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Attorney General Miyares urges TikTok, Snapchat to give parents more control
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Attorney General Jason Miyares joins 43 other attorneys general in urging TikTok and Snapchat to give parents more control.
They’re asking the apps to give parents the ability to monitor children’s social media usage. In the bi-partisan letter - they say these apps are being used for bullying, discussions of self-harm or to find sexual content.
In a press release, Miyares addressed this ongoing issue.
“Parental control apps would allow parents to ensure their children are staying safe in an increasingly dangerous digital world,” Miyares said.
The letter acknowledges moderation already put in place - but says those are not enough to protect children.
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Biden planning to tap oil reserve to control gas prices
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is preparing to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve, according to a person familiar with the decision, in a bid to control energy prices that have spiked as the U.S. and allies have imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
The announcement could come as soon as Thursday, when the White House says Biden is planning to deliver remarks on his administration’s plans to combat rising gas prices. The duration of the release hasn’t been finalized but could last for several months. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the decision.
News of the administration’s planning was first reported by Bloomberg.
High oil prices have not coaxed more production, creating a challenge for Biden. The president has seen his popularity sink as inflation reached a 40-year high in February and the cost of petroleum and gasoline climbed after Russia invaded Ukraine. Crude oil on Wednesday traded at nearly $105 a barrel, up from about $60 a year ago.
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Body of 18-year-old abducted from Walmart parking lot found
FERNLEY, Nev. (KOLO/Gray) - Authorities in Nevada recovered the body of 18-year-old Naomi Irion, who was abducted from a Walmart parking lot more than two weeks ago, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Churchill County Sheriff’s Office confirmed recovery of Irion’s body Wednesday night. A tip led them to a gravesite in a remote part of Churchill County on Tuesday, the sheriff’s office said. The next day, the body was confirmed to be that of the 18-year-old. Her family has been notified, KOLO reports.
The Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office conducted an autopsy and confirmed the identity, the sheriff’s office said.
The sheriff’s office said no more information will be released, and the investigation continues.
“We would like to extend our sympathy and condolences to the Irion family and thank all the volunteers for their hard work in trying to find Naomi and bring closure to the family,” the sheriff’s office said. “The Churchill County Sheriff’s Office and the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office will continue to work closely on these cases.”
Irion was kidnapped March 12 while sitting in her car at a Walmart in Fernley, waiting for the shuttle to take her to Panasonic at the Reno Tahoe Industrial Center where she worked. A suspect is seen on surveillance video walking outside Walmart moments before getting into Irion’s car and driving off with her inside.
Deputies found the car March 15 in a Fernley industrial park. They say evidence found inside suggested her disappearance was criminal in nature.
Troy Driver, 41, is accused of kidnapping Irion. He made his first court appearance via Zoom on Wednesday afternoon. He is charged with first-degree kidnapping and is being held on $750,000 bail.
He was arrested Friday, as authorities continued to search for Irion.
If Driver’s bond is posted, he will not be released from custody until a GPS monitoring bracelet is installed. No contact is allowed with Irion’s family, and he will not be allowed to use drugs or alcohol.
His next hearing is set for April 5.
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Colin Kaepernick named honorary captain for upcoming spring game at Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Gray News) – The University of Michigan’s football teamed announced on Twitter that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been named an honorary captain for Saturday’s Maize and Blue Spring Game.
The scrimmage is one of the 15 practices allowed under NCAA rules and is free for all fans, according to the university.
Kaepernick last played in the NFL in 2016, the same year he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest racial injustice.
He led the San Francisco 49ers to Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, where they fell short to the Ravens by three points. Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh was coaching the 49ers from 2011-2014.
The quarterback is hoping to play in the NFL again and most recently spoke with Seattle Seahawks coach Pete Carroll.
While Carroll believes Kaepernick deserves a second chance, he cautioned it may not be with the Seahawks, according to the Associated Press.
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Cute! Endangered blue-eyed black lemur born in Florida zoo
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (Gray News) – The Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens in Florida has a new arrival – a baby blue-eyed black lemur.
The zoo said this is the second successful birth of a blue-eyed black lemur at the facility.
The Madagascar native is considered critically endangered, so every new blue-eyed black lemur born is said to be vital to the survival of the species.
They are one of only a few primates with blue eyes, according to the zoo.
Zookeepers haven’t announced a name yet and won’t know the gender until a health check. They want to give the new parents time to bond first.
“We have many reasons to celebrate this new infant. He or she will further enrich the social environment and experience of the zoo’s amazing mixed-species lemur group and strengthen the sustainability of the blue-eyed black lemur population,” said Tracy Fenn, Assistant Curator of Mammals.
The little primate will stay behind the scenes until it’s old enough to join the other lemurs in the zoo’s exhibit later this year.
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Dashcam video shows rider pointing gun at Uber driver before her slaying
ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. (Gray News) - Chilling dashcam video shows the moments leading up to an Uber driver’s slaying.
Allegheny County police said the suspect got into the car Feb. 11 with the intent to rob the driver.
Prosecutors played what could be their most compelling evidence against Calvin Crew, 20 minutes of dashcam footage from Christi Spicuzza’s Uber, showing the last moments her family will see her alive.
Police said Crew is seen getting into the backseat of Spicuzza’s Uber.
In the video, the suspect’s hood is up, and he’s wearing an all-black face mask that covers all but his glowing eyes. He sits still, only muttering a word or two.
Ten minutes into the ride, Spicuzza cheerfully asks a question. He mumbles, and Spicuzza says, “That’s good.”
Eighteen minutes into the ride, police said Crew is seen inching to the middle of the back seat, pulling out a gun, grabbing Spicuzza’s ponytail and pressing the pistol to the back of her head.
Detectives on the case said the video was heart-wrenching to watch but acknowledged it could be key to getting justice for her and her family. She was a mother of four.
“She tried to reason with him and tried to plead to his humanity,” said detective Laurie McKeel with Allegheny County Homicide.
It was hard “knowing what’s coming, watching what Crew is doing without Christina even know what’s coming,” said detective Greg Renko of Allegheny County Homicide.
She is heard on the video pleading for her life: “I have four kids. What are you doing?”
When the dash camera is ripped off the windshield, the ride doesn’t end.
Police said Spicuzza was forced to drive for another hour while Crew accessed her financial apps like Venmo, PayPal, Dollar Bank and Square.
Police said Spicuzza was taken to a wooded part on Monroeville and was shot once in the back of the head.
Crew has been charged with criminal homicide, robbery and tampering with evidence.
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DHHR recognizes April as Child Abuse Prevention Month
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WHSV) - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) joins organizations and advocates around the nation in recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention Month, highlighting the importance of working together to strengthen families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
“Abuse and neglect can have long‐term psychological, emotional, and physical effects,” said Jeff Pack, Commissioner of DHHR’s Bureau for Social Services. “Prevention is the best way to promote the social, emotional, and developmental well‐being of children.”
Governor Jim Justice also proclaimed April 2022 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in West Virginia.
”I urge all residents to prioritize the safety of our children not only during this important month, but every day of the year,” said Gov. Justice. “Looking out for the young people of our great state today will lead to a brighter West Virginia tomorrow.”
In recognition of the start of Child Abuse Prevention Month, West Virginians are encouraged to participate in “Wear Blue Day,” on Friday, April 1. The color blue and pinwheels are the recognized symbols for child abuse prevention.
To report suspected child abuse or neglect, call DHHR’s Centralized Intake for Abuse and Neglect (24/7): 1-800-352-6513. Click here for prevention resources.
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DNC, Clinton campaign agree to Steele dossier funding fine
NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation into whether they violated campaign finance law by misreporting spending on research that eventually became the infamous Steele dossier.
That’s according to documents sent Tuesday to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation, which had filed an administrative complaint in 2018 accusing the Democrats of misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to obscure the spending.
The Clinton campaign hired Perkins Coie, which then hired Fusion GPS, a research and intelligence firm, to conduct opposition research on Republican candidate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. But on FEC forms, the Clinton campaign classified the spending as legal services.
“By intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments,” the campaign and DNC “were able to avoid publicly reporting on their statutorily required FEC disclosure forms the fact that they were paying Fusion GPS to perform opposition research on Trump with the intent of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the initial complaint had read.
The Clinton campaign and DNC had argued that the payments had been described accurately, but agreed, according to the documents, to settle without conceding to avoid further legal costs.
The Clinton campaign agreed to a civil penalty of $8,000 and the DNC $105,000, according to a pair of conciliatory agreements that were attached to the letter sent to the Coolidge Reagan Foundation.
The documents have not yet been made public, and FEC spokeswoman Judith Ingram said the FEC has 30 days after parties are notified about enforcement matters to release them.
The Steele dossier was a report compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele and financed by Democrats that included salacious allegations about Trump’s conduct in Russia and allegations about ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Documents have shown the FBI invested significant resources attempting to corroborate the dossier and relied substantially on it to obtain surveillance warrants targeting former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
But the dossier has been largely discredited since its publication, with core aspects of the material exposed as unsupported and unproven rumors. A special counsel assigned to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia probe charged one of Steele’s sources with lying to the FBI and charged a cybersecurity lawyer who worked for Clinton’s campaign with lying to the FBI during a 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns about the Russia-based Alfa Bank.
Trump, who has railed against the dossier for years, released a statement celebrating the agreement and once again slamming the dossier as “a Hoax funded by the DNC and the Clinton Campaign.”
A DNC spokesperson played down the decision, saying: “We settled aging and silly complaints from the 2016 election about ‘purpose descriptions’ in our FEC report.” The lawyer representing both the campaign and the DNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The letter was first reported by the Washington Examiner.
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Fox News hires Caitlyn Jenner as contributor and commentator
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel says it has hired Caitlyn Jenner as a contributor, with her first appearance set for Thursday on Sean Hannity’s program.
Jenner, the former Olympic decathlete, ran an unsuccessful campaign for California governor last year. The network said she’ll offer commentary and analysis across various Fox News Media platforms.
“Caitlyn’s story is an inspiration to us all,” said Suzanne Scott, Fox News Media CEO. “She is a trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community and her illustrious career spans a variety of fields that will be a tremendous asset for our audience.”
Jenner won the Olympic gold medal in the decathlon in 1976. She later came out as a transgender and identifies as a female.
She said in a statement she was “humbled by this unique opportunity” to speak directly to Fox’s audience.
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‘Geofence warrant’ unconstitutional, judge rules in Virginia
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a warrant that used Google location history to find people near the scene of a 2019 bank robbery violated the constitutional protection against unreasonable searches.
Privacy experts say the ruling could make it more difficult for police to use an investigative technique that has exploded in popularity in recent years.
The decision came in a closely watched case in which the robbery suspect argued that the use of a “geofence warrant” violated the Fourth Amendment.
Geofence warrants seek location data for every person located in a specific area who is using a cellphone or other electronic device that has location history enabled.
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GOP lawmakers call out Rep. Cawthorn over ‘orgy’ remarks
(CNN) - Republican leaders have met with a GOP congressman who alleged drug use and orgies are taking place in Washington.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise called Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., into a meeting Wednesday.
The face-to-face was to address allegations Cawthorn made on a podcast that he was invited to an “orgy” and had seen cocaine use firsthand.
Cawthorn did not suggest any fellow lawmakers were involved in the actions but referenced people he “looked up to.”
GOP lawmakers complained during a closed-door party meeting Tuesday that they were receiving questions from constituents about it.
McCarthy said Cawthorn admitted in the meeting that his allegations were untrue or exaggerated.
“I just told him he’s lost my trust. He’s going to have to earn it back, and I laid out everything that I find is unbecoming,” McCarthy said. “And should - you can’t just say, ‘You can’t do this again.’ I mean, he’s got a lot of members very upset.”
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Got a dime? Businesses seek Treasury help with coin circulation
WASHINGTON (AP) — Got a dime you can spare? Coins are in short supply — again.
Retailers, laundromats and other businesses that rely on coins want Americans to empty their piggy banks and look under couch cushions for extra change and “get coin moving.”
A group of trade associations that represent individual businesses including banks, retail outlets, truck stops, grocery stores and more is asking the Treasury Department for more help convincing Americans to get coins back in circulation.
The consequences of the circulation slowdown hit people who don’t have an ability to pay for items electronically, they say.
“If retailers are not able to offer change for cash purchases consumers who rely on cash will be vulnerable,” the associations said in a letter to Treasury.
For example, people who do their laundry at coin laundry mats could have a harder time finding change to wash their clothes. And on a larger scale, people who don’t have cash access aren’t able to patronize certain card-only businesses.
It’s not a coin shortage America faces, but a lack of circulation.
“We can’t print our way out of this problem,” said Austen Jensen, a senior vice president for government affairs at the Retail Industry Leaders Association.
Jensen’s group, along with the American Bankers Association, National Association of Convenience Stores, and National Grocers Association, is trying to meet consumer demand and wants a new public campaign to increase coin circulation.
Jensen said his group is also encouraging member retailers to find creative ways to deal with the shortage of coins, including rounding-up purchases for charity promotions. And he says businesses with multiple locations could send coins from one store to another.
This is not the first time during the pandemic that the issue of low coin circulation has arisen.
The coronavirus disrupted consumers’ buying habits and shifted purchases largely to plastic cards to such an extent that in July 2020, the Federal Reserve restricted coin orders by financial institutions.
The Fed also convened a U.S. Coin Task Force, made up of representatives from various federal agencies, which led to a campaign encouraging the public to get coins into circulation.
This February, the task force issued a State of Coin report, which said pandemic lockdowns slowed small transactions that generated change and there was a temporary aversion to cash for perceived hygienic reasons. The report also said the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Mint contracted with a third party consultant to review the coin supply chain.
Coin deposit volumes began to increase gradually starting in the summer of 2020, but businesses say the problem has come up again as people have stopped using coins and have stuck to plastic cards.
The issue has had the biggest impact on people who don’t have bank accounts. An estimated 22 percent of U.S. Americans were “unbanked” or “underbanked” in 2019, according to the Federal Reserve.
The Treasury Department has yet to respond to the letter. The government encourages people to help get coin moving by spending it with retailers, taking it to their banks and credit unions, or using a coin recycling kiosk like the ones found at grocery stores.
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GRAPHIC: Man gets 27 years in prison for hiring woman to create torture videos for his sexual pleasure
WARNING: The details in this story may be disturbing to readers.
(Gray News) – A Vermont man has been sentenced to 27 years in prison for a brutal murder-and-kidnap-for-hire scheme in which he paid a woman in Venezuela to make snuff videos of children and adults for his sexual pleasure.
The United States Department of Justice announced the sentencing Wednesday for 38-year-old Sean Fiore.
According to court documents, Fiore paid a woman in Venezuela $600 to make a video that showed the “sadistic abuse” of a young child. After Fiore received that video, he then paid the woman $4,000 for another video, this time involving an adult victim in which Fiore demanded the victim be killed.
The DOJ said for the second video, Fiore sent the woman a 600-word script with details of exactly what he wanted the video to show, including her hitting and kicking the victim, burning him with cigarettes, urinating and defecating on him, filling his mouth with feces, wrapping his head with plastic, and smothering him to death by sitting on his face. Fiore then received a 58-minute video, in which, at the end, the adult male victim appeared to be dead.
Court documents also show that Fiore possessed other videos and images depicting “sadistic sexual abuse” of young children.
Fiore pleaded guilty in October 2021 to conspiracy to kidnap and kill a person overseas, murder-for-hire, conspiracy to produce child pornography, and possession of child pornography. He was sentenced Wednesday to 27 years in prison.
“Fiore committed some of the darkest, most heinous deeds humanity can imagine,” said Special Agent in Charge Matthew Millhollin for HSI in New England. “Today’s sentence ensures that he will be locked away, unable to repeat the depraved crimes he has admitted to. We are grateful to our partners here in Vermont and around the world who worked tirelessly alongside us to investigate and prosecute this case.”
The woman in Venezuela, identified as Moraima Escarlet Vasquez Flores, 39, of Colombia, is charged with conspiracy to murder and kidnap a person in a foreign country, conspiracy to produce child pornography, production of child pornography, and aiding and abetting the receipt of child pornography. She was arrested in Colombia in September 2020, and Colombia recently approved her extradition to the U.S.
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High school senior takes great-grandmother to her first prom
WATFORD CITY, N.D. (KFYR/Gray News) - A high school senior in North Dakota told his parents he didn’t have anyone he wanted to ask to his senior prom until his father told him to take his great-grandmother.
KFYR reports Watford City senior Dakota Wollan made his great-grandmother’s night by taking her to her first prom.
“I couldn’t believe I was out there,” said Wollan’s great-grandmother Madeline Miller.
Wollan said it all started with a prom proposal.
“I have an old truck she gave me, it’s a 1985 Ford she handed down to me, and I got it running again. So, I took that truck and made a sign,” he said.
The sign read: Can I take you to prom in this old truck?
“I was just wondering why he would want a 92-year-old going to prom with him when so many young girls are at the school,” Miller said.
Wollan said he was nervous to ask his great-grandmother.
“If she would have said no, I wouldn’t have gone, but thanks to her, I got to make a memory for my last prom and her first prom,” Wollan said.
And the two said their prom night was pretty special.
“Walking beside my great-grandson, listening to the music as we walked, and people clapping and hollering were some of the best moments,” Miller said.
Wollan and Miller danced the first dance, and then Wollan took his date home.
“We brought tears to many people’s eyes,” Wollan said.
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Key inflation gauge sets 40-year high as gas and food soar
WASHINGTON (AP) — An inflation gauge that is closely monitored by the Federal Reserve jumped 6.4% in February compared with a year ago, with sharply higher prices for food, gasoline and other necessities squeezing Americans’ finances.
The figure reported Thursday by the Commerce Department was the largest year-over-year rise since January 1982. Excluding volatile prices for food and energy, so-called core inflation increased 5.4% in February from 12 months earlier.
Robust consumer demand has combined with shortages of many goods to fuel the sharpest price jumps in four decades. Measures of inflation will likely worsen in the coming months because Thursday’s report doesn’t reflect the consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which occurred Feb. 24. The war has disrupted global oil markets and accelerated prices for wheat, nickel and other key commodities.
Squeezed by inflation, consumers increased their spending by just 0.2% in February, down from a much larger 2.7% gain in January. Adjusted for inflation, spending actually fell 0.4% last month. The decline partly reflected a shift away from heavy spending on goods to a focus on services, such as health care, travel and entertainment, which consumers had long avoided during the worst of the pandemic.
Spending on such services grew 0.6%, the most since July, while purchases of autos, furniture, clothes and other goods dropped 2.1%. Many economists had previously suggested that a shift away from goods purchases might loosen supply chain snarls and cool inflation. But prices are still rising rapidly for goods, including a 1.1% increase in February.
Americans’ overall incomes rose 0.5% in February, the highest gain since November and up from just 0.1% in January. Wages and salaries jumped 0.8%, the most in four months.
Businesses have been raising pay to attract and keep employees — a trend that is benefiting workers but also giving employers cause to raise prices to offset their higher labor costs. That cycle is helping fuel inflation.
Last month, food costs climbed 1.4%, the most in nearly two years. Energy costs spiked 3.7%, the biggest such increase since October.
The Federal Reserve responded this month to the inflation surge by raising its benchmark short-term interest rate by a quarter-point from near zero, and it’s likely to keep raising it well into next year. Because its rate affects many consumer and business loans, the Fed’s rate hikes will make borrowing more expensive and could weaken the economy over time.
Michael Feroli of JPMorgan is among economists who now think the Fed will raise its key rate by an aggressive half-point in both May and June. The central bank hasn’t raised its benchmark rate by a half-point in two decades, a sign of how concerned it has become about the persistent surge in inflation.
On a monthly basis, prices rose 0.6% from January to February, up slightly from the previous month’s increase of 0.5% and matching the highest monthly figure since 2008. Core prices rose 0.4%, down from a 0.5% increase in January.
Gas prices have soared in the past month in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion, which led the United Kingdom and the Biden administration to ban Russia’s oil exports. The cost of a gallon of gas shot up to a national average of $4.24 a gallon Wednesday, according to AAA. That’s up 63 cents from a month ago, when it was $3.61.
Michael Pearce, an economist at Capital Economics, estimated that the gas price spike will cost Americans an annualized $100 billion in March.
Americans will likely dig into their savings to cover the higher gas costs in the near term, he said. “But if higher gasoline prices are sustained, that will eventually weigh on spending in other areas.”
On Thursday, President Joe Biden is expected to order the release of up to 1 million barrels of oil a day from the nation’s strategic petroleum reserve in an effort to reduce gas prices.
Thursday’s report follows a more widely monitored inflation gauge, the consumer price index, that was issued earlier this month. The CPI jumped to 7.9% in February from a year ago, the sharpest such increase in four decades.
Many economists still expect inflation to peak in the coming months. In part, that’s because price spikes that occurred last year, when the economy widely reopened, will begin to make the year-over-year price increases appear smaller. Yet Fed officials project that inflation, as measured by its preferred gauge, will still be a comparatively high 4.3% by the end of this year.
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JMU Sports Roundup: Wednesday, March 30
Published: Mar. 30, 2022 at 11:13 PM EDT
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Results from JMU sporting events on Wednesday, March 30.
Softball
James Madison 9, George Mason 0 - Game 1 (Box Score)
James Madison 9, George Mason 0 - Game 2 (Box Score)
Women’s Lacrosse
(12) James Madison 14, Towson 8 (Box Score)
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Nearly 5,000% increase in seized fentanyl-laced pills in the US between 2018 and 2021, study says
(CNN) - A new study found the number of illicit pills containing fentanyl seized by United States law enforcement jumped a whopping 4,850% between 2018 and 2021.
According to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration data, more than 42,000 fentanyl-laced pills were seized in 2018 and nearly 2.1 million were seized in 2021.
Fentanyl can be found in counterfeit versions of drugs such as oxycodone and hydrocodone.
The rise in fentanyl seizures parallels a fatal overdose crisis driven by synthetic opioids.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse funded the study and said when a pill is contaminated with fentanyl, as is now often the case, poisoning can easily happen.
A co-author of the study said widespread education is needed about the risk of the pills that don’t come from a pharmacy. He said the immediate message is that illegally obtained pills can contain fentanyl.
The study was published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence on Thursday.
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New gender option ‘X’ coming to US passports
(CNN) - Americans who do not consider themselves male or female will soon have a new option on their passports.
Starting April 11, citizens can use “X” as a gender marker, according to a statement from Secretary of State Antony Blinken. He says this is an attempt to be “respectful of individuals’ privacy while advancing inclusion.”
The official designation of the “X” marker is “unspecified or another gender identity.”
This is the first time a federal government agency has offered this sort of marker on an identity document.
The “X” option is expected to be available on other forms sometime in 2023.
President Joe Biden made the announcement Thursday as a part of commemorating Transgender Day of Visibility.
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Crash on I-81 in Staunton cleared
Published: Mar. 31, 2022 at 10:16 AM EDT
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - UPDATE: As of 11:22 a.m. Thursday, VDOT says this crash has been cleared.
On I-81 North in Staunton at mile marker 215, motorists can expect delays due to an overturned vehicle.
No lanes are closed. Traffic backups are approximately 2.0 miles.
This is a developing story. Stay with WHSV for the latest information.
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Pandemic took a toll on teen mental health, US study says
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 4 in 10 U.S. high school students said they felt persistently sad or hopeless during the pandemic, according to government findings released Thursday.
Several medical groups have warned that pandemic isolation from school closures and lack of social gatherings has taken a toll on young people’s mental health.
“This really gives us the evidence to say with certainty that the pandemic was incredibly disruptive for young people and their families,” said Kathleen Ethier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reports are based on anonymous online surveys of about 7,700 public and private high school students from 128 schools during the first six months of 2021. It is based on a similar survey the CDC conducts every other year in schools,
Among the findings:
- 44% reported feeling persistently sad or hopeless during the past year. A similar survey before COVID-19 hit put the figure at 37%.
- 66% said they found it more difficult to complete their schoolwork.
- 29% said a parent or other adult in their home lost a job and 11% said they experienced physical abuse by a parent or other adult at home.
- 24% said they went hungry during the pandemic because there was not enough food at home.
There likely was some underreporting, especially for certain questions about emotional or physical abuse in the home. Teens might be afraid that an abusive parent or other adult might see their responses, said Ilan Cerna-Turoff, a Columbia University researcher who studies children’s mental health.
CDC officials said that the pandemic did not affect teens equally. LGBT youth reported poorer mental health and more suicide attempts than others. About 75% said they suffered emotional abuse in the home and 20% reported physical abuse. By comparison, half of heterosexual students reported emotional abuse and 10% reported physical abuse, the CDC said.
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Pepsi-Cola Student Athlete of the Week: Tyler Nickel
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Tyler Nickel is a star senior at East Rockingham High School.
“I wouldn’t be who I am today without basketball to define my hopes and dreams,” said Nickel.
