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Muncie event opposing gun violence scheduled for Friday night
FROM NEWS REPORTS
MUNCIE, Ind. — A "City Speak Out and Vigil" against gun violence is scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, June 3, at Muncie City Hall.
In conjunction with Wear Orange for National Gun Violence Awareness Day, the event is intended as a platform for citizens to speak, listen, ask questions and to take action in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting deaths of 19 children and two teachers, according to a release. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/muncie-event-opposing-gun-violence-scheduled-friday-night/7498091001/ | 2022-06-03T17:40:01 | 1 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/muncie-event-opposing-gun-violence-scheduled-friday-night/7498091001/ |
Restaurants: The Village adds new bar and grill, downtown Muncie loses its soul food
MUNCIE, Ind. — A new bar and restaurant has opened in The Village near Ball State University, while a pandemic-era eatery has closed downtown while offering hints of plans to reappear.
Going 'Wild' in The Village
Margaritas Gone Wild Bar and Grill recently began serving deep-fried pizza, street burritos and — not surprisingly — drinks in the split-level storefront that housed Two Cats Cafe until 2018, at the west end of the near-campus business district.
While the restaurant and bar at 1813 W. University Ave. does have a three-way license to serve alcohol — including frozen margaritas and daiquiris in Ball jars — it's open for family dinner business as well, according to spokesman Ron Parsons.
The menu includes appetizers, pizzas, wings, nachos, burritos, tacos and quesadillas, with daily specials and gluten-free options for breadsticks and pizza.
Regular hours are 5 p.m.-1 a.m. Sunday and Tuesday-Thursday; and 5 p.m.-3 a.m. Friday and Saturday, according to the website. The kitchen closes at 11 p.m., after which a bar menu is available, according to Parsons. The business is closed on Mondays.
Information, including the menu, is available at margaritasgonewildmuncie.com.
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Mama Bond's leaves downtown
Mama Bond's Soul Food Kitchen, which opened in the Rose Court in downtown Muncie just months into the COVID-19 pandemic, closed as of May 30.
Owner Andrea Venable-Bond opened the restaurant in the Charles Street corner storefront in November 2020, after she decided a soul food restaurant was a promising option for a business amid the pandemic.
For the next year and a half, Mama Bond's — named in honor of Venable-Bond's late mother-in-law, "Mama" Regina Bond — served up soul food staples like fried chicken wings and fish, macaroni and cheese and greens, and later added weekend breakfasts offering chicken and waffles and more.
On its Facebook page just before the Memorial Day weekend, however, the restaurant announced it would close as of Monday, May 30 — but hinted in that and later posts of "phase 2 coming soon" for the business.
Details about future plans for the business were not immediately available this week.
Contact content coach Robin Gibson at ragibson@gannett.com or 765-213-5855. Follow her on Twitter @RobinGibsonTSP. | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/muncie-restaurants-indiana-food-near-me-village-margaritas-gone-wild-bar-grill-mama-bonds-soul-food/7484470001/ | 2022-06-03T17:40:03 | 0 | https://www.thestarpress.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/muncie-restaurants-indiana-food-near-me-village-margaritas-gone-wild-bar-grill-mama-bonds-soul-food/7484470001/ |
PULASKI COUNTY, Ark — A new initiative in Pulaski County hopes to feed Arkansans who just need a little help.
The Pulaski County Quorum Court approved $500,000 for the Hunger Reduction initiative, after seeing the success of pilot program last year that helped over 16,000 people.
Kathy Webb with the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance said the money will go to local food pantries that serve the elderly, or people who are homebound and can't shop for themselves.
"We know the people who use the charitable food network's number one request is for healthier foods and for fresh produce and vegetables," Webb said. "So that's one reason why we are targeting that type of food, so these families can have access to that. It really matters."
The initiative hopes to expand their grocery delivery services, and to create access to more community gardens in Pulaski County. | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/outreach/pulaski-county-hunger-reduction-initiative-arkansas/91-bdaac17c-ddca-45ef-a52d-756d1f60fad5 | 2022-06-03T17:40:06 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/outreach/pulaski-county-hunger-reduction-initiative-arkansas/91-bdaac17c-ddca-45ef-a52d-756d1f60fad5 |
NEW YORK (AP) — This year’s winner of the International Booker Prize, Geetanjali Shree’s novel “Tomb of Sand,” will be released in the U.S. this winter by an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
“Tomb of Sand,” the story of an elderly widow thinking back on the 1947 partition of British India into India and Pakistan, was originally written in Hindi and translated by Daisy Rockwell. It’s the first book in any Indian language to win the International Booker Prize given for fiction translated into English.
“Tomb of Sand” was first published in 2018 and released in English translation in 2021. HarperVia has acquired it for the U.S. market.
“I was blown away by the book’s originality — a literary masterpiece unlike anything I have ever read before,” HarperVia editor Gretchen Schmid said in a statement Thursday. “Geetanjali Shree writes about death, grief, and trauma in a way that is meaningful and moving, but also playful and funny, and I’m in awe of the richness and exuberant wordplay of Daisy Rockwell’s translation.” | https://www.cbs42.com/local/award-winning-tomb-of-sand-to-be-published-in-us-in-2023/ | 2022-06-03T17:43:01 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/award-winning-tomb-of-sand-to-be-published-in-us-in-2023/ |
After an explosive six-week libel trial followed by millions on social media and live TV, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard each face an uphill battle: trying to rebuild their images and careers.
Depp already has a head start, with a jury verdict Wednesday largely favoring his narrative, that his ex-wife defamed him by accusing him of abusing her.
“Depp has a hill to climb. Heard has a mountain to climb,” said Eric Dezenhall, a crisis mitigator in Washington with no involvement in the case. “If Depp keeps his expectations proportional and understands that he’s unlikely to hit his former heights, he can have a solid career if he takes things slowly. After all, he was vindicated in court, not declared a saint.”
The challenge for Heard, Dezenhall said, is that rightly or wrongly, some believe she abused and perhaps even tarnished a worthy movement, #MeToo.
With a he said-she said edge to the drawn-out trial, the verdict handed down in Fairfax County, Virginia, found that Depp had been defamed by three statements in a 2018 op-ed piece written by Heard, who identified herself as an abuse victim. The jury awarded the “Pirates of the Caribbean” star more than $10 million. Jurors also concluded Heard was defamed, by a lawyer for Depp who accused her of creating a hoax surrounding the abuse allegations. She was awarded $2 million.
Given that such cases are notoriously hard to win, was the defamation route the way to go? Some observers with experience in high-profile cases believe Depp’s decision to sue — even though it meant dragging his and Heard’s personal lives through the mud — was a last-ditch attempt to bolster his star power after his failed London libel lawsuit against The Sun for describing him as a “wife beater.”
“I think the defamation case was a Hail Mary,” said David Glass, a Los Angeles family law attorney with a Ph.D in psychology.
Married just 15 months, Depp sued Heard for $50 million over the op-ed for The Washington Post in which she called herself “a public figure representing domestic abuse.” She didn’t identify Depp by name and it was published two years after she began making public accusations against him.
Heard countersued for $100 million, accusing the star of defaming her via the hoax accusations of attorney Adam Waldman. Many of the waning days of the trial focused on the aftereffects of both claims, with Depp testifying: “I lost nothing less than everything” and Heard accusing him of trying to erase her ability to work.
“Now as I stand here today, I can’t have a career,” Heard testified at the close of the trial. “I hope to get my voice back. That’s all I want.”
But does a verdict of any kind hold the power to reverse the courtroom accusations: of Depp as a physically and sexually abusive aging drunk and drug addict, and Heard as unhinged and capable of faking bruises allegedly inflicted by the man she said she stayed with out of love?
Despite it all, Depp’s fan base remains solid. Fans often camped out overnight for the chance to attend proceedings. But unlike rockers and stand-up comedians ensnared in #MeToo moments who can still earn through live shows, Depp and Heard need the crisis-averse studio machines to make big money.
Rehabilitation is necessary for both, whether it’s dueling traditional sit-down interviews or another secret weapon in their PR teams’ arsenals.
Heard, who was in the room for Wednesday’s verdict, plans to appeal. Depp, who wasn’t in court, said “the jury gave me my life back. I am truly humbled.”
Danny Deraney, who’s done crisis PR for some of Hollywood’s #MeToo accusers, said men in general are more likely than women to find new work in the entertainment industry “when it comes to forgiveness and when it comes to the things that they’ve done.”
He added: “I think it’s going to be easier for Johnny. For Amber, whether she’s innocent or guilty or whatever it is, it’s going to be difficult. I don’t think her career is necessarily over. But I’m sure it’s going to take a nice hit because I think everyone now is going to look at her as a difficult woman to work with, seeing her emotions the way they’ve been, whether wrong or right. I think they’re going to look at that and say, ‘Do we want this on our set?’”
Danielle Lindemann, a Lehigh University associate professor of sociology who researches gender, sexuality and culture, said Depp’s ability to earn big had already been affected, whether due to his own self-destruction or fallout from Heard’s accusations.
“But I don’t think he’s ‘canceled,’” said Lindemann, author of “True Story: What Reality Says About Us.”
The damage to his career is also likely to be a lot less severe in Asian and European markets, where his popularity remains strong. And he is likely to still get work on indie productions like those that helped along his 38-year run.
Since the former couple began slinging allegations, Heard has faced intense backlash on social media. She said Depp fueled campaigns to get her fired as an ambassador for L’Oreal and cut as the character Mera from an “Aquaman” sequel, though a production executive testified she remains in the film due out next year.
Mads Mikkelsen replaced Depp as Gellert Grindelwald for “Fantastic Beasts 3.” Depp’s future is also uncertain in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, something he blamed on Heard’s allegations. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed that two more “Pirates” scripts are in development, but neither will include Depp’s Capt. Jack Sparrow, a role that earned the actor an Oscar nomination. His last appearance in the Disney-owned franchise was in 2017’s “Dead Men Tell No Tales.”
Dior has long used Depp to promote a men’s fragrance, Sauvage. The fashion house has been silent on the abuse allegations and is still using him in ads.
Attorney Brett Ward, a family law specialist in New York, said it could take years to know whether Depp’s case will eventually lead to his return as an A-list actor.
“And if he doesn’t? I think he’s made a terrible mistake because most people aren’t going to remember his rather distinguished Hollywood career. They’re going to remember this trial. It’s like O.J. Simpson. People know him more for what happened in that trial than they did for his football career.”
Dezenhall disagreed. He said the case that captured the world’s attention might just be a bellwether for people and corporations facing existential threats to their reputations and livelihoods. The old logic that bringing defamation suits was riskier than any benefits no longer necessarily applies, he said. They’re too hard to win because proving malice is so tricky, traditional thinking went. Why publicly recycle the negative when people are likely to forget?
Today, he said, the stakes have become too high to avoid such defamation court fights. He wrote on Substack, “If you’re already covered in muck that is suspended online forever, what’s a little more muck if your life has been ruined?”
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This story has been edited to correct Lindemann’s title.
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Associated Press writers Alicia Rancilio and John Carucci contributed to this story.
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Follow Leanne Italie on Twitter at http://twitter.com/litalie | https://www.cbs42.com/local/johnny-depp-and-amber-heard-uphill-battle-to-rebuild-images/ | 2022-06-03T17:43:08 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/johnny-depp-and-amber-heard-uphill-battle-to-rebuild-images/ |
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gianandrea Noseda’s contract as music director of the National Symphony Orchestra has been extended by two years through the 2026–2027 season.
The 58-year-old Italian conductor succeeded Christoph Eschenbach for the 2017-18 season with a four-year contract as the NSO’s seventh music director, then in September 2018 was extended through 2024-25. His new deal was announced Thursday.
Noseda has appointed 20 musicians to the 98-member orchestra.
In addition, he is in his first season as general music director of the Zurich Opera and has served since 2016-17 as principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. | https://www.cbs42.com/local/noseda-extends-tenure-with-national-symphony-through-2026-27/ | 2022-06-03T17:43:17 | 1 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/noseda-extends-tenure-with-national-symphony-through-2026-27/ |
IRVING, Texas (AP) — There are representatives from the Big 12’s four future members attending the conference’s spring meetings, along with the lingering presence of Texas and Oklahoma, the league’s only football national champions who still are three years away from their scheduled departures to the SEC.
Outcoming commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who announced his retirement earlier this year with plans to stay on until his replacement is found, figures he is down to 30-90 days left on the job.
“This meeting has got some weirdness to it,” Bowlsby said. “It would be less than forthright to not admit that there’s some strangeness to it, and perhaps even some periods when there’s a little bit of tension. But, you know, people are working together in good faith. And we get along and work together because we have to.”
A time of membership transition in the Big 12 comes when it, like schools and leagues across the country, are dealing with transfer rules and how student-athletes are getting compensated for use of their names, images and likenesses, and just who is involved with that process.
“I don’t know that the change in membership is causing us any particular scrambling,” Bowlsby said. “The members going out, the continuing members, we all share the same challenges. … It’s not like they’re coming in to a uniquely different environment with a different set of challenges.”
BYU will officially join the Big 12 next summer. The growing anticipation is that current American Athletic Conference schools Cincinnati, Houston and UCF will as well, instead of having to wait until July 1, 2024.
The Big 12, a 10-team league since 2011 and that way for another year, could have 14 schools for two years after that. Texas and Oklahoma will move to the SEC no later than July 1, 2025.
“I think the tenor’s good. I mean, honestly, you move on from some of the decisions. We know the two schools, Oklahoma and Texas, are leaving. But at the same time, they’re league members for the next two years,” West Virginia athletic director Shane Lyons said. “And with the four new schools coming in … they start having a voice in the process. You’re looking at the league as a whole to say what’s best for the league.”
Athletic directors had their joint meeting Thursday with the Big 12 board comprised of the president or chancellor from each member school. The board’s executive session Friday, which is expected to include an update on the search for a new commissioner, will wrap up the meetings.
Texas AD Chris Del Conte said there is “nothing that’s contentious.” He described the meetings business as usual while including discussions about the reshaping of the league.
“It’s a little different, but we’re all participating and making decisions that are going to best serve the institutions, for us for a shorter period of time than the others,” Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione said.
Bowlsby said the agenda for the annual meetings that began Wednesday maybe should have been color-coded. There were some items for the current 10 members, some for all 14 schools, others for the future schools that are observing and interacting without a vote on issues, and even some for only the eight remaining schools — Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, TCU and West Virginia.
There will be no final decisions this week on future schedules — for football or other sports — and if the league would return to divisions.
The Big 12 became a 10-team league and scrapped divisions in 2011, during a two-year transition when Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas A&M left the league while TCU and West Virginia came in. Changes in NCAA legislation allowed the Big 12 in 2017 to resume its football championship game, pitting the top two teams in the standings after a round-robin league schedule.
“We’re still considering whether divisions are the right thing for us, or whether one group together is the right thing,” said Bowlsby, adding that could differ among sports.
As for NIL, which went into effect last summer with few guidelines, Lyons said there have been a lot of positives and negatives.
“So where do we end up somewhere in between, where our student-athletes can capitalize of name, image and likeness, but we’re not using them for pay-for-play, and we’re not using it for inducements,” Lyons said. “That’s the bad part right now … some institutions are using it as recruiting inducements and making promises on the front end. And that was really never anticipated. It was a matter of once a student-athlete becomes a student-athlete, how he or she can capitalize off their name, image and likeness.” | https://www.cbs42.com/local/some-weirdness-at-big-12-with-future-and-soon-former-teams/ | 2022-06-03T17:43:23 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/local/some-weirdness-at-big-12-with-future-and-soon-former-teams/ |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Cumberland County man has agreed to pay $900,000 to the U.S. government to resolve civil liability for his alleged violations of the False Claims Act, U.S. Attorney John C. Gurganus announced Friday.
Rodney L. Yentzer is accused of submitting false claims to Medicare through a group of pain clinics he managed between 2017 and 2019, Gurganus said.
Those clinics, known as Pain Medicine of York, issued false claims to Medicare for presumptive and definitive Urine Drug Tests that were not medically reasonable or necessary, nor were they used to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, according to Gurganus.
Additionally, Gurganus said, Yentzer agreed to be excluded from all federal health care programs for 22 years. The exclusion means that no federal health care program payment may be made, either directly or indirectly, for any items or services furnished by Yentzer or at the direction or on the prescription of Yentzer.
“Civil enforcement is an important tool to recover funds when providers cause improper claims to the Medicare program,” said Maureen Dixon, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General. “HHS-OIG will continue to work with the U.S. Attorney’s Office to ensure the integrity of the Medicare Trust Fund.”
Yentzer pleaded guilty in March to Health Care Fraud, Money Laundering, and Theft of Public Money for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services between 2016 and 2020 in a matter related to this case, Gurganus said.
Yentzer is awaiting sentencing for the guilty pleas. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cumberland-county/rodney-yentzer-medicare-fraud-penalty-payment/521-450166b2-5a8c-4742-a6dd-a3bc4888a6e5 | 2022-06-03T17:46:57 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/cumberland-county/rodney-yentzer-medicare-fraud-penalty-payment/521-450166b2-5a8c-4742-a6dd-a3bc4888a6e5 |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Dauphin County man will serve up to 32 years in prison and must register as a Megan's Law offender for the rest of his life for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 13, the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office announced.
Heriberto Montanez, 44, was sentenced Friday by Judge Scott Arthur Evans to a prison term of 16 to 32 years, the DA's office said. He was convicted in March of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, indecent assault of a child under age 13, and corruption of minors after a three-day trial.
According to testimony, Montanez entered a bedroom where the eight-year-old child was sleeping and sexually assaulted the child in early 2020.
The child alerted a sibling to the assault who told another adult in the household, who initially dismissed the allegations as a bad dream.
The child later disclosed to a parent, who reported the incident to investigators.
During the trial the child, now 10 years of age, took the witness stand and described the assault in detail to the jury. The child bravely looked at Montanez in the courtroom and positively identified him as the assailant, according to prosecutors.
Corporal Jacob Pierce of the Harrisburg Bureau of Police investigated the case in conjunction with the Child Abuse Multi-Disciplinary Investigative Team.
The Dauphin County Child Abuse Multi-Disciplinary Investigative Team consists of police, Children and Youth Services, members of the District Attorney’s Office, and the UPMC- Children’s Advocacy Center.
Senior Deputy District Attorney Katie L. Adam of the office's Child Abuse Unit prosecuted this case. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/dauphin-county/heriberto-montanez-sentencing-32-years-prison-sexual-assault-of-child/521-dbeffee2-7ab8-4eab-8752-ead357fc81ae | 2022-06-03T17:47:03 | 0 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/dauphin-county/heriberto-montanez-sentencing-32-years-prison-sexual-assault-of-child/521-dbeffee2-7ab8-4eab-8752-ead357fc81ae |
Murdaugh, former bank CEO stole funds from family in fatal crash case, new lawsuit says
A new civil lawsuit filed Thursday is against suspended South Carolina attorney Richard “Alex” Murdaugh, former bank CEO Russell Laffitte, and Palmetto State Bank of Hampton.
The latest personal injury suit was filed in Allendale County Court of Common Pleas by attorney Mark Tinsley on behalf of Arthur Badger as a personal representative of the estate of Donna Badger, who was killed in a vehicle crash in 2011.
The suit alleges that Murdaugh and Laffitte, through the services of Palmetto State Bank, conspired to steal settlement funds from Arthur Badger, who was Murdaugh's client at the time.
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Arthur Badger is an Allendale man who was injured in a Jan. 28, 2011 crash with a UPS truck. His wife, Donna Badger was killed. The complaint also accuses the defendants of making illegal loans and misrepresenting facts to government agencies as part of this conspiracy.
As causes of action, the suit alleges civil conspiracy, conversion and fraud against Murdaugh and Laffittee, and aiding and abetting, negligence, and breach of fiduciary duty against Palmetto State Bank.
Murdaugh was indicted on Jan. 21 for allegedly stealing, on multiple occasions in 2013 and 2014, from the personal injury settlement funds of the Badgers, who were not even aware they had a settlement.
Laffitte, who was terminated as CEO of Palmetto State Bank on Jan. 7, was indicted on May 4 for numerous charges that included criminal conspiracy with Murdaugh on several other alleged crimes.
The complaint includes copies of allegedly fraudulent disbursement statements and emails between Murdaugh and Laffitte referencing the use of a law firm accounting employee to cut checks for certain amounts in a certain fashion. At the time of the alleged crimes, Murdaugh was a partner at Peters Murdaugh Parker Eltzroth & Detrick, PA, the law firm founded by his great-grandfather, while Laffitte was the vice president of the Hampton bank founded by his family more than a century ago.
The Hampton County Guardian has contacted, by email and phone, attorneys for Murdaugh, Laffitte and Palmetto State Bank seeking comment. Requests for comment were not immediately returned.
This is the 11th civil lawsuit filed directly naming Murdaugh, and the first against Laffitte, after an alleged decade-long, multi-county financial crime spree in which Murdaugh stole more than $8 million from clients, partners and other attorneys.
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In addition to Badger, Tinsley also represents the estate of Mallory Beach in a wrongful death suit against Murdaugh related to a February 2019 boat crash, as well as representing two of the boat crash survivors who are suing Murdaugh.
Murdaugh was suspended from the practice of law by Order of the South Carolina Supreme Court in September 2021. Murdaugh has been the target of waves of indictments since late 2021 and is now facing a total of 82 criminal charges. He remains in the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Richland County on a $7 million bond with no ten percent option.
Laffitte is currently out on a $1 million bond.
Read more about the Murdaugh crime saga here. | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2022/06/03/alex-murdaugh-former-banker-palmetto-state-bank-facing-new-lawsuit/7497747001/ | 2022-06-03T17:49:34 | 1 | https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/south-carolina/2022/06/03/alex-murdaugh-former-banker-palmetto-state-bank-facing-new-lawsuit/7497747001/ |
If you proudly represent "the 610" or " the 484", well it's time to add another number: the 835.
The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) announced Thursday that the new 835 area code will go into affect September 2, 2022 – months ahead of schedule.
The commission voted last December to add 835 in Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Monroe, Montgomery, Northampton and Schuylkill counties.
The new area code was expected to go into effect in early 2023, but that date was pushed forward due to the dwindling amount of 610 and 484 numbers, the PUC said.
Residents with the 610 and 484 area code get to keep their current number. But starting September 2, if you're looking to get a new telephone line, you may be assigned the 835 number.
The PUC shared the following tips for residents and businesses in the 610/484 region to prepare for the new 835 area code:
- Check your devices to verify that area codes are included with all stored numbers.
- Program, save and store phone numbers to all devices using the full 10-digit telephone number.
- Verify that all services and equipment – such as automatic dialers, life-safety & medical alert systems, alarm/security systems and security gates, call-forwarding settings and voicemail services – recognize the new area code as a valid phone number.
For those interested in checking their devices to confirm that they will work with the new 835 area code, a test number is now available: 835-990-TEST (8378). A recorded announcement will indicate the test call has been successfully completed.
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More information about the new 835 area code can be found here. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/the-835-area-code-is-coming-to-pa-sooner-rather-than-later/3260372/ | 2022-06-03T17:54:11 | 0 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/the-835-area-code-is-coming-to-pa-sooner-rather-than-later/3260372/ |
The University of Dayton community is mourning the death of Jayda Grant, daughter of basketball coach Anthony Grant.
Grant, 20, was a 2019 graduate of Chaminade Julienne High School and had attended UD, pursuing a degree in psychology, according to her obituary.
UD President Eric Spina and Vice President/Director of Athletics Neil Sullivan issued a joint statement:
“On behalf of the entire University of Dayton community, it is with devastating heartache we mourn the passing of Jayda Grant. We extend our deepest sympathies to Anthony, Chris and their entire family. They have our unconditional love and support. We pray for their comfort and peace, and support their need for privacy during this period of immeasurable grief.”
Atlantic 10 Commissioner Bernadette V. McGlade also issued a statement:
“On behalf of the Atlantic 10 Conference, I offer our deepest condolences and prayers to Coach Grant, Chris and their family. Their beautiful Jayda left this Earth far too prematurely for us to comprehend. The A-10 extends unlimited support and strength to the Grants and the University of Dayton family.”
Jayda Grant ran track and while in high school excelled in 4x400, 200M and 400M races. During her time at UD, she was on the women’s track and field roster in 2020 and 2021, but the most recent seasons were canceled due to COVID-19.
She is survived by her parents, Anthony and Christina Grant, and brothers A.J., Preston and Makai Grant.
Services are pending. The family suggests memorial contributions to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, www.nami.org.
About the Author | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/ud-mourns-death-of-basketball-coachs-daughter/YYZICVJNBRFTZE6LCH6L3OSZPQ/ | 2022-06-03T17:54:59 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/ud-mourns-death-of-basketball-coachs-daughter/YYZICVJNBRFTZE6LCH6L3OSZPQ/ |
Changes in bone density affect both men and women as they age. Dr. Muna Jneidi, who practices Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine with Kettering Health, explains why it happens and what the risks are in the video above.
Men often don’t realize they are subject to bone issues.
“The mortality in hip fractures is actually higher in men than women,” Jneidi said. “If men have osteoporosis, it is at an older age, so they have more issues.”
Our In Your Prime series gives you information you can trust about managing your health and finances, Medicare options and living a fulfilled life in retirement and beyond.
The video above is just a portion of a program in which Jana Collier, the publisher of the Dayton Daily News, Springfield News-Sun and the Journal-News, sits down with local experts and leaders in their field to discuss the following subjects:
· Muna Jneidi, MD, Internal Medicine with Kettering Health: Bone health for women and men.
· Kristie Farkash, APRN-CNP with Kettering Health: Diabetes lifestyle tips
· Kim Sheehan, the Senior Health and Wellness Director with the YMCA of Greater Dayton: Creating a life of wellness as a senior.
Watch the full In Your Prime program below: | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/watch-local-doctor-says-bone-density-matters-for-women-and-men/BMOVS243K5FRNG26Y4OJZTQ6ZU/ | 2022-06-03T17:55:05 | 0 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/watch-local-doctor-says-bone-density-matters-for-women-and-men/BMOVS243K5FRNG26Y4OJZTQ6ZU/ |
NOAA: 10 hurricanes possible in the Atlantic this season
With her forecasters predicting as many as 10 hurricanes in the Atlantic this season, U.S. Commerce Secretary and former Rhode Island Gov. GinaM. Raimondo is urging people who live in potential storm paths to get ready now.
“Early preparation and understanding your risk is key to being hurricane-resilient and climate-ready,” said Raimondo, who left Rhode Island last year to join the Biden administration.
Hurricane season began Wednesday and there's a 65% chance of more hurricanes than normal in the Atlantic Ocean, according to forecasters at the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center, part of the Commerce Department.
NOAA is forecasting 14 to 21 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher), and says 6 to 10 of those could become hurricanes (sustained winds of 74 mph or higher). Of those hurricanes, 3 to 6 could become major hurricanes, category 3, 4 or 5, with winds of 111 mph or higher, NOAA says.
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Other forecasters have similar outlooks.
Researchers at Colorado State University are predicting 19 named storms with 9 of those becoming hurricanes and 4 reaching major hurricane strength, sustained winds of 111 miles per hour or greater.
AccuWeather, too, is forecasting more hurricanes than normal, with 16 to 20 named storms and 6 to 8 hurricanes, with 3 to 5 of those developing into major hurricanes.
If the forecasts hold up, this would be the seventh hurricane season in a row with more storms than normal, forecasters say. A normal season has 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes.
The last two Atlantic hurricane seasons were "extraordinarily active," according to AccuWeather, with the 2020 season setting a record for the number of named storms with 30. Last year was the third-most active on record with 21 named storms, AccuWeather said.
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Rhode Islanders felt that wrath last summer when Henri approached the Ocean State as a hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm when it hit the coast Aug. 22. The storm nevertheless slammed the southern half of the state with heavy rain and powerful winds, knocking out power to about 75,000 electric customers.
Forecasters cite several climate factors in supporting their predictions, including warm sea temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, which can feed the storms.
They also point to surface water temperatures at the equatorial Pacific Ocean, which can shift the jet stream and affect weather conditions around the world, including whether hurricanes can form in the Atlantic.
With the water temperature cooler than normal at the equatorial Pacific, so-called La Niña is in place, which generally leads to a more active hurricane season, according to forecasters.
La Niña's complementary condition, El Niño, warmer waters, tends to increase upper-level westerly winds across the Caribbean into the tropical Atlantic, "tearing apart hurricanes as they try to form," according to forecasters at Colorado State University.
AccuWeather notes that La Niña was in place during the last two seasons.
Like Raimondo, the American Red Cross's Rhode Island Chapter is telling residents not to wait for the storm to arrive before doing anything.
“After back-to-back years of active hurricane seasons that have broken records, this year it’s more important than ever before to get ready now,” Susan Roberts, the chapter's executive director, said. “We’re encouraging everyone to take the steps today to prepare for any possible dangerous storms this year in Rhode Island.”
