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Man guilty of killing wife, 3 kids, pet dog in Florida
KISSIMMEE, Fla. (AP) — A physical therapist from Connecticut has been convicted of killing his wife, three young children and the family’s dog two years ago in central Florida.
A 12-member jury on Thursday evening found 46-year-old Anthony Todt guilty of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of animal cruelty.
Prosecutors weren’t seeking the death penalty, which means Todt will receive a mandatory life sentence.
During closing arguments, Assistant State Attorney Danielle Pinnell said Todt nonchalantly detailed the killings to investigators after his January 2020 arrest at the family’s home near Walt Disney World.
He later claimed that his wife killed the children and then stabbed herself.
Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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| 2022-04-14T23:51:44Z
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The suspect in an hours-long standoff in the Kapahulu area has been arrested.
That suspect has been identified as Christian Chang Perry. According to police, Perry was wanted on a $30,000 outstanding warrant for unauthorized entry of a motor vehicle.
A bounty hunter attempted to apprehend Perry at an apartment near Winam Avenue and Makaleka Avenue around 3 a.m. Thursday before calling for backup from Honolulu Police (HPD).
Police arrived just before 5 a.m., where Perry had allegedly holed up inside the apartment -- forcing authorities to evacuate residents inside the apartment building and some adjacent properties. Police also had to shut down Winam Avenue, from Ekela Avenue to Kapahulu Avenue, while crews negotiated with Perry.
A large police presence gathered in the area including an HPD SWAT team, a K9 unit and the criminal investigations division.
Just after 12:30 p.m., HPD arrested Perry without incident. No one else was reportedly inside the apartment with Perry when he barricaded himself and there has been no word of injuries.
No other details have been released and the case remains under investigation.
This is a developing story. Check back with KTIV4 for more information.
Matthew has been the digital content manager for KITV4 since September 2021. Matthew is a prolific writer, editor, and self-described "newsie" who's worked in television markets in Oklahoma, California, and Hawaii.
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CHEYENNE – The Cheyenne Police Department is issuing a warning about an increase in water backflow device thefts. These thefts have increased across the country and here at home due to the semi-precious metals these devices contain.
Water backflow devices are usually installed above ground, on the water service line leading into commercial buildings and apartment complexes. The U-shaped pipe acts as a valve to prevent irrigation or other water from backing up into the potable water source of the building. Thieves profit from the resale of copper and brass metals within the devices.
“We are seeing this happen during the day and at night. Thieves will cut the device with a saw – some have gotten so good at removing them that it can be done within minutes,” Detective Mike Fernandez said in a news release.
To address this issue, the CPD Detective Bureau has been working with local recycling businesses, instructing them to remain vigilant to help prevent this crime.
CPD reminds the public of the following steps to help prevent backflow theft:
Step 1: Paint, label or coat – Paint backflow devices or spray with truck-bed liner to decrease their scrap value. Stamp, label or identify the metal with a recognizable code.
Step 2: Cover/enclose – Cover backflow devices with either a protective cage or enclosure, which are secured or mounted to the ground.
Step 3: Secure – Use a high-quality lock on security cages. Lock guards protect locks from bolt cutter access.
Step 4: Post warnings – Post a visible warning sign mentioning security measures.
Step 5: Consider plastic options – Consider using plastic backflow preventers, which contain minimal amounts of semiprecious metals.
Step 6: Hide/conceal – Disguise backflow devices by covering them with other natural landscape surroundings. Use a heavy-duty enclosure box.
Anyone with information about stolen backflow devices should contact Detective Fernandez at 307-633-6638.
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| 2022-04-15T01:10:42Z
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CHEYENNE – Local planning officials announced Wednesday that two construction projects on U.S. Highway 30, Whitney Road and Dell Range Boulevard will start next summer.
The first portion of the nearly $30 million project was laid out for residents at a public open house hosted by the Wyoming Department of Transportation, the city of Cheyenne and Laramie County. While the projects also involve consultants from TriHydro and AVI Engineering, state agency officials and city engineers were the main resources for stakeholders to provide feedback and speak to at the event.
WYDOT District 1 Engineer Ryan Shields said although the construction is one year out, now is the perfect time to receive additional public input. He explained there is enough data, mapping and planning structure at this point to present, but it’s early enough to implement any changes considered by local officials.
The two plans created are currently based on a previous study done, where residents' main request was to enhance safety and efficiency.
“Before these projects were born, essentially the real focus was safety,” he told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. “We had crashes on U.S. 30, and the message was clear that the public wanted to make sure that, whatever we did, that these roads were safe for them and their families.”
The design decisions were also impacted by the need for more efficient roads, because Shields said the development in the county is creating areas of high-volume traffic. He continued that he did not want to discourage development in Cheyenne, but rather find a way to serve the traveling public best as there are more cars on the road.
Two-lane roads are often outgrown at usage levels starting at 5,500 trips a day, and issues for drivers become clear at around 11,000. In the sections where construction is planned, he estimated usage falls somewhere between 6,000 and 12,000 trips a day, depending on how urban the zone is.
But expanding the number of lanes is not the only way to address safety concerns, delays and accidents.
Engineers working on the projects are planning on lowering posted speed limits in certain areas; adding new sections at Dell Range and Whitney intersections; reducing high-risk movements, such as left turns; eliminating conflict points and upgrading other safety elements. Those elements include pedestrian crossings, intersection geometrics and lighting. Cheyenne City Engineer Tom Cobb also said longer shoulders will be included on Highway 30 for bicyclists to travel with enough space.
His partner in the project said they are confident that even with the added precautions and traffic lights, especially on sections of U.S. 30, well-flowing traffic should continue.
“It’s a highway meant to get you from your house into town to your job, to the grocery store and back again efficiently,” Shields said. “So we want to keep that functionality.”
In regard to how residents should expect to be impacted by construction when it starts in the summer of 2023, officials said they will mitigate issues as best they can. One the largest detours will occur at the Union Pacific bridge, at the east end of the U.S. 30 project, because the concrete deck needs to be replaced. Traffic will likely be directed onto Christensen Road.
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| 2022-04-15T01:10:48Z
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CHEYENNE – Many people don’t realize they currently qualify for comprehensive and affordable health insurance, and could sign up today. Expanded benefits and cheaper costs can be found by connecting with Enroll Wyoming, a nonprofit that provides free assistance to explore health options.
People may qualify for the Health Insurance Marketplace based on income or recent life-altering experiences like marriage, a new child joining the home or losing health insurance. This allows Americans to access the Marketplace, where cost savings like tax credits make four out of five health plans as cheap as $50 a month.
People also qualify if their household income is between 100% and 150% of federal poverty levels. For example, a four-member family qualifies if its annual income is between $26,500 and $39,750. Find out if you qualify by talking to an Enroll Wyoming Navigator or visiting www.healthcare.gov/screener.
Enroll Wyoming is a grant-funded nonprofit and doesn’t have sales incentives or quotas. Navigators provide detailed information so families and individuals can make the choices that best benefit their situations, according to a news release.
Connecting with an Enroll Wyoming is as easy as calling 211 and asking for a health insurance navigator.
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| 2022-04-15T01:10:55Z
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CHEYENNE – For Brent Bien, there were three specific incidents that motivated his run for governor.
The first time the idea came up was when former President Bill Clinton was elected in 1992. The second time was when current Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon "shut the state down" because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"We are 20,000 square miles bigger, 300,000 people fewer than South Dakota, and (they were) open for business," Bien told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle on Thursday.
The final trigger for Bien came with President Joe Biden's election in November 2020.
At that point, Bien thought, "We have a governor that's already put our freedom on the table, (and now) there's nobody at the federal level that's going to stand up for our freedom," he said.
After speaking with some other conservatives in the state and learning they weren't planning to challenge Gordon in 2022, Bien decided he was the man for the job.
Bien, who is running as a conservative Republican, is originally from Laramie. He and his wife, Susan, moved back to Wyoming about three years ago, following Bien's retirement as a colonel from the U.S. Marine Corps after close to three decades.
Working primarily as a Marine Corps aviator, Bien provided support in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as Kosovo, and spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most recently, the candidate was in Guam, leading the ongoing Defense Policy Review Initiative, which he said included building a Marine Corps base on the island territory.
Bien then worked as director of safety and standardization for Bighorn Airways in Sheridan until last fall, when he retired to focus on his run for governor.
Throughout all of his travel, Bien said he had maintained his Wyoming residency and has voted in every Wyoming election since he was 18.
Having watched the state's politics for decades, Bien said he's seen "a lack of leadership" among Wyoming's governors – especially the current one. In shutting down the state, Gordon hurt businesses and workers, and allowed an appointed health official to run the state, Bien said.
The gubernatorial candidate wants to see "proactive leadership" in Cheyenne – a strong governor like Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota or Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, he said.
"Wyoming should be leading," he said. "I know that we are involved in some lawsuits against certain things that are coming down federally, but it seems like we always jump on the bandwagon. ... Let's be the first."
'The three P's'
Bien said his campaign "revolves around making Wyoming the freest state in the nation." To do that as governor, Bien would emphasize "the three P's": protecting personal freedoms, pursuing government accountability and promoting state sovereignty.
When it comes to personal freedoms, Bien said he's particularly focused on "protecting private property rights, rights of the unborn, and, of course, the Second Amendment."
Bien said working toward government accountability means protecting voter integrity and ending crossover voting, moving toward more limited government, "fiscal discipline," and school choice and educational transparency.
In promoting state sovereignty, Bien said the goal would be to protect the state from federal overreach and reduce dependency on the federal government.
"I'm all about working with the federal government, as long as it doesn't encroach upon personal freedoms, nor the sovereignty of the state," Bien said.
He said that overreach has been happening for a long time, but has really ramped up since Biden took office. As an example, he cited what he called "the Biden 30/30 land and water grab," referring to a goal announced early in Biden's presidency to conserve at least 30% of land and water in the U.S. by 2030.
Bien also said he is a "big believer in promoting energy expansion."
"I think that fossil fuels are just as much our future as they were our past – we just have to change the narrative on them," he said. "We have the technology to make – particularly coal, because we're such a coal state – to make this extremely clean."
Bien said coal coming from the Powder River Basin is "the cleanest coal in the world" because of its low sulfur content.
Bien also spoke in favor of what he called "insulationism." At its core, he said, it means strengthening certain industries within Wyoming so the state doesn't have to rely as much on the federal government and industry outside the state.
The candidate drew a distinction between "insulationism" and isolationism, which he said he's not at all interested in.
"It's just to better protect the state, to insulate the state from bad federal policy," he explained. "And there's no way to completely do that by any means. But when I look at the cost of everything in the grocery store, the gasoline and all this stuff – I mean, there is a way to do this.
Grassroots campaigning
When he spoke to the WTE Thursday morning, Bien was readying for an evening visit to Thermopolis.
Visiting towns across the state, even those with a small number of residents, has so far been a significant part of his campaign. In the past month, Bien has made stops in Hudson, Recluse, Thayne and even tiny Spotted Horse, according to his Facebook page, alongside larger destinations like Gillette, Casper and Cheyenne.
During one recent visit to Cody, Bien said a campaign event originally scheduled for two hours lasted about eight.
These visits and interactions with potential voters have only strengthened his commitment to his core campaign principles, Bien said.
Bien acknowledged that the road ahead would be difficult in terms of challenging an incumbent for the gubernatorial seat. Even so, he feels he's developed a following through grassroots campaigning.
"I've had a career successfully leading people to accomplish desired results, but it does come down to putting teams together and listening," he said. "I always listen. And some ideas may work, some may not, but I always listen to the folks on what their concerns are."
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| 2022-04-15T01:11:07Z
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CHEYENNE – Wyoming’s Child Support Program was ranked number one in the nation for the ninth consecutive year based on performance and federal standards. The CSP is managed by the Department of Family Services.
Maximus, a company that specializes in health and human services programs, compiles the data for all states and territories. Then, the North Dakota child support director calculates and determines the ranking.
“We believe this recognition as the nation’s number one performing program demonstrates Wyoming families are receiving the services they need, and families are receiving their court-ordered child support,” said Kristie Arneson, economic security senior administrator with DFS, in a news release. “Those are always our goals.“
CSP goals include finding biological parents; establishing paternity; establishing child support and medical support orders; enforcing child support and medical support orders, and modifying existing orders. The CSP also serves as a “pass through” by receiving and disbursing child support payments to custodial parents.
The federal child support performance measures are: the number of cases with a child support order; paternity establishment; collection of current support; collection of arrears (back-owed child support) and cost effectiveness.
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| 2022-04-15T01:11:19Z
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Getting a Local Taste of Filipino History
Of the many cultures and cuisines that have contributed to the rich mix that is today’s southeast Louisiana, one of the least appreciated has to be Filipino. Despite a presence that goes back more than 200 years, the history is often overlooked and the savory foods underrepresented on the local restaurant scene.
A fabulous place to get a taste of Filipino cooking is Cebu Litson, in the heart of Algiers. But before we go there, let’s get a taste of local Filipino history.
The first immigrants from this southeast Asian nation of more than 7500 island arrived on Spanish ships in the late 18th century. Spain had colonized the islands by approximately 1571, and most of the Filipino sailors were indentured. When they saw the coastal bayous of Louisiana, many jumped ship, hid in the bayous, and used their fishing and shrimping skills to survive.
As their numbers grew, the Filipino refugees formed small settlements, building some of the first stilted houses in the state. Towns such as St. Malo and Manila Village exemplified the Filipino presence in the region, and the shrimp and fish they caught were an important component of seafood supply in the burgeoning New Orleans area.
Unfortunately, these coastal villages were extremely vulnerable to hurricanes, and over time, virtually all were abandoned. One remaining town with a substantial number of residents of Filipino descent is Lafitte – and now, its existence too is seriously threatened.
As coastal living became untenable, community members assimilated into the nearby parishes. Today, Louisianans of Filipino descent can be found across the entire southern coastal region, joined not infrequently by more recent immigrants who leave the islands to connect with their American relatives.
Which brings us into the Cebu Litson restaurant, proprietor Loy Madrigal, originally from the Philippine island of Cebu but a U.S. resident for several decades.
Upon first arriving in this country in 1994, Madrigal lived with family in Arkansas, before moving to Houston and then the Northshore area. He worked in fields as diverse as shipbuilding and law enforcement – he has been a Jefferson Parish constable for sixteen years – and actually returned to Cebu at one point, leading security operations for the provincial government.
Throughout it all, his heart was in Filipino food and cooking. Starting at age seven, he had been the designated grocery shopper for his Aunt Lita, who owned a restaurant in Cebu, learning about the ingredients as well as the tricks to finding the best suppliers.
That connection continues to inform Madrigal today: “When I need to know something, I still call Aunt Lita,” he said.
According to Madrigal, Filipino cooking is “inspired by a mix of Spanish and Chinese food. We use a lot of herbs, like lemon grass, green onion, garlic, ginger. Soy sauce is used a lot. And natural sea salt, which gives a different flavor than iodized salt.”
Madrigal imports many of his seasonings from the Philippines. “That helps workers back home,” he pointed out. “When I buy these products, it keeps them working.”
He emphasized that Filipino food is not fancy, but hearty and healthy. “I’m not a chef,” he said with a laugh. “I’m just a cook who likes to eat. When I’m in my kitchen, I’m at peace.”
This philosophy comes to life in Madrigal’s approach to his signature dish, pork litson (pronounced lishon and sometimes spelled lechon). This is whole pig, seasoned inside and out, and slow-cooked to perfection. “If I say it’s going to be ready at 12:00, you better come get it at 12:00, because it tastes best when it’s hot. Actually, it was really ready at 11:00, but I have to have my part first.”
Madrigal confessed that his wife is actually the “Queen of liston”. He does the seasoning, “but once it goes to the grill, it’s all hers. I’ve got the flavor locked, she’s got the cooking locked.”
Following the approach he learned from Aunt Lita, all the pigs are locally sourced and raised naturally. Similarly, he often gets up at 4:00 AM to get his fish directly from the fishermen out in New Orleans East.
Cebu Litson started as a pop-up where Madrigal primarily cooked for friends – and himself. “I missed the food from back home, and the best way to get it was to learn how to cook it,” he recalled. Word got around, and he began getting orders for his food. This led in early 2019 to upgrading to a food truck, with most of the money fronted by friends. However, grilling in a truck in Louisiana summers was too much heat for Madrigal, so he took the next step up to a permanent restaurant.
Today Cebu Litson is a full family affair, with his wife sharing the cooking duties and his mother filling a variety of roles. Customers come from Filipino communities as far away as Biloxi, Baton Rouge and even Pensacola. Locals (of all backgrounds) also delight in the savory, barbecue-reminiscent flavors of this still under-appreciated cuisine.
And Madrigal stays very connected with his Filipino roots, with the cooking and via the local Philippine-Louisiana Historical Society (www.filipinola.com). “We are very proud to be part of the Historical Society, because one of our goals is to share the Filipino history in New Orleans, the first Filipino settlement in the United Sates,” he stated. “It’s important for every Filipino in this country to know how we got here.”
It’s a good history for all Louisianans to know – and it goes very, very well with the aromas and flavors of Filipino food.
Cebu Litson is located at 928 Hendee Street in Algiers. While the restaurant is currently open Wednesday through Sunday, Madrigal recommended calling ahead for hours and to place orders; the number is 985-302-6801. There will be a Filipino Food Festival at the Southern Food & Beverage Museum on Saturday, April 23, from noon – 4 p.m.
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| 2022-04-15T01:19:18Z
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Local Orgs To Hold Panel on Violent Crime
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — A group of local organizations and public safety stakeholders will hold a dialogue regarding how to build a safer New Orleans on Saturday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The day will include a review of the recent surge in violence and how it is affecting New Orleans communities, plus a panel discussion about the shared burden of violence and realistic actions that members of the community can take to make us all safer.
Representatives from Dillard University, Project NOLA, Crimestoppers, Ubuntu Village, and SilenceIsViolence will present perspectives, experiences, and strategies. Longue Vue House & Gardens will host the event and provide a picnic lunch. Following a panel presentation and roundtable discussion, a Healing Garden will be introduced on the Longue Vue grounds.
This gathering is free and open to the public; pre-registration is encouraged at longuevue.com.
Questions can be address to Baty Landis: sblandis@longuevue.com or (504) 293-4703.
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| 2022-04-15T01:19:24Z
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Tulane Alumni Investing Millions to Create Innovation Institute
NEW ORLEANS — Tulane University has announced that the Tulane Innovation Institute will launch operations from its downtown headquarters later this year. The technology and startup accelerator, which will debut at 1315 Gravier Street before moving to the renovated Charity Hospital building, is funded by several alumni investors.
The Priddy Family Foundation secured funds to launch the Robert L. Priddy Innovation Lab, which will provide proof-of-concept and early-stage startup gap funding for aspiring entrepreneurs and promising technologies. The lab also will offer a mentorship network and administrative, budgetary, marketing and branding support. A 1969 Tulane graduate, Robert Priddy forged a career in aviation and private equity and remains an active private investor.