This spring, Nickel broke the VHSL boys basketball all-time scoring record with 2909 career points for the Eagles. He will be continuing his career at the University of North Carolina this fall... and there was a specific moment when he knew he would be committing to the Tar Heels.
“They brought me a bunch of seafood,” Nickel explained. “I hadn’t even seen the gym... but I could have told you right then that I was going to North Carolina.”
While at East Rockingham High School, the standout forward earned offers to play for elite academies across the country. Yet Nickel chose to stay in public school and play in the Valley.
“Morally, staying here and representing my people was important to me, even when I’m at the top,” he said.
For head coach Carey Keyes, Nickel’s loyalty to the Eagles sets an example for the next generation of athletes in Elkton.
“I’m so thankful for his loyalty to me, our school, and our community,” said Keyes. “He stayed at a small school in the Shenandoah Valley and now he’s going to play at the University of North Carolina. That doesn’t happen very often.”
On the court, Nickel has unmistakable confidence as he rewrites the record books. However, four years in the spotlight does not come without struggle.
“There were some tough times with mental issues. Whether it’s internal or external, something is going to get to you at some point,” said Nickel. “It’s about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.”
A week after graduation, Nickel will be heading to Chapel Hill, where he will have access to plenty of seafood... and a sports nutritionist.
“I’m not huge on vegetables, but we’ll be alright.”
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Pittsburgh woman celebrates 111th birthday, about to have great-great-grandchild
PITTSBURGH (WTAE) - A special birthday party was held in Pittsburgh for a woman who has surpassed the average life expectancy for an American woman by 33 years.
On Tuesday, Janet Wharton celebrated her 111th birthday, and her family helped with the celebration.
“This is awesome. I am honored to be here and speak on her behalf, and it’s just amazing she’s 111-years-old, the oldest in our family,” said Wharton’s granddaughter Cynthia Wilson.
Wharton is simply known as “Nanny” among her family members. She was born on March 29, 1911, in South Carolina and raised in Pittsburgh.
Wharton has also lived in New York, where she married Jimmy Vaughn and became a beautician. She also said she went to school for nursing and cared for others in that capacity a few days a week.
But her most significant legacy is her family, as not many people get to see this many future generations.
Wharton has one child, two grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
And her family said she’s about to have a great-great-grandchild – a baby boy who is expected to arrive in June.
Wharton has short-term memory recall issues, but she could go on and on about the older memories from her life, like her favorite vacation.
“That’s the most beautiful place you’ll ever go. If you ever get the chance to go to Hawaii,” Wharton said.
Her family said they feel blessed to celebrate another year with their “Nanny.”
“It’s surreal and overwhelming. I can’t believe it because she doesn’t look 111,” Wilson said.
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Pluto has giant ice volcanoes that spew water instead of lava
(CNN) -- While Earth’s volcanoes are spewing lava, scientists say Pluto had much cooler volcanic eruptions.
A new study reveals the dwarf planet has giant ice volcanoes that were active as recently as 100 to 200 million years ago.
The discovery was made during NASA’s New Horizons mission.
Researchers point to a region of Pluto largely made of bumpy water ice and filled with volcanic domes.
One volcano is similar in volume to one of Earth’s biggest volcanoes: Mauna Loa in Hawaii.
Still, researchers say the volcanoes on the frigid planet look nothing like what they have already seen in other parts of the solar system.
They believe when Pluto’s volcanoes erupted, a cold mixture of ice and water flowed out like toothpaste onto the planet’s surface.
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Puppy who lost his leg after a horse stepped on him is up for adoption
Published: Mar. 31, 2022 at 2:48 PM EDT
(Gray News) – A puppy who had to have his leg amputated after he was stepped on by a horse is up for adoption, according to an Ohio animal shelter.
From Heaven to Earth Rescue in New Philadelphia, Ohio, said the five and a half week old border collie mix, who’s name is Happy, was injured March 27 after a horse stepped on him and broke his left front leg.
The shelter said the veterinarian was unable to repair his leg, and had it amputated instead.
Happy will be up for adoption soon, according to the shelter.
For more information on the shelter, or to adopt Happy or one of the shelter’s other animals, you can visit From Heaven to Earth Rescue’s website.
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Restorative justice resolves alleged assault at Indiana lake
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A judge says restorative justice was successfully used in Indiana to remediate a confrontation in which a Black man said a group of white men assaulted him and threatened to “get a noose” while at a southern Indiana lake more than a year ago.
The alleged assault gained national attention in July 2020 when Vauhxx Booker, a local civil rights activist and member of the Monroe County Human Rights Commission, said he called 911 after five men assaulted him and pinned him to a tree at Lake Monroe, just south of Bloomington.
Judge Lance Hamner, who presided over the case, said it was the first time he’s seen a criminal case resolved through restorative justice, a process that includes a conference between the offender and victim and which gives the offender an opportunity to apologize.
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Scientists finally finish decoding entire human genome
(AP) - Scientists say they have finally assembled the full genetic blueprint for human life, adding the missing pieces to a puzzle nearly completed two decades ago.
An international team described the first-ever sequencing of a complete human genome – the set of instructions to build and sustain a human being – in research published Thursday in the journal Science. The previous effort, celebrated across the world, was incomplete because DNA sequencing technologies of the day weren’t able to read certain parts of it. Even after updates, it was missing about 8% of the genome.
“Some of the genes that make us uniquely human were actually in this ‘dark matter of the genome’ and they were totally missed,” said Evan Eichler, a University of Washington researcher who participated in the current effort and the original Human Genome Project. “It took 20-plus years, but we finally got it done.”
Many — including Eichler’s own students — thought it had been finished already. “I was teaching them, and they said, ‘Wait a minute. Isn’t this like the sixth time you guys have declared victory? I said, ‘No, this time we really, really did it!”
Scientists said this full picture of the genome will give humanity a greater understanding of our evolution and biology while also opening the door to medical discoveries in areas like aging, neurodegenerative conditions, cancer and heart disease.
“We’re just broadening our opportunities to understand human disease,” said Karen Miga, an author of one of the six studies published Thursday.
The research caps off decades of work. The first draft of the human genome was announced in a White House ceremony in 2000 by leaders of two competing entities: an international publicly funded project led by an agency of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a private company, Maryland-based Celera Genomics.
The human genome is made up of about 3.1 billion DNA subunits, pairs of chemical bases known by the letters A, C, G and T. Genes are strings of these lettered pairs that contain instructions for making proteins, the building blocks of life. Humans have about 30,000 genes, organized in 23 groups called chromosomes that are found in the nucleus of every cell.
Before now, there were “large and persistent gaps that have been in our map, and these gaps fall in pretty important regions,” Miga said.
Miga, a genomics researcher at the University of California-Santa Cruz, worked with Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute to organize the team of scientists to start from scratch with a new genome with the aim of sequencing all of it, including previously missing pieces. The group, named after the sections at the very ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, is known as the Telomere-to-Telomere, or T2T, consortium.
Their work adds new genetic information to the human genome, corrects previous errors and reveals long stretches of DNA known to play important roles in both evolution and disease. A version of the research was published last year before being reviewed by scientific peers.
“This is a major improvement, I would say, of the Human Genome Project,” doubling its impact, said geneticist Ting Wang of the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who was not involved in the research.
Eichler said some scientists used to think unknown areas contained “junk.” Not him. “Some of us always believed there was gold in those hills,” he said. Eichler is paid by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which also supports The Associated Press’s health and science department.
Turns out that gold includes many important genes, he said, such as ones integral to making a person’s brain bigger than a chimp’s, with more neurons and connections.
To find such genes, scientists needed new ways to read life’s cryptic genetic language.
Reading genes requires cutting the strands of DNA into pieces hundreds to thousands of letters long. Sequencing machines read the letters in each piece and scientists try to put the pieces in the right order. That’s especially tough in areas where letters repeat.
Scientists said some areas were illegible before improvements in gene sequencing machines that now allow them to, for example, accurately read a million letters of DNA at a time. That allows scientists to see genes with repeated areas as longer strings instead of snippets that they had to later piece together.
Researchers also had to overcome another challenge: Most cells contain genomes from both mother and father, confusing attempts to assemble the pieces correctly. T2T researchers got around this by using a cell line from one “complete hydatidiform mole,” an abnormal fertilized egg containing no fetal tissue that has two copies of the father’s DNA and none of the mother’s.
The next step? Mapping more genomes, including ones that include collections of genes from both parents. This effort did not map one of the 23 chromosomes that is found in males, called the Y chromosome, because the mole contained only an X.
Wang said he’s working with the T2T group on the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium, which is trying to generate “reference,” or template, genomes for 350 people representing the breadth of human diversity.
“Now we’ve gotten one genome right and we have to do many, many more,” Eichler said. “This is the beginning of something really fantastic for the field of human genetics.”
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Severe storms pummel South killing at least 2 in Florida
(AP) - A line of severe storms packing isolated tornadoes and high winds ripped across the Deep South overnight — killing at least two in the Florida Panhandle, toppling trees and power lines and leaving homes and businesses damaged as the vast weather front raced across several states.
In Florida, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday morning that two were killed and two injured when a tornado touched down in the western Florida Panhandle.
Two homes were destroyed and powerlines were knocked down, according to Washington Country Emergency Management spokeswoman Cheryl Frankenfield. The county’s Facebook page showed at least one home that was obliterated, as well as trees down on another home. No other details were immediately available.
The Florida Division of Emergency Management has employees in the area to help, spokesperson Samantha Bequer said. She said neighboring Jackson County also had property damage.
“It’s a nasty day, but thankfully these storms are moving quickly,” she said.
At least two confirmed tornadoes injured several people Wednesday, damaged homes and businesses and downed power lines in Mississippi and Tennessee after earlier storm caused damage in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas.
About 185,000 customers were without electricity Thursday morning in the wake of the storm along a band of states: Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, according to poweroutage.us, which tracks utilities.
The worst of the weather Thursday morning appeared to be at the southern end of the storm front, which was expected to bring heavy rain and high winds all along the U.S. East Coast later in the day. Much of the Florida Panhandle was under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service in Tallahassee.
Widespread damage was reported in the Jackson, Tennessee, area as a tornado warning was in effect. “Significant damage” occurred to a nursing home near Jackson-Madison County General Hospital and the Madison County Sheriff’s Office in Jackson, said Madison County Emergency Management Director Jason Moore.
In Nashville, Tennessee, paneling fell five stories from the side of a downtown hotel Wednesday evening and onto the roof of a building below. The fire department warned that debris could become airborne as high winds continued, and some hotel guests were moved to other parts of the building due to concerns the roof would become unstable. No injuries were immediately associated with the collapse.
Daylight revealed widespread wind damage across Alabama.
One person suffered minor injuries when a storm hit the University of Montevallo campus south of Birmingham, damaging three buildings, officials said, and a woman was injured when a manufactured home rolled over in rural Bibb County. A school bus was flipped at a high school in south Alabama, and part of the roof was missing from a church in northwest Alabama.
Elsewhere, a warehouse roof collapsed as the storms moved through Southaven, Mississippi, near Memphis, police said. The building had been evacuated and no injuries were reported.
The Mississippi Senate suspended its work Wednesday as weather sirens blared during a tornado watch in downtown Jackson. Some employees took shelter in the Capitol basement.
Rander P. Adams said he and his wife, Janice Delores Adams, were in their home near downtown Jackson when severe weather blew through during a tornado warning Wednesday afternoon. He said their lights flashed and a large window exploded just feet from his wife as she tried to open their front door.
“The glass broke just as if someone threw a brick through it,” he said. “I advised her then, ‘Let’s go to the back of the house.’”
Adams said the storm toppled trees in a nearby park, and a large tree across the street from their house split in half. “We were blessed,” he said. “Instead of falling toward the house, it fell the other way.”
Earlier Wednesday, a tornado that struck Springdale, Arkansas, and the adjoining town of Johnson, about 145 miles (235 kilometers) northwest of Little Rock, shortly after 4 a.m. injured seven people, two critically, according to Springdale Mayor Doug Sprouse.
Sprouse said in a statement that one of those critically injured had improved and was in stable condition and the other five were released from a hospital.
“Our first responders have completed door-to-door searches, and we believe everyone has been accounted for,” Sprouse said.
The National Weather Service in Tulsa said Thursday that the tornado has been rated an EF-3, up from an initial assessment of EF-2, with wind speeds between 136-165 mph (219-265 kph). The tornado reached a peak speed of about 145 mph (233 kph) and 5 miles (8 kilometers) while on the ground for about eight minutes, according to the weather service.
In northwest Missouri, an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds around 90 mph (145 kph) struck St. Joseph on Tuesday night, damaging two homes.
A small tornado also touched down briefly on the eastern edge of Dallas, according to the National Weather Service in Fort Worth. The tornado struck just after 4:30 a.m. Wednesday near McClendon-Chisolm with top winds of about 100 mph (161 kph) and damaged homes, but no injuries were reported, according to the weather service.
The storms come a week after a tornado in a New Orleans-area neighborhood carved a path of destruction during the overnight hours and killed a man.
Strong winds in Louisiana overturned semitrailers, peeled the roof from a mobile home, sent a tree crashing into a home and knocked down power lines, according to weather service forecasters, who did not immediately confirm any tornadoes in the state.
The National Weather Service office in New Orleans said Thursday that teams would be out in Tangipahoa and St. Tammany Parishes in southeastern Louisiana and in Jackson County in southeastern Mississippi surveying damage. They said the highest wind speed recorded in the office’ coverage area was 67 mph (108 kph) at the New Orleans Lakefront airport with winds in Baton Rouge reaching into the high 50 mph (80 kph) range.
Firefighters, meanwhile, have been trying to get handle on a wildfire spreading near Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, amid mandatory evacuations as winds whipped up ahead of the approaching storm front.
The fire, which was not contained, had expanded to about 250 acres (more than 100 hectares) as of Wednesday afternoon. One person was injured, and a plume of smoke rose above one community not far from where 2016 wildfires ravaged the tourism town of Gatlinburg, killing 14 people and damaging or destroying about 2,500 buildings.
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Wagster Pettus reported from Jackson, Mississippi, and Mattise from Nashville, Tennessee; many other Associated Press journalists contributed to this report.
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Skippy issues voluntary recall of more than 9,300 cases of peanut butter
(Gray News) – Skippy Foods, LLC has issued a voluntary recall of more than 161,000 pounds of peanut butter.
According to the company, 9,353 cases of reduced fat creamy, reduced fat chunky and creamy peanut butter blended with plant based protein are being recalled due to the possibility some of the jars may contain fragments of stainless steel from manufacturing equipment.
The affected jars of peanut butter were shipped to 18 states, and all retailers have been properly notified.
Skippy Foods, LLC said there have been no consumer complaints so far associated with this recall.
Check the top of the jar for the following recalled code dates:
If your jar has a different “BEST IF USED BY” date than what is listed, it is not part of the recall.
Impacted jars of peanut butter can be returned to the store where it was purchased for an exchange or call Skippy Foods Consumer Engagement at 1-866-475-4779, 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Central Time.
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Staunton Augusta Church Relief Association celebrating 40 years of service this year
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - The Staunton Augusta Church Relief Association is celebrating its 40th anniversary of service this year, helping people get the financial assistance they need.
The organization helps people that have been warned of eviction or utilities being cut off and also collects food to help out with expenses for a family that is having trouble. The group is made up of several churches in Staunton and Augusta County.
“What we try to do is encourage them to work with the utility companies, get on a payment plan. Maybe our assistants will be a portion of that but to really help them see that they can get out of the hole,” said Jane Ford, a SACRA volunteer.
In order to qualify for help, you must be a Staunton or Augusta County resident that could be facing eviction or a utility disconnect.
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Suave deodorant sprays recalled due to elevated levels of benzene, a carcinogen
(Gray News) - Unilever is voluntarily recalling two Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirants due to slightly elevated levels of benzene, a carcinogen, in the products.
Benzene is not an ingredient in the recalled products, but a review showed unexpected levels of benzene came from the propellant that sprays the product out of the can.
The following products are part of the recall:
Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirant Powder scent
- 4 oz. and 6 oz. cans
- UPC codes 079400751508; 079400784902
- Expiration date through September 2023
Suave 24-Hour Protection Aerosol Antiperspirant Fresh scent
- 6 oz. cans
- UPC code 079400785503
- Expiration date through September 2023
The FDA says exposure to benzene can occur by inhalation, orally, and through the skin; it can result in cancers including leukemia and blood cancer of the bone marrow and blood disorders.
The FDA says consumers should throw away the recalled products. If you have further questions about the recall, contact Unilever at (866) 204-9756.
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Two kids with special needs left outside of Iowa school unsupervised
DES MOINES, Iowa (KCCI) - A family in Iowa is speaking out after their two special needs children were left outside of a school unsupervised on Tuesday.
“The only thing I could think about was the what-if’s, and this needs to be addressed and not happen again,” mother Gina Hernandez said.
She said her children, Victor, 10, and Angel, 7, were left outside of their elementary school after their after school program for about 15 minutes.
Victor has autism, and Angel has cerebral palsy and epilepsy.
Angel said his teachers told him and his brother that their dad was out front, and they were sent out the door without an adult seeing them off.
“Me and Victor were told to go outside and when we went outside, there was nobody,” Angel said.
The brothers wandered the parking lot looking for their dad’s truck, and when they realized he was not there, they tried to get back into the school.
“We knocked on the doors and no one answered,” Angel said.
Hernandez said her husband found the boys by the dumpsters.
She said the gap in time between her boys being alone and their dad showing up is terrifying because of what Victor has done in the past.
“He wanders. There’s an interstate right there,” Hernandez said, “When he’s mad, he’ll go up and try to make it onto the interstate, and teachers have to stop him.”
Des Moines Public Schools said in a statement that parents text the Metro Kids Program when they arrive to pick up their child. In this case, the employee walked the wrong kids to the door and failed to stay with Victor and Angel until they were in the care of their parent.
The employee has been put on leave as the school district investigates.
In the meantime, Gina says she does not know what they will do about after school care.
“We don’t know that we can continue to entrust them in the care they’re getting at the school,” she said.
According to the school district, the children were left outside for about five minutes before staffers realized there had been a mistake and employees notified the parents immediately.
The district said it takes the safety of the children in the Metro Kids Program very seriously.
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Ukraine nuclear operator: Russian troops leave Chernobyl
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops were leaving the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and heading towards Ukraine’s border with Belarus, the Ukrainian nuclear operator company said.
The operator, Energoatom said that the Russian military was also preparing to leave Slavutych, a nearby city where power plant workers live.
Energoatom also said reports were confirmed that the Russians dug trenches in the Red Forest, the 10-square-kilometer (nearly four-square-mile) area surrounding the Chernobyl plant within the Exclusion Zone, and received “significant doses of radiation.”
The Russian troops “panicked at the first sign of illness,” which “showed up very quickly,” and began to prepare to leave, the operator said. The claim couldn’t be independently verified.
Energoatom said the Russians have signed a document confirming the handover of the Chernobyl plant and stating that the plant’s administration doesn’t have any complaints about the Russian troops who were “guarding” the facility.
“It turns out that the occupiers ‘guarded’ the station for more than five weeks, and even so well that there are no complaints,” Energoatom said in a statement on Telegram.
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US returns to World Cup despite 2-0 loss at Costa Rica
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (AP) - Christian Pulisic walked across the field with a towel draped around his head, angry after another U.S. defeat.
“We’re competitors, man. We hate to lose. In the moment I was frustrated,” he said. “It took me a little bit for it to sink in, that the qualification hit.”
Nearly 4 1/2 years after Pulisic buried his head in his hands to hide tears of failure, the U.S. rebounded to qualify for this year’s World Cup. A 2-0 loss to Costa Rica on Wednesday left the Americans in third place after the final night of qualifying, the final guaranteed berth from North and Central America and the Caribbean.
For Pulisic, DeAndre Yedlin, Kellyn Acosta and Paul Arriola, smiles of relief broke out after an unrelenting burden was lifted.
“This is whatever I’ve always wanted to be, and right now emotions are a bit crazy,” Pulisic said, his voice quavering.
On the 1,267th day after a 2-1 loss at Trinidad and Tobago ended the Americans’ streak of seven straight World Cup appearances, Yedlin addressed the team before the kickoff.
“I just thanked each and every one of them for giving me a second opportunity to redeem myself, and the country a second opportunity to redeem itself,” said the 28-year-old defender, the only American left from the 2014 tournament.
The U.S. remained winless in 12 qualifiers at Costa Rica, with 10 defeats and two draws.
Juan Pablo Vargas got behind Walker Zimmerman and headed Brandon Aguilera’s corner kick past goalkeeper Zack Steffen in the 51st minute, and Anthony Contreras knocked in Jewison Bennette’s cross off a scramble in the 59th after Steffen palmed Aguilar’s free kick toward Contreras and blocked Contreras’ initial shot.
Coach Gregg Berhalter, who played for the U.S. at the 2002 World Cup, congratulated the players in the locker room. Starting lineups in the 14 qualifiers averaged an American-record low of 23 years, 302 days.
“Being the youngest team in the world to qualify for the World Cup is no easy task,” he said. “It’s a proud moment for the team, proud moment for U.S. Soccer, and we’re looking forward to competing in the World Cup again.”
A sellout crowd of about 35,000 in National Stadium came to life with the goals, but the Americans’ 5-1 rout of Panama at home last weekend gave them a huge goal-difference margin over Costa Rica. That meant the U.S. merely had to avoid losing by six goals or more in order to claim an automatic berth.
Canada, which had clinched its first World Cup trip since 1986 with a win Sunday, finished first in the group with 28 points after a 1-0 loss at Panama, ahead of Mexico on goal difference. El Tri clinched its eighth straight World Cup berth with a 2-0 home win over El Salvador, while the U.S. (25 points) finished third with a plus-11 goal difference to plus-five for Costa Rica (also 25 points).
Ticos coach Luis Fernando Suárez benched six starters from Sunday’s win at El Salvador who carried yellow cards, not wanting to risk a suspension for a June playoff against Oceania champion New Zealand.
As Berhalter spoke to his team, 24-year-old defender Erik-Palmer Brown popped open the first bottle of Duet Mosseux Brut, starting a brief bubbly and beer celebration before some players caught a charter flight to London. Berhalter headed with staff for a red-eye flight to New York and a connection for Qatar ahead of Friday’s draw.
U.S. bench players walked onto the field at the final whistle and exchanged handshakes and hugs with their teammates, while home fans cheered the Ticos. Then American players put on ski goggles and let loose.
“The party is going. I think we have run out of beer,” said Zimmerman, a 28-year-old defender who didn’t play in the first three qualifiers, then started 10 of the last 11. “Coming into the locker room, everyone just decided, you know what, we realized our goal, which was to qualify, and we did that, so everyone kind of forgot about tonight. We put ourselves in that position, where we could afford to do that.”
The U.S. finds out at Friday’s draw which three nations it will face in the group stage, which starts Nov. 21 at a tournament pushed back five months to avoid summer desert heat. A growing and increasingly hypercritical fan base is hoping to see Pulisic & Co. reach the quarterfinals for the first time since 2002.
“Now we have to test ourselves against the best players in the world, the best teams in the world,” said midfielder Tyler Adams, who came off at halftime with a bruise above his left knee from a tackle. “This was only the first stage in our development.”
Pulisic, the first American to play in and win a Champions League final, had been consumed with trying to lift the U.S. back to a World Cup. He led the team with five of its 21 goals despite making just seven starts due to COVID-19, a sprained ankle and shaky form when he first came back from the injury.
“Looking at the big picture, we’re obviously so proud to represent our country at a World Cup, so we’re thrilled for that. In a couple of days, I don’t think we’ll be thinking about this game,” he said. “I think we can do a lot of damage, man. I think we’re a confident bunch of guys, and, yeah, I think the country will get behind us.”
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Verdict reached in Valley murder trial: Not guilty
STAUNTON, Va. (WHSV) - After hours of testimony and over 30 pieces of evidence, the three-day trial for a Staunton murder ended.
The jury found Daniel David Mead not guilty in the death of Bradley Maurice. The jury was excused for deliberation Wednesday, March 30 around 5:30 p.m. They returned with a verdict around 8:50 p.m.
Mead had been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of Maurice. Maurice died on June 24, 2020 at Spring Hill Apartments in Staunton.
The prosecutors argued there was premeditation, malice, and intent. Murder without premeditation would make it second-degree murder. No malice would make it manslaughter. For Mead to be found not guilty, the jury had to believe he was acting solely in self-defense.
The jury had to consider testimonies from eyewitnesses, a medical examiner, a toxicologist, law enforcement officials, and Mead himself.
The judge laid out the possible charges: first or second-degree murder or voluntary manslaughter -- or, of course, not guilty.
Mead went to jail shortly after the stabbing in 2020, and he’s been there since. The judge said tonight Mead will return to the jail, so his release can be processed.
