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SAN DIEGO — CBS 8 News reporter Ariana Cohen was inside the courtroom as Vyvianna Quinonez, the woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, read a letter to the judge expressing remorse and apologizing to the victim.
The Quinonez family was also in the courtroom and they were crying for the duration of the case.
A Southwest representative provided a statement and the flight attendant also gave a very emotional statement.
The video of the 28-year-old Sacramento resident punching a Southwest flight attendant, pulling her hair and knocking two teeth out went viral last year.
WATCH RELATED: Video shows woman assaulting Southwest Flight Attendant on San Diego-bound plane
During the flight’s descent, Quinonez was not wearing her face mask properly, unbuckled her seat belt and had her tray table down; all in violation of federal rules and regulations.
"In a fit of rage, Quinonez violently assaulted a flight attendant, punched her with a closed fist in the face and head. This behavior was reprehensible and will not be tolerated," said Assistant United States Attorney, Jaclyn Stahl.
WATCH RELATED: Woman who punched flight attendant pleads guilty
Friday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Todd Robinson sentenced Quinonez to 15 months in federal custody. She also must pay nearly $26,000 in restitution and a $7,500 fine plus three years of supervised release.
"She violated her pretrial release by getting a DUI, and that was a factor in determining the sentence," said Stahl.
Judge Robinson said in court he hopes this sentence will set a precedent and deter anyone else from this behavior.
"This sentence is justice for the victims. That is not only the flight attendant victim, but Southwest airlines and all passengers aboard that day," said Stahl.
The Quinonez family did not want to comment.
While on supervised release, Quinonez is banned from flying any commercial aircraft and must participate in anger management classes.
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Nelnet has laid off about 150 employees, some of them in Nebraska.
A spokesman for the Lincoln-based student finance company blamed the student loan payment moratorium.
“Due to the federal government’s multiple extensions of the CARES Act relief period, federal student loan borrowers have not had to make loan payments since March 2020,” said spokesman Ben Kiser. “As a result, our loan servicing teams have been experiencing extremely low call volume and limited work available.”
Kiser said Nelnet has been able to move several hundred loan-servicing employees to other roles in the company over the past couple of years as those duties have declined.
“Now, more than two years later and with the most recent extension continuing through August 31 — with no certainty as to whether or not the relief will be further extended — we have excess capacity in our loan-servicing teams, thus the need for right-sizing,” Kiser said.
He said Nelnet used performance measures to determine which employees were cut, and all affected workers were provided extended pay and benefits. The company cut jobs in multiple states, with a “small number in Nebraska,” Kiser said.
The company has about 8,000 total employees, including more than 2,500 in Lincoln.
As of Dec. 31, Nelnet was servicing nearly $480 billion worth of federal loans for more than 14 million borrowers.
Numerous media outlets on Friday reported that President Joe Biden is mulling a plan to forgive $10,000 in federal student loans for individuals making up to $150,000 a year or married couples making up to $300,000.
At its annual shareholders meeting earlier this month, Nelnet executives estimated that student loan forgiveness of $10,000 per borrower would reduce the company's expected future cash flow from its loan portfolio by about $600 million, from $1.8 billion to $1.2 billion.
The executives did not say whether the loan forgiveness program would lead to additional layoffs.
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Yuliia Iziumova (left) hugs her mother Oksana Iziumova Wednesday, May 18, 2022, at the Lincoln Airport. It was the first time they'd been together in more than three years. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Lincoln High's Javon Leuty celebrates his win in the Class A boys 110-meter hurdles Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
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Fans run to catch a foul ball during a baseball game between Nebraska and Michigan State on Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Haymarket Park. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Lincoln High's Landon Kruse competes in the wheelchair Class A boys 800-meter race at the state track and field meet Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
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Elkhorn North celebrates on the field after defeating Waverly in the Class B baseball championship game Friday, May 20, 2022, at Tal Anderson Field in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Autumn LaDeaux-Baxter (left) ties poles together while saying a prayer as leaders of the Niskíthe prayer group work to assemble a tipi during a protest outside City Hall on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. The group wants legal protections of a Native sweat lodge, which is on about 2 acres of private land surrounded by Wilderness Park and across the street from the planned Wilderness Crossing development near First Street and Pioneers Boulevard. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Nebraska’s Jackson Brockett pitches against a Michigan State batter Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Haymarket Park. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Josh Vinson Jr. runs with a pool noodle during the second annual Josh Fight Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Bowling Lake Park. Vinson Jr. remains the reigning champion, winning the crown for a second year. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Lincoln Southwest's Jaida Rowe carries the team trophy after Southwest won the Class A girls team race at the state track and field meet Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
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Millard West's Dylan Driessen collides into Millard South's Camden Kozeal while stealing second base in the first inning during the Class A championship, Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Tal Anderson Field in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Bloomfield's Alexandra Eisenhauer (left) reacts after finishing ahead of North Platte's Hayley Miles in the Class D girls 100-meter dash at the state track and field meet on Saturday, May 21, 2022, at Omaha Burke Stadium. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Teacher Maria Ramos pours milk as children aged 18 months to 3 years eat lunch at The Children's Place child care center Tuesday, May 17, 2022. According to a report from the Buffett Early Childhood Institute, 87% of providers received some kind of COVID-19 relief funding in the last year. GWYNETH ROBERTS, Journal Star
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Lincoln East's Garrett Springer celebrates after hitting a double against Millard West during a Class A state baseball game Thursday, May 19, 2022, at Tal Anderson Field in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Photographer Michael Farrell gets ready to take a group photo as members prepare to tear down the Niskíthe Prayer Camp on Wednesday, May 18, 2022. JUSTIN WAN, Journal Star
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Lincoln East's Belinda Rademacher reacts after defeating Lincoln Southeast's Camilla Ibrahimova (not pictured) in the No. 1 singles championship at the Class A girls state tennis meet Friday, May 20, 2022, at Koch Tennis Center in Omaha. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Lincoln Southeast’s Corynne Olsen (2) (from left) Maggie Hayes (0) and Sidney Wettlaufer (21) hold each other after placing second in the girls Class A state championship game Monday, May 16, 2022, between Lincoln Southeast and Gretna at Morrison Stadium. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Omaha Skutt Catholic celebrates their state championship win over Norris in the girls class B state championship game on Monday, May 16, 2022, at Morrison Stadium. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Lincoln’s Hunter Clanin (14) misses the diving catch during a game on Sunday, May 15, 2022, between Sioux Falls and Lincoln Saltdogs at Haymarket Park. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Omaha Skutt Catholic's Dylan Toth (right) reacts to a Skutt goal as Waverly’s Austin Neddenriep watches the ball hit the back of the net during the Class B boys state soccer semifinals game on Saturday, May 14, 2022, at Morrison Stadium. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Waverly's Eli Russell (second right) and Wyatt Fanning (second right) leap on to pitcher Payton Engle (first left) as they celebrate with their team after an upset win over Norris during a boys Class B first-round game at Warner Park on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Papillion. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Norris base runner Kale Fountain celebrates as he reaches home plate to score in the fourth inning against Waverly during a boys Class B first-round game at Warner Park on Saturday, May 14, 2022, in Papillion. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Lincoln Southwest’s Alex Kosmicki (23) dribbles to the goal as Papillion-La Vista South’s Jenasy Schultz (1) goes for the save during the girls A-4 district championship game Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at Seacrest Field. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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The Husker dugout erupts in cheers as Sydney Gray (bottom) reaches home plate after scoring the second solo home run of the fifth inning against Indiana, Sunday, May 8, 2022, at Bowlin Stadium. KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
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Exterior of a Ford TRIPI-Motor 5-AT, seen on Thursday, May 5, 2022. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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The Omaha Bryan boys soccer team celebrates its District A-7 boys championship win over Lincoln Southeast, Thursday, May 5, 2022, at Omaha Bryan High School. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Runners make their way through the final stretch of the 2022 Lincoln Marathon Sunday, May 1, 2022. JAIDEN TRIPI, Journal Star
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Lincoln East's Jesse Chartier (left) embraces with teammate Kayma Carpenter after losing to Lincoln Southwest in a Class A girls state soccer first-round match, Monday, May 9, 2022, at Morrison Stadium in Omaha.
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Murray Baker Bridge in Peoria to change colors for Memorial Day
Memorial Day is a federal holiday honoring military personnel who died while serving in the United States armed forces. Originally known as Decoration Day, it is observed on the last Monday of May.
About 25 places lay claim to the holiday's origins, which predate the end of the Civil War. An Illinoisan, Union Army Gen. John A. Logan, is considered the leading figure in the movement to make Memorial Day an official holiday.
Today, many people visit cemeteries and memorials to mourn fallen soldiers, often placing American flags on graves of military personnel. Unofficially, Memorial Day marks the beginning of summer.
In Peoria, the Murray Baker Bridge will be lit in red, white and blue overnight on Monday, May 30, to mark the holiday.
More:Who pays the light bill for the Murray Baker Bridge? The amount depends on where you live
How to get special lighting on the bridge
Peoria has scheduled 25 holidays this year featuring special lighting. (Afterward, the bridge's hues revert to the city colors of green, yellow and blue.)
In addition, individuals or organizations can arrange their own special lighting in advance through requests to the Peoria Public Works Department. City policy requires at least 30 days' notice on such a request and forbids "lighting for political events, and/or political campaigns." The fee is $200 per evening, or $150 for nonprofits.
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Questions regarding the Murray Baker Bridge Ornamental Lighting Program, Light Up the Bridge, should be directed to the Peoria Public Works Department by emailing publicworks@peoriagov.org or calling 309-494-8800.
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COVID transmission risk 'high' in Peoria, Tazewell and Fulton counties, according to CDC
PEORIA – Masks are now being recommended in six central Illinois counties at high risk of COVID-19 transmission.
On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a total of 15 Illinois counties were rated at high community level for COVID-19. The central Illinois counties were listed as Peoria, Tazewell, Fulton, Henderson, Knox and Mason. Also listed at high community level were Cook, DuPage, Lake, McHenry, Will, Grundy, Boone, Lee and Winnebago counties in northern Illinois.
A week ago, the CDC listed eight counties in Illinois at a high risk of COVID transmission. While transmission risk is increasing, hospitalization and death rates remain low.
People are urged to get up to date on COVID vaccinations and get tested if they have symptoms. Those with high risk for severe illness may consider taking additional precautions.
“We should all strongly consider masking up if we are entering indoor public places and avoiding indoor crowded spaces whenever possible at this time – especially if you are at risk of a severe outcome," Amaal Tokars, acting director of the state Department of Health, said. "If you test positive, promptly contact a healthcare provider to discuss which treatment is right for you. The treatments are much more effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths when they are taken early in the course of the illness.”
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CANNES, France (AP) — The 75th Cannes Film Festival wraps Saturday with the presentation of the Palme d’Or and other awards selected by the nine-member jury headed by French actor Vincent Lindon.
The closing ceremony brings to a close a Cannes that has attempted to fully resuscitate the annual France extravaganza which was canceled in 2020 by the pandemic and saw modest crowds last year. This year’s festival also unspooled against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, which sparked red-carpet protests and a dialogue about the purpose of cinema in wartime.
The closing ceremony begins at 2:30 p.m. EDT and concludes roughly an hour later. Outside of France, it will be streamed live by Brut.
But what’s going to win? The Palme, one of film’s most prestigious awards, is famously impossible to handicap — though bookies still try their best. It hinges entirely on the deliberations of the jury which take place in private. Last year, the French body horror thriller “Titane” took the prize, making director Julia Decournau only the second female filmmaker ever to win the Palme. In 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” triumphed in Cannes before doing the same at the Academy Awards.
This year, the biggest Hollywood films at Cannes — “Elvis,”“Top Gun: Maverick,”“Three Thousand Years of Longing” — played outside Cannes’ competition lineup of 21 films.
Arguably — and there is always arguing at Cannes — among the best received films that could win the Palme are Lukas Dhont’s Belgian coming-of-age drama “Close,” Park Chan-wook’s twisty Korean neo-noir “Decision to Leave,” Cristian Mungiu’s Romanian drama “R.M.N.,” Ruben Ostlund’s social satire “Triangle of Sadness” and James Gray’s semi-autobiographical ’80s New York tale “Armageddon Time.”
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CANNES, France (AP) — “Shoplifters” director Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the Cannes Film Festival with “Broker,” another tale of misfits from society’s margins.
This time, the film centers on the use of a “baby box,” a controversial method of anonymously dropping off newborns to be cared for by others used in Japan, South Korea and other parts of the world.
“In Japan, the biggest criticism was that the baby box was making it too easy for the mothers to give up on their responsibility to raise the child. But, on the other hand, some people said that these boxes were actually saving lives because otherwise, the children might die,” he said. “I just thought that was an interesting argument to base a film on.”
The director says his interest in the issue dates back to 2013. “When I was making ‘Like Father, Like Son.’ I researched the Japanese adoption system and it was then that I learned that Kumamoto Prefecture had Japan’s only baby box. So I got interested in that and started to research it. And I learned that Korea had the same kind of baby box, but that they had about 10 times as many babies put in baby boxes in Korea as in Japan,” he said.
“And then in 2016, I came up with the idea for a short plot based on the Korean baby box with Song Kang-ho, starring as a broker.”
Alongside Song (“Snowpiercer,” “Parasite,” “The Throne”), the South Korean drama also stars Bae Doona (“The Host,” “Jupiter Ascending,” “Cloud Atlas”), Gang Dong-won (“Secret Reunion,” “The Priests”), and South Korean singer-songwriter Lee Ji-eun, known as IU.
“Broker” marks the director’s sixth time competing for the Palme d’Or. He was first nominated for Cannes’ top prize in 2001 for “Distance,” then again in 2004 for “Nobody Knows,” in 2013 and for “Our Little Sister” in 2015.
The Japanese director won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2013 for “Like Father, Like Son” and won the Palme d’Or at the 2018 festival for his highly-acclaimed movie, “Shoplifters.”
Single mothers have long faced stigma in South Korea because pregnancy when out of wedlock is considered inappropriate. They are often pressured and shamed into giving up their children because of deeply sexist and conservative culture, birth registration laws stacked against them, and a largely privatized adoption industry.
“They can find themselves disadvantaged by the system,” he said. “And the mother is the easiest one to criticize because the father isn’t there anymore. So he escapes the criticism.”
When asked whether the film poses a question about what it means to be a family today, Kore-eda called the tale “the story of a pseudo-family.”
“But more important in this case is the two women who have chosen not to be mothers. They are at the center of the story, as well as this life that has been thrown away. So, for me, in this case, life was more central to the film than the family.”
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BURRILLVILLE, R.I. (AP) — The Rhode Island farmhouse that inspired the 2013 horror movie “The Conjuring” has been sold to a Boston developer who plans to keep it open to the public.
The 18th century home in Burrillville sold for $1.525 million on Thursday, far higher than the $1.2 million asking price.
“This purchase is personal for me,” buyer Jacqueline Nuñez, owner of WonderGroup LLC, told The Boston Globe. “It’s not a real estate development. It’s around my own beliefs.”
Nuñez and the couple who sold the home, Cory and Jennifer Heinzen, jointly announced the sale on Facebook.
Nuñez plans to continue the paranormal business the Heinzens started. Guests will be able to continue the nightly paranormal investigations, day tours will resume and there will be livestreamed events. The Heinzens, who bought the home in 2019, will remain involved.
The movie wasn’t filmed at the home but was based on the experiences of a family that lived there in the 1970s.
Nuñez said she is not afraid of the house.
“I don’t believe the energy here is malevolent. Things will happen here that will startle me, but not harm me,” she said. “I look forward to experiencing things.”
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An early morning police response to a 911 call of shots fired in a Brooklyn neighborhood resulted in officers shooting a driver who struck one of their own, NYPD officials said Saturday.
The events unfolded shortly before 4 a.m. in Williamsburg, at the intersection of Broadway and Lorimer Street, where responding police allegedly witnessed three cars running a red light at a high rate of speed.
Police said officers found three vehicles involved in a crash moments later at Vandervoort and Meeker Avenues. Two cops approached one of the cars, asking the driver to turn off the engine and for both occupants to exit, according to the NYPD.
The driver of the car chose to hit the gas instead, police said, and struck one of the officers standing in front of the vehicle. That officer sustained a leg injury.
Police fired at the car, sending at least three bullets into the vehicle, according to the department.
A short time later, police said a 21-year-old man arrived at Wyckoff Hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest. Investigators believe him to be the driver that struck the responding officer.
Two other man inside one of the other vehicles at the Vandervoort and Meeker intersection were taken into custody for questioning.
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Memorial Day weekend has arrived, bringing with it the unofficial start of the summer -- even if the weather doesn't exactly feel like it.
The holiday weekend also marks the reopening of New York City beaches, back open to swimmers and sunbathers until the end of summer.
New York City runs 14 miles of sand across more than a half-dozen public beaches: Coney Island and Manhattan beaches in Brooklyn; Midland, Cedar Grove, Wolfe's Pond and South beaches on Staten Island; Orchard Beach in the Bronx; and Rockaway Beach in Queens.
All of these beaches officially open Saturday with lifeguards on duty daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. until Sunday, Sept. 12.
Not a fan of the sand? Prefer swimming in a pool? The city's outdoor public pools open in a month, on June 28.
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The last of the victims of a gunman's racist attack on a Buffalo supermarket will be laid to rest Saturday.
Ruth Whitfield, at 86, is the oldest of the 10 people killed. Whitfield is expected to be eulogized by civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton at a service attended by Vice President Kamala Harris.
Whitfield was inside the Tops Friendly Market after visiting her husband of 68 years in a nursing home May 14 when a gunman identified by police as 18-year-old Payton Gendron opened fire.
Authorities said Gendron, who is white, targeted the store three hours from his home in Conklin because it is in a predominantly Black neighborhood.
In all, 13 people were shot in the attack which federal authorities are investigating as a hate crime. Three people survived.
Whitfield was the mother of former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield. Her funeral will take place at Mount Olive Baptist Church in Buffalo.
Gendron is charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bail. His attorney has entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf.
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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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Katrina Rasmussen was an eighth grade student in North Texas when she watched the raw, televised images of kids her age running from their Colorado high school while bleeding students and teachers were carried into parked ambulances.
Now, 23 years later, she watched the tragic week’s events in Uvalde unfold as a high school teacher herself, in Dallas and she says it is as if nothing has changed since the Columbine High School shooting.
“We feel like we’re at the mercy of people who don’t even know what it’s like in the classroom,” she said.
Editor's note: Video above is a timeline that ran on KHOU 11 News at 10 p.m. on May 27, 2022.
Across the state, teachers in Texas are finishing out one of the toughest years they have ever seen. A global pandemic closed schools and forced more than 5 million public school students onto laptops and desktop computers at home.
This was to be the successful road back to normalcy for public schools. But after two large COVID-19 surges, a year of angry school board meetings, parents claiming teachers were grooming kids for abuse, and fights over everything from mask mandates for students to what books they can read, teachers were already at a breaking point with nearly 500 quitting even if it meant losing their license.
On top of all of that, Texas passed a law last year prohibiting teachers from discussing “a widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs," the state's so-called "critical race theory" law. And both state lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott have called into question books in school libraries about race, gender and sexuality and asked education officials to develop standards to keep "pornographic" books from school shelves, after singling out titles that include LGTBQ characters.
In short, it's been a lot.
Rasmussen said watching the news about the shooting at Robb Elementary School which left 19 children and two teachers dead, including the news conference by Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders, she feels she has no control over how to respond to these mass shootings.
“People who have never taught before, make policies that affect every moment of my day, she said. “Right now, that’s really what cuts me the deepest.”
Lakeisha Patterson, an elementary school teacher in Deer Park, said it’s been exhausting watching so many school shootings over the years. When Columbine happened, she said there was a shockwave felt across the country and people came together demanding for change and for action to happen.
Now, she says that she’s tired of hearing the words “thoughts and prayers” after every tragedy.
“As a teacher, not only am I responsible for curriculum, but I have to be a counselor at times a parent, a guardian, a cheerleader, supporter, a nurse, a custodian and now I need to be a police officer,” Patterson said.
A day after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom in Uvalde one of Luaren Gonzalez's students asked her a gut-wrenching question.
“Miss Gonzalez, are we safe?” her third grader asked her.
Gonzalez, who teaches in the Pasadena Independent School District, she felt she had to be strong for her students who were the same ages of those who were killed in Uvalde on Tuesday.
“That really got me,” Gonzalez said, trying to hold back tears. “That was something that just really hurt my heart.”
Even before the horrific shooting in Uvalde, the mood among Texas teachers has been one of resignation. Literally.
And that’s on top of a teacher shortage the state was experiencing before the pandemic that is now exacerbated by the return to school forcing Gov. Greg Abbott to create a commission to come up with solutions.
Public education advocates and teachers themselves, fear that this latest incident will be the breaking point for teachers that were already considering leaving the profession since the pandemic hit. All while Texas is already facing a teacher shortage.
Teachers have been leaving with the fear of a shooting happening for years and everytime one occurs that fear just keeps compounding, said Alejandra Lopez, president of San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel.
“We are talking about compounding crises,” Lopez said. “We have the lack of funding and resources, we have had to endure two years of a pandemic and now the reality of school shooting.”
Already there have been more than 200 mass shootings in 2022, according to the The Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection organization. Teachers, whether here in Texas or anywhere else, feel the pain of shootings in their communities as schools most of the time serve as a community hub.
Lopez said people need to reject the premise that teachers need to be prepared for these incidents and instead figure out ways to stop them from happening entirely. That starts with making it harder to get guns.
Ron Acierno, executive director of the UTHealth Houston Trauma and Resilience Center, said it is “insane” that people are asking how teachers can be better prepared for this situation when people should instead be calling for less gun violence and more gun reform.
“Are we really at that point where that's a valid question?” Acierno said. “It's like saying, how can we prepare children to be sexual exploitation or sex trafficking victims?”
Acierno said for teachers the fear or trauma can start with the school shooter drills they practice throughout the school year, especially for those that have already experienced past trauma.
“They're going into these drills, many of them having already experienced trauma in the background of their life,” he said. “They're dealing with the trauma of their students and then you put this over stress levels that are already very high.”
Nicholas Westers, a clinical psychologist at Children’s Health in Dallas, said it’s normal that students feel anxiety over the mass shooting, but that parents should keep an eye on it if it continues.
With children already dealing with behavioral issues from being stuck at home during the pandemic, Westers said during this time, parents and teachers need to give students reassurance that they will be safe and explain to them how.
“We all have physical needs for food, shelter, water,” he said. “That is most important because if you don't have that, and nothing else really matters and then right above that is safety.”
Westers encouraged parents to have conversations with their children about what they’re feeling, what they’ve heard and what their most worried about.
Andrew Hairston, a civil rights attorney and education policy advocate for Texas Appleseed, an organization that works to address systemic inequalities in state education, said the next steps forward should be a robust expansion of menta health experts in schools.
“That should be a priority for policymakers alleviate the suffering of teachers and young people to invest in those mental health resources,” Hairston.
Rasmussen, who signed her contract for the next school year on the day the shooting occurred, said she has been considering leaving the profession every year for the last couple of years.
“This year, I really was expanding my network, putting my resume out there and doing some deep soul searching over where I want to be this time next year,” she said. “Not from the standpoint that I don't like teaching anymore but from the standpoint of I don't know if I can live like this anymore.”
Many teachers this year saw a dramatic rise in behavior problems in the classrooms this year as students who attended virtual school from their kitchens or bedrooms, had to reaquaint themselves with sitting in a classroom away from home for more than seven hours.
Those increase in student behavior problems are one of the reasons, Darrell Nichols, 30, quit his job in April at a Brazos Valley charter school, near College Station, after teaching for seven years.
“I've been bitten; I've been scratched; I've been punched in my line of work over the last two years, with this last year in particular,” Nichols said.
But Nichols, who left teaching to go into sales, said this past week has hit him hard, particularly as he remembers all the active-shooter drills he did with his own students every few months. His kids are so used to them by now they don’t even question what they are doing.
“It is bringing up a lot of old feelings for me because I had to practice what those teachers drilled for,” said Nicholls, referring to teachers Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles who were killed on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School. “I had my kids hidden away from the window, the door. I would brace myself against the door with my car keys in my hand as a makeshift weapon if I needed to use them.”
He said watching Abbott and other state leaders come to Uvalde and ask for healing prayers for the community, also upset him.
“I didn’t get into the classroom, on the one hand, to be accused of grooming my students and on the other hand being asked to take an AR-15 clip for them,” Nichols said. “And no one I know got into the teaching profession for that.”
Reporter Jason Beeferman contributed to this story.
This story comes from our KHOU 11 News partners at The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues.
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A late-night apparent joyride ended with a man in handcuffs after allegedly driving around Long Island drunk with two kids and two adults in the car, all without seat belts, according to police.
The 45-year-old driver was tipped off to police after numerous 911 calls reported an "erratic driver" in East Meadow late Friday night.
Officers discovered the Queens man driving in a "dangerous manner" on Hempstead Turnpike around 10:15 p.m., according to police.
A traffic stop was conducted and officers allegedly found four passengers inside the vehicle all without seat belts. Two of the passengers were children, ages four and 13.
Police took the driver into custody after observing the man's noticeable stench of alcohol on his breath, blood shot eyes and slurred speech, officials said.
The driver, scheduled for arraignment Saturday, was charged with driving while intoxicated and endangering the welfare of a child.
Authorities said the children were released into the car of relatives.
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COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. — Two people are dead after a vehicle crashed into a tree Friday night.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), the collision occurred north of Oil Well Road.
The vehicle was traveling north when they drove past a stop sign, veered off the road and hit a tree, FHP said.
The driver and passenger were pronounced dead at the scene, according to FHP.
The crash remains under investigation at this time.
Count on NBC2 to provide updates as more information is released.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — In true Oregon fashion, it’s almost summer but the rain just won’t let up in the region.
KOIN 6 News put together a list of activities you can do indoors when the weather can’t quite make up its mind yet.