Another gift from David and Marion Mussafer will create an innovation fund to support programming, mentoring, marketing, and startup and proof-of-concept funding. Investor David Mussafer, also a Tulane alum, serves as chairman and managing partner of private equity firm Advent International Corp. Other key investors include David Barksdale, Stephanie Barksdale, Carol Bernick, Walter Isaacson, Cathy Isaacson, Jeffrey Silverman and Amy Silverman.
Tulane said the institute will also produce educational and experiential programming “in order to energize and cultivate an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset and culture on campus that helps foster startup enterprises and technologies with commercial potential.” The school also hopes the institute provide an incentive for more graduates to start their careers in New Orleans. The Priddy Innovation Lab is expected to attract more than $100 million in capital to the region.
“Throughout my career I’ve loved watching small ventures grow into thriving enterprises,” said Robert Priddy in a press release. “In the Innovation Institute, I see a promising idea with the power to capitalize on Tulane’s existing strengths and grow into something huge for the city and the Gulf Coast. I’m captivated by this project’s possibilities and the opportunity to play a role in developing new concepts that can produce jobs, improve the local economy and change the world for the better. I’d recommend this project to anyone looking to invest in the future not only of Tulane but the entire region.”
The institute’s partners inside Tulane will include the Taylor Center, the Albert Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, the Scot Ackerman MakerSpace, the Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property and the Tulane National Primate Research Center. Outside partners will include the Idea Village, the New Orleans BioInnovation Center and many regional economic development groups.
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| 2022-04-15T01:19:30Z
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UNO Releases Poll Results on Recreational Marijuana
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — The UNO Survey Research Center, under the direction of Dr. Edward Chervenak, has released the results of an April 2022 survey on the legalization of recreational marijuana in Louisiana.
Registered voters were randomly selected for the sample from the Louisiana Secretary of State’s voter file. The live interviewer telephone survey was conducted from Monday, March 28 through Friday, April 1.
The results were as follows:
- Almost sixty percent of registered voters support legalization of recreational marijuana.
- Attitudes toward legalization are influenced by age.
- Registered Democrats strongly favor legalization while Republicans are evenly split in their opinion.
To view the full results, visit: Studies | The University of New Orleans (uno.edu).
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| 2022-04-15T01:19:36Z
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Xplore Federal Appoints Darlene Lockhart as CEO & President
NEW ORLEANS (press release) — Xplore Federal Credit Union announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Darlene Lockhart as CEO and president effective April 1.
Xplore said Lockhart has been an influential leader in the credit union industry for over three decades. She began her credit union career in 1993 as an accountant for a $100 million credit union where she served as CFO until 2007.
In 2007 she joined a public accounting firm and performed auditing and consulting services for credit unions. In 2012 she became CEO of a local credit union until joining Xplore as CFO in 2018.
“Darlene is a firm believer in the credit union movement and with her leadership we will continue to serve our members to ensure their financial wellbeing” said Neil Johnston, board chair for Xplore. “We are very excited that Darlene has taken up the mantel of CEO and we look forward to continued growth and prosperity in our community.”
For more information about Xplore FCU, please contact the marketing department at marketing@xplorefcu.com or 888-897-5673.
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| 2022-04-15T01:19:43Z
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FDA authorizes 1st breath test for COVID-19 infection
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued an emergency use authorization for what it said is the first device that can detect COVID-19 in breath samples.
The InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer is about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage, the FDA said, and can be used in doctor’s offices, hospitals and mobile testing sites. The test, which can provide results in less than three minutes, must be carried out under the supervision of a licensed health care provider.
Dr. Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, called the device “yet another example of the rapid innovation occurring with diagnostic tests for COVID-19.”
The FDA said the device was 91.2% accurate at identifying positive test samples and 99.3% accurate at identifying negative test samples.
“InspectIR expects to be able to produce approximately 100 instruments per week, which can each be used to evaluate approximately 160 samples per day,” the agency said. “At this level of production, testing capacity using the InspectIR COVID-19 Breathalyzer is expected to increase by approximately 64,000 samples per month.”
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| 2022-04-15T01:29:05Z
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DEA plans National Prescription Drug Take Back Day for late April
(WOWT/Gray News) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is planning its next National Prescription Drug Take Back Day for the end of this month.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 30, the public is encouraged to bring any unused and unneeded medications to law enforcement agencies across the country. You can find the nearest collection site using a search tool on the DEA’s Take Back Day website.
“The drug overdose epidemic in the United States is a clear and present public health, public safety, and national security threat,” the website states.
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, drug overdose deaths reached a record high in late 2021, with over 105,000 deaths in the 12-month period ending in October of that year.
The Take Back Day is designed to guard against medication misuse and help prevent opioid addictions before they start.
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| 2022-04-15T01:29:12Z
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Gun safety instructor under fire for using controversial slides during presentation
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) - The Las Vegas-Clark County Library District is reviewing its room rental policy after a controversial class was taught at one of its facilities over the weekend.
Nephi Khaliki, a gun safety instructor, has come under fire for telling jokes based on offensive racial stereotypes while teaching the private class in a public space.
Video shows Khaliki, the owner of Vegas Conceal Carry Weapons, on stage teaching the firearm training course that included slides that read “Firearm Safety for White People” and “Firearm Safety for Black People.”
He could also be heard saying, “Always make sure there are no minorities in your backdrop. Always lick the chicken grease off your fingers before shooting.”
Khaliki responded to what some are saying about the presentation they saw over the weekend.
“You saw one segment. There’re other segments in there that equally go after every other group and they busted on me right back. It was a fun event,” Khaliki said.
Khaliki, who is Arabic and also considers himself a comedian, says there was nothing racist about the event.
“It has nothing to do with gun safety. Except taking a very mundane subject that gets easily forgotten and shocking their system and making them remember the safety rule. Always keep the weapon pointed in a safe direction. That’s the joke,” he said.
Several Republican political candidates were in attendance, including North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee, and candidate for sheriff Tom Roberts, who said he condemned the graphics used during the class.
Marcus, who attended the class and didn’t want to share his last name, said Khaliki didn’t just point out or focus on one particular ethnic group or minority during the class.
Officials with the library district said they haven’t decided on whether Khaliki will be allowed to return in the future, but will take a closer look at who is using the facilities.
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| 2022-04-15T01:29:19Z
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LA political donor gets 30 years in prison for overdose deaths
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ed Buck told his neighbors that the steady stream of young Black men leaving his West Hollywood apartment were social work clients. What really happened behind closed doors, which he referred to as the “gates of hell,” was far more sinister.
The men did not need Buck’s help — they needed to be saved from him, said federal prosecutors in Los Angeles said. Some barely escaped with their lives. Two men didn’t.
Buck, 67, a wealthy gay white donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to 30 years in federal prison for injecting two men with lethal doses of methamphetamine as part of a fetish that turned fatal.
Prosecutors, who sought a life term, said Buck had such disregard for life that even after the two deaths in his apartment, he did not stop paying men to come to his home and injecting them with walloping doses of methamphetamine. One man overdosed twice in the course of a week.
“This defendant preyed upon vulnerable victims — men who were drug-dependent and often without homes — to feed an obsession that led to death and misery,” United States Attorney Tracy L. Wilkison said. “Mr. Buck continues to pose a clear danger to society.”
Buck was convicted in July of distribution of methamphetamine resulting in the deaths of Gemmel Moore in 2017 and Timothy Dean in 2019. He was also convicted of four counts of meth distribution, two counts of enticing men to travel across state lines for prostitution and a count of maintaining a drug den.
Buck managed to avoid arrest for more than two years after Moore’s death and family and community members led by political strategist Jasmyne Cannick complained that he escaped prosecution because of wealth, political ties and race. He donated more than $500,000 since 2000 to mainly Democratic causes.
Moore’s mother, LaTisha Nixon, joined Cannick and several other friends and family members of the deceased to ask the judge for the maximum sentence. Nixon, a certified nursing assistant who said she had prayed with and comforted countless dying people, broke down as she thought of the way her oldest child died.
“All I can think about is how my son died naked on a mattress with no love around him,” Nixon said. “No one to hold his hand or tell him good things.”
Defense lawyer Mark Werksman sought a 10-year term — half of the mandatory minimum of 20 years Buck faced and well below the 25 years recommended by the probation department. He said Buck’s sexual abuse as a child and health problems that led to his drug addiction were mitigating factors.
He said prosecutors had cast Buck as a “sociopathic syringe-wielding sexual predator and sexual deviant who preys on homeless drug-addicted male prostitutes and kills them by recklessly overdosing them on methamphetamine.”
“But there’s a second Ed Buck, a redeemable, a worthy, a valuable Ed Buck who deserves this court’s compassion and mercy,” Werksman said.
Buck made his first public remarks since his arrest in September 2019, apologizing for “my part in the tragic deaths” of Moore and Dean, whom he said were friends he loved. In a husky voice, he said he had not caused their deaths but expressed condolences to their families — something they said he never did after their deaths.
Buck, who worked as a model and then made a small fortune selling an Arizona company he rescued from bankruptcy, said he tried to live a good life devoted to political causes that would make his world a better place.
His political activism began with efforts in 1987 to recall Republican Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham, who was ultimately convicted in an impeachment trial and kicked out of office. Buck said he started an AIDS information organization in the 1980s, marched for gay and human rights and championed a ban on fur sales in West Hollywood.
“Look at the good I have done and the good I may still do and not the horrible caricature that the government painted me as a meth-fueled ax killer,” Buck said. “That’s not who I am.”
Judge Christina Snyder said the case was one of the most difficult and tragic ones she had presided over. She said Buck’s “horrific crimes” were reprehensible and more than just an accident.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Chelsea Norell objected to the 30-year sentence, arguing that the mandatory minimum sentences for each death add up to 40 years.
“He is effectively getting one kill and one kill 50% off,” Norell said.
Family members of Dean and Moore said they were disappointed he didn’t get a life sentence but were happy Buck was going away for a long time. They said his apology had come too late to seem sincere.
“That’s not love when you kill someone,” said Dean’s sister, Joann Campbell. “That was just something he was saying ... to get some sympathy from the judge. But I don’t believe and buy any of it.”
Even after Dean’s death, Buck remained undeterred, Norell said. Holed up in a hotel to avoid the police, he injected Dane Brown with back-to-back “slams” of methamphetamine.
Brown, who was homeless, later moved into Buck’s apartment, where he was injected with meth most days and often several times a day.
On Sept. 4, 2019, after Buck shot him up three times with back-to-back doses, Brown was hospitalized for overdosing. He had five times the meth in his system that Moore and Dean had when they died, prosecutors said.
Brown returned less than a week later and Buck injected him three times with meth. Brown said he was overdosing again. He was exhausted and weak but Buck wouldn’t call an ambulance.
“I can’t run, I can’t move and it’s like all my energy was being sapped out,” Brown recalled Thursday outside court.
That’s when he heard the voice of his late mother tell him to get up.
“At that last moment, right when I was giving up and closed my eyes, I heard the voice,” Brown said. “It’s like she lit a fire and told me to get out and get out now.”
Brown managed to get himself to a nearby gas station and was taken to the hospital. It was that incident that finally led to Buck’s arrest.
If he hadn’t made it out of Buck’s apartment, Brown said he would have died there like Moore and Dean.
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| 2022-04-15T01:29:25Z
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Jason Hardrath, who lives in Klamath Falls and teaches at Bonanza Elementary, will be featured in the mini-documentary, “Journey to 100,” about his record-setting mountain climbing efforts at the Ross Ragland Theater at 7 p.m. Thursday. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and military, and $5 for students.
“Journey” tells how Hardrath, who has lived and taught in the Klamath Basin since 2012, overcame personal obstacles, including a crippling car accident, to eclipse the previous record for climbing Washington’s 100 highest peaks. The film premiered in Brooklyn, New York, earlier this month and will be featured in Denver, Portland, Seattle and other cities following its Ragland showing.
Last year Hardrath, a member of the Klamath Trails Alliance, connected KTA with his sponsor, Athletic Brewing’s “Two for Trails” grant program that funded $10,000 for the kiosk/signage at the new Moore Park Bike Skills area. As a teacher in Bonanza, he has organized hiking field trips, a learn to bike program and helped develop a school climbing wall.
“It definitely speaks to people who loves mountains,” Hardrath says of the 30-minute film, noting it also includes “important messages,” including, “It give us permission to chase our dreams and goals.” The film will be followed by a question-answer session.
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| 2022-04-15T02:54:57Z
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Burton Eugene Lowe 1931-2022 Burton "Burt" Eugene Lowe (91) passed away peacefully with family by his side on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Santa Fe, NM from complications related to a long illness. Burt was born on Jan. 25, 1931 in Sheridan, Wyoming to Max Olden Lowe and Evelyn "Dixie" Lowe of Sheridan. He was a University of Wyoming graduate and a Korean War veteran and had a very successful business career in the oil & gas business and as a stockbroker in Cheyenne, WY and Boise, ID. He enjoyed a long retirement in Scottsdale, AZ and Santa Fe, NM. Burt was preceded in death by his parents Max and Dixie Lowe, his sister Audre Beckenhauer. He is survived by Eunice, his wife of over 69 years, sons Dr. John (Kimberly) Lowe of Santa Fe, NM, David (Connie) Lowe of Leawood, KS, and Tom Lowe of Borrego Springs, CA as well as granddaughters Kathryn (Andy) Collins, Hilary (Michael) Gustafson, Kristin Lowe and Dr. Amanda Lowe, and great-grandchildren Miller, Brooks and Teddy Collins and Graham and Greta Gustafson. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to your favorite charity. Services will be held at a later date in Cave Creek, AZ. For a more detailed celebration of Burt's life please visit the Berardinelli Funeral Home website at https://www.berardinellifuneralhome.com/tributes/Burton-Lowe
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| 2022-04-15T02:54:58Z
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Most days Jason Hardrath is a physical education teacher at Bonanza Elementary School.
But when he’s not teaching, the 33-year-old is likely working out or, even more to his liking, taking on ever-more challenging climbs of daunting mountains.
But he’s not just any climber. Hardrath has earned national attention for being the first person with 100 Fastest Known Times (FKT) and, during last year’s summer break from teaching, obliterating the record for climbing Washington’s 100 tallest peaks in a remarkably miniscule 50 days and 23 hours. Distance-wise he covered 869 miles, with a staggering elevation gain of 412,000 feet.
Why does he do it?
“The views, the sensation of being up there. I love the feeling of the clouds, the breeze, the feeling of looking down and saying, ‘My legs brought me up here,’“ he says of summiting challenging, often trail-less mountain peaks. “I love bringing my skills to the test. The feeling I climbed a mountain the best I could. The feeling I’m bringing the experience of my best nature to nature.”
Hardrath, who grew up in Eastern Oregon’s Baker City, says climbing mountains is a response and outlet for his ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder). “As a kid I couldn’t sit still … I found athletics as this realm where I can be successful.”
Successful he is. But mountain climbing wasn’t his original ADHD outlet. In middle school he wanted, and eventually succeeded, to run a mile is less than six minutes. In high school he ran track and earned a college scholarship to Corban University in Salem – “I had to work my butt off to keep my scholarship” – where he ran track while earning a degree and teaching certificate in physical education.
For several years Hardrath found his outlet in Ironman triathlons, events that combine swimming, biking and running. Life changed in 2015 when, after what he remembers as a challenging day of teaching, coaching and meetings, he momentarily took his eyes off the road, resulting in his car flying off the road and rolling. Because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt, Hardrath shot out the open window. Riddled with a litany of injuries, his competitive running days were over.
Amazingly, the ever-competitive Hardrath shifted his hyperactive outlet to climbing.
It helped that nearby climbing opportunities are abundant – Hogback in Klamath Falls and more challenging mountains like McLoughlin and Shasta, which he’s summited more than 25 times. “I cut my teeth on volcanoes,” explains Hardrath, who stands 5-foot-9, weighs 170 pounds As his climbing proficiency increased, Hardrath sought greater challenges, which led to speed records, or FKTs for climbing mountains, often by complex, steep, technical routes.
When he neared his 100th FKT, he decided to make the climb symbolic. And, to add to the challenge, he wanted that FKT century mark to signal and symbolize the culmination of his record for climbing Washington’s 100 tallest peaks, known as the Bulger List. When he stood on the summit of Mount St. Helens at 6:04 a.m. on August 3, then 34-year-old Hardrath, who had launched his 100-summit effort at 6:21 a.m. on June 13, 2021, shattered the previous record of 410 days set by Eric Gilbertson in 2018.
His 100 peaks journey included 51 days of challenges, not only reaching the summits but sometimes suffocating in stifling heat, devising ways to reach climbing routes normally accessed from Covid-closed Canada, teetering on knife-edged ridges, being doused by heavy rain, climbing technical rock terrain, traveling across glaciers, and readjusting schedules to avoid forest fire closures.
As word of his attempt grew, Hardrath was joined by 21-year-old Nathan Longhurst, who accompanied him on 65 peaks and later became the youngest Bulger record holder. Hardrath earned sponsorships, including from Athletic Brewing, whose president insisted, “We need to make a movie of this,” which led to film crews from WZRD Media to document his final four climbs.
“It’s been kind of a wild ride to where it is now,” laughs Hardrath, who is now sponsored with Path Projects clothes, Norda Run trail shoes and Coros watches.
Completing the Bulger List in less than two months – a time frame partially necessary because it happened during the summer break from teaching at Bonanza — wasn’t done on a whim. After wondering, “How realistic is this?” Hardrath sought logistical advice from other Bulger finishers, including Gilbertson, through near-daily Zoom calls over a six-month period.
For now it’s time to reflect on his adventures. Hardrath genuinely appreciates his time past, and time to come, on the challenges and rewards of climbing memories. “When I get out there (on mountaintops) it’s like complete silence. I can feel the breeze across my skin. It’s more of a sanctuary than any church I’ve been in, and that’s a pretty powerful calling.”
He talks about giving his body a rest, including visits to Denver, Seattle, Portland and elsewhere for upcoming showings of “Journey to 100.” But this year’s plans include more challenging adventures – from rejoining Longhurst for the Norman 13, linking 14,000-foot Sierra Nevada range summits – and, beginning in 2023, tacking the Rainier Infinity Loop, which involves two summits of Mount Rainer and the entire Wonderland Trail, climbs in South America, and outings like the Teton Picnic, which includes biking 23 miles from Jackson Hole, swimming 1.3 miles across Jenny Lake, climbing 10 often technical miles to the summit of 13,775-foot Grand Teton then reversing the route back to town.
“I have a laundry list of things,” Hardrath laughs.
For now the immediate focus is on teaching, which includes instilling a sense of you-can-do-it for his students at Bonanza Elementary and encouraging others to gain self-confidence on hikes or by biking Moore Park’s new Bike Skills area, a project he helped fund.
“This desire to help and lift others has been engrained in me,” Hardrath explains, “I’m most passionate about getting the kids in the outdoors more. I like the idea of a real, full-on adventure, and I hope to instill that in others, too.”
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CODY – The Park County Republican Party may be setting its sights on a new target of animosity even before its campaign against U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney has completed. That target is U.S. Sen. John Barrasso.
“It’s a disgrace,” Park County committeeman Tim Lasseter said. “He’s headed down the path of Liz Cheney.”
At its meeting last Thursday, the party voted unanimously to send a letter reprimanding Barrasso for his vote to support the $1.5 trillion government spending bill that passed through the Senate on March 15. Within this dense, 2,741 -page legislation is funding that can be used by Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion provider in the United States.