Here are some tips from the Red Cross:
• Create an evacuation plan. Plan what to do in case you are separated from your family during an emergency or if you need to evacuate. Plan multiple routes to local shelters.
• Build an emergency kit with a gallon of water per person, per day, non-perishable food, a flashlight, battery-powered radio, first aid kit, medications, supplies for infants or pets, a multi-purpose tool, personal hygiene items, copies of important papers, cell phone chargers, extra cash, blankets, maps of the area and emergency contact information.
• Stay informed. Find out how local officials will contact you during a disaster and how you will get important information, such as evacuation orders.
• Download the free Red Cross Emergency app. The app provides real-time weather alerts and tips on how to stay safe during severe weather and other emergencies. Search “American Red Cross” in app stores or go to redcross.org/apps.
Raimondo said, "Throughout the hurricane season, NOAA experts will work around-the-clock to provide early and accurate forecasts and warnings that communities in the path of storms can depend on to stay informed.”
Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
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Block Island's Mohegan Bluffs staircase and parking lot set to reopen after repairs
Good news for anyone planning a summer trip to Block Island: As of this weekend, you should have no problem getting to Mohegan Bluffs.
In mid-May, the Department of Environmental Management announced that the staircase that scales the 150-foot oceanfront bluffs would be closing for repairs. That work is expected to be completed on Friday, spokesman Jay Wegimont said.
"Following the completion, the barriers will be removed and it will be fully reopened," Wegimont wrote in an email.
It's estimated that hundreds of people use the Mohegan Bluffs staircase each day during the summer months. That heavy usage, plus the harsh coastal environment, contributes to wear and tear on the stairs, according to the DEM.
New Shoreham town officials notified the DEM in January about a broken handrail and loose stair treads on the stairway. Fixing those issues took four days, Wegimont said.
The contractor, Cranston-based Sole Source Construction, also completed a number of other repairs that took longer: Replacing 31 stair treads, flipping 20 stair treads due to surface damage, reinforcing 15 stairs, resetting the concrete pad at the bottom of the stairs, installing a railing at the landing to the beach, and repairing a bench support.
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"Additionally, the entire parking area and trails leading to the overlook and staircase were re-graded with fresh gravel to fill in the washouts and potholes and new informational signage was installed at this location," Weigmont wrote. | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/block-island-ri-mohegan-bluffs-staircase-parking-lot-set-reopen-after-repairs/7496227001/ | 2022-06-03T17:55:28 | 1 | https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/block-island-ri-mohegan-bluffs-staircase-parking-lot-set-reopen-after-repairs/7496227001/ |
TACOMA, Wash — A 19-year-old man was arrested at a Tacoma residence Thursday evening in connection to a drive-by shooting that injured four teenagers, according to the Tacoma Police Department.
A release from the Tacoma Police Department said the suspect was arrested just before 5 p.m. Thursday for his alleged role in a May 21 drive-by shooting.
Tacoma police said the four teens were in a vehicle and stopped at an intersection near S. 56th and Yakima Avenue when another vehicle pulled up and began firing shots toward the car. The suspect fled the area following the drive-by shooting, police said.
The teens drove themselves to the hospital at about 5:30 p.m. Minutes later, South Sound 911 received a report of four gunshot victims arriving at St. Joseph Hospital.
Police said the shooting victims were a 15-year-old female, a 16-year-old female, a 17-year-old female, and a 17-year-old male. The victims’ injuries were considered non-life-threatening.
An 18-year-old male victim was also in the vehicle but was not hit by gunfire, according to investigators.
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Detectives and forensic staff identified the suspect two weeks after the shooting was reported.
Investigators said the suspect was booked into the Pierce County Jail for five counts of assault and one count of drive-by shooting.
Police do not have a motive for the shooting. | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/drive-by-suspect-arrested-shooting-tacoma-teens/281-d9df5f1e-2b79-4aa5-a24b-2943b5bca57a | 2022-06-03T17:55:47 | 1 | https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/tacoma/drive-by-suspect-arrested-shooting-tacoma-teens/281-d9df5f1e-2b79-4aa5-a24b-2943b5bca57a |
COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. – The St. Matthew’s House announced its two homeless shelters will be open starting Friday for those seeking shelter from the storm.
One shelter is located at the Campbell Lodge at 2001 Airport Road South in Naples. The second shelter is at the Immokalee Friendship House at 602 W Main Street in Immokalee.
Those staying at the shelter will be provided with bug spray, water, and linens.
For more information on St. Matthew’s House, you can visit their website here. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/06/03/st-matthews-house-opens-two-emergency-shelters-for-the-possible-tropical-storm/ | 2022-06-03T17:55:53 | 0 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/06/03/st-matthews-house-opens-two-emergency-shelters-for-the-possible-tropical-storm/ |
SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — Here’s a look at closures and cancellations across Southwest Florida due to tropical weather.
Click here for the latest updates as NBC2 continues to monitor the tropics.
LEE COUNTY
- J.N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island will be closed at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 3, and will remain closed until further notice
- Crazy Dingo Brewing Company will be closed Friday, June 3, and Saturday, June 4
- Mighty Mussels game is canceled Friday
- The Fort Myers River District has canceled Art Walk scheduled for June 3
COLLIER COUNTY
- Collier County Sheriff Gun Range will be closed Saturday, June 4
- Naples Zoo will be closing early Friday, June 3 at 1:30. It will also be closed tomorrow, June 4
HENDRY COUNTY
- Check back often for updates.
GLADES COUNTY
- Check back often for updates.
DESOTO COUNTY
- Check back often for updates.
CHARLOTTE COUNTY
- The Port Charlotte Beach Recreation Center has postponed its ‘Dance with Daddy’ event scheduled for Saturday, June 4 to August 6. | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/06/03/tropical-weather-closures-and-cancellations/ | 2022-06-03T17:55:59 | 1 | https://nbc-2.com/news/local/2022/06/03/tropical-weather-closures-and-cancellations/ |
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BALTIMORE — A challenge coin inscribed with the Maryland State Police logo along with graphic imagery and offensive language has some troopers concerned because they see it as a potential response to allegations of racial discrimination within the agency.
Maryland State Police became aware of the coin in January and the agency is investigating its creation, including whether someone in the agency was involved with the coins’ “design, manufacturing/purchase or sale,” spokeswoman Elena Russo said in an email. Russo said the agency hasn’t identified the person “responsible for this violation of Department policy” and urged anyone with information on who created it to contact internal affairs. Investigations of other coins have led to disciplinary or administrative actions, she said.
The coin is being interpreted as a reaction to issues raised by Black troopers about disparate treatment around discipline, hiring and promotions and racist incidents within the agency, according to leaders of the Coalition of Black Maryland State Troopers and the Randallstown NAACP.
Branch President Ryan Coleman said he has heard from troopers who saw the coin as part of an attempt to “downplay the plight of minority and women troopers” and called it evidence of a culture that could be having a broader effect on residents.
“If people of color who are troopers, or police who are women, if they’re not being treated properly, how is the regular citizen going to be treated?” Coleman said. “If you don’t even like the people you work with, how is a regular motorist or someone who needs help, how will they fare?”
Sgt. Anthony Alexander, the coalition’s president, said he received images of the coin Thursday and heard concerns from several of the coalition’s roughly 45 members. There’s been “animosity and division” following recent complaints and the coin is the most recent example of a culture that needs to change, he said. He plans to send a letter about the coin to the superintendent.
“That’s what’s destroying us, is the culture itself inside the agency that fosters this type of behavior,” Alexander said. “We have to become better as an agency, but we won’t get there until we start really making major changes.” | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/explicit-coin-with-police-logo-concerns-black-troopers/2022/06/03/676b6bf6-e35d-11ec-ae64-6b23e5155b62_story.html | 2022-06-03T18:20:26 | 0 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/explicit-coin-with-police-logo-concerns-black-troopers/2022/06/03/676b6bf6-e35d-11ec-ae64-6b23e5155b62_story.html |
Cindy Coffer Chojnacky
Special to the Arizona Daily Star
When you think of Saguaro National Park — sprawling mountain reserves on the east and west ends of Tucson — you may think of cactus. But probably not orchids.
However, the Thurber’s bog orchid is one of nine montane and rare plants recently rediscovered in the park’s Rincon Mountain District — plants previously considered extirpated (locally extinct). These plants were missing in the last extensive Rincon survey (done in 1982-84 and published in 1987) but recently found in a National Park Service survey.
“Orchid is not a plant you use in the same sentence as Saguaro National Park,” quipped Don Swann, Saguaro biologist. Surveyors also discovered new springs and more than 30 plants never previously recorded, most of which are native. This included another orchid species.
Park staff have been concerned about losing plants from climate change and extended drought.
“As the park biologist for 30 years, I have wanted to do this for some time,” Swann said.
Lower elevation vegetation has been studied, particularly Saguaro cactus (which the park was established to preserve) but Swann wanted to study higher elevation natural resources. “The National Park Service mission is to protect species, so losing species is something we take seriously.”
Hardy technicians, seasonal workers, and other employees combed canyons and north slopes of Mica Mountain, the highest point in the Rincons, in spring and summer 2017-2020. (A sixth survey began this spring with new funding.)
Several “moisture-loving, cold-loving” species were found along seeps on Chimenea Creek above Manning Camp, a historic former private summer home complex built by Levi Manning in 1905 on a homestead claim. It’s now the Park Service summer headquarters for high country field work and adjacent to backpacker campsites reserved by the public.
The creek was dammed in 1960 to provide a permanent Manning water source, eliciting concerns about potentially eliminated species. However, two “rediscovered” species, red osier dogwood and thin leaf alder, were found in moist areas in upper reaches of the creek.
Other plants use shade and lingering snow beneath towering rocks on Mica. Helen’s Dome, a prominent rock outcrop visible from Tucson, offered a home for Porter’s melic grass on a forested north slope. Ravine fescue, another perennial grass, was scattered along the base of the massive Spud Rock outcrop.
Saguaro biological technician Dan Beckman has led the surveys. The most focus was on areas around Manning, Helen’s Dome, Italian Spring and Deer Head Spring, all within day hiking distance of Manning.
Saguaro’s mule packer and mule team packed up supplies, food and equipment for each survey, which often went five to eight days.
In a report published last summer, Beckman wrote that the high elevation plant community may be more stable than previously believed, offering “hope that remaining lost plants may be rediscovered.”
“Results of Surveys for Potentially Extirpated Plants in High Elevations of the Rincon Mountain District, Saguaro National Park, 2017-2020,” was published in “Desert Plants” 37:1 in July 2021, a Boyce Thompson Arboretum publication.
The report notes the nine “rediscovered” plants of 14 thought to be extirpated. The report gives a brief history of plant surveys in the area, methods for this project and discussion on findings.
The project, funded by Friends of Saguaro National Park, began in 2013. Staff consulted old surveys and studies; the oldest dating to 1891. The survey by Janice Bowers and Stan McLaughlin, (“Flora and Vegetation of the Rincon Mountains, Pima County Arizona,” Desert Plants 8:51-94), initially identified 41 “excluded species” which “have not been collected in the Rincon Mountains during … this project and might no longer occur there,” according to the report.
Surveyors checked this list against online databases, a U.S. Geological Survey Rincons survey and the University of Arizona herbarium which has plant collections from earlier surveys. They were able to reduce the potentially missing plants list from 41 to 14 by removing from consideration six nonnative species, six species found at lower elevations that were not montane, others that had been misidentified and two reported that were never documented.
“We had the advantage of trying to look for specific species that were not found in the last survey but were thought to possibly still be around,” park biologist Don Swann noted. “So, we could fairly narrowly focus. Also, we had more resources; leveraging interns, other survey technicians and even wilderness rangers who are up on the mountain during the season.”
Surveyors were given laminated species cards with photos, key identifying features and botanical descriptions. Records and notes from surveys in other nearby mountain ranges helped the plant detectives know where to look.
Beckman, a self-trained botanist is leading a new round of surveys this year covering areas off trail around Rincon Peak which are too far for day hikes from Manning.
“We will do six backpack trips, mostly cross country in rough terrain through catclaw mimosa, manzanita and shin daggers” (vegetation notorious to Arizona hikers), Beckman said. “We have some hardy interns and I personally love gnarly exploratory backpacking.”
Surveyors will make day trips up canyons from the defunct Madrona Ranger Station (closed to the public by private homes on the former X-9 Ranch property but open to the Park Service.)
Western National Parks Association and Wild Tribute are funding the new phase.
Citizen scientists
Beckman also hopes to enlist more “citizen scientists” to help identify plants. iNaturalist, a digital platform for naturalists and biologists around the world to share observations, now includes Beckman’s project Plants of the Saguaro NP High Country (tucne.ws/saguaroplants). There, you can see hundreds of plants already identified and click on “About” and “read more” for a description of the project and how to participate.
Observations for the area (some posted before the new project) include photos of 693 plant species from 150 “observers” and named by “identifiers” including Beckman and hundreds of other “plant geeks.”
Since Arizona Trail thru-hikers are the largest segment of yearly visitors to Rincon high country, “we’d like to get more Arizona Trail hikers involved,” Beckman said.
“We’d like to get people involved with learning about plants,” Swann added. “The Sky Islands (high elevation mountains in Southern Arizona including the Rincons and Santa Catalinas) are one of the most amazing places in the country.”
For Star subscribers: It looks like a bad bloom for local saguaros, with cactus experts reporting below-average bud and blossom production throughout the area.
The Graham County communities of Safford and Thatcher will be getting their own little riverside version of the Loop around Tucson, thanks to some recent land donations.
Thurber’s bog orchid (Plantanthera limosa) was among montane plants rediscovered on Mica Mountain previously thought to be possibly extirpated (locally extinct).
Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) was among montane plants rediscovered on Mica Mountain previously thought to be possibly extirpated (locally extinct). | https://tucson.com/news/local/lost-plants-found-in-tucsons-saguaro-national-park/article_62dac9a8-daeb-11ec-899d-2776d5e08613.html | 2022-06-03T18:33:54 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/lost-plants-found-in-tucsons-saguaro-national-park/article_62dac9a8-daeb-11ec-899d-2776d5e08613.html |
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Daniel Gore, the minor charged with the murder of a 13-year-old Beaverton girl, Milana Li, is scheduled to appear in Washington County Circuit Court Friday morning.
Li was reported missing by her mother on May 9, and a little after 2 p.m. the next day, Beaverton police officers responding to a “suspicious circumstances” call found her body in a small stream at the park near the intersection of SW Barrows Road and SW Horizon Boulevard.
The spot where Li’s body was found is about half a mile down the trail from her apartment, where she was last seen by her mother around 4 p.m. May 8, authorities said. Beaverton police initially classified the case as a runaway.
The medical examiner conducted an autopsy on May 11 and Li’s death was officially ruled a homicide. Nine days later, officials charged a 16-year-old with murder.
Washington County also noted Gore was on probation for previous non-violent offenses including theft, arson and criminal mischief.
Gore will appear in front a judge at 11 a.m. Friday.
KOIN 6 News will update coverage of the trial as it unfolds. | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/16-year-old-charged-with-murder-of-milana-li-due-in-court-friday/ | 2022-06-03T18:36:29 | 0 | https://www.koin.com/local/washington-county/16-year-old-charged-with-murder-of-milana-li-due-in-court-friday/ |
A New York City restaurant patron has pleaded not guilty to killing a delivery worker after months of threatening the eatery because of a quarrel over a condiment, and his lawyer said his client is innocent.
Glenn Hirsch, 51, was arraigned Thursday on murder, weapon possession, menacing and other charges stemming from the death of Zhiwen Yan.
“A petty dispute over a takeout order became an obsessive point of contention for the defendant, who began to stalk and harass employees at the restaurant for months,” Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz said in a release. “The tragic end result was the murder of a hard-working employee.”
Yan, 45, was gunned down on a Queens street April 30, while riding a scooter to make a delivery.
He worked for more than a decade for Great Wall, a Chinese restaurant where Hirsch felt he didn’t get enough duck sauce with an order in November, prosecutors said. He was given more of the sweet-and-sour condiment but demanded a refund and called police when he didn’t get one, according to prosecutors.
Authorities say that over the months that followed, Hirsch damaged a Great Wall worker’s car, made threatening remarks to employees, including Yan, and pulled a gun on one of them.
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On April 30, surveillance cameras captured Hirsch driving by Great Wall seven times in about two hours and then following Yan, according to prosecutors.
Hirsch’s lawyer, Michael Horn, told reporters that he believes authorities “arrested the wrong man.”
He said Hirsch had an argument with Great Wall’s manager in November, but nothing more.
“He had no quarrel over any deliveryman, and he has not done anything to harm any deliveryman,” the attorney said.
Yan’s widow, Eva Zhao, said he was “a loving and kind husband, father, son, friend and community member.”
“We are all relieved that someone has been arrested,” she said in a statement. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/diner-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-nyc-delivery-worker-over-condiment-dispute/3719042/ | 2022-06-03T18:43:31 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/diner-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-nyc-delivery-worker-over-condiment-dispute/3719042/ |
A retired NYPD officer posing as a criminal investigator with the "Department of the Interpol" was arrested outside the U.S. Capitol with body armor and high capacity magazines, authorities said Friday.
The 53-year-old Michigan man was parked outside the west side of the Capitol around 5 a.m. when police officers noticed his vehicle, according to a statement from the U.S. Capitol Police.
Jerome Felipe, who worked for the NYPD between 2004 and 2018, identified himself to officials as an investigator with Interpol and presented them with a fake badge, according to police.
Officers searched Felipe's vehicle and allegedly found a BB gun, two ballistic vests, high capacity magazine and other ammunition.
A statement from Capitol Police said no real guns were found on Felipe's person or inside his vehicle. He's now facing charges of unlawful possession of high capacity magazines and unregistered ammunition.
Contact information for Felipe's legal representation was not immediately known.
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Capitol Police investigators were still working to determine why the man was parked outside the Capitol early Friday morning. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/retired-nypd-cop-arrested-outside-us-capitol-with-fake-interpol-badge-bullets-police/3719281/ | 2022-06-03T18:43:37 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/retired-nypd-cop-arrested-outside-us-capitol-with-fake-interpol-badge-bullets-police/3719281/ |
Early in-person voting for New Jersey’s midterm primary began on Friday and runs through Sunday.
It’s just the second time voters have been able to cast early votes in person, following last year’s gubernatorial race.
The state’s Division of Elections website has the locations in each county for where voters can cast ballots early in person — not always the same place people usually vote in person.
Polls open at 10 a.m. and close at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, the hours run from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Primary Election Day is Tuesday, when polls open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. It’s also the last day to return mail-in ballots.
There are no statewide races in this year’s primary. At the top of the ticket will be U.S. House races for each of the state’s 12 congressional districts. It’s the first time since the new districts were drawn in December that incumbents and challengers will be on the ballot. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/early-in-person-voting-starts-in-new-jersey/3719090/ | 2022-06-03T18:43:43 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/early-in-person-voting-starts-in-new-jersey/3719090/ |
New Jersey environmental protection officials said Thursday they hope to have a law that guards communities from overbearing pollution in full effect by the end of this year.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed the law in September 2020 in Newark, but rulemaking, public comment and other procedures have yet to be completed.
Officials with the state Department of Environmental Protection said they hope to approve rules spelling out the details of the law by Dec. 31, which would mark the point where the law was fully implemented.
In the meantime, DEP Commissioner Shawn LaTourette has issued an administrative order requiring current and future projects to comply with its spirit and goals.
He said the order has the practical effect of “placing us where the rule ultimately would.”
Murphy signed the law in order to prevent communities — often low-income, minority neighborhoods — from having to bear the brunt of too many sources of pollution.
“This is a big deal,” LaTourette said during a briefing for reporters on where the law currently stands. “We have wrestled with those hard questions. We believe we have landed at the right place.”
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Because it is not yet in full effect, the law does not directly affect one of the most hotly contested environmental justice cases in the state, the proposed addition of a backup gas-fired power plant at a sewage treatment facility in Newark’s Ironbound section.
That neighborhood already suffers from multiple sources of pollution from nearby power plants, an international airport, numerous highways and heavy truck traffic through residential neighborhoods.
LaTourette said he would not prejudge the application, which is already being considered by his agency.
But he and other DEP officials said there are steps that the power plant and other applicants could take to lessen pollution in the area, including in places off their own property.
In January, the governor directed the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission to pause a plan to build the largest part of a $180 million backup power plant, designed to kick in when the main facility is knocked offline.
The commission has proposed measures including the adoption of “state of the art” pollution controls that go beyond the state’s own requirements.
The commission says it will only run the backup power plant during emergencies and for basic maintenance only; in a year in which no emergencies occur, the backup plant would operate for a maximum of 12 days a year.
The commission also has dropped a plan to use the backup power plant on days of high electric demand, which it says will eliminate 700 hours of operation. It also says it plans to install “all of the technically feasible solar power it can.”
It also plans to convert from natural gas to cleaner fuels as soon as that becomes feasible, including the use of battery power.
The backup power plant is designed to avoid a repeat of what happened during Superstorm Sandy in 2012, when nearly a billion gallons of raw sewage flowed into nearby waterways when the plant went offline due to a lack of electricity.
The commission says that without the backup plant, the streets of the Ironbound section could be awash in raw sewage during a serious storm that knocks out power to the sewage treatment facility.
LaTourette predicted numerous legal challenges to the law once it takes full effect.
“Lawyers will build entire careers on splitting its hairs,” he said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-aims-to-implement-environmental-justice-law-by-dec-31/3718886/ | 2022-06-03T18:43:50 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nj-aims-to-implement-environmental-justice-law-by-dec-31/3718886/ |
POCATELLO — Idaho State University assistant football coach DaVonte' Neal has been charged with felony first-degree murder in Arizona and the school intends to terminate his contract.
Neal has been charged with one count of first-degree murder, a class one felony, according to a copy of Neal's indictment obtained by the Idaho State Journal on Thursday evening. He also faces one count of drive by shooting, a class two felony, and one count of discharging a firearm at a structure, a class three felony.
The alleged incident occurred on Nov. 11, 2017 and the victim was Bryan Burns, the indictment shows.
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputies located Burns with a gunshot wound in a vehicle near an overpass on Interstate 10 in Tempe, Arizona, according to an ABC 15 story. Burns was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, the story says, and died the following day.
Neal was indicted by a grand jury in Maricopa County on May 16.
He is currently incarcerated at the Bannock County Jail with no bond awaiting extradition back to Arizona.
Neal was arrested on an extradition warrant after Pocatello police were contacted by detectives in Maricopa County and asked if they could check on his location, Pocatello police said.
Pocatello police learned Neal was living at an apartment on the 100 block of South Union Pacific Avenue and on May 25 waited there until he left the apartment and entered a vehicle, police said, adding that a traffic stop was conducted on the vehicle. Neal was subsequently arrested without further incident.
ISU confirmed in an email Wednesday evening that Neal has been placed on administrative leave and the school has initiated proceedings to terminate his contract.
Neal no longer appears on the ISU football roster on the school's website.
"I have been in constant contact with (ISU head coach Charlie Ragle) who has known DaVonte’ for many years and never had any knowledge or suspicion of a possible crime of any kind," ISU Athletic Director Pauline Thiros told the Journal via text. "The news of DaVonte' Neal’s arrest and charges in Arizona was a great shock. Going forward, we will cooperate in every way possible, safeguard our program and culture, support each other and our students, and allow the legal process to work. The news is devastating and we hope for resolution for all involved."
ISU President Kevin Satterlee said in a written statement that “Idaho State takes all allegations involving our employees very seriously, and we are committed to the safety and well-being of our community. We are fully cooperating with law enforcement on their investigation.”
ISU also ran a background check on Neal before hiring him, which came back clean, the school said in a Thursday news release.
"All Idaho State employees are required to undergo a criminal background check before employment," ISU said in the release. "Neal’s background check was clear and he was approved for work when hired in January. The warrant for his arrest was issued in Arizona by the Maricopa County Court last month."
Neal joined the Bengals' team in January as a defensive backs coach with the rest of the team's new coaching staff. He previously played under Ragle at Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where Neal became a four-star athlete and went to Notre Dame before transferring to the University of Arizona. ISU was the first college coaching position for Neal, who had left his job as an assistant at Higley High in Gilbert, Arizona, to join the Bengals.
Idaho State Journal reporter Shelbie Harris to this report. | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/idaho-state-assistant-football-coach-charged-with-first-degree-murder/article_19880faf-5594-515c-bc74-99e5a108833a.html | 2022-06-03T18:45:18 | 1 | https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/idaho-state-assistant-football-coach-charged-with-first-degree-murder/article_19880faf-5594-515c-bc74-99e5a108833a.html |
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FOLSOM, Calif. — Looking for free Friday fun in Folsom this summer? Folsom's Summer of Music concert series is set to return, bringing a full lineup of entertainment to Folsom this summer.
Folsom's Summer of Music concert series is returning to Folsom City Lions Park every other Friday evening from 7 - 9 p.m. during the months of June and July. Tickets and parking for the concerts are free.
Folsom Parks and Recreation has partnered with Food in the Hood 916 to bring different food trucks to each concert, but if concert-goers wish to bring their own picnic to enjoy in the park, they are welcome to do so.
If residents are unable to make one of the concerts, Folsom Parks and Recreation will be live streaming each concert on their Summer of Music 2022 Facebook page.
Here is the 2022 Summer of Music lineup:
- Friday, June 10
- FBI Band featuring West Coast Taco Bar and Coasties_Original
- Friday, June 24
- Island of Black and White featuring Hefty Gyros and Jitaro
- Friday, July 8
- Township featuring Drewski's, Cousins Maine Lobster and Local Kine Shave Ice
- Friday, July 22
- Clean Slate featuring Outlaw Cuisine, Wing it on Wheels and the Original Bubble Cone
"The concerts are a great way for folks to unwind from a busy week and kick-off summer weekends with family, friends, and neighbors," Lesley Miller, Communications Coordinator for Folsom Parks and Recreation, told ABC10.
For more information about the Summer of Music concert series, visit the Folsom Parks and Recreation Facebook.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County officials reported another record month for tourism tax collections.
The county brought in nearly $35 million, which is the highest April collections on record and the second highest ever.
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The latest report from the county said the April 2022 collections is a 103.1% increase over April 2021.
Last month, the county reported its highest monthly collections ever with more than $38.5 million brought into the area in March 2022.
The March 2022 numbers soar 182% higher than the March 2020 report, indicative that people are surging into Orange County hotels and short-term rental properties in the continued easing of pandemic-era travel restrictions, lockdowns and other COVID-related public health measures.
“...these were the highest monthly collections ever, shattering the previous high set in March 2019 by $7.3 million or 23%!” Diamond said in a statement. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/another-record-orange-county-reports-nearly-35m-in-tourism-tax-for-april/ | 2022-06-03T19:05:51 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/another-record-orange-county-reports-nearly-35m-in-tourism-tax-for-april/ |
First look: See what Taiwan Semiconductor is building at massive north Phoenix site
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., which is building a $12 billion plant in north Phoenix, released the first look of what their new facility will look like.
TSMC released two renderings of the office building under construction on the site, a circular, glassy building.
The project is under construction on 1,129 acres of land near Interstate 17 and Loop 303 that TSMC purchased in December 2020. According to company representatives, the construction is on schedule to be operational in 2024. The project represents the largest foreign direct investment in Arizona’s history.
Structural construction of the fabrication facility, called the fab, is nearing completion, and the office building has about half of its glasswork completed. As of June, there are 38 cranes working on the massive site.
Hiring has also been underway, and the company has about 500 Arizona employees undergoing training in Taiwan, where TSMC is headquartered. The company expected to have more than 2,000 employees working at the Arizona plant by 2023.
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Arizona’s existing semiconductor industry is one of the reasons the chipmaker chose Phoenix for its facility, and the investment from TSMC has drawn suppliers and other semiconductor industry companies to Arizona since TSMC announced its plant.
Sunlit Chemical, a supplier of hydrofluoric acid, which is used in semiconductor production, is building the first phase of its north Phoenix plant in Deer Valley. That plant is scheduled to be operational by 2023, with another phase planned to be open in 2025.
Taiwan Puritic Corp., which provides raw materials to the semiconductor industry, has leased space in Phoenix and Glendale. Rinchem Co., a logistics provider for packaged chemicals and gases, is expanding to Surprise, after already having a presence in Chandler. Kokusai Semiconductor Equipment Corp., which provides processing systems for wafer manufacturing, has chosen a location in Glendale for spare parts distribution, training and office space, according to TSMC officials.
Reach the reporter at cvanek@arizonarepublic.com. Follow her on Twitter @CorinaVanek.. | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/06/03/see-taiwan-semiconductors-north-phoenix-office/7498673001/ | 2022-06-03T19:06:07 | 0 | https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2022/06/03/see-taiwan-semiconductors-north-phoenix-office/7498673001/ |
SAN ANTONIO — The father of 10-year-old Amerie Jo Garza, one of 19 children killed in the Uvalde school shooting, is demanding information from the maker of the AR-15 style gun used in the attack. This comes as a Uvalde teacher filed a petition seeking to hold the same company responsible.