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Virginia COVID-19 cases rise by 804 Thursday
19,068,949 total tests have been run for the virus in Virginia, with 1,668,891 positive cases.
Due to the number of vaccinations across our region, we will no longer be updating the COVID-19 hotline.
As of Thursday, March 31, Virginia has had 1,668,891 total cases of COVID-19, including confirmed lab tests and clinical diagnoses, according to the Virginia Department of Health.
The Virginia Department of Health reports a 3.4% 7-day positivity rate for total testing encounters, and a 3.3% 7-day positivity rate for PCR tests.
Additional deaths were reported this Thursday, leaving the death toll at 19,692.
For a comprehensive summary of COVID-19 cases and testing in Virginia, you can visit the Virginia Department of Health’s website and view their COVID-19 dashboard.
On Sunday, April 18, 2021, vaccine eligibility expanded to all individuals in the Commonwealth age 16 and above.
On Thursday, April 22, 2021, former Governor Northam announced an ease in some of the COVID-19 restrictions for social gatherings that began on Saturday, May 15:
- Social gatherings: The maximum number of individuals permitted in a social gathering will increase to 100 people for indoor settings and 250 people for outdoor settings. Social gatherings are currently limited to 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors.
- Entertainment venues: Indoor entertainment and public amusement venues will be able to operate at 50 percent capacity or 1,000 people, up from 30 percent capacity or 500 people. Outdoor venues will be able to operate at 50 percent capacity — up from 30 percent — with no specific cap on the number of attendees.
- Recreational sporting events: The number of spectators allowed at indoor recreational sporting events will increase from 100 to 250 spectators or 50 percent capacity, whichever is less. Outdoor recreational sporting events will increase from 500 to 1,000 people or 50 percent capacity, whichever is less.
- Alcohol sales: Restaurants may return to selling alcohol after midnight, and dining room closures will no longer be required between midnight and 5:00 a.m.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday, May 13, 2021, vaccinated individuals are no longer required to wear a mask in most circumstances. On Friday, May 14, 2021, Former governor Ralph Northam announced the mask mandate in Virginia would be lifted, and capacity and social distancing restrictions will end on May 28.
Statewide case totals and testing numbers as of March 31
By March 31, the Virginia Department of Health had received reports of 1,196,249 confirmed cases and 472,642 probable cases of COVID-19 across the commonwealth.
Those positive test results are out of 19,068,949 total tests administered in Virginia, which included 13,150,176 PCR tests, 326,557 antibody tests and 5,592,216 antigen tests.
At this point, 48,960 Virginians have been hospitalized due to the disease caused by the virus, and at least 19,692 have died of causes related to the disease.
Where are our local cases?
Here’s a breakdown of cases for our region as of 10:00 a.m. March 31.
Central Shenandoah Health District: 66,841 total cases
Beginning March 10, 2022, the Locality dashboard is no longer being published. Cases by report date and cases by date of illness can be viewed by locality on the Cases dashboard.
Total tests: 740,261
Lord Fairfax Health District: 54,286 total cases
Total tests: 501,155
Northwest Total Outbreaks: 1,002 with 322 in long-term care facilities, 89 in K-12 settings, 73 in healthcare settings, 41 in correctional facilities, 330 in congregate settings, 65 in college/university settings and 82 in child care settings.
Note: VDH has changed the way it tracks outbreaks. They are now grouped by regions instead of health districts.
COVID-19 Vaccine in Virginia
The Virginia Department of Health has launched a data dashboard showcasing the number of COVID-19 vaccines that have been distributed and administered throughout the commonwealth.
According to the data dashboard, as of March 31, 6,991,010 people have been vaccinated with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 6,246,363 people are fully vaccinated.
18,357,925 total vaccine doses have been distributed throughout the state.
Recovery
The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association’s online dashboard indicates that, as of March 31, at least 106,572 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospital.
Unlike the VDH data that reports cumulative hospitalizations, their data on hospitalizations reflects people currently hospitalized for COVID-19 (whether with confirmed or pending cases), and that number is 267.
West Virginia updates
Here at WHSV, we cover Grant County, Hardy County and Pendleton County. The below information is the most recent data from each counties’ health department. You can find West Virginia’s COVID-19 dashboard here.
There are 497,769 total cases in West Virginia as of March 31.
Grant County: 3,765 total COVID-19 cases
Hardy County: 4,176 total COVID-19 cases (+1 from Wednesday)
Pendleton County: 1,943 total COVID-19 cases
For the latest factual information on COVID-19, you’re encouraged to check both the Virginia Department of Health and the CDC.
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What to remember for Sleep Awareness Month 2022
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - “Sleep is important. It is very essential. Sleep makes you feel better during the day. Things happen, life happens, but try to get enough hours [of sleep] during the day. Give it its due importance during the day,” Dr. Fouzia Siddiqui, a sleep specialist with Sentara, explained.
While Thursday is the last day of Sleep Awareness Month, health experts are reminding everyone of the importance of getting enough sleep.
Dr. Siddiqui says you spend one-third of your life sleeping. The National Sleep Foundation recommends everyone aged 18-64 get at least 7-9 hours of sleep each night. Experts say this will help clear out the toxins in your body. Getting enough sleep can improve your cardiovascular health, support your immune system, memory and thought processing, just to name a few.
“If you don’t get that and you are sleep deprived, then you have problems with memory, focus, concentration, blood pressure. Your blood sugar will not be controlled very well,” Dr. Siddiqui said.
There are ways to improve your sleeping habits.
“Setting a time to go to bed, a time to get up. Setting a winding time prior to going to bed. This means a hot shower, meditation, prayers, just relaxing, making it more conducive for sleep to happen,” the sleep specialist explained.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, staying away from caffeine or spicy foods before bed, keeping a comfortable bedroom temperature (60-67 degrees), and making sure your room is dark and quiet can better your sleep.
Dr. Siddiqui says to get as much sleep as you can. If you cannot get the recommended 7-9 hours, she says to try to take a 20-minute nap sometime throughout the day.
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Woman mauled by dogs on life support continues to fight for her life, family says
ABBEVILLE COUNTY, S.C. (WHNS/Gray News) - A South Carolina woman continues to fight for her life at a local hospital after being attacked by three dogs earlier this month.
The Abbeville County Sheriff’s Office said a woman, later identified as Kyleen Waltman, was viciously attacked outside of a home in Abbeville County on March 21.
WHNS reports on March 23, her family wrote that she was in critical condition and that doctors were closely monitoring her, according to an update on a GoFundMe account for Waltman.
Initially, deputies said a witness was able to scare the dogs away from Waltman to stop them from mauling her further.
On Sunday, her family wrote that doctors were keeping Waltman sedated so she didn’t aggravate her spinal cord by trying to move.
Waltman was also on a ventilator, according to the family. She is doing most of the work herself. However, her blood pressure does go high while her oxygen levels drop.
On Tuesday, the family said doctors woke Waltman, and she could see and talk to her daughters and mother.
Waltman was scheduled to get a prosthetic on her right arm. However, according to her family, doctors had to remove her arm to her shoulder due to an infection detected.
The woman’s sister said Waltman is a mother of three and recently became a grandmother. At times, she has done well while at the hospital but ultimately has been placed back on life support.
The dogs in the attack were seized by Abbeville County Animal Control, and police said their investigation remains ongoing.
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A 19-year-old and a juvenile were taken into custody without incident by the Klamath Falls Police Department on Thursday after a pair of drive-by shootings.
Matthew Kaeding was sent to the Klamath County Jail and the juvenile was lodged at the county's juvenile detention center. Both were charged with attempted murder, attempted assault I, unlawful use of a weapon and criminal mischief I.
Police responded at 4:22 p.m. to a report of a drive-by shooting in the 2700 block of Alma Alley.
An investigation revealed several shell casings in front of a residence, which was struck at least twice by gunfire. During the initial response, it was unclear as to who the suspects were, and two individuals believed to be involved were observed going into an apartment building in downtown Klamath Falls on the north end of Main Street, according to a police department news release.
The two individuals were later detained by officers and determined to be victims of the drive-by shooting from the Alma Alley location. No injuries were sustained during the shooting.
Approximately 20 minutes after the initial call on Alma Alley, a second possible drive-by shooting was reported on California Avenue. Upon processing the scene, officers located a motorcycle that was parked in front of a residence that was struck by apparent gunfire. Statements made by witnesses at the second scene, however, conflicted with the evidence seized, and at that time the second shooting appeared to have been a staged diversion by the suspects of the Alma Alley drive-by.
The KFPD thanked citizens for being vigilant, as numerous schools and businesses used “locked-down” procedures after seeing Facebook posts or hearing related information through police scanners or scanner applications, the news release said.
The KFPD was assisted by the Oregon State Police and Klamath Community Corrections.
The investigation of this incident is ongoing and no further information will be released, the KFPD said in the release. Anyone with additional information is encouraged to contact the police department at (541) 883-5336 or the anonymous tip line at (541) 883-5334.
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This Colorado State Patrol vehicle was damaged during a high-speed pursuit Thursday, March 31, 2022. Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers began pursuing the 66-year-old suspect, who was wanted on a parole violation, and were later assisted by CSP. The suspect died in Weld County after crashing into a drainage ditch, a CSP spokesperson said. Courtesy of Colorado State Patrol
CHEYENNE – A 66-year-old man died Thursday afternoon following a high-speed pursuit that crossed from Wyoming into northern Colorado, the Colorado State Patrol said.
At about 2:45 p.m. Thursday, the Colorado State Patrol began pursuing the vehicle, which was traveling south on U.S. Highway 85. Scanner traffic indicated speeds reached 118 mph during the chase, which extended for many miles.
Master Trooper Gary Cutler of CSP said the man had been wanted for a parole violation out of Minnesota, and had previously been in jail for murder. His name has not been released.
According to a CSP news release about the incident, a Colorado state trooper and Ault, Colorado, police officer deployed “stop sticks,” a tire deflation tool. The suspect continued to drive south, but then swerved into a CSP vehicle, causing the CSP vehicle to roll.
The pursuit came to an end in Weld County when the suspect’s vehicle left the road and went into a drainage ditch, the release said. This happened just after 3 p.m., Cutler said.
The suspect died from injuries caused by the crash, and it’s believed he was not wearing a seatbelt, according to the release.
A Colorado state trooper sustained minor injuries in the crash. He was taken to an area hospital as a precaution, but Cutler said Friday afternoon that the trooper had been released.
Highway 85 was closed for about three hours following the pursuit, Cutler said.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol began the pursuit, but it was unclear Friday where in Wyoming the chase started and why it was initiated in the first place.
WHP spokesperson Sgt. Jeremy Beck did not immediately return a call Friday afternoon seeking more information.
Hannah Black is the Wyoming Tribune Eagle’s criminal justice reporter. She can be reached at hblack@wyomingnews.com or 307-633-3128. Follow her on Twitter at @hannahcblack.
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CHEYENNE – State Superintendent of Public Instruction Brian Schroeder received a standing ovation following his encouragement of workforce development at the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce luncheon here Friday.
He told members of the business community that securing a strong liberal arts education provides a foundation for career-ready students, and needs to be paired with job training and awareness.
“We know that within every one of our students lies a passion waiting to be discovered. We also know that discovering this passion is the key to creating a roadmap to the career they want,” he said. “Unfortunately, too many students aren’t aware of the scope of opportunities after high school.”
Chamber President and CEO Dale Steenbergen said this is where local business owners and professionals have a role to play. He agreed with the Schroeder that many students go out of the state because they have yet to be acquainted with the opportunities available to them in their hometown, or across the state. Steenbergen said connecting young adults with internships, giving them hands-on experience and informing them of the possibilities is futile.
“If we can provide that spark to light their fire for a good career, then that’s perfect,” he told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle.
But finding a place for them to work within the community is not the only step in developing a workforce. Schroeder said the first priority is the formation of a child’s character.
“Being well educated is meaningless apart from virtue,” he said. “Many of Hitler’s SS troops had master’s degrees, but they lacked a conscience. And what good are job skills if our kids don’t have a strong work ethic.”
He said what follows the development of well-grounded students is molding them into being culturally literate. Laying the foundation for good literacy in every child and classroom must be the standard, and it should be through a structured and phonetic approach. He said he believes the purpose of education is teaching people to think, and it starts with reading.
And the last step he emphasized in raising up the next generation of Wyomingites is guaranteeing they are prepared for the working world.
“When it comes to doing right by our students, it must include making them career-ready. This is not to be confused with being educated. Job training and a solid liberal arts education are two different things, but one provides the foundation for the other,” he said. “A truly educated child makes a better plumber, doctor, flight attendant or businessperson.”
The superintendent explained this comes with cultivating job skills, providing career technical training, investing in financial literacy courses and expanding career exploration opportunities.
Other professionals in attendance said they were encouraged by this step. When looking at what kinds of skills students should come out of high school with, the president of the Chamber of Commerce said he appreciated Schroeder placing attention on critical thinking and “soft skills.”
“I can teach you how to be a plumber. I can teach you how to even be a brain surgeon,” Steenbergen said. “It’s much more difficult when you’re an adult to teach you how to get along with other people, to teach you negotiating skills and to teach you how to be an effective citizen.”
He said he looks forward to working with the superintendent’s office in not only giving feedback on their needs in the business community, but understanding how to support teachers and students. He was not alone in this desire for a strong relationship, as Schroeder thanked attendees ahead of time for their contribution he said he knew they were eager to make.
“As we close the gap and create new pathways and pipelines that will work well for our young people, the business community will have a very significant role in helping fan this flame, and we will gratefully welcome your participation,” Schroeder said.
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ROCK SPRINGS – The second annual Mayor’s Arts Awards took place on Thursday, March 30 at the Broadway Theater in downtown Rock Springs.
To kick off the evening, dancers from Studio 307 provided the opening entertainment. Jessica Cantrell directed the students.
Rock Springs Mayor Tim Kaumo greeted attendees and noted that the Broadway Theater was renovated just ten years ago.
“This building was a wreck and then we had the vision to take it over and turn it into something we can be proud of,” said Kaumo. “Since then, we’ve had numerous events that showcase who we are and where we are in the community.”
In his opening remarks, he also praised the talents of local artists in Sweetwater County.
“The hard work these people do is just amazing,” Kaumo mentioned.
Community Fine Arts Center Director Debora Soulé announced RJ Pieper as the first recipient. Pieper is a local photographer. He owns New Studio Photography and Framing.
He is also a long-time CFAC board member.
“His images are really astounding,” said Soulé. “If you have an opportunity to go inside New Studio, you will see many of them.”
She added, “His efforts to assist with the fine arts center has made a big difference.”
During Pieper’s acceptance speech he pointed out the reasons why he chose to be a photographer.
“It allows me to capture pure humanity - smiling, laughing, crying,” he shared. “I’ve had the incredible privilege of helping people preserve memories that matter the most in their lives.
“Art isn’t always about money and fame. Art is about evoking emotion.”
Representative Tina Price was introduced as the second recipient. She accepted the Mayor’s Arts Award on behalf of the Sweetwater County Concert Association.
Price said, “We are very humbled to be chosen for this award. This award is in honor of all the people who volunteered with us for 80 years.”
She pointed out that with volunteers, the organization is able to provide quality entertainment to Sweetwater County for decades.
She recognized Dr. Bernadine Craft, who could not attend the ceremony, for her efforts with Sweetwater County Concert Association.
“She has a special place in our hearts,” Price expressed. “There has only been two treasurers in our organization – her father Ralph Craft and Bernadine so this award is dedicated to him too.”
Green River resident Nina Tyler accepted the next Mayor’s Arts Award.
“It’s an unexpected honor,” said Tyler. “I’m very proud of the other recipients.”
She added, “I know them for all the work they do so it’s an honor to be in the same rank as those recipients.”
“I love coming to Rock Springs and working with my ‘tribe’ - the people I hold most dear in this community – the Actors Mission.”
Mayor Kaumo announced the last recipient who is “near and dear” to his heart.
“Music educator Sarah Wessel never really retired,” he said. “Both of my daughters were taught by Sarah and one of them still plays today.”
Wessel revealed that she moved to Rock Springs on April Fool's Day in 1976 with a husband, two dogs and a cello.
“If life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you,” Wessel pointed out, quoting a friend. “I’m extremely grateful that I’m still here.”
She recognized Olga Plemel as her friend and mentor. Plemel passed away in 2013.
“I owe it to her,” Wessel pointed out. “If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t have gotten into any of this.”
Dancers from The Rock Academy took the stage for the closing entertainment. Courtney Joy was the director.
Local artist Andrew Kneeland designed the awards for this year’s recipients.
Rock Springs restaurant Eve’s catered the event.
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College track star killed, 2 others injured, in hit-and-run with suspected drunken driver, officials say
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Gray News) - Milligan University is mourning the loss of one of its track and field stars after a deadly crash on Thursday.
The university reports that three of its track and field team members were involved in a collision while running in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Sophomore Eli Cramer died, according to the school, while his fellow teammates Alex Mortimer and Eli Baldy were also injured.
Mortimer sustained life-threatening injuries. Officials said he underwent surgery Thursday night for multiple fractures and was stable. Baldy was treated and released.
According to Virginia State Police, the three runners were on Williamsburg Pottery Road when they were struck by a vehicle. The driver took off from the initial crash scene but was found after crashing into a median.
Police said the driver was taken into custody and charged with DUI and felony hit-and-run, according to school officials
Cramer, 20, was a sophomore business administration major at Milligan. In his two years with the Buffaloes, he was a third-place finisher on the 2021 national championship cross country team, a two-time All-American and two-time All-AAC for cross country. According to the university, Cramer also set a program record in the 8K.
According to the Milligan Buffaloes, the 20-year-old was a four-time national qualifier in track and field, most recently finishing 10th in the 5K at the NAIA Indoor National Championships.
Mortimer, 23, transferred to Milligan in 2018 from the University of Kentucky. He graduated last May with an undergraduate degree in ministry and enrolled in Milligan’s MBA program.
School officials said Mortimer is a four-time All-AAC cross country runner and collected NAIA All-America status in the marathon with a fourth-place finish at the NAIA national championships last spring.
According to Milligan, Baldy, 21, is a senior mechanical engineering major. He is also a two-time national qualifier in outdoor nationals in the marathon and a member of four conference championship teams.
Virginia police report Thursday’s crash remains under investigation.
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Sarah Palin files paperwork to run in Alaska US House race
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Sarah Palin on Friday shook up an already unpredictable race for Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat, filing paperwork to join a field of at least 40 candidates seeking to fill the seat that had been held for 49 years by the late-U.S. Rep. Don Young, who died last month.
Palin filed paperwork Friday with a Division of Elections office in Wasilla, said Tiffany Montemayor, a division spokesperson. The paperwork was being processed by the division, she said.
The field includes current and former state legislators and a North Pole city council member named Santa Claus. The deadline to file was 5 p.m. Friday. A final list of official candidates was not yet available.
“Public service is a calling, and I would be honored to represent the men and women of Alaska in Congress, just as Rep. Young did for 49 years,” Palin said in a statement on social media. “I realize that I have very big shoes to fill, and I plan to honor Rep. Young’s legacy by offering myself up in the name of service to the state he loved and fought for, because I share that passion for Alaska and the United States of America.”
Palin is a former Alaska governor and was the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee. She has kept a low profile in Alaska politics since leaving office in 2009, before her term as governor ended.
Young, a Republican, had held Alaska’s House seat since 1973 and was seeking reelection at the time of his death last month at age 88.
A special primary is set for June 11. The top four vote-getters will advance to an Aug. 16 special election in which ranked choice voting will be used, a process in line with a new elections system approved by voters in 2020.
The winner will serve the remainder of Young’s term, which expires in January. The division is targeting Sept. 2 to certify the special election.
Others who filed Friday include Republican state Sen. Josh Revak; Democratic state Rep. Adam Wool; independent Al Gross, an orthopedic surgeon who unsuccessfully ran for U.S. Senate in 2020; and Andrew Halcro, a former Republican state lawmaker who is running as an independent. They join a field that includes Republican Nick Begich, who had positioned himself as a challenger to Young; Democrat Christopher Constant, an Anchorage Assembly member; and John Coghill, a Republican former state lawmaker.
Revak, who previously worked for Young’s office and was a statewide co-chair for Young’s reelection bid, said he felt a “strong calling and a duty” to step forward.
He said he was “heartbroken” by the filing timeline, coinciding with a period he said should be focused on remembering Young.
Young lied in state at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday. A public memorial was held in the Washington, D.C.-area on Wednesday and a public memorial is planned in Anchorage on Saturday.
Revak said he also plans to run in the regular primary for U.S. House. Palin filed paperwork to run in the special and regular primaries as well, Montemayor said.
The August special election will coincide with the regular primary. The regular primary and November general election will determine who represents Alaska in the House for a two-year term starting in January.
Gross also plans to run in both the special and regular elections. His campaign announced a leadership team that includes several Republicans and independents, as well as Democrats, including former Gov. Tony Knowles.
“We are building a campaign that embodies all of Alaska,” Gross said in a statement.
Wool said he has privately discussed a run for years. He said he looked at the candidates running in the special primary and “wasn’t that impressed. Many of them have never won an election, don’t have any statewide recognition and politically aren’t aligned certainly not with me or what I would think the majority of Alaskans are looking for.”
Wool, from Fairbanks, said he considers himself moderate. He said he has yet to decide whether to run in the regular primary.
Halcro, who has a podcast on which he talks politics, said during the campaign he plans to play up his intent to only run to fill the remainder of the term. He said if the person who wins the special election also is in the November general election, he expects they would spend a fair amount of time campaigning. He said if elected, he would be focused on congressional work.
Meanwhile, a man who years ago legally changed his name to Santa Claus and serves on the North Pole city council also filed with the state Division of Elections for the special primary. Claus, who said he has a “strong affinity” for Bernie Sanders, is running as an independent.
He said he is not soliciting or raising money. He said the new elections process “gives people like me an opportunity, without having to deal with parties, to throw our hat in the ring.”
“I do have name recognition,” he said with a laugh.
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South Carolina women top Louisville, advance to title game
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Aliyah Boston had 23 points and 18 rebounds to back up her AP National Player of the Year award and carry South Carolina to the NCAA championship game with a 72-59 victory over Louisville in the semifinals on Friday night.
Brea Beal matched her season high with 12 points and helped hold Cardinals star Hailey Van Lith to nine points on 4-for-11 shooting as the Gamecocks (34-2) delivered another stifling defensive performance.
The Dawn Staley-led Gamecocks will face the Connecticut-Stanford winner on Sunday night at Target Center. Staley will try to win her second national championship, eight months after the Hall of Famer led the U.S. Olympic team to a gold medal in the Tokyo Games.
“You see happy tears, happy tears, right now,” Boston said in her postgame TV interview. “I’m just thanking God we have one more game.”
Destanni Henderson scored 11 points with 3-for-6 shooting from 3-point range and had four assists for South Carolina, which improved to 13-0 this season against AP-ranked opponents.
“Just going to live in the moment for right now,” Henderson said.
Emily Engstler led Louisville with 18 points and nine rebounds as the Cardinals went 1 for 8 from 3-point range and were never able to find a rhythm in the half court against the No. 1 overall seed in this tournament.
Kianna Smith and Olivia Cochran each scored 14 points for the Cardinals (29-5), who were the only team in this Final Four without a title. This was their fourth trip to the national semifinals in coach Jeff Walz’s 15 seasons.
“I’ve never been prouder of a group,” Walz said. “They’ve absolutely been a joy to coach.”
The Cardinals, one of the three No. 1 seeds in this Final Four, made it out of the Wichita Region without any trouble. Van Lith, the relentless sophomore guard with the perpetually flopping blond pigtails, hit the 20-point mark in each of their first four tournament games.
Van Lith met her match with Beal, who had a four-inch height advantage and shadowed her all over the court as she often does to the opponent’s most dangerous player. Van Lith, whose first basket came on a knifing drive for a layup with 1:43 left in the second quarter, had two jumpers blocked by Beal and three turnovers in the first half.
The Gamecocks, who were the wire-to-wire No. 1 team in the AP poll this season, squeezed their first four tournament opponents in the Greensboro Region to a bleak average of 41.2 points on their way to a fourth Final Four in the last seven years.
Engstler, the tough-as-nails transfer from Syracuse, helped Louisville keep Boston from getting too comfortable in the paint while Olivia Cochran helped with the muscle. Physical play can come with a price, though, and with 4.2 seconds left in the third quarter Boston drew Engstler’s fourth foul on a putback layup and stretched the lead to 57-48 with the and-one free throw.
Engstler fouled out with 4:56 to go and had her head buried in her clenched hands on the bench as her teammates tried to console her.
BOSTON STRONG
After putting up 28 points and 22 rebounds in the Sweet 16 against North Carolina, Boston proved she had plenty left for the Final Four.
South Carolina, which won the title in 2017, was painfully ousted in the semifinals last season by one point to eventual champion Stanford when Boston’s putback attempt bounced off the rim at the buzzer. The 6-foot-5 junior from the U.S. Virgin Islands has bounced right back a year later.