Barrasso was the lone member of Wyoming’s delegation to vote for the bill.
The bill passed with a 68-31 vote, with U.S. Sen. Cynthia Lummis voting against it, as did Cheney in the House.
The bill provides more than $286 million for family planning and an additional $575 million for family planning internationally.
Due to the Hyde Amendment, family planning organizations like Planned Parenthood cannot used governmental funds directly toward performing abortion services, but the Catholic News Agency reports that pro-life groups argue that by receiving funds for certain services, it can free up other monies for performing abortions.
“While this legislation was far from perfect, Republicans in the Senate negotiated nearly $65 billion in savings over President Biden’s budget request,” Barrasso’s secretary, Gaby Hurt, said. “The bill secured increased funding for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, increased funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and restored $2 billion in funding for border wall construction.”
The county party censured Cheney in 2021 for speaking out against former President Donald Trump and his alleged role in sparking the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. In August, the county party sent a letter saying it no longer recognized her as a Republican, followed by the state GOP a few months later.
“Next time, he’s next,” Park County Committeeman Troy Bray said, referring to Barrasso’s next election race, which, if he decides to run in, would take place in 2024.
The criticism against Cheney has nothing to do with abortion. In fact, the representative has been one of the staunchest opponents of abortion, as has Barrasso.
Planned Parenthood and Pro Choice America both gave Barrasso a zero score four years in a row due to his votes on abortion issues. Similarly, pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony List gave Barrasso an A+ grade.
“Senator Barrasso has stood up against extremist nominees of the pro-abortion Biden-Harris administration, against pro-abortion action both in the administration and through legislation advanced by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer,” the List reported. “Sen. Barrasso has voted consistently to defend the lives of the unborn and infants. This includes stopping hard-earned tax dollars from paying for abortion, whether domestically or internationally, and protecting health care provider rights for those who refuse to engage in brutal abortions.”
The organization also said Barrasso spoke in opposition to the confirmation of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra due to his stance on abortion.
But if voting with a flawless conservative record or in lockstep with former President Donald Trump is the mark to meet, Barrasso does come up a little short, which may be part of the Park County GOP’s hostility for the fourth-term senator.
According to political database FiveThirtyEight, 11% of Barrasso’s career votes were not aligned with Trump, including his vote to certify the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania and Arizona. Cheney agreed with Trump on all but 7.1% of issues over her career.
In a recent phone conversation with Barrasso, Park County GOP Chairman Martin Kimmet said the senator defended his vote by saying the money cannot be used for performing abortions.
“He said, ‘It’s just one vote,’” Kimmet recalled.
This prompted committeeman Brad Kolb of Powell to chime in and describe the senator as “one vote Barasso,” bringing great laughter from the audience and a few more references to this moniker over the course of the meeting.
The Planned Parenthood appropriation made up less than 0.1% of the total bill funding.
Certain members of Congress have gained a reputation for not fully reading through all of the bills they are voting on, a speculation a few committee members attributed to Barrasso in this instance.
Kimmet said if Barrasso had voted against the bill, “he could’ve turned the 18 other (Republican) votes in the Senate and turned that bill,” because of his leadership and influence within the body. Barrasso is the chair of the Senate Republican Conference and is a ranking member of the Senate Energy Committee.
Lasseter said constituents are doing a much better job following the actions of their elected officials than they had in the past. He said he initially supported a formal censure of Barrasso, but stepped back from that idea when he decided it would have weakened the impact of the Cheney censure.
The Park County GOP has, of late, been one of the first county parties to react in Wyoming when it comes to chastising elected officials deemed not conservative enough. When it came to the Cheney censure, 19 other county parties followed suit, along with the state party. The Republican National Committee censured her in February.
“It’s now more important than ever to hold electeds accountable,” committeeman Richard Jones said.
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Heavy spring snows have stalled road opening efforts at Crater Lake National Park.
Marsha McCabe, the park’s information officer, said as of Thursday the park had been blasted with six feet of new snow since Monday morning, including 12 inches in the 24-hour period that ended 7 a.m. Thursday. As of Thursday morning the on-ground snow total at park headquarters was 87 inches while the total snowfall for the winter season, which began Oct. 1, 2021, was 371, or 85 percent of average.
Snow clearing efforts, which had cleared West Rim Drive to the North Junction and along the North Junction Road, have stalled with the heavy snowfall. The heavy snow has resulted in closing the road from park headquarters in Munson Village to Rim Village. The road closure has also prevented Crater Lake Hospitality from operating its Rim Village concession facilities.
“Now that we are getting a break in the weather, the road crew is beginning to work on opening up the road to Rim Village,” McCabe said Thursday afternoon. “It may take a while before we are able to open it to the public. The road crew will need to make sure the developed areas are open before they resume work on spring opening.”
As one park employee quipped, the heavy snow has made it difficult to move around the headquarters area, including parking lot. Because of deep snow, employee and park vehicles are often buried and hidden under mounds of snow. Searching for snow-buried vehicles, the employee said, is laughingly referred to “Crater Lake archeology,”
For updated information oo Crater Lake road conditions call the visitor center office at 541-594-3000 or visit the park website at www.nps.gov/crla.
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Few things are as gratifying as a tax refund. We all know it was our money to begin with, but there’s something about going head-to-head with “The Man” and coming out on top that I look forward to every year. My taxes are usually done in February, so the April 15 deadline (April 18 this year) is meaningless to me — usually. Not this year, though. After almost a decade of paying my dues as a columnist, fighting writer’s block, angry emails, loss of muse, encroaching deadlines and so much disappointment, I finally get my reward on Tax Day.
Almost nine years since I penned my first newspaper article, I’m pleased to announce that my first book, “Fishing Across America” has a publisher. Hold for tearful applause. I consider publishing this book the crowning achievement of my life, and it feels a lifetime away from when I first wrote about fishing in a spiral-bound notebook as a 13-year-old kid or even when I first started writing about sports and fishing for our local paper a decade after that.
Though my last keystroke was finished years ago, the publication process is far more brutal than the dating scene, and you can expect rejection after rejection while looking for a publisher. Mercifully, convos with two other outdoors writers who each took different paths to publication let me exhaust every opportunity before finding my publisher, Inkshares. Huge thanks to Matthew Miller (“Fishing Through the Apocalypse: An Angler’s Adventures in the 21st Century”) and Kris Millgate (“My Place Among Men”) for talking me off the ledge.
Now, you can find that hilarious, heartwarming and weirdly captivating CaughtOvgard content you’ve come to love 600-1000 words at a time in just a few more words centered around my 2019 summer road trip.
Outline
Longtime readers know what to expect from me: harrowing tales in which I barely escape marginal decisions, epic adventures, loads of dad jokes and puns, digestible history, a wide array of fish in an even wider array of habitats, food, travel tips, romantic failure and the gripping narrative that draws in so many readers who don’t even fish. I can promise all of that and more in “Fishing Across America”.
The trip that spawned this book almost didn’t happen, but it panned out in the end as I traveled across the country for my cousin Austin Crawford’s wedding and saw him united to his wife, Darian. I had a fishing conference as a representative for Fishbrain a few weeks later, so rather than fly twice, I decided to drive and fill in the downtime with fishing.
It was the road trip of a lifetime that has spawned subsequent road trips every summer since.
46 days.
12,167.2 miles.
122 fishing stops.
19 states.
2019 fish.
211 species.
149 new species.
Read about the “Loneliest Road in America,” a confrontation with poachers who nearly shoot me, wading up alligator-infested creeks, landing massive sharks and tiny minnows, fighting drunken tourists for real estate, barely surviving Disneyworld and so much more.
If you’ve enjoyed being CaughtOvgard all these years, please take a little bit of that tax refund and buy a copy of “Fishing Across America” today. Books are available for preorder today at https://www.inkshares.com/books/fishing-across-america. Preorder “Fishing Across America” at https://www.inkshares.com/books/fishing-across-america.
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The drug trafficking trial for Dr. Rudy Puana is winding down. The defense rested its case on Thursday after calling its final witness.
Puana is the brother of former Honolulu Deputy Prosecutor Katherine Kealoha.
Day eight of the trial had the defense call one last witness back to the stand, Puana's Ex Wife and former business partner, Doctor Lynn Puana.
On Thursday she came under heavy fire from the prosecution during cross examination. She was asked why she changed the name of the Puana clinic after Rudy Puana left, and why she wanted to change her last name.
But she would not say it was because Puana had a tarnished image. Instead, she delivered a gift to the defense as the day came to a close.
Just before Puana's lawyers rested their case, they asked Lynn Puana if she would have any problem practicing medicine with Dr. Puana. She responded,
"No. He's been sober for three years and I've watched the growth that he's had and he's an excellent physician. I still would have him do anesthesia on me if I was in the operating room today."
The jury is scheduled to return on Tuesday for closing arguments. Judge Micheal Seabright limited both sides to an hour to sum up their cases.
Once closing arguments are finished, the jury will go into deliberation and decide the guilt or innocence of Dr. Rudy Puana.
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A woman processes a nasal swab in one of the new government-issued Covid-19 Antigen Rapid test kits in Provo, Utah on February 8. Medicare enrollees can now obtain home Covid-19 tests from certain pharmacies and providers at no cost.
A COVID-19 breathalyzer test with the ability to provide diagnostic results in three minutes has won emergency-use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the agency announced today.
The test, made by Frisco, Texas-based InspectIR Systems, is authorized for those 18 and older and in settings where samples are both collected and analyzed, such as doctor’s offices, hospitals or mobile testing sites. The device is about the size of a piece of carry-on luggage, the FDA said, and works by detecting chemical compounds in breath samples associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The agency said the test was validated in a study of 2,409 people, where it correctly identified 91.2% of positive samples and 99.3% of negative samples. It performed similarly in follow-up tests focused on the omicron variant. The breathalyzer’s sensitivity is comparable to that of rapid antigen tests, studies show.
“Today’s authorization is yet another example of the rapid innovation occurring with diagnostic tests for COVID-19,” Jeff Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, said in the statement. The FDA is also supporting the development of more testing capabilities, he said.
The company, which focuses on portable opioid and cannabis detection tools, expects to be able to produce approximately 100 of the devices each week, which can be used to evaluate about 160 samples per day. On its website, the company says the breathalyzer is the first such device available for commercial use.
The FDA said the test can only be administered by qualified, trained operators under the supervision of health care professionals with state authorization to prescribe tests.
InspectIR Systems did not immediately respond to requests for additional information regarding the device’s cost or the expected level of demand.
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FDA: Recall issued for popcorn snack sold in 18 states over allergen concerns
(Gray News) - A popular popcorn snack sold in more than a dozen states and grocery stores around the country is being recalled due to possible allergen concerns.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports Snak King has voluntarily recalled 5-ounce packages of O Organics Sea Salt Organic Popcorn due to the potential presence of an undeclared milk allergen.
The popcorn packages were sold in stores that include Pavilions, Haggen, ACME, Safeway, King’s, Balducci’s, Jewel-Osco, Andronico’s Community Markets, Vons, Pak ‘N Save, Albertsons, Eagle and Carrs-Safeway.
According to the FDA, the stores were in are in Idaho, Washington, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington D.C., Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.
The agency said products have a “best if used by” date of 9/24/2022 and 9/25/2022.
There have been no current reports of illness but consumers who may have purchased the recalled products have been advised not to eat them and to return them to the store it was purchased.
Consumers with questions may contact the Snak King company at 626-363-7711.
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Police warn community members of ongoing whipped cream attacks
Published: Apr. 14, 2022 at 9:33 PM EDT|Updated: 1 hours ago
GREENVILLE, S.C. (Gray News) - Authorities in South Carolina said several incidents have happened recently where a person has assaulted people with a plate of whipped cream.
On Thursday, the Greenville Police Department said it was investigating after multiple people were targeted.
According to police, a woman was walking on the sidewalk Thursday afternoon while pushing her child in a stroller when a man hit her in the face with a plate of whipped cream.
The police department released a picture of the person in question and urged anyone to contact officers at 864-271-5333 if they had any further information.
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UPDATE: The suspect was charged Thursday with Arson in the first degree and Promoting Dangerous Drugs in the third degree. His bail was set at $500,000.
HONOLULU (KITV4) -- A 29-year-old man has been arrested in connection with a disturbing attack on an elderly man in Chinatown on Tuesday, Honolulu Police said.
The suspect is identified as Charles Burns, a source tells KITV4. He was arrested around 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
According to HPD, Burns was arrested on complaints of first-degree arson and promoting dangerous drugs. Authorities did not say where the arrest took place.
The incident happened at the Chinatown Cultural Plaza located in the 100 block of N. Beretania Street, Tuesday morning. Surveillance video showed the suspect coming up behind the victim and setting his shirt on fire.
The victim, a 79-year-old man, was taken from the scene in serious condition after suffering first and second-degree burns to his neck and back. The victim has not yet been identified.
This was not Burns’ first run-in with the law. According to police records, in November 2020, he was cited for fourth-degree criminal property damage. In July 2021 he was cited for third-degree assault and again for fourth-degree criminal property damage. And in December 2021, Burns was cited for two counts of theft in the third degree.
This is a developing story. Check back with KITV4 for more information.
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| 2022-04-15T04:38:39Z
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HONOLULU (KITV4) -- The Easter weekend begins Friday with Good Friday. Here are some of the offices that will be closed on April 15 to observe the Good Friday and Sunday holiday.
The holiday schedule for the City and County of Honolulu are as follows:
• Emergency medical services, fire, lifeguard, medical examiner, and police services will be available.
• TheBus will operate on a state holiday schedule. Visit thebus.org for route and schedule information as well as rider guidelines.
• Refuse will be collected and transfer stations, convenience centers, H-POWER, and the Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill are open. Visit honolulu.gov/opala for information.
• Parks and botanical gardens are open. Visit honolulu.gov/parks for park use guidelines.
• Municipal golf courses are open. Visit honolulu.gov/des/golf for revised play information.
• The Honolulu Zoo will be open. Visit honolulu.gov/zoo for information.
• The Neal S. Blaisdell Center box office will be closed. Visit blaisdellcenter.com/ for information.
• People’s Open Markets will not be held.
• All satellite city halls and driver licensing centers will be closed.
• Public schools will also be closed
• Most banks will be closed.
The following traffic and parking regulations will be in effect:
• Parking will be restricted in Lanikai over the three-day holiday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 15 to April 17.
• On-street parking will be free, except for the meters on Kalākaua Avenue along Queen Kapiolani Park, metered parking lots, and meters on specific Waikīkī streets. View the list of Waikīkī streets here.
• Traffic lanes will not be coned for contraflow.
On Kauai the closures include the following facilities:
- All neighborhood centers;
- The Waimea and Kapaa swimming pools;
- COVID-19 testing at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall and the Kalāheo Neighborhood Center;
- The Reynolds Recycling Redemption Center in Līhue;
- All refuse transfer stations;
- The Kekaha Landfill; and
- The Puhi Metals Recycling Center.
Closures include the following facilities on April 17:
- The Reynolds Recycling Redemption Center in Kōloa; and
- COVID-19 testing at the Bryan J. Baptiste Sports Complex.
The schedule for residential refuse pick-up will remain unchanged.
The Kauai Bus will be operating on its current daily schedule.
Regular business hours for county offices and services will resume on April 18.
For more information on recreation services, please visit the Department of Parks and Recreation website, www.kauai.gov/Parks, or call 241-4460.
For more information about The Kaua‘i Bus, please visit the Transportation website, www.kauai.gov/transportation, or call 246-8110.
For more information about recycling and waste disposal, please visit the Recycling website, www.kauai.gov/recycling, or call 241-4841. Please see www.kauai.gov/HI5 for location information for HI5 recycling.
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| 2022-04-15T04:38:45Z
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5 houses, 2 garages, 12 vehicles go up in flames in Ohio
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO/Gray News) - The Cleveland Fire Department confirmed five houses, two garages, and 12 vehicles went up in flames on the east side of the city Wednesday.
The initial call was for a single house on fire in the 1800 block of Mannering Road, but the wind-driven flames quickly spread to the neighboring structures, according to Cleveland Fire Chief Angelo Calvillo, “It was a wind-driven fire. Whenever you get a lot of wind like this and you have a working structure fire it really intensifies it.”
Eighty Cleveland firefighters from 17 different fire companies were called in to battle the primary fire, that was fully engulfed when fire crews arrived, and led to the home almost immediately collapsing.
Tayshawna Wright never heard warning knocks on her door. The Cleveland woman was asleep in an upstairs bedroom of a neighboring home, and only woke up to the danger that spread to her apartment when she started feeling the heat, “I woke up my boyfriend got the dogs out of the cage, tried to grab cell phones, but that didn’t work out. My dogs ran back upstairs and I was really scared for them.”
Firefighters tackled the flames and the rushed inside saving pups Chico and Fabio. “I was happy, I was happy,” Wright said.
But Wright and neighbors in 5 structures lost their homes, cars and all of their belongings, but fortunately walked away with their lives.
Firefighters also thankful because the massive fire could have been far worse, because along with strong winds, there were not enough hydrants to supply the massive mounts of water needed, “We had to actually do a relay operation to catch the water, the water supply off of Euclid in addition to the street here,” Chief Calvillo said.
Cleveland Fire Chief Angelo Calvillo confirmed no one was injured, and firefighters rescued two dogs and a cat.
However, the fire displaced a total of 14 adults and two children, Cleveland Fire said.
The Red Cross was called to the scene to assist the victims with shelter, clothing and food.
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| 2022-04-15T04:42:52Z
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Police find 2 dead kids in Miami apartment; mother arrested
MIAMI (AP) — Police in Miami have arrested a 41-year-old woman in the deaths of her two young children after officers responded to repeated hang-up 911 calls from her apartment where they found their tied-up bodies.
“Come get them, I don’t want them anymore,” Odette Lysse Joassaint told officers who responded to the scene on Tuesday night, according to the arrest report. Police said she appeared to be irrational.
The officers entered the apartment and found a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl. The children were lying in a prone position on the bed with their arms, legs and neck tied, a police report said.
They tried to resuscitate the children until a Miami Fire Rescue crew arrived and pronounced them dead. Authorities have not released information on how they were killed, but the woman has been charged with two counts of murder.
It is not yet clear how many calls were made to 911 or whether she spoke to a dispatcher.
Miami police spokesperson Michael Vega said the father was not living there at the time but said there had been at least four calls made to the address in the past year over domestic violence, trespassing and disturbance. None of the incidents involved the children and no arrests were made, Vega said.
The father, Frantzy Belval, told The Associated Press that he would pick up the children every weekend and they would go and spend the night with him. Joassaint and Belval are both originally from Haiti, but he arrived in 1995 and she came to the U.S. in 2015.
“She had asked me to cancel my contract with the apartment to move in back with her,” he said. “But she created too many problems.”
Belval said he was not aware of any diagnosis for mental illness, but he said Joassaint had lost custody to the state of an older child. That child’s father remained in Haiti.
Law enforcement is also working with the Florida Department of Children and Families, but it is not yet clear whether it had been involved with the family in the past. The state agency has not responded to requests for information.