If the rain forces you to plan fun activities indoors, here are some ideas throughout the region this weekend.
Indoor skydiving
iFly Indoor Skydiving makes the dream of flight a reality. People can gear up, find a program and fly indoors in a controlled environment.
Address: 10645 S.W. Greenburg Rd, Portland
Seaside Inverted Experience
According to Trip Advisor, the experience is a one-of-kind photo adventure with a vintage Seaside theme.
“All props are upside down (inverted) and hung from the ceiling, allowing for a fun interactive photo opportunity,” said the website. “Use your smartphone or ours, with the help of our staff take the best, fun pose in the scene of your choice, then invert it and you’re now upside down!”
Address: 111 Broadway St. Suite 11, Seaside
Lincoln City Glass Center
People can make an appointment and design their own glass masterpiece. They can also spend time with a professional glassblower and see how they work glass.
Address: 4821 S.W. Highway Suite 101, Lincoln City
Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
OMSI’s new exhibit, “The World of Leonardo da Vinci,” opened just in time for spring break. The exhibit allows visitors to explore da Vinci’s engineering marvels and artistic masterpieces. In addition to this exhibit, OMSI always has plenty of fun activities for kids to enjoy – from the Kendall Planetarium, to the science playground, to a real submarine visitors can explore.
Address: 1945 SE Water Ave, Portland
Sky Zone Trampoline Park
Sky Zone Trampoline Park in Vancouver is inviting visitors to “elevate” their spring break. The park features a ninja warrior course, a battle beam, a warped wall, sky ladder, and more. The park is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Address: 5000 E 4th Plain Blvd Suite C100, Vancouver, WA 98661
Visit a rock climbing gym
If you’re looking for a good way to burn some energy, there are several gyms located throughout the area. Here are a few:
- The Source Climbing Center – 1118 Main St, Vancouver, WA 98660
- The Circuit Bouldering Gym (multiple locations) – 410 NE 17th Ave, Portland, OR 97232, 6050 S Macadam Ave, Portland, OR 97239, 16255 SW Upper Boones Ferry Rd, Tigard, OR 97224
- Portland Rock Gym – 21 NE 12th Ave, Portland, OR 97232
- The Rock Boxx Climbing Gym – 3895 Cascadia Canyon Ave SE, Salem, OR 97302
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Heading to the Oregon Coast this Memorial Day weekend?
Despite the rainy forecast, there there are still great hikes to be had along Oregon’s North Coast.
Check out some of Google’s top-rated hiking trails from just north of Lincoln City to the mouth of the Columbia River.
Oswald West State Park
A gem on the Oregon Coast, with multiple miles of trails, including the Cape Falcon Trail, the Elk Flats Trail and the Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain Trail, which remains temporarily closed at the time of this article’s publication, but Oregon State Parks hopes it reopens sometime in summer 2022.
Click here for more information.
Ecola State Park
Located between Seaside and Cannon Beach and around Tillamook Head, there are multiple trails, including the Clatsop Loop Trail and Indian Beach Trail, located within the state park. However, there is a day-use parking fee within the park itself.
Click here for more information.
Fort to Sea Trail
From Fort Clatsop to Sunset Beach in Warrenton, it’s a moderate 6.5 mile hike one way and a 13 mile loop. You’ll have to pay for parking at Fort Clatsop and potentially park another car at Sunset Beach, which is a state park, but that’s free.
Learn more about the hike from the US National Park Service here.
Fort Stevens
A year-round campground that used to be a military installation from the Civil War to World War II, Fort Stevens in Warrenton also has miles of hiking, biking and horse-riding trails and coast access — along with an historic shipwreck.
Click here for more information.
Cascade Head Trail
Considered to be the southernmost part of the North Oregon Coast before the coastline becomes the Central Oregon Coast, the Cascade Head Trail is a hiking trail managed by the Nature Conservancy and features grasslands, and is a home to the Oregon silverspot butterfly, which depends on a single plant species. Because it’s a preserve, you’re asked to keep your dog at home.
Click here for more information.
Bayocean Peninsula Park
Located in Tillamook, Bayocean Peninsula Park is an easy loop along Tillamook Bay and the Pacific. The park is maintained by Tillamook County and also hosts fishing access.
Click here for more information.
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Local departments respond to early morning, 5-alarm fire on Spring Lane in Taunton
TAUNTON — There was a 5-alarm fire on Saturday at 4 Spring Lane.
An old mill building that neighbors said had been used as a performance space for bands caught fire early Saturday morning, sending smoke billowing into the air, according to Taunton Gazette's media partner, WCVB-TV.
The fire started around 4 a.m. Saturday inside the building on Spring Lane in Taunton.
Six hours later, smoke and flames were still billowing from the building.
Neighbors told WCVB's Josh Brogadir that people may have been living in the space, though it wasn’t officially housing.
Taunton Fire Lt. Jonathan Nunes told the Boston Globe that there were people living illegally inside the building. Fire officials told the Globe "many people were forced to flee." Officials didn't know of any injuries as of 6 a.m. on Saturday, the Globe wrote.
The Raynham Fire Department, assisting on the scene, told NECN that multiple buildings in the area were at risk.
Firefighters from Berkley Fire and Rescue also helped battle the blaze, sharing several photos on their Facebook page while battling what was then a 4-alarm fire. One of the photos showed the fire spreading to some nearby trees.
For most of the morning, the blaze was a 4-alarm, with a fifth alarm around 11:30 a.m.
Crews continued to put out the flames well into the morning.
Fire could be seen coming out of the roof over J&J Diecast Collectibles, as crews worked to keep it contained.
Sections of downtown were closed to traffic while fire crews battled the blaze.
— This story will be updated as more information becomes available.
Taunton Daily Gazette/Herald News copy editor and digital producer Kristina Fontes can be reached at kfontes@heraldnews.com. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette today.
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PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of recent mass shootings in Buffalo, NY and Texas, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf on Friday called for what he says are "common sense" gun laws.
In a speech in Philadelphia Friday, Wolf called for four gun control measures, asking for laws that would:
- Require lost or stolen guns to be reported within 72 hours
- Require background checks on all gun sales
- Require safe gun storage
- Allow "red flag" gun laws
"These will not infringe on anybody's rights, on anybody's constitutional rights," Wolf said. "They will save lives."
One Wednesday, the Republican-controlled State House voted not to advance a law banning assault-style weapons.
Wolf accused the GOP-controlled legislature of doing "nothing" to address the issue of gun violence.
Republican leadership in the state legislature disagrees with that assessment.
"The legislature has a demonstrated track record for taking action to ensure our schools are safe and making investments in resources to minimize such risks," GOP leadership said in a statement.
Among the measure cited in the GOP statement are:
- The School Safety Committee
- Safe2Say school treat reporting system
- Community Safety Grants to reduce community violence
- Trauma-informed training for teachers
Josh Shapiro, the Democratic candidate to replace Wolf in the governor's mansion, has also shown glimpses of how he would treat gun control if elected to office.
He called for the legislature to do something to address "ghost guns," or privately made firearms that lack a commercially-applied serial number, rendering them untraceable.
The state House Republican Caucus said the commonwealth already has some of the most stringent background check laws in the country, and is considered to be a "national model" for gun control laws.
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LEBANON, Pa. — The supply chain crisis is affecting a unique item ahead of Memorial Day: American flags.
A flag shortage caused a few areas in Central Pa. to scramble in order to get enough small US flags for gravesite ceremonies.
Lebanon County Veteran Affairs director Scott Kohr says he first faced the supply issue in February, when his typical flag vendor was unable to fulfil the county’s order due to a labor shortage.
"They were very forthright, basically telling me that they would not be able to handle it," said Kohr. "And this was back in February, so obviously I was in panic mode trying to find somebody."
Kohr found a backup vendor to supply the county with 13,000 flags by late April. However, the county did not receive their order until earlier this week.
"I only received them on Wednesday," said Kohr. "We did a lot of scrambling, but we got them out."
Lebanon County is not the only one’s affected the US flag supply shortage, as Dauphin County officials say they have only received half of their order of flags for Memorial Day.
A county spokesperson says the rest of the order won’t arrive until after the holiday weekend.
Kohr says he never expected to deal with a supply chain issue with American flags and says he will place all future orders sooner. He says the grateful to have the county’s order of US flags ahead of Memorial Day.
"The bottom line is that we got them out, and at least all the flags will be in the cemeteries before Memorial Day," said Kohr.
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CROWN POINT — A Lake Criminal Court judge told a Nigerian man Friday his wife and child were better off without him after sentencing him to a maximum of 12 years in prison for brutally beating his wife last year.
Sylvester Okafor, 28, pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of criminal confinement, a level 3 felony.
Judge Samuel Cappas said he watched a home surveillance video of the 36-minute beating April 27, 2021, at the couple's apartment in Gary and was stunned by how casual and cool Okafor appeared to be.
Okafor walked up to his wife, slapped her, took her to the floor with some kind of martial arts move, choked her until she passed out and stepped over her to check his text messages as she lay unconscious on the floor, the judge said.
After she began to wake up, Okafor kicked and stomped her and stood on her neck.
"And she didn't fight back one bit," Cappas said. "She almost played dead while you ... tortured her."
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Cappas rejected defense attorney Cipriano Rodriguez's argument that Okafor "snapped" because he was upset the woman cheated on him.
"Even if she had an affair, the remedy is divorce, not a 36-minute beating," Cappas said.
"You came up with the idea to pour steaming hot water down her throat," he said. "That's basically torture."
Lake County Deputy Prosecutor Infinity Westberg said the woman suffered injuries to her ears and eyes from being beaten and strangled and blisters in her throat from the hot water.
"The way he treated his wife — it was cruel. It was inhumane," Westberg said. "It's heartbreaking to have her call me and try to take blame for what happened to her."
Westberg said Okafor is a sociopath who already benefited greatly from his plea agreement. The state agreed to a cap of 12 years on his sentence, and he deserved the max, she said.
Rodriguez said Okafor is expected to be deported to Nigeria, but he isn't sure when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will take action.
Okafor grew up with seven siblings in a one-room apartment in Lagos, Nigeria, and was beaten by his mother and father.
He came to the U.S. to attend college, but he could no longer pay tuition after his father died, Rodriguez said.
Okafor previously was charged in a different attack on his wife, but the charges were dismissed after she claimed she lied to police. Rodriguez said Okafor was not convicted in that case, and it shouldn't count against him.
He asked for a three-year sentence, with one year to be served in a work-release program.
Okafor said he worked hard to support his family and asked the judge for an opportunity "to heal our broken family."
Cappas told Okafor he had no doubt in his mind that Okafor had beaten his wife before the April 27, 2021, attack.
After pronouncing Okafor's sentence, Cappas said, "You've earned 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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The lifeguard position has often been popularized on television and in movies, but the summer job doesn’t seem as popular as it once was when shows like “Baywatch” hit the airwaves.
As the weather gets warmer, area pools, beaches and the Deep River Waterpark are preparing to open. But there have been struggles finding enough lifeguards and other staff to operate the facilities.
Chris Landgrave, chief operations officer of Lake County Parks, said the hours and days in which Deep River Waterpark will be open have been adjusted for this season because of the shortage.
“Years ago, we used to be open 10 (a.m.) to 6 (p.m.),” Landgrave said. “We’ve actually shortened that to 10 to 5.”
The water park at 9001 E. Lincoln Highway in Merrillville opened Friday.
Landgrave said the facility would typically stay open for the whole season following opening day, but there will be several weekdays in which the water park will be closed. He encouraged guests to visit the parks website — deepriverwaterpark.com — for a full schedule.
Landgrave said it’s also been difficult to fill other positions at the water park besides lifeguards.
“It’s been any position that’s been hard to fill,” he said. “It’s just the way it’s been over the last year.”
He said summer attractions aren’t the only businesses having trouble finding employees. Driving on major thoroughfares in the Region, Landgrave said he continues to see lots of signs outside of businesses indicating they’re hiring.
Although “it’s been tough” attracting recruits, Landgrave said there has been an increase in candidates coming in lately.
“We were struggling there for a while, then all of a sudden, it seems like it loosened up a little bit, the market did for employees,” he said.
The water park continues hiring for the upcoming season, and those interested in a summer job there can visit its website for more information.
Bruce Rowe, public information officer at the Indiana Dunes National Park, said there are limited lifeguards available at West Beach in Portage.
“We normally would hire seven lifeguards for West Beach so we could staff it seven days a week during the summer,” Rowe said. “This year we could only get four lifeguards hired because there is a shortage out there.”
That means there will be no lifeguards on duty on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, Rowe said. The beach will be open on those days, but it will be swim at your own risk.
“We are going to try and see if some of those four lifeguards want some overtime so we can cover some of that Tuesday and Wednesday," Rowe said. "But it looks like we’re only going to have lifeguards five days a week at West Beach this year because of the shortage."
He said most of the National Park beaches in the Region don’t have lifeguards, and they have been that way for about 30 years. Signs also are posted at those facilities indicating they are swim at your own risk.
Earlier this month, the Hobart Parks Department faced a “desperate” need for lifeguards, but that situation has since improved, Hobart Parks Director Kelly Goodpaster said.
“It’s really bad this year,” she said of finding lifeguards.
There were concerns the Hobart Community Pool wouldn’t be able to open if they didn’t hire more employees.
The City Council increased the maximum wages for the lifeguard position from $11.44 an hour to $16 an hour to make them more consistent with other communities. Goodpaster said the adjustment helped attract new candidates.
“We have enough right now,” she said. “That’s really good.”
Goodpaster said the pool at 810 W. 10th St. opens June 6, and there are no plans to restrict hours.
“We’re still waiting for everybody to pass their test,” Goodpaster said of the lifeguard candidates. “As long as they pass their certification, we should be good.”
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Pastor John Lowe II got a standing ovation initially after saying he had sinned and committed “adultery.” Then a woman walked up to the microphone and said she was 16 at the time. A prosecutor is investigating.
"David (Dalton) stated multiple times that he was going to do whatever to help his son, who just got jumped by the large group of juveniles," according to Chesterton police.
"This is a very tragic crash scene," Crown Point Chief of Police Pete Land said. "Our crash reconstruction team will be continuing the investigation to determine every aspect of the accident."
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call detectives at the Lake County/Gary Metro Homicide Unit at 219-755-3855. To remain anonymous, call 866-CRIME-GP.
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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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RUSKIN, Fla — A graduating senior at Lennard High School made a pivotal step in her recovery journey after she suffered a stroke over a year ago.
The stroke resulted in a brain bleed and left Hailey Highsmith unable to walk or talk, her family said. But that didn't stop her from walking across the graduation stage on May 23.
“In the beginning with brain injuries you just don’t know what will happen," said Robin Highsmith, Hailey's mom.
With the assistance of her helpful therapists, Hailey accepted her diploma and crossed the stage, making Monday's graduation a tear-jerker and an unforgettable moment for all who witnessed it.
“I loved seeing her up there with her sister because her sister has been such a good support," said Highsmith.
Hailey's mom said her life has completely changed, but her ability to succeed despite the obstacles has remained steadfast throughout her healing.
Hailey has been preparing for graduation day, working diligently with her physical therapist at John's Hopkins Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. Although she isn't fully verbal yet, her courage to stand in front of her peers and accept her high school diploma speaks volumes. Her mom says her goal is to attend UCF in the future.
You can watch her walk the stage and the full graduation ceremony here. To see Hailey cross the stage, tune to 38 minutes into the broadcast.
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SAN DIEGO — CBS 8 News reporter Ariana Cohen was inside the courtroom as Vyvianna Quinonez, the woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, read a letter to the judge expressing remorse and apologizing to the victim.
The Quinonez family was also in the courtroom and they were crying for the duration of the case.
A Southwest representative provided a statement and the flight attendant also gave a very emotional statement.
The video of the 28-year-old Sacramento resident punching a Southwest flight attendant, pulling her hair and knocking two teeth out went viral last year.
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During the flight’s descent, Quinonez was not wearing her face mask properly, unbuckled her seat belt and had her tray table down; all in violation of federal rules and regulations.
"In a fit of rage, Quinonez violently assaulted a flight attendant, punched her with a closed fist in the face and head. This behavior was reprehensible and will not be tolerated," said Assistant United States Attorney, Jaclyn Stahl.
WATCH RELATED: Woman who punched flight attendant pleads guilty
Friday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Todd Robinson sentenced Quinonez to 15 months in federal custody. She also must pay nearly $26,000 in restitution and a $7,500 fine plus three years of supervised release.
"She violated her pretrial release by getting a DUI, and that was a factor in determining the sentence," said Stahl.
Judge Robinson said in court he hopes this sentence will set a precedent and deter anyone else from this behavior.
"This sentence is justice for the victims. That is not only the flight attendant victim, but Southwest airlines and all passengers aboard that day," said Stahl.
The Quinonez family did not want to comment.
While on supervised release, Quinonez is banned from flying any commercial aircraft and must participate in anger management classes.
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After a massive bloom last spring, many of the saguaros around Tucson seem to be taking a year off.
Cactus experts report below-average bud and blossom production on saguaros in the Rincon and Tucson Mountains, with almost no flowering activity at all at some eastside locations.
Though Saguaro National Park doesn’t actively track cactus flowers across the entire 93,000-acre preserve, the numbers appear to be way down, according to park biologist Don Swann.
Don Swann, biologist, and Gabe León, intern with American Conservation Experience, take pictures of the flowers and buds on the tops of saguar…
“In some parts of the park, we’re seeing no sign of reproduction,” he said. “The majority of saguaros are not showing any buds or flowers at all in most of the places I've looked.”
Researchers have seen sudden drops in flower production like this before, but this one seems different to Swann.
“Usually when there are few flowers, there is a direct link to a climate event, as in 2011 when we had a deep freeze,” he said. “This year we think there is a less direct link.”
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It’s “pure speculation,” Swann said, but the lack of flowers could be a response to several years of extremely dry conditions, followed by last year’s above-average bloom.
“They put all their energy into reproduction last year. Now they’re taking a pause to recoup and recover,” he said.
So what caused all the saguaros to push out so many blossoms in 2021, weeks before the recorded-breaking monsoon storms had even begun?
“We can’t be sure,” Swann said. “We were joking that maybe they knew that the rains would come.”
Passing the peak
Mark Dimmitt is a Tucson horticulturalist who maintains a sprawling collection of unusual plants in his garden and greenhouses on the westside.
He said he spends more time these days checking the ground for rattlesnakes than studying the tops of the giant cactuses in his neighborhood. Anecdotally, though, he has noticed a lot fewer saguaro flowers on the eastern slope of the Tucson Mountains, especially compared to last year’s epic display.
“It’s down quite a bit,” said the retired director of natural history at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. “A number of plants in my yard don’t even have buds yet.”
Some speculate that a lack of winter rain could be to blame, but Dimmitt said that can’t be the only reason for low production in a given year.
“Saguaros store a lot of water. The ones in the Yuma area can go two years without rain and still flower,” he said.
He’s not terribly worried about it in any case.
“One or two years of low blooming I don’t think is cause for alarm,” Dimmitt said.
One place the saguaros are blooming — though in much lower numbers than usual — is in a scientific plot the park service established on the west side of the Tucson Mountains in 2017 to study reproduction by the park’s namesake cactus.
Swann said the saguaro flowering phenology plot is within a short walk of the park’s Red Hills Visitor Center and includes 55 of the mature plants.
Each cactus is checked almost daily from the beginning of April through the end of July by science interns and community volunteers, who use giant selfie sticks to take high-resolution photos of the top of every stem.
The goal of the long-term study is to learn more about how saguaros grow and reproduce under different conditions, including those brought on by human-caused climate change.
So far this year, the plot has produced less than a quarter of the flowers researchers have seen there in previous years, and the bloom appears to have reached its peak.
Saguaros generally flower in early May and bear fruit in early summer. Their waxy white blossoms open at night and only stay that way for about half a day — just long enough, if they’re lucky, to be cross-pollinated by a bee, bat or bird.
Swann said the cactuses that haven’t produced buds by now are unlikely to bloom at all this season.
An empty plot
Research ecologist Bill Peachey starts looking for buds on his saguaros in mid April and usually spots his first flower by May 5.
He has scarcely seen a thing this year on the 2-acre patch of desert he’s been studying near Colossal Cave since 1997.
His scientific plot contains 139 saguaros with 403 individual stems, but so far he has found just four flowers on a single cactus and a handful of buds that were gobbled up by insects before they could develop any further.
“It’s pathetic,” he said after his latest trip out there Wednesday morning. “I’ve never seen it like this.”
During a typical spring, he has to check his plot every other day to keep up with all the flowering activity. He is only making weekly visits this year, because there’s so little to record.
Peachey said his “spies” across the region are reporting similar conditions from north of Phoenix down into Mexico. “The only place that I’ve heard of that has even close to a normal bloom is the west side of the Tucson Mountains,” he said.
In an average year, the saguaros on Peachey’s eastside plot produce about 6,500 flowers. In 2021, they cranked out about 12,200, their second highest total in 25 years of recordkeeping. The blossoms were packed in at the tops of the stems and dribbling down the trunks in an unusual, side-blooming display that was also seen throughout much of the plant’s range.
And that came on the heels of another saguaro surprise: a rare crop of autumn flowers in 2020 that sprang up on scattered cactus around Tucson. Several researchers, Peachey included, called it the largest offseason bloom they’d ever seen.
Experts don’t know why saguaros are acting so weird lately, but Peachey suspects some combination of extreme heat and extended drought could be messing with the plant’s growth patterns – something that also influences when, where and how much they flower.
Or maybe they’re just “resting,” he said.
“They over-reproduced last year, and they just don’t have the gas this year,” Peachey said. “We didn’t get any (winter) rain out there, so they’ve decided to take a break.”
He's more worried about what this will mean for the birds, bats, bugs and other critters that rely on the saguaro for nectar or fruit.
“A whole bunch of them are going to be short changed this year,” Peachey said.
Contact reporter Henry Brean at hbrean@tucson.com or 573-4283. On Twitter: @RefriedBrean
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LAKELAND, Fla. – Five children all younger than nine years old and their grandmother safely escaped from a burning Lakeland home Friday evening, according to the Lakeland Fire Department.
Firefighters said they were called around 5:30 p.m. to the residence on Blossom Circle East, arriving to find flames had reached the exterior of the house near its kitchen window. Crews had the fire under control in less than 15 minutes, a department spokesperson said in a statement.
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Everyone who was inside of the home when the fire started had gotten out by the time firefighters arrived, according to a news release.
Crews determined that the oldest of the five children assisted in getting her siblings out of the house, but was unable to help her grandmother on her own. Firefighters said a neighbor entered the home and assisted the grandmother across the street, where she was soon taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
No firefighters were injured in their response to what officials said was an accidental cooking fire contained to the home’s kitchen area.
LFD was assisted at the scene by a Polk County Fire Rescue Medic Unit and officers with the Lakeland Police Department, the release stated.
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SORRENTO, Fla. – Floridians can take advantage of big savings as they start preparing for hurricane season.
Florida’s Disaster Preparedness sales tax holiday started on Saturday. Jimmy Pippin stopped by the Carter’s Ace Hardware store in Sorrento to purchase supplies.
“Hurricane season is coming up and I’m getting ready for it,” Pippin said.
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Pippin said he knows what it’s like to lose power during a hurricane. He purchased a generator before the season officially starts and is taking advantage of the tax savings.
“I want to be prepared cause I have been without electricity for weeks and I don’t like that. That’s not fun, especially in the summer,” he said.
During the two-week holiday, Floridians can get certain hurricane supplies tax free.
“Tarps, coolers, pet supplies, batteries, flashlights,” Rita Stallings with Carter’s Ace Hardware said.
Stallings said new items were added to the list this year, including carbon monoxide and smoke detectors, along with pet supplies.
“If you’re able to get something now and save on the tax free (holiday), it can definitely add up if you need quite a few items or more expensive items,” Stallings said.
Hurricane season starts June 1. NOAA is predicting an “above normal” season with officials forecasting 14 to 21 storms this year.
Stallings said now is the time to get your supplies, not only to cash in on savings but also to be prepared in case a storm comes our way.
“It’s always best to prepare ahead of time because there’s going to be a mad rush when a hurricane hits and a lot of times it’s hard to find supplies,” she said. “If you’re prepared ahead of time, you know you have it, you’re ready and you’re not one of those people running around scrambling and not being able to find things.”
Click here for a full list of items covered during the sales tax holiday.
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A tip about a suspicious UPS package sent DEA agents and the Nebraska State Patrol to a central Lincoln residence Wednesday, where law enforcement seized more than 4 pounds of suspected methamphetamine and arrested a 25-year-old man, according to court records.
Investigators intercepted the package at a local UPS facility Monday and found about 1,832 grams of suspected meth in it, the State Patrol said in an arrest affidavit.
Law enforcement applied for an anticipatory search warrant and had an undercover officer deliver the package to 1900 S. 17th St. on Wednesday.
After investigators dropped the package off, Rogelio Torres Rodriguez emerged from the residence and picked it up, the State Patrol said.
Investigators believe a third party paid Rodriguez to receive the package and he knew it contained meth, according to the patrol.
Rodriguez was arrested and charged with possession of 140+ grams of meth.
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He is being held at the Lancaster County Jail on a $1 million percentage bond. Rodriguez must pay $100,000 to be released.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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A Lancaster County judge Thursday signed an arrest warrant for an Omaha man who police say had sex with a 15-year-old trafficking victim in December 2019, according to court records.
Jose Pila-Cevallos, 29, was formally charged Thursday with first-degree sexual assault of a minor. He has not been arrested for the crime.
The charge stems from an instance more than two years ago, when a witness told investigators they saw Pila-Cevallos pay $100 to a 15-year-old girl who was being sexually trafficked, police said in court records.
In August 2021, the girl told police she was being trafficked by a 50-year-old woman who was receiving payments for sex with the girl, Lincoln Police Investigator Ben Pflanz said in an arrest affidavit.
