school is closed, a series of phone numbers near the entrance can be called to visit.
During the clean up, Catie Loi joined in the effort. She spent much of the day on her hands and knees cutting back blackberry vines that were starting to take over grave sites. She said she volunteered because it's important for all of us to do what we can to keep the community clean.
"I'm kind of tired of how decrepit the area is getting and instead of complaining, I decided to do something," Loi said. "There hasn't been a lot of care taken here. I'm noticing there's blackberry vines, and there's really some neat looking headstones here."
James Behrends also volunteered with Bay Area Beautification. He said keeping Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery looking good is important in Coos Bay.
"This is a tradition here in this community," Behrends said. "It's an important culture heritage site to the city. You go in and read the names, and then read the street signs."
Behrends said he started volunteering with Bay Area Beautification for many of the same reasons as Loi.
"You have to spend time and invest time in the community and how the community looks," Behrends said. "It's not going to be done by someone else. I live here so I have to do it."
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Middle Sandy Evangelical in Homeworth marks bicentennial
HOMEWORTH – Middle Sandy Evangelical Presbyterian Church will commemorate its 200th anniversary this spring.
The church's bicentennial celebration will be held June 5. It will begin with a 10:00 a.m. service followed by a luncheon.
The anniversary program will start at 1:30 p.m. It will include speeches from previous pastors and present and past elders, along with discussions about the church's history and programs it has offered over the years.
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Middle Sandy's 200th anniversary occurred in April 2021, but the celebration was postponed to 2022.
"It's a wonderful opportunity that the Lord has given us," said Dorothy Burbick, an elder at Middle Sandy Evangelical Presbyterian Church. "Because there were so many people having to close their churches and not having attendance, and we are still able to go on."
The church's congregation first came together in 1816, when Benjamin Anderson gave a portion of his land to the people for worship, according to Middle Sandy's website. It received its name because it sat on the edge of Middle Sandy Creek.
Middle Sandy was first officially referenced in the Presbytery of Hartford's records in 1820. Its first building – a log cabin – was constructed in 1825.
The church's current facility was built in 1963. It is located at 4306 Homeworth Road.
Reach Paige at 330-580-8577 or pmbennett@gannett.com, or on Twitter at @paigembenn.
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Friends commit to serving Sierra Leone through 'Teach Tamagalie'
MASSILLON – Teach Tamagalie is a Christian mission born out of friendships that stretch from from England to California to Stark County.
It's the brainchild of Deborah Fowler, a missionary and second-generation educator who feels called to serve the people of Tamagalie, which is a remote, underdeveloped village in Sierra Leone.
Fowler started Teach Tamagalie in 2017 while living in California as a "sister" missionary after learning about the village in 2016.
"It came about because I have a dear friend (Dr. Veronica Sawiky) who's a medical missionary who's been going to Sierra Leone since 2009," Fowler said. "When I left England in 2011, we stayed connected. I told her I wanted to go with her some day. She has her own mission, 'Heal Madina.' She told me about Tamagalie."
In March, Fowler and longtime friends Ricki and Kimberly Rogers of Perry Township spent nine days in Tamagalie, where they oversaw the construction of new latrines and an artesian well.
Fowler and Kimberly Rogers reconnected at church after Fowler's return to the states in 2019. Fowler told Rogers and her husband about what she was doing in Sierra Leone. Ricki Rogers has experience in medical missions.
"I was hoping she would ask us to join," Rogers said.
Childhood friend Jerry McCoy handles the mission's finances, Fowler said.
Frozen in time
There are long-range plans to build a church and a new school on 4.65 acres of land donated by the Susu tribe, along with agricultural development.
There is no electricity or sewer system.
"It stopped 200 years ago," Rogers said of the village, noting that Tamagalie produces 20 different crops. She said the growth isn't organized.
"Our hope is to send people to agricultural vocational school," Fowler said.
In 2016, a civil war roiled the west African country. More than 1,000 primary schools were destroyed.
For the past three years, Fowler also has spearheaded a collection of education supplies, which are shipped in large barrels.
"We want to give them tools and education," Fowler said. "The school is in a makeshift building made of palm fronds. We also want to train teachers. We sponsor adult education so they can be fully certified teachers."
Building a school and relationships
The school in Tamagalie has 111 students and five male teachers who started as volunteers.
"These teachers want to pour into their villages," said Rogers, who's a nurse. "They're vested."
Fowler said getting the mission up and running has taken "much longer than I imagined."
"I'm thinking how hard can it be to build a school?" she recalled. "It was very hard, cross-culturally."
Fowler said her first two trips to Tamagalie were about building relationships.
"We work with the Catholic church in Sierra Leone; they're amazing," she said. "Sadly, during the civil war, many of the mission organizations were like 'We're out of here, this is far too dangerous,' but the Catholic Brothers, they stayed. We're very grateful for the relationship with have with the brothers and the fathers. We wouldn't be where we were it not for the relationships we have on the ground."
During their most recent mission, Fowler and the Rogerses slept on the floor of the school building.
In gratitude for their service, Fowler said the the chief of the Kambia District conferred on them diplomatic titles.
Ricki Rogers even had a baby boy named in his honor, Kimberly Rogers said.
"They never asked us for anything," she said. "All they wanted is for us to know them."
Fowler said one goal is for the village to eventually sustain the facilities built through Teach Tamagalie.
"We want to be able to go to other villages," she said.
Though Tamagalie is a Muslim village, Fowler and Rogers said the residents have been receptive to the Gospel.
Muslims honor and accept Jesus as a prophet, but reject the idea of his divinity.
Rogers said many African Muslims have not had an opportunity to hear about Jesus. They used drama to share the Gospel story.
"There's a lot of alcohol consumption," Fowler said. "Women do most of the work. I believe a Christian walk will demonstrate the role of a husband and father."
The group hopes to return to Tamagalie in December.
"The ultimate goal is evangelism," Fowler said. "We're there because we believe Jesus is inclusive, not exclusive. The cross is for everyone. Education is empowerment, but Jesus does the empowering."
Find out more information about the organization on its Facebook page at facebook.com/teachtamagalie.
Reach Charita at 330-580-8313 or charita.goshay@cantonrep.com. On Twitter: @cgoshayREP.
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That October night in the stands, freshman Peighton Hardy was there with her whole family, supporting her school’s team, the Ironwood Ridge Nighthawks, in their final game of the season.
Against Canyon del Oro’s Dorados. Peighton watched her dad, Nighthawks coach James Hardy, make the tough calls down on CDO’s field. A nail-biter, the Nighthawks lost by seven points. Her fellow Nighthawk parents, fans and classmates in the stands near her began to shout ugly things. About her dad.
“It was overwhelming.” She turned and confronted them. She was 13.
Peighton’s mom was jostled, and bumped. Security escorted her family out. At a game where they’d all just celebrated “America Day.”
Coach Hardy is a handsome 43-year-old man with a a ready smile, a salt and pepper goatee and mustache who’s taught physical education and coached for nearly 20 years. He could bench press three of me.
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I met him on a Saturday this past spring at the River Park to talk about the incident. Hardy brought his kids, Peighton, Jordyn and Tyce to enjoy the day.
First thing I learned? Peighton loves Eegee’s, volleyball and her family.
Second thing I learned? It was going to be a challenging interview because everyone at the park recognized Coach Hardy and wanted to interrupt us to give him a sunny shoutout. The man’s a local celebrity.
It was his stint as a YMCA camp counselor that turned him onto the idea of being a coach. Decades later, Hardy still loves coaching. I could hear it in his good-humored reflections about persistent parents convinced he was standing between their kids and a shot at the NFL.