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3 educators face temporary suspensions from school system
CABELL COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) – Two Cabell County Schools administrators and a teacher face temporary suspensions as part of employee disciplinary procedures, according to a schools spokesperson.
He said the suspensions involve the Huntington East Middle School principal (effective from June 22-24) and the Huntington High School principal (effective June 3, June 10, and June 17).
In addition, a Huntington High School teacher will be suspended from June 1 through June 3.
The school spokesperson said he could not comment on the reason for the suspensions, saying they’re an “employee disciplinary matter.”
In February, Huntington High administrators were under scrutiny for some students being required to attend an evangelical preacher assembly at school. However, the school spokesperson wouldn’t confirm if that was related to the disciplinary measures at the school.
Keep checking the WSAZ app for the latest information.
Mandatory attendance at religious assembly called ‘mistake’
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95-year-old woman takes shelter in bathtub during possible tornado
CHARLESTON, Ark. (KHBS) – A woman put her 95-year-old grandmother in a bathtub to keep her safe from a tornado in Charleston, Arkansas, Monday night.
“Well, I’m glad she did. I might have got blown away if she didn’t,” Sue Neissl said.
The bathtub and the house her late husband built more than 70 years ago kept Neissl safe.
“We have a storm cellar out behind the house, but we didn’t have time to get it,” she explained.
Neissl’s granddaughter, Carla Woods, took shelter in a closet with her 3-year-old daughter as the storms hit.
“As soon as we got in there, we heard the loud sound. It might have been a small tornado, but to us it was very scary,” Woods explained, adding her daughter pretended they were playing hide and seek.
Woods said they never heard the sirens alerting them to the tornado threat.
The Franklin County emergency manager said the sirens were not working when the tornado warning was issued.
The tornado sirens have since been repaired and are now functioning properly.
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| 2022-04-15T05:04:59Z
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Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees
(AP) – Amazon is taking a step to offset its rising costs, announcing Wednesday it will add a 5% “fuel and inflation surcharge” to fees it charges third-party sellers who use the e-commerce giant’s fulfillment services.
The Seattle-based company said on its website that the added fees, which take effect April 28, are “subject to change” and will apply to both apparel and non-apparel items.
The latest fee hike follows one announced in November and went into effect in January. Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for further details on the recent move. But in a notice sent to sellers Wednesday, the company said its costs had gone up since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic due to increases in hourly wages, the hiring of workers and construction of more warehouses.
It said it had absorbed costs whenever possible, and only increased fees to address permanent costs and to be competitive with other providers. Amazon competitors FedEx and UPS both have fuel surcharges.
“In 2022, we expected a return to normalcy as COVID-19 restrictions around the world eased, but fuel and inflation have presented further challenges,” the company said in the notice.
Federal data released Tuesday showed inflation jumped 8.5% in March, its fastest pace in more than 40 years. Gasoline prices have rocketed 48% in the past 12 months.
Though the company is blaming inflation and rising fuel costs for the surcharge, Stacy Mitchell, co-director for the anti-monopoly group Institute for Local Self-Reliance, criticized Wednesday’s announcement, saying Amazon was taking advantage of the moment.
“Amazon keeps increasing its fees on the sellers that have to depend on its platform,” Mitchell said, adding the new fees are a way “to take more money out of the pockets of independent businesses and put it into Amazon’s coffers.”
Amazon’s third-party marketplace, where independent merchants list millions of their products, is a huge part of its business. It has about 2 million sellers, and more than half the goods sold on Amazon.com come from these sellers.
Last year, sellers paid Amazon about $103 billion in fees, which made up about 22% of the company’s revenue. The online retailer said the new fees will apply to products ordered before April 28 but shipped and delivered after that date. Amazon is also expected to release its earnings report from the first three months of this year on April 28.
Amazon has long faced accusations of undercutting merchants that sell on its platform by making “knock-offs,” or very similar products, and boosting their presence on the site.
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Associated Press journalist Manuel Valdes in Seattle contributed to this report.
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Amazon: IMDb TV will be renamed Amazon Freevee
(AP) - Amazon announced Wednesday its free streaming service IMDb TV will be renamed Amazon Freevee.
The new name will take effect on April 27, the company said in a news release.
The retailer said the streaming service will also expand its original programming by 70% in 2022, with spinoffs of shows such as “Bosch: Legacy” and other series. It will also add more original movies.
Amazon.com Inc. said the ad-supported service has tripled its monthly active users in the past two years and is expected to launch in Germany later this year.
“We’re looking forward to building on this momentum with an increasing slate of inventive and broadly appealing Originals, and are excited to establish Freevee as the premier AVOD (advertising-based video on demand) service with content audiences crave,” Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon Studios, said in the news release.
Wednesday’s announcement comes as the retail giant embraces a path to boost its streaming services. Last month, the company closed an $8.5 billion deal to acquire Hollywood studio MGM, making it Amazon’s second-largest acquisition following its $13.7 billion deal with Whole Foods in 2017. That acquisition was targeted to make the company better compete against Netflix and Disney+.
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Missing south Alabama 2-month-old found safe
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 4:40 PM EDT|Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 5:37 PM EDT
DOTHAN, Ala. (WSFA/Gray news) - The Amber Alert for a south Alabama 2-month-old has been canceled.
Dothan police said 2-month-old Messiah Richards was safely located Wednesday shortly after the alert went out.
Police did not say whether the alleged abductors, MarQuec Banks and Alexis Richards, were taken into custody.
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CDC extends travel mask requirement as COVID rises
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is extending the nationwide mask requirement for airplanes and public transit for 15 days as it monitors an uptick in COVID-19 cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it was extending the order, which was set to expire on April 18, until May 3 to allow more time to study the BA.2 omicron subvariant that is now responsible for the vast majority of cases in the U.S.
“In order to assess the potential impact the rise of cases has on severe disease, including hospitalizations and deaths, and health care system capacity, the CDC order will remain in place at this time,” the agency said in a statement.
When the Transportation Security Administration, which enforces the rule for planes, buses, trains and transit hubs, extended the requirement last month, it said the CDC had been hoping to roll out a more flexible masking strategy that would have replaced the nationwide requirement.
The mask mandate is the most visible vestige of government restrictions to control the pandemic, and possibly the most controversial. A surge of abusive and sometimes violent incidents on airplanes has been attributed mostly to disputes over mask-wearing.
Separately, the Biden administration also extended for 90 days a public health emergency that has been in effect since early 2020. That allows temporary continuation of a range of public health measures that do have broad support, from more generous Medicaid coverage to flexibility around telehealth.
The mask requirement for travelers was the target of months of lobbying from the airlines, who sought to kill it. The carriers argued that effective air filters on modern planes make transmission of the virus during a flight highly unlikely. Republicans in Congress also fought to kill the mandate.
Critics have seized on the fact that states have rolled back rules requiring masks in restaurants, stores and other indoor settings, and yet COVID-19 cases have fallen sharply since the omicron variant peaked in mid-January.
“It is very difficult to understand why masks are still required on airplanes, but not needed in crowded bars and restaurants; in packed sports arenas; in schools full of children; or at large indoor political gatherings,” Nicholas Calio, the CEO of industry trade group Airlines for America, said Wednesday in a letter to the heads of the CDC and the Health and Human Services Department. “Simply put, an extension of the mask mandate does not make sense.”
There has been a slight increase in cases in recent weeks, with daily confirmed cases nationwide rising from about 25,000 per day to more than 30,000. More than 85% of those cases are the highly contagious BA.2 strain. Those figures could be an undercount since many people now test positive on at-home tests that are not reported to public health agencies.
Severe illnesses and deaths tend to lag infections by several weeks. The CDC is awaiting indications of whether the increase in cases correlates to a rise in adverse outcomes before announcing a less restrictive mask policy for travel.
A poll in mid-March by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that Americans are evenly divided over keeping the mask rule for transportation.
The poll found that 51% wanted the mandate to expire and 48% said it should remain in place – in effect, a tie, given the poll’s margin of error. Democrats overwhelmingly supported the rule, and Republicans were even more united in opposing it. Vaccinated people and those with chronic health conditions favored keeping the rule, but by smaller margins.
Airlines imposed their own mask mandates in 2020, when the Trump administration declined to take action. Unions representing flight attendants, which once backed mask rules, now decline to take a position because their members are divided over the issue.
It is unclear whether eliminating the rule would make people more or less likely to travel on planes or subways.
Ed Bastian, the CEO of Delta Air Lines, said that some people might start flying if they don’t have to wear a mask, and others might stop flying if other passengers are unmasked. He called both groups “fringe,” and he predicted that many people will continue to wear masks even if the rule is dropped.
As for the broader public health emergency just extended by the Department of Health and Human Services, the administration has promised to give states 60 days’ notice before ending it.
Winding down the emergency declaration could force an estimated 15 million Medicaid recipients to find new sources of coverage, require congressional action to preserve broad telehealth access for Medicare enrollees, and scramble special COVID-19 rules and payment policies for hospitals, doctors and insurers. There are also questions about how emergency use approvals for COVID-19 treatments will be handled.
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David Koenig reported from Dallas. AP Health Writer Mike Stobbe in New York and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar in Washington contributed to this report.
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Biden approves $800M in artillery, helicopters for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — In anticipation of a new Russian offensive in eastern Ukraine, President Joe Biden on Wednesday approved an $800 million package of military assistance, including additional helicopters and the first provision of American artillery.
The Ukrainians also will receive armored personnel carriers, armored Humvees, naval drone vessels used in coastal defense, and gear and equipment used to protect soldiers in chemical, biological, nuclear and radiological attacks.
“This new package of assistance will contain many of the highly effective weapons systems we have already provided and new capabilities tailored to the wider assault we expect Russia to launch in eastern Ukraine,” Biden said in a statement.
“The steady supply of weapons the United States and its allies and partners have provided to Ukraine has been critical in sustaining its fight against the Russian invasion,” Biden added. “It has helped ensure that (Russia President Vladimir) Putin failed in his initial war aims to conquer and control Ukraine. We cannot rest now.”
Biden announced the aid after a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It is the latest in a series of U.S. security assistance packages valued at a combined $2.6 billion that has been committed to Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24. The weaponry and support material has played an important role in Ukraine’s successful defense thus far.
Biden is under pressure from members of both parties in Congress to expand and accelerate U.S. aid.
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Robert Gates, a former CIA director and defense secretary, said Wednesday he believes the administration needs to push hard for weapon donations by NATO members in Eastern Europe, whose arsenals include Soviet-era tanks and other weaponry and equipment that could help Ukraine immediately.
“The United States ought to be acting, 24/7 — how do we mobilize the equipment and how do we get it into Ukraine and into the hands of the Ukrainians,” Gates said in an online forum sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
“It’s critically important and critically urgent, and we ought to be sort of ransacking the arsenals of those states, and I think they would be cooperative, particularly” if they are given assurances that the Pentagon will provide American replacements for the donated weapons.
The Pentagon said the $800 million package announced by Biden includes weapons and equipment that will require some training for a Ukrainian military not fully accustomed to American military technology. U.S. and allied forces had been present inside Ukraine to provide training for eight years before pulling out in advance of the Russia’s latest invasion.
The new arms package includes 18 of the U.S. Army’s 155mm howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds, two air surveillance radars, 300 Switchblade “kamikaze” armed drones, and 500 Javelin missiles designed to knock out tanks and other armor. Also included are 10 counter-artillery radars used to track incoming artillery and other projectiles to determine their point of origin for counter attacks.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said delivery of the material will be expedited, but he offered no specific timetable.
“This list came directly out of multiple conversations with Ukrainians in the last few days as we began to see the Russians now start to reprioritize the Donbas fight,” he said, referring to Russia’s shift from a failed offensive in Ukraine’s north aimed at Kyiv, the capital, to a force buildup in the country’s eastern Donbas region, where Russian-backed separatists have been fighting since 2014.
Ukrainian military personnel will need training on the radars as well as the howitzers and the Switchblade drones, Kirby said. He said the training may be done by U.S. soldiers in Europe and the arrangements are being worked out.
“These are not highly complex systems,” Kirby said, and so extensive training will not likely be required.
Among the other items in the package are 11 Soviet-era Mi-17 helicopters that the United States had planned to provide to Afghanistan before Biden last year decided to fully withdraw from the country. They are transport helicopters that also can function in an attack role. The Pentagon previously had sent five Mi-17s to Ukraine, Kirby said.
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Biden: Russia war a ‘genocide,’ trying to ‘wipe out’ Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden now says Russia’s war in Ukraine amounts to genocide, accusing President Vladimir Putin of trying to “wipe out the idea of even being a Ukrainian.”
“Yes, I called it genocide,” he told reporters in Iowa on Tuesday shortly before boarding Air Force One to return to Washington. “It’s become clearer and clearer.”
Last week, Biden stopped short of saying Russia’s actions amounted to genocide.
At an earlier event Tuesday in Menlo, Iowa, addressing spiking energy prices caused by the war, Biden had implied that he thought Putin was carrying out genocide against Ukraine, but offered no details. Neither he nor his administration announced new consequences because of the contention.
Biden’s comments drew immediate praise from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had encouraged Western leaders to use the term to describe Russia’s invasion of his country. But French President Emmanuel Macron declined to take his rhetoric that far in comments Wednesday.
“I am prudent with terms today,” Macron said. “Genocide has a meaning. The Ukrainian people and Russian people are brotherly people. ... I’m not sure if the escalation of words serves our cause.”
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Macron said it’s been established that the Russian army has committed war crimes in Ukraine.
Zelenskyy applauded Biden’s assessment.
“True words of a true leader @POTUS,” he tweeted Tuesday. “Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil. We are grateful for US assistance provided so far and we urgently need more heavy weapons to prevent further Russian atrocities.”
Biden called Zelenskyy on Wednesday and the pair spoke for nearly an hour. Biden subsequently announced that he was authorizing an additional $800 million in weapons, ammunition and other security assistance to Ukraine.
“The steady supply of weapons the United States and its allies and partners have provided to Ukraine has been critical in sustaining its fight against the Russian invasion,” Biden said in a statement. “It has helped ensure that Putin failed in his initial war aims to conquer and control Ukraine. We cannot rest now. As I assured President Zelenskyy, the American people will continue to stand with the brave Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom.”
A United Nations treaty, to which the U.S. is a party, defines genocide as actions taken with the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau noted that “there are official processes around determinations of genocide” but added of Biden’s using the term, “I think it’s absolutely right that more people ... (are) talking and using the word genocide in terms of what Russia is doing and Vladimir Putin has done.”
“The way they are targeting Ukrainian identity and culture, these are all things that are war crimes that Putin that is responsible for,” Trudeau said.
Past American leaders often have dodged formally declaring bloody campaigns such as Russia’s in Ukraine to be genocide, hesitating to trigger an obligation that under international convention requires signing countries to intervene. That obligation was seen as blocking President Bill Clinton from declaring Rwandan Hutus’ killing of 800,000 ethnic Tutsis in 1994 as genocide, for example.
Biden said it would be up to lawyers to decide if Russia’s conduct met the international standard, but “it sure seems that way to me.”
“More evidence is coming out literally of the horrible things that the Russians have done in Ukraine, and we’re only going to learn more and more about the devastation and let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies,” he said.
During a trip to Europe last month, Biden faced controversy for a nine-word statement seemingly supporting the overthrow of Putin, which would have represented a dramatic shift toward direct confrontation with another nuclear-armed country. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” Biden said of Putin.
He clarified the comments days later, saying: “I was expressing the moral outrage that I felt toward this man. I wasn’t articulating a policy change.”
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Associated Press writer Ellen Knickmeyer contributed to this report.
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Brief lane closures, parking restrictions for Water Street deck repairs
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Masonry work to repair the damaged side of the Water Street parking deck will begin next week, causing temporary lane closures during the day and limiting parking in the spaces immediately adjacent to the work.
A small section of the parking deck wall was damaged in February near the corner of Liberty and Water streets after a vehicle struck the bricks.
No structural damage was caused to the deck, and it has remained open since that time. One lane of Liberty Street will be closed in the area of the work starting Tuesday and lasting through the week.
The lane will be closed only while work is taking place during the day and will reopen in the evenings.
Parking near the section on both levels of the deck will be restricted during this time. Repair work is estimated to cost approximately $20,000.
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California lawmakers propose 4-day work week
(KOVR) - A California proposal to shorten the work week is gaining traction.
The measure would implement a four-day work week, dropping from 40 hours to 32 – and require overtime pay beyond that.
The four-day work week would apply to companies with 500 hundred employees or more.
California state Rep. Evan Low co-authored the bill.
“We’re hearing time and time again about greater worker flexibility. That’s what workers are demanding. And this provides us an opportunity to reimagine the workforce, uplifting the voice of workers while also helping to ensure that we can do the type of things in a more efficient manner, and also taking care of our families and our loved ones.”
Workers would still make the same amount of money, despite working less.
The California Chamber of Commerce has pushed back, saying the proposal would be a “job killer” by making hiring more expensive.
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California woman admits she faked her own kidnapping in 2016
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) - The northern California woman accused of faking her own kidnapping in 2016 has signed a plea deal and will confess she made everything up.
Sherri Papini, now 39, said in a statement in part, “I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so sorry for the pain I’ve caused.”
Her attorney, William Portanova, confirmed that she signed a plea agreement Tuesday.
Papini’s husband reported her missing in November 2016 after she had gone out for a jog near her home. Three weeks later, on Thanksgiving, she was found alone on an interstate 140 miles from home.
She said she was kidnapped by two women who held her captive, chained in a closet. Her elaborate story included details about her supposed assailants wearing masks, holding her at gunpoint and branding her with a heated tool.
Federal prosecutors said Papini injured herself to back up her false statements.
The Justice Department said Papini had actually stayed with an ex-boyfriend in southern California for the three weeks she was reportedly missing.
Federal prosecutors said Papini received more than $30,000 in fraudulent victim assistance money based on the hoax. She is also facing charges of mail fraud and making false statements to a federal law enforcement officer.
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Candlelight vigil to be held in Court Square for National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - The Rockingham County Victim / Witness Program has received funding from the National Association of VOCA Assistance Administrators (NAVAA) through a grant from the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), within the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, to promote community awareness of crime victims’ rights and services during the 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
The awarded funding will be used to host an outdoor candlelight vigil on Sunday, April 24, 2022 in front of the Rockingham County Circuit Courthouse on Court Square, Harrisonburg.
The event will promote awareness of community resources and hold a moment of silence for all past, present, and potential future victims of crime in Rockingham County.
The Community Awareness Project is part of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, an annual observance that takes place April 24 - 30, 2022.
“The support from NAVAA and OVC for our 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities will help us help crime victims,” said Nicole Terrell, the Rockingham County Victim/Witness Program Director. “Members of our community are encouraged to help promote justice through service to crime victims by joining our 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities and supporting victim assistance programs on a daily basis.”
First designated by President Ronald Reagan in 1981, National Crime Victims’ Rights Week increases general public awareness of and knowledge about the wide range of rights and services available to people who have been victimized by crime.
The theme for 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week is “Rights, access, equity for all victims.”
Since 2004, the NCVRW Community Awareness Project has provided financial and technical assistance to more than 1000 community projects that promote victim and public awareness activities, and innovative approaches to victim outreach and public education about victims’ rights and services during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week.