19 children and two teachers were killed on May 24 when a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and started shooting. Police say he was armed with an assault style rifle with high capacity magazines of ammunition.
In a petition against the company, Daniel Defense, which manufactured the gun uses in the attack, Uvalde teacher Emilia Marin is seeking to investigate whether there is evidence to form the basis of an eventual claim.
The petition asks for information on company's marketing strategies, including ads posted on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. It also seeks information on whether the company provided funds to the NRA. See the full petition below:
The petition also says four Daniel Defense AR-15-style rifles were found in the hotel room of the 2017 Las Vegas shooter who killed more than 60 people and wounded more than 400 others.
In a seperate action, the father of Amerie Jo Garza, Alfred Garza, III, issued a letter to Daniel Defense, demanding information from the company on its marketing. He has enlisted lawyers who previously worked on a historic settlement between the Sandy Hook shooting families and Remington, the maker of the AR-15 used in that 2021 school massacre.
“My purpose for being now is to honor Amerie Jo’s memory,” Alfred Garza III said in a press release from his lawyers. “She would want to me to do everything I can so this will never happen again to any other child. I have to fight her fight.”
KENS 5 has reached out to Daniel Defense for a comment, but has not received a response. | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/uvalde-teacher-files-legal-petition-on-school-shooting-weapon/273-bcc2098e-6501-4f5e-9523-251b9ad28ed8 | 2022-06-03T19:09:34 | 1 | https://www.kens5.com/article/news/local/uvalde-teacher-files-legal-petition-on-school-shooting-weapon/273-bcc2098e-6501-4f5e-9523-251b9ad28ed8 |
SAN ANTONIO — A 13-year-old is dead after being shot by a police officer on the south side early Friday morning.
Just after 1 a.m., South Patrol officers from the San Antonio Police Department responded to the 5100 block of War Cloud for reports of shots fired.
Officers arrived on scene and tried to stop a vehicle that was also reported as stolen. While an attempt was being made to stop the vehicle, police say the vehicle accelerated toward a marked SAPD patrol cruiser --- then crashed into it.
Police say a second officer feared that other officer would be hit by the vehicle, so he shot the driver, who is said to be a 13-year-old boy. The boy was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Two other juvenile occupants in the vehicle were uninjured. | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/suspect-in-hospital-after-trying-to-ram-police-car-with-stolen-vehicle-local/273-4fec28a8-09b9-4f42-9a26-6174344318fe | 2022-06-03T19:11:56 | 0 | https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/suspect-in-hospital-after-trying-to-ram-police-car-with-stolen-vehicle-local/273-4fec28a8-09b9-4f42-9a26-6174344318fe |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A local organization held a panel discussion at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville Thursday, June 2, to talk about gun safety and gun reform. This comes after several mass shootings took place in the U.S. over the past two weeks.
The main focus of the discussion, hosted by Let's Take Action, was to educate those who attended the event on gun reform and to encourage them to take action in their communities.
"This event is all about people walking away feeling like they’re confident, they’re educated, and that whenever they’re ready to take action they know exactly what organization to reach out to," said Corey Huffty, organizer of Let’s Take Action.
Huffty created this event because she believes that time is of the essence and she did not want to wait until the next mass shooting happened to take action. This event is deeper than gun reform though, she’s also a mother to a three-year-old boy and wants her child to be safe when he attends school.
"But between the incident that happened to Tulsa and it happening at elementary schools, you feel it, you feel it when you picture your child getting into a closet," she said.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson spoke at the Capitol Thursday and called for hardening school security measures, but says he will not support any gun control legislation at the state level.
"We need to have some patience here, I really think the effort that the bipartisan group of senators is doing is important," Hutchinson said. "There are going to be looking at background checks and the thoroughness of those."
"I think it’s going to be all about everyone putting their heads together, whether you’re Republican or Democrat, a lot of people fall in the middle too… that there is common sense solutions we just have to get around a table and talk about what those solutions are," Huffty said in response to the Governor’s discussion about any gun reform legislation.
Gennie Diaz, Director of For AR People, is a gun violence survivor herself. Since her childhood incident, she says she's used that experience to move from a victim mentality to an empowerment mentality.
"But being able to reclaim that experience and then take that and turn it into action with my work and my job,” Diaz said.
Overall, the goal of the gathering was to connect and inform voters on important issues like gun control before they head to the polls.
“I think that this was the perfect opportunity to be given real information and real time and how I can turn my opinions and passions into action and I think this was the perfect first step," Erin Moody said.
The group Moms Demand Action also attended the event. On Saturday, they are hosting an event called “Wear Orange” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Downtown Springdale at Shiloh Square to honor victims of gun violence.
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DALLAS — Dallas, meet Remi.
She's one of the "goodest" girls sniffing around our area! Dallas PD said Remi is the first electronic storage detection dog in North Texas.
Remi is trained to find electronics, such as thumb drives, cell phones and tiny microSD cards. Remi and her handler are assigned to the Dallas PD Internet Crimes Against Children, but will respond across North Texas when needed, the department said.
Whenever called upon, Remi's nose can catch some items that are critical to investigations, but sometimes are hidden or missed by the human eye.
And if her expertise doesn't impress you enough, she's also trained to be a companion/support canine!
Thank you for your service, K9 Remi! We're sure you'll get all the treats for your hard work. | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/north-texas-electronic-storage-detection-dog-remi-dpd/287-0e1b4a11-0537-4db5-a241-5f080a135f66 | 2022-06-03T19:20:20 | 1 | https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/north-texas-electronic-storage-detection-dog-remi-dpd/287-0e1b4a11-0537-4db5-a241-5f080a135f66 |
HAMMOND — Police broke the windows of a Hammond woman's vehicle, deployed a chemical agent and arrested her after she threatened a Lake County judge, according to Indiana State Police.
According to court documents, Magistrate Robert Vann was presiding over a pretrial hearing in a Child In Need of Services case in the Lake Superior Court, Juvenile Division Wednesday morning. The hearing was held on Zoom and 57-year-old Dorothy King was present as the child's guardian. The child had been placed in foster care a few months prior because King was "seriously endangering said child," court documents state.
During the hearing King made multiple threats and said, "I will kill every one of you (expletive)."
A warrant was issued for King's arrest. About 5 p.m. Wednesday, State Police found King sitting in a parked vehicle on Carroll Street in Hammond. King tried to drive away, but Hammond Police and ISP used their squad cars to block her.
The officers deflated all four of King's tires. King still refused to exit the vehicle and became "agitated," according to ISP. Officers then broke the windows of her vehicle and deployed a chemical agent.
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After the chemical agent was used, King exited the vehicle and was arrested by Hammond police. According to state police, she has been charged with three counts of intimidation, a level 6 felony and one count of intimation, a level 5 felony.
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Devonne Tyler
Booking Number(s): 2204424
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Watkins
Booking Number(s): 2204441
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kirk Struven
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204437
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ken Taylor
Booking Number(s): 2204445
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Patterson III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204451
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Thomas Philpot II
Booking Number(s): 2204427
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Smith
Booking Number(s): 2204456
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kerri Olson
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204419
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Meadows III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204416
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Lewis
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
Andraya Mathis
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204420
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luke McCormick
Booking Number(s): 2204436
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
LaMarc Hall
Booking Number(s): 2204426
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Allie Hassan
Residence: Orland Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204434
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CASINO GAMBLING VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharonia Jelks
Booking Number(s): 2204440
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tracey Getter
Booking Number(s): 2204418
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Fletcher
Residence: North Judson, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204421
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Offense Description: Felony
Michael Dillard
Booking Number(s): 2204422
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cristian Anaya
Booking Number(s): 2204425
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jasper Brewer
Booking Number(s): 2204438
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Karen Church
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
Garrett Abromitis
Booking Number(s): 2204452
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - BODILY WASTE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Starr Tillis
Booking Number(s): 2204407
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Moose
Booking Number(s): 2204381
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alex Moreno
Booking Number(s): 2204393
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Miguel Payan
Booking Number(s): 2204408
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Christopher Stewart
Booking Number(s): 2204384
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Thule
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
Residence: Bowling Green, KY
Booking Number(s): 2204396
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melinda Massey
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204379
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Maldonado Collado
Booking Number(s): 2204403
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jakeem Johnson
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204414
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Lindley
Booking Number(s): 2204397
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Gleeson
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204402
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Albert Hendon
Booking Number(s): 2204388
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Zolinda Diaz
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
Arthur Ford III
Booking Number(s): 2204382
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Harry Bernstein
Booking Number(s): 2204410
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ray Weems Jr.
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
Jerry Stokes Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204349
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Limmie Lockhart III
Booking Number(s): 2204365
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Morgan Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204377
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Schweitzer
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
Darrin Slaughter
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204352
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Enedelia Hernandez
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
Robert Hudson Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204348
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Laiza Gonzalez
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
Crystal Fantasia
Booking Number(s): 2204350
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jovanni Garza
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204366
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devonne Tyler
Booking Number(s): 2204424
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Watkins
Booking Number(s): 2204441
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kirk Struven
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204437
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ken Taylor
Booking Number(s): 2204445
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Patterson III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204451
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Thomas Philpot II
Booking Number(s): 2204427
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Smith
Booking Number(s): 2204456
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kerri Olson
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204419
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Meadows III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204416
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Lewis
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
Andraya Mathis
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204420
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luke McCormick
Booking Number(s): 2204436
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
LaMarc Hall
Booking Number(s): 2204426
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Allie Hassan
Residence: Orland Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204434
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CASINO GAMBLING VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharonia Jelks
Booking Number(s): 2204440
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tracey Getter
Booking Number(s): 2204418
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Fletcher
Residence: North Judson, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204421
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Offense Description: Felony
Michael Dillard
Booking Number(s): 2204422
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cristian Anaya
Booking Number(s): 2204425
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jasper Brewer
Booking Number(s): 2204438
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Karen Church
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
Garrett Abromitis
Booking Number(s): 2204452
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - BODILY WASTE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Starr Tillis
Booking Number(s): 2204407
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Moose
Booking Number(s): 2204381
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alex Moreno
Booking Number(s): 2204393
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Miguel Payan
Booking Number(s): 2204408
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Christopher Stewart
Booking Number(s): 2204384
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Thule
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
Residence: Bowling Green, KY
Booking Number(s): 2204396
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melinda Massey
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204379
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Maldonado Collado
Booking Number(s): 2204403
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jakeem Johnson
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204414
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Lindley
Booking Number(s): 2204397
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Gleeson
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204402
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Albert Hendon
Booking Number(s): 2204388
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Zolinda Diaz
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
Arthur Ford III
Booking Number(s): 2204382
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Harry Bernstein
Booking Number(s): 2204410
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ray Weems Jr.
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
Jerry Stokes Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204349
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Limmie Lockhart III
Booking Number(s): 2204365
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Morgan Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204377
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Schweitzer
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
Darrin Slaughter
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204352
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Enedelia Hernandez
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
Robert Hudson Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204348
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Laiza Gonzalez
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
Crystal Fantasia
Booking Number(s): 2204350
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jovanni Garza
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204366
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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Nursery officials are at work in Bismarck injecting insecticide into nearly 2,000 elm trees to help manage the spread of European elm scale.
The insect feeds on elm trees by sucking sap from branches and leaves. The Bismarck Forestry Division has contracted with Fargo-based Paul Bunyan Nurseries to administer injections of Imidacloprid insecticide on American elm and Siberian elm trees lining boulevards in the city.
There are 3,398 elm trees on city property, according to City Forester Doug Wiles. About 1,750 of them will be treated, Paul Bunyan arborist Eric Christl said.
The project will cost an estimated $150,000, according to Wiles. The money will come from the forestry operations budget.
The European elm scale insect reduces the vigor of a tree and poses a "significantly worse" threat to elms than does Dutch elm disease, according to Christl.
European elm scale is often first noticed on urban elms when sticky liquid honeydew produced by feeding insects becomes a nuisance on parked cars or outdoor furniture, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The honeydew dripping from a tree becomes negligible after a tree is treated, according to Christl.
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The pest is not new to Bismarck. But Wiles and Beth Hill, outreach and education manager for the North Dakota Forest Service, said weather conditions have exacerbated its impact.
“With the drought conditions that the state has experienced this past year, the effects of pests like European elm scale can become more apparent," Hill said. "Trees under stress can become more susceptible to pest infestations.”
Trees in Bismarck were chosen for injection by their condition and concentration, according to Wiles. Targeted trees have been marked with a green dot. Each tree is then measured, and the circumference determines the number of holes that need to be drilled before the pesticide is injected, according to Paul Bunyan Nurseries President Chad Carlson.
For example, a tree with a circumference of 21 inches would have 11 holes bored, each approximately 2 inches deep, with each hole injected with 8 milliliters of pesticide, he said.
There are four areas of the city that are being treated over the next several months, according to the city.
Work has been completed in the area north of Boulevard Avenue and south of Interstate 94 between State Street and North 19th Street.
Work is now underway in the area north of East Avenue D and south of East Divide Avenue between North Fourth Street and North Washington Street.
The other two areas that will follow are:
- West of North Second Street and east of North Bell Street between Main Avenue and Rosser Avenue.
- West of North 16th Street and east of North Fourth Street between East Main Avenue and East Avenue E.
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Weekly COVID-19 cases in North Dakota have jumped past 1,000, and several counties in the state have moved into the medium or high transmission risk categories.
The state also continues to see increases in coronavirus mutants that are highly transmissible.
The state Health Department's pandemic dashboard on Friday reported 1,189 new virus cases over the week -- a 24% rise from 960 the previous week, and the ninth straight time that the weekly total has risen. It's the first four-figure total since the state moved from daily to weekly reporting in mid-March.
Disease severity continues to remain low in the state, though 53 people with COVID-19 were admitted to North Dakota hospitals during the week, compared with 43 the previous week. Coronavirus patients continue to make up a low percentage of hospital patients -- taking up about 3% of occupied inpatient beds and about 2.5% of occupied intensive care unit beds statewide.
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Federal data shows three virus-related deaths over the week, raising North Dakota's pandemic total to 2,283. County-level death data is not available. Twenty-nine of the deaths have been linked to omicron, the dominant coronavirus variant at present.
The state over the week saw increases in three omicron subvariants: BA.2.12.1, BA.4 and BA.5, according to state Medical Services Section Chief Kirby Kruger.
"These three subvariants are all more easily transmitted that the original BA.2 sublineage, and all three are more likely to escape antibodies from both previous infection and vaccination," he said. "Hospital admissions with COVID are also increasing. As we see cases increase, we will likely continue to see more hospitalizations. The good news is that hospitalizations still remain relatively low compared to the delta (variant) wave we experienced last year."
There were 385 confirmed delta hospitalizations, and 87 deaths. There have been 128 documented omicron hospitalizations.
"Vaccinations and boosters continue to provide a high level of protection against severe illness that may result in hospitalizations," Kruger said. "We continue to encourage people to talk with their providers."
There have been 245,476 confirmed COVID-19 cases in North Dakota during the pandemic that began in March 2020.
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Federal data shows that North Dakota continues to have some of the worst COVID-19 vaccination rates in the country: 66.5% of adults in the state are fully vaccinated, with the rate for all vaccine-eligible people -- age 5 and older -- at 60.1%. The national averages are 76.6% and 70.9%, respectively.
COVID-19 booster shots are recommended for people 12 and older. North Dakota's booster rate is 44.8%, compared to 48.6% nationally.
County-level COVID-19 risks determined by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention can be found at https://bit.ly/3Clifrq. Burleigh and Morton counties both are considered at low risk, as is much of the rest of the state. Three counties have moved into the high risk category, however -- McIntosh, Logan and Rolette. Ten northern counties are in the medium category.
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MERIDIAN, Idaho —
This story originally appeared in the Idaho Press.
The Meridian Police Department has filled out its Crisis Intervention Team this year, and it has drastically improved de-escalation tactics, the team says.
The CIT at Meridian PD is made up of three members — Michael Panter, Ashley Horvath and Sam Luque. Luque started in March as a mental health coordinator, becoming the third and final member of the team.
All officers are CIT trained, MPD spokesperson Kelsey Johnston said, but this team has additional training and methods it uses, and has attended additional classes to learn more about psychology and mental health responses.
Crisis calls can range from an individual needing to talk to someone because they are depressed, to a suicidal individual threatening to harm themselves. Each comes with its own evaluation and assessment, Luque said, and no case is the same. Nearly all of it is de-escalation, he said.
Luque said changing the stigma around mental health should be a priority. People tend to think if someone is mentally ill, that they are dangerous.
“I think that's something we're constantly trying to do, is to challenge that stigma,” Luque said.
It’s just like any other illness, he said — to get help, it must be brought to light. De-escalating a person in a crisis situation and trying to understand their emotions is the first step.
“We don’t look for a crime. We look at how we can help the individual,” Luque said. “The first thing to do is to de-escalate the individual. They're having a hard time dealing with the situation due to heightened emotion, so when we can de-escalate that individual we can then work on getting them the proper resources that they need.”
Luque will arrive in plain clothing, Panter said, and he and Horvath may arrive in lighter blue uniforms — unusual for typical police uniforms — so people, especially juveniles, feel more comfortable.
“Yesterday, we went to a call where an individual was in crisis. And when we first got there they had a very hard time articulating their thoughts and emotions because they were just that overwhelmed with what was going on internally,” Horvath said. “A big part of that was taking the time to have a normal conversation with them. We're not yelling and screaming directives. We walk in and try getting down to their level and try to get to know them, to know what's going on,” she said.
Panter said 85% of the job is just verbal — talking and getting to know the person is what the team spends a lot of time on.
He believes that with the growing population, calls have been getting more frequent. And, the people who work in traumatic jobs tend to seek help the least.
“Police, nurses, mental health professionals, they can need help, too,” Panter said.
Horvath said the team responds to elderly people with Alzheimer’s, those with developmental disabilities, juvenile incidents, depressed and anxious individuals, people with substance abuse challenges, some who may be hallucinating, psychotic breaks, and more.
The team also arrives in unmarked cars to make the person in crisis more comfortable, as well as concealing that police are at the residence. Panter and Luque said it also helps with de-escalation as well. The feeling of being put into a marked police vehicle can put people more on edge.
“We don't want people feeling like they’re getting in the back of a police vehicle and going to jail,” Horvath said. “And it really just protects their privacy.”
They always follow up after they get the person the help they need, Horvath and Panter said.
“A lot of people sometimes have one bad day, and they say ‘hey, I was just having a bad day.’ Sometimes they say they wasted your time – no, they never waste our time. First time they’re here to get any help. Other ones say they didn't know where to start,” Panter said. “When we follow up with them a couple weeks later, they say it’s what they needed.”
If the team is sent to a difficult call, Horvath said, the team will debrief it. And, the team gets ice cream, Panter said.
“It's not easy to respond to those calls every single day,” Horvath said. “You know, I think all three of us who sit at this table have reasons why we're passionate about what we do.”
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MERIDIAN, Idaho — Tuesday marked the end of a bittersweet milestone for a Meridian teacher. Many gathered to honor Willow Creek Elementary teacher, Kathryn Payte and watch her last kindergarten class graduate.
Willow Creek Elementary Principal, Jared Christensen said,” While she's been here, we've called her the 'Kindergarten Whisperer' because she speaks kindergarten better than any teacher I've ever seen.”
As this chapter closes, Mrs. Payte remembers the 47 years of lessons.
"I never keep the same lesson plans from day to day because things change as their interest change,” said Mrs. Payte.
She also remembered the many students that joined her classrooms.
"The best part is learning about each child and their personalities. Learning what their needs are,” said Mrs. Payte.
After 47 years of teaching, 9 of them at Willow Creek Elementary, Mrs. Payte says goodbye to her students as she heads to retirement.
"When I decided to retire, it was very emotional, but there comes a time when you need to move on,” said Mrs. Payte.
During her career, she taught preschool through 9th grade. She says her passion for teaching started in high school.
"I started working in classrooms in high schools and visited the different primary schools near my high school and that's when I knew that's what I wanted to do,” said Mrs. Payte.
Mrs. Payte says one of her favorite parts of being a teacher is hearing from students years later and knowing they still remember her.
"When I go to different stores or restaurants or just walking around students come up to me and call out to me. It makes me feel wonderful that they remember their kindergarten, 1st grade, whatever grade level I had them in,” said Payte.
After more than 4 decades of influencing students, many gathered to watch her say goodbye to the last class that will remember her for years to come.
During the ceremony, Principal Christensen said,” "For all the kids that have been in her classroom in the last 47 years, they've received the very best of a very special woman.”
She says this is a hard goodbye, but she is looking forward to her next adventure full of endless possibilities. One thing is certain, she will be missed.
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MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho —
Welcomed by the City of Mountain Home, Ginn Group broke ground on a new residential development, Turner House Depot Community, Friday morning.
Representatives from Ginn Group and the City of Mountain Home celebrated the event at the corner of NW Marathon Way and Elmcrest Street.
The Turner House Depot is intended to supply Mountain Home with “missing middle” housing with the new community supplying nearly 290 homes spread across 28 acres on the West end of Mountain Home near the airport and Marathon Cheese Corporation. The development will contain a mix of single-family homes as well as a community center, a dog park, and green spaces with walking paths.
The housing community will be 15 minutes away from the Mountain Home Air Force Base.
"At Ginn Group, our core purpose is to make a difference by creating quality communities. We were drawn to Mountain Home by the opportunity to make a difference, providing much needed residential housing in the local market, especially those that work for and help support Mountain Home Air Force Base,” said Patrick Ginn, CEO of Ginn Group. “We thank the city and all involved for their support in helping make Turner House Deposit a reality."
Turner House Depot is an investment that Ginn Group and the City of Mountain Home hope will contribute to the city’s progress towards revitalization, expansion, and economic opportunity. The development is intended to be financially attainable residential housing for current and future residents.
"Turner House Depot symbolizes Mountain Home's dedication to providing much-needed housing for our residents. Turner House Depot will provide a forward-thinking residential project at a scope our city has never seen," said the Mayor of Mountain Home, Rich Sykes.
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YORK, Pa. — NASA named a York County student as a winner in its “Power to Explore Contest."
The contest, which received nearly 1,2000 entries, is an initiative to encourage STEM education and allow students to explore their own superpowers.
Ari Luster of Indian Rock Elementary School in Spring Garden Township, York County, entered the competition with his classmates.
“My teacher told us that we were starting a project about NASA and I was really excited because I love learning about space," he said.
Luster wrote about radioisotope power systems, a form of reliable power NASA uses in it's research, and how it could be used.
“Mars trucks or rovers that could go on Mars that people could ride in, I thought that would be possible, or some sort of intergalactic radio that could help with communication," Luster said. "Those were my ideas."
Luster also explored his own superpower in his essay: his hearing loss.
“I have cochlear implants, which allow me to hear," he said. "And so I thought this is a superpower because I have to learn things like responsibility in charging them every night and keeping them away from water.
"And I thought this could also be helpful as a NASA rocket scientist in keeping my tools away from water and plugging my tools in at night and stuff like that.”
Winning this competition was an exciting surprise for Luster and his family.
It’s even led him to reconsider what he wants to be when he grows up.
“Well I thought I wanted to be a neurosurgeon, but after doing this competition, I don’t know, a rocket scientist… maybe I would like to see what that would be like," he says. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/ari-luster-york-county-nasa-contest-winner/521-dbcfb8aa-b00f-4fd0-8233-18b0ef9cc314 | 2022-06-03T19:40:13 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/ari-luster-york-county-nasa-contest-winner/521-dbcfb8aa-b00f-4fd0-8233-18b0ef9cc314 |
GREENCASTLE, Pa. — Walmart on Friday announced plans to open four new, state-of-the-art fulfillment centers, including one in Greencastle, Franklin County.
The new centers will create up to 1,000 new jobs for area residents, the company said in its announcement.
The Greencastle facility, which will be more than 1.5 million square feet, will be located at 1915 Ebberts Spring Court, Walmart said.
The facility is scheduled to open in 2024.
"The four new FC’s will be the first of their kind, leveraging Walmart’s new patent-pending custom automation system, which will help up to 1,000+ new local associates set an entirely new precedent providing customers in the region with access to next- or two-day shipping on more items than ever before," Walmart said in its announcement.
The automated, high-density storage system will consolidate a manual, twelve-step process into just five steps, resulting in:
- Double the storage capacity
- Double the number of customer orders fulfilled in a day
- Increased comfort and opportunity for associates -- removing the need to walk up to 9 miles per day picking items from multiple floors of shelving spread out over hundreds of thousands of square feet of space
- Increased access to more products than ever for Walmart+ members and customers
The center will serve customers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey, Walmart said. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/franklin-county/walmart-fulfillment-center-greencastle-franklin-county/521-c7afc17f-f2a2-4526-a98c-5160aa03b373 | 2022-06-03T19:40:17 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/franklin-county/walmart-fulfillment-center-greencastle-franklin-county/521-c7afc17f-f2a2-4526-a98c-5160aa03b373 |
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A march against social injustice and gun violence was held in Harrisburg on Friday on the Capitol steps.
The march commemorates the three year anniversary of the historic signing of two police reform bills into law:
- House Bill 1841, which established stronger background checks for new officers
- House Bill 1910, which requires mental health evaluations with the focus on post-traumatic stress disorder
Ralph Rodriguez, organizer and founder of All You Can Inc. says the march held today is only part of the story.
“We believe marches are only 10% of the work," Rodriguez said.
"Once we’re gone there has to be someone to lead the charge - so why not teach the youth and commemorate this historical moment every year.”
The youth education and outreach component, Gary Fallings, founder of 'Be A Man,' he believes is the best way to stop the cycle of violence in the city.
“We have children dying on the streets," Fallings explained.
"So the message we want to send to our children is simple – the 'I' over the 'E' – exercise intelligence over emotion.”
That message, Rodriguez says, he hopes will be heard loud & clear today.
“It’s up to non-profit organizations and community leaders to provide that education...without that we’ll have another generation that’s lost."
However, he says, "I'm optimistic because of all the other great organizations in the city working and doing a phenomenal job." | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/harrisburg-gun-violence-march-community-organzation-capitol-guns/521-1541a55f-798c-4826-b2f6-b4eacc23a08a | 2022-06-03T19:40:17 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/harrisburg-gun-violence-march-community-organzation-capitol-guns/521-1541a55f-798c-4826-b2f6-b4eacc23a08a |
YORK COUNTY, Pa. — Editor's Note: The above video is from May 19.
After a temporary halt to production initiated last month, the Harley-Davidson plant in Springettsbury Township will resume operations next week, a company spokesperson confirmed Friday.
Production will resume on Monday, June 6, the spokesperson said.
Harley-Davidson announced it was shutting down production at its facilities in York County and Milwaukee for two weeks on May 19.
The company said the temporary halt was due to supply chain issues.
"Harley-Davidson took the decision to suspend all vehicle assembly and shipments (excluding LiveWire) for a two-week period," the company said in a statement at the time. "This decision, taken out of an abundance of caution, is based on information provided by a third-party supplier to Harley-Davidson late on (May 17) concerning a regulatory compliance matter relating to the supplier's component part."
The announcement caused Harley-Davidson stock to tumble, with shares falling more than 8% to their lowest point in the last year on the Thursday following the announcement.
The temporary suspension did not impact the company's line of electric LiveWire bikes. | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/harley-davidson-york-county-plant-production-resumes/521-730929f2-fac0-4693-97d3-70ecbeaf5518 | 2022-06-03T19:40:20 | 1 | https://www.fox43.com/article/news/local/york-county/harley-davidson-york-county-plant-production-resumes/521-730929f2-fac0-4693-97d3-70ecbeaf5518 |
CHARLESTON, WV (AP) – A Canadian electric school bus manufacturer will begin production at a West Virginia facility in September.
In January, GreenPower signed a lease-purchase agreement for a manufacturing facility in South Charleston. The company announced Thursday it will take possession of the facility in August.
It will start producing zero-emission buses the following month. Gov. Jim Justice says his administration will work with the company to demonstrate the electric buses in school districts statewide.
Under President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure plan, the Environmental Protection Agency will offer rebates to school districts toward the purchase of electric buses to replace diesel-powered ones. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wv-plant-to-start-making-electric-school-buses-in-september/ | 2022-06-03T19:56:41 | 0 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/wv-plant-to-start-making-electric-school-buses-in-september/ |
Less than a month after he was chosen as Ohio’s new Superintendent of Public Instruction, Steve Dackin has resigned from his role leading the Ohio Department of Education.
“Today, I received notice from Stephen D. Dackin of his resignation from the position of superintendent of public instruction,” state board of education president Charlotte McGuire said in a statement. “Dr. Stephanie Siddens will serve as interim superintendent of public instruction effective immediately until the State Board can appoint her as Interim Superintendent at the Board’s June meeting. I am confident that together we will continue the important work in support of Ohio’s children, families and future.”
McGuire’s statement did not list a reason for Dackin’s resignation. The move came suddenly, as leaders of two statewide education groups said they were unaware the move was coming.