The Monday after that October game, Coach Hardy walked into his classroom and found a Hangman game scrawled across his white board. The six blanks were filled in with the N-word. An image was posted. Word spread online.
When rumblings of a student walkout were spreading, my ex-wife, and good friend, Anne Fitzsimmons, who has taught for Amphi for 35 years, proposed a modified walkout. Students would simply walk to Coach Hardy’s class, shake his hand and express their love and support for him.
Instead, the school proposed a “Talk Out” so students could discuss what had happened. Freshman Peighton Hardy, now a focus of unwanted attention, attended the “Talk Out” in the packed auditorium. After watching her well-intentioned peers take turns speaking on the issue of racism, Peighton, the daughter of a black man and a white woman, was moved to offer her uncommon perspective.
At the park, I told her when I was her age I was terrified of speaking. She gave me a modest smile and an I-had-no-choice look.
Standing in front of the microphone she looked out at her friends, her classmates, her teachers. She wanted her mostly white peers to understand what it was like growing up as a mixed-race kid.
You could hear a pin drop.
Her family had absorbed racial insults before. When her younger brother, Tyce, was in elementary school a fellow student insisted on calling him “Brown Boy.” Just one of ten thousand speed bumps for a strong, loving, resilient family to handle with head-shaking grace.
Peighton spoke calmly into the microphone. “People call you names. I’ve been threatened. My mom is white. So they think it’s OK to call us names because my mom is white. It isn’t.”
Deep breath.
“People ask me if it’s OK to use the N-word around me. I tell them, ‘no, please don’t do that.’ It’s OK to tell people how you feel if it’s not OK.”
She continued. When she finished, applause filled the auditorium.
I wondered to myself if any of the white students who learned at that moment it’s not OK to use the N-word were the kids of vocal critics of critical race theory?
I bit my tongue.
Peighton told me in the park she always tries to handle whatever “the situation” is without getting angry. She charitably described racist bullies as people who are “rough around the edges.“
She talked about their move here when she was younger. “I got into volleyball, which was fun. They had their own little groups. I don’t think they liked me. It’s tough being colored. People don’t understand.”
Feeling unsupported, Coach Hardy resigned and is moving to a school district in Houston. He’d heard it all. “I was accused of being a liberal. Of using the race card. That was not the case.”
And another exemplary educator leaves Arizona. “Leaving is in my very best interest.”
I wished Peighton the best of luck in her new home. She gave me a beautiful smile as yet another kid at the park shouted “Coach” and got a friendly wave.
David Fitzsimmons, tooner@tucson.com
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GALAX, Va. (WJHL) – Health officials are urging Carroll County residents to stay alert after a red fox found on Tuesday tested positive for rabies.
According to a Facebook post from the Mount Rogers Health District (MRHD), which covers Bland, Carroll, Grayson, Smyth, Washington and Wythe Counties, the fox was found lying on the porch of a resident on Pine Knoll Drive in Galax, Virginia.
Before it was found, residents in the area told authorities that they may have heard animals fighting outside.
“The fox was likely active in the area for several days,” the post said. “And residents should be alert to possible exposed animals that could become rabid over the next few months.”
Anyone who believes they or a mammal pet was recently exposed to a red fox in the area is urged to call the Galax City Health Department at 276-236-6127.
MHRD officials also encouraged residents in the area to keep their pets’ rabies vaccinations up to date as well as any livestock with a vaccination available.
Rabies, which MHRD officials said is most commonly transmitted by a bite or exposure to infected material, is fatal once symptoms appear.
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About 3.4% of WWII veterans are still alive in the United States today. As that number continues to decline with each year, sharing the stories of those who served becomes increasingly important.
Karl Zimmerman, best-known today for his handmade wooden pens he gives to the community and politicians, is one WWII veteran residing in Mason City today.
Zimmerman went to Iowa State college shortly after graduating high school at 16 years old. He only went to college for one year, and was in ROTC with the Army as well.
Zimmerman didn't like the Army. His father fought in the Navy in WWI, shoveling coal for naval ships. Wanting to follow in his footsteps, Zimmerman was able to get his parents to reluctantly sign his papers to join the Navy at 17 years old.
From there, Zimmerman went to boot camp at the Great Lakes in Michigan for six weeks. The bootcamp trained people as firemen and seamen. Zimmerman was trained on diesel and steam engines.
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While Zimmerman was on the naval base, he remembered an outbreak of scarlet fever. Back then penicillin hadn't been invented yet, and the pills all the men were given to help combat the illness ended up causing water blisters on many of the men.
Zimmerman stayed healthy though. He remembered taking the same pills when he had gotten sick a while back, and doctors told him to be careful with the medicine, as it was hard on the kidneys and required a lot of water.
The men on base hadn't been told that though, and were taking the pills for days. Zimmerman had started tossing the pills after the first few days, and when everybody around him started getting sick from the medicine, he was spared.
"There was a store room packed with thousands of dollars worth of pills that were useless" he remembered.
After training, Zimmerman was sent to San Francisco to board the ship he'd call home until the end of WWII.
"The ships were all steam, superheated steam. So hot you can't even see it, and you don't want to run your hand along the pipes to check for leaks because it could cut your fingers clean off." Zimmerman remembered his time on the ship.
Zimmerman was stationed on a landing ship dock, or LSD. His was either the first or second ever made. It wasn't meant to last but a few battles, but this ship had been in major beachheads in Africa, spent time in the England harbor and Normandy.
This was all before Zimmerman boarded, as it was sent back to the US after a bomb had damaged the ship. When Zimmerman boarded, the ship made its way to the Pacific.
Zimmerman remembered how thin the ship was, just half-inch steel holding it together. He said it was thin enough that it didn't stop bullets, and remembered leaks in the seams that had to be welded shut.
During Zimmerman's time on the LSD, they traveled to New Caledonia to pick up supplies. Then the ship traveled to an atoll in the pacific, a coral reef which created a natural barrier against enemies. They'd stay there for a while, Zimmerman working with the engine, preparing for an invasion on Japan.
"A cruise ship would come in every three days and we'd get a case of beer. They treated us good before the slaughter" Zimmerman joked.
But Zimmerman never saw action. The entire crew had been there, waiting, when the atomic bomb was dropped.
"We didn't know what it was going to be. They said they had an atomic bomb and saved us. They figured they'd lose a million of us without it." Zimmerman said.
Karl Zimmerman went home after that, making his way back through the Pacific and home to Iowa, eventually settling by Aredale to become a farmer and craftsman.
Today, Karl Zimmerman shares his stories, crafts handmade wood pens and spends time with his friends and family. He'll be making a trip to Hawaii soon to reunite with the surviving crew members he became friends with during his service. The first time he saw Hawaii was on his way home from WWII.
"I never did fly first class. I figured I've got to this time."
Rae Burnette is a GA and Crime & Courts Reporter at the Globe Gazette. You can reach her by phone at 641.421.0523 or at Rae.Burnette@GlobeGazette.com
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Sunday Service, Unity of Flagstaff: May 29 — Unity of Flagstaff, 1800 S. Milton Road, Flagstaff. 10:30-11:30 a.m., Join us this weekend as we honor and remember those people, situations, joys and sorrows, fears and moments of peace that are a part of our fabric. Not only by telling their story but ACTING on the inspiration we draw from their lives. Live and Live-Streaming. (YouTube.UnityofFlagstaff.org). https://go.evvnt.com/1168184-0.
The Episcopal Church of The Epiphany: May 28 — The Episcopal Church of the Epiphany, 423 N. Beaver St., Flagstaff. 928-774-2911. 8 a.m.- May 29, 10:30 a.m., WELCOMING ALL: with Rev Alison Lee: SAT 5:30PM; SUN: 8:00AM & 10:30AM (COVID masks are required)- with organ, choir, and congregational singing; IN PERSON or on-line at epiphanyaz.org ; 5PM FLG Youth Co-op Midschoolers; TU 9 AM-Contemplative Conversation; WE 6:30PM, FLG Youth Co-op (@flagyouthcoop); 928-774-2911. https://go.evvnt.com/1167542-0.