The Rockingham County Victim/Witness Program was one of the 50 recommended by NAVAA and selected for funding by OVC for 2022 from the 240 applications that were submitted nationwide.
For additional information about 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week activities or about victims’ rights and services in Rockingham County, VA, please contact Nicole Terrell, the Rockingham County Victim/Witness Program Director at (540) 564-3350 or visit their website.
For information about national efforts to promote 2022 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, please visit the Office for Victims of Crime website.
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Case against Clinton lawyer in counsel’s probe can proceed
WASHINGTON (AP) — The criminal prosecution of a Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer charged with lying to the FBI during the Trump-Russia investigation can move forward, a judge ruled Wednesday in denying a defense bid to dismiss the case.
The ruling means Michael Sussmann, charged last year by special counsel John Durham, remains set for trial on May 16 in Washington’s federal court.
Sussmann is charged with lying to the FBI during a September 2016 meeting in which he relayed concerns from cybersecurity researchers about a potential secret back channel of communications between servers of the Trump Organization and Russia-based Alfa Bank. The FBI investigated the matter but ultimately found no such suspicious links.
Prosecutors allege that Sussmann misled the FBI’s then-general counsel by saying that he was not attending the meeting on behalf of a particular client when he was actually presenting the information on behalf of the Clinton campaign and a technology executive with whom he had worked.
In order to prosecute someone for a false statement, the Justice Department must prove that the statement was not only fictitious but also “material” — that is, capable of influencing a government agency’s decision-making or functions.
In this case, Durham’s team says that had the FBI known Sussmann was representing the interests of the Clinton campaign at the meeting, it would have done more to examine his motives and the reliability of his information as it considered whether to open an investigation based on the tip he provided.
Sussmann’s lawyers have argued that his ties to the Clinton campaign were already well-known to the FBI, and have rejected the idea that the full disclosure of that relationship could have meaningfully influenced the FBI’s decision to investigate or act on his tip.
U.S. District Judge Christopher “Casey” Cooper said in a six-page ruling Wednesday that the dispute was ultimately up to a jury to decide.
“The battle lines thus are drawn, but the Court cannot resolve this standoff prior to trial,” Cooper wrote.
Durham, a former U.S. attorney in Connecticut, was appointed in 2019 by then-Attorney General William Barr to look for government misconduct during the investigation into Russian election interference in 2016 and possible ties to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Sussmann is one of three people charged so far. The other two are Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer who pleaded guilty to altering an email and received probation, and Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst and source of information for Christopher Steele, the former British intelligence operative who assembled a dossier of anti-Trump research. Danchenko was charged in November with lying to the FBI during a 2017 interview.
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Children as young as 8 should be screened for anxiety, task force says
(CNN) - Mental health in children and adolescents has only worsened during the pandemic, experts say.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force is set to recommend that children ages 8 and older should be screened for anxiety.
The task force is made up of an independent panel of experts who makes recommendations on screenings and preventative medicine.
The decision to recommend early screenings in children for anxiety was based on a review of studies that evaluated screening tests in adolescents and the benefits of early treatment.
The task force found with moderate certainty that screening for anxiety in children older than 8 would lead to improving outcomes.
The draft report was released on the task force’s website on Tuesday.
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Chris Tucker donates to high school choir’s Carnegie Hall performance
MCDONOUGH, Ga. (Gray News) - Comedian Chris Tucker surprised a high school choir program invited to perform at Carnegie Hall by helping them reach their goal of $201,579.25.
Tucker showed up at Ola High School on Wednesday to let the students know that the Chris Tucker Foundation was paying off the rest of the balance the choir needed to travel to New York City for their performance.
The program’s director, Mindy Forehand, posted a video on Facebook saying that the comedian “brought my kids a check for the Carnegie Hall balance.” The balance is due Friday.
“His quick action was an answer to prayer,” teacher Melissa Stroup said.
The high school announced their invitation to perform in February 2020. They have worked on raising the money through fundraisers and other events since then but still came up short.
Earlier this week, the choir still needed more than $16,000, according to their GoFundMe page.
Their performance is scheduled for June 20.
“These students will never forget his gift or that very teachable moment to carry with them,” Stroup said.
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Civics class, community service for voting fraud suspects
THE VILLAGES, Fla. (AP) — Two men from a sprawling retirement community in Florida will have to enter a pretrial intervention program, perform community service and attend adult civics classes in exchange for deferred prosecutions on their charges of voting more than once in the 2020 election.
Charles Barnes and Jay Ketcik, both from The Villages area, must perform 50 hours of community service each and get a grade of C or better in the adults civics class, according to court records filed last week.
In exchange, State Attorney William Gladson will defer prosecuting them on charges of casting more than one ballot in an election.
The men were among four people from the Republican stronghold of The Villages retirement community arrested late last year and early this year on voter fraud charges.
During the last legislative session, Republican lawmakers passed an election police bill pushed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, who justified its need by citing unspecified cases of fraud. DeSantis echoed many talking points on voting problems that have gained traction in the GOP after former President Donald Trump’s false claims that his reelection was stolen from him.
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COVID activity low at Augusta Health, increasing at testing sites
AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - COVID activity in the community and at Augusta Health is low. In the past week, however, activity in the testing center and at the MABS (monoclonal antibody) infusion clinic has begun to increase.
Augusta Health’s testing positivity rate for the week of April 3-9 was 6.9%. The positivity rate for the month of March was 7.9%, the lowest since July 2021 when the rate was 6.8%. The current inpatient COVID-19 census is 4, with one death over the past week.
In the 24 hours preceding 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 13, 15 new positive cases of COVID were diagnosed at Augusta Health testing sites.
On April 18, 2022, the Vaccination Clinics and MABS (monoclonal antibody infusion clinics) will be combined at one location in the Waynesboro Primary Care/Urgent Care location at 201 Lew Dewitt Boulevard in Waynesboro. The Vaccination Clinic on the Fitness Center Tennis Courts will close at this time.
MABS infusions will be scheduled for Mondays and Thursdays.
The first vaccination clinic next week, and in the new location, is on Wednesday, April 20 at 9 a.m.
Eligibility criteria are updated frequently for each vaccine. Visit Augusta Health’s vaccine page or connect with the Call Center (540.332.5122) to confirm eligibility and make a vaccination appointment.
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Dad accidentally runs over 2-year-old, killing him, police say
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – A father in Oklahoma ran over his 2-year-old son, killing him, in a situation police deemed a tragic accident.
According to the Tulsa Police Department, officers arrived at the home Tuesday night and learned the man accidentally ran over the toddler with his Dodge pickup while trying to park in the driveway.
Investigators said that the family arrived home from the grocery store and parked the truck in front of their home. The mother and the toddler got out of the truck and began walking toward the house.
The father then pulled the truck into the driveway and “felt a bump,” police said. He got out of the truck and found out that the 2-year-old had ran back toward the truck and had been run over with the right rear wheel.
Police said the child was rushed to the hospital in critical condition, and he died overnight.
Police said this is a “tragic situation for everyone involved” and that no charges are being filed.
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Delta Air Lines drops surcharge for unvaccinated employees
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 1:22 PM EDT
ATLANTA (AP) — Delta Air Lines is dropping an extra charge for employees who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19.
Delta said Wednesday that it has dropped the $200-a-month surcharge, which applied to unvaccinated employees covered by the company’s health plan.
CEO Ed Bastian says Delta is dropping the charge because, he says, COVID-19 is now “a seasonal virus.”
U.S. airlines tried different approaches to encourage employees to get vaccinated — United Airlines made it a mandate.
Delta was the only one to impose an insurance surcharge.
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Donkey on the loose shot and killed after deputies failed to corral it, authorities say
SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. (Gray News) – A donkey on the loose in Florida was killed after deputies were unable to corral the animal.
The Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that deputies were called to respond to reports of a donkey Tuesday around noon.
Deputies tried several times to coral it but were unsuccessful.
The sheriff’s office says they were told their assistance was no longer needed when an independent livestock contractor arrived to help.
The sheriff’s office later learned the independent livestock contractor shot and killed the donkey.
“Santa Rosa County is known for having a large population of livestock, and (it) is a deep-rooted part of our culture. Because of this, we are deeply troubled by this incident,” the sheriff’s office wrote.
The sheriff’s office has assigned this investigation to its major crimes division.
“The safety and care of animals has been and remains of the utmost importance to the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office,” the post said.
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Find your park: National parks waiving entrance fees to start National Park Week
(Gray News) - As part of National Park Week in April, all national parks will be waiving entrance fees to kick off the week of activities.
On April 16, guests can head to any national park for free, according to the National Park Service.
National Park Week 2022 will run from April 16-24. Parks across the country will host various special programs, events and digital experiences.
Representatives with the NPS said there are more than 400 national parks available to visit, and this year’s National Park Week theme is “sPark Connections.”
A list of this year’s theme days is below:
April 16: sPark Discovery National Park Week kicks off with a fee-free day to encourage everyone to find something new by visiting a national park, especially one that may be close to home, a park you haven’t considered visiting, or one you never realized is a national park! What new national park will you discover? #sParkDiscovery
April 17: sPark Creativity National parks have inspired artistic expression and creativity for generations. What is your park muse? What masterpiece can you create? #sParkCuriosity
April 18: sPark Collaboration We get along with a little help from our friends. Meet our many partners that help expand our reach and offerings and connect people to parks. How can you get involved or participate in opportunities? #sParkCollaboration
April 19: sPark Innovation The National Park Service incorporates the latest technology to support conservation and preservation efforts while consistently working to improve the visitor experience. How can we surprise you with innovation? #sParkInnovation
April 20: sPark Opportunities On Workforce Wednesday, learn about the work we do and the employment opportunities available in the National Park Service and with partner organizations. How can you join? #sParkOpportunities
April 21: sPark Preservation The National Park Service is a leader and partner in the preservation of historic, cultural, natural and recreational resources nationally—and even internationally! How can you get involved in preservation? #sParkPreservation
April 22: sPark Action On Earth Day, we look at the health of the environment and how we impact its well-being and vice versa. What actions can you do to contribute to a healthy world? #sParkAction
April 23: sPark Curiosity The National Park Service preserves and protects unique places with fascinating stories and unique landscapes. What are you curious about? What fascinating things can you discover? #sParkCuriosity
April 24: sPark Memories Generations of visitors have created lasting memories in national parks. What memories and traditions will you create? #sParkMemories
Find your nearest national park here. According to the park service, entrance fees are waived on the first day of National Park Week to encourage people to come out to enjoy their national parks.
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Former Trump chief of staff Meadows removed as North Carolina registered voter
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff to President Donald Trump, has been removed from North Carolina’s list of registered voters after documents showed he lived in Virginia and voted in that state’s 2021 election, officials said Wednesday.
Questions arose about Meadows last month, when North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein’s office asked the State Bureau of Investigation to look into Meadows’ voter registration, which listed a home he never owned — and may never have visited — as his legal residence.
A representative for Meadows, a former congressman from the area, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Meadows frequently raised the prospect of voter fraud before the 2020 presidential election, as polls showed Trump trailing Joe Biden, and in the months after Trump’s loss, to suggest Biden was not the legitimate winner. In his 2021 memoir, he repeated the baseless claims that the election was stolen.
Judges, election officials in both parties and Trump’s own attorney general has concluded there was no evidence of widespread voter fraud. Experts point to isolated incidents of intentional or unintentional violations of voter laws in every election.
Under North Carolina general statutes, “If a person goes into another state, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district, or into the District of Columbia, and while there exercises the right of a citizen by voting in an election, that person shall be considered to have lost residence in that State, county, municipality, precinct, ward, or other election district from which that person removed.”
Public records indicated Meadows had been registered to vote in Virginia and North Carolina, where he listed a mobile home he did not own as his legal residence weeks before casting a 2020 presidential election ballot in the state.
Meadows listed a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, as his physical address on Sept. 19, 2020, while he was serving as Trump’s chief of staff in Washington. Meadows later cast an absentee ballot for the general election by mail. Trump won the battleground state by just over 1 percentage point.
The New Yorker spoke to the former owner of the Scaly Mountain property, described as a 14-foot by 62-foot mobile home with a rusty metal roof, who indicated that Meadows does not own the home and never has. The previous owner said Meadows’ wife rented the property “for two months at some point within the past few years” but only spent one or two nights there. Neighbors said Meadows was never present, The New Yorker reported.
The New Yorker story doesn’t identify the former owner’s name, saying she requested that her name not be used.
In announcing his removal from the voter rolls, the Macon County Board of Elections said it had received no formal challenge and was referring the matter to the SBI, the state elections board said Wednesday.
Macon County District Attorney Ashley Welch had asked the attorney general’s office to handle any investigation into Meadows’ voter registration, recusing herself from the matter because Meadows contributed to her campaign for DA and appeared in political ads endorsing her.
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Former YMCA camp counselor arrested on child porn charges
PALM BEACH, Fla. (Gray News) – Police in Florida have arrested a former YMCA camp counselor after they say they found images and video depicting the sexual abuse of children at his home.
Detectives with the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said they were investigating Isaac Gabriel Yunes on over 30 child pornography charges.
Upon obtaining a search warrant, detectives conducted a search in his home, where they say they discovered several images and videos depicting child sexual abuse on his device, as well as items linking Yunes to several Snapchat accounts that have been reported for child sexual abuse. Yunes attempted to destroy his cellphone and denied the allegations, according to detectives.
Police say Yunes worked as a camp counselor at the Palm Beach County YMCA from 2017 to 2019.
Yunes was taken into custody on April 8 and was transported to the Palm Beach County jail.
Yunes is being charged with possession of child pornography and destruction of evidence.
Anyone with information on Yunes is urged by Palm Beach County detectives to call 561-688-4080.
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Future liability releases at center of Boy Scouts bankruptcy
DOVER, Del. (AP) — Protecting local Boy Scouts of America councils and troop sponsoring organizations from future liability for child sex abuse claims is critical to the national group’s reorganization plan, BSA attorneys told a Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday.
Attorneys opposing the plan countered that liability releases for non-debtor third parties are neither fair nor necessary, and that they infringe on the rights of abuse survivors to seek compensation for their abuse.
The Boy Scouts, based in Irving, Texas, petitioned for bankruptcy protection in February 2020, seeking to halt hundreds of individual lawsuits and create a settlement trust for abuse victims. Although the organization faced about 275 lawsuits at the time, more than 82,000 sexual abuse claims have been filed in the bankruptcy case.
The reorganization plan calls for the Boys Scouts and its 250 local councils, along with settling insurance companies and troop sponsoring organizations, to contribute some $2.6 billion in cash and property and assign their insurance rights to a settlement trust fund for abuse victims. More than half that money would come from the BSA’s two largest insurers, Century Indemnity Co. and The Hartford. Those companies would contribute $800 million and $787 million, respectively.
In exchange, the parties contributing to the settlement trust would be released from further liability for sexual abuse claims dating back decades.
The local BSA councils are not debtors in the bankruptcy, but Boy Scouts attorney Jessica Lauria argued that they are inextricably intertwined with the national organization and deserve to be protected from future lawsuits in exchange for contributing to the compensation fund.
“There can be no doubt that there is an identity of interests, and frankly an extreme interconnectedness, between the local councils and the national organization,” Lauria said. Sponsoring organizations similarly are closely tied to BSA and local councils and critical to their operations, she added.
Richard Mason, an attorney for the local councils, told Judge Laura Selber Silverstein that without the liability releases, the compensation fund “basically evaporates.”
Absent approval of the BSA’s plan, the local councils would face “massive litigation” and would be forced to seek bankruptcy protection themselves, endangering the future of Scouting and the ability of abuse survivors to obtain compensation, Mason added.
But opponents questioned why the liability releases for local councils and sponsoring organization are needed in order for the BSA to emerge from bankruptcy. They noted that the Boy Scouts proposed a plan last year under which the settlement trust would be funded only by the national organization, and only for claims made against it. Under that plan, the councils and local sponsoring organizations would make no contribution and would have no protection from liability for abuse claims.
“Debtors said that was workable, feasible,” Silverstein noted. “So why is it necessary to have this elaborate, interconnected, intertwined plan for the Boy Scouts?”
Lauria replied that “BSA-only plan” may have been feasible when first proposed, but that it was never “optimal.” She also noted that the BSA has spent some $100 million more on professional fees in the bankruptcy since then and can’t afford to fund a settlement trust on its own at this point.
Edwin Caldie, an attorney representing scores of alleged abuse victims in Guam, argued that the BSA’s current plan unfairly strips them of their rights to pursue abuse claims against Catholic church officials.
The Guam group includes creditors with claims against the Archdiocese of Agana, which sought bankruptcy protection in 2019 amid a flood of child sex abuse claims. Many of those claims involve the late priest Louis Brouillard, who was also a BSA Scoutmaster and who was accused of molesting more than 100 children.
The BSA plan would channel claims against the Guam diocese into the proposed BSA settlement trust without the consent of survivors and unfairly deprive them of the ability to pursue BSA insurance policies, Caldie said.
Caldie accused the settling insurers of using “extortionist” tactics in negotiations with the Boy Scouts to obtain liability releases to which they would not be entitled under the policies they issued.
He also rejected the notion that a relatively small number of survivors should not be allowed to interfere with approval of a reorganization plan supported by tens of thousands of other claimants.
“From a common sense perspective, the BSA made a decision to shun and silence survivors of child sexual assault for decades and did not report their perpetrators for decades,” Caldie said. “.... The Guam survivors are not terribly comfortable with ‘greater good’ arguments now, especially made buy the BSA.”
Closing arguments on whether the judge should approve the BSA plan are expected to conclude Wednesday.
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Harrisonburg City Council tables big projects at Tuesday meeting
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - Harrisonburg City Council heard about many big projects which could bring more housing, businesses, and even gas to the north end of the Friendly City.
No votes were made tonight as one council member George Hirschmann was absent. But, there was a lengthy discussion and public hearing about the rezoning request for Northside Gate Plaza, a proposed shopping center with a gas station on the corner of Route 11 and Mount Clinton Pike.
A small portion of this property is located in Rockingham County, so the county’s supervisors and planning commission had a say in it, too. Both previously approved the request.
The city’s Director of Community Development, Adam Fletcher, explained city staff recommends denying the request because it did not match the city’s future development plans, but he suggested the city conduct a study.
Mayor Deanna Reed said development in this part of town would benefit those residents.
Walkability and safety were brought up but Holtzman Oil Corporation, which is proposing this project, has agreed to add sidewalks for this proposal, as well as roadway improvements, solar panels, and electric vehicle charging.
“I‘m putting more sidewalks on this project than I do just about any project I’ve done in the city in the last 35 years,” Ed Blackwell, with Blackwell Engineering, told the council. ”We’re trying to have interconnection between all the businesses. People can come in and park, maybe get gas, hook up their electric car, walk to get something to eat.”
This item was tabled tonight for further discussion at a later meeting.
The council also decided to table a special use permit for a proposed apartment complex along Chicago Avenue.
For more information on the April 12 meeting, click here.
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Homebuyers stymied by fewer homes, high prices, rising rates
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shortly after moving to South Florida for a new job with the U.S. military, Shannon Kaufman and his wife, Wendy, signed up for a whole other mission: buying a home.