There had been controversy over the fact that during the early days of Ohio’s search for a state superintendent, Dackin had been the leader of the search process. He then resigned from the state school board and declared his candidacy for the job. After going through interviews, he was chosen as state superintendent in a 14-4 vote by the state board of education on May 10.
Dackin’s short resignation letter, dated Friday, made reference to those concerns.
“Concerns have been raised about my recent acceptance of the position of Superintendent of Public Instruction,” Dackin wrote. “I don’t want ‘revolving door’ questions to distract from the important work ahead for schools, educators, and especially children.”
He wrote that he hopes “the department can get on with building the educational future for the children of Ohio.”
Dackin succeeded former State Superintendent Paolo DeMaria, who retired last September. Siddens had been interim state superintendent after DeMaria left, but did not apply for the permanent job. She now returns to that interim role.
Dackin was most recently the superintendent of school and community partnerships at Columbus State Community College. Before that, he was superintendent of Reynoldsburg Schools near Columbus from 2007 until 2014.
Springboro superintendent Larry Hook was one of three finalists for the job when Dackin was named. The state board has not said how they will choose the next long-term superintendent or given a timeline. | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/new-state-school-superintendent-suddenly-resigns/5FWWCXBCOJFVVMZCIYZATV7NB4/ | 2022-06-03T19:56:43 | 1 | https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/new-state-school-superintendent-suddenly-resigns/5FWWCXBCOJFVVMZCIYZATV7NB4/ |
A federal appeals court has upheld part of a 2020 Connecticut police accountability law that allows public disclosure of state trooper personnel files and internal investigations.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York on Thursday rejected a challenge by the Connecticut State Police Union, which argued the law violates the 2018-2022 troopers’ contract by stripping away its exemptions from state freedom of information laws.
The union said Friday that it is considering asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its case.
The contract section in question says troopers’ personnel files and documents in internal investigations that end with no finding of wrongdoing are not subject to disclosure.
A three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld a ruling by a judge in a lower court who rejected the union’s request to bar the law section from taking effect during its court challenge. Senior U.S. District Judge Charles Haight Jr. in New Haven also said the union’s case was not likely to succeed because the law serves a legitimate public purpose in increasing law enforcement accountability and transparency.
Andrew Matthews, executive director of the state police union, said troopers oppose the law because it allows records involving unfounded allegations to become public, possibly tarnishing a trooper’s reputation despite no findings of wrongdoing.
If the union asks the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal and justices reject the request, the case would return to the lower court judge who expressed doubt about the union’s case. Also, the state police contract expires June 30 and new contract negotiations are underway.
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Proponents of the 2020 law said it answered the calls for reform after the police killings of George Floyd and other Black people. It also created a new state inspector general to investigate police use-of-force cases statewide, limited circumstances in which deadly use of force can be justified, and allowed lawsuits in state courts against officers in certain cases. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/federal-court-upholds-connecticut-law-on-disclosing-police-records/3719224/ | 2022-06-03T20:14:17 | 0 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/federal-court-upholds-connecticut-law-on-disclosing-police-records/3719224/ |
A man accused of raping a teen girl on a Long Island playground last month after meeting the 13-year-old on a popular social media app has been indicted.
Andrew Ramsaroop was arrested on May 20 and indicted two weeks later on charges of rape, endangering the welfare of a child, and promoting sexual performance by a child, the district attorney in Suffolk County said.
The 30-year-old Queens man allegedly met the teenage victim and her friend at Smith Haven Mall in Lake Grove on May 13. Police said he tried to get both girls into his car but they refused.
Later that same day, Ramsaroop met the 13-year-old victim at a playground in Hauppauge where he raped her, police said.
Authorities learned of the alleged assault after the girl reported the incident to a school official. The man originally met the girl over Snapchat, police said.
District Attorney Raymond Tierney said the man spent two weeks communicating with the teenage girl on Snapchat before traveling to Long Island to "engage in sexual acts with her on two separate occasions."
“He allegedly knew the teen was 13 years old yet this adult continued to communicate with this child and eventually convinced her to meet him in person in Suffolk County," Tierney said in a statement.
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Advocates for New York City public school students are hailing the passage of the bill by the New York State Legislature that caps class sizes.
State Sen. John Liu made the case in Albany that New York City public school kids have been falling behind. In some cases, literally hiding behind other students.
“There might be some students who like to sit in the back and not get noticed by the teachers — they’re not gonna be happy because more attention will now be paid to each and every student,” Liu (D-Queens) said.
State lawmakers passed the bill by an overwhelming margin, mandating smaller classes.
The law will now mandate caps on class size to be phased in over five years in all of the city's public schools. Assuming Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the legislation, the cap starts this fall and is fully in effect by 2027. This would translate to basically 20% of the class sizes being capped each year.
The caps from kindergarten through 3rd grade a maximum of 20 students are now allowed; 23 students per class in grades 4-8; and a maximum of 25 students per class in high school, down from 34 as it stands today.
The teachers union is celebrating the "milestone" decision.
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“The Senate and Assembly class size reduction legislation marks a milestone in the years-long struggle to bring the benefits of smaller classes to the city, which has long had among the highest class sizes in the state," United Federation of Teachers (UFT) President Michael Mulgrew said in a statement.
Many students sound upbeat as well.
"It’s really hard to keep the attention of a lot of students in one classroom," Netta Jimenez, a high school senior, told News 4 New York.
However, not everyone seems happy about the mandate. NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks blasted the bill as a "multibillion dollar unfunded mandate."
Banks went on to say that the district will now have to hire so many teachers, they may have to cut special education and even school nurses to pay for it.
“Make no mistake, it will lead to large cuts in these critical programs," he said.
Liu, who sponsored the bill, thinks otherwise, saying he wouldn't have voted for the mandate if they believed the city didn't have the funds to hire the teachers they need.
Liu tells News 4 New York that the money is there and that city hall shouldn’t argue otherwise.
“An additional $1.6 billion every year starting in April...The idea the state is not funding this is nonsensical," he said. | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/state-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-cap-class-size-at-nyc-public-schools-what-to-know/3719389/ | 2022-06-03T20:14:30 | 1 | https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/state-lawmakers-pass-bill-to-cap-class-size-at-nyc-public-schools-what-to-know/3719389/ |
Tucson Police are looking for a driver who reportedly used a stolen truck to ram through the doors of an eastside Circle K, causing over $10,000 in damage.
On April 22, the driver of a stolen blue pickup truck rammed through the locked doors of a Circle K, located at 1909 S. Craycroft Road, and stole merchandise, a register and an employee’s purse, police said.
The truck was later found after it crashed into another vehicle nearby, but the driver fled, police said. The truck was stolen in Benson, police said.
No one was injured in the incident, police said.
Police urge anyone with information to call 88-CRIME, the anonymous tipster line. | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/search-continues-for-driver-who-smashed-pickup-truck-into-a-tucson-circle-k/article_a4cdcc70-e365-11ec-bed7-bf03082293f4.html | 2022-06-03T20:22:51 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/search-continues-for-driver-who-smashed-pickup-truck-into-a-tucson-circle-k/article_a4cdcc70-e365-11ec-bed7-bf03082293f4.html |
Sunnyside School District Superintendent Steve Holmes is set to become Pima County’s next deputy county administrator.
Holmes will join the county on July 18 and earn an annual salary of $230,000. He will oversee administrative support departments such as IT, procurement and public defense services.
The county’s top administrator, Jan Lesher, announced the new hire in a memo to the Board of Supervisors Friday. Holmes is taking over Lesher’s former job that she vacated when she took over as county administrator after Chuck Huckelberry was severely injured in a biking accident in October.
Holmes has served as Sunnyside’s superintendent and assistant superintendent for 14 years. He has a master’s degree in administration, planning and social policy from Harvard and was named 2022’s Superintendent of the Year by the Arizona Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents.
“I've been in community service for many years, that's been my calling,” Holmes said. “I love trying to improve on our communities to do great for not only the children that I've served for many years but the broader community that are impacted by the decisions we make as leaders.”
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Holmes said his experience overseeing transportation, grants management and budgeting will translate to his new county position.
His approach to the job is “ensuring that the departments, under my oversight, receive all the support necessary to operationalize and execute some of those charges that (Lesher's) going to have in place.”
Holmes is joining the county’s executive leadership team next to Deputy County Administrators Carmine DeBonis and Francisco Garcia.
The new hire also comes with some organizational changes, Lesher announced.
The current assistant county administrator positions, held by Yves Khawam and Mark Napier will become “senior advisors to the county administrator” on July 1. Diana Durazo, special projects manager, and Nicole Fyffe, executive assistant to the county administrator, will also become senior advisors.
The senior advisors will help develop policy recommendations, coordinate special projects and conduct research and analysis, Lesher said.
Napier, however, is retiring from the county within the next six months. The former Pima County sheriff was hired by Huckelberry as assistant county administrator in July 2021. Lesher will not fill the vacant position.
Contact reporter Nicole Ludden at nludden@tucson.com | https://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/sunnyside-school-superintendent-hired-by-pima-county/article_10074c94-e359-11ec-873c-3bbcfaba1a87.html | 2022-06-03T20:22:57 | 1 | https://tucson.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/sunnyside-school-superintendent-hired-by-pima-county/article_10074c94-e359-11ec-873c-3bbcfaba1a87.html |
Tucson-based Paragon Space Development Corp. is part of a team awarded a long-term NASA contract to develop the next generation spacesuit for use on missions to the moon and the International Space Station.
A team led by Houston-based Axiom Space and including Paragon was awarded NASA’s Exploration Extravehicular Activity (xEVAS) services contract, with a potential total value of $3.5 billion across the life of the program.
NASA also awarded a second industry team, led by Collins Aerospace an xEVAS services contract. Collins, part of Raytheon Technologies Corp., is partnered with industry veterans ILC Dover and Oceaneering.
The amounts of the initial 10-year, milestone-based contract awards were not announced.
Spacesuits developed as part of this program will allow humans to explore the lunar surface, provide new spacewalk capabilities outside the space station and will be critical to establishing a long-term presence at the moon and eventually to explore Mars, Paragon said.
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Paragon has about 30 years' experience in designing and developing life support and thermal control systems for extreme environments, and in January, the Tucson company acquired New York-based spacesuit supplier Final Frontier Design.
Paragon has developed and operated its portable life-support systems for such programs such as the StratEx Mission, which in 2014 set three world records by sending Google executive Alan Eustace on a free-fall jump from the stratosphere, and for NASA’s previously canceled Constellation Spacesuit System program with Oceaneering.
“With the new capabilities we have acquired — and over a quarter-century of knowledge, design expertise, and operational experience — we at Paragon are highly confident that our contributions to the Axiom team and to NASA on this program will produce the most outstanding spacesuit for NASA” said Grant Anderson, Paragon’s president and CEO.
Paragon is currently expanding its design and production facilities and capabilities in Houston, Texas to support the spacesuit program in the years ahead, the company said.
NASA has the option to pick additional spacesuit vendors in the future under the contract, the space agency said.
The first task orders to be competed under the contract will include the development and services for the first demonstration outside the space station in low-Earth orbit and for the Artemis III lunar landing.
Axiom Space is currently building the world’s first commercial space station.
Contact senior reporter David Wichner at dwichner@tucson.com or 520-573-4181. On Twitter: @dwichner. On Facebook: Facebook.com/DailyStarBiz | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tucsons-paragon-space-to-help-develop-new-nasa-spacesuits/article_2c7731e6-e359-11ec-8608-b3f15abccf2e.html | 2022-06-03T20:23:03 | 0 | https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/tucsons-paragon-space-to-help-develop-new-nasa-spacesuits/article_2c7731e6-e359-11ec-8608-b3f15abccf2e.html |
The US Coast Guard Auxiliary will conduct an eight-hour boating safety education course on Saturday, June 11, in Coos Bay. The course covers the basics of boating safety, required equipment, rules of the road and Oregon boating laws.
A test at the end of the course will qualify boaters for their Oregon Boater Education Card, under the Oregon Mandatory Boater Education Program. The Boater Education Card is required for all motorboat operators of all ages for boats over 10 horsepower. Additional provisions apply to youths.
The class is taught by certified US Coast Guard Auxiliary and Oregon State Marine Board instructors. The cost of the course and materials is $15. Pre-registration is required. To register for the class, call (541) 267-6152. | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/us-coast-guard-auxiliary-offers-boating-class-this-saturday/article_ed1a42de-e288-11ec-9a6e-c70dfbf3d26f.html | 2022-06-03T20:24:33 | 0 | https://theworldlink.com/news/local/us-coast-guard-auxiliary-offers-boating-class-this-saturday/article_ed1a42de-e288-11ec-9a6e-c70dfbf3d26f.html |
CLINTON — A month-long celebration of Clinton-area aviators has landed at the C.H. Moore Homestead and DeWitt County Museum.
Retelling the stories of aviation pioneers, barnstormers, test pilots, military airmen and NASA scientists and their connections to DeWitt County, “Prairie Flyers: A Century of Aviation in DeWitt County” brings an upscale gallery to the small Clinton museum.
Don Marshall, of Lane, stopped by the exhibit on Sunday, the day before Memorial Day. The Vietnam veteran said he enjoyed the high-altitude flight uniforms.
Don Marshall, of Lane, takes in a new aviation exhibit on Sunday, May 29, at the C.H. Moore Homestead and DeWitt County Museum in Clinton. The Vietnam veteran was intrigued by the high-altitude outfits.
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His wife, Janice Marshall, said she’d never been to an exhibit like it.
“I’ve been to museums and airshows, but not anything like this,” she said. “I think it’s great.”
The couple both said they were impressed.
The display is in the Carriage Barn on the C.H. Moore Homestead, which is estimated by museum staff to be from the 1860s. Modern lighting and World War II-era music and radio traffic immerse visitors into a world of vintage.
Denis Hambucken of New Hampshire, his friend John Warner, and Edith Brady-Lunny, former reporter for The Pantagraph and a current WGLT correspondent, combined forces to collect stories and piece the display together. In December, the museum publicly asked DeWitt County residents to loan them historical artifacts.
Women in aviation are just one of the subjects covered in a new exhibit at the C.H. Moore Homestead and DeWitt County Museum in Clinton. Photo taken Sunday, May 29.
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Joey Long, director of the museum, said "Prairie Flyers" is the most ambitious exhibit they’ve ever taken on.
“We have proven that if you dream big, and if you have the support of the community, you can do it,” she said. Long also said it wouldn’t have been possible without the generous support they received.
She said people dug into their attics and closets, dusted off and opened old shoe boxes and dresser drawers, and brought them old photos, service medals, apparel and more. Long said those heirlooms were brought out of hiding to help tell the stories the exhibit presents.
A bomb sight used on a B-17 Flying Fortress is to be included in an upcoming exhibit on aviation history at the DeWitt County Museum. Volunteers developing the display are relying on community members to donate or loan artifacts to the museum. File photo taken Feb. 27 in Clinton.
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The exhibit is chartered for a run at the Carriage Barn for only a limited time. After July 3, items will be returned to their loaners.
The display was a team effort by museum staff and volunteers, with Warner originating the idea. Long said she tracked down local people who were connected to aviation, and catalogued artifacts. Once found, the director said Brady-Lunny then interviewed them.
Artifacts from Ken Schaffer, a U.S. Air Force veteran with 25,000 hours of logged flight time, are displayed on Sunday, May 29, at a new aviation exhibit at the C.H. Moore Homestead and DeWitt County Museum.
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One aviator featured in the display is Dave Henard, who flew helicopters in the Vietnam War. He said it feels amazingly special to be featured in the exhibit.
Another subject covered by "Prairie Flyers" is Ken Shaffer, who served in the United States Air Force for 20 years as a pilot and reservist. He has 25,000 hours of logged flight time.
You can meet them both at events scheduled on Thursdays this month at the Vespasian Warner Public Library, 310 N. Quincy St., Clinton.
Henard and Hambucken will be present to sign their books on June 9, and Shaffer will share stories from his time serving on June 16. Both programs start at 6 p.m. at the library.
Hambucken has released a World War II history book , and Henard in 2018 published "Victory Stolen," which shares his perspective on the Tet Offensive and its aftermath.
Long said she's thrilled with the project's final outcome. She said visitors will have all of their senses engaged for the experience.
"It takes it to a much higher level when you add all of these elements," she said of the audio and visual parts of the display.
IF YOU GO WHAT: "Prairie Flyers: A Century of Aviation in Dewitt County"
WHEN: Open hours from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays, through July 3.
WHERE: C.H. Moore Homestead and DeWitt County Museum, 219 E. Woodlawn St., Clinton
PASSES: $10 for adults, $5 for ages 11 and under. Reservations are recommended for large groups — call 217-935-6066.
A history of LGBTQ+ representation in film
A history of LGBTQ+ representation in film
Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago. But due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, representation onscreen has a long, complicated, and often coded history. While gay characters were frequently used for laughs or not explicitly stated to be queer in most early mainstream Hollywood films, a brief relaxation in Germany’s film production code in the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like “Anders als die Anderen” and “Mädchen in Uniform.”
In Hollywood, the strict Hays Code forbade explicit depictions of homosexuality on film for three decades, during which there were a slew of queer-coded villains. Afterwards, gay characters appeared more, but often in tragic stories like 1961’s “The Children’s Hour.”
Although LGBTQ+ representation remained sparse over the next few decades, queer camp in the 1970s saw a rise in popularity with the increased prominence of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and the films of John Waters. Later, the New Queer Cinema in the 1990s flourished, as many independent filmmakers (many of whom were gay) told fluid, empathetic stories about queer individuals.
“Moonlight” made history in 2017 as the first LGBTQ+ movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture. The film, which features an all-Black cast, was one big step toward making gay cinema that isn’t whitewashed, features a range of identities, and doesn't make its queer characters one-note or vehicles of suffering.
Stacker compiled a list of 50+ significant moments in the history of LGBTQ+ representation on film, using information from cultural critiques, film reviews and retrospectives, film scholars, and historical records to understand how the community has been represented on the big screen over the decades. The history starts in 1894, with the very first gay film, and ends in 2021 with a mainstream children's movie featuring a main character who is queer.
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Fox 2000 Pictures
1894: 'The Dickson Experimental Sound Film' as first gay film
Also known as “The Gay Brothers,” this short film showed two men dancing together. Film critic Parker Tyler noted that the dance “shocked audiences with its subversion of conventional male behavior."
Edison Manufacturing Company
1915: Charlie Chaplin is ‘A Woman’
Prior to Hollywood’s Hays Code—which prohibited positive depictions of queerness, among other things, for decades—films often used gender-role-reversal scenarios for humor. An especially prominent example of this “crossdressing” comedy phenomenon is Charlie Chaplin’s 1915 two-reel “A Woman.” The story sees him transforming into a woman to toy with two men’s affections, and Chaplin’s character eventually tricks them into kissing each other.
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
1919: 'Anders als die Anderen' advocates for LGBTQ acceptance
“Anders als die Anderen” (a German film whose title translates to “Different from the Others”) is one of the oldest surviving movies with a gay protagonist and was made during a rare period where German film censorship was relaxed after World War I. It centers on a violinist who commits suicide after getting blackmailed for his sexuality and ends with an appeal for gay tolerance by German gay rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
1922: Gay collaboration during the filming of ‘Salome’
Charles Bryant’s adaptation of gay writer Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name reportedly featured several queer collaborators —namely, bisexual lead actress Alla Nazimova and set designer Natacha Rambova (her rumored lover). The movie drew controversy from New York censors for suggesting that two of its male characters were gay. Additionally, several female courtiers in the film were actually men in drag.
Nazimova Productions
1927: Two soldiers kiss in the first Best Picture winner
The silent war film “Wings” was the first movie to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards and also depicted one of the earliest onscreen same-sex kisses. In one scene, a young soldier tenderly kisses his dying friend on the mouth—a common practice in the trenches of World War I.
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
1929: ‘Pandora’s Box’ features cinema’s first lesbian character
According to Vito Russo’s 1981 book “The Celluloid Closet,” the film contains “probably the first explicitly drawn lesbian character” in cinematic history. “Pandora’s Box” follows Lulu (Louise Brooks), a woman whose sexual appeal leads to lust and violence in the people around her. Actress Alice Roberts played her lesbian admirer, the Countess Geschwitz.
Nero-Film AG
1930: In ‘Morocco,’ the leading lady kisses another woman
In “Morocco,” cabaret singer Amy Jolly (bisexual actress Marlene Dietrich) caused a stir when—after singing a number dressed in a full suit and top hat—she kissed a woman in the audience on the lips. The scene made her the first lead actress to kiss another woman on screen .
Donaldson Collection // Getty Images
1931: 'Mädchen in Uniform' tells an explicitly lesbian story
Leontine Sagan’s groundbreaking German drama "Mädchen in Uniform," in which a young schoolgirl falls in love with one of her female teachers, has been heralded as the first explicitly lesbian movie . Nazis later tried to destroy every copy of the film because of its queer content and anti-authoritarian themes, but it ultimately survived.
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Deutsche Film-Gemeinschaft
1933: ‘Queen Christina’ includes hints of its subject’s lesbianism
MGM producer Irving Thalberg was reportedly a fan of "Mädchen in Uniform” and believed that a similar film about the life of real-life, 17th-century lesbian monarch Queen Christina of Sweden “could give us very interesting scenes.” MGM ended up giving Christina (who was played by queer actress Greta Garbo ) a heterosexual love interest and erased explicit mention of her sexuality, but bits of historical truth remain. Christina kisses and flirts with her lady-in-waiting in the film and declares, “I shall die a bachelor!”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
1934: Hollywood’s Hays Code is strictly enforced
Officially known as the “Motion Picture Production Code,” the Hays Code set stern guidelines for what types of content could be released by U.S. movie studios from 1934 to 1968. One taboo was homosexuality, meaning that any instances of queerness on film had to be carefully coded.
[Pictured: American Joseph Breen, Hollywood director, speaking with British director Michael Balcon and others. For many years Breen was an administrator of the Production Code, the American censorship body, governed by the “Hays Office.”]
Kurt Hutton // Getty Images
1938: ‘Bringing Up Baby’ uses ‘gay’ in a queer context
In one scene from the 1938 screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby,” the word “gay” was used in a queer context for likely the first time (possibly thanks to queer performers’ use of “gay” as a slang term). When a woman asks reputedly bisexual actor Cary Grant’s character why he’s wearing a feathery bathrobe, he responds, “Because I just went gay all of a sudden!”
RKO Radio Pictures
1941: A newly queer-coded villain in ‘The Maltese Falcon’
“For all its efforts, the Production Code didn't erase homosexuals from the screen; it just made them harder to find,” “The Celluloid Closet” states . “And now they had a new identity—as cold-blooded villains.” Early examples of queer-coded villains include the titular antagonist of “Dracula’s Daughter” and Mrs. Danvers in “Rebecca,” but an especially interesting case is Joel Cairo (played by Peter Lorre) in “The Maltese Falcon.” Although Joel’s queerness is explicitly stated in the film’s source material, it’s only hinted at in the movie through his effeminate behavior and love of perfume.
Warner Bros.
1950s: ‘Pit of Loneliness’ broaches 1950s lesbianism
Jacqueline Audry’s French drama “Pit of Loneliness” (originally named “Olivia”) was one of the few 1950s films that explored and included lesbian themes. It takes place at an all-girls boarding school, where two female teachers compete with one another for their students’ affections. The movie was also notable as one of the few movies in decades that was written, directed, and performed entirely by women.
Filmsonor
1961: ‘Victim’ criticizes British homophobia
"Victim" opens in 1960s London, where a man’s death leads the film’s gay main character (played by prominent actor Dirk Bogarde) to discover a blackmail scheme against several gay men. Homosexual relations between consenting adults were illegal in England and Wales until 1967 , making the film a radical cry against British homophobia.
Allied Film Makers (AFM)
1961: ‘The Children’s Hour’ portrays sympathetic yet tragic lesbianism
Well-known actresses Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine starred in this adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play, “The Children’s Hour.” In the film, a rebellious student accuses two teachers of being in a taboo lesbian relationship, and the teacher who actually is a lesbian eventually meets a tragic end. While “The Children’s Hour” is notable for presenting a sympathetic queer main character in a time when that was rare, it has also been criticized for reinforcing the “tragic gay ending” stereotype .
The Mirisch Corporation
1967: ‘Portrait of Jason’ explores ’60s Black gay identity
“Portrait of Jason” was shot over 12 hours , as experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke interviewed Jason Holliday—a Black gay sex worker and aspiring cabaret dancer. Although one could argue that such a grueling interview process was exploitative, Holliday’s musings about his life, dreams, and art in the face of societal anti-Blackness and homophobia provide the kind of intersectional look at LGBTQ+ identity that ’60s media sorely lacked.
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Shirley Clarke Productions
1968: ‘The Killing of Sister George’
Produced during the final months of the Hays Code , Robert Aldrich’s film about the breakdown of an aging lesbian TV actress included a lesbian sex scene that broke down a major taboo associated with the Code’s erasure of gay characters onscreen. The movie received an “X” rating under the new Hollywood rating system.
Palomar Pictures (I)
1968: The Hays Code is officially lifted
The code began to wane and loosen over the years. By the 1960s, society’s “sexual revolution” left audiences more open to supposedly “vulgar” topics. In 1968, the Hays Code was officially replaced by the new Motion Picture Association film rating system (MPAA).
[Pictured: President of the Motion Picture Association of America Jack Valenti, Dec. 17, 1968.]
Evening Standard/Hulton Archive // Getty Images
1969: ‘Funeral Parade of Roses’ explores Tokyo’s gay scene
"Funeral Parade of Roses" retells the “Oedipus Rex” myth within Tokyo’s underground gay scene of the 1960s, following a young trans woman named Eddie. Writer-director Toshio Matsumoto’s Japanese drama combines experimental film techniques with several genres, such as sexploitation movies and melodramas.
Art Theatre Guild (ATG)
1970: ‘The Boys in the Band’ centers on a gay friend group
Originally an Off-Broadway play by Mart Crowley, the film explores the underlying tensions that surface when a friend group of gay New Yorkers gather for a birthday party. The film’s intimate focus on the relationships between multiple gay characters was unprecedented at the time.
Cinema Center Films
1972: ‘Pink Flamingos’ cements John Waters as the ‘Pope of Trash’
For decades, queer artists utilized “camp”—literally defined as a “deliberately exaggerated and theatrical behavior or style”—to rebel against the repressive, “ordinary” standards of society. However, Waters challenged the concept of camp by making deliberately filthy, transgressive films that let their queer, outcast characters gleefully behave badly. The most notorious example is 1972’s “Pink Flamingos,” in which famous drag queen Divine plays a woman who, along with her family, competes with a Baltimore couple to be named the “filthiest people alive.”
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Dreamland
1975: ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ brings a real-life gay crime to the Oscars
Sidney Lumet’s award-winning crime drama “Dog Day Afternoon” is based on a real bank robbery by a man attempting to pay for his partner’s gender affirmation surgery. Cisgender actor Chris Sarandon received an Oscar nomination for playing trans woman Leon, one of the few mainstream trans film characters of the time. In doing so, he became part of a larger, criticized trend of cis actors being recognized for playing trans roles.
Warner Bros.
1975: The pinnacle of queer camp
While queer camp had long been used as a form of self-expression by the LGBTQ+ community in response to a heteronormative, oppressive society, it arguably reached its peak with the 1975 musical “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” In the cult classic, two naive newlyweds seek help from the inhabitants of a creepy castle when their car breaks down nearby, and a romp of murder, cannibalism, and bisexuality ensue. Led by Tim Curry as the pansexual, trans scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, “Rocky Horror” has become one of the most popular “midnight movies” of all time .
Twentieth Century Fox
1978: ‘Word is Out’ highlights 26 queer documentary subjects
“Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives” comprised interviews with 26 lesbians and gay men who spoke about their lives and experiences as part of the LGBTQ+ community. At the time, the French documentary’s positive, nuanced depictions of queer people in their own words was rare in the film industry.
[Pictured: Director of "Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives," Lucy Massie Phenix.]
Barbara Alper // Getty Images
1980: 'Cruising' inspires backlash
Although the LGBTQ+ community slowly became more accepted in the 1960s and 1970s—albeit as tragic figures in media—a slew of new film releases at the dawn of the 1980s showed queer people in another negative light. The most notable was “Cruising,” a film in which an undercover cop searches for a serial killer who has been targeting members of the gay S&M leather community. William Friedkin’s “Cruising” was reviled by many gay viewers, with one pamphlet saying that in the film , “gay men are presented as one-dimensional sex-crazed lunatics [...] It is a film about why we should be killed.”