In December, she told investigators Pila-Cevallos had paid her for sex, providing screenshots of conversations she had with the man, Pflanz said in the affidavit.
Tom Casady's list of the 10 most infamous crimes in Lincoln history
Crimes of the times
This is simply one man’s perspective from the early 21st century (first written in 2010). I had to make a decision about crimes that occurred at locations that are inside the city today, but were outside our corporate limits at the time they occurred. I chose the latter.
Before beginning, though, I have to deal with three crimes that stand apart: the murders of three police officers in Lincoln. I’m not quite sure how to place them in a list. They all had huge impacts on the community, and on the police department in particular. Because these are my colleagues, I deal with them separately and in chronological order.
Patrolman Marion Francis Marshall
Shot in the shadow of the new Nebraska State Capital, Gov. Charles Bryan came to his aid and summoned additional help.
Lt. Frank Soukup
Marion Marshall was technically not a Lincoln police officer, so Lt. Soukup was actually the first Lincoln police officer killed on duty. One of his colleagues who was present at the motel and involved in the gunbattle, Paul Jacobsen, went on to enjoy a long career and command rank at LPD, influencing many young charges (like me) and leaving his mark on the culture of the agency.
Lt. Paul Whitehead
In the space of a few months, three LPD officers died in the line of duty. Frank Soukup had been murdered, and George Welter had died in a motorcycle crash. Paul Whitehead's partner, Paul Merritt, went on to command rank, and like Paul Jacobsen left an indelible mark at LPD and the community.
No. 1: Starkweather
The subject of several thinly disguised movie plots and a Springsteen album, the Starkweather murders are clearly the most infamous crime in Lincoln’s history — so far. One of the first mass murderers of the mass media age, six of Charles Starkweather’s 11 victims were killed inside the city of Lincoln, and the first was just on the outskirts of town. I didn’t live in Lincoln at the time, but my wife was a first-grader at Riley Elementary School and has vivid memories of the city gripped by fear in the days between the discovery of the Bartlett murders and Starkweather’s capture in Wyoming.
The case caused quite an uproar. There was intense criticism of the police department and sheriff’s office for not capturing Starkweather earlier in the week after the discovery of the Bartletts' bodies. Ultimately, Mayor Bennett Martin and the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners retained a retired FBI agent, Harold G. Robinson, to investigate the performance of local law enforcement. His report essentially exonerated the local law officers and made a few vanilla recommendations for improving inter-agency communication and training.
Now I know that many readers are mumbling to themselves “how obvious.” Hold your horses, though. It’s not quite as obvious as you might think. I had two experiences that drove this fact home to me. The first was a visit by a small group of journalism students. Only one member of the class had any idea, and her idea was pretty vague. You need to remember that the Starkweather murders were in 1957 and 1958 — before the parents of many college students were even born.
The second experience was a visit by a Cub Scout den. I was giving the kids a tour of the police station one evening. We were in the front lobby waiting for everyone to arrive. As I entertained the boys, I told the moms and dads that they might enjoy looking in the corner of the Sheriff’s Office display case to see the contents of Starkweather’s wallet — discovered a couple of years ago locked up in the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office safe. After a few minutes, one of the confused fathers asked me who Starkweather was, and why it was significant.
No. 2: Lincoln National Bank
On the morning of Sept. 17, 1930, a dark blue Buick carrying six men pulled up in front of the Lincoln National Bank at the northwest corner of 12th and O streets. Five of the men entered the bank, while a sixth stood outside by the Buick, cradling a machine gun. Observing the unusual events, a passerby called the police. The officer who responded, Forrest Shappaugh, was casually instructed by the machine-gun-toting lookout to just keep going, which he wisely did. Returning with reinforcements, he found that the robbers had already made good on their getaway, netting $2.7 million in cash and negotiable securities.
Ultimately, three of the six suspects were arrested. Tommy O’Connor and Howard Lee were convicted and sentenced. Jack Britt was tried twice but not convicted by a hung jury. Gus Winkeler, a member of Al Capone’s gang, winged a deal with County Attorney Max Towle to avoid prosecution in exchange for orchestrating the recovery of $600,000 in bearer bonds. The following year, Winkeler was murdered in Chicago, the victim of a gangland slaying. The final two robbers were never identified.
The Lincoln National Bank robbery stood as the largest cash bank robbery in the United States for many decades. It precipitated major changes at the Lincoln Police Department. Chief Peter Johnstone was rapidly “retired” after the robbery, the department’s fleet was upgraded to add the first official patrol cars, the full force was armed and a shotgun squad was organized. Forty-four years later when I was hired at LPD, the echo of the Lincoln National Bank robbery was still evident in daily bank opening details, and in the Thomspon submachine guns and Reising rifles that detectives grabbed whenever the robbery alarm sounded at headquarters.
No. 3: The Last Posse
My first inkling about this crime came when I was the chief deputy sheriff. One of my interns, a young man named Ron Boden (who became a veteran deputy sheriff), had been doing some research on Lancaster County’s only known lynching, in 1884. I came across a reference in the biography of the sheriff at the time, Sam Melick, to the murder of the Nebraska Penitentiary warden and subsequent prison break. Melick had been appointed interim warden after the murder and instituted several reforms.
Several years later, a colleague, Sgt. Geoff Marti, loaned me a great book, Gale Christianson’s "Last Posse," that told the story of the 1912 prison break in gory, haunting and glorious detail.
To make a long story short, convict Shorty Gray and his co-conspirators shot and killed Warden James Delahunty, a deputy warden and a guard on Wednesday, March 13, 1912. They then made their break — right into the teeth of a brutal Nebraska spring blizzard. Over the course to the next few days, a posse pursued. During the pursuit, the escapees carjacked a young farmer with his team and wagon. As the posse closed in, a gunfight broke out and the hostage was shot and killed in the exchange, along with two of the three escapees.
There was plenty of anger among the locals in the Gretna-Springfield vicinity about the death of their native son, and a controversy raged over the law enforcement tactics that brought about his demise. Lancaster County Sheriff Gus Hyers was not unsullied by the inquiry, although it appears from my prospect a century later that the fog of war led to the tragedy.
Christianson, a professor of history at Indiana State University who died earlier this year, notes the following on the flyleaf:
“For anyone living west of the Mississippi in 1912, the biggest news that fateful year was a violent escape from the Nebraska state penitentiary planned and carried out by a trio of notorious robbers and safe blowers.”
Bigger news on half the continent than the sinking of the Titanic during the same year would certainly qualify this murder-escape as one of the most infamous Lincoln crimes in history.
No. 4: Rock Island wreck
The Aug. 10, 1894, wreck of a Rock Island train on the southwest outskirts of Lincoln was almost lost in the mist of time until it was resurrected in the public consciousness by author Joel Williams, who came across the story while conducting research for his historical novel, "Barrelhouse Boys."
The wreck was determined to be the result of sabotage to the tracks, perhaps an attempt to derail the train as a prelude to robbery. Eleven people died in the crash and ensuing fire, making this a mass murder, to be sure. G.W. Davis was arrested and convicted of the crime but later received a full pardon. The story was told in greater detail earlier this year by the Lincoln Journal Star.
A historical marker is along the Rock Island Trail in Wilderness Park, accessible only by foot or bike from the nearest trail access points about a half-mile away at Old Cheney Road on the north, or 14th Street on the south.
Here’s the big question that remains unanswered: Was there really significant evidence to prove that George Washington Davis committed the crime, or was he just a convenient scapegoat? The fact that he received a gubernatorial pardon 10 years later leads me to believe that the evidence must have been unusually weak. If he was railroaded, then my second question is this: who really pried loose the tracks with the 40-pound crowbar found at the scene?
No. 5: Commonwealth
On Nov. 1, 1983, the doors to Nebraska’s largest industrial savings and loan company were closed and Commonwealth was declared insolvent. The 6,700 depositors with $65 million at stake would never be fully compensated for their loss, ultimately receiving about 59 cents on the dollar for their deposits, which they all mistakenly believed were insured up to $30,000 through the Nebraska Depository Insurance Guaranty Corporation, which was essentially an insurance pool with assets of only $3 million.
The case dominated Nebraska news for months. The investigation ultimately led to the conviction of three members of the prominent Lincoln family that owned the institution, the resignation of the director of the State Department of Banking and the impeachment of the Nebraska attorney general and the suspension of his license to practice law. State and federal litigation arising from the failure of Commonwealth drug on for years.
At the Lincoln Police Department, the Commonwealth failure led to the formation of a specialized white-collar crime detail, now known as the Technical Investigations Unit. At the time, municipal police departments in the United States had virtually no capacity for investigating financial crime and fraud of this magnitude, and we quickly became well known for our expertise in this area. The early experience served LPD very well in the ensuring years.
No. 6: Candice Harms
Candi Harms never came home from visiting her boyfriend on Sept. 22, 1992. Her parents reported her as a missing person the following morning, and her car was found abandoned in a cornfield north of Lincoln later in the day. Weeks went by before her remains were found southeast of Lincoln.
Scott Barney and Roger Bjorklund were convicted in her abduction and murder. Barney is in prison serving a life term. Bjorklund died in prison in 2001. Intense media attention surrounded the lengthy trial of Roger Bjorklund, for which a jury was brought in from Cheyenne County as an alternative to a change of venue. I have no doubt that the trial was a life-changing event for a group of good citizens from Sidney, who did their civic duty.
I was the Lancaster County sheriff at the time, involved both in the investigation and in the trial security. It was at about this time that the cellular telephone was becoming a consumer product, and I have often thought that this brutal crime probably spurred a lot of purchases. During my career, this is probably the second-most-prominent Lincoln crime in terms of the sheer volume of media coverage.
No. 7: Jon Simpson and Jacob Surber
A parent’s worst nightmare unfolded in September 1975 when these two boys, ages 12 and 13, failed to return from the Nebraska State Fair. The boys were the victims of abduction and murder. The case was similar to a string of other murders of young boys in the Midwest, and many thought that these cases were related -- the work of a serial killer. Although an arrest was made in the case here in Lincoln, the charges were eventually dismissed. William Guatney was released and has since died.
No. 8: John Sheedy
Saloon and gambling house owner John Sheedy was gunned down outside his home at 1211 P St. in January 1891. The case of Sheedy, prominent in Lincoln’s demiworld, became the talk of the town when his wife, Mary, and her alleged lover and accomplice, Monday McFarland, were arrested. Both were acquitted at trial. The Sheedy murder is chronicled in a great interactive multimedia website, Gilded Age Plains City, an online version that builds upon an article published in 2001 by Timothy Mahoney of the University of Nebraska.
No. 9: Patricia McGarry and Catherine Brooks
The bodies of these two friends were found in a Northeast Lincoln duplex in August 1977. Their murderer, Robert E. Williams, was the subject of a massive Midwest manhunt during the following week. Before his capture, he committed a third murder in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and raped, shot and left for dead a victim who survived in Minnesota. He is the last man to be executed in Nebraska, sent to the electric chair in 1997.
No. 10: Judge William M. Morning
District Court Judge William Morning was murdered in February 1924. He was shot on the bench by an unhappy litigant in a divorce case. His court reporter, Minor Bacon, was also shot, but a notebook in his breast pocket deflected the bullet and saved his life.
Many other crimes
Choosing Lincoln's 10 most infamous crimes was a challenge. Although the top two were easy, the picture quickly became clouded. We tend, of course, to forget our history rather quickly. Many of the crimes I felt were among the most significant are barely remembered today, if not completely forgotten.
Some readers will take issue with my list. In choosing 10, here are the others I considered, in no particular order. They are all murders:
-- Mary O'Shea
-- Nancy Parker
-- Charles Mulholland
-- Victoria Lamm and Janet Mesner
-- Martina McMenamin
-- Regina Bos (presumably murdered)
-- Patty Webb
-- Marianne Mitzner
I also thought about the five murder-suicides in which a mother or father killed multiple family members before taking their own life. Though tragic, these crimes did not command the same kind of attention as the others, perhaps because there was no lengthy investigation, no tantalizing whodunit, no stranger-killer, nor any of the details that come out in the coverage of a major trial.
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It doesn’t take long.
Just a few minutes, in fact, for a child to leave the safety of their parents’ side and slip into a lake or the family pool. Then, the waters that seem so inviting to young children can take them — swiftly and silently.
Most won’t even have the chance to call for help.
This weekend, families are heading into Memorial Day with an agenda full of water activities. But while parents lounge lakeside and slather their kids with sunscreen, it may be easy for little ones to wade into danger.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drowning is the leading cause of accidental death in children 4 and under and the second-leading cause of death for children 14 and under, ranking just below car accidents.
Water safety experts believe those statistics are cause for concern.
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Kathy Collingsworth, director and founder of the Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation, said families seeking water fun should be on high alert. Her organization teaches children and parents about the importance of being safe near water through its aquatic mascot Josh the Otter.
Her husband, Blake Collingsworth, wrote the children’s book “Josh the Baby Otter” after their 2-year-old son drowned. The Collingsworths hope the illustrated story sparks discussion between parents and kids.
“If we tell our children, ‘Don’t cross the street. Look both ways,' we need to have the same conversation about water safety with children,” Kathy Collingsworth said. “We can do it in a fun and educational way instead of telling a child, ‘Don't do that.’”
She recommends parents purchase the book to read with their children. The cartoon otter teaches kids to stick with a buddy, swim only while an adult is watching, and float on their back if they’re in danger — all crucial rules for water-loving toddlers.
In addition to emphasizing water safety guidelines, Collingsworth advises parents to child-proof their pools. Fences, cameras and alarms can protect wandering toddlers. Ring doorbells have been an effective tool for catching kids trying to enter unpatrolled waters. The motion sensors alert parents when a child walks past.
Even small amounts of water can create potentially dangerous situations for unattended toddlers and babies, Collingsworth said. Parents should always be mindful to shut toilet lids, drain bathtubs and keep coolers locked.
However, not every body of water that children interact with will be secure. Inevitably, young children will find themselves near uncovered lakes, pools or ponds.
In those circumstances, kids might be able to save themselves. The Joshua Collingsworth Memorial Foundation offers “float lessons'' through its Float 4 Life program. The swim classes teach children as young as 6 months old to be able to float on their back if they’re ever in danger.
Children graduate from Float 4 Life by showing their instructor they can turn face-up in the water after jumping in, even while they’re wearing normal clothes.
Kathy Collingsworth said float lessons are essential. After all, water is everywhere.
“(Most) of our world is water, so it’s kind of hard to avoid it,” she said. “But if they get into a situation like that, they can actually go into self-survival.”
The foundation advocates for the use of water safety devices such as life jackets. Flotation aids are especially important for children who are unable to swim.
Visitors to Pawnee, Branched Oak and Wagon Train state recreation areas can borrow a life jacket at the lakes’ docks, courtesy of Josh the Otter.
Swim instructor Jessica Bailey, with LifeSTROKES, recommends enrolling kids in swim lessons at a young age. She said LifeSTROKES programs are a more gradual approach to swimming than “float lessons,” and her lessons focus on a variety of swim techniques.
Bailey said she believes strongly that swim lessons are lifesaving for everyone. Even infants, she said, can learn to hold their breath under water with proper and gentle training.
Teaching is Bailey’s passion, and she hopes to continue providing opportunities for all children, including babies or kids with special needs.
“I love teaching,” she said. “Any time a child or parent sees that mile marker or goal was reached, it's just awesome.”
Bailey wants her pupils' experience in the water to be a highlight of their weeks. While she provides safety skills, she also wants to teach students to build confidence in the water. She doesn't want her swimmers to be nervous in the pool.
But at the same time, Bailey has heard the daunting statistics. She tries to drill into her students' minds to never approach water without a parent's close watch.
Bailey said she'll even throw swim toys in the water and have the children practice asking their parents if they can go in first. Ultimately, she hopes her classes prevent families from losing a child too soon.
“Water is a very amazing and fun thing, but if you don't have the right skill sets, it can be very deadly,” Bailey said. “Everyone should be given the opportunity to know how to save themselves.”
Before and after photos: Lincoln's hard-fought South Bottoms underpass project finalized
The South Salt Creek neighborhood already felt trapped by train tracks.
They ran down Fifth Street. They ran down Fourth Street.
And they ran down Third -- where, in the late 1990s, Burlington Northern Santa Fe announced it wanted to make the busy mainline even busier by adding a second set of tracks.
“As you can imagine, the neighborhood was pretty upset about it,” said Wynn Hjermstad, community development manager for the city’s Urban Development Department. “They already felt like they were isolated by the one track, and adding a second would just make it worse.”
Then the railroad proposed putting in a pedestrian tunnel, and the city got worried. It feared the railroad would install the most functional and featureless tunnel, much like the narrow concrete culvert at First and J.
“That was the image the neighborhood had of what a tunnel was going to be,” she said. “And that’s where Urban Development got involved and said, ‘Let’s make this more attractive, a place where you feel safe. It was quite a project.”
In 1998, they designed and delivered a wider tunnel, with ramps and stairs descending on either side. They added retaining walls and landscaping.
Three years later, an artist covered its walls with depictions of the diversity that defined the South Bottoms. Germans from Russia. African American families. People of Asian and Hispanic descent. Contemporary images, too: Neighborhood kids on scooters, cyclists, the man who sold ice cream from a cart.
But tunnels can attract trouble. As early as 2005, a neighbor complained about its condition in a letter to the editor: “It floods every time it rains and when the snow melts it becomes a sheet of ice. We have homeless people living in the tunnel and it smells like an outhouse and local gangs have their graffiti sprayed everywhere.”
The problems were reoccurring. This week, the president of the South Salt Creek Community Organization described the tunnel as dirty.
“There were a lot of drainage problems,” said Justina Clark. “It was not very well maintained.”
And Hjermstad, who had pushed for the more inviting underpass, acknowledged it was due for a refresh. “It’s been over 20 years, and it’s tired. It needs some TLC, and that’s what it’s getting.”
In 2019, Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln selected the South Salt Creek area for its Streets Alive! initiative. It’s typically a two-year commitment -- with a pair of health and wellness street festivals and a community improvement project -- but the pandemic stretched it to three.
The nonprofit targeted the tunnel, one of the neighborhood’s only three legal routes across the tracks, for its improvement efforts.
“It was a good project for the safety of the neighborhood,” said Veronica Cockerill, program coordinator for Partnership for a Healthy Lincoln. “The lighting was insufficient and there was unwanted activity. The landscaping is overgrown; the retaining walls are crumbling.”
The railroad patched the cracks and sealed the tunnel’s interior. The city added brighter LED lighting and will soon repair its retaining walls and rehab the landscaping.
And last month, an artist got to work reinventing its walls.
It was time, said Clark, the neighborhood group’s president.
“People like the past, but we want to embrace the future. We felt it was a good time to get an update to the mural.”
In February, they put out a call for artists. A half-dozen responded with proposals, but only one -- Micah Mullins -- contacted the neighborhood group to ask: What do you want to see on the walls?
They wanted him to incorporate its past, its present, its future and its fabric.
“He gave himself a leg up in the competition by reaching out,” Clark said. “He took the ideas we gave him, but he just took it to the next level.”
The 28-year-old street artist spent nearly 100 hours painting his proposal, trying to incorporate and interpret the neighborhood group’s suggestions.
“I had to figure out how to tell a story along the way and give everyone honor and credit,” Mullins said. “And give ode to the nationalities and cultures that settled the neighborhood, and helped build the neighborhood.”
His submission included depictions of Friedens Lutheran Church and Quinn Chapel. An outline of Africa, and glimpses of the Korean and Mexican flags. A buffalo skull and feather. The Volga German crest. A quote from Abe Lincoln -- “I am a slow walker but I never walk back.” A graffiti-tagged train.
“When we saw that, we were like, ‘Oh, my gosh.’ We voted on that as our favorite one,” Clark said.
Mullins paints in a graffiti-type style, and that helped his chances, too, Cockerill said. Future taggers should be reluctant to paint over it.
“We heard graffiti art is less likely to be vandalized than other kinds of art, because it’s more respected,” she said.
He got to work in August, after AmeriCorps volunteers helped him scrub and sand the walls, preparing them for primer. He spray painted for more than 115 hours, often 10 to 12 hours at a time.
The mural will be formally revealed Sunday during the Streets Alive! festival, though it’s been on display for a few weeks now. And those who have since taken the tunnel have been impressed, Clark said.
“People were really excited to see that beautiful design he gave us on paper really come to life.”
Streets Alive! Sunday
* 1-4:30 p.m. Sunday
* South Salt Creek neighborhood and Cooper Park
* Free outdoor event promoting physical activity, healthy eating and neighborhood vitality
* 1.5-mile stretch of streets south and west of Cooper Park will be closed to motorized vehicles
* Includes art walk, fitness classes, dance and performance artists, music, local produce for sale, free health and wellness resources
* Details: www.healthylincoln.org
Reach the writer at 402-473-7241 or jthompson@journalstar.com
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HILTONS, Va. (WJHL) – An unexpected caller paid a resident of Hiltons, Virginia a visit Saturday morning, surveillance camera images show.
Around 12:45 a.m., a camera setup on Rebecca Moody’s porch spotted a Black Bear sniffing around and standing up to investigate the door into her home.
“He didn’t do any damage,” Moody told News Channel 11. “I think he just wanted to let me know he is around and would be appreciative of being invited to dinner.”
Moody said signs of the bear’s presence began popping up earlier that week, with three bird feeders full of sunflower seeds being taken down and emptied of their contents.
According to Virginia’s Department of Wildlife Resources, the best way to avoid similar close encounters with bears is to remove potential food sources to keep them from returning for seconds. In the case of bird feeders, state officials recommend keeping seeds and other foods inside for 3-4 weeks after the first visit from a bear.
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President Joe Biden told graduates Saturday at his alma mater, the University of Delaware, that “now it's your hour,” as he encouraged young people in the United States to help the country live up to its ideals.
Speaking to more than 6,000 graduates, and with the nation mourning victims of two mass shootings in as many weeks. Biden lamented the division and hatred in the country he governs. He bemoaned a “crisis of faith” in U.S. institutions and he pressed graduates to work to bind up the country's wounds.
“Your generation, more than anyone else will have to answer the question, Who are we? What do we stand for? What do we believe? Who will we be?" Biden said. “You can make the difference, you can lift the country up, you can meet the challenges of our time."
“There’s one message I hope you take from me today: This is no time to be on the sidelines,” he added. “We need all of you to get engaged in public life and the life of this nation.”
Biden told graduates to remember that “democracy is a human enterprise.”
“We do many things well,” the president said. “Sometimes we fall short. That’s true in our own lives. It’s true in the life of the nation. And yet democracy makes progress possible. And progress comes when we begin to see each other again not as enemies but as neighbors.’"
Biden spoke of the country's bitter division over Vietnam in the 1960s and the grief that followed the killings of “heroes” — two Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr. But through those tumultuous times came progress on civil rights and voting rights, for example, the president said.
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“Well, now it’s your hour. The challenges are immense, foreign and domestic, but so are the possibilities. … Everything is possible in America,’’ he said. ”This is a decisive decade for America at a time when we can choose the future we want, at a time when we must decide that darkness will not prevail over light.’
The president said this year's graduates have a head start, representing a generation that “is the most generous, the most tolerant, the least prejudiced, the best educated” in American history.
“Keep the faith and take it back," he exhorted. “Please. This is yours. Take it back. We need you.”
Biden also referred to the recent mass shootings: 19 children and two teachers were killed at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, and on May 14, a gunman espousing racist hatred killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
“Too much violence. Too much fear. Too much grief,” Biden said in his graduation speech. “Let’s be clear: Evil came to that elementary school classroom in Texas, to that grocery store in New York, to far too many places where innocents have died.”
The president said that "we cannot outlaw tragedy, I know, but we can make America safer." He called on “all Americans at this hour to join hands and make your voices heard, to work together to make this nation what it can and should be.”
Biden was presented with the university's medal of distinction before his remarks. He had previously received an honorary degree in 2004.
Biden, who graduated from the university in 1965 with a double major in history and political science, served as a senator in Delaware for more than 30 years before becoming vice president. It was his fifth commencement address at the university, where the school of public policy and administration bears his name. He also spoke to graduates in 1978, 1987, 2004 and 2014. His sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, also graduated from the university.
“It feels like coming home because this is home," Biden said, reflecting that “Some of the best and most important years of my life were spent here.”
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More than 440 Lee County High School seniors received diplomas at the Albany Civic Center Friday night. Additional photos are available at AlbanyHerald.com.
Lee County High School Class of '22 Valedictorian Hunter Grey Hammond delivers his address Friday as Salutatorian Kelly Carlton Kennedy looks on. More photos are available at AlbanyHerald.com.
A large crowd filed into the Albany Civic Center Friday night for Lee County High School's graduation. By the time the event started, the auditorium was packed. See additional photos at AlbanyHerald.com.
More than 440 Lee County High School seniors received diplomas at the Albany Civic Center Friday night. Additional photos are available at AlbanyHerald.com.
Lee County High School Class of '22 Valedictorian Hunter Grey Hammond delivers his address Friday as Salutatorian Kelly Carlton Kennedy looks on. More photos are available at AlbanyHerald.com.
A large crowd filed into the Albany Civic Center Friday night for Lee County High School's graduation. By the time the event started, the auditorium was packed. See additional photos at AlbanyHerald.com.
ALBANY -- Encouraged to "stride boldly to our future" by class Valedictorian Hunter Grey Hammond, some 444 seniors in the Lee County High School Class of 2022 received diplomas Friday night at the Albany Civic Center.
Eschewing the traditional march into the arena, packed to capacity with parents, relatives and well-wishers, the Class of '22, in their collective bright red caps and gowns, cheered on classmates in the LCHS chorus who performed a stirring rendition of "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday."
In addition to Hammond, salutatorian Kelly Carlton Kennedy also offered remarks.
"If we take only one thing from high school, let it not be about facts or mathematic equations," Hammond said. "Let it be about the friends we made. And together let's use these final moments to stride boldly to our future."