For months, they scoured listings, strategizing late into the night on which homes to target and working out how much they could afford, even if it meant using some of their retirement savings.
After visiting 200 listings and making offers on 15 homes that ultimately didn’t pan out, the Kaufmans finally found a home that fits at least some of their needs. They’ll be renting it, however.
“We found a place that’s smaller than we want, but it’ll work until we have something built or until the market cools off,” said Shannon Kaufman, 47.
America’s housing market has grown increasingly frenzied, and prices are out of reach for many buyers, especially first-timers. This spring, traditionally the busiest season for home sales, is more likely to deliver frustration and disappointment for aspiring homebuyers than it is homeownership.
The number of homes for sale nationally remains near record lows, fueling fierce competition among buyers vying for fewer homes. From Los Angeles to Raleigh, North Carolina, when a house does hit the market, it typically sells within days.
Bidding wars are common, often driving the sale price well above what the owner was asking. And would-be buyers planning to finance their purchase with a home loan are often losing out to investors and others able to buy a home with cash. A quarter of all homes sold in February were purchased with cash, up from 22% a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors. Real estate investors accounted for 19% of transactions in February, up from 17% a year ago.
Nichol Khan, a project manager, and her husband Ed moved to Mesa, Arizona, from Phoenix two years ago to shorten their commute to work. Home prices in the Phoenix area have jumped 20% from a year ago to $500,000, according to Realtor.com.
“The prices just keep going up and up,” Khan said.
The couple has lost out on more than a dozen homes they bid on. Some of the homes ended up selling for less in cash than the couple had offered.
“We don’t have $500,000 in cash,” said Khan, 42. “We just could not be competitive with that.”
Fewer homes on the market and high prices have been the hallmark of the housing market for the past 10 years or so. Now, rising mortgage rates further complicate the homebuying equation. Higher rates could limit the pool of buyers and cool the rate of home price growth — good news for buyers. But higher rates also weaken their buying power.
The average rate on a 30-year home loan has climbed to around 4.7%. A year ago, average rates hovered just above 3%, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. The increase follows a sharp move up in 10-year Treasury yields, reflecting expectations of higher interest rates overall as the Federal Reserve moves to hike short-term rates in order to combat surging inflation.
Would-be buyers who applied for a home loan in February faced a median monthly mortgage payment of $1,653, including principal and interest, an increase of 8.3% from a year ago, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.
“It’s hard to believe, but I do think it’s going to be tougher this year, in some respects, than it was in previous years,” said Danielle Hale, Realtor.com’s chief economist. “So far, at least, we have seen the number of homes for sale continue to decline and prices continue to rise. Those two factors combined suggest that the competitive market is going to keep buyers on their toes.”
Buyers should set their sights on homes that are listed well within what they can afford, experts say.
“You should be looking 15%-20% below their limit; that gives them room for appraisal gaps, it gives them room for negotiating,” said Tracy Hutton, a broker with Century 21 in Indianapolis.
Being well prepared sometimes isn’t enough when a homeowner prefers to accept an all-cash offer, rather than sell to a buyer with financing.
Wendy Kaufman in South Florida couldn’t even get into an open house for a property on the market after she revealed the couple had a mortgage backed by the Veterans Administration.
“When they saw I had a VA preapproval they said, ‘Sorry we don’t want to work with you.’” she said.
Sometimes, buyers don’t have a chance to make an offer before a home is snapped up, sight unseen.
In the Miami area, so-called “blind offers” have become common as a way to get around other buyers, said Rafael Corrales, a Redfin agent.
One reason is the ultra-low level of homes for sale, which for the greater Miami metropolitan area, was down 55% in February from a year ago, according to Realtor.com.
While every market is unique, there is one common hurdle across the U.S.: affordability. The median U.S. home price jumped 15% in February from a year earlier to $357,300, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The San Jose, California, metro area had 40% fewer homes for sale in February than a year ago, according to Realtor.com. Buyers there have to navigate some of the most expensive home prices in the nation. The median home listing price climbed 13.3% to about $1.36 million in February from a year earlier.
The market trends are a bit more welcoming for buyers in the Midwest, including the Indianapolis metropolitan area, where the number of homes for sale was down about 23% from a year ago. The median home price there stood at $287,000 in February, up 8.5% from a year earlier.
In Raleigh, home listings were down a whopping 55% in February from a year earlier. Competition for fewer homes helped push the median home price to $430,000, a 9% increase from February 2021.
Those trends made for a more competitive market for first-time buyers like Lisa Piercey and her husband, Alex Berardo. First-time buyers made up 29% of all homes sold nationally last month. That share has averaged 31% annually over the past 10 years.
The couple began looking in December for homes at $350,000 or below. They offered $5,000 over the asking price on two properties but lost out to rival bidders.
“That was all we could afford,” said Lisa Piercey, a 32-year old project manager. “It’s really defeating, really disappointing.”
In the end, the couple bought a townhome in a new construction community, though they see it as a stepping stone to a more spacious house with a big yard.
“Its big enough that we can still start our family and then move when the market hopefully dies down in a couple of years,” she said.
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How to tell you’re being phished and 9 other common online scams to watch out for
(Twingate) - The internet can feel packed with scams sometimes, especially for anyone who’s had their credit card or other information stolen. But most scams fall into a small variety of types that are easy to identify and avoid once you know about them.
There are only so many ways to reinvent the wheel—scammers will usually fall into a set number of categories. Twingate assembled a list of common online scams that internet users should be wary of, drawing on research from government organizations, payment processors, and tech companies.
One of the major categories of scamming is called social engineering. An old-fashioned method that still works surprisingly well, social engineering is any fraud where a human being communicates with you to obtain information in person, online, or over the phone. Scammers will use manipulative, deceptive, or psychological tactics to get someone to reveal confidential information.
As our lives increasingly have shifted online, scammers have followed, posing as everything from fake online boyfriends to made-up charities. So the next time you get a voicemail claiming to be from Microsoft, an email that says your antivirus service is out of date, or a pop-up ad from “newy0rktimes.com,” take a few seconds and think about whether it’s a genuine message before doing anything. Continue reading to learn about the most common online scams today.
Phishing
Phishing is one of the most common online scams. It’s a form of social engineering, meaning a scam in which the “human touch” is used to trick people. One offline form of phishing is when you receive a scam phone call where someone claims to be calling from the fraud department at your bank and requests your account number as verification.
With online phishing, scammers do the same kind of thing but use emails and links to fraudulent websites to fool users. In your spam folder, you’ll often see messages claiming to be from Bank of America and others. These links lead to imitation bank sites designed to capture your personal banking information.
Advanced fee scam
These email messages are notorious—and the stuff of internet legend: “Hello sir, I have a huge sum to send you!” In this scam, a forlorn prince, bank manager, church reverend, or otherwise reputable-sounding stranger has a large amount of money that they need you to hold for them. All you have to do is send them several hundred or thousand dollars to cover some kind of transactional cost upfront.
Never believe any stranger who wants to send you money, and listen to your gut. If something sounds too good to be true, it is highly likely that it is a scam.
Romance scam
Romance scams are one of the darkest and most sinister scams because of the time investment and emotions involved. Romance scammers pretend to be regular people, often older people, who are looking for love and want to meet eligible singles in other countries. They’ll build an emotional connection with their target by exchanging romantic messages and pretending to be in love.
The scam comes in when, eventually, a series of misfortunes befall the romantic partner. They might plan a visit to finally meet—but suddenly won’t have money to pay for the plane ticket. Then they’re hospitalized with a mystery illness and need money to pay the bill. This continues until the victim grows suspicious of the mounting costs.
Formjacking
Formjacking is a web scam that works the same way as a credit card skimmer does in real life. You go to a website to place an order and enter your information as usual. The transaction even goes through and seems to be fine, except that some code hacked into the website has copied your financial data to someone else.
The owners of the website may not even realize something is happening because they don’t pay close attention to their infrastructure. Make sure the websites you deal with are secure.
Phony tech support
Phony tech support is a form of social engineering. This scam may come as an email or a phone call, claiming that your computer has been compromised in some way and that you must call a number or visit a website to fix it.
From there, the scammer may install malware like keyboard capture software (or worse). On the phone, they may request remote access to your computer to help you. These scammers often claim to be from Microsoft or Apple as a way to establish legitimacy.
Ransomware
Ransomware is a kind of malicious software that is installed without your knowledge. This is usually from an email or fraudulent site, meaning it also uses phishing to imitate your bank or another institutional website. Someone calls or emails with a link that installs the ransomware on your machine. What makes ransomware different is what comes next.
The software locks certain kinds of information on your machines, like your saved documents, photos, and other files. You have to pay to unlock the data and get your files, although the FBI cautions against actually paying.
Scareware
Scareware is a form of manipulative scamming that threatens users by making them believe they need new software on their machines. One of the common forms is to tell users they need new antivirus software and to offer that software from a fraudulent source.
It’s often easy to tell these websites or emails apart from real ones: Look closely at the URLs or email addresses, which usually have strange spellings or other clues that signal you’re not dealing with legitimate companies.
Sextortion
Sextortion is an especially grim crime that targets minors, although it can also affect adults. Now that so many people meet romantic partners online, it’s common to exchange explicit photos. That’s also true of teenagers or even of younger children, who can find themselves in online relationships with people who ask for personal information and photos.
Once someone has this material, they can use it as a way to demand more and will threaten to share info or post photos publicly if their target refuses. Unlike the other crimes on this list, sextortion doesn’t always have financial goals.
Charity and disaster fraud
Crowdfunding and mutual aid are becoming more common as a way for people to share resources and help others pay for medical bills and other costs, or to donate following natural disasters. Unfortunately, this well-meaning way to help others in the community has also been targeted by scammers through charity and disaster fraud.
Scammers can make fake Twitter accounts to imitate people in need. They’ll even set up bots to make new accounts that look like your friend’s account to reply with Paypal links that redirect to the scammer. If you aren’t sure about the credibility of a group or crowdfunding page, it is always best to seek more information.
Work from home
This scam is simple and it’s a variation of an age-old, real-life scam. Think of those signs you see on street corners that say, “I make $16,000 a month working from home!” When you call, these people want you to buy training materials to become a real estate agent or something similar.
The same is true of many online ads that say you can work from home and make $500 a day or some other attractive amount. The best advice is also the oldest: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
This story originally appeared on Twingate and was produced and distributed in partnership with Stacker Studio.
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JMU engineering students help restore Beaver Creek
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 6:29 PM EDT
OTTOBINE, Va. (WHSV) - Engineering students from James Madison University have been working on restoring a section of Beaver Creek that had been heavily eroded from rain and the creek itself.
The students hope this project improves the health of the stream’s ecosystem which flows into the Shenandoah River.
“This opportunity has allowed us to work with a lot of professional engineers, just like the JMU program has really allowed us to expand our knowledge into something practical,” said Lacey Monger, a JMU senior from Elkton. “Most engineering programs don’t let you do something like this.”
Monger adds that this project should help restore the river and get it back to its original state.
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Local couple prepares for the 2022 Boston Marathon
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - For the first time in more than 1,000 days, the annual Boston Marathon is happening on Patriot’s Day. One couple in the Valley will leave Friday to compete in the race.
Mike and Nelle Fox have been training for the Boston Marathon for years.
After finally qualifying for the race, the COVID-19 pandemic began and they had to participate virtually. Just days away from running in person, they are nothing short of ecstatic.
“Most runners know there is really no experience like the Boston Marathon,” Mike Fox said.
“Races and workouts and sharing experiences with friends, that’s the sweet stuff,” Nelle said. “Ultimately Boston is the victory lap of all that.”
Nelle, having to deal with multiple illnesses along the way, says she has had to be careful with how far she pushes her body.
“It has been quite a journey but I think all of that sickness really taught me how to listen to the subtle cues our bodies give us. To say hey slow down, give us rest, " she said.
With four children, careers, extracurriculars and a family business, fitting in time to train can be tricky.
“Not always about more more more, it is sometimes about stress and rest. That has been the true gift. That has allowed me to go from point A to point Z, having gotten there healthier and stronger than I have ever been before, that’s victory,” Nelle said.
“Hopefully we race well that day, if we don’t, it is going to be a great life experience,” Mike added.
This will be the 126th race, making it one of the oldest marathons in the world. This year also marks 50 years of women being able to participate.
The 2022 Boston Marathon is April 18. For more information on the race, click here.
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Low-income senior housing set to open next month
FISHERSVILLE, Va. (WHSV) - A low-cost apartment building for seniors in Fishersville is about 80% complete and a month away from opening, according to Virginia Housing.
Gateway Senior Apartments are designed for people 55 and older who make less than 60% of the average median income. Art Bowen, Managing Director of Rental Housing with Virginia Housing, said as inflation continues to rise, low-cost apartments are more important than ever.
“I think everyone’s very familiar, over the last year in particular, with the inflation we’ve been experiencing. The apartment market is no exception to that. We’ve seen rents increasing significantly everywhere in the state, including in the Staunton, Harrisonburg, Waynesboro area,” said Bowen.
For people on fixed incomes, like many seniors, inflation can be debilitating.
“They might get a cost of living increase every year, but that’s about it. Rent on these units, they can go up annually, but that amount of increase is very limited, so it should keep pace with their increase in their incomes,” Bowen said.
The building holds 80 units, and it was built in a modular format. Each layer of the building is constructed separately, then they’re brought on by a crane and stacked on top of one another.
Bowen said each layer is subjected to weather for a shorter period of time, and it allows them to do more things at once.
“It may not actually cost less than regular construction, but it should be able to be completed in a faster pace. You can have the modules building being built offsite at the same time you’re working on the site itself,” Bowen said.
Occupants can choose from a one or two-bedroom unit, and it’s located at 73 Pinnacle Drive.
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Man arrested after shooting dog in face, police say
JUPITER, Fla. (Gray News) – Police in Florida arrested a man who they say shot and injured a dog, leaving the animal for dead.
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said Boots the dog was shot in the face at Kennedy Estates Park in Jupiter on Friday. He suffered a fractured lower jaw, causing several of his teeth to be knocked out.
Boots was taken to an emergency vet where he is currently recovering.
The investigation led police to Benjamine Brown, who they say surrendered Wednesday without incident.
Brown was arrested and booked into Palm Beach County Jail.
Police said Boots will be adopted once he is fully healed.
Anyone else with information is asked to contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.
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Man pretended to be federal marshal to steal car from dealership, police say
TULSA, Okla. (Gray News) – A man in Oklahoma was arrested Monday after police said he attempted to steal a car from a dealership and then pretended to be a federal marshal.
According to the Tulsa Police Department, dealership employees said Randy Cantwell came into the office asking to look at an Audi on the lot. An employee grabbed the keys and went outside with Cantwell to look at the vehicle.
When the employee told Cantwell he couldn’t test drive the vehicle because it was not ready to be driven, Cantwell told the employee he was going to take the vehicle anyway. Police said he then told the employee that he was a federal marshal and had the power to take the vehicle.
Police said the workers blocked the vehicle in to stop Cantwell from stealing it. When Cantwell realized he was stuck, he walked away from the lot.
Officers arrived and spoke with Cantwell, who provided no verification that he was a federal marshal. Instead, he told officers that he became a federal marshal after former President Donald Trump “enacted martial law.”
Police said Cantwell was arrested for false impersonation of law enforcement.
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Nestle Toll House to roll out stuffed cookie dough
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 11:46 AM EDT
(CNN) - Nestle Toll House is stuffing its cookie dough.
The iconic brand has been baking up some tasty new creations with its first-ever stuffed cookie dough.
You’ll have two flavors to choose from – chocolate chip cookie dough with fudge filling and double chocolate cookie dough with salted caramel filling.
The new dough delights are expected in the refrigerated aisle in July.
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News organizations sue Youngkin over school tip line emails
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 6:08 PM EDT
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — More than a dozen news organizations are accusing Gov. Glenn Youngkin of violating the state’s public records law by refusing to turn over emails sent to a tip line he set up for parents to report “divisive practices” in schools.
The news organizations include The Associated Press. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in Richmond Circuit Court.
It states that each organization filed requests for records related to the email tip line Youngkin established shortly after taking office in January.
The lawsuit says the requests were denied and that the administration contended the information was exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
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Online puppy scam duped animal lovers, Google claims in lawsuit
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) - Google is going after an alleged fraudster they say is behind several online puppy-selling scams.
The tech giant is suing, saying the responsible party has been “perpetrating a puppy fraud scheme to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic for personal gain.”
The promise of purebred puppies had sweet pictures to match, but 20 sites were listed as fraudulent in a lawsuit filed Monday by google.
The tech company said a person in Africa used several Google services in an online puppy scam.
It claims people were sending hundreds of dollars in exchange for puppies that never arrived.
“The damage is actually two parts, the emotional and financial,” said Ahmed Banafa, a San Jose State University tech expert.
Banafa said for any animal lover, especially one in search of canine companionship, one look at a cute face could be enough to let your guard down.
Court documents said Google was tipped off by AARP, which had been contacted by a victim.
“Well, I mean, the statistic is out. Thirty-five percent of the online scam is actually, you know, a puppy scam. So that tells you how bad how bad it is,” Banafa said.
The Google suit points to a study that found puppy scams increased by 165% in the U.S. from January to October 2021, compared to the same period in 2019 before COVID-19 hit.
Such scams are a concern for the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA.
“It’s disappointing that there are people out there taking advantage of, of individuals who want to add an animal to their home. And you know, and that’s really difficult for organizations such as ourselves because we have animals available for adoption,” said Buffy Martin-Tarbox of Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA.
But if you are browsing, experts say be aware that most illegitimate websites will try to avoid any real-time contact.
Fraudsters will talk about payment before the pet. And when it comes to making a purchase, use a method that will protect you.
“It’s good that the tech companies are taking notice of it and understanding that people can abuse the, you know, the excellence of their products and algorithms. Number two, now people know about it,” Banafa said.
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Orphaned mountain lion cub found by hikers treated at Oakland Zoo
(CNN) – An orphaned mountain lion cub is being cared for at the Oakland Zoo in California.
The little female cub’s name is Rose.
She’s only about 4 to 5 months old, but she’s already a fighter.
She looks skinny in photos the zoo released of her.
Rose was initially spotted by hikers in a preserve in San Mateo, California, and they say she was all by herself and looked unhealthy.
It took some time for wildlife biologists to track her down, but they finally caught up to her and brought her to the zoo Sunday.
She was extremely emaciated, dehydrated and covered in fleas and ticks when she was taken in.
However, the caretakers at the Oakland Zoo say she has a feisty spirit and an obvious will to live, so they’re guardedly optimistic their little Rose will blossom.
If all goes well with her recovery over the next few months, the zoo says it will work to find her a good home.
Unfortunately, she won’t be able to go back to the wild because she’ll have missed out on the crucial time with her mother to learn how to survive on her own.
The Oakland Zoo provides veterinary care for sick, injured, burned or orphaned wild mountain lions through a partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. To learn more, you can visit the zoo’s website.
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Police identify student killed in Kansas City middle school stabbing as 14-year-old boy
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 2:58 PM EDT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Law enforcement has identified the child killed Tuesday in a middle school stabbing.