Lorimar Film Entertainment
1983: ‘The Hunger’ becomes a queer cult classic
The horror film features an erotic love triangle between a doctor, played by Susan Sarandon, and a vampire couple played by Catherine Deneuve and queer actor David Bowie . “The Hunger” quickly grew a dedicated fan following, partly because of the lesbian sex scene between Deneuve’s and Sarandon’s characters.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
1985: ‘Desert Hearts’ gives lesbians a happy ending
Donna Deitch’s "Desert Hearts" tracks the romance that develops between repressed English professor Vivian and free-spirited rancher’s daughter Kay. It’s regarded as the first mainstream lesbian film with a happy ending .
Desert Hearts Productions
1986: ‘Parting Glances’ deals with the AIDS crisis
Gay first-time director Bill Sherwood’s “Parting Glances” is regarded as the first film to deal with the AIDS crisis, which had a devastating impact on gay and bisexual men in particular in the late 1980s and early 1990s . Sherwood died from the disease before he could make more films, but “Parting Glances” remains a historic work of LGBTQ+ cinema.
Rondo Productions
1990: ‘Paris Is Burning’ spotlights New York ballroom culture
Jennie Livingston’s acclaimed documentary chronicles New York City’s Black and Latinx Harlem drag-ball scene of the late 1980s, bringing the vital subculture into the public eye in a major way . Prolific drag queens, trans women, and voguers like Venus Xtravaganza, Pepper Labeija, and Willi Ninja were interviewed for “Paris Is Burning,” although the film faced controversy when its subjects initially received little compensation .
Art Matters Inc.
1992: B. Ruby Rich coins 'New Queer Cinema'
In the early 1990s, several openly gay directors became involved in independent cinema, creating a crop of queer movies that treated sexuality as fluid—examples include “Orlando,” “My Own Private Idaho,” “Poison,” and many more. Academic B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema” in Sight & Sound Magazine to describe this burgeoning film movement.
Fred Hayes // Getty Images
1993: Tom Hanks and ‘Philadelphia’ break down barriers
A-list actor Tom Hanks won an Oscar for his portrayal of a lawyer who’s fired for having AIDS in Jonathan Demme’s “Philadelphia,” helping to dispel the myth that taking on LGBTQ+ roles would ruin straight actors’ careers. “Philadelphia” was also the first major Hollywood film to focus on the AIDS epidemic .
TriStar Pictures
1995: ‘The Celluloid Closet’ chronicles LGBTQ film history
Based on Vito Russo’s 1981 book of the same name, “The Celluloid Closet” brought together queer film historians, creatives, and their peers to examine the history of LGBTQ+ visibility on the big screen, from the early days of film through coded characters and harmful queer stereotypes and up to the emerging New Queer Cinema movement.
ARTE
1995: ‘To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar.’ makes drag mainstream
Starring major Hollywood actors like Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wesley Snipes as drag queens, “To Wong Foo” was the rare explicitly gay studio film that rose to the top of the box office during its first two weeks in theaters. The film followed the success of the 1994 arthouse film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” an Australian comedy about two drag queens and a trans woman.
Universal Pictures
1996: 'The Watermelon Woman' becomes first film by Black lesbian
Director Cheryl Dunye’s feature-length directorial debut follows Cheryl (Dunye, playing a fictionalized version of herself ), a Black lesbian filmmaker working on a project about “The Watermelon Woman,” an obscure 1940s Black actress.
Dancing Girl
1999: Hilary Swank plays a trans teenager in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’
Hilary Swank, a cisgender actress, won an Oscar for her portrayal of real-life trans teenager Brandon Teena, who was murdered in 1993 . “Boys Don’t Cry” is undoubtedly bleak, but Kimberly Peirce’s film made Teena’s story and modern trans American experiences more visible.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures
1999: Pedro Almodóvar wins big for ‘All About My Mother’
Gay director Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most acclaimed and prolific Spanish filmmakers in history. After years of telling bold stories that featured gay and trans characters, his film “All About My Mother,” which follows a woman who reconnects with her ex-partner—a trans woman—won Best Foreign Language Film at the 2000 Academy Awards.
HECTOR MATA // Getty Images
2005: Audiences can’t quit ‘Brokeback Mountain’
Ang Lee’s film about the long-term secret romance between two cowboys (played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) made history as one of the first big, mainstream movies that centered on a gay love story. The film became a critical and box-office success and won three Oscars, proving to Hollywood that LGBTQ+ stories had a place outside of strictly independent filmmaking.
Focus Features
2010: ‘The Kids Are All Right,’ and they got a Best Picture nomination
Through “The Kids Are All Right,” director Lisa Cholodenko made history as an openly lesbian director whose film received a Best Picture nomination. The dramedy revolves around a lesbian couple whose life with their two teenage children is disrupted when the kids meet their moms’ sperm donor.
Bryan Bedder // Getty Images
2011: ‘Pariah’ announces an exciting new lesbian filmmaker
Lesbian filmmaker Dee Rees arrived on the scene with her 2011 debut narrative feature film, “Pariah.” The semiautobiographical film centers on a Black Brooklyn lesbian’s experiences coming out and reckoning with her identity. It went on to be recognized at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the GLAAD Media Awards, cementing Rees as an exciting voice in queer filmmaking.
Chicken And Egg Pictures
2015: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor star in ‘Tangerine’
Sean Baker’s 2015 dramedy “Tangerine” follows Sin-Dee (Rodriguez), a sex worker who, with the help of her best friend, Alexandra (Taylor), sets out to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend on Christmas Day. “Tangerine” is the rare film that stars multiple trans women of color played by trans actors of color. Distributor Magnolia Pictures’ Academy Award campaigns for Rodriguez and Taylor marked the first time that a film producer openly supported the nomination of trans actresses .
Duplass Brothers Productions
2017: ‘Moonlight’ wins Best Picture
Although “La La Land” was accidentally announced as the 2017 Best Picture winner, the prize actually went to Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight.” The film tells the story of a young Black gay man named Chiron as he grows up and comes to terms with his identity. It made history as the first LGBTQ+ movie and the first movie with an all-Black cast to take home Hollywood’s top prize.
Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal // Getty Images
2018: ‘Love, Simon’ tells a gay high school love story
Based on Becky Albertalli’s book “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,” the film follows a closeted high schooler who falls for an anonymous gay classmate with whom he’s been speaking online. “Love, Simon” is regarded as the first movie by a major Hollywood studio to feature a gay lead character .
Scott Ehler // Getty Images
2019: A record year for representation, with notable asterisks
GLAAD, the LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization, puts out a yearly report on queer representation in media, and its report on 2019 showed hopeful signs that media is becoming more inclusive, with a record number of gay characters on-screen. Yet the overall trend is dampened when broken down by race: It was only a record year for white queer people. Queer characters of color actually decreased, and there were virtually no transgender characters. Still, anyone who watched a lot of films in 2019 saw an encouraging breadth of queer characters and storylines, including “Booksmart,” “Rocketman,” “Blockers,” “Love, Simon,” “Pain and Glory,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Pain and Glory,” “And Then We Danced,” “End of the Century,” “Wild Nights With Emily,” and more.
Neon
2021: ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ brings LGBTQ character into mainstream children’s entertainment
In children's movie “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” main character Katie, on the cusp of leaving home for college, feels misunderstood and at odds with her parents. It's mostly because they don't understand her surreal YouTube videos and desire to go to film school, but there's a subtler indication that her queerness contributes to the tension between her and her parents. The end confirms her queer identity when, finally at college, Katie's new girlfriend is casually mentioned over a video call with her parents. The character is voiced by Abbi Jacobson, who is bisexual, making Katie a rare queer character also played by a queer actor. It's a small but notable shift that mainstream children's media—once off-limits for discussion of anything risk-adverse studios fear could jeopardize profits—is slowly becoming more inclusive of LGBTQ+ characters.
Netflix
A history of LGBTQ+ representation in film
Depictions of queer and trans people have been present in the film medium since its inception more than 100 years ago, but due to censorship and varying degrees of prejudice against the LGBTQ+ community at different points in time, onscreen representation has a long, complicated, and often coded history. While gay characters were frequently used for laughs or not explicitly stated to be queer in the earliest mainstream Hollywood films, a brief relaxation in Germany’s film production code in the early 20th century allowed for LGBTQ+ classics like “Different from the Others” and “Mädchen in Uniform.”
In Hollywood, the strict Hays Code forbade explicit depictions of homosexuality in film for three decades, during which there was a slew of queer-coded villains. Afterward, gay characters appeared more but often in tragic stories like 1961’s “The Children’s Hour.”
Although LGBTQ+ representation remained sparse over the next few decades, queer camp in the 1970s saw a rise in popularity with the increased prominence of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and the films of John Waters. Later, the New Queer Cinema in the 1990s flourished as many independent filmmakers (many of whom were gay) told fluid, empathetic stories about queer individuals.
“Moonlight” made history in 2017 as the first LGBTQ+ movie to win the Oscar for Best Picture. The film, which features an all-Black cast, was one big step toward making gay cinema that isn’t whitewashed, features a range of identities, and doesn’t make its queer characters one-note or vehicles of suffering.
Stacker compiled a list of 50+ significant moments in the history of LGBTQ+ representation in film, using information from cultural critiques, film reviews and retrospectives, film scholars, and historical records to understand how the community has been represented on the big screen over the decades. The history starts in 1894, with the very first gay film, and ends in 2021 with a mainstream children’s movie featuring a main character who is queer.
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Fox 2000 Pictures
1894: ‘The Dickson Experimental Sound Film’ as first gay film
Also known as “The Gay Brothers,” this short film showed two men dancing together. Film critic Parker Tyler noted that the dance “shocked audiences with its subversion of conventional male behavior.”
Edison Manufacturing Company
1915: Charlie Chaplin is ‘A Woman’
Prior to Hollywood’s Hays Code—which prohibited for decades positive depictions of queerness, among other things—films often used gender-role-reversal scenarios for humor . An especially prominent example of this “crossdressing” comedy phenomenon is Charlie Chaplin’s 1915 two-reel “A Woman.” The story sees him transforming into a woman to toy with two men’s affections, and Chaplin’s character eventually tricks them into kissing each other.
The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
1919: ‘Anders als die Anderen’ advocates for LGBTQ+ acceptance
The German film “Anders als die Andern” (English: “Different from the Others”) is one of the oldest surviving movies with a gay protagonist and was made during a rare period when German film censorship was relaxed after World War I. It centers on a violinist who takes his life after getting blackmailed for his sexuality and ends with an appeal for gay tolerance by German gay rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
1922: Gay collaboration during the filming of ‘Salome’
Charles Bryant’s adaptation of gay writer Oscar Wilde’s play of the same name reportedly featured several queer collaborators —namely, bisexual lead actress Alla Nazimova and set designer Natacha Rambova (her rumored lover). The movie drew controversy from New York censors for suggesting that two of its male characters were gay. Additionally, several female courtiers in the film were actually men in drag.
Nazimova Productions
1927: Two soldiers kiss in the first Best Picture winner
The silent war film “Wings” was the first movie to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards and also depicted one of the earliest onscreen same-sex kisses. In one scene, a young soldier tenderly kisses his dying friend on the mouth, which was a common practice in the trenches of World War I .
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
1929: ‘Pandora’s Box’ features cinema’s first lesbian character
According to Vito Russo’s 1981 book “The Celluloid Closet,” the film contains “probably the first explicitly drawn lesbian character” in cinematic history. “Pandora’s Box” follows Lulu (Louise Brooks), a woman whose sexual appeal leads to lust and violence in the people around her. Actress Alice Roberts played her lesbian admirer, Countess Geschwitz.
Nero-Film AG
1930: In ‘Morocco,’ the leading lady kisses another woman
In “Morocco,” cabaret singer Amy Jolly (depicted by bisexual actress Marlene Dietrich) caused a stir when—after singing a number dressed in a full suit and top hat—she kissed a woman in the audience on the lips. The scene made her the first lead actress to kiss another woman on screen .
Donaldson Collection // Getty Images
1931: ‘Mädchen in Uniform’ tells an explicitly lesbian story
Leontine Sagan’s groundbreaking German drama “Mädchen in Uniform,” in which a young schoolgirl falls in love with one of her female teachers, has been heralded as the first explicitly lesbian movie . Nazis later tried to destroy every copy of the film because of its queer content and anti-authoritarian themes, but it ultimately survived.
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Deutsche Film-Gemeinschaft
1933: ‘Queen Christina’ includes hints of its subject’s lesbianism
MGM producer Irving Thalberg was reportedly a fan of “Mädchen in Uniform” and believed that a similar film about the life of real-life, 17th-century lesbian monarch Queen Christina of Sweden “could give us very interesting scenes.” MGM ended up giving Christina (played by queer actress Greta Garbo ) a heterosexual love interest and erased explicit mention of her sexuality, but bits of historical truth remain. Christina kisses and flirts with her lady-in-waiting in the film and declares, “I shall die a bachelor!”
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
1934: Hollywood’s Hays Code is strictly enforced
Officially known as the “Motion Picture Production Code,” the Hays Code set stern guidelines for what types of content could be released by U.S. movie studios from 1934 to 1968. One taboo was homosexuality, meaning that any instances of queerness on film had to be carefully coded.
[Pictured: American Joseph Breen, Hollywood director, speaking with British director Michael Balcon and others. For many years Breen was an administrator of the Production Code, the American censorship body, governed by the “Hays Office.”]
Kurt Hutton // Getty Images
1938: ‘Bringing Up Baby’ uses ‘gay’ in a queer context
In one scene from the 1938 screwball comedy “Bringing Up Baby,” the word “gay” was used in a queer context for likely the first time (possibly thanks to queer performers’ use of “gay” as a slang term). When a woman asks reputedly bisexual actor Cary Grant’s character why he’s wearing a feathery bathrobe, he responds, “Because I just went gay all of a sudden!”
RKO Radio Pictures
1941: A newly queer-coded villain in ‘The Maltese Falcon’
“For all its efforts, the Production Code didn’t erase homosexuals from the screen; it just made them harder to find,” “The Celluloid Closet” states . “And now they had a new identity—as cold-blooded villains.”
Early examples of queer-coded villains include the titular antagonist of “Dracula’s Daughter” and Mrs. Danvers in “Rebecca,” but an especially interesting case is Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) in “The Maltese Falcon.” Although Joel’s queerness is explicitly stated in the film’s source material, it’s only hinted at in the movie through his effeminate behavior and love of perfume.
Warner Bros.
1950s: ‘Pit of Loneliness’ broaches 1950s lesbianism
Jacqueline Audry’s French drama “Pit of Loneliness” (originally named “Olivia”) was one of the few 1950s films that explored and included lesbian themes. It takes place at an all-girls boarding school, where two female teachers compete with one another for their students’ affections. The movie was also notable as one of the few movies in decades that was written, directed, and performed entirely by women.
Filmsonor
1961: ‘Victim’ criticizes British homophobia
“Victim” opens in 1960s London, where a man’s death leads the film’s gay main character (Dirk Bogarde) to discover a blackmail scheme against several gay men. Homosexual relations between consenting adults were illegal in England and Wales until 1967 , making the film a radical cry against British homophobia.
Allied Film Makers (AFM)
1961: ‘The Children’s Hour’ portrays sympathetic yet tragic lesbianism
Well-known actresses Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine starred in this adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play, “The Children’s Hour.” In the film, a rebellious student accuses two teachers of being in a taboo lesbian relationship, and the teacher who actually is a lesbian eventually meets a tragic end. While “The Children’s Hour” is notable for presenting a sympathetic queer main character in a time when that was rare, it has also been criticized for reinforcing the “tragic gay ending” stereotype .
The Mirisch Corporation
1967: ‘Portrait of Jason’ explores ’60s Black gay identity
“Portrait of Jason” was shot over 12 hours , as experimental filmmaker Shirley Clarke interviewed Jason Holliday, a Black gay sex worker and aspiring cabaret dancer. Although one could argue that such a grueling interview process was exploitative, Holliday’s musings about his life, dreams, and art in the face of societal anti-Blackness and homophobia provide the kind of intersectional look at LGBTQ+ identity that ’60s media sorely lacked.
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Shirley Clarke Productions
1968: ‘The Killing of Sister George’
Produced during the final months of the Hays Code , Robert Aldrich’s film about the breakdown of an aging lesbian TV actress included a lesbian sex scene that broke down a major taboo associated with the Code’s erasure of gay characters on screen. The movie received an “X” rating under the new Hollywood rating system.
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1968: The Hays Code is officially lifted
The code began to wane and loosen over the years. By the 1960s, society’s “sexual revolution” left audiences more open to supposedly “vulgar” topics. In 1968, the Hays Code was officially replaced by the new Motion Picture Association film rating system.
[Pictured: President of the Motion Picture Association of America Jack Valenti, Dec. 17, 1968.]
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1969: ‘Funeral Parade of Roses’ explores Tokyo’s gay scene
“Funeral Parade of Roses” retells the “Oedipus Rex” myth within Tokyo’s underground gay scene of the 1960s, following a young trans woman named Eddie. Writer-director Toshio Matsumoto’s Japanese drama combines experimental film techniques with several genres, such as sexploitation movies and melodramas.
Art Theatre Guild (ATG)
1970: ‘The Boys in the Band’ centers on a gay friend group
Originally an Off-Broadway play by Mart Crowley, the film explores the underlying tensions that surface when a friendly group of gay New Yorkers gathers for a birthday party. The film’s intimate focus on the relationships between multiple gay characters was unprecedented at the time.
Cinema Center Films
1972: ‘Pink Flamingos’ cements John Waters as the ‘Pope of Trash’
For decades, queer artists utilized “camp”—literally defined as a “deliberately exaggerated and theatrical behavior or style”—to rebel against the repressive, “ordinary” standards of society. However, Waters challenged the concept of camp by making deliberately filthy, transgressive films that let their queer, outcast characters gleefully behave badly. The most notorious example is 1972’s “Pink Flamingos,” in which famous drag queen Divine plays a woman who, along with her family, competes with a Baltimore couple to be named the “filthiest people alive.”
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Dreamland
1975: ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ brings a real-life gay crime to the Oscars
Sidney Lumet’s award-winning crime drama “Dog Day Afternoon” is based on a real bank robbery by a man attempting to pay for his partner’s gender affirmation surgery. Cisgender actor Chris Sarandon received an Oscar nomination for playing trans woman Leon, one of the few mainstream trans film characters of the time. In doing so, he became part of a larger, criticized trend of cis actors being recognized for playing trans roles.
Warner Bros.
1975: The pinnacle of queer camp
While queer camp had long been used as a form of self-expression by the LGBTQ+ community in response to a heteronormative, oppressive society, it arguably reached its peak with the 1975 musical “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” In the cult classic, two naive newlyweds seek help from the inhabitants of a creepy castle when their car breaks down nearby, and a romp of murder, cannibalism, and bisexuality ensue. Led by Tim Curry as the pansexual, trans scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter, “Rocky Horror” has become one of the most popular “midnight movies” of all time .
Twentieth Century Fox
1978: ‘Word Is Out’ highlights 26 queer documentary subjects
“Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives” comprised interviews with 26 lesbians and gay men who spoke about their lives and experiences as part of the LGBTQ+ community. At the time, the French documentary’s positive, nuanced depictions of queer people in their own words were rare in the film industry.
[Pictured: Director of “Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives,” Lucy Massie Phenix.]
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1980: ‘Cruising’ inspires backlash
Although the LGBTQ+ community slowly became more accepted in the 1960s and 1970s (albeit as tragic figures in media), a slew of new film releases at the dawn of the 1980s showed queer people in another negative light. The most notable was “Cruising,” a film in which an undercover cop searches for a serial killer who has been targeting members of the gay S&M leather community. William Friedkin’s “Cruising” was reviled by many gay viewers, with one pamphlet saying that, in the film , “gay men are presented as one-dimensional sex-crazed lunatics … It is a film about why we should be killed.”
Lorimar Film Entertainment
1983: ‘The Hunger’ becomes a queer cult classic
The horror film features an erotic love triangle between a doctor, played by Susan Sarandon, and a vampire couple played by Catherine Deneuve and queer superstar David Bowie . “The Hunger” quickly grew a dedicated fan following, partly because of the lesbian sex scene between Deneuve’s and Sarandon’s characters.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
1985: ‘Desert Hearts’ gives lesbians a happy ending
Donna Deitch’s “Desert Hearts” tracks the romance that develops between repressed English professor Vivian and free-spirited rancher’s daughter Kay. It’s regarded as the first mainstream lesbian film with a happy ending .
Desert Hearts Productions
1986: ‘Parting Glances’ deals with the AIDS crisis
Gay first-time director Bill Sherwood’s “Parting Glances” is regarded as the first film to deal with the AIDS crisis, which had a devastating impact on gay and bisexual men in particular in the late 1980s and early 1990s . Sherwood died from the disease before he could make more films, but “Parting Glances” remains a historic work of LGBTQ+ cinema.
Rondo Productions
1990: ‘Paris Is Burning’ spotlights New York ballroom culture
Jennie Livingston’s acclaimed documentary chronicles New York City’s Black and Latino Harlem drag ball scene of the late 1980s, bringing the vital subculture into the public eye in a major way . Prolific drag queens, trans women, and voguers like Venus Xtravaganza, Pepper Labeija, and Willi Ninja were interviewed for “Paris Is Burning,” although the film faced controversy when its subjects initially received little compensation .
Art Matters Inc.
1992: B. Ruby Rich coins ’New Queer Cinema‘
In the early 1990s, several openly gay directors became involved in independent cinema, creating a crop of queer movies that treated sexuality as fluid—examples include “Orlando,” “My Own Private Idaho,” “Poison,” and many more. Academic B. Ruby Rich coined the term “New Queer Cinema” in Sight & Sound magazine to describe this burgeoning film movement.
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1993: Tom Hanks and ‘Philadelphia’ break down barriers
A-list actor Tom Hanks won an Oscar for his portrayal of a lawyer who’s fired for having AIDS in Jonathan Demme’s “Philadelphia,” helping to dispel the myth that taking on LGBTQ+ roles would ruin straight actors’ careers. “Philadelphia” was also the first major Hollywood film to focus on the AIDS epidemic .
TriStar Pictures
1995: ‘The Celluloid Closet’ chronicles LGBTQ+ film history
Based on Vito Russo’s 1981 book of the same name, “The Celluloid Closet” brought together queer film historians, creatives, and their peers to examine the history of LGBTQ+ visibility on the big screen, from the early days of film through coded characters and harmful queer stereotypes and up to the emerging New Queer Cinema movement.
ARTE
1995: ‘To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar’ makes drag mainstream
Starring major Hollywood actors like Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, and Wesley Snipes as drag queens, “To Wong Foo” was the rare, explicitly gay studio film that rose to the top of the box office during its first two weeks in theaters. The film followed the success of the 1994 arthouse film “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert,” an Australian comedy about two drag queens and a trans woman.
Universal Pictures
1996: ‘The Watermelon Woman’ becomes first film by Black lesbian
Director Cheryl Dunye’s feature-length directorial debut follows Cheryl (Dunye, playing a fictionalized version of herself ), a Black lesbian filmmaker working on a project about “The Watermelon Woman,” an obscure 1940s Black actress.
Dancing Girl
1999: Hilary Swank plays a trans teenager in ‘Boys Don’t Cry’
Hilary Swank, a cisgender actress, won an Oscar for her portrayal of real-life trans teenager Brandon Teena, who was murdered in 1993 . “Boys Don’t Cry” is undoubtedly bleak, but Kimberly Peirce’s film made Teena’s story and modern trans American experiences more visible.
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Fox Searchlight Pictures
1999: Pedro Almodóvar wins big for ‘All About My Mother’
Gay director Pedro Almodóvar is one of the most acclaimed and prolific Spanish filmmakers in history. After years of telling bold stories featuring gay and trans characters, his film “All About My Mother,” which follows a woman who reconnects with her ex-partner (a trans woman) won Best Foreign Language Film at the 2000 Academy Awards.
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2005: Audiences can’t quit ‘Brokeback Mountain’
Ang Lee’s film about the long-term secret romance between two cowboys (Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger) made history as one of the first big mainstream movies that centered on a gay love story. The film became a critical and box office success and won three Oscars, proving to Hollywood that LGBTQ+ stories had a place outside of strictly independent filmmaking.
Focus Features
2010: ‘The Kids Are All Right,’ and they got a Best Picture nomination
Through “The Kids Are All Right,” director Lisa Cholodenko made history as one of the earliest openly lesbian directors whose film received a Best Picture nomination. The dramedy revolves around a lesbian couple whose life with their two teenage children is disrupted when the kids meet their mom’s sperm donor.
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2011: ‘Pariah’ announces an exciting new lesbian filmmaker
Lesbian filmmaker Dee Rees arrived on the scene with her 2011 debut narrative feature film, “Pariah.” The semi-autobiographical film centers on a Black Brooklyn lesbian’s experiences with coming out and reckoning with her identity. It went on to be recognized at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, the Independent Spirit Awards, and the GLAAD Media Awards, cementing Rees as an exciting voice in queer filmmaking.
Chicken And Egg Pictures
2015: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez and Mya Taylor star in ‘Tangerine’
Sean Baker’s 2015 dramedy “Tangerine” follows Sin-Dee (Rodriguez), a sex worker who, with the help of her best friend, Alexandra (Taylor), sets out to get revenge on her cheating boyfriend on Christmas Day. “Tangerine” is a rare film that stars multiple trans women of color played by trans actors of color. Distributor Magnolia Pictures’ Academy Award campaigns for Rodriguez and Taylor marked the first time that a film producer openly supported the nomination of trans actresses .
Duplass Brothers Productions
2017: ‘Moonlight’ wins Best Picture
Although “La La Land” was infamously accidentally announced as the Best Picture winner at the 2017 Academy Awards; the prize actually went to Barry Jenkins’ “Moonlight.” The film tells the story of a young Black gay man named Chiron as he grows up and comes to terms with his identity. It made history as the first LGBTQ+ movie and the first movie with an all-Black cast to take home the top prize.
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2018: ‘Love, Simon’ tells a gay high school love story
Based on bisexual author Becky Albertalli’s book “Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda,” the film follows a closeted high schooler who falls for an anonymous gay classmate with whom he’s been speaking online. “Love, Simon” is regarded as the first movie by a major Hollywood studio to feature a gay lead character .
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2019: A record year for representation, with notable asterisks
LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization GLAAD puts out a yearly report on queer representation in media, and its 2019 report showed hopeful signs that media is becoming more inclusive, with a record number of gay characters on screen. Yet, the overall trend is dampened when broken down by race: It was only a record year for white queer people.
Queer characters of color actually decreased, and there were virtually no trans characters. Still, anyone who watched a lot of films in 2019 saw an encouraging breadth of queer characters and storylines, as depicted in “Booksmart,” “Rocketman,” “Blockers,” “Love, Simon,” “Pain and Glory,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “Pain and Glory,” “And Then We Danced,” “End of the Century,” “Wild Nights With Emily,” and more.
Neon
2021: ‘The Mitchells vs. the Machines’ brings LGBTQ+ character into mainstream children’s entertainment
In the children’s movie “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” main character Katie, on the cusp of leaving home for college, feels misunderstood and at odds with her parents. Mostly because they don’t understand her surreal YouTube videos and desire to go to film school, but there’s a subtler indication that her queerness contributes to the tension between her and her parents. The end confirms her queer identity when, finally at college, Katie’s new girlfriend is casually mentioned over a video call with her parents. The character is voiced by Abbi Jacobson, who is bisexual, making Katie a rare queer character also played by a queer actor. It’s a small but notable shift that mainstream children’s media—once off-limits for discussion of anything risk-averse studios fear could jeopardize profits—is slowly becoming more inclusive of LGBTQ+ characters.
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DALLAS (KDAF) — Some of the most fun you can have in Dallas is at a Dallas Stars game. From the energy to the food to the spectacle that is hockey.
In celebration of the sport, WalletHub did a study looking at the best cities for hockey fans.
Officials ranked 72 cities in the nation based on 21 different metrics, including ticket prices, stadium capacity and performance level of each city’s teams.
Dallas placed in the top 20 cities on the list ranking in 17th place in the nation. Dallas earned high rankings for its high NHL attendance and its consumer-friendly ticket prices. Here’s how Dallas ranked in some of the study’s key metrics:
- 13th – Performance Level of NHL Team
- 20th – NHL Stadium Capacity
- 11th – Number of NHL Stanley Cup Wins
- 11th – NHL Team Franchise Value
- 20th – NHL Fan Engagement
The top 10 cities are as follows:
- Boston, MA
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Detroit, MI
- St. Louis, MO
- New York, NY
- Denver, CO
- Buffalo, NY
- Tampa, FL
- Newark, NJ
- Sunrise, FL
For the full report, visit WalletHub. | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-is-17th-best-city-in-u-s-for-hockey-fans-study-finds/ | 2022-06-03T20:36:28 | 1 | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-is-17th-best-city-in-u-s-for-hockey-fans-study-finds/ |
DALLAS (KDAF) — A Waxahachie native is competing in a new reality dating show from the producers of RuPaul’s Drag Race.
Dakota Payne, 32, will be competing in Vanjie: 24 Hours of Love; a reality dating show where 18 eligible singles will have 24 hours to compete to be the boo of drag queen Vanessa ‘Miss Vanjie’ Mateo.