“We just knew that we fell short, but it’s not something that we continued to think about,” Boston said. “This is a new team. We have a lot more depth.”
Said Staley: “You’re either going to pass the test or you’re going to have to retake it.”
Wearing her familiar vibrant braids in a bright-pink-and-purple combination, Boston helped the Gamecocks set a commanding tone early with an 11-2 lead. The Cardinals missed seven of their first eight shots from the floor.
Louisville enjoyed a 12-0 run early in the second quarter to take a short-lived three-point edge, but South Carolina simply had so much more to offer after that. Henderson’s 3-pointer gave the Gamecocks their largest lead at 51-36 midway through the third quarter, and the Cardinals were only within less than eight points for 42 seconds after that.
ANTHEM ABSENCE
The entire South Carolina team stayed off the court during the national anthem, keeping with the Gamecocks’ practice all season. Last season, several players took a knee during the singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”
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Cemetery headstones were vandalized sometime between March 27-29 at the Honohina Hongwanji Cemetery in Ninole.
NINOLE, Hawaii (KITV4) - Police are currently investigating after cemetery headstones were vandalized sometime between March 27-29 at the Honohina Hongwanji Cemetery in Ninole.
Sometime between Sunday March 27, 2022 and Tuesday, March 29, 45 headstones were damaged at the Honohina Hongwanji Cemetery located about a half-mile from the temple on Old Mamalahoa Highway, (Highway 19), along the Hamakua Coast. Volunteer caretakers discovered the damage when they arrived to do maintenance on Tuesday. Many of the headstones and monuments in the cemetery date back to the early 1900s from the sugar plantation era.
The Hawaii Island police is asking for the public’s assistance with any information regarding this incident by calling the police department’s non-emergency number 808- 935-3311.
Citizens who wish to remain anonymous can provide information through Crime Stoppers at 808-961-8300 and may be eligible for a reward of up to $1,000. Crime Stoppers does not record any calls or subscribe to caller ID.
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McKinney described his relationship with Rudy, “As close as ever. Like family almost,” he told the court. He also testified that he and Rudy went on what prosecutors called “a boys trip” to Thailand in 2015 that included sightseeing, drinking, and women. According to McKinney, the trip was encouraged by Rudy’s wife at the time.
“Lynn wanted to ‘give us something,’” McKinney said.
When asked by prosecutors why Lynn wanted to give you something, McKinney responded, “Gesture of friendship more than anything else.”
McKinney also described his relationship with Katherine Kealoha, telling the court, “I always looked at her like an older sister.”
He testified that he, Katherine Kealoha, and Rudy did cocaine together at a Mid-Pacific event, and that the three of them did drugs on numerous other occasions.
Prosecutors also read aloud texts between Rudy and McKinney that showed Rudy’s struggle with sobriety a month after he went into drug rehabilitation in September 2018.
The texts also show an exchange in December 2016 where McKinney was asking about cocaine for a friend and Rudy told McKinney in a text, “I’m only keeping a very few shady shady things going.”
McKinney told the court that text meant Rudy was saying he was trying to limit the number of people he was involved with.
The trial is scheduled to resume on Thursday with the defense cross examining McKinney.
As someone who grew up in foster care, the only thing that mattered to me was finding love and belonging. Being able to connect with the community as a reporter in Hawaii is why I do what I do.
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WAIANAE, Hawaii (KITV4) -- There are no speed humps on the 2-mile long Leihoku Street in Waianae. Residents say they've been pushing to have some installed for years, to no avail.
Joseph Simpliciano, who has been living on Leihoku Street for more than 10 years, said he almost got hit by a speeding car on three different occasions while walking his son home from Leihoku Elementary School, which is right up the road from his house.
"I've seen our kupunas almost get hit by cars, and it's really sad you know," Simpliciano said. "I see a lot of reckless driving, distracted drivers, near misses with kids in the crosswalk."
On top of speeding, residents said some drivers illegally overtake cars while trying to bypass after school traffic.
Residents see speed humps as the only way to curb speeding on Leihoku Street, but they feel their request is not being taken seriously.
"We need the city to step it up," Simpliciano said. "They need to do a better job listening to the people who actually live here."
Randy Iaea, who has been living on Leihoku Street for 14 years, said the speeding trend is "totally preventable and we're kind of hoping as a start that speed humps will make a difference."
The Department of Transportation Services isn't planning to add any speed humps to the street. DTS said it is working to install bicycle and parking lanes along the street to "...visually narrow the travel lanes to reduce the speed of drivers and better separate different roadway users."
Until they reach a solution, residents on Leihoku Street are asking drivers to slow down in their neighborhood.
'A'ali'i is a reporter with KITV. He was born and raised on the island of Maui and graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor's degree in Journalism.
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After slapping presenter Chris Rock on stage at last weekend's Academy Awards, Will Smith announced in a statement Friday that he has resigned from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences.
"I am resigning from membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and will accept any further consequences the Board deems appropriate," Smith said in a statement shared with CNN by his publicist.
Smith's statement concluded, "Change takes time and I am committed to doing the work to ensure that I never again allow violence to overtake reason."
After the embarrassing episode at Sunday night's Oscars, The Academy announced on Wednesday that it had "initiated disciplinary proceedings" against Smith.
David Rubin, President, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, said in a statement Friday that the organization has received and accepted Smith's "immediate resignation."
"We will continue to move forward with our disciplinary proceedings against Mr. Smith for violations of the Academy's Standards of Conduct, in advance of our next scheduled board meeting on April 18," Rubin added.
Disciplinary actions by the Academy include suspension or expulsion, along with "other sanctions permitted by the Bylaws and Standards of Conduct," the organization said.
Instead, Smith has willingly left the acclaimed organization of movie stars, directors and producers. By resigning, Smith will no longer be able to vote on Oscar-nominated movies and performances each year. His work, however, will still be eligible for future Oscars consideration and nominations.
His statement read in full:
"I have directly responded to the Academy's disciplinary hearing notice, and I will fully accept any and all consequences for my conduct. My actions at the 94th Academy Awards presentation were shocking, painful, and inexcusable. The list of those I have hurt is long and includes Chris, his family, many of my dear friends and loved ones, all those in attendance, and global audiences at home. I betrayed the trust of the Academy. I deprived other nominees and winners of their opportunity to celebrate and be celebrated for their extraordinary work. I am heartbroken. I want to put the focus back on those who deserve attention for their achievements and allow the Academy to get back to the incredible work it does to support creativity and artistry in film. So, I am resigning from membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and will accept any further consequences the Board deems appropriate. Change takes time and I am committed to doing the work to ensure that I never again allow violence to overtake reason."
Friday's statement was by far Smith's most contrite take on the matter.
He initially apologized to the Academy during his televised acceptance speech for best actor, about forty minutes after the slap. But in that speech, he did not apologize to Rock.
Smith publicly apologized to Rock the next day via social media.
But he was much more critical of himself on Friday, calling his actions "shocking, painful, and inexcusable."
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Bluefield softball shuts out PikeView
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Published: Apr. 1, 2022 at 10:56 PM EDT|Updated: 28 minutes ago
BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (WVVA) - The Bluefield High School softball team hosted PikeView on Friday evening.
The bats were hot for the Lady Beavers, as they shut out the Lady Panthers in five innings: 13-0.
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PikeView’s Lakyn Hatfield signs with Concord soccer
Published: Apr. 1, 2022 at 10:46 PM EDT|Updated: 38 minutes ago
PRINCETON, W.Va. (WVVA) - PikeView High School’s Lakyn Hatfield put pen to paper on Friday. She signed her LOI to play soccer at Concord.
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Police: Trio arrested after 18-year-old girl shot, raped and dumped on side of road
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) - Three people are under arrest after an 18-year-old girl’s body was found dumped on the side of the road last month in Mississippi.
Jackson Police Department Deputy Chief Deric Hearn held a press briefing on Friday, announcing the arrests and gruesome details of the crime.
WLBT reports the suspects were identified as Dewitt Anderson, 34, Cedric Banks, 37, and Kaymia Blackmon, 19.
Hearn said that on Feb. 15, police responded to reports of a girl’s body found near Clay Street, north of downtown, who had been shot multiple times.
On Mar. 24, detectives were then notified by the coroner’s office that the girl was identified as 18-year-old Amya Carey.
Hearn said a family member of Carey’s told detectives that on Feb. 15, she was picking up a friend Kaymia Blackmon, who was with her boyfriend, Dewitt Anderson.
The group went to several locations that night, according to Hearn.
Anderson’s brother, Cedric Banks, also joined the group, according to police, at some point that evening, and all tried to have sex with Carey.
Hearn said the 18-year-old refused and got into a fight with Blackmon. Anderson then picked up a gun and shot Carey.
The group placed Carey inside a car while she was severely wounded, and while they drove, one of them raped her, according to police.
Carey was then shot two times by Banks, and her body was dumped where police later found it. Hearn said detectives do not know if the teenager was dead or alive when she was assaulted in the vehicle.
On Wednesday, Blackmon and Anderson were contacted by detectives and summoned to police headquarters. During their interview, Hearn said the two described the events of that February evening.
Authorities said all three suspects, in this case, have been denied bond.
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Terry Wallis, ‘Man who slept for 19 years,’ dies nearly 20 years after miracle awakening from coma
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Ark. (KAIT/Gray News) - Terry Wallis, known as “The man who slept 19 years,” died earlier this week in Arkansas.
The Arkansas native woke from a 19-year coma in 2003 after a crash nearly took his life in 1984. He became the subject of many news and medical articles, including Time Magazine and Mayo Clinic publications.
KAIT reports the American Journal of Medicine in 2006 reported Wallis as being the first person ever documented to regenerate brain cells, according to his daughter, Amber.
According to an obituary provided by the Roller-Coffman Funeral Home, Wallis died in Searcy, Arkansas, at the Advanced Care Hospital on Tuesday.
Wallis’ family shared that the 1984 crash happened six weeks after his daughter was born when his truck skidded off a bridge in Stone County, Arkansas.
After a year in a coma, Wallis stabilized into a minimally conscious state. Still, doctors believed his condition would not improve, and his improvement shocked the world, according to his obituary.
Wallis is survived by his father, daughter and three grandchildren.
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CHEYENNE – Protect yourself from identity theft by joining AARP Wyoming for one of three events set up to help citizens protect their identity by shredding paperwork that may contain sensitive information.
The shred fests are drive-through contactless shredding events.
On Earth Day, April 22, AARP Wyoming will host shredding events in Sheridan, Rock Springs and Cheyenne. Those looking for paper shredding in Cheyenne are encouraged to go to the Laramie County Library, located at 2200 Pioneer Ave., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., where Shred-It will have a truck available for on-site shredding. To register and secure your drive up time, visit https://tinyurl.com/aarp-cheyenne-shredding.
To avoid having your sensitive information compromised, security experts recommend shredding of the following types of materials:
Old documents: Papers that carry your Social Security number, birth date, signature, account numbers, passwords or PINs.
Banking: Canceled or unused checks. Shred deposit slips and ATM and credit card receipts, once you receive your monthly statements.
Credit Cards: Pre-approved credit card applications and incentive/gift checks from credit card companies.
Medical: Unneeded medical bills.
Investments: Investment account statements.
Obsolete ID cards: Expired driver’s licenses, medical insurance cards and passports.
ShredFests are one component of AARP’s commitment to fighting fraud. The AARP Fraud Watch Network launched in 2013 as a free resource for people of all ages. Consumers may sign up for “Watchdog Alert” emails that deliver information about scams, or call a free helpline at 877-908-3360 to speak with volunteers trained in fraud counseling.
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CHEYENNE – Wyoming historian Rick Ewig will present "'Only a Maniac': The Derailment of the Union Pacific's Portland Rose in 1934" on April 14 at 7 p.m. in the Wyoming State Museum classroom, located at 2301 Central Ave. in Cheyenne.
This free public event is part of the Wyoming State Archives’ year-long Thursday evening speaker series.
Shortly before midnight on March 23, 1934, the Union Pacific's Portland Rose derailed east of Rawlins. Fortunately, no one was badly injured during the wreck, but the initial investigation by Union Pacific employees and law enforcement officials uncovered suspected "sabotage."
Believing robbery to be the motivation for the accident, UP special agents, the Carbon County Sheriff's Office and the warden of the Wyoming State Penitentiary began an intensive search, which quickly ended in the arrest of a Rawlins man tied to violent crimes in other states.
Those unable to attend this event in person may also participate in the livestream on the Archives' Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/WyomingStateArchives. A recording will be available on the WSA YouTube channel the week following the talk.
The WSA speaker series hosts talks at 7 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month. Upcoming topics include "The Early Black Coal Camps Communities of Southern Wyoming" with Brigada Blasi on May 12 and "Eagles of Heart Mountain" with Brad Pearson on June 9, with others scheduled throughout the year.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill led by U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo.; Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Ben Cardin, D-Md., to honor women’s rights pioneer Louisa Swain.
Serving as Lummis’ first stand-alone piece of legislation to pass both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, this bill designates the federal building located at 308 W. 21st St. in Cheyenne as the “Louisa Swain Federal Office Building.”
“As the first woman to serve Wyoming in the U.S. Senate, I am honored that my first bill to pass both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives is one that commemorates a true pioneer from my home state of Wyoming,” Lummis said in a release about her bill. “I cannot think of a better name for a federal building in the first state to recognize this right and enshrine full suffrage for women in law. It has been an honor working with colleagues in Wyoming and Maryland on this bill to honor a pioneer so important to both of our states.”
Laramie resident Louisa Swain was 70 years old when she cast her vote in Wyoming’s general election of 1870, making her the first woman to legally vote in the United States. Later in life, she moved to Maryland, and was laid to rest in Baltimore.
The bill passed the House of Representatives with 412 votes in the affirmative. The U.S. Senate passed the bill unanimously through a voice vote on Oct. 7, 2021. Having passed the House of Representatives, it will next be sent to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed.
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| 2022-04-02T03:48:52Z
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The governor’s office in Oregon has been held by a Democrat for the past 35 years.
A handful of the 19 Republican candidates who hope to succeed Kate Brown, who is term-limited and can’t run for re-election, spent Thursday night at a GOP governor candidates forum at the Klamath Falls VFW.
A crowd estimated at 150 showed up for the event, which featured candidates Bridget Barton, Reed Christensen, Brandon Merritt, Amber Richardson and Marc Thielman.
Pati Horton, chair of the Klamath County Republican Central Committee and the MC of the event, said Jessica Gomez was scheduled to appear but backed out late in the afternoon and Kerry McQuisten was unable to attend because of meetings she had to attend Friday in Salem.
The candidates each were provided time for opening statements, followed by a handful of questions previously selected. The 2½-hour event concluded with closing remarks by each candidate.
Richardson, a licensed massage therapist from Medford, was up first, declaring “I’m a patriot, not a politician ... and I think we need more of that.”
Christensen, a retired electrical engineer who lives in Hillsboro, opened with a couple of parlor tricks, and when nobody in attendance fell for them, said, “I think the people of Klamath Falls have been around the block a couple of times.” Christensen stressed the importance of election integrity. He filed to run for governor Jan. 7 — one year and a day after federal prosecutors say he struck a Capitol Police officer with his fists as rioters attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Washington, D.C.
Merrick, an elected delegate from Deschutes County, asked the crowd for a “Let’s Go Brandon!” cheer. His chief goal is to reopen the state and to “end the ineffective and unconstitutional (pandemic-related) mandates, none of which are laws, that are destroying our economy.”
Thielman is the former Alsea School District superintendent who defied Brown’s mask mandates, saying the “children belong to their parents (and not the state).”
Barton, a conservative writer, said she moved to Oregon 43 years ago “and I could never imagine we could fall so far ... elected officials should be sued for malpractice.”
The candidates took turn answering questions about their top priorities for Oregon, education, how they’d confront what will likely be a Democratic-controlled state legislature, right to life, human trafficking, the Second Amendment, Title IX, the voting system, taxes and gubernatorial appointments.
For the most part, the candidates didn’t stray far from the GOP platform in their answers. Barton wants to restock appointed positions while Richardson wants to do away with them. Christensen said he would permit abortions if the birth would jeopardize the life of the mother or in cases of incest and rape. Other than that, the candidates seemed united.
As for their chances in the election?
“We’re going to have a Red Wave,” Barton predicted in her closing remarks.
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ATHERTON, Calif. – An offensive explosion helped Oregon Tech to their highest run total in six years, as the Owls split the opening two games of a weekend series at Menlo College.
The Owls (23-14) jumped out to a 12-run lead after three innings and cruised to a 20-4 victory in the opener, while host Menlo used late inning heroics to steal the nightcap, 4-3.
The 20 runs in Game 1 were the most by a Tech squad since a 23-13 victory over Simpson in 2016 – with the 20 hits in the win a season high.
“We got back to playing our type of baseball, which was great to see,” OIT coach Jacob Garsez said. “Our offense can be very explosive, but we needed to find ways to get more baserunners in the middle innings of Game 2 to extend our lead.”
OIT sent 12 batters to the plate in the first inning of the win – scoring eight runs. The Owls loaded the bases with one out – with a Tyler Horner hit by pitch scoring the first run. Brodie Marino doubled home a pair, Michael Tarakhchyan brought home a run with a squeeze bunt and a Mitchel Swanson RBI single made it 5-0. A Matthew Ortiz RBI triple and a Kaleb Keelean RBI double capped the frame.
Tech extended the margin to 14-2 in the fifth on a Swanson two-run double, with Ka’Ala Tam doubling home a pair in a six-run sixth to push the lead to 20-2.
It was more than enough for Braeden Bellum and Cruz Hamilton, who limited the Oaks (12-20-1) to just two earned runs. Bellum earned the victory, striking out four in six innings, with Hamilton tossing the final three frames, fanning six, to pick up the save.
Marino was 4-for-7 with three RBI, Swanson was 3-for-4 with four RBI and Tam went 3-for-4 with three RBI in the OIT win.
The Owls had the lead late in a scheduled seven inning Game 2, but the Oaks rallied with single runs in the sixth, seventh and a walk-off winner in the eighth, to complete the comeback.
Ortiz led off the game with a triple and scored on an Ian Peters sacrifice fly, extending the lead to 2-0 as Marino scored on a wild pitch. Alex Malcolm doubled home a run in the fourth to give the visitors a 3-1 edge.
However, Menlo cut the gap to 3-2 in the sixth on a Joseph Selvaggio homer, with Selvaggio doubling home the tying run with two outs in the seventh. The Oaks won it an inning later, stringing together three hits – capped by a Dane Anderson RBI single.
Patrick Arman had a no-decision for the Owls, throwing six-plus innings, allowing just two earned runs and striking out five.
“Bellum and Pat gave us two quality starts and our bullpen arms competed well,” Garsez said. “Back at it (Saturday), one pitch at a time.”
The two teams close out the series Saturday with an 11 a.m. doubleheader.
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The Oregon Country Fair will be back as a live event in July, organizers have announced, and tickets went on sale to the public Friday.
Break out the body glitter and the tambourines, as the fair returns to the banks of the Long Tim River in Veneta, just west of Eugene, July 8-10.
COVID-19 shutdowns had canceled the fair for the past two summers. The 2022 event has announced COVID-safety protocols that include requiring attendees to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test. The fair safety board also notes that the “event will operate in accordance with all applicable public health conditions as of the date of the event.”
Also, as in past years, tickets are required in advance. There will be no three-day passes sold, and no tickets will be available on site.
The fair has a long history in Oregon. In 1969, a group of artisans gathered at a farm outside Eugene, in a space some would later describe as a parking lot, where they sold handmade goods to raise money for a local alternative school, The Oregonian’s Jamie Hale wrote in 2019. Originally called the Oregon Renaissance Faire, complete with period garb, the event became an annual gathering dedicated to creativity and philanthropy. In 1975 organizers changed the name to the Oregon Country Renaissance Faire, then in 1976 just the Oregon Country Fair.
Although performers haven’t been announced for the 2022 event, you can expect the fair to include entertainment ranging from live music to vaudeville acts, spoken word, dance performers, and circus and aerial acts. Giant puppets, fairies, stilt walkers and parades strolling through the trees have been the norm at this outdoor festival. The Oregon Country Fair typically hosts 18 stages of entertainment, more than 80 food booths, and nearly 700 vendors offering crafts and other items.
Individual ticket prices are $40 Friday-Saturday, and $35 Sunday when purchased in advance. Day-of tickets are $50 but are not sold at the fair site. All tickets must be purchased through ticketswest.com. Children ages 10 and younger will be admitted free with a ticketed adult.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — There are three new COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 7,147, Oregon Health Authority (OHA) reported Friday.
OHA reported 368 new confirmed and presumptive cases of COVID-19 as of Friday, bringing the state total to 704,515.
Today is last day for daily media release
Today is the last day OHA will distribute a daily media release about COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths (including individual death summaries).
Information about new COVID-19 cases, current hospitalizations of COVID-19 positive patients and deaths, along with other COVID-19 data, will continue to be available daily on the OHA website, data dashboards and social media platforms.
COVID-19 hospitalizations
The number of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 across Oregon is 109, which is one more than yesterday. There are 20 COVID-19 patients in intensive care unit (ICU) beds, which is three more than yesterday.
There are 109 available adult ICU beds out of 674 total (16% availability) and 375 available adult non-ICU beds out of 4,276 (9% availability).
The total number of patients in hospital beds may fluctuate between report times. The numbers do not reflect admissions per day, nor the length of hospital stay. Staffing limitations are not captured in this data and may further limit bed capacity.
Vaccinations in Oregon
Today, OHA reported that 7,411 new doses of COVID-19 vaccinations were added to the state immunization registry March 31. Of that total, 253 were initial doses, 331 were second doses and 787 were third doses and booster doses. The remaining 2,529 doses were administered on previous days but were entered into the vaccine registry March 31.
The seven-day running average is now 1,894 doses per day.
Oregon has now administered 4,199,881 doses of Pfizer Comirnaty, 246,173 doses of Pfizer pediatric, 2,745,130 doses of Moderna and 270,470 doses of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines.
As of today, 3,176,952 people have had at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 2,885,592 people have completed a COVID-19 vaccine series.
Cases and deaths
The new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases reported today are in the following counties: Benton (23), Clackamas (41), Clatsop (4), Columbia (5), Coos (7), Deschutes (13), Douglas (3), Grant (1), Hood River (2), Jackson (5), Jefferson (2), Josephine (3), Klamath (2), Lane (36), Lincoln (5), Linn (7), Malheur (1), Marion (22), Multnomah (124), Tillamook (3), Umatilla (7), Wasco (2), Washington (45) and Yamhill (5).
Oregon’s 7,145th COVID-19-related death is an 81-year-old man from Lane county who tested positive Feb. 9 and died March 11 at Vibra Specialty Hospital of Portland. Presence of underlying conditions is being confirmed.
Oregon’s 7,146th COVID-19-related death is a 65-year-old woman from Clatsop County who tested positive Oct. 30, 2021, and died Oct. 31, 2021. Place of death and presence of underlying conditions are being confirmed.
Oregon’s 7,147th COVID-19-related death is a 72-year-old man from Klamath County who tested positive July 15, 2021, and died Aug. 5, 2021, at Franciscan Health Lafayette in Lafayette, Ind. Presence of underlying conditions is being confirmed.
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Oregon Tech unveiled its new gaming lounge to the public Friday afternoon.
Located in Diamond Peak in Upper College Union, the gaming lounge will play host for the Oregon Tech esports teams during the season, which lasts eight weeks during the winter term for students.
The games currently played by the Oregon Tech esports team include League of Legends, Rainbow Six Siege, and Valorant, with the intent to add more in the future.
“Being part of Oregon Tech gaming has exposed me to some of the most dedicated and passionate people I have ever met,” Oregon Tech gaming student director Daniel Craig said.
Craig then mentioned how this is the first club at Oregon Tech to become a program at OIT, which Craig claims is “no accident.”
The club, which began in 2017, gained so much popularity and attention for Oregon Tech students that many, like Craig, wanted the club to become an official team.
After six months of deliberation with the school, the club officially became a collegiate esports team and has a home as of Friday.
Thomas Arce, director of student involvement and belonging, said he was proud of the students for making this possible. Arce said the school will award five scholarships to varsity esports players and intends to offer more in the future.
While the new gaming lounge is a milestone, the school and student affairs intend to find a larger space in the future with the intent of growing the program.
During the hours of 5-9 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays, as well as 1-9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, students are welcome to come by and play some of their favorite video games.
“We wanted to create a sense of community for students who find passion and love for video games,” said Bailey Nickle, student involvement coordinator.
Erin Foley, the vice president of student affairs, has even bigger plans.
“We are going to be known for esports and compete on ESPN,” Foley said during her speech at the ribbon-cutting ceremony.