The Kansas City Police Department said that 14-year-old Manuel J. Guzman died from his injuries after he was stabbed at Northeast Middle School.
Officers stated that the student suspect has been charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon. His case will be handled through juvenile court in Jackson County.
Kansas City has experienced four homicides in a 24-hour span, prompting Mayor Quinton Lucas to make a plea on social media for more youth mental health services, as well as cracking down on illegally trafficked firearms.
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Police: No charges for man who killed teen in self-defense during fight
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - Las Vegas police are investigating a fight between a teen and a man that led to a deadly shooting earlier this week.
FOX5 reports officers with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said the shooting happened in a neighborhood in the west part of town early Monday morning.
A police department spokesperson said a man was walking in the area when he encountered the teen. The two then got into a dispute, and the 16-year-old pointed a gun and threatened the man.
According to police, the man was lawfully armed and shot the teen out of self-defense.
The Clark County Coroner’s Office later identified the teen as Christian Murphy, of Las Vegas.
Police said no criminal charges were filed against the man involved in the incident and he was not arrested. The case will be submitted to the Clark County District Attorney’s office for review.
The original altercation is part of an ongoing investigation, according to police.
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Prescribed burn in Augusta County Wednesday
AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WHSV) - Fire specialists will begin the prescribed burn on Wednesday, April 13 if weather conditions allow. This prescribed burn will be completed in one day. Firefighters will continue to monitor the area for several days after the burn. You may see smoke from this prescribed burn for several days.
The 827-acre Grindstone burn unit is located on Grindstone Mountain in Augusta County, one mile west of Stokesville, VA.
This prescribed burn improves wildlife habitat by restoring open woodlands and grasslands to the forest landscape. Many animals need open grass and shrub habitat to survive. This burn will also help eradicate invasive plant species, according to Forest Services.
A 2-mile section of County Road 95 will be temporarily closed during the burn. This closure will begin at the intersection of Tillman Road (Forest Service Road 101) and County Road 95 and will extend approximately two miles westward.
Residents of surrounding areas including Stokesville, West Augusta, Briery Branch and Bridgewater may see and smell light smoke for several days, especially in the mornings and evenings. Smoke may be visible along sections of County Road 95 and Tillman Roads for the duration of the burn.
For your safety, please follow posted signs and comply with trail closures when they occur. Depending on wind direction, this controlled burn may have lingering smoke effects.
For the most up-to-date information visit the InciWeb site and follow the Forest Service on Twitter and Facebook.
For more information on the prescribed burn program, please contact the North River Ranger District at (540) 432-0187 or visit their website.
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The President makes short and long-term proposals to curb fluctuating gas prices
Gas companies say no single firm sets the price for a gallon of gas.
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - As gas prices fluctuate across the nation, the President has a plan to lower costs in both the long and short term. But, some oil and gas companies claim they need policy stability in Washington to feel confident to invest.
AAA pegs the national average for gas at $4.10. That’s down from one month ago when gas was $4.33. One year ago, the national gas average stood at $2.86.
“We’re coming off a pandemic that really scrambled supply and demand but what we’re seeing right now is Putin’s price hike on gasoline prices,” said Ali Zaidi, White House Deputy Climate Advisor.
The President is focused on increasing supply.
On Tuesday, he announced a plan to expand the sale of E15 gasoline, a 15% ethanol blend, this summer. The Environmental Protection Agency plans to issue the national emergency waiver to increase the fuel supplies. The White House claims E15 can save families 10 cents per gallon on average. It’s currently sold at 2,300 gas stations.
The president also announced a plan that includes a proposed fee on companies that lease federal land but are not producing from the wells. Companies that produce on the leased acres and existing wells would not face the higher fees.
Mike Sommers of the American Petroleum Institute said that fee sounds like an additional tax.
“It certainly would be the first case of someone increasing taxes and expecting more in return. In terms of development, we would have great concerns about an increased tax on American companies that are trying to produce American energy during this time of high oil and gas prices. We’re focused on making sure that there’s long term development here in the United States so that we can provide energy security not just for Americans, but for the world,” he said.
Sommers said, in the long-term, the Biden administration is pushing for a larger reliance on renewable energy and electric cars. However, he noted that idea competes with the notion that companies need to improve production.
“A number of members of Congress.. are saying that oil and gas industry here in the United States isn’t producing enough while at the same time they’re saying that we should stop producing and make a faster transition to renewables. This is a huge concern I think that we have about what the world should be doing right now to advance oil and gas because the world is going to continue to consume these products for decades and decades to come,” said Sommers.
Chairmen, CEOs, and presidents of oil and gas companies from bp America, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Devon Energy, Shell, and Pioneer Natural Resources Company testified via teleconference on Capitol Hill in April. They told the Energy and Commerce committee that increasing production on wells that are not currently in use requires more workers and equipment.
They said they are willing to increase production and invest in renewable energy. But, they said they need predictability and stability in the policy-making in Washington in order to feel confident to invest.
They also said they are not hoarding or price gouging gas.
“We know that today’s high prices at the pump are hurting Americans, the impact of high energy costs, underscores the importance of reliable and affordable energy supplies,” said Darren Woods of Exxon. He added, “no single company, sets the price of oil or gasoline, the market establishes the price based on the available supply and the demand for that supply.”
Meantime, the President has moved forward on a plan to increase supply by dipping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. In March, he announced the largest release in history, putting one million additional barrels on the market per day for the next six months. Zaidi calls the 6-month release a ‘bridge’ to give oil and gas companies the time needed to increase their production.
“That is just a dramatic exercise of the president’s authority in a way that we’ve never done before in the history of the United States. And, it is directly designed to counter the supply challenges that come from Putin’s war and aggression in Europe,” he said.
Zaidi said the president is also focused on new fuel economy standards, electric car production, and technology to weatherize and retrofit homes.
“The long-term play here, and it’s not a long-term play we start in the long term, it’s something we’ve got to get doing right now is to accelerate the adoption of zero emissions vehicles like electric cars and trucks. And, what we know is that if we do that, that means for the average family, 900 bucks per year that they would have spent on gasoline that they no longer have to. And for the economy, that means over a million barrels per day of oil that won’t need to be consumed or purchased from somewhere else,” said Zaidi.
Republicans held their own press conference in April to discuss gas prices. They raised concern over dipping into the national reserve. They also accuse the President of handcuffing oil and gas companies by not granting more permits and leases for pipelines and pumping on federal land. They say the president should focus on how more American oil and natural gas can be drilled and delivered.
Republicans want the President to once again start construction on the Keystone XL Pipeline. That pipeline was the subject of protest by several environmental groups.
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Rates of certain STDs increased in 2020, CDC data shows
(CNN) - Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that rates of sexually-transmitted diseases in the United States dropped early in the pandemic, but increased by the end of 2020.
The data was published Tuesday in the 2020 STD Surveillance Report.
By the end of the year, gonorrhea rates had risen 10%. Rates of syphilis were up 7%.
Those numbers included increased rates of disease among newborns, called congenital syphilis. It went up 15% from 2019, representing a 235% increase from 2016.
Congenital syphilis occurs when a woman with syphilis passes it to her baby during pregnancy and it can lead to serious health problems and death.
Commenting on the data Tuesday, a CDC official highlighted the pandemic’s dramatic disruption to life as we knew it.
Chlamydia rates were down 1.2% from 2016.
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Severe weather, tornado in Texas injures 23
SALADO, Texas (KWTX/Gray News) - The severe weather and tornado that struck in the Salado area Tuesday evening leveled buildings, downed power lines, uprooted trees and injured at least 23 people, Bell County Judge David Blackburn said.
Of those injured, 12 required hospitalization and one appears to be in critical condition, Blackburn said.
According to the county judge, the first call regarding a tornado was received at about 5:37 p.m. Tuesday. Dozens of calls soon followed after the tornado crossed from northern Williamson County into the Salado area in southern Bell County, KWTX reported.
Blackburn said search and rescue crews have done multiple walkthroughs and, as of 10 p.m. on Tuesday, believe everyone in the storm-ravaged area is accounted for.
“Buildings were reduced to rubble and power lines are scattered all over the place,” Blackburn said, “The damage is extensive and, at this time, to not have any fatalities is very significant.”
Blackburn said the county is ready to provide an emergency shelter to those affected, but homeowners afflicted by the storm turned down help Tuesday evening.
The focus will now turn to cleaning up the debris from damaged homes and restoring downed power lines in the area.
“There will be many, many days of cleanup after this,” the county judge warned.
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Songs by Wu-Tang, Alicia Keys added to Recording Registry
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — Critically acclaimed debut albums by Wu-Tang Clan and Alicia Keys, Ricky Martin’s Latin pop megahit “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” and Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” are among the recordings being inducted this year into the National Recording Registry.
The Library of Congress announced on Wednesday the 25 songs, albums, historical recordings and even a podcast that will be preserved as important contributions to American culture and history.
Keys’ “Songs In A Minor,” released in 2001, introduced the young New York musician to the world with her unique fusion of jazz, R&B and hip hop and earned her five Grammy awards. With songs like “Fallin’” the album has been certified as seven-times multiplatinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
The Staten Island collective Wu-Tang Clan, including RZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, GZA, Ghostface Killah, Method Man and more, released their highly influential debut “Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)” in 1993, which combined East Coast hardcore rap centered around kung fu film storylines and samples.
Other albums that were included were Linda Ronstadt’s “Canciones de Mi Padre,” a musical tribute to her Mexican-American roots, Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy-winning “Nick of Time,” A Tribe Called Quest’s “The Low End Theory,” and the Cuban musical ensemble’s self-titled debut “Buena Vista Social Club,” which also inspired a film by the same name.
Other songs now in the registry include Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin,’” “Walking the Floor Over You” by Ernest Tubb, “Moon River” by Andy Williams and “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,” by The Four Tops.
The Four Tops song was penned by the songwriting trio of Brian and Eddie Holland and Lamont Dozier and became a No. 1 song in 1966 known for its unorthodox arrangement and the urgent, operatic vocals of lead singer Levi Stubbs. The last surviving member of the band, Duke Fakir, said he was honored to have their song included in the registry.
“When we recorded ‘I’ll Be There,’ I have to admit (for the first time), we thought of the song as an experiment for the album,” Fakir said in a statement. “We never believed it would even make it on the album, let alone be a hit for all time in ‘The Library of Congress.’ I wish Levi, Obie (Benson), and Lawrence (Payton) were here with me today so we could celebrate this incredible accolade together. And we owe an incredible debt of gratitude to Holland Dozier Holland, the tailors of great music, who wrote it.”
Other recordings include public radio station WNYC’s broadcasts from Sept. 11, 2001 and Marc Maron’s interview with Robin Williams on his podcast “WTF with Marc Maron.”
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Study: Climate crisis supercharging rainfall in hurricanes
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 2:07 AM EDT|Updated: Apr. 13, 2022 at 2:12 AM EDT
(CNN) - A new study suggests the climate crisis is supercharging rainfall in hurricanes.
The study was published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.
It found that rainfall from hurricanes during the record-breaking 2020 season was as much as 11% higher due to human-caused climate changes.
Researchers determined that global warming increased hourly rainfall rates in tropical storms and hurricanes from 5% to 10%.
When experts observed just hurricanes, the increase was 8% to 11%.
The findings suggest the threat surged over the past few decades and it will likely increase more in the future.
That’s because warmer air can hold more water vapor, which leads to higher rainfall rates.
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Tech company will implant payment chip into your hand
(CNN) - Instead of carrying your wallet in your back pocket or purse, a tech company wants you to carry it under your skin.
The British-Polish company, Walletmor, is selling microchips as alternative payment options.
This chip is about the size of a grain of rice, costs about $300 and does not come inside a credit card. Instead, it must be implanted in your body, preferably in your hand.
Once you activate it using a digital wallet app, Walletmor says you will be able to make purchases at most businesses around the world just by swiping your hand over a card reader.
Right now, the chips are only being sold to citizens of the United Kingdom, Switzerland and countries in the European Union.
According to Walletmor, almost 200 people already have the implants.
Walletmor suggests using a surgeon or one of its trusted specialists for the minor operation, but once the implant goes in, there are no refunds.
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Teen student charged with sexual assault, attempted murder in alleged attack on his teacher
LAS VEGAS (KVVU/Gray News) - A judge on Tuesday set a competency hearing for a student accused of sexual assault and attempted murder of a Las Vegas teacher.
The teen has been identified as 16-year-old Jonathan Eluterio Martinez Garcia, KVVU reported.
According to Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, Martinez Garcia faces 15 felony charges in connection with the incident. He was initially facing six felony charges. However, Wolfson confirmed Monday that an additional nine felony charges were added.
His charges range from kidnapping, sexual assault, robbery, attempted murder with the use of a deadly weapon or tear gas, battery by strangulation to commit sexual assault and more. He is being charged as an adult.
In court Tuesday, his lawyer requested that he be evaluated for competency, so a judge suspended a preliminary hearing until that evaluation. The competency hearing was set for May 6 at 8:30 a.m.
Bail for Martinez Garcia remains at $500,000, under the condition of high-electronic monitoring and no contact with the victim.
According to Las Vegas police, the incident occurred Thursday at Eldorado High School.
An investigation by the department’s Sexual Assault Section indicated that the teacher was in her classroom when a student entered to talk about his grades. At some point, police say, the teen suspect became violent and began punching the teacher. Police said he strangled her until she lost consciousness.
After that, authorities said the suspect fled the classroom after the attack, and the victim was later found by another school employee. Police were able to identify the suspect, and Clark County School District police officers took him into custody.
According to police, the teacher, who has not been identified, is still recovering.
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There’s still a way to reach global goal on climate change
(AP) - If nations do all that they’ve promised to fight climate change, the world can still meet one of two internationally agreed upon goals for limiting warming. But the planet is blowing past the other threshold that scientists say will protect Earth more, a new study finds.
The world is potentially on track to keep global warming at, or a shade below, 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than pre-industrial times, a goal that once seemed out of reach, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
That will only happen if countries not only fulfill their specific pledged national targets for curbing carbon emissions by 2030, but also come through on more distant promises of reaching net zero carbon emissions by mid-century, the study says.
This 2-degree warmer world still represents what scientists characterize as a profoundly disrupted climate with fiercer storms, higher seas, animal and plant extinctions, disappearing coral, melting ice and more people dying from heat, smog and infectious disease. It’s not the goal that world leaders say they really want: 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times. The world will blast past that more prominent and promoted goal unless dramatic new emission cuts are promised and achieved this decade and probably within the next three years, study authors said.
Both goals of 1.5 degrees and 2 degrees are part of the 2015 Paris climate pact and the 2021 Glasgow follow-up agreement. The 2-degree goal goes back years earlier.
“For the first time we can possibly keep warming below the symbolic 2-degree mark with the promises on the table. That assumes, of course, that the countries follow through on the promises,” said study lead author Malte Meinshausen, a University of Melbourne climate scientist.
That’s a big if, outside climate scientists and the authors say. It means political leaders actually doing what they promise.
The study “examines only this optimistic scenario. It does not check whether governments are making efforts to implement their long-term targets and whether they are credible,” said Niklas Hohne of Germany, a New Climate Institute scientist who analyzes pledges for Climate Action Tracker and wasn’t part of this study. “We know that governments are far from implementing their long-term targets.”
Hohne’s team and others who track pledges have similarly found that limiting warming to 2 degrees is still possible, as Meinshausen’s team has. The difference is that Meinshausen’s study is the first to be peer-reviewed and published in a scientific journal.
Sure, the 2-degree world requires countries to do what they promise. But cheaper wind and solar have shown carbon emissions cuts can come faster than thought, and some countries will exceed their promised cuts, Meinshausen said. He also said the way climate action works is starting with promises and then policies, so it’s not unreasonable to take countries at their word.
Mostly, he said, limiting warming to 2 degrees is still a big improvement compared to just five or ten years ago, when “everybody laughed like ‘ha, we’ll never see targets on the table that bring us closer to 2 degrees,’” Meinshausen said. “Targets and implemented policies actually can turn the needle on future temperatures. I think that optimism is important for countries to see. Yes, there is hope.”
About 20% to 30% of that hope is due to the Paris climate agreement, but the rest is due to earlier investments by countries that made green energy technologies cheaper than dirty fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, Meinshausen said.
Yet, even if that’s good news, it’s not all good, he said.
“Neither do we have a margin of error (on barely limiting to 2 degrees) nor do the pledges put us on a path close to 1.5 degrees,” Meinshausen said.
In 2018 the United Nations’ scientific expert team studied the differences between the 1.5- and 2-degree thresholds and found considerably worse and more extensive damages to Earth at 2 degrees of warming. So the world has recently tried to make the 1.5 degrees goal possible.
Earth has already warmed at least 1.1 degrees Celsius (2 degrees Fahrenheit) since pre-industrial times, often considered the late 1800s, so 2 degrees of warming really means another 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than now.
Meinshausen’s analysis “looks good and solid, but there are always assumptions that could be important,” said Glen Peters, a climate scientist who tracks emissions with Global Carbon Project.
The biggest assumption is that nations somehow get to promised net zero carbon emissions, most of them by 2050 but a decade or two later for China and India, said Peters, research director of the Cicero Center for International Climate Research in Oslo, Norway.
“Making pledges for 2050 is cheap, backing them up with necessary short-term action is hard,” he said, noting that for most countries, there will be five or six elections between now and 2050.
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Toyota recalls 460,000 vehicles for stability control glitch
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 5:25 PM EDT
DETROIT (AP) — Toyota is recalling about 460,000 vehicles in the U.S. to fix a software problem that can inadvertently disable the electronic stability control system.
The automaker says that when the vehicles are restarted, the software in rare cases may not automatically switch the system into the “on” mode. That can disable the system.
The recall covers 2020 to 2022 models including the Toyota brand’s Venza, Mirai, RAV4 Hybrid, RAV4 Prime, Sienna Hybrid, and Highlander Hybrid. Also included are the LS500h, LX600, NX350h, and NX450h-plus from the Lexus luxury brand.
Dealers will update software on the skid control computer to fix the problem.
Owners will be notified by mid-June.
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Virginia COVID-19 cases rise by 1,115 Wednesday
13,284,151 total PCR tests have been run for the virus in Virginia, with 1,680,533 positive cases.
Due to the number of vaccinations across our region, we will no longer be updating the COVID-19 hotline.
As of Wednesday, April 13, Virginia has had 1,680,533 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 6.9% 7-day positivity rate for total PCR testing encounters.
35 additional deaths were reported this Wednesday, leaving the death toll at 19,953.
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 April 13
By April 13, the Virginia Department of Health had received reports of 1,206,595 confirmed cases and 473,938 probable cases of COVID-19 across the commonwealth.
Those positive test results are out of 13,284,151 total PCR tests administered in Virginia.
At this point, 49,417 Virginians have been hospitalized due to the disease caused by the virus, and at least 19,953 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. April 13.
Central Shenandoah Health District: 67,067 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 PCR tests: 426,009
Lord Fairfax Health District: 54,445 total cases
Total PCR tests: 363,807
Northwest Total Outbreaks: 1,008 reported, including 327 in long term health care facilities, 90 in K-12 settings, 73 in healthcare settings, 41 in correctional facilities, 330 in congregate settings, 65 in colleges/universities, 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 April 13, 7,009,078 people have been vaccinated with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and 6,267,919 people are fully vaccinated.