Beacon Unitarian Universalist ALL-CONGREGATION, ALL-AGES PICNIC: May 29 — Bushmaster Park, 3150 N. Alta Vista Drive, Flagstaff. (928) 779-4492. 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., There will be NO LIVE SERVICE AT BEACON ON MAY 29. Dip into our Beacon YouTube library (link below) or watch the livestream of the 10:30 a.m. UU Congregation of Phoenix service. The worship Zoom link can be found on their home page: https://www.phoenixuu.org/ There will be an ALL-CONGREGATION, ALL-AGES PICNIC beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 29th at Bushmaster Park. ALL ARE WELCOME – MEMBERS, FRIENDS, AND NEWCOMERS. Bring some food and beverages for yourselves (and to share, as desired), and feel free to invite friends who might feel at home at Beacon. We’ve reserved the ramada closest to the Thomas Drive entrance. https://go.evvnt.com/1161568-0.
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Church of the Resurrection Sunday Church Services: May 8 — 740 W. University Heights Drive S., 740 W. University Heights Drive S., Flagstaff. 928-853-8522. 10-11:30 a.m., Church of the Resurrection Presbyterian Church in America (PCA): We invite you to join us for worship at 10 a.m. on Sundays at 740 W. University Heights Drive South as Rev. Joshua Walker preaches through the book of Acts. Please feel free to contact us for information on our mid-week gatherings and for more information on our church. You can find us at www.cor-pca.org and www.facebook.com/CORFlagstaff or we can be reached at corflagstaff@gmail.com and (928) 699-2715.
Flagstaff Federated Community Church: Please join us for in person services Sundays at 10 a.m. We are located at 400 W Aspen Ave. on the corner of Aspen and Sitgreaves in Downtown Flagstaff. All are welcome to our services. For more information about Flagstaff Federated Community Church please call our office at 928-774-7383, Mon – Thurs 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Living Christ Lutheran Church: Living Christ Lutheran Church is a diverse and LGBTQ-affirming community of disciples embraced by God's unconditional love and enduring grace. You are invited to celebrate with us God's love and presence in your life, grow in your discipleship, and leave empowered to be God's hands in the world. We worship through music, teaching, prayer, and the sacraments each Sunday at 10 a.m. with Rev. Kurt Fangmeier leading. We offer worship both in-person (masks are respected, not required; encouraged for unvaccinated) and online. Learn more about us at our new website: lclcflag.org.
Leupp Nazarene Church: The church, near mile post 13 or Navajo Route 15, has been holding services by teleconferences and doing drive-up meetings. For information, call pastor Farrell Begay at 928-853-5321. Teleconference number: 1-7170275-8940 with access code 3204224#. Services are 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sundays and 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Christian Science Society of Flagstaff: 619 W. Birch Ave. The Christian Science Society of Flagstaff has opened for Sunday services while continuing to have them available via Zoom for online and phone. Wednesday testimony meetings are available only via Zoom. For phone Sunday Services: Dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 369 812 794#, Passcode: 075454#. For phone Wednesday meetings, dial: 669-900-9128, Meeting ID: 971 672 834#, Passcode: 894826#. The access for Zoom on Sundays is: https://zoom.us/j/369812794. The Zoom access for Wednesdays is: https://zoom.us/j/971672834. The password to use to enter both is CSS. We welcome all to attend our Sunday Services in person, or live by Zoom, at 10:00 o’clock, and to attend our Wednesday Testimony meetings live by Zoom, at 5:30 o’clock. Our Reading Room will be open on Wednesdays from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 10-12 noon. For further information please call 928-526-5982.
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TIFTON — A multimedia event titled “Stone and Story” explores the literary trail of Merlin the Magician and King Arthur at the Gallery of the Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Georgia Museum of Agriculture.
A collaboration between the Gallery and ABAC’s School of Arts and Sciences, the exhibit combines photos, the written word, and a documentary film.
A small group of ABAC writers and filmmakers led by ABAC Professor Tom Grant and overseen by ABAC Curator Polly Huff embarked on an international adventure in the summer of 2021. The group visited sites in England and Wales, collecting stories, documenting each stop with photographs, and filming a documentary.
“Visual arts, stunning drone photography, exceptional writing, and award-winning filmmaking are woven together to present this event,” Huff said. “The stories and photographs will be on display in the GMA Gallery, and the documentary will be shown publicly daily for the duration of the exhibition.”
The filmmakers walked the spooky moors of Cornwall, climbed into Merlin’s cave below Tintagel Castle, and shared the summer solstice with the druids at Stonehenge. In search of the mystical site of Avalon, they spent the night on the slopes of Glastonbury Tor, hiked the mountains of Wales, and boated to a remote island off the coast.
To discover the world of Merlin, they traveled to his birthplace in Carmarthen as well as the mountain where he supposedly freed the red dragon that now flies on the Welsh flag. They interviewed Oxford professors as well as business owners and writers who see the story of Merlin and Arthur as a tale rooted in the distant past yet still unfolding today.
As author Paul Broadhurst told the crew, “The landscape is alive.”
What is fact and what is legend? Visitors to the exhibit will have the opportunity to follow the trail for themselves, as the photographs and stories will be arranged in the order in which they appear on the actual trail.
One of the members of the group, ABAC lecturer for the School of Arts & Sciences Kaci West, has written an accompanying piece, which will be given to each exhibit visitor as a keepsake.
ABAC student Charley Lollis from Perry worked with Grant, West and Huff on this undertaking as her Capstone Project and her senior internship. She was also a part of the group that traveled the trail, and after being certified overseas as a drone pilot, took many of the photos included in this exhibition.
“Stone & Story” will remain on display at the GMA Gallery until Dec. 11. Admission to this special multimedia event is included in the GMA’s daily admission for the remainder of its running time.
A website dedicated to this exhibition, an interactive ArcGIS map of the trail with photos of each stop, and a landing page for the documentary can all be found at www.stoneandstory.org.
For questions about “Stone & Story” or future exhibitions, interested persons can contact Huff at phuff@abac.edu.
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Memorial Day events in Bismarck-Mandan will see slight changes this year.
There will be no program at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck as in years past. That's to streamline veterans organizations' services at cemeteries and to give veterans time to enjoy fellowship before the program at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery south of Mandan.
That service begins at noon Monday and will last about 45 minutes, cemetery Director Pamela Helbling-Schafer said.
She recommends attendees carpool and bring their own seating. Provided seats fill quickly, she said. Attendance ranges from 2,500-3,500 people, depending on weather.
The ceremony includes a flyover of two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters of the North Dakota National Guard; posting of the colors by area veterans organizations; remarks by Gov. Doug Burgum, Guard Maj. Gen. Al Dohrmann, and U.S. Sens. Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven and U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong, all R-N.D.; as well as the 188th Army Band Brass Quintet and a cannon salute.
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The Salvation Army and Red Cross will offer refreshments.
"It's important to remember those that have sacrificed in uniform for our nation's liberty, and we should do that every day, and I'm appreciative every day for their sacrifice," said ceremony co-planner Bill Prokopyk, who served 26 years in the U.S. Army and whose European parents and family were affected by World War II.
"We understand the price of freedom and the price that Americans and other allies paid to free the continent of the Nazi threat, and so I was raised with a deep appreciation," he said.
North Dakota National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Jared Klempel, with the North Dakota State Medical Detachment, has volunteered for six years for the service, helping to organize the event and assign duties for other volunteers.