Hammond said the "collection of stories" that make up each graduate's path thus far includes "a career of twists and turns, from hurricanes to tornadoes to a global pandemic."
Kennedy said the hardships that the Class of '22 had endured during a period that was greatly impacted by COVID had allowed the graduates to "grow not only in stature and knowledge but in humanity."
Kennedy credited the LCHS faculty with "getting us here today."
"I'm so grateful for our teachers who were patient with us during this uncertain time," the salutatorian said. "You truly are our backbone."
Kennedy added: "We have reached this point that once seemed a distant dream, but we must keep in mind that this is not our final destination. To quote Frank Sinatra, 'The best is yet to come.'"
An introduction was offered by Class President Chimdinma Joy Ohamadike, a welcome and opening remarks by Honor Graduates Emily Megan Rosenfeld and Ally Grace Thompson, respectively, and closing remarks were delivered by Dev Sanjay Patel. Graduating senior Layla Alyce Kinion sang a stirring rendition of the National Anthem.
The class was presented to Superintendent Jason Miller by LCHS Principal Karen Hancock, who with Ninth-Grade Principal Ginger Lawrence awarded diplomas.
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SAN JUAN COUNTY, Wash. — Editor's note: The above video on the process to remove a derogatory word from Washington sites originally aired April 7, 2022.
A proposal to rename a channel in San Juan Islands after one of the first Indigenous elected officials in Washington state was approved for final consideration by a state committee.
The proposed name change would rename Harney Channel, which runs between Shaw Island and Orcas Island, to Cayou Channel.
The proposed name, Cayou Channel, would honor Lummi Nation man, Henry Cayou.
Cayou lived his whole life in the San Juan Islands until his death in 1959. He was a successful commercial fisherman and was one of the first Indigenous elected officials in Washington state, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Cayou served for 29 years as the San Juan Island County commissioner.
Harney Channel was named after notorious American General William Selby Harney in the 1800s. Harney led the U.S. Army’s Department of Oregon from 1858 to 1860 and has a storied history of killing indigenous people throughout the midwest and western territories, and narrowly avoided war with Great Britain, which led to the occupation of the San Juan Islands, according to the Oregon Historical Society.
The proposal, first submitted in early 2021, was approved for final consideration by the Washington State Committee on Geographic Names in April. The proposal is awaiting opinions from many San Juan County organizations including the San Juan County Council and from the Washington State Historical Society.
The proposal will need to be approved at the federal level.
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Mason City has a new local nutritionist.
Roots is a nutrition-counseling center at 209 N. Federal Ave. that provides one-on-one sessions tailored to an individual's health needs. It provides body composition scales, individual meal planning, and various cooking sessions. There is also a grab-and-go food station full of healthy, delicious options, says owner Jenn Pope.
Pope has been a registered dietitian for more than three years. After working in outpatient services at MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center, Pope realized she wanted fewer restrictions on her services and struck out on her own.
"I was seeing patients; I was educating, but I wasn't able to show them how to make chicken, how to make veggies taste good. ... That's when Roots was born," Pope remembered, "because I was like, how do I make these two worlds meet?"
Pope is hoping to start cooking demonstrations in late June to teach people how to cook healthy food that tastes good. Pope plans to expand from there to start interactive cooking classes and cooking parties for events like baby showers.
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For now, Pope is excited to begin her journey combining nutrition counseling with cooking, helping to bridge the gap from counseling to kitchen. Her counseling is centered around whole food, and Pope plans to buy as much local food as possible for her classes.
Roots was Pope's chosen business name because of her approach to eating foods with roots, giving rooted, research-based evidence for proper nutrition, and for choosing to stay with her roots in Mason City where she was raised.
Pope got the idea for Roots in September, and after finding the perfect space in January, she has been working diligently to bring her creation to life. The space, which was once a salon, has been completely transformed since.
"We had just started becoming more open in March, but now we're ready for full service" Pope said.
Roots will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, though Pope will likely add a morning cooking class Saturday's and extend hours for special events in the coming months.
Pope's charcuterie business, Boards & Bars, will cater the event as well. All are welcome to tour the new space, which includes a consultation room, an Inbody 570 composition scale, meeting area, grab-and-go retail space and a kitchen.
Information will be available to people interested in learning about cooking demonstrations or counseling. Pope said she is excited to meet people and share her expertise and products for the public.
"Come and go as you please, talk to us and try some of our products" Pope said.
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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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — The city of Portland has launched an online memorial honoring local fallen veterans while it decides how to replace the aging physical display at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
The online memorial features the names and biographies of all veterans memorialized at the coliseum and much more. Among other things, it includes a history of the coliseum and original memorial, and an invitation to submit stories of other veterans.
The online memorial went live on Friday, May 27, three days ahead of Memorial Day. It can be found at portland.gov/veteransmemorial.
The memorial at the coliseum is over 50 years old. When originally installed in the sunken garden next to the entrance, it included large granite walls engraved with the names of the veterans being honored, beginning with Charles H. Abercrombie and ending with Jack L. Zugman. And additional inscription at the top of the one wall reads: “To the memory of a supreme sacrifice we honor those who gave their lives for God, principle and love of country.”
But the infrastructure holding the walls in place has deteriorate. One of the walls was closed and the other was also in danger of falling.
For the safety of visitors, the city removed the memorial walls outside coliseum in early 2022. They are being safely stored while the city explores long-term options for both the coliseum, which needs to be renovated, and the memorial. The online memorial is intended to continue honoring the veterans in the meantime, while also explaining the situation and offering far more information about each of them that had been easily available.
According to the online memorial, “The City is committed to ensure that any future project is inclusive, consistently recognizing local veterans and representing those who lost their lives in all military conflicts.”
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PORTLAND, Ore. (PORTLAND TRIBUNE) — Oregon City and West Linn’s elected officials are weighing the pros and cons of adding an Oregon Department of Transportation-proposed bike and pedestrian bridge crossing the Willamette River to their Transportation System Plans, thereby codifying their intent to fund the project in the future.
West Linn councilors and Oregon City commissioners ultimately agreed during a joint meeting on Thursday, May 26, that before they can decide, further answers will be needed from ODOT regarding how their endorsement will, if at all, impact the eventual construction of the bridge. ODOT’s proposal currently has no secured funding source, and according to city officials, likely won’t for many years.
A project advisory team of a dozen stakeholders working with the two cities, Metro, Clackamas County and the Oregon Department of Transportation selected two possible alignments for the bridge: one between the falls and the 1922 Arch Bridge with narrow sidewalks, and the other between the Arch Bridge and Interstate 205’s Abernethy Bridge.
Because neither Abernethy nor the Arch Bridge is fit for bikers and pedestrians, there is a significant gap in the bike-pedestrian system of the Willamette south of Portland. The Arch Bridge is 9 miles south of the Sellwood Bridge; the next possible crossing is 20 miles upriver: the Canby Ferry, which is not always operating. A bike-ped crossing between West Linn and Oregon City would significantly reduce this gap.
ODOT has already identified potential sources of funding though none have been secured, nor has an overall project budget been set, because the project is still in its preliminary stages. If the concept is adopted into agency transportation plans, the agencies will begin looking at securing funding for an environmental review and permit process as well as the design and construction phase.
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Multiple city officials during the May 26 meeting raised concerns about adopting the bridge proposal into their Transportation System Plans when a number of other projects that are a priority to residents are not in the plans. They worried that inclusion of the bridge proposal would make the project take precedent over others.
“If we ask our citizens in each city if they want a pedestrian bridge, the answer is yes. But if we compare that with the other needs that we have, the answer might not be yes,” said Rocky Smith, Oregon City commissioner. “I think putting it in the TSP is a step to have it on our radar, but it also says, to me at least as a citizen, this is something that takes precedent over things that I think also should be on our radar that aren’t in the TSP.”
Among the potential upsides of the bridge, as noted by West Linn City Council President Rory Bialostosky is that it could offer an alternative mode of transportation in the event of future tolls expected to be implemented on I-205.
Oregon City Commission President Denyse McGriff raised discussion of whether or not ODOT could proceed with the project by adding it to the Regional Transportation Plan, even if cities do not add it to their plans.
Todd Jones, interim city councilor for West Linn later asked: “Is it important to ODOT that this bridge is in our transportation plan, and is it problematic for them if it is not?”
McGriff said that while ODOT cannot force cities to amend their TSPs, adding the project to the department’s regional plan may remain “an option” for them.
“I think we are at least all on the same page with regard to: We know what we don’t know, and we’re not ready to do any adoptions, or even suggest we do any adoptions at this point in time,” said McGriff, adding that staff for both cities will compile further questions for ODOT’s review.
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Each week The Pantagraph profiles a different community member. Know someone we should talk to? Email kheather@pantagraph.com.
Name: Joan Hartman
Position: Chief executive officer,McLean County Center for Human Services
1. What do you hope to accomplish at the McLean County Center for Human Services?
My biggest goals for MCCHS center around increasing access to mental health care through collaborations with other community stakeholders. One of the biggest deficits in mental health care in our community is access to psychiatric services. Our team is putting together a plan to help address that need for both adults and kids. We have so many great partnerships and this will be one more really important one.
2. What experiences do you bring to this position?
I have been working in behavioral health for the past 38 years and have had the opportunity to work in several states with various organizations. Some of my past experiences include developing youth outpatient and residential substance use services in Louisville, Kentucky, directing outpatient and inpatient adult and youth psychiatry and substance use disorder services in Rock Island, and most recently I spent 15 years with Chestnut Health Systems here in Bloomington.
The most valuable experience I bring is almost 40 years of recovery from a substance use disorder. It has been through my own experience that I bring a passion for helping others achieve recovery to every position I have held.
3. What are some highlights from the updated McLean County Mental Health Action Plan?
We are fortunate, in this community, to have our local government be so aware and concerned about the mental health of our community. The MHAP brings forward several areas of opportunity for collaborative efforts among behavioral health providers to continue to work together to address our community’s needs. We have a very strong network of providers in McLean County who are eager to step up and fill these needs and we are thrilled that the county has funding to put toward those efforts. With this combination of funding and local expertise, we will be seeing great things in the future!
4. What has MCCHS done to recognize Mental Health Awareness Month in May?
Last week we hosted an open house in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month and invited community stakeholders to come tour our Recovery Program in the Tower Plaza Building, which was generously donated to MCCHS by the Segneri Family. This beautiful building is now home to our recovery support services, including our day program and case management services. The open house also gave people an opportunity to learn about our Youth Outreach Program, which provides school- and community-based counseling and support to students in all seven school districts in McLean County. Attendees also learned more about our crisis services, which provide 24-hour mobile crisis assessment and intervention throughout the county in collaboration with our first responders, hospitals, social service agencies, individuals and families.
5. What services does McLean County Center for Human Services provide and how can our community access those services?
Here at MCCHS we provide individual, group and family therapy for those struggling with mental health issues; psychiatry; recovery support, including group, individual and case management services; and outreach services for children and adolescents, along with our 24-hour crisis services. To get help from MCCHS, just give us a call at 309-827-5351 or email us at info@mcchs.org.
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"In the little projects and ways in which I’ve been granted influence, I work to create spaces and experiences for our community to reach its fullest potential," Osenga says.
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BOISE, Idaho —
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
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.
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press. Read more at IdahoPress.com
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Man dies in hit-and-run crash near University Drive, 54th Street in Mesa
Laura Daniella Sepulveda
Arizona Republic
A man died early Saturday morning after being struck by a car near University Drive and North 54th Street in Mesa, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.
According to the officials, deputies received reports of a body lying on the road around 1 a.m.
Officials found the victim at the location and pronounced him dead.
Detectives do not provide information on the victim's identity, the suspect or the vehicle so far, the Sheriff's Office said.
The investigation was ongoing.
Reach breaking news reporter Laura Daniella Sepulveda at lsepulveda@lavozarizona.com or on Twitter @lauradNews.
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COVID-19 cases are climbing again in Pima County, just as local scientists are figuring out how to gauge infection levels faster and warn the community sooner.
The solution flows in our sewers, where wastewater researchers are focused on establishing baseline SARS-CoV-2 levels.
Here's how it works: Infected people shed the virus in feces, even if they don’t have symptoms, and that can then be detected in wastewater.
“If we know the community shedding rate of a (sewage) utility service area, we can use that to predict the real number of infections in the community,” said Ian Pepper, an environmental microbiologist and director of the University of Arizona research lab that runs wastewater testing. Pepper and his team will have a paper published on this topic in the next few weeks in "Science of The Total Environment."
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As early as July, the county will be launching a new data dashboard on these findings. It will be similar to one created in Tempe earlier in the pandemic. With shedding rates established, Pepper said, it will be possible to give a same-day estimate of the total number of infections.
And when COVID-19 concentration levels increase in sewage, the health department will alert the community so those at high-risk are aware, said Mary Derby, chief epidemiologist with the county's health department.
"We will provide those communities at the highest risk of bad health outcomes with education, testing, vaccination, and treatment options," she said. "Wastewater surveillance provides additional information that the public needs, especially during this time of 'COVID-19 fatigue.'"
County's rates rising
That pandemic fatigue has contributed to the county's case rate rising, up from 74 per 100,000 the week of May 11 to 104 per 100,000 for the week of May 18. This week, it's risen to 162 cases per 100,000. The tipping point for alarm: 200 cases per 100,000.
The county is already reaching a negative marker with its positivity rate, which ideally should be below 10% but this week was as high as 16%.
Hospitalizations, the final bellwether, are also increasing, but slowly: 27 COVID-19 admissions for the week ending May 21.
While the current subvariant of omicron — called BA.2.12.1 — is not leading to as many hospitalizations, an increasing number of people are getting sick. That's partly because people have become complacent about things like masking in high-risk environments, said Dr. Theresa Cullen, the county's director of public health.
"If they are in a social situation inside, they should be wearing a mask," Cullen said of the county's current risk levels and protecting public health for everyone. "None of us can really predict what we're going to see going forward. It's worrisome that more people are getting sick."
People might also be somewhat confused by the county's website, which was changed to minimize confusion and now matches the one used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The new CDC site measures COVID-19 illness in health-care systems to ensure space for those still most at risk: a community's older citizens, immunocompromised people and those living with disabilities.
“What they want to do is ensure that the hospital system is able to respond,” Cullen said of the CDC site's focus. "From a public health perspective, yes, we can respond, but from an individual perspective, people are at risk. Your risk is high right now.”
Understand potential risk
Hospitalization rates during the pandemic are considered a "lagging indicator" of what's happening, while wastewater monitoring is a predictor of not only hospitalization but now — with SARS-CoV-2 wastewater baselines being established — also of infection.
This is a vital now that fewer people are reporting test results.
"As an epidemiologist, the advantages of wastewater surveillance has been impressive. We are getting data on both symptomatic and non-symptomatic individuals," said Derby, the county's lead epidemiologist. "Now with more people using home tests, which may not be reported, we can understand the potential risk to the community as changes in community-level infection occur."
Going forward, the county will be able to monitor other health issues through wastewater, she said.
"We look forward to expanding wastewater surveillance to monitor for possible other community health threats, such as estimating opioid use, measuring antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or detecting a novel strain of influenza that could led to another respiratory pandemic," she said.
Wastewater surveillance has already been used extensively in developing countries as a way to track polio rates. Once detected, she said, vaccine campaigns are started to stop its spread.
There are seven wastewater treatment plants in Pima County and draws are currently happening at four, an effort that's being coordinated with help from the CDC. The CDC in September 2020 developed a National Wastewater Surveillance System to track SARS-CoV-2.
Early warning sentinel
Pepper, with the UA, said while monitoring wastewater when the pandemic is raging is critical, it’s even more important when cases are low "in case you can see the virus coming back.”
Researchers working with Pepper through the Water & Energy Sustainable Technology, or WEST Center, are also looking at shedding rates in Yuma as well as some communities in Florida, coordinated with help from one of Pepper’s former students.
Viruses are usually seen in wastewater samples a week or more before people start showing symptoms.
"It is an early warning sentinel for awareness that a virus is present, increasing, or waning in a community," said Jeff Prevatt, an analytical chemist and deputy director of the county’s Regional Wastewater Reclamation Department.
The benefits extend beyond public health, he said, and will potentially help prevent the kind of economic shutdowns that happened at the beginning of this pandemic.
“It was a disaster what we did to our community, the economic impacts were astounding,” he said of the COVID-19 pandemic. "With wastewater data, that could be better managed and better monitored."
When data is concerning, quickly notify the vulnerable areas, he said, and increase testing and prevention measures.
That's what Pepper and others carried out at the UA to re-open during the pandemic. Next, they hope to make it work around the county.
Contact reporter Patty Machelor at 806-7754 or pmachelor@tucson.com
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Tucson's police chief thought the Nov. 29 killing by an officer was so egregious that he started firing the officer the next day.
Considering criminal charges is taking a lot longer.
As of Sunday, it's six months since Officer Ryan Remington shot Richard Richards in the electric scooter he was using, outside a Lowe's on the southwest side. It was a shocking incident in which the officer fired at Richards nine times from the back as Richards, 61, motored slowly toward the garden center entrance, carrying a knife and refusing to stop.
Video of the incident aroused anger around the country. Still there's been no announcement of a decision on whether the officer will face any criminal charges.
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The delay has been frustrating enough that people have protested outside Pima County Attorney Laura Conover's office. But it's especially disappointing, even to some of her supporters, because this was one of the criminal-justice reform issues that Conover took a strong stand on during her campaign.
She committed to establishing an independent prosecutorial entity to review and prosecute police use-of-force cases. That hasn't happened yet, though she has tried.
The longstanding concern is that prosecutors have too close a relationship with the police they work with daily to also be able to decide fairly whether police officer deserve to be prosecuted when they commit a possible crime.
The connections are even closer in Conover's case.
Conover is the sister of TPD Sgt. Jason Winsky, who is a leader of the Tucson Police Officer's Association.
The family relationship brings up a potential conflict of interest in any case involving a TPD officer, especially TPOA members like Remington.
Her office says she and her brother have a "screen" in place. Conover's spokesman, C.T. Revere, said in an email:
"They do not discuss the facts of these cases and would always be ready to testify to that under oath. A screen like this is effective, as evidenced by the fact that Winsky recused himself off the TPOA endorsement process in 2020, and TPOA then endorsed Conover’s opponent and gave the campaign one of his more sizable donations."
A former Pima County prosecutor who has become Conover's nemesis, filing repeated public records requests and criticizing her performance, said that's not nearly enough.
"TPOA funds the defense of the officers and is supportive of their position," said David Berkman, who was chief criminal deputy in the office under the previous administration. "Conover's brother is an officer of that organization, and the only appropriate action by the county attorney would be to send the case to another agency."
Potential for reforms
But it's not just the police cases that have consternated some of Conover's one-time supporters. Conover is one of a wave of criminal justice reformers elected to prosecutors' jobs across the country in recent years.
Some say she hasn't done enough on other, standard reform issues such as eliminating cash bail. Conover, has, though, followed through on other promises for criminal justice reform, such as no longer pursuing the death penalty in any cases and prosecuting children only in juvenile court, unless the law requires an adult prosecution.
Most prominent supporters I've contacted who are disappointed with how things have gone are local lawyers who fear criticizing Conover openly.
Former Pima County Public Defender Joel Feinman, a strong supporter of Conover's campaign, would only say that the office gives her the power to follow through on her promises.
"The Pima County Attorney is the most powerful position south of the Gila River," said Feinman, on the phone from British Columbia where he recently moved. "It is a position unlike any other. You don’t have to get approval from the Legislature or the U.S. Congress to change criminal justice policies. You can change criminal justice policies with a pen or an email."
But some activists are more direct, saying they've lost faith.
"The community had an appetite for what she was promising," said Lola N'Sangou, executive director of the activist group Mass Liberation. "The problem is she hasn’t delivered on what she was promising."
N'Sangou, whose group supported Conover's campaign, shared a 10-point platform that Mass Liberation asked Conover to sign onto while she was campaigning. Conover did. It includes items such as "Stop punishing poverty: Instruct prosecutors not to seek cash bail as a way of inflicting pre-trial punishment and/or coercing a plea."
The group also met monthly with Conover after she took office until getting frustrated at what they considered Conover's lack of progress.
'Looking for a unicorn'
While the bail issue was perhaps N'Sangou's top critique, she was specifically unhappy that no independent prosecutorial unit had been established to hold police and corrections officers accountable.
In an interview Friday, Conover said she has tried to hire a prosecutor, investigator and legal assistant, but has been unable to so far. Her office advertised the prosecutor's job last year and interviewed a candidate, she said, but that didn't work out.
"Hiring for this position in COVID has been like looking for a unicorn," Conover said. "We came close last summer."
As to the activists, Conover said, "When we talk to an organization that is seeking abolition of prisons and the police, a prosecutor is always going to disappoint."
"I can sleep at night knowing that I didn’t get it all done in the first year, but that’s not OK with a lot of people."
She said she has taken the Remington case to outside attorneys for review -- longtime Maricopa County prosecutor Don Conrad and former Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley. But she and her chief deputy Baird Greene, will ultimately make charging decisions.
Conover's commitment to independent reviews of police cases was tested from the first month she entered office. Pima County Sheriff's Department Deputy Gilbert Caudillo shot and killed 19-year-old Bradley Lewis, whom deputies had pulled over and suspected in another crime. The object the officer thought was a weapon in Lewis' hand turned out to be a key fob.
Initially, veteran prosecutor Rick Unklesbay was given the task of reviewing the shooting, and determined charges should not be filed. Unhappy with Unklesbay's review, and how it was presented to the sheriff's department and public, Conover ordered a second review. That also concluded no charges were warranted.
Substantial likelihood of conviction
In a more recent case, the office reviewed an incident in which off-duty TPD officer Robert Szelewski took two women to the ground in the parking lot of the Culinary Dropout restaurant on East Grant Road.
It was Chief Criminal Deputy Dan South who announced no criminal charges were warranted, because one of the women had walked aggressively toward Szelewski before he took her down.
Echoing a phrase often used when prosecutors decline to press charges against police, South said in a letter “The facts do not support a substantial likelihood of conviction at trial."
South, by the way, has announced he is joining the many departures from the office since Conover took over. In a May 2 letter, he said he would leave on July 8.
Conover was new to political office when she won the race for Pima County Attorney in 2020. She was also a career defense attorney, not a prosecutor. Rep. Raúl Grijalva, a supporter of her candidacy, said that there are some things that even a reformer can't change about a prosecutor's office.
"Reality bites," he said. "You're a prosecutor. You can't get away from that."
But within that role there is a lot you can do — and establishing truly independent, no-conflict-of-interest reviews of police shootings seems like one of those things.
Contact columnist Tim Steller at tsteller@tucson.com or 520-807-7789. On Twitter: @senyorreporter
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SAN ANTONIO — Bus drivers from Northside Independent School District paid tribute to Uvalde CISD Saturday morning by making a heart formation with their busses and physically gathering to spell out 'Uvalde'.
Leroy Montalvo, NISD's Culebra Transportation bus driver, organized the event with his colleagues, NISD Transportation Director Tesilia Garza said.
Station managers from four other stations helped spread the word and invited other transportation employees. In all, employees from five stations gathered in the color Maroon, which is the school color of Robb Elementary, to show their support UCISD.
Garza said UCISD's transportation director and his team were touched by the gesture.
On Tuesday, a gunman walked into Robb Elementary and opened fire in a classroom killing 19 students and two teachers.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A juvenile has died after being shot at an apartment complex in Carmichael early Saturday morning, officials with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office say.
The deadly shooting happened before 1:15 a.m. Saturday in the 4400 block of Manzanita Avenue, according to authorities. Sheriff's deputies say they began receiving 911 calls Saturday morning reporting someone lying on the ground after being shot at a large party.
When deputies arrived to the apartment complex, they say they found a male juvenile suffering from at least one gunshot wound. His age was not released.
Crews with Sacramento Metro Fire responded to the scene and pronounced him dead.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office says they are still investigating the case and have interviewed witnesses and gathered evidence at the scene.
Those with information on the homicide are asked to call the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office at 916-874-5115 or Sacramento Valley Crime Stoppers at 916-443-9357.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento County Homeless Initiative officials showed county supervisors 16 viable sites they could consider for the next 'Safe Stay' sanctioned encampment sites.
During a May 11 board of supervisors meeting, homeless initiative officials laid out a rough development plan regarding four of the viable sites, though only one was county-owned.
Officials say they plan to house future Safe Stay guests in sleeping cabins.
"The other three (sites) are private, and two of them are undisclosed because we have yet to do some of the community work," said Sacramento County Homeless Initiatives Director Emily Halcon. "We estimate, if we were to develop them all, it would be just over $20 million in capital cost."
Two of the four sites county officials are looking into include:
1. 8144 Florin Road, Sacramento (private)
- 125 sleeping cabin spaces
- $6.9 million estimated capital cost
- $4.4 million estimated annual operating cost
2. 5605 Marconi Boulevard, Carmichael (county-owned)
- 20 to 40 sleeping cabin spaces
- $3 million estimated capital cost
- $1.5 million estimated annual operating cost
Halcon said to supervisors that any 'Stay Safe' site under consideration would need county approval, and the community near the site needs to be notified.
She presented the list of viable sites are supervisors requested on February 16 that she and other staff report back on their efforts to identify appropriate sites for expanding homeless sheltering opportunities.
County supervisors also requested an assessment of County-owned land.
Controversy over identified sites
Shortly after Sacramento County Homeless Initiative officials presented the viable sites for future "Safe Stay" locations, residents countywide expressed concern over the perception that these sites were already under development.
County officials said in a May 16 statement that "misconceptions were further exacerbated" when the Sacramento Bee reported on the presented viable sites—though the county didn't allege any factual inaccuracies in the report.
"Specifically the notion that the Carmichael location is somehow already in process... it is not," a county spokesperson said regarding the 5605 Marconi Boulevard site. "Any recommended site will include enough characteristics that staff believe they could support a viable Safe Stay or Safe Parking community."