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Democratic Gov. Kate Brown and other progressives are touting Oregon as a sanctuary for abortions and a friendly harbor for the LGBTQ community with other states, including Idaho and Florida, passing controversial measures.
Oregon has created a $15 million fund to help provide abortions to women, including those from out of state, potentially impacted by restrictive laws passed in Idaho and Texas and being considered in the other Republican states. Idaho and other states have passed restrictions on abortions after six weeks.
The Oregon Reproductive Health Equity Fund aims to help pay for travel and the costs of coming to Oregon for abortions if they are unable to access those service in their home states and the potential weakening of Roe v. Wade in upcoming Supreme Court decisions.
“Most abortions in the state will be banned,” said An Do, executive director of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon, referring to the Idaho law.
Do said that will also impact some patients in rural eastern Oregon who might be a closer drive to health care services in Idaho.
She said the state fund could help those seeking abortions with the costs of travel or potentially for the procedures themselves.
Do would also like to see the $15 million fund, which was included by Democrats in this year’s state budget, be used to expand the statewide capacity to provide abortions and reproductive health care. She said that includes more abortion resources and services in rural parts of Oregon. Do said the Oregon fund could also look to help clinics with staffing, equipment and technology needs.
Do said Oregon’s new fund shows the state’s commitment to reproductive and abortion rights.
“It is setting an example,” Do said of how the Oregon effort is playing nationally. “This definitely is Oregon leading.”
The Supreme Court is set to rule on a Mississippi abortion law and could give conservative states more leeway to restrict pregnancy terminations and create states that are safe harbors for abortion providers and patients.
Anti-abortion advocates oppose the Oregon fund and using state money to help terminate pregnancies.
“Pro-abortion politicians in Salem have decided that they will use state funds in whatever way they see fit to push their agenda. Oregon already faces many ongoing crises. Our current leadership chose to prioritize abortion access for out-of-state visitors instead of addressing the problems we already have,” said Oregon Right to Life in a statement to the Herald & News.
Lois Anderson, the group’s executive director, is also urging conservatives and others opposed to abortions to voice their opposition to Gov. Kate Brown. “We cannot allow Oregon to become another abortion tourism state,” Anderson said in an email referring to the potential for a large influx of visitors seeking abortions.
Brown has also put Oregon’s stamp on a controversial conservative law passed in Florida that prohibits public schools from discussing sexual orientation or gender identity in lessons from kindergarten through third grade.
The bill, which had the backing of Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, also restricts such lessons in other grades unless they age appropriate. DeSantis is also among Republican governors criticized transgender athletes competing in women’s sports
Critics — which include some major corporations, including the Walt Disney Co. and Oregon-based Nike — have labeled the measure the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
Brown, a Democrat, faulted the Florida law and touted Oregon’s support for inclusion and the LGBTQ community.
“In Oregon, we say ‘gay’,” said Brown in a video statement on the Florida law. “Oregonians are welcoming of our LGBTQIA community members. We want to make sure Oregon is a safe, inclusive and welcoming place for all.”
Brown said she was “horrified and outraged” by the Florida law and that it will make schools a less welcoming and safe place for LGBTQ children. Opponents of the measure also worry it will lead to more bullying and harassment of LGBTQ students.
Across the country and political aisle, DeSantis argues the bill is about parental rights and age-appropriate discussions about sexuality and gender identity in public classrooms. “Parents have every right to be informed about services offered to their child at school, and should be protected from schools using classroom instruction to sexualize their kids as young as 5 years old,” DeSantis said when signing the controversial bill March 28.
Some major business interests, including Disney, Amazon, Nike, Starbucks, Intel, Ikea and Macy’s oppose the Florida law and similar proposals in other states. Oregon does compete with Florida for economic development and business investment projects in the technology and renewable energy spaces.
Opponents of the Florida bill also hope it takes a bite out of the Sunshine State’s $90 billion tourism industry and see more progressives visit progressive states such as Oregon, which has a $12.3 billion tourism sector.
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Discover Klamath is looking for a new leader with the retirement of longtime executive director Jim Chadderdon.
But officials with the tourism promotion group say the Klamath Basin is well-positioned in the post-pandemic tourism world with its outdoor assets and is rebounding faster than other parts of the state from COVID-19’s impacts and restrictions.
The Discover group is welcoming back events and their economic benefits with COVID-related mandates and restrictions eased. The tourism industry and the jobs it creates were hit hard by the pandemic, reductions in travel and cancelation of events. The hospitality industry is still recovering jobs to get back to pre-pandemic levels.
“We have rebounded very well,” Chadderdon said in an interview with the Herald and News before his March 31 departure. “It comes back to the product. We are learning people don’t want to be on cruise ships. They don’t want to be on airlines. They don’t want to be in large crowds.”
Chadderdon and other Discover Klamath leaders said the local tourism market is recovering better than other parts of the state.
Hotel occupancy rates ended 2021 at 70.9% in southern Oregon and 62.6% in Klamath, according to Smith Travel Research.
That comes after seeing hotel room vacancies go from 62.2% in 2019 to 54.7% in 2020 in southern Oregon and from 58.6% in 2019 and 47.4% in 2020 in Klamath.
Discover Klamath officials said that compares favorably to the rest of Oregon (including Portland) and the U.S. at large.
The U.S. hotel room vacancy rate went from 66.1% in 2019 to 44% in 2020 and 57.7% in 2021, according to Smith’s travel data.
In Oregon, those rates went from 65.9% before the pandemic in 2019 down to 46.2% in 2020 and 60.1% in 2021.
The situation in Portland — which also saw national images on conservative media outlets, in particular, depicting social and political unrest — caused the hotel vacancy rate in Oregon’s largest city to drop from 73.1% in 2019 all the way down to 39.2% in 2020 and 52.3% in 2021.
Current travel trends translate into increased opportunities to attract outdoorsy visitors from within Oregon as well as neighboring California, Idaho and Washington, said Tonia Ulbricht, who is serving as interim director for Discover Klamath.
“You can still hike a trail and not have 50 people with you,” she said
She said that compares favorably to some of the larger crowds seen at Oregon’s picturesque beaches and other areas, such as Bend.
“People are flooding the coast,” she said.
Ulbricht, who has been with the local group for eight years and previously served as senior marketing manager, said the group is working more with tourism and event promoters in other parts of the region to leverage assets and pool resources.
That includes partnering with groups in Ashland and Siskiyou County on a new regional mountain biking tour. She also hopes to attract more visitors from growing parts of Idaho and entice more tourists from the Oregon Coast or Portland to venture to the southern part of the state.
Chadderdon also touted the group’s focus on working other communities. “We don’t treat them as competitors. We treat them as partners,” he said.
Discover Klamath has an advertising budget of $200,000 to $250,000, Ulbricht said. That is smaller than other tourism groups in larger markets in the region. The group was founded in 2008 and is funded via hotel taxes.
Ulbricht said approximately 50% of visitors to the local market are from California and another 30% are from within Oregon.
She said the group will continue to focus advertising and marketing efforts on San Francisco and northern California and other Pacific Northwest markets such as Seattle, Tacoma and Portland. Discover Klamath is also advertising more in Idaho with a focus on mountain bikers.
Ulbricht and Chadderdon also noted interest in the basin from Florida, Ohio, Washington D.C., and other East Coast markets.
The Ride the Rim event at Crater Lake, a centerpiece of local tourism efforts, will return in September after a pandemic cancellations.
Ulbricht said the event has attracted more than 6,000 visitors to the area.
“A lot of our events are coming back,” she said.
Discover Klamath’s board chairman Darin Rutledge wants to attract more sport tourism — including youth tournaments and competitions — to the region. He hopes to have a new executive director in place within three to six months.
The group also wants to work more with industry partners, especially hotels and other lodgers on marketing, staffing and resources efforts.
Rutledge also wants to work on the local brand — including how local residents and businesses view the area. He said that includes combating negative views that Klamath Falls is some kind of “meth capital” or “that we are a bunch of hillbillies.”
Part of that effort could include working more with local businesses and their employees to help promote the natural beauty of the region, hidden gems and fun restaurants and coffee spots.
“We want them telling people the right story,” he said.
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Missing Louisiana woman’s vehicle found in Missouri
Lake Charles, LA (KPLC/Gray News) - Ella Quiana Goodie’s vehicle has been found in Missouri, according to Louisiana State Police.
The search continues for Goodie though, State Trooper Derek Senegal said.
Goodie’s 2012 Audi Q5 was found in St. Joseph, Missouri, Senegal said.
Goodie, 32, a Lyft driver from Scott, has been missing since March 9.
Goodie was seen driving to Texas and back on Interstate 10, Scott Police Chief Chad Leger said. On Thursday, March 10, the vehicle was spotted north of Dallas, according to Leger.
Brandon Jermaine Francisco is believed to be the last person in contact with Goodie, Leger said. Francisco was picked up in Missouri on an active warrant out of Rapides Parish for failure to appear in court the same day Goodie was last seen.
Senegal asked anyone with information about Goodie’s whereabouts to contact the Louisiana State Police at 318-484-2194 or Scott Police Department at 337-233-3715.
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UConn tops Stanford 63-58, advances to NCAA title game
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Paige Bueckers scored 14 points and UConn advanced to the national championship game with a 63-58 win over defending champion Stanford on Friday night.
The Huskies will face South Carolina for the national championship on Sunday night. The Gamecocks beat the Cardinals 72-59 in the first game of the Final Four.
It’s UConn’s first trip to the championship game since 2016, when the Huskies won the last of four straight championships. Since then, the team has suffered heartbreaking defeats in the national semifinals, losing twice in overtime.
UConn (30-5) will be seeking its 12th national championship, and the Huskies have never lost in an NCAA title game.
They had to work to get to the finals. Leading by 52-44 with 1:26 left, Stanford made a furious rally thanks to a few costly UConn turnovers.
Cameron Brink’s layup with 18.4 seconds left got the Cardinal within 60-58. UConn was able to work seven seconds off the clock before Christyn Williams was fouled with 11 seconds left. The senior guard calmly swished both free throws to restore a two-possession lead.
Ashten Prechtel completely missed a tough contested 3-pointer from the wing with 5.4 seconds left and the Huskies held on for the win.
Haley Jones led the Cardinal with 20 points.
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Zelenskyy: Russians create ‘complete disaster’ with mines
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned his people early Saturday that retreating Russian forces were creating “a complete disaster” outside the capital as they leave mines across “the whole territory,” including around homes and corpses.
He issued the warning as the humanitarian crisis in the encircled city of Mariupol deepened, with Russian forces blocking evacuation operations for the second day in a row. Meanwhile, the Kremlin accused the Ukrainians of launching a helicopter attack on a fuel depot on Russian soil.
Ukraine denied responsibility for the fiery blast, but if Moscow’s claim is confirmed, it would be the war’s first known attack in which Ukrainian aircraft penetrated Russian airspace.
GRAPHIC WARNING: Videos in this story may contain disturbing content.
“Certainly, this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of the talks,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, five weeks after Moscow began sending upwards of 150,000 of its own troops across Ukraine’s border.
Russia continued withdrawing some of its ground forces from areas around Kyiv after saying earlier this week it would reduce military activity near the Ukrainian capital and the northern city of Chernihiv.
“They are mining the whole territory. They are mining homes, mining equipment, even the bodies of people who were killed,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address to the nation. “There are a lot of trip wires, a lot of other dangers.”
Ukraine’s military said it had retaken 29 settlements in the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.
Still, Ukraine and its allies warned that the Kremlin is not de-escalating to promote trust at the bargaining table, as it claimed, but instead resupplying and shifting its troops to the country’s east. Those movements appear to be preparation for an intensified assault on the mostly Russian-speaking Donbas region in the country’s east, which includes Mariupol.
Zelenskyy warned of difficult battles ahead as Russia redeploys troops. “We are preparing for an even more active defense,” he said.
He did not say anything about the latest round of talks, which took place Friday by video. At a round of talks earlier in the week, Ukraine said it would be willing to abandon a bid to join NATO and declare itself neutral — Moscow’s chief demand — in return for security guarantees from several other countries.
The invasion has left thousands dead and driven more than 4 million refugees from Ukraine.
Mariupol, the shattered and besieged southern port city, has seen some of the worst suffering of the war. Its capture would be a major prize for Russian President Vladimir Putin, giving his country an unbroken land bridge to Crimea, seized from Ukraine in 2014.
On Friday, the International Committee for the Red Cross said it was unable to carry out an operation to bring civilians out of Mariupol by bus. City authorities said the Russians were blocking access to the city.
“We do not see a real desire on the part of the Russians and their satellites to provide an opportunity for Mariupol residents to evacuate to territory controlled by Ukraine,” Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol’s mayor, wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
He said Russian forces “are categorically not allowing any humanitarian cargo, even in small amounts, into the city.”
Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city, down from a prewar 430,000. Weeks of Russian bombardment and street fighting have caused severe shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine.
“We are running out of adjectives to describe the horrors that residents in Mariupol have suffered,” Red Cross spokesperson Ewan Watson said.
On Thursday, Russian forces blocked a 45-bus convoy attempting to evacuate people from Mariupol and seized 14 tons of food and medical supplies bound for the city, Ukrainian authorities said.
Zelenskyy said more than 3,000 people were able to leave Mariupol on Friday.
He said he discussed the humanitarian disaster with French President Emmanuel Macron by telephone and with the president of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, during her visit to Kyiv.
“Europe doesn’t have the right to be silent about what is happening in our Mariupol,” Zelenskyy said. “The whole world should respond to this humanitarian catastrophe.”
Elsewhere, at least three Russian ballistic missiles were fired late Friday at the Odesa region on the Black Sea, regional leader Maksim Marchenko said. The Ukrainian military said the Iskander missiles did not hit the critical infrastructure they targeted.
Odesa is Ukraine’s largest port and the headquarters of its navy.
As for the fuel depot explosion, Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said two Ukrainian helicopter gunships flew in extremely low and attacked the civilian oil storage facility on the outskirts of the city of Belgorod, about 25 kilometers (16 miles) from the Ukraine border.
The regional governor said two workers at the depot were wounded, but the Rosneft state oil company denied anyone was hurt.
Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s national security council, said on Ukrainian television: “For some reason they say that we did it, but in fact this does not correspond with reality.”
Later, in an interview with Fox, Zelenskyy refused to say whether Ukraine was behind the attack.
On the outskirts of Kyiv, where Russian troops have withdrawn, damaged cars lined the streets of Irpin, a suburban area popular with young families, now in ruins. Emergency workers carried elderly people on stretchers over a wrecked bridge to safety.
Three wooden crosses next to a residential building that was damaged in a shelling marked the graves of a mother and son and an unknown man. A resident who gave her name only as Lila said she helped hurriedly bury them on March 5, just before Russian troops moved in.
“They were hit with artillery and they were burned alive,” she said.
An Irpin resident who gave his name only as Andriy said the Russians packed up their equipment and left on Tuesday. The next day, they shelled the town for close to an hour before Ukrainian soldiers retook it.
“I don’t think this is over,” Andriy said. “They will be back.”
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Karmanau reported from Lviv, Ukraine. Andrea Rosa in Irpin, Ukraine, and Associated Press journalists around the world contributed to this report.
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...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast to east winds 20 to 30 knots Kaiwi Channel, 15
to 25 knots elsewhere, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Kauai Northwest Waters, Kauai Windward Waters, Kauai
Leeward Waters, Kauai Channel, Oahu Windward Waters, Oahu
Leeward Waters, Kaiwi Channel, Maui County Windward Waters,
Maui County Leeward Waters and Big Island Windward Waters.
* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening through Saturday night.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in these conditions.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) - More than 3,000 eager passengers, aboard the Ruby Princess docked in Honolulu Friday morning.
The incoming ship is the first to arrive to the islands since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) dropped it's risk assessment for cruises on Wednesday.
Notice from the CDC coincides with the recent lifting of the state's Safe Travels program, as well as the indoor mask mandate.
Still, despite the most recent bout of changes, those in Hawaii's cruise industry note that an overnight switch to pre-pandemic conditions isn't realistic.
"Nothing really is changing, just yet. It maybe is a little too premature to see the impact of that changing. Even at the harbors we are going to be wearing masks and social distancing," admitted MC&A senior manager, Curtis Chee. "There might be just a few more guests than there were at the very start in January, but it's not like the numbers have tripled or doubled or they're coming at full capacity."
In addition to upholding some of those safety protocols onboard passengers explaining how the opportunity to get a fourth dose of the vaccine made them even more comfortable traveling and getting back on the water.
"I think we feel really comfortable. I do anyways," explained Oklahoma resident, Robert Prince. "Especially because we were able to receive our fourth vaccine, which a lot of people have not been able to do so."
Industry members emphasized visitor interest to the islands is still growing, but the state can most likely expect to reach more typical numbers by next season.
As of now, plans are to keep working with passengers and transportation management to ensure the transition back to normalcy is smooth sailing.
Erin found her passion in journalism from a young age, watching her dad on the news. He taught her the importance of meeting, learning, and sharing people's stories.
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...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast to east winds 20 to 30 knots Kaiwi Channel, 15
to 25 knots elsewhere, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Kauai Northwest Waters, Kauai Windward Waters, Kauai
Leeward Waters, Kauai Channel, Oahu Windward Waters, Oahu
Leeward Waters, Kaiwi Channel, Maui County Windward Waters,
Maui County Leeward Waters and Big Island Windward Waters.
* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening through Saturday night.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
vessels, should avoid navigating in these conditions.
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April is Autism Awareness Month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports Autism affects 1 in 44 children in the U.S.
Hawaii Autism advocates say the pandemic, particularly mask wearing, has brought on certain challenges for students with autism.
“If you are teaching language to a child, especially a young child, they’re going to rely on the facial cues, the way that your mouth moves, in order to imitate those same movements. Body language as well,” says Amy Wiech, CEO and Executive Director, of the Autism Behavior Consulting Group Hawaii.
With masks, Wiech says it’s harder for those with autism to “learn to improve [their] articulation.”
The signs of Autism include repetitive behavior and challenges with social communication and interaction.
To help spread awareness, Ala Moana Beach Park's Magic Island will host a walk and resource fair Saturday, April 2. Registration begins 7am; the walk starts at 8am. The fair will include live entertainment and games.
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Mika is the co-anchor for KITV4 Island News at 5, 6, and 10 p.m.
Since joining KITV4 in 2016, Mika has also served as a multimedia journalist, weather, and traffic anchor.
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...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM HST SUNDAY...
* WHAT...Northeast to east winds 20 to 30 knots Kaiwi Channel, 15
to 25 knots elsewhere, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Kauai Northwest Waters, Kauai Windward Waters, Kauai
Leeward Waters, Kauai Channel, Oahu Windward Waters, Oahu
Leeward Waters, Kaiwi Channel, Maui County Windward Waters,
Maui County Leeward Waters and Big Island Windward Waters.
* WHEN...From 6 PM this evening through Saturday night.
* IMPACTS...Conditions will be hazardous to small craft.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Inexperienced mariners, especially those operating smaller
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KALEOLOA (KITV4) - State regulators have approved the power purchase agreement between Hawaiian Electric and a Canadian company on a major solar energy farm being planned in West Oahu, according to public documents.
The Public Utilities Commission recently gave the green light to the 15-megawatt project that covers about 100 acres in the Kalaeloa area. The project, which is being developed by Innergex Renewable Energy, also includes a 15-megawatt battery energy storage system.
Hawaiian Electric estimates that, as a result of the power purchase agreement, a typical residential customer consuming 500-kilowatt-hours per month could save about 25 cents per month on average over the course of the term of the agreement.
In a statement to KITV4, a Hawaiian Electric spokesperson says it's pleased the project was approved and it's working with the developer on next steps.
No timeframe has been set yet for the project.
Do you have a story idea? Email news tips to news@kitv.com
Duane Shimogawa has more than 15 years of experience in the media industry with stints as a reporter/anchor at several TV and radio stations, as well as newspapers such as Pacific Business News, Hawaii News Now, KNDU/KNDO-TV, and more.
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The first NASA mission to the moon since 1972 is ready for its most crucial test to date.
The 322-foot-tall (98-meter-tall) Artemis I rocket stack, including NASA's mega Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft, began the wet dress rehearsal Friday afternoon at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The test is expected to last through Sunday.
The results will determine when the uncrewed Artemis I will launch on a mission that goes beyond the moon and returns to Earth. This mission will kick off NASA's Artemis program, which is expected to return humans to the moon and land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface by 2025.
The wet dress rehearsal simulates every stage of launch without the rocket actually leaving the launchpad. This includes powering on the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft, loading supercold propellant into the rocket's tanks, going through a full countdown simulating launch, resetting the countdown clock and draining the rocket tanks. The test began with a call to stations at 5 p.m. ET Friday and will end Sunday evening with the final countdowns.
The call to stations, which is a check-in with every team associated with a launch, "is a big milestone because it is the time in which we are calling our teams, notifying them that the wet dress rehearsal test is officially underway," Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, Artemis launch director for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems program, said during a news conference Tuesday.
A NASA livestream of Artemis I on the launchpad without audio commentary started at noon ET Friday and will be available throughout the weekend, but don't expect to see all the drama of an actual launch.
Trial run includes countdown
The team is targeting a two-hour test window that opens at 2:40 p.m. ET Sunday, barring any delays due to inclement weather or other factors. The countdown will begin Sunday afternoon after a weather briefing, making sure all teams are a "go" for a mock launch.
Once the rocket has been loaded with more than 700,000 gallons (3.2 million liters) of propellant -- the "wet" in wet dress rehearsal -- the team will go through all the steps toward launch.
"Some venting may be seen during tanking," according to the agency, but that's about it for visible action at the launchpad.
"Liquid hydrogen is at a negative 450 degrees Fahrenheit (negative 268 degrees Celsius), liquid oxygen is negative 273 (negative 169 degrees Celsius), so it's very cold substances," said Tom Whitmeyer, deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development at NASA headquarters, during the news conference. "I used to participate in this back in the shuttle program, and it's like watching a ballet. You've got pressure, volume and temperature. And you're really kind of working all those parameters to have a successful tanking operation."
The team members will count down to within a minute and 30 seconds before launch and pause to ensure they can hold launch for three minutes, resume and let the clock run down to 33 seconds, and then pause the countdown.
Then, they will reset the clock to 10 minutes before launch, go through the countdown again and end at 9.3 seconds, just before ignition and launch would occur. This simulates what is called scrubbing a launch, or aborting a launch attempt, if weather or technical issues would prevent a safe liftoff.
At the end of the test, the team will drain the rocket's propellant, just as it would during a real scrub.
Some steps will be classified
Artemis I rolled out to the launchpad on March 18. After this rehearsal, it will be rolled back into the Vehicle Assembly Building until it's ready to launch.
Updates of the test's progress will be shared from the Artemis blog and a NASA Twitter account. But no audio or commentary will be provided, and there are no in-person media events surrounding the test. Additionally, some data will be kept under wraps due to security concerns.
Milestones will be shared on NASA's site, but details such as specific timing, temperatures and how long it takes for certain tasks to be completed are "considered to be important information by other countries," Whitmeyer said. "And so we have to be very careful when we share data, particularly for the first time, you know."
And that's for a reason.
"We're really, really supersensitive to cryogenic launch vehicles that are the size and capability, that are very analogous to ballistic-type capabilities that other countries are very interested in," Whitmeyer said. "And what they're specifically looking for is timing sequence flow rates, temperatures, anything that would help them or other folks to potentially be used to help other people do similar things."
The complex interaction of loading propellants and the sequence of events to prevent stress on the vehicle are the kinds of specific data that would be of particular interest, he said.
Whitmeyer stressed that the agency was being conservative and exercising an abundance of caution, "particularly in the environment that we're in nowadays."
Summer launch anticipated
The space agency is expected to provide an update about the results of the test on Monday.
Depending on the outcome of the wet dress rehearsal, the uncrewed mission could launch in June or July.
During the flight, the uncrewed Orion spacecraft will launch atop the SLS rocket to reach the moon and travel thousands of miles beyond it -- farther than any spacecraft intended to carry humans has ever traveled. This mission is expected to last for a few weeks and will end with Orion splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
Artemis I will be the final proving ground for Orion before the spacecraft carries astronauts to the moon, 1,000 times farther from Earth than where the International Space Station is located.
After the uncrewed Artemis I flight, Artemis II will be a crewed flyby of the moon, and Artemis III will return astronauts to the lunar surface. The time line for the subsequent mission launches depends on the results of the Artemis I mission.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced on Friday that she is running for Congress, seeking to fill the state's lone US House seat after the death of longtime Rep. Don Young.
Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008 and a conservative firebrand who helped stoke the anti-establishment sentiment that has engulfed the party since she ran alongside the late Sen. John McCain years ago, said in a statement that she planned to "honor" the nearly five decades Young served in Congress by "offering myself up in the name of service to the state he loved and fought for."
"America is at a tipping point," she said. "As I've watched the far left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight."