The Hazelton native said he became involved to be more active within the National Guard and to "serve the men and women that are buried at the cemetery, to assure that their sacrifice won't go unnoticed, and just serve them and serve the family members and friends that come to attend the ceremony."
U.S. Army Capt. Laura Kleihauer will be the program's master of ceremonies. She has volunteered at the service for four years, this being her first year as emcee.
"It's a staple in our community to honor those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, and it's an honor to see all of the veterans groups come together in different capacities to support this event and make it one of the most recognizable events in our state," Kleihauer said.
Parking
Carpooling is ideal for attendees, Helbling-Schafer said.
The only interior parking allowed on the cemetery grounds is for motorcycles, people with disabilities, dignitaries and VIPs.
Other parking is outside the grounds in ditches, weather permitting, and if not, at nearby Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park.
Shuttles will be available before and after the program for people parking in ditches or the park.
Buses
Buses are another option. They will arrive at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the parking lots of the Bank of North Dakota in Bismarck and Dan's Supermarket in Mandan for anyone wanting to attend the program at the cemetery.
"They're opening it up to anybody that would like to come out but maybe has no way to drive all the way out here or just doesn't want to," Helbling-Schafer said.
The buses will leave at 10:15 a.m. for the cemetery, and return people from the cemetery immediately after the service.
Harlow's and Nightlife Limousine are providing the buses.
Motorcycle ride
Motorcycle riders for over 20 years have participated in a Memorial Day ride to the Veterans Cemetery, leaving from The Shop at 131 Airport Road in Bismarck.
Organizer Butch Olson said 600-800 people participate in the ride honoring veterans. They're escorted by Bismarck and Mandan police.
"Last couple of years, it slowed down a little bit because of COVID, but we're just waiting for the day we hit that 1,000 mark," Olson said.
The ride leaves from The Shop at 11 a.m. Monday. There is no charge or sign-in.
Riders disperse or continue south after the ceremony and visit Fort Rice and Solen, with a moment of silence at 3 p.m.
Meet and greet
A meet and greet with dignitaries will begin at 11 a.m. at the cemetery's staging area.
That's a change from previous years, when a Memorial Day program was held at the North Dakota Heritage Center. There will be no Heritage Center event this year.
The change helps participating veterans organizations streamline their visits to local and rural cemeteries, and allows veterans to visit with dignitaries and enjoy fellowship before the service at the cemetery, said Janette Fetch, adjutant of American Legion Lloyd Spetz Post 1.
Livestream available
The Memorial Day program will be livestreamed from the cemetery. Livestreaming began in 2019.
The livestream will be available on YouTube, the cemetery's Facebook page and Channels 602 or 2 on Midco cable.
Volunteers needed
Volunteers are needed to place and later remove flags from grave sites at the cemetery.
People can arrive at 8 a.m. Monday to help place flags and also at 8 p.m. to remove flags.
Doughnuts will be available for morning volunteers.
Reach Jack Dura at 701-250-8225 or jack.dura@bismarcktribune.com.
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CHESAPEAKE, WV (WOWK) — Crews are on the scene of a working structure fire in Chesapeake.
Metro 911 officials say a call about a fire in the 14,000 block of MacCorkle Avenue SE came in just after 7 a.m.
They say there are no reports of any injuries.
The Chesapeake Volunteer Fire Department and East Bank VFD are on the scene.
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DALLAS (STACKER) — The legacies of influential Black Americans have not always been acknowledged, so it’s not uncommon that modern-day residents may overlook the historic sites of their own cities.
While some historical Black figures in the U.S. are more well-known than others, there are in fact thousands of people dating back generations to 17th-century slavery who left traces of their visions and impacts all across the country. Whether prominent figures such as Robert Abbott, who founded one of the largest African American newspapers in the country, or more under-the-radar originators such as Obrey Wendell Hamlet, who cultivated unique vacation experiences in the Rocky Mountains, one thing’s for certain: There is far more uncharted Black history in this country than charted.
Stacker identified historic sites commemorating Black history across 47 states, using the National Register of Historic Places. North Dakota, Vermont, Hawaii, and Wyoming did not have Black historic sites listed on the registry. While some states, especially in the South, are home to many sites central to the civil rights movement, Stacker listed the total sites in every state and the names of three historic sites where available. You can visit the full registry of 232 historic sites and explore the Civil Rights Trail to learn about additional locations across the U.S.
Read on to explore and learn about the historic sites celebrating Black history in your state, or read the national story here.
Texas by the numbers
– Sites commemorating Black history: 88 (13 with state significance, 0 with national significance)
– Garland Community School Teacherage (Dekalb)
– Bluitt Sanitarium (Dallas)
– Grand Lodge of the Colored Knights of Pythias, Texas (Dallas)
The Bluitt Sanitarium, the first medical facility for African Americans in Dallas, was established in 1906 by Dr. Benjamin Bluitt, the first African American surgeon in Texas. The facility was owned and managed by Black professionals who had their offices there. At the time, due to segregation, Bluitt was not allowed to use larger, predominantly white facilities for his practice.
Continue reading to see which sites commemorate Black history in other states in your area.
Arkansas
– Sites commemorating Black history: 67 (15 with state significance, 4 with national significance)
– Centennial Baptist Church (Helena)
– Green House (Little Rock)
– Lake Nixon (Little Rock)
Dr. Elias Camp Morris, born into slavery in 1855, became a leading figure in Arkansas’ Black community. Morris was the pastor of Centennial Baptist Church in the city of Helena, which served as the headquarters of the National Baptist Convention where Morris was president. He also played a crucial role in the Arkansas Republican Party.
Louisiana
– Sites commemorating Black history: 79 (14 with state significance, 8 with national significance)
– Kenner and Kugler Cemeteries Archeological District (Norco)
– Port Hudson (Port Hudson)
– Badin-Roque House (Natchez)
The Kenner and Kugler Cemeteries Archeological District, named after the Kenner and Kugler families, houses the remains of close to 300 Black Americans from the 1800s. The cemeteries served as a burial for enslaved people who worked on plantations as well as army veterans and were used regularly until 1928.
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The following is the opinion and analysis of the writer:
Tucson Unified School District’s updated Strategic Plan, linked from the district’s homepage, shows evidence of a strong vision for students and educators: “Inspiring a diverse community to connect, learn, innovate, and lead for a better world.”
With future-focused learning, TUSD aims to prepare youth for living, working, and participating in a technology-infused global economy.
Unfortunately, TUSD must strive to do so with inadequate support from the Arizona Legislature. In 2020, Arizona spent just $8,785 per student and ranks 48th in the nation, according to the Census Bureau Report.
TUSD serves a unique population of students. There is no other urban school district in the entire U.S. with similar demographics, number of students qualifying for free meals or who are English learners, with an annual per student funding level below $11,000, according to the SLIDE Research Project’s district profile tool using National Center for Education Statistics data.
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TUSD’s new Mission Statement reinforces the district’s determination to meet the many needs of its diverse student body: “Our community prepares all students to become responsible, ethical, and engaged global citizens by creating relevant, dynamic, and joyful educational experiences that embrace cultural diversity.”
Regrettably, our governor and Legislature’s historic underfunding for K-12 shows they are unwilling to invest in our students’ education. When voters clearly demonstrate our commitment to our K-12 students and educators, as we did by passing Proposition 208, it is unconscionable for the majority of representatives in Phoenix to cast aside our will.
All members of this community can comment on the TUSD Strategic Plan by completing the Community Feedback Form. I appreciate having had the opportunity to do so. I applaud Superintendent Gabriel Trujillo, TUSD administrators and educators, community partners, and governing board members who have been involved in this process. They have taken on the challenging task of striving for excellence, innovation, integrity and diversity in a caring community. With community support, TUSD’s values and goals can move the district forward.