Officials say this show opens up the conversation about sex positivity and confronting unspoken subjects in the gay-dating community.
Dakota is a drag queen known as Gemini Dai. He is also an actor and director in the adult entertainment industry.
The show will premiere on Thursday, June 9th on WOW Presents Plus. | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-local-drag-queen-competing-on-new-reality-dating-series/ | 2022-06-03T20:36:34 | 0 | https://cw33.com/news/local/dallas-local-drag-queen-competing-on-new-reality-dating-series/ |
GROVELAND, Fla. – Newly-released body camera video from police in Groveland shows the moments right after a deadly shooting outside a daycare. The video shows the shooter cooperating with police as they place him in handcuffs at the scene.
Officers said they were called to We Are The Future Academy, 207 Groveland Farms Road, May 12 at 4:20 p.m. after the gunfire. According to a press release from Groveland Police, the man was shot after a physical fight at the day care.
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News 6 obtained audio of the 911 call Friday. It reveals the shooter called 911 and claimed he acted in self-defense. The man on the phone tells first responders he was attacked and choked before he defended himself. He can be heard telling dispatch, “I had to defend myself. I was attacked. I feared for my life.”
Groveland Police say their investigation is ongoing but based on their initial findings it appears no charges will be filed.
“The preliminary investigation by the Groveland Police Department and the State Attorney’s Office support the initial findings, which is this is a justified shooting and an act of self-defense,” said Sarah Panko, public information manager for Groveland Public Safety.
Spokesperson Sarah Panko calls it an isolated and unfortunate incident.
“Our hearts go out to all the families. A child is left without a parent. A family is left broken,” said Panko.
The owner of the day care, Lisbel Rodriguez, said two brothers-in-law picked up their children and got into a fight outside the office. One of them had already picked up his child and was leaving the center when he passed by the other family member outside the day care. Rodriguez said a fistfight ensued followed by a gunshot.
At the time of the shooting, parents described the panic at pick up.
“When I heard my child’s cousin’s mom telling me it was a shooting, my whole heart like stopped. My stomach sank,” said Baylee McDaniel.
The day care center was placed on lockdown to keep anyone else from getting hurt.
Groveland Police identified the man who died as Stephan Jefferson. He was flown by Air Care to Orlando Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced deceased by medical staff as a result of a single gunshot wound. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/bodycam-video-offers-new-details-into-fatal-groveland-day-care-shooting/ | 2022-06-03T20:36:56 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/bodycam-video-offers-new-details-into-fatal-groveland-day-care-shooting/ |
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced the recall of multiple models of Frigidaire and Electrolux refrigerators on Thursday.
The recall of 13 models of Frigidaire and one model of Electrolux side-by-side, top freezer and multi-door refrigerators was issued due to the ice level detector arm in the ice maker posing a choking hazard.
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The company received 185 reports of the ice maker in these fridges breaking into pieces and falling into the ice maker.
About 367,500 units sold in the U.S. and 7,180 sold in Canada have been recalled. Government officials recommend consumers immediately stop using the ice makers associated with these models, empty the ice bucket and contact a technician to replace the ice maker for free.
You can find the brand name, model and serial number for each unit printed on a label located on the right panel in the interior of the refrigerator compartment.
The following model and serial numbers impacted by the recall can be found below:
For more information on the recall, click here. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/electrolux-frigidaire-recall-fridges-due-to-choking-hazard-caused-by-ice-maker/ | 2022-06-03T20:37:02 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/electrolux-frigidaire-recall-fridges-due-to-choking-hazard-caused-by-ice-maker/ |
FLAGLER COUNTY, Fla. – Two Flagler teens were arrested, accused in an armed robbery that occurred at a gym in Bunnell, the sheriff’s office said.
According to deputies, 19-year-old Keyshawn Davis and a 14-year-old teen, who News 6 is not naming due to his age, both face robbery with a weapon charges after an incident that unfolded at the Carver Recreation Center around 9 p.m. on May 26.
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Investigators said Davis, arrested the day after the robbery, and the other teen, arrested Thursday, robbed a victim at the gym, taking his phone and money. Deputies said the victim also told them the two suspects pistol-whipped him during the robbery.
“Another dirtbag thought he could get away with violence into my county,” Flagler Sheriff Rick Staly said in a news release. “This 19-year-old’s criminal history is extensive and it’s clear he won’t learn to abide by the laws. Just last year, this young career felon was arrested after a traffic stop resulted in the recovery of a stolen firearm, $15,000 cash and drugs.”
The 14-year-old suspect also has a criminal history, previously facing charges for sexual assault and kidnapping a child under 13-years-old, according to investigators.
“This was great detective work building the case and getting the second suspect to turn himself in,” Staly said in a statement. “These kids are young, playing with weapons and escalating their crimes. Parents – I’m begging you to get involved in your kid’s life and know where they are, what they’re doing and who they’re associating with. Fulmore started committing serious crimes when he was just 12-years old. I hope the State Attorney charges him as an adult before he escalates into seriously hurting or killing someone. Obviously, the juvenile justice system can’t handle him.”
Davis was booked into Flagler County jail, where he’s held on a $100,000 bond.
The other teen was transferred to the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, where he may face additional charges. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/flagler-teens-accused-of-pistol-whipping-robbing-man-at-bunnell-gym/ | 2022-06-03T20:37:09 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/flagler-teens-accused-of-pistol-whipping-robbing-man-at-bunnell-gym/ |
MARION COUNTY, Fla. – Deputies arrested a man, who was already in jail, after a new search warrant uncovered he had sexually abused a child and made videos of it, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies arrested Jason Volkman, 49, Thursday. Volkman was first arrested in February on charges of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, video voyeurism, providing a controlled substance to a minor and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Investigators took several devices and hard drives from the man’s home following the arrest.
A warrant was granted on March 22 to search the devices and hard drives, according to the sheriff’s office. Deputies said they found multiple files showing Volkman sexually battering the victim and videos of the victim in the bathroom, resulting in his most recent arrest.
Volkman has been in jail since May 18 after his bond was revoked for violation of his pre-trial release conditions, records show.
He now faces new charges including 20 counts of possession of material including sexual conduct of a child and 20 counts of manufacturing computer pornography depicting sexual conduct involving a child. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/marion-county-man-arrested-accused-of-making-child-pornography-sexually-abusing-victim/ | 2022-06-03T20:37:15 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/marion-county-man-arrested-accused-of-making-child-pornography-sexually-abusing-victim/ |
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The Orlando Police Department is looking for a man who lured a woman into the woods at a park and forced himself on her.
The department said the woman rode her bicycle to Signal Hill Park on May 20 when a man, who introduced himself as Marcus, approached her.
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Police said the man took the woman’s bicycle to get her into the woods and sexually battered her, then looked to take her valuables.
The woman told officers the man was riding a light blue mountain bicycle and had a tattoo on his left shoulder, the department said. He was last seen wearing black pants, black sneakers and did not have a shirt.
He is described as being in his late teens or early 20s, police said.
Anyone who sees the man is urged to call 911 and not approach him. The department said a reward of up to $1,000 from Central Florida Crimeline.
If you have any information that could help law enforcement, you’re asked to call 911. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/orlando-police-search-for-man-who-forced-himself-on-woman-in-park/ | 2022-06-03T20:37:21 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/orlando-police-search-for-man-who-forced-himself-on-woman-in-park/ |
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A woman who admitted to driving drunk during a fatal hit-and-run crash in Brevard County in June was sentenced to six months in jail by a judge Friday.
Suzanna Norris, 50, was arrested in December. Police said she was driving the car that hit and killed Passion Lucas, 37, on June 20. Norris appeared in court Friday morning for a plea hearing where she pleaded no contest to the charge, waiving her right to a jury trial. Prosecutors were seeking jail time for Norris, though her attorneys argued against it.
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A judge found Norris guilty and sentenced her to six months in jail but allowed her to serve half the sentence in a treatment program. Judge Judy Atkin said Norris received the sentencing due to her blood alcohol level and the death of Lucas.
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Court rules defendant guilty sentenced to 6 months in jail, of which 3 months may be spent in residential treatment. $1000 fine. 50 hours community service and cost of investigation.
Investigators said Lucas was hit while she was walking north along Industry Road, just north of the State Road 528 overpass. According to police, Norris hit Lucas with her 2009 Chevrolet Impala around 2:20 a.m. and drove off. First responders got to the scene a short time later and tried to help Lucas. The woman was flown to the hospital where she was pronounced deceased.
Norris returned to the scene of the crash, police said, where she admitted that she knew she hit something but was not sure whether it was a person or an object.
Cocoa police recommended several charges, including DUI manslaughter, when she was arrested. Investigators said her blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit when she struck Lucas.
The most serious charges in the case were dropped and now she only faces an enhanced DUI charge, which is a misdemeanor.
“While we are sympathetic to calls for additional charges, the state is legally and ethically obligated to only file those offenses that prosecutors reasonably believe, based upon all of the available evidence, can be proven beyond and to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt at trial,” a news release from the state attorney’s office said in February.
The decision upset Lucas’ family while prosecutors argued they couldn’t prove the felony charges in court.
The state attorney’s office said a crash reconstruction showed the crash “[was] unavoidable by the [vehicle] driver. The pedestrian created the hazard by walking in the vehicular way.”
“Unfortunately, these findings provide a direct and reasonable defense to any charge of negligent homicide. Further, there is no independent physical evidence or witness testimony to prove the offense of hit-and-run at trial. A defendant’s statements, regardless of their validity, cannot be the sole evidence of guilt to support a criminal prosecution,” the news release said.
Body camera video from the night of the crash showed Norris admitting to drinking prior to the crash. The video showed Norris asked whether that would cause her any trouble. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/woman-driving-drunk-in-fatal-brevard-county-crash-sentenced-to-6-months-in-jail/ | 2022-06-03T20:37:27 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/woman-driving-drunk-in-fatal-brevard-county-crash-sentenced-to-6-months-in-jail/ |
Flagler Beach yet to secure fireworks for Fourth of July show
With Fourth of July a month away, Flagler Beach has yet to approve a contract for its fireworks display. But the city manager said he hopes to have one ready for the commission next week.
This would be the city’s first fireworks show since 2019 after COVID shut down celebrations in 2020 and 2021.
Flagler County-based Fireworks by Santore in Palm Coast has traditionally provided the fireworks for the Flagler Beach show, but this year Santore was booked by the time Flagler Beach called them in April.
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City Manager William Whitson said in a brief interview on Thursday that Santore couldn't do the show this year because of some COVID-related communications issues.
But Whitson said he expects to have a signed contract from Ryan Allen, president of North Florida Pyrotechnics in Green Cove Springs, to present to the City Commission at its meeting on Thursday, June 9.
“I think so. We are working through the contract,” Whitson said. “I'm very hopeful.”
Whitson said the Flagler Beach show would be 19 to 20 minutes long, which is about the same amount of time as past shows.
He said he went to Green Cove Springs over Memorial Day weekend to see North Florida Pyrotechnics' show there.
“It was very nice,” Whitson said.
Flagler Beach, Palm Coast clash over competing fireworks shows
The uncertainty about the Flagler Beach show comes after the city and Palm Coast clashed over competing fireworks shows earlier this year.
Palm Coast had initially proposed moving its show to July Fourth, the same night as Flagler Beach. But Palm Coast decided against the change after Flagler Beach objected and the sheriff’s office said it would be stretched too thin trying to provide security for two shows on the same night.
Palm Coast will instead hold its show, "Fireworks over the Runways," on July 3 at the Flagler Executive Airport. Fireworks by Santore will be paid $25,000 from the Flagler County Tourist Development Council. The 20-minute display will start at 9 p.m. and include "more than 1,000 exploding shells and a jaw-dropping finale," according to the city.
'Operationally, they dropped the ball'
Scott Spradley, a Flagler Beach attorney and resident who chaired the city’s Ad-Hoc Fourth of July Findings Committee, said it’s a red flag for him that Allen has had the fireworks contract for more than two weeks and has not signed it.
The contract calls for Allen to be paid $12,000 seven days after he provides the city proof of $5 million insurance coverage with Allen receiving the other $12,000 after the July Fourth show.
Spradley said the Flagler Beach City Commission approved on Jan. 13 having the fireworks show. But on April 20, the city discovered that no one had called Santore. By then it was too late.
“Operationally, they dropped the ball,” Spradley said. “It's not the City Commission’s fault.”
Spradley said that Allen at first stated during a special meeting on May 9 that he could do a show for $24,000. But three days later at a regular meeting the city manager said that Allen had decided he could not do the show for $24,000, but instead offered to do it for $60,000 in partnership with another company.
Spradley said he suggested the city look for a new vendor but the city stuck with Allen.
Spradley said the city is now about to approve a contract with Allen even though he previously said he could not do the fireworks show unless he partnered with another company and was paid a lot more.
And Spradley said with Fourth of July fast approaching, there's essentially no time to find someone else.
Insurance increased
Allen said in an interview on Thursday that the city sent him a draft contract and he said he made some minor changes, signed it and sent it back.
“It’s signed on my end,” he said.
Allen also runs Island Outdoor Management, which offers residential and commercial lawn care service. He also said he has roadside fireworks stands.
Allen said that he is in the middle of increasing his insurance coverage from $2 million to $5 million to satisfy Flagler Beach’s requirement for higher insurance coverage.
Allen said he has also been busy with two fireworks shows, one at the Palatka Blue Crab Festival and another at Memorial Day River Fest in Green Cove Springs.
Even though Allen had asked for $60,000 to perform a show equal to that of Santore's, he said he still plans to put on a memorable but different show for $24,000. He said the show would run from 19 to 20 minutes.
But he declined to go into any specifics other than to say people will not be disappointed.
“What we can expect is something that is going to be dramatically different than what has been done in the past," Allen said. "I'm not saying it’s going to be less. I'm just saying it’s going to be dramatically different.” | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/06/03/flagler-beach-has-yet-secure-fireworks-fourth-july-display/7495772001/ | 2022-06-03T20:39:12 | 0 | https://www.news-journalonline.com/story/news/local/flagler/2022/06/03/flagler-beach-has-yet-secure-fireworks-fourth-july-display/7495772001/ |
Judge: West Volusia Hospital Authority must pay Volusia County $2.5 million for Medicaid
A judge on Thursday ordered the West Volusia Hospital Authority to pay Volusia County nearly $2.5 million, its share of a Medicaid bill.
The hospital authority, one of three in the county, taxes residents to help pay for indigent health care. For decades it has also contributed a share in the cost of Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for people with limited resources. About 19% of Volusia County's residents have Medicaid.
In a lawsuit brought by the County Council in February, county attorneys argued the authority taxed West Volusia property owners and included the Medicaid payment in its budget, yet refused to honor a state mandate that it "must furnish its share" to the county.
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Volusia and the other 66 Florida counties are on the hook for a portion of the state's Medicaid burden. The county and its three hospital authorities, which also include Halifax Hospital and Southeast Volusia, have made these payments since 1972.
The West Volusia Hospital Authority had, for years, owned the Orange City hospital now known as AdventHealth Fish Memorial. But in 2020, a 20-year sale agreement terminated, leaving authority officials to argue that the authority no longer has ownership of a hospital that directly receives millions in Medicaid payments, so they should owe nothing.
"By contrast, Halifax and Southeast Volusia own or operate hospitals and related facilities that receive nearly $300 million in Medicaid revenue each year," attorney John Mullen argued in a motion to dismiss the county's complaint. "It makes sense for Volusia County to assess a portion of its Medicaid Match allocation to those districts, which can easily afford to pay their portion of the county out of the Medicaid funds those hospitals and related services receive."
Mullen argued the new allocation is an "unfairly heavy burden" on West Volusia taxpayers, who are generating nearly $19 million to help pay for indigent health care.
Neither the Halifax nor Southeast Volusia authorities assess their taxpayers anywhere near what is required to pay for the county's Medicaid Match assessment and other health care operational expenses, Mullen argued.
In a request to Volusia Circuit Judge Kathryn Weston to order the hospital authority to pay, county lawyers also said the authority is required to make any appeal to the state's Department of Financial Services.
The authority's attorneys made a motion to dismiss the county's suit. Weston denied that motion and granted the county's writ of mandamus.
Medicaid usage tracking changed in Volusia County
In recent years, the county has used average Medicaid usage in each district using data from 2010 to 2014 to determine the portions each hospital authority must contribute. But the county decided to update each hospital authority's financial responsibility based on 2021 Agency for Health Care Administration figures, the Medicaid enrollment population by ZIP code.
West Volusia's share grew from 39% to 47%, surpassing Halifax's portion. The county itself contributes about 21%.
However, the county agreed to incrementally increase the West Volusia Hospital Authority's portion over a five-year period, requiring it pay a little more than 41% in 2021-22.
Mullen, the Tampa attorney who represents the West Volusia Hospital Authority, did not respond to a request for comment Friday.
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VACAVILLE, Calif. — California Highway Patrol says a fatal traffic collision happened on Westbound I-80 near Vacaville on Friday morning. ABC7 in the Bay Area has confirmed the person hit and killed was a Caltrans employee.
CHP-Solano says Westbound I-80 at Lagoon Valley Road is currently closed due to the accident. ABC10 has reached out for more information.
CHP is asking drivers to avoid the area and use alternate routes. The Vacaville Police Department says there is no estimated time of reopening.
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Shrinking bathing suits shocked Rehoboth's staid old residents in '20s: History
“The women of Rehoboth, particularly those of the younger set,’ the Newark Post, reported on Aug. 6, 1919, “are enjoying perfect freedom as to their dress on the beach.
"Whether in bare knees or without stockings … there is no policeman or other minion of the law to shoo them off, or tell them to be more careful the next time they come out to bathe. They feel relieved at being able to go out on the beach in any manner of clothes they happen to have without the approval of the police.”
In the late 19th century, when people first began to flock to the Delaware coast to enjoy a dip in the ocean, few people owned specialized clothing for a splash in the surf.
The first early ocean bathers entered the water wearing garments adapted from their everyday clothes. Men and women wore bathing attire that covered the torso and extended to the elbows and knees. Women also wore bloomers, stockings, slippers and hats.
Such beachwear made it nearly impossible to move about in the water, much less swim.
As the popularity of splashing in the surf grew, bathing suits began to shrink, and some people were shocked at what they considered scandalous beach attire.
In the early 20th century, some vacationers at Rehoboth were pushing the bounds of the accepted standards of modesty, and in 1905, the resort’s commissioners decreed that it was illegal, “for any person to bathe in the ocean unless clad in a bathing suit which shall cover the body from the shoulders to the knees.” Such suits were to be, “of material of suitable texture not to appear vulgar when wet.”
After World War I ended in 1918, American soldiers who had served in Europe returned home with stories of women dressed in scandalous outfits on French beaches; and soon American women were adopting abbreviated swimwear that would have shocked their parents.
According to the Newark Post, “The [Rehoboth] town commissioners some time ago, hired a policeman who tried to regulate the style of women’s bathing suits. He got into serious trouble in a short time and finally resigned.
"This idea of bare legs is approved on other states, particularly in the West, and Rehoboth, if one is to judge the beach by the style as worn by the bathers, is now like the resorts of California.
"One Western woman said here yesterday that it requires only a little experience to show how much better it is to go in swimming or lolling in the ocean when not burdened by a lot of unnecessary clothing.”
By 1921, the Roaring ‘20s were well underway, and the Wilmington Evening Journal reported on July 2, 1921, “This year bathing costumes are prettier than ever — and each season styles grow more practical. Some people frown and protest they grow more immodest with each succeeding season; these are the folk who held up their hands in horror when tunic and trunk swimming suits began to be worn by women, four or five summers ago.”
A short time later, the Evening Journal, reported on July 15,1922, “Staid old residents of Rehoboth Beach … stood agape Thursday night when one of the hotels staged a ‘bathing suit dance.’
"The guests arrived dressed for bathing and spent the evening dancing in their bathing suits. The dance was followed by a beach party, and ended with the party taking a dip in the ocean.”
The old generation may have been horrified by the beach dance and party, but there was “no policeman or other minion of the law to shoo them off.”
Principal sources
Newark Post, Aug. 6, 1919
Delaware Coast Press, April 1, 1998.
Evening Journal, July 2, 1921; July 15,1922
Rehoboth Beacon, July 15, 1899.
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Two students face charges in plot against Berlin Intermediate School classmate: Police
A 13-year-old female student brought a knife to Berlin Intermediate School on Wednesday, intending to stab a classmate, Worcester County public schools announced this morning.
The school district held a joint news conference Friday morning with Sheriff Matt Crisafulli. The two students had a "verbal altercation" on social media, he said.
The student posted a photo of a knife on Snapchat, "along with statements indicating her intent to stab the classmate," according to Crisafulli.
She brought a "fixed-blade kitchen knife" to school Wednesday morning and asked a 12-year-old classmate to "hide it near the wood line of the school so she that could stab the classmate during recess," Crisafulli said. Before the knife could be hidden, students who overheard the conversation informed staff, he said.
The knife was recovered from one of the students' backpacks, Crisafulli said.
The 13-year-old's cellphone was seized, Crisafulli said. The investigation is ongoing.
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In consultation with the state attorney, the sheriff's office has "applied" to charge both students with first-degree conspiracy to commit murder, first-degree attempted assault, first-degree conspiracy to commit assault, reckless endangering, carrying a concealed dangerous weapon and possession of a dangerous weapon on school property.
Counseling and other resources will be available to students and staff, according to Worcester County School Superintendent Lou Taylor.
Both he and Crisafulli said Friday there are no active threats to any county schools at this time.
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Trinity Episcopal's organist to retire after almost 6 decades
"Praise God with stringed instruments and organs. ... Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!" Psalm 150, authorized version
When gifted organist Marilyn Keiser retires this summer from Trinity Episcopal Church, she will complete almost six decades in such a role, an overwhelming feat of dedication and commitment to church music and its role in congregational life. She started early when her father was a Methodist minister and her mother played the piano in a very musical family. At Indiana University since 1983, she was distinguished in teaching organ and church music, but also at her parish church mentoring both organ and choral scholars.
Churches in Bloomington and as far away as Indianapolis hire students to fill out their music programs, including singers, organists and instrumentalists. Trinity's programs use 12 choral scholars, several organ scholars. This becomes an essential part of their training. Graduation means many will be leaving to pursue their careers elsewhere, but they will not forget Professor Keiser and others that mentored them.
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Vicki Schaeffer, now director of music at the St. Joseph's Old Cathedral in Oklahoma City, says her longtime mentor Keiser "is so much a part of so many people's lives, and is able to relate to all kinds of people, treating them with humility, kindness and respect." She says that Keiser is a great mentor and teacher still to her.
Christina Pier was a choral scholar under Keiser, and now is a distinguished voice professor at UNC-Charlotte. Pier says Keiser is a "female role model in my life as a musician and helped teach me how to collaborate as a soloist." She added "she is humble and kind-hearted and makes students part of her family," and she always "champions her students' successes!"
Daniel Lentz is another singer who sings her praises. Coming to IU as a graduate student, Keiser "has influenced my entire music career and given me support and encouragement to keep going." Now he has a doctorate in music, largely due to her mentorship and has sung in the Trinity choir for many years.
Another former student, Katie Burk, adds these words of appreciation: "Dr. Keiser is the consummate mentor, having always modeled the highest standards of professional behavior, musical excellence and thoughtful ministry. Her concern for others, knowledge of the church and its liturgical practices, and sense of humor made my time under her tutelage deeply helpful, musically fruitful and immensely enjoyable. She is capable of cultivating a thriving musical community in a way that is unique and exciting, The impact her ministry has had on generations of organists, singers, clergy and congregants will resound for years to come!” Burk is organ scholar at the Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon.
Keiser's programs, recordings and papers will be archived in the IU Main Wells Library, but after retiring from the organ bench, she will still be active.
With the number of church organists diminishing, she will encourage many more to follow, for "it's a calling!” she says. Her thesis on "Singing the Liturgy in Small Communities" will come in handy as she reaches out to even more church musicians to follow in her firm footsteps.
When in our music God is glorified,
It is as though the whole creation cried…
How often, making music , we have found
A new dimension in the world of sound.
As worship moved us to a more profound Alleluia!
Let every instrument be tuned for praise!
Let all rejoice who have a voice to raise!
And may God give us faith to sing always: Alleluia!
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PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. — Life can be complicated when you live on a deserted island -- especially when your boat sank last winter.
“Well, that's the thing about living on the island,” said Marty Bluewater. “It is kind of a paradise, but if something goes wrong it can go real wrong.”
Bluewater lives a life few can imagine.
It’s a life of solitude and peace in one of the most pristine parts of the Northwest -let alone the country. But right now, he’s just worried about getting back home and getting a new boat put in the water.
"It's been really inconvenient, but Joe has saved the day by bringing us over in his boat," Bluewater said, referring to a friend giving him a ride back to the island paradise that he calls “Fantasy Island.”
Bluewater is 73 years old and lives by himself on Protection Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca. In fact, he’s the only person who lives on the island.
Fifty-one years ago, Bluewater and his parents paid $7,000 for a vacation property on Protection Island. It was supposed to be huge development with 1,000 homes, but in the 1980s environmentalists stepped in and requested the island be designated a National Wildlife Refuge.
Bluewater supported that position, but his family had already purchased the land.
After a long legal battle, the family was offered a settlement and the opportunity of a lifetime. He could stay on the island forever.
“They gave the option of ‘life use,'" Bluewater said with a wide grin. "At the time I thought, life use? Whatever that means I'll take it. The fact that I'd end up the only person here, I could've never dreamed that up in a million years.”
A retired Seattle Parks worker and Woodland Park Zoo manager, Bluewater spends his days far from the rat race of city life. He cuts driftwood to burn for heat. The closest thing to a traffic jam is a flock of seagulls on an unpaved road. After more than half a century here, he is one with nature.
“Now, I just feel like I'm another one of the creatures running around,” he said. “And the way I’ve built my cabin, it feels like my little nest."
Surrounded by soaring bald eagles, noisy seabirds and seals sunning themselves on rocks, the simple life is for Bluewater.
“The big thing was when we finally got a toilet in here,” Bluewater said. “To actually flush a toilet was a big, momentous time.”
Bluewater has no electricity. Everything runs on batteries or solar power.
“What I spend on double A and triple A batteries every year is ridiculous,” Bluewater said. “Thank God for Costco.”
Bluewater's water comes from a well powered by a generator.
Propane heats that water, providing him with one of his greatest indulgences.
“I can count maybe no more than twice that I've used the inside shower,” Bluewater said, pointing to an exposed outdoor shower he built on the deck of his cabin. “I come out here in the snow. Sometimes I'll come out here in the middle of a clear, starry night and take a shower just for the heck of it.”
If his boat isn't running, friends ferry Bluewater to the mainland for supplies.
Those friends have become a critical connection to the outside world.
“I don’t get lonely,” Bluewater said. “I've got so many friends that come and go, so when I'm here by myself it's because I want to be here by myself.”
But island life does carry its concerns. Last summer a fire broke out on the island that threatened all Bluewater has worked for.
The cause remains unknown.
“It got pretty close to my cabin which would have been a total disaster and broke my heart completely,” Bluewater said.
A few years ago, Bluewater slipped and broke his ankle.
“Fortunately, my cell phone worked, so I called some people and told them what happened," Bluewater said. "I was able to make my way to the mainland and they took me to the hospital. Had it been any worse I would have had to call the Coast Guard.”
Most concerning, however, is what he sees as a natural imbalance on the island. He believes eagles are threatening the seabird population.
“That's a problem for two reasons,” Bluewater said. “Number one because you don't want the seabirds to be endangered. Seventy percent of the seabirds in Puget Sound come here to nest. Also, they broke a lot of hearts and took away this land from a lot of people to preserve this as a seabird sanctuary. So, you can't let the eagles destroy that, as much as we all love eagles.”
Bluewater lets everyone know he's at home at his cabin when he flies three giant multi-colored flags off the south cliff of his property.
He is the proud protector of Protection Island and will be the last human to ever live there. When he dies the island becomes the property of the federal government.
“I probably care about this island more than anybody and that will never change,” Bluewater said, wiping away a tear. “This island is so important to me for so many reasons. It has been a giant part of my life. That’s beside the point that it’s just a beautiful place to be. It’s a special piece on the earth. I just feel blessed that somehow I got to be a big part of it." | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/protection-island-washington-lone-resident/281-dd466b30-7196-43ae-b6ec-8a927e2ef480 | 2022-06-03T20:52:13 | 0 | https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/protection-island-washington-lone-resident/281-dd466b30-7196-43ae-b6ec-8a927e2ef480 |
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A local organization held a panel discussion at TheatreSquared in Fayetteville Thursday, June 2, to talk about gun safety and gun reform. This comes after several mass shootings took place in the U.S. over the past two weeks.
The main focus of the discussion, hosted by Let's Take Action, was to educate those who attended the event on gun reform and to encourage them to take action in their communities.