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Katrina Rasmussen was an eighth grade student in North Texas when she watched the raw, televised images of kids her age running from their Colorado high school while bleeding students and teachers were carried into parked ambulances.
Now, 23 years later, she watched the tragic week’s events in Uvalde unfold as a high school teacher herself, in Dallas and she says it is as if nothing has changed since the Columbine High School shooting.
“We feel like we’re at the mercy of people who don’t even know what it’s like in the classroom,” she said.
Editor's note: Video above is a timeline that ran on KHOU 11 News at 10 p.m. on May 27, 2022.
Across the state, teachers in Texas are finishing out one of the toughest years they have ever seen. A global pandemic closed schools and forced more than 5 million public school students onto laptops and desktop computers at home.
This was to be the successful road back to normalcy for public schools. But after two large COVID-19 surges, a year of angry school board meetings, parents claiming teachers were grooming kids for abuse, and fights over everything from mask mandates for students to what books they can read, teachers were already at a breaking point with nearly 500 quitting even if it meant losing their license.
On top of all of that, Texas passed a law last year prohibiting teachers from discussing “a widely debated and currently controversial issue of public policy or social affairs," the state's so-called "critical race theory" law. And both state lawmakers and Gov. Greg Abbott have called into question books in school libraries about race, gender and sexuality and asked education officials to develop standards to keep "pornographic" books from school shelves, after singling out titles that include LGTBQ characters.
In short, it's been a lot.
Rasmussen said watching the news about the shooting at Robb Elementary School which left 19 children and two teachers dead, including the news conference by Gov. Greg Abbott and other state leaders, she feels she has no control over how to respond to these mass shootings.
“People who have never taught before, make policies that affect every moment of my day, she said. “Right now, that’s really what cuts me the deepest.”
Lakeisha Patterson, an elementary school teacher in Deer Park, said it’s been exhausting watching so many school shootings over the years. When Columbine happened, she said there was a shockwave felt across the country and people came together demanding for change and for action to happen.
Now, she says that she’s tired of hearing the words “thoughts and prayers” after every tragedy.
“As a teacher, not only am I responsible for curriculum, but I have to be a counselor at times a parent, a guardian, a cheerleader, supporter, a nurse, a custodian and now I need to be a police officer,” Patterson said.
A day after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire in a classroom in Uvalde one of Luaren Gonzalez's students asked her a gut-wrenching question.
“Miss Gonzalez, are we safe?” her third grader asked her.
Gonzalez, who teaches in the Pasadena Independent School District, she felt she had to be strong for her students who were the same ages of those who were killed in Uvalde on Tuesday.
“That really got me,” Gonzalez said, trying to hold back tears. “That was something that just really hurt my heart.”
Even before the horrific shooting in Uvalde, the mood among Texas teachers has been one of resignation. Literally.
And that’s on top of a teacher shortage the state was experiencing before the pandemic that is now exacerbated by the return to school forcing Gov. Greg Abbott to create a commission to come up with solutions.
Public education advocates and teachers themselves, fear that this latest incident will be the breaking point for teachers that were already considering leaving the profession since the pandemic hit. All while Texas is already facing a teacher shortage.
Teachers have been leaving with the fear of a shooting happening for years and everytime one occurs that fear just keeps compounding, said Alejandra Lopez, president of San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel.
“We are talking about compounding crises,” Lopez said. “We have the lack of funding and resources, we have had to endure two years of a pandemic and now the reality of school shooting.”
Already there have been more than 200 mass shootings in 2022, according to the The Gun Violence Archive, an independent data collection organization. Teachers, whether here in Texas or anywhere else, feel the pain of shootings in their communities as schools most of the time serve as a community hub.
Lopez said people need to reject the premise that teachers need to be prepared for these incidents and instead figure out ways to stop them from happening entirely. That starts with making it harder to get guns.
Ron Acierno, executive director of the UTHealth Houston Trauma and Resilience Center, said it is “insane” that people are asking how teachers can be better prepared for this situation when people should instead be calling for less gun violence and more gun reform.
“Are we really at that point where that's a valid question?” Acierno said. “It's like saying, how can we prepare children to be sexual exploitation or sex trafficking victims?”
Acierno said for teachers the fear or trauma can start with the school shooter drills they practice throughout the school year, especially for those that have already experienced past trauma.
“They're going into these drills, many of them having already experienced trauma in the background of their life,” he said. “They're dealing with the trauma of their students and then you put this over stress levels that are already very high.”
Nicholas Westers, a clinical psychologist at Children’s Health in Dallas, said it’s normal that students feel anxiety over the mass shooting, but that parents should keep an eye on it if it continues.
With children already dealing with behavioral issues from being stuck at home during the pandemic, Westers said during this time, parents and teachers need to give students reassurance that they will be safe and explain to them how.
“We all have physical needs for food, shelter, water,” he said. “That is most important because if you don't have that, and nothing else really matters and then right above that is safety.”
Westers encouraged parents to have conversations with their children about what they’re feeling, what they’ve heard and what their most worried about.
Andrew Hairston, a civil rights attorney and education policy advocate for Texas Appleseed, an organization that works to address systemic inequalities in state education, said the next steps forward should be a robust expansion of menta health experts in schools.
“That should be a priority for policymakers alleviate the suffering of teachers and young people to invest in those mental health resources,” Hairston.
Rasmussen, who signed her contract for the next school year on the day the shooting occurred, said she has been considering leaving the profession every year for the last couple of years.
“This year, I really was expanding my network, putting my resume out there and doing some deep soul searching over where I want to be this time next year,” she said. “Not from the standpoint that I don't like teaching anymore but from the standpoint of I don't know if I can live like this anymore.”
Many teachers this year saw a dramatic rise in behavior problems in the classrooms this year as students who attended virtual school from their kitchens or bedrooms, had to reaquaint themselves with sitting in a classroom away from home for more than seven hours.
Those increase in student behavior problems are one of the reasons, Darrell Nichols, 30, quit his job in April at a Brazos Valley charter school, near College Station, after teaching for seven years.
“I've been bitten; I've been scratched; I've been punched in my line of work over the last two years, with this last year in particular,” Nichols said.
But Nichols, who left teaching to go into sales, said this past week has hit him hard, particularly as he remembers all the active-shooter drills he did with his own students every few months. His kids are so used to them by now they don’t even question what they are doing.
“It is bringing up a lot of old feelings for me because I had to practice what those teachers drilled for,” said Nicholls, referring to teachers Irma Garcia and Eva Mireles who were killed on Tuesday at Robb Elementary School. “I had my kids hidden away from the window, the door. I would brace myself against the door with my car keys in my hand as a makeshift weapon if I needed to use them.”
He said watching Abbott and other state leaders come to Uvalde and ask for healing prayers for the community, also upset him.
“I didn’t get into the classroom, on the one hand, to be accused of grooming my students and on the other hand being asked to take an AR-15 clip for them,” Nichols said. “And no one I know got into the teaching profession for that.”
Reporter Jason Beeferman contributed to this story.
This story comes from our KHOU 11 News partners at The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans - and engages with them - about public policy, politics, government, and statewide issues.
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A Chicago-based developer broke ground last week on Green Oaks of Valparaiso, a 120-unit assisted living community for low-income seniors.
Evergreen Real Estate Group started construction on a three-story building with 48 studio apartments and 72 one-bedroom apartments. It's investing $30 million into the new senior community at 2550 Morthland Drive.
“We are thrilled to now have construction underway at our second affordable assisted living community in Indiana,” said Steve Rappin, CEO of Evergreen Real Estate Group. “Green Oaks of Valparaiso will not only provide area seniors with safe, affordable housing in a familiar setting, but also the care and social interaction that significantly enhances their quality of life.”
Green Oaks of Valparaiso will be open only to residents at least 62 years old and with incomes at or below 60% of the area median. Those who qualify can receive financial assistance.
“Our mission is to enrich the lives of the residents of Green Oaks of Valparaiso by providing them with the love, compassion and dignity they deserve, in addition to the personal assistance, help with medications and support services they need,” said Rick Banas, vice president of development and positioning for Gardant Management Solutions. “We also know residents will benefit from all of the opportunities to socialize with family, friends and neighbors and participate in a wide variety of recreational, educational and wellness activities that we will offer.”
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Each apartment will include a private bath, walk-in shower, emergency alert call system, individual heating and air conditioning, and kitchenette with an electric range, microwave and refrigerator.
The community will offer a media and theater room, computer room, fitness center, meeting room, beauty salon, library, community garden and outdoor area.
The project is slated to be finished in April of next year.
“So far, we have completed site grading, dug retention ponds and installed drainage infrastructure," said Andre Pintauro, president of Evergreen Construction Company. "Even as we continue to experience some pandemic-related challenges with supplies and labor, we expect to complete construction on time next spring, thanks in part to our integrated model that allows us to work in lockstep with the development team.”
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First Merchants Bank was recently named one of Indiana's best workplaces.
The Muncie-based bank, which has a large footprint in Northwest Indiana, ranked 4th in Best Companies Group's Great Employers to Work for in Indiana.
Best Companies Group based the rankings on anonymous employee surveys and a review of workplace practices, company programs and employee benefits. First Merchants was recognized in the large employer category, reserved for companies with at least 250 employees in the United States.
“This recognition is another proof point of our commitment to a strong and welcoming organizational culture,” said First Merchants CEO Mark Hardwick. “In line with our ‘helping you prosper' approach to service, our ability to serve our communities is only possible by having a diverse team of caring and competent professionals. Our employees across the organization have a level of attentiveness that is unmatched.”
Best Companies Group is an independent research firm that has recognized employers across the country for 17 years. Its surveys are meant to help with employee recruitment and retention by providing companies with actionable intelligence that would otherwise be hard to obtain.
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The annual contest is open to businesses with operations in Indiana, at least 15 employees working in the Hoosier State and a track record of being in business for at least one year.
First Merchants Bank is the second largest bank in Indiana with $18 billion in assets. It has branches in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio.
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GARY — A 20-year-old Gary man is dead after suffering an apparent gunshot wound Friday morning in the area of 21st Avenue and Clark Road, police say.
He was identified as Derrick Davis and he was pronounced dead at 11:15 a.m., according to a report from Lake County Coroner David Pastrick.
Davis's death was classified as a homicide and he died from gunshot wounds, the report said.
The 911 call came in just before 10 a.m. and members of the Lake County/Gary Metro Homicide Unit were reportedly still canvassing the area Friday afternoon.
"Investigators are still trying to piece together how it happened," police said.
Gary officers were aided by the Gary Fire Department EMS and the Lake County Sheriff's Department CSI unit.
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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MERRILLVILLE — A Hobart police officer was accused of fraud at two Region home improvement stores that amounted to thousands of dollars of loss, according to legal documents.
D'Andre Lamar Spears, 33, of Merrillville, faces four counts of Level 6 felony fraud, Lake Criminal Court records said. His alleged accomplice, Christopher Blane, 42, of Crown Point, was charged with seven counts of Level 6 felony theft, one count of fraud and two counts of misdemeanor theft.
The Hobart Police Department issued a statement Friday about the allegations, stating that the police administration learned Spears was the subject of a criminal investigation Wednesday. Hobart Chief of Police Garrett Ciszewski was presented with the preliminary evidence and took immediate action by placing Spears on paid administrative leave pending administrative and criminal investigations.
"The allegations against the police officer in no way represent the 67 other police officers, who continue to proudly serve and protect the Hobart community," said Hobart Police Department Capt. James Gonzales. "Although the criminal investigation of this officer may cast a negative stigma on Hobart officers and law enforcement as a whole, we would like to emphasize to our community that the allegations are not indicative of the Hobart Police Department or law enforcement as a whole."
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Court records stated that Merrillville police were called around noon May 13 to Lowe's Home Improvement at 1520 East 79th Avenue in Merrillville.
There, they met with a loss prevention manager, who said his investigation began when he noticed items were missing from his inventory.
After reviewing transaction lists and video surveillance, he saw Blane walking out with large amounts of merchandise without paying for them on multiple occasions. The court reports allege that Blane frequented the store with a Hobart police officer, identified as Spears by his uniform.
The loss prevention employee said Spears would often arrive to the store wearing his uniform and park his squad car on the east side of the building.
Spears would meet up with Blane and the two would walk through the store and talk to employees. Blane would load up carts with merchandise and exit the building without paying, court documents alleged.
Between March 4 and March 22, the employee was able to identify 10 separate instances where Blane stole merchandise.
During this time, Blane allegedly stole items like tile, several doors, plumbing items, doors, counter tops, sinks and more, amounting to thousands of dollars of stolen goods.
In addition, Blane was found to be returning the stolen goods to the Merrillville Lowe's on April 1 using Spears' ID number and showing a photo of Spears' license on his phone, the court records state. Blane received $1,804 for the return of the stolen items.
In addition, the loss prevention employee said Spears returned items that Blane stole to the Lowe's store in Schererville, receiving thousands of dollars in store credit, according to court records.
The total amount for the returned items was $9,133 and when employees questioned Spears' returns with no receipts, he was paraphrased as stating, "Do you think I would lie? You know what I do for a living."
On March 7, it was found that Spears was using a merchandise card that Blane had received before when returning stolen tiles.
Police reviewed further surveillance video, which showed Blane and Spears in uniform stealing items and loading them up into a GMC truck. Photos also showed Spears returning the stolen merchandise and unloading the items from the same truck.
On Friday online court records showed that a warrant was issued for Spears and bail was set at $30,000. A warrant was also issued for Blane with bail set at $50,000.
The Board of Public Works is set to review the investigation findings to determine if Spears will continue paid leave or be put on unpaid administrative leave.
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SAN ANTONIO — Bus drivers from Northside Independent School District paid tribute to Uvalde CISD Saturday morning by making a heart formation with their busses and physically gathering to spell out 'Uvalde'.
Leroy Montalvo, NISD's Culebra Transportation bus driver, organized the event with his colleagues, NISD Transportation Director Tesilia Garza said.
Station managers from four other stations helped spread the word and invited other transportation employees. In all, employees from five stations gathered in the color Maroon, which is the school color of Robb Elementary, to show their support UCISD.
Garza said UCISD's transportation director and his team were touched by the gesture.
On Tuesday, a gunman walked into Robb Elementary and opened fire in a classroom killing 19 students and two teachers.
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LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. — Lehigh Acres firefighters extinguished a fire that sparked in the sink of a restroom building Saturday morning.
According to the Lehigh Acres Fire Department (FD), the restroom building fire occurred at 55 Homestead Rd S in Veterans Park.
🔥 We just extinguished a fire in the restroom building at Veterans Park (55 Homestead Rd S). The fire was in a bathroom sink inside the restroom, smoke also filled the adjacent storage room. pic.twitter.com/3Cl64OTq9Y
— Lehigh Acres Fire Control and Rescue District (@LehighAcresFD) May 28, 2022
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO) and investigators with the Bureau of Fire, Arson, and Explosives are investigating a possible cause for the fire at this time.
Count on NBC2 to provide updates as more information is released.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Local scouts, veterans and community members took the time to place flags on the graves of veterans on Saturday, marking one of many remembrance events slated for the weekend.
Nearly 17,000 graves were honored with an American flag across the entire cemetery, and each was placed with care by several local organizations along with other groups:
- Boy Scouts of America
- Girl Scouts
- Trail Life USA
- American Heritage Girls
- Veterans of Foreign Wars
- Operation Rolling Thunder
The act was part of a nationwide ceremony which tasks locals with placing flags at every veteran grave across the country.
“It’s the one time a year the National Cemetery Administration, part of the Veteran’s Administration, we get to showcase what we do and honor the veterans that are interred here for their sacrifice and service,” said Sue Nan Jehlen, director of Mountain Home Cemetery. “Especially those that were returning from the wars that died to fight for the freedom here.”
For the volunteers visiting the site, part of that push is remembering veterans’ service with some of their own.
“What we’re hoping to do is to impress upon these young men and women that are here today the sacrifice that these men and women made for their country,” Trail Life Troup Master David Hays said. “For the people that are here today, so we can enjoy these freedoms, so we can have a picnic this weekend.”
For those who can’t visit the grave of their loved ones this memorial day, Jehlen encouraged a visit to the Veterans Legacy Memorial.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – Science Hill High School just minted a fresh batch of graduates on Saturday, and many already have their sights set high.
571 seniors got the chance to turn their tassels in Freedom Hall after a rainy forecast moved all ceremonies inside. For the class of 2022, a change of venue was a small alteration in the face of the last two years.
“It definitely was not what I was expecting going in but it made me closer to the people in our community- from our entire class to even like just the theatre program or even biology class,” said Ansley Wilson, who’s headed to Ohio State in the fall. “Everybody became a lot closer, a lot stronger together. That was really fun.”
While the venue was packed out, one seat remained empty save for a cap, a gown and a rose. That one, school officials said, was reserved in memory of members of the cohort that passed away since their journeys began in Kindergarten.
Athletes weighed in on the opportunities gained and lost as upperclassmen: a lot of prospects didn’t get the chance to set themselves out on the field or court as teams waited for seasons to return.
“We missed out on basically two years of activities, sports and extracurriculars,” said Micah Richardson, ETSU hopeful. “It made it a little less enjoyable, but made classes easier too.”
All in all, the ceremony was marked with the excitement and nerves seen every year.
“It’s like a weight’s been lifted,” Wilson said. “I’m very excited for the adventure that’s going to be the rest of my life. I can’t wait to see my friends and family… it’s very freeing.”
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Last weekend, Nampa Police Department responded to a 911 call about a shooting at a house on South Drifter Loop in Nampa.
On Monday, 23-year-old Junior Gamboa, aka Alfonso Emmanuel Leon, was arrested and placed in custody in the Ada County Jail in connection with the shooting. He is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder and a felony probation violation. He was then transferred to the Canyon County Jail on Wednesday.
NPD identified the victim of the shooting as 20-year-old Julie Martinez of Buhl. Police said she was taken to Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise, where she died.
During the investigation, police interviewed multiple individuals who said Leon was at the house with a gun prior to the incident, according to a probable cause affidavit (PCA) issued by an NPD officer on May 22.
In the PCA, officials state that one person heard Leon and Martinez arguing behind closed doors in the house prior to the shooting. The court document says people at the house later heard a thud, so one person went to investigate. Leon told the individual that “it was an accident” and that Martinez had taken his gun and shot herself. Leon then said that he had blacked out and could not remember anything, according to the court document.
The individual then retreated and Leon asked, “Who are you going to call?”. Another individual in the house saw Leon and that person arguing. According to the PCA, after a physical confrontation between the two, Leon drove away from the house knowing of Martinez’s injuries and did not seek medical attention before leaving the scene.
The document goes on to state that there were several previously unreported physical domestic batteries between Leon and Martinez.
Martinez’s family said that Leon was her boyfriend and alleges that she was a victim of domestic violence.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Indiana State Police released the autopsy and toxicology report of the little boy found in a suitcase in the woods of Washington County in a press conference Friday.
Sgt. Carey Huls said the little boy died from electrolyte imbalance.
"Most likely due to gastroenteritis, which in layman's terms means vomiting and diarrhea, which most likely resulted in dehydration. The toxicology report was negative," said Huls.
Huls said detectives have looked into known missing children cases, and are aware of details surrounding the suitcase.
What they really need, he said, is first-hand knowledge of the boy and suitcase.
"Knowing it wasn't this, or knowing it wasn't that, that caused the death, that opens up more possibilities sometimes, but it also precludes other possibilities," said Huls.
ISP created a national tip line for this case specifically.
"Somebody knows something," he said.
Huls also confirmed the lead detective is solely focused on this case.
Washington County will hold a funeral Wednesday, June 1 for the boy at 11 a.m. at Weather's Funeral Home in Salem, Indiana.
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BLOOMINGTON — The Heart of Illinois Cluster Dog Show returned to Bloomington this weekend with over 100 dog breeds from across the globe gathering at the Interstate Center.
Brenda Matherly, chairperson of the Cornbelt Kennel Club, said there were over 800 dogs there on Saturday alone. She noted that Saturday and Sunday of the show are usually busier than Friday and Monday.
The event is hosted by two organizations, Cornbelt Kennel Club and the Illinois Valley Kennel Club. Each organization hosts split days: Friday and Sunday for IVKC while Cornbelt has Saturday and Monday. Matherly said this ensures both clubs have a busy day and a light day.
The dogs are separated based on their characteristics into seven different groups, such as hound group or sporting group. They are then judged on categories like health and quality of movement. Winners move up in rank and receive more points in the competition.
A dog can only compete in one group, Matherly said, but a handler can have multiple dogs enter the competition as long as they manage their time correctly.
"Most dogs will start their show career at 6 months," she said.
However, Matherly said there is no monetary incentive for the owners. Winners will receive vouchers for vendors at the show, but no cash money. Instead, dogs get judged and move up in rank, and can become champions and grand-champions, she explained. This increases the dog's "breeder stock," a valuation determining the quality of pups they will have. Matherly said the shows and rankings "show that (handlers) are breeding quality animals."
Matherly said the shows she has attended "very rarely have incidents" between dogs, and that the handlers take great care with their animals.
"These people are committed to their dogs," she said.
The show continues Sunday and Monday, starting at 8 a.m. each day at the Interstate Center, 1106 Interstate Drive, Bloomington. Admission is free for spectators.
For more information, go to www.cornbeltkennelclub.org.
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BLOOMINGTON — The West Market Street Council will allocate a portion of a $10,000 crime prevention grant to set up a Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Center on Bloomington's west side.
The grant comes through a coordination between the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action. Karen Irvin from the McLean County chapter of Moms Demand Action said the grant is one of 10 that Everytown for Gun Safety issues annually to communities across the country.
Irvin said the grants were awarded to organizations who serve "people, places and spaces that have been affected by gun violence."
The funds will also be used for a beautification project through West Market Street Council, as well as the annual West Bloomington Block Party on Aug. 6, the council said in a news release.
Organizers said the VIP Center's pop-up tent will make its inaugural appearance at the annual Wear Orange Day program from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, June 4, at Anderson Park in Normal. Wear Orange is a national organization that recognizes and honors victims of gun violence by wearing the color that hunters wear for safety. It began in June 2015 after teenager Hadiya Pendleton was shot and killed in Chicago.
Later that evening, Jazz Upfront, 107 W. Front St. in Bloomington, will host a celebration with a buffet and music for the VIP Center starting at 6 p.m. The celebration is open to the public, but they will be accepting donations for the center.
Dameca Kirkwood will lead the VIP Center. She said her vision is for it to be a place "where you're able to come and know that you are valued, that you are a very important person, know that how you're feeling, what you're feeling can be real, and to try to give the individual a certain kind of path to deal with (conflict) outside of violence."
Kirkwood said, "I want it to be a place where you can come if there's a bad situation, where you can come and you can feel good about the day."
"Right now it's a tent," Kirkwood said, though she hopes that there will be a brick-and-mortar location in the future.
Irvin said Kirkwood "has a unique perspective on young people and how they've been affected by gun violence."
Kirkwood said her main motivation is the loss of her 27-year-old son, Trevonte, in October 2018. "I never wanted to do this. I never wanted to do any of this. Whether it's crying, public speaking, VIP," she said. If not for Trevonte's murder, she said, "there wouldn't be any talk, there wouldn't be any grant."
Jordyn H. Thornton was convicted in February of first-degree murder in Trevonte Kirkwood's death; his sentencing is scheduled for June 28. A co-defendant, Quentin Jackson, was sentenced last year to 17 years in prison for his role in the shooting.
When her son died, Kirkwood said, she was not prepared for anything that would come afterward. She described how difficult it was to visit his body after they had performed the autopsy, and how she had to tell her 5-year-old granddaughter that her father was dead. "I was not ready to pick out a casket," she said.
"Now I know," Kirkwood said. "You know better, you do better, I don't want to prepare anybody for this life."
She said that is her hope for the VIP Center: "We try and get in front of it."
Irvin said she hopes the VIP Center can "provide opportunities for conversations about gun violence."
Kirkwood said the name, VIP, started at her own kitchen table. She would allow people into her home to sit and talk, as "very important persons," about the violence going on in their lives. Now, she said, there are always young people coming to her and seeking advice from "Auntie 'Meca." She said youths in the area call, text and send her emails about issues ranging from violence at school to guns in the house.
"I have every intention to do the best that I can for our community, for the young African Americans, Latinos, Caucasians — it doesn't matter at this point. These young people and these kids, they need an outlet," Kirkwood said.
"I just know that I have to do it, as a mom. I can't turn away from it," she said.
The VIP Center can be contacted via email at vipofblono@gmail.com or by phone at 309-362-0114.
West Market Street Council can be reached via email at westmarketstreetcouncil@gmail.com or by phone at 309-287-1813.
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While attending the first day of BottleRock, the music and wine festival annually held in Napa, it was hard not to think about the recent scourge of gun violence that’s horrified the country.
Onstage, singers called for action. Throughout the festival grounds, concert-goers admitted feeling nervous about being in a crowd, meanwhile security teams clad in military-style gear served as a constant presence.
Oakland-based blues musician Fantastic Negrito noted in his set that the issue of gun violence hits particularly close to home for him. Negrito, whose birth name is Xavier Amin Dphrepaulezz, lost his brother to gun violence when he was just 14-years-old.
He then broke into a song aptly titled, “You Better Have a Gun,” but made sure to tell the audience, “don’t take it literally, dummies.”
On a day when many bands made statements, Misterwives’ performance was perhaps the most overtly political. The indie pop group, led by frontwoman Mandy Lee, addressed multiple issues during their set.
Performing in front of a red screen with the words “Bans off our bodies” in massive block letters, Lee called out to the crowd begging to politicians: “For the love of god, regulate guns not women’s bodies.” The line received thunderous applause.
Even headliner Metallica, not a band known to shy away from violent imagery, seemed to soften at least one lyric. While performing the 1982 hit “Seek and Destroy”, in which the title is repeated multiple times, lead singer James Hetfield replaced one line in the chorus with the words “love each other.”