That support necessitates that all members of this community continue appealing to the majority in the Legislature to provide all district public schools with the funding needed to offer students the outstanding learning environment and opportunities described in TUSD’s Strategic Plan.
If you are an Arizona voter who cares about the future of our state, it is your responsibility to support decision-makers who make the education of our youth and the development of a well-prepared workforce and citizenry their top priority.
Please join me in carefully considering who we are sending to Phoenix to represent us. Let’s help our district public school students succeed.
Judi Moreillon, PhD, is a public education advocate, former school librarian, and retired librarian educator.
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NEW ORLEANS — Two New Orleans high schools are celebrating an incredible achievement: every student graduating in the 2022 graduating classes has been accepted into a university or college.
St. Augustine High School spokesperson Mel Cordier said 100% of the school's 2022 graduating class received acceptance letters, of which 99 students will continue into higher education and one student will join the military.
The graduating Purple Knights have selected to attend 33 different schools across the country, with 55% of those schools being in Louisiana. The graduating class earned a combined $9.2 million in scholarships, Cordier said.
St. Mary's Academy is also celebrating a 100% graduating rate for the 20th year in a row. The school said the "small but mighty" class of 2022 consisted of 19 young women who earned a combined $5.6 million in scholarships from schools across the nation.
St. Mary's Academy says two students, Sariah Idell Alridge and Kennedy Osum received more than $1 million dollars in scholarships individually.
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Though Coconino County is still at a low level for community transmission of COVID-19, its most recent dashboard data report shows metrics are continuing to rise.
The metrics used to determine community level are both still in the low category. The rate of new COVID admissions is 2.8 per 100,000 and 2.8% of staffed inpatient beds are occupied by COVID patients.
The number of new cases reported this week rose to 237, from 212 the week before. The case rate of 166.1 per 100,000 is still below the adjusted metrics threshold of 200 per 100,000.
Positivity also rose this week, to 13.9% from 11.1% the week before. Fewer tests were conducted this week (1,928 from 2,231 the week before).
Residents over the age of 65 had the highest case rate for the week (212 per 100,000), while those between 18 and 24 years old had the highest positivity rate (19.2%).
The county reported five hospitalized COVID patients, up from two last week. The incidence of COVID-like illness (CLI) in county hospitals also rose, from 5.1% to 5.6%. No COVID deaths were reported either this week or the week prior.
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A new testing site has opened at Coconino Community College this week. Drive-through COVID testing is availble from 9 am to 3 pm Monday through Friday in the parking lot of CCC’s Lone Tree Campus (2800 S. Lone Tree Rd).
Testing at the site is free and open to the public. Appointments are required. More about this and other testing sites, including scheduling, can be found at coconino.az.gov/2338/COVID-19-Testing-Information.
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With the threat of severe drought and rising temperatures — not to mention inflation affecting food prices — it’s a good time to talk about low water herbs. Since most are native to the Mediterranean and used to thirsty conditions, little care is needed beyond an occasional watering. This means no additional fertilization is recommended beyond regular compost or planting soil.
Sounds too good to be true for our growing conditions in northern Arizona, right? Well, it gets better. Most can also handle the extreme temperature fluctuations common in late spring. Here are several of my favorite hardy herbs.
LOVAGE
I can’t understand why lovage hasn’t caught on as much in the US as in the UK, but it is one herb I rely on throughout the year for soups and other savory dishes. Lovage can be used as a substitute for both celery and parsley, owing to its similar flavors. A very cold hardy herb, it can come back every year if mulched. It is easy to start from seed, and we're fortunate in our community to have seeds grown out in Hart Prairie available to anyone through the Grow Flagstaff! Seed Library.
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GREEK OREGANO
Translated from Greek, oregano means “joy of the mountain,” which makes me love this herb even more. Great dried or fresh, oregano is a must for savory, Mediterranean cooking and adds to its value by being an antiseptic. I replant this herb from seeds every year since they don’t always come back.
MEXICAN OREGANO
Actually in the mint family, Mexican oregano is similar in flavor to its Greek counterpart, but with a more complex flavor practically made to compliment chilies and spicy food. A woody and low-growing species native to Latin America, I also replant it every year from seed to ensure I have fresh leaves in the summer and dried ones in the winter.
SWEET MARJORAM
Although technically another oregano, I find sweet marjoram a great addition to soups instead of the Greek species because of its milder flavor. It's easy to start from seed, but like most of the herbs on this list, it's considered a tender perennial and should be mulched heavily. Plant cold-tolerant varieties if you want them to overwinter.
LAVENDER
How much do I love lavender? Let me count the ways… never mind, the list would be too long for this short article. I’ll just say there aren’t many herbs just as tasty in sweet dishes as they are in savory, but lavender fits that bill. Lavender loves good drainage and to have the soil dried thoroughly before a watering. A moisture meter would be a useful tool for monitoring this. If your plant is mulched well during winter and pruned down by half at the end of each season, this low-growing shrub will bloom for years. Make sure to choose cold-hardy varieties, and for culinary use, I recommend 'Hidcote' or 'Munstead'.
CHIVES
Chives are recognized as two different species (and flavors): garlic or onion. They will come back every year without any special treatment. If left to create showy purple pompom blooms, they’ll also reseed. Chives are a great cut and come again substitute for green onions. And since most animals don’t like their smell or taste, I tuck in chives throughout my garden beds to help deter mice from eating other crops.
ROSEMARY
If given a warm microclimate and mulched every winter, rosemary will grow as a perennial. Rosemary prefers rocky soil and as much neglect as you can give it. In hot climates, keep it pruned to the size you like and use the cuttings to roast potatoes with a little bit of salt, pepper, and good olive oil.
SAGE
With its velvety green-grey leaves, sage is as pretty in the garden as it is delicious in the kitchen. Sage is good in many savory dishes. To keep it coming back year after year, plant as you would the oreganos.
THYME
Thyme is so easy to grow from seed; I plant it every year without bothering to overwinter it. Instead, I dry it for year-round use until it's replanted the following season. Thyme thrives in rocky soils, makes an excellent ground cover, and its aromatic oils concentrate when grown in dry conditions.
As a bonus, most of these herbs aren't only drought tolerant but disease and pest resistant. And when divided, they maintain their vigor. So, feel free to share with friends and neighbors. This will help get them on the path to growing food in our new normal of hot and dry conditions.
Cindy Murray is a biologist, co-editor of Gardening Etcetera. and a Coconino Master Gardener with Arizona Cooperative Extension.
If you have a gardening question, email CoconinoMasterGardener@gmail.com or call the Master Gardener Hotline at 928-773-6115 and leave a message. A Master Gardener will get back to you.
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In May 2021, the Flagstaff Snow Sharks Swim Team roster consisted of 120 athletes. Today, that number has grown to more than 190, with a waiting list of over 50 athletes.
A member of USA Swimming and a SafeSport-recognized team, the Snow Sharks are quickly gaining popularity for kids ages 3 to 18 who want to learn to swim or practice competitively. The nonprofit organization practices yearround at both Flagstaff High School and the Northern Arizona Wall Aquatic Center.
But why has the club grown so large in the past year?
One reason is the team’s success. The nonprofit has seen a lot of achievement from its competitive team, as nine swimmers qualified for the Arizona Age Group State Championships in March with multiple top-8 finishes. Twenty swimmers qualified for the state regional meet in February.
The Minnows School, which provides swim lessons for younger kids, had 20 swimmers move up to the competitive team in the past year.
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That type of success keeps swimmers coming back to practice everyday, according to Martha VanLuvanee, the team's administrator.