"This event is all about people walking away feeling like they’re confident, they’re educated, and that whenever they’re ready to take action they know exactly what organization to reach out to," said Corey Huffty, organizer of Let’s Take Action.
Huffty created this event because she believes that time is of the essence and she did not want to wait until the next mass shooting happened to take action. This event is deeper than gun reform though, she’s also a mother to a three-year-old boy and wants her child to be safe when he attends school.
"But between the incident that happened to Tulsa and it happening at elementary schools, you feel it, you feel it when you picture your child getting into a closet," she said.
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson spoke at the Capitol Thursday and called for hardening school security measures, but says he will not support any gun control legislation at the state level.
"We need to have some patience here, I really think the effort that the bipartisan group of senators is doing is important," Hutchinson said. "There are going to be looking at background checks and the thoroughness of those."
"I think it’s going to be all about everyone putting their heads together, whether you’re Republican or Democrat, a lot of people fall in the middle too… that there is common sense solutions we just have to get around a table and talk about what those solutions are," Huffty said in response to the Governor’s discussion about any gun reform legislation.
Gennie Diaz, Director of For AR People, is a gun violence survivor herself. Since her childhood incident, she says she's used that experience to move from a victim mentality to an empowerment mentality.
"But being able to reclaim that experience and then take that and turn it into action with my work and my job,” Diaz said.
Overall, the goal of the gathering was to connect and inform voters on important issues like gun control before they head to the polls.
“I think that this was the perfect opportunity to be given real information and real time and how I can turn my opinions and passions into action and I think this was the perfect first step," Erin Moody said.
The group Moms Demand Action also attended the event. On Saturday, they are hosting an event called “Wear Orange” from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Downtown Springdale at Shiloh Square to honor victims of gun violence.
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Today EPA released the long-awaited final rule to set Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) blending levels for 2021 and 2022. The solid 2022 blending level is in line with Congressional intent and the 2021 number was increased from the earlier proposal. However, in an unprecedented move, the EPA also reopened and reduced the 2020 RFS rule that was finalized in December of 2019.
“IRFA appreciates the Biden EPA getting the RFS back on track in 2022 and increasing the 2021 blending target compared to the proposal,” said Iowa Renewable Fuels Association (IRFA) Executive Director Monte Shaw. “But we also cannot ignore that today’s final rule creates uncertainty. Any of these numbers that look good today could be revised downward in the future. But we’re going to plan for the best, and today, this rule means greater use of lower-cost biofuels to help save consumers money at the pump.”
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“The Biden EPA is to be commended for restoring sanity to the refinery exemption program,” said Shaw. “These exemptions have never been justified and were simply being used to illegally undermine the RFS. We are grateful this long nightmare is over.”
2016 Remand Gallons
In a separate rule also released today, EPA addresses the D.C. Circuit Court 500 million gallon “remand.” The Court found the Obama EPA illegally reduced the 2016 conventional blend level by 500 million gallons and “remanded” the case back to EPA to restore those gallons. EPA plans to add half of those remanded gallons to the 2022 RFS level and says it will do the other half in 2023.
“For five years IRFA has been calling on EPA to address this remand and we give the Biden EPA credit for taking action, especially after four years of intransigence on this issue from the Trump EPA,” Shaw said.
Biomass-based Diesel and Advanced Biofuels
The final rule also increases the biomass-based diesel category and advanced biofuel category to a total of 5.05 billion gallons in 2021 and 5.63 billion gallons for 2022.
“We are encouraged to see EPA recognizes the growth occurring in the biodiesel and renewable diesel markets,” Shaw said. “The RFS must keep up with the increased production capacity that is coming online. After all, Congress intended the RFS to be market moving, not just reactive.”
2020, 2021 Ethanol Blend Levels Reduced
While the 2022 conventional biofuels blend level corresponds with the statutory 15 billion gallons, the rule sets the 2021 conventional level – traditionally filled by cornstarch-based ethanol – at 13.79 billion gallons, 1.2 billion gallons below the level set by Congress. The rule also reopens the finalized 2020 RFS rule to lower the conventional blend level by 2.5 billion gallons, setting it at 12.5 billion gallons.
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If you’ve ever felt like you were not happy or confident in your job, you’re not alone.
A recent survey from the firm Moneypenny showed that nearly one-third of Americans say they suffer from impostor syndrome, which the National Institutes of Health defines as “high-achieving individuals who, despite their objective successes, fail to internalize their accomplishments and have persistent self-doubt and fear of being exposed as a fraud or impostor.”
The firm surveyed 2,000 people and found that 18-24-year-olds suffered most from impostor syndrome. Forty-six percent of respondents in that age bracket reported feeling impostor syndrome at work.
Delaware and Pennsylvania ranked among the top 10 states in which people did not feel confident in their job. In Delaware, 24% of respondents reported feeling impostor syndrome, while in Pennsylvania, the number was 20%.
The state with the highest rate of people reporting impostor syndrome, meanwhile, was Florida at 31%.
Moneypenny found the following careers to be the ones with the highest rates of workers feeling impostor syndrome.
- Pharmaceutical companies (28.6%)
- Marketing, advertising and PR (25.6%)
- Social care (20.0%)
- Transport and logistics (18%)
- Energy and utilities (18%)
- Creative arts and design (18%)
- Law (17%)
- Teacher training and education (17%)
- Sales (16%)
- Engineering and manufacturing (14%)
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Both employees and can identify the problem by talking about it, said Valerie Young, co-founder of the Imposter Syndrome Institute, which bills itself as “the official provider of information, insight and tools to organizations and individuals since 1982.”
Young advised workers to reframe their self-doubt.
"Have a different approach to thoughts of failure, criticism, and become self-aware. Keep practicing your work and your thought process; keep working to change your behavior,” she said. “Confidence will be built over time. A healthy response to failure or mistakes might be more helpful in bouncing back quickly.”
The doctor advises that you keep going regardless of how you feel. “Keep practicing your work and your thought process, keep working to change your behavior. Confidence will be built over time. A healthy response to failure or mistakes might be more helpful in bouncing back quickly," Young said. | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/over-30-of-americans-suffer-from-impostor-syndrome-study-finds/3259530/ | 2022-06-03T20:56:26 | 1 | https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/over-30-of-americans-suffer-from-impostor-syndrome-study-finds/3259530/ |
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First Cancer Survivorship Walkathon hopes to raise community awareness
LSU Health Shreveport will host their inaugural Cancer Survivorship Walkathon on June 4.
This has been in the making for weeks with bi-monthly walks which have taken place at Betty Virginia Park. The walks' goals were to prepare cancer survivors for the completion of the one mile walk that is to take place Saturday.
This event has been led by a group of LSU Health Shreveport students in partnership with Feist-Weiller Cancer Center and the LSU Health Shreveport Office of Institutional Wellness.
LSU Health Shreveport said these students took action after seeing a need in the community for awareness about cancer survivorship programs.
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Over 60 cancer survivors and 65 LSU Health Shreveport students and medical professionals have signed up to participate.
The walkathon will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon in conjunction with National Cancer Survivors Day. Walkathon participants will complete four laps around the quarter-mile walking path on the LSU Health Shreveport campus.
Proceeds from the walkathon will benefit the Wellness & Integrative Medicine Program at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Feist-Weiller Cancer Center.
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Makenzie Boucher is a reporter with the Shreveport Times. Contact her at mboucher@gannett.com. | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/lsu-health-shreveport-hosts-walkathon-cancer-survivors/7500874001/ | 2022-06-03T21:02:06 | 0 | https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/lsu-health-shreveport-hosts-walkathon-cancer-survivors/7500874001/ |
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — After a two-year hiatus, the annual Big Train Show has returned to the Mini Dome.
The event kicked off at noon Friday inside the Ballad Health Athletic Center at East Tennessee State University. It will close at 6 p.m. before reopening Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The show features dozens of vendors, model train layouts, and exhibits from across the country.
This marks the event’s fifth year.
“The Big Train Show is back, and we’re happy that it is back,” said Fred Alsop, director of the George L. Carter Railroad Museum at ETSU. “We ran for four years, then COVID shut us down in 2020. And in 2021, they remodeled the place and we didn’t have this beautiful venue to get into. Now we are in year five and we’ve got more vendors, a lot of folks coming through the door, and everybody is really happy about what is going on.”
Alsop said the Big Train Show has a lot to offer, including unique and hard-to-find items for model railroaders and collectors.
“Those bits and pieces that you have been looking for and couldn’t find online, are here and you can pick them up and handle them and take them home with you,” he said. “We’ve got shirt vendors, we’ve got railroad book vendors, we’ve got some history tables that have things that are not for sale, but you can look at. Bits of memorabilia including the number board off of No. 12, the most famous Tweetsie locomotive.”
Admission is $6 per day. Children under 12 can get in for free. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/annual-big-train-show-underway-at-etsu/ | 2022-06-03T21:10:51 | 1 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/annual-big-train-show-underway-at-etsu/ |
SCOTT COUNTY, Va. (WJHL) — With a deadly mass shooting at a Texas elementary school still fresh on the minds of both parents and educators, many want to know what is being done locally to protect their kids while in class.
One Southwest Virginia school system is advancing its emergency plan, all through a team effort brainstormed and funded by community players.
In early April, Jason Wood, an investigator with the Scott County Sheriff’s Office inquired about implementing advanced first aid measures on campuses across the county.
He said the idea spurred when the department was going through its own training refresher course on the individual first aid kits they carry daily.
Wood said these kits are given to the officers placed on campuses but wondered what more could mean in the event of a true emergency.
“If something does happen, God forbid that it does, that SRO only has one kit. Enough equipment to take care of one victim,” he said.
Following this idea, he reached out to Ballad Health which immediately said they were on board.
“We feel like if our outreach results in one life saved, then we’ve done a good job,” said Dr. George Testerman, the trauma medical director at Holston Valley Medical Center.
Testerman is known as the face of this operation, taking an active role in the training process. He secured the district its own advanced first aid kits known as Stop the Bleed kits and furnished a donation through the Ballad Health Foundation to supply these kits to Scott County Schools at no cost.
Overall, it’s a donation that totals over $6,700 worth of medical supplies.
The 14 kits being donated to the system are complete with eight smaller packs that contain masks, gloves, shearing scissors, gauze, a tourniquet, and more.
It’s tools like these that could stop an uncontrolled bleed, which is something Testerman calls a preventable death.
“Somebody who has a life-threatening bleed can die in a few minutes and it may take EMS 10 minutes to get there from where they are so this is a technique that can be used on the spot by almost anyone with minimal training to stop life-threatening bleeding,” said Testerman.
Testerman led a discussion with officials within the Scott County Department of Education last week, he said the message and kits were well received.
Gate City High School Principal Scott Vermillion was one of the educators in attendance at the initial meeting.
“It got our safety supervisors thinking this would be really neat to have on hand if something were to happen,” Vermillion said.
He said it’s already being written into their emergency plan for next year and while he hopes they never have to be used, it will be reassuring to know they’re on campus.
“We plan for these things, but you just pray that something like this never happens again anywhere,” Vermillion said.
Testerman said the first step is reaching out and training educators. He said down the road, the potential to train upperclassmen is a possibility.
In the coming weeks, teachers, educators, and other faculty within the district will partake in an hour-long course learning everything they need to know about using these kits. Ballad staff will lead the training sessions.
Vermillion hopes Scott County acts as a leader for positive change when it comes to school safety and that others also consider implementing such equipment. | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/stop-the-bleed-kits-to-be-implemented-in-scott-co-schools-emergency-plans/ | 2022-06-03T21:23:44 | 0 | https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/stop-the-bleed-kits-to-be-implemented-in-scott-co-schools-emergency-plans/ |
FITZGERALD, Ga. — Ryan Duke, the man acquitted of killing Irwin County teacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead, is now facing new charges in Ben Hill County.
According to an indictment released Friday, the charges include concealing the death of another, hindering apprehension or punishment of a criminal, two counts of concealment of facts, and two counts of tampering with evidence.
The indictment alleges Duke hid Grinstead’s death off Bowen’s Mill Highway, withheld knowledge of her murder, withheld knowledge of where her body was located, and destroyed evidence with the intent to obstruct the arrest of Bo Dukes.
The new charges against Duke are the latest in a saga spanning nearly 17 years.
Just last month, he was acquitted in Irwin County on the most severe charge in the case – Grinstead's murder – and found guilty on a single charge of concealing the death of another.
The prosecution told jurors Ryan Duke was Grinstead's sole killer, while the defense heavily implied Bo Dukes was the real killer -- not Duke -- and that Duke's recorded confession to GBI agents was coerced under the influence of drugs.
Judge Bill Reinhardt ultimately sentenced Duke to 10 years, on top of the five he already served in jail.
Bo Dukes
Duke’s new charges are not dissimilar to those of Bo Dukes, who was previously convicted in Wilcox County and is set to stand trial on charges in Ben Hill in late June.
The 2019 trial in Wilcox County focused mainly on Dukes' June 2016 interview with the GBI. That interview happened in Wilcox County, which is why he faced certain charges there.
Bo Dukes was ultimately found guilty of lying to the GBI, hindering the arrest of Ryan Duke, and further concealing the death of Tara Grinstead.
A judge sentenced him to the maximum penalty of 25 years, which he's serving now.
The maximum penalty Dukes could face in his upcoming trial in Ben Hill County is also 25 years, according to DA Brad Rigby. His charges there are concealing the death of another, tampering with evidence, and hindering the apprehension or punishment of a criminal.
For complete coverage of the Grinstead case through the years, click here.
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Rain coming: What to expect in Brevard Saturday with potential tropical storm approaching
Brevard County is under a tropical storm warning ahead of the approach of the remnants of a hurricane that landed on the Pacific Coast of Mexico at the end of May.
The warning also is in effect for Osceola, Okeechobee, Martin, Indian River and St. Lucie counties and is scheduled to last through Sunday night.
With the likelihood of a tropical storm forming, Brevard was expected to face a high chance of rain over the weekend and possible flooding, officials at the National Weather Service in Melbourne said.
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Increased rainfall is likely to begin in the south or southwest of the state and spread north before pivoting over central Florida and the coast over the weekend, NWS meteorologists said.
Widespread showers and lightning are possible before the storm moves offshore Sunday into Monday. Officials warned of possible wind gusts of tropical storm force, flooding in some areas, and possible tornadoes.
Matt Volkmer, science and operations officer at NWS Melbourne, said southern parts of Brevard will likely see between 3 and 5 inches of rain over the weekend, while the northern parts may only see 2 or 3 inches at the most.
"There will be a fairly wide range (of precipitation) from the north part of the county down to the southern part of the county," Volkmer said.
The storm is coming from the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, where Hurricane Agatha made landfall May 30. With maximum winds of 110 mph, the Category 2 hurricane set a record as the "strongest May landfall on the Pacific coast of Mexico" since recordkeeping began in 1949, according to the National Hurricane Center. The Eastern Pacific hurricane season started May 15.
The track of the storm is still uncertain, with NWS officials saying that "a rare amount of uncertainty this far out remains with the forecast heading into this weekend."
They said trends between models are shifting towards a track that shows the storm is most likely to travel from southwest Florida through the Treasure Coast or slightly north of there. They warned that regardless of its specific path, poor weather was expected in Brevard County.
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Volkmer said the system was expected to develop into a tropical storm by Friday evening as it approached the southwest coast of Florida, with the latest track showing it moving over Lake Okeechobee Saturday morning.
"The model trends have been for a quicker motion of the system as it moves up across Florida (on Saturday) and with the current track, the primary hazard we're expecting from the system is rainfall," he said.
He suggested people get any loose items off their lawns or porches before the storm hits in case of strong winds, and recommended not driving in flood-prone areas.
Finch Walker is a Breaking News Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Walker at 321-290-4744 or fwalker@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @_finchwalker | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/brevard-under-tropical-storm-warning-what-expect-saturday/7496846001/ | 2022-06-03T21:35:40 | 0 | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/brevard-under-tropical-storm-warning-what-expect-saturday/7496846001/ |
Titusville deadly force case the latest in string of controversial cases to hit Brevard justice system
The arrest of a Titusville police officer this week, accused of killing a Brevard man, has been greeted with cautious optimism by many in the Black community who long have been calling for more transprency and accountability from law enforcement when it comes to policing their own.
Several shootings and deaths involving police officers and young men of color over the last few years, and a lack of prosecutions, has created a sense among many in Brevard that local families have been unable to get justice when Black men die at the hands of police or while in police custody.
“There is no sense of justice or protocol. All we’ve seen from Brevard is a lack of transparency and a lack of empathy. Many understand that to inspire trust in the community, you need to have transparency,” said Natalie Jackson, an Orlando-based civil attorney involved in a few of the cases.
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Some of the cases have drawn national attention.
In several cases over the last few years, high-profile attorney Benjamin Crump has come to Brevard, and called for a change in the handling of Brevard's cases involving use of force. Victims' family members, unlike in some other jurisdictions, are not shown bodycam videos or given opportunities for face-to-face encounters with decision-makers.
In each case, the victim's families are asking for more interaction, involvement, and sensitivity early on.
Gregory Edwards
On Dec 9, 2018, Gregory Lloyd Edwards, a 38-year-old former Army combat medic left the Brevard County Jail unconscious and unresponsive after an altercation with as many as nine corrections deputies, who punched, kneed, pepper-sprayed and tased him six times before strapping him into a restraint chair with a spit hood over his head, taser darts still in his back and pepper spray still on his face.
Edwards died the next day in a local hospital. Soon after, the Brevard County Sheriff's Office would announce his death from a "medical event' likely caused by what they said they suspected was a history of "huffing" aerosols.
Jail security footage released by the sheriff two years later after FLORIDA TODAY filed a lawsuit for the video, showed Edwards was left alone in the restraint chair without medical attention for nearly 16 minutes and can be seen struggling as if he could not breathe.
The medical examiner's office ruled the manner of death as an "accident" due to "excited delirium" with complications from a hyperactive and violent state with subsequent restraint.' An in-house investigation led the State Attorney Phil Archer to find no need to press charges against the deputies.
In the weeks afterward, the Sheriff's Office changed its policy to no longer allow a restraint chair to be used in combination with a spit hood and pepper spray. No announcement of the change was made but Sheriff Wayne Ivey suggested on radio and television that Edwards and his widow Kathleen were to blame for the tragedy.
Archer found that the Brevard deputies were "completely justified the escalation of use of force techniques to gain control." adding: "I further commend the deputies and the staff at the jail in the actions they took in attending to Mr. Edwards after it became apparent he was in distress.”
His widow, Kathleen Edwards, was initially alone in asking for answers, but was shut out of the sheriff's investigation and not allowed to see the jail security footage because the sheriff said its release could compromise jail security.
But after the death of George Floyd at police hands in Minneapolis, small protests sprang up in Brevard and grew, with people demanding the release of the jail video and an independent investigation into Edwards' death.
After the jail video was released, Sheriff Ivey continued to defend the actions of his deputies, several of whom were admonished for their handling of events in the jail the day Edwards was sent to the hospital by an unreleased internal affairs investigation.
Kathleen Edwards
Within months, Edward’s widow lost her son — born shortly after her husband’s death — in a June 2020 drowning. The investigating agency was the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.
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Within months of Kathleen Edwards filing a civil suit against the agency, the state attorney’s office moved to file a charge of aggravated manslaughter of a child against Kathleen for the death of her child. The case is still pending.
Archer issued a statement: "The death of a child is a devastating event and carries with it an emotional burden unlike any other. As a society, we understand that sense of loss, but we also charge law enforcement with the duty to determine if any abuse or neglect contributed to the death.
"The decision to prosecute is always difficult, but the evidence in this case overwhelmingly revealed that this tragedy was entirely preventable.”
Angelo Crooms and Sincere Pierce
This case involved the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and even more protests and calls for accountability and transparency.
On Nov. 13, deputies mistakenly identified a vehicle as stolen as it rode through a Cocoa neighborhood.
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The deputies initiated a traffic stop as the driver, 16-year-old Angelo Crooms, bumping rap music in his girlfriend’s car, pulled into a driveway and then backed out. A dashcam video shows the deputy – gun drawn and centered on the car – opening fire on the vehicle as Crooms slowly drove forward. Deputy Jafet Santiago-Miranda fired nearly a dozen rounds that punched through the car, killing Crooms and 18-year-old Sincere Pierce.
The Sheriff’s Office went four days without publicly acknowledging the shooting or communicating with the parents about the whereabouts of the bodies. The families watched the dashcam videos for the first time on social media and television. Weeks later, several hundred residents marched to State Road 520 and U.S. 1, waving Black Lives Matter signs and calling for an independent investigation. The crowd also surrounded a sheriff’s patrol car and rocked it for several moments.
The parents held press conferences and hired attorney Natalie Jackson to pursue a civil suit. Cynthia Green, the adopted mother of Sincere, spoke publicly that she wanted someone from the Sheriff’s Office or the state attorney’s office to personally call or meet with her about her concerns. The Sheriff’s Office also stepped up an investigation into the third passenger, who survived the shooting, filing several drug-related charges against him.
In April 2021, Archer issued a 12-page decision clearing Santiago-Miranda of any criminal wrongdoing in his use of force. While acknowledging that the shooting was a case of mistaken identity, Archer touched on the teens’ contacts with police, the media's reporting of concerns from the parents, efforts by his office to communicate with the attorneys of the families, and called publicly requested area law enforcement academies to review tactics involving shooting into moving vehicles.
Clarence Howard
Although Clarence Howard was shot to death by an off-duty Brevard County sheriff's deputy on Father's Day 2016, the case made it before a jury in May 2021.
The trial lasted four days and former Deputy Yousef Hafza was found not guilty of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the shooting that killed Howard.
Hafza, who had claimed self-defense, was charged in the case after a Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation and following protests in Melbourne weeks after the shooting calling for accountability in the case.
Hafza, in recent months, had been working to be reinstated with the Sheriff's Office.
Passion Lucas
In June 2020, a mother of six named Passion Lucas was walking along a darkened Cocoa roadway when she was fatally struck by a vehicle.
The investigation languished for months before Lucas' sister Makita Lucas put her frustrations to social media.
Cocoa police charged the driver with DUI-manslaughter, leaving the scene of a crash involving death and DUI of alcohol or drugs in connection with the death of Passion Lucas, jail records showed.
Prosecutors then decided not to charge the driver, who admitted drinking and driving, with manslaughter. Instead she is charged with a second-degree misdemeanor.
The sister raised questions again — after she and her attorney asked for face-to-face meetings with prosecutors — when the state attorney's office decided not pursue the manslaughter charge.
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A Brevard County judge, citing the state attorney’s decision not to pursue a manslaughter charge in the case, denied a motion by family members to be considered victims under state law.
“I feel the prosecutor was unsympathetic to what we were facing. They took my sister, who was the victim, who was killed, and treated her like the criminal in this case," said Makita Lucas told FLORIDA TODAY.
Alhaji Sow
On Dec. 3., an 18-year-old Florida Institute of Technology student named Alhaji Sow was shot and killed by a five-year veteran of the Melbourne Police Department.
The agency reported that Sow had been acting erratically when he appeared to lunge at the officer with a pair of scissors while in a campus dorm. Melbourne police withheld the officer's name, adding that the officer asked for victim status based on an interpretation of Marsy's law.
The family, who lives in Atlanta, continues to plead for answers nearly six months later. The state attorney's office is reviewing a Florida Department of Law Enforcement report on the shooting and could render a decision within weeks.
J.D. Gallop is a Criminal Justice/Breaking News Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Gallop at 321-917-4641 or jgallop@floridatoday.com. Twitter: @JDGallop. | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/families-hope-more-transparency-and-accountability-death-cases-involving-law-enforcement/7485663001/ | 2022-06-03T21:35:46 | 1 | https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/06/03/families-hope-more-transparency-and-accountability-death-cases-involving-law-enforcement/7485663001/ |
AUSTIN, Texas — The City of Austin is partnering with several organizations to provide information and help with the ongoing baby formula shortage to area families.
The City, facilitated by the Community Resilience Trust (CRT), will provide information regarding where families can go, details on available programs and how people can donate. Collaborating organizations include CRT, Maternal Health Equity Collaborative and several others.
On Friday, CRT and the City distributed flyers informing parents about the available resources and services.
“Right now, parents need help getting baby formula, and the City of Austin is supporting these organizations’ efforts to share information and advice at this critical time,” said Laura Patiño, City of Austin resilience officer. “While this challenge is a national one, the City has an important role in making sure our community knows what support and alternatives are out there for all.”
Parents can connect to resources by visiting CRT's website. There, visitors can see how they can get help with baby formula or learn how to donate and help.
These efforts by the city are in addition to resources provided by Austin Public Health that include assistance through Texas WIC and other local resources.
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — West Alabama Works! is partnering with DCH to host a week long virtual hiring event for those interested in working in the healthcare industry.
The event will begin June 8 and end June 15. DCH is hiring full-time and part-time positions including an immediate need for a laboratory phlebotomist and registrar. Pay will vary based on position and experience with positions able to earn up to $24 an hour.
DCH has openings in the following positions with signing bonuses included:
- Registered nurse: $18,000 signing bonus for specific units
- Patient care assistant: $1,500 signing bonus
- Nutritional services: $1,500 signing bonus
- Environmental services: $1,500 signing bonus
The virtual hiring event can be accessed here beginning June 8. | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/dch-regional-medical-center-looking-to-fill-over-100-positions/ | 2022-06-03T21:42:09 | 0 | https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/dch-regional-medical-center-looking-to-fill-over-100-positions/ |
FORT WORTH, Texas — A Fort Worth police officer has been arrested and charged in a domestic violence incident that occurred while he was off-duty, according to the department.
Fort Worth police said Victor Rucker was arrested by the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office on June 2. The Fort Worth Police Department said Rucker was placed on restricted duty and stripped of all police powers after they learned of the arrest.
"The Fort Worth Police Department holds its officers to a high standard both on and off-duty, and does not tolerate criminal misconduct or unethical behavior; therefore, a thorough investigation to collect and review the facts and the circumstances of these allegations will be conducted," the department said in a press release.
Officer Rucker has been with the department for seven years and was assigned to West Division Patrol at the time of his arrest, police said.
This comes after the recent arrest, and in one case, firing of two other Fort Worth police officers.
On May 20, Fort Worth Police Officer Mitchell Miller was fired after an investigation revealed he lied about using force against an arrested person.
Miller had arrested someone for public intoxication in January 2022 and was taking him to the Fort Worth jail, police say. As Miller was walking the arrestee toward the jail entrance, the person turned toward Miller, and Miller reacted by shoving him to the ground. It was caught on surveillance:
Fort Worth Police Corporal James Howard was placed on restricted duty following his arrest in Colorado on May 15, in an off-duty domestic violence incident. Howard has been with the department for 26 years and was assigned to the Weapons Range, police said.
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Twenty-two Cincinnati Bengals rookies visited Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Friday for a glimpse at Air Force-style teamwork and discipline.
“Hi, guys. I’m Cordell,” lineman Cordell Volson, the Bengals’ only offensive draft pick this year, told Airmen sitting down for lunch at the base USO (United Services Organizations) hall.
“I want to see another Super Bowl ring,” a captain at the 445th Airlift Wing told receiver Jaivon Heilgh, as Heilgh toured a C-17 Globemaster cargo plane on the base. (While the Los Angeles Rams beat the Bengals 23-20 in February’s Super Bowl, both teams received rings.)
“Me too,” a smiling Heilgh replied.
Col. Patrick Miller, commander of the 88th Air Base Wing and installation commander at Wright-Patterson, told the visiting players that the base, with some 32,000 military and civilian employees, is Ohio’s largest employer in one site.
But that isn’t the only attribute that makes Wright-Patterson special, Miller said.
“What makes us special is our relationship with our community,” he said. “And know that you are part of that community.”
“The Air Force as a whole is a huge team,” said Tech Sgt. Sarah Jakis, who lunched with the players. “And not just a team, but a family.”
After lunch, the rookies toured a C-17 aircraft, visited the 88th Air Base Wing Honor Guard — the busiest honor guard in the Air Force — operated the base’s Explosive Ordinance Detachment robot and wrapped up the day with an athletic skills camp for some 100 children of military members, including two of Miller’s sons.
“It’s big,” Bengals tight end and former Springboro High School player Justin Rigg said while taking in a C-17. “It’s amazing. I mean, this is the first time I’ve ever seen a plane like this up close. It’s massive, and all the things that go into it are great.”
This kind of USO event is not unusual for NFL rookies, Rigg said. “When they told us we were coming here, I was really excited because I think all of this stuff is really awesome.”
Miller told team members that he’s about to embark on the 14th move of his 24-year Air Force career. Miller, who has been confirmed for promotion to brigadier general, is leaving for Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, where he will become the director of Logistics, Engineering and Force Protection for Pacific Air Forces.
It will be the 8th move for Miller’s 11-year-old son and the 10th for his 14-year-old son, Miller said.
“For you to come out and spend some time with them today, man, this is special,” the colonel told the rookies.