Palin joins a crowded field of candidates to succeed Young, the longtime Alaska representative who died last month at age 88. Although she is years removed from her last electoral bid, she enters the race as a household name in the state.
A special primary will take place June 11 and the special general election will take place on August 16, the same day as Alaska's statewide primary. The contests will be the first to use the state's new election system, where all candidates run on a single ballot in the primary and the top four candidates advance to the general election.
In the general election the winning candidate will be determined by ranked-choice voting.
Since running for vice president, Palin has not sought any other elected office, even as the party has moved more towards the rhetoric that made her standout as a vice presidential pick.
In 2009, shortly after she and McCain lost to then-Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden, Palin resigned as Alaska governor, citing the pressure and financial restraints that came with a host of ethics complaints. Since then, Palin has gone on to be a staple on the Republican convention circuit, regularly appearing at large gatherings of Republican activists to lambast Democrats. And she has been a sought-after endorsement for some Republican hopefuls, including Donald Trump when he successfully ran for President in 2016.
Palin has teased a possible bid in recent media appearances.
"There is a time and a season for everything and if this season is one where I need a more official platform to have then, yeah, I'm going to throw my hat in the ring because we need people who have cojones," she told Fox. "We need people, like Donald Trump, who has nothing to lose, like me."
This story has been updated with additional details Friday.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- At Hawaiian Ethos on the Big Island, their cannabis crop goes from farm to store. But right now, they can only sell medicinal marijuana, something they say is a huge missed opportunity with Hawaii sitting on a green gold mine.
"Hawaii has a long history that goes back for decades and in some cases multi-generational legacy history with cannabis in Hawaii. So yeah, I think there's a lot of potential there," says Chris Sandy with Hawaiian Ethos.
It's potential that is getting some new hope, as the U.S. House passes a bill to federally decriminalize marijuana.
The bill passed on a near party-line vote. But back here at home, despite a Democratic supermajority, efforts to create a full legal industry in Hawaii have gone up in smoke.
Just last week, Governor David Ige told us in a one-on-one interview he opposes recreational marijuana in Hawaii.
And it's not clear how different the leading Democratic candidates hoping to take Ige's place will be.
Lieutenant Governor Josh Green didn't have a response on the issue today. Vicky Cayetano says she support medical marijuana, but still wants to see how the federal bill pans out for recreational marijuana.
The only candidate we reached who supports legalizing marijuana in Hawaii is Republican candidate Paul Morgan.
"It's just from lack of knowledge maybe who knows for sure, and maybe just not considering the advantage we have in Hawaii," Morgan says.
He says it should be a no brainer. "The state that we're in of course we need the revenue and with Hawaii having some of the most fertile soil in the world, it would be a great economic driver for the state." Morgan says.
If it does happen, Hawaiian Ethos says they will be ready.
"It would still be several years before Hawaii had all the legislative infrastructure, the rules, the companies ramped up, additional license issues to order to get the state to place where it could manage an adult use program," Sandy says.
Tom anchors Good Morning Hawaii weekends and reports for KITV4. He comes to Hawaii after reporting in Nevada, Oklahoma and Georgia. Tom is a proud Terp, graduating from the University of Maryland in 2012.
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| 2022-04-02T05:04:32Z
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House panel’s possible options for alleging Trump 1/6 crimes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate acquitted former President Donald Trump last year of inciting the Capitol insurrection. But neither Trump nor any of his top advisers have faced charges over the attack in a court of law, and it’s uncertain if they ever will.
But increasingly, lawmakers on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 assault are pressing Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Trump and his associates. They’ve been laying out possible crimes in at least one court filing and openly discussing others, all related to that day’s violent attack by Trump supporters looking to disrupt Congress’ formal certification of his reelection defeat.
Here’s a look at some of the suggested crimes floated by the House panel:
CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE UNITED STATES
After floating possible crimes for several months, lawmakers on the panel put it on paper for the first time in a March court filing. The filing was in response to a lawsuit from John Eastman, a lawyer and law professor who was consulting with Trump while attempting to overturn the election and who tried to withhold documents from the committee.
The committee argued that it has evidence supporting the idea that Trump, Eastman and other allies of the former president “entered into an agreement to defraud the United States.” The panel says Trump and his allies interfered with the election certification process, disseminated misinformation about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in that effort.
OBSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING
Late last month, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter appeared somewhat swayed by the panel’s arguments. In ordering Eastman to turn over the materials, Carter wrote that the court “finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021.”
In the filing, the committee argued that Trump either attempted or succeeded at obstructing, influencing, or impeding the ceremonial process on Jan. 6 and “did so corruptly” by pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the results as he presided over the session. Pence declined to do so.
“President Trump and members of his campaign knew he had not won enough legitimate state electoral votes to be declared the winner of the 2020 Presidential election during the January 6 Joint Session of Congress, but the President nevertheless sought to use the Vice President to manipulate the results in his favor,” the committee wrote.
COMMON LAW FRAUD
The committee has also floated a charge of “common law fraud,” or falsely representing facts with the knowledge that they are false. Trump embarked on a wide-scale campaign to convince the public and federal judges that the 2020 election was fraudulent and that he, not Biden, won the Electoral College tally. Election officials and courts across the country, along with Trump’s attorney general, rejected those claims.
As an example of such fraud, the committee noted in the Eastman filing that a Justice Department official told Trump directly that a Facebook video posted by his campaign “purporting to show Georgia officials pulling suitcases of ballots from under a table” was false, yet the campaign continued to run it. Georgia officials also repeatedly denied the claim.
“The president continued to rely on this allegation in his efforts to overturn the results of the election,” the committee said.
DERELICTION OF DUTY
Though they didn’t lay it out in the Eastman filing, leaders of the House panel suggested earlier this year that they believe Trump could also be liable for “dereliction of duty,” or inaction as his supporters violently broke the windows and doors of the U.S. Capitol.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the committee chairman, said in January that “the harm that I see is the president of the United States seeing the Capitol of the United States under siege by people he sent to the Capitol and did nothing during that time.”
The committee’s vice chairwoman, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, noted that same month that the panel knows from “firsthand testimony” that Trump watched the attack happen on television. “We know that he did not walk the very few steps to the White House briefing room, get on camera immediately, and tell the people to stop and go home,” she said.
Cheney said it was hard “imagine a more significant and more serious dereliction of duty” than Trump’s failure to quell the insurrection.
FINANCIAL CRIMES
While the committee hasn’t floated specifics, it has created an internal task force to investigate financing for the massive rally on the National Mall the morning of Jan. 6 and any donors who might have backed transportation or other costs that could have helped foster the violence.
Asked earlier this year on CNN if they have any evidence of financial fraud, Thompson said members of the committee “have some concerns, but we have not made those concerns public at this point.”
“We do think it’s highly concerning on our part that people raised monies for one activity, and we can’t find the money being spent for that particular activity,” Thompson said. “So, we will continue to look at it. And the financing is one of those things that we will continue to look at very closely.”
UNCERTAINTY AHEAD
More than 775 rioters have been arrested for crimes related to the insurrection. Yet legal consequences have been elusive for Trump and the other top officials who told lies about election fraud and laid the groundwork for their actions.
Congress has no authority to prosecute, but can send so-called criminal referrals to the Justice Department. Garland can then decide whether to act.
Justice Department action would be far from guaranteed. And it’s uncertain whether any charges against the oft-investigated president would hold up in court. It could be difficult for prosecutors to craft a winning case against Trump.
The president urged on his massive crowd of supporters that morning and returned to the White House and watched them break into the Capitol on television. The rioters beat police, sent lawmakers running and interrupted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
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Jan. 6 panel puts Garland in ‘precarious’ spot, ups pressure
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are increasingly going public with critical statements, court filings and more to deliver a blunt message to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice.
President Donald Trump and his allies likely committed crimes, they say. And it’s up to you to do something about it.
“Attorney General Garland, do your job so we can do ours,” prodded Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia.
“We are upholding our responsibility. The Department of Justice must do the same,” echoed Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
Their rhetoric, focused this week on two contempt of Congress referrals approved by the committee, is just the latest example of the pressure campaign the lawmakers are waging. It reflects a stark reality: While they can investigate Jan. 6 and issue subpoenas to gather information, only the Justice Department can bring criminal charges.
Committee members see the case they are building against Trump and his allies as a once-in-a-generation circumstance. If it’s not fully prosecuted, they say, it could set a dangerous precedent that threatens the foundations of American democracy.
The lawmakers seem nearly certain to send a criminal referral to the Justice Department once their work is through.
It all puts Garland, who has spent his tenure trying to shield the Justice Department from political pressure, in a precarious spot. Any criminal charges related to Jan. 6 would trigger a firestorm, thrusting prosecutors back into the partisan crossfire that proved so damaging during the Trump-Russia influence investigation and an email probe of Hillary Clinton.
Garland has given no public indication about whether prosecutors might be considering a case against the former president. He has, though, vowed to hold accountable “all January 6th perpetrators, at any level” and has said that would include those who were “present that day or were otherwise criminally responsible for the assault on our democracy.”
It’s already the largest criminal prosecution in the department’s history — for rioters who entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6 as well as members of extremist groups who are accused of planning the attack. More than 750 people have been charged with federal crimes. Over 220 riot defendants have pleaded guilty, more than 100 have been sentenced and at least 90 others have trial dates.
Parts of the department’s investigation have overlapped with the committee’s. One example is in late January when Justice announced it had opened a probe into a fake slate of electors who falsely tried to declare Trump the winner of the 2020 election in seven swing states that Joe Biden won. Three days later, lawmakers subpoenaed more than a dozen people involved in the effort.
But the Jan. 6 committee wants more. Their message was amplified this week when a federal judge in California — District Judge David Carter, a Bill Clinton appointee — wrote that it is “more likely than not” that Trump himself committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election.
The practical effect of that ruling was to order the release of more than 100 emails from Trump adviser John Eastman to the Jan. 6 Committee. But lawmakers zeroed in on a particular passage in the judge’s opinion that characterized Jan. 6 as a “coup.”
“Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was not confined to the ivory tower—it was a coup in search of a legal theory,” Carter wrote.
But experts caution that Carter’s opinion was only in a civil case and does not meet the longstanding charging policy the Justice Department is required to meet. Justin Danilewitz, a Philadelphia-based attorney and former federal prosecutor, noted the department faces a higher burden of proof in court to show that presidential immunity should not apply. And he said the legal advice Trump received from Eastman “undermines an inference of corrupt or deceitful intent.”
The department will be guided by the evidence and law, he said, “but the social and political ramifications of a decision of this kind will not be far from the minds of Attorney General Garland and his staff.”
“A decision to bring or not bring criminal charges will have significant ripple effects,” he added.
Taylor Budowich, a Trump spokesperson, called the judge’s ruling an “absurd and baseless ruling by a Clinton-appointed Judge in California.” He called the House committee’s investigation a “circus of partisanship.”
Another point of friction with the Justice Department is the effort to enforce subpoenas through contempt of Congress charges.
The House approved a contempt referral against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in December after he ceased cooperating with the Jan. 6 panel. While an earlier contempt referral against former Trump adviser Steve Bannon resulted in an indictment, the Department of Justice has been slower to decide whether to prosecute Meadows.
“The Department of Justice is entrusted with defending our Constitution,” Rep. Liz Cheney, the Republican committee chair, said at a hearing this week. “Department leadership should not apply any doctrine of immunity that might block Congress from fully uncovering and addressing the causes of the January 6 attack.”
A decision to pursue the contempt charges against Meadows would have to come from career prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington before senior Justice Department officials would weigh in and decide how to proceed.
Bringing a case against Meadows would be more challenging for prosecutors than the case against Bannon, in large part because Bannon wasn’t a White House official during the insurrection.
The Justice Department has long maintained that senior aides generally cannot be forced to testify if a president invokes executive privilege, as Trump has done. And bringing charges could risk undermining the longstanding principle that lets the executive branch of the government keep most discussions private.
While the majority of committee members have turned up the pressure on Garland, one member, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, has not gone as far.
“I feel strongly that we restore the tradition of respect for the independence of the law enforcement function,” Raskin told reporters this week. “That was one of the things that got trashed during the Trump period. And so I think that Congress and the president should let the Department of Justice and attorney general do their job.”
“Attorney General Garland is my constituent,” Raskin added, “and I don’t beat up on my constituents.”
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Hiring is up and not just for adults. Several organizations tell KITV4 they are just starting their summer job recruitment for teens and young college students. Summer is right around the corner. teens and college students are excited about hitting the job market. "I can have the money. Yup. I want to have my own car, help my mom out, and pay rent," said high school job seeker Vincent Demaya. "It's a big deal because it give me real life experience," said college-age YMCA lifeguard Hayato Shigihara.
The YMCA says it realizes it's a competitive market out there. It's offering some additional incentives for their lifeguards and swim aides. "A $250 hiring bonus and we will pay for their life saving course. If they complete it and end of working for us. So they can actually get certified through the YMCA to be a lifeguard," said YMCA Executive Director of Talent Management Cassidy Inama.
The city of Honolulu's Summer Fun Program is also hiring 16 and 17 year old swim aides as well. There's no hiring bonus there, but their pay rates have increased. There are other advantages as well. " They learn situations of customer service. There's a lot of problem solving. It is really going to prepare them for other professions," said Inama. "They learn decision making, customer service, and building relationships," said Manoa Valley District Park Recreation Director Marc Koga.
Both places are also hiring college-age young adults to become student aides at their summer camps. Honolulu's Park and Recreation Department is also hiring college-age recreational aides at their gyms. "In high school, you don't really know what the world has to offer. Through this experience they see more progression and start to wonder if this relates to a profession if they could choose as adults," said Koga.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Nurses funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help Hawaii during the latest COVID-19 surge worked their last shifts this week.
And now hospitals are scrambling to contract more workers as the union representing nurses sounds the alarm about dangerous staffing shortages.
"You know you're not giving the care you want to, you know that you're not giving your patients the care they deserve -- that they should have -- that bad consequences can happen," said Registered Nurse Daniel Ross, president of the Hawaii Nurses' Association.
The pandemic exacerbated a health care worker shortage, with many nurses leaving the profession. And coupled with the rising cost of living in the islands, many others are choosing not to stay here, according to the Healthcare Association of Hawaii.
"The price of housing, the price of gas, the price of utilities -- all of that means that Hawaii is not competitive for nurses," said Hilton Raethel, association president and CEO. "This cost of living issue that we're dealing with here in Hawaii is impacting many segments of our society."
Hawaii has the second-highest average salary for registered nurses in the nation at about $106,000. But when you factor in cost of living, the Healthcare Association said the state drops to the lowest.
"The health care system cannot survive without nurses," Ross said.
The state received $90 million for nurses and other health care personnel during the Delta surge and another $95 million from the federal government during Omicron.
All of that has now gone away so some hospitals are trying to contract more nurses on their own to help the workforce shortages -- but that comes at a steep cost.
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A federal judge upheld Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction on sex trafficking charges Friday, ruling that a juror's misstatements on a pretrial questionnaire should not cause a mistrial.
Judge Alison Nathan issued the ruling nearly a month after the juror testified in court he made an "inadvertent" mistake when he indicated in the questionnaire that he was not a victim of sexual abuse. Under oath, he said he had been sexually abused as a child, yet he maintained that his past did not shape his views or influence his approach as a juror in the trial.
In a 40-page opinion, Judge Alison Nathan found the juror's "lack of attention and care in responding accurately to every question on the questionnaire is regrettable, but the Court is confident that the failure to disclose was not deliberate."
The judge noted the bar for setting aside a guilty verdict is high and occurs "only in the most extraordinary of circumstances."
The ruling comes months after Maxwell, the former girlfriend and close associate of the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, was found guilty of sex trafficking a minor and four other counts for facilitating Epstein's sexual abuse of minor girls between 1994 and 2004.
The jury issue became public after the conviction when the juror gave multiple interviews to media outlets saying he had been sexually abused as a child. He said several jurors had issues with the victims' faulty memories, so he shared his personal experience with abuse and memory during deliberations.
"When I shared that, they were able to sort of come around on, they were able to come around on the memory aspect of the sexual abuse," the juror said in a Reuters interview.
However, potential jurors were explicitly asked on jury questionnaire forms if they had been sexually abused and, if so, if it would impact their abilities to be impartial while deliberating. A copy of Juror 50's jury questionnaire showed he stated on the form that he had not been sexually abused.
Maxwell's lawyers argued she should be granted a new trial because of the juror's answers.
Last month, Judge Nathan questioned the juror, who said he was distracted and unfocused when filling out the questionnaire and made an "inadvertent mistake." He denied tailoring his answers to win a spot on the jury. The judge said she found the juror to be responsive and forthright and that he affirmed his personal history would not affect his ability to serve as an impartial and fair juror "in any way."
On Friday, Maxwell's attorney asked the judge not to rule on the motion for a new trial until they see a new interview Juror 50 gave as part of a multi-part streaming series on Maxwell. Prosecutors said the government "strongly" opposed any delay of the ruling.
During Maxwell's trial, prosecutors argued she and Epstein conspired to set up a scheme to lure young girls into sexual relationships with Epstein in New York, Florida, New Mexico and the US Virgin Islands. Four women testified during the trial that Epstein abused them and that Maxwell facilitated the abuse and sometimes participated in it as well.
The trial, which took about a month late last year, alternated between disturbing testimony from sexual abuse victims and illuminating testimony about some of Epstein's connections to high-profile celebrities.
The jury of six women and six men deliberated for about 40 hours across parts of six days before the verdict. They found her guilty of sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy, but acquitted her of a charge of enticing a minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts.
She is scheduled to be sentenced in June and faces up to 65 years in prison.
Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges, was indicted on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019 but died by suicide in prison a month later. Maxwell was arrested a year afterward.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The man indicted for the deadly shooting and botched robbery on Round Top Drive is also a suspect in an attempted murder case from more than a year ago.
Honolulu police said Nainoa Damon, 19, was arrested on Friday morning at the Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) on suspicion of first-degree attempted murder and two firearms offenses.
Police say in January 2021, he fired into a vehicle with three males while on a street in Kunia. One of them was shot, while the other two were not injured.
Damon has not been charged yet in that case as of Friday night.
Damon is currently being held at OCCC for the Round Top Drive case, in which he's charged with murder, robbery, two counts of carrying a firearm in the commission of a separate felony, place to keep pistol or revolver, and terroristic threatening.
Damon is accused of murdering 18-year-old Haaheo Kolona on March 18 at one of the lookout spots on Tantalus. His bail is set at $1 million. He's scheduled to be back in court on April 7.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Artists united in Honolulu Friday night to raise money for the people of Ukraine. At Island Brew Coffee House, artists Leni Acosta Knight and Ruben Aira showcased their creations that are being auctioned off to benefit "Hawaii Stands with Ukraine."
"This is an extremely powerful message to show that the people of Hawaii hear the voices of the people of Ukraine. We are grateful for the outpouring of compassion for the millions of people who are now displaced because of Russia's invasion," says Elena Roud, co-founder of Hawaii Stands with Ukraine.
Island Brew Coffee House hosted the community event to help the people most directly impacted by the humanitarian crisis that has resulted from this invasion. The art-filled fundraiser will raise money to help the people of Ukraine.
“With this first fundraiser, we want to share love aloha spirit, give people hope and send people money, because we want to unite and stand strong," said Roud.
“What’s happening in Ukraine is very sad and any unprovoked invasion on a country is disheartening, And we would like to raise funds and help other people,” said Acosta.
Money raised will be donated to a non-profit organization that is providing humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine.
Roud has been in Hawaii for 30 years. She says her broken heart is with her family in Ukraine and she is trying to do whatever it takes to bring joy back into everyone’s life.
Cynthia is an award-winning journalist who returned to Hawaii as an Anchor/Reporter/MMJ from Houston. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a B.A. and M.B.A. DM her on IG @CynthiaYipTV to share stories.
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HILO, HAWAII (KITV4) -- Nearly three years after being arrested during the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) protests, the final group of seniors learned on Friday their cases are being dismissed.
Why did it take so long? The Hawaii Department of the Attorney General (AG) said the COVID-19 pandemic made it difficult to proceed to trial in a timely fashion.
On July 15, 2019, a group of seniors chained themselves to a cattle grate while braving the bitter cold to block the only road up to the summit of Mauna Kea -- a mountain they say is sacred. They did it to prevent the start of construction of the TMT.
"This is about the Hawaiian nation trying to survive in an illegal government so I mean, we're going to survive," said TMT protester Walter Ritte on July 15, 2019.
Two days later, Ritte and more than 30 other kupuna or elders were arrested or cited.
"But the part is why are we getting arrested? Just to protect the mauna? Is that any crime?" asked Maxine Kahaulelio on July 17, 2019.
They were charged with two petty misdemeanors: obstructing a highway and obstructing a sidewalk.
Kahaulelio was found not guilty last August, and most of the cases already went to trial, with three found guilty and two others pleading guilty.
On Friday, a Hilo judge dismissed the remaining cases, which included the cases for Walter Ritte and his wife Loretta, along with Abel Lui, Liko Kalani Martin, and Deborah Lee.
"Relief. Huge relief. It's been years going through this process and COVID came along and made it really scary for us. We thought we'd have to travel to different islands and Big Island, and they were treating us like big time criminals," Ritte said. "And we were like kupuna that were just trying to protect their mountain."
The reason for the dismissal was the defense cited the Hawaii Supreme Court's ruling on State v. Thompson, saying the criminal complaint did not include the signatures of the complainants.
"And the state is saying we might retry them again, and we went -- oh no. So we got to wait to find out whether or not the state is still going to come after us," Ritte said.
That's because a judge has yet to decide whether the case is being dismissed with prejudice or without. If it is with prejudice, the state cannot refile the case, but if it is dismissed without prejudice, the state has the option of refiling. That hearing is set for April 29.
"We already paid the price you know for what we did, and it's not like we wouldn't do it all over again, but it was unnecessary this long delay that we went through," Ritte said.
Gary Yamashiroya, spokesman for the AG's office, told KITV4: "The court has deferred ruling on whether the dismissals will be with or without prejudice, so it is premature to indicate our intentions on how we will proceed, however the Department of the Attorney General remains committed to enforcing and upholding the rule of law."
More than 1,000 cases, mostly misdemeanors, have been thrown out since last December because of the high court's decision on State v. Thompson.
On March 28, Gov. David Ige signed a bill into law to address that. Under the new law, prosecuting attorneys will be able to sign the criminal complaints, rather than requiring the victim or complainant.
However, the new law is not retroactive, so any case in which a criminal complaint was filed before the law took effect can still use State v. Thompson as an argument to try to get it dismissed, which is what happened in this case.
"While disappointing, today's ruling was not unexpected in light of the recent state Supreme Court case, State v. Thompson," Yamashiroya said. "They were dismissed on a technical basis and are not rulings on the merits of the cases."
As for the TMT project itself, it remains on hold.
"There is no set timeline for TMT construction," said TMT spokesman Scott Ishikawa.
What's next for the TMT protesters?
"What we're going to do is going to depend on what they're going to do. Right now it's been stalled so it's like ok, nothing is being built, so we feel that's great. You know that's what we always wanted," Ritte said.
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Nevada mother jailed for attempting to kill newborn, police say
LAS VEGAS (KOLO/Gray News) - A mother in the Las Vegas area is accused of attempting to kill her newborn baby after she feared her child was “not good” and “probably evil,” according to police.
Officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department report they were called to the emergency room at Mountain View Hospital overnight on March 27 when a child’s father had brought his newborn baby into the hospital for medical treatment.
The father also notified the hospital that the child’s mother refused to come into the hospital, but she was bleeding profusely, according to police.
Ashley Hollingsworth, 22, was later identified as the child’s mother and officers said they were able to make contact with her at a nearby intersection a couple of hours later.
Investigators learned that Hollingsworth had given birth in a guest bathroom at a relative’s house, where the couple was staying, about an hour before the two went to the hospital with the child.
Hollingsworth told police that on the way to the hospital, something triggered her to make her think that the baby was “probably evil.” According to an arrest report, she attempted to kill the baby twice by wrapping a blanket around the baby’s head and pinching the baby’s nose tight.
The 22-year-old told police that she felt like the baby “would start doing things” and “start making people kill each other.”
The child’s father was also in the car with Hollingsworth when heading to the hospital. He took the baby away from her, according to police.
Once arriving at the hospital, doctors initially believed the newborn may have suffered a brain bleed, but staff later determined the child likely did not suffer any injuries, police said.
A relative spoke to police later that day and told them Hollingsworth was acting abnormally before giving birth and that she mentioned that a devil was inside of her and attempting to kill her baby.
According to an arrest report, Hollingsworth told police that the baby’s eyes were black, had an abnormal scent that wasn’t good and was grunting. After this, she decided to wrap the blanket around the baby’s head.
Police said Hollingsworth had self-inflicted injuries to her face when she was found. And she told them she hit herself several times with a rock in an attempt to kill herself after she left the hospital.