“The competitive and Minnows teams are going places,” she said. “The teams run smoothly. We want kids to learn and grow, and the kids follow through.”
Athlete success and a culture of determination can make the team a place where swimmers thrive. But like most youth sports clubs, the coaches are the backbone.
Lauren Gross, a parent whose child swims with the team, said the coaches create a comfortable atmosphere that promotes swimmers to follow their goals.
“The coaches do a great job of bringing everyone together and cheering the kids on,” she said. “The common goal is that everyone is improving and making sure everyone is working for something.”
Whether it be trying to swim a personal record or clinch a championship meet time, the athletes know that the coaches are pushing them to try their best in anything they do.
“The coaches teach lessons in and out of the pool and promote doing good things for yourself,” Gross said. “Not one kid comes back upset, even if they've had a bad race; their coach always has something positive to say about the race and how to improve.”
Minnows School Coordinator Clare Alden, who has been with the team since 2015, said coaches give their full attention to the swimmers, allowing them to reach their goals.
Swimmers are excited to go to practice and push themselves everyday.
Coaches look to create a safe, fun atmosphere that can “improve all aspects of the swim environment to support swimmer success,” Alden said in an email.
Nicholas Reed, coach of the competitive team, said a specific group and age level is assigned to each coach -- which allows them to closely bond with their swimmers.
“I understand what they need from me in order to reach their goal,” he said.
Reed said his group of swimmers writes “goal cards” at the beginning of the long- and short-course seasons that help him to follow workouts and track each swimmer’s progress.
Both Alden and Reed praise the swimmers for being motivated to come to practice everyday. The key to the team’s success is the strong relationship between the swimmers and their coaches.
As the team continues to grow in size, it looks forward to the competitive summer season and continuing to build on successful spring competition. The Far Westerns Championships meet, which takes place in California in July, is the next event the competitive team has its sights set on. Four swimmers have already qualified.
“We have all worked extremely hard to support the kids and encourage them to do better,” Reed said. “I’m excited for the swimmers to go out and show off all of the hard work they have put in.”
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Authorities are looking for two inmates who walked away from the Missouri River Correctional Center south of Bismarck.
Jonathan Hoffman and Alexander Meyer went missing from the unfenced, minimum-security facility about 8:30 p.m. Friday, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Hoffman was imprisoned on numerous Stutsman County convictions related to burglary, theft, criminal mischief and drugs. He was scheduled to be released in March 2024.
Meyer was serving time for drugs, weapon and identify theft convictions out of Cass County. He was scheduled for release in July 2024.
Anyone with information is asked to contact their local law enforcement agency or the North Dakota Highway Patrol, which is investigating.
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Local community volunteers returned the military bunker remains of Cape Arago Radar Station B-28 to resume the process of repainting and restoring the base after it was unfortunately tagged with graffiti.
The project began last summer, and event organizer Krystal Hopper has worked with the state parks to develop an interpretive board and additional signage to highlight the historical significance of the bunkers.
Hopper along with local historians Steve Greif and Steve Nasburg, Geoffrey Cannon with the Oregon Coast Military Museum and volunteers from the Coos History Museum complied historical information and research for an interpretive board.
The board in poster form was displayed at the radar site and will hopefully be returned on display for Memorial Day. The process has begun to create a more permanent board and to be secure the historic site.
The process began last year to be able to place an interpretive board and additional signage at this site to help educate and encourage visitors to be respectful of this historical place.
Per the main office in Salem, the original goal to have the signage completed by Memorial Day will not happen and they have now stated it will be a much longer process.
They said it will take several thousand dollars for this project. The volunteers have also asked for a gate at the end of the entry road and other additional security measures for this site.
Much of the continued improvements are in the hands of officials in Salem, but the volunteer team was happy to honor the service that occurred at the bunkers and help in the restoration.
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LEEDS, Ala. (WIAT) — Saturday is National Brisket Day, and to celebrate, Buc-ee’s visited the CBS 42 Morning News.
The famous gas station chain is known for its clean bathrooms, wide array of products available to buy in-store and delicious food.
Michael Bui, the Operations District Manager for Buc-ee’s, said brisket is one of their most popular items.
“We’ve elevated our game with our food and we’re bringing Texas-style barbeque to the Southeast,” Bui told CBS 42’s Chloe Vincente.
Buc-ee’s brisket is smoked for at least 12-14 hours, and the meat is imported to the store every day. Salt and pepper are the main seasonings used to help showcase the quality and flavor of the meats.
“We let the meat speak for itself,” Bui explained.
You can watch our full interview with Buc-ee’s above.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Carla Pool arrived at Second Baptist Church on Broad Rock Boulevard and followed the purple arrows down the hallway to the Multi-Purpose Room. She and her mother were among the first to arrive for their Tuesday night class is South Richmond.
CBF’s Volunteers as Chesapeake Stewards is their longest running adult education program, with free courses held in the spring and fall for “clean water advocates who want to take a more active role in saving the Bay.”
“I was impressed that the demographics of the class seemed to match the Richmond demographics as a whole,” Pool said. “And I was impressed at the level of community involvement of all of the participants.”
The remainder of the classes will cover climate equity, agriculture and environmental justice.
“We’ll start with the basics and by the end have you on the path to becoming a community leader and advocate in South Richmond and beyond,” CBF’s Virginia Grassroots Coordinator Gabby Troutman said in a news release. “This is an amazing opportunity to gain experience working on the most pressing issues facing Richmond while networking with key players in our region.”
The course is being funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Forest Service through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund, according to the release.
In addition to the learning sessions, participants get to take a boat trip on the James River and partake in a discussion with Virginia Sen. Jennifer McClellan.
“I think it’s really important to teach people about the impacts that the history of Richmond is having on today’s society,” Troutman said. “I think a lot of people go about their lives and may notice things like, ‘Wow, it seems really hot today.’ But they may not make the connection between that and the fact that they are living in an area of the city that maybe doesn’t have much tree coverage.”
Tree coverage and heat islands were among the topics discussed during Tuesday’s session about climate equity. Unlike courses held in other parts of the state, participants were able to learn more about topics that impact an urban environment. David Sale, who works in Richmond’s Office of Sustainability, did a presentation on RVAgreen 2050, Richmond’s climate action plan.
“It was sort of born on the fact that we know that climate change is already happening,” Sale said. “Maybe decades ago, we thought of climate change as this far-out concept that we wouldn’t have to address for 50 or 100 years, and now, you know, it’s already happening.”
RVAgreen 2050 is an equity-centered initiative to increase climate action and resilience. The initiative outlines 49 different strategies for the city to manage climate change. For many of the attendees, tree coverage and heat islands were an important issue. The class also covered the history of racial segregation and redlining.
“In Richmond, lower-income populations and communities of color, for example, are more likely to live in areas with less green space,” Sale explained, “which means when it gets hot out, there’s less shade and it’s more dangerous to be outside in the heat and respiratory issues can become more likely.”
Pool, a Varina resident, said she was surprised about the things she’d learned that she wasn’t aware of, like the increased flooding threatening the Chesapeake Bay. She also said many people had come with projects in mind that they wanted to implement to help those issues.
“I thought that it was really cool that people came prepared with agendas,” she said, “and this class, hopefully, will help them to be empowered to implement them.”
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WIRTZ, Va. — The herd of Black Angus cows that approached Alex Hunt on his Franklin County farm, hoping for a handout of grain, seemed benevolent enough.
“I can say without question that in livestock regions like Franklin County, Augusta County and Rockingham County, the number one water pollution issue is cattle in streams,” said Bobby Whitescarver, a retired government conservation official who now runs a consulting business that works to restore watersheds.
“You’re talking about 1,000-pound bovines gouging the stream bank with their hooves,” he said. “They absolutely destroy water quality.”