Also on the agenda was a family picnic for clinic participants and families.
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CROWN POINT — Three weeks after a man was convicted of murder for shooting a man to death in 2020 inside a Gary gas station, one of his co-defendants pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.
Myles Thomas, 27, of Gary, admitted to one count of aggravated battery, a level 3 felony, in the homicide of 29-year-old Rayvon Harris on Aug. 22, 2020, inside the Save gas station in the 4500 block of Broadway.
In exchange for Thomas' plea, Lake County prosecutors agreed to dismiss a count of murder.
Rayvon Harris poses for a photo with his son, Rayvon Harris Jr.
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Thomas' co-defendant, Courtney M. Moss, 32, of Gary, was convicted by a Lake Criminal Court jury May 12 of murdering Harris, of Gary.
Thomas admitted in his plea agreement he argued with Harris, who did not have a gun, and began to hit Harris. Moss shot Harris while Thomas was striking him, court records state.
If Judge Salvador Vasquez accepts Thomas' plea agreement, he would face a sentence of three to 10 years.
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Level 3 felonies typically carry a possible penalty of three to 16 years, but prosecutors agreed to a 10-year cap. Thomas was represented by attorney James Thiros.
During Moss's trial earlier this month, Moss testified he had his 9mm handgun in his waistband as he watched Thomas and co-defendant Willie A. Jones Jr., 22, each strike Harris inside the gas station.
Moss claimed he shot Harris in self-defense, but the jury rejected his account of the shooting after watching surveillance videos.
Lake County Deputy Prosecutors Jacquelyn Altpeter and Jovanni Miramontes argued at trial the shooting was unjustified and Moss fired the shots that ultimately killed Harris.
Harris, a father of one son, died at the scene.
Jones, who was wounded in the shooting and lost a limb as a result, pleaded guilty in October to battery resulting in serious bodily injury, a level 5 felony. He testified against Moss and could face a sentence of one to six years.
A fourth co-defendant, Roy C. Akins Jr., 19, is accused of running into the gas station as the fight ended and firing an assault-style rifle at Harris.
Akins has never been arrested in the case. The U.S. Marshals Service Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force is offering a reward of up to $5,000 for information leading to his arrest. Tips can be submitted by phone at 877-926-8332 or online at USMS Tips .
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Devonne Tyler
Booking Number(s): 2204424
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Watkins
Booking Number(s): 2204441
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kirk Struven
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204437
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ken Taylor
Booking Number(s): 2204445
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Patterson III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204451
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Thomas Philpot II
Booking Number(s): 2204427
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Smith
Booking Number(s): 2204456
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kerri Olson
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204419
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Meadows III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204416
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Lewis
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
Andraya Mathis
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204420
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luke McCormick
Booking Number(s): 2204436
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
LaMarc Hall
Booking Number(s): 2204426
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Allie Hassan
Residence: Orland Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204434
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CASINO GAMBLING VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharonia Jelks
Booking Number(s): 2204440
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tracey Getter
Booking Number(s): 2204418
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Fletcher
Residence: North Judson, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204421
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Offense Description: Felony
Michael Dillard
Booking Number(s): 2204422
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cristian Anaya
Booking Number(s): 2204425
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jasper Brewer
Booking Number(s): 2204438
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Karen Church
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
Garrett Abromitis
Booking Number(s): 2204452
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - BODILY WASTE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Starr Tillis
Booking Number(s): 2204407
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Moose
Booking Number(s): 2204381
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alex Moreno
Booking Number(s): 2204393
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Miguel Payan
Booking Number(s): 2204408
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Christopher Stewart
Booking Number(s): 2204384
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Thule
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
Residence: Bowling Green, KY
Booking Number(s): 2204396
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melinda Massey
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204379
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Maldonado Collado
Booking Number(s): 2204403
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jakeem Johnson
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204414
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Lindley
Booking Number(s): 2204397
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Gleeson
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204402
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Albert Hendon
Booking Number(s): 2204388
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Zolinda Diaz
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
Arthur Ford III
Booking Number(s): 2204382
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Harry Bernstein
Booking Number(s): 2204410
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ray Weems Jr.
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
Jerry Stokes Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204349
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Limmie Lockhart III
Booking Number(s): 2204365
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Morgan Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204377
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Schweitzer
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
Darrin Slaughter
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204352
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Enedelia Hernandez
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
Robert Hudson Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204348
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Laiza Gonzalez
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
Crystal Fantasia
Booking Number(s): 2204350
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jovanni Garza
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204366
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Devonne Tyler
Booking Number(s): 2204424
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE - DEALING - SCHEDULE I, II, OR III
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Isaiah Watkins
Booking Number(s): 2204441
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kirk Struven
Residence: Crown Point, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204437
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ken Taylor
Booking Number(s): 2204445
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - INTERFERING WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT DEF. USES A VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Patterson III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204451
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING - ESCAPE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Thomas Philpot II
Booking Number(s): 2204427
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Kenneth Smith
Booking Number(s): 2204456
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Kerri Olson
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204419
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Henry Meadows III
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204416
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Dontrell Lewis
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
Andraya Mathis
Residence: Cedar Lake, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204420
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Luke McCormick
Booking Number(s): 2204436
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
LaMarc Hall
Booking Number(s): 2204426
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Allie Hassan
Residence: Orland Hills, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204434
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: CASINO GAMBLING VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Sharonia Jelks
Booking Number(s): 2204440
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Tracey Getter
Booking Number(s): 2204418
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jordan Fletcher
Residence: North Judson, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204421
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Offense Description: Felony
Michael Dillard
Booking Number(s): 2204422
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DEALING - COCAINE OR NARCOTIC DRUG
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Cristian Anaya
Booking Number(s): 2204425
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Jasper Brewer
Booking Number(s): 2204438
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Karen Church
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
Garrett Abromitis
Booking Number(s): 2204452
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Offense Description: BATTERY - SIMPLE - BODILY WASTE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Starr Tillis
Booking Number(s): 2204407
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Daniel Moose
Booking Number(s): 2204381
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - FORCIBLY RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Alex Moreno
Booking Number(s): 2204393
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: BURGLARY - PROPERTY - RESIDENTIAL ENTRY - BREAKING AND ENTERING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Miguel Payan
Booking Number(s): 2204408
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: OWI; DOMESTIC BATTERY - SIMPLE
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanors
Christopher Stewart
Booking Number(s): 2204384
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: INTIMIDATION
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Patrick Thule
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
Residence: Bowling Green, KY
Booking Number(s): 2204396
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Melinda Massey
Residence: Valparaiso, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204379
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - METHAMPHETAMINE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jose Maldonado Collado
Booking Number(s): 2204403
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jakeem Johnson
Residence: Blue Island, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204414
Arrest Date: May 24, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Brian Lindley
Booking Number(s): 2204397
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Brian Gleeson
Residence: East Chicago, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204402
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Albert Hendon
Booking Number(s): 2204388
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Zolinda Diaz
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
Arthur Ford III
Booking Number(s): 2204382
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: NEGLECT OF DEPENDANT/CHILD VIOLATIONS
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Harry Bernstein
Booking Number(s): 2204410
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Ray Weems Jr.
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
Jerry Stokes Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204349
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: MOTOR VEHICLE THEFT
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Limmie Lockhart III
Booking Number(s): 2204365
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: RESISTING LAW ENFORCEMENT - VEHICLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jeffery Morgan Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204377
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Offense Description: THEFT - PROPERTY - SIMPLE - $750 TO $50,000
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Christopher Schweitzer
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
Darrin Slaughter
Residence: Calumet City, IL
Booking Number(s): 2204352
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Misdemeanor
Enedelia Hernandez
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
Robert Hudson Jr.
Booking Number(s): 2204348
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION - FIREARM - BY A SERIOUS VIOLENT FELON
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Laiza Gonzalez
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
Crystal Fantasia
Booking Number(s): 2204350
Arrest Date: May 22, 2022
Offense Description: POSSESSION HYPODERMIC SYRINGE OR NEEDLE
Highest Offense Class: Felony
Jovanni Garza
Residence: Merrillville, IN
Booking Number(s): 2204366
Arrest Date: May 23, 2022
Highest Offense Class: Felony
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A man released from prison after being convicted for robbing a bank decided to rob another bank Thursday, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
Timothy Jones, 59, was released from prison Wednesday after serving an eight-year prison sentence for a 2013 bank robbery, deputies said.
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Deputies said the day after his release, Jones became wanted for an armed bank robbery and carjacking in Orlando.
According to deputies, a man identified as Jones walked into the Truist Bank at 11200 S. Orange Blossom Trail, implied that he had a gun and demanded $150,000 in cash. Afterward, deputies said he forcibly took a car — a dark-gray 2014 Toyota Camry — and fled the area.
Deputies stated Jones was last seen wearing a blue short-sleeved polo shirt, blue cargo shorts and white socks.
The department is asking for anyone with information on Jones’ whereabouts to contact the sheriff’s office. They said Jones may have left the car and could be traveling by bus. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/bank-robber-released-from-prison-robs-bank-next-day-deputies-say/ | 2022-06-03T22:08:27 | 1 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/bank-robber-released-from-prison-robs-bank-next-day-deputies-say/ |
UMATILLA, Fla. – A Umatilla teen who was once in a coma and suffered a traumatic brain injury took the most memorable steps of her life, even though doctors said she would never walk again.
Graduating from high school is a huge accomplishment on its own. For Kayla Johnson, this moment meant more than receiving her diploma.
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“Ever since freshman year I said I’m going to walk graduation day, whenever I graduate,” Kayla Johnson said.
The 18-year-old said she always knew the day would come despite the challenges she faced.
“You hope, but you also didn’t want her to get her hopes too high ‘cause you don’t know the outcome,” her father Cliff Johnson said.
Cliff Johnson said he remembers the day their lives changed forever.
In October 2017, he and his daughter were riding in a truck offroad through a muddy area. A hitch pulled apart, smashed into the back of their truck, and hit Kayla in the head.
The impact fractured her skull.
Doctors performed emergency brain surgery and placed her in a medically-induced coma for two months, but feared she wouldn’t survive.
“Anybody that knows Kayla, she’s too stubborn to give up. She’ll do it and she has. She has beat the odds,” Cliff Johnson said.
Kayla continued to overcome obstacles and defy her doctors, who told her she wouldn’t breathe or eat on her own and she wouldn’t walk again.
“Every time she’s told she can’t do something she proves them wrong,” Cliff Johnson said.
She spent the last four years recovering from her traumatic brain injury by undergoing intense rehab while still keeping up with her studies at Umatilla High School
“I took a lot of naps during the day and plus I had homework and it was a lot,” she said.
All of her hard work led up to graduation day, where Kayla surprised her fellow graduates by using a walker to cross the stage and receive her diploma.
The audience gave her a standing ovation.
“That’s a proud moment in life, that’s something you can’t take away,” Cliff Johnson said.
Kayla said she wants to become a motivational speaker and hopes sharing her story will inspire others. She said she’s taking a year off from school to focus on her walking.
“My next goal after the walker, I’m going to be walking with a cane,” she said. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/beat-the-odds-teen-walks-at-graduation-after-mudding-accident-put-her-in-a-wheelchair/ | 2022-06-03T22:08:33 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/beat-the-odds-teen-walks-at-graduation-after-mudding-accident-put-her-in-a-wheelchair/ |
Fifteen-year-old Tabreah Mills is one of nearly 2,000 Central Florida teens who will take their first step toward a college education and job training this summer.
Mills recently signed up for the Explore Summer Youth Program, one of three offered by CareerSource Central Florida or CSCF.
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The four to five week sessions allow teens a chance to tour colleges, get real job training and earn up to a $1,000 stipend.
The Experience program gives teens ages 16 to 19 a 30-hour a week paid internship and the Accelerate program offers specialized training with area colleges.
Mills, who will enter Jones High School as a sophomore this fall, hopes to pursue a career in child psychology.
“This is a new step in my life and I want to know what it’s about, she told News 6.
Nilda Blanco, vice president of service delivery for CSCF, said the organization is committed to develop employment opportunities for both teens and adults.
“We’re still seeing our 16- to 24-year-olds not completely engaged‚” Blanco said. “There’s great opportunities for them.”
Adults ready to transition to a new employment opportunity will have plenty of options this summer as well.
Instant interviews, hiring and job training are all on the table this summer.
Next week, there are three recruitment events with Sonny’s BBQ, Coca-Cola Beverages Florida and Embraer Executive Aircraft Inc.
Both Coke and Embraer will have events at the Southeast Career Center on 5784 South Semoran Blvd.
Embraer will hold interviews from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on June 7 and Coca-Cola Beverages Florida will hold interviews between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on June 8.
Sonny’s BBQ will host a hiring event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on June 9 at the career center located inside West Oaks Mall on West Colonial Drive.
Blanco told News 6 that CSCF is also investigating gaps between job openings and the current talent pool in Central Florida.
“We can think strategically about (job gaps) for training,” Blanco said. “Do we have training or do we need to create training?”
Blanco said the best way to connect with a career consultant is to set up a virtual or in-person appointment through the website at www.CareerSourceCentralFlorida.com.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – More than $36 million in unclaimed property was returned to Floridians last month, the state’s Chief Financial Officer and Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis announced Friday.
The funds, garnered from unclaimed, unknown, lost or inactive property during the month of May, include $5.4 million set aside for residents in the Orlando area.
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Patronis said the Division of Unclaimed Property returned more than $368 million to Floridians in the last fiscal year and more than $1.6 billion since 2017.
“I have made it my mission as Florida’s CFO to return every last cent back to Floridians and my Unclaimed Property team works hard every day to ensure that happens. With still a month left in the Fiscal Year, we have already broken our annual record by returning more than $368 million to the pockets of Floridians. There is still more than $2 billion just waiting to be claimed and it only takes a few minutes to search with absolutely no cost to you. Now is the perfect time to search our website and discover if there are any unclaimed treasures in your name. Search now for yourself, your friends, your loved ones, and even your business at FLTreasureHunt.gov. It’s your money, claim it now!” Patronis said in a news release.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Zebra Coalition, which helps homeless youth members of the LGBTQ community, said it’s now been two years in a row that they’ve missed out on critical funding from the state budget.
“I would ask the Governor what his plan is to reduce homelessness, particularly among our youth, considering that the support isn’t there for organizations like Zebra Coalition,” Heather Wilkie asked.
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Wilkie worked with Zebra Coalition and said that’s one of the many questions she has for Gov. Ron DeSantis.
This reaction comes after the governor vetoed $500,000 set to go toward the LGBTQ-youth advocacy group out of the state budget.
“It hurts,” said Wilkie, “It stings when you try for two years to get funding that’s really just here to provide a resource to this community that is needed for these kids.”
This is now the second time the governor has denied Zebra Coalition funding
News 6 spoke to Wilkie last year, after $750,000 was denied at that time.
The money was set to renovate the Davis Park Motel off East Colonial.
The project is still delayed, but has the potential to house 35-homeless LGBTQ youth.
“We are still having conversations about the project... it’s still in the works,” Wilkie said.
Wilkie said the need for more housing is high, saying they have a growing wait list of young people who need a place to stay.
“We talk a lot about affordable housing, but for a young person to obtain a job, be able to make enough money to afford a place to live.. and it becomes such a struggle that we have an increase in youth experiencing homelessness,” said Wilkie.
Wilkie says all hope is not lost saying other organizations have stepped in to help.
Disney is one such organization, announcing a $500,000 donation this week.
Another organization, Gay Days, which holds an annual event held at the parks celebrating the LGBTQ community, is also chipping in to help.
“This year, we were able to partner with seven organizations across the country to receive proceeds from the Disney merchandise, which is huge,” Wilkie said.
News 6 asked the governor’s office about why the funding for Zebra Coalition was denied twice in a row.
The office said they will not talk about a specific line-item veto but said in a statement that the decision was made out of fiscal — and not malicious — consideration.
“I did set a limit. I was not going to go above $110 billion. We worked with the legislators. There were some legislators [to whom I said], “Hey, I’ve got three projects on the [veto] list. I can give you one, what do you want?” And then sometimes they would choose some of the things where [it would affect] more municipalities. You know, we didn’t [fund] a lot of fire [related items] for the municipalities. The reason is just simply, if I do one, then I have to [fund them] all throughout the state. It’s [a matter of] just trying to prioritize… There are a lot of different factors, but just because something was vetoed does not necessarily mean it didn’t have any merit. We were just not going go above a certain amount. And the result of this is that, in Florida, we have record [budget] reserves. When I came into office, the rainy-day fund, I think, was about $1.3 billion. It’s now a record $3.1 billion.”
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dispatchers in Volusia County can now see an emergency in real time using a video 911 system the sheriff’s office unveiled this week.
Sheriff Mike Chitwood said they’re just starting to use it and an incident on Thursday is a great example of when Volusia residents would need it.
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Witnesses driving on I-4 Thursday afternoon called 911 and took video of a minivan that was swerving into the shoulder, the other lane, and even the median.
“The motorists actually slowed down to prevent any cars from going near him as they were calling 911 and filming it,” said Chitwood.
The sheriff said deputies arrested the driver on DUI charges, and witnesses sent their videos that they recorded to investigators afterward.
“I want to use this as an opportunity to hammer home on a new technology that we just started using a week ago called Carbyne,” he said.
Assistant communications director Glenn Lopez said it starts with a typical 911 phone call and if it’s an active situation, the dispatcher can engage a video call.
“I get a text message that has a link and I click the link which is giving permission for the video to be sent to the comm center,” said Lopez.
It’s as easy as pulling up the camera on your phone once they send you that link, the dispatcher is then able to see exactly what you’re seeing.
“We can then take whatever video we are seeing and we put that into our cad call and then the officer in the field can see the video as well,” said Lopez.
The hope is it will give first responders a look at what they’re heading into and dispatchers a better read on a situation. Lopez said the goal is to use it in in-progress situations, like a reckless driver or a fire.
“It could even be an active shooter situation. If somebody’s in a safe place and they don’t want to talk they could actually shoot video for us,” he said. | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/volusia-dispatchers-start-using-video-911-system/ | 2022-06-03T22:08:58 | 0 | https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/06/03/volusia-dispatchers-start-using-video-911-system/ |
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First responders are working the scene of a major crash on Interstate 55 southbound that has blocked all traffic, authorities said.
Illinois State Police said officers responded shortly before 4 p.m. to a three-vehicle crash near mile marker 151, which is south of Shirley.
All southbound lanes were immediately closed to allow for an investigation, and traffic was diverted off at Exit 154, police said.
State police said injuries were unknown. But the Normal Fire Department in a social media post said the crash involved entrapped people.
The fire department also said the crash took place in a construction zone.
A reporter at the scene said traffic was backed up at least two miles as of 4:45 p.m.
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BLOOMINGTON — McLean County is now at a high community level for COVID-19, meaning there is potential strain on the health care system, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On Friday, the McLean County Health Department reported 495 new cases since May 27, and 15 hospital admissions between May 25 and May 31. That translates to a case rate of 298.51 per 100,000 people between May 26 and June 1
The county is considered to be at a high COVID-19 community level based on CDC measures of new cases per 100,000 people, admissions per 100,000, and the percentage of hospital beds used for COVID-19 patients.
With 96 cases, people in their 20s represent a majority of new cases this past week, followed by 86 cases among people in their 30s, 75 cases among those in their 40s, and another 75 among those in their 50s.
The health department did report three new COVID-19 deaths last week, bringing the total number of deaths to 377. The new deaths included a man in his 80s and a man in his 90s (one of whom was associated with long-term care), and a woman in her 70s who was not associated with long-term care.
There have been 54,074 total COVID-19 cases in the county to date.
On May 27, MCHD reported 655 new cases in the week prior, and 16 hospitalizations.
At a high community level, the CDC recommends wearing a well-fitted mask indoors in public, regardless of vaccination status and especially for those who are immunocompromised or at high risk for severe disease.
A "low" designation would require fewer than 200 new cases per 100,000 people, fewer than 10 new hospital admissions per 100,000 population, and less than 10% of staffed inpatient beds being used by COVID-19 patients.
Statewide, the Illinois Department of Public Health of Friday reported 32,605 new cases of COVID-19 since May 27, along with 47 COVID-related deaths. There are 19 counties in the state at a high community level and 31 at a medium community level.
The counties a high community level include Fulton, Knox, Logan, Mason, McLean, Menard, Peoria, Sangamon, Tazewell and Woodford in Central Illinois and Cook, DuPage, Lake, McHenry, Will, Boone, Lee, Stephenson, and Winnebago in northern Illinois.
IDPH and MCHD continue to encourage people to keep up with their COVID-19 vaccinations. Primary vaccinations, along with first and second boosters for those who qualify, are offered through MCHD. Adults can schedule a vaccination with MCHD by calling 309-888-5435; children's appointments can be made by calling 309-888-5455. Other vaccine locations can be found at vaccines.gov.
In McLean County, 62.73% of the population is fully vaccinated, compared to 64.98% statewide, MCHD's update said.
MCHD is now offering COVID-19 testing clinics at the McLean County Customer Service Center in downtown Bloomington, on East Street between Front and Washington streets. Residents can register on site, or online in advance at health.mcleancountyil.gov/735/COVID-19-Local-Testing-Options.
The next testing clinics are scheduled for Tuesday, June 7, and Wednesday, June 8, from 9 a.m. to noon.
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A boat that caught fire Saturday afternoon, injuring 14 occupants and one marina worker, remains in the Illinois River in Seneca, Illinois State Police said.
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BOISE, Idaho — The U.S. Forest Service violated environmental laws in approving exploratory drilling by a Canadian company hoping to build a gold mine in Idaho west of Yellowstone National Park, two environmental groups say.
The Idaho Conservation League and Greater Yellowstone Coalition filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court last week to stop Excellon Idaho Gold’s Kilgore Gold Exploration Project in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Clark County, Idaho.
Excellon Idaho Gold is a subsidiary of Toronto, Ontario-based Excellon Resources Inc. It acquired the project from British Columbia-based Otis Gold Corporation in 2020.
The environmental groups filed a similar lawsuit in 2018 to stop exploratory drilling and won. The U.S. Forest Service in November of 2021 approved a new plan involving road building and 130 drill stations.
The groups in the new lawsuit said the U.S. Forest Service opted to approve the project by applying an executive order by former President Donald Trump accelerating the environmental review process, leading the Forest Service to ignore likely significant effects of the drilling.
The groups also said the Forest Service should complete an environmental impact statement, a much longer review process.
The U.S. Department of Justice, which defends federal agencies in lawsuits, didn't immediately respond to an inquiry sent through its online portal.
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BOISE, Idaho — Each year in the United States, the first Friday of June marks National Doughnut Day. The sweet holiday celebration started during World War I.
In 1917, around 250 volunteers with The Salvation Army served American troops on the front lines in France with necessities, such as clothes. The volunteers also boosted troops' morale with sweet treats, like doughnuts.
The volunteers were eventually known as "Donut Lassies." In honor of the Donut Lassies, The Salvation Army established National Doughnut Day with its first celebration in Chicago in 1938.
Fast forward to 2022 and the organization continues to celebrate National Doughnut Day.
On Friday, The Salvation Army stopped by the Boise VA Medical Center to thank veterans with the sweet treat.
"Veterans give so much of their time and energy and so many sacrifices have been made and it's just something small that we can do to thank them for their time and service," Director of Development for The Salvation Army Boise Corps, Lindsay Klein said.
While they may not technically serve doughnuts in the trenches Friday, The Salvation Army continues to serve the community with a wide range of social services, including food for those facing hunger.
According to The Salvation Army's website, the Donut Lassies are "credited with popularizing the donut in the United States after the troops (commonly known as “doughboys”) came back from fighting in Europe."
The Donut Lassies' original doughnut recipe is available on the organization's website. To learn more about the holiday's history and the doughnut recipe, click here.
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VINTON COUNTY, OH (WOWK) – No one was injured when a firearm was discharged during a fight in a store parking lot in Vinton County thanks to bystanders who intervened.
According to the Vinton County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the Family Dollar in Wilkesville on June 2, 2022 regarding the incident.
Deputies say the suspect and another individual had allegedly gotten into a fight in the store’s parking lot. The VCSO says during the alleged fight, the suspect, identified by deputies as Shane Bryant, 46, of Wilkesville, allegedly attempted to draw a pistol.
According to deputies, as Bryant allegedly tried to draw a pistol, bystanders intervened and subdued him and took away the firearm. Deputies say Bryant was allegedly able to fire one shot before he was restrained, but no one was struck by the bullet. The VCSO says one of the bystanders involved was also a licensed CCW card holder who did have their own firearm with them.
The sheriff’s office says Bryant did leave the scene before deputies arrived, but he was apprehended quickly and taken to a hospital to be treated for minor injuries. He was then taken to the Southeastern Ohio Regional Jail.
The case was sent to the Vinton County Prosecuting Attorney for review, and a bond hearing is expected to take place in the near future, deputies say. | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/bystanders-stop-man-who-drew-pistol-in-vinton-county-parking-lot-fight/ | 2022-06-03T22:15:29 | 1 | https://www.wowktv.com/news/local/bystanders-stop-man-who-drew-pistol-in-vinton-county-parking-lot-fight/ |
SOUTH CHARLESTON, WV (WOWK) — The South Charleston City Council unanimously passed the first reading of a franchise agreement on Thursday to allow CAS Cable to serve residents. The council will vote to adopt the bill during their next meeting.
For years, Suddenlink has been the only cable option for South Charleston-area citizens. Mayor Frank Mullens said bringing in a new cable system is about giving people options.
“The great thing that does for our community is it gives our citizens options,” Mullens said. “There’s no longer a monopoly on the market.”
Mullens said the unanimous vote comes after years-long displeasure with Suddenlink.
“There’s been a lot of displeasure, and quite frankly, I’ve experienced it myself,” Mullens said. “Their customer service definitely needs to be improved for sure.”
The City Council voted on a 15-year deal with CAS as well as a five-year deal with Suddenlink. Mullens said CAS is already established in Parkersburg and other West Virginia areas.
Mullens said the vote is only the beginning of an effort in South Charleston to expand cable options for residents. Currently, the city is about 30% through the infrastructure phase of a broadband buildout with fiber-optic network options on the way for citizens.
“The fiber will be running through our communities, into our subdivisions, into our neighborhoods, and people have another option to use,” Mullens said.
The fiber-optic network will be leased out to providers offering internet and television streaming services.
Mullens said he constantly hears questions about expanding broadband in South Charleston, something City Council is committed to continue exploring.
“I think people are chomping at the bit for options when it comes to their cable TV and their WiFi services and broadband services, and that’s what we’re bringing to them,” Mullens said.
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JACKSON, Calif. — An Amador County Sheriff candidate, and current sergeant, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation by an outside agency, the Amador County Sheriff's Office says.
According to Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe, the sheriff's office asked the district attorney's office to conduct an investigation into Sergeant Ryan Gillaspie due to "potentially criminal misconduct," according to a statement released by Riebe.
Neither the sheriff's office nor the district attorney's office would describe the nature of the allegations or the investigation and both offices declined requests for an interview Friday.
The incident under investigation allegedly happened on May 2 and an Amador County resident called the sheriff's office to report it on May 25, according to a press release issued by the Amador County Sheriff's Office.
Sergeant Ryan Gillaspie, running against incumbent Sheriff Garry Redman and candidate Patrick Weart, also released a statement Friday detailing information that he says is the basis of the investigation.
"The incident involved an accidental discharge of a taser device during a goodwill demonstration to youth with a curiosity in law enforcement," the statement says. "Shortly after the incident, and on multiple occasions since then, both the youth and the family have stated, to multiple adults familiar with the incident, that there was no injury and indeed, no concerns."
Gillaspie was placed on leave on May 30. In their statement, the sheriff's office said that the administrative leave is not disciplinary and will not be viewed as adverse to Gillaspie's record.
"This investigation is in no way politically motivated, but rather required consistent with our policies and procedures," the statement says. "Based upon the severity of the allegations, and the preliminary evidence available, the decision was made to place Sergeant Gillaspie on paid administrative leave pending the conclusion of the investigation."
The investigation is now in the hands of the California Attorney General's Office, District Attorney Riebe says.
"I have publicly endorsed Sheriff Gary Redman in the upcoming election. Many employees from my office publicly or privately support one of the three candidates for Amador Sheriff," Riebe said in a statement. "In order for the public to have confidence in the outcome, I contacted an outside criminal justice agency to conduct the investigation and forward their report to me when completed."
Riebe says the California Attorney General's Office will handle the case to completion if they determine a conflict of interest exists.
On Tuesday, voters in Amador County will cast ballots in the race for County Sheriff. The top two candidates will advance to the General Election in November unless a candidate is elected to the position Tuesday by getting more than 50% of the votes. | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/amador-sheriff-candidate-placed-on-leave/103-7534f133-a296-477c-b92c-a5887365bed0 | 2022-06-03T22:24:44 | 0 | https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/amador-sheriff-candidate-placed-on-leave/103-7534f133-a296-477c-b92c-a5887365bed0 |
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