The theme extended beyond just the performers. Along with the typical festival garb of face paint and faux-retro threads, a number of patrons wore hats and shirts with political slogans such as “real men don’t support violence” and “say gay, say trans, say love.”
One less hopeful message read simply: “We’re so f—ked.”
Thankfully, fans and performers alike seemed intent on making the event as safe as possible. The rock band Spoon and the hip-hop artist SAINt JHN both halted their sets mid-song when they saw fans suffering from dehydration. Both times the crowds moved aside as quickly as possible to allow paramedics to get through.
Some festival attendees found that enjoying themselves was the ultimate sign of defiance against domestic terror. “It’s horrible, but nothing will stop me from going to concerts,” said a young woman who drove to BottleRock from San Diego.
That comment was in-line with an instruction from Mandy Lee, of Misterwives, to the crowd: “We have to leave here feeling better than when we arrived.”
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North Kingstown shelter says it may have to close due to financial trouble, displacing more than 100 cats
NORTH KINGSTOWN — Operators of a no-kill cat shelter say it's in danger of closing due to financial trouble.
Fundraising efforts for the Pet Refuge were essentially shut down for two years because of COVID restrictions, and now the shelter is having trouble paying the cost of caring for its more than 100 cats, shelter operators say.
"Everything we do is fundraising and donations. We weren't able to do any fundraising. We lost a lot of money," said Kim Filburn, secretary for the North Kingstown-Exeter Animal Protection League, which runs the shelter.
"We are in dire financial trouble," she said. "We might have to close down."
The organization was started in 1968, and it has been running a shelter from the Stony Lane location since 2004, according to Linda Stevens, president of the nonprofit organization.
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One of the largest shelters for cats in Rhode Island, the Pet Refuge accepts cats from all over the state. It doesn't euthanize animals because of lack of space or medical conditions, but rather only if the cat has a fatal disease or severe pain.
As a result, the facility has about 30 resident cats or "lifers," which haven't been adopted because of temperament, age or medical condition, Stevens said.
"We have cats that have lived at the shelter for their entire lives," Filburn said.
The North Kingstown-Exeter Animal Protection League doesn't receive any municipal funding and generates all of its own financing, much of it through in-person efforts such as dinners or campaigns in front of stores. All of that was curtailed during the height of the pandemic and is only now starting up again.
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It costs about $180,000 annually to run the shelter, the women said. Expenses include food and medical care for the cats. Spaying and neutering alone costs $15,000 to $20,000 annually, according to Stevens. Other costs include paying for one full- and four part-time staffers, as well as heat and electricity for the building, which is likely to need a new roof and HVAC system within a couple of years, Stevens said.
The shelter has started a GoFundMe appeal with a goal of $50,000.
"We have done many gofundme appeals over the years to help individual cats, and now we have to do one to save our beloved shelter," the appeal says. "Without a significant infusion of money and fast, the doors to the Pet Refuge may close forever."
Stevens believes Rhode Island's housing crunch also put an extra strain on the shelter. It's not uncommon for an owner to surrender a pet because they've lost housing or must move where they can't have a pet.
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"We get calls nearly every day from people who have to surrender their beloved animals due to their own displacement in their circumstances," the GoFundMe appeal says. "We want to keep our doors open to continue to take in these cats and kittens, often the ones that other shelters will not or can not take."
"We truly are a refuge and are often the place of last resort," the appeal says. "And we want to make sure that every cat at Pet Refuge has a home with us until they get a forever home, or for their entire lives if they don’t.
What happens if the shelter has to close?
"I can't even think about it," said Filburn. "We'd have to see if we could get somebody else to take the cats."
Stevens said, "We just want to keep saving cats."
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How a Boston woman wound up owning RI's 'Conjuring house'
Jacqueline Nuñez was sitting on the couch in her Boston home one lazy Saturday morning, sipping coffee and watching TV when something happened that would thrust her into the spotlight of the paranormal world.
She was checking what was trending on Google when her phone blew up with story after story that the house that inspired "The Conjuring" movie was for sale.
Her first thoughts:
"Oh, my God, I need to find out where this is, what this is," she recounted Thursday. "When I realized it was only an hour from me — I need to see this; I need to own this."
The house, at 1677 Round Top Rd., Burrillville, was owned then by Cory and Jenn Heinzen, who ran tours during the day and rented it out overnight to people who styled themselves as paranormal investigators.
Without divulging her interest, Nuñez booked the first available tour, two days later on a Monday afternoon.
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Nuñez's first visit to the 'Conjuring' house
That Monday. Nuñez, a real estate developer was working on a job site in East Boston. "I cut out early," she said.
"I remember walking the grounds just in awe of it," she said. At 8.5 acres of mostly open land, with ancient stonewalls, a footbridge crossing a creek and woods, it was just what she had been looking for — any paranormal presence was just a bonus.
She still kept quiet about he motives while on the tour. "I just went up to Cory, introduced myself, told him how much I loved the house."
But she knew she had to own it.
"This kind of checked all the boxes for me," she said. "Five o'clock, I got home and I wrote up an offer."
It took some negotiating. The Heinzens had asked $1.2 million, and Nuñez had to come up "substantially" on her initial offer; they closed Thursday at $1.525 million.
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Is Nuñez afraid of living in 'The 'Conjuring' house?
Nuñez won't quite be living in the house, she said while showing visitors around Thursday shortly after all the papers were signed and it became hers.
"That was one of the conditions of the sale: whoever bought this could not live here year-round," she said.
She will keep her house in Boston but spend a lot of daytime hours in the Burrillville house, sleeping there about one week a month.
But she doesn't plan on being "alone" there.
"I fully expect some paranormal phenomena to happen to me," she said. "I expect to be startled. I expect to be scared that I'm experiencing something, but I don't expect a malevolent experience."
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It wouldn't be her first paranormal experience. That happened about six years ago while converting a building she owned in Boston into condos. "I had a physical experience with an entity in a house once: They physically touched my arms and my hands."
"I'm more afraid of the living than I am of the dead," she said, with a nod toward frequent trespassers who have beset previous owners of the house. (Cory Heinzen said that was one of his motivations for selling.)
"I know it's going to be an issue at certain times of the year," she said.
Who is Jacqueline Nuñez?
Nuñez, 58, is owner of Boston-based WonderGroup, a real-estate development firm.
She was born in Kansas and "grew up" in Indiana and Oklahoma.
She was a college volleyball player, and has a bachelor's degree from Northwestern University.
She came to the University of Rhode Island as an assistant women's volleyball coach and earned a master's degree from URI.
A desire to pursue a law career brought her Boston, where she got a law degree from Northeastern University.
A desire not to be a lawyer pushed her into development.
She said she has been interested in the paranormal for as long as she can remember, probably an outgrowth from a love of horror films.
A horror-film fan with an interest in the paranormal probably can't own a better house than the one that inspired one of the biggest horror films of all time.
"What I love about this house: It does enable people to connect with people who have moved on," she said. "It's so beautiful and so peaceful."
Nuñez has plans for the 'Conjuring' house
At first, not much will change from how the Heinzens have run the house. All bookings for overnight stays in 2022 will be honored, Nuñez said. She plans to restart daytime tours.
For next year, after she has had time to learn the business and "learn the house," she hopes to add offerings for the paranormal community, though she's not prepared to go into much detail yet. "I want to do things that will attract the community."
One experience she's considering: "mini-investigations," where people with no experience with the paranormal could book a few hours, rather than a whole night, and be assisted by an experienced paranormal investigator.
Despite her being a real estate developer, Nuñez said there are no condos or other development planned. Her purchase of the property was for personal reasons and to keep the house open to the paranormal community.
"That is my intent for now. I certainly have to pay the bills for it all. For the foreseeable future, I'll be growing it as a business," she said. "This is me. That's what this is about."
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — A deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office was transported to UAB Hospital following a motorcycle accident on Pike Road Saturday afternoon.
According to Truman Fitzgerald with the Birmingham Police Department, the deputy was travelling on a motorcycle escorting a funeral when he was involved in an accident in the 2000 block of Pike Road around 1:44 p.m.
Fitzgerald reports that the deputy’s injuries are non-life threatening, but serious.
No other information is available at this time.
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BLAINE, Wash. — Editor's note: The above video originally aired May 25, 2022.
The Blaine Police Department said it arrested a boy Saturday after "prank" school threats led to classes being canceled and an hours-long lockdown of the main campus earlier this week.
On Friday, the Blaine Police Department received reports of threatening text messages sent to three juveniles. Blaine police said in a statement Saturday that the messages were "very similar" to the threatening messages that led to the Blaine School District's main campus to go into lockdown on Wednesday.
Just after 12:45 a.m. Saturday, Blaine police were made aware of an additional threatening text. Officers contacted the boy who received the threat and determined through the investigation that the boy was the one sending the threatening text messages. Blaine police said officers confronted the boy about "inconsistencies" in his story.
The boy eventually admitted that he sent all of the threatening messages and that he meant them as a prank, police said.
All of the threats were made through a third-party app called TextNow.
After consulting the Whatcom County Prosecutor's Office, the boy was arrested in Bellingham Saturday and booked him into the Whatcom County Juvenile Detention Center.
"I appreciate the patience you, as our community have had this week. I understand how stressful and difficult it has been," said Blaine Police Chief Donnell "Tank" Tanksley.
On Wednesday, the Blaine School District's main campus went on lockdown after it was reported one of its students received text message threats from an unknown source.
The student received additional threats that "escalated in seriousness and indicated a person was in the school with a weapon," according to a joint statement Wednesday from the school district and the Blaine Police Department.
The campus, which includes a primary school, elementary, middle and senior high school, went on lockdown out of "an abundance of caution,” police said.
Police said all Blaine schools had “been cleared and are safe" Wednesday afternoon.
The incident canceled classes Thursday and Friday while police investigated the threats.
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The Economic Development Corporation Michigan City plans to celebrate its 25th anniversary with a gala this summer.
The economic development agency will present its annual business investment awards and host a Silver Anniversary Gala at 5:30 p.m. July 21 in the Stardust Event Center at the Blue Chip Hotel & Casino, 777 Blue Chip Drive in Michigan City.
It's a black-tie event celebrating prosperity, innovation, growth, synergy and investment, according to the EDCMC.
“The five concepts are really at the core of what we do here at the EDCMC. While we may be the starting point for site selectors and startups, we move beyond initial conversations and contacts by offering assistance along the way,” EDCMC Executive Director Clarence Hulse said. “Innovation and synergy of private, nonprofit and government agencies are essential to maintaining growth and prosperity and bringing investment into our region.”
The EDCMC works to bring jobs, investment and economic development to the lakefront city in LaPorte County. It also seeks to be a resource for businesses, workforce development initiatives and community groups, taking a holistic approach to developing Michigan City's economy such as by ensuring there's a skilled workforce.
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“We understand that results are driven by partnerships and working together. We have had the opportunity to bring together people and agencies across the board to get things done,” Hulse said. “Our groundwork for a long-term strategy is based on four tenets: workforce development and talent attraction, economic modernization, placemaking and aggressively telling the story.”
Michigan City has been making progress in recent years, Hulse said. He pointed to the South Shore Line's Double Track project, forthcoming downtown housing projects and the hotel with a rooftop pool planned across from the Lubeznik Center for the Arts.
“The 11th Street Central mixed-use development includes a new train station for the South Shore Line, luxury residential apartments, commercial space and a parking garage,” Hulse said. “This is the single most impactful development in decades that we have the opportunity to use as a platform for even more growth. The Double Track project is expected to shave the commute time from here to Chicago from 1 hour 41 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes to attract residents and businesses here. With the expansion of Burn ‘Em Brewing and additional residential and commercial developments planned, we are seeing the additional quality of life elements that go hand-in-hand with everything we already have in place to create a community that we can all love and enjoy for years to come.”
The Economic Development Corporation Michigan City plans to toast to its past successes and the future growth it anticipates.
“Twenty-five years of dedication to creating jobs, attracting new businesses, supporting our entrepreneurs ... It’s been 25 years of making an immeasurable impact on our communities through leading events, exploring answers to challenges and building a spirited and lively place for all who live here,” said Linda Simmons, EDCMC board chair and director of marketing at Visit Michigan City LaPorte. “The EDCMC is honored to have the opportunity to be a component of all things Michigan City as our community sees continued momentum and prosperity at an amazing level.”
For tickets, visit www.edcmc.com/edcmc-silver-anniversary-gala-investment-awards/. For more information call 219-873-1211 or email admin@edcmc.com.
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GRIFFITH — A decade ago, downtown Griffith was half empty and riddled with vacant storefronts.
Today, it's become a destination with vinyl record shops, craft breweries, a comic book shop and specialty grocers. New restaurants and sweet shops continue to open.
Grindhouse Cafe brought a jolt of caffeine when it arrived at 146 N. Broad St. back in 2012. It drew people from across the Region with its locally roasted specialty coffee, menu from a former head chef at 3 Floyds and hip ambiance that blends punk, indie, Dungeons & Dragons and pop culture paraphernalia.
Now the coffee shop, which has since expanded to downtown Whiting, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It's partnered with a number of area businesses on celebratory collaborations, including a Cactor-ita Cactor Margarita at Ricochet Tacos, a Cactor Slushie-Style Berliner beer with Windmill Brewing and a Diamonds of the Dale Bao Zhong Oolong India Pale Aler with New Oberpfalz. It's coming out with a hot sauce, Italian Ice and several other 10th anniversary products.
"I kind of needed it to succeed," said Gabe Mauch, who co-founded the business with his sister Kate Mauch. "It's something I had been planning since culinary school. We were pinching our pennies and learning the industry. I worked at so many coffee shops before Grindhouse. It was exactly what we wanted it to be. I'm very proud of myself and sister for getting us here. I plan to retire doing this. It's low-risk, low-reward. I'm never going to be a millionaire doing it but I've got a kid now to put through school."
Mauch credits the hard work of Grindhouse's baristas with helping him realize their vision.
After culinary school, Mauch cooked at 3 Floyds Brewpub, where he worked his way up to head chef. He worked at a series of coffee shops, including Spill the Beans in Merrillville, Blue Room in Hammond and Cornucopia in Valparaiso.
"I learned what was a really good idea and what was a terrible idea," he said. "I learned how to lay out a coffee shop: the milk, the fridge, things like that. I worked at higher quality coffee shops and learned good coffee is straight-up better and you shouldn't skimp on quality."
A friend Mauch sat on the bench with in Little League and who came to his wedding knew he had a coffee shop dream and told him about an opening in downtown Griffith.
"It was a storybook thing," he said. "I told my sister about it and we decided to make the jump."
Downtown Griffith was a much quieter place back then. It was long before the glowing write-ups in Crain's Chicago Business, the gourmet popcorn shops and other unique attractions.
"Downtown Griffith wasn't the downtown Griffith it is now. It wasn't cool," he said. "It's another world now. I was raised in Griffith and love this town. But when I was in middle school and high school you went to Boz Hot Dogs. It wasn't too bustling."
Now it's filled with businesses like New Oberpfalz, Sweet Moon Macaron and Lady's Gourmet Popcorn.
"It was neat to be one of those first more niche businesses to be part of the downtown," Mauch said. "At first, it was just a couple of employees. My sister still had her grown-up job. I was paying myself minimum wage to get our dreams off the ground."
They built the coffee shop themselves.
"We had talked to banks about opening up a business and had been laughed out of getting a loan," he said. "So we saved money. We did everything we could learn to save money. We put the floor in ourselves. We built the bathroom. We were scrappy kids who were going to make it work in the early years."
Grindhouse grew through word of mouth. Even as the number of craft coffee shops has proliferated since in Northwest Indiana, it still draws visitors from Hammond, Schererville and many other towns.
"We get a lot of Chicago cyclists passing by," he said. "It's mostly a Lake County destination but it's a bit of a destination. Coffee lovers are a weird breed. When a new coffee shop opens, it's like a new brewery. We've got to go to check it out."
From the start, Grindhouse drew a diverse crowd. It's long been a place for conversation, gathering or solitary creative pursuits.
"People use our space to do art like drawing," he said. "Knitting groups will come in. People will play Dungeons and Dragons while office types are buying and selling stocks in the corner. People play Magic: The Gathering while pastors meet with people. We appeal to all types. Our demographic is anyone who has a mouth."
People's coffee tastes have gotten more sophisticated in recent years. They also are drawn to the cafe atmosphere, Mauch said.
"It's just more of a real personal thing," he said. "It's more craft and less capitalistic, I guess. We've entrenched ourselves in the community. People just like an independent cafe It has a 'je ne sais quoi.'"
The coffee shop is filled with pop culture artifacts like concert posters, wrestling action figures and a bootleg toy of Uncle Owen's charred remains from "Star Wars."
"I'm kind of incapable of not seeing the world through the eyes of a punk teenager," Mauch said. "They shaped a lot of my view of the world. It's an eclectic, cool coffee filled with band flyers and references to video games, podcasts and whatever aesthetics me and my sister like. It's not homogenized and not so cool my grandma would feel uncomfortable. It's got everything from Dungeons and Dragons to punk rock."
People flock there for coffee, tea, lattes and specialty drinks like the popular seasonal Cactor Frozen Pear Lemonade, a purple slushie available from April through September every year.
"It's become a big event," he said. "We give margarita glasses to the first 25 people. They line up at 7 a.m. One was decked out in a purple suit."
Grindhouse has a roster of popular rotating specials like the Laughing Librarian and Sproh Rootie but is constantly coming out with new ones to keep it fresh. it serves Metropolis and Dark Matter Coffee out of Chicago, and Smugglers, Botz, Dagger Mountain, Yaggy Road and Smalltown out of Northwest Indiana.
"We really want to focus on local coffee to show people what's out there," he said. "I used to go to Metropolis's cafe. They had killer coffee with no pretense. They taught me great coffee was for everyone. It could be non-exclusionary and affordable."
Locally roasted craft coffee has exploded in popularity over the past decade, along with the number of craft roasters and local independent coffee shops like Fluid Coffee Roasters, Dagger Mountain and Botz.
"Coffee has kind of piggy-backed off craft beer," he said. "There was such a boom in craft beer 10 years ago. People who wanted to seek out something good, who spent their whole lives knowing there's a good cup of coffee out there were able to geek on coffee so hard. There are so many ways of preparing it. The vibrant independent coffee shop community helped people realize why they shouldn't get a container from the store when there's locally roasted coffee out there. Everything we serve in the cafe is four to 12 days old. Beans need to rest for a few days, so it's as fresh as it gets."
Mauch looks forward to collaborating with other like-minded independent businesses to help lift Northwest Indiana up and bring more cool things to the area. He's also looking ahead to the next 10 years.
"I just want to continue to make things that taste good, give people good jobs and caffeinate the Region," he said. "I want to keep it weird, continue to push the boundaries of what we do, not get complacent and come out with cool stuff for people to come drink."
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Studio 4 Salon in Griffith is going to offer free hair care services to healthcare workers in February after the recent surge in the coronavirus pandemic that has swamped local hospitals.
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FORT SMITH, Ark. — The unofficial kickoff to summer is Memorial Day weekend. In 2019, sunny skies and warm weather had folks in the Fort Smith area preparing for a long weekend of fun.
But Mother Nature had other plans.
“Mother Nature bats last, and nothing could be more true,” said John Teagle, a resident of Fort Smith.
Days of heavy rainfall in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma filled lakes, rivers, and streams to the brim.
“The amount of rain that fell in those areas for the month of May was about 200 to 400 percent of what we would normally see in a typical May in that part of the country,” says Nicole McGavock, a Service Hydrologist and Meteorologist with the Tulsa National Weather Service.
Preparations were made by the Army Corps of Engineers to let out the water to prevent widespread flooding throughout the greater Tulsa area, but the water only had one way to go: the Arkansas River as it converged on the city of Fort Smith and surrounding towns.
“There’s nothing you can do,” says Eileen Teagle, a resident of Fort Smith. “We had 36 hours to take our things out.”
The National Weather Service, Sebastian County Emergency Management, and the City of Fort Smith had time to let residents know when and where the water was expected to impact homes and businesses, but the crest was still in doubt.
At the Van Buren gauge, the Arkansas River typically sits between 17 and 22 feet. By 22 feet, the river is considered to be in a minor flood stage. Once it reaches 26 feet, the river is at a moderate flood stage. At 32 feet and above, major flooding is expected.
“We were able to see the crest was almost 41, it was about 40.9 feet that we actually experienced,” said Travis Cooper, Deputy Director of Sebastian County Emergency Management. “If it would have got to 42 feet, we would’ve had almost double the homes that were damaged.”
The 2019 flood was record-breaking. In fact, it broke the record twice. In 1945, the Arkansas River was recorded at 38.1 feet. That record stood until May 28 when a river crest of 40.26 feet was recorded, but by June 1, that record was once again broken with a final crest of 40.79 feet.
Residents were at the mercy of the slow and steady rising water.
“It’s just the situation where there’s nothing you can do,” said Fort Smith resident Chuck Fawcett. “I mean, you’re just sitting there, thinking about you know, how soon is it going to get you? You know, did we get everything out?”
In some areas, people had water reach the second level of their homes. Fawcett was no different.
“We had to gut the house. Upstairs and downstairs, we had to take it all the way to the studs,” said Fawcett. “All of our heating-air units are gone. You know, all the plumbing, cabinets, everything else. We had to take everything, first floor, second floor back to the studs and rebuild it.”
Just down the road, John and Eileen Teagle were also impacted by floodwater damaging their home. Inside their garage, water reached close to a foot and a half, leaving a visible scar three years later.
“We kept that waterline, we never touched our garage door on the inside and we preserved it so that we will always remember. You can see, in our garage, it’s probably about 15 inches tall,” said Eileen Teagle.
Three years later, homes, businesses, and the city are still recovering from physical and financial damages. Despite that, the flood brought people together in a spirit of resilience.
“The flood of 2019 did show Fort Smith at its best, of people caring, coming together, wanting to help,” said Fort Smith City Administrator, Carl E. Geffken.
With an outpouring of support at their own home, the Teagles echoed Geffken by saying, “it is a city that cares. It truly is a very helpful and concerned city for the needs of its community. We saw it, we felt it, we were recipients of it and we’re grateful to be in this community.”
May – especially towards the end of May – still makes people anxious about the possibility of another historic flood. However, the city is working on further measures to mitigate the risks. With levees lining Riverfront Drive and updates to pump stations, the city is doing everything it can to prevent another widespread flood in Fort Smith.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The Fayetteville Police Department (FPD) announced some changes to rideshares in the entertainment district.
There will now be designated pickup locations for rideshares Thursday through Saturday nights from 12 a.m. to 3 a.m.
Rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft will direct you to the location to get picked up at these times. There are signs at the pick-up locations and there will not be any changes to drop-off locations.
FPD says this is an effort to keep foot and vehicle traffic as safe as possible during the busiest times on Dickson St. FPD will work with businesses, citizens, and drivers to make this a smooth transition.
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A man riding through Queens Saturday morning was fatally struck in an intersection by an MTA bus, the second fatal collision involving a city bus this month, officials said.
The man operating a motorized bike in Laurelton around 10:30 a.m. when he died in a crash involving a Q84 bus, police and transit officials said. His identity has not been released hours later.
Police said the bus driver remained at the scene, near 128th Avenue and 238th Street, and was not placed into custody.
That bus driver will be taken out of service while police and internal transit officials investigate the circumstances of the deadly crash, a source said.
“This was a tragic incident and we are cooperating with the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad, which is in early stages of its review and will determine the facts," a statement from MTA Acting President Frank Annicaro said.
The crash comes two weeks after an MTA bus driver suspected of running over a 69-year-old man on a Staten Island road was also pulled from service.
A preliminary investigation by city officials determined the 52-year-old bus driver did not remain at the scene, but was identified a short time later and questioned by authorities.
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PUTNAM COUNTY, WV (WOWK) — A man is dead after shooting himself while fleeing from deputies on I-64E in Putnam County.
According to Putnam County Sheriff Bobby Eggleton, this happened at around noon.
Eggleton says a driver from the Jacksonville, Florida area was pulled over for a traffic violation on I-64E.
He says the driver and the passenger were asked to step out of the vehicle. The driver then sped away after the passenger got out of the vehicle.
The driver crashed a while after and it was found that he shot himself while driving.
Eggleton says two ER doctors were in the area and attempted to save him. The driver was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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ALBANY — We have a tendency to chalk the serendipity in our lives up to happenstance, to luck, to aligning stars.
Perhaps, though, we shouldn’t be so quick to discount divine intervention.
It felt that way for teachers at Byne Christian School recently when the school held an end-of-year gathering for its faculty. Unbeknownst to the teachers, though, this was more than just a chips, dips and soda gathering.
A couple of months before the school year ended, administrators at the Christian school found themselves in a quandary. They encountered what some associated with the school called a “food service problem,” and Byne officials were desperate for some kind of solution. That’s when one of the parents at the school mentioned her friendship with restaurateur B.J. Fletcher.
“Someone who knows me told the school officials that B.J. has always been able to mobilize quickly to make things happen,” Fletcher said. “I didn’t know if this was something I needed to take on. They’d reached out to me for my thoughts on providing a solution on a Friday, and as we talked I asked them when they needed someone to step in and help out. They said, ‘Monday.’”
And thus was born a relationship that not only helped Byne get by for the final weeks of the school year, it turned into a partnership that is bearing dividends for both parties.
Especially the school’s faculty.
“I just fell in love with the school, with the kids at Byne,” Fletcher said. “We see so many young people today who are just rude, disrespectful and they show none of the Christian values that I think are important to our community.”
After providing and serving meals to the Byne students throughout the remainder of the school year (“The kids were thrilled to have the lunches provided by B.J.; a lot of them told their parents they didn’t want to bring lunches from home anymore,” Byne Headmaster Cory Wise said.), Fletcher said she was depressed by the plight of the private school’s teachers.