There is a solution, and Hunt is part of it.
With financial help from state and federal agencies, the third-generation farmer had nearly 10 miles of barbed-wire fences installed to keep the cows out of the creeks — and, as a result, sediment out of the water.
The project also entailed planting trees on 8 acres of stream-side land and building alternative watering spots for his cows, who now drink well water pumped to troughs.
“I think the payoff was well worth it,” Hunt said on a recent May afternoon, as he stood next to a head of about 85 cows that had congregated in the shade of trees a safe distance from an unnamed tributary of Maggodee Creek.
Hunt remembered having reservations when he started the work about eight years ago.
“I was younger when I did this,” the 40-year-old said. “I was borrowing a whole lot of money and I wasn’t 100% sure that I would get paid back. It was a gamble.”
“But I think in the long run, it’s money well spent.”
The improvements cost about $100,000, which has since been repaid in full by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and federal agencies such as the Farm Service Agency and the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.
Earlier this year, Hunt’s farm was one of nine statewide to receive a Clean Water Farm Award from the DCR and local soil and water conservation districts.
“These farms are shining examples of the commitment to improving water quality by the agricultural community,” Darryl Glover, a deputy director for the state conservation agency, said in an announcement of the awards.
With the advent of more severe storms that are being attributed to climate change, the risks posed by erosion and sedimentation in streams and rivers are getting more attention in Virginia and across the country.
When mud and silt — whether caused by cows, construction projects, or runoff from urban streets and parking lots — infiltrate water bodies, it can threaten fish, invertebrates and aquatic vegetation.
As it moves downstream, sediment can also affect drinking water supplies and coat the bottoms of rivers and lakes with a layer of silt that gradually grows thicker.
From Hunt’s farm, surface water flows into Maggodee Creek, which then joins with the Blackwater River on the way to Smith Mountain Lake and beyond.
Also known as nonpoint source pollution — meaning that it comes from multiple locations instead of a single industry or construction site — sedimentation has been identified as a major risk to water quality by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Manure from cows, who especially like to wallow in creek and river beds to get relief from the summer heat, is another problem.
Virginia is stepping up its efforts to encourage farmers to follow Hunt’s example, and is committing more funds to the conservation program, Glover said.
The General Assembly approved $74 million in the current fiscal year for efforts to reduce sedimentation from farms. The money was distributed to 47 local soil and water conservation districts, which are responsible for taking applications and awarding the grants.
The Blue Ridge Soil and Water Conservation District, which serves the counties of Franklin, Henry and Roanoke and the city of Roanoke, received about $642,000 this year.
The district nominated the Hunt farm for this year’s award, chairman Roger Holnback said, because “they were really heart and soul committed to doing the right thing.”
Participation in the program is voluntary, and more signups are needed, said Whitescarver, a retired U.S. Department of Agriculture conservation official who now runs a private consulting business, Whitescarver Natural Resources Management.
“On a more positive note, there is more public funding,” he said.
Although details of the budget for the upcoming fiscal year have yet to be finalized, Glover said the amount for the Virginia Agriculture Best Management Practices Conservation Program is expected to be significantly higher than the current $74 million.
The exact percentage of agricultural operations that have opted to take advantage of the program to date is unclear, in part because of the constantly changing number of farms in Virginia.
But in the Chesapeake Bay region, a drainage area that includes about 60% of the state, work had been completed on 37% of the footage of streams targeted for improvements through last June, Glover said.
Efforts to reduce sedimentation in streams and rivers are not limited to farms. In Roanoke, for example, the city council imposed a storm water utility fee in 2013 that is based on the square footage of all impervious surfaces — driveways, parking lots and the like — owned by residents, businesses and government entities.
Concerns that such a mandate might eventually be imposed on farmers was one reason why Hunt decided to take advantage of the state’s program when he did.
As he drove his white heavy-duty pickup truck through the rolling hills of his farm, Hunt talked about how the improvements have increased the number of deer, turkey and other wildlife that now have a better habitat.
While the cows used to be allowed to go where they pleased on the property, the only two areas were they can now access a stream are narrow crossings that been made more erosion-resistant with geo-fabric and gravel.
“It just makes a farm look better,” Hunt said. “And the people downstream, I’m sure they appreciate it. They’re not seeing cow turds floating past them.”
Protecting the farm was important to Hunt, whose life was built and shaped by the land he grew up on. “It’s my comfort zone,” he said of the wide-open space largely untouched by development.
The work has also added long-term value to the land, even as Hunt has recently reduced his farming activities to make time for a new venture as a real estate agent for a firm that specializes in large, rural parcels.
A herd of about 150 beef cattle, who now have a new owner, remain on the farm. Hunt keeps about a dozen close to his home, the farmhouse he was raised in.
A slight smile crossed Hunt’s face when he was asked what the cows think of the new arrangement, which bars them from their favorite watering holes.
“Honestly, they probably don’t like it as much,” he said. “But there are some sacrifices to this.”
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FREDERICK, Md. — Everyone knew each other on McKinstry’s Mill Road in the 1960s.
Their little slice of Carroll County was close-knit, but reminders of racism were everywhere.
“I grew up seeing the signs ‘Whites Only,’” Thompson said.
Thompson, who now resides in Frederick, shared her story at the C. Burr Artz Public Library in Frederick recently. She was one of several “human books” available for checkout.
Instead of reading a book, library patrons sat down to hear the story straight from the sources’ mouths. Conversations about faith, aging, being gay, breaking glass ceilings and more filled the room.
“They’re like living audio books,” Mary Mannix said.
Mannix manages the Maryland Room at the library, which houses a collection of local history. She said it was their second Human Library event. The first was in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic temporarily derailed plans for the second one.
Mannix pointed out the conversations flowing between the human books and their “readers.” “They want to hear your side of the story,” Mannix said. “They want people to understand their experiences.”
For Thompson, it is important to share her experiences because she feels some people shy away from discussing systemic racism. “When you experience traumatic events in your childhood, it doesn’t go away,” she said.
Thompson was a little girl when the Brown v. Board of Education decision came out.
She was 10 when her mother told her she would leave her all-Black school. Thompson cried. “I knew how ugly it would be,” she said.
Thompson was a top student at the Robert Moton School, but when she switched to Elmer Wolfe, her grades plummeted. “We were looked at as less than,” Thompson said, because of their skin color.
She stopped raising her hand in class because when she did, the teacher pretended she was not there. Students pushed her into lockers. They hurled racial slurs. It got so bad, Thompson pretended to be sick to get out of school. When she did attend class, she did not try as hard.
“I know that had I been in a different kind of environment … my success in life probably would have been greater than it is now,” Thompson said.
But like the title she gave her book in the Human Library, Thompson is “Still Standing.”
She went on to become a lover of history. She researched her family genealogy through the centuries and made sure her children learned it.
And the little girl who was scared to attend school grew up to work nearly 40 years for Frederick County Public Schools, retiring in 2012. Thompson served as an instructional assistant and administrative secretary. She said she wanted to make an impact and show she had the skills to do her job well.
Though she is retired, her work is far from done. Thompson serves on the board of directors of the African American Resources Cultural and Heritage Society. She looks forward to the opening of their Heritage Center, which will tell the story of African Americans in Frederick County.
Helping refugees
In another corner of the library, a young boy listened to a 70-year-old man tell the story of how he went from being a refugee to helping others like him.
Frederick resident Dat Duthinh hails from Vietnam. His first refugee experience came at 4 years old, when war forced him to move from the northern part of the country to the southern. What Duthinh calls the French War is also known as the First Indochina War, which ran from 1946 to 1954.