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* WHAT...East winds 20 to 25 knots, and seas up to 12 feet.
* WHERE...Big Island Windward Waters, Maui County Leeward
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- More state services are going digital. There's a new remote online notary public website, making it more convenient for notaries and their customers.
"Previously, people were required to be physically present when requesting notary services. Now notaries and their customers can use audio-visual technology to conduct meetings," said Hawaii Attorney General Holly Shikada.
Active notaries public can now apply to become a remote online notary here.
Notaries public are officially recognized by the State of Hawaii to administer oaths and affirmations, take acknowledgments, witness or attest signatures, certify copies or deposition, note protests of negotiable instruments, and perform notarizations for hundreds of thousands of important documents each year.
More than 5,000 notaries hold a notary public commission in Hawaii.
Marisa Yamane joined KITV4 in January 2022 as an anchor and executive producer. She is an award-winning veteran journalist, who’s spent most of her career in Hawaii. She’s a proud graduate of Iolani School and UCLA.
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- Sen. Michelle Kidani introduced Senate Resolution 28 that requests the Blood Bank of Hawaii to immediately adopt the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) updated regulation that shorten or eliminate the extended window of time for certain blood donors.
“I introduced this resolution because a constituent of mine raised the concern that the FDA guidance was first passed in April of 2020. We started 2022 with an urgent call from the Hawaii Blood Bank for more blood donations to keep up with demand, and yet hundreds of donors that are eligible across the nation are still ineligible here," said Senator Kidani.
This rule primarily affected gay men due to an increased risk of spreading HIV. Gay men and nonbinary individuals were subject to a 3 month deferral.
Officials at Blood Bank of Hawaii say they support the legislation and ending the three month deferral period.
President and Blood bank Hawaii said in a statement, “It’s important to transition to an individual risk assessment to determine donor eligibility. As new blood testing and processing technologies are more widely available, implementation of these and future advances will enable the evolution towards policies more inclusive of all groups, including the LGBTQ+ community, while still ensuring blood safety."
Members of the LGBTQ community in Hawaii say this rule is a win win. They deserve to the opportunity to quote “save lives” and help end the blood shortage now that we are coming out of the pandemic.
"This will not only eliminate discrimination but will increase the amount of blood that will be available for people who need it in Hawaii, people of all sexual orientations and all genders. To feel like you cannot give blood and we have to be monitored when we want to donate, that was a big pushback for us. This change will really enhance the ability for people to save lives more freely,” said Camaron Miyamoto, director of LGBTQ center at UH Mano.
The president of Hawaii Blood Bank also said they spoke with members of the Congressional delegation to ask them to urge FDA to make the temporary guidance permanent, beyond the COVID-19 public health emergency.
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University of Wyoming athletics director Tom Burman announced the finalization of a contract extension with men’s basketball coach Jeff Linder Wednesday afternoon.
The five-year deal, which will include annual guaranteed compensation of more than $700,000 beginning July 1, 2022, will run through April 2027. There will also be the opportunity for additional earnings through incentives related to academic and athletic performance goals.
“I’m excited to be able to continue building this program for this great fan base, this great university and this great state,” Linder said in a statement. “With these exceptional young men, incredible staff and all the special people involved we will continue to make history. Go Pokes!”
Linder recently finished his second season as head coach of the Cowboys, leading Wyoming to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 2014-15 season. He became the first coach since Everett Shelton in 1941 to take a UW team to the NCAA Tournament in his second season.
The Pokes were also ranked in the top 25 for the first time since the 2014-15 season, and recorded their highest ranking and winning percentage since the 1987-88 season. Linder was of 15 coaches and the only in the Mountain West to be named to the Werner Naismith Coach of the Year Late Season Watch List.
Wyoming won 24 games during the regular season for the first time since 1952.
“We are thrilled to be able to get a contract done that works for Coach Linder and UW,” Burman said. “He has done a great job transforming Cowboy basketball over the past two years. We believe Cowboy basketball is in great hands and we can’t wait for next November. We also want to congratulate the basketball staff who have done a great job in this process.”
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The Rawlins High School girls’ soccer team has a young core of players who coaches hope will commit to the sport with training to develop the skills and conditioning needed to be successful.
The Outlaws return four seniors that were part of the program a year ago along with a fifth senior who moved to the school. With a handful of juniors and freshmen, the bulk of the roster is made up of the sophomore class.
Head coach Brooke Dotterer-Mendez said the younger players and those who have not played much before need to learn the routine of soccer training through their practices.
“The soccer season goes by so fast that by the time soccer season ends, we are just … getting into the routine and know what to do,” said Dotterer-Mendez. “The first month is always a little rough for us, but overall I am happy with everything I have.”
The program also has a boost from assistant coach Jordan Quig. Players have responded well to Quig’s instruction, which Dotterer-Mendez said could lead to a successful season.
The Outlaws feature a strong backline with fast players in attacking positions. Dotterer-Mendez said she is excited to see what the team can do once everything is put together.
The team will need more experience outside to truly figure out what it is capable of, she said. The entire first week of practices were spent inside, and the weather was not ideal the second week either. With more time spent outside the coaches can fine-tune the tactics for the Outlaws.
One area of focus that’s recurring is conditioning. Players need to be ready to run around for 80 minutes every game and more if the game goes into overtime.
“You have to come in shape into soccer season because it is another kind of in-shape compared to other sports,” Dotterer-Mendez said.
Coming into the season in shape is part of the commitment to the program Rawlins needs to build a successful program.
Over the course of the past three weeks, including four games in two days at the Pinedale Cup last weekend, the Outlaws proved they were ready for the challenge.
They only had 16 players make the trip to Pinedale for the tournament, leaving the team undermanned. Two players went down with injuries Friday, leaving the team with very few subs for the following day.
Players had to play new positions and without substitutions. The bright spot from the situation is that the younger players gained valuable experience, the coach said. Also, the freshmen already have four complete games under their belts whole the entire team was tested in the tournament.
“Overall, it was nice to see those kids step up,” said Dotterer-Mendez. “Playing four games in one weekend is pretty rough. … I feel like my team overcame a lot this weekend and played through it.”
The Outlaws started the weekend with a tight 1-0 loss to Powell. Dotterer-Mendez said the heat started to affect the team and with an already short bench, the second game against Newcastle did not go as well, a 4-0 loss.
Rawlins responded Saturday with a 2-1 victory over Torrington.
The final game of the weekend ended in a scoreless tie after regulation and overtime resulting in a shootout. Rawlins lost the shootout by the narrow margin of 4-3.
Dotterer-Mendez said she’s pleased with the experience the players gained from the weekend, especially the shootout. The Outlaws now know what the process is like if they get into the same situation during the state tournament.
The Outlaws will take the pitch next on the road against Douglas High School 3 p.m. on Friday.
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CHICAGO – “I just want to always outdo myself from my previous project,” said Brian Flores, founder of indie rock band French Police. “I just want to be better each time.”
And better, Flores has become, at least according to the internet.
Although French Police has only existed in its current three-piece lineup for a little over a year, the band has steadily amassed a following of listeners around the country interested in their nostalgic brand of synth pop and post punk. Since launching, the group has amassed a quietly growing following, with numerous Instagram followers and more than 24,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Their most popular track, “Hidalgo,” from 2019′s “Pedaleo Nocturno” EP has more than 215,000 listeners and counting.
Since growing in size with the addition of bassist Rolondo Donjuan and lead guitarist Manny Herrera in the spring of 2021, French Police’s ambitions have also grown, too. This summer, they’ll get to live out some of their largest dreams as they embark on their first West Coast tour.
French Police as a band was the result of years spent making the wrong kind of music in other bands that weren’t the right kind of fit. And even French Police itself has gone through numerous lineup changes, with Flores remaining the only constant after a fallout with other band members.
Reforming a band during the pandemic was difficult. Without the prospect of live shows to gain a local audience, the band was solely reliant on the possibilities of the internet.
“It was tough because, you know, we couldn’t play shows or anything like that. So everything was based off like whatever we’re just releasing on Spotify or whatever,” said Donjuan. “It was kind of frustrating because I remember we finally got to play a show like it was like a big deal.”
Yet the writing process itself never suffered. Flores, the group’s primary songwriter, records at home using a basic recording setup. Most of it is made by himself, randomly playing with the bass guitar and improvising sounds and lyrics until a song begins to form around it.
“In terms of like, making music, I think it was kind of like the best time because I was just isolated by myself. All I could do was really make music,” Flores said. “I usually try to finish a song the day that I’m making it. Just don’t want to lose the magic and all that.”
And although Flores takes inspiration from other bands or sounds (French Police’s music certainly recalls the cold acidity of European synth pop), he says his greatest source of inspiration is him challenging himself. “I want to make a song to completion, and just have it be something that I want to listen to over and over,” he added.
With the advantages of modern recording technology, the group was able to write and record together, even if they were not in the same room. One band member could send the other the parts they had completed while bouncing ideas off of each other from the comfort of their own homes. Although it was not an ideal situation, especially for a renewed band trying to capture its footing, it did help shape them into the sharp and sleek act they are today. Without the ease of in-person rehearsals and the immediate feedback of live shows in front of an audience, the band was forced to find what worked best for their group moving forward and based on their own tastes.
Such dire straits ultimately proved beneficial. Their first show with the new lineup took place in June 2021. The added consequences of not playing together and live for so long made the show a success. Later this summer, they’ll take their act on the road for a West Coast tour that includes stops in Seattle, Portland, Oregon, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, among others.
“I think with the kind of the success we’ve been having right now, it’s kind of made us take it even more seriously,” added Flores. “And like, it’s pushed us even more to be like, ‘Hey man, we have like a lot of potential. Let’s keep going. Let’s keep growing. Keep making better music.’”
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April evening skies have the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga all shining in the western sky.
Overhead this month, you’ll find Leo easily picked out by the “Sickle,” which looks like a large reverse question mark punctuated by the bright star Regulus. You’ll find the Big Dipper due north of Leo, with their backs facing each other. The handle of the Big Dipper curves around and points to the bright star Arcturus in Bootes.If you continue to follow that curve, you will run into Spica, the brightest star in Virgo. If you look in front of Leo, you’ll spot a small, dim constellation called Cancer, which contains a lovely star cluster known as the Beehive that can be easily viewed through binoculars. At the other end of Leo is another small constellation known as Coma Berenices, which also contains a lovely binocular star cluster.
We have 12 stars this month of first magnitude or brighter; in order of brightness, they are: Sirius, Arcturus, Vega, Capella, Rigel, Procyon, Betelgeuse, Aldebaran, Spica, Pollux and Regulus. The thin band of the Milky Way is visible from dark skies along the western horizon, running from Cassiopeia through Perseus, Auriga, Gemini, Monoceros ending up in Canis Minor.
April has two nice planetary conjunctions. Early risers have probably been enjoying brilliant Venus in the morning sky. On April 1, you’ll see Saturn and Mars within 0.04 degrees of each other, slightly to the south and above Venus. Then, starting mid-April, early risers should watch bright Jupiter getting closer each day to brilliant Venus. They have their closest gathering on April 30, when they will be just 0.5 degrees apart. Venus and Jupiter won’t be this close again until the year 2039.
Gemini, the Twins, is an ancient constellation associated with the bright stars Castor and Pollux. Castor and Pollux represent the twins’ heads, and the stars of Gemini resemble two stick figures together with their feet stretched out toward Orion.
Castor is the more northern star of the twins. Gemini contains one Messier object, some impressive deep sky objects and has seven stars with known planets. Gemini has two meteor showers associated with it. The Geminids are an active meteor shower peaking around Dec. 13 with frequent and bright meteors. The Milky Way runs through the feet of the twins.
Castor is the alpha star in Gemini, but it is actually the second brightest star in the constellation. Pollux is slightly brighter than Castor, and there is speculation the twin stars were closer in magnitude thousands of years ago. Castor is a visual binary star system shining with a combined magnitude of 1.58. Each of the alpha binary stars are spectroscopic binaries, making them a four-star system.
All four of the Castor A and B stars are white main sequence stars that are hotter and larger than the sun. These four stars have two faint companion stars, which is an eclipsing binary star system, both of which are red dwarfs. This means that Castor is actually a system made up of six stars.
Castor is located about 51 light years away.
Pollux, a red giant star shining at 1.14 magnitude, is almost 34 light years away. It is about twice as massive as the sun, and about nine times the size of the sun.
Other named stars in Gemini are Alhena, Alzirr, Jishui, Mebsuta, Mekbuda, Propus, Tejat and Wasat.
Mebsuta marks Castor’s right leg, shining at magnitude 3.06. It is 840 light years away, and is 8,500 times more luminous than the sun, with a radius between 105-175 times that of the sun.
The star U Geminorum is a cataclysmic variable star that sits about 400 light years away. It is a binary star system with a white dwarf star orbiting closely to a red dwarf star orbit every 4 hours and 11 minutes. Around every 100 days, the star has an outburst, causing its luminosity to dramatically increase. The stars vary in brightness from 14.0 to 15.1 magnitudes, but can increase to ninth magnitude during outbursts.
The rich open star cluster Messier 35 can be found off the western foot of the twins. M35 covers an area of the sky as big as the full Moon. The cluster has an apparent magnitude of 5.3 and is about 2,800 light years from Earth. It is visible to the naked eye in dark skies as a glint on the sky and an easy target in binoculars. At 25 power in a telescope will show individual stars in this pretty open cluster.
An unusual looking nebula NGC 2392 can be found with larger telescopes in Gemini. It is also known as the Eskimo or Clown Face Nebula. It has a remarkable resemblance to a face surrounded by a fur parka.
NGC 2392 is a planetary nebula, or a spherical shell of gas ejected by aging stars, which glow from the energy radiating from the source star at the center of the nebula. The nebular has an apparent magnitude of 10.1 and is located about 2,870 light years away.
Two of our planets were discovered when they were in the constellation of Gemini. William Herschel discovered Uranus in Gemini in 1781, and Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto in Gemini in 1930. Pluto is now considered to be a dwarf planet.
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Cheyenne and Laramie County
Poetry Month Poem Contest
– Through April 30, library hours. Participate in our poem contest to celebrate National Poetry Month. Enter by submitting a copy of your original poem, along with your name and phone number to pinebluffs@lclsonline.org or by dropping it off at the Pine Bluffs Branch Library by April 28. All poems will be displayed in the library, and judging will take place on April 29 in five age groups: grades K–2, grades 3–5, grades 6–8, grades 9–12 and adults. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Cheyenne Winter Farmers Market
– April 2, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. A seasonal indoor farmers market with live music, where local vendors sell their produce, meats, cheeses, crafts, canned good and more. Cheyenne Depot, 121 W. 15th St. 307-222-9542
Storytime at Wyoming State Museum’s Family Day
– April 2, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Head over to the Wyoming State Museum for their Family Day event to participate in one of the library’s early literacy storytimes and other fun activities. Wyoming State Museum, 2301 Central Ave. 307-630-2573
Introduction to Pastel
– April 2, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.; 1-3 p.m. $25. Learn about pastel and create an impressionistic landscape painting. This workshop is for beginners, but all levels are welcome. After an introduction of the medium of pastel and some basics on papers, choosing a palette, composition and how to use pastel, participants will create their own painting. All materials provided. Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6349
Family Day at the Wyoming State Museum
– April 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. This month’s theme is “Wyoming Wings.”Soar on down to the Wyoming State Museum for a fun and educational day all about the amazing birds that live in our state. Learn how birds adapt alongside plants and flowers, use STEM skills to protect a delicate egg from a fall, meet a live red tailed hawk from the Draper Museum and more. Wyoming State Museum, 2301 Central Ave. 307-630-2573
Saturday Matinee and Lunch
– April 2, 12-2 p.m. Enjoy a matinee showing of “Let Him Go” (rated R), starring Kevin Costner and Diane Lane. Following the loss of their son, retired sheriff George Blackledge and his wife, Margaret, leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Virtual SaturD&D
– April 2, 1-3 p.m. Join the library’s teen Dungeons and Dragons online community and get started on creating a character today. Don’t have a Discord account yet? No problem. They offers Discord Communities for teens to interact, chat and play online. To participate, you will need a phone, tablet or computer with internet connection and a Discord account. RSVP for the event at lclsonline.org/calendar/.
Tales and Ales: A Drinking Tour with a History Problem
– April 2, 3-10 p.m. 21+. $35 preorder, $40 at the door. A historic downtown trolley tour and pub crawl. Learn about downtown Cheyenne’s rich and exciting history as you hop on and off the trolley to partake in exclusive drink specials at the watering holes in downtown. Departs from Cheyenne Depot Museum, 121 W. 15th St. 307-778-3133
Battle of the Bands @ The Lincoln – Rock Bands
– April 2, 7 p.m.; doors at 6 p.m. $5. The third night of a four-month, multi-genre Battle of the Bands competition. Each performer will be given a 15-minute set. The event is open to all musicians within 50 miles of Cheyenne that are not signed to a label. All material performed must be original. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Cheyenne Restaurant Week
– April 3-9, various business hours. Restaurant, breweries, specialty shops and food trucks around town will serve special menu items and offer different deals. Visit https://www.cheyenne.org/restaurantweek/ for a list of participating businesses. Various locations, downtown Cheyenne. 307-778-3133
Dirt! Foundations of Soil Workshop
– April 3, 4 p.m. $5. This will be an interactive workshop with hands-on components, discussion and sharing resources. Learn how to estimate your basic soil properties and bring your soil sample from home! Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6349
Make it Mondays
– April 4, 1-5 p.m. Get crafty at the library every Monday! Participants will be making beautiful heart paper flowers to celebrate the coming of spring. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Coffee Connections at Burns Branch Library
– April 4, 2-4 p.m. Coffee Connections is the place to come for coffee and conversation with your friends and neighbors. On April 18, they will be showing the film “News of the World” (PG-13), starring Tom Hanks. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Sit, Stay, Read! Read to a Therapy Dog
– April 4, 4-5 p.m. Everyone loves to hear a story, even our four-pawed friends. Visit the library and practice reading aloud to one of the community’s therapy dogs. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Cheyenne Heritage Quilters Meeting
– April 4, 7 p.m. Monthly quilting club meeting open to new members. The speaker for the evening will be Dawna Sanders, owner of “The Quilt Store” in Broomfield, Colorado. Dawna designs and sells pantographs which are used on long-arm quilting machines. Contact the club at info@chquilters.org. First United Methodist Church, 108 E. 18th Street. 307-632-1410
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Craftastic Tuesdays
{/div}{div class=”subscriber-only”}– April 5, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Get crafty on Tuesdays. Create and take home paper straw tulips set in plastic egg vases that will look perfect for the Easter season. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646{/div}{/div}
Tales Together
– April 5-7, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:30 a.m. Join the library for an in-person interactive early literacy class for preschool children and their caregivers. Practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from the Ask Here desk on the second floor. Call to reserve a spot. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fun for Kids! Burns Branch Library
– April 5, 10:15-11 a.m. An interactive storytime session to promote early literacy through books, songs, puppets, crafts and much more. This week’s theme is “Strike Up the Band.” Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
National Library Week
– April 5-9, library hours. Show your love for the library all week long! Some of the fun activities you will find include Bookface Friday, Dewey’s Number of the Day game, bookmark crafts and more. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
STEAM Connections
– April 6, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Explore a STEAM challenge that promotes creativity, building and problem solving.This month’s STEAM discoveries are building bird nests and LEGO building challenge cards. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St.. 307-245-3646
Sit, Stay, Read! Read to a Therapy Dog
– April 6, 4-5 p.m. Everyone loves to hear a story, even our four-pawed friends. Visit the library and practice reading aloud to one of the community’s therapy dogs. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Ukrainian Egg Art
– April 6, 6-9 p.m. Price TBD. Shawn Eby will guide participants through the process of Ukrainian egg art, or “pysanka.” One pint is included with the event. Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co., 1509 Pioneer Ave. 307-514-5314
Taxpayer Advocate Service: Problem Solving Day
– April 7, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. The Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) will be available throughout the day to educate taxpayers on filing accurate tax returns, to provide refund timing information, and to inform taxpayers about self-help tools and resources for checking on refund statuses. TAS can also assist individuals and small businesses with tax issues they have not been able to resolve with the IRS. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Virtual Tales Together
– April 7, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. Join the Laramie County Library for a virtual interactive early literacy class where young children will practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. RSVP at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fun for Kids! Pine Bluffs Branch
– April 7, 10:15-10:45 a.m. An interactive storytime session to promote early literacy through books, songs, puppets, crafts and much more. This week’s theme is “Strike Up the Band.” Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Art & Text: Artist as Storyteller
– April 8-May 17, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Enjoy visual stories and the written word created by K–12 students in Laramie County School District 1. Art is located throughout all three floors of the library. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Movies at the Library, Burns Branch
– April 8, 1-3 p.m. Join the Burns Branch Library for a family-friendly movie and some popcorn. This week’s movie is “Peter Rabbit.” Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Friday Matinee, Pine Bluffs
– April 8, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Spend your Friday afternoons at the Pine Bluffs Branch library to watch a matinee. Each week will feature a different movie. This week’s movie is “The Mitchells vs. The Machines” (PG). Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Teen Craft Afternoons
– April 8, 3-5 p.m. Never know what to do with your hands? Not anymore! Visit craft afternoons and spend some time making unique crafts. Snacks will be provided. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Friday Night Jazz
– April 8, 6 p.m. 21+. Bring some friends, grab a drink and food, and listen to some beautiful music by Jazztet in the relaxing Hathaway’s Lounge. Two-drink minimum required. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. 307-775-8400
Virtual Jeopardy!
– April 8, 7-8 p.m. Think you’ve got what it takes to be a trivia champ? Battle for prizes and bragging rights! Visit lclsonline.org/calendar/ to receive an email with the Zoom link. Laramie County Library via Zoom.
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VFW Craft and Flea Market Show
– April 9, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Support local veterans while enjoying unique stands filled with jewelry, crochet items, candles and more. Lunch will be available. VFW Post 1881, 2816 E. Seventh St. 307-632-4053{/div}
Grafting Demonstration
– April 9, 10 a.m. $15. Scott Skogerboe, an experienced horticulturist from Fort Collins Wholesale Nursery, will explain and demonstrate the incredible process of grafting fruit trees onto rootstock. Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6349
Tales Together
– April. 9, 10:15-10:45 a.m. An in-person interactive early literacy class for preschool children and their caregivers. Practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. Call to reserve a spot. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Virtual SaturD&D
– April 9, 1-3 p.m. Join the library’s teen Dungeons and Dragons online community and get started on creating a character today. Don’t have a Discord account yet? No problem. They offers Discord Communities for teens to interact, chat and play online. To participate, you will need a phone, tablet, or computer with internet connection and a Discord account. RSVP for the event at lclsonline.org/calendar/.