“I talked with a lot of these folks, and several of them left much higher-paying jobs to be here,” she said. “For the most part, though, they said they were happy with the trade-off.”
Wanting to do something for the school, Fletcher decided to start a scholarship to help deserving families with tuition costs.
“It costs about $6,000 a year for a student to attend Byne, so I started a scholarship in that amount,” Fletcher said. “Initially, I told them they could do what they wanted with it: give it to one student or break it up to help more students.”
But then, Fletcher started thinking about those teachers.
“I told the school that I’d continue to give the scholarship in years to come, but I suggested — and they liked the idea — giving the teachers a bonus this first year,” she said. “I think they gave two Teachers of the Year $500, gave full-time faculty a $375 bonus, and gave part-time faculty $200 each.
“They were all so thankful, so appreciative to be remembered. I just wanted it to be part of my testimony to thank these hard-working people for what they do. Being involved with Byne has become a highlight of my life.”
There’s little doubt that the feeling is mutual.
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UVALDE, Texas — As the Uvalde community mourns the children and teachers killed in Tuesday mass shooting at Robb Elementary, various services are being offered to the people affected by the crime.
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX 23) posted a list of resources for the Uvalde community from pet services to mental health resources.
The congressman said the list will be updated frequently as new services are being offered.
Here is the full list or take a look below:
Blood Donations
There is a critical need for blood donations. Please see below for locations and resources to donate.
- South Texas Blood and Tissue: Walk-ins are welcome or you can schedule your appointment here.
- To donate directly to University Hospital, donations can be scheduled online or by calling 210-358-2812
Uvalde Local Personal and Mental Health Counseling
San Antonio Northwest Mobile Vet Center
The VA has deployed counseling services to Uvalde.
Uvalde American Legion #479
583 W. Main Street
Uvalde, TX
https://www.va.gov/san-antonio-northwest-vet-center/
Hill Country MHDD
328 Crystal City Hwy.
Uvalde, TX
1-800-662-6052
(830) 278-2501
Crisis Line: 1-877-466-0660
https://www.hillcountry.org/services/uvalde-county-mh-center-2/
Web-based counseling services are available
South Texas Rural Health Services
Uvalde: (830) 591-1822
Pearsall:(830)334-2087
Carrizo Springs: (830)876-2611
Cotulla: (830)879-2676
Dilley: (830)965-2097
Devine: (830)663-9786
Elite Counseling Services
(830) 591-2250
elitecounselingservices@yahoo.com
Telehealth counseling services only at this time
Sul Ross – RGC College and Community Counseling Clinic
rgccounselors@sulross.edu
Community Health Development, Inc.
Behavioral Health
Uvalde (830) 278-7105
Leakey (830) 232-6985
Camp Wood (830) 597-6424
https://www.chdi4health.org/
Telehealth counseling services available
Crossroads Behavioral Health Center
Uvalde Memorial Hospital
65 Years and Older only
(830) 278-8144
SCAN’s Rural Border Intervention (RBI) Program
1-800-355-7226
K’STAR
Medina County (830) 329-3919
Uvalde & Real Counties (830) 739-4415
Tri-County CASA Bluebonnet Children’s Advocacy Center
1901 Ave I, Hondo, TX
(830) 426-8848
https://bcactx.org/about/
38th Judicial District Treatment Center
401 E Front St., Uvalde, TX 78801
(830) 278-1168
St. Henry De Oso Family Project
(830) 278-3438
https://www.sthenrydeossofamilyproject.org/
Reformers Unanimous Ministry
(830) 486-9012
Southwest Family Life Centers, Inc.
Medina County Office (830) 426-5972, Hotline (830) 426-5131
Uvalde County Office (830) 278-1067
Paul Flores – Uvalde Memorial Hospital – Case Manager/Therapist
Uvalde, TX 78801
(830)261-8133
Nueva Vida Behavioral Health Associates (Telehealth Services)
(210) 922-0828
Jaclyn Gonzales: jaclyng@nuevavidabha.com
Family Service Association
Juan Lumbreras, LPC
Sabrina Vera, LPC-Intern
Rachel Gonzales (Parenting Classes)
601 Dean Street Room #17
Uvalde, TX 78801
(830) 374-0460 | 830 – 448-9630
acastro@family-service.org
www.family-service.org
National Mental Health Counseling
Funding from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) supports the Disaster Distress Helpline, a national helpline dedicated to providing year-round disaster crisis counseling. This 24/7 toll-free, multilingual and confidential crisis support service is available to residents in the United States and its territories who are experiencing emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters, including incidents of mass violence. Call or text the hotline at 800–985–5990.
SAMHSA funding also supports the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a national network of local crisis centers that provides 24/7, free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress anywhere in the United States. Individuals experiencing thoughts of suicide or concerned about a loved one in crisis can contact 1-800-273-TALK or text HOME to 741741 to reach a trained crisis counselor. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services has also enabled Medicaid coverage for qualifying community-based mobile crisis services in the state, and is conducting outreach and providing technical assistance to those wishing to apply.
The SAMHSA-funded National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative (NCTSI) coordinates with trauma-informed experts across the country to provide technical assistance, subject matter expertise, and onsite support in the wake of community-wide trauma.
HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response coordinates the Technical Resources, Assistance Center, and Information Exchange (TRACIE) which provides a wide range of resources, information, and guidance to communities affected by tragedy. These technical assistance resources can support local leaders in Buffalo as they seek to address pressing needs and challenges.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has developed technical packages to help states and communities take advantage of the best available evidence to prevent violence. https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/communicationresources/pub/technical-packages.html
The Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service (CRS) helps communities facing conflict based on actual or perceived race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, or disability. CRS facilitates dialogue, mediation, training, and consultation to assist communities to come together, develop solutions to the conflict and enhance their capacity to independently prevent and resolve future conflict. The CRS resource center is here.
The Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) is Federal Communications Commission program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more. You can apply for this benefit here. Or, if you need to talk to someone about your eligibility or application status, call the ACP Support Center at (877) 384-2575.
The Department of Commerce is offering grants and cooperative agreements to leverage existing regional assets and support the implementation of economic development strategies and projects that advance new ideas and creative approaches to advance economic prosperity in distressed communities.
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TUPELO • As a physician for 48 years, Dr. Bobby Dale of Tupelo has treated hundreds of stroke patients. He knows the signs well, yet he was in denial when it happened to him.
On Easter 2020, Dale and his wife, Martha, turned off the TV and were heading to bed when she asked if he was okay.
“I told her I was fine and asked why,” he said. “She told me that my speech was slurred and my face was drooped.”
When he had trouble getting in bed, Martha called their neighbor, family physician Dr. Ben Kilman, to come over. Because Dale was being stubborn and insisting he was fine, Kilman called in another neighbor, surgeon Dr. Newt Harrison for reinforcement—and the two got him to the Emergency Department at North Mississippi Medical Center.
With stroke, time is brain. The longer treatment is delayed, the less chance it will be successful.
“The Good Lord showed his hand,” Dale said. “We had stayed up late to watch a special on TV. Had we been asleep when I had the stroke, we wouldn’t have known until the next day, and it would’ve been too late to do anything.”
In the ER, where Dale had worked for two decades, Dr. Jigar Desai determined he had indeed suffered an ischemic stroke—a blood clot was blocking a major artery to his brain. His former colleague, interventional radiologist Richard Arriola, immediately performed thrombectomy, a procedure to remove the blood clot and restore blood flow to Dale’s brain.
“Dr. Arriola called me and said he had worked so hard to get that clot out, but he wasn’t able to get it. He was going to keep trying,” Martha Dale said. “About 4:30 a.m., he came out and told me he was successful.”
“I call it a miracle,” Dale said. “After about six hours, there’s not much hope to restore circulation. He worked for four or five hours on me.”
After the procedure, Dale spent several days in the Critical Care Unit under the care of neurosurgeon Dr. Jason Stacy.
“My speech was terrible,” he said. “I knew what I was trying to say, but I couldn’t say it. I could not move my left side. I finally got some movement back in my left arm and foot almost a week later. I thought then, well, there might be some chance of recovery.”
A week after his stroke, Dale transferred by wheelchair to NMMC’s Rehabilitation Institute for several hours of intense physical, occupational and speech therapy daily overseen by physical medicine and rehabilitation physician Dr. Brian Condit.
“On the weekend they told me I could have the day off from therapy,” he said. “I told them, ‘I’ve got to get well. I’m not taking any time off.’”
So, therapists worked with him that day and every day for the next three weeks, retraining his muscles, rebuilding his strength and endurance, and perfecting his speech.
“I got the best treatment there. I couldn’t have gotten any better treatment anywhere,” he said. “I walked out of there a month after my stroke.”
After two weeks of home health therapy, Dale began several months of outpatient rehabilitation. Three months later, he passed his driving evaluation at NMMC’s Outpatient Rehabilitation Center and hit the road again.
“I’m 95% back,” he said. “I still have a little weakness on my left side, and I have to be deliberate with words.”
Two years later, Dale is back to hunting, fishing and working three days a week at Mantachie Rural Health Clinic.
“I’ve been practicing medicine for 48 years. I’m trying to make 50,” he said, “and then I’ll decide what I want to do when I grow up.”
Despite the setback, Dale counts his blessings. “I was very fortunate,” he said. “Martha picked up on it right away, and my neighbors got me to the right care.”
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BLOOMINGTON — As Leah Marlene rose to the rank of a top 3 contestant on "American Idol," fellow musicians from Bloomington-Normal had her back the whole time.
The 20-year-old singer-songwriter posted on social media last week that she was headed home to Normal, having completed a run on the show that saw her reach the May 22 finale and perform alongside pop superstar Katy Perry.
As yellow signs of support for Marlene were lifted into windows of homes and businesses around Bloomington-Normal through the weeks of competition, so were the spirits of area performers. No matter the musical styles, many lent their ears and their hearts.
Among them was Dominique Stevenson, who performs hip-hop as V8 Vast Change. He said he was feeling ecstatic for Marlene at her final watch party May 22 at Normal West High School, while assisting Meltdown Creative Works with printing T-shirts.
Stevenson also performed a set at the previous watch party on May 15, when Marlene made the top 3.
"You love to see good people win," he said, citing messages from the Bible. He added Marlene is giving exposure to the Twin Cities, and has made some people say "BloNo" is the music central of Central Illinois.
“It’s a good identity to have, because we honestly do have a lot of talented musicians and artists in the area,” Stevenson said. “They just don’t have the opportunity to get that type of exposure.”
Marlene's success could bring visitors to the area, he said, noting that fans do travel to see their favorite artists perform or to explore their hometowns.
“Everybody benefits from a local hero,” he said.
The Bloomington hip-hop artist said he first met Marlene at a school talent show. Stevenson said he was blown away by her performance. They spoke after the show, and he said Marlene and her mother later came to his house to help him record a double-album release, "The Lost and Found." The two tracks are "Sunshine" and "Beautiful."
He recalled Marlene singing in his closet, surrounded by clothing for soundproofing.
He and Marlene have a really strong mutual respect, Stevenson said.
Members of Bloomington-based country group Brushville were also among those cheering on the hometown star. The band said in an email that they’re all very proud of Marlene’s "Idol" success, adding it takes a lot of talent to get as far as she did.
“We all believe that this is just the beginning for big things to come for her,” the band continued.
And there’s acoustic rockers Jim Vasilou and Tommy Haas, who play covers under the stage name "Jim and Tommy." Vasilou said he’s proud and excited for Marlene.
“She has an appreciative heart and it shows through in her performance and personality,” he said. “She is deserving of all her success.
“All of us local musicians should be very proud to have her representing Bloomington-Normal.”
Haas said he is equally excited for Marlene and “all that lies in front of her!”
He added they all knew she was fantastic and she’s played in the area for a long time.
“It’s really wonderful to see Leah get such positive national notoriety,” exclaimed Haas in an email. “I urge everyone to support local live music!”
The Twin Cities have a wealth of musical talent, he continued.
Jim Stahly, former president of the Sound of Illinois barbershop chorus and its current historian, said their members cheered Marlene on.
“As an a cappella group, we understand how important it is to emotionally connect with your audience,” he said. “And, Leah’s natural ability to be ‘in the moment’ is what carried her so far!"
Stahly said they’re really proud of Marlene, and he wishes to possibly coax her into singing for their 2023 shows.
Erik Nelson is a multi-instrumentalist, music producer, songwriter and owner of Eclipse Studios in Normal, which works on major label projects with fairly famous artists.
He thought Marlene’s "Idol" fame was fabulous.
“She’s a tremendous talent,” he said, noting that he picked up on that when Marlene recorded her first album. Nelson sees both a hardworking and talented singer, songwriter and music producer in Marlene.
He said there’s a lot of activity and positivity in the Twin Cities music scene, with several festivals on the schedule this summer. Nelson described Bloomington-Normal as the “hub of a wheel,” with its location nestled between Chicago and St. Louis, Champaign and Peoria, close to Decatur.
“I have clients that come from towns away that complain about artists who are hating on each other and holding each other down,” Nelson said. “Around here, we have a positive and supportive music community.”
It's not yet known when Marlene will next take a stage in the Twin Cities. She had been slated to perform along with Dan Hubbard at the Saturdays on the Square concert series in downtown Bloomington, but Taylor Steele is now scheduled with Hubbard on July 16. Marlene's appearance at Make Music Normal remains listed as tentative on the event website. However, there's no doubt she's grateful for the hometown support she's received.
On Monday, she stated on social media a heartfelt thanks to her fans in reflection of her most "beautiful, incredible journey" of her whole life.
Marlene also said it's only the beginning for her, and her real work has begun.
Watch: Leah Marlene's 'American Idol' performances
'Firework' - May 22
'Flowers' - May 22
'Cover Me' - May 22
'Separate Ways' - May 15
'I'll Stand by You' - May 15
'Electric Love' - May 8
'Sanctuary' - May 8
'When She Loved Me' - May 1
'Make You Feel My Love' - April 25
'Happy Together' - April 24
'Wisher to the Well' - April 18
'Heal' - April 17
'Call Me' - April 11
'She's a Self-Made Man' - April 4
Duet: "Locked Out of Heaven" - April 3
'Sk8ter Boi' - March 28
"American Idol" audition
Contact Brendan Denison at (309) 820-3238. Follow Brendan Denison on Twitter: @BrendanDenison
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Man may have drowned in Lake Pleasant, adding to safety concerns on Memorial Day weekend
Officials are looking for the body of a man who possibly drowned at Lake Pleasant on Saturday.
Deputies with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office first received reports of the incident at 11 a.m. The body of the man has not resurfaced as of Saturday afternoon, the Sheriff's Office said.
Witnesses reported the man went underwater without a life jacket.
Deputies are still on scene searching. The cause of the incident remains unknown.
The incident follows five deaths that have taken place at the lake throughout April and May.
The Sheriff's Office urges lake visitors to follow lake safety measures to avoid more accidents.
Safety tips for lakegoers
For swimmers, Maricopa County Parks and Recreation advises these safety tips:
- Always swim with a partner. Swimming alone can be unsafe.
- Never leave young children unattended near water, and do not ask another child to supervise your children near water.
- Avoid distractions when supervising children near water.
- If a child goes missing, always check the water first.
- Non-swimmers and inexperienced swimmers should always wear a life jacket or personal flotation device.
- Protect your skin. While you're busy cooling off and having fun in the water, your skin is also soaking in the sun. Apply and reapply sunscreen frequently.
- Wear a hat and sunglasses to keep the sun off of your face and out of your eyes.
- Drink plenty of water regularly, even if you're not thirsty, to avoid dehydration. Just because you're floating in a cove of water does not mean your skin is absorbing enough to maintain your bodies water levels. Avoid drinks with caffeine and alcohol in them.
The Sheriff's Office will also be conducting a DUI Task Force at the lake throughout the weekend. Drinking alcohol while driving motorized boats is strictly prohibited, and life jackets will be required for all people.
There will be "zero tolerance" for violations of these rules, the Sheriff's Office said.
Reach breaking news reporter Laura Daniella Sepulveda at lsepulveda@lavozarizona.com or on Twitter @lauradNews.
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A man was killed during a shooting in Orlando on Friday night, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said 36-year-old Albert Gonzalez, Jr. was killed during a shooting in the 600 block of East 13th Street.
Gonzalez was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, deputies said.
The suspect fled before deputies arrived, according to deputies.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Southwestern Oregon Community College is pleased to honor the Southwestern Oregon Fire Chiefs Association with the 2022 Career Technical Education (CTE) Industry Partner of the Year Award.
“While the fire service often receives thanks for their dedication to protecting our communities, not everyone realizes how much additional work goes on behind the scenes to prepare and train the response team. The support our local fire agencies have given, and continue to give, to the Southwestern Fire Science Program is tremendous,” remarked Erica Wisner, fire science associate professor. “We rely on student internships with the local fire agencies for hands-on professional experience, training, and mentorship that make our students’ dreams a reality. Our local fire agencies provide a significant investment in equipment and gear, and run hundreds of hours of extra trainings each year to get student firefighters qualified and ready to respond in the field.
“Between the fire departments and rural fire protection districts, the Coos Forest Protection Association, hazmat response team, coast guard, county sheriffs, state fire marshalls, local dispatchers, investigators, ambulance and medical services personnel who are willing to work directly with students in and out of the classroom, this is a wonderfully rich training environment for all-hazard response.”
Fire science classes have been offered at Southwestern Oregon Community College since 1962. In the late 1970s and 1980s, local fire agencies helped build a shared training facility on the college campus. A significant portion of the program’s training equipment was donated or maintained by local fire agencies, along with in-kind instructional resources, to support a full associate degree program.
Both college and fire agency training programs have grown over time to match the increasing requirements of state and national training standards, and continue to give our students the competitive edge to succeed in professional fire service careers. Up to a dozen Southwestern fire science and paramedicine students receive housing and tuition stipends each year through fire department residential intern programs. Scholarships are offered for students in fire science and related fields, including the Baughman Memorial Apprenticeship Scholarship, Randy Carpenter Memorial Foundation Scholarship, and others. Most of the fire officers and instructors in the Coos Bay area have been involved with Southwestern as students, instructors, advisors, or all three.
Firefighting is a team sport. Maintaining and growing the craft is a mission far larger than any one person’s working lifetime. Southwestern Oregon Community College is proud to recognize SWOFCA as long-time partners for excellence in career and technical education.
To learn more about Southwestern’s career technical training programs visit www.socc.edu, or call 541-888-7371 to make an appointment with an advisor. You can learn more about our local fire departments through their individual web sites.
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KRUM, Texas — A stray cat in a Denton County city has tested positive for rabies, public health officials announced this week.
Denton County Public Health on Thursday said it confirmed a cat in a neighborhood in Krum had rabies. According to officials, the cat was found in the Dove Meadows community near Cory Court.
Health officials said residents who may have been exposed in that area between May 8 and May 18 are being notified. Those who believe they were exposed are also urged to call the public heath department at 940-349-2909.
"Rabies is a rare disease in domestic pets, but if contracted, almost always a fatal condition in humans," stated DCPH Director Dr. Matt Richardson. "We want to know if anyone was exposed to this cat between these dates so they can begin a rabies vaccination series immediately."
According to the DCPH, a person could be exposed if the cat nibbled, bit, scratched or licked the individual.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said rabies affects the central nervous system and can be fatal if not treated immediately. DCPH said the disease is "100% preventable" in humans with the proper medical care.
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FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) — A seven-person civil jury in Virginia will resume deliberations Tuesday in Johnny Depp’s libel trial against Amber Heard. What the jury considers will be very different from the public debate that has engulfed the high-profile proceedings.
For six weeks, testimony focused on details of alleged abuse that Heard says she suffered at the hands of Depp. Heard has outlined more than a dozen specific instances where she says she was assaulted by Depp.
Depp has denied any physical or sexual abuse, and says Heard concocted the claims to destroy Depp’s reputation. Depp’s legions of online fans have focused on their belief that Heard has been untruthful, and that that will determine the outcome.
But the case itself is a defamation claim. Depp sued Heard for libel — for $50 million — in Fairfax County Circuit Court over a December 2018 op-ed she wrote in The Washington Post describing herself as “a public figure representing domestic abuse.”
That article never even mentions Depp by name, but his lawyers say he was defamed nonetheless. Most of the article discusses public policy as it relates to domestic violence, and Heard’s lawyers say she has a First Amendment right to weigh in.
In closing arguments, though, Depp lawyer Camille Vasquez argued that Heard’s free-speech rights have limits.
“The First Amendment doesn’t protect lies that hurt and defame people,” she said.
Depp’s lawyers point to two passages in the article that they say clearly refer to Depp.
In the first passage, Heard writes that “two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath.” Depp’s lawyers call it a clear reference to Depp, given that Heard publicly accused Depp of domestic violence in 2016 — two years before she wrote the article.
In a second passage, she states, “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.” (Depp’s lawyers are also seeking damages over a headline that appeared above the online version of the article, even though Heard didn’t write it.)
The jury, which has to come to a unanimous decision for a verdict, must decide whether those passages in the Post are defamatory. And the verdict form gives them step-by-step instructions on how to determine that.
Heard’s lawyers say they have presented a mountain of evidence that Heard was abused. But they say that even if the jury were somehow to believe that she was never abused even a single time, she should still prevail in the lawsuit.
That’s because libel law spells out several factors that must be considered. First, the alleged defamatory statements have to be about the plaintiff. Heard’s lawyers said the article is not about Depp at all. He’s not mentioned, and they say the focus is on Heard’s experience about the aftermath of speaking out. Those statements remain objectively true even if she wasn’t in fact abused, her lawyers contend.
Depp’s lawyers, though, say the two passages are clear references to Depp, given the publicity that surrounded their 2016 divorce proceedings.
In addition, because Depp is a public figure, Heard can only be found guilty of libel if the jury decides that Heard acted with “actual malice,” which requires clear and convincing evidence that she either knew what she was writing was false or that she acted with reckless disregard for the truth.
Heard lawyer J. Benjamin Rottenborn said during Friday’s closing arguments that Heard carefully reviewed drafts of the article — the first draft was written not by her, but by the American Civil Liberties Union — with her lawyers to make sure that what was written passed legal muster. Rottenborn said that fact alone is sufficient proof that she didn’t act with actual malice.
As for the abuse itself, Depp’s lawyers tried to suggest to the jury that if they think Heard is lying or embellishing any of her abuse claims, that she can’t be trusted and that all of her abuse claims must be dismissed as untrustworthy.
“You either believe all of it, or none of it,” Vasquez said. “Either she is a victim of ugly, horrible abuse, or she is a woman who is willing to say absolutely anything.”
In Heard’s closing, Rottenborn said the nitpicking over Heard’s evidence of abuse ignores the fact there’s overwhelming evidence on her behalf and sends a dangerous message to domestic-violence victims.
“If you didn’t take pictures, it didn’t happen,” Rottenborn said. “If you did take pictures, they’re fake. If you didn’t tell your friends, they’re lying. If you did tell your friends, they’re part of the hoax.”
And he rejected Vasquez’s suggestion that if the jury thinks Heard might be embellishing on a single act of abuse that they have to disregard everything she says. He said Depp’s libel claim must fail if Heard suffered even a single incident of abuse.
“They’re trying to trick you into thinking Amber has to be perfect to win,” Rottenborn said.
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PARIS (AP) — It’s the end of an era for the famed Lido cabaret on Paris’ Champs-Elysees.
Amid financial troubles and changing times, the venue’s new corporate owner is ditching most of the Lido’s staff and its high-kicking, high-glamour dance shows — which date back decades and inspired copycats from Las Vegas to Beirut — in favor of more modest musical revues.
Dressed all in black, dancers staged a protest Saturday on the broad sidewalk in front of the Lido — and then performed a dance routine to a cheering crowd, kicking their long legs high to a traditional cabaret song.
They handed out leaflets to passers-by on the Champs-Elysees Avenue, who lamented the Lido’s fate and warmly applauded the performance. Dancers from the Moulin Rouge came to support Lido staff, and notably its historic Bluebell Girls dance troupe.
Dancer Hillary Van Moorleghem called the protest an expression of the whole staff’s sadness and disappointment, and described the cabaret shows as part of France’s cultural heritage.
“I am American, and I really came to know French culture through its dance,” she said.
With onstage waterfalls, an ice rink and a pool, the Lido started wowing audiences before World War II and became an institution of Paris nightlife. It drew in performers from Josephine Baker to Marlene Dietrich to Elton John to Laurel and Hardy, and famous spectators, too.
Jeremy Bauchet, an assistant ballet master at the club, lamented what he fears will be “the death of the cabaret as a place and a genre in Paris.”
“The Lido is the temple of the Parisian cabaret revue in its most elegant, prestigious, and entertaining aspects. An enchanting interlude in a magic world,” he told The Associated Press.
French hotels giants Accor recently bought the club and says it plans to lay off 157 of the 184 permanent employees. Artists and technicians will be the most affected. Accor said it wants to get rid of the costly dinner shows and revue because they “don’t attract the public anymore.” The group aims to “redesign” the shows, and plans restoration works on the building.
“The Lido will keep its name, but the cabaret will lose its soul. Because of the end of the revue and the layoff of 85% of staff, The Lido will become a basic venue that people rent,” said Frank Lafitte of the National Union of Artistic Activities.
The Lido, alongside the Moulin Rouge, Crazy Horse and the Paradis Latin, is one of the last Parisian cabarets. Until now it has offered two shows per night, seven days a week, including performances by dancers, singers and the Bluebell Girls, a troupe founded by Irish dancer Margaret Kelly in 1932. Kelly, known as Miss Bluebell, toured with her troupe across the world and helped inspire a Las Vegas Lido franchise.
An online petition to save the Bluebell Girls revue has been signed by over 50,000 people.
“When the Lido reopened after World War II, people wanted to have fun. The Clerico brothers who bought the place wanted to make it a high-end venue. They invented the concept of dinner shows, which inspired other venues,” said Sonia Rachline, author of a book about the Lido.