At the library, Duthinh showed 7-year-old Emmett Harris, of Frederick, a photo of the ship his family took to safety, the USS Marine Serpent. Emmett wanted to know what kind of food they ate on the ship.
“Was it good food?” he asked.
Duthinh laughed.
“It was food,” he replied.
Duthinh came to the U.S. years later for college. When the Vietnam War broke out, his family left their country in 1975 to join him in America.
Emmett asked if Duthinh had any fun stories. Duthinh thought for a moment. His first day in the U.S. was a strange but fun experience. He flew on a plane for the first time to New York. He asked how to get to Princeton, New Jersey, and was shocked by how long it took to get there by bus.
Emmett said he probably would have played his Nintendo Switch. Duthinh did not have such luxuries.
Illustrating the panic that came with war, Duthinh showed Emmett a photo of people climbing over the U.S. Embassy’s walls in Saigon in 1975. Duthinh searched for the right words to convey the story of refugees to a 7-year-old. “War is a bad thing,” Duthinh said. “It causes a lot of suffering.”
Emmett seemed to walk away from the conversation with a little more knowledge.
“He was called a refugee,” Emmett said. “If their home isn’t safe anymore, they go somewhere.”
Duthinh said he hoped his participation in the Human Library would spread the word of refugee support efforts.
He works with the Refugee Welcoming Committee of Frederick to assist the refugees of today. The group has helped six Afghan families settle locally, Duthinh said, and Ukrainian families are soon expected. He said they need help finding housing, getting driver’s licenses and bettering their English. Something as simple as navigating the grocery store can be daunting, according to Duthinh. It is a trying time, adjusting to a foreign country.
He would know.
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FLOYD COUNTY, KY (WOWK) — Flags at all Kentucky state buildings will be lowered to half-staff on Sunday in honor of fallen Floyd County firefighter, Phillip Ray Caudill.
According to a press release from Gov. Andy Beshear, Caudill was a firefighter with the Garrett Area Volunteer Fire Department.
It says Caudill died on May 22 after having a heart attack while helping with traffic control for the Floyd Central High School senior graduation parade.
The funeral will be on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Martin Branch Freewill Baptist Church in Estill. Interment will be at Howard Cemetery in Garrett.
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GARY — Police officers hope to do their job daily, then return home safe. Most do. Some never return home.
The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 61 paid tribute to 15 officers at its annual Fallen Officers Memorial Friday at the city’s Public Safety Facility. Officers honored fallen comrades and their families.
“It doesn’t get easier, only harder,” said Tim Yaros, of Valparaiso, whose father, George Yaros, was killed in 1981. “I was married five months before the shooting, and my father was my best man. A few months later, his first grandchild was born.”
Honored were Gary officers killed in the line of duty between 1921 and 2014, when Jeffrey Westerfield died. Lt. Dawn Westerfield, the mother of his children, has been on the Gary force for more than 20 years.
Coming back to the annual ceremony, the lieutenant said, is “like the first time, every time. It’s wonderful to see them remembered.”
Sgt. Greg Wolf, president of Gary FOP, said these fallen officers “were willing to make sacrifices for the common good. They will never be forgotten.”
Gary police Lt. Derrick Cannon called these officers “peacemakers” who exhibited true love through “sacrifice, virtue, and caring for one another.”
Noting that police work is not easy for officers or their families, Police Chief Brian Evans told his fellow officers, “I’m so proud of the job you do every day and continue to do.”
For Mayor Jerome A. Prince, “These officers all paid the ultimate price to protect us. When they put on that uniform, every day they put their lives on the line for every one of us.”
Despite daily challenges, the mayor continued, “They keep believing they can make a difference in the community. That is the true definition of valor and honor.”
In addition to officers killed on duty, the service recognized 12 former officers who died in the past year. “These officers will be missed,” said Lt. Jeff Tatum.
Keynote speaker William Godwin, president of the Gary City Council, cited recent acts of violence and said, “We benefit from the sacrifices from all officers.”
Noting that citizens have the luxury of calling upon police to “fight our battles," Godwin said today’s police continue the tradition of those who died in action. Current police, the First District councilman said, “carry the banner of honor.”
Honoring Dorian D. Rorex, killed in 1974, were his sons David, of Valparaiso, and Dorian Jr., of Portage, and grandson Kylo, 1.
“We come ever year,” David said. “It’s good to know he’s remembered.”
As the names of fallen officers were announced, an officer attached a white flower to a floral star. In some cases, family members accompanied the officer. These included Jeannette Donald-Gillis, of Gary, sister of Louis W. Donald Jr., killed in 2001.
“He lived his life for people,” the sister said. “I’d like people to remember him as we do. He was a good guy.”
YWCA Executive Director Caren Jones first went before the Gary Common Council at the start of April. Jones explained that during the pandemic, many Y services and programs were shut down.
The team would improve access to mental health and substance abuse treatment for residents in crisis and allow them to seek a response that doesn't involve police.
David Rorex, son of fallen Gary police officer Dorian Rorex, holds his one-year-old son Kylo as he taps the memorial wreath at the Gary Police Department Fallen Officers Memorial Friday.
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HILLSBORO, Ore. — A Hillsboro man is getting national attention on social media after turning his two firearms over to police to be destroyed following the mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas.
“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 Sergeant 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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UVALDE, Texas — One dad who managed to be in the right place at the right time said he was able to assist a handful of law enforcement officers who helped children escape from the Robb Elementary campus.
For safety's sake, Jesse did not want his last name used, but he said he wanted to share his story so that people would remember there is good in the world.
Jesse said he was at work, not too far from the campus, when a supervisor told everyone about the attack.
The father of a second grader said he didn't hesitate to do what he could to save her.
"I grabbed my keys and took off running, hopped in my vehicle and rushed over here while the cops were still showing up."
Jesse says because he was professionally dressed, he thinks the officers believed he was a school administrator and let him stay.
Jesse said "I was lined up right next to two law enforcements and a Border Patrol and they had told me to duck down and keep low."
The men talked for a couple of minutes about what they could do to start evacuating children.
"They said 'Hey man - you got any bolt cutters?' I didn't have any, but I went to go look," Jesse said, adding that he found some at a neighbor's house across the street.
"I was able to give it to them and they were able to cut the fence, the gate, and they were able to enter into the second grade building," Jesse said.
Jesse said as quickly as they could, they used patrol vehicles to shield the children from gunfire and started the evacuation.
"Then after that they were starting to let the kids out one by one. We waited there at the gate for them. We lined them up behind the vehicles, telling them to keep low, keeping them secure, getting one class after another," Jesse said.
He said the moment he saw his daughter is something he will never forget, having his daughter cry in his arms while hugging him.
"I finally saw my daughter and my heart just dropped. I grabbed her and put her to the side and told her Daddy would be right back, that I needed to go help out," Jesse said.
Buses were brought into a parking lot on the back side of the building and the kids were taken to a safe space for reunification with family.
"It was just a crazy experience. I'm still in disbelief as if it's not real or something. It's just a shocking, shocking and tragic time," Jesse said.
Jesse said the teachers, who responded bravely, have his highest praise.
"Those are the true heroes right there. Those are the true heroes, for them to protect their kids, kids that are not even theirs, but their students. That just shows beyond what kind of courageous persons they were," Jesse said.
Jesse's daughter said the class was watching a movie when the attack started and they didn't hear any gunfire, but when a neighboring teacher warned of the danger, the kids were herded into a bathroom inside the classroom, where they were comforted and kept quiet while they waited for rescue.
While agonizing over the losses other parents are suffering, Jesse said he is grateful that loving people worked together to save his child and so many others.
With regard to racing into a dangerous situation, Jesse said "I always told her if I'm not around, you know I will be there. All you have to do is yell Daddy real loud and I will hear your voice."
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