Second Saturday STEAM
– April 9, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Grades 3-6. Join the library each month and explore a variety of STEAM topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) with crafts, games, experiments and more. This month, have fun making pixelated art with Perler Beads. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Young Readers Book Party
– April 10, 1:15-2 p.m. Grades pre K-2. A celebration of reading with young readers that’s a little bit early literacy class, and a little bit more. The class will read and talk about books, sing, play and learn. This month’s themes are Bird Art and Family Storytelling Games. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
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Cowgirls of the West Luncheon
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{div class=”subscriber-only”}– April 11, 11:30 a.m. $25. Mr. James Fuller will be presenting a program on Women’s Suffrage in Wyoming. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. Call 307-632-2814 by March 11.{/div}
Make it Mondays
– April 11, 1-5 p.m. Get crafty at the library every Monday! Participants will be making beautiful heart paper flowers to celebrate the coming of spring. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
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Craftastic Tuesdays
{/div}{div class=”subscriber-only”}– April 12, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Get crafty on Tuesdays. Create and take home paper straw tulips set in plastic egg vases that will look perfect for the Easter season. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Tales Together
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– April. 12, 14, 10:15-10:45 a.m. and 11-11:30 a.m. An in-person interactive early literacy class for preschool children and their caregivers. Practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. Call to reserve a spot. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fun for Kids! Burns Branch Library
– April 12, 10:15-11 a.m. An interactive storytime session to promote early literacy through books, songs, puppets, crafts and much more. This week’s theme is “Seasons.” Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
We Drink and We Know Things
– April 12, 6 p.m. Monthly themed trivia night on the second Tuesday of each month. The theme is always a surprise so gather your team, drink some beers and show us what you know! Freedom’s Edge Brewing Co., 1509 Pioneer Ave. 307-514-5314
Paint and Plant
– April 12, 6-8 p.m. A teen class where you can paint a pot in your own creative way and then plant a seedling. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Yoga Together
– April 13, 10:15-10:45 a.m. Come and experience stories, stretching and fun with a special early literacy class. This month’s theme is “Splish Splash Ducky.” Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Virtual Tales Together
– April 14, 9:30-10 a.m. Free. A virtual interactive early literacy class where young children will practice new skills incorporating books, songs, rhymes, movement and more. Pick up weekly craft packet from Ask Here desk on the second floor. RSVP at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Fun for Kids! Pine Bluffs Branch
– April 14, 10:15-10:45 a.m. An interactive storytime session to promote early literacy through books, songs, puppets, crafts and much more. This week’s theme is “Feathered Friends.” Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Library for All
– April 14, 12:30-2:30 p.m. An event specifically geared toward adults with disabilities. International Bat Appreciation Day is in April and Library for All will be celebrating our furry, flying friends by having a bat-tastic day of fun! Special guest Mason Lee from the University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute will talk about bat species in Wyoming and answer your bat-related questions. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
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Cheyenne ArtWalk
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{div class=”subscriber-only”}– April 14, 5-8 p.m. Cheyenne’s monthly celebration of artists and their work. During Artwalk, downtown art galleries, businesses and restaurants showcase a local or regional visual artist or musician, accompanied by light food and beverages. Multiple locations, downtown Cheyenne. 307-222-4091{/div}
Knights of the Turntable
– April 14, 6 p.m. A recurring vinyl record listening party with a new theme every month. Bring 15 minutes of vinyl to discuss, or just listen to the music. There is a prize for best presentation. This month’s theme is “I Thought This Would Be Cooler.” Downtown Vinyl, 1612 Capitol Ave. 307-632-3476
Brown Bag Book Club
– April 14, 6-7 p.m. Grade 4-6. Book Club will meet twice during the month of April. The club will chat about the book, do some crazy activities and enjoy a delicious treat. Participants can bring a “brown bag” meal, and drinks will be provided. Participants can pick up “Masterminds” by Gordon Korman from the second floor. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Open Jam Night
– April 14, 7-10 p.m. Free. The Lincoln Theatre is hosting its next Open Jam Night. Musicians are encouraged to bring their guitar, bass, etc. and come jam with other local musicians! Backline provided. A full bar will be available for those who just want to come and watch. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Storytime at Paul Smith Children’s Village
– April 15, 11-11:30. 18 months-5 years. Head over to the Paul Smith Children’s Village to participate in one of the library’s early literacy storytimes. Paul Smith Children’s Village at the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 616 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6458
Emoji Eggs: A Craft for Teens
– April 15, 1-3 p.m. Teens will dye and decorate hard-boiled eggs to look like their favorite emoji. Burns Branch Library, 112 Main St., 307-547-2249
Friday Matinee, Pine Bluffs
– April 15, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Spend your Friday afternoons at the Pine Bluffs Branch library to watch a matinee. Each week will feature a different movie. This week’s movie is “Hop” (PG). Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Crafty Family Challenge
– April 15, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Gather your family and meet in the Cottonwood Room for this extreme craft challenge. Supplies will be provided, but feel free to bring whatever materials you like. Sign your family up at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Friday Night Jazz
– April 15, 6 p.m. 21+. Bring some friends, grab a drink and food, and listen to some beautiful music by Jazztet in the relaxing Hathaway’s Lounge. Two-drink minimum required. Little America Hotel and Resort, 2800 W. Lincolnway. 307-775-8400
Creation feat. Protohype @ The Lincoln
– April 15, 6-7 p.m. Kratos Productions presents CREATION. A night of heavy bass music sounds, dancing, lights, lasers, love and unity. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
WAR @ The Lincoln
– April 15, 8-11 p.m. The legendary band WAR is coming to Cheyenne. The long list of hits includes “Low Rider,” “The World Is A Ghetto,” “Why Can’t We Be Friends,” “The Cisco Kid” and many more. The Lincoln Theatre, 1615 Central Ave. 307-369-6028
Cheyenne Winter Farmers Market
– April 16, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. A seasonal indoor farmers market with live music where local vendors sell their produce, meats, cheeses, crafts, canned good and more. Cheyenne Depot, 121 W. 15th St. 307-222-9542
Saturday Morning Book Club
– April 16, 10-11 a.m. This month, the club will discuss “The Exiles” by Kristina Baker Kline, and offer coffee and treats. Pine Bluffs Branch Library, 110 E. Second St. 307-245-3646
Easter Egg Hunt at the Louise Event Venue
– April 16, ages 1-3 from 10-11 a.m., ages 4-6 from 12-1 p.m., and ages 7-10 from 2-3 p.m. Free. JazMinn’s Events & Decor presents an Easter egg hunt for younger children. There will also be treats provided by Kates Cookie Shed and photos with the Easter bunny, courtesy of AG Photography. Limited to 40 participants per age group. Sign up on signupgenius.com. Participants must bring their own basket. The Louise Event Venue, 110 E. 17th St. 307-220-1474
Laramie County Library Eggstravaganza
– April 16. It’s time for the yearly Eggstravaganza. This year, the library will be presenting egg-citing workshops for different age groups. Visit its calendar for a full list of events. Attendance for some events will be limited, so sign up at lclsonline.org/calendar/. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Virtual SaturD&D
– April 16, 1-3 p.m. Join the library’s teen Dungeons and Dragons online community and get started on creating a character today. Don’t have a Discord account yet? No problem. They offers Discord Communities for teens to interact, chat, and play online. To participate, you will need a phone, tablet or computer with internet connection and a Discord account. RSVP for the event at lclsonline.org/calendar/.
”Dutch Hop!” Documentary Film Screening
– April 16, 1-5 p.m. A screening of the documentary “Dutch Hop!” which focuses on the musical and dance traditions of the German-Russian community in Southeast Wyoming, Northern Colorado and Western Nebraska. The filmmakers, Chris Simon and Annie Hatch, will be present for a discussion of the film, followed by a performance and dance featuring Wayne Appelhans and the Dutch Hops from 2-5 p.m. Call John Chrysler at 307-256-2010 for more information. Pine Bluffs Historic High School, 607 Elm Street, Pine Bluffs. 307-630-5320
Glow in the Dark Dodgeball
– April 16, 12-8 p.m. 3rd Annual Glow in the Dark Dodgeball Tournament of Champions is an event that brings Laramie County community members together for friendly competition and to support a great cause. All proceeds earned from tournament registration go to Laramie County Grief Support Group to assist families that have lost a loved one. Event Center at Archer, 3801 Archer Parkway. 307-633-4670
Genealogy: Searching the Newly-Released 1950 Census
– April 16, 3-4:30 p.m. The eagerly-awaited 1950 U.S. Census has just been released and is available for family history researchers to find their families. We’ll show you why this is exciting for genealogists by doing a few demonstration searches in the 1950 census on Ancestry Library Edition and other genealogy databases. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Beer & Paint Night at Black Tooth
– April 16, 5-8 p.m. $40. Black Tooth’s first Beer and Painting Night event. Local artist Danielle Kirby will lead a class on a painting that could be random, funny or serious. All painting materials are provided by Black Tooth. Tickets include three beers. Black Tooth Brewing Co. 520 W. 19th St. 307-514-0362
Ongoing
”The Four Seasons” March Art Show
– Through March 31. Wednesday through Friday, 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. A season is a period of the year that is distinguished by special climate conditions. The four seasons--spring, summer, fall, and winter. Each has its own light, temperature, and weather patterns that repeat. Cheyenne Artists Guild, 1701 Morrie Ave. 307-632-2263
39th Annual Glass Art Show
– Through April 2, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Join the Botanic Gardens for a showcase of regional glass artists from Colorado and Wyoming. They will display the pieces in the second-floor hallway space. Many pieces are for sale this year. Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, 710 S. Lions Park Drive. 307-637-6458
Elementary School Art Show
– Through April 4, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Visit the library to see art created by K-6 students in Laramie County School District 1. Visit all three floors of the library to see the creative wonders. Laramie County Library, 2200 Pioneer Ave. 307-634-3561
Governor’s Capitol Art Exhibition
– Through Aug. 14, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Presented by the Wyoming State Museum, this exhibit compiles 66 different pieces of artwork from artists around the state of Wyoming. Wyoming State Capitol basement extension, 200 W. 24th St. 307-777-7220
41st Annual Western Spirit Art Show and Sale
– Through April 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Stephanie Hartshorn, artist and member of the American Impressionist Society, and Mark Vinich, co-founder of Clay Paper Scissors Gallery & Studios, have selected 232 unique pieces of art for this year’s art show. Cheyenne Frontier Days Old West Museum, 4610 Carey Ave. 307-778-7290
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SATURDAY
Women of the Moose Spring Bazaar: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Moose Lodge, 409 S. 3rd St.
UW Music hosts “Double Reed Day”: 10 a.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. A unique opportunity to discover more about double-reed musical instruments culminating with a 3 p.m. concert. Registration begins at 9:30 a.m. followed by master classes.
UW planetarium presents “Back to the Moon for Good”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. What we’ve learned from our first era of space exploration.
Annual Ark Regional Services Casino Night: 5:30 p.m., UW Conference Center at the Hilton Garden Inn, 2221 Grand Ave. Tickets $60 each, available at facebook.com/arkregionalservices and arkregionalservices.org.
UW planetarium presents “Liquid Sky Indie”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Enjoy a custom playlist of music from artists such as Tame Impala, STRFKR, MGMT and M83 as the 4K resolution sky melts and becomes a canvas of color, patterns and movement.
UW presents full-staged ballet: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Call 307-766-6666 or visit uwyo.edu/finearts for tickets.
SUNDAY
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m., UW Fieldhouse. Hear from health care professionals and get your steps in.
UW presents full-staged ballet: 2 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Call 307-766-6666 or visit uwyo.edu/finearts for tickets.
MONDAY
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
TUESDAY
UW planetarium presents “Wyoming Skies”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. What’s up in the sky around Wyoming?
WEDNESDAY
Assistance for military veterans: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Laramie office of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 3817 Beech St. No. 100.
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson Medical Group women’s health prenatal education: 5:30 p.m., Ivinson Memorial Hospital in the Summit Conference Room. Learn more or register at ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
THURSDAY
Laramie Building Authority meets: 10 a.m., via Zoom.
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
Lenten Taize worship services: 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 Canby St. Every Thursday through Easter.
UW Jazz Studies program presents the Art Lande trio Flex: 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. This is a free performance.
FRIDAY
UW planetarium presents “Aurorae, Dancing Lights”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. For millennia our ancestors looked in awe at the “dawn in the north,” or Arora Borealis. What causes this display? Where does it happen? Do other planets have aurorae?
Good in All of Us fundraiser for Laramie Interfaith: 7-9 p.m., Eppson Center for Seniors, 1560 N. 3rd St. Will include a silent auction, mini-games and a trivia contest. Trivia teams of up to five members register for $100 a team at https://bit.ly/3KILsjb.
April 9
Albany County 4-H Spring Bazaar: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Albany County Fairgrounds.
Free cancer screenings: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ivinson Medical Group. Email questions@ivinsonhospital.org for more information.
UW Cello Festival concert: 5 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. A free performance by participants of the 2022 UW Cello Festival.
UW planetarium presents “Max Goes to the Moon”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Max the dog and a young girl named Tori take the first trip to the moon since the Apollo era.
An evening of Schubert with Kenneth Slowik (and friends): 7:30 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets $10 general admission available at uwyo.edu/finearts.
April 11
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
April 13
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Ivinson Medical Group women’s health prenatal education: 5:30 p.m., Ivinson Memorial Hospital in the Summit Conference Room. Learn more or register at ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
April 14
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
Lenten Taize worship services: 7 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1517 Canby St. Every Thursday through Easter.
April 15
UW planetarium presents “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Are we alone in the universe?
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
April 16
Kiwanis Club of Laramie Easter Egg Hunt: 10 a.m., Kiwanis Park in West Laramie.
UW planetarium presents “Distant Worlds — Alien Life?”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. For millennia our ancestors watched the stars and questioned the origin and nature of what they saw. Yet, Earth is the only planet we know for sure to be inhabited.
UW planetarium presents “Liquid Sky, Pop”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Enjoy a custom playlist from today’s top artists.
April 18
Walk with a Doc: 1:30-2:30 p.m., UW Fieldhouse. Hear from health care professionals and get your steps in.
April 18
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
April 19
UW planetarium presents “Wyoming Skies”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. What’s up in the sky around Wyoming?
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
April 20
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
Award-Winning Author Jesmyn Ward speaks: 5 p.m., UW College of Arts and Sciences auditorium.
Ivinson Medical Group women’s health prenatal education: 5:30 p.m., Ivinson Memorial Hospital in the Summit Conference Room. Learn more or register at ivinsonhospital.org/childbirth.
April 22
UW planetarium presents “Earth Day”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Observe our beautiful planet from the ground, sky and space as we learn about glaciers, atmospheric science, meteorology, extreme weather events and climate history.
Violin virtuoso Augustin Hadelich with UW Chamber Orchestra: 730 p.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets available at uwyo.edu/finearts.
April 23
UW planetarium presents “From Earth to the Universe”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. The night sky, both beautiful and mysterious, has been the subject of campfire stories, ancient myths and awe for as long as there have been people.
April 25
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Wyoming’s energy economy panel discussion: 6 p.m., online at uweconomists.eventbrite.com. Features four University of Wyoming economists.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
April 27
Laramie Tai Chi and tea: Meets at 1:30 p.m. at the north end of the stadium in Laramie Plainsman Park, North 15th and Reynolds. For more information, visit laramietaichiandtea.org.
April 28
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
April 29
UW planetarium presents “Mars”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. The red planet is host to many questions; did it used to be like Earth? Did it once harbor life? Could it still support life?
April 30
UW planetarium presents “Mexica Archaeoastronomy”: 2 p.m., UW Planetarium. Illustrates the important role played by astronomical observation for the evolution of pre-Hispanic cultures in central Mexico.
UW planetarium presents “Liquid Sky, Electronica”: 7 p.m., UW Planetarium. Enjoy a custom playlist of music from today’s top artists.
May 2
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
May 5
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 9
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
May 12
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 14
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 8:30 a.m., UW Arena-Auditorium, undergraduate ceremony for the colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Engineering and Applied Science and School of Energy Resources.
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 10 a.m., Buchanan Center for the Performing Arts, for the College of Law.
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 12:15 p.m., UW Arena-Auditorium, for master’s and doctoral students from colleges of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Business, Education, Engineering and Applied Science, Health Sciences and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources.
University of Wyoming graduation ceremony: 3:30 p.m., UW Arena-Auditorium, for undergraduate ceremony for colleges of Arts and Sciences, Education, Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and Office of Academic Affairs.
May 16
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
May 19
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 23
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
America Sewing Guild Laramie Chapter meets: 7 p.m., United Methodist Church, 1215 E. Gibbon St.
May 26
Stitching the Past Together creative aging class: 6:30-8 p.m., Albany County Public Library large meeting room. Students will learn memory-based storytelling through beading techniques in this free course. Register at acplwy.org or at the circulation desk.
May 30
Alcoholics Anonymous meets: Daily at various times in person or on Zoom. For more information, call 307-399-0590 or visit area76aawyoming.org or aa.org.
Survivors of Suicide Support Group: Meets from 5:30-6:45 p.m. at Hospice of Laramie House, 1754 Centennial Drive.
Women for Sobriety meet: 6:30-8:30 p.m. via Zoom. For meeting details, email 1093@womenforsobriety.org.
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Going slow on a bicycle is easy enough, but going super slow takes practice. Those who excel at this can be seen at stoplights trying to stay upright without putting a foot down before the light turns green.
If this is one of your talents, you just might have a chance for a special prize at this year’s Laramie BikeNet membership gathering. Rico Vercoe, president of the organization, said a race to see just who can go the slowest is one of the events for the bicycle Olympics planned with this year’s annual member meeting and celebration.
Other events in the Olympics include an obstacle course, a jump and a couple surprise events.
“It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Vercoe said. “We’ll have something to challenge those on any type of bike, and for all ages and abilities.”
The event, set to begin at 1 p.m. Saturday, kicks off with a gear swap. Amanda Harper, BikeNet vice president, said the swap is a chance to sell bikes, bike parts and clothing.
“It was very popular when we held the swap two years ago,” she said. “We weren’t able to gather for two years, but now we’re back with this event and celebration.”
Those wanting to sell gear are urged to sign up for a table ahead of time. Cost is $10 for a full table, $5 for a half table and $5 per bike.
“If you’re looking to gear up for the season or hoping to unload some parts or a bike you no longer need, this is a great opportunity,” Harper said.
Laramie BikeNet has been around a long time and promotes all types of cycling in the community, be it road cycling, commuting or mountain biking. It sponsors and directs youth mountain biking opportunities and is in the process of developing a mountain bike path at Laramie Middle School.
Those attending the gathering need not be a member of the organization, but it is encouraged. Annual BikeNet membership rates are $30 for families, $20 for individuals and $15 for students. In addition to supporting BikeNet activities, members receive discounts at Laramie bike shops and on BikeNet-sponsored events.
After the bicycle Olympics, there also will be a game of bicycle polo. It’s similar to regular polo, but participants use bicycles rather than horses. They wield mallets and whack at a soccer ball to make goals.
“It’s a lot of fun and can be done with pretty much any type of bike,” Harper said. “We welcome all comers to take part.”
The event will be held at the Lincoln Community Center starting with swap at noon and the sale from 1-3 p.m. A presentation on this year’s BikeNet highlights runs from 3:30-4:30, and then the bicycle Olympics and polo are from 4:30-5:30 p.m.
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President Joe Biden’s latest moves to try to tamp down surging prices for gasoline were generally met with skepticism here in Wyoming.
The wholesale market for oil also did not react favorably Thursday. One such benchmark, West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures, rose about 1% on the day to $101.29 a barrel (equivalent to about 40 gallons).
Prices have been surging because of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Consumers have been paying record prices for a gallon of gas — both locally and nationwide.
The AAA motorists club reports that in Wyoming, a gallon of regular unleaded gas costs, on average, $4.12. That’s a fraction of a penny less than its all-time high reached Tuesday.
In a fact sheet about Biden’s “Plan to Respond to (Russia President Vladimir) Putin’s Price Hike at the Pump,” the White House noted that since the invasion of Ukraine, “gas prices have increased by nearly a dollar per gallon. Because of Putin’s war of choice, less oil is getting to market, and the reduction in supply is raising prices at the pump for Americans. President Biden is committed to doing everything in his power to help American families who are paying more.”
Under plans announced by the White House Thursday, the U.S. will release a record amount of oil from its gas reserve.
The Biden administration also wants to try to increase pressure on the energy industry to actually produce oil by not letting sites where drilling could occur instead lie fallow.
Experts told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle that releasing supplies from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, as Biden envisions, could soon help to slightly reduce the price at the pump that drivers pay. But it won’t be a panacea.
And the oil industry, which the administration contends is not doing enough to increase production, disagreed with this allegation Biden’s new plan has a few aspects to it.
“The first part of the president’s plan is to immediately increase supply by doing everything we can to encourage domestic production now and through a historic release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to serve as a bridge to greater supply in the months ahead,” the White House said.
Some 1 million barrels will enter the market a day on average for six months. As the American Petroleum Institute observed in Washington, that would be a release of 180 million barrels.
Among other actions, the White House said Biden is asking Congress to make “companies pay fees on wells from their leases that they haven’t used in years and on acres of public lands that they are hoarding without producing.”
Biden also issued a new directive OK’ing using the Defense Production Act of 1950 to boost American production of products that can help reduce emissions of pollutants into the air. The goal is to “secure the supply of such materials through environmentally responsible domestic mining and processing; recycling and reuse; and recovery from unconventional and secondary sources, such as mine waste.”
This includes initiatives toward “sustainable and responsible domestic mining, beneficiation, and value-added processing of strategic and critical materials for the production of large-capacity batteries for the automotive, e-mobility and stationary storage sectors.”
The administration had pointed words for some in the energy industry, drawing some rebukes from that sector.
In the fact sheet about the oil actions, it was alleged that “too many companies aren’t doing their part and are choosing to make extraordinary profits and without making additional investment to help with supply.” Biden would like “companies that continue to sit on non-producing acres” to “have to choose whether to start producing or pay a fee for each idled well and unused acre.”
This could involve federal land on which energy companies get leases to extract natural resources, paying for that right when their bid in a government auction is successful.
“Right now, the oil and gas industry is sitting on more than 12 million acres of non-producing federal land, with 9,000 unused, but already-approved permits for production,” the document observed.
The reality in Wyoming, and indeed nationally, does not reflect the administration’s comments, industry associations responded.
Nationwide, some two-thirds of such federal land leases are currently being drilled or production is occurring there, estimated the Petroleum Association of Wyoming’s Ryan McConnaughey.
In Wyoming, some 60% of such land is considered productive, he added.
A company leasing such property must begin drilling within 10 years, or it could lose the rights to that land if the lease is not renewed, according to McConnaughey, the association’s vice president and director of communications.
In addition to paying for such usage rights at auction, winning bidders must pay rental fees on the land, he said. Once production begins, the energy firm must pay a royalty, he noted.
The White House’s announcement “is just the Biden administration trying to make it look like they’re doing something” on gas prices, “rather than tackling the root causes, which is a failure to incentivize production here in the U.S.,” McConnaughey said. “It really does nothing to address the long term causes.”
While the latest federal actions won’t drive down gas prices to where they were pre-invasion of Ukraine, experts do think they will help somewhat.
“The assumption is that it will decrease prices,” wrote AAA spokesperson Aldo Vazquez. Should the U.S. oil releases occur for the full six months mentioned by the administration, “the market would likely see downward pressure on oil prices,” AAA reported. “However, the global oil market remains highly volatile, so additional news that threatens supply could put upward pressure on oil prices.”
Here in Wyoming, AAA said that prices at the pump rose an average of 5 cents per gallon in the past week, among the biggest such increases in all U.S. states.
Should wholesale prices decline, it will take longer for what motorists pay at gas stations to also fall.
“It will take time for those lower prices to make it to retail, but it could start as early as this weekend,” wrote Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at gas research firm GasBuddy, in an email to the WTE. “If nothing changes with all the factors going into oil, we could see a slide of 10-25 cents per gallon” at the pump.
U.S. Sen John Barrasso, R-Wyo., echoed others when he said that “releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve doesn’t produce one more barrel of American oil.”
He said that the Biden administration “has spent the last 14 months making it more difficult to produce and move American oil and natural gas. He needs to reverse course.”
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., thinks “there is a very clear solution to rising gas prices – America needs to unleash our domestic energy production,” she said in a statement to the WTE. “In Wyoming and across the country, we have the resources and capabilities to increase production so we can regain American energy independence, provide crucial resources for our allies around the world, and reduce gas prices and energy costs hardworking families are facing.”
While planning to release oil from the U.S. reserve “may provide some short-term relief, it is far from a long-term solution to the economic pain Americans are feeling at the pump,” said API CEO Mike Sommers.
The trade group reported that “the percentage of producing leases is at a two-decade high.” But there are “nearly 5,000 permits awaiting approval from the administration and thousands more tied up in litigation.”
API said its analysis showed that in the first 14 months of the Obama administration, the Department of the Interior had held 47 federal lease sales. At the same point in the Biden administration, there has been “only a single lease sale,” which “was later invalidated.”
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In Wyoming’s first major COVID-19 related fraud case, former Wyoming Catholic College chief financial officer Paul D. McCown pleaded guilty to all seven counts lodged against him by federal prosecutors.
Standing quietly before U.S. District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl and a handful of spectators in a Casper federal courtroom on Tuesday, McCown, 35, admitted duping the federal COVID-19 business relief program, the Wyoming Business Council that administered the program and a private New York investment company out of millions of dollars by posing as a wealthy entrepreneur with a $750 million fortune nestled in his account with the tiny Wyoming Community Bank in Lander.
Each of the seven wire fraud counts against him carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Judge Skavdahl set a sentencing hearing for June 17 in Casper before releasing McCown on a $10,000 signature bond.
To commit the fraud against the New York-based Ria R Squared private equity firm McCown admitted using phony email accounts, falsifying bank statements and posing as a bank vice president.
A once prominent figure in the Lander business community, he told friends at the tiny Catholic college that he had made a fortune by converting his newly formed gin distillery into hand sanitizer business that was capitalizing on the COVID-19 crisis through major contracts with NFL stadiums and national airports.
McCown, wearing a light blue sports coat, and his attorney Jason Tangeman stood at the lectern for about 50 minutes as Judge Skavdahl read details of the plea agreement, allegations and potential penalties.
The judge informed McCown of the rights he would forfeit by waiving an indictment and by agreeing to the plea agreement.
McCown answered only in the affirmative when addressed by the judge. When Judge Skavdahl asked McCown how he pleaded, as per the plea agreement, McCown answered “guilty” to each of the seven counts.
McCown’s attorney told the judge that McCown’s wife and four young children were planning to move to California before his sentencing and was granted permission by Judge Skavdahl to accompany them on the condition that he return to Wyoming once the move was completed.
WyoFile is an independent nonprofit news organization focused on Wyoming people, places and policy.
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