“The shows are very French and Parisian, thanks to the sophistication of costumes and the precision of dance moves, but it also has this American madness inspired by musicals,” Rachline added.
But while the Moulin Rouge benefited from a revival of interest after Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 movie, the Lido has struggled with a drop in attendance and economic troubles aggravated by the COVID-19 crisis.
To some, the shows seem increasingly outdated. In 2015, the Lido tried to reinvent itself with a new revue by a Cirque du Soleil director but it wasn’t as successful as hoped.
Accor said the cabaret has lost 80 million euros ($85.6 million) over the past decade. Lido employees expect to lose their jobs this summer.
People who have worked at the Lido — from dancers to dressmakers, dressing room staff and backstage technicians — have an unusually personal attachment to the venue.
“No other venue had waterfalls, an ice rink, and a pool,” retired Lido set designer Yves Valente told the AP. “The Lido has exceptionally fast machinery and special effects.”
Saturday’s protest was especially poignant for former Lido dancer Danielle Douhet Broussier, 68, who came to join the younger dancers fighting to save their jobs.
The Lido “is my entire life,” she said. “The best days of my life were there.”
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Greenville native, character actor Bo Hopkins of “American Graffiti” and more, dies
Greenville native and longtime character actor Bo Hopkins died Saturday.
His wife, Sian, told The Hollywood Reporter that Hopkins died at a California hospital after a heart attack earlier this month.
William “Bo” Hopkins often portrayed tough-guy characters.
More:These 10 renowned actors and performers have ties to Upstate South Carolina
He is best known for such films as “The Wild Bunch,” “White Lightning, “Midnight Express,” “The Killer Elite” as well as gang leader Joe Young in “American Graffiti.”
Hopkins was born in Greenville and lived in Ware Shoals as a child.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Jonesborough was the site of a very special event on Saturday.
The inaugural ‘Armed Forces Salute’ hosted by the Jonesborough Area Merchants and Services Association is designed to celebrate both Memorial Day and Armed Forces Day.
The celebration began at 11 a.m. at the Washington County Courthouse downtown. Guests were able to listen to live patriotic music from the Jonesborough Repertory Theatre and watch members of the Daniel Boone High School ROTC fold the flag.
“Our Jonesborough community, we’ve always been a patriotic town. We love our veterans. This is the chance for us to show gratitude to those soldiers that have fallen in our past to give us the freedoms that we get to enjoy today,” said Jonesborough Mayor, Chuck Vest.
Service members and families were also able to take advantage of specials and discounts from downtown merchants as well.
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JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) – Wetlands water park opened for the first day of the 2022 season on Saturday.
The Jonesborough water park will be open Saturday and Sunday for those looking to get out and soak up the sun.
Inside the park, you will find a 200-foot waterslide, a lazy river, a full-service cafe, a sand volleyball court, and more.
Those with the water park said they are already seeing a larger turnout from past years.
“I didn’t even know this water park was here, it’s basically in my backyard” so we do get a lot more people coming in and hopefully with the COVID stuff kind of subsiding now we can start bringing more and more people into the park and people are starting to recognize us so it’s nice to have everybody out here,” said Dillon Stout, assistant recreation director.
After closing on Saturday, the park will reopen at 12 and continue operations through 5:30 p.m. on Sunday
For more information and tickets visit the Wetlands water park website.
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Kerry Miller Loos laid colorful, silk flowers beside her father's white headstone Saturday afternoon, proud to remember him.
For some, Memorial Day means a long weekend, barbecues and days at the lake. But for Miller Loos, it's a time to honor and remember those who lost their lives.
"It really means honoring those who sacrificed for our country. Veterans have a special place in our hearts, so really honoring veterans during this time and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice," Miller Loos said.
Flowers and a flag adorn a grave Saturday at Wyuka Cemetery.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
Miiler Loos' father served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam era. The father, husband, engineer and veteran died years later.
She, along with her mom and daughter, visit his grave at Wyuka Cemetery every Memorial Day weekend
“He’s certainly someone that I miss every day, so coming here definitely brings sadness," she said.
Mary Amen uses a small brush to clear debris from her family members' graves Saturday at Wyuka Cemetery.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
Jeri Williams was at Wyuka to pay respects not only to her grandfather, who died earlier this year, but to the long line of extended family members buried nearby.
Williams has been visiting the cemetery with her family the Saturday before Memorial Day since the early 1980s — a tradition she still looks forward to each year.
This year, Williams was accompanied by her father, grandma, great-aunt, sister, nieces and cousins — four generations of her family.
Together, they clean the headstones and reminisce about childhood memories with those they are visiting.
“I love remembering and sharing stories. It’s fun to remember the fun things, like my grandpa pushing me on the swing or mowing our lawn, little things like that," Williams said.
Sherri Ullman, of Beatrice (right), cuts flowers while Troy Ullman holds a flag to be placed at the grave marker of Arleen and David Ashworth on Saturday at Wyuka Cemetery.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
The cemetery was generally quiet Saturday morning, except for the sounds of the Lincoln Fire and Rescue Pipe and Drum Corps preparing for its performance in the observances at Wyuka on Monday.
Al Crist — who has been a member of the group for 13 years — said he was excited to finally be a part of the Memorial Day parade again after a two-year hiatus because of the pandemic. This year, the group is slightly smaller than normal.
"We're a little light this year, but hopefully we can still have the same impact as we usually do," Crist said. "It's just good to be back."
Families take time to visit the graves of loved ones at Wyuka Cemetery on Saturday.
KENNETH FERRIERA, Journal Star
The volunteer group — which performs throughout the year at events such as the 9/11 remembrance ceremony — will lead the procession to the G.A.R. circle at 8:30 a.m. Monday.
"Everybody either served or knows someone who served. It's personal," Crist said. "This is our way of giving back and paying respects to those who lost their lives for our country."
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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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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“I’m hanging by a moment here with you.”
— Lifehouse
It’s not unusual that people suffer their political losses badly. We’ve spent the past six years listening to whinings about “stolen elections,” so God knows we’re used to it.
But, in one of those “it’s OK if I do it, but not you” moments, folks around here are hearing hypocrisy at its finest in the wake of Tuesday’s Dougherty County Commission chairman election.
I understand people being upset about the election; in all honesty, I feel the third-most-qualified candidate won. But what those who are complaining most about the outcome of the election seem to forget is that elections aren’t always about electing the most qualified candidates. A lot of times, they’re just about moments.
This was one of those elections.
The complaint that bothers me most about this commission election is the one where people are saying, “Yeah, this just goes to show that black people are going to vote with color every time.”
A couple of things about that: 1) A good 99.9% of the people who say such things are white people who vote only for white people. Deny all you want; it’s just true. (And, no, voting for Herschel Walker because you were told to does not count.) 2) Anyone who can’t understand how African-American candidates are suddenly winning elections against white candidates in Albany and Dougherty County simply are delusional, they’re not paying attention or they can’t see beyond their own (assumed) superiority.
Hey, whiners, you live in a county/city with a 65-72% black population.
I believe — and the facts bear me out — African-Americans have been more than willing to vote for white candidates if they believe those candidates will at least try and look out for their best interest. Consider this: Until the last two most recent election cycles, this city that is 70-plus% black had a City Commission made up of five whites and two blacks. The county commission long held a 4-3 white-to-black ratio.
So this whining about blacks always voting for blacks simply is not true. Except for one ward in the city that has a high percentage of white residents, if blacks voted only for blacks, the makeup of both commissions would always be 6-1 or 5-2, black-to-white.
So the claim of black partisanship is a complete falsehood. (Plus, even though you never know what a person does when he or she is alone in a voting booth, I personally know a lot of African Americans who not only supported white candidates, they openly campaigned for them, some being labeled Uncle Toms for doing so.)
And I’ll add this caveat that the people who are complaining most probably don’t want to hear: I understand all too well African Americans’ desire to elect people who “look like me.” It’s the same feeling, by the way, that drives you complainers. You can feign enlightenment all you’d like, when it comes down to it, you’d like to elect people who look like you, even if they are less qualified than the people who oppose them.
I don’t have to say, “I’ve talked to black people who’ve told me ...” Anyone can say that. Hell, I’ve got eyes, and they can see. I don’t think any politician intentionally seeks to hurt others (except on the national level, but that’s another story). But when politicians who are elected to represent all of the people in their district, ward, or whatever other subdivision is available only seem to do what is best for a special-interest group in that subdivision, the others have a tendency to look around and say, “Hey, what about us?”
From getting somewhat of an insider’s view for at least part of the eight years that he has served as Dougherty Commission chairman, I think — I know — Chris Cohilas has done some things that few if any other local politicians would have done to help this community. I believe he has a good heart, one that cares for this community. And there’s not an inkling of doubt that he was infinitely more qualified to head the county board.
But Cohilas got caught in a moment. And there’s little more he could have done about it. Time will tell if this moment is one will set this community back or move it forward. Charges of racial complicity, in addition to being self-serving and condescending, are meaningful only to people who think that way, regardless of circumstances.
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Authorities have apprehended 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 and were apprehended around 2 p.m. Saturday by the North Dakota Highway Patrol, according to the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
No details were immediately released about the inmates’ apprehension.
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.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The driver of a car allegedly hit by a semi-truck on State Route 12 Friday, causing a 7-car pileup, has been released from the hospital in a recovery that the California Highway Patrol (CHP) called "miraculous."
According to the CHP, before 2:15 p.m. Friday, heavy traffic was stopped on the eastbound side of State Route 12 in Sacramento County east of Jackson Slough Road.
While traffic was stopped for unknown reasons, a semi truck hauling cars reportedly failed to slow down or stop in time, when approaching the line of cars.
The semi-truck crashed into the back of a white minivan causing a chain reaction crash into three other vehicles in front of the minivan, the CHP says.
The truck then crossed into the westbound lane and hit two more cars that were traveling westbound, according to the CHP. Officials say the truck then crashed down an embankment.
The driver of the minivan was taken to an area hospital via an air ambulance with major injuries. In a medical recovery that the CHP called "miraculous", the minivan driver, who was not expected to survive the crash, was released from the hospital hours later with only a broken arm.
Four other patients were taken via ground ambulances to area hospitals with minor injuries, officers say.
The CHP's South Sacramento office says they are now investigating the crash and do not believe alcohol or drugs were factors.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Voting centers at 18 locations have now been opened by the Sacramento County Department of Voter Registration and Elections, 10 days ahead of California's June 7 primary election.
At the centers, Sacramento County residents can register to vote, request a replacement ballot and vote in-person.
Election officials have also opened drop box locations where Sacramento County voters can drop off their completed vote by mail ballot.
Sacramento County voters can mail in their vote by mail ballots using the pink, postage-paid envelope that was sent to voters with their ballot.
All vote by mail ballots in Sacramento County must be postmarked on or before June 7 and the county must receive the ballot before 5 p.m. on June 14, election officials say.
Sacramento County is slated to open more voting centers on June 4. The Department of Voter Registration and Elections has posted the locations of all voting centers and vote by mail drop boxes on their website.
Voting centers open starting May 28:
Citrus Heights
- Citrus Heights Community Center
6300 Fountain Square Dr
Citrus Heights, CA 95621
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Elk Grove
- California Northstate University
9700 W Taron Dr
Elk Grove, CA 95757
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
- The Center at District56
8230 Civic Center Dr
Elk Grove, CA 95757
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Fair Oaks
- Faith Lutheran Church
4000 San Juan Ave
Fair Oaks, CA 95628
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Folsom
- Folsom Lake College
10 College Pkwy (Use Parking Lot A)
Folsom, CA 95630
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Galt
- Littleton Community Center
410 Civic Dr
Galt, CA 95632
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
North Highlands
- Murph – Emmanuel A M E Church
4151 Don Julio Blvd
North Highlands, CA 95660
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Rancho Cordova
- Koreana Plaza
10947 Olson Dr, Suite 401
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95814
- California Museum
1020 O St
Sacramento, CA 95814
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95817
- Oak Park Community Center
3425 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95817
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95821
- Lutheran Church of Our Redeemer
4641 Marconi Ave
Sacramento, CA 95821
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95822
- Department of Human Assistance – Florin
2450 Florin Rd
Sacramento, CA 95822
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95823
- St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
7595 Center Pkwy (Enter from Tangerine Ave)
Sacramento, CA 95823
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95825
- Richard T. Conzelmann Community Center
2201 Cottage Way
Sacramento, CA 95825
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95826
- Unity of Sacramento Church
9249 Folsom Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95826
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95828
- Florin Rebekah Hall
8360 Florin Rd
Sacramento, CA 95828
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95834
- Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs (APAPA)
4000 Truxel Rd, Suite 3 (Enter from Natomas Crossing Dr)
Sacramento, CA 95834
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Sacramento – 95838
- Greater Sacramento Urban League
3725 Marysville Blvd
Sacramento, CA 95838
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Election Day 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Map of voting centers and drop boxes:
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NORTH HIGHLANDS, Calif. — 3:20 p.m. Update:
A large outbuilding and a shed were destroyed in a fire that burned feet away from a neighborhood of homes in North Highlands Saturday, officials with the Sacramento Metro Fire District said.
Multiple homes and mobile homes were threatened by the fire, first reported at 1:40 p.m. on Lynhurst Way. Firefighters said they were able to save all neighboring homes.
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A Saturday vegetation fire threatened homes in North Highlands, the Sacramento Metro Fire District said in a Tweet.
The fire was first reported at 1:40 p.m. Saturday, on a stretch of vegetation surrounded by homes on Lynhurst Way in North Highlands.
At least one outbuilding burned during the fire, officials with Sacramento Metro Fire District said.
A helicopter was making water drops in the area to slow the spread of the blaze.
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WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jefferson Boulevard is closed in the northbound direction from the Highway 50 overpass as officers with the West Sacramento Police Department investigate after a person was allegedly hit by a car.
The vehicle versus pedestrian crash was reported to West Sacramento Police around 9:55 a.m. Saturday. Officers say the driver involved remained at the scene of the crash along Jefferson Boulevard just north of U.S. 50.
The pedestrian who was hit was unconscious when taken to an area hospital, police say. Officers anticipate the area to be closed until around 2:30 p.m. Saturday as the investigation continues.
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BLOOMINGTON — Memorial Day weekend ceremonies began Saturday morning with the honoring of a late United States Army veteran at East Lawn Memorial Gardens in Bloomington.
Bloomington's Desiree Hanke, daughter of Frank Hanke, also of Bloomington, was presented her father’s service flag following military rites held in honor of the veteran’s service to the country from 1982 to 1988.
Hanke agreed the ceremony was a special moment to remember her father’s life and service, adding it was “overwhelming.”
She told The Pantagraph that Frank Hanke was a helpful guy who would come to anybody’s aid.
“He cared about people,” said Desiree Hanke.
American Legion Post 635, of Normal, and American Legion Post 56, of Bloomington, filled in Honor Guard ranks.
Butch Ekstam, executive officer for both posts, explained the meaning behind each color of the flag. He said blue represents the sky that overlooks our land, and the red stripes represent the blood, sweat and tears offered by our comrades. Ekstam then said the white stripes boldly proclaim the peace that Hanke and others helped to bring for future generations.
“This is their flag. This is our spiritual heritage,” he said. “Please receive it with the tears of our eyes and the faith of our hearts.”
Scott Whitman, pipe major of the Celtic Cross Pipes and Drums band, performed a solo rendition “Amazing Grace” as part of the recession.
OSF Chaplain Joyce Rinkenberger led a prayer, urging people to never forget about the service of veterans. She thanked God for gathering the group that day to pay tribute to those who lost their lives defending our nation.
“May their souls live on in your gracious presence, and may they experience the full nature of your love and mercy,” the chaplain said, asking God to make us worthy of the sacrifices we have benefited from.
“We pray we never forget how blessed we truly are as a nation, as a people and as your children,” said Rinkenberger.
Quoting an unknown source, she said of veterans: ”We don’t know them all, but we owe them all.”
Daisy Dowell, East Lawn general manager, said they didn’t hold Memorial Day services last year because of the pandemic. She said they felt that everyone wanted to get out after being cooped up, and the Saturday ceremony was the perfect opportunity to do that.
“We just want to give back to our veterans and honor them,” she said. “My father was in the Air Force. Several of our staff members, they have loved ones that were in the military, so it has a special place in our hearts.”
Big Horse Power Farm of McLean was there with a horse-drawn carriage. Owner Jeff Hanlin said back in the day, motorized hearses weren’t used, and a vintage carriage is a highlight of modern events.
“It's a good touch,” he said. “It's something different that not everybody sees.”
Hanlin said it's important to honor fallen soldiers, adding he enjoys doing this kind of work.
“It’s (about) respect for what they did for us,” he said.
Dowell said the horse attending the ceremony had appeared in the "Batman v. Superman" movie.
Seven members of the Livingston County Roughnecks motorcycle club also attended. Club president Dillon Blanchard, of Fairbury, said they have a lot veterans in their club nationally.
He said giving back to them and their families, and making sure they’re not forgotten, is important.
Memorial Day events continue Monday with a parade at 9 a.m. from downtown Bloomington to Miller Park; ceremonies at 10 a.m. at Miller Park; a DAR Memorial Marking at 10 a.m. at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery; a ceremony at noon at Evergreen; and a 100th anniversary celebration of the McBarnes Building at 2 p.m. at 201 E. Grove St.
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A man was hospitalized in Manhattan earlier this week after a broad daylight attack from an unknown perp left the victim with cuts up and down his back, police said.
The attacker sprung from behind, slashing the 29-year-old several times in the back and arm outside the subway station at the corner of 3rd Avenue and East 63rd Street, according to the NYPD.
Emergency crews were able to aid the man and get him to a nearby hospital in Lenox Hill.
The knife-wielding perp, who police said attacked without provocation, fled the intersection and was still wanted by officials days after the Thursday attack.
Officials released surveillance video they hope will lead them to new clues.
The suspect was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black balaclava mask, black jeans and black sneakers. He was spotted riding an e-bike before the slashing, cops said.
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From cemeteries to VFW and American Legion posts, North Iowans will gather for Memorial Day services on Monday, May 30.
Here is what's planned, according to information provided to the Globe Gazette:
Mason City
The Mason City Veterans Memorial Association will hold Memorial Day services with an assembly at 9:15 a.m. and services at 9:30 a.m. at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery.
Clear Lake
The Clear Lake Memorial Day program, sponsored by the VFW Saratoga Post 4868, begins at 9:30 a.m. at the Sea Wall with music by the Clear Lake High School Band. The observance will then move to the Clear Lake Cemetery at 10 a.m.
Charles City
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 30, at the Charles City VFW, 1505 N. Grand Ave. Lunch will be served after the ceremony.
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Forest City
Legion Post 121 will hold services at the Winnebago County Courthouse, with Honor Guard at 10 a.m.
St. Ansgar
• 8 a.m. – Emanuel Lutheran Cemetery
• 8:20 a.m. – Old Mill Road Bridge – veterans buried at sea
• 8:35 a.m. – First Lutheran Cemetery
• 9:30 a.m. – City Cemetery
• 10:30 a.m. – Toeterville Cemetery
• 11:15 a.m. – Mitchell Cemetery
• 11:30 a.m. – Freewill luncheon starts at the St. Ansgar American Legion
Lisa Grouette is a Photographer/Breaking News Reporter for the Globe Gazette. Reach her at 641-421-0525.
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RUSKIN, Fla — A graduating senior at Lennard High School made a pivotal step in her recovery journey after she suffered a stroke over a year ago.
The stroke resulted in a brain bleed and left Hailey Highsmith unable to walk or talk, her family said. But that didn't stop her from walking across the graduation stage on May 23.
“In the beginning with brain injuries you just don’t know what will happen," said Robin Highsmith, Hailey's mom.
With the assistance of her helpful therapists, Hailey accepted her diploma and crossed the stage, making Monday's graduation a tear-jerker and an unforgettable moment for all who witnessed it.
“I loved seeing her up there with her sister because her sister has been such a good support," said Highsmith.
Hailey's mom said her life has completely changed, but her ability to succeed despite the obstacles has remained steadfast throughout her healing.
Hailey has been preparing for graduation day, working diligently with her physical therapist at John's Hopkins Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg. Although she isn't fully verbal yet, her courage to stand in front of her peers and accept her high school diploma speaks volumes. Her mom says her goal is to attend UCF in the future.
You can watch her walk the stage and the full graduation ceremony here. To see Hailey cross the stage, tune to 38 minutes into the broadcast.
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SAN DIEGO — CBS 8 News reporter Ariana Cohen was inside the courtroom as Vyvianna Quinonez, the woman who pleaded guilty to assaulting a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, read a letter to the judge expressing remorse and apologizing to the victim.
The Quinonez family was also in the courtroom and they were crying for the duration of the case.
A Southwest representative provided a statement and the flight attendant also gave a very emotional statement.
The video of the 28-year-old Sacramento resident punching a Southwest flight attendant, pulling her hair and knocking two teeth out went viral last year.
WATCH RELATED: Video shows woman assaulting Southwest Flight Attendant on San Diego-bound plane
During the flight’s descent, Quinonez was not wearing her face mask properly, unbuckled her seat belt and had her tray table down; all in violation of federal rules and regulations.
"In a fit of rage, Quinonez violently assaulted a flight attendant, punched her with a closed fist in the face and head. This behavior was reprehensible and will not be tolerated," said Assistant United States Attorney, Jaclyn Stahl.
WATCH RELATED: Woman who punched flight attendant pleads guilty
Friday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge Todd Robinson sentenced Quinonez to 15 months in federal custody. She also must pay nearly $26,000 in restitution and a $7,500 fine plus three years of supervised release.
"She violated her pretrial release by getting a DUI, and that was a factor in determining the sentence," said Stahl.
Judge Robinson said in court he hopes this sentence will set a precedent and deter anyone else from this behavior.
"This sentence is justice for the victims. That is not only the flight attendant victim, but Southwest airlines and all passengers aboard that day," said Stahl.
The Quinonez family did not want to comment.
While on supervised release, Quinonez is banned from flying any commercial aircraft and must participate in anger management classes.
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NORMAL — A battery pack caught fire Saturday morning at the Rivian Automotive plant in Normal after one of its cells overheated during testing.
A press release from the Normal Fire Department said firefighters from Normal and Bloomington were called at 10:38 a.m. Saturday to the plant at 100 N. Rivian Motorway for a report of a battery pack on fire inside the facility.
When crews arrived, fire officials said a battery pack was experiencing thermal runaway in a testing area on the southwest side of the plant. Batteries for Rivian vehicles are built there, the release said.
Firefighters hooked up hoses to building standpipes and put out the fire, and then continued to douse water on the pack to curb the thermal runaway.
The press release explained a thermal runaway event as when a battery cell overheats and starts burning from either an electrical fault or another fire. As the battery cell combusts, more heat is spread to adjacent cells, causing a self-sustaining chain reaction.
NFD said while the exact cause of the fire remains under investigation, the battery pack was in a repair and was undergoing tests when thermal runaway started. Additionally, the fire was in the battery assembly area and did not affect any vehicles or production equipment.
Only the battery back, its carrier and test booth equipment were damaged, the press release said. Once the pack was extinguished and cooled off, firefighters said they moved it outside and aired out smoke from the plant. The battery was later released to Rivian engineers for investigation and disassembly.
No one was hurt, NFD said. The fire department had cleared the scene by 2 p.m. Saturday.
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Contact Brendan Denison at (309) 820-3238. Follow Brendan Denison on Twitter: @BrendanDenison
Brendan Denison is our breaking news reporter. Denison was a digital content producer for WCIA-TV in Champaign and a reporter for The Commercial-News in Danville. He can be reached at (309) 820-3238 and bdenison@pantagraph.com.
"The amount of growth that you've done in such a short amount of time ... you've won, period, end of story, to me," Katy Perry told the Normal native, who placed third.
Pastor John Lowe II got a standing ovation initially after saying he had sinned and committed “adultery.” Then a woman walked up to the microphone and said she was 16 at the time. A prosecutor is investigating.
A pawn shop owner is offering a $1,000 reward to anyone with information that leads to the arrest and conviction of two men suspected in a robbery and shooting at his business last week in Bloomington.
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TWIN FALLS COUNTY, Idaho — A man was killed in Twin Falls County early Saturday morning after he was struck by a semi truck.
The collision happened near 1840 Kimberly Road at 1:08 a.m.
The 25-year-old pedestrian was hit by an eastbound 2007 Kenworth Semi on Kimberly Road, driven by a 28-year-old man from Twin Falls.
According to Idaho State Police, the pedestrian was in the road. The semi was unable to stop and struck the male pedestrian.
He died at the scene of the crash. The pedestrian's name has not been released.
The collision is under investigation by Idaho State Police.
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MARSING, Idaho — An employee with the National Weather Service (NWS) in Boise spotted a tornado crossing a highway southeast of Marsing on Friday, as storms moved through southern Idaho.
The NWS employee observed the tornado around 5 p.m., as winds reached an estimated 65-75 mph. In the video posted to Facebook Saturday, NWS described the whirlwind as a, "weak, EFO tornado."
The tornado can be seen approaching Idaho State Highway 78 in the video, before eventually crossing the road. Friday's video was taken about a mile northwest of Givens Hot Springs or 9 miles southeast of Marsing.
According to NWS, the tornado was estimated to be on the ground for 15 minutes, with a path around 5 miles. The twister originated in the northwest area of Owyhee County.
Friday's video of the tornado from the National Weather Service in Boise can be seen below:
According to KTVB Meteorologist, Bri Eggers, times of showers, thunderstorms, much cooler air and mountain snow are expected for Memorial Day weekend in southern Idaho.
If you have plans to be in the mountains this holiday weekend, be prepared for colder, wet weather, with the likelihood of snow accumulations as low as 6,000 feet by Sunday and Monday. Snow will fall as low as 4,500 feet early Monday, but likely not accumulate.
Saturday is expected to be the most-decent weather day of the three-day weekend, with another wave arriving late Saturday night. Periods of rain are in the forecast through Sunday and lingering into Monday.
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