18,603,025 total vaccine doses have been distributed throughout the state.
Recovery
The Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association’s online dashboard indicates that, as of April 13, at least 107,602 COVID-19 patients have been discharged from the hospital.
Unlike the VDH data that reports cumulative hospitalizations, their data on hospitalizations reflects hospitalized patients confirmed positive for COVID-19, and that number is 152.
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 498,643 total cases in West Virginia as of April 13.
Grant County: 3,768 total COVID-19 cases (+2 from Tuesday)
Hardy County: 4,177 total COVID-19 cases
Pendleton County: 1,959 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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WH environmental justice advisors press for Justice40 action
(AP) - Key members of the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council said Tuesday that the Biden administration hadn’t done enough to make good on its promise that 40% of all benefits from climate investment go to disenfranchised communities.
Speaking at a press briefing ahead of the HBCU Climate Change Conference in New Orleans, the council members said they’ve secured $14 million from the Bezos Earth Fund for a program called Engage, Enlighten and Empower to hold the Biden administration accountable for carrying out its Justice40 initiative.
President Biden made the commitment in a sweeping executive order on his first day in office. The initiative has been held up as an unprecedented push to bring environmental justice to communities long plagued by pollution and climate inaction.
The three members of the federal environmental justice council leading the $14 million-dollar effort, Beverly Wright, Peggy Shepard and Robert Bullard, have been working closely with the administration on Justice40.
But Wright told members of the press that more needs to be done to “turn a novel idea into a project that works.”
The trio are combining philanthropic grants from the Bezos Earth Fund, $6 million from Shepard’s WE ACT for Environmental Justice, $4 million from Wright’s Deep South Center for Environmental Justice and $4 million from the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, to ensure federal funding from Justice40 “goes where it’s intended,” Shepard said.
The effort should “ensure equitable implementation of the Justice40 initiative at the state and local level and empower local communities to participate in the policy-making” that comes as a result of the initiative, a press release said.
The funds will go to educate grassroots organizations on the resources available to them through Justice40, inform state and local governments on how the money should be used, and develop a screening tool to determine where Justice40 funds are needed most, one that includes racial demographic data. Controversially a federal screening tool used by the administration does not take into account the racial makeup of communities.
There has been little change on the ground yet from the Justice40 pledge because the federal government is still trying to figure out which communities are most in need of the investment. In recommendations to the Biden administration, many reputable environmental justice advocates pushed for a methodical, intentional process for identifying disadvantaged communities and disbursing funds.
At the briefing, Wright and Bullard said they’ve seen past federal social and infrastructure projects fail to deliver on promises to disadvantaged communities and don’t want to see it happen again.
“There’s been a lot of really novel approaches at changing the lives of Americans in general that have worked out” benefitting just white Americans, Wright said.
Bullard pointed to discrimination in how flood relief was distributed in Texas, where the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice is located, as an example.
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What happened to Aaron? Death of boy with autism exposes issues in Kansas care system
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH/Gray News) - Part 1 of the KWCH investigation into the death of Aaron Carter, a 6-year-old with autism who died within two months of being adopted, reported on his needs of those of children like him, particularly in the foster system.
In Part 2, KWCH spoke to people about struggles in Kansas to meet those needs and what needs to be done to make things better.
Aaron Carter came into Jamie and Tina Miller’s home as a foster child just before he turned 3 years old in 2017. It took time to discover he had autism, and it took every bit of the three years he spent with the Millers to bring him from a child who could not communicate and didn’t respond to anyone around him to a boy who liked to dance, helped with chores and rode horses.
When the Millers decided they wanted to adopt Aaron, they found out that the cost to provide him the therapy and care he required would be overwhelming once he was no longer a ward of the state.
“We couldn’t pay for it out of our own pocket. We financially couldn’t do it, but by then we’d had him long enough and he had made such huge strides. It was like tearing you apart,” Tina Miller said.
A young, recently married couple in Wichita said they wanted to adopt Aaron. The couple met him, began the adoption process and eventually became acquainted with the Millers.
“We ate supper with them, and we just told them everything that had happened, that could happen and that needed to happen to keep him safe and happy,” Jamie Miller said.
Aaron went to live with his prospective new parents in December 2020. Less than two months later, the boy who’d made such huge strides was dead.
The official account of Aaron’s death reads that he had a tantrum while taking a bath and hit his head on the tub. Tantrums were something the Millers had cautioned Aaron’s new parents about.
“If he got upset he would yell and scream or throw a tantrum, but that’s the only way he could voice any of his feelings or opinion or anything was by throwing a tantrum,” Jamie explained.
Struggling to implement applied behavior analysis therapy
Sean Swindler with the Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training explained tantrums for those unfamiliar with children with autism.
“When I put $1 in the candy machine, and the candy bar’s dangling and just won’t come down, I know I want it. What do I do? I shake the candy machine,” Swindler said. “Kids with autism are the same way. If I can’t communicate what I want, what I need, I’m going to figure out a way to tell you.”
Aaron was figuring that out with fewer tantrums, thanks to applied behavior analysis therapy.
“ABA therapy is applied behavior analysis,” Swindler explained. “Therapy that’s been shown, through research, to help kids with autism improve. Especially if it’s delivered before the age of 6 to 8 years old.”
The Millers say Aaron received ABA therapy four to five times a week. Once he moved to Wichita that therapy stopped, ending both his routine and stifling his path to communication.
“A lot of children with autism, having that routine is incredibly important,” Swindler said. “By stopping that therapy, you are reducing that child’s ability to communicate. You’re reducing that child’s ability to kind of learn and grow and giving him those tools.”
Those tools are difficult to find in Kansas, and they’re often out of reach of those who need them most.
“Mental health isn’t treated the same as physical health by a lot of our health care system. Take all those in your mind, magnify by 10 when you put autism in the middle of that,” Swindler said.
In 2014, Kansas passed a law saying private insurers must cover ABA therapy for autism, but experts say that’s not as clear cut for children on Medicaid.
Medicaid reimbursements can be slow and don’t necessarily pay enough for the required therapy. Consequently, questions of whether ABA therapists will be paid enough, or at all, prompt many to practice in other states.
“I think a lot of states with large rural populations are having a brain drain and have trouble keeping people at home. For people that practice a particular field like ABA therapy. The things that do keep people at home are the ability to actually bill for services and serve your population for one,” Swindler said.
Few qualified therapists practicing in Kansas means those seeking the therapy can be left waiting.
“Even if you have the best insurance and the best circumstance, you might be waiting quite a while to get that autism evaluation. When you add in a child in foster care who might be going between different foster parents or doesn’t have that permanent oversight of their medical history, kids do get missed, or kids get a diagnosis but that doesn’t catch back up to them. All sorts of things happen there,” Swindler said.
What happened in Aaron Carter’s case?
Aaron died while waiting to be seen by a new ABA therapist. In Kansas, the autism waiver program provides support and training to parents. Currently, the program is funded for just 65 children with 386 on the waiting list.
Swindler suggested people contact state lawmakers to have them make changes to keep ABA therapists in Kansas and get children like Aaron the chance they deserve.
“The way to make it better is you have to have a concerted effort among all the interested parties to strategically attack the problem,” Swindler answered.
ABA therapy is the most widely used therapy for autism spectrum disorder. The University of Kansas was one of the first schools to begin developing the therapy in the 60s and 70s. It continues to train world-class ABA therapists. Many of whom then go to other states to practice.
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Wildlife Center of Virginia welcomes first black bear cub of 2022
Published: Apr. 13, 2022 at 11:21 AM EDT
WAYNESBORO, Va. (WHSV) - The Wildlife Center of Virginia made a special announcement on Facebook Tuesday. Just as they were saying goodbye to the cubs of 2021, they admitted their first Black Bear cub of 2022.
Center staff says it is officially in “cub season” now. Remember to call the DWR Wildlife Helpline if you see a lone cub and are unsure if the mother is around.
You can learn more information by clicking here.
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‘You don’t want this feeling’: 3-year-old killed by stray bullet while lying in bed
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB/Gray News) - Devin Page Jr. had just started preschool, loved playing with his siblings and loved his family.
“He was a great, a very smart, intelligent 3-year-old. He was always happy, you know he loved the dance, he loves school, he loves green, he loves trucks, he loves everything,” his mother, Tye Toliver, told WAFB.
On Tuesday night, bullets flew through his window and killed him in his sleep.
“Until it happens to you, until the gun is shot at your house, you know, until the bullets come through your window, you don’t get involved. You have nothing to say,” his grandmother, Cathy Toliver, said. “But you don’t want this feeling that we have right now. You don’t want the feeling of knowing that you’ll never see your grandbaby or your son again. You don’t want that feeling.”
The family said they tried to leave their house after hearing gunshots nearby several nights in a row.
“After the first couple of weeks I was trying to move out because of the neighbors because of the drama, it was always fighting. they were shooting at each other with guns,” Tye Toliver said.
But the mother was told she would have to pay thousands to move.
“I try to stick it out, now that I stick it out, this is the outcome of what happened - my son got killed,” Tye Toliver said.
Neighbors said this street was not always like this.
“When I hear these shootings, I roll over on the floor and get down on the floor, scared to death,” neighbor Hattie Scales said.
The people who live on the street want the violence to stop.
“I want something to be done. I want the killers firsthand, I want justice for my son,” Tye Toliver said.
“It’s the only way we’re going to find strength right now is by the grace of God and with family and friends. you’ve got to keep hope alive and we are going to continue to fight for our grandson,” Cathy Toliver said.
A memorial balloon release will be held at Sherwood Park on North Sherwood Forest Drive Saturday, April 16 at 3 p.m.
The family has also set up a GoFundMe to cover his funeral expenses. You can donate to it by clicking here.
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| 2022-04-15T06:09:11Z
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City lacks authority to change name
The city of Klamath Falls has no authority to change the name of an historic park like Kit Carson which has been in effect since May of 1964. The city only has the authority to change ordinary (places, structures, parks) names. This is a blatant steal of your heritage, citizens.
At the very least, this issue of renaming Kit Carson should be placed upon a ballot and the citizens of Klamath Falls have the option to vote on it to decide which name the want to choose. The choices are 1. Kit Carson, 2. Discovery, 3. Sunshine, 4. Yadenite, and 5. Eulalona.
Instead, citizens, the mayor and city council have stolen your right to make a choice and decided for you in a unanimous vote on April 4 at a city council meeting. You’ve let a small group of biased people decide that Eulalona will be the new name for the park.
This is nothing more than a blatant steal of your heritage and rights by a corrupt city administration.
Charles Hicks
Klamath Falls
Watch what you wish for
If Klamath voters approve a ballot question supporting Eastern Oregonians joining the state of Idaho, those who work for a living should consider what negative effects of their action awaits if they become covered by Idaho's wage and hour laws: fewer dollars if they become unemployed or are injured on the job.
Minimum wage "tipped workers" will be negatively affected by Idaho's reduction of minimum wage benefits if workers receive tips while employed.
State workers covered by Idaho's "safety" laws will be adversely affected if injured on the job. Shifting worker protection of all worker-covered laws from Oregon to Idaho would be a major negative for the covered folks who work for a living.
Irv Fletcher
Klamath Falls
A vote for Henslee
My husband and I call the Klamath Basin home, not because it is simply where we reside and work, but because this community is filled with friends and neighbors that we call family. We love the Klamath Basin and all that it represents through its raw natural beauty, pioneering spirit, agricultural commerce, and its resilient citizenry. The hearts of those who call the Klamath Basin home are large, accepting, generous, devoted, and enthusiastic. They deserve to know that their voices, their ideals, their faith, and their cherished way of life will be not only represented, but respected, advocated for and honored by those elected to represent them – The People of Klamath County.
If ever there were a time in Klamath history where “we the people” have witnessed first-hand the necessity of strong representation within our governmental offices, it has been in the wake of the devastating impact of the pandemic and its associated governmental overreach. The true negative impacts on our children, our economy, and our cherished way of life have yet to be fully recognized. This countywide shared experience demonstrates, now more than ever, the necessity of ensuring that Klamath County has durable and devoted persons of character and integrity representing Klamath County’s most cherished resource – its people.
Dave Henslee is a man of character and integrity who endured alongside his Klamath friends and neighbors the devastating impact of government overreach. Because of his shared experience, Henslee has again been called to serve and like all true leaders, accepted the call. As a man who spent his life serving and protecting others, Dave has agreed to once again step into the public arena of service and to protect the ideals, resources, economic opportunity, and commerce of all Klamath County residents.
That is why we support Dave Henslee for Klamath County Commissioner Position 1!
Chuck and Nadine Hoy
Klamath Falls
Time to cut back on meat
Can you believe the meat price increases predicted by USDA Economic Research Service? 15% for red meat and 11% for fish and eggs! Way over the predicted 8% inflation rate, already the highest in four decades.
The obvious solution recommended by nutritionists – fresh vegetables. They contain all the nutrients required for healthy living and no saturated fats, cholesterol, hormones, and antibiotics loaded in animal products. They do contain complex carbohydrates, fiber, and essential vitamins and minerals. They offer vastly reduced risk of contracting heart disease, stroke, some cancers, diabetes, and obesity.
Fresh vegetables are going up only 4.3% - way below the 8% inflation rate.
But there is more …
A University of Michigan research report found that replacing 50% of animal products with plant-based foods would prevent more than 1.6 billion tons of greenhouse gasses by 2030 - President Biden’s target date for a 50% reduction in emissions.
In an environmentally sustainable world, we need to replace meat and other animal products with vegetables, fruits, and grains, just as we replace fossil fuels with wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources.
This outrageous meat price increase may be our blessing in disguise.
Keith Farrahay
Klamath Falls
Another side to inflation
It seems to me that Herald & News has added more local stories with fewer AP stories in the last year or so. This is a good thing because AP stories are, in my opinion, usually very slanted stories.
Mike Sunnucks wrote an article in the March 29 paper titled “Who is driving inflation?” It was interesting but, in my opinion, could have been better and more accurate it he had included an opinion from another source.
Sunnucks interviewed Timothy Duy, an economics professor at the University of Oregon. Professor Duy pointed out a number of causes for inflation but said nothing about the government printing money.
According to John Steele Gordon, who was educated at Millbrook School and Vanderbilt University, inflation has a history of being a product of the government printing too much money. His article, “Inflation in the United States”, provides a brief history of inflation and shows that the government printing money is usually one of the main causes of inflation.
My point is that, in this day in age, where there are different opinions on almost every issue, I don’t feel an article is complete without exploring the various sides of the issue. In my opinion, the article would have been much better and more informative if he had taken the time to do that.
Stephen Goode
Klamath Falls
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| 2022-04-15T06:09:17Z
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Put yourself back in elementary school.
There are many memories you might recall.
Recess time, your first crush, your first best friend or your favorite teacher, all might be someone’s strongest memories.
Wednesday afternoon at Mills Elementary School, a lasting memory was imprinted in the minds of five students as they met two important people in the community.
From the Klamath County Fire District No. 1, firefighters Jake Weems and Brody Nelson came to visit the elementary school to give five select students a ride around the block in their fire truck.
The day was made to recognize five students, one from each grade level, as students of the quarter.
Kindergartener Lydia Bravo, first grader Yatzari Morelos Pena, second grader Yureni Pena, third grader Anne Marie Rodriguez, fourth grader Presley Simmons and fifth grader Maria Morales, were elected as students of the quarter.
Based off the student’s attendance and etiquette in class, they were chosen and given the opportunity to ride alongside the two firemen.
“Cool, scary and kind of nervous, that is how I felt,” Rodriguez said. “I am not that type of social person, really much. I would like to stay in my room but I would also like to go out and do stuff; but I would also like to stay in my room. I am like that kind of social person.”
As Rodriguez and Yureni Pena got off the firetruck, their classmates waved and cheered for them by a gate around the school, waiting to play with them and see the hat they received.
Weems and Nelson followed them into what was left of recess. Nelson handed out Klamath County Fire District pencils as Weems ensued to play soccer with the students and played on the jungle gym.
“The goal is the kindergarteners have five, six years. If we come four times a year, they have 20 or up to 24 chances to maybe get a ride on the fire engine,” Weems said. “Every time they ask us, ‘how do we get on the fire engine?’, we tell them to be a good listener to their teacher, be respectful and be a good student.”
The two firemen were like two celebrities, with students asking them any question that came to mind. The day ended with Weems and Nelson eating lunch with the students before they had to respond to a call.
“We try to encourage good behavior, good listening. I started this program with the fire department. I have kids of my own and thought it would be cool to encourage kids to have good behavior,” Weems said. “Mills Elementary happens to be in our fire response area, so I figured it was a good place to start.”
Weems’ idea to start the fire truck tour began four years ago when he approached Mills Elementary Dean of Students, Jeff Haudenshild, about visiting the school routinely.
On occasions, there has also been an ambulance that comes to the school as well.
The visit goes beyond the surface as Weems recalls several students who he remembers by name.
“There is a third or fourth grader who has remembered us through the years, Melodie, who was one of the first recognized students when she was in kindergarten,” Weems said. “Every time she sees us, she comes and reminds us, ‘oh, I got to do this when I was in kindergarten. I remember.’ She never forgets to tells us that each time we visit.”
The life of a fireman is no walk in the park.
As they visited Mills, Weems and Nelson were in the middle of their 48-hour shift, and started working at 7 a.m. the day before.
There are three different shifts and three different crews for Klamath County Fire District No. 1. Weems and Nelson have made it a priority to be the familiar face each time they visit Mills.
Not everyone has appreciated the fire trucks as a neighboring house complained about the bright lights and sirens the previous time the event took place. Weems talked to management at his fire department on what was appropriate for them to do and reminded neighbors about the purpose of the event.
Just as Rodriguez hinted about her nerves, some of the students of the quarter had a fear when they saw or rode on the fire truck. On the contrary, many of the boys who rode with the fireman, were rowdy and enthused each time they were able to honk the horn.
“Melodie was really shy at first when we met her in kindergarten but she is not shy anymore,” Weems said. “It has helped for times when we have responded during medical calls or fire calls in the Mills neighborhood; then they are not as scared of us. They come up to us and say, ‘you guys came to our school.’ We create that trust.”
As of now, Klamath County Fire District No. 1 is content about helping the Mills area but have thought about expanding their fire truck tour to different schools and locations in Klamath Falls.
“There is always this thought that kids are going to be scared of the firetrucks, the loud noises or the gear and I think this is a good entry or bridge to let them see that we are just normal people like they are and not to be scared,” Nelson said. “We have come and kids got hurt on the playground equipment and that is kind of where it goes back to we come, it is loud and noisy, everyone is watching and maybe they can see a familiar face when we are here, if that was to happen.”
Weems remembered instances when he came to Mills for small injuries that occurred during recess, as well as attending a parent who had a medical condition scare at an event last year.
In the end, Weems wants the children to remember him positively.
“Some of the kids do not remember times we have come and helped them for medical calls. It is good for us to have a positive reason to come to this school,” Weems said. “We are four years into this program now. The kids are not scared of us now.”
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| 2022-04-15T06:09:23